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FORMATION OF THE TREE OF LIFE
June 21, 2010
―AND THE LORD APPEARED UNTO HIM. R. Hiya commenced to
discourse on the verse: The flowers appear on the earth, the time of song
is come, and the voice of the turtle[-dove] is heard in our land (S. S. II,
12). He said: 'When God created the world, He endowed the earth with
all the energy requisite for it, but it did not put forth produce until man
appeared. When, however, man was created, all the products that were
latent in the earth appeared above ground. Similarly, the heaven did not
impart strength to the earth until man came. So it is written. "All the
plants of the earth were not yet on the earth, and the herbs of the field
had not yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon
the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground" (Gen. II, 5), that is
to say, all the products of the earth were still hidden in its bosom and had
not yet shown themselves, and the heavens refrained from pouring rain
upon the earth, because man had not yet been created. When, however,
man appeared, forthwith "the flowers appeared on the earth", all its
latent powers being revealed; "the time of song was come", the earth
being now ripe to offer up praises to the Almighty, which it could not do
before man was created.
"And the voice of the turtle[-dove] is heard in our land": this is the word
of God, which was not in the world till man was created. 'Thus when
man was there, everything was there. When man sinned, the earth was
cursed, and all these good things left it, as it is written, "cursed is the
earth for thy sake" (Gen. III, 17), and again, "when thou tillest the
ground it shall not give its strength to thee" (Ibid. IV, 12), and again,
"thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to thee" (Ibid. III, 18). When
Noah came, he invented spades and hoes, but afterwards he sinned
through drunkenness, and the rest of the world also sinned before God,
and the strength of the earth deserted it. So matters continued until
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This chapter also serves as an introduction to the practical section of this book (i.e. that is soon to
be added.)
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Abraham came. Then once more "the blossoms appeared in the earth",
and all the powers of the earth were restored and displayed themselves.
"The time of pruning (zamir) came", i.e. God told Abraham to
circumcise himself. When at length the covenant existed in Abraham
through the circumcision, then all this verse was fulfilled in him, the
world was firmly established, and the word of the Lord came to him
openly: hence it is written, AND THE LORD APPEARED UNTO
HIM.‖
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HE above quote is part of a major occult leitmotif that echoes through
the main body of writings of the Zohar (and beyond), but its inner
meaning is well concealed from the uninitiated. The theme is repeated
again and again in the Zohar using various episodes and characters from
the Tanach. The esoteric concept it conceals is actually quite simple (once it is
grasped), but paradoxically, is quite difficult to communicate. To understand
this concept requires turning your normal mundane consciousness on its head,
in the manner of the Hanged Man (Maym,
מ
) of the Tarot, so that your
perspective of the world is fundamentally changed. This esoteric knowledge is
extremely important, and the future of humanity depends on the eventual
realization of its principles. It is based on the following three premises…
T
First Premise:
Every individual human soul is carried to term within the
spiritual womb of the Great Mother, and therefore bears a unique
‘umbilical’ relationship with Her.
This statement appears simple and perhaps trite on the surface, but its
implications are tremendous. The metaphor is of a mother pregnant with child.
The child within the womb is intimately attached to the mother via an umbilical
cord. The umbilical cord provides sustenance to the embryo as it grows and is
carried to term. Similarly, each human soul (Ruach,
חור
) is attached to the
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Celestial Mother (the Higher Shekinah, Binah) by a spiritual umbilical cord. This
connection is unique to each soul because each soul requires its own special
kind of creative sustenance and nurture.
The first premise is complemented by a second one of equal importance…
Second Premise:
Every incarnate human soul also has an outer
expression (i.e. a personal ego) that is carried to term within the earthly
womb of the Great Mother, and through it a second ‘umbilical’
relationship is established with Her.
The soul‘s outer expression is the human personality (or ego, Nefesh,
שפנ
). The
incarnate human personality is encased within the womb of the physical world
(i.e. Mother Earth)—a lower reflection of the condition of the human soul
enclosed within the belly of the Celestial Mother. Just as there is an umbilical
cord connecting the human soul to the Celestial Mother (Higher Shekinah) so
too there is a invisible umbilical cord connecting the human personality to
Mother Earth (i.e. the Lower Shekinah). Thus, the third premise is…
Third Premise:
The outer umbilical cord joining the human personality
to Mother Earth is a lower reflection of the inner umbilical cord that joins
the human soul to the Celestial Mother.
