A Thorough Introduction to the Kabbalistic Tree of Life＂
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Summary
The Kabbalistic tree of life is based upon sacred geometry and based upon the tree of creation. According to legend, when creation occurred, it was so intense that it actually shattered the vessels for all of creation, and shattered the vessel for the creation of the world itself. The tree is based on sacred geometry, which is a pattern of circles arranged in hexagons, and where the nodes exist are where the seahoods of the Tree of Life are located.
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okay good evening folks the last stream we hit a bit of a snag we have jt's album playing in the
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background. His new album, which just released, there's a link down below. And I have it going
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through my speakers at a low level of volume, but I accidentally also had the desktop audio on.
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Well, we fixed that. The music should now be at a reasonable level, just enough to add to the
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atmosphere as we discuss the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. So you can see it there next to me.
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It's based upon sacred geometry. The Flower of Life is a pattern that you get when you take
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circles and you arrange them in hexagons and you overlay them upon one another. And where those
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nodes exist are where the Sephiroth of the Tree of Life are located. The Sephiroth being the
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circles that you see in the map right there. You can also readily overlay it on the body's chakra
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system, and there's a lot of this stuff ties together. I like the Tree of Life because
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it's not as detailed as Ken Wilber's map of reality, the AQUAL theory, all quadrants,
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all levels. But it's more dimensional. It's more relational. And it certainly complements
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what Ken Wilber talks about. In fact, I've borrowed his levels of reality, of consciousness
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to put on this chart. But we'll get to that later.
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Yeah, no, Saxon Violins pointed out that on my last stream the music was too loud.
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No, that is fantastic. I appreciate that so much.
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So, the tree of life is the lightning bolt of creation.
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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.
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The lightning bolt then goes down to Chokmah, wisdom represented by Uranus.
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Uranus being the grandfather god, the ancient primordial masculinity of creation itself.
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which is the ancient, grandmotherly, feminine energy of restriction.
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So you have the pure creative potential of God,
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descends into the spark of creation, Chokmah, wisdom,
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and then gets contained and captured by Bina to limit it so it doesn't get out of control.
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chesed mercy jupiter this is expansive generous sorts of energy uh very commanding very uh pomp
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circumstance. From Chesed, we go across to Gebera. And here we have Mars. You'll notice I have it
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labeled strength. I'm still playing around with the names I want to use that I think best capture
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them. There's, when we're trying to talk about abstract concepts, it takes you a while to find
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the right language sometimes. Anyway, Geburah, Mars, martial valor, martial discipline, martial
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force, intensity, the grind. From Geburah, the lightning bolt comes down through Tifereth,
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the heart of the charge. And you'll notice that all of the other Sephiroth connect to it.
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Tifereth, we'll get back to it, but Tifereth is the important one.
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From Tifereth, things go down to Netzach, which is victory.
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because netzak is more the the effortless victory that well you see venus there imagine the beauty
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and grace of a young woman that's netzak it's just it easy victory and from across from that
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you have hood, glory, represented by Mercury. Mercury is the scientist. He's the doctor. He's
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the inventor. He's the liar and the thief and the journalist. It's the natural talent that works
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hard at what they do. From Hod, you then go down to Yesod, the foundation represented
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by the moon, which represents emotions, unconsciousness. And from there, it goes down to Malkuth,
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the kingdom, or the earth itself. As you can see, there's four colors in there for the
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for elephants or elements i have no idea what you're on about lamb shade
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so that's the bolt of creation and according to legend when creation occurred the bolt was so
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intense that it actually shattered the vessels for all of these all of these uh Sephiroth
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and what we're trying to do is to re-ascend the tree to rebuild all these containers
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to contain and orient and direct this energy correctly.
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On the left side, you have the pillar of severity.
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So if you look at those three Tifereth, Bina is the Saturn limits, it's kibbley, it's
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restriction. Gebera is martial intensity, and Hode is the hard-working talent. That's
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severity. On the right, you have Netzak, which is just the charm, uh, charm basically. You
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You have Chezzed, which is the more mature, integrated social cause sort of a thing.
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And then you have Wisdom, which is the higher governing forces.
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You'll also notice Butterfly! Glad to have you.
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Yes, you'll notice on the top you have Wisdom and Intellect.
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These are another couple of words that I might play around with what I think is the best word for these.
