The
Sefirot of the Divine and the Creation of the Universes of Reality
Inherent in
everyone’s conception of True Divine Reality is the question of “Who am I?” and
“How was I, Man created as the Apex of Creation not just on Planet Earth but
the whole universe? How we understand this to be, also affects how, we, as
“Sons and Daughters of G-d” comprehend our role and relationship with the
Divine, now and in our future.
According to the
Sages of Judah, to comprehend the creation of Planet Earth and our Sun’s solar
system, we have to comprehend it on the spiritual planes, for until the
creation of Adam on the sixth day of Creation, this world and our solar system was
in an embryonic stage of development; not yet physical, and not yet connected
with time and space.
According to the writings of the Midrashim, where the mystical
teachings (Sod) of the Torah were archived, the world was not yet in its full
physical form which we know today as Planet Earth. The Master of the Universe’s creative
energies brought physical reality into real physical third dimension existence
on Planet Earth with stages of creation; processes of unknown periods of time
called “days”. Not until the creation of man in the Gan Eden (Garden of Eden) on
“Day Six” was the Planet Earth fully created. At that time the sun and the moon
were given their order to mark the times of the day and the night and the era
of “time” came into existence.
Also the soul of Adam, the “Sparks of the Divine” were
also present at every stage of the creation of earth. Since our human soul came
from Adam, we were also the molecules of the Big Bang as well as we were part
of the parts of the fruits of the trees in the Garden, and as the Zohar, the
mystical traditions penetrating into Divine reality, we were the sheep of
Abraham’s and Jacob’s flocks. If you have ever had the inner sense that you
were “there” or a participant in some moment of time in the ancient past,
consider that it may have been true.
As Rabbi Abba wrote in his discourse on
Genesis 1:27 - “Elokim (G-d) created Adam in His image. Come see! When the Blessed Holy One created Adam, He
made him in the image of the upper and the lower dimensions [in such a way
that] he is a microcosm of all of them.
In the Zohar Naso,
titled the Idra Rabba, we read:
Idra Rabba – “Above the firmament….like the
appearance of sapphire, was the likeness of a Throne; and over the likeness of
the Throne, was a likeness that was like the appearance of a Man, on it from
above.” (Ezekiel 1:26). Like the appearance of Man that contains all forms.
Like the appearance of Man in which all the upper and lower dimensions are
concealed. Like the appearance of Man which contains all the mysteries that
were spoken and rectified before the world was created.”
Inherent also within this creative process were the
creations of four universes (worlds) by the Ein Sof, the Creative Source of all
Life, who was called the “Hidden One”, the “Ehyem” the “Unfathomable Father in
Heaven”. Each world or universe was on a different spiritual plane or energy
level of creation. The Master of the
Universe was known as Adam Kadman, the Archetype of Adam and Eve or the “Divine
Image of G-d” and from whom their “Image of G-d” was created. Here was the
Primordial Source of all life, with the infinite Energy Source from whom the
Worlds of Creation called “Universes” came into being.
1.
The First Universe of Creation (White Sefirot of
Rabbi Isaac Luria’s Sefirot of the Divine) was called the Atzilut (Atziluth).
This was the realm called the World of the Divine where the Eternal One,
the Almighty G-d of Israel dwelled. Within this realm, known as the 7th
heaven, is where Adam was able to watch the Supernal Fiery Light of G-d being
manifested within and throughout all of the universes. The first letter of the secret
Name of G-d called the Tetragrammaton, Yod, was attributed to this universe. Here was the World of the Divine, the Great
primordial Fire.
Here were the three supernal emanations of Keter (Kether);
the 1st of the Ten Sefirots called the “Crown of the King”, the 2nd
of the Ten Sefirots called Hokhmah (Chokmah) “Divine Wisdom” known
as Left Hand of G-d, or the “Pillar of Mercy” and then the 3rd of
the Ten Sefirots called Binah, or the (“Understanding” of Divine Reality
that was known as the “Right Hand of G-d” or the “Pillar of Justice”.
