Over
and over throughout the month I’ve found words related to today’s word. I’d
skipped over them in hopes of finding one word that would allow me to include
those other words (Words are located on the photo below). I managed it in a
round about way when I stumbled across today’s word. I hope what little bit of
information I give here would intrigue some of my readers to read more on this
particular topic to find those others words that I’m sure tells way more detail
on it than I could give in one post.
Today’s
word is Tree of life.
In the
Cabala, it means an arrangement of ten Sephiroth (photo below) and 22 paths. Tree of Life is a symbolic patter of
modern Western occultism, used even by groups and traditions that claim no
connection whatsoever to Cabala.
The
relationship between the Sephiroth and the Paths remained open to debate for
centuries, and still several different versions of the Tree are used at present
date. Most differences are among the position and attributions of the Path.
Of
course like anything that evolves and changes over a course of it’s life there
are different interpretations. The same goes for this. The main difference was
in the division of the Tree of Life. One division had it divided by triangles,
another had it divided in half, while another did so by four worlds of the
Cabal and then there was the one that divided it into three pillars. Then in the 19th and 20th
century magical renaissance the Tree of Life
was identified with a serpent Nehushtan, who resided in the upper astral, the
realm of the purification.
I hope
there was enough here to intrigue at least one of you to do search on the topic
of the Cabal Tree of Life, or at least looked up the meaning of Kether, Binah,
Chokmah, Daath, Geburah, Chesed, Hod, Natzach, Yesod, or Malkuth. I think you’d
find the information on each interesting. I know I sure did as I was reading
through The New Encyclopedia of the
Occult.
Have a
great day and remember all the information for this post was found in:
The New Encyclopedia of the Occult by John Michael Greer.
This particular word
was found on pages 490-491
Have a great day and remember:
Let Imagination Soar
Write and Read With Creativity
Julia Matthews
