The Tree of Life Exploded

That’s an interesting similarity, and though I am not excluding possible brain surgery practices by ancient Egyptians, I think when considering all possible origins, something like a Lanner (or Barbary) falcon is a better candidate for the origin of the representation for the Eye of Horus.
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I read this yesterday … part of a commentary on Scriptural readings:

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For me, the question that begs to be asked is … are these “insights” random or targeted to specific individuals. If targeted … how? I floated a suggestion in another OP that didn’t get any traction. Our DNA is a transmitter/receiver and our brain is the processor(CPU)

Almost every morning I chop cabbage for my wife’s birds … the best part of the day for me. :slight_smile:

Reminds me of my posts in another OP about the symbiotic relationship between a seed and the soil.

IMO Taoism is not sufficiently well known in the West … for example - the Taoist discovery of the human energy meridians … acupuncture and the Taoist discovery of how to harness and channel energy in Kung Fu and Tai Chi … particularly how to use your opponent’s energy against him/her. :slight_smile:

Maybe that’s the reason I’m in China … there are no churches here. :slight_smile: earth is home and the sky is the roof … and the food ain’t so great. :slight_smile:

For me, churches, mosques, temples and so on have their place … excluding as you said … a place to help ascension. Reminds me of what the local priest told me many years ago … we were discussing my ‘watershed moment’ … paraphrasing … if God is calling you … He will call you alone.

I listened to your video … took away the notions you mentioned … “form” and “force”. The Dao De Jing uses the terms “Being Within Form” and “Being Without Form” … do you ‘see’ any parallels?

The tree is a model of the human ability for consciousness. It’s a blueprint of relations, of different faculties of consciousness.

The number 10 was likely chosen for the same reasons that we ended up using it for our other calculations as well - it suits our mind.

It makes perfect sense to use the minds most natural inclinations when building tools to enhance it.

9 is however an entirely different number from 10.

Okay, for Kabballah system, I’ll go with ten fingers, then.

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According the kabbalah, there can not be a pre existing plan to existence, as plans also must exist.

I urge you do do some serious, more than a few minutes long study about geometrical patterns in physics. I mean take a few weeks of a few hours each day. Its obvious to any intellectual that anything less is pointless on any subject, let alone a scientific one.

A little teaser as to the scenery you’ll be passing early on:
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In the mean time Ill commit to explaining some of geometrical necesities in the next episode, on the fifth sephira, Geburah.

The logic of the tree traces how something can be related to an undifferentiated field of possibility. Its not easy to grasp. As far from facile as things get.

Only for its gigantic challenge did I ever notice it as a 20 something explosive mind too strong even for Nietzsche.

The way I see it, our reasoning faculty itself is a sediment of spirits relentless dynamic. It does not itself act, it reacts, and it has its predictable mechanism of acting.

It is spirit which pushes a raw idea through its passive, honing-stone of reason, so as to elaborate the idea.

The idea of dyadic having logic at all is a result of a monadic principle encountering itself.
Thus, insights directly from the spirit tend to defy some of logics habit, but they always emerge of the same ground as that which logic shares and relies on.

Things always come to us through our primordial, living reason: our value system. Even logic is subservient to this. It determines the logical steps we are capable of accepting, surviving, in all our imperfections.

Spirit bypasses logic when logic is too weak and indirect and passive for our current state - all of us are stronger than dyadic logic, as all of us operate on the premise of being, entity, subject, which is monadic, and includes the dyadic as a dynamism of pulsating contradiction that keep arriving at higher levels of unity (yoga, lit: union)

That truly sounds like a great start of the day.

Im not fully aware of which tradition disclosed these meridians - I always figured it for rooted in India, perhaps tens of thousands of years ago -


In any case I withdraw my comments on the limits of Taoism, I am not sufficiently informed.

Never been to China, but its notions of philosophy and health are integral to my valuing. Eternal thanks be to Huangdi.

I absolutely agree with that statement - meaning that my experience is similar. Temples closed off to the world indeed do have their function, but it only has to do with the physical aspect of protection, “Mercy”. European Temples are also fortresses. That nature of hideout dominates, trumps, or eliminates the possibility for opening up to greater consciousness.

I do. In my Tai Chi and Chi Kung practice I am aware at every juncture how being without form comes to lock itself in being within form, to then liberate itself again into the Force…

Here’s my latest episode, on the god-sphere itself, Chesed.

