Leo D.M.J. Aurini - A Thorough Introduction to the Kabbalistic Tree of Life＂

00:00:00.000 okay good evening folks the last stream we hit a bit of a snag we have jt's album playing in the

00:00:26.280 background. His new album, which just released, there's a link down below. And I have it going

00:00:33.600 through my speakers at a low level of volume, but I accidentally also had the desktop audio on.

00:00:42.320 Well, we fixed that. The music should now be at a reasonable level, just enough to add to the

00:00:48.260 atmosphere as we discuss the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. So you can see it there next to me.

00:00:57.880 It's based upon sacred geometry. The Flower of Life is a pattern that you get when you take

00:01:07.420 circles and you arrange them in hexagons and you overlay them upon one another. And where those

00:01:13.560 nodes exist are where the Sephiroth of the Tree of Life are located. The Sephiroth being the

00:01:21.740 circles that you see in the map right there. You can also readily overlay it on the body's chakra

00:01:30.840 system, and there's a lot of this stuff ties together. I like the Tree of Life because

00:01:42.380 it's not as detailed as Ken Wilber's map of reality, the AQUAL theory, all quadrants,

00:01:50.340 all levels. But it's more dimensional. It's more relational. And it certainly complements

00:02:02.340 what Ken Wilber talks about. In fact, I've borrowed his levels of reality, of consciousness

00:02:10.900 to put on this chart. But we'll get to that later.

00:02:20.340 Yeah, no, Saxon Violins pointed out that on my last stream the music was too loud.

00:02:24.980 No, that is fantastic. I appreciate that so much.

00:02:30.240 So, to start again.

00:02:35.220 So, the tree of life is the lightning bolt of creation.

00:02:41.420 So at the very top, we start with the raw, unmanifest potentiality of God's eternal witness, Keter, represented by the planet Pluto, which is the planet of alteration and change.

00:03:00.860 It's a very dark, mysterious sort of change.

00:03:05.540 The lightning bolt then goes down to Chokmah, wisdom represented by Uranus.

00:03:13.980 Uranus being the grandfather god, the ancient primordial masculinity of creation itself.

00:03:23.900 And then it goes across to Bina. 0.97

00:03:30.860 which is the ancient, grandmotherly, feminine energy of restriction. 0.97

00:03:39.980 So you have the pure creative potential of God,

00:03:44.180 descends into the spark of creation, Chokmah, wisdom, 1.00

00:03:48.220 and then gets contained and captured by Bina to limit it so it doesn't get out of control. 0.99

00:03:55.080 from bina we go down to mercy 0.75

00:04:01.480 chesed mercy jupiter this is expansive generous sorts of energy uh very commanding very uh pomp

00:04:17.340 circumstance. From Chesed, we go across to Gebera. And here we have Mars. You'll notice I have it

00:04:28.220 labeled strength. I'm still playing around with the names I want to use that I think best capture

00:04:33.440 them. There's, when we're trying to talk about abstract concepts, it takes you a while to find

00:04:43.980 the right language sometimes. Anyway, Geburah, Mars, martial valor, martial discipline, martial

00:04:51.200 force, intensity, the grind. From Geburah, the lightning bolt comes down through Tifereth,

00:05:03.580 the heart of the charge. And you'll notice that all of the other Sephiroth connect to it. 1.00

00:05:10.720 Tifereth, we'll get back to it, but Tifereth is the important one.

00:05:17.340 And that is represented by the sun.

00:05:24.300 From Tifereth, things go down to Netzach, which is victory.

00:05:31.080 I might play with that label.

00:05:32.440 because netzak is more the the effortless victory that well you see venus there imagine the beauty

00:05:45.240 and grace of a young woman that's netzak it's just it easy victory and from across from that

00:05:56.240 you have hood, glory, represented by Mercury. Mercury is the scientist. He's the doctor. He's

00:06:08.140 the inventor. He's the liar and the thief and the journalist. It's the natural talent that works 1.00

00:06:18.060 hard at what they do. From Hod, you then go down to Yesod, the foundation represented

00:06:28.340 by the moon, which represents emotions, unconsciousness. And from there, it goes down to Malkuth,

00:06:39.980 the kingdom, or the earth itself. As you can see, there's four colors in there for the

00:06:46.340 for elephants or elements i have no idea what you're on about lamb shade

00:07:07.300 so that's the bolt of creation and according to legend when creation occurred the bolt was so

00:07:19.820 intense that it actually shattered the vessels for all of these all of these uh Sephiroth

00:07:27.860 and what we're trying to do is to re-ascend the tree to rebuild all these containers

00:07:36.220 to contain and orient and direct this energy correctly.

