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1) From Gnosticism people often want to blame the Pleroma member ‘Sophia’ for having the arrogance to create a world
on her own, screwing up and birthing the demiurge. You
know the typical ‘blame the woman for all that is evil’ thing
so beloved in so many cultures.
2) I’m referencing Isaac Lurias ‘shells’ as a similar symbol for
the Monads in PS.
3) in many people’s minds, apparently, one should ‘heal the shells’ with TIKKUN and sure, that sounds lovely. Only once
you finish all that healing, it only lasts for 10 to the -10
seconds and it’s all broken again.
4) So PS suggests learning to live with ‘broken shells’ while ALSO being kind and loving and helpful when possible
even though the eternal state of things is to be ‘broken’
(Broken by Design is a PS tenant).
Without brokenness there is no individuation or being, and
those things are desired.
Kevin Cann
Platonic Surrealism
3/25/2025