Kabbalah, Tree of Life

Kabbalah, Tree of Life 

Traditional practitioners believe Kabbalah's earliest origins pre-date world religions, forming the primordial blueprint for Creation's philosophies, religions, sciences, arts, and political systems. This is how it is used in this meditation practice, drawing mainly on the work of Rabbi David Cooper, but also on the other mystical Judea and Magick Traditions found in the Golden Dawn. According to Kabbalistic philosophy, there are ten Sephirot corresponding to ten levels of creation. These levels of creation must not be understood as ten different "gods" but as ten different ways of revealing God, one per level. It is not God who changes but the ability to perceive God that changes.

Kabbalah, The Tree of Life and the Macrocosmos

 

The Kabbalah Sephirot 

One: Kabbalah, Keter - Crown: Divine Will to create/Infinite Light of the Creator/the     Hebrew name of God "Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh-I Am that I Am"

Two: Kabbalah, Chokhmah - Wisdom: First unbounded flash of an idea before it takes on limitations/male light/Divine Reality/first revelation/creation from nothingness

Three: Kabbalah, Binah - Understanding: the infinite flash of Chokhmah brought into the vessel of understanding to give it grasp of breadth and depth/feminine vessel that gives birth to the emotions/reason/understanding brings teshuva or return to God 

Kabbalah, Da'at - Knowledge: Central state of unity of the 10 sefirot

Four: Kabbalah, Chesed - Kindness: Loving grace of free giving/love of God/inspiring vision

Five: Kabbalah, Gevurah - Severity: Strength/judgment/intention/withholding/awe of God

Six: Kabbalah, Tiferet - Beauty: Symmetry/balance between Chesed and Gevurah in compassion

Seven: Kabbalah, Netzach - Eternity: 'perpetuity', 'victory', or 'endurance'

Eight: Kabbalah, Hod - Splendor: Withdrawal/Surrender/sincerity

Nine: Kabbalah, Yesod - Foundation: Connecting to the task to accomplish/wholly remembering/coherent knowledge

Ten: Kabbalah, Malkuth – Earthly realm of manifestation: female vessel for the nurturing of the male lights of the emotional sefirot into action bringing realization of the Divine Plan.

Ein Sof – resides above all the Sephiroth and is the Unknowable Aspect of G-d.

Diagram of the Four Worlds and the Sephiroth

Keter Chokmah Binah	4th heaven - "Y" (Yod) (Azilut - world Emanation)	Pure Will Realm of Eyn Sof Godly Unity
Chesed Gevurah Tipheret	3rd heaven - "H" ("greater" Hay) (Beriah - world Creation)	Intellect/Thought Realm of the Throne
Netzach Hod Yesod	2nd heaven - "V" (Vav) (Yezirah - world of Formation)	Emotional/Speech Realm of Angels
Malkut	1st heaven - "H" ("lesser" Hay) (Asiyyah - world of Action)	Physical/Actions Realm of the Shekinah and physical creation

 

All of the Sephirot exist in each of the Four Worlds, however they are also said to have the particular relationships shown. Also, the world of Aziluth (Emanation) is said to be outside of the realm of time, and contains the other three worlds (Beriah, Yezirah and Asiyyah), as well as the purest essence of the Sephirot, "within itself."

 

Ye-de-vuw-he, or YHWH – the four letters of the Tetragrammaton describe the essence of G-D within the Four Worlds. The י (Y) is associated with Atziluth, the first ה (H) with Beri'ah, the ו (W) with Yetzirah, and final ה (HY) with Asiyah.