00:07:43.460 So God's Bolt comes down from the top.

00:07:49.780 Give me a sec here.

00:08:00.200 So God's Bolt comes down from the top,

00:08:02.240 but we are ascending upwards from the bottom.

00:08:06.220 Glad to have you, Top Hat Jack.

00:08:12.100 You too, JT.

00:08:13.100 And don't worry, we're just getting started.

00:08:17.460 Now there's three vertical columns.

00:08:21.320 On the left side, you have the pillar of severity.

00:08:27.060 So if you look at those three Tifereth, Bina is the Saturn limits, it's kibbley, it's

00:08:35.100 restriction. Gebera is martial intensity, and Hode is the hard-working talent. That's 0.72

00:08:46.740 severity. On the right, you have Netzak, which is just the charm, uh, charm basically. You

00:09:01.760 You have Chezzed, which is the more mature, integrated social cause sort of a thing.

00:09:10.900 And then you have Wisdom, which is the higher governing forces.

00:09:18.120 You'll also notice Butterfly! Glad to have you.

00:09:22.000 Yes, you'll notice on the top you have Wisdom and Intellect.

00:09:25.340 These are another couple of words that I might play around with what I think is the best word for these.

00:09:31.400 because intellect and wisdom, yes, but there's a little bit more to it than that.

00:09:39.480 And then you have the center pillar, which, at the top, the all-seeing eye of God.

00:09:46.700 The void, which is not a Tiferet.

00:09:50.000 It's just an implied void where there is no Tiferet.

00:09:53.200 then you have

00:09:59.980 or no Sephiroth, sorry

00:10:03.180 then you have Tifereth

00:10:04.220 the heart of the matter

00:10:08.440 where all roads lead

00:10:10.260 Yassau at the foundation

00:10:12.580 and Malkuth 0.99

00:10:14.700 the earth itself 0.96

00:10:16.000 Tifereth

00:10:22.960 is the goal. The purpose of human life is to reach Tiferet, which is balanced, integrated

00:10:33.620 selfhood. So we start at the bottom, at Malkuth. You're instantiated as a person. And you

00:10:51.220 walk the path. You know what? Let's zoom in here. See if you guys can see that. So you

00:11:05.620 start in Malkuth and you walk the path of the world. And Yassad is the foundation. Yassad 0.97

00:11:16.500 is culture. It's peasant life. It's your education. It's all those basic aspects of life. That's 1.00

00:11:27.340 what's located there. So the Malkuth is your physical body. Yasod is your culture, your 1.00

00:11:33.880 environment, your parenting, etc. Now, if you are a fairly simple person, from Yassad 0.96

00:11:46.680 to Tipareth is the path of temperance. All these paths are named after the 21, sorry,

00:11:56.200 The 22 major arcana cards in the tarot deck.

00:12:05.680 So if you're just a pretty simple guy, you don't got a lot going on, but you keep temperance in mind.

00:12:14.940 If you don't go too far in either direction, you don't waste all your money, you're not cheap.

00:12:26.200 but you don't waste money, if you drink, but you don't drink too much, you know, if you

00:12:31.600 just try and be a decent guy, you know, that Jimmy, Johnny Cash song, don't bring your

00:12:37.380 guns to town, you know, just don't try and be a good man, just try and be a man, my son.

00:12:45.500 That is the path of temperance.

00:12:48.500 but if you're listening to this i'm pretty sure you're not the sort of person to walk temperance

00:12:57.560 so now you've got the choice between glory or mercy or uh victory you've got severity

00:13:08.440 or mercy so we're going to do severity first

00:13:11.560 Now, I want to emphasize that the pillar of severity is not a particular profession.

00:13:23.780 It's more about how you metabolize energy.

00:13:30.120 It's how you approach things.

00:13:33.160 One person's hood could be another person's netzak.

00:13:38.060 so these aren't restricted to particular careers for anything but to tell a story to make it easier

00:13:47.120 to understand let's talk where we're going to put them in career terms because there are some

00:13:55.700 careers that do innately tend to attract people from certain of the certain Sephiroth so horde

00:14:06.080 Glory. Somebody that graduates, so Yasod, Yasod's going to be about 14, maybe 21, when you leave 0.96

00:14:19.060 Yasod. Yasod's the unconscious, it's the moon, it's everything that you teach the kid that

00:14:27.080 they're never going to question again. Most people are never going to question the things

00:14:32.020 that they learned when they were in school.

