Before we can understand the meaning of any Sephirah isolated, it is necessary that we capture in lines Overall, as a whole, which means Otz Chaim, the Tree of Life.
is a hieroglyph, a composite symbol, which aims to represent the cosmos in its entirety and, at the same time, the human soul in relation to that. The more we study the hieroglyph, the more we realize that is a perfectly adequate representation of the tree and that we can use it as an engineer or mathematician to calculate the rule used to investigate and calculate all the complications of both visible and invisible existence as well as external nature and the depths of the soul.
In the diagram shows that it is a combination of ten circles arranged in a certain way and linked together by certain lines. These circles are the Ten Holy Sephiroth and the lines connecting each represent the Paths whose number is 22.
Each Sephira (Sephiroth, Sephiroth singular) is a phase of evolution and in the language of the rabbis are called the Ten Holy Emanations. The trails that are among them are phases of subjective consciousness, the paths or steps (from the Latin Gradus, Steps) by passing the soul in its implementation of the Cosmos. The Sephiroth are objective, the Paths are subjective.
Remember again that we are not exposing the traditional Kabbalah rabbis, as a historical curiosity, but also expose the structure to generations of students, started them all, and some supporters or teachers, have been building up gradually, making the Tree of Life the instrument of their spiritual development or work magic.
This is the modern Kabbalah, or Alchemical Kabbalah, as sometimes called, and contains many things that do not belong to the rabbinic tradition, as we shall see in due time.
now consider the general provision and the meaning of the Tree.
will be seen that the circles representing the Sephiroth are arranged in three vertical columns and at the head of the center, which is higher than the other, forming the apex of the triangle of Sephiroth is the Sephira Kether.
To cite the words of MacGregor Mathers:
the infinite ocean of negative light does not come from a center, because it lacks because it accumulates at a , which is the number one of the manifested Sephiroth (Kether, the Crown, the First Sephira). Eli
