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Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
1
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
The Divine Logic
Cesar Leo Marcus
Windmills International Editions Inc
wwwwindmillseditionscom
California - USA ndash 2012
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
2
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
The Divine Logic Author Ceacutesar Leo Marcus Writing 2005
Translation of the second edition wwwwindmillseditionscom
windmillswindmillseditionscom
Copyright 2007 Cesar Leo Marcus
All Rights Reserved
ISBN 978-1-4303-0826-3
It is a crime the total or partial reproduction of this book his computer
treatment nor the transmission of any form or for any way already be
electronic mechanical neither for photocopy for record or other meth-
ods his lending rent or any other form of transfer of use of the copy
without the previous permission and in writing of the holder of the
Copyright
Only it will be possible reproduce partial paragraphs of the same one
with the mention of the title and the author
First edition in Spanish Kabbalah Judeo Cristiana El Plan Divino Copyright 2006 Cesar Leo Marcus ISBN 978-1-5983-5016-6 Second extended edition in Spanish Kabbalah Judeo Cristiana La Loacutegica Divina Copyright 2007 Cesar Leo Marcus ISBN 978-1-4303-1043-3
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
3
With much love to
The One ndash my Kether
Mariacutea Maruca Matzkin ndash my Hokhmah Israel Isrul Malcug ndash my Binah
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
4
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
He was born in Buenos Aires Argentina He has studied journalism lo-
gistics renewable energy resources (wind hydroelectric and solar)
economy and sociology in South America and Europe He researched
and compared religions in different parts of the world including the Pa-
pal Library of the Vatican
Has published over a hundred pieces in newspapers and magazines in
the US Latin America and Spain
He has won awards such as El Sol Azteca and was recognized for his
work in journalism literature and sociology by the United States con-
gress and by California senators and assembly republicans and demo-
crats of California
He is Member of International Coach Federation (ICF) and the National
Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ)
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
5
Table of Contents
Prologue - 06 -
Introduction - 07 -
Kether the Crown - The Holy Scriptures - 10 -
Hokhmah Wisdom - The Sacred Ideas - 21 -
Binah Intelligence- The Tree of Life - 26 -
Hesed Greatness - Adam Kadmon - 36 -
Geburah Judgment - Letters and Numbers - 41-
Tipherzt Beauty Christian Kabbalah - 56 -
Neshah Stability The Divine Creation -80-
Hod Glory The human being - 97 -
Yesod Foundation Senses - 115 -
Malkuth The rational Kingdom - 124-
Conclusions The Tree of trees - 132-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
6
Prologue
Many years ago the paths of my Sefirotic Tree took me to Jerusa-
lem where Rabbi Zev ben Itzjhak introduced me to the secret world of
Kabbalah Those sefirotic paths took me to the Vatican to pry into the
Papal library with Pope Paul VIrsquos authorization to plunge myself into
de Holy Scriptures analyze different religions to research their similari-
ties and to compare them
I understood the teachings of the Divine Masters such as Adam
Abraham Moses Akiba Jesus and Mohammed discovering that no path
will take us to happiness because happiness is in finding our own path
in our own Tree of Life
I wrote this book because the 21st century will open up for all
mankind a spiritual space never seen yet It is the century of revelations
and the time for ldquokabbalistic evangelizationrdquo through which we will un-
derstand there is no reason for the erroneously called religious war be-
cause the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah allows us to cross the gates towards
the union of souls where each and everyone of us are very important
pieces of this Logic Divine Plan
That the Sky illuminates him
Cesar Leo Marcus - 2005
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
7
Introduction
Since the beginning of the Divine Creation since water earth air
and fire combined to form life since early vegetation covered the land
since animals developed into dinosaurs since giants (vegetable and ani-
mal) disappeared giving way to the world as we know it today since the
first man understood that he was no longer an ape and learned to use his
intelligence which is forever the Kabbalah Judeo-Christian was pre-
sent revealing every step and every line of this Logic Divine Plan
This book answers the four most difficult questions us humans
ask ourselves the easiest way possible
Which is the Divine Logic Plan for each one of us
What should we do to find our Path
Who are we really and what is our goal
What is free will and how does it benefit us
To find these answers we must travel the road or path of the
sefirot which is not easy In order to do so each one of us can adopt one
of two possible attitudes
We can envision the road or path as a barrier that sepa-
rates us from our goals or sefirot battling with strength against obstacles
considering every step a conquest But I must warn you many desist half
way down the road and the few that do make it end up totally worn out
and without the strength to enjoy their triumph
Or we can envision the sefirotic road or path as the way
to achieve our objectives as part of the affixed goal From the very first
moment we step onto the road we will be walking the arm of the sefirot
or desired goal and without battling or effort we will get there Walking
through it we will gain from whatever the sefirotic path offers us Most
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people will get there without effort or exhaustion enjoying the tiny daily
triumphs and finally achieving their goals
The students of Judeo-Christian Kabbalah chose the second op-
tion we know that the path itself is our teacher that we learn just by
walking through the sefirotic paths and as we near our goal we leave
behind our weaknesses our fears and we value our spiritual weapons our
inner resources our strengths
The students of Judeo-Christian Kabbalah
know that we have come to this world to be happyhellip
Understanding happiness as a means to offer our spirit and soul the
opportunity to learn surrounded by light and positive e nergy
Those who wish to study Judeo-Christian Kabbalah will search
in this book for answers to questions they hadnrsquot even thought of before
and that were hidden from regular people in the past
This book seeks the interpretation of the Sacred Books
and most especially of the symbolism of the sefirot
This book seeks to explain the existence of man the pur-
pose of his life and where he comes from
This book seeks to unveil the occult understanding the
sefirotic trees and the four worlds that make them up
This book seeks to discover the hidden scenarios of your
life achieving the much desired happiness without effort
This book seeks to acknowledge the mystical magic and
creative power of the Tree of Life and its sefirot
This book seeks to be not a abstract study quite the con-
trary whoever studies Judeo-Christian Kabbalah will be able to analyze
the Tree of Life and its sefirot understanding their importance on onersquos
life
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
9
This bookrsquos search takes place within each reader because
ldquoKabbalahrdquo comes from the Hebrew words ldquoLaykabbelrdquo meaning To
Receive and ldquoHabbalahrdquo which means Tradition which refers to the Tra-
dition of To Receive and Kabbalah describes this action as ldquoThe tradi-
tion of wishing to receiverdquo This tradition of wishing to receive develops
and grows in four worlds that continuously come together and grow
apart
To Receive the pleasure of money and power this is the
material world
To Receive the pleasure of acknowledgement and hon-
ors this is the conceptual world
To Receive the pleasure of love and affection this is the
world of senses
To Receive the pleasure of the union with the Divinity
which is the spiritual world which is the highest in the pyramid of the
desires because it wraps and raises all the rest
ldquoHe who acknowledges the power of the
Kabbalah and the tradition of to receivehellip
Will search the means to attain its Lightrdquo
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
10
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Kether The Crown
The Sacred Books
Old Testament
New Testament
Koran or Quram
The Zohar
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
11
The Old Testament
The Hebrew has three scriptures The Tanakh or Old Testament
the Talmud or collection of erudite commentaries on the Tanakh and
The Kabbalah or mystic interpretation of the Torah Ancient rabbis
would say that the first of these three books represented the Divine Body
the second one the Divine Spirit and the fourth one the Divine Soul The
average person can benefit from reading and obeying the first book eru-
dite scholars can study the second one but wise people meditate with the
third one
The Tanakh
Old Testament also called The Book of Books is divided in
three parts
The Torah the Law which envelops the first five books
ldquoJumashrdquo(5) in hebrew also called ldquoPentateuchrdquo or the Law of Moses
These are the five books Genesis (Bereshit) Exodus (Shemoth) Leviti-
cus (Vayikra) Numbers (Bamidbar) and Deuteronomy (Devarim) They
cover the period between the Genesis up to Mosesrsquo death on the thresh-
old of the entry into the Promised Land (Canaan)
Nevirsquoim (Prophets) The second part of the Tanakh co-
vers a vast period which goes from the conquest up to the last prophets
These are the books contained therein Joshua (the conquest period)
Judges I and II Samuel I and II Kings and those dedicated to the major
prophets Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel and Daniel and the minor prophets
Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah
Haggai Zecariah and Malachi
Ketuvim (writings) This third part of the Tanakh is
made up of the book of Psalms Proverbs Job Ezra Nehemiah Ruth
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
12
Song of Songs Lamentations (Eichah) Ecclesiastes Esther and Chroni-
cles I and II They cover a vast period that goes from the VII century of
the Common Era up to the Persian period the return to Israel and the
building of the second Temple of Jerusalem
The Talmud
The Halakha-Mishnah-Aggada-Talmud Bavli (of Babylon)-
Yerushalmi (of Jerusalem) is a compilation of the oral tradition transmit-
ted from generation to generation which covers all topics in the Tanakh
including
The Halakha or the Law explains the rules and princi-
ples pronounced in the Torah rules of conduct religious principles and
rituals Covers a wide variety of issues revolving around the individual
the family and living in community The Halakha has ruled life for centu-
ryrsquos right up to the present
The Mishnah which cover the following rules and regu-
lations are six basic sedarim or treaties (singular=seder)
Moed talks about the festivities א
Zeraim (Seeds) deals with labor practices ב
Nezikin deals with relationships within a group ג
Nashim are the family rules ד
Kodoshim deals with sanctity and holiness ה
Tohorot-kosher are Laws of purity ו
The Gemara the oral law with comments and exegetical rabbin-
ic statements has been study material for centuries nourishing philoso-
phy teachings It contains practically every bit of traditional wisdom col-
lected for centuries
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
13
This oral law also contains a vast literary work Haggadah and
Midrashim (legends and comments) on biblical figures of exemplary
conduct
The Kabbalah
The Kabbalah was in ancient literature the totality of the reli-
gious doctrine obtained with the exception of the Pentateuch As of the
X century DC Kabbalah was considered a secret mysterious and theo-
sophical science destined to explain always in a cryptic language the
Creation of the Universe by the Being defined as ldquoOne and Absoluterdquo
Some kabbalists such as Pico Della Mirandola Reuchlin and
Schikard adopt the old tradition according to which Kabbalah develops
from the inspiration that God instilled in Adam Abraham Moses Bud-
dha Jesus Mohammed Bahi and all those that constitute the mystic cir-
cle of the Latter Prophets
Kabbalah is not exclusively Jewish since first Jesus and later
Mohammed were kabbalist scholars
The New Testament
Having taken Jesus as an example as we know it when he was
born there were three religious doctrines in Palestine the Pharisees and
Sadducees of which the Gospels often speak and the Essenes which are
never mentioned Tradition states that the boy Emanuel ben Yoseph was
sent by the erudite doctors of the Law to the community of the Essenes
near the Dead Sea after being heard at the Temple at the age of thirteen
to be educated according to the mystic tradition of Israel The Kabbalah
He stayed with the Essenes until he was thirty years old Emanuel ben
Yoseph or Jesus Christ teaches the continuity of the Hebrew Scriptures
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
14
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the
Prophets I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them I tell you
the truth until heaven and earth disappear not the smallest letter not the
least stroke of a pen will by any means disappear from the Law until
everything is accomplished (Mt 517)
However I admit that I worship the God of our fathers
as a follower of the Way which they call a sect I believe everything that
agrees with the Law and that is written in the Prophetsrdquo (Acts 2414)
Jesus answered It is written Man does not live on
bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God (Mat-
thew 44) referring to Deuteronomy 83 ldquohellipto teach you that man does
not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of
Godrdquo
In the chapter called Tipherzt-Beauty you will find a broader ex-
planation of the Christian Kabbalah and an analysis of the Kabbalistic
Jesus and his apostles
The Koran or Quram
The Koran or Quram is the sacred book of Islam containing the
word of Allah (God) as revealed to Mohammed through the angel Gabri-
el (Gibrail or Yibril)
During his life the Prophet Mohammed received the revelations
either verbally or written on palm leaves pieces of leather or bones etc
Upon the death of Mohammed in the year 632 his followers began to
gather all these revelations which during the period in which Uthman ibn
Affan was Caliph took the shape we know nowadays 114 chapters each
one called surah subdivided into verses or phrases
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
15
For the Muslims the Koran is the eternal and un-created work of
God therefore it was to be transmitted without the slightest change in the
original language the classic Arabic considered a sacred tongue for all
purposes
However in recent times the Koran has been translated to many
languages aimed specially at the believer whose native language is not
Arabic But even so believers are obligated to read it in its original lan-
guage because they claim that the contents of the Koran has not been
modified in centuries and a translation is an interpretation
Mohamed admits the continuity of the Hebrew Scriptures in the
following passages of the Koran
ldquoAnd most certainly We gave Musa (Moses) the Book
and We sent apostles after him one after anotherrdquo (Koran surah 287)
ldquoSurely We revealed the Taurat (Torah) in which was
guidance and light with it the prophets who submitted themselves
(to Allah) judged (matters) for those who were Jewsrdquo (surah 544)
ldquoCertainly We made a covenant with the children of Is-
rael and We sent to them apostlesrdquo (surah 570)
ldquoAnd certainly We gave the Book to Musa so be not in
doubt concerning the receiving of it and we made it a guide for the
children of Israelrdquo (surah 3223)
According to the Koran ldquothe Messiah Isa (Jesus) son of
Marium (Mary) is only an apostle of Allah and word which He
communicated to Marium and a spirit from Himrdquo (surah 4171)
He is a prophet or a servant of Allah (surah 4359) but
not His son(surah 6101)
The Muslims consider him a Messiah (in Arabic
ldquoMasihrdquo very similar to the Hebrew ldquoMashiacuteajrdquo) to them it means an
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
16
elevated prophet (ldquoanointedrdquo) the closest one to Allah before Mo-
hammed
The word Messiah Masih (ldquoanointedrdquo) can be found in
Surahs 345 4157 171-172 517-72-75 930-31 The highest
prophet except for Mohammed
The Islam considers the mystery of the Trinity and in-
carnation an ldquoassociationrdquo and therefore an offense against the
uniqueness of Allah (surah 112)
But not this way the first three sefirot that wrap the symbolism of
the Trinity
Mohammed sensed the Kabbalah in the Koran since Isa (Je-
sus) is the word of Allah and a spirit from Him son of the Holy Spirit
but they do not exactly consider Isa (Jesus) as if he were Allah
And furthermore the Koran affirms that at the end of time when
humanity will be called to judgment by Allah Isa (Jesus) will stand by
Him as witness and part therein (surah 4361) And everyone who did
not believe in him will believe in him (surah 4157)
Those who interpret the Koran affirm that Isa (Jesus) will come
back to this world at the end of time to save Humanity from damnation
and convert it to Allah
The Zohar
The composition of the Kabbalistic doctrine as we know it to-
day it attributed to Rabbi Shimeon ben Yochai in century II He is the
author of the Zohar ldquoThe Book of Splendorrdquo one of the basic texts of
the Kabbalah Shimeon ben Yochai (80-160) was a disciple of Rebbi
Akiva ldquoRashbirdquo (40-137) who had been sentenced to death by the Ro-
mans because he would not acknowledge nor obey the ruling authority of
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
17
Rome nor would he reveal any Kabbalah secrets to them Even though
the Zohar was written by Rabbi Shimeon ben Yochai Rebbi Akiva was
its true inspirer
Adam Kadmon Zohar XVII Century
Rebbi Akiva ben Joseph was born southeast of Judea close to the
Mediterranean shore His father was a humble Jewish peasant who was
not acquainted with the literature of his people nor the traditions he had
never read the Torah nor visited the Temple Due to the precarious eco-
nomic conditions in which there was living the family Akiba none of her
children received formal education in her infancy The reality was that
Akiba ben Joseph I pass your childhood and adolescence as an illiterate
Mediterranean shepherd until a few years later he married with Raacutechel
who convinced it to leave your activity and to study with the big rabbini-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
18
cal teachers Akiba faced many difficulties in your learning That is why
he started learning the alphabet with his 5 year old son and soon was
reading text books in Hebrew he went on to study the Torah at Rabbi
Joseph ben Zakkairsquos renowned Yeshiva (academy) His teachers Eliezer
ben Hyrkanos Joshua ben Hananiah and Nahum of Gimzo became his
best friends because they admired his bright fast and resourceful mind
Fifteen years later at the top of his mental and physical faculties he be-
gan his monumental work the reconstruction of the Law and the estab-
lishment of an academy of permanent studies
At the age of 57 in the year 97 Akiba was already revered by
both by his colleagues and by the masses He visited rabbis and experts
of the Toraacute with the purpose of combining all the Jewish traditions and
then went on to classify them in a legal code divided up logistically The
effective combination of conciseness and precision served as example the
future generations In the centuries following Mishna (codification of
Jewish laws and traditions) it was acknowledged and studied by the rab-
binical authorities
With more than 65 years Rebbi Akiva founded his private Ye-
shiva (academy) in Bene Berak (Sons of Lightning) to the north of Jeru-
salem wanted to found several in the whole Israel for the study of the
Tora and of the Kabbalah
Everything went along smoothly until the year 125 CE when the
relationship between Jews and Romans deteriorated Emperor Hadrianusrsquo
decision to build a pagan sanctuary on Mount Moria (where the old tem-
ple had been) exacerbated spirits Excitement grew within the Jewish
people and led by Shimon bar Kojba they rebelled
In a little less than three years the Roman armies destroyed all
evidence of Jewish resistance The cruelty of the repression grew month
by month and in the year 134 the Romans enacted a drastic decree pro-
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
19
hibiting the practice and study of the Torah Rebbi Akiva was convinced
it was the end If the study of the Torah was abolished his life lacked all
meaning At the age of 95 defying the Roman authority he gathered his
students with the sole purpose to study Kabbalah
A few days later Rebbi Akiva was incarcerated The Romans re-
spected his knowledge reputation and distinguished personality Akiva
continued teaching his disciples from his cell which earned him judg-
ment He was found guilty tortured and sentenced to death With Rebbi
Akiva 24000 of his disciples were killed by the Romans only Rabbi
Simeon bar Yochai and four others survived Before being captured Reb-
bi Akiva and Rabbi Yehuda ben Baba authorized ldquoRashbirdquo to transmit to
future generations the Kabbalah they had taught him
The Zohar or ldquoBook of Splendorrdquo was composed by Simeon bar
Yochai and his son Elazar during the thirteen years they lived in a cave
hiding from the Roman army
ldquoRashbirdquo came out of the cave with the Zohar a flawless meth-
od to study the Kabbalah and having accomplished spirituality Rabbi
Simeon bar Yochai attained the 125 levels a human being can achieve
during his whole life in this world According to the latest investigations
the revelation of the current Kabbalah could be resumed this way
The historic Kabbalah was preceded by a movement (900-1200)
that preserved and encouraged the legacy of the Jewish gnosis
(knowledge of spiritual truth) Later on this movement penetrated Eu-
rope constantly at different stages Hasidism was an important intermedi-
ate stage Furthermore besides all the theoretical and mystical variances
of Kabbalah there was a much older one in which the secret names of
God and the angels were used the same way they are used in white mag-
ic not causing any harm to people Not to be confused with ldquoblack mag-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
20
icrdquo (kishcuf in Hebrew) international current containing elements from
Arabic Jewish and Christian magic
After the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in the year 1492 and
the establishment of a Jewish center in Safed (north of Galilea) Kabba-
lah also experienced a change since two systems flourished the Kabba-
lah of Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (1522-1570) and Kabbalah of Isaac
Luria (1534-1572)
In brief Cordoverorsquos Kabbalah could be defined as a theoretical
variant with many gnostic elements while Luriarsquos Kabbalah would be a
practical mysticism
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
21
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Hokhmah
Wisdom
The Sacred Ideas
Light
The spiritual Will
Tetragramaton
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
22
Light
We all have this sixth sense which we will call spiritual sense
still not awakened in some people When people study Kabbalah they can
learn things that were not available to them before because a sixth sense
is developed in order to envision life and the world from a different point
of view
The sixth sense is also called ldquothe spiritual vaserdquo(kli) this vase
is in all of us and it is ruled by basic kabbalistic concepts
A regular personrsquos spiritual vase is still not adequately א
developed to perceive the spiritual world
When light enters a personrsquos heart or soul it ignites the ב
spiritual perception in that person
Nothing is possible without light When we take the light ג
that surrounds us it will gradually light our path
Even if we donrsquot recognize said light there is a direct ד
connection between our heart and the light that will fill it
The light is destined the surrounding lights stand by ה
waiting for you to prepare your vase to receive them
The light we receive when we give in to the wisdom of ו
self-knowledge attracts a celestial charm which gives us abundance
of sanctity and purity that take us closer to realization
ldquoThe person who studies the Kabbalah Judeo-Christian with
the purpose of self-modification will attain the light and will notice
that the desired improvement and success can be achieved with the
least cost or sufferingrdquo
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
23
The Spiritual Will
The Creator wants us to indulge in spiritual pleasures that we
are full That can only be possible through enormous will perfection We
can only reach the spiritual world through a rectified will which will
make us strong and active Only by means of a passionate desire strong-
ly and dedication we will be able to reach really the spiritual world re-
turning forts and assets A small desire will not damage us very much
nor a lot of good The passionate desire only works from the Divine
stimulus which we it will obtain from the Intuition which is a part of the
Spirit
There is a pyramid of souls based on the will to receive
At the base are the many souls with small earthly wills
searching a comfortable animal like life (food and affection)
The following level with minor number of souls those who
want to acquire richness Those are the people who dedicate their lives to
make money and will sacrifice themselves in exchange for fortune
Next are the ones that would do anything to control others to
govern and reach positions of power
At the highest level are the souls that are seeking spirituality
who are open to the light
Man in turn has the same pyramid within him he must invert it
so that the weight goes to the purest desire or will the infinite will for
spirituality When we truly wish to increase our will for spiritually the
surrounding light (the hidden spiritual world) begins to reflect upon us
increasing the desire for even more If we identify with matter we will
try to obtain satisfaction through it searching outside our spirit for mate-
rial things until these material things no longer satisfy us thus becoming
less materialistic and discovering our true spirit
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
24
Our body is matter matter is energy and therefore has life but it
has no spirit or spiritual energy because it is all material energy dense
energy the spirit is light energy The difference between one and the
other is that the material energy has no conscience because it doesnrsquot
perceive reality that is why we see with our eyes and not our heart our
eyes show us the outer figures of things or people its beauty or ugliness
but we can see what they are like inside Spiritual energy is what gives
us conscience of reality of love of truth That is why when we become
conscious of ourselves we transform our matter into spirit and become
more conscious
Albert Einstein was so right when he said ldquoEnergy cannot be
created nor destroyed it can only be transformedrdquo thus dense (mate-
rial) energy can be transformed into lighter (spiritual) energy again and
again
The biggest change we observe in the souls that are descending
nowadays is mainly in their well defined will to achieve a spiritual sys-
tem Even the most common people without any religious or mystic in-
struction are looking for something beyond this world something spir-
itual furthermore more and more scientists or people into pragmatic pro-
fessions are searching for their spiritual light In the last thirty years the
descent of new souls has been activated and accelerated
Their will is much bigger and more genuine They want to
achieve authentic spiritualityhellip nothing morehellip and nothing less
We will discover that we have no other alternative but to
acknowledge the spiritual world of which we are a part This acknowl-
edgement will take us to a new situation where we will begin to act con-
sciously in unison no longer as isolated individuals All of us from one
generation to another are connected in one soul We share a collective
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
25
responsibility That is why the Kabbalist is considered ldquofounder of the
worldrdquo He affects the whole world and the whole World affects him
The Tetragrammaton
In Kabbalah the concept of Shem or ldquoDivine Namerdquo plays a
first degree role which makes a lot of sense given the importance of eve-
rything related to the Emanations of the Sefirotic Tree the mystery of the
letters and the beauty in words
The meditation about the ldquoName of Godrdquo constitutes one of the
pillars of the initiation path to Kabbalah
The Tetragram or Tetragrammatonhellipfrom the Greek four (tetra)
and letters (grammaton)hellip is the name formed by four consonants one
yod (Y) two he (H) and one vav (V) The combination of these four let-
ters spell YHVH the ldquoHoly Namerdquo or Yahavah (as literally read) which
in Kabbalah is called Shem Herman Forash ldquocomplete namerdquo or the
ldquoexplicit namerdquo
Said ldquoSacred Namerdquo is usually transcribed as Jehovah or Yah-
veh nevertheless such description is no more than a hypothetical and
approximate restoration Therefore the word YHVH in which all mys-
teries and the savior power communicated by God are contained has
been designated by tradition as the ldquolost wordrdquo
The ldquocomplete or whole namerdquo was replaced by others also at-
tributed by the Bible as Yahveh such as Adonai El Shaddai or Elohim
Sometimes the four letter name is substituted by half of the Tetra-
grammaton the so-called ldquotwo letter Namerdquo HY or ldquoHaimrdquo interpreted
or translated as LIFE
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
26
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Binah Intelligence
The Tree of Life
Creation
The Tree of Life
The Columns
Tree Sefirot and Letters
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
27
Creation
An example of the depth in the interpretation of the Bible offered
by the kabbalistic doctrine is its version of the biblical narration of the
Creation as contained in the Book of ldquoGenesisrdquo usually considered a na-
ive and childish story to explain a process that modern science has
demonstrated to be much more complex In regard to said mythical-
symbolic narration similar to many others contained in other spiritual
traditions in humanity the kabbalistic doctrine makes two basic observa-
tions of major importance
1 According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the biblical crea-
tion is the process through which the universal manifestation takes place
It is a logical process its place is in the Divine world and it gives form to
the Divinity In it the Supreme Being is determined and revealed as such
going from the Nothing to the Whole The Everything
It is not ldquoGodrsquos Creationrdquo but
ldquoThe Creation in Godrdquo
In this process the Creation of the Cosmos is only a consequence
which just like the latter takes place not sooner nor later but in a con-
tinuous and uninterrupted way in an instant beyond time in the ldquoeternal
nowrdquo
2 The six days of the Creation identify with the creative sefirot
from the fourth one (Hesed) to the ninth one (Yesod) referring to the
specific action or purpose of each one of them while the seventh day
Shabbath in which God rested relates to the tenth sefirot (Malkuth) All
of this is contained in the initial words of the ldquoGenesisrdquo Book ldquoIn the
beginning God created the heavens and the earthrdquo (according to the
common interpretation Authorized Version)
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28
The key words here are the first three if we want an exact under-
standing of them we must turn to the Hebrew text
ldquoBereshit Bara Elohim
Bereshit means ldquoin the beginningrdquo which according to the Kab-
balistic interpretation it does no refer to a beginning in time but a logical
beginning it is what proceeds not in time but in hierarchy (rank)
and function This principle is Hokhmah the second sefirath
This text should be interpreted this way
ldquoIn the intelligent and intelligible
Beginning which is the Divine Wisdomrdquo
The second word of this quote is Bara ldquocreatedrdquo It is a verb of
action without a subject it doesnrsquot say who created That action has no
subject because the ldquowhordquo of which it speaks is the sefirath Kether ldquothe
Crownrdquo which goes beyond anything personal since in it the ldquoNothingrdquo
of the Supra Being or Absolute
As far as the third word is concerned Elohim we must indicate
that besides not being the subject of the sentence it is in its plural for
literally meaning ldquogodsrdquo
The kabbalistic exegesis (explanation) identifies this Elohim
with the third sefirath Binah the Intelligencerdquo which contains and de-
signs within itself the seven sefirot of the cosmic composition the six
active ones and the receptive one which is the receptacle for the rest of
them (Malkuth the tenth sefirot)
This is why the interpretation to which we are used ldquoGod creat-
edrdquo is not exact A more accurate interpretation of the original hebrew
text would be ldquoThe Nothing created godsrdquo that is it created or profiled
the qualities or aspects of the Divine Reality of which afterwards -not in
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
29
a time order but in an order of principles a cosmic order arises the Crea-
tion or universal manifestation
Therefore here is the message contained in the initial verse of
the ldquoGenesisrdquo according to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah
ldquoThe Supra Being constitutes Itself eternally the causal Being
and the object or purpose of all things in which all qualities poss i-
bilities and forms of the created and uncreated reality are presentrdquo
The Sefirotic Tree and the four worlds
And the twenty-two paths that unite the
Crown (Kether) with the Kingdom (Malkuth)
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
Binah
Geburah
Hod
Yesod
Malkuth
Tipherzt
Neshah
Hesed
Hok-mah
Kether
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30
The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life is the Divine Architecture which symbolizes the
soul of man and the Universe and as He is divided into four levels known
as the four inner Worlds
In the Ideal World - Atziluth is where everything is
in a latent potential state
In the Creative World - Briah is where the pure
power and the ideas in their shapes are
In the Formative World - Yetsirah everything is in
a conceptual process or one or formation
In the Material World - Assiah is where the physi-
cal manifestation takes place
This tree consists of 10 fixed spheres and a ldquovirtualrdquo one and 22
paths that connect them In a very broad sense we can say that the
spheres or Sefirot are stages of the emanations of the Spirit of God
from the primordial existence to the physical manifestation
ldquoThey are inexhaustible centers of powerrdquo
The model of the Tree of Life mirror and synthesis of man and
the cosmos is divided in three columns or pillars this traditional division
in three columns is in close connection with the alchemical or magic
principles which were discovered by the kabbalists of the 12th
century
and have been present to this day and always will be
The whole manifestation is based on duality this duality is rep-
resented in the tree the three Sefirot to the right form the active pillar
masculine and the three Sefirot to the left form the passive pillar femi-
nine
