'Tree Of Life' Articles
God is infinite and includes all things, all potentials, and is in the purest sense unknowable. We are the observers of the lights of God. Not a single light, but ten such lights. The sephira serve as ten categories for everything in existence. The sephira constitute not only cosmic forces but moral forces as well. They arise as a result of God taking different forms in order to fully express its full potential.
The purpose of Kabbalism as a teaching and practice is to reverse the course of human ignorance and turn to harmony with God. But it happens in stages. The reason for examining patterns in the tree of life is they reflect a tendency of how life events unfold. How people and things develop. The insights arrived at as one explores the tree of life inside themselves can seem miraculous.
“The pure impulse of dynamic creation is formless; and being formless, the creation it gives rise to can assume any and every form.” Kabbalah
Divine Lights
I won’t be discussing orthodox Kabbalah in detail, just a synopsis mostly. But I will answer more specific questions as best I can. Kabbalah is in a sense a form of theurgy. In it, God is infinite and includes all things, all potentials, and is in the purest sense unknowable. In it, all aspects of reality are seen as implicate to our souls nature. The word itself roughly translates to receiving. In Kabbalah, we are the observers of the lights of God. Not a single light, but ten such lights. They correspond not only to the planets, but serve as… Seek More
Process Of Development
At each of the stages in Kabbalah, God is considered to have reflected on that stage of it’s expression. I use the gender neutral term because God is seen as both male and female, and this step of considering what it discovered gives rise to lower intelligences we have come to know as angelic powers. These, and the order of beings stemming from them, are considered to govern that stage of development which is seen as a world, but one existing implicately in our world, sort of nested. I will go into this in more detail later. As I said… Seek More
Reverse The Course Of Ignorance
The story of humanities exile from Eden is reflected in the Kabbalah. In the primal state, humanity existed in a way that was little differentiated from nature. Supreme harmony if you can envision it, but with the awakening to a discriminating mind, man began a descent into lower states of mind and thus also literal being. In the Kabbalah, there is no external world as we define it these days. The only real world is spiritual. The only true reality is God. So, mans descent into the state we know now was not as a punishment, but more a consequence… Seek More
Work Of Ascension
You don’t actually travel to other planets while you undertake the work of ascension, but as you fully experience each stage it does feel like the earth you live on has changed it’s basic nature. It hasn’t, but it seems to because you are evolving within and beyond that phase of our planets existence, and with true mastery, that sphere ceases to master you. Now each sephira isn’t necessarily a quantum leap from the last one you were working with. They are also divided up into four “worlds” corresponding to the four elements, and each set of spheres shares the… Seek More
Right Insight
As you incarnated, you took on the weight not only of your personal decision, but the weight of every spirit that ever made the same decision. A sort of shared karma. This is perhaps the origin of the concept of original sin. So as the Kabbalist seeks to ascend the sephiric states, they have to deal with what seems like interference from higher powers. Personal decision? You mean we get to say when we are reborn? Yes, indeed. The concept is known as transmigration of souls, and without the right insight you cannot pass these gate keepers. There are numerous… Seek More
Ways Of God
Kabbalah is the “ways of God”. Being able to look at yourself and see the divine. As well as see the divine in others. Whatever you do unto these, the least of my brothers that you do to me also. Is it your spirit that calls you on the path? It is your spirit, because your spirit and the holy spirit are one. As I made mention of earlier, Kabbalists don’t say that you have one soul, they say you have a few. The spirit that comes to you as the comforter is your intended spirit, your intended spiritual state. Modern… Seek More
