Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.---Carl Jung
Keter/Kether (Crown) - basic Divine will and all delight and pleasure, only touches the surface.
Hokhmah/Chokmah
(Wisdom) - intuitive, instantaneous knowledge.
Hokhmah expressing the power of original light, is that which distinguishes and creates and is the basics of intuitive grasp.
Binah
(Understanding) - logical analysis.
Binah, expressing the analytical and synthetic power of the mind, builds and comprehends forma and probes the meaning of that which comes from the Sefirah of Hohkmah.
DA'AT/DAAS/DAATH (Knowledge) - The accumulation of that which is known, is a sort of eleventh Sefirah, belonging and yet not
belonging to the ten.
Daat exporting the crystallization of awareness in terms of conclusions and the abstract ascertaining of facts is that which enables consciousness to make a transition from one existence to another, thereby ensuring continuity.
Hesed/Chesed (Grace, Love) - irrepressibly expanding impulse, or Gedulah (Greatness) of love and growth.
Hesed as grace and love is the inclination toward things, the desire for, or attraction to beings, the outgoing flow and opening up to the world, that which gives itself, whether in terms of will or affection or relation and, in giving, opens up to the Sefirah of Gevurah, or strength.
Gevurah/Geburah (Power-Strength-Severity) - restraint and concentration, control as well as bear and
awe.
Gevurah is thus an inward withdrawal of forces, a concentration of power which provides and energy source for hate, fear, and terror as well as justice, restraint, and control.
Tiferet/Tipareth (Beauty) - is the combination of harmony, truth, compassion.
Tiferet is harmony and compassion as well a beauty, being a synthesis or a balancing of the higher powers of attraction and repulsion, and leads to moral as well as to aesthetic acceptance of the world.
Netzach/Netsach
(Eternity-Splendor-Victory) - conquest or capacity for overcoming.
Netzach is the will to overcome the profound urge to get things done.
Hod (Splendor) - can be seen as a persistence or holding on.
Hod, in striving to achieve and attain that which is desired, is also the power to repudiate the obstacles that rise from reality, and persevere.
Yeshod\Yesod (Foundation) - the vehicle, the carrier from one thing to another.
Yesod is the power of connection, the capacity and the will to build bridges, make contacts, and relate to others, especially in the way this is done with teacher, father and other figures of meaning and authority.
Malkhut/Malkuth (Kingdom-Kingship) - beside sovereignty or rule, the word and the ultimate receptacle.
Finally the Sefirah of Malkhut is the realization, or living through, of this potential in the essential being: it is the transition from soul to outer existence, to thought and to deed. It also effects the transmutation of consciousness back to Keter, the first and highest of the Sefirot, which is also the essence of will and contains in itself all the higher powers that activate the soul from above.
The great sum of all these Sefirot in their relatedness constitutes the permanent connection between God and His world. The connection works in two ways. First, the ten Sefirot are responsible for the universal law and order, what we might call the working of nature in the worlds. As such they mix and descend, contracting and changing forms as they go from one world to another, until they reach our physical world which is the final station of the manifestation of divine power. Secondly, the events that occur in our world continuously influence the ten Sefirot, affecting the nature and quality of the relations between the downpouring light and power. Our world depends on the proper functioning of the Sefirot, and when they are interfered with the system is disrupted, and the disrupting factors themselves suffer the consequences.
In this sense, the entire order of the Sefirot, with its laws of action and reaction, is in many ways mechanical. Nevertheless, man, who is the only creature capable of free action in the system, can cause alterations of varying degrees in the patter and the operation. For everything man does has significance. An evil act will generally cause some disruption or negative reaction in the vast system of the Sefirot; and a good act, correct or raise things to a higher level. Each of the actions extends out into all the worlds and comes back into our own, back upon ourselves, in one form or another.
ADAM (lit. man). The ten Sefirot represented as a man, e.g. Kether as the center of the brain, Hokhmah as the right side, Chesed as the right arm, etc.
Zohar, Book 1, Glossary.
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Alicia's Web site is my personal interpretation as redacted, cited, compiled, and edited by myself. They are not to be misconstrued as representative of any particular religious organizations, denomination, doctrine, or dogma ... other than my own. I have cited various sources: Adin Steinsaltz book - The Thirteen Petalled Rose, The Zohar - translated by Harry Sperling and Maurice Simon, The Bahir translation and commentary by Aryeh Kaplan, B.S. Ashlag (1906-1991)also known as The Rabash, The Ari- Rabbi Isaac Luria; and Rabbi Zalman Schacter-Shalomi; The Master Plan - The Baal Shem Tov's Unique Conception of Divine Providence. |
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