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I noticed that you’ve been referring to the Middle Pillar as the Pillar of Mildness, instead of say the Pillar of Equilibrium. I can understand why it can be called that, but the term “mildness” suggests an opposition to me that the term “equilibrium” does not. It seems to me to be more opposed to “severity” than to “mercy”, even though “mercy” here probably means an impetuous kind of mercy that is as forceful as the severity. (From something I read somewhere in the last few days, on the different pillars as different paths of initiation, I think the mercy and severity correspond to the impulse and the rules from the final prose section of Blake’s MHH, respectively.)

This issue may or may not be related to the in my view mistaken notion that there are actually, substantially, three pillars. The two outer pillars have traditionally been identified with Boaz and Jachin, the two bronze pillars at Solomon’s Temple. There is, then, no third pillar, but the Middle Pillar stands for the invisible but intelligible unity of the two. In this sense, there’s “really” only one pillar, this being the Tree of Life itself. This is the Lingam, the fire-pillar of Shiva, whose opposite ends Brahmā and Vishnu could not reach. The way this tripartite division is reflected vertically in the three Triangles–Middle, Right, Left–is, I think, of considerable interest.

I agree.

Yet the illusive and often cantankerous underpinnings of the word ‘spirit’ remain a mystery. Reminds me of St Augustine … who spent 10 years with Manichaeism … converting to Christianity … in large part after coming to believe … rightly or wrongly … that spirit is substance. Since our physical world is entirely substance … including spirit in that body of substance results in a certain level of mental comfort.

Many years ago I heard the analogy of a swarm of mosquitoes buzzing around our head. An analogy with some merit … the swarm of mosquitoes is always an annoyance … the mosquito that lands on our body is considered an immediate threat and we launch a counter attack. We swat away at the swarm in an attempt to chase the entire swarm away from us … never works. We put a screen mesh over our head to create a buffer zone between the mosquitoes and our head … analogous to atheism which attempts to install a buffer zone so as not to be harassed by the mysteries of spirit.

I’m not familiar with the terms ‘monadic’ and ‘dyadic’. After a cursory investigation I concluded … perhaps incorrectly:

Dao = Monad Yin Yang= Dyadic

God = Monad Adam & Eve = Dyadic

You may be right … certainly Yoga and Tai Chi seem to be fruit of the same tree.

Perhaps it’s analogous to the Newton/Leibniz discovery of calculus.

Even more profound … what was in the air about 2,500 years ago? … when the human giants visited the planet at almost the same time … Socrates/Plato … Lao Tzu … Confucius … Buddha … Isaiah :slight_smile:

This morning your comments seem to have given birth to a new thought concerning Churches, Mosques, Temples and so on. These buildings have always been perceived as a refuge … a safe haven … where the protection of the Sacred Divine is inviolable.

I’m thinking what if the opposite is true. These buildings were constructed as a prison or jail. This intention may well have been an unconscious intention. We agree that our presence in these buildings is an obstacle to ascension … perhaps installing this obstacle was intentional.

Reminds me of the Cathars … imagine humanity’s reaction if mass media existed at the time of the Cathar genocide … today’s terrorism pales into insignificance.

I look forward to watching your video and will share my reaction.

Jacob … just finished watching your video on the notion of Chesed … best one yet … your body language spoke louder than your words. :slight_smile:

I don’t know that I’ve interpreted all your body language correctly … doesn’t matter … the overall feeling was very positive. I applaud your courage in posting the video.

As usual I did catch a few words. :slight_smile:

You said Chesed is the god of this world … seems to fit the Biblical Lucifer story. :slight_smile:

Points stationed all along the spine or the body head-top to the fountain of excretion down lower, how to merge or connect these islands of distant majesty, seeing how the body is endowed with symmetrical altitudes from various ascending panels of spring leads to the willful creations of a life animated machinery, eradication of base temptations and finalized lineups proceeding from the crown of power held as mind-potential extract valuable empirical observational outer stratum pieces brought within greenery outputs flames of frolicking freedom.

So by liberating Frenzy, a crazy sketch of bodily proportions to rip the clearing paper of the present time, we can influence the course of action separated pillars of reason gravitate, unlock, restore, and push grandiose thoughts and bubbling perception to the forefront of future pinnacle traces of a well-ranked system of where we begin, where too much hunger based satisfaction with food, or thought for the particularly detached can yank yonder rapture for the supremely-ascended doorways floating as indomitable anchors way up in the most watery subsistence to drain health and promise happiness and prophetic reputation as the most high and elite archon of elite status and supreme commanding might to steer the storm and will the world.

