The Tree of Life

If we observe the Tree of Life as it is written by the Hebrew Kabbalists, we see ten Sephiroth.

The tree begins with the Ancient of Days, Kether, who is in the most elevated place of the tree. Chokmah follows as the second Sephirah, in other words, the Second Logos, which is precisely the Cosmic Christ, or Vishnu. Then Binah follows, which is the Third Logos, the Lord Shiva. 

Kether, Chokmah, and Binah are the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as they are drawn in the Tree of Life of the Hebraic mysteries; this is how the Rabbis taught it.

Kether, Chokmah, and Binah are the trimurti of perfection; they are the divine triangle: the very beloved Father, the very adored Son, and the very wise Holy Spirit.

There is an abyss found after this divine triangle. After this abyss, a second triangle is formed by Chesed—the fourth Sephirah that corresponds to the Innermost, or when speaking in Sanskrit, Atman the ineffable one—continuing with Geburah, the might of the law, the fifth Sephirah, Buddhi, the Divine Soul, which is feminine. Then follows Tiphereth, the sixth Sephirah, the Human Soul, which is masculine.

A third triangle comes as an unfoldment and this is represented by Netzach—the mind, the seventh Sephirah—continuing with Hod, the eighth Sephirah, the astral body. Further down is Yesod, the ninth Sephirah, the main foundation of sex, the vital depth of the physical organism, the vital body or the ethereal vehicle, the Theosophist lingam sarira.

Finally, at the lowest part of the Tree of Life, we find Malkuth, the tenth Sephirah, the physical world or physical body, the body of flesh and bones.

The first triangle—Kether, Chokmah and Binah—is Logoic. The second triangle—Chesed, Geburah, and Tiphereth—is Ethical. The third triangle—Netzach, Hod, and Yesod—is Magical. Malkuth, the physical world, is a fallen Sephirah.

The first triangle, or Logoic Triangle, obviously has its center of gravity in the divine Father, the Ancient of Days, Kether. This is something that anyone can observe. Kether is a mathematical point in the infinite, immense, and unalterable space. This triangle is the triangle of the Father.

If we analyze the second triangle, we find that it is Ethical. Why is it called ethical? It is simply because ethics or upright behavior is primed there. There, we know the might of the law; there, we know good and evil, about what is good and evil. This triangle is the world of pure Spirit, which is Atman, Buddhi, Manas—that is, the Hindu Trimurti. Obviously, the center of gravity in this triangle becomes at a simple glance the Human Soul, that Soul who suffers and who gives that human part to us; the Sephirah Tiphereth coincides with the causal body. This triangle is also denominated as the Triangle of the Son. Here we find the Cosmic Christ, Chokmah, who when so endowed manifests himself through the Human Soul, which is Tiphereth in the Hebraic Kabbalah.

The third triangle becomes very interesting because this is the Magical Triangle formed by the mind or Netzach, the astral body or Hod, and the ethereal body or Yesod, which is also the basic sexual principle of universal life. Why this is called the Magical Triangle? Undoubtedly, it is because High Magic is exercised in the kingdom of the mind and the kingdom of the astral and even in the Klipoth or the infernal worlds.

There is no doubt that Netzach is where we can find Hermetic Magic, and in Hod we find Natural Magic. Other authors think differently. They believe that Natural Magic is found in Netzach; I have to disagree with them in that matter because when precisely seen, the mind is found to be Mercurial. There are authors that disagree with my concepts. They suppose that the mind is Venusian. I regret to discuss this type of concept because anyone can realize that the mind is Mercurial. Therefore, Hermetic Magic must be identified with Mercury, which is related with the mind. Regarding natural, ceremonial, or ritualistic magic, we find it in the astral world, in the astral body.

Where do we find the central gravity of the Magical Triangle? Obviously, it is found in sex, because it is from here that birth, death and regeneration come. Everything rotates around sex. In other words, the third triangle has its center of gravity in sex, or Yesod, which is the force of the Third Logos, the sexual potency.

In this way we have found that there are three basic centers of gravity in the whole Tree of Life. In the first triangle, the center of gravity is in the First Logos, Kether, the elder of the Centuries.

In the second triangle, Chokmah, the Cosmic Christ, the Second Logos, has its center of gravity in the Human Soul, Tiphereth.

In the third triangle Binah, the Holy Spirit, the Third Logos has its center of gravity in Yesod. It is from within the sexual force that life emerges, where the physical body emerges, where all living organisms emerge. Since we are the children of a man and a woman, not even Malkuth could exist without the presence of sex. Therefore, Yesod is the foundation of the Third Logos; Yesod is the center where the sexual force of the Third Logos gravitates.