The duality is also present in each Sefirath The only Unit is
found in the Non-Manifested which is above the Tree
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
31
The Non-Manifested is the pure state of the In-Existence from
where Existence arises which is the first Sefirath the Sefirot in the cen-
ter form the middle or balance pillar
Therefore we observe that one of the columns is active-
masculine another one is passive-feminine and the third one or central
axis equidistant from both of them is neuter and is constantly combining
and harmonizing them both
Power corresponds to the Active energy column integrated by the
following Sefirot Hokhmah (2) Hesed (4) and Neshah (7) Form or
shape corresponds to the passive energy columns which is made up of
the following Sefirot Binah (3) Geburah (5) and Hod (8) The central
or axle column or pillar integrated by Kether (1) Tipherzt (6) Yesod
(9) and Malkuth (10) is neuter and eternally assimilating the opposites
thus creating new possibilities of indefinite developments It is called the
column or pillar of equilibrium or balance
This is the image of permanent order of the Creation It is the
idea upon which all sciences are based and which are called ldquoThesis An-
tithesis and Synthesisrdquo techno science and modern physics have ldquodis-
coveredrdquo formations similar to that of the Tree of Life in the universe
around us such as the quantum structure or the DNA map of all living
things (vegetables animals humans) This proves that the Tree of Life
rules all norms of matter and spirit from the beginning of time
Kabbalah teaches us that energies run through the Tree of Life
from the Unity Kether identified with the number one up to the formal
and substantial manifestation the world and matter just as we know
them and perceive them through our senses This flow of energies or
vibrations is called emanations and they make up any manifestation
The energies of the Sefirot ndash all of the invisible except for
Malkuth which resumes and contains the whole Tree ndash travel a continu-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
32
Binah
Geburah
Hod
Yesod
Malkuth
Tipherzt
Neshah
Hesed
Hokmah
Kether
Leb
ous descending path from (1) Kether down to Earth or the World
Malkuth (10) which is an inverted image of Kether (10=1+0=1) The
rest of the Sefirot or numerals are taken as intermediaries between mani-
festation and the lack of it
The columns of the Tree of Life
Passive Column Neuter Column Active Column
Feminine Form Central Equilibrium Mascu-
line Power
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
33
Tree Sefirot and letters
According to the Pentateuch Moses went to the top of Mount
Sinai and surrounded by fantastic clouds received the Ten Command-
ments God gave him On the other hand Kabbalist affirm that Moses
also received from Heaven besides the Commandments the most pro-
found and secret knowledge to be transmitted only to those truly worthy
of it Going even further back in time some say they can see in the Kab-
balah the mysterious instructions given to Adam in his sleep which per-
mitted him to give a name to everything within the Creation meaning
that Kabbalah is the philosophy of the infinite power of the word the
sound that God gave man in his image calling everything by its name
This search for the practical use of the word is good for reading
the future as well as for really manipulating the secret vibrating energies
for useful purposes or according to the legend to create beings the go-
lems which make up the active aspect of the Kabbalah
On the other hand this also entails a speculative aspect a mysti-
cism aimed at discovering through the interpretation of the Scriptures
and meditation on the sound and the name the diagram of the Universe
and the destiny of man
Ein Sof (the infinite the ineffable) affirms itself revealing itself
to humanity it becomes Shekinah (Godrsquos presence and its feminine side)
which has the responsibility of creation its product
Creation is the result of a progressive descent of the divine
(which never loses its own unity nor its transcendence) in a pure and in-
telligent series associated to the divine until it takes over matter
Thus the cosmos is structured like an immense organism a
drawn path in which all divine intelligence (sefirah plural sefirot) is
communicated with the preceding one from which it receives and with
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
34
the next one to which it gives until the final stage contact with our
world
The ten sefirot all connected by imposed paths denoting their in-
terdependence and represented by a symbolic structure of a tree or a man
(Adam Kadmon) follow an order
Kether Crown - 1 א
Hokhmah Wisdom - 2 ב
Binah Intelligence - 3 ג
Leb Heart
Hesed Greatness - 4 ד
Geburah Justice - 5 ה
Tipherzt Beauty - 6 ו
Neshah Stability - 7 ז
Hod Glory - 8 ח
Yesod Foundation - 9 ט
Malkuth Kingdom - 10 י
The admirable and complex organization of the Sefirotic Tree
with its 22 paths which connect the ten divine emanations permit us to
see right away the close connection there is between the sefirot and the
22 letters in the hebrew alphabet the 22 images of the Tarot and the 22
astrological signs (12 signs and 10 planets)
Since God created the world pronouncing the name of things
each letter is associated to the descent of the divine intelligences and
holds within itself an infinite power
The hebrew language is just like Arabic Egyptian Sanscrit or
Chinese a liturgical language full of the voices of thousand of men who
speak with the divinity therefore to pronounce one sound instead of an-
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
35
other is like changing or modifying creation itself based on a subtle vi-
brating equilibrium Within that same chain of ideas prayer by principle
a devout plea also becomes an active and energetic system that shakes
up the intermediate spheres between man and God holder of the cosmic
order
Kabbalah whether is aimed exclusively at theoretic speculation
or it proposes practical and precise goals like the making of talismans
(from the Arabic tilsam ndash a charm to avert evil and bring good fortune it
appeals to specific instruments based of calculus and numbers
Ad- am
Kadmon Zohar XVII Century
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
36
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
Hesed Greatness
Adam Kadmon
And The Sefirot
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
37
Adam Kadmon
Adam Kadmon (Primordial Man) is described by the Zohar as a
ldquobig and powerful tree with branches reaching up to the sky source of
all spiritual lightrdquo In this sefirotic and tree shaped human figure the dif-
ferent sefirot have been placed according to the parts of the human body
to which they relate Each one of them has a very particular mystical
value in the cosmic vision
The first three sefirot correspond symbolically to the head
Kether (the Crown) placed at the top or what the kabbalistic
doctrine calls the ldquohidden brainrdquo Hokhmah (Wisdom) and Binah (In-
telligence) relate to the right and left sides of the brain respectively or
also the right and left eye The two sefirot at mid level Hesed (Great-
ness) and Geburah (Justice) are identified with both arms ldquoGreatnessrdquo
the right one and ldquoJusticerdquo the left one The two central sefirot Leb (the
Heart) which is Virtual that is why it is not represented and Tipherzt
(Beauty) identified with the navel energetic center source of connection
to the mother and nucleus or sun of the body Tipherzt embodies com-
pleteness union and harmony The two sefirot of the inner level Neshah
(Stability) and Hod (Glory) represent both legs ldquoStabilityrdquo the right
thigh and ldquoGloryrdquo the left one Yesod (Foundation) another central
sefirah found between both thighs represents the genitalia the tools and
foundation for procreation Sefirah number ten the last one is Malkuth
(the Kingdom) from which the cosmic manifestation springs and is in
permanent contact with Earth it is related to both feet always in contact
with the ground This sefirah connecting all this to man the Sefirotic
Tree proves that everything in the human being can be spiritualized
Man must achieve in his own being that harmoniously elevated
unity that the figure in the divine Tree of Life and Light shows us
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
38
In order to be an authentic ldquoTree of Liferdquo man must discover and
update that sefirotic mystery that is within him as if it were a treasure
full of light waiting to be found
The Sefirot
Kether ndash The Crown - The first sefirah is the Admirable Intelligence
it is the light that gives the power of understanding the First Principle
which has no beginning It is the one and only reality the absolute mys-
tery the essence from which the rest of the sefirot emanate Related to
Crown Knowledge Principle Essence and Light
Hokhmah ndash Wisdom- The second sefirah is the Enlightening Intelli-
gence the Wisdom through which the Deity knows Itself and allows eve-
ry Being to know the unity within itself It is the symbolism of the pure
and eternal fire a place in heaven where the archangels angels
Related to Wisdom Experience Convergence Intuition
Binah ndash Intelligence - The third sefirah is the Sanctifying Intelligence
it is the Great Mother or Holy Universal Spirit matrix of all the worlds
and beings shaping them to return them again to the One
Idea Intelligence Awareness Protection Morale Divergence
(discrepancyvariance)
These first three sefirot are really only one
Kether is Knowledge
Hokhmah is the subject that knows (active)
Binah is the known object (passive)
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
39
In these three sefirot the Judeo-Christian Kaballistic dotrine
discovers the endowments of the Holy Trinity
Kether or God the Father
Hokhmah or God the Son (active on the right side)
Binah or God the Mother or Holy Spirit (passive)
ldquoThe all emanations of God the Father and Son and Holy
Spirit is only one Beingrdquo
Hesed ndash Greatness - The fourth sefirah is the Receptive Intelligence it
contains all the holy powers and all the spiritual virtues emanate from it
such as Greatness Love and Mercy Related to Greatness Love Hum-
bleness Strength Deliverance
Geburah ndash Justice - The fifth sefirah is the Righteous Intelligence
which contains all the spiritual mandates It is the Divine Justice Relat-
ed to Justice Truth Freedom Shape Control
Tipherzt ndash Beauty - The sixth sefirah is the Intelligence Provider of
Spiritual Nouishment Ii is the Divine Beauty that entwines all the other
sefirot It is the Center of centers it clearly relates to the Sun giver of
life light and warmth Related to Beauty Serenity Sweetness Trust
Family
Neshah ndash Stability - The seventh sefirah is the Occult Intelligence it is
the bright Splendor of the intellectual virtues perceived by the eyes of the
intellect It is the energy that produces all the worlds Related to Sta-
bility Power Victory Balance Pleasures
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
40
Hod ndash Glory - The eighth sefirah is the Absolute or Perfect Intelli-
gence which has no support or base and descends from Geburah from
which it receives its Expertise Related to Glory Acknowledgement
Learning Awakening
Yesod ndash Foundation - The ninth sefirah is the Pure Intelligence because
it purifies tries corrects and centralizes the emanations It is the founda-
tion that balances the all previous Sephiroth Related to Founding
Building Childhood Filtering
Malkuth ndash The Kingdom - The tenth sefirah is Glowing Intelligence It
is the Kingdom of Heaven or Kingdom on Earth the descent of Kether
upon the material world represents the Divine Omnipresence over
things Related to The Kingdom Earth Heaven and Real World
Each one of these sefirot has a hidden face and a visible one
Every sefirah a complete Sefirotic Tree can be found and in every
sefirah in that Tree another one and so on until the smallest infiniteness
And vice-versa every Tree no matter how big we imagine it is only a
sefirah of a bigger Tree which in turn is another sefirah of an even big-
ger one to the infinite as well
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
41
Kabbalah
Judeo Christian
Geburah Justice
The letters and numbers
The Letters of Kabbalah
Gematriacutea Table
Gematriacutea or Numerology
The Meaning of the Hebrew Letters
Angels of Kabbalah
Geniuses of Kabbalah
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
42
The Letters of Kabbalah
The formulas in the medieval books on magic are so full of He-
brew names to speak of God the angels the spirits and demons that at
this point it is impossible to pinpoint the inexactness and the abuse The
Hebrew language like other former language has magicrsquos powers
Sound is a vibration found in numbers Numbers are groups of geometric
relations of spaces that activate energy
Each letter in the hebrew alphabet corresponds exactly just as in
an ldquoencoded languagerdquo to a number because the Hebrews Greeks and
Arabs used for many centuries the same graphic sign for a sound or
amount until the Indians and the Arabs introduced their ldquonumbersrdquo the
ldquozerordquo was invented in the IV century and the Arabs and Hebrews began
to use it in the VII century with the name ldquoceferrdquo which means devoid
empty vacuum From it derived zero and cipher
It was Leonardo Fibonacci (1170-1240) an Italian mathemati-
cian the first one to write a book in 1202 Liber Abaci (Book of Calcula-
tion) on Arabic numbers in occident and began to replace the Roman
numbers It was not until the year 1500 that they were completely re-
placed
This means that it is not Kabbalah that replaces letters with num-
bers historically the letters ldquowererdquo numbers since these were enforced in
the western culture five hundred years ago If we accept this concept we
will not regard numerology or gematriacutea of the Hebrew letters as some-
thing new or capricious but as a historical reality
For those who do not read Hebrew writing there is another meth-
od called transcription It is no easy task to transcribe from a holy lan-
guage to one that is not
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
43
A kabballistic practice suggests that as long as the hebrew lan-
guage is not completely unknown to replace each number in a date with
its corresponding letter bearing in mind that the Jewish calendar starts
with the year of the creation which took place 3760 years before the
birth of Jesus when the western calendar begins counting
Thus the year 1989 becomes 5749 which translated to Hebrew
letters gives us Tau Shin Mem Chefh which add up to Tismach mean-
ing ldquoyou will be overjoyedrdquo and that was the year the Berlin wall came
down In the same way 1914 the start of World War I becomes Tau
Resch Ayin Daleth which add up to Tirtzach ldquoYou will killrdquo and for
1938 start of World War II Tirrsquoad ldquoYou will tremble in terrorrdquo
Table of Gematriacutea of Hebrew Letters
Letter
Name Absolute
Value
Ordinal
Value
Reduced
Value
Latin
Alphabet
Alefh 1 1 1 A-H
Beth 2 2 2 B
Guimel 3 3 3 G
Daleth 4 4 4 D
Hei 5 5 5 H-E-A
Vav 6 6 6 V-U-Y
Zain 7 7 7 Z
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
44
Heth 8 8 8 Y-J
Thet 9 9 9 TH
YodJod 10 10 1 Y-I
KafJaf 20 11 2 K-C
Lamed 30 12 3 L
Mem 40 13 4 M
Nun 50 14 5 N
Samej 60 15 6 S
Ayn 70 16 7 O-E
PehFeh 80 17 8 P-F
Tzadik 90 18 9 T-Z-X
Kuof 100 19 1 K-Q
Reish 200 20 2 R
Shin 300 21 3 S-SH
TafTau 400 22 4 T
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
45
Gematriacutea or Hebrew Numerology
As we said earlier in the Hebrew language each letter has a nu-
merical value Gematriacutea is the calculation of the numerical value of let-
ters words or phrases to obtain a better understanding of the relation be-
tween the different concepts and to explore the relation between words
and ideas
In this technique it is assumed that the numerical equivalency is
no coincidence From the moment the world was created through the
Creatorrsquos ldquowordrdquo each letter represents a different creative power
Therefore the numerical equivalence of two words reveals an inner con-
nection between its potential creators
There are four ways to calculate the equivalency of individual
letters and each way corresponds to a different world in the Tree of Life
The Zohar tells us that the concept of reduced value is related to
the spiritual world of Yetsirah Based on this we can establish a relation
between the four methods of calculation the four spiritual kingdoms and
the four letters of the name of the Divine which are YHVH or in He-
brew Yod Hei Vav and Hei
The Absolute Value of Yod itrsquos to the world of Atziluth
The Ordinal Value of Hei itrsquos to the world of Briah
The Reduced Value of Vav itrsquos to the world of Yetsirah
The Whole Value of Hei itrsquos to the world of Assiah
ldquoAbsolute value (in Hebrew mispar hejrajiacute) also known as
normative or normal Valuerdquo
Each letter takes the value of its accepted numeral equivalent
alef (the first letter) worth 1 bet (second one) worth 2 and so on up to
the tenth letter iud which is worth 10 and the following ones are worth
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
46
20 30 40 up to the letter kuf close to the end of the alef-bet which is
worth 100 and then 200 300 up to the last letter tav which is worth 400
In this type of calculation the letters kafjaf sofit (sofit=end)
mem sofit nun sofit pehfeh sofit and tzadik sofit which are the ldquofinal
shapesrdquo of the respective letters when they are at the end of a word usu-
ally take the same numeric value of the common shape of the letter
Nonetheless sometimes the following are considered equivalents kafjaf
sofit = 500 mem sofit = 600 nun sofit = 700 pehfeh sofit = 800 y tza-
dik sofit = 900
Following this method of calculation the Hebrew alphabet is a
complete circle the tzadik at the end is equal to 900 and then alef is
equal to one and one thousand In the Hebrew language the same letters
are used to write the name of the letter alef equal to one and to write the
word elef which means ldquothousandrdquo
ldquoOne the first number follows one thousand
in a complete and perfect circlerdquo
Ordinal Value (in hebrew mispar siduriacute) It assigns to each
one of the 22 letters a numerical equivalent according to the order in
which they appear in the alef-bet For example alef equals 1 kaf = 11
taf = 22 The final kaf is 23 and the final tzadik is 27
Reduced Value (en hebrew mispar kataacuten and in mathemati-
cal terminology the module 9) The value of each letter is reduced to
one digit For example alef is equal to 1 iud to 10 and kuf to 100 but
according to this system all three have a numerical value of one beit is
equal to 2 kaf to 20 and reish to 200 therefore all three are equal to 2
etc Therefore letters have only 9 equivalencies instead of twenty-two
Integral Value (in hebrew mispar mispariacute) This is the fourth
way to calculate In this fashion the total numeric value of a word is re-
duced to one digit If the sum of these numbers exceeds 9 the numbers
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
47
in the total figure are added until a single digit is obtained The same
result will be obtained whether you take the absolute the ordinal or the
reduced values
The meaning of the Hebrew Letters
Alefh Represents the Divine Presence It is the symbol of
the absolute and unique faith in only one Creator and Lord It is pro-
nounced ah-left which derives from the word Alufh which means prince
minister or chief It is made up of two dots which are two iod (the tenth
letter of the alphabet) and a slanted vav (sixth letter) If we add the two
iod (20) and the one vav (6) we get 26 which is equal to the sum of the
letters YHVH Yod (10) Hei(5) Vav(6) Hei(5) of the name of the
Creator
Beth The Torah begins with this second letter ldquoBereshitrdquo
(In the Beginning) This is because it represents and symbolizes the
Berehia (Creation) and the Berajaacute (Blessing) The purpose of Creation is
to give abundance to the human being Its value is two It represents and
shows us that there is nothing in this world totally complete and indivisi-
ble Everything can be parted in two Only God is unique and indivisible
Guimel This letter is close to the root of the word Bra
keep complete and give That is why it is used in ldquoGuemilut Hasadimrdquo
to do favors Guimel represents the third column on which the world
rests it is the giver or favor doer spirit and also proof that God constantly
helps and favors the human being and His whole Creation Its value is
three
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
48
Daleth When we pronounce this fourth letter we find a
great closeness to the word deleth (door) The letter Daleth relates to the
word ldquodalhrdquo poor going from door to door seeking food Daleth follows
Guimel creating a unified thought to help the poor Its value (4) reminds
us of the material world because poverty can be found everywhere in our
planet
Hei The Talmud says God created the world with two
letters that represent His Name ldquoYod and Heirdquo With the first one He
created the world to come and with the second one this world Its shape
is made up of two parts a dalet and an iod Daleth has a vertical line
and a horizontal line It represents this world where everything has a
body and occupies space The iod which is just a dot represents the in-
finite world where there are no physical laws Meaning that in this
world too the spiritual Divine component is present
Vav Its value six represents something complete and
finished The world was created completely in six days Every complete
and closed object has six sides top bottom right left front and back
The letter vav is used to unite phrases concepts objects similar ldquoandrdquo
Vav is therefore union Except for some exceptions all paragraphs in the
Bible as written in the scrolls begin with Vav The written Torah (5
books) + ldquovavrdquo (Kabbalah) The oral Torah (6 books)
Zain It represents the seven spiritual values which are
the object of this world Zan means ldquonourishmentrdquo and Zain means ldquoar-
mamentrdquo Its shape is similar to that of a sword Its shows us that man
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
49
must confront and overcome adversity many times in order to obtain his
nourishment
Heth Just as Zain represents manrsquos purpose on earth Heth
with the value of eight represents manrsquos possibility to cross the limits
imposed by the earth Seven is nature eight are the values and goals
which represent what is above nature It also connects to the letter Haim
which means life The top part of the heth has an arrow pointing up-
wards meaning that life always belongs to God and everything depends
on Him
Thet This letter is first written in the Torah in the word
Tov (good) Each one of the days of the Creation was crowned with
qualifying phrase ldquoAnd God saw that it was goodrdquo Thet is synonym of
the relationship of God towards man which is always good even though
we donrsquot always see it that way Goodness or Kindness is a Divine quali-
ty and it should be emulated The most exquisite act of kindness is to
help our neighbor without causing him embarrassment
Iod Its size earns it the category of the smallest and most
indivisible letter not like the rest which are made up of different parts
and that is why it represents the Almighty in His condition of Unique and
Indivisible Its shape according to the Zohar has a point facing up to-
wards God another one facing down towards earth and the central point
which unites both That is why when a person prays the heart faces up
and the eyes down in humbleness in front on God Its value Ten is very
representative of the whole Torah Ten generations from Adam to Noah
and another ten from Noah to Abraham the Patriarch Ten are the Divine
Commandments given to Moses and ten are the sefirot The number ten
is actually ONE
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
50
Kaf It symbolizes Kether the crown (written in Hebrew
with kaf) as the Talmud says ldquoGod will place the Kether on he who
helps his neighbor the way he should and according to his possibilitiesrdquo
Its shape (curved) has a relation to its name which represents the hum-
bleness that the person who carries the crown should have
Lamed Its shape is made up of a kaf and a vav together
they add up to 26 like the Divine Name Its name lamed is the root of
the verbs to teach and to learn The name Israel begins with iod the
smallest letter and ends with lamed the biggest one The Torah begins
with bet and ends with lamed together they spell the word led (heart)
the fundamental basis to find light and accomplish precepts
Mem This letter has two aspects one known as the open
mem it is used in the beginning and middle of a word indicating that
there are points which refer to God Almightyrsquos doing which are within
our comprehension and a closed mem which is only used at the end of
words indicating the occult and incomprehensible part Moshe and
Mashiacuteaj begin with mem Its value is 40 the necessary time period for
the concretion of different stages
The fetus needs 40 days to have a complete form
The Great Flood lasted 40 days and 40 nights
Moses was up at Mount Sinai 40 days and 40 nights
The Jewish people walked for 40 years in the desert
It is at the age of 40 that a person is considered to have
reached wisdom
Nun This letter also has two shapes one for any part of the
word with a curved shape and the other straight for the endings of
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
51
words Both indicate the exclusive quality of God who is Neeman
which means loyal to His word and worthy of trust This word restarts
with a Nun and ends with another
Samej This letter represents the concept of the Divine
support (Semej in Hebrew) Godrsquos support towards man as well as manrsquos
support towards God The certainty of God is the foundation of faith and
the base upon which the human being can search and reach for its goal in
this world
Ayn in Hebrew it means ldquoeyerdquo Its shape is made up two
parts an Yod leaning against a Zain Reclining both on the base the nu-
meric value of both parts is 17 just like the word Tob (good) This indi-
cates that the ayn (eye) has to be used to observe only the good things
Its value is 70
70 are the names of the Almighty and the Torah
70 are the basic people (towns) in the world
70 are the holidays in a year (52 Saturdays 18 holy
days)
Jesus sent out 70 disciples to evangelize
The Great Temple of Jerusalem had 70 columns
70 old wise men received the Torah from Moses they
are called ldquothe eyes of the congregationrdquo the symbol of the ayn (eye)
precisely
Peh it means ldquomouthrdquo in Hebrew It is through this ex-
quisite sense that the human being differentiates and raises itself over the
rest of the creation There are two peh one for any part of the word and
the other for the endings The first one is said to be closed and its shape
symbolizes the fetus in the motherrsquos womb (fetal position) with its mouth
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52
closed The other open resembles the newborn babe stretching its limbs
It also reminds us of the control we should have over it sometimes
closed and others open when to speak and when not to
Tzadik The 18th letter The Talmud names the Tzadik per-
son the just person The title of ldquoTzadikrdquo is not given to just anybody It
is written that God is Tzadik and Perfect This quality of Tzadik when it
comes to God is manifested through kindness Those people who go
about and act according to the divine will are said to be ldquoTzadikrdquo They
are fair just and kind to the maximum of their possibilities
Kuof This letter shows us and symbolizes the Divine
Sanctity Kadosh God is Holy Man can also be called kuof if he is supe-
rior rising above the others The shape of kuof is made up of a kaf and a
vav which add up to 26 just as the four letter name for God Kuof is
very similar to kof which means ldquomonkeyrdquo The Zohar calls monkeys
those human beings who do not believe in the divine will and do not dig-
nify being created in Godrsquos image According to Kabbalah the road is
open for man he can be holy and thus get close to God or walk away
from Him and become a monkey
Reish Up until now we saw how the letters show us and
represent the Divine Presence On the contrary reish represents and
symbolizes Evil ldquoRashardquo in Hebrew Reish follows kuof which repre-
sents the Divine Sanctity The word ldquoroshrdquo (first beginning or head) in
Aramaic is pronounced ldquoreishrdquo just like the letter Midrash tells us the
Almighty is ldquoRoshrdquo since he is the beginning and head of the world and
its end as well Evil does not exist what we judge as bad is only a part of
the Divine Plan and we do not know and therefore cannot understand
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53
Shin this letter has an important place since shalom
(peace) begins with it Only God is the source and root of true peace Its
shape with three arms and three heads represents the wish of all of us to
rise to heaven lifting our hands to receive His help It also encompasses
the symbolism of something that has three limbs but only one purpose
We live in three worlds past present and future
The human being has a spirit a soul and a body
The human creation has three partners
Kether Binah and Hokhmah or the Holy
Trinity
Taf unlike the other letters which we have seen through
analysis and symbology that each represented a word being the first eg
Shin Shalom (peace) Sheker (lie) the symbol for taf is given by the last
letter in the word ldquoEmetrdquo (truth) This is exactly the general characteris-
tic of truth at first the lie seems more interesting Truth is appreciated in
the end Truth involves everything since its letters are one in the begin-
ning the other one in the middle and the third one at the end
The Angels of Kabbalah
The etymological meaning of the word angel is messenger from
the Greek ldquoAggeloacutesrdquo ldquoAngirasrdquo in Sanskrit in Persian ldquoAngarosrdquo in
Hebrew and Arabic ldquoMalakhrdquo and ldquoDevardquo for the Hindus
Doubts about their existence disappear before the coincidences
amongst cultures and diverse beliefs that describe them
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54
Angels constantly remind us who we are due to the message that
is attributed to them For us their place is the same as that of God they
are above us and within us
To come in contact with them could take us to doubt if we did so
with a superior reality or with the highest part of ourselves
The mythical history of Kabbalah tells us that after man was
driven out of the Garden of Eden the angels transmitted the kabballistic
teachings to man so that he could reconquer it through the never ending
divine energy which is present everywhere in the Universe
The 72 Angeles of Kabbalah
Seraphim
Vehuiah ndash Elemiah ndash Jeliel ndash Lelahel
Sitael ndash Achaiah ndash Mahasiah ndash Cahethel
Cherubim
Haziel ndash Aladiah ndash Lauviah ndash Hahaiah
Iezalel ndash Mebael ndash Hariel ndash He Kamiah
Thrones (also known as Ophanim)
Lauviah ndash Caliel ndash Lauviah ndash Pahaliah
Nelkhael ndash Yeiaiel ndash Melahel ndash Haheuiah
Dominions (or Kyriotetes)
Nith ndashHahaiah ndash Yerathel ndash Sheikh
Reiyel ndash Omael ndash Lecabel ndash Vasariah
Powers
Vehuiah ndash Lehahiah ndash Chavakiah ndash Menadel
Aniel ndash Haamiah ndash Rehael ndash Ieiazel
Virtues
Hahahel ndash Mikael ndash Veuliah ndash Ylahiah
Sealiah ndashAriel ndash Asaliah ndash Mihael
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55
Principalities
Vehuel ndash Daniel ndash Hahasiah ndash Imamiah
Nanael ndash Nithael ndash Mebahiah ndash Poyel
Archangels
Nemamiah ndash Yeialel ndash Aacuterale ndash Mitzrael
Umabel ndash Iah ndashAnauel ndash Mehiel
Angels
Damabiah ndash Manakel ndash Eyael ndash Habuhiah
Rochel ndash Yabamiah ndash Haiayel ndash Mum
Geniuses of Kabbalah
Air ndash Earth ndash Water - Fire
The first three verses of the Torah are revealing in regard to the
Divine Creation In the morning of the first day God created the four
geniuses or semi-gods to help Him directly preparing the platform for
the coming of man
Genesis 11 ndash
ldquoIn the beginning God created heaven and earthrdquo
Genesis 12 ndash
ldquohellipthe Spirit of God was hovering over the watersrdquo
Genesis 13 ndash
Let there be light and there was light
Nothing would exist in the Universe without the four geniuses
or elements only God and with the creation of these geniuses He
proves to us that He does not want to be alone but surrounded by
vegetation animals and specially the HUMAN BEING
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56
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Tipherzt
Beauty
Christian Kabbalah
Jesus and the Kabbalah
The Sacred Books
The Apostle Matthew
The Sermon on the Mountain
(The Beatitudes)
The Our Father
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57
Jesus and the Kabbalah
Up until now we have analyzed the Bible from the Tanaj and the
Talmud we have also taken the Torah as the foundation of Kabbalah
The New Testament has an important kabballistic content provided by
Jesus and his apostles
Emmanuel ben Yoseph known as Jesus Christ lived between
the ages of thirteen and thirty-three with the Essenes Fraternity of the
Dead Sea where he learned the secrets of the Kabbalah that his Father
had given to mankind and because of his illumination he was declared
Master of Justice
In the New Testament the four evangelists analyzed Jesus from
the four kabballistic worlds which are completely separated and diffeent
Matthew describes a physical Jesus generations that preceded
him and his relationship with the people of Israel
This is the World of Assiah
Luke tells the story of Jesus intimate life he describes moving
images of the Master along his pathway
This is the World of Yetsirah
Mark talks to us of a miraculous Jesus with a Divine mag-
netism and its soul healing rays
This is the World of Briah
John gave us the gospel of a metaphysical Jesus the abstract
spirit and visions of an astral world
This is the World of Atziluth
The Kabbalah develops its doctrine in the light that invades us
and emanates from our bodies because we are part of it
Jesus in John 812 says I am the light of the world Those who
follow me will never walk in darkness They will have the light that leads
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58
to life and in Ephesians 58 he confirms ldquoAt one time you were in the
dark But now you are in the light because of what the Lord has donerdquo
When Matthew in verse 223 says ldquohellipand came and lived in a
city called Nazarethrdquo This was to fulfill what was spoken through the
prophets He shall be called a Nazarene he explains that Jesus had to
be a Nazarene that is he had to wear the Crown or Kether according to
what God told Moses in the oral or kabballistic precepts In Numbers 66-
7 it is said ldquothroughout the period of their dedication to the LORD the
Nazirite must not go near a dead body Even if their own father or
motherrdquo
In Matthew 822 Jesus stresses this precept saying ldquohelliplet the
dead bury their own dead
According to the Kabballists the Torah is fountain of wine and
milk In Isaiah 551 we read hellip and he who has no money come buy
wine and milk without money without pricehelliprdquo In many quotes Jesus
mentions the wine as his spiritual blood Peter 22 ldquohellipLike newborn ba-
bies crave pure spiritual milk so that by it you may grow up in your sal-
vationhelliprdquo
The Old and New Testament
The Old Testament or Tanaj is made up of 39 books and the New
Testament 29 a total of 66 books As we all know there is no such thing
as luck it is the message of God that we still cannot decipher If we ana-
lyze that message through kabballistic numerology we will decipher it
and be surprised
According to the kabballistic numerology ldquo39 books in the Ta-