00:14:35.620 And that's Yassaut, the foundation of all of this. 0.94

00:14:40.940 Hode... 0.97

00:14:41.460 Hode is the grind, all right?

00:14:49.420 Hode is the guy that shows up to work on time every single day.

00:14:54.860 He just does the grind.

00:14:57.460 He's walked the path of the sun, you'll notice.

00:15:02.020 He's the golden boy, he's the jock, he's the athlete, he's the good boy, right?

00:15:15.720 He is, he's showing up, doing the work.

00:15:19.560 Now, somebody at Hood, if you've activated Hood, you can walk the path of the Devil to get to Tiferet.

00:15:27.820 Now, the devil, it's honestly one of my favorite cards, because it's not about the devil.

00:15:43.980 The devil has two people chained to the devil's throne, but the chains are loose enough that they can just take them off their necks.

00:15:57.820 the devil is when you sign a car loan.

00:16:04.680 You know, it's when you get drunk

00:16:06.880 knowing that you're going to be hungover the next day.

00:16:09.580 And you accept that.

00:16:13.260 So, okay, there's also the Latin names for these.

00:16:19.940 So we go to Malkuth, the kingdom. 0.98

00:16:23.080 We have crooks. 0.93

00:16:24.540 the, uh, the, the pillar foundation. 0.96

00:16:35.040 Kaput is the front of the head for the sun.

00:16:40.120 It's the neofrontal cortex.

00:16:44.820 It's the part of your brain that controls and limits your behavior.

00:16:49.040 Like, that's what neofrontal cortex does.

00:16:50.960 You have an impulse, and your neofrontal cortex decides whether or not it will allow that impulse.

00:16:59.260 Quickly, you'll notice that occiput, for the moon, that's your back of the head, that's your visual center, that's your perception.

00:17:09.140 But we'll get back to that one for now.

00:17:11.680 So, the devil is also labeled as oculus.

00:17:15.980 the eye this is very similar to the the temperance but more intentional like if

00:17:33.080 you're that hood guy if you're that guy with a lot of glory you know it's like

00:17:38.900 Think about the sports ball players that make millions of dollars playing a children's game on TV for people.

00:17:51.860 Then they age out a bit or they get injured.

00:17:56.020 And they're broke because they spent all their money on Lamborghinis.

00:18:01.600 Those people did not walk the path of the devil, of seeing the devil for what it is.

00:18:08.900 This is why those people tend to be really obnoxious, and there's just a little bit of schadenfreude that the guy that made millions of dollars blew it all, because he didn't learn to see properly, and he didn't learn to see others.

00:18:24.240 He fell for the Devil's Snare by not walking that path.

00:18:32.240 But let's say you don't stop at Hood. Let's say you want to go further.

00:18:35.640 the path of water of bruce lee be like water be change the hanged man the card of the hanged man

00:18:48.460 it's it's odin hanging from the tree it's christ transfiguring the world as he's crucified

00:18:59.260 It's the path of initiation and sacrifice.

00:19:05.260 And so, Gebera is more than just an athlete.

00:19:11.080 It's more than just a hard worker.

00:19:13.000 It's somebody that's genuinely committed to the cause and sacrificing for the cause.

00:19:18.340 Now, if he

00:19:26.500 walks the path of

00:19:29.280 Flagellum, the whip

00:19:31.720 of Discipline of Justice 0.85

00:19:34.680 that brings him to Tifereth. He goes from being 0.87

00:19:39.580 a brutal taskmaster

00:19:42.940 or a warrior

00:19:45.620 to a just and gentle ruler.

00:19:52.640 He becomes not just a tough guy, not just a strong man, but a good man as well.

00:20:03.080 Well, let's say he wants to go further. 0.98

00:20:07.160 He walks the path of Cepes, the chariot. 0.64

00:20:11.640 And by the way, I have seen some other versions of these where they're in different places. 0.86

00:20:20.060 This is the pattern I like.

00:20:23.140 This should help you into it, the paths.

00:20:30.040 The path of the chariot.

00:20:32.000 So the chariot card in tarot has a man in a chariot with two sphinxes pulling it,

00:20:39.060 One black, one white, and they're facing different directions, but they're restrained together.

00:20:46.780 It's restraint.

00:20:55.240 If Hood is the hero, Gebera would be the sergeant that we don't leave a man behind.

