Today, a rather convoluted series of syncs -- taking me from the "tulip tree," Liriodendrom tulipifera, to the Luria-dendron of the qlippoth -- led me to the Lurianic terms Olam ha-Tohu (World of Chaos) and Olam ha-Tikkun (World of Rectification) -- and the latter is pretty clearly my own personal Éliphas Lévi. William becomes Olam (also transliterated Gholam; cf. Guillaume), and Tychonievich (a Ukrainian patronymic from the personal name Tikhon) becomes Tikkun. I guess Olam ben-Tikkun would be the proper form.
One major drawback is the similarity to tikkun olam, which is the Jewish term for Leftist "social justice."
2 comments:
the similarity is not accidental.
the reverse order establishes proper hierarchy.
whereas tikkun olam is the human agency to bring about rectification 'of the world' (and hence social justice), olam ben tikkun is the 'world of' (and with ben, the son of) rectification, deriving its meaning and agency from above.
William = Willem/Wilhelm, so Golem Ha-Tikkun.
Raw material of Rectification.
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