30 definitions
Being (n.) cannot justify itself by its pure persistence in being; the world is not because it perseveres, but because, through human dis-interestment, it can be justified.
Creation (n.) is continued at every moment: if God's influence ceased, the worlds would return to nothingness and chaos.
God (n.) reigns only through an ethical order in which one being is answerable for another: God's reign depends on me.
God (n.) needs prayer as he needs the faithful — the worlds cannot go on by the energy of their substance alone; they need the ethical mediation of man.
God (n.) depends on man for His association with the worlds: man 'feeds' the divine presence.
Hierarchy (n.) of the worlds is one in which the roots grow upward: the higher is the soul of the lower, the lower its clothing.
Humility (n.) that says 'What am I and what can my humble deeds accomplish?' is forbidden: not one detail of one's deeds, words or thoughts is lost.
Idolatry (n.) is forgetting that all relative forces — stars, national spirits, political and judicial powers — are due to Elohim.
The Image of God (n.) is not the rational animal but the soul of the universe, man answerable for all the worlds, by a God who did not recoil from equality, even subordination, to the human.
Interiority (n.) coincides with height: each world is the clothing of the one above it and the soul of the one below.
Lust (n.) in the heart of a true man is as if he brought a whore into the Holy of Holies of the Sanctuary on high.
Man (n.) is lowest in body, at the level of matter and work, yet everything depends on him, even the outpouring of God that gives being to all the worlds, so that he is at once nadir and zenith.