{"id":519,"date":"2011-11-21T19:37:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T19:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wendricharthouse.com\/study\/?page_id=519"},"modified":"2023-03-19T11:41:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T11:41:55","slug":"tree-of-life","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wendricharthouse.com\/study\/tree-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"TREE OF LIFE"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"a_sephirothic_odyssey\u00a9h_wendrich\"<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

Ain Soph and the Birth of The Tree of Life<\/span><\/h2>\n

The Tree of Life glyph as a whole is designed to teach us about the law of Ain Soph<\/em> and further describes the birth of the physical light which divides into the four elements and dense matter.\u00a0 Above the Tree of Life glyph are usually depicted three lines, which are considered to be impenetrable.\u00a0 These are called Ain<\/em> (Nothing; Not), Ain Soph<\/em> (Limiltless), and Ain Soph Aur<\/em> (the Limitless Light). <\/span><\/p>\n

The term Ain Soph<\/strong><\/em> first appears in the writing of Isaac the Blind of France (1160 -1235), whose real name was Rabbi Yitzach Saggi Nehor. \u2018Saggi Nehor\u2019 means \u2018much light\u2019 and the name is almost ironic because he was blind.\u00a0 His blindness did not stop him possessing such deep spiritual insight that it was said that he could look into a person and see if they were a new or old soul.<\/span><\/p>\n

Isaac suggested that the Ten Sephiroth have their origins deep within Ain Soph<\/em>.\u00a0 He believed that Ain Soph<\/em> is [a mind] emanating Divine Thought. From this Divine Thought emanate the Ten Sephiroth.\u00a0 He taught that living beings are material manifestations of the Sephiroth, and that our mystic experiences aid in ascending the levels of emanation until it is possible to unite with Divine Thought.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ain Soph<\/em> is identified with the Aristotalian \u201ccause of all causes,\u201d and in the Kabbalah is called the \u201croot of all roots.\u201d\u00a0 It is the substance of God Himself and imminent within all Creation.\u00a0 The first emanation within Ain Soph<\/em> is called \u2018Pure Thought,\u2019 and with Thought comes Will.\u00a0 Gerona Kabbalists, disciples of Isaac the Blind, spoke of the \u201cWill of Thought\u201d, a Will which activates<\/em> Thought.<\/span><\/p>\n

Within 16th<\/sup> Century Lurianic doctrine, the concept of Creation and Ain Soph<\/em> was further developed with a concept called ZIMZUM, which means contraction.\u00a0 Within God, everything existed, so it was not possible to create.\u00a0 So God contracted part of Himself into a monad, a point of light called Ain<\/em>, which is within the Dark Light of Potential.\u00a0 (Dark Light refers to a light with such high frequency that it is not possible to perceive its luminosity; thus it appears black, beyond our comprehension.)<\/span><\/p>\n

This monad or part of God began to vibrate and brought forth from within itself many more sparks of light, or aspects of the One God.\u00a0 These spread chaotically throughout the Dark Light.\u00a0 In Ain Soph<\/em>, this chaos became ordered by the Mind of God.\u00a0 The sparks began to pull together in triangular forms.\u00a0 The research of Gershom Scholem, in his book, \u2018Kabbalah,\u2019 describes this triangular formation as the three lights, as the primordial inner light spread throughout the root of all roots.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026above all emanated powers, there exist in the \u201croot of all roots\u201d three hidden lights which have no beginning, \u201cfor they are the name and essence of the root of all roots and are beyond the grasp of thought.\u201d\u00a0 As the \u201cprimeval inner light\u201d spreads throughout the hidden root two other lights are kindled\u2026.it is stressed that these three lights constitute one essence and one root which is \u201cinfinitely hidden,\u201d forming a kind of kabbalistic trinity that precedes the emanation of the ten Sefirot.\u201d<\/strong> (Scholem, Kabbalah, p.95)<\/span><\/p>\n

At first, the magnetic pull between these lights was very weak.\u00a0 The points of light or sparks were a great distance apart, with broken magnetic lines weakly connecting and drawing them slowly together.\u00a0 This contraction is the crystallizarion or creation of Divine Light, or the birth of the Shekhinah and, within the Ain Soph, produces the world of Atziluth.\u00a0 With its chaotic magnetic field it becomes clear why fire burns.\u00a0 Atziluth is the archetypal aspect of the element of Fire.\u00a0 The magnetic field of Atziluth has the potential to break up the magnetic fields of the elements and return them to the Divine Light.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the contraction and crystallization of the divine sparks continued, the broken lines of magnetized thought became stable, and a thin but weak magnetic line formed the world of Briah.\u00a0 This magnetic force corresponds to the physical element of Air, making Briah the archetype of Air but, in the Golden Dawn, Briah is attributed to the denser magnetic field of Water (Yetzirah). \u00a0I have ordered it so on the diagram of A Sephirothic Odyssey<\/em>, and do not have a problem with its designation or placement, as each Kabbalistic world contains the four elements as its frequency slows down.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the points of light are drawn even closer and the magnetic force becomes ever stronger, the world of Yetzirah is formed.\u00a0 This magnetic force equates to the physical element of Water: Yetzirah is the archetype of Water.\u00a0 [The Golden Dawn attributes Air to Yetzirah, thus the Golden Dawn is working a higher frequency of Yetzirah and a lower frequency of Briah.]\u00a0 Once the sparks of light are packed together tightly, this forms the world of Assiah, the archetype of the element of Earth.<\/span><\/p>\n

To summarize: The contraction or crystallization in the Ain Soph generates a Light which is called Will.\u00a0 This Light then becomes the Ain Soph Aur, and eventually creates the Sephira Kether.\u00a0 From Kether the Divine Light flows and gives birth to the Tree of Life, within the sphere of the Four Worlds.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ain Soph and the Birth of The Tree of Life The Tree of Life glyph as a whole is designed to teach us about the law of Ain Soph and further describes the birth of the physical light which divides into the four elements and dense matter.\u00a0 Above the Tree of Life glyph are usually depicted three lines, which are considered to be impenetrable.\u00a0 These are called Ain (Nothing; Not), Ain Soph (Limiltless), and Ain Soph Aur (the Limitless Light). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-519","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendricharthouse.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendricharthouse.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendricharthouse.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendricharthouse.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendricharthouse.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendricharthouse.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1773,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendricharthouse.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/519\/revisions\/1773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendricharthouse.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}