2.
The Second Universe of Creation (White and Purple
Sefirot of Rabbi Isaac Luria’s Sefirot of the Divine) was Beriyah (Briah),
the World of Creation. This was the first of the created worlds where
the exalted spiritual beings called the Archangels and the Great Primordial Fire,
the Supernal Light of G-d dwelled. This universal realm encircling the Daat, known
as the Source of Divine Knowledge just as the Archangels surrounded the Throne
of the Holy One of Israel.
“The
Sefirot by Rabbi Isaac Luria” - Z’ev ben Shimon Halevi, kabbalah –Tradition of hidden
knowledge,
Thames and Hudson, 1979
Within this world, the Archangels were created as “Spirit
Beings” and did their assigned tasks as “messengers for the Divine” or representing
the authority of the Divine Reality in performing the tasks of running the
universe. The second letter of
the Tetragammation, Hey, was attributed
to this universe called Beriyah.
The Keter or Crown of this “World of the Spirit Beings” is
connected directly with the Tiferet, the “Beauty” of the World of the
Divine. Here is the world where the 4th divine emanations of the
Sefirot called of Chesed (“Loving Kindness”), the
5th emanation of the Sefirot called Gevurah (Geburah) known
as Judgment (Strength), plus the Tiferet (Tiphareth) known as Beauty
resided in the divine archetype of reality.
Within Beriyah, the creative energies of G-d became a
vortex that flowed or were funneled through the “Tiferet” and then sent throughout
for the continuous creations as the universes and galaxies are formed,
destroyed and recreated.
Here is where the most exalted archangel called the “Angel
before the Presence” called Metatron who stood in the Presence of the G-d of
Israel at the level of the Tiferet of the World of the Divine. This exalted
angelic Being would someday represent Divine Reality in the Messianic “Kingdom
to Come” as YHVH’s Messiah. This will be the era in which we will once again be
restored to the exalted position as Adam and Chavah (Eve) were created on the 6th
day of creation on Planet Earth. Though created a little lower than the angelic
hosts, they were capable of perceiving through their universal mental powers (the
“Keter of their Image of the Divine”), the entire World of the Divine and the functional
economy of the civilizations governed by the Ein Sof, the Eternal One of Israel
in “Heaven”.
3. The Third Universe of Creation (Purple and Red
Sefirot of Rabbi Isaac Luria’s Sefirot of the Divine) was Yetzirah,
called the World of Formation. The third letter of the secret Name of
G-d called the Tetragrammaton, Vav, was attributed to this universe called Yetzirah. In this
exalted realm was the “Heavenly Garden of Eden” where Adam and Eve (Chavah) were
created and dwelled on the 6th day of creation plus the world of the angels and the Primordial Air.
There in this exalted realm, Adam and Chavah (Eve) were
created as “Light Beings”. This best representation of this higher dimensional
state was when Moses came down from the mount called Sinai, he glowed with the
invigoration of being in the presence of the radiance of G-d‘s glory. As such
when he came back into the presence of the Children of Israel, they could not
directly behold his presence so he had to shield his body within a tent while
he was communicating with them.
So also Adam and Eve irradiated the glory of G-d as the
human blood today contaminated by the coagulation or the lower energy level of
existence as it flows within the arteries and veins of our bodies, so also Adam
and Chavah internally glowed with the high energies they received by being able
to dwell in the Presence of Almighty G-d. This “Light” that was radiated from within
their beings surrounded their bodies as clothed in a garment of light. In many
instances in the scriptures, we read of this same spiritual phenomenon that is
called a “garment of white” which we will receive in our new creation as we will
once again be returned to the exalted realms as “Light Beings” in the world to
come.
The Keter or Crown of this “World of Formation” was
connected directly with the Tiferet, the “Beauty” located at the center of the World
of the Divine. The exalted mental capacities of Adam resided in the Tiferet of
the World of the Divine, where Metatron, the “Angel before the Presence” stood and resided before the Throne of the One G-d of Israel.
