The final ה represents the perfect realization of the Divine vision on the physical plane. In the end of days, when the creative process achieves its completion, this final ה will perfectly mirror, in infinite and glorious detail, its supernal prototype, the upper ה as it exists within the mind’s eye of the Creator. The completion of this process is called the messianic era.
Here G‑d conceals His perfection and bears the indignity of appearing defective and inadequate to those who look with their outer senses. Imagine the humiliation of the Creator and the self control required not to “react” when people conclude from the appearance of things that there is no G‑d, or that He is not in control of His creation, or is doing a lousy job if he is directing the show. The universe is a “work in progress” which, until complete, will always appear lacking. This is so by definition. There is much to learn from the Creator’s willingness to detach from His “image.” He is like a king donning the clothes of a beggar, enduring the contempt heaped upon Him by those who judge from surface appearances in order to teach His subjects to search for inner royalty.
The archetypal masterpiece of creative process follows six stages with progressive states of concealment and self constraint separating each from the next. The sequence can be summarized as follows:
PURPOSE (as it arises within a state of light filled expanse.)
(CONCEALMENT OF ALL‑PRESENCE)
PURPOSE (as it appears against a background cleared of extraneous light.)
(CONCEALMENT OF INFINITUDE)
CONCEPT
(CONCEALMENT OF ALL KNOWINGNESS)
VISION
(CONCEALMENT OF OMNIPOTENCE)
BLUEPRINT
(CONCEALMENT OF PERFECTION)
ENDPRODUCT / IMPLEMENTATION
Clearly then, from the perspective of Divinity, the creative process is characterized more by self constraint than self expression and, given the inviolate principle of correspondence, this must also be so for human beings. It follows that one striving to develop her creative potential should focus on the antipodal elements of the process, the points that require a clearing out of the ego’s self absorption and attachment to image. We learn from the Divine model that only an increasingly rigorous discipline of modesty and ego dismantling enables artistic expression that is truly imitative of the Creator.[10]