najrdquohellip 3+9=12hellip 1+2=3 and ldquo3rdquo represents the Holy Trinity
Kether or God the Father
Hokhmah or God the Son (active to the right of the Father)
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59
Binah or God the Mother or Holy Spirit (passive)
They are all emanations of God the Father and therefore only
one Being It is the announcement of the Divine Trilogy based on the
Admirable Intelligence of Kether the Illuminating Intelligence of
Hokhmah and the Sanctifying Intelligence of Binah If we take away the
substance of the Tanaj which are the five books that make up the Penta-
teuch we are left with 34 books or the number 7 which were the re-
maining emanations with which God created the Universe The 27 books
of the New Testament add up to the kabballistic nine which is the Divine
or Complete number since it contains all the numbers and closes the
wheel That is the New Testament not only does it complement but also
contains the previous one and completes it The sum of both is 66 its
kabballistic number is 3 and it returns to the Holy Trinity the Three
Sefirot or divine emanations
The Apostle Matthew
In chapter one Matthew explains the genealogy of Jesus with a
result of 42 generations from Abraham to Jesus in three periods of 14
generations each This he does from the physical world or Assiah to ex-
plain with real facts Abrahamrsquos descendants and how Jesus really was
the King of the Jews
Forty-two (generations from Abraham to Jesus) adds up to six
like the sefirot of the Creation (on the seventh one He rested) which
means God rested in Malkuth the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth but
the message from Matthew is that we should distribute these three peri-
ods amongst the six sefirot of the Creation
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60
The transition between Abraham and David takes place be-
tween the fourth sefirah Hesed (Greatness) and the fifth Geburah (Jus-
tice)
Hesed is the sefirah from which the rest of the sefirot emanate
like Abraham the Patriarch from whom three religions ldquoemanaterdquo Juda-
ism Christianism and Islam Hesed is the foundation of the spiritual vir-
tues and it is connected to the Holy Son like Abraham
Geburah is the sefirah of David the Justice seeker who uni-
fied the kingdoms for the greatness of the Chosen People he is the strict
Warrior King
With Salomon son of David starts the second period as told by
Matthew and it ends with the deportation of the people to Babylon This
is the passage from the sixth sefirah Tipherzt (Beauty) to the seventh
sefirah Neshah (Power)
Tipherzt is Beauty serenity trust just what King Salomon
was to his people In the same manner it is in the column of the Crown
of God and it is directly supported by Abraham and David
Neshah is the hidden Intelligence of stability and spiritual
power it is the powerful faith against adversity the expulsion to Baby-
lon
When the Babylonian invasion comes to an end the passage to
the coming of Jesus begins it takes place between the eighth sefirah Hod
(Glory) and the ninth sefirah Yesod (Foundation)
Hod is the Divine Glory the Divine Healer which healed the
wounds inflicted on the chosen people by the invaders It is awakening
and learning
Yesod is the foundation and filter of all emanations before
reaching the Kingdom it is the Pure Intelligence it is Unity without Di-
vision this is the sefirah to which both the moon and the waters respond
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61
and the tides and earth as well the sefirah that builds and founds That is
why this is the sefirah that Matthew attributes to Jesus It is the one that
brings together to the Father before reaching Malkuth the Kingdom of
Earth and Heaven in a straight line passing by Tipherzt (Salomon) and
with the virtual sefirah of the Sacred Heart
As we can see the Apostle Matthew shows us in a kabballis-
tic way the presence of Jesus from the patriarch Abraham to the
present
Holy Spirit
David
Glory
Jesus
Kingdom
Salomon
Power
Abraham
Holy Son
Holy Father
Heart
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62
The Sermon on the Mountain
(The Beatitudes)
With The Sermon on the Mountain Jesus teaches us the basic
Concepts of Kabbalah to be interpreted in many centuries to come be-
cause the land of the tribe of Israel to which Jesus belonged was under
the domain of the Greco-Roman Empire which wanted to impose its
own gods That is why Jesusrsquo message is stronger the deeper you go into
it It should be observed the same as the ocean it is not the quiet waters
and small waves that rule but the strong currents that flow in the deepest
depths
Somebody told me once that even a child could understand the
Sermon and it is true which shows the intelligence of the Master be-
cause the Sermon holds many levels of understanding
From the Gospel according to Matthew chapter five we can ex-
tract the essence of the Sermon on the Mountain contained in the first
nine verses two of them introductory and the other seven making up the
Beatitudes
51 ldquoAnd seeing the multitudes He went up onto a mountain
and when He was set His disciples came unto Him ldquo
5 2 ldquoAnd He opened His mouth and taught them sayinghelliprdquo
To go up to the mountain in Kabbalah means to rise to the high-
est degree of spirituality (eg Moses went up the mountain to speak with
God) which means he went up to the Crown or Kether When it says
ldquoHe opened His mouth and taught them sayingrdquo sounds redundant since
nobody can say anything without opening his mouth But we have to
consider that there are two aspects in Kabbalah thought or intelligence
Binah and the word or wisdom Hokhmah Jesus uses the first to ignite
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63
the soul of His followers and the word to transmit the vibratory energy or
surrounding magnetic field and that way get to the spirit of people
53rdquoBlessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom
of Heavenrdquo
According to Kabbalah a rich man with many possessions can
enter the Kingdom of God if he doesnrsquot develop the materialistic spirit
that goes with them On the other hand a poor man without possessions
could be not admitted in the Kingdom of God if he develops that materi-
alistic spirit and is absorbed by the only wish of having fortune Kabba-
lah teaches that neither richness nor poorness is the ideal state Jesus re-
fers to the heart or Leb the simplicity and easiness of spirit because to
have possessions or not does not interfere with the progress towards the
path of foundation and spiritual uplifting
54 Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted
Kabbalah does not preach sadness but joy and happiness In the
Kabbalah the act of crying is a symbol of redemption greatness and
love or Hesed it is also a symbol of acknowledgment of errors made
and therefore seeking spiritual evolution in love for another The begin-
ning of change is identified with crying That is why whoever accepts
the change will be comforted
55 Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth
God said to Moses ldquoYou shall not adore other gods and you
shall respect my Namerdquo This means He demanded meekness Jesus re-
fers in kabballistic terms to meek men before God those will be able to
live in harmony and freedom achieving Divine Justice or Geburah be-
cause they are the ones who increase their spiritual level
56 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteous-
ness for they will be filled
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64
Those who hunger within will seek the nourishment to satisfy it
And will begin a search for justice which will take them to the spiritual
Glory Hod This means that those who hunger and thirst for spiritual
truth will be filled with the blessing and perfection seeker Those who
abandon the spiritual search of the truth will condemn their souls to come
back as many times as it is necessary to achieve it
57 Blessed are the merciful for they will be shown mercy
To be merciful is to forgive others to have the power or Neshah
of not having negative thoughts actions or answers to aggressiveness
from others Negative feelings affect our spiritual body and poison our
physical body altering the nervous system
58 Blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God
The pure in heart are those who achieve inner beauty or
Tipherzt In order to have a clean and beautiful heart we must nourish it
with love and not hate with forgiveness not vengeance with truth not
lies or falsehood There must be harmony in our body soul and spirit
59 Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called sons
of Godrdquo
Peace in Aramaic is the same as harmony in Greek and both
words represent the foundation of life on this earth or Yesod and Jesus
suggests the Peace of the just
510 Blessed are those who are persecuted because of right-
eousness for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
511 Blessed are you when people insult you persecute you
and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me
In these two verses Jesus foretells the persecutions his followers
even the Kabballists will suffer anticipating the manifested idea of ob-
taining the communion of the Kingdom of Heaven or Malkuth in com-
plete peace and harmony
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65
In the next two verses Jesus refers to the eighth sefirah Hod the
Glory (elevation) and its connection with Geburah Justice (respect)
which means we must respect the Just because they are the prophets and
we will be blessed by them
512 Rejoice and be glad because great is your reward in
heaven for in the same way they persecuted the prophets
who were before you
513 You are the salt of the earth But if the salt loses its salt-
iness how can it be made salty again It is no longer good for
anything except to be thrown out and trampled by men
In the following words Jesus takes us through the Tree of Live
or Sefirotic Tree bringing us even closer to the kabballistic message and
his spiritual profoundness
514 You are the light of the world A city on a hill cannot be
hidden
Kether is the Crown of God the Divine light that which is
above everything else above the mountain It reminds us that the moun-
tain is the highest level of spirituality
514 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl
Instead they put it on its stand and it gives light to everyone
in the house
Hokhmah is Wisdom to the right of the Kether the Crown of
God it is the light of Christ which lights up all homes
516 In the same way let your light shine before men that
they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in
heaven
Binah is Intelligence it is the light that reaches to the spirit of
mankind as a holy protection it is the light of the Holy Spirit that reaches
the heart through good deeds
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66
These three verses refer to the first three sefirot that is the Holy
Trinity which is the potent Divine light since it contains in only one ray
of light the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit
The following four verses refer to Geburah or Justice This is the
sefirah that dictates the Law the one that enforces the Law the one that
unites Heaven (Kether) with Earth (Malkuth) according to the Divine
teachings and is called the sefirah of Divine Justice
517 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the
Prophets I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them
518 I tell you the truth until heaven and earth disappear not
the smallest letter not the least stroke of a pen will by any
means disappear from the Law until everything is accom-
plished
519 Anyone who breaks one of the least of these command-
ments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in
the kingdom of heaven but whoever practices and teaches
these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heav-
en
520 For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses
that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law you will ce r-
tainly not enter the kingdom of heaven
Hesed is the sefirah of Greatness and it is known that the origin
of greatness is HumilityHumbleness the person that is not humble is
not great In the following verses Jesus explains to us how to irradiate
Love Mercy Greatness and above all Humbleness
521 You have heard that it was said to the people long ago
Do not murder[a]
and anyone who murders will be subject to
judgment
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
67
522 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother
will be subject to judgment Again anyone who says to his brother
Raca (An Aramaic term of contempt is answerable to the Sanhed-
rin But anyone who says You fool will be in danger of the fire of
hell
523 ldquoTherefore if you are offering your gift at the altar and
there remember that your brother has something against you
Ponder
Respect
Blessing
Peace
Kingdom
Love
Acceptance
Help
Speech
Inspiration
Heart
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68
524 leave your gift there in front of the altar First go and be
reconciled to your brother then come and offer your gift
525 ldquoSettle matters quickly with your adversary who is tak-
ing you to court Do it while you are still with him on the way or he
may hand you over to the judge and the judge may hand you over to
the officer and you may be thrown into prison
526 I tell you the truth you will not get out until you have
paid the last penny
The following sefirah that Jesus speaks of in the Sermon on the
Mountain is Tipherzt beauty serenity trust family it is the one with
the noble attributes fidelity A through this sefirah he talks to us about
the family blessings and how Divinity intertwines with it
Tipherzt is the one that provides the spiritual nourishment and
family blessings that is why Jesus protects the relationship between man
and woman as fountain of life and punishes above all deceit and adul-
tery
527 You have heard that it was said Do not commit adul-
tery
528 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustful-
ly has already committed adultery with her in his heart
529 If your right eye causes you to sin gouge it out and
throw it away It is better for you to lose one part of your body than
for your whole body to be thrown into hell
530 And if your right hand causes you to sin cut it off and
throw it away It is better for you to lose one part of your body than
for your whole body to go into hell
531 It has been said anyone who divorces his wife must
give her a certificate of divorce
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
69
532 But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife except
for marital unfaithfulness causes her to become an adulteress and
anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery
The following sefirah is Neshah which represents Stability and
Balance and the following five verses Jesus that swearing is the loss of
stability and balance before God
He who requires an oath does not trust what is being said and he
who gives an oath does not trust himself rdquoYes or Nordquo should be enough
for those who speak the truth
533 Again you have heard that it was said to the people long
ago Do not break your oath but keep the oaths you have made to
the Lord
534 but I tell you Do not swear at all either by heaven for
it is Gods throne
535 nor by the earth for it is his footstool or by Jerusalem
for it is the city of the Great King
536 And do not swear by your head for you cannot make
even one hair white or black
537 simply let your Yes be Yes and your No No any-
thing beyond this comes from the evil one
Hod is the sefirah of glory the compensation and acknowledge-
ment And there is no better glory and acknowledgement than to love the
enemy and bless those who curse and hate us
As Jesus tells us in the next eleven verses
If you love only those who love you
What are you doing extra
What reward are you seeking
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70
538 You have heard that it was said Eye for eye and tooth
for tooth
539 But I tell you Do not resist an evil person If someone
strikes you on the right cheek turn to him the other also
540 And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic let
him have your cloak as well
541 If someone forces you to go one mile go with him two
miles
542 Give to the one who asks you and do not turn away
from the one who wants to borrow from you
543 You have heard that it was said Love your neighbor
and hate your enemy
544 But I tell you Love your enemies and pray for those
who persecute you
545 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven He caus-
es his sun to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the
righteous and the unrighteous
546 If you love those who love you what reward will you
get Are not even the tax collectors doing that
547 And if you greet only your brothers what are you doing
more than others Do not even pagans do that
548 Be perfect therefore as your heavenly Father is perfect
Yesod the ninth sefirah is Foundation because it purifies
proves and corrects all previous sefiroth Helping others is exactly what
this sefirah is all about not only to love them but to help them He who
helps receives purification from Yesod and he who helps in secret is
blessed by The Father
Matthew 6
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
71
61 Be careful not to do your acts of righteousness before
men to be seen by them If you do you will have no reward from
your Father in heaven
62 So when you give to the needy do not announce it with
trumpets as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets
to be honored by men I tell you the truth they have received their
reward in full
63 But when you give to the needy do not let your left hand
know what your right hand is doing
64 so that yoursquore giving may be in secret Then yoursquore Fa-
ther who sees what is done in secret will reward you
Malkuth is the sefirah that represents the Kingdom of Heaven
and Earth that is why Jesus tells us that prayer must be in private in or-
der to be rewarded in public without repetitions and lots of words be-
cause the Father knows what we need before we even ask
65 And when you pray do not be like the hypocrites for
they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street cor-
ners to be seen by men I tell you the truth they have received their
reward in full
66 But when you pray go into your room close the door and
pray to your Father who is unseen Then your Father who sees what
is done in secret will reward you
67 And when you pray do not keep on babbling like pagans
for they think they will be heard because of their many words
68 Do not be like them for your Father knows what you
need before you ask him
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72
The Our Father
Jesus reaffirms part of the Kabbalah by following the path of the
Sefirotic Tree in his most important prayer
69 This then is how you should pray Our in heaven
hallowed be your name
Our Father the admirable intelligence or Crown Kether first sefirah
In Heaven the enlightening intelligence or wisdom Hokhmah the sec-
ond sefirah
Hallowed be your name the sanctifying intelligence Binah the third
sefirah completing the Holy Trinity
610 your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is
in heaven
Your kingdom come the intelligence of love Hesed
Your will be done righteous intelligence Geburah
On Earth as it is in Heaven that is form Kether to Malkuth
611 Give us today our daily bread
Give us our daily bread the intelligence which provides Spiritual
Nourishment and beauty Tipherzt
612 Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our
debtrs
Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors the hidden
intelligence which is power victory and stability or Nesha
613 And lea us not into temptation but deliver us from the
evil for yours is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for
every century Amen
And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil the absolute
intelligence or perfect glory or Hod
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73
Holy
Justice
Freedom
Foundation
Prayer
Love
Forgiveness
Spiritual
Nourishment
Heaven
Father
Heart
For yours is the Kingdom Kether the Power Hokhmah and the
Glory Briah which means You are the Holy Trinity
Amen is the foundation of Holy Prayer
After teaching us this Prayer Jesus continues showing us the truth about
the emanations of the Sefirotic Tree Starting once again at the Kether
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74
to remind us privacy in acts such as forgiveness fasting and prayer will
be rewarded in public by the Father who wears the Crown
614 For if you forgive men when they sin against you your
heavenly Father will also forgive you
615 But if you do not forgive men their sins your Father will
not forgive your sins
616 When you fast do not look somber as the hypocrites
do for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fast-
ing I tell you the truth they have received their reward in
full
617 But when fast put oil on your head and wash your face
618 so that it will not be obvious to men that you are fasting
but only to your Father who is unseen and your Father who
sees what is done in secret will reward you
Jesus explains that our treasures are not in the Kingdom of Earth but in
the wisdom of Hokhmah which is the treasure of Heaven that God sent
to us
619 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth
where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and
steal
620 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven where
moth and rust do not destroy and where thieves do not
break in and steal
Binah is the intelligence that Jesus asks us to use to see the light within
our heart he asks that we be intelligent to stay away from evil because
wise men donrsquot have two bosses
621 For where your treasure is there your heart will be also
622 The eye is the lamp of the body If your eyes are good
your whole body will be full of light
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75
623 But if your eyes are bad your whole body will be full of
darkness If then the light within you is darkness how great
is that darkness
624 No one can serve two masters Either he will hate the
one and love the other or he will be devoted to the one and
despise the other You cannot serve both God and Money
Hesed is greatness Jesus shows us how Great we are that greatness is
not eating drinking or dressing up but greatness is being on the path to
the Kether or Crown
625 Therefore I tell you do not worry about your life what
you will eat or drink or about your body what you will
wear Is not life more important than food and the body
more important than clothes
626 Look at the birds of the air they do not sow or reap or
store away in barns and yet your heavenly Father feeds
them Are you not much more valuable than they
627 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his
life
628 And why do you worry about clothes See how the lil-
ies of the field grow They do not labor or spin
629 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor
was dressed like one of these
630 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field which is
here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire will he not
much more clothe you O you of little faith
631 So do not worry saying What shall we eat or What
shall we drink or What shall we wear
632 For the pagans run after all these things and your heav-
enly Father knows that you need them
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76
Godrsquos Fortune
Godrsquos
Justice
Godrsquos Education
Godrsquos Purification
Godrsquos
Freedom
Godrsquos
Love
Godrsquos Effort
Godrsquos
Greatness
Godrsquos Treasure
Godrsquos
Forgiveness
Godrsquos
Heart
633 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all
these things will be given to you as well
634 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow
will worry about itself Each day has enough trouble of its
own
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77
Once we obtain Greatness or Hesed Jesus asks us to seek Justice or
Geburah the next sefirah Justice is learning to judge others and to look
more with our heart than our eyes
71 Do not judge or you too will be judged
72 For in the same way you judge others you will be judged
and with the measure you use it will be measured to you
73 Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your broth-
ers eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye
74 How can you say to your brother Let me take the speck
out of your eye when all the time there is a plank in your
own eye
75 You hypocrite first take the plank out of your own eye
and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your
brothers eye
76 Do not give dogs what is sacred do not throw your
pearls to pigs If you do they may trample them under their
feet and then turn and tear you to pieces
After Geburah comes Tipherzt beauty this sefirah is the provider of spir-
itual nourishment that is why Jesus invites us to ask seek and knock and
he reminds the law of the Torah because Tipherzt is in the center and
unites the past with the present the law of the prophets with the law of
Jesus
77 Ask and it will be given to you seek and you will find
knock and the door will be opened to you
78 For everyone who asks receives he who seeks finds and
to him who knocks the door will be opened
79 Which of you if his son asks for bread will give him a
stone
710 Or if he asks for a fish will give him a snake
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711 If you then though you are evil know how to give good
gifts to your children how much more will your Father in
heaven give good gifts to those who ask him
712 So in everything do to others what you would have
them do to you for this sums up the Law and the Prophets
Neshah is stability the sefirah of the intellectual virtues the eye of the
intellect which shows us the path of life and Jesus shows us the road of
tranquility
713 Enter through the narrow gate For wide is the gate
and broad is the road that leads to destruction and many e n-
ter through it
714 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to
life and only a few find it
Hod is glory or recognition Jesus shows us how to recognize those who
are said to be prophets or wise men Jesus tells us the best way to do so
is by their fruit (results) or deeds if we observe others objectively we
will know who will really support us and who would like to take ad-
vantage of us
715 Watch out for false prophets They come to you in
sheeps clothing but inwardly they are ferocious wolves
716 By their fruit you will recognize them Do people pick
grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles
717 Likewise every good tree bears good fruit but a bad tree
bears bad fruit
718 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit and a bad tree cannot
bear good fruit
719 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and
thrown into the fire
7 20 Thus by their fruit you will recognize them
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79
The ninth sefirah is Yesod or foundation This is the sefirah of purifica-
tion in it Jesus separates the chaste from the impure to take evil away
from us
721 Not everyone who says to me Lord Lord will enter
the kingdom of heaven but only he who does the will of my
Father who is in heaven
722 Many will say to me on that day Lord Lord did we
not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out de-
mons and perform many miracles
723 Then I will tell them plainly I never knew you Away
from me you evildoers
The tenth sefirah is Malkuth the Kingdom of Earth and Heaven where
Jesus gives us an example of free will so that we make wise decisions
and chose the Kingdom in which we will live
724 Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and
puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house
on the rock
725 The rain came down the streams rose and the winds
blew and beat against that house yet it did not fall because it
had its foundation on the rock
726 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does
not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his
house on sand
727 The rain came down the streams rose and the winds
blew and beat against that house and it fell with a great
crash
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80
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Neshah Stability
The Divine Creation
The Divine Creation
Adam Eve and the Genesis
Gestation and Conception
Development and Growth
Maturity
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81
The Divine Creation From the ape up to Adam and Eve
During the early ages of life on Earth the new thinking beings invested
most of their time in learning to survive humans had to adapt to and in-
tegrate themselves to the four elements or genius (Air Fire Earth and
Water) they also had to learn to interact with animals and plants
Man began to notice that all animals were born and died as natural pro-
cess They ldquocame inrdquo (were born) to this world from the maternal womb
or from an egg and all of them inevitably someday disappeared or
ldquoleftrdquo (died) this world
Man also noticed that all animals ldquochangedrdquo in size (grew) being small
when they ldquocame inrdquo to the world and as the ldquosuns and moonsrdquo passed
(time) they developed and grew getting stronger until reaching a point
in which they ldquodisappearedrdquo (died)
Furthermore the learning was part of the ldquoroadrdquo when they ldquoarrivedrdquo
they didnrsquot know how to walk or fly they couldnrsquot see their parents had
to get their food and protect them they were weak and dependant In
time they learned to be self-sufficient and to live independently even
though they were part
of a heard o a community
In every age thinkers and scientists asked them selves how early mankind
evolved to the point of becoming what we are nowadays The Judeo-
Christian Kabbalah answers this question without interfering with sci-
ence The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah explains mankindrsquos ldquoevolutionrdquo in
ten steps and goes through the Sefirotic Tree starting from the feminine
column reminding us that it is the female who receives the Divine herit-
age of Creation
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82
1 The Crown or Divine Light
First the Divine Light Crowned the undeveloped brain of the wild ape
and transformed it into a ldquothinking aperdquo That Divine ldquotouchrdquo caused
the transformation of the apersquos simple brain into the complex brain or
ldquocrownrdquo of this new being This change contains the celestial blow of the
future human being
2 Intelligence or understanding
Undoubtedly what made de difference between mankind and the rest of
the animals was that awareness since they all went through the same
changes they were all born grew up and died they could all see the
moon replacing the sun and all of them could see the vegetables grow
but the other species either did take notice or did not acknowledge it The
human being could ldquothinkrdquo mankind had the ldquointelligencerdquo to be aware
and that made it different
3 Wisdom or experience
As time went by mankind acquired experience which added to intelli-
gence resulted in ldquowisdomrdquo This wisdom made man outstand over the
rest of the species This wisdom permitted man to learn from other spe-
cies in a certain way and in many cases to dominate them
These three sefiroth that represents the Holy Trinity separated to
the man of the rest of the world animal and vegetable determining
their supremacy by order and Divine grace
4 Justice or respect
Man began to put his abilities to use and the first thing he did with his
intelligence and wisdom was to acknowledge ldquojusticerdquo but the Divine
free will permitted them to apply it or not Mankind understood that
without spiritual justice intelligence and wisdom cannot not be applied
5 Greatness or humility
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83
Mankind learned that spiritual greatness meant knowing how to apply
justice in every act of life
To be just and great is to be wise and intelligent
Man learned that to be great does not mean to be above the rest but to
apply intelligence and wisdom to improve the life and spirit of others
These four qualities must go together if man is to continue his evolution
and stay away from the ape otherwise he would be stuck and the ape
would overcome
6 Beauty or sweetness
As mankind evolved it became understood that each act good or bad as
well as every thought obscure or bright marks the inner character and
outer appearance of a person with a defined particularity that will either
dull it or illuminate it The beauty of the Spirit is more real and perma-
nent than physical beauty The secret of this beauty which lights up pu-
pils with the serene light of the stars y gives faces the sweet look of the
angels lies within a just behavior and greatness in thought
The Bible and Science go of the hand The Creation and the Evolution are work of God
7 Glory or acknowledgement
As man made his inner evolution he wanted to be acknowledged by the
Divinity first and by his peers later
ldquoGloryrdquo is the acknowledgement of onersquos values by others All human
beings need this physical and spiritual acknowledgement The Just has
the Spiritual Greatness Beauty of the Soul and the Divine Glory
8 Stability or Balance
The sensory and spiritual stability and balance of the new being meant
inner growth Stability came about with the bluntness of power and the
victory of his actions The spiritual powers of stability are the foundation
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84
Awareness
Respect
Knowledge
Building
Real World
Sweetness
Balance
Humility
Experience
Divine Light
of tolerance discernment and being able to face up to reality and to co-
operate with our peers powers that are attained through Justice Great-
ness and the Divine Glory
9 Foundation or construction
The foundation or founding of communities is a major stepping-stone
for this new being It was like planting a seed to watch a tree grow Man
understood that if the foundation was done right he would ldquobuildrdquo a
whole culture for the future of mankind But if due to selfishness ava-
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85
rice or greediness he failed and started with a poor foundation of com-
munities instead these would dissolve in time That is why he would
have to apply everything he had learned and all the accumulated experi-
ence correctly
10 The Kingdom of Earth or real world
The Kingdom of Earth is the summit in the process of evolution from
ape to man it is the matter substance the physical and real world This
is the peak of the creation cycle the creation of Adam and Eve Thanks
to the powers of God the ape was transformed into the human being that
now lives in the Kingdom of God which is the Earth It is at this point
where all divine teachings and human experiences converge all celestial
and earthly matters meet here the soul with the spirit and the senses
with the physical world
Adam Eve and the Genesis
ldquoFor the Kabbalah in animals femininity finds itself in front of mas-
culinity while masculinity confirms itself through femininity In the
human level masculinity and femininity are distinguished and at the
same time complement each otherrdquo
In the first book of the Pentateuch the ldquoBook of Genesisrdquo there are two
explanations that would appear to contradict each other that is why we
will analyze them textually
Chapter One verses 27 through 31
27 So God created man in his own image in the image of God he
created him male and female he created them
28 God blessed them and said to them Be fruitful and increase in
number fill the earth and subdue it Rule over the fish of the sea
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86
and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves
on the ground
