By Will Parfitt
A realistic & experiential advisor to knowing the Tree of existence, a brand new revised variation of the dwelling Qabalah, advised as a very good creation. 1995, mild creasing to hide
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Energies that we have learned to use freely and appropriately are amalgamated into and become part of our total being as we are now. But many experiences we have in life — for example grief, fears, emotional turmoils, and so on — we do not accept as part of us. Instead we suppress and/or repress the energies concerned. It is this energy, pushed down in this way, that controls us and 'keeps us in our place'. This suppressed/repressed material, together with all our basic survival drives, is the stuff of Yesod as the lower unconscious.
You might disagree with these correspondences to a cloud — good! ) Try working out the elemental composition of other items from your life. It is not always possible to work out these combinations, but it is a useful exercise to try. The symbols commonly associated with the four elements are: A A V V F A W E Malkuth is composed (uniquely) of four colours, quartered when painted onto a representation of the sphere. These four colours relate to the four elements. They are: russet citrine olive black for for for for fire air water earth As you probably know, the primary colours are red, yellow and blue.
It represents 'Universal Love' and 'Universal Awareness'. The one on the right is called 'Chockmah', is numbered 2, and represents 'Universal Will' or 'Purpose'. Sphere 1, Kether, is the Self; spheres 2 and 3 are the Self's Purpose and its Awareness. You have now drawn a complete Tree of Life, with the ten Sephiroth or spheres numbered 1 to 10, and an eleventh unnumbered sphere in the Abyss. Finally, draw a line between sphere 6 and the plane of spheres 7 and 8. This is called the 'Veil of Paroketh' and it separates the soul from the personality.