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because intellect and wisdom, yes, but there's a little bit more to it than that.
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And then you have the center pillar, which, at the top, the all-seeing eye of God.
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It's just an implied void where there is no Tiferet.
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is the goal. The purpose of human life is to reach Tiferet, which is balanced, integrated
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selfhood. So we start at the bottom, at Malkuth. You're instantiated as a person. And you
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walk the path. You know what? Let's zoom in here. See if you guys can see that. So you
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start in Malkuth and you walk the path of the world. And Yassad is the foundation. Yassad
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is culture. It's peasant life. It's your education. It's all those basic aspects of life. That's
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what's located there. So the Malkuth is your physical body. Yasod is your culture, your
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environment, your parenting, etc. Now, if you are a fairly simple person, from Yassad
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to Tipareth is the path of temperance. All these paths are named after the 21, sorry,
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So if you're just a pretty simple guy, you don't got a lot going on, but you keep temperance in mind.
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If you don't go too far in either direction, you don't waste all your money, you're not cheap.
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but you don't waste money, if you drink, but you don't drink too much, you know, if you
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just try and be a decent guy, you know, that Jimmy, Johnny Cash song, don't bring your
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guns to town, you know, just don't try and be a good man, just try and be a man, my son.
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but if you're listening to this i'm pretty sure you're not the sort of person to walk temperance
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so now you've got the choice between glory or mercy or uh victory you've got severity
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Now, I want to emphasize that the pillar of severity is not a particular profession.
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One person's hood could be another person's netzak.
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so these aren't restricted to particular careers for anything but to tell a story to make it easier
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to understand let's talk where we're going to put them in career terms because there are some
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careers that do innately tend to attract people from certain of the certain Sephiroth so horde
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Glory. Somebody that graduates, so Yasod, Yasod's going to be about 14, maybe 21, when you leave
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Yasod. Yasod's the unconscious, it's the moon, it's everything that you teach the kid that
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they're never going to question again. Most people are never going to question the things
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And that's Yassaut, the foundation of all of this.
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Hode is the guy that shows up to work on time every single day.
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He's walked the path of the sun, you'll notice.
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He's the golden boy, he's the jock, he's the athlete, he's the good boy, right?
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Now, somebody at Hood, if you've activated Hood, you can walk the path of the Devil to get to Tiferet.
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Now, the devil, it's honestly one of my favorite cards, because it's not about the devil.
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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.
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knowing that you're going to be hungover the next day.
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So, okay, there's also the Latin names for these.
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It's the part of your brain that controls and limits your behavior.
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You have an impulse, and your neofrontal cortex decides whether or not it will allow that impulse.
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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.
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the eye this is very similar to the the temperance but more intentional like if
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you're that hood guy if you're that guy with a lot of glory you know it's like
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Think about the sports ball players that make millions of dollars playing a children's game on TV for people.
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And they're broke because they spent all their money on Lamborghinis.
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Those people did not walk the path of the devil, of seeing the devil for what it is.
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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.
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He fell for the Devil's Snare by not walking that path.
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But let's say you don't stop at Hood. Let's say you want to go further.
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the path of water of bruce lee be like water be change the hanged man the card of the hanged man
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it's it's odin hanging from the tree it's christ transfiguring the world as he's crucified
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It's somebody that's genuinely committed to the cause and sacrificing for the cause.
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that brings him to Tifereth. He goes from being
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He becomes not just a tough guy, not just a strong man, but a good man as well.
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And by the way, I have seen some other versions of these where they're in different places.
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So the chariot card in tarot has a man in a chariot with two sphinxes pulling it,
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One black, one white, and they're facing different directions, but they're restrained together.
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If Hood is the hero, Gebera would be the sergeant that we don't leave a man behind.
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Bina is the general that understands that sometimes you need to send men on suicide missions.
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Sometimes you need to shut down one of the factories and put a thousand people out of work.
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If somebody's not paying their mortgage on time, you've got to kick them out of your house.
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It sure would be nice if there weren't limits, but there are.
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And if we don't send people on the suicide mission, it's going to cost ten times as many lives.
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That's Bina, the intellect, the dark intellect.
