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cosmos).The Tzimtzum was the cause of time, space and causality within the Lurianic Kabbala and, fromour perspective, was the act of the 'falling emanations' from the right side of Ain Sof downwardtowards that which would finally be manifested within Malkuth.According to our tradition, the 'Thoughtless (Black) Light' did not emanate within the same 'space'(or, more correctly, the Void) that the Demiurgic Light did.The second emanation of Ain Sof was a sinistral impulse sent to counteract that which the'Thoughtful Light' had set out to accomplish. Similar to the way in which the Demiurgic Light actedas the Coagula-Impulse and restricting force that confined in form the sparks of the Divine in a once‘empty and formless’ space, the Black Light acted as the Solve-Impulse of Ain Sof and filled aparallel empty space with its own emanations in order to counteract the manifestations of the Lightof Creation.In this way the Sitra Ahra became an antithetical mirror image of the Tree of Life within the OuterDarkness. This is a crucial aspect of the anti-cosmic gnosis as it separates the Dayside and theNightside in a fundamental way, while still explaining the link and interaction between the UniverseA/1 and the Universe B/2=11.Through kliffotic intrusion into the Dayside, the forces of the Nightside aid the return of the divinesparks constrained within the Sefirotic forms, back into the original unbound form they had beforethe Tzimtzum process imprisoned them within the cosmic Vessels/Kelims of Hyle.The kliffotic forces are thus known to manifest themselves through various aspects of dissolution ofcosmic form and structure, and can therefore be perceived as 'agents of destruction'. But the actualtruth is that even though annihilation is their exoteric effect, their true goal is nothing less than theLiberation of Azoth/Pneuma/Spirit. In order to draw parallels to other relevant lines of practice,spiritual speculation and gnosis, we can liken the creational process of the relevant Kabbalisticsystems of thought to the genesis of cosmos as described in the Enuma Elish.In the Enuma Elish, the Ain itself is the Two-fold Nothingness of Tiamat and Absu (2=1-1=0) andthe 'Thoughtful Light' within this context manifests itself out of the unconscious state/dreams of thePrimal Chaos/the Zeroth Two Within the Void. As a result of the coming forth of the unwantedbastard gods of cosmic order, the Primal Chaos counteracted the impulse that birthed theirunwanted, and one could say, 'aborted' children, by rising up against them.This anti-cosmic impulse of Black Light of the 'Zeroth Power of Two' is described as the will of18