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Blake's limit of opacity taken as the measure of the descent: God, becoming man, contracts himself to this very limit, so that living in this state may be called the very grave of man. The contraction is deliberate and it is the whole condition of the return - God became man, that man, awakening, may become God.

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God contracts Himself to this very limit of opacity, so that living in this state may be called the very grave of man
There is no limit to luminosity, to expansion; there’s only a limit to opacity, to contraction

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God must reach the limit of contraction, the limit of opacity, which is called death, and it’s this world.
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God contracts Himself to this very limit of opacity, so that living in this state may be called the very grave of man
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But at the very limit of opacity in which it functions in this world, it is called the “death” of God, for to make man alive, he had to completely forget that he is God.
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then I became crystallised again into this opacity called Neville
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There is no limit to luminosity, to expansion; there’s only a limit to opacity, to contraction. So we reach the limit of opacity, of contraction, and then we start a journey that never, but never, comes to an end.
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There is no limit to translucency. There is only a limit to contraction, to opacity, and the stone is the symbol of the limit of sterility, the limit of opacity, the limit of contraction.
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there is no limit to the expansion of God; there was only a limit to the contraction of God. The contraction was Adam, humanity, the limit to opacity, yes. But no limit to translucency, none whatsoever
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