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A bull terrier, having dashed into the grounds of the hospital, healed three hopeless patients suffering from paralysis of the legs, and relieved two others of chronic constipation…

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The 1—according to Kabbalah—is impulse, impetus, blow, increase.

The Heart embodies the symbolism of the Elements of Life.

Thus, the Ace of Life is the impulse, impetus, blow, or increase of Life.

For example, it may symbolize the movement of some living creature, or the Impulse of Life from a particular vantage.

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Fig. 1.1 A pea sprout, newly emerged from its seed. The Impulse of Life: from within the seed, outward.19

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Fig. 1.2 A fish, in water, curving its body, strikes with its tail to move itself forward. The Impulse of Life.20

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Fig. 1.3 A snake, undulating, glides across the sand. The Impulse of Life.

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Fig. 1.4 A dove beats its wings for flight. The Impulse of Life.21

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Fig. 1.5 A shaft of sunlight piercing through dense branches in the forest, gently dissolving the heavy twilight. The Impulse of Life, awakening plants to activity.

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One of the distinguishing features of the '1' is its immediate urge to become the '2'—to cross into the realm of interaction.

Thus, the boundary between the '1' and the '2' is rather provisional.

It is determined chiefly by temporal limits and by the angle from which one regards the matter.

Typically, our attention is drawn just before the process shifts from the '1' into the '2.'

The Unit of Life is marked by the fact that it has not yet openly entered into interaction with other living beings. Though, for all our sophisticated distinctions, such interaction inevitably persists nonetheless. Thus, the status of the One remains quite conditional, subjective, and, to a great extent, depends upon the perceptiveness and cunning of the observer.

For the Absolute Observer, it is plain: the Ace of Life is but HIMSELF, and those observers who are truly His equals. For He perceives the profound and hidden interplay and kinship among individual beings, and, indeed, it is HE HIMSELF who acts as the impetus for the very emergence of these interactions.

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