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and that path their path back to Tiferet is the gladius or the lovers a high-powered CEO
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but that guy had quite a bit of vision with tesla motor tesla motors
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that's being a lover that is engaging voluntarily and on purpose in an act of creation so not just
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using your skills as a ceo to make lots of money and increase the shareholder prices but to use it
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So as I noted, from Yassad, you have the path of the moon, of intuition, of sight, of charm.
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somebody at net sack this could be a salesman this could be a lawyer it could be it's just
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now in the same way that the person at hood the the the athlete making millions of dollars
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needs to walk the path of the devil, of the eye, to see, to see clearly about things.
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The person possessed in Netzach needs to walk the path of Pisces, or death.
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They need to shed their scales, their riches, and let go of all that.
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Somebody that's really, really centered in Netzach could be extremely arrogant.
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And the path of death is realizing that they're not that special.
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And that's what gets them to integrated Tiferet.
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If this talented person, for whom everything just comes naturally to them,
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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.
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and strong institutional energy is developing at Chesed.
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So now using their charm to try and reach out and help the world.
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To go from Netzak to Chesed, you're walking Pama.
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You're actually engaging in reality and having your ups and your downs and the change and seeing the change
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and gaining a bit more understanding so that you have this capacity to empathize with others.
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From there, you can walk Manus, the path of the hermit.
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I'm from the government and I'm here to help you.
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The path of the hermit is where you take that expanse of Jovian energy
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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.
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She's just gaining a lot of attention for herself, and it's really ticking people off.
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and figure out one thing she could actually be good at
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one thing that would actually make a difference
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and not just draw attention to herself all the time
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Finally, we have the path to Chokmah, Clavus, the nail, the nail of Christ, this is the
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path of the Hierophant, of the High Priest, of theology, of taking this Jobian energy
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that you have, and disciplining it. Not just free hugs for everybody, but an actual disciplined,
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systematized understanding of what sort of world we have out there, of what problems
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Nail yourself to Christ, and be the Hierophant to achieve wisdom.
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I hope you notice that if we go back to Bina and Chokma, both of these have a great maturity to them.
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And then finally, we have the path of the emperor, back to Tifereth.
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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.
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all the patriarchal institutions in the world
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And so, somebody that's walked the path of the Hierophant up to Chokmah, and truly inhabited Chokmah,
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they can walk the path of being a just ruler for their people.
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And that's what takes the abstract theology of the Hierophant,
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which can sometimes be quite brutal and not very nice.
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And it can turn it into something applicable and useful
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So, generally speaking, the paths, you walk them vertically or towards Tifereth.
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It is possible to reverse a path, but it's not, it's not as common.
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Except for the horizontal paths, these ones are largely bi-directional.
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The tower, it's a tower being struck by God's lightning bolt,
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and out of it are falling two figures who strongly resemble the magician and the high priestess,
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who are the raw energy of masculinity and femininity, of action in the world and psychic ability and intuition.
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Being cast out of the tower by a disaster to go back out into the world.
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So this path between Hode and Netzach is when you have really mastered something.
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well, I guess you've got to learn to sell cars for a living.
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serpens when you have both geberah and chezzet when you've got the ability to apply force i think
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this is where you get true strength. The strength
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until it's needed they're not pulling it out all the time they're not brutal that's strength
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then at the top you've got the empress you've got mother nature
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when you have intellect and wisdom in alignment you can create a garden
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And then we've got these two at the bottom, coming out of Malkuth and bypassing Yassad.
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So you've got Ignis, the fire, and Judgment, the card representing it.
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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.
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You can bypass Yassad and go straight to vote.
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Alternatively, you've got Hamas, the star.
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And again, it's this natural talent that can get you up to netzak,
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that you can be a gifted kid in the gate program.
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Luke Skywalker about to go on an adventure
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So, let's get this back into a reasonable size.
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Let's see how the comments are coming along here.
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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.
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through showing off how powerful you are by doing the opposite.
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Now, I'll give you a simple example of this, which you have all done.
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One of the ways you bond with people is you tell it like you're in the workplace
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and you tell a joke that HR wouldn't be happy if they were listening in.
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you're violating a norm to achieve a higher state of union with the co-worker you violate the norm with.
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I would argue the Tree of Death is trying to ensnare God
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represents the world that we're living in right now.