29 Then God said I give you every seed-bearing plant on the
face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in
it They will be yours for food
30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and
all the creatures that move on the groundmdasheverything that has
the breath of life in itmdashI give every green plant for food And it
was so
31 God saw all that he had made and it was very good And there
was evening and there was morningmdashthe sixth day
Chapter Two verses 7 and 15 through 23
7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and the man became a
living being
15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of
Eden to work it and take care of it
16 And the LORD God commanded the man You are free to eat
from any tree in the garden
17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil for when you eat of it you will surely die
18 The LORD God said It is not good for the man to be alone I
will make a helper suitable for him
19 Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the
beasts of the field and all the birds of the air He brought them to
the man to see what he would name them and whatever the man
called each living creature that was its name
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87
20 So the man gave names to all the livestock the birds of the air
and all the beasts of the field But for Adam no suitable helper
was found
21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep and
while he was sleeping he took one of the mans ribs and closed
up the place with flesh
22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken
out of the man and he brought her to the man
23 The man said This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my
flesh she shall be called woman for she was taken out of man
According to these two texts which differ in just a few pages within the
Sacred Book first man and woman were created at the same time but
later it explains that woman was created from the rib taken from man
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah takes it as a cryptically allegory which
means we are not to understand this explanation as saying first and sec-
ond having another ahead does not make one a subordinate
The ten sefiroth that created the universe were simultaneous and the crea-
tion of the first ldquothinking aperdquo was simultaneous in male and female If
we try to understand the Divine message decoding it into common lingo
we find that the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah gives us several clues
The Book of Genesis 2 does not void what is stated in Genesis 1 it is
revealing another aspect of the human being The intention of the second
text is not to tell us how creation took place in a chronological order but
to explain ndash in a symbolic language ndash something more profound
According to the Book of Genesis 1 God created them ldquoin one single
actrdquo and gave them a mission in common Be fruitful and increase in
number fill the earth and subdue it This clarifies the equality of dignity
in both as well as the equality in the mission imparted since both are
given the same responsibility the family and protection of the world
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88
According to this there doesnrsquot seem to be tasks or responsibilities ex-
clusively reserved to men or women family as well as culture are to be
done by both
Adam does not take woman out of himself he was asleep doing noth-
ing Furthermore God expressly wanted to hide from him the way in
which he made woman doing so while he slept when he could not notice
what was happening
About the reasons for God putting Adam to sleep we can take some
concepts from the Divine reasoning The lonely Adam pictured in the
Book of Genesis 27 is a generic Adam because the characteristics
which describe him are the same for either man or woman and are
meshed in the verses 215 through 223 in the four worlds of the Sefirotic
Tree
The original loneliness (interpreted as the transcendence of
mankind with respect to the Cosmos) is the world of Atziluth or
divine protection
It is not good for the man to be alonerdquo is the need to opening
up this is the world of Briah or giving to others
The search for the appropriate assistance (conceived as mutual
and reciprocal) is the world of Yetsirah or trust and learning
The call for man woman and their animals to work together is
the world of Assiah or Earth and its fruits
The symbolism of the rib taken by God from Adam while he slept re-
veals a relationship between man and woman from which two conse-
quences derive Is a reciprocal relationship (there is no woman without
man but there is no man without woman) which leads us to conclude
that both ends of this relationship must be simultaneous
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89
Spirit
Form
Muscles
Organs
Birth
Nerves
Bones
Strength
Soul
Supra
One
Heart
Gestation
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
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90
Conception
A person is born at a particular moment in time due to a specific
situation or to connect with specific people or one person in particular
When speaking of gestation it is important to assign the archetypical
worlds to each step of this process
1 The Archetypical World called Atziluth is where everything
is in a latent state where everything is potential This is the world in
which the Divinity unites soul and spirit It is in this world where the
essence on an individual is found There is a ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath of the
heart here which lives in both the spiritual and the creative worlds
2 In the Creative World called Briah we find strength and the
pure form which gives shape to the physical life where the cellular mul-
tiplication begins The heart sends the energy of the soul and spirit to the
new being in gestation
3 In the Formative World called Yetsirah the whole body is
in the process of development creating the nervous system muscles
bones organs etc
4 In the Material World called Assiah is where the physical
manifestation takes place It is the moment of birth when the new inte-
grated being sees the light of the Sun
Development
At birth the physical body manifests itself in the Malkut of As-
siah or the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth after going through the se-
quence of conception Birth takes place at the end of the descending path
from Kether (God) to Malkut (Earth) After birth the path is inverted
while developing we begin to ascend from Malkut (Earth) to Kether
(God)
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91
The personality of an adult individual is reflected in the stage or
sefirath where he stopped or in which he weakened the most We can
associate these stages with the worlds in an ascending manner reverting
the way of the gestation
For example the Malkut of Assiah is the material world in
which a person must see and touch in order to learn He needs to touch
the fire to know that it burns or needs to knock himself to know how hard
matter is and how weak is the spirit
Yetsirah is the world in which responsibility is formed where
most people have stopped at one point in their lives for not being able to
assimilate one or more of sefiroth that make up this world
A person who stopped in hisher childhood has stopped at the
sefirath Yesod a person seeking information or news or is forever study-
ing is at Hod and the one seeking pleasures (sex food fun) is still going
through Neshah And those searching for trust in themselves are at
Tipherzt
Mature people are in the world of Briah Justice and greatness
will help these people to develop the acquired knowledge
Those who have stopped at Geburah are people who experience
constant hardship until they learn to grasp control of themselves and
once they achieve inner peace they dedicate their lives to good acts On
the other hand those who come out of Hesed are the ones who negotiate
with generosity those who give to receive who seek to buy love affec-
tion or respect
Atziluth the last world is the one closest to God one that takes
us to Him
Those worried about death are at the sefirath Binah They age
prematurely and constantly complain about illnesses
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92
Those who reach Hokhmah is because they have profound en-
lightening visions which in some cases and for certain social groups are
similar to insanity
To reach Kether at the end of life on earth is to go back to God
to achieve the freedom of onersquos soul
In the Material World called Assiah is where the man-
ifestation of birth takes place where the body without formation but with
genetic and Godrsquos instruction and information from past lives gets ac-
quainted with himself and those around him
In the Formative World called Yetsirah life and aca-
demic formation is acquired to be applied to the rest of onersquos life The
person shall have the teachings perception affirmation and confidence
supplied by those around him
In the Creative World called Briah the most important
stage in a personrsquos life is found In it we can apply everything learned
and observed in the previous world Decisions taken in this world will
affect us twice as much in the following world
The Archetypical World called Atziluth is a world of
closeness to the Divinity here is where we should stop and analyzes our
existence prepare the balance sheet of our soul When we get here we
can see what we have contributed to the growth of our soul
The road to Maturity
As we know each sefirath is a tree in itself and each world con-
tains the other four inside that is why we must analyze our maturity from
the moment of birth and the growing years as well
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93
Pro
tec-
tion
Co
ntr
ol
Le
arning
Chi
ldh
ood
Bi
rt
h
Tr
us
t
Ple
asure
Giving
Li
gh
t
S
up
ra
O
ne
Heart
The stages of growth
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
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94
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah when we are born
our ldquopatternrdquo of life is not finished because our body spirit and soul are
not completely integrated
Between the ages of five and seven the central column formed
by Yesod Tipherzt and the ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath Led molds the operative
personality The Heart Trust and Foundation are the basis of a childrsquos
personal development
At the age of thirteen Hod and Neshah stability and glory for-
mation and pleasures become active This is the age of awakening of
knowledge
Between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one Kether and
Malkuth intertwine forming the central structure of the tree and they
give it meaning and dimension
During the following years Geburah Hesed Binah and
Hokhmah integrate themselves completing the incarnation of the plains
When we see rebellious youths who have not yet grasped the
concepts of justice or generosity (gangs drugs) it is because they have
not incarnated completely and Geburah and Hesed have not taken their
places yet There is no set age for complete incarnation because it de-
pends on the surroundings and social experience
The child of an alcoholic and a drug addict who live in poverty
does not have to follow that path If he could find support in a family or
educational group that could help him to develop the missing sefiroth and
that way obtain incarnation he could become a person who understands
the proper concepts of justice and greatness thus clearing his life and ob-
taining personal success
On the other hand the son of an aristocrat or millionaire be-
tween the ages of thirteen and twenty will react against his class but
from there on and according to the integration of his sefiroth to the tree
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95
he will only be interested in developing within his social circle marrying
someone accordingly and following the family pattern but if he should
find a link that could help him develop the missing sefiroth in order to
complete his incarnation he would change his concepts on class and
would obtain personal success
Of course both examples are generalizations which do not apply
to all people If you are reading this book you are a spiritual researcher
and surely do not fall under generalizations
Many people consider a good marriage and a good social posi-
tion as valid objectives but after twenty years or more of walking the
same path they understand that even though they have a good marriage
with someone they love and good economic resources they have no
goals
This usually happens after the age of forty-five or fifty For those
based on their bodies this is the beginning of the end and will seek the
physical methods (surgeries) to slow this process
The Tree of the Maturity
These physical methods are not bad if they go together with a
spiritual development with growth in the tree of the spiritual worlds un-
til the highest point is reached and it is understood that the body is the
container of the spirit and soul
Often enough people get stuck emotionally here and no matter
how old they are they cannot get out of Tipherzt or the sefirath of Trust
It is here where emotions are sometimes confused with feelings obscur-
ing thoughts and the development of spiritual maturity
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96
Under-
standing
Truth
Awakening
Trust
Real
World
Foundation
Power
Humility
Experience
Essence
Heath
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97
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
Hod Glory
The Human Being
Soul and Spirit
The Worlds of the Spirit The Battle of the Spirit
The terror and the Fears
Difficult Situations The Problems of the Spirit
The Worlds of Solutions Instincts feelings and senses
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98
Soul and Spirit
We already know that neither one of us is a new soul all of us
have accumulated experience from previous lives in other incarnations
We also know that those celestial beings that occupy our body
have come during the last thousands of years
We also know that this inter-relation or connection between soul
and body helps to correct the soul
What we need to know now is What is the spirit
The spirit is our inner Self our mind it is what we really are and
who we are
Our spirit is formed by four worlds Each world relates to the
other on the basis of interactive processes and it works its way up from
the concrete (tangible) to the ethereal (spiritual) levels
1 The Material World called Assiah or the world of
Logic is based on Malkut passes through Yessed and opens up into
Hod and Neshagh The logical though is something you can almost
touch it has foundation stability and glory
2 The Formative World called Yetsirah or the world of
the Perceptions is based on Tipherzt and opens its arms into Ge-
brurah and Hesed The perceptions of the human being are beauty
justice and greatness
3 The Creative World called Briah or the world of Feel-
ings is based on Led (heart) and from there goes on to Binah and
Hokhmah Our feelings are the product of the alchemy formed by
the ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath of the heart intelligence and wisdom
4 The Archetypical World called Atziluth or the world
of Intuition has only one sefirath as base Kether Divinity resides
here that is intuition is the direct link to Divinity
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99
As we can see the spirit is the part that connects our contained
(physical body) to our soul (or celestial body) and that is who we really
are The spirit must take care of the body so that it ldquolastsrdquo as long as pos-
sible When it is mistreated with external products (poor nutrition alco-
hol tobacco or drugs) the soulrsquos stay and learning period is shortened
this will cause the soul to come back in another container to continue
learning
When an illness or accident causes the brain to stop the spirit is
affected never the soul The soul keeps learning even though the body is
inert or in a deep coma and it will stay there for some ldquotimerdquo after the
heart stops beating It could be minutes maybe hours or days before the
soul abandons the body
When the death is surprising and unexpected (accident violence
etc) both the soul and the spirit stay in condition of shock and are late
many time in dividing
Each person has in its spirit what we know as personality stud-
ied by Jung even his profession is related to these worlds For example a
person with an Assiah personality will be in the armed forces Profes-
sionals are Yetsirah the artists are in the world of Briah and the mysti-
cal people live in Atziluth
Even as we are crossing the tree sefiroacutethico the personality was
passing of being introverted and logical to extrovert and dreamy
Undoubtedly the complexity of the spirit and the dynamic that
surrounds it could generate multiple models Human beings depending
on the inherited genes educational environment social development will
modify some of the parameters associated to these worlds in order to be
accepted by society
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
100
The soul is very important in this development since in its mis-
sion of learning it will try to put the person in challenging situations
provoking logical feelings and intuitive sensations
The way to analyze these worlds and know to which ones we
blong (surely to all of them but some more than others) is to know our
strengths and our weaknesses to find our fears and the chance to
ovecome them
Each world has its own ten sefiroth that respond to its own
behavior
The residents of the world of intuition or Atziluth
are generalists hypothetical not precise speculative idealists in-
ventive illogical indecisive futurists and disperse
Those who live in the world of feelings or Briah are a
logical poetic artistic passionate personal cordial ethical justice seek-
ers individualists and humanitarians
The inhabitants of the world of the senses or Yetsirah
are careful detail minded specialists objective precise concrete real-
ists profound practical and conventional
Those who live in the world of logic or Assiah are log-
ical analytic extremist scientific cold dispassionate theoretical imper-
sonal shrewd and insensitive
Neither world is better than another and there isnrsquot a single hu-
man being that ldquofitsrdquo exactly into one defined world we all have behav-
iors from all of them but the proportions are different in each one of us
and that is what makes us all different from each other
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101
The worlds of the Spirit
In the center ldquoThe Column of Equilibriumrdquo (Balance)
Intuition Atziluth
Feelings Briah
Sense Yetsirah
Logical Assiah
Thought
Intelli-
li-gence
Jus
tice
Glo
ry
Foun-
dation
Ma-
teri
al
Be
au-
ty
Sta-
bil-
ity
Grea
tness
Wisdom
Su-
pra
One
Heart
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102
The Battle of the Spirit
As we could see the battle is not very fair three worlds are ruled
by the heart and only one is ruled by the brain That is why in most cas-
es instincts or feelings ldquowinrdquo over reason When free will was given to
us it was so that we could ldquothink overrdquo our acts
Are two ways of thinking intuition and reasoning with very dif-
ferent characteristics
Some thoughts come to mind in a spontaneous way in reality
that is what happens most of the time Because Atziluth Briah and
Yetsirah are always present in a potential way ready to jump in and re-
spond in a way of which we are not totally conscious and cannot control
The actions of these three worlds are quick without effort associative
and very often charged with emotions They are ruled by habits that is
why it is difficult to modify or control them
The world of Assiah instead is ruled by conscience and delib-
erate reasoning it is slower serial and requires effort it follows rules
Needs more time when something upsets us it clouds our reasoning
This means the issue is stuck on the upper worlds and it doesnrsquot allow us
to make logical decisions usually because we are afraid to reason
For example the idea that something awful can happen if we
take a plane even though that possibility is remote will not let us think
of anything else The upper worlds become dominant Emotion is over-
come in turn by the possibility by what could happen and not by reality
so much
The emotional and issue is the less ldquoreasonablerdquo people are
According to Daniel Kahneman winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize
in Economics
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
103
ldquoEmotions in general do not influence decision making but one
emotion in particular (fear) distorts the perception of risk and generates
errors in the making of decisionsrdquo
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah fear originates in the
upper world but if we can take it to the world of Assiah or logical it
vanishes into thin air
Nevertheless if once we make a reasoned decision we donrsquot reg-
ister having made it curious enough we are not conscious we have
changed our way of thinking
Most people after changing their way of thinking reconstruct
the old pattern They underestimate their change Besides when they
have been persuaded of something they believe they always thought that
way The upper worlds hide behind the mask that reason displays and
have us believing they were never there we are convinced that we al-
ways think rationally
It is true that many people admit making a mistake at one time
or another ndash you could be one of them ndash but that doesnrsquot mean that they
have changed their way of thinking on a particular issue and that they
wonrsquot make the same mistake again
Fears
All living beings have fears it is natural and it responds to the
instinct of survival You donrsquot have to be a caballist or scientist to state
that man is a fearful ldquoanimalrdquo One hundred percent of the human spirit is
ldquoshyrdquo or timid and it fears an endless amount of things and situations He
is intimidated by them The important thing is to identify the things he
fears and why Donrsquot even think you are the only one who fears some-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
104
thing ALL OF US fear something The thing is that that ldquosomethingrdquo is
different for each one of us
Fear is not bad or good it simply is disturbing feeling about
something unknown or if it is known we canrsquot control and we are afraid
it might hurt us
When God created the four elements or semi gods (Fire Water
Air and Earth) He gave them the ability to help or hurt mankind that is
why Fire can cook our food or it can destroy us Water is for drinking or
drowning Earth can give us vegetables or bury us with Air we live and
without it we die The four elements can give or take life And it is pre-
cisely in them that the depth of all fears lies
Fear has companions such as anguish
obsessions and phobias
Many cultures and old and modern religions disguise fears (in
many cases to manipulate people) with the presence of the Devil or dia-
bolic things The Judeo-Christian Kaballah upholds that mankind in its
search for alternative gods created this evil figure to justify its fears and
anguishes
Fear lives in the upper part of the Sefirotic Tree of both worlds of
the spirit where man thinks less and fears more First he starts at Atzi-
luth where he acts mostly based on instinct he is almost irrational and
here is where he ignites the anguish fearrsquos best friend From there it goes
down to Briah and it leans on phobic feelings to go on to Yetsirah
where it can attract obsessions
In the emotional sentimental world or Briah reside an endless
number of opposed phobic fears darkness or light open spaces or closed
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
105
space crowds or loneliness heights or depths planes or boatshellip and we
could go on for pages
In the world of the sensations or Yetsirah live the obsessive
fears disguised as concern
Worry for details rules lists order schedules up to
the point of losing of sight the principal object of the activity
Perfectionism which interferes with the completion of
a task (unable to finish a project because it doesnrsquot comply with
onersquos own demands which are overly strict)
Excessive dedication to onersquos work and to the produc-
tivity with exclusion of the activities of leisure and the friend-
ship (not attributable to economic evident needs)
Excessive stubbornness very scrupulous and inflexi-
ble when it comes to moral issues ethics or values (not attributed
to the identification with religion)
Unable to discard old and useless items even when
there is no sentimental value attached
Unable to share the work load with others unless
they will accept to do it your way exactly
Excessive thriftiness in spending money must be ac-
cumulated to cover future catastrophes
All these fears which live in the worlds of instincts feelings and
sensations are not related to diabolic situations Satan does not exist in
the Divine Universe Satan is a creation of our spirit to encourage the
learning and development of our soul The best way to teach our soul is
to overcome our fears bringing them down to the rational world of Assi-
ah to keep them under control and letting them go
This can be done following these steps
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
106
1 The first step is to put your fears in the world of
logic or Assiah not worrying about why this fear exists but how
do we respond to this fear behavior (eg paralysis desperation)
Hesed origin
2 Be specific when it comes to defining your con-
duct of fear and its consequences because the problem it self is
the solution Geburah control
3 Donrsquot look at your fear as such but as an obsta-
cle in attaining your goals Take it to Tipherzt trust
4 Define exactly the way you want to change your
conduct Go to Neshah balance
5 Establish a time limit to obtain the proposed
change For this Hod learning is the right sefirath
Search for an adequate way to make your change with-
out going to extremes for instance becoming a perfectionist
What you want to change is not making mistakes but the irra-
tional fear for avoiding making mistakes If you are set out to
making mistakes to change you will stop worrying about per-
fection but you will also stop worrying about the mistakes you
could make That is the mistakes are not the problem but the
fear of making mistakes is Work on Yesod construc-
tionbuilding
6 Be patient changes donrsquot take place overnight
whatrsquos more there could be a set back especially when there is a
fast progression in the change of the conduct of fear Please un-
derstand that a straight forward improvement is not always to be
expected you could be going forward there could be stops and
set backs which will allow you to compare and value the differ-
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
107
ences between your previous status with your situation of pro-
gress Go through Malkuth action
Once the world of Assiah logic overcomes your fears you will
see how your fears crashed with logic and vanish
Donrsquot forget that fear is a close friend of depression Fear attracts
dissonance synonym of physical and spiritual disease When one of the
elements stops working the machinery works with serious difficulties
When one of the parts slows down or over speeds therersquos also a lack of
balance and things donrsquot run well
Fear is one of those elements in the human being with great
power to generate lack of harmony correspondence and balance Its
negativity does not allow us to act neither with freedom intelligence nor
with common sense On the contrary it makes us highlight aspects of our
life which we shouldnrsquot consider so important It makes us go back
when we should be going forward It makes us lie when we should be
telling the truth And it takes away our plenitude creativity and capacity
to love
Problematic Situations
Man faces difficult situations all his life from childhood to old
age He finds himself with the obligation to address them with systemat-
ic processes of thought but he doesnrsquot know how important they are All
problems can be grouped in these three definitions
Urgent and important
Urgent or important
Neither urgent nor important
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
108
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah and the sefirotic trees show us
that if we establish priorities if we analyze situations if we identify op-
portunities there are no problems without a solution and that solution is
usually much simpler than we would have thought The method to apply
the adequate solution to a problem is part of the kaballistic teachings
Problems of the Spirit
The Spirit is made up of four worlds (logic sensations emotions
and intuition) if we know how to apply them correctly and how to dis-
tribute our problems amongst these worlds each one of them will solve
the part of the problem to which it applies and the general solution will
become available without stress nor complications
The World of logical thought is the one that analyzes a problem
concretely creating a new Sefirotic Tree with four worlds Ideas Caus-
es Opportunities and Solutions we go through them from the column
of forms or shapes looking for the world of detail or feminine
Atziluth is the world of Ideas formed by Kether Binah and Hokhmah
Kether is the situation worrying you the problem in your
head or philosophical it could be physical or mental could be serious or
momentary but none the less it is the center of the worry
Binah is the expansive thought the one that analyzes the
components distinguishes the pertinent parts the real causes of the prob-
lem Binah clarifies the information to define the situation
Hokhmah is the convergent thought it evaluates and develops
the main idea of the problem compares theorizes and creates a hypothe-
sis which means it is the one that focuses on the problem to be solved
looking for the way to follow and the steps to take
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
109
Briah is the world of Causes formed by Leb Geburah and Hesed
Leb is the virtual sefirath of the heart which plays a part in
every problem and even though thought is the most concrete world of
the spirit the heart has its influence when the time to make a decision
comes We should make the problem ldquovirtualrdquo analyze the solution with
the heart and without it in order to be objective and make the right deci-
sion
Geburah is justice Try to think as a lawyer they only deal
with proven facts they donrsquot go by hearsay Clean your mind of external
ldquoadditionsrdquo analyze ldquowhat problems make up this problemrdquo
Hesed is greatness It is very important to know where the
problem was originated in order not to repeat it you must have the
greatness to admit your percentage of responsibility in the origin of the
problem Donrsquot put the responsibility all out there blaming others do
know that we alwayshellip alwayshellip are partly responsible for what happens
to us Admitting responsibility requires greatness
Yetsirah is the world of Opportunities formed by
Tipherzt Hod and Neshah
Tiphezt is the sefirath of beauty and every problem has a
beautiful side to it which is the opportunity it opens up to the other
worlds Every problem is the starting point towards truth Many times
the truth is hidden and the problems bring it out in the light Look for the
positive side of the problem there always is one look for the sun after
the storm
Hod is the glory and glory is acknowledgement To
acknowledge a problem is part of the solution If we describe the prob-
lem and its consequences we could see clearly which opportunity it is
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
110
revealing Remember facts or situations it will help us recognize the real
scenario of the problem
Neshah is stability which will come when we solve the prob-
lem Imagine your life without the problem try to see which things will
be better and analyze which ones could be worse in order to avoid them
Donrsquot let it catch you off guard Just like in a chess match every move
must be carefully thought out and advantage taken of the adversaryrsquos lit-
tle mistakes
Assiah is the world of Solutions formed by Yesod and Malkuth
Yesod is the sefirath of foundation it is the one to support and
filter the information sent by the rest to Malkuth If the other nine have
done their job correctly the problem would reach this point practically
resolved In some cases it doesnrsquot even reach this point since it was re-
solved on its way As long as we clarify and converge ideas analyze the
real causes and describe its consequences the storm we saw coming at
first becomes a sea breeze
Malkuth is the earth action It establishes these ways to fol-
low to resolve a problem or whatrsquos left of it The truth is that Malkuth
steps in less than 5 of the cases because the big problems do not ex-
ist but small problems that transformed a snow ball rolling downhill that
breaks up into thousands of harmless little particles when it hits a serious
and conclusive analytical spirit
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
111
The Sefiroacutethico
Tree of the logical thought
Diverge
Facts
Acknowl-
edging
Filtration
Action
Serenity
Equilibrium
Origin
Converge
Knowing
Heart
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
112
The Worlds of Solutions
The other three worlds of the spirit (sensations emotions and intuition)
are present in the previous development as observers but sometimes
(many times) they are present in the analysis of the concrete world where
logical thoughts occur taking the solution to the problem through not so
logical paths In these cases we have to appeal to the central column or
Column of Equilibrium of the Sefirotic Tree of the Spirit
Kether (Intuition) receiving the energy that the Divinity and Its
Light sends us
Leb (Heart) will find answers in our feelings
Tipherzt (Beauty) will consult our inner sensations
Yesod and Malkuth (Foundation and Earth) bring us back to the
world of reasoning and logic
This means that we can solve many problems using our intuition our
feelings or our sensations but we should always put them through the
filter of logical thought of truth putting passion aside and trying to be as
analytical as possible
Instincts Feelings and Sensations
Instincts or Atziluth feelings or Briah and sensations or Yetsirah to-
gether create an inner stir up when motivated by action Mankind is
mostly conditioned by emotions and sensations by likes and dislikes
Often enough feelings and sensations are side tracked by mankindrsquos own
interests and selfishness to the point of invalidating sense and reason
making one behave in ways which one sees with consternation that Assi-
ah has been forgotten Thus logic is destroyed by the three upper
worlds When we snap out later and we see the mistake it is too late to
do anything about it
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
113
The upper worlds usually come up as an answer to the spontaneous eval-
uation of perceptions Emotions such as anger or fear can be harmful or
healthy such as fondness or compassion While aversions are typical un-
healthy emotions good love and compassion are outstanding examples of
noble emotions that lift our human nature
Human beings are pretty open to emotional development and so is the
range and strength of their emotions We are all somewhat passionate
and impulsive and cold and reflective at the same time What varies is
the percentage some get angry very fast and others are patient While
one person could be not impulsive emotionally another could go through
a wide range of emotions at the speed of light
The emotional worlds hurt the physical body that is why they should be
controlled According to clinical experience a person dominated by
emotions could have consecutively or simultaneously health issues af-
fecting several organic systems I will mention a few psychosomatic
