week 1

Kether

Overview of Kether

Yetziratic Text:  “The Fourth Path is named Measuring, Cohesive or Receptacular; and is so called because it contains all the holy powers, and from it emanate all the spiritual virtues with the most exalted essences:  they emanate one from the other by the power of the primordial emanation.  [The Highest Crown].”

Welcome to Month 8 and the 7th sphere on our Journey!

We have left the Pillar of Might and crossed once more to the Pillar of Mercy.  Just as Netzach balances Hod, Chessed balances Geburah.  In Geburah we found Might, we found Power, we found our own outward expression of Self into the Universe and the impact thereof.  Here, in Chesed, in Mercy, we allow the energies of the world to touch us.  We are receptive, feeling the the power and Might of the universe within ourselves.

Chesed also is born from Tifareth, from the Harmony and Beauty at the centre of the Tree.  But this is not Harmony, this is not a sphere at the Centre, in the Pillar of Balance.  Mercy cannot and should not exist in isolation; it is not by itself in balance.  It needs the balance of Might to not only be understood, but to be healthy.  I highlight this because many of us find comfort and ease in Mercy and difficulty in embracing Might.  This is not a situation that serves us.  Working through both spheres and finding our connection into both separately and then together, is necessary for our personal (and communal) evolution.

Chewed translates as Mercy, and is know by the Vision of Love.  But this is not the (sexual) love of Venus and Netzach, it is the unconditional love that would be described by Jupiter.  It is a place of love and comfort, where the joy of the experience invites obedience (not a slave-like obedience, but an embracing and desire to support the experience of this sphere) and support to the essence of Love.

Before such love we fall into humility easily.  But it is easy to slide over into the assumption that the understanding and connections that you have achieved make you better than others, make you ‘right’.  And that can slide into self-righteousness that will lead to the vices of bigotry, hypocrisy and gluttony.

DOWNLOADABLE:
Chesed Associations

Read through the correspondences and add your own thoughts and experiences as we go through various exercises to connect with the energy of Chesed.

(DAILY) CONNECTION PRACTICE:

This meditation/connection practice should be done at least weekly and before the following exercises.  To take this Work to a deeper level, do it every day, at different times, different environments, to discover the full breadth of Mercy.

Chokmah

Overview of Chokmah

Yetziratic Text:  “The Fourth Path is named Measuring, Cohesive or Receptacular; and is so called because it contains all the holy powers, and from it emanate all the spiritual virtues with the most exalted essences:  they emanate one from the other by the power of the primordial emanation.  [The Highest Crown].”

Welcome to Month 8 and the 7th sphere on our Journey!

We have left the Pillar of Might and crossed once more to the Pillar of Mercy.  Just as Netzach balances Hod, Chessed balances Geburah.  In Geburah we found Might, we found Power, we found our own outward expression of Self into the Universe and the impact thereof.  Here, in Chesed, in Mercy, we allow the energies of the world to touch us.  We are receptive, feeling the the power and Might of the universe within ourselves.

Chesed also is born from Tifareth, from the Harmony and Beauty at the centre of the Tree.  But this is not Harmony, this is not a sphere at the Centre, in the Pillar of Balance.  Mercy cannot and should not exist in isolation; it is not by itself in balance.  It needs the balance of Might to not only be understood, but to be healthy.  I highlight this because many of us find comfort and ease in Mercy and difficulty in embracing Might.  This is not a situation that serves us.  Working through both spheres and finding our connection into both separately and then together, is necessary for our personal (and communal) evolution.

Chewed translates as Mercy, and is know by the Vision of Love.  But this is not the (sexual) love of Venus and Netzach, it is the unconditional love that would be described by Jupiter.  It is a place of love and comfort, where the joy of the experience invites obedience (not a slave-like obedience, but an embracing and desire to support the experience of this sphere) and support to the essence of Love.

Before such love we fall into humility easily.  But it is easy to slide over into the assumption that the understanding and connections that you have achieved make you better than others, make you ‘right’.  And that can slide into self-righteousness that will lead to the vices of bigotry, hypocrisy and gluttony.

DOWNLOADABLE:
Chesed Associations

Read through the correspondences and add your own thoughts and experiences as we go through various exercises to connect with the energy of Chesed.

