Sephiroth

Western civilization is based primarily upon the moral code given on Mount Sinai, the Ten Commandments received by Moses. These laws underpin the conduct of practitioners.5 This has been distilled into what is sometimes called the morality of the masters, stated as a right relationship to the Source of life and right relationships to the rest of life. The Ten Commandments also have inner, or esoteric, implications related to the Ten Sephiroth that are just as binding upon those who would receive the divine wisdom ... 

When the Sephiroth are established and can be called to mind with ease, imagine the twenty-two Paths that unite them in white light. Visualizing the Sephiroth and Paths of the Tree of Life can be used as a catch exercise for implanting the symbolism of the Tree in your memory, calling it up in spare moments during the daily routine. 

Each day, will one of the Sephiroth to radiate in the color scale of Briah (the Queen Scale), intoning the Divine Name of the sephira to trigger this change of color ... 

Finish by visualizing the entire Tree within your aura for a while. Picture the Sephiroth in the Queen Scale and the connecting Paths in white light. This serves as a powerful image of integrated relationship on all levels of being. Close the session with the Qabalistic Cross. 

In this stage we unite our own subjective Tree with the objective Macrocosm, of which it is a reflection. Starting from Malkuth, ascend the Tree of the material body, building the Sephiroth in the Queen Scale of Briah. 

Each human being is a complete refection of the universe there is no other outside needed to effect that completion. A woman is not one half of the Tree awaiting an exterior male to come along and complete it—or vice versa. Neither does Enlightenment occur in pairs. AH the ten Sephiroth, all the worlds, all the principles and potencies are present in totality within every individual. That s what being a microcosm means Individuality may emphasize certain aspects more than others, but that doesn t mean the quiescent aspects are absent. Each human is an image or expression of the divine. 

The solar and lunar currents weave about the central axis of the spinal column. At certain points, they intersect. These points of juncture relate to the position of the Middle Pillar Sephiroth on the subjective Tree of Life Kether, Tiphareth, and Yesod. These junctions are therefore of critical importance in the arousing the Dragon, the fiery power of Kundalini. For this reason, the visualizations of the chambers of these spheres is detailed in our practices, in order to give us the necessary precision and control. 

You have now constructed the citadel in the finer etheric, astral, and mental substances drawn out from your own aura, and so it has a close psychic link with you. As each chamber inside this Tower of the Art, corresponds to one of the subjective Sephirothic centers, you have thereby constructed a remote-control device. The tower is a means by which you can concentrate upon and direct energy to the chakras, without any concentration upon the physical centers at all. By working in the appropriate chamber in the castle, you can produce an effect upon the inner levels. From there, you work naturally through into physical, waking consciousness. So this etheric structure prevents damage to the physical body, but at the same time allows the spiritual powers of the etheric centers to unfold quite naturally. Most people incarnate today have a... 

When, in the preliminary exercises preceding the actual practice, practitioners build up the Tree of Life in their aura, the paths are formulated as a consequence, since they are subjective reactions to the objective power of the Sephiroth. The Fountain Breath exercise then unifies the influences of all the Paths and the Sephiroth. This happens because there is only One Power that flows through all the paths and manifests in a ten-fold aspect as the Sephiroth, the outpouring of the Most Holy One that is Mezla, grace, by which the worlds are nourished and sustained. For grace is not some abstract poetic metaphor, but an actual etheric, astral, and spiritual substance. Alchemy names it the water that burns and the fire that flows. It is the First Matter. 

These are, of course, the chambers of the Sephiroth upon the side pillars of force and form on the Tree, i.e., Chokmah, Binah, Chesed,... 

Each of the Sephirothic chambers in the castle is also a subjective temple for the influence of that sphere. They all follow a general layout, although certain details peculiar to each chamber will unveil themselves, appearing to practitioners as experience is acquired and subsequent unfoldment occurs. 

Once the Sephirothic chambers have been described (see figure 10, page 184), we will return to the paths and the ways of traveling them in detail, for they are the routes by which you will travel into the unseen. 

Note that in figure 10, the Sephirothic chambers are in reversed position to that usually shown on the Tree of Life. This is because the golem of the Tower is projected from the physical body, where Binah,... 

Because depictions of the secret paths of the Tree of Life are very rare, I show them here (see figures 11 and 12, pages 191, 192). Study of this diagram shows how the Concealed Paths unite all Sephiroth which... 

Figure 12. This diagram shows the Concealed Paths as well as the usual twenty-two Shining Paths, diagrammatically teaching that each single Sephira is united to all the other Sephiroth of the Tree. The Sephiroth are not ten separate things, but ten interdependent aspects of the One Majesty, ten facets of the luminous Jewel of Eternity.

The Sephiroth of the Tree change into the Queen Scale of Briah and, simultaneously, you see that the field of the phoenix shield that hangs over the door to the chapel, is changed from white to azure. And within the chapel, the royal orb, cushioned upon the altar, is now formed of precious blue sapphire. 

In the twelfth century Jewish mystics used gematria in their meditations to find the secret names of God. They hoped to use these empowered names in their magical assent to heaven and to attain gnosis. Ten names or qualities of God were discovered and these were assigned to the 10 sephiroth on the Tree of Life. These qualities can be translated into English as ... 

Also, 22 pathways were created between the sephiroth, and each was assigned one of the 22 Hebrew letters. As one meditated on each letter in this system, one progressed up the tree of life and moved toward the mystical goal. 

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