health problems
Migraines
This symptom is made up of other somatic symptoms that go to-
gether in people with a perfectionist personality with changing moods
They usually manifest themselves with painful muscle contractions of the
neck as well as nausea and vomiting
Obesity
Obesity usually develops within the frame of anxieties in re-
sponse to frustrations and disappointment through devotion to food8
Hypertension
The main reason for vascular hypertension is emotional tension
in people who show apparent serenity and affability but are really cover-
ing up hostile emotions and predisposition ndash that must be restrained ndash for
social or employment reasons
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
114
Cardiovascular System
It has been proven that the stress caused by anguish tends to fre-
quently increase your heart beat cardiac distress and blood pressure
Respiratory System
Crying laughing screaming o talking imply changes your
breathing action excessive breathing or the opposite are typical respons-
es during contrasting periods of action or relaxation Examples of this are
the hyperventilation syndrome and asthma amongst others
The Gastrointestinal Tract
The symptoms of gastrointestinal disorders are multiple the most
frequent they are anorexia bulimia nausea nervous indigestion vomit-
ing and diarrhea
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
115
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Yesod Foundation
Free Will
The emotional worlds
Control of emotions
Who controls me
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
116
The emotional worlds
The emotional worlds are distributed within the Sefirotic Tree from
Kether to Malkuth
Kether is imagination it is ethereal and impalpable it comes
from within and surprises us as if it came from outside We imagine
things or situations this is the world of Atziluth
What happens in our lives makes better sense when we use our imagina-
tion and create our own stories These could be situations related directly
to what is happening to us or just the opposite For example if we are
watching a Superman movie we unconsciously accept that the character
flies We know the actor is supported by ropes of steel or that it is a
computerized trick but we go prepared to accept this The same thing
happens with a horror movie we donrsquot ignore that the monster is made
out of some synthetic material that those masks are created with makeup
or that the blood could be tomato sauce but while we are watching the
movie we let the world of Atziluth take over our spirit and we accept
what takes place in the screen as real
The important thing is to know when the movie ends and reality begins
There have been cases of people jumping off rooftops believing they
were Superman or have shot others thinking they were either Rambo or
Terminator Without going to these extreme examples many people be-
lieve they are living stories out of soap operas in which the characters
are either good or bad In them the manipulation of society is done
through ldquobelievablerdquo or ldquodetestablerdquo stereotypes In these stories the
ldquogood guysrdquo consume the sponsorrsquos products that is why they are good
looking and successful while the ldquobad guys are very badrdquo and always
end up in jail or dead Very far from the reality
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
117
Hokhmah is memory it is our particular wisdom it is what we
learn from the past the things our own life has taught us But memories
sometimes play tricks on us
Often enough we associate what we see with some other type of experi-
ence or memory For instance if somebody speaks loudly we feel we are
being attacked because we remember that tone of voice being used by a
teacher or our father to make an observation or punish us This memory
which is not rational will put us on alert waking all our feelings of de-
fense But it could be that this person speaks loudly because he needs to
be listened to with the best intentions towards us In this case Atziluth
would have reacted against our relationship with the other person We
usually do not notice these processes because these are unconscious be-
haviors of which we are not aware When we remember the incident we
only describe our experience related to the visual perception and with
conscientious thought We almost never refer to what we heard felt im-
agined or what our intuition told us What this does is that we visualize
an incomplete picture of the situation
Binah is the comprehension our intelligence While we hear the
other person speaking loudly we generate currents of thought These
thoughts could relate directly and we could probably raise our voice as
well Both of us speaking loudly almost screaming will dull our compre-
hension and we wonrsquot be able to reason the other personrsquos words nor
will we understand why we are being loud In unexpected situations
such as an accident in transit (like somebody hitting our car in the free-
way) we create an opinion of the other person while we observe the in-
cident But we do not reason the occurrence It is not easy for us to un-
derstand in those circumstances and we unchain reactions that we will
regret later
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
118
ldquoThe three sefiroth of the tree of emotions make up the trilogy of At-
ziluth where everything is potential everything is relative where im-
agination lives with memories and comprehe nsionrdquo
Listening is Hesed greatness since knowing how to listen is
greatness Our hearing perceives in a selective way depending on the
attention we are paying In first place we hear the most discordant
sounds Some people listen independently from what they see while
others associate what they hear to what they see Closer sounds also get
mixed with those coming from afar (planes trains)
Seeing is Geburah justice When the police investigate an acci-
dent talks to five witnesses and gets five different versions of the same
accident This is because each witness perceived the same scene in a dif-
ferent way according to their distance and angle their surprise their
memories and their fears What each one was doing and how long it took
their minds to react to adapt to the new situation is also important
Feeling is Tipherzt beauty Any situation of relationship or ac-
tion (somebody yelling at us somebody crashing into us somebody hug-
ging us or loving us) triggers our instinctive emotions and can make us
feel uncomfortable sad surprised tender excited furious anxious nos-
talgichellip and so many other ways
It is important to know how to handle them from the sefirath of beauty
Both love and fury are born there It is the provider of spiritual nourish-
ment it is the one that sends the order to our hand to slap or caress to our
mouth the order to insult or say words of love to our legs the order to get
closer or start running away If we control our reactions and let our brain
make the decision we will save ourselves lots of problems apologies and
unpleasantness
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
119
ldquoThese three sefiroth of the tree of emotions form the trilogy of
Briah the world of creation where strength idea and ways of liste n-
ing seeing and feeling come togetherrdquo
Taste and smell are Hod and Neshah or glory and stability the sev-
enth and eighth sefiroth These two senses go together When we smell a
dish we like we feel our mouth ldquowateringrdquo This is because our sense of
taste already sent the known flavors to our brain which in turn already
started in Yetsirah the registered memories In some gas stations we
taste the smell of gasoline in our mouth as if we had drunk it Being close
to a trash dump makes us nauseous since the smell is perceived by our
nose and mouth irritating our throat
In these cases the formative world of Yetsirah makes us react instinc-
tively to aggressive odors
Reflexes are Yesod foundation This sefirah closes the trilogy of the
world of Yetsirah which is the formative or conceptual world and re-
flexes just like taste and smell are instinctive concepts that we cannot
control When we watch a thriller or action movie we move as if we
were the character in it we flinch when they stick a knife into somebody
or we move avoiding the punch We usually experience some movements
as if we were moving ourselves we even experience tension in our mus-
cles Itrsquos common that if we see others dancing we will also feel the im-
pulse to dance
ldquoThese three sefiroth are the base of our instinctive and intuitive sys-
tem We can control all other sefiroth imagination memories un-
derstanding listening seeing and even feeling but the senses of smell
and taste and reflexes are very hard to control that is why we must
concentrate our attention on themrdquo
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
120
Re-
mem-
ber
Lis-tening
Tast-
ing
Re-
flexes
Rea-
soning
Feel-
ing
Smell-ing
Seeing
Compre-
hension
Imag-
ining
As we can see Malkuth is in the world of Assiah and takes no part in
emotions It is the material world reason and reasoning If we manage to
handle our emotions and ldquobring them downrdquo to Malkuth reason will
prevail and our behavior will be logical improving our relation with the
world
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
121
Controlling your emotions
Now that we know our emotions we know where their origin
takes place and which worlds rule them we can analyze the possibility of
controlling them to reach our goals since a person who angers easily
spoils hisher own happiness and disturbs otherrsquos peace of mind
Without a deliberate effort emotions will not be under the direct
control of our will of Assiah and we will be able to control them in this
rational and logic world We must train our mind to control our emotions
the moment they stir up This can be done by watching them objectively
as soon as they flourish identifying them with a name or a mental label
such as ldquoAngerrdquo ldquoJealousyrdquo ldquoSorrowrdquo ldquoFuryrdquo etc
Once we have names for our emotions we will be then in a bet-
ter position to let go of them without being dragged by them The mo-
ment we can register our anger calmly (when we become aware that this
anger originated in the upper worlds) that is when we make it descend to
Assiah to the world of reason and our anger will leave us
At first this could be useful if during the day we repeat to our-
selves a formula such as
ldquoWhat am I feeling nowrdquohellip ldquoWhat am I thinkingrdquohellip
We respond immediately
ldquoI am feeling angerrdquohellip ldquoI am jealousrdquohellip
We can also investigate even afterwards why the anger (or any
other adverse emotion) took over us so that we can avoid these situations
or responses in the future
Who controls me
Even though every human being has in its spirit the world of As-
siah very few use this world to think logically and by themselves This
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
122
passivity or indifference is the result of the development of massive
communication media
Radio television yellow journalism even the Internet push their
messages on all of us every minute of the day and its penetration power
is reinforced by the rooted human disposition to accept everything we are
being told and comply with what we are dared to do Bombarded by
thousands of stimuli we donrsquot think by ourselves anymore we donrsquot feel
our emotions anymore or start up our own actions instead we feel how
others want us to feel The pressure of the multitude is irresistible
When we explain that Kether accepts that Superman flies be-
cause it is part of the film game we must control that Kether does not
accept that my self esteem depends on the perfume or shirt I buy or that
my relationship with people does not depend on the car I have
We saw that in the world of Atziluth everything is relative eve-
rything is in a potential state that is why commercials aim at our imagina-
tion memories and comprehension to get us to buy their products
All these communication means teach us to hold our capacity to
reason or if we happen to reason to do it the way they expect us to
Those who manipulate the media (not necessarily the owners but the
sponsors) are motivated by their own interests which are fortune and
power They play important roles in several means of life such as politic
business law medicine and education
Publicity newscasts soap operas even reality shows penetrate
us through the world of Briah which is the listeningseeingfeeling trilo-
gy In Briah we find the idea in formation that is why journalism is con-
sidered the ldquofourth powerrdquo Nevertheless in todayrsquos globalizes world
Kabbalah places it at the top over all other earthly powers because it
manipulates images ideas and it gives us the news ldquoaimedrdquo at their inter-
ests The role of reasoning tends to be subordinated to that of emotion
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
123
while the mental inertia and indifference eases the conquest of reason
That is why when public opinion is formed through manipulation a small
minority is able to control the majority Publicity and newscasts are the
most effective mechanism to make us ldquobelieverdquo what is good or bad for
our spirit and body
Control of decisions and Free Will
All of those who are part of the small but powerful marketing
minority have something to sell Commercials make us wish more and
more things that will not necessarily make us happier or give us peace of
mind They tell us that happiness is having the latest entertainment center
or the new cooking system But no matter how many things we buy we
could still feel our lives painfully empty
The speed power and efficiency of all this technological and so-
cial development drive us into an increasing frequency of illness due to
stress and nervous crisis Those who do not collapse under this pressure
find other ways to escape such as drugs alcohol and psychotic cults
The battle is not easy because the offer is gratifying we are even part of
that wheel because we sell a product or service which is commercialized
that way The only significant comparison we can make is with our-
selves between the person we were one month earlier a year earlier or
even a decade earlier and the person we are at present physically intel-
lectually morally and financially If there hasnrsquot been an improvement
or it hasnrsquot been enough we should ask ourselves why that is and do
something to modify this without delay If done regularly this ldquocheck-
uprdquo could be very beneficial If we set our pride and prejudice aside and
we check out our values and perspectives then we will be able to live a
simpler healthier and happier life
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Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Malkuth
The Kingdom
The Rational World
Education and freedom
Rights and obligations
Daily negotiations Responsibilities
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125
Education and freedom
As a child I was told that
ldquoThe better educated a person is the freer that person isrdquo
At the time I didnrsquot understand the significance of those words
because at the age of ten to me education was school teachers and
studying
Today a few years older the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah taught
me that education is knowledge and it is much more profound than what I
was taught in school
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the first thing educa-
tion should do is warn the students that all knowledge implies a certain
risk of error and illusion Human knowledge is exposed to errors in per-
ception and judgment and illusions caused by the narrowness of ideas
cultural influence and the emotions and experiences of each person
Scientific knowledge is not even immune to error and illusion
theories and methods of investigation protect their own errors and illu-
sions That is why the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah education gives the kind
of knowledge that allows for self criticism and detects errors and illu-
sions The ldquoknowledge blindnessrdquo can be cured with a more open and
reflexive education that self-criticizes
The media overwhelms us with information It is fundamental
that we learn to discern what is relevant and what is accessorial
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah invites us to analyze the four
worlds of the human spirit together with the four worlds of the societies
in which they live political cultural religious and financial
The archetypical world called Atziluth is the one where eve-
rything is in a latent potential state That is the spirituality and religious
world
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In the creative world called Briah we find the strength in its
pure form and the ideas This is the emotional or cultural world
In the formative world called Yetsirah everything is in the
formation or a conceptual process which is the world of sensations or
political
In the material world called Assiah is where the physical
manifestation takes place which is the logical or financial world
Globalization is another important issue that conditions our free-
dom According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the world has been
globalizing from its inception God never discriminated we are all His
children Moses was a ldquoglobalizesrdquo when he took his people to the Prom-
ised Land through the desert So were Abraham Noah Jesus when he
asked his apostles to take his word evangelizing throughout the Earth
The current systems of communication make us realize how sim-
ilar and at the same time how different we are from each other The
Judeo-Christian Kabbalah struggles for unity not to erase diversity and
vice-versa Neither is the individual person above religion culture or so-
ciety nor is religion culture or society above the individual person Only
God is above each and every one of us
Let us remember that God created the four Genii or Elements
(Earth Air Water and Fire) and it is the obligation of all human beings
to protect them since they are our only support Mankind is destroying
them with the contamination it has created which will derive in our own
destruction But this depends on our free will thai is why there is an
even more powerful globalization than the financial one the intellectual
affective and moral globalization This is the only way we will achieve
the Freedom to which the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah invites you the
world is united by its culture technology and the financial exchange and
at the same time it is divided by politics and religion
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127
To need
Control
Respect
Free Will
LIFE
Happiness
Dignity
Freedom
To know
To love
Kabbalah teach us to understand that every human being shares
the same worries feelings and the same destiny no matter where he
lives
The values of the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah are solidarity hos-
pitality tolerance and respect towards the dignity of every person This
means that every culture should learn from other cultures and each socie-
ty from other societies
The kabballistic ideals of freedom consist in respect for the indi-
viduality and diversity and promoting solidarity and comprehension
Responsibilities
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Rights and obligations
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah bases its doctrine on the rights and obliga-
tions of all human beings Each person has certain right and obligations
which become basic responsibilities of which each person must take
charge one hundred percent like the responsibility to control and manage
its own life building its own life plan and following it by accomplishing
goals
These obligations have three important axes based on the first three
sefiroth
bull Kether or Crown and self-esteem
bull Hokhmah or the Wisdom to known oneself
bull Binah or the Intelligence to make decisions according
to onersquos inner and outer personal needs without hurting
oneself or others
The basic rights are found in the seven lower sefiroth
bull Hesed and the right to freedom
bull Geburah and the right to control your life
bull Tipherzt and the right to happiness
bull Neshah and the right to dignity
bull Hod and the right to (respect) be respected
bull Yesod and the right of free expression
bull Malkuth and the right to life
Mankind in its daily interaction relates to its sefiroth and its funda-
mental rights according to three different styles of response based on the
lower worlds
The world of Briah or pure or emotional power
It promotes inequality always having a loser and winner This is not a
creative or equal relation
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129
The person denies its own respect rights and needs hurting itself
These are mostly selfish individualist and passionate people
The world of Yetsirah or conceptual
It deals with defending onersquos own rights without hurting others It im-
plies equality and respect
The person knows the border line between its own individuality and
those of others
They are mostly realistic practical conventional and objective
The world of Assiah or physical or logical manifestation
They are mostly analytic calculating cold and insensitive
It promotes non-equal relationships against the rights of others It is
an unbalanced relationship in which manipulation takes place
The person invades the rights of others getting Responses of fear
Daily negotiations
When people speak of negotiations they think they are talking about
money but negotiation is part of daily life and it is also analyzed
through the sefirotic trees of the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah
The negotiation can be with oneself for instance
Irsquom staying in bed another fifteen minutes even if I have to go
to work without breakfast
The negotiation can be with your spouse for instance
We can spend Christmas with your family if we spend New
Yearrsquos with mine
We can negotiate with our children for example
You can have the car tonight if you come home early and
wash it tomorrow
We can negotiate with our fellow workers for instance
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130
If you cover me this Saturday Irsquoll cover you next Sunday
As you can see in none of these examples and many more that surely
you must remember is money mentioned as exchange In a negotiation
the effort must be compensated equally
Nobody should win or lose or better yet both should come out winning
obtaining something each one wants In a negotiation everybody should
know what is at stake and what each one will obtain in exchange
Let us remember that the method of solving problems is based on the
lower or material world of Assiah but a negotiation reaches for the upper
worlds like Yetsirah or intuition or the world of Briah or emotions in
some cases it even appeals to Atziluth or spirit
You must train you brain to stay in the lower worlds to negotiate be-
cause it will be more to your benefit Try to be objective since feelings
or emotions play against you and the effort will not be compensated
equally
You must create what is called a creative antagonism separating the ob-
jective facts in order to get to a reasonable and logic agreement It is very
important that both parties feel they are winners Get used to listening to
every word the other person is saying In Kabbalah the word is very im-
portant it has a double message what is being said and what is meant
When your spouse child or friend get angry and scream for something
you already know it is not important they are really saying something
else Hug himher kiss himher on the forehead and tell himher you
want to hear the reasons behind the anger But on the contrary if you
feel offended and respond screaming even louder you will have lost the
negotiation before you even begin
Turn your defects into virtues that way you will get a just negotiation
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131
If you are passive think of the object and state your argument
with precision and not getting nervous
If you are aggressive look for the motives and keep them
away while negotiating
If triumph is important to you think the other one is right and
try to be unbiased
If you are anguished think of the reasons in your favor not to
show weakness
If you are a fatalist and you think you are going to lose nego-
tiate with a relaxed mind you have nothing to risk act without
worrying about the end result
When Jesus says
ldquoPut the other cheekrdquo
He refers to Judeo-Christian Kabbalah because it is not to be
slapped but to accept the embrace of negotiation
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132
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Conclusions
The Tree of Trees
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
133
The Tree of Trees
Reading this book we have learned to go through the different
sefirotic trees the creation of the universe its worlds and centers of
strength the sefirotic columns the Adam Kadmon tree Jesusrsquo genealogy
the Our Father the Sermon in the Mountain (Beatitudes) the evolution of
mankind gestation development maturing the spirit decisions emo-
tions and even responsibilities
But we also learned about the existence of infinite sefirotic trees
because each sefirath (no matter how small) contains a tree within and
each tree (no matter how big) is only a sefirath of a larger tree
If we try to unify all the sefirotic trees we will see that they are
all similar we could even say the same they all have the same logical
pattern they were all created by the same Divine Architect
The sefiroth take different names according to their presence but
their strength does not change since they are endless sources of energy
That is why when we see Sephiroth we see its gifts
Kether Crown Inspiration Divine Light Supra-One א
Hokhmah Wisdom Word Experience Soul ב
Binah Intelligence Spirit Thought Fortune ג
Hesed Greatness Love Humility Strength Giving ד
Geburah Justice David Truth Respect Shape ה
Tipherzt Beauty Salomon Purity Fidelity Goodness ו
Neshah Stability Power Forgiveness Trust Effort ז
Hod Glory Blessing Protection Education ח
Yesod Foundation Simplicity Assistance Purification ט
Malkuth Kingdom Peace Prayer Freedom Birth י
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134
The only sefirath that has only one meaning or name is Leb the
sefirath of the heart and for that reason it cannot be modified Because it
is virtual it appears or disappears according to the tree we are looking at
because its power is so big that it doesnrsquot need to be identified or be pre-
sent in the tree because it is a Sefirotic Tree in itself and it is the one that
guides us and protects us
Each one of us has its own Sefirotic Tree which we
must go through without a doubt from Kether to Malkuth and from
Malkuth to Kether
Free will lets us chose the road to take the sefiroth to go
through but it does not let us get out of our own and only tree
We are the only craft men of our own destiny we devel-
op our only precious and exclusive Tree of Life
It is up to us to comply with our Logics Divine Plan or to
decide to evade our responsibilities looking for shortcuts and trying to
twist the Divine assignments
The free will given to us by God demands that we put our spir-
itual and philosophical life in order without further delay to build a dig-
nified future and face each day as if it were the last one
The physical and spiritual kaballistic world from Kether to
Malkuth is truly a happy place to live in if people only thought of go-
ing through their personal and unique Sefirotic Tree
Let us remember these wise words
ldquoDeath is certain life is uncertainrdquo
(Maranam niyatam jivitam aniyatam)
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135
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
The Divine Logic
Cesar Leo Marcus
Windmills International Editions Inc
wwwwindmillseditionscom
California - USA ndash 2012
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136
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
2
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
The Divine Logic Author Ceacutesar Leo Marcus Writing 2005
Translation of the second edition wwwwindmillseditionscom
windmillswindmillseditionscom
Copyright 2007 Cesar Leo Marcus
All Rights Reserved
ISBN 978-1-4303-0826-3
It is a crime the total or partial reproduction of this book his computer
treatment nor the transmission of any form or for any way already be
electronic mechanical neither for photocopy for record or other meth-
ods his lending rent or any other form of transfer of use of the copy
without the previous permission and in writing of the holder of the
Copyright
Only it will be possible reproduce partial paragraphs of the same one
with the mention of the title and the author
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Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
3
With much love to
The One ndash my Kether
Mariacutea Maruca Matzkin ndash my Hokhmah Israel Isrul Malcug ndash my Binah
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
4
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
He was born in Buenos Aires Argentina He has studied journalism lo-
gistics renewable energy resources (wind hydroelectric and solar)
economy and sociology in South America and Europe He researched
and compared religions in different parts of the world including the Pa-
pal Library of the Vatican
Has published over a hundred pieces in newspapers and magazines in
the US Latin America and Spain
He has won awards such as El Sol Azteca and was recognized for his
work in journalism literature and sociology by the United States con-
gress and by California senators and assembly republicans and demo-
crats of California
He is Member of International Coach Federation (ICF) and the National
Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ)
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
5
Table of Contents
Prologue - 06 -
Introduction - 07 -
Kether the Crown - The Holy Scriptures - 10 -
Hokhmah Wisdom - The Sacred Ideas - 21 -
Binah Intelligence- The Tree of Life - 26 -
Hesed Greatness - Adam Kadmon - 36 -
Geburah Judgment - Letters and Numbers - 41-
Tipherzt Beauty Christian Kabbalah - 56 -
Neshah Stability The Divine Creation -80-
Hod Glory The human being - 97 -
Yesod Foundation Senses - 115 -
Malkuth The rational Kingdom - 124-
Conclusions The Tree of trees - 132-
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6
Prologue
Many years ago the paths of my Sefirotic Tree took me to Jerusa-
lem where Rabbi Zev ben Itzjhak introduced me to the secret world of
Kabbalah Those sefirotic paths took me to the Vatican to pry into the
Papal library with Pope Paul VIrsquos authorization to plunge myself into
de Holy Scriptures analyze different religions to research their similari-
ties and to compare them
I understood the teachings of the Divine Masters such as Adam
Abraham Moses Akiba Jesus and Mohammed discovering that no path
will take us to happiness because happiness is in finding our own path
in our own Tree of Life
I wrote this book because the 21st century will open up for all
mankind a spiritual space never seen yet It is the century of revelations
and the time for ldquokabbalistic evangelizationrdquo through which we will un-
derstand there is no reason for the erroneously called religious war be-
cause the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah allows us to cross the gates towards
the union of souls where each and everyone of us are very important
pieces of this Logic Divine Plan
That the Sky illuminates him
Cesar Leo Marcus - 2005
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
7
Introduction
Since the beginning of the Divine Creation since water earth air
and fire combined to form life since early vegetation covered the land
since animals developed into dinosaurs since giants (vegetable and ani-
mal) disappeared giving way to the world as we know it today since the
first man understood that he was no longer an ape and learned to use his
intelligence which is forever the Kabbalah Judeo-Christian was pre-
sent revealing every step and every line of this Logic Divine Plan
This book answers the four most difficult questions us humans
ask ourselves the easiest way possible
Which is the Divine Logic Plan for each one of us
What should we do to find our Path
Who are we really and what is our goal
What is free will and how does it benefit us
To find these answers we must travel the road or path of the
sefirot which is not easy In order to do so each one of us can adopt one
of two possible attitudes
We can envision the road or path as a barrier that sepa-
rates us from our goals or sefirot battling with strength against obstacles
considering every step a conquest But I must warn you many desist half
way down the road and the few that do make it end up totally worn out
and without the strength to enjoy their triumph
Or we can envision the sefirotic road or path as the way
to achieve our objectives as part of the affixed goal From the very first
moment we step onto the road we will be walking the arm of the sefirot
or desired goal and without battling or effort we will get there Walking
through it we will gain from whatever the sefirotic path offers us Most
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8
people will get there without effort or exhaustion enjoying the tiny daily
triumphs and finally achieving their goals
The students of Judeo-Christian Kabbalah chose the second op-
tion we know that the path itself is our teacher that we learn just by
walking through the sefirotic paths and as we near our goal we leave
behind our weaknesses our fears and we value our spiritual weapons our
inner resources our strengths
The students of Judeo-Christian Kabbalah
know that we have come to this world to be happyhellip
Understanding happiness as a means to offer our spirit and soul the
opportunity to learn surrounded by light and positive e nergy
Those who wish to study Judeo-Christian Kabbalah will search
in this book for answers to questions they hadnrsquot even thought of before
and that were hidden from regular people in the past
This book seeks the interpretation of the Sacred Books
and most especially of the symbolism of the sefirot
This book seeks to explain the existence of man the pur-
pose of his life and where he comes from
This book seeks to unveil the occult understanding the
sefirotic trees and the four worlds that make them up
This book seeks to discover the hidden scenarios of your
life achieving the much desired happiness without effort
This book seeks to acknowledge the mystical magic and
creative power of the Tree of Life and its sefirot
This book seeks to be not a abstract study quite the con-
trary whoever studies Judeo-Christian Kabbalah will be able to analyze
the Tree of Life and its sefirot understanding their importance on onersquos
life
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
9
This bookrsquos search takes place within each reader because
ldquoKabbalahrdquo comes from the Hebrew words ldquoLaykabbelrdquo meaning To
Receive and ldquoHabbalahrdquo which means Tradition which refers to the Tra-
dition of To Receive and Kabbalah describes this action as ldquoThe tradi-
tion of wishing to receiverdquo This tradition of wishing to receive develops
and grows in four worlds that continuously come together and grow
apart
To Receive the pleasure of money and power this is the
material world
To Receive the pleasure of acknowledgement and hon-
ors this is the conceptual world
To Receive the pleasure of love and affection this is the
world of senses
To Receive the pleasure of the union with the Divinity
which is the spiritual world which is the highest in the pyramid of the
desires because it wraps and raises all the rest
ldquoHe who acknowledges the power of the
Kabbalah and the tradition of to receivehellip
Will search the means to attain its Lightrdquo