00:21:09.060 Bina is the general that understands that sometimes you need to send men on suicide missions.

00:21:19.420 Sometimes you need to shut down one of the factories and put a thousand people out of work. 0.64

00:21:29.340 If somebody's not paying their mortgage on time, you've got to kick them out of your house.

00:21:37.020 Them's the breaks.

00:21:38.660 There are limits to this reality.

00:21:41.220 It sure would be nice if there weren't limits, but there are.

00:21:44.980 There aren't infinite resources to go around.

00:21:47.680 And if we don't send people on the suicide mission, it's going to cost ten times as many lives. 1.00

00:21:53.480 That's Bina, the intellect, the dark intellect.

00:21:56.820 and that path their path back to Tiferet is the gladius or the lovers a high-powered CEO 0.99

00:22:12.480 his way of getting back to integrated humanity

00:22:18.580 is to have a family,

00:22:24.180 is to humble himself and be a wife, a father,

00:22:28.280 act in an intentional act of creation.

00:22:32.380 It doesn't have to be a family either.

00:22:34.040 The lovers could be dedicating,

00:22:38.580 if we believe the legend of Elon Musk,

00:22:43.320 I'm not sure the man even exists.

00:22:44.920 He could be AI for all I know.

00:22:46.200 but that guy had quite a bit of vision with tesla motor tesla motors

00:22:53.140 that's being a lover that is engaging voluntarily and on purpose in an act of creation so not just

00:23:05.520 using your skills as a ceo to make lots of money and increase the shareholder prices but to use it

00:23:12.240 to actually change reality for the better,

00:23:15.320 to bring something new into being.

00:23:18.340 And that's how they get to Tipperette.

00:23:24.120 Joe King, glad to have you.

00:23:31.340 Now, let's do the Path of Mercy.

00:23:38.060 Let's put it over here.

00:23:41.000 And I'll lean over here, how's that?

00:23:46.700 So as I noted, from Yassad, you have the path of the moon, of intuition, of sight, of charm.

00:23:59.380 somebody at net sack this could be a salesman this could be a lawyer it could be it's just

00:24:11.640 the natural talent everybody likes them

00:24:16.760 now in the same way that the person at hood the the the athlete making millions of dollars

00:24:28.800 needs to walk the path of the devil, of the eye, to see, to see clearly about things.

00:24:37.440 The person possessed in Netzach needs to walk the path of Pisces, or death. 0.98

00:24:47.320 They need to shed their scales, their riches, and let go of all that. 0.85

00:24:53.380 Somebody that's really, really centered in Netzach could be extremely arrogant.

00:24:58.800 they could really use people, right?

00:25:03.220 They're charming enough to get away with it.

00:25:05.900 And the path of death is realizing that they're not that special.

00:25:11.220 It's the path of humility.

00:25:13.520 And that's what gets them to integrated Tiferet.

00:25:19.800 If this talented person, for whom everything just comes naturally to them,

00:25:25.940 they're a charmer,

00:25:26.880 If they go deeper, they go from Venus up to Chesit, Jupiter, which is running a charity, engaging in social work, mentorship, the public face of an institution.

00:25:49.020 and strong institutional energy is developing at Chesed.

00:25:57.260 So now using their charm to try and reach out and help the world.

00:26:06.560 And you'll notice that Manus' hand...

00:26:11.440 Oh, sorry, I should pause. 0.87

00:26:13.420 To go from Netzak to Chesed, you're walking Pama.

00:26:17.380 You're walking the wheel of fortune.

00:26:19.960 You're actually engaging in reality and having your ups and your downs and the change and seeing the change

00:26:26.600 and gaining a bit more understanding so that you have this capacity to empathize with others.

00:26:36.840 From there, you can walk Manus, the path of the hermit.

00:26:41.080 The problem with Chesed can be summed up as

00:26:46.920 I'm from the government and I'm here to help you. 0.99

00:26:57.220 The path of the hermit is where you take that expanse of Jovian energy

00:27:03.060 and you put it into the hermit's lantern.

00:27:07.040 You restrict it. 0.98

00:27:09.460 For instance, Greta Thunberg is somebody that's very much at Chez Ed, and she's one of the most obnoxious people out there, and she's not doing a lick of good for anybody whatsoever. 0.99

00:27:22.280 She's just gaining a lot of attention for herself, and it's really ticking people off. 0.97

00:27:28.780 This is Chez Ed, this is Mercy with no heart.