The implications of the third premise are also great. The two umbilical cords
represent narrow channels of creative sustenance and nurture that flow from
two directions towards each human-being—i.e. from the Celestial Mother to
the human soul, and from the Earth Mother to the human personality. Both the
Celestial Mother and the Earth Mother are interconnected and inter-
coordinated expressions of the one Great Mother principle.
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The personality‘s umbilical cord is a reflection of (and dependent on) the
umbilical cord of the soul. The human personality, however, is unaware of the
higher spiritual link with the Great Mother until it becomes ‗soul conscious‘.
When the human personality achieves soul consciousness it becomes
increasingly aware of the nature of its unique spiritual relationship with the
Great Mother. As a consequence it is able to use that inner knowledge to realign
itself within the physical world so that it becomes open to receive the material
sustenance of Mother Earth, and (at the same time) involve itself in the divine
Plan of Creation. In other words, in becoming conscious of the inner ‗spiritual‘
umbilical cord the human personality is also able to perceive the outer ‗material‘
umbilical cord. As long as the human personality remains unconscious of the
soul‘s umbilical cord it stumbles blindly in the world, sowing its seed on barren
ground, and the earth brings forth naught but ―thorns and thistles‖. When
however, the personality awakens to the higher connection (and thus also to the
lower connection) then the earth brings forth ―blossoms‖, and ―flowers appear
on the earth‖.
―AND THE LORD APPEARED UNTO HIM. R. Hiya commenced to
discourse on the verse: The flowers appear on the earth, the time of song
is come, and the voice of the turtle[-dove] is heard in our land (S. S. II,
12). He said: 'When God created the world, He endowed the earth with
all the energy requisite for it, but it did not put forth produce until man
appeared. When, however, man was created, all the products that were
latent in the earth appeared above ground. Similarly, the heaven did not
impart strength to the earth until man came. So it is written. "All the
plants of the earth were not yet on the earth, and the herbs of the field
had not yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon
the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground" (Gen. II, 5), that is
to say, all the products of the earth were still hidden in its bosom and had
not yet shown themselves, and the heavens refrained from pouring rain
upon the earth, because man had not yet been created. When, however,
man appeared, forthwith "the flowers appeared on the earth", all its
latent powers being revealed; "the time of song was come", the earth
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being now ripe to offer up praises to the Almighty, which it could not do
before man was created.‖
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The biblical Adam in the
Genesis
narrative personifies the human soul. The
Earth was created by God as a material resource packed full of a very specific
potential, and it was provided as an environment for Adam to indwell and
cultivate. Adam (i.e. the human soul) is the only entity that can unlock and bring
forth the Earth‘s special potential (i.e. a potential that has been divinely ‗pre-
programmed‘ within the Earth‘s substance by the Creator). In other words, only
the human soul has the power to summon forth the ‗royal treasures‘ that God
has concealed (i.e. in latency) deep within the Earth (i.e. His Kingdom—
Malkut). Adam is able to draw forth this potential as a result of the passage of
Water (Maym,
מ
, symbolized by ‗rain‘ in the quote above) that flows to the
human soul from the Creator (i.e. it falls upon the head of Adam). Then it
further descends to soak into the denser lower levels of the Earth (i.e.
המדא
,
Adamah, the ‗ground‘).
The concept of the Earth having a secret divine potential hidden within it
awaiting emergence when the right conditions arise, can be understood in terms
of human DNA.
―On the genetic level, it is interesting to note that human DNA is 173
centimetres long. Only 3 centimetres carry active genetic information.
Modern biochemistry is puzzled at this seeming wastefulness of nature
and calls the inactive parts of the DNA introns, useless waste material.
This is a very questionable assumption, as nature does not produce waste
anywhere. The introns are in my opinion (again I deviate from official
science) equal to the latent spiritual potential of the human being.‖
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Enlightenment & the Brain: A Scientific Commentary on the Teachings of Sri Bhagavan
. Christian Opitz.
From: DNA Monthly. May 2006 (Vol. 2, No. 5).
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