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10
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Kether The Crown
The Sacred Books
Old Testament
New Testament
Koran or Quram
The Zohar
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
11
The Old Testament
The Hebrew has three scriptures The Tanakh or Old Testament
the Talmud or collection of erudite commentaries on the Tanakh and
The Kabbalah or mystic interpretation of the Torah Ancient rabbis
would say that the first of these three books represented the Divine Body
the second one the Divine Spirit and the fourth one the Divine Soul The
average person can benefit from reading and obeying the first book eru-
dite scholars can study the second one but wise people meditate with the
third one
The Tanakh
Old Testament also called The Book of Books is divided in
three parts
The Torah the Law which envelops the first five books
ldquoJumashrdquo(5) in hebrew also called ldquoPentateuchrdquo or the Law of Moses
These are the five books Genesis (Bereshit) Exodus (Shemoth) Leviti-
cus (Vayikra) Numbers (Bamidbar) and Deuteronomy (Devarim) They
cover the period between the Genesis up to Mosesrsquo death on the thresh-
old of the entry into the Promised Land (Canaan)
Nevirsquoim (Prophets) The second part of the Tanakh co-
vers a vast period which goes from the conquest up to the last prophets
These are the books contained therein Joshua (the conquest period)
Judges I and II Samuel I and II Kings and those dedicated to the major
prophets Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel and Daniel and the minor prophets
Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah
Haggai Zecariah and Malachi
Ketuvim (writings) This third part of the Tanakh is
made up of the book of Psalms Proverbs Job Ezra Nehemiah Ruth
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
12
Song of Songs Lamentations (Eichah) Ecclesiastes Esther and Chroni-
cles I and II They cover a vast period that goes from the VII century of
the Common Era up to the Persian period the return to Israel and the
building of the second Temple of Jerusalem
The Talmud
The Halakha-Mishnah-Aggada-Talmud Bavli (of Babylon)-
Yerushalmi (of Jerusalem) is a compilation of the oral tradition transmit-
ted from generation to generation which covers all topics in the Tanakh
including
The Halakha or the Law explains the rules and princi-
ples pronounced in the Torah rules of conduct religious principles and
rituals Covers a wide variety of issues revolving around the individual
the family and living in community The Halakha has ruled life for centu-
ryrsquos right up to the present
The Mishnah which cover the following rules and regu-
lations are six basic sedarim or treaties (singular=seder)
Moed talks about the festivities א
Zeraim (Seeds) deals with labor practices ב
Nezikin deals with relationships within a group ג
Nashim are the family rules ד
Kodoshim deals with sanctity and holiness ה
Tohorot-kosher are Laws of purity ו
The Gemara the oral law with comments and exegetical rabbin-
ic statements has been study material for centuries nourishing philoso-
phy teachings It contains practically every bit of traditional wisdom col-
lected for centuries
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
13
This oral law also contains a vast literary work Haggadah and
Midrashim (legends and comments) on biblical figures of exemplary
conduct
The Kabbalah
The Kabbalah was in ancient literature the totality of the reli-
gious doctrine obtained with the exception of the Pentateuch As of the
X century DC Kabbalah was considered a secret mysterious and theo-
sophical science destined to explain always in a cryptic language the
Creation of the Universe by the Being defined as ldquoOne and Absoluterdquo
Some kabbalists such as Pico Della Mirandola Reuchlin and
Schikard adopt the old tradition according to which Kabbalah develops
from the inspiration that God instilled in Adam Abraham Moses Bud-
dha Jesus Mohammed Bahi and all those that constitute the mystic cir-
cle of the Latter Prophets
Kabbalah is not exclusively Jewish since first Jesus and later
Mohammed were kabbalist scholars
The New Testament
Having taken Jesus as an example as we know it when he was
born there were three religious doctrines in Palestine the Pharisees and
Sadducees of which the Gospels often speak and the Essenes which are
never mentioned Tradition states that the boy Emanuel ben Yoseph was
sent by the erudite doctors of the Law to the community of the Essenes
near the Dead Sea after being heard at the Temple at the age of thirteen
to be educated according to the mystic tradition of Israel The Kabbalah
He stayed with the Essenes until he was thirty years old Emanuel ben
Yoseph or Jesus Christ teaches the continuity of the Hebrew Scriptures
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14
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the
Prophets I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them I tell you
the truth until heaven and earth disappear not the smallest letter not the
least stroke of a pen will by any means disappear from the Law until
everything is accomplished (Mt 517)
However I admit that I worship the God of our fathers
as a follower of the Way which they call a sect I believe everything that
agrees with the Law and that is written in the Prophetsrdquo (Acts 2414)
Jesus answered It is written Man does not live on
bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God (Mat-
thew 44) referring to Deuteronomy 83 ldquohellipto teach you that man does
not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of
Godrdquo
In the chapter called Tipherzt-Beauty you will find a broader ex-
planation of the Christian Kabbalah and an analysis of the Kabbalistic
Jesus and his apostles
The Koran or Quram
The Koran or Quram is the sacred book of Islam containing the
word of Allah (God) as revealed to Mohammed through the angel Gabri-
el (Gibrail or Yibril)
During his life the Prophet Mohammed received the revelations
either verbally or written on palm leaves pieces of leather or bones etc
Upon the death of Mohammed in the year 632 his followers began to
gather all these revelations which during the period in which Uthman ibn
Affan was Caliph took the shape we know nowadays 114 chapters each
one called surah subdivided into verses or phrases
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
15
For the Muslims the Koran is the eternal and un-created work of
God therefore it was to be transmitted without the slightest change in the
original language the classic Arabic considered a sacred tongue for all
purposes
However in recent times the Koran has been translated to many
languages aimed specially at the believer whose native language is not
Arabic But even so believers are obligated to read it in its original lan-
guage because they claim that the contents of the Koran has not been
modified in centuries and a translation is an interpretation
Mohamed admits the continuity of the Hebrew Scriptures in the
following passages of the Koran
ldquoAnd most certainly We gave Musa (Moses) the Book
and We sent apostles after him one after anotherrdquo (Koran surah 287)
ldquoSurely We revealed the Taurat (Torah) in which was
guidance and light with it the prophets who submitted themselves
(to Allah) judged (matters) for those who were Jewsrdquo (surah 544)
ldquoCertainly We made a covenant with the children of Is-
rael and We sent to them apostlesrdquo (surah 570)
ldquoAnd certainly We gave the Book to Musa so be not in
doubt concerning the receiving of it and we made it a guide for the
children of Israelrdquo (surah 3223)
According to the Koran ldquothe Messiah Isa (Jesus) son of
Marium (Mary) is only an apostle of Allah and word which He
communicated to Marium and a spirit from Himrdquo (surah 4171)
He is a prophet or a servant of Allah (surah 4359) but
not His son(surah 6101)
The Muslims consider him a Messiah (in Arabic
ldquoMasihrdquo very similar to the Hebrew ldquoMashiacuteajrdquo) to them it means an
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
16
elevated prophet (ldquoanointedrdquo) the closest one to Allah before Mo-
hammed
The word Messiah Masih (ldquoanointedrdquo) can be found in
Surahs 345 4157 171-172 517-72-75 930-31 The highest
prophet except for Mohammed
The Islam considers the mystery of the Trinity and in-
carnation an ldquoassociationrdquo and therefore an offense against the
uniqueness of Allah (surah 112)
But not this way the first three sefirot that wrap the symbolism of
the Trinity
Mohammed sensed the Kabbalah in the Koran since Isa (Je-
sus) is the word of Allah and a spirit from Him son of the Holy Spirit
but they do not exactly consider Isa (Jesus) as if he were Allah
And furthermore the Koran affirms that at the end of time when
humanity will be called to judgment by Allah Isa (Jesus) will stand by
Him as witness and part therein (surah 4361) And everyone who did
not believe in him will believe in him (surah 4157)
Those who interpret the Koran affirm that Isa (Jesus) will come
back to this world at the end of time to save Humanity from damnation
and convert it to Allah
The Zohar
The composition of the Kabbalistic doctrine as we know it to-
day it attributed to Rabbi Shimeon ben Yochai in century II He is the
author of the Zohar ldquoThe Book of Splendorrdquo one of the basic texts of
the Kabbalah Shimeon ben Yochai (80-160) was a disciple of Rebbi
Akiva ldquoRashbirdquo (40-137) who had been sentenced to death by the Ro-
mans because he would not acknowledge nor obey the ruling authority of
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
17
Rome nor would he reveal any Kabbalah secrets to them Even though
the Zohar was written by Rabbi Shimeon ben Yochai Rebbi Akiva was
its true inspirer
Adam Kadmon Zohar XVII Century
Rebbi Akiva ben Joseph was born southeast of Judea close to the
Mediterranean shore His father was a humble Jewish peasant who was
not acquainted with the literature of his people nor the traditions he had
never read the Torah nor visited the Temple Due to the precarious eco-
nomic conditions in which there was living the family Akiba none of her
children received formal education in her infancy The reality was that
Akiba ben Joseph I pass your childhood and adolescence as an illiterate
Mediterranean shepherd until a few years later he married with Raacutechel
who convinced it to leave your activity and to study with the big rabbini-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
18
cal teachers Akiba faced many difficulties in your learning That is why
he started learning the alphabet with his 5 year old son and soon was
reading text books in Hebrew he went on to study the Torah at Rabbi
Joseph ben Zakkairsquos renowned Yeshiva (academy) His teachers Eliezer
ben Hyrkanos Joshua ben Hananiah and Nahum of Gimzo became his
best friends because they admired his bright fast and resourceful mind
Fifteen years later at the top of his mental and physical faculties he be-
gan his monumental work the reconstruction of the Law and the estab-
lishment of an academy of permanent studies
At the age of 57 in the year 97 Akiba was already revered by
both by his colleagues and by the masses He visited rabbis and experts
of the Toraacute with the purpose of combining all the Jewish traditions and
then went on to classify them in a legal code divided up logistically The
effective combination of conciseness and precision served as example the
future generations In the centuries following Mishna (codification of
Jewish laws and traditions) it was acknowledged and studied by the rab-
binical authorities
With more than 65 years Rebbi Akiva founded his private Ye-
shiva (academy) in Bene Berak (Sons of Lightning) to the north of Jeru-
salem wanted to found several in the whole Israel for the study of the
Tora and of the Kabbalah
Everything went along smoothly until the year 125 CE when the
relationship between Jews and Romans deteriorated Emperor Hadrianusrsquo
decision to build a pagan sanctuary on Mount Moria (where the old tem-
ple had been) exacerbated spirits Excitement grew within the Jewish
people and led by Shimon bar Kojba they rebelled
In a little less than three years the Roman armies destroyed all
evidence of Jewish resistance The cruelty of the repression grew month
by month and in the year 134 the Romans enacted a drastic decree pro-
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
19
hibiting the practice and study of the Torah Rebbi Akiva was convinced
it was the end If the study of the Torah was abolished his life lacked all
meaning At the age of 95 defying the Roman authority he gathered his
students with the sole purpose to study Kabbalah
A few days later Rebbi Akiva was incarcerated The Romans re-
spected his knowledge reputation and distinguished personality Akiva
continued teaching his disciples from his cell which earned him judg-
ment He was found guilty tortured and sentenced to death With Rebbi
Akiva 24000 of his disciples were killed by the Romans only Rabbi
Simeon bar Yochai and four others survived Before being captured Reb-
bi Akiva and Rabbi Yehuda ben Baba authorized ldquoRashbirdquo to transmit to
future generations the Kabbalah they had taught him
The Zohar or ldquoBook of Splendorrdquo was composed by Simeon bar
Yochai and his son Elazar during the thirteen years they lived in a cave
hiding from the Roman army
ldquoRashbirdquo came out of the cave with the Zohar a flawless meth-
od to study the Kabbalah and having accomplished spirituality Rabbi
Simeon bar Yochai attained the 125 levels a human being can achieve
during his whole life in this world According to the latest investigations
the revelation of the current Kabbalah could be resumed this way
The historic Kabbalah was preceded by a movement (900-1200)
that preserved and encouraged the legacy of the Jewish gnosis
(knowledge of spiritual truth) Later on this movement penetrated Eu-
rope constantly at different stages Hasidism was an important intermedi-
ate stage Furthermore besides all the theoretical and mystical variances
of Kabbalah there was a much older one in which the secret names of
God and the angels were used the same way they are used in white mag-
ic not causing any harm to people Not to be confused with ldquoblack mag-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
20
icrdquo (kishcuf in Hebrew) international current containing elements from
Arabic Jewish and Christian magic
After the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in the year 1492 and
the establishment of a Jewish center in Safed (north of Galilea) Kabba-
lah also experienced a change since two systems flourished the Kabba-
lah of Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (1522-1570) and Kabbalah of Isaac
Luria (1534-1572)
In brief Cordoverorsquos Kabbalah could be defined as a theoretical
variant with many gnostic elements while Luriarsquos Kabbalah would be a
practical mysticism
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
21
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Hokhmah
Wisdom
The Sacred Ideas
Light
The spiritual Will
Tetragramaton
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
22
Light
We all have this sixth sense which we will call spiritual sense
still not awakened in some people When people study Kabbalah they can
learn things that were not available to them before because a sixth sense
is developed in order to envision life and the world from a different point
of view
The sixth sense is also called ldquothe spiritual vaserdquo(kli) this vase
is in all of us and it is ruled by basic kabbalistic concepts
A regular personrsquos spiritual vase is still not adequately א
developed to perceive the spiritual world
When light enters a personrsquos heart or soul it ignites the ב
spiritual perception in that person
Nothing is possible without light When we take the light ג
that surrounds us it will gradually light our path
Even if we donrsquot recognize said light there is a direct ד
connection between our heart and the light that will fill it
The light is destined the surrounding lights stand by ה
waiting for you to prepare your vase to receive them
The light we receive when we give in to the wisdom of ו
self-knowledge attracts a celestial charm which gives us abundance
of sanctity and purity that take us closer to realization
ldquoThe person who studies the Kabbalah Judeo-Christian with
the purpose of self-modification will attain the light and will notice
that the desired improvement and success can be achieved with the
least cost or sufferingrdquo
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
23
The Spiritual Will
The Creator wants us to indulge in spiritual pleasures that we
are full That can only be possible through enormous will perfection We
can only reach the spiritual world through a rectified will which will
make us strong and active Only by means of a passionate desire strong-
ly and dedication we will be able to reach really the spiritual world re-
turning forts and assets A small desire will not damage us very much
nor a lot of good The passionate desire only works from the Divine
stimulus which we it will obtain from the Intuition which is a part of the
Spirit
There is a pyramid of souls based on the will to receive
At the base are the many souls with small earthly wills
searching a comfortable animal like life (food and affection)
The following level with minor number of souls those who
want to acquire richness Those are the people who dedicate their lives to
make money and will sacrifice themselves in exchange for fortune
Next are the ones that would do anything to control others to
govern and reach positions of power
At the highest level are the souls that are seeking spirituality
who are open to the light
Man in turn has the same pyramid within him he must invert it
so that the weight goes to the purest desire or will the infinite will for
spirituality When we truly wish to increase our will for spiritually the
surrounding light (the hidden spiritual world) begins to reflect upon us
increasing the desire for even more If we identify with matter we will
try to obtain satisfaction through it searching outside our spirit for mate-
rial things until these material things no longer satisfy us thus becoming
less materialistic and discovering our true spirit
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
24
Our body is matter matter is energy and therefore has life but it
has no spirit or spiritual energy because it is all material energy dense
energy the spirit is light energy The difference between one and the
other is that the material energy has no conscience because it doesnrsquot
perceive reality that is why we see with our eyes and not our heart our
eyes show us the outer figures of things or people its beauty or ugliness
but we can see what they are like inside Spiritual energy is what gives
us conscience of reality of love of truth That is why when we become
conscious of ourselves we transform our matter into spirit and become
more conscious
Albert Einstein was so right when he said ldquoEnergy cannot be
created nor destroyed it can only be transformedrdquo thus dense (mate-
rial) energy can be transformed into lighter (spiritual) energy again and
again
The biggest change we observe in the souls that are descending
nowadays is mainly in their well defined will to achieve a spiritual sys-
tem Even the most common people without any religious or mystic in-
struction are looking for something beyond this world something spir-
itual furthermore more and more scientists or people into pragmatic pro-
fessions are searching for their spiritual light In the last thirty years the
descent of new souls has been activated and accelerated
Their will is much bigger and more genuine They want to
achieve authentic spiritualityhellip nothing morehellip and nothing less
We will discover that we have no other alternative but to
acknowledge the spiritual world of which we are a part This acknowl-
edgement will take us to a new situation where we will begin to act con-
sciously in unison no longer as isolated individuals All of us from one
generation to another are connected in one soul We share a collective
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
25
responsibility That is why the Kabbalist is considered ldquofounder of the
worldrdquo He affects the whole world and the whole World affects him
The Tetragrammaton
In Kabbalah the concept of Shem or ldquoDivine Namerdquo plays a
first degree role which makes a lot of sense given the importance of eve-
rything related to the Emanations of the Sefirotic Tree the mystery of the
letters and the beauty in words
The meditation about the ldquoName of Godrdquo constitutes one of the
pillars of the initiation path to Kabbalah
The Tetragram or Tetragrammatonhellipfrom the Greek four (tetra)
and letters (grammaton)hellip is the name formed by four consonants one
yod (Y) two he (H) and one vav (V) The combination of these four let-
ters spell YHVH the ldquoHoly Namerdquo or Yahavah (as literally read) which
in Kabbalah is called Shem Herman Forash ldquocomplete namerdquo or the
ldquoexplicit namerdquo
Said ldquoSacred Namerdquo is usually transcribed as Jehovah or Yah-
veh nevertheless such description is no more than a hypothetical and
approximate restoration Therefore the word YHVH in which all mys-
teries and the savior power communicated by God are contained has
been designated by tradition as the ldquolost wordrdquo
The ldquocomplete or whole namerdquo was replaced by others also at-
tributed by the Bible as Yahveh such as Adonai El Shaddai or Elohim
Sometimes the four letter name is substituted by half of the Tetra-
grammaton the so-called ldquotwo letter Namerdquo HY or ldquoHaimrdquo interpreted
or translated as LIFE
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
26
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Binah Intelligence
The Tree of Life
Creation
The Tree of Life
The Columns
Tree Sefirot and Letters
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
27
Creation
An example of the depth in the interpretation of the Bible offered
by the kabbalistic doctrine is its version of the biblical narration of the
Creation as contained in the Book of ldquoGenesisrdquo usually considered a na-
ive and childish story to explain a process that modern science has
demonstrated to be much more complex In regard to said mythical-
symbolic narration similar to many others contained in other spiritual
traditions in humanity the kabbalistic doctrine makes two basic observa-
tions of major importance
1 According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the biblical crea-
tion is the process through which the universal manifestation takes place
It is a logical process its place is in the Divine world and it gives form to
the Divinity In it the Supreme Being is determined and revealed as such
going from the Nothing to the Whole The Everything
It is not ldquoGodrsquos Creationrdquo but
ldquoThe Creation in Godrdquo
In this process the Creation of the Cosmos is only a consequence
which just like the latter takes place not sooner nor later but in a con-
tinuous and uninterrupted way in an instant beyond time in the ldquoeternal
nowrdquo
2 The six days of the Creation identify with the creative sefirot
from the fourth one (Hesed) to the ninth one (Yesod) referring to the
specific action or purpose of each one of them while the seventh day
Shabbath in which God rested relates to the tenth sefirot (Malkuth) All
of this is contained in the initial words of the ldquoGenesisrdquo Book ldquoIn the
beginning God created the heavens and the earthrdquo (according to the
common interpretation Authorized Version)
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
28
The key words here are the first three if we want an exact under-
standing of them we must turn to the Hebrew text
ldquoBereshit Bara Elohim
Bereshit means ldquoin the beginningrdquo which according to the Kab-
balistic interpretation it does no refer to a beginning in time but a logical
beginning it is what proceeds not in time but in hierarchy (rank)
and function This principle is Hokhmah the second sefirath
This text should be interpreted this way
ldquoIn the intelligent and intelligible
Beginning which is the Divine Wisdomrdquo
The second word of this quote is Bara ldquocreatedrdquo It is a verb of
action without a subject it doesnrsquot say who created That action has no
subject because the ldquowhordquo of which it speaks is the sefirath Kether ldquothe
Crownrdquo which goes beyond anything personal since in it the ldquoNothingrdquo
of the Supra Being or Absolute
As far as the third word is concerned Elohim we must indicate
that besides not being the subject of the sentence it is in its plural for
literally meaning ldquogodsrdquo
The kabbalistic exegesis (explanation) identifies this Elohim
with the third sefirath Binah the Intelligencerdquo which contains and de-
signs within itself the seven sefirot of the cosmic composition the six
active ones and the receptive one which is the receptacle for the rest of
them (Malkuth the tenth sefirot)
This is why the interpretation to which we are used ldquoGod creat-
edrdquo is not exact A more accurate interpretation of the original hebrew
text would be ldquoThe Nothing created godsrdquo that is it created or profiled
the qualities or aspects of the Divine Reality of which afterwards -not in
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
29
a time order but in an order of principles a cosmic order arises the Crea-
tion or universal manifestation
Therefore here is the message contained in the initial verse of
the ldquoGenesisrdquo according to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah
ldquoThe Supra Being constitutes Itself eternally the causal Being
and the object or purpose of all things in which all qualities poss i-
bilities and forms of the created and uncreated reality are presentrdquo
The Sefirotic Tree and the four worlds
And the twenty-two paths that unite the
Crown (Kether) with the Kingdom (Malkuth)
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
Binah
Geburah
Hod
Yesod
Malkuth
Tipherzt
Neshah
Hesed
Hok-mah
Kether
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
30
The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life is the Divine Architecture which symbolizes the
soul of man and the Universe and as He is divided into four levels known
as the four inner Worlds
In the Ideal World - Atziluth is where everything is
in a latent potential state
In the Creative World - Briah is where the pure
power and the ideas in their shapes are
In the Formative World - Yetsirah everything is in
a conceptual process or one or formation
In the Material World - Assiah is where the physi-
cal manifestation takes place
This tree consists of 10 fixed spheres and a ldquovirtualrdquo one and 22
paths that connect them In a very broad sense we can say that the
spheres or Sefirot are stages of the emanations of the Spirit of God
from the primordial existence to the physical manifestation
ldquoThey are inexhaustible centers of powerrdquo
The model of the Tree of Life mirror and synthesis of man and
the cosmos is divided in three columns or pillars this traditional division
in three columns is in close connection with the alchemical or magic
principles which were discovered by the kabbalists of the 12th
century
and have been present to this day and always will be
The whole manifestation is based on duality this duality is rep-
resented in the tree the three Sefirot to the right form the active pillar
masculine and the three Sefirot to the left form the passive pillar femi-
nine
The duality is also present in each Sefirath The only Unit is
found in the Non-Manifested which is above the Tree
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
31
The Non-Manifested is the pure state of the In-Existence from
where Existence arises which is the first Sefirath the Sefirot in the cen-
ter form the middle or balance pillar
Therefore we observe that one of the columns is active-
masculine another one is passive-feminine and the third one or central
axis equidistant from both of them is neuter and is constantly combining
and harmonizing them both
Power corresponds to the Active energy column integrated by the
following Sefirot Hokhmah (2) Hesed (4) and Neshah (7) Form or
shape corresponds to the passive energy columns which is made up of
the following Sefirot Binah (3) Geburah (5) and Hod (8) The central
or axle column or pillar integrated by Kether (1) Tipherzt (6) Yesod
(9) and Malkuth (10) is neuter and eternally assimilating the opposites
thus creating new possibilities of indefinite developments It is called the
column or pillar of equilibrium or balance
This is the image of permanent order of the Creation It is the
idea upon which all sciences are based and which are called ldquoThesis An-
tithesis and Synthesisrdquo techno science and modern physics have ldquodis-
coveredrdquo formations similar to that of the Tree of Life in the universe
around us such as the quantum structure or the DNA map of all living
things (vegetables animals humans) This proves that the Tree of Life
rules all norms of matter and spirit from the beginning of time
Kabbalah teaches us that energies run through the Tree of Life
from the Unity Kether identified with the number one up to the formal
and substantial manifestation the world and matter just as we know
them and perceive them through our senses This flow of energies or
vibrations is called emanations and they make up any manifestation
The energies of the Sefirot ndash all of the invisible except for
Malkuth which resumes and contains the whole Tree ndash travel a continu-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
32
Binah
Geburah
Hod
Yesod
Malkuth
Tipherzt
Neshah
Hesed
Hokmah
Kether
Leb
ous descending path from (1) Kether down to Earth or the World
Malkuth (10) which is an inverted image of Kether (10=1+0=1) The
rest of the Sefirot or numerals are taken as intermediaries between mani-
festation and the lack of it
The columns of the Tree of Life
Passive Column Neuter Column Active Column
Feminine Form Central Equilibrium Mascu-
line Power
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
33
Tree Sefirot and letters
According to the Pentateuch Moses went to the top of Mount
Sinai and surrounded by fantastic clouds received the Ten Command-
ments God gave him On the other hand Kabbalist affirm that Moses
also received from Heaven besides the Commandments the most pro-
found and secret knowledge to be transmitted only to those truly worthy
of it Going even further back in time some say they can see in the Kab-
balah the mysterious instructions given to Adam in his sleep which per-
mitted him to give a name to everything within the Creation meaning
that Kabbalah is the philosophy of the infinite power of the word the
sound that God gave man in his image calling everything by its name
This search for the practical use of the word is good for reading
the future as well as for really manipulating the secret vibrating energies
for useful purposes or according to the legend to create beings the go-
lems which make up the active aspect of the Kabbalah
On the other hand this also entails a speculative aspect a mysti-
cism aimed at discovering through the interpretation of the Scriptures
and meditation on the sound and the name the diagram of the Universe
and the destiny of man
Ein Sof (the infinite the ineffable) affirms itself revealing itself
to humanity it becomes Shekinah (Godrsquos presence and its feminine side)
which has the responsibility of creation its product
Creation is the result of a progressive descent of the divine
(which never loses its own unity nor its transcendence) in a pure and in-
telligent series associated to the divine until it takes over matter
Thus the cosmos is structured like an immense organism a
drawn path in which all divine intelligence (sefirah plural sefirot) is
communicated with the preceding one from which it receives and with
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
34
the next one to which it gives until the final stage contact with our
world
The ten sefirot all connected by imposed paths denoting their in-
terdependence and represented by a symbolic structure of a tree or a man
(Adam Kadmon) follow an order
Kether Crown - 1 א
Hokhmah Wisdom - 2 ב
Binah Intelligence - 3 ג
Leb Heart
Hesed Greatness - 4 ד
Geburah Justice - 5 ה
Tipherzt Beauty - 6 ו
Neshah Stability - 7 ז
Hod Glory - 8 ח
Yesod Foundation - 9 ט
Malkuth Kingdom - 10 י
The admirable and complex organization of the Sefirotic Tree
with its 22 paths which connect the ten divine emanations permit us to
see right away the close connection there is between the sefirot and the
22 letters in the hebrew alphabet the 22 images of the Tarot and the 22
astrological signs (12 signs and 10 planets)
Since God created the world pronouncing the name of things
each letter is associated to the descent of the divine intelligences and
holds within itself an infinite power
The hebrew language is just like Arabic Egyptian Sanscrit or
Chinese a liturgical language full of the voices of thousand of men who
speak with the divinity therefore to pronounce one sound instead of an-
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
35
other is like changing or modifying creation itself based on a subtle vi-
brating equilibrium Within that same chain of ideas prayer by principle
a devout plea also becomes an active and energetic system that shakes
up the intermediate spheres between man and God holder of the cosmic
order
Kabbalah whether is aimed exclusively at theoretic speculation
or it proposes practical and precise goals like the making of talismans
(from the Arabic tilsam ndash a charm to avert evil and bring good fortune it
appeals to specific instruments based of calculus and numbers
Ad- am
Kadmon Zohar XVII Century
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
36
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
Hesed Greatness
Adam Kadmon
And The Sefirot
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
37
Adam Kadmon
Adam Kadmon (Primordial Man) is described by the Zohar as a
ldquobig and powerful tree with branches reaching up to the sky source of
all spiritual lightrdquo In this sefirotic and tree shaped human figure the dif-
ferent sefirot have been placed according to the parts of the human body
to which they relate Each one of them has a very particular mystical
value in the cosmic vision
The first three sefirot correspond symbolically to the head
Kether (the Crown) placed at the top or what the kabbalistic
doctrine calls the ldquohidden brainrdquo Hokhmah (Wisdom) and Binah (In-
telligence) relate to the right and left sides of the brain respectively or
also the right and left eye The two sefirot at mid level Hesed (Great-
ness) and Geburah (Justice) are identified with both arms ldquoGreatnessrdquo
the right one and ldquoJusticerdquo the left one The two central sefirot Leb (the
Heart) which is Virtual that is why it is not represented and Tipherzt
(Beauty) identified with the navel energetic center source of connection
to the mother and nucleus or sun of the body Tipherzt embodies com-
pleteness union and harmony The two sefirot of the inner level Neshah
(Stability) and Hod (Glory) represent both legs ldquoStabilityrdquo the right
thigh and ldquoGloryrdquo the left one Yesod (Foundation) another central
sefirah found between both thighs represents the genitalia the tools and
foundation for procreation Sefirah number ten the last one is Malkuth
(the Kingdom) from which the cosmic manifestation springs and is in
permanent contact with Earth it is related to both feet always in contact
with the ground This sefirah connecting all this to man the Sefirotic
Tree proves that everything in the human being can be spiritualized
Man must achieve in his own being that harmoniously elevated
unity that the figure in the divine Tree of Life and Light shows us
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
38
In order to be an authentic ldquoTree of Liferdquo man must discover and