Here is the world where the divine emanations of G-d are
roughly represented to the astral planes. Here is where the creation of a new
human soul is spiritually formed, but before they can gain a physical body, it
requires lowering them down into our three dimensional world from the universe
of formation where all things are spiritually formed and before they gain a
physical existence called “physicality”.
This suggests that all humans have a higher and more elevated spiritual plane
of existence in a human body that is shielded and protected by our physical
skin and gives us our outward appearance. Redemption is where we will finally
be connected with our real existence, a Spiritual Light Being, presently
occluded and shielded by a covering of physical skin.
Here also within the Universe called the World of
Formation is located Netzach (“Eternity”, “Perpetuity”, “Victory”, or
“Endurance”), the 7th of the Ten Sefirots is located on the “Left
Hand of G-d” called the “Pillar of Mercy” below the higher emanations of
Chokhmah (“Wisdom”) and Hesed (“Loving Kindness”).
Then we come to the divine
emanation called Hod (“Reverberations and HaShem's Glory”) on the Right
Hand of G-d below and then is completed on the Yesod (“Foundation”) where the
spiritual realms of G-d, the Archangels, and the Heavenly Hosts of Spirit
Beings called angels settle upon the Yesod or the “Foundation” of the World of the Divine. Below this level is our physical world, who
unknown except by those with “eyes that can see” and “ears that can hear” that this is the lowest of creation not the highest, and not able to perceive or behold the spiritual places where G-d and the angelic hosts dwell.
“The
Sefirot by Rabbi Isaac Luria” - Z’ev ben Shimon Halevi, kabbalah – Tradition of hidden
knowledge,
Thames and Hudson, 1979
Why then was the World of Adam and Chavah (Eve) called
the Heavenly Garden of Eden? Adam and Chavah in their collective pure state of
existence were created on a higher and more exalted plane of existence. They
later devolved to a lower state of existence after Adam and Chavah failed to
obey G-d's command not to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and
in a mistake or a lapse of judgment were convinced by one of the most beautiful
of G-d’s lower creations, the flying serpent that independence from G-d was good.
At the time of his
creation, the “image of G-d” in which Adam was created gave him the sensory
system in which he could see and perceive behind the veil which clouds our
spiritual sensory system from perceiving the spiritual universes today.
There from one end of
the universe to another, Adam and Chavah (Eve) could observe the myriads of angelic hosts as
they were flying from one part of the universes to another. Adam observed their
defined missions or planetary responsibilities. He observed that they kept the
Divine spiritual forces or the divine energies called “emanations” flowing down
from G-d to the physical world on Planet Earth and to every other inhabited
planet in the universe.
Adam’s “Keter” or the
crown of his existence that mirrored the “Image” of his Divine Father in
Heaven, resided in the same dimension as the archangels and the angelic hosts
of heaven. Yet, his being was created in the World of Formation and his lower
extremities or feet resided on Terra Firma, Planet Earth where the lower forms
of creation came into being. We might now begin to understand the exalted image
of Adam and Chavah, who as Rabbi Abba wrote in his discourse on Genesis 1:27
quoted above:
Rabbi Abba - “When the
Blessed Holy One created Adam, He made him in the image of the upper and the
lower dimensions [in such a way that] he is a microcosm of all of them.
It is important to notice that Adam and
Chavah (Eve) were created in the same created universe as the heavenly hosts of
angels, yet they were different. The “Angels” were created as Spirit Beings, but
their realms of responsibility were in the higher “heavens” called the World of
the Spirit Beings.
Adam and Chavah (Eve) were created in the
same universe as the heavenly angels, yet they through their immense mental
powers were capable of “walking and talking with G-d”, for they were given
their own Sefirot, the “Image of G-d. They were capable to observe the running
of the organizational complexity of heaven, yet they alone of all the creations
could effective change and care for animals, birds, and lower creation of
species in the Garden of Eden created on Planet Earth. Here we begin to witness
the awesome and wonderful creation of G-d called “Adam” our forefather who in
his own being linked all the four creations of the universes and the five
worlds of reality.