Yeah, thanks man, You’ve noticed the foremost quality of the Tree of Life - it is the tree of Life.
In the supernal triad I simply had to acknowledge to myself that twenty lifetimes isnt enough to do them full justice, let alone one video - so I had no acute challenge apart from simply relaying the basic concepts from a few angles, and making a nice video around it. But Chesed actually demanded I transform my life into that of someone who can talk with authority about God. You were right about that idea that the teaching is the learning.

Yes. We’ve seen how Lucifer is a Daathian experience, and it manifests directly into Chesed, and as such it also activates Geburah.
But here’s the thing. Lucifer isn’t perfect. Neither is Chesed. They are powerful, all-powerful even relative to what is under their Logos, Eye, but they are simply in error about a great many things.
The god above these Chesedic worlds and world-gods is Chokmah, which I will need to revisit many, many times to convey a true picture. Chesed was the first sephira I could truly do some justice, as it is a limited thing.

Ive heard similar analogies on one of my travels through the US, I ended up in an ashram near Nevada City.
It was very itchy at first, the meditating, I remember - at least the sitting meditation. I started out with Wong Kiew Kits books, meaning I meditated standingly, which is much nicer and less itchy, because you just are in a cleanlier position, its more of a clean balance you’re seeking, not so erotic, like the lotus where the hips are emphasized. Yoga is Venutian in this sense, Zen is more…ascetic.

Yeah, that works.
The path is singular, but the walker is not. Thus:, Nietzsche says: “Formula for our happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.”

The will to become monadic is the natural fruit of the dyadic mind, which torments.
the mosquitoes are spirit making us aware of our torment. Breaking through our sedation.
For some it comers not as mosquitoes but like a sledgehammer from the sky or an arrow i the heart.

I guess great minds do think alike sometimes.

Most likely there was a large stellium in the sky involving the outer planets, such as a Pluto Neptune Uranus conjunction. The last time we had a Pluto Neptune conjunction we had the likes of Tolkien, Yogananda, Krishnamurti, Rhudyar, and also Hitler, Mao… De Gaulle, Haile Selassie - and Heidegger, Lovecraft and Huxley, and the list goes on.

Ok what the hell
I did a check for 2500 years ago.
I was exactly right. Pluto Neptune Uranus conjunction happened around 575 BC.

Jesus Christ. Excuse my language I always freak out by astrology. Its the most powerful method there is. Not normal.

Anyway, there you have it, thats whats happened.
I can also tell you the next time this is going to happen, but only if you want to know.

Around 1993 there was a Neptune Uranus Saturn conjunction in Capricorn - also gave birth to a remarkable generation.

Well, it’s pretty bad, with the enormous sexslavemarkets in Lybia and the cooking of children in ovens in Syria, and the people responsible being wildly popular moralists in their own country - it’s been horrific; I even think we very narrowly escaped annihilation around 2015, I wont go into that. If my judgment is anything close to accurate, we’ve been through the eye of the needle. As bad as it looks now to many people, it’s only what’s has been built up for a long time that is now coming to light, now that we have a perfect scapegoat. We now have a leader who came to power by being mocked. He is the first man in written history that fed on being ridiculed with such success. This can only be an event of Daath, and it demands extreme vigilance of all capable minds - within this stage, which many experience as a cosmic joke, integrity of word and deed of the populace is being demanded. In other words: Geburah knocks.

Could you quote these ?

Mildness applies in the sense of refinement. Kether, Daath, Tipharet, Yesod and Malkuth are all refined balances.
The ejaculation of force into form is not itself enough to account for the middle pillar to come into being, there is a 9 month period of pregnancy in humans, the refinement of the force-form dynamic into a living process.
The left and right pillars can be seen as the father and mother, whose drive is to unite in a single truth, a monad.

I think you’ll be able to benefit from watching the Chesed video. I explain how this “Mercy” is apparently not such a perfect translation, given the reaction of a Jewish kid, and then go on to explain how violent this sphere really is.

Thought itself requires multiplicity, and the Tree is a means to attain monadic consciousness through the full explication and satisfaction of the greatest thinkable multiplicity. It can be seen as a pure challenge for the integrating mind - not two, but ten contradicting statements to be unified into one single mindstate - which naturally would be extremely powerful in its outward effect, but also perfectly refined.