update that sefirotic mystery that is within him as if it were a treasure
full of light waiting to be found
The Sefirot
Kether ndash The Crown - The first sefirah is the Admirable Intelligence
it is the light that gives the power of understanding the First Principle
which has no beginning It is the one and only reality the absolute mys-
tery the essence from which the rest of the sefirot emanate Related to
Crown Knowledge Principle Essence and Light
Hokhmah ndash Wisdom- The second sefirah is the Enlightening Intelli-
gence the Wisdom through which the Deity knows Itself and allows eve-
ry Being to know the unity within itself It is the symbolism of the pure
and eternal fire a place in heaven where the archangels angels
Related to Wisdom Experience Convergence Intuition
Binah ndash Intelligence - The third sefirah is the Sanctifying Intelligence
it is the Great Mother or Holy Universal Spirit matrix of all the worlds
and beings shaping them to return them again to the One
Idea Intelligence Awareness Protection Morale Divergence
(discrepancyvariance)
These first three sefirot are really only one
Kether is Knowledge
Hokhmah is the subject that knows (active)
Binah is the known object (passive)
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
39
In these three sefirot the Judeo-Christian Kaballistic dotrine
discovers the endowments of the Holy Trinity
Kether or God the Father
Hokhmah or God the Son (active on the right side)
Binah or God the Mother or Holy Spirit (passive)
ldquoThe all emanations of God the Father and Son and Holy
Spirit is only one Beingrdquo
Hesed ndash Greatness - The fourth sefirah is the Receptive Intelligence it
contains all the holy powers and all the spiritual virtues emanate from it
such as Greatness Love and Mercy Related to Greatness Love Hum-
bleness Strength Deliverance
Geburah ndash Justice - The fifth sefirah is the Righteous Intelligence
which contains all the spiritual mandates It is the Divine Justice Relat-
ed to Justice Truth Freedom Shape Control
Tipherzt ndash Beauty - The sixth sefirah is the Intelligence Provider of
Spiritual Nouishment Ii is the Divine Beauty that entwines all the other
sefirot It is the Center of centers it clearly relates to the Sun giver of
life light and warmth Related to Beauty Serenity Sweetness Trust
Family
Neshah ndash Stability - The seventh sefirah is the Occult Intelligence it is
the bright Splendor of the intellectual virtues perceived by the eyes of the
intellect It is the energy that produces all the worlds Related to Sta-
bility Power Victory Balance Pleasures
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
40
Hod ndash Glory - The eighth sefirah is the Absolute or Perfect Intelli-
gence which has no support or base and descends from Geburah from
which it receives its Expertise Related to Glory Acknowledgement
Learning Awakening
Yesod ndash Foundation - The ninth sefirah is the Pure Intelligence because
it purifies tries corrects and centralizes the emanations It is the founda-
tion that balances the all previous Sephiroth Related to Founding
Building Childhood Filtering
Malkuth ndash The Kingdom - The tenth sefirah is Glowing Intelligence It
is the Kingdom of Heaven or Kingdom on Earth the descent of Kether
upon the material world represents the Divine Omnipresence over
things Related to The Kingdom Earth Heaven and Real World
Each one of these sefirot has a hidden face and a visible one
Every sefirah a complete Sefirotic Tree can be found and in every
sefirah in that Tree another one and so on until the smallest infiniteness
And vice-versa every Tree no matter how big we imagine it is only a
sefirah of a bigger Tree which in turn is another sefirah of an even big-
ger one to the infinite as well
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
41
Kabbalah
Judeo Christian
Geburah Justice
The letters and numbers
The Letters of Kabbalah
Gematriacutea Table
Gematriacutea or Numerology
The Meaning of the Hebrew Letters
Angels of Kabbalah
Geniuses of Kabbalah
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
42
The Letters of Kabbalah
The formulas in the medieval books on magic are so full of He-
brew names to speak of God the angels the spirits and demons that at
this point it is impossible to pinpoint the inexactness and the abuse The
Hebrew language like other former language has magicrsquos powers
Sound is a vibration found in numbers Numbers are groups of geometric
relations of spaces that activate energy
Each letter in the hebrew alphabet corresponds exactly just as in
an ldquoencoded languagerdquo to a number because the Hebrews Greeks and
Arabs used for many centuries the same graphic sign for a sound or
amount until the Indians and the Arabs introduced their ldquonumbersrdquo the
ldquozerordquo was invented in the IV century and the Arabs and Hebrews began
to use it in the VII century with the name ldquoceferrdquo which means devoid
empty vacuum From it derived zero and cipher
It was Leonardo Fibonacci (1170-1240) an Italian mathemati-
cian the first one to write a book in 1202 Liber Abaci (Book of Calcula-
tion) on Arabic numbers in occident and began to replace the Roman
numbers It was not until the year 1500 that they were completely re-
placed
This means that it is not Kabbalah that replaces letters with num-
bers historically the letters ldquowererdquo numbers since these were enforced in
the western culture five hundred years ago If we accept this concept we
will not regard numerology or gematriacutea of the Hebrew letters as some-
thing new or capricious but as a historical reality
For those who do not read Hebrew writing there is another meth-
od called transcription It is no easy task to transcribe from a holy lan-
guage to one that is not
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
43
A kabballistic practice suggests that as long as the hebrew lan-
guage is not completely unknown to replace each number in a date with
its corresponding letter bearing in mind that the Jewish calendar starts
with the year of the creation which took place 3760 years before the
birth of Jesus when the western calendar begins counting
Thus the year 1989 becomes 5749 which translated to Hebrew
letters gives us Tau Shin Mem Chefh which add up to Tismach mean-
ing ldquoyou will be overjoyedrdquo and that was the year the Berlin wall came
down In the same way 1914 the start of World War I becomes Tau
Resch Ayin Daleth which add up to Tirtzach ldquoYou will killrdquo and for
1938 start of World War II Tirrsquoad ldquoYou will tremble in terrorrdquo
Table of Gematriacutea of Hebrew Letters
Letter
Name Absolute
Value
Ordinal
Value
Reduced
Value
Latin
Alphabet
Alefh 1 1 1 A-H
Beth 2 2 2 B
Guimel 3 3 3 G
Daleth 4 4 4 D
Hei 5 5 5 H-E-A
Vav 6 6 6 V-U-Y
Zain 7 7 7 Z
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Heth 8 8 8 Y-J
Thet 9 9 9 TH
YodJod 10 10 1 Y-I
KafJaf 20 11 2 K-C
Lamed 30 12 3 L
Mem 40 13 4 M
Nun 50 14 5 N
Samej 60 15 6 S
Ayn 70 16 7 O-E
PehFeh 80 17 8 P-F
Tzadik 90 18 9 T-Z-X
Kuof 100 19 1 K-Q
Reish 200 20 2 R
Shin 300 21 3 S-SH
TafTau 400 22 4 T
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45
Gematriacutea or Hebrew Numerology
As we said earlier in the Hebrew language each letter has a nu-
merical value Gematriacutea is the calculation of the numerical value of let-
ters words or phrases to obtain a better understanding of the relation be-
tween the different concepts and to explore the relation between words
and ideas
In this technique it is assumed that the numerical equivalency is
no coincidence From the moment the world was created through the
Creatorrsquos ldquowordrdquo each letter represents a different creative power
Therefore the numerical equivalence of two words reveals an inner con-
nection between its potential creators
There are four ways to calculate the equivalency of individual
letters and each way corresponds to a different world in the Tree of Life
The Zohar tells us that the concept of reduced value is related to
the spiritual world of Yetsirah Based on this we can establish a relation
between the four methods of calculation the four spiritual kingdoms and
the four letters of the name of the Divine which are YHVH or in He-
brew Yod Hei Vav and Hei
The Absolute Value of Yod itrsquos to the world of Atziluth
The Ordinal Value of Hei itrsquos to the world of Briah
The Reduced Value of Vav itrsquos to the world of Yetsirah
The Whole Value of Hei itrsquos to the world of Assiah
ldquoAbsolute value (in Hebrew mispar hejrajiacute) also known as
normative or normal Valuerdquo
Each letter takes the value of its accepted numeral equivalent
alef (the first letter) worth 1 bet (second one) worth 2 and so on up to
the tenth letter iud which is worth 10 and the following ones are worth
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46
20 30 40 up to the letter kuf close to the end of the alef-bet which is
worth 100 and then 200 300 up to the last letter tav which is worth 400
In this type of calculation the letters kafjaf sofit (sofit=end)
mem sofit nun sofit pehfeh sofit and tzadik sofit which are the ldquofinal
shapesrdquo of the respective letters when they are at the end of a word usu-
ally take the same numeric value of the common shape of the letter
Nonetheless sometimes the following are considered equivalents kafjaf
sofit = 500 mem sofit = 600 nun sofit = 700 pehfeh sofit = 800 y tza-
dik sofit = 900
Following this method of calculation the Hebrew alphabet is a
complete circle the tzadik at the end is equal to 900 and then alef is
equal to one and one thousand In the Hebrew language the same letters
are used to write the name of the letter alef equal to one and to write the
word elef which means ldquothousandrdquo
ldquoOne the first number follows one thousand
in a complete and perfect circlerdquo
Ordinal Value (in hebrew mispar siduriacute) It assigns to each
one of the 22 letters a numerical equivalent according to the order in
which they appear in the alef-bet For example alef equals 1 kaf = 11
taf = 22 The final kaf is 23 and the final tzadik is 27
Reduced Value (en hebrew mispar kataacuten and in mathemati-
cal terminology the module 9) The value of each letter is reduced to
one digit For example alef is equal to 1 iud to 10 and kuf to 100 but
according to this system all three have a numerical value of one beit is
equal to 2 kaf to 20 and reish to 200 therefore all three are equal to 2
etc Therefore letters have only 9 equivalencies instead of twenty-two
Integral Value (in hebrew mispar mispariacute) This is the fourth
way to calculate In this fashion the total numeric value of a word is re-
duced to one digit If the sum of these numbers exceeds 9 the numbers
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47
in the total figure are added until a single digit is obtained The same
result will be obtained whether you take the absolute the ordinal or the
reduced values
The meaning of the Hebrew Letters
Alefh Represents the Divine Presence It is the symbol of
the absolute and unique faith in only one Creator and Lord It is pro-
nounced ah-left which derives from the word Alufh which means prince
minister or chief It is made up of two dots which are two iod (the tenth
letter of the alphabet) and a slanted vav (sixth letter) If we add the two
iod (20) and the one vav (6) we get 26 which is equal to the sum of the
letters YHVH Yod (10) Hei(5) Vav(6) Hei(5) of the name of the
Creator
Beth The Torah begins with this second letter ldquoBereshitrdquo
(In the Beginning) This is because it represents and symbolizes the
Berehia (Creation) and the Berajaacute (Blessing) The purpose of Creation is
to give abundance to the human being Its value is two It represents and
shows us that there is nothing in this world totally complete and indivisi-
ble Everything can be parted in two Only God is unique and indivisible
Guimel This letter is close to the root of the word Bra
keep complete and give That is why it is used in ldquoGuemilut Hasadimrdquo
to do favors Guimel represents the third column on which the world
rests it is the giver or favor doer spirit and also proof that God constantly
helps and favors the human being and His whole Creation Its value is
three
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48
Daleth When we pronounce this fourth letter we find a
great closeness to the word deleth (door) The letter Daleth relates to the
word ldquodalhrdquo poor going from door to door seeking food Daleth follows
Guimel creating a unified thought to help the poor Its value (4) reminds
us of the material world because poverty can be found everywhere in our
planet
Hei The Talmud says God created the world with two
letters that represent His Name ldquoYod and Heirdquo With the first one He
created the world to come and with the second one this world Its shape
is made up of two parts a dalet and an iod Daleth has a vertical line
and a horizontal line It represents this world where everything has a
body and occupies space The iod which is just a dot represents the in-
finite world where there are no physical laws Meaning that in this
world too the spiritual Divine component is present
Vav Its value six represents something complete and
finished The world was created completely in six days Every complete
and closed object has six sides top bottom right left front and back
The letter vav is used to unite phrases concepts objects similar ldquoandrdquo
Vav is therefore union Except for some exceptions all paragraphs in the
Bible as written in the scrolls begin with Vav The written Torah (5
books) + ldquovavrdquo (Kabbalah) The oral Torah (6 books)
Zain It represents the seven spiritual values which are
the object of this world Zan means ldquonourishmentrdquo and Zain means ldquoar-
mamentrdquo Its shape is similar to that of a sword Its shows us that man
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49
must confront and overcome adversity many times in order to obtain his
nourishment
Heth Just as Zain represents manrsquos purpose on earth Heth
with the value of eight represents manrsquos possibility to cross the limits
imposed by the earth Seven is nature eight are the values and goals
which represent what is above nature It also connects to the letter Haim
which means life The top part of the heth has an arrow pointing up-
wards meaning that life always belongs to God and everything depends
on Him
Thet This letter is first written in the Torah in the word
Tov (good) Each one of the days of the Creation was crowned with
qualifying phrase ldquoAnd God saw that it was goodrdquo Thet is synonym of
the relationship of God towards man which is always good even though
we donrsquot always see it that way Goodness or Kindness is a Divine quali-
ty and it should be emulated The most exquisite act of kindness is to
help our neighbor without causing him embarrassment
Iod Its size earns it the category of the smallest and most
indivisible letter not like the rest which are made up of different parts
and that is why it represents the Almighty in His condition of Unique and
Indivisible Its shape according to the Zohar has a point facing up to-
wards God another one facing down towards earth and the central point
which unites both That is why when a person prays the heart faces up
and the eyes down in humbleness in front on God Its value Ten is very
representative of the whole Torah Ten generations from Adam to Noah
and another ten from Noah to Abraham the Patriarch Ten are the Divine
Commandments given to Moses and ten are the sefirot The number ten
is actually ONE
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50
Kaf It symbolizes Kether the crown (written in Hebrew
with kaf) as the Talmud says ldquoGod will place the Kether on he who
helps his neighbor the way he should and according to his possibilitiesrdquo
Its shape (curved) has a relation to its name which represents the hum-
bleness that the person who carries the crown should have
Lamed Its shape is made up of a kaf and a vav together
they add up to 26 like the Divine Name Its name lamed is the root of
the verbs to teach and to learn The name Israel begins with iod the
smallest letter and ends with lamed the biggest one The Torah begins
with bet and ends with lamed together they spell the word led (heart)
the fundamental basis to find light and accomplish precepts
Mem This letter has two aspects one known as the open
mem it is used in the beginning and middle of a word indicating that
there are points which refer to God Almightyrsquos doing which are within
our comprehension and a closed mem which is only used at the end of
words indicating the occult and incomprehensible part Moshe and
Mashiacuteaj begin with mem Its value is 40 the necessary time period for
the concretion of different stages
The fetus needs 40 days to have a complete form
The Great Flood lasted 40 days and 40 nights
Moses was up at Mount Sinai 40 days and 40 nights
The Jewish people walked for 40 years in the desert
It is at the age of 40 that a person is considered to have
reached wisdom
Nun This letter also has two shapes one for any part of the
word with a curved shape and the other straight for the endings of
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51
words Both indicate the exclusive quality of God who is Neeman
which means loyal to His word and worthy of trust This word restarts
with a Nun and ends with another
Samej This letter represents the concept of the Divine
support (Semej in Hebrew) Godrsquos support towards man as well as manrsquos
support towards God The certainty of God is the foundation of faith and
the base upon which the human being can search and reach for its goal in
this world
Ayn in Hebrew it means ldquoeyerdquo Its shape is made up two
parts an Yod leaning against a Zain Reclining both on the base the nu-
meric value of both parts is 17 just like the word Tob (good) This indi-
cates that the ayn (eye) has to be used to observe only the good things
Its value is 70
70 are the names of the Almighty and the Torah
70 are the basic people (towns) in the world
70 are the holidays in a year (52 Saturdays 18 holy
days)
Jesus sent out 70 disciples to evangelize
The Great Temple of Jerusalem had 70 columns
70 old wise men received the Torah from Moses they
are called ldquothe eyes of the congregationrdquo the symbol of the ayn (eye)
precisely
Peh it means ldquomouthrdquo in Hebrew It is through this ex-
quisite sense that the human being differentiates and raises itself over the
rest of the creation There are two peh one for any part of the word and
the other for the endings The first one is said to be closed and its shape
symbolizes the fetus in the motherrsquos womb (fetal position) with its mouth
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52
closed The other open resembles the newborn babe stretching its limbs
It also reminds us of the control we should have over it sometimes
closed and others open when to speak and when not to
Tzadik The 18th letter The Talmud names the Tzadik per-
son the just person The title of ldquoTzadikrdquo is not given to just anybody It
is written that God is Tzadik and Perfect This quality of Tzadik when it
comes to God is manifested through kindness Those people who go
about and act according to the divine will are said to be ldquoTzadikrdquo They
are fair just and kind to the maximum of their possibilities
Kuof This letter shows us and symbolizes the Divine
Sanctity Kadosh God is Holy Man can also be called kuof if he is supe-
rior rising above the others The shape of kuof is made up of a kaf and a
vav which add up to 26 just as the four letter name for God Kuof is
very similar to kof which means ldquomonkeyrdquo The Zohar calls monkeys
those human beings who do not believe in the divine will and do not dig-
nify being created in Godrsquos image According to Kabbalah the road is
open for man he can be holy and thus get close to God or walk away
from Him and become a monkey
Reish Up until now we saw how the letters show us and
represent the Divine Presence On the contrary reish represents and
symbolizes Evil ldquoRashardquo in Hebrew Reish follows kuof which repre-
sents the Divine Sanctity The word ldquoroshrdquo (first beginning or head) in
Aramaic is pronounced ldquoreishrdquo just like the letter Midrash tells us the
Almighty is ldquoRoshrdquo since he is the beginning and head of the world and
its end as well Evil does not exist what we judge as bad is only a part of
the Divine Plan and we do not know and therefore cannot understand
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53
Shin this letter has an important place since shalom
(peace) begins with it Only God is the source and root of true peace Its
shape with three arms and three heads represents the wish of all of us to
rise to heaven lifting our hands to receive His help It also encompasses
the symbolism of something that has three limbs but only one purpose
We live in three worlds past present and future
The human being has a spirit a soul and a body
The human creation has three partners
Kether Binah and Hokhmah or the Holy
Trinity
Taf unlike the other letters which we have seen through
analysis and symbology that each represented a word being the first eg
Shin Shalom (peace) Sheker (lie) the symbol for taf is given by the last
letter in the word ldquoEmetrdquo (truth) This is exactly the general characteris-
tic of truth at first the lie seems more interesting Truth is appreciated in
the end Truth involves everything since its letters are one in the begin-
ning the other one in the middle and the third one at the end
The Angels of Kabbalah
The etymological meaning of the word angel is messenger from
the Greek ldquoAggeloacutesrdquo ldquoAngirasrdquo in Sanskrit in Persian ldquoAngarosrdquo in
Hebrew and Arabic ldquoMalakhrdquo and ldquoDevardquo for the Hindus
Doubts about their existence disappear before the coincidences
amongst cultures and diverse beliefs that describe them
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54
Angels constantly remind us who we are due to the message that
is attributed to them For us their place is the same as that of God they
are above us and within us
To come in contact with them could take us to doubt if we did so
with a superior reality or with the highest part of ourselves
The mythical history of Kabbalah tells us that after man was
driven out of the Garden of Eden the angels transmitted the kabballistic
teachings to man so that he could reconquer it through the never ending
divine energy which is present everywhere in the Universe
The 72 Angeles of Kabbalah
Seraphim
Vehuiah ndash Elemiah ndash Jeliel ndash Lelahel
Sitael ndash Achaiah ndash Mahasiah ndash Cahethel
Cherubim
Haziel ndash Aladiah ndash Lauviah ndash Hahaiah
Iezalel ndash Mebael ndash Hariel ndash He Kamiah
Thrones (also known as Ophanim)
Lauviah ndash Caliel ndash Lauviah ndash Pahaliah
Nelkhael ndash Yeiaiel ndash Melahel ndash Haheuiah
Dominions (or Kyriotetes)
Nith ndashHahaiah ndash Yerathel ndash Sheikh
Reiyel ndash Omael ndash Lecabel ndash Vasariah
Powers
Vehuiah ndash Lehahiah ndash Chavakiah ndash Menadel
Aniel ndash Haamiah ndash Rehael ndash Ieiazel
Virtues
Hahahel ndash Mikael ndash Veuliah ndash Ylahiah
Sealiah ndashAriel ndash Asaliah ndash Mihael
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55
Principalities
Vehuel ndash Daniel ndash Hahasiah ndash Imamiah
Nanael ndash Nithael ndash Mebahiah ndash Poyel
Archangels
Nemamiah ndash Yeialel ndash Aacuterale ndash Mitzrael
Umabel ndash Iah ndashAnauel ndash Mehiel
Angels
Damabiah ndash Manakel ndash Eyael ndash Habuhiah
Rochel ndash Yabamiah ndash Haiayel ndash Mum
Geniuses of Kabbalah
Air ndash Earth ndash Water - Fire
The first three verses of the Torah are revealing in regard to the
Divine Creation In the morning of the first day God created the four
geniuses or semi-gods to help Him directly preparing the platform for
the coming of man
Genesis 11 ndash
ldquoIn the beginning God created heaven and earthrdquo
Genesis 12 ndash
ldquohellipthe Spirit of God was hovering over the watersrdquo
Genesis 13 ndash
Let there be light and there was light
Nothing would exist in the Universe without the four geniuses
or elements only God and with the creation of these geniuses He
proves to us that He does not want to be alone but surrounded by
vegetation animals and specially the HUMAN BEING
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56
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Tipherzt
Beauty
Christian Kabbalah
Jesus and the Kabbalah
The Sacred Books
The Apostle Matthew
The Sermon on the Mountain
(The Beatitudes)
The Our Father
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57
Jesus and the Kabbalah
Up until now we have analyzed the Bible from the Tanaj and the
Talmud we have also taken the Torah as the foundation of Kabbalah
The New Testament has an important kabballistic content provided by
Jesus and his apostles
Emmanuel ben Yoseph known as Jesus Christ lived between
the ages of thirteen and thirty-three with the Essenes Fraternity of the
Dead Sea where he learned the secrets of the Kabbalah that his Father
had given to mankind and because of his illumination he was declared
Master of Justice
In the New Testament the four evangelists analyzed Jesus from
the four kabballistic worlds which are completely separated and diffeent
Matthew describes a physical Jesus generations that preceded
him and his relationship with the people of Israel
This is the World of Assiah
Luke tells the story of Jesus intimate life he describes moving
images of the Master along his pathway
This is the World of Yetsirah
Mark talks to us of a miraculous Jesus with a Divine mag-
netism and its soul healing rays
This is the World of Briah
John gave us the gospel of a metaphysical Jesus the abstract
spirit and visions of an astral world
This is the World of Atziluth
The Kabbalah develops its doctrine in the light that invades us
and emanates from our bodies because we are part of it
Jesus in John 812 says I am the light of the world Those who
follow me will never walk in darkness They will have the light that leads
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58
to life and in Ephesians 58 he confirms ldquoAt one time you were in the
dark But now you are in the light because of what the Lord has donerdquo
When Matthew in verse 223 says ldquohellipand came and lived in a
city called Nazarethrdquo This was to fulfill what was spoken through the
prophets He shall be called a Nazarene he explains that Jesus had to
be a Nazarene that is he had to wear the Crown or Kether according to
what God told Moses in the oral or kabballistic precepts In Numbers 66-
7 it is said ldquothroughout the period of their dedication to the LORD the
Nazirite must not go near a dead body Even if their own father or
motherrdquo
In Matthew 822 Jesus stresses this precept saying ldquohelliplet the
dead bury their own dead
According to the Kabballists the Torah is fountain of wine and
milk In Isaiah 551 we read hellip and he who has no money come buy
wine and milk without money without pricehelliprdquo In many quotes Jesus
mentions the wine as his spiritual blood Peter 22 ldquohellipLike newborn ba-
bies crave pure spiritual milk so that by it you may grow up in your sal-
vationhelliprdquo
The Old and New Testament
The Old Testament or Tanaj is made up of 39 books and the New
Testament 29 a total of 66 books As we all know there is no such thing
as luck it is the message of God that we still cannot decipher If we ana-
lyze that message through kabballistic numerology we will decipher it
and be surprised
According to the kabballistic numerology ldquo39 books in the Ta-
najrdquohellip 3+9=12hellip 1+2=3 and ldquo3rdquo represents the Holy Trinity
Kether or God the Father
Hokhmah or God the Son (active to the right of the Father)
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59
Binah or God the Mother or Holy Spirit (passive)
They are all emanations of God the Father and therefore only
one Being It is the announcement of the Divine Trilogy based on the
Admirable Intelligence of Kether the Illuminating Intelligence of
Hokhmah and the Sanctifying Intelligence of Binah If we take away the
substance of the Tanaj which are the five books that make up the Penta-
teuch we are left with 34 books or the number 7 which were the re-
maining emanations with which God created the Universe The 27 books
of the New Testament add up to the kabballistic nine which is the Divine
or Complete number since it contains all the numbers and closes the
wheel That is the New Testament not only does it complement but also
contains the previous one and completes it The sum of both is 66 its
kabballistic number is 3 and it returns to the Holy Trinity the Three
Sefirot or divine emanations
The Apostle Matthew
In chapter one Matthew explains the genealogy of Jesus with a
result of 42 generations from Abraham to Jesus in three periods of 14
generations each This he does from the physical world or Assiah to ex-
plain with real facts Abrahamrsquos descendants and how Jesus really was
the King of the Jews
Forty-two (generations from Abraham to Jesus) adds up to six
like the sefirot of the Creation (on the seventh one He rested) which
means God rested in Malkuth the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth but
the message from Matthew is that we should distribute these three peri-
ods amongst the six sefirot of the Creation
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60
The transition between Abraham and David takes place be-
tween the fourth sefirah Hesed (Greatness) and the fifth Geburah (Jus-
tice)
Hesed is the sefirah from which the rest of the sefirot emanate
like Abraham the Patriarch from whom three religions ldquoemanaterdquo Juda-
ism Christianism and Islam Hesed is the foundation of the spiritual vir-
tues and it is connected to the Holy Son like Abraham
Geburah is the sefirah of David the Justice seeker who uni-
fied the kingdoms for the greatness of the Chosen People he is the strict
Warrior King
With Salomon son of David starts the second period as told by
Matthew and it ends with the deportation of the people to Babylon This
is the passage from the sixth sefirah Tipherzt (Beauty) to the seventh
sefirah Neshah (Power)
Tipherzt is Beauty serenity trust just what King Salomon
was to his people In the same manner it is in the column of the Crown
of God and it is directly supported by Abraham and David
Neshah is the hidden Intelligence of stability and spiritual
power it is the powerful faith against adversity the expulsion to Baby-
lon
When the Babylonian invasion comes to an end the passage to
the coming of Jesus begins it takes place between the eighth sefirah Hod
(Glory) and the ninth sefirah Yesod (Foundation)
Hod is the Divine Glory the Divine Healer which healed the
wounds inflicted on the chosen people by the invaders It is awakening
and learning
Yesod is the foundation and filter of all emanations before
reaching the Kingdom it is the Pure Intelligence it is Unity without Di-
vision this is the sefirah to which both the moon and the waters respond
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61
and the tides and earth as well the sefirah that builds and founds That is
why this is the sefirah that Matthew attributes to Jesus It is the one that
brings together to the Father before reaching Malkuth the Kingdom of
Earth and Heaven in a straight line passing by Tipherzt (Salomon) and
with the virtual sefirah of the Sacred Heart
As we can see the Apostle Matthew shows us in a kabballis-
tic way the presence of Jesus from the patriarch Abraham to the
present
Holy Spirit
David
Glory
Jesus
Kingdom
Salomon
Power
Abraham
Holy Son
Holy Father
Heart
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62
The Sermon on the Mountain
(The Beatitudes)
With The Sermon on the Mountain Jesus teaches us the basic
Concepts of Kabbalah to be interpreted in many centuries to come be-
cause the land of the tribe of Israel to which Jesus belonged was under
the domain of the Greco-Roman Empire which wanted to impose its
own gods That is why Jesusrsquo message is stronger the deeper you go into
it It should be observed the same as the ocean it is not the quiet waters
and small waves that rule but the strong currents that flow in the deepest
depths
Somebody told me once that even a child could understand the
Sermon and it is true which shows the intelligence of the Master be-
cause the Sermon holds many levels of understanding
From the Gospel according to Matthew chapter five we can ex-
tract the essence of the Sermon on the Mountain contained in the first
nine verses two of them introductory and the other seven making up the
Beatitudes
51 ldquoAnd seeing the multitudes He went up onto a mountain
and when He was set His disciples came unto Him ldquo
5 2 ldquoAnd He opened His mouth and taught them sayinghelliprdquo
To go up to the mountain in Kabbalah means to rise to the high-
est degree of spirituality (eg Moses went up the mountain to speak with
God) which means he went up to the Crown or Kether When it says
ldquoHe opened His mouth and taught them sayingrdquo sounds redundant since
nobody can say anything without opening his mouth But we have to
consider that there are two aspects in Kabbalah thought or intelligence
Binah and the word or wisdom Hokhmah Jesus uses the first to ignite
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
63
the soul of His followers and the word to transmit the vibratory energy or
surrounding magnetic field and that way get to the spirit of people
53rdquoBlessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom
of Heavenrdquo
According to Kabbalah a rich man with many possessions can
enter the Kingdom of God if he doesnrsquot develop the materialistic spirit
that goes with them On the other hand a poor man without possessions
could be not admitted in the Kingdom of God if he develops that materi-
alistic spirit and is absorbed by the only wish of having fortune Kabba-
lah teaches that neither richness nor poorness is the ideal state Jesus re-
fers to the heart or Leb the simplicity and easiness of spirit because to
have possessions or not does not interfere with the progress towards the
path of foundation and spiritual uplifting
54 Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted
Kabbalah does not preach sadness but joy and happiness In the
Kabbalah the act of crying is a symbol of redemption greatness and
love or Hesed it is also a symbol of acknowledgment of errors made
and therefore seeking spiritual evolution in love for another The begin-
ning of change is identified with crying That is why whoever accepts
the change will be comforted
55 Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth
God said to Moses ldquoYou shall not adore other gods and you
shall respect my Namerdquo This means He demanded meekness Jesus re-
fers in kabballistic terms to meek men before God those will be able to
live in harmony and freedom achieving Divine Justice or Geburah be-
cause they are the ones who increase their spiritual level
56 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteous-
ness for they will be filled
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
64
Those who hunger within will seek the nourishment to satisfy it
And will begin a search for justice which will take them to the spiritual
Glory Hod This means that those who hunger and thirst for spiritual
truth will be filled with the blessing and perfection seeker Those who
abandon the spiritual search of the truth will condemn their souls to come
back as many times as it is necessary to achieve it
57 Blessed are the merciful for they will be shown mercy
To be merciful is to forgive others to have the power or Neshah
of not having negative thoughts actions or answers to aggressiveness
from others Negative feelings affect our spiritual body and poison our
physical body altering the nervous system
58 Blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God
The pure in heart are those who achieve inner beauty or
Tipherzt In order to have a clean and beautiful heart we must nourish it
