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Michael Laitman, PhD

Hologram - There’s a Likeness

Q: I’d like to hear your commentary on the following ideas. It’s written: “A soul is a part of the Creator. It’s just that the Creator is whole and a soul is a part. Like a stone separated from a mountain, where a mountain is whole and a stone is a part…” Following this comparison, I just wonder if an analogy with a hologram could make a relation between the Creator and a soul easier.

Hologram is a photographic image of a 3D object, which not only registers the intensity of a radiating wave in a certain point, but also its phase. An interesting feature of a hologram is that it not only registers a 3D image on a 2D material, but if you split it into many pieces, even the tiniest piece will contain the entire image with all its characteristics (though diminished respectively).

If this analogy is correct, could it be useful in enabling technically minded people to understand?

A: "A soul is a part of the Creator. It’s just that the Creator is whole and a soul is a part. Like a stone separated from a rock, where a rock is whole and a stone is a part…”

This means that a desire splits the entire Light into parts, since it consists of parts. It is like children making “sand cookies” with their tiny molds. The “sand” in our example is the Light; the “molds” are egotistical desires, which by their egoism split the Light into fractions inside the “molds.”

A hologram may sometimes serve as a good example to stress that each randomly taken part of the spiritual realm consists of all the parts, only in miniature proportions according to the part’s level. Your analogy is a good one!

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