(DAILY) CONNECTION PRACTICE:

This meditation/connection practice should be done at least weekly and before the following exercises.  To take this Work to a deeper level, do it every day, at different times, different environments, to discover the full breadth of Mercy.

Binah

Overview of Binah

Yetziratic Text:  “The Fourth Path is named Measuring, Cohesive or Receptacular; and is so called because it contains all the holy powers, and from it emanate all the spiritual virtues with the most exalted essences:  they emanate one from the other by the power of the primordial emanation.  [The Highest Crown].”

Welcome to Month 8 and the 7th sphere on our Journey!

We have left the Pillar of Might and crossed once more to the Pillar of Mercy.  Just as Netzach balances Hod, Chessed balances Geburah.  In Geburah we found Might, we found Power, we found our own outward expression of Self into the Universe and the impact thereof.  Here, in Chesed, in Mercy, we allow the energies of the world to touch us.  We are receptive, feeling the the power and Might of the universe within ourselves.

Chesed also is born from Tifareth, from the Harmony and Beauty at the centre of the Tree.  But this is not Harmony, this is not a sphere at the Centre, in the Pillar of Balance.  Mercy cannot and should not exist in isolation; it is not by itself in balance.  It needs the balance of Might to not only be understood, but to be healthy.  I highlight this because many of us find comfort and ease in Mercy and difficulty in embracing Might.  This is not a situation that serves us.  Working through both spheres and finding our connection into both separately and then together, is necessary for our personal (and communal) evolution.

Chewed translates as Mercy, and is know by the Vision of Love.  But this is not the (sexual) love of Venus and Netzach, it is the unconditional love that would be described by Jupiter.  It is a place of love and comfort, where the joy of the experience invites obedience (not a slave-like obedience, but an embracing and desire to support the experience of this sphere) and support to the essence of Love.

Before such love we fall into humility easily.  But it is easy to slide over into the assumption that the understanding and connections that you have achieved make you better than others, make you ‘right’.  And that can slide into self-righteousness that will lead to the vices of bigotry, hypocrisy and gluttony.

DOWNLOADABLE:
Chesed Associations

Read through the correspondences and add your own thoughts and experiences as we go through various exercises to connect with the energy of Chesed.

(DAILY) CONNECTION PRACTICE:

This meditation/connection practice should be done at least weekly and before the following exercises.  To take this Work to a deeper level, do it every day, at different times, different environments, to discover the full breadth of Mercy.

Netzach

Overview of Netzach

Yetziratic Text:  “The Seventh Path is called the Occult Intelligence, because it is the Refulgent Splendour of the Intellectual virtues which are perceived by the eyes of the intellect, and by the contemplation of faith.”

Welcome to Month 5 and the 4th sphere on our Journey!

This month we balance our experience of last month by travelling to Netzach, the matching sphere to Hod, which is on the Pillar of Mercy, as opposed to the Pillar of Might that Hod resides in.

An interesting view, for both Hod and Netzach, is to contemplate on how Netzach, a very feminine sphere, associated with Venus, love goddesses and such, is the final sphere on the masculine pillar, the pillar of form.  Why would this be so?  (Hod is similarly placed at the bottom of the feminine pillar, the pillar of force, and yet is concerned with formulas, with is applying form to force.)

To add some fuel for your contemplation (which will likely make more sense after we go through the next sphere, Tifareth, so this is something we will look at closer later in the course), it is important to remember that the Tree is a path of evolution.  It is constantly exploring itself and it’s own possibilities.  By splitting into the two opposite pillars and spheres, it (and we) can explore itself through opposites.  And yet every time we travel up (or down) the Tree into another level of it, we have a new perspective on these opposites; when we travel up, each pairing becomes a more pure aspect of its pillar, at the lower levels the pairs are greatly influenced by the spheres above and are exploring not just the purity of their opposites, but how those opposites can be blended and re-bounded and re-explored in different ways.  This is a topic that will be very interesting to explore when there are more pairs to look at in comparison to this pair.

DOWNLOADABLE:
PQ-5.1 Netzach Associations

Read through the correspondences and add your own thoughts and experiences as we go through various exercises to connect with the energy of Netzach.

(DAILY) CONNECTION PRACTICE:  

 

This meditation/connection practice should be done at least weekly and before the following exercises.  To take this Work to a deeper level, do it every day, at different times, different environments, to discover the full breadth of the Victory.