Four Things you Need to Know About the Tree of Life

The Tree of Life of the Kabalahists is an ancient diagram of how creation manifested out of divine light. The diagram is of 10 spheres with 22 paths connecting them. The divine light hits the crown or the top of the tree and is projected through its lens like a prism. Once the light passes through the prism its opposite is reflected. The top three spheres make a triangle of archetypes that is reflected in the next three spheres and the triangle it makes. As the light travels down the tree through the next triangles comprised of spheres it becomes slower and denser creating the matter of our world at the bottom. 

  

You can think of it as a giant teapot. There is an unimaginable heat that excites the water to turn it to a gaseous state. With that heat creates unbounded energy that is bouncing everywhere without a direction or purpose. In this case, the prism or the collective apparatus is the spout. The spout concentrates that energy and directs it. Now imagine if you were distilling that water, the hose attached to the spout would collect that steam. Then if you cool the steam by running that hose through ice, the steam would slow and cool and return to its natural state as water. Then the water can become the source of life and making the various parts of creation. This is what happens as light travels through the Tree of life.

Another way to understand this ancient root diagram is this way. There are three columns to the Tree. The left and right pillars are also known by their Hebrew names Boaz and Jachin (both of which originally stood in King Solomon’s Temple, the First Temple in Jerusalem.) The center pillar (which includes Kether, Tiphareth, Yesod, and Malkuth) is the “Pillar of Mildness.”  We are going to focus on the middle pillar or column, since the other two only describe it. The middle pillar is the process of creation or the bus. When you travel on a bus, you do not need to concern yourself with the laws of thermal dynamics, how the internal combustion works, the health of the driver, the stock value of the company, and such; if it works you are only aware that you arrived at your destination.

So now to the 4 parts of the tree of life you need to know. We are going to continue on with the bus analogy.

1. First, you have an idea to travel.
2. Second, you buy your ticket.
3. Third, you go to the station and travel on the bus.
4. Fourth you arrive and leave your review on Google.

Everything else and its complications can be broken down into these least common denominators. In fact, everything in this world and the next can be broken down and moved back up again through them. If you understand how to be the best mechanic, you can be the best doctor. Ponder this: both a car and a person has a place where fuel enters; a mouth and gas cap. That fuel follows a tube; fuel pipe and your throat. From there it enters a storage unit; stomach and gas tank. Then it follows smaller tubes; fuel lines and veins. It enters a combustion unit; your heart and a carburetor (yes I am dating myself). Then there is a spark and all sorts of miraculous movements happen. It is a simple diagram, the Tree of Life, that can manifest into anything and everything once you understand it. In fact, all software starts as a diagram or flow chart.

To explain this on a mystical point of view of how we got here and our jobs in the role of creation is this.

The top of the central column represents god or a mainframe. All that light that is beyond comprehension enters a central hard drive. Some people call this God and he has this idea. He sends a task out to be comprehended and developed. The Archangels become the architects who make a blueprint. They pass their plans on to the angels who are the factory worker who creates the idea into reality. They make the product from the plans of the idea of the guy who pays for their checks. Then we are the consumers who use the product and we get to praise the guy who had the idea or leave a bad review on Google for him.

This is a point we loose in America. If through the powers of creation from the beginning we are given the equal power to God or the man who had the dream of reality, why do we lower ourselves below those who run the companies that had the idea for the products we purchase or the people we elect to make the ideas in our government. If more people realize they are god, and that everyone is equal since they are god too, we might bring those who have not seen the light and lost that feeling of love and connectedness back into the fold and they will not be separate or higher in position and not feel lower anymore. There are far more people in this world who are unified that buy the products or elect the kings than the CEO or the leaders of this world. In this multitude, there must be someone who can reach them and bring them back to the family. To let them continue on their own is a drain on the whole. They are trying to create a new world from taxed resources.

Taxed resources? Do you keep going back to the gas pump alone? No, you need to go back to the well. Well, if they are that desperate to create their own world, we might be able to find a way to send them back to the source of that unimaginable light so they can start out once again from the void to make their own universe. As modern quantum scientists explain, our universe is just one badminton birdie amongst infinite others that take up very little space in the source of it all. The gnostics mention Sophia who did just this to create our own world when she fell from her place of origin and her son who did not know her created desire and fear. He feared if he existed something else might, then when nobody said hi or killed him he desired others to play with and our world was created. Then when he made something great, his mom only showed up to take the credit. In fact, maybe I should go back to the source and find another badminton birdie to play with... 

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