Before the unified field was the vacuum field.
Before One there was Zero.
The unified field (the One) was the white-black hole,
when the boson condensate turned into
a fermion singularity which exploded
in the Big Bang. The fermion pressure was immense.
The black hole swallows all;
the white hole emits (creates) all.
Then En Sof emits the Parzufs:
First Kether, then the pair Hokhmah/Binah,
the power of Truth, Wisdom and Intelligence,
the Platonic sphere of pure Being.
The unified field (En Sof) creates Kether
when gravitation separates from the four forces.
Uniform ten-dimensional space separates
into space and time. There was no time before.
The ten Parzufs are the ten dimensions.
The time dimension becomes imaginary,
but more real than ever, as the universe evolves.
Next comes the pair: strong force (Hokhmah)
and electroweak force (Binah), Father and Mother,
Yang and Yin. Male and female He created them.
But then the vessels break, six of the ten dimensions
become curled up and not extended,
and further Parzufs are less perfect.
The electroweak force breaks into weak and electromagnetic,
the next pair, Gevurah and Hesed, justice and mercy,
the two faces of goodness, male and female.
Photons separate from electrons, bosons from fermions,
energy from matter – a sudden decoupling.
Ours is a beautiful but fallen world.
Time and not Eternity.
The Fall is not the fault of Adam and Eve,
who were not yet there,
but a cosmic accident, since creation is difficult.
Life emerges with Yesod and Malkhut,
but it is fragile, vulnerable, time-bound, mortal,
because of the Fall.
Shekinah, the light of consciousness,
though foreshadowed in animals,
comes to complete bloom with humans.
The link between the eternal pair (Hokhmah/Binah)
and the secular pairs (Gevurah/Yesed and Hod/Nezah)
is Tiferet, the flower and the beauty.
(Thus Beauty comes after Goodness and after Truth.)
Tiferet is Jesus, the Way, the Tao,
the nine incarnations of Vishnu, even Rama and Krishna,
the bridge between the divine and the human,
between the unbroken and the broken,
between the eternal and the mortal,
between the begotten and the created.
(His mother Mary was mortal, His father was not.)
The other Parzufs are the Holy Spirit
which permeates the life forms.
The Shekinah especially follows
the doubly fallen humans:
once fallen through the cosmic accident,
continually falling through their own sins.
The fall creates time, i.e. obscures eternity.
But colours are more interesting to us
than black-white splendour.
We like the rainbow spread of possibilities.
We prefer becoming to being, like planning a trip.
The rainbow reflects (?!) both happiness (sunlight)
and sorrow (rain, like tears).
The prism of life spreads out the divine in space,
as also otherwise in time (as waves and cycles,
as terminations and resurrections.)
We prefer to be in time on the wheel of life
rather than in the Nirvana of eternity.
But that is only because we are ignorant
of the eternal bliss of pure Being.