00:27:32.060 if she were to 0.97

00:27:36.460 embrace the hermit 0.99

00:27:38.640 and figure out one thing she could actually be good at 0.99

00:27:45.280 one thing that would actually make a difference

00:27:47.820 and not just draw attention to herself all the time 1.00

00:27:49.960 then you'd see her growing into 0.99

00:27:53.200 I mean you'd start liking her

00:27:55.440 in spite of yourself

00:27:57.120 finally

00:28:01.760 Finally, we have the path to Chokmah, Clavus, the nail, the nail of Christ, this is the

00:28:15.720 path of the Hierophant, of the High Priest, of theology, of taking this Jobian energy

00:28:24.080 that you have, and disciplining it. Not just free hugs for everybody, but an actual disciplined,

00:28:35.320 systematized understanding of what sort of world we have out there, of what problems

00:28:42.900 the person you're talking to is dealing with.

00:28:54.080 Nail yourself to Christ, and be the Hierophant to achieve wisdom.

00:29:01.120 I hope you notice that if we go back to Bina and Chokma, both of these have a great maturity to them. 0.99

00:29:10.700 Bina is about limits.

00:29:12.280 It's like, no, we can't have cake every day.

00:29:19.700 Chokma is about structured generosity.

00:29:24.080 And then finally, we have the path of the emperor, back to Tifereth.

00:29:35.640 The emperor is patriarchal institutions. It is counterbalanced by the empress, who is mother nature, the elements of mother nature that rule us, whether you like it or not.

00:29:59.940 all the patriarchal institutions in the world 1.00

00:30:05.520 won't make women 0.98

00:30:08.280 prefer short men.

00:30:13.100 And all the rules you can imagine making

00:30:16.040 aren't going to change the fact that

00:30:18.320 guys are attracted to younger girls. 1.00

00:30:21.360 That's the brutality of Mother Nature. 1.00

00:30:25.380 Emperor is the patriarchal 1.00

00:30:28.000 institutions.

00:30:29.940 And so, somebody that's walked the path of the Hierophant up to Chokmah, and truly inhabited Chokmah,

00:30:42.060 they can walk the path of being a just ruler for their people.

00:30:49.880 And that's what takes the abstract theology of the Hierophant,

00:30:55.900 which can sometimes be quite brutal and not very nice.

00:31:02.020 And it can turn it into something applicable and useful

00:31:06.020 and integrate the heart chakra.

00:31:11.280 Now, let's shrink this.

00:31:22.960 Path of the elephant.

00:31:25.900 So, generally speaking, the paths, you walk them vertically or towards Tifereth.

00:31:43.020 It is possible to reverse a path, but it's not, it's not as common.

00:31:55.340 Except for the horizontal paths, these ones are largely bi-directional.

00:32:04.180 So, Hode to Netzach, you have the tower.

00:32:13.020 The tower, it's a tower being struck by God's lightning bolt,

00:32:21.660 and out of it are falling two figures who strongly resemble the magician and the high priestess,

00:32:28.680 who are the raw energy of masculinity and femininity, of action in the world and psychic ability and intuition.

00:32:41.180 Being cast out of the tower by a disaster to go back out into the world. 0.64

00:32:52.560 So this path between Hode and Netzach is when you have really mastered something.

00:33:01.440 Let's say you're in Hode.

00:33:03.320 You're the athlete.

00:33:05.100 You're on top of the world.

00:33:06.700 And then you get injured.

00:33:08.440 And you can't be an athlete anymore.

00:33:10.180 well, I guess you've got to learn to sell cars for a living.

00:33:13.540 Like this disaster sends you over to Netzach

00:33:18.480 to walk the path of mercy.

00:33:22.560 Or maybe you're walking the path of mercy

00:33:24.800 and that blows up in your face

00:33:28.500 and so you've got to go get a job

00:33:30.880 swinging a sledgehammer over in Hood.

00:33:33.400 above them you've got strength

00:33:42.480 strength is when you have both

00:33:49.280 serpens when you have both geberah and chezzet when you've got the ability to apply force i think

00:33:58.940 I need to change strength on Gavara.

00:34:01.000 When you have the ability to apply

00:34:02.880 force, apply violence,

00:34:05.140 but you also have the

00:34:07.040 capability to be

00:34:09.220 merciful,

00:34:10.380 this is where you get true strength. The strength

00:34:12.940 card depicts

00:34:14.680 a woman restraining

00:34:17.160 a lion.