The world itself - The Dionysian as blood within the Apollonian body.
Ultimately there is only marble and sculptor, or in kabbalistic terms, path and walker.

I would be more interested in learning the historical context of this system, how it came about and why, before I would actually consider it seriously in itself. That’s just me. There are many ways of looking at things and the surrounding historical environment is one of them. I do believe that most things that come about have a function or come out of perceived necessity. To know more about it would mean to learn more about its historical/cultural background. And that, too, would take a lot of time and study.

Jacob … about some more thoughts on your video about Chesed … stemming from your comment … paraphrasing … " suppose there was a group. of people … liberal minded … egalitarian … who encountered an individual who held wildly different views/beliefs"

For me … a micro example of the history/evolution of humanity.

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Back to your hypothetical scenario … how is the contradiction resolved?

History suggests … most often with conflict, hostility, violence, mutation(figurative not literal), death. All very Darwinian … a materialistic view of life on this planet.

As your videos on Kabbalah indicate … the fathers of Kabbalah, Daoism, Buddhism, Shamanism and so on and so on thought otherwise.This small community of courageous and curious giants in the history of mankind ventured deeper into the void … the unknown … attempting to extract rational and logical knowledge that lays deep within the shadows of the void.

We are fortunate to have the privilege of standing on their shoulders … yet … we must not shirk our responsibility to advance their search and/or propagate their findings among the current generations of peoples on the planet.

Coming to understand their ‘understanding’ is only the first step … yes? … no?

Back to my cartoon … the open minded individual will ‘see’ the macro symbolism in the cartoon. For example … the four or five people in the box symbolize a yuge and well entrenched ideological collective … note the old man among children. The young boy outside the box symbolizes a younger and not so large collective … with no boundaries … no box to contain it.

Your comments about Trump triggered a memory … Tolstoy’s thoughts embedded in his novel “War and Peace”. I am posting them here … they seem so relevant.

Finally, your words … “for the first time in history” … while you were referring to the US Presidential election … for me your words apply to the current moment for mankind. Today there are several “firsts” for mankind … no more language barrier(s), logarithmic culture travel, speed of communication.

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I appreciate this feminine take on the Tree - I say feminine as it is entirely Earthly, and the tree becomes relatively more feminine as the Sephirot prorgess downward. Malkuth, Sovereignty, is the pure feminine.
In any case, I dont have the answer. The studying of sources that Ive been able to do has been a confusing affair that points different possibilities.
(1) it emerged deep in the eastern regions of Jewish mysticism in the northern Balkans anytime in the dark ages, where my fathers family is from, a line I suspect mixed with a lot of strange nordic blood that harbored “magicians” of weird physiological acts, one of whom reportedly attempted a golem. In any case, that could be true, that some shaman type genius came up with it.
(2) It was designed by the same people that engineered the older, Orion oriented pyramids of Egypt
(3) It emerged in the Hellenic culture of Alexandria in a revival of old Egyptian severity and love of form
(4) It is the Ark of the Covenant
(5) The Archangel Metatrons former incarnation Hermes Trismegistes came up with it…

and we might speculate further.
From a sociological and ethnological perspective I would opt for Northeastern Europe or Alexandria. From a kabbalists perspective it could be anything, it just makes too much inherent sense to clearly suggest ethnographic limits. In this sense it wouldn’t surprise me if it was carried from Egypt in the ancient days.

I am curious myself. Not by any kind of wisdom alone - it is the sanctimony that needs to be tested, and this is conveniently imminent given the near absolute sanctimoniousness of mankind in his current form.
I do know what the principle is by which it unfolds - the quest for the strongest value.
After nihilism, man heats up again, becomes from goo a soup, a new primordial brew where his near dead soul is disintegrated and from its parts, new soulforms can emerge. A soulform is a Chesed -
the spirit is the sounds certainty of purpose, of direction, the certainty in his soul of his highest value. “God” is what most term this value - “happiness” is also an aim of many, silly ones, as happiness is the path to “God”, its not an aim. And happiness, as we all know if we are honestly looking back, involves a lot of pain. Nietzsche: Happiness is overcoming. God is the object of the will that becoimes indifferent to its own suffering, and compassionate outward. Compassion is an act of abundance, it is the act of abundance.
This is Chesed in the ideal form, or as Nietzsche touches it, it would be part of the Bestowing Virtue. But the entire pillar of Force is such virtue.
We might say the pillar of Mercy is Athens and that of Severity Sparta, and the pillar of mildness or equilibrium or consciousness (re: Sauwelios) is the unfathomable period of time that these states were competitors and allies against great evils - the middle pillar is Dionysus, as Nietzsche wopuld have it. In yoga this is reflected in the painful bliss of the rising Kundalini.