The Tree of the Science of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life.

There are two trees in Eden: the Tree of the Science of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life.

• The Tree of the Science of Good and Evil is sex, and this Tree of Knowledge is represented by the sexual organs.
• The Tree of Life is the Being, and in our physical body this tree is represented by the spinal column.

Every true cultural doctrine has to study in detail these two trees, because the study of one tree without the study of the other gives incomplete and useless knowledge.

For what purpose do we study the Being if we do not know about sex? Both Trees are from Eden and even share the same roots. These are the two main great columns of the White Lodge: wisdom and love. Wisdom is the Tree of the Science of Good and Evil, and love is the Tree of Life.

The doctrine of the two trees was deeply studied in ancient Egypt. The fatal shadow of the Tree of Life is the psychological “I.” The fatal shadow of the Tree of Knowledge is fornication. People usually mistake the shadows for reality.

Whosoever finishes with the processes of the psychological “I” will Self-realize his Being. Whosoever stops fornicating is converted into a Christ.

And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat, But of the tree of the Knowledge of good and evil, thou shall not eat of it, For in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. 

And the Lord God said, Behold the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever…

So he drove out the man and he placed at the east of the Garden of Eden Cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. 

– Genesis

If the fallen human being could have eaten from the delicious fruits of the Tree of Life, then today we would have fornicating gods. That would have been the damnation of damnations. That would have been the most terrible sacrifice. That would have been the impossible.

Therefore, the flaming sword of cosmic justice is brandished; it is blazing, frightening, and terrible guarding the way towards the Tree of Life.

The Innermost was born from the Sephirothic Crown: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Innermost is enveloped within six inferior vehicles that interpenetrate one another and form the human being. All of the faculties and powers of the Innermost are the fruits of the Tree of Life. The human being will eat from the fruits of the Tree of Life when he returns to Eden in the same way that he departed. Then, the human being will see God face to face without dying. Lightning will serve as a scepter for him and tempests as carpet for his feet.

There are ten surges of life that interpenetrate each other without any type of confusion; these ten eternal emanations are the ten Sephiroth of Kabbalah, the ten branches of the Tree of Life. Now we begin to understand why God put ten fingers on our hands.

The twelve senses of the human being (7 chakras or churches + 5 physical senses = 12) are related with our spinal column. The spinal column is the physical exponent of the Tree of Life. The twelve senses are the twelve fruits of the Tree of Life.

THE SEPHIROTHS

The Ten Sephiroths of universal vibration emanate from the Ain Soph, the microcosmic star that guides our inner world. It is the Real Being of our Being.

When it is spoken about the Sephiroths, we have to know that they in reality are twelve; the Ain Soph is the Number One, and its tenebrous antithesis in the abyss, is the Sephiroth Number Twelve.

Are twelve spheres or universal regions that penetrate and pervade to each other without confusion. The twelve spheres gravitate around the central atom of the sign of infinite.

Within those twelve spheres the solar humanity unfolds. We have already said the sign of the infinite is in the center of the Earth, in its core. The Sephiroths are atomics, the Ten Sephiroths can be reduced to three tables:

• 1. Table of Quanta: the radiant energy that comes from the Sun.
• 2. Table of Atomic Weights, of the elements of nature.
• 3. Table of the Molecular Weights, of the compounds.

This is the Jacob’s ladder, that goes from the earth to the sky. All the worlds of cosmic consciousness are synthesized in these three tables.

The Four Worlds

A Sephiroth cannot be understood in a single plane, because its nature is quadruple. That is the reason of why the cabbalists say that there are four worlds.

Aziluth: It is the archetypic world, or world of the emanations; it is the divine world.

Briah: It is the world of creation, also called Khorcia, that is to say the world of the sections.

Yetzirah: It is the world of the formation and Angels.

Assiah: It is the world of the action, the world of the matter.

Three Sephiroth of form are found in the Pillar of Severity (Binah, Geburah, Hod). Three Sephiroth of energy are found in the Pillar of Mercy (Chokmah, Chesed, Netzach). And between these two pillars is the Pillar of Balance, where the different levels of consciousness are located (Kether, Tiphereth, Jesod, Malkuth).

All the known Sephiroth derive from Sephira, the Divine Mother who resides in the Heart Temple; IO is the Mantra of the Divine Mother, and there are ten emanations of Prakriti, that is, the ten Sephiroth.