00:34:20.080 This is what

00:34:20.560 Peterson, when he talks about how 1.00

00:34:23.040 the meek shall inherit the 1.00

00:34:24.980 earth, because the meek have a sword, 1.00

00:34:27.160 but they keep it sheathed

00:34:28.780 until it's needed they're not pulling it out all the time they're not brutal that's strength

00:34:41.900 then at the top you've got the empress you've got mother nature

00:34:48.540 when you have intellect and wisdom in alignment you can create a garden

00:34:58.780 And then we've got these two at the bottom, coming out of Malkuth and bypassing Yassad. 0.83

00:35:14.460 So you've got Ignis, the fire, and Judgment, the card representing it. 0.95

00:35:20.820 If you've got, if you've been gifted with incredible raw talent, you know, you can be Beethoven writing symphonies when he's 12. 0.97

00:35:34.720 You can bypass Yassad and go straight to vote. 0.96

00:35:40.760 Alternatively, you've got Hamas, the star. 0.80

00:35:44.700 The star is about deep intuition. 0.86

00:35:50.420 And again, it's this natural talent that can get you up to netzak,

00:35:57.140 that you can be a gifted kid in the gate program.

00:36:06.660 And finally, let's get to the top here.

00:36:08.460 we've got three paths left

00:36:15.240 and they all

00:36:17.600 go

00:36:18.860 to God

00:36:20.800 you've got the path of

00:36:27.180 Domus, the house

00:36:28.940 the magician

00:36:30.340 this, I would put

00:36:34.920 Thomas Aquinas here

00:36:37.020 great mathematicians

00:36:40.160 are walking this path

00:36:41.960 they are taking their intellect

00:36:44.640 taking the institutions

00:36:45.780 and really

00:36:49.760 defining them

00:36:51.640 as only a magician can

00:36:53.280 to get back to the divine

00:36:57.040 then you've got

00:37:03.620 the path of Primus 0.99

00:37:05.920 the fool 1.00

00:37:06.560 the fool is 1.00

00:37:10.480 Luke Skywalker about to go on an adventure 1.00

00:37:13.620 it's the path of

00:37:17.200 blind faith

00:37:19.100 of being like a child again

00:37:21.560 these would be your

00:37:28.360 mystics

00:37:29.720 and then

00:37:35.160 you've got the most interesting

00:37:37.440 path of them all

00:37:39.080 the path of

00:37:41.140 the camel

00:37:41.820 the high priestess 0.71

00:37:44.280 the path

00:37:46.300 where you start

00:37:48.140 at Tiferet

00:37:50.460 you start

00:37:52.820 from a place of balance

00:37:54.920 and you take

00:37:57.000 that integrated persona that you have

00:37:59.240 and you sacrifice that

00:38:01.280 to the void

00:38:02.040 to

00:38:04.080 become the all-seeing eye yourself.

00:38:17.860 So, let's get this back into a reasonable size.

00:38:25.280 And yes, Diath, the Void.

00:38:28.180 You'll notice

00:38:28.980 Neptune.

00:38:34.080 the subconscious.

00:38:42.860 Let's see how the comments are coming along here.

00:38:54.560 And yes, there is an inverted tree.

00:38:56.960 So let's talk about the inverted tree a bit.

00:38:59.680 Um, the Tree of Death is practiced by left-hand occultists, left-hand path occultists, and the basic conception is to attain mastery over the Sephiroth through blasphemy.

00:39:29.680 through showing off how powerful you are by doing the opposite.

00:39:34.200 Now, I'll give you a simple example of this, which you have all done.

00:39:40.080 One of the ways you bond with people is you tell it like you're in the workplace

00:39:47.120 and you tell a joke that HR wouldn't be happy if they were listening in.

00:39:52.660 you're violating a norm to achieve a higher state of union with the co-worker you violate the norm with.

00:40:10.780 The Tree of Death is all about that.

00:40:14.740 I would argue the Tree of Death is trying to ensnare God

00:40:20.820 while the Tree of Life is about

00:40:24.340 trying to know God

00:40:27.300 so that you can become his agent.

00:40:33.320 And the Tree of Death very much

00:40:35.660 represents the world that we're living in right now.

00:40:43.700 As a brief sketch.