Courage is central here. All passive philosophy takes one thing for granted: effort. “There simply is force, and it just happens to form this world.” The purest of armchair-philosophies - the refusal or inability of to identify oneself and ones human drives as the only template to read the nature of the world itself - the idea that one can read the world without suffering it and being transformed by it.

One must consciously transmit consciousness from stage to stage, type to type, degree to degree and back again in order to know what it means to know something, to forget something, to retrieve it in a different form from the cauldron. When Pisces turns to Aries, we remember, it feels like things are more and better the same than theyve ever been - or they feel like a faint memory of what was once real, depending on how deep we are involved in our psyche.

Perhaps, but there are many steps involved in it, and it can, I would go so far as to say, not be reached without accomplishing a great deal of earthly and human feats. It is only experience that moves one up and down the tree - each path is called a path of subjective experience, where two different states of consciousness are bridged, by a bridge that is built by ones own psychic/physiological resources, “heart”, “imagination”, “will”, “courage”, “substance”, “soul”, “merit”, virtue", “nature”.

Except his love for the people in the box.
But yes. The picture reminded me of the Chinese sign of the Dragon.

Napoleon might agree in this case: he said he felt driven by inexorable necessity, that once it would fall away, would leave him like a leaf in the wind.
The vikings call this necessity rlog, which in Dutch is the name for War.

Still, it is my own view that without individuals and their quests , there is no whole.

Kether is the individual. Malkuth is his kingdom, his accomplishment, and in the broader sense, the entire world of all individual efforts, and the chemistries between them.
The One God is only the boundless void, which necessitates being but doesnt prescribe what.
the rest is war, fire, will, until it finally reaches a state of peace in Earth, woman, home, land, realm, lore, myth, gods, ritual, feast, eternity. Or the heart-filling conviction that one has, through ones good efforts, ended up in heaven, and the discovery that the effort one has been making to get to this point is the very same substance of which the world is made, and will always be made - then one is born in heaven, and driven only to produce increase of life and value on the Earth, which is itself this effort, of which one is from then on an inextricable part, which translates into a never ceasing gratitude and pride, and willingness to go all the way for what ever has, after all the travails remained intact; that one conviction that formed ones realm, ones worth - and that will become the Name, which is the mirror of eternity.

Lots of overlap in our thinking … encouraging :slight_smile:

Your words that stood head and shoulders above the crowd this morning:

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Your above comment requires that individuals give priority to their personal experiences … the trivial experiences are often the most important … in their daily lives. How many people engage in this type of activity? IMO few … very few. Maintaining a diary doesn’t cut it. “The unexamined life is not worth living” … Socrates.

How much has been written … spoken … that traces it’s roots to Socrates/Plato? The intrinsic value of personal experience seems to be such a tiny fraction of this yuge body of text. Armchair philosophers indeed!

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I agree and hope the ‘love’ you speak of will become contagious and spread like fire. :slight_smile:

I don’t want to digress from the theme of this thread but I saw this photo today and thought it was an appropriate addition.

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This tree crosses the abyss, has requirement of all its resources to do so, and is weighed down by all its mass in contradiction of that effort -
but then, it doesnt move from one side to the other, it simply dwells on the threshold.

How exactly this predicament occurred, I wonder… where did the seed take root? Im looking for signs of the Earth having split underneath it. Which is what an encounter with Daath can be like.

I love this picture … it speaks volumes and volumes … and volumes.

Fixed Cross … you introduced the terms “abyss” … “contradiction” … “Da’at”. Unfamiliar language for me yet a cursory Google tour quickly brought your words into perspective.

The picture reminds me of St Augustine’s book … the “City of God” … where he argues that humanity is on a pilgrimage from the City of Man to the City of God … crossing the abyss/chasm that separates the two cities is impossible if resources are limited to human capabilities.

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Agreed … yet the photo suggests at some point remnants of the rather large tree will be all that remains on both sides of the abyss.
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If one accepts the photo as a symbolic rendition of the history of humanity … and the planet … lots of empirical evidence points to an answer … “points”.

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Delighted to learn the above words relate to Jacob’s OP … maybe I have encountered “Daath” many times without recognizing him/her/it.

Aleister Crowley described the Abyss as follows:

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