Kether is the Father within us, a breath of the Absolute, profoundly unknown to itself. Kether is the Ancient of Days, and each of us is, at our core, a blessed Ancient of Days. Chokmah is the Son, the atomic Christ within us. Binah is the Mother within us, the Holy Spirit within us. Kether, Chokmah, and Binah are our Sephirothic Crown.

The beloved Father, the adored Son, and the wise Holy Spirit dwell within the depths of our superlative consciousness, awaiting the supreme moment of our fulfillment.

The Holy Spirit is our Divine Mother, dressed in a blue mantle and a white tunic of exquisite splendor. The Mother carries in her hand a precious lamp; that lamp is the Innermost, which burns in the depths of our hearts. The Innermost is contained within a fine, transparent alabaster vessel. That vessel is our own superlative consciousness; it is our Buddhi.

The Innermost is the Sephiroth Chesed; the Buddhi is the Sephiroth Geburah. The Innermost and the Buddhi express themselves through the Human Soul. The Human Soul is, Tiphereth, the Will, the Beauty. Thus, the Innermost, with its two Souls, the Divine and the Human, officiates on its Throne, which is the Cerebrospinal Nervous System.

The Innermost is crowned with the Sephirothic Crown. The Innermost dwells in his Temple. The Temple of the Innermost has two columns: Jakin and Boaz. Jakin is the mind. Boaz is the astral body. The mind is the Sephiroth Netzach. The astral is the Sephiroth Hod. These two columns of the temple are supported by the cubic stone of Yesod. This cubic stone also serves as the foundation of the Kingdom of Malkuth.

That cubic stone is the etheric body. Malkuth is the physical body. Thus, man is a complete decade. We have ten fingers on our hands, ten Sephiroth, and ten Commandments.

When the Ancient of Days has realized the 10 Sephiroth within himself, he is transformed into Adam-Kadmon, the celestial man.

He who realizes the 10 Sephiroth within himself shines in the world of light with ineffable Christic splendor.

When the Ancient of Days realizes the 10 Sephiroth within himself, they shine in the world of light like precious gems, like shining stones, in the body of the Ancient of Days.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the Churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the Tree of Life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God (Revelation 2:7).

The 10 Sephiroth shine like precious stones in the body of the Ancient of Days. This is how we become the Heavenly Jerusalem.

“And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; The fifth sardonynx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh; chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.”

Revelation 21: 19-20

When the man incarnates in himself his Sephirothic Crown, then the Ancient of the Days will illuminate and to reign him forever and ever.

However, brothers of my soul, in truth I say you that nobody goes to the Father but through the Son. The Son is the Cosmic Christ in ourselves, is Chokmah, the Divine Christic Wisdom, the Gnosis that shines in the depth of our hearts.

We have to inundate all our vehicles with the Atoms of Christic Nature; we have to forme the Christ in ourselves in order to ascend to the Father, because nobody reaches the Father but through the Son.

Even if Christ would born one thousand times in Bethlehem, it is not worth if he does not born in our hearts. It is necessary to forme the Christ in ourselves, in order to pass, triumphant and victorious through the doors on Palm Sunday.

The Nativity is a Cosmic event that has to be reached in each one of us. The nativity is absolutely individual. There exists the necessity to allow the Christ to be born in ourselves. It is urgent to achieve the nativity of the heart.

It is necessary to transform the Tree of the Science of good and evil, in the Immolate Lamb of the Holy City.

Christ truly is a Sephirotic Crown of immeasurable wisdom, whose purest atoms shine in Chokmah, the world of Ophanim.

That Sephirotic Crown (of immeasurable wisdom) sent its Buddha, Jesus of Nazareth, who through countless reincarnations prepared himself for our earthly evolution. It was in the Jordan that the Christic Crown, the Solar Logos, shone forth and penetrated its Buddha, Jesus of Nazareth.

This is the mystery of the human dual personality, one of the greatest mysteries of Occultism.

When man receives his Sephirotic Crown, then the Ancient of Days illuminates him and leads him to the pure waters of life. However, my brothers, no one reaches the Father except through the Son, and the Son is at the bottom of the Ark of the Covenant awaiting the moment of fulfillment.

That Ark of the Covenant is the Sexual Organs. Only through Perfect Chastity can we form the Christ within us and ascend to the Father.

My brothers, I have already given you the Ark of the New Testament. I have already taught you the path of Sexual Magic.

And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices and thundering, and an earthquake, and great hail.

Revelation 11: 19

INVERENTIAL PEACE

Samael Aun Weor