Kabbalah is essentially both a
way of viewing the world and a way of living
in the world. The Tree of Life is a
blueprint of the organizational structure of
All Life, both seen and unseen, so this includes not
only our physical Earth and all of its parts, our Solar
System, our Galaxy and Universe, but All of the Cosmos.
Kabbalah is both the macrocosm of
space and time, and the microcosm down to the
atomic level. We are born from
Nothingness and we return to Nothingness, and the
voyage of our eternal life is mapped on the Tree
of Life.
During the journey, we travel a road
anywhere between polar opposites: positive and
negative, excesses and deficiencies, highs and lows,
light and dark, etc. The key to this journey is to not
get stuck in one place, but to be fluid, while at the same time,
learning
the value of the dynamic process between the extremes of
life. The goal is to maintain a neutral path, while
still experiencing the extremes around us. It's staying
in the spoke of the wheel and observing what's all
around us rather than riding the bumpy dizzying path at
the rim of the wheel.
It is a cyclical, never-ending
journey, with our Soul becoming crystallized
Light at conception, and then after a "time", we
experience what we call death, when our physical body
becomes dust once again. At the moment of death, we leave our physical
shell, only to eventually return for the same voyage
once again. And so the cycle begins once again.
Kabbalah
truly is the grand, in-finite "Circle Of Life".
Tree of Life
The Tree of Life is a physical
picture of how our experience of life is
represented. The Tree is the Blueprint of All
Life.
While the Tree appears in most
depictions as 2-dimensional, it is in actuality a
multi-dimensional "universe" containing Trees of Life
within Trees of Life, each intimately
interconnected. It is the warp and weft that
creates the woven Cloth of Life. Because of our
limited abilities to perceive beyond our physical plane
of existence, it is difficult to imagine how vast and
all-encompassing the Tree really is.
The Kabbalah Tree of Life is a map
of the soul/human journey and experience toward
enlightened consciousness. It is a picture of how
Nothing becomes Everything, which ultimately becomes
physical matter; and vice versa, how physical matter
ultimately becomes Everything which then becomes Nothing.
In all of time... in the past, present and future...
we are somewhere in the Tree, experiencing a moment,
then moving to another moment in time to another place
in the Tree. It is a personal journey, and yet
also a universal journey. It is the journey to
understand oneself, understand our relationships,
and understand our planet and the cosmos in
relation to the Creator of the All-That-Is.
It is a physical representation of the
stepdown process through each Sephirah where a
differentiated Spectrum appears. The stepdown of
visible color begins with KETER.
And so the Tree of Life is formed with different aspects
of Life being born on each Path, with eventual complete
physical manifestation occurring in Malkuth.
The totality of our journey is also the
stepup process of returning to the Source,
returning to the Light, and eventually returning
back to the Nothingness from which we came.
This is not a stagnant process! It is
dynamic and ever-changing, like the synapses of the
brain firing in any given moment. If we are in in a
state of healthy movement, we are bouncing around the
Tree like a pinball in a arcade game, all along gaining
information and experience so that we can make different
choices as to where we want to go next.
Tree of Life as an Energy Pathway
As was said earlier, the Tree of Life
is a picture of the macrocosm and the microcosm, which
are one in the same.
Our physical body and energy
field has the same organizational structure as the
Tree of Life. So therefore, it is possible to map
the Tree on the physical body. Note that the Tree of
Life maps on the BACKSIDE of the body. Even
though most all pictures show the tree mapped on the
front of the body (even the graphic I've included with
the Vitruvian Man at the top of this page), the Tree
of Life truly maps to the BACK of the body. You can
read more about the placement of each sephira on the
physical body
here.
The Binah/Deburah/Hod left-side column is the FEMININE/-
NEGATIVE CHARGE side and the Chokmah/Chesed/Netszch
right-side column is the MASCULINE/+ POSITIVE CHARGE
side. The middle column is Ø NEUTRAL. You can read more
about the 3 Columns or Pillars
here.
Color,
light,
sound,
crystals & stones,
subtle
aromatherapy,
sacred geometry,
Crystalline
Alchemy™
and energywork
can be used to access the Tree and all its parts within
our human energy system. This includes the Sephira,
the Pillars, the Worlds, the Veils
and the 32 paths (or stages) which are composed
of the 10 sephira plus the 22 Hebrew letters, each of
which is a link (Tarot card) between the 10 Sephira.
Each sephira is associated with: a
particular Divine attribute, Divine name, pillar, one of
5 worlds, one of 5 elements, a letter in the Name of God
YHVH, a number, an Archangel, a planet in our Solar
System, a place on Earth, a principal
color, a particular part or area
of the physical body, a particular part of our energy
field, a chemical element, a
crystal or stone, a chakra,
a geometric shape, one of the
ten commandments, and a musical note.
Human
DNA can be superimposed on the Tree of Life showing
how the Tree is literally a part of our physical
composition. Just as the Tree is the blueprint of life,
so is the DNA the blueprint of an individual Life. We can travel our DNA just as we can
travel the Tree of Life, with the potential for DNA
enlightenment!
The Tree can also be superimposed on the
grid of the Earth and on the ancient Nadis
system with the primary nadis being the Ida, Pingala
and Sushumna.
Final Thoughts
As you explore these ideas, you begin to
see the Holographic Principle, that Source exists
exactly the same as itself within every piece of Life,
from the smallest tachyon to the grandest parts of the Cosmos. Metaphors
are actually not metaphors at all. They are literally
exactly the same as that which they appear to emulate,
but in a different perceived "form".
All living things are "cut from the
same One Universal piece of cloth". We are all
made of the same stuff, and each piece of the
stuff is the same organizational structure of the larger
stuff. That which the largest of
any living entity is made of, is also contained within
the smallest part of the larger entity. In other words,
we literally are made in the likeness of God. We truly are All ONE.
Suggested
Reading
Kabbalah: Your Path To Inner Freedom
by Anne Williams-Heller, 1990
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