00:40:45.000 uh they're trying to replace malkuth the natural world with a digital overlay an artificial

00:40:55.240 substrate smart homes smart cities smart devices everywhere you saw the foundation

00:41:02.500 the education system is not designed to educate it's designed to create useful and obedient

00:41:10.920 workers. And they're even going next level these days to try and create workers that can't even

00:41:19.380 rebel and wouldn't want to rebel. Why do people need to read? We can just have the AIs read

00:41:26.200 instructions to them the hood that would be working-class they're being replaced 0.99

00:41:43.880 with EBT cards the geberra the military the police are increasingly men that do

00:41:55.540 not think for themselves, but just blindly follow orders and call that good. And Bina,

00:42:03.340 we have some of the, like, look at BlackRock. Look at these manipulators who do what they

00:42:12.300 do and never think about it. On the other side, we've got Netzac. Hollowed out Netzac

00:42:21.740 is nothing but B.S. consumer products.

00:42:26.740 Don't ask questions, just get excited for a new product.

00:42:31.900 Don't think, just buy product.

00:42:35.700 Chesed, we've got the

00:42:38.120 HR institutions, we've got the socialist

00:42:42.140 systems, these systems that pretend to care about everybody

00:42:46.000 but immiserate anyone under their command. 0.95

00:42:51.740 And the sort of chokmah that we see, the sort of wisdom, is just the wisdom to lie and manipulate the public. 0.99

00:43:00.740 It's the wisdom of propaganda, not the wisdom of true insight. 0.94

00:43:05.780 And Tiferet, which is supposed to be, in a society context, the pulsing middle-class heart of civilization, 0.99

00:43:13.460 is completely hollowed out, and they're a bunch of HR managers and Jewish daycare jobs. 0.99

00:43:26.160 And they're trying to walk the path of the magician to control God. 0.99

00:43:31.800 Or you've got Jim Jones walking the path of the fool, leading his followers into mass suicide. 0.99

00:43:43.460 Now let me tell you how I've walked the tree. 0.98

00:43:56.020 I was a naturally gifted student, which if you go, let me get the Latin correct, yeah, 0.97

00:44:09.900 Hamas, the star. Hamas means hook. That's the path of being hooked. Brought up automatically. 0.94

00:44:25.000 So I was a very gifted kid. So achieving top marks were absolutely no problem for me.

00:44:32.680 which can be really, really bad for a person.

00:44:37.480 Walking Ignis or...

00:44:40.280 Oh, what is it?

00:44:41.340 What's the Latin?

00:44:43.620 Hamas?

00:44:47.160 Bypassing Yasod is not good. 0.97

00:44:50.880 I didn't have the easiest time growing up.

00:44:56.620 But what I did was kind of interesting.

00:44:58.580 I was naturally called to net sack

00:45:03.020 but then I forced myself

00:45:07.340 to Gebera

00:45:08.980 like when I joined the football team

00:45:14.700 when I joined the military

00:45:17.480 it

00:45:19.240 the football team especially

00:45:23.420 wasn't because I wanted to join the football team

00:45:28.120 it's because I was sick of getting picked on

00:45:31.060 and I decided to do

00:45:32.960 the hardest thing that nobody believed I could do

00:45:35.120 I forced myself

00:45:37.320 into Gebera 1.00

00:45:38.300 to develop Hood

00:45:40.680 I did it in reverse

00:45:43.040 and it was very painful

00:45:47.140 and I've spent

00:45:50.820 after

00:45:52.800 Gebera to Hood

00:45:54.560 after I got out of the military

00:45:56.720 is when I started doing this, and this is very much a netzac sort of business. 0.93

00:46:04.880 So I've walked both sides of the tree. 0.86

00:46:09.200 And then, 2019, when I had every single friend I'd made turn on me,

00:46:14.880 that was the tower. I was back in hood, and right now I'm walking both sides of the tree,

00:46:20.960 standing at the edge of Tifereth, staring into Dea. 0.98

00:46:37.480 I think I've grokked Bina and Chokma. I don't know. It's not something... 0.94

00:46:41.880 I haven't spent a lot of time there. I haven't spent a lot of time doing those sorts of jobs.

00:46:46.520 But I do think they are things I grok.

00:46:55.520 The question is now, can I sacrifice all of it and throw it all away to walk through the abyss?

00:47:02.520 That's what I'm working on currently.

