MISCELLANEOUS READINGS
TREE OF LIFE

The Lightning Flash

Beginning with 1: Kether, the Crown, it flows towards 2: Hochma, Wisdom, where it manifests itself as a potent dynamic at the top of the active column headed by Abba the Cosmic Father, or Male Principle.

Then it crosses to 3: Binah, Understanding, which as Aima the Cosmic Mother, heads the Female Column.

The active and passive columns are also called the Pillars of Severity and Mercy, the latter being the Male.

The Flow emanations, not diminished in essential nature, though transforming into another order, then crosses the central column of equipoise and passes on to the Sephira 4: Hesed, or mercy.

Here, the power, on being received into the active column again, takes on the dynamic expanse quality of this stage, before emanating across to 5: Gevura, or Judgement.

Here the forces are checked, balanced, and adjusted, before being passed on to 6: Tepheret, the vital Sephira on the middle of the tree. At this juncture there is a critical point of equilibrium. Tepheret, or beauty, has a special relationship with Kether the Crown, by connection through the axis of the central column.

The only thing that separates Tepheret from Kether is an unseen Sephera known as Daat, or Knowledge, which functions only in particular conditions.

At Tepheret an image is held, it is a mirror of Kether, but operating on a lower scale. The emanations are then passed into the active Sephira 7: Netzah, or eternity.

This is the point where active functions repeat and repeat to maintain the energy level. From the transformer the emanations cross to 8: Hod - Splendour. This may be translated from the Hebrew root word as reverberation, which is perhaps a better description of the function of Hod, whose job it is to pick up and pass on information.

From here the emanations again touch the central column and focus on 9: Yesod - the Foundation. Here they are again mirrored, but more dimly, being a reflection of a reflection - powerful enough to cast a strong projection - but only a projection.

Directly below is the last Sephira, 10: Malcut - the Kingdom.

Architect's Note : The Kingdom suggests the outer reaches of the Tree, the encompassing aspect, related to the Great Angel.

The Sphiroth on the tree might be regarded as a system of functions in a circuit through which flows a Divine current.

Each function creates not only phenomena, but transforms all the adjacent sub- circuits. Any Sephiroph can change the direction of the flow, creating variable fields and actions. Power may be stepped up or down in all the Sephiroth thereby modifying events, while the current returns to the source via the earth of Malcut.