cosmology
Sefirot Tree
The diagrammatic arrangement of the ten Sephirot as a structured 'Tree of Life' mapping divine and cosmic forces.
49 passages · 3 traditions
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◆The Book of Concealed Mystery (Siphra Dtzenioutha) | 1a
“CHAPTER V.
1.
(It is written) Isa.
i.
4: "Woe unto the sinful nation, unto the people heavy with iniquity, unto the seed of evildoers, &c." (Here the author of the "Siphra Dtzenioutha" reasoneth concerning the small word HVI, "woe," whi…”
◆The Book of Concealed Mystery (Siphra Dtzenioutha) | 1c
“And to it also pertain the following names, namely, the name) IH, Yah (whensoever it is written in full with A in this manner:) IVD HA, Yod Ha (and containeth the number of the numeral powers of the letters of the Tetragrammaton, namely, 26…”
◆The Book of Concealed Mystery (Siphra Dtzenioutha) | 1e
“31: "And He was wise above every man." Because these are not classed with man.
21.
(But when it is said) "And the Tetragrammaton gave him wisdom," then is understood the supernal He .
(Because he gave unto him the influx of the wisdom of…”
◆The Book of Concealed Mystery (Siphra Dtzenioutha) | 1h
“35: "Ye shall not do iniquity in judgment, in dimension, in weight, and in measure." (Where these four are mystically intimated.) 37.
(There is one) rigorous judgment (of severity),another that is not rigorous (that is, of the kingdom).
T…”
◆The Kabbalah Unveiled | Introduction, Section 1a
“p.
43 SPRA DTzNIOVThA (SIPHRA DTZENIOUTHA); OR, THE BOOK OF CONCEALED MYSTERY.
CHAPTER I.
1.
Tradition .--"The Book of Concealed Mystery" is the book of the equilibrium of balance.
[The word "Dtzenioutha" is difficult to translate, but…”
◆The Kabbalah Unveiled | Introduction, Section 1d
“and must therefore be referable to the Edomite kings.] p.
48 19.
And it hath proceeded out of that which hath undergone the curse, as it is written in Genesis v., 29, "From the earth which the Lord hath cursed." (The meaning is: That the…”
◆The Lesser Holy Assembly (Idra Zuta Qadisha) | Idra Zuta, Chapter 1 (part 1)
“CHAPTER VIII.
CONCERNING THE FOREHEAD OF MACROPROSOPUS.
87.
THE forehead of His skull is the acceptation of acceptations, whereunto is opposed the acceptation of Microprosopus, like as it is written, Exod.
xxviii.
38: "And it shall be…”
◆Sefer Yetzirah (The Book of Formation) | Section 1g
“The Eighteenth Path is called the House of Influence (by the greatness of whose abundance the influx of good things upon created beings is increased) and from the midst of the investigation the arcana and hidden senses are drawn forth, whic…”
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◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Bembine Table of Isisi
“Yonder, too, exists an earth, not of inanimate matter, but vivid with animal life and all natural terrestrial phenomena like this one, but of other kinds and perfections.
There are plants, also, and gardens, and flowing water; there are aq…”
◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Flowers, Plants, Fruits, and Treesd
“The heraldic rose of the Middle Ages generally has either five or ten petals thereby showing its relationship to the spiritual mystery of man through the Pythagorean pentad and decad.
CULTUS ARBORUM The worship of trees as proxies of Divin…”
◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Flowers, Plants, Fruits, and Treese
“Man's veneration for trees as symbols of the abstract qualities of wisdom and integrity also led him to designate as trees those individuals who possessed these divine qualities to an apparently superhuman degree.
Highly illumined philosop…”
◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Stones, Metals and Gemse
“As representing the power that fabricated the lower, or Demiurgic, sphere, the tablets of stone were sacred to Jehovah in contradistinction to the tablets of sapphire that signified the potency that established the higher, or celestial, sph…”
◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Fundamentals of Qabbalistic Cosmogonyc
“The dot was called God, as being the supreme individualization of the Universal Essence.
Concerning this the Zohar says: "When the concealed of the Concealed wished to reveal Himself He first made a single point: the Infinite was entirely…”
◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Fundamentals of Qabbalistic Cosmogonyd
“It was called the First Crown and from it issued the other circles of the Atziluthic World : A 2, A 3, A 4, A 5, A 6, A 7, A 8, A 9, and A 10.
In the three lower worlds these circles are intelligences, planers, and elements, but in this fi…”
◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Tree of the Sephirotha
“THE Tree of the Sephiroth may be considered an invaluable compendium of the secret philosophy which originally was the spirit and soul of Chasidism.
The Qabbalah is the priceless heritage of Israel, but each year those who comprehend its t…”
◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Tree of the Sephirothb
“The ten Sephiroth composing the body of the prototypic Adam, the numbers related to them, and the parts of the universe to which they correspond are as follows: No.: 1 THE SEPHIROTH: Kether--the Crown THE UNIVERSE: Primum Mobile ALTERNATIVE…”
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◆Pistis Sophia | Document SECOND{
“And the Saviour of the emanations of the fourth Voice of the Treasury of the Light [177 ] will become in the Place of the souls of those who receive the Fourth Mystery of the First Mystery in the Inheritances of the Light.
And the fifth […”