00:47:05.520 so i think you see how this can be useful how there's how it breaks things down into

00:47:22.920 oh goodness like getting into political arguments with people is very much a gabara thing

00:47:35.520 limousine liberals these people with their fake smiles and their condescension and their faux

00:47:43.440 generosity that's chezzet that's chezzet with no tiferet with no true heart or integrate integration 0.95

00:47:55.280 gebera without integration is the bully cop 19 cd glad to have you man you get to bed 0.99

00:48:06.520 that's the the bully cop the arrogant soldier 0.98

00:48:14.160 when you start seeing these you start seeing where you've been i've spent a lot of time as 0.88

00:48:24.820 an adult, rebuilding Yasod. Because I didn't get that healthy childhood. I had to jump

00:48:35.100 up the tree and do some of the more challenging missions to go and redo that. And it's, you

00:48:41.300 know, nothing's ever perfect, but it's starting to come together for me.

00:48:44.720 so if there's no questions problems concerns oh right one last thing let's

00:49:05.540 talk about the four layers of reality. Now on the left I have the Jewish names

00:49:15.660 for them, the Hebrew names. Let's talk, let's use the English terms, and these are

00:49:28.260 from Ken Wilbur, his study of non-dualism. So at the base of reality you have the

00:49:41.060 material world. Actually we'll expand it just a bit just so I can read it on the

00:49:47.520 screen. Asaya is the Hebrew name for it. Ken Wilbur uses the gross physical world.

00:49:56.400 i'm just going with material world which is yeah it's physical reality above that you have the

00:50:06.060 ethereal the ethereal is the realm of vibrations and they are increasingly subtle as they grow up

00:50:14.980 go up the lowest level of vibrations are measurable physically it's like sound waves

00:50:24.220 that's a vibration. There's also the vibration

00:50:28.580 when you walk into a room and everybody stares at you

00:50:32.600 where you walk into a room and you feel the

00:50:36.640 vibration in the room. Again, there's a

00:50:40.700 layer at which this is embedded in the material

00:50:43.440 but it's more than material at the same time. Like, yes

00:50:48.640 you could, if you wanted to be a reductionist materialist

00:50:52.660 you could boil it down to material causes but quite frankly it's a lot better to just talk

00:50:57.300 about the vibe of a place this place has a good vibe or a bad vibe

00:51:06.900 hood and netzak are where you start to enter the ethereal realm

00:51:11.620 At Gebera Chesed

00:51:17.680 What do you do at Gebera?

00:51:21.320 You've got the

00:51:22.660 momentum

00:51:24.280 of the battle.

00:51:32.220 Which is a really hard thing to say, but one of the

00:51:34.940 big things in the infantry

00:51:36.540 is don't lose the momentum.

00:51:40.120 If you've

00:51:40.620 played Rome Total War or any of those games, you know what I mean.

00:51:44.860 There's a momentum to battle.

00:51:47.840 And, God, it's just terrible when you capture three cities and you're near your goal,

00:51:52.260 but then you get stagnated and you're in a quagmire and the momentum's shot.

00:51:59.080 Same thing, Chizet Mercy, it's very vibes-based.

00:52:03.580 It's very abstract.

00:52:04.700 And this is where we start going into the astral realm, which is the realm of ideas themselves.

00:52:19.180 Higher than vibration, this is where numbers exist, thought forms exist.

00:52:29.040 And then finally, you get to the layer of the non-dual.

00:52:34.180 Asitluth, the emanation.

00:52:38.800 This is where you are what you are looking at.

00:52:44.420 Where the sky turns into a blue pancake and falls on your head.

00:52:51.180 I art thou.

00:52:52.700 This is the layer of unity with the divine.

00:52:56.600 and that upper triad

00:53:04.700 that is the holy triad

00:53:09.480 it's a version of the trinity 1.00

00:53:12.360 obviously being Jewish

00:53:15.120 it's not based upon the Christian trinity 0.63

00:53:17.200 but the trinity of creation

00:53:21.060 the raw creative potentiality

00:53:24.900 the instantiation and the limit

00:53:28.420 the masculine and the feminine

00:53:30.220 this is

00:53:31.540 everywhere

00:53:32.940 so yeah the trinity

00:53:36.140 is not just a Christian concept

00:53:37.940 so there you have it folks

00:53:46.920 the tree of life

00:53:47.840 I'm going to end this stream here

00:53:52.320 and start a new after-hours casual chat stream.

00:54:05.380 And by the way, this is JT's music.

00:54:08.060 There's a link down in the description.

00:54:10.180 Go check out his new album.

00:54:15.200 Remember, folks,

00:54:16.700 Cave Cave Deus Vida.

00:54:19.320 This is Rini out.

Leo D.M.J. Aurini - May 25, 2026

A Thorough Introduction to the Kabbalistic Tree of Life＂

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