By Z'Ev Ben Shimon Halevi
The Cabalistic Tree of lifestyles has been with us for greater than thousand years. This e-book brings the Tree into the twentieth century and sheds mild on its smooth interpretation. advent to the Cabala is a lucid exposition of the Cabala, the hidden internal instructing of Jewish mysticism. defined typically rules, Halevi supplies useful examples that relate to the current time and the way the Tree features within the traditional in addition to the metaphysical international. Halevi strains Cabalistic background from old and medieval classes to the current, so he can clarify the metaphysical historical past of the Tree, and progressively show its rules and interacting symmetry. The latter 1/2 the e-book is worried with the applying of the cloth to real residing adventure. the ultimate part is dedicated to an in depth learn of our non secular goals and chances.
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Gods and planets TREE AND GODS 53 This layered coat of radiation is the fire element of the Earth. Together these various states of matter, solid, liquid, gas and radiation, form the body of the planet. Deep inside it, on, or near the hard surface, is a thin living film called Nature, which contains not only the flora and fauna of Pan, but this strange creature called man, the most sensitive organism of natural evolution. Malcut is our physical environment. Embedded in it we lose sight of it. As our bodies are composed of it, we forget it is a temporary form through which the four elemental states pass.
Dividing this from that with one quick cut. while his shield parries and balances. This is the passive aspect of his nature. Mars is sometimes known as ruthless. but he also has been known to run from the field of battle howling. like a coward. This was usually when he was confronted by Pallas Athene. TREE AND GODS 62 TREE OF LIFE the war goddess whose coolness, courage and intelligence always got the better of Mars, for when roused he tended to fly into a rage which reduced his accuracy of judgement, vital in battle.
Venus always seeks that which is desirable, away from the painful, whether it is hunger or what is uncomfortable, or towards the pleasant, be it a new love or a familiar pleasure in an eternal graceful roundabout. The position of Tepheret in this cosmic scheme is occupied by the Sun. Tepheret in man is defined as the Essential Nature or the individual self. This is Apollo in the central position of a man and the soler system. Nearly all paths lead to the Sun, feeding energy in, before they are radiated out again.