THE ATLAS OF THE ALIEN SPARK

The alien God · homesickness as evidence

the alien God

nature

Jonas's name for the Gnostic deity: not merely transcendent but FOREIGN — unrelated to this world, uninvolved in its making, unknown to its ruler, reachable only because something of him is stranded here.

The psychological claim underneath the theology: in this scheme your not belonging is not a symptom, it is the EVIDENCE. You could not be homesick for a place you were native to.

rhymes with

sephirahketer

whyFiled at Keter. The Kabbalah also has a Beyond of which nothing can be said — Ein Sof — but never an alien one: the same unspeakable source contracts itself to make room for the world, and the world is its garment rather than its prison.