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“The Kabbalah is the science of numbers. The author of the Tarot was the angel Metraton. He is the
Lord of the serpent wisdom. The Bible refers to him as the prophet Enoch. The angel Metraton, or
Enoch, delivered the Tarot, in which the entirety of Divine wisdom is enclosed. The Tarot remains
written in stone. He also left us the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet …The universe was
made with the laws of numbers, measurements and weight. Mathematics forms the Universe, and
the numbers become living entities.”
-Samael Aun Weor, The Initiatic Path in the Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah
Kabbalah (also spelled Qabalah) is from the Hebrew kabal, ‘to receive’. It is an ancient esoteric
tradition and a living study of the Tree of Life, the map of the cosmos. The origins of Kabbalah are
mysterious, although it is linked to occult wisdom at least as far back as ancient Egypt and is best
known as the mystical aspect of Judaism.
“This ancient mystical tradition of the Hebrews possessed three literatures: the Books of the Law
and the Prophets, which are known to us as the Old Testament [Torah]; the Talmud, or collection of
learned commentaries thereon; and the Qabalah, or mystical interpretation thereof. Of these three
the ancient Rabbis say that the first is the body of the tradition, the second its rational soul, and the
third its immortal spirit.”
-Dion Fortune, The Mystical Qabalah
The esoteric author of the Torah was the prophet Moses, who lead the Israelites out of slavery in
Egypt. Moses himself was raised in the house of Pharaoh and was initiated into the Egyptian mystery
schools. The Hebraic, Kabbalistic wisdom contained in the Old Testament is part of the esoteric
lineage from the ancient Egyptian mysteries.
Tree of Life
The Tree of Life in some form can be found in all the ancient religions. The Egyptian, Mayan, and
Aztec all have trees of life. Taoism teaches about the ten heavenly stems and the twelve earthly
branches which form the matrix of the universe, The Nordic Yggdrasil is a divine tree which holds
the world in its branches, and there is the sacred Bodhi tree under which the Buddha Shakyamuni
was enlightened.
Religious traditions including Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity teach about the sacred
heavens, often numbering seven or nine, which are the sephiroth of the Tree of Life.
Dante Aligheri’s famous Divine Comedy is the journey of its protagonist through the nine circles of
shadow of the Tree of Life, and upward through the celestial spheres.
The Tree of Life glyph or symbol is attributed to a mysterious 9th century Andalusian alchemist and
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poet named Solomon ibn Gabirol. This glyph is composed of 10 circles arranged in a particular
cascading pattern. It shows both a psychological and spiritual microcosm of our interior world and
the macrocosm of the universe.
The Tree of Life is a map of the Heavenly realms, and contains the diverse facets of God, the angelic
hierarchy, and the history of creation within its branches.
The Tree of Life has the key to understand and liberate ourselves from our state of psychological
sleep, because it is a map of states of consciousness, of the different dimensions, realms and worlds
of our psychological interior.
The Tree of Life is also a representation of the true and complete human who has incarnated,
activated and organized all the values of God within himself.
This is the vertical line of the Being that exists in every moment. We access the Tree of Life by
activating our consciousness, and then it becomes a living tree and we live its teachings.
The true study of Kabbalah is with the intuition of the heart, guided by shekinah, the Divine grace,
the gift of God. We need this grace in order to become an intuitive Kabbalist, to not be merely an
intellectual Kabbalist.
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