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uh they're trying to replace malkuth the natural world with a digital overlay an artificial
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substrate smart homes smart cities smart devices everywhere you saw the foundation
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the education system is not designed to educate it's designed to create useful and obedient
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workers. And they're even going next level these days to try and create workers that can't even
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rebel and wouldn't want to rebel. Why do people need to read? We can just have the AIs read
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instructions to them the hood that would be working-class they're being replaced
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with EBT cards the geberra the military the police are increasingly men that do
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not think for themselves, but just blindly follow orders and call that good. And Bina,
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we have some of the, like, look at BlackRock. Look at these manipulators who do what they
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do and never think about it. On the other side, we've got Netzac. Hollowed out Netzac
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Don't ask questions, just get excited for a new product.
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systems, these systems that pretend to care about everybody
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but immiserate anyone under their command.
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And the sort of chokmah that we see, the sort of wisdom, is just the wisdom to lie and manipulate the public.
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It's the wisdom of propaganda, not the wisdom of true insight.
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And Tiferet, which is supposed to be, in a society context, the pulsing middle-class heart of civilization,
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is completely hollowed out, and they're a bunch of HR managers and Jewish daycare jobs.
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And they're trying to walk the path of the magician to control God.
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Or you've got Jim Jones walking the path of the fool, leading his followers into mass suicide.
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Now let me tell you how I've walked the tree.
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I was a naturally gifted student, which if you go, let me get the Latin correct, yeah,
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Hamas, the star. Hamas means hook. That's the path of being hooked. Brought up automatically.
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So I was a very gifted kid. So achieving top marks were absolutely no problem for me.
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wasn't because I wanted to join the football team
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the hardest thing that nobody believed I could do
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is when I started doing this, and this is very much a netzac sort of business.
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And then, 2019, when I had every single friend I'd made turn on me,
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that was the tower. I was back in hood, and right now I'm walking both sides of the tree,
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standing at the edge of Tifereth, staring into Dea.
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I think I've grokked Bina and Chokma. I don't know. It's not something...
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I haven't spent a lot of time there. I haven't spent a lot of time doing those sorts of jobs.
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The question is now, can I sacrifice all of it and throw it all away to walk through the abyss?
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so i think you see how this can be useful how there's how it breaks things down into
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oh goodness like getting into political arguments with people is very much a gabara thing
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limousine liberals these people with their fake smiles and their condescension and their faux
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generosity that's chezzet that's chezzet with no tiferet with no true heart or integrate integration
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gebera without integration is the bully cop 19 cd glad to have you man you get to bed
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that's the the bully cop the arrogant soldier
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when you start seeing these you start seeing where you've been i've spent a lot of time as
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an adult, rebuilding Yasod. Because I didn't get that healthy childhood. I had to jump
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up the tree and do some of the more challenging missions to go and redo that. And it's, you
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know, nothing's ever perfect, but it's starting to come together for me.
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so if there's no questions problems concerns oh right one last thing let's
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talk about the four layers of reality. Now on the left I have the Jewish names
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for them, the Hebrew names. Let's talk, let's use the English terms, and these are
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from Ken Wilbur, his study of non-dualism. So at the base of reality you have the
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material world. Actually we'll expand it just a bit just so I can read it on the
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screen. Asaya is the Hebrew name for it. Ken Wilbur uses the gross physical world.
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i'm just going with material world which is yeah it's physical reality above that you have the
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ethereal the ethereal is the realm of vibrations and they are increasingly subtle as they grow up
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go up the lowest level of vibrations are measurable physically it's like sound waves
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when you walk into a room and everybody stares at you
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layer at which this is embedded in the material
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but it's more than material at the same time. Like, yes
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you could, if you wanted to be a reductionist materialist
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you could boil it down to material causes but quite frankly it's a lot better to just talk
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about the vibe of a place this place has a good vibe or a bad vibe
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hood and netzak are where you start to enter the ethereal realm
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Which is a really hard thing to say, but one of the
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played Rome Total War or any of those games, you know what I mean.
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And, God, it's just terrible when you capture three cities and you're near your goal,
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but then you get stagnated and you're in a quagmire and the momentum's shot.
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Same thing, Chizet Mercy, it's very vibes-based.
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And this is where we start going into the astral realm, which is the realm of ideas themselves.
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Higher than vibration, this is where numbers exist, thought forms exist.
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And then finally, you get to the layer of the non-dual.
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Where the sky turns into a blue pancake and falls on your head.
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and start a new after-hours casual chat stream.