From Lurianic Kabbalah To Hasidism 138 hoping to seize his sacred vitality from him if it becomes clothed in these alien thoughts and falsified by their imperfect ideas and impaired emotions . In the form it takes in the writings of the Maggid of Mezritch and some of his principal disciples, Hasidism requires that man reject and remove these alien thoughts, or – on a higher degree elevate them to their divine root and perform a process of ‒ sublimation and sanctification by transforming them from defilement into holiness . According to the widespread conception in Hasidism, every single thought is composed of letters, which are sacred divine entities, the stones used by the Holy One in constructing heaven and earth . Indeed, it is not only the thought which is made of letters, but the whole world consists of various and manifold combinations of sacred letters . A particular combination of letters is the name of a particular thing, and a thing’s name is its inner essence ‒ or, if one wi...
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