4. The Fourth Universe of Creation (Red on Red Sefirot of Rabbi Isaac Luria’s Sefirot of the Divine) was Assiyah (Asiyyah) that was called the World of Action. This universe surrounded the emanation of the Divine called the “Yesod” known as the “Foundation” of the Sefirot (Image) of G-d and all Divine Reality. The Fourth letter of the Tetragammation, Hey, was
attributed to this Fourth Universe of Creation called Assiyah.
This was the “World of Animal Beings”, many of whom still
have the ability to communicate with man such as the chimpanzees, cats, dogs,
birds, fish and dolphins; even in ours and their degenerate physical state
today. This was also the world of Adam’s lower physical body with all the
biological and anabolic processes, the cyclical and monitoring systems plus man’s ego,
central nervous system, automatic nervous system, and the skeletal, skin and all the sense organs, plus the vitamins, minerals and elements that compose all living creatures.
This was also the physical world upon which we live,
where the vibrations of the flowing electrons are very slow, such as the rocks,
minerals, coral depositions, plus the microorganisms, germs, and plankton that
provide the elemental food substance that give substance to higher organisms
and become the elemental particles of life for recreation new life within our
bodies and regeneration. These low level vibrations included also the marble
granite boulders and the sedimentary deposits that formed the matrix of our
earth’s crust and mantle. Here at the bottom or the base of the Sefirot of G-d
(“Image”) was the Malkhut called the Kingdom and it leaves us a very sobering thought; at the bottom of all creations, we as scientists and researchers of the Grand Order of Things have to conceive; we are at the bottom of all the worlds of the Divine, yet we think we are so exalted in our sinful and degradated state.
The Vortex of
G-d’s Glory over the Wilderness Tabernacle
Let
us now relook at the Sefirot of the One G-d of Israel, for it is there where the primary channels of divine energy and power flows down from King of the Universe or the (Keter) Crown of
the Divine Sefirot of G-d. Yes, the Crown is where the Ein Sof, the One G-d of Israel reigns.
G-d’s unlimited energy emanations flow through
Hokhmah (Wisdom) and Binah
(Understanding) and from there
like a cascade or an energy vortex it flows down “through” the Tiferet, called Beauty. Through this
vortex of divine emanations is the funnel where the creation of the four
universes flowed through the “Central Pole of Grace” to the Yesod, the “Foundation
of the Divine Sefirot of G-d” and below to sin-contaminated Planet Earth, where
the spiritual dimensions of reality cannot today normally be perceived.
At
the bottom of the Sefirot of the World of the Divine is the Malkhut
called “Kingdom”. Does this sound
familiar – “The Kingdom of G-d?”
This is the revelation of the
Almighty as He manifests Itself
in the created worlds and universes.
The Almighty One of Israel is the One G-d of Creation and the Source of the
infinite energy of creation. The Malkhut
or the Kingdom of G-d is at the
bottom of the Sefirot, and where G-d plants His presence on earth and sends His
divine energy to the lowest of created life. Yet, all are sustained by the same
G-d.
Even
so, the visual imagery of the Presence of the G-d of Israel was seen in the everyday life and economy of the Nation of Israelites that met their G-d at the mount
called Sinai. The Malkhut was where the Presence of the L-rd of hosts dwelled in the Shekinah glory. When the glory of the L-rd was revealed over
the Most Holy Place in the Sanctuary as
the Pillar of Fire, the Israelites
were assured that their G-d was
dwelling within their midst.
The diagram model of the Sefirot is but a two dimensional view,
yet let your mind envision it as
a vortex of a tornado and you
might comprehend the picture of
the flow of the vast Power of Energy of
the Divine as it enters
the point of manifestation in our
three-dimensional world. As the vortex
of Energy descended and dwelled upon the Ark of the Covenant we could
now envision that the Shekinah Glory of G-d and the Spirit of G-d (Ruach HaKodesh) were One
and the same.
You
might Want to Read:
“The
World of the Divine and the Creation of Adam (Man)”
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