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The question is often asked , how all the matter in the universe could be packed into the 'seed' that became the big bang. However in fact there was no matter until some short time after the big bang when a phase transition took place and the various forces condensed out . I did read an...

re the Alexandrian origins of Jewish mysticism I would associate Alexandria with the strongly Hellenizing neoplatonism of Philo rather than an esoteric tradition . There was certainly a synchretistic movement in such a melting pot of races and religions .( According to Josephus some Alexandrian...

On second thoughts I suppose this would depend on whether the expansion of the universe is caused by existing space being stretched or new space being added in between .

Interesting point but what about this. If time were to run at a slower rate within a 'bubble' then space within that bubble would expand at a slower rate than the universe outside , this would surely mean that when the bubble 'rejoined' the rest of the universe everything that had been within...

Yes it struck me also when I read this passage .The similarity between the scattering of the light in Gnosticism and the Kabbalistic 'Breaking of the Vessels' ( Shevirat ha-Kelim ) As to which came first , the origin of Kabbalah is much disputed but the earliest texts are medieval .It is...

I have not read the Cunningham book you mention however I can offer the following info which I hope is useful. The "Key of Solomon" is a book 'Clavicula Solomonis';"the most famous and important of all Grimoires, or handbooks of Magic " There is an online translation here ...

Going back to the original query about the relation between black holes and the big bang . I read somwhere an interesting idea .At both of these singularities , according to relativity ,time slows down the nearer you aproach a singularity .So both in a sense lie outside of time .i.e. a black...

The mention of Solomon's horses and wives reminded me that I read somewhere (perhaps a quote from the Talmud ) that a student once complained that God never gave any reasons for his commandments The reply was that in the only 2 cases where God did give reasons i.e. in the 2 passages from...