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Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: The Four Worlds page 3Chapter 2: The Faces page 5Chapter 3: The Klippoth page 10Chapter 4: The Tree of Life page 11Chapter 5: The Name YHWH -13Chapter 6: The Moshiach -page 15Chapter 7: Meditation -page 18Chapter 8: Meditation and Kabbalah -page 20Chapter 9: PaRDeS- page 23Chapter 10: Glossary -page 24B’nai Avraham Po Box 556 Ottumwa, Iowa 52501
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Chapter 1: The Four Worlds
The Kabbalah describes four "worlds." These four worlds are respectively called Atzilut (World of Emanation), Beriah (World of Creation), Yetzirah (World of Formation), and Asiyah (World of Activity,Making or Physical Manifestation). The World of Atzilut is also called the "Supernal World." It is rootedin the Sefirah Crown/Above and correlates with the letter Yud (
y
)in the Name YHWH(
h v h y
). InAtzilut, the twenty-two Hebrew letters are yet unmanifest, and are said to "stand alone ablaze the crownof the King Most High.""
The Ancient One is hidden and concealed. Small Face is manifested and NOT manifested.The manifested is written in the letters; The NOT on Its level is hidden in the letters.Twenty-two letters that are concealed, Twenty-two letters that are manifest. A concealed Yud, a manifest Yud. The concealed and manifest are balanced in weight." (
Sifra Detzniyutha
4
)
The World of Beriah is rooted in the supernal Sefirah Wisdom/East, and correlates with the Upper Heh (
h
)in the Name YHWH. In the World of Beriah, the Word of Elohim (known in the Kabbalah as the "Alef of Unity") becomes manifest, whereby the letters vibrationally differentiate and combine to form DivineNames. In Beriah, beings are formless and exist as vibrational signatures.
"Two stones (letters) build two houses, three stones build six houses, four stones build twenty-four houses, five stones build one hundred and twenty-five houses, six stones build seven hundred and twenty houses,seven stones build five thousand and forty houses. From here go out (i.e. extrapolate) and think what themouth is unable to speak and the ear is unable to hear." (
Sefer Yetzirah 2.4")
The World of Yetzirah is commonly known as the Astral World. It is rooted in the supernal SefirahUnderstanding/North and correlates with the letter Waw in the Name YHWH. In Yetzirah, the Names of Beriah interact and manifest the forms of the divine archetypes, which are latent and undifferentiated inSefirah Understanding/North. Beings in the World of Yetzirah have both Name and Form.Finally, in the World of Asiyah, there is the apparent solidification of the Yetziratic forms in physicalmatter. The World of Asiyah is rooted in the Sefirah Knowledge/First in the Upper Worlds and isrepresented on the Tree by the Sefirah Kingdom. The Sefirah Kingdom is associated with the
Shekinah
and the Lower Heh in the Name YHWH. The four worlds are represented as a continuum by the Tree of Life. They are successively connected to one another by the letter-gates, which allow consciousness tomove to and from them.Many people find it difficult to grasp the idea of the four worlds contained in the Tree. The difficultyoften stems from the fact that the four worlds can be assigned to groupings of the Sefirot on the Tree in itsflat, vertical form. At the same time, each Sefirah contains a complete Tree that extends through the fourworlds.
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