Elemental ingredients
Every one has mind, body, spirit
Every being expressed by Mind, Speech, and Body
That is:
Archetypal essence, idea, consciousness
Pattern formation, design, name
Specific presence, action, physicality
3, 2, 1, “It’s Alive!”
3, 2, 1, “Hello, hi” (go ahead, talk, like talking with a pet)
“May peace be upon you”
A beautiful bit of wisdom along with a very meaningful tapestry.
The prayer on the bottom of the tapestry is the most essential Jewish prayer, the Shema:
Shema Yisrael, Adonai Elohanu, Adonai Echad
It has great significance in many layers and is especially sacred written in the Hebrew alephbet. The prayer can translate directly to:
Hear Israel, "G-d" is "our Lord", "G-d" is the one
The Hebrew word for “G-d” as used in the Shema has deep meaning and is associated with the allso profound Tree of Life, as shown in the above tapestry.
One mystical interpretation is:
Hear, inner spiritual 'Home': The ALL is (All) our world, The ALL is One.
A brief but potent reminder about a metaphysics of panentheistic panpsychism – two words with much to unpack, put less academically as: One Love אהבה אחת
שלום שלום שלום
Kabbalah is not a secret teaching. It is the teaching of a secret.
“The secret teaching” means that we are trying to hide something from you.“The teaching of the secret” means that we are trying to teach something to you, to open up and reveal something hidden.
Now, you might point out, if the secret is taught, it is no longer a secret. A revealed secret, it would seem, is an oxymoron.
That would be so if we were discussing an artificial secret, one that is secret only because it is shrouded in secrecy, because others don’t want you to find out. True secrets, even once taught, explained, illustrated, analyzed and integrated into your consciousness, remain just as mysterious as before. No—vastly more mysterious, for as the island of knowledge expands, so too its beach upon the infinite sea of the unknowable.
Life teems with such mysteries: What is love? What is mind? What is life? What is existence? How do they come to be? From where do they emerge? What is your soul, the person within your body? You experience all these at every moment. They are you. And yet, the more you gaze upon the depths of their mysteries, the deeper their waters become.
The deepest of all secrets are those best known to all, that which we learn as small children, take for granted the rest of our lives, live with daily—and yet never manage to unravel or grasp with our cognitive mind.
There is. Things are. I exist. I am alive. Life is not death. Darkness is not light. There is that which is bigger than me.
Kabbalah plunges into these secrets and pulls their depths into the open. It provides metaphor, parable, understanding. It shines light and opens our eyes. It inspires and guides us to use this wisdom for healing and growth in everyday life. That is why the experience of learning Kabbalah is one of “Yes! I knew that truth all along! My heart knew, but my mouth was unable to speak it!” The truths of the Kabbalah belong to every sentient being.
Yet, most of all, Kabbalah provides a sense of the beyond; the knowledge of that which cannot be known, the wisdom of mystery, the understanding that we do not understand. Kabbalah is the knowledge of wonder.
Rabbi Tzvi Freeman
Artwork – Ryan J Flynn
via https://www.facebook.com/lightsofkabbalah/photos/a.319056761576811/1416967365119073/?type=3&theater
I give thanks to the Source. And I say shalom שלום.
Qabbalah קבלה means ‘receiving’ in Hebrew. It is a mystical discipline of Jewish and alchemical traditions. At its heart is the role of language in Jewish thought. That is a subject in and of itself – one brief angle:
In Hebrew, there’s no word for objects, only names. “Things” exist essentially as name, as language in thought and breath create the potential and material universe.
The Hebrew alefbet is of great significance. It is the fruit and pathways of the Tree of Life. Each letter having many associates such that, as a whole, the letters of the Hebrew alefbet contain, correspond with, and create All of creation. An elementary particle if you will, near the Source of All.
In this post and possibly others I will share some simple glimpses of the qabbalah of simple words, songs, prayers. Through that receiving will be more information on Qabbalah, or you can read about it at https://www.crystalinks.com/kabala.html or ask about other approaches.
שלום: Peace; hello; goodbye; a name of the One, synonymous with ‘the Lord’ or Allah الله. Shalom is a common word used by Hebrew speakers, and its equivalents in other languages are common as well. Arabic says salam سلام, Latin pax, English peace. Peace.
Peace has many forms. I will not speak on that in this post. I encourage you to seek and dis-cover peace in your life. “May peace be upon you” as these ancient languages say.
ש ל ו ם – letters read from right to left: shin, lamed, vav, mem – Sh L U M – four letters form shalom, representing four sounds or ways of breath. Or four classical elements, or . . .
Here is a table of each letter and some of its correspondences, after which is a stream of meaning of the letters together to spell peace ש ל ו ם
Continue reading →I give thanks to the Source.
However gifted I am with what to be grateful for
It is not I, it is All,
All the synchronicities&harmonies
Enlightening ball, lightening bolt
Tree of Life right to auth
Like lightening and trees, the movement builds on thee through the four worlds, going with the light flow:
[Seed – Yod] ~ What was once unfathomable and nothing is becoming a clearer inspiration.
[Seedling – Heh] ~ What is longstanding inspiration becomes deeper imagination.
[Sapling – Vav] ~ What is mature imagination becomes firmer tendencies and formations.
[Tree of Life – Heh] ~ What is solid form becomes active life and actions for/of/with/by oneself.
PHIre cycling LVX: Life, Death, and Renewal
The Hebrew letter Shin. It is the 21st letter of the alephbet, it is a “sh” or “s” sound, it indicates the number “300” in the Hebrew number system, its glyph means “tooth”, and it is interpreted in mystical Judaism to be the active element of the world, Fire. Various spiritual interpretations of this letter would say that it corresponds to the soulful force inside us which is pure awareness, bright and hot like fire, which destroys illusions.
How does one’s tooth correspond with judgement? Do I judge my food as I eat it? Or is the action of my teeth on food analogous to the action of judgement on ‘soul food’ or experience itself? As I chew, various teeth are put to work. At risk of disgust, here’s a look at partially chewed food, hopefully to inspire good chewing and food selection for oneself.
Continue reading →
Cube of Space via https://alchetron.com/Cube-of-Space
From one’s perspective
We look inward to our heart and the past it holds within it
We look overhead to the celestial bodies and the futures they carry out as directed by physics, cause & f(x)
We look to the east for the gateway of a new day and the winds of a rising sun
We look to the south for the fires that inspire, warm, and calcine
We look to the west toward waters of rest and reflection, reaping what the day has sowed
We look to the north, heads to the Earth, and we face the darkest and most close-to-death time of day. Yet inherent in it is
From one’s perspective
“Truth can come from anywhere—there is nothing that does not have its truth. Because, without a spark of truth, nothing can exist. Not even falseness.
via Lights of Kabbalah page on Facebook
Therefore, the wise person is one who knows how to learn truth from every person and discover the truth of each thing.”
~ Rabbi Tzvi Freeman
Alef – the breath of life
Mem – the water, memory, reception
Tet – the world, completion
Truth!