with love and not hate with forgiveness not vengeance with truth not
lies or falsehood There must be harmony in our body soul and spirit
59 Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called sons
of Godrdquo
Peace in Aramaic is the same as harmony in Greek and both
words represent the foundation of life on this earth or Yesod and Jesus
suggests the Peace of the just
510 Blessed are those who are persecuted because of right-
eousness for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
511 Blessed are you when people insult you persecute you
and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me
In these two verses Jesus foretells the persecutions his followers
even the Kabballists will suffer anticipating the manifested idea of ob-
taining the communion of the Kingdom of Heaven or Malkuth in com-
plete peace and harmony
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65
In the next two verses Jesus refers to the eighth sefirah Hod the
Glory (elevation) and its connection with Geburah Justice (respect)
which means we must respect the Just because they are the prophets and
we will be blessed by them
512 Rejoice and be glad because great is your reward in
heaven for in the same way they persecuted the prophets
who were before you
513 You are the salt of the earth But if the salt loses its salt-
iness how can it be made salty again It is no longer good for
anything except to be thrown out and trampled by men
In the following words Jesus takes us through the Tree of Live
or Sefirotic Tree bringing us even closer to the kabballistic message and
his spiritual profoundness
514 You are the light of the world A city on a hill cannot be
hidden
Kether is the Crown of God the Divine light that which is
above everything else above the mountain It reminds us that the moun-
tain is the highest level of spirituality
514 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl
Instead they put it on its stand and it gives light to everyone
in the house
Hokhmah is Wisdom to the right of the Kether the Crown of
God it is the light of Christ which lights up all homes
516 In the same way let your light shine before men that
they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in
heaven
Binah is Intelligence it is the light that reaches to the spirit of
mankind as a holy protection it is the light of the Holy Spirit that reaches
the heart through good deeds
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These three verses refer to the first three sefirot that is the Holy
Trinity which is the potent Divine light since it contains in only one ray
of light the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit
The following four verses refer to Geburah or Justice This is the
sefirah that dictates the Law the one that enforces the Law the one that
unites Heaven (Kether) with Earth (Malkuth) according to the Divine
teachings and is called the sefirah of Divine Justice
517 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the
Prophets I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them
518 I tell you the truth until heaven and earth disappear not
the smallest letter not the least stroke of a pen will by any
means disappear from the Law until everything is accom-
plished
519 Anyone who breaks one of the least of these command-
ments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in
the kingdom of heaven but whoever practices and teaches
these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heav-
en
520 For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses
that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law you will ce r-
tainly not enter the kingdom of heaven
Hesed is the sefirah of Greatness and it is known that the origin
of greatness is HumilityHumbleness the person that is not humble is
not great In the following verses Jesus explains to us how to irradiate
Love Mercy Greatness and above all Humbleness
521 You have heard that it was said to the people long ago
Do not murder[a]
and anyone who murders will be subject to
judgment
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67
522 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother
will be subject to judgment Again anyone who says to his brother
Raca (An Aramaic term of contempt is answerable to the Sanhed-
rin But anyone who says You fool will be in danger of the fire of
hell
523 ldquoTherefore if you are offering your gift at the altar and
there remember that your brother has something against you
Ponder
Respect
Blessing
Peace
Kingdom
Love
Acceptance
Help
Speech
Inspiration
Heart
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524 leave your gift there in front of the altar First go and be
reconciled to your brother then come and offer your gift
525 ldquoSettle matters quickly with your adversary who is tak-
ing you to court Do it while you are still with him on the way or he
may hand you over to the judge and the judge may hand you over to
the officer and you may be thrown into prison
526 I tell you the truth you will not get out until you have
paid the last penny
The following sefirah that Jesus speaks of in the Sermon on the
Mountain is Tipherzt beauty serenity trust family it is the one with
the noble attributes fidelity A through this sefirah he talks to us about
the family blessings and how Divinity intertwines with it
Tipherzt is the one that provides the spiritual nourishment and
family blessings that is why Jesus protects the relationship between man
and woman as fountain of life and punishes above all deceit and adul-
tery
527 You have heard that it was said Do not commit adul-
tery
528 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustful-
ly has already committed adultery with her in his heart
529 If your right eye causes you to sin gouge it out and
throw it away It is better for you to lose one part of your body than
for your whole body to be thrown into hell
530 And if your right hand causes you to sin cut it off and
throw it away It is better for you to lose one part of your body than
for your whole body to go into hell
531 It has been said anyone who divorces his wife must
give her a certificate of divorce
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69
532 But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife except
for marital unfaithfulness causes her to become an adulteress and
anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery
The following sefirah is Neshah which represents Stability and
Balance and the following five verses Jesus that swearing is the loss of
stability and balance before God
He who requires an oath does not trust what is being said and he
who gives an oath does not trust himself rdquoYes or Nordquo should be enough
for those who speak the truth
533 Again you have heard that it was said to the people long
ago Do not break your oath but keep the oaths you have made to
the Lord
534 but I tell you Do not swear at all either by heaven for
it is Gods throne
535 nor by the earth for it is his footstool or by Jerusalem
for it is the city of the Great King
536 And do not swear by your head for you cannot make
even one hair white or black
537 simply let your Yes be Yes and your No No any-
thing beyond this comes from the evil one
Hod is the sefirah of glory the compensation and acknowledge-
ment And there is no better glory and acknowledgement than to love the
enemy and bless those who curse and hate us
As Jesus tells us in the next eleven verses
If you love only those who love you
What are you doing extra
What reward are you seeking
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538 You have heard that it was said Eye for eye and tooth
for tooth
539 But I tell you Do not resist an evil person If someone
strikes you on the right cheek turn to him the other also
540 And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic let
him have your cloak as well
541 If someone forces you to go one mile go with him two
miles
542 Give to the one who asks you and do not turn away
from the one who wants to borrow from you
543 You have heard that it was said Love your neighbor
and hate your enemy
544 But I tell you Love your enemies and pray for those
who persecute you
545 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven He caus-
es his sun to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the
righteous and the unrighteous
546 If you love those who love you what reward will you
get Are not even the tax collectors doing that
547 And if you greet only your brothers what are you doing
more than others Do not even pagans do that
548 Be perfect therefore as your heavenly Father is perfect
Yesod the ninth sefirah is Foundation because it purifies
proves and corrects all previous sefiroth Helping others is exactly what
this sefirah is all about not only to love them but to help them He who
helps receives purification from Yesod and he who helps in secret is
blessed by The Father
Matthew 6
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71
61 Be careful not to do your acts of righteousness before
men to be seen by them If you do you will have no reward from
your Father in heaven
62 So when you give to the needy do not announce it with
trumpets as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets
to be honored by men I tell you the truth they have received their
reward in full
63 But when you give to the needy do not let your left hand
know what your right hand is doing
64 so that yoursquore giving may be in secret Then yoursquore Fa-
ther who sees what is done in secret will reward you
Malkuth is the sefirah that represents the Kingdom of Heaven
and Earth that is why Jesus tells us that prayer must be in private in or-
der to be rewarded in public without repetitions and lots of words be-
cause the Father knows what we need before we even ask
65 And when you pray do not be like the hypocrites for
they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street cor-
ners to be seen by men I tell you the truth they have received their
reward in full
66 But when you pray go into your room close the door and
pray to your Father who is unseen Then your Father who sees what
is done in secret will reward you
67 And when you pray do not keep on babbling like pagans
for they think they will be heard because of their many words
68 Do not be like them for your Father knows what you
need before you ask him
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The Our Father
Jesus reaffirms part of the Kabbalah by following the path of the
Sefirotic Tree in his most important prayer
69 This then is how you should pray Our in heaven
hallowed be your name
Our Father the admirable intelligence or Crown Kether first sefirah
In Heaven the enlightening intelligence or wisdom Hokhmah the sec-
ond sefirah
Hallowed be your name the sanctifying intelligence Binah the third
sefirah completing the Holy Trinity
610 your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is
in heaven
Your kingdom come the intelligence of love Hesed
Your will be done righteous intelligence Geburah
On Earth as it is in Heaven that is form Kether to Malkuth
611 Give us today our daily bread
Give us our daily bread the intelligence which provides Spiritual
Nourishment and beauty Tipherzt
612 Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our
debtrs
Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors the hidden
intelligence which is power victory and stability or Nesha
613 And lea us not into temptation but deliver us from the
evil for yours is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for
every century Amen
And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil the absolute
intelligence or perfect glory or Hod
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73
Holy
Justice
Freedom
Foundation
Prayer
Love
Forgiveness
Spiritual
Nourishment
Heaven
Father
Heart
For yours is the Kingdom Kether the Power Hokhmah and the
Glory Briah which means You are the Holy Trinity
Amen is the foundation of Holy Prayer
After teaching us this Prayer Jesus continues showing us the truth about
the emanations of the Sefirotic Tree Starting once again at the Kether
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74
to remind us privacy in acts such as forgiveness fasting and prayer will
be rewarded in public by the Father who wears the Crown
614 For if you forgive men when they sin against you your
heavenly Father will also forgive you
615 But if you do not forgive men their sins your Father will
not forgive your sins
616 When you fast do not look somber as the hypocrites
do for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fast-
ing I tell you the truth they have received their reward in
full
617 But when fast put oil on your head and wash your face
618 so that it will not be obvious to men that you are fasting
but only to your Father who is unseen and your Father who
sees what is done in secret will reward you
Jesus explains that our treasures are not in the Kingdom of Earth but in
the wisdom of Hokhmah which is the treasure of Heaven that God sent
to us
619 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth
where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and
steal
620 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven where
moth and rust do not destroy and where thieves do not
break in and steal
Binah is the intelligence that Jesus asks us to use to see the light within
our heart he asks that we be intelligent to stay away from evil because
wise men donrsquot have two bosses
621 For where your treasure is there your heart will be also
622 The eye is the lamp of the body If your eyes are good
your whole body will be full of light
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75
623 But if your eyes are bad your whole body will be full of
darkness If then the light within you is darkness how great
is that darkness
624 No one can serve two masters Either he will hate the
one and love the other or he will be devoted to the one and
despise the other You cannot serve both God and Money
Hesed is greatness Jesus shows us how Great we are that greatness is
not eating drinking or dressing up but greatness is being on the path to
the Kether or Crown
625 Therefore I tell you do not worry about your life what
you will eat or drink or about your body what you will
wear Is not life more important than food and the body
more important than clothes
626 Look at the birds of the air they do not sow or reap or
store away in barns and yet your heavenly Father feeds
them Are you not much more valuable than they
627 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his
life
628 And why do you worry about clothes See how the lil-
ies of the field grow They do not labor or spin
629 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor
was dressed like one of these
630 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field which is
here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire will he not
much more clothe you O you of little faith
631 So do not worry saying What shall we eat or What
shall we drink or What shall we wear
632 For the pagans run after all these things and your heav-
enly Father knows that you need them
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Godrsquos Fortune
Godrsquos
Justice
Godrsquos Education
Godrsquos Purification
Godrsquos
Freedom
Godrsquos
Love
Godrsquos Effort
Godrsquos
Greatness
Godrsquos Treasure
Godrsquos
Forgiveness
Godrsquos
Heart
633 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all
these things will be given to you as well
634 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow
will worry about itself Each day has enough trouble of its
own
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77
Once we obtain Greatness or Hesed Jesus asks us to seek Justice or
Geburah the next sefirah Justice is learning to judge others and to look
more with our heart than our eyes
71 Do not judge or you too will be judged
72 For in the same way you judge others you will be judged
and with the measure you use it will be measured to you
73 Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your broth-
ers eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye
74 How can you say to your brother Let me take the speck
out of your eye when all the time there is a plank in your
own eye
75 You hypocrite first take the plank out of your own eye
and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your
brothers eye
76 Do not give dogs what is sacred do not throw your
pearls to pigs If you do they may trample them under their
feet and then turn and tear you to pieces
After Geburah comes Tipherzt beauty this sefirah is the provider of spir-
itual nourishment that is why Jesus invites us to ask seek and knock and
he reminds the law of the Torah because Tipherzt is in the center and
unites the past with the present the law of the prophets with the law of
Jesus
77 Ask and it will be given to you seek and you will find
knock and the door will be opened to you
78 For everyone who asks receives he who seeks finds and
to him who knocks the door will be opened
79 Which of you if his son asks for bread will give him a
stone
710 Or if he asks for a fish will give him a snake
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711 If you then though you are evil know how to give good
gifts to your children how much more will your Father in
heaven give good gifts to those who ask him
712 So in everything do to others what you would have
them do to you for this sums up the Law and the Prophets
Neshah is stability the sefirah of the intellectual virtues the eye of the
intellect which shows us the path of life and Jesus shows us the road of
tranquility
713 Enter through the narrow gate For wide is the gate
and broad is the road that leads to destruction and many e n-
ter through it
714 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to
life and only a few find it
Hod is glory or recognition Jesus shows us how to recognize those who
are said to be prophets or wise men Jesus tells us the best way to do so
is by their fruit (results) or deeds if we observe others objectively we
will know who will really support us and who would like to take ad-
vantage of us
715 Watch out for false prophets They come to you in
sheeps clothing but inwardly they are ferocious wolves
716 By their fruit you will recognize them Do people pick
grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles
717 Likewise every good tree bears good fruit but a bad tree
bears bad fruit
718 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit and a bad tree cannot
bear good fruit
719 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and
thrown into the fire
7 20 Thus by their fruit you will recognize them
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79
The ninth sefirah is Yesod or foundation This is the sefirah of purifica-
tion in it Jesus separates the chaste from the impure to take evil away
from us
721 Not everyone who says to me Lord Lord will enter
the kingdom of heaven but only he who does the will of my
Father who is in heaven
722 Many will say to me on that day Lord Lord did we
not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out de-
mons and perform many miracles
723 Then I will tell them plainly I never knew you Away
from me you evildoers
The tenth sefirah is Malkuth the Kingdom of Earth and Heaven where
Jesus gives us an example of free will so that we make wise decisions
and chose the Kingdom in which we will live
724 Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and
puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house
on the rock
725 The rain came down the streams rose and the winds
blew and beat against that house yet it did not fall because it
had its foundation on the rock
726 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does
not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his
house on sand
727 The rain came down the streams rose and the winds
blew and beat against that house and it fell with a great
crash
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Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Neshah Stability
The Divine Creation
The Divine Creation
Adam Eve and the Genesis
Gestation and Conception
Development and Growth
Maturity
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81
The Divine Creation From the ape up to Adam and Eve
During the early ages of life on Earth the new thinking beings invested
most of their time in learning to survive humans had to adapt to and in-
tegrate themselves to the four elements or genius (Air Fire Earth and
Water) they also had to learn to interact with animals and plants
Man began to notice that all animals were born and died as natural pro-
cess They ldquocame inrdquo (were born) to this world from the maternal womb
or from an egg and all of them inevitably someday disappeared or
ldquoleftrdquo (died) this world
Man also noticed that all animals ldquochangedrdquo in size (grew) being small
when they ldquocame inrdquo to the world and as the ldquosuns and moonsrdquo passed
(time) they developed and grew getting stronger until reaching a point
in which they ldquodisappearedrdquo (died)
Furthermore the learning was part of the ldquoroadrdquo when they ldquoarrivedrdquo
they didnrsquot know how to walk or fly they couldnrsquot see their parents had
to get their food and protect them they were weak and dependant In
time they learned to be self-sufficient and to live independently even
though they were part
of a heard o a community
In every age thinkers and scientists asked them selves how early mankind
evolved to the point of becoming what we are nowadays The Judeo-
Christian Kabbalah answers this question without interfering with sci-
ence The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah explains mankindrsquos ldquoevolutionrdquo in
ten steps and goes through the Sefirotic Tree starting from the feminine
column reminding us that it is the female who receives the Divine herit-
age of Creation
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82
1 The Crown or Divine Light
First the Divine Light Crowned the undeveloped brain of the wild ape
and transformed it into a ldquothinking aperdquo That Divine ldquotouchrdquo caused
the transformation of the apersquos simple brain into the complex brain or
ldquocrownrdquo of this new being This change contains the celestial blow of the
future human being
2 Intelligence or understanding
Undoubtedly what made de difference between mankind and the rest of
the animals was that awareness since they all went through the same
changes they were all born grew up and died they could all see the
moon replacing the sun and all of them could see the vegetables grow
but the other species either did take notice or did not acknowledge it The
human being could ldquothinkrdquo mankind had the ldquointelligencerdquo to be aware
and that made it different
3 Wisdom or experience
As time went by mankind acquired experience which added to intelli-
gence resulted in ldquowisdomrdquo This wisdom made man outstand over the
rest of the species This wisdom permitted man to learn from other spe-
cies in a certain way and in many cases to dominate them
These three sefiroth that represents the Holy Trinity separated to
the man of the rest of the world animal and vegetable determining
their supremacy by order and Divine grace
4 Justice or respect
Man began to put his abilities to use and the first thing he did with his
intelligence and wisdom was to acknowledge ldquojusticerdquo but the Divine
free will permitted them to apply it or not Mankind understood that
without spiritual justice intelligence and wisdom cannot not be applied
5 Greatness or humility
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83
Mankind learned that spiritual greatness meant knowing how to apply
justice in every act of life
To be just and great is to be wise and intelligent
Man learned that to be great does not mean to be above the rest but to
apply intelligence and wisdom to improve the life and spirit of others
These four qualities must go together if man is to continue his evolution
and stay away from the ape otherwise he would be stuck and the ape
would overcome
6 Beauty or sweetness
As mankind evolved it became understood that each act good or bad as
well as every thought obscure or bright marks the inner character and
outer appearance of a person with a defined particularity that will either
dull it or illuminate it The beauty of the Spirit is more real and perma-
nent than physical beauty The secret of this beauty which lights up pu-
pils with the serene light of the stars y gives faces the sweet look of the
angels lies within a just behavior and greatness in thought
The Bible and Science go of the hand The Creation and the Evolution are work of God
7 Glory or acknowledgement
As man made his inner evolution he wanted to be acknowledged by the
Divinity first and by his peers later
ldquoGloryrdquo is the acknowledgement of onersquos values by others All human
beings need this physical and spiritual acknowledgement The Just has
the Spiritual Greatness Beauty of the Soul and the Divine Glory
8 Stability or Balance
The sensory and spiritual stability and balance of the new being meant
inner growth Stability came about with the bluntness of power and the
victory of his actions The spiritual powers of stability are the foundation
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84
Awareness
Respect
Knowledge
Building
Real World
Sweetness
Balance
Humility
Experience
Divine Light
of tolerance discernment and being able to face up to reality and to co-
operate with our peers powers that are attained through Justice Great-
ness and the Divine Glory
9 Foundation or construction
The foundation or founding of communities is a major stepping-stone
for this new being It was like planting a seed to watch a tree grow Man
understood that if the foundation was done right he would ldquobuildrdquo a
whole culture for the future of mankind But if due to selfishness ava-
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85
rice or greediness he failed and started with a poor foundation of com-
munities instead these would dissolve in time That is why he would
have to apply everything he had learned and all the accumulated experi-
ence correctly
10 The Kingdom of Earth or real world
The Kingdom of Earth is the summit in the process of evolution from
ape to man it is the matter substance the physical and real world This
is the peak of the creation cycle the creation of Adam and Eve Thanks
to the powers of God the ape was transformed into the human being that
now lives in the Kingdom of God which is the Earth It is at this point
where all divine teachings and human experiences converge all celestial
and earthly matters meet here the soul with the spirit and the senses
with the physical world
Adam Eve and the Genesis
ldquoFor the Kabbalah in animals femininity finds itself in front of mas-
culinity while masculinity confirms itself through femininity In the
human level masculinity and femininity are distinguished and at the
same time complement each otherrdquo
In the first book of the Pentateuch the ldquoBook of Genesisrdquo there are two
explanations that would appear to contradict each other that is why we
will analyze them textually
Chapter One verses 27 through 31
27 So God created man in his own image in the image of God he
created him male and female he created them
28 God blessed them and said to them Be fruitful and increase in
number fill the earth and subdue it Rule over the fish of the sea
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86
and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves
on the ground
29 Then God said I give you every seed-bearing plant on the
face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in
it They will be yours for food
30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and
all the creatures that move on the groundmdasheverything that has
the breath of life in itmdashI give every green plant for food And it
was so
31 God saw all that he had made and it was very good And there
was evening and there was morningmdashthe sixth day
Chapter Two verses 7 and 15 through 23
7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and the man became a
living being
15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of
Eden to work it and take care of it
16 And the LORD God commanded the man You are free to eat
from any tree in the garden
17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil for when you eat of it you will surely die
18 The LORD God said It is not good for the man to be alone I
will make a helper suitable for him
19 Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the
beasts of the field and all the birds of the air He brought them to
the man to see what he would name them and whatever the man
called each living creature that was its name
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87
20 So the man gave names to all the livestock the birds of the air
and all the beasts of the field But for Adam no suitable helper
was found
21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep and
while he was sleeping he took one of the mans ribs and closed
up the place with flesh
22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken
out of the man and he brought her to the man
23 The man said This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my
flesh she shall be called woman for she was taken out of man
According to these two texts which differ in just a few pages within the
Sacred Book first man and woman were created at the same time but
later it explains that woman was created from the rib taken from man
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah takes it as a cryptically allegory which
means we are not to understand this explanation as saying first and sec-
ond having another ahead does not make one a subordinate
The ten sefiroth that created the universe were simultaneous and the crea-
tion of the first ldquothinking aperdquo was simultaneous in male and female If
we try to understand the Divine message decoding it into common lingo
we find that the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah gives us several clues
The Book of Genesis 2 does not void what is stated in Genesis 1 it is
revealing another aspect of the human being The intention of the second
text is not to tell us how creation took place in a chronological order but
to explain ndash in a symbolic language ndash something more profound
According to the Book of Genesis 1 God created them ldquoin one single
actrdquo and gave them a mission in common Be fruitful and increase in
number fill the earth and subdue it This clarifies the equality of dignity
in both as well as the equality in the mission imparted since both are
given the same responsibility the family and protection of the world
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88
According to this there doesnrsquot seem to be tasks or responsibilities ex-
clusively reserved to men or women family as well as culture are to be
done by both
Adam does not take woman out of himself he was asleep doing noth-
ing Furthermore God expressly wanted to hide from him the way in
which he made woman doing so while he slept when he could not notice
what was happening
About the reasons for God putting Adam to sleep we can take some
concepts from the Divine reasoning The lonely Adam pictured in the
Book of Genesis 27 is a generic Adam because the characteristics
which describe him are the same for either man or woman and are
meshed in the verses 215 through 223 in the four worlds of the Sefirotic
Tree
The original loneliness (interpreted as the transcendence of
mankind with respect to the Cosmos) is the world of Atziluth or
divine protection
It is not good for the man to be alonerdquo is the need to opening
up this is the world of Briah or giving to others
The search for the appropriate assistance (conceived as mutual
and reciprocal) is the world of Yetsirah or trust and learning
The call for man woman and their animals to work together is
the world of Assiah or Earth and its fruits
The symbolism of the rib taken by God from Adam while he slept re-
veals a relationship between man and woman from which two conse-
quences derive Is a reciprocal relationship (there is no woman without
man but there is no man without woman) which leads us to conclude
that both ends of this relationship must be simultaneous
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89
Spirit
Form
Muscles
Organs
Birth
Nerves
Bones
Strength
Soul
Supra
One
Heart
Gestation
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
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90
Conception
A person is born at a particular moment in time due to a specific
situation or to connect with specific people or one person in particular
When speaking of gestation it is important to assign the archetypical
worlds to each step of this process
1 The Archetypical World called Atziluth is where everything
is in a latent state where everything is potential This is the world in
which the Divinity unites soul and spirit It is in this world where the
essence on an individual is found There is a ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath of the
heart here which lives in both the spiritual and the creative worlds
2 In the Creative World called Briah we find strength and the
pure form which gives shape to the physical life where the cellular mul-
tiplication begins The heart sends the energy of the soul and spirit to the
new being in gestation
3 In the Formative World called Yetsirah the whole body is
in the process of development creating the nervous system muscles
bones organs etc
4 In the Material World called Assiah is where the physical
manifestation takes place It is the moment of birth when the new inte-
grated being sees the light of the Sun
Development
At birth the physical body manifests itself in the Malkut of As-
siah or the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth after going through the se-
quence of conception Birth takes place at the end of the descending path
from Kether (God) to Malkut (Earth) After birth the path is inverted
while developing we begin to ascend from Malkut (Earth) to Kether
(God)
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91
The personality of an adult individual is reflected in the stage or
sefirath where he stopped or in which he weakened the most We can
associate these stages with the worlds in an ascending manner reverting
the way of the gestation
For example the Malkut of Assiah is the material world in
which a person must see and touch in order to learn He needs to touch
the fire to know that it burns or needs to knock himself to know how hard
matter is and how weak is the spirit
Yetsirah is the world in which responsibility is formed where
most people have stopped at one point in their lives for not being able to
assimilate one or more of sefiroth that make up this world
A person who stopped in hisher childhood has stopped at the
sefirath Yesod a person seeking information or news or is forever study-
ing is at Hod and the one seeking pleasures (sex food fun) is still going
through Neshah And those searching for trust in themselves are at
Tipherzt
Mature people are in the world of Briah Justice and greatness
will help these people to develop the acquired knowledge
Those who have stopped at Geburah are people who experience
constant hardship until they learn to grasp control of themselves and
once they achieve inner peace they dedicate their lives to good acts On
the other hand those who come out of Hesed are the ones who negotiate
with generosity those who give to receive who seek to buy love affec-
tion or respect
Atziluth the last world is the one closest to God one that takes
us to Him
Those worried about death are at the sefirath Binah They age
prematurely and constantly complain about illnesses
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92
Those who reach Hokhmah is because they have profound en-
lightening visions which in some cases and for certain social groups are
similar to insanity
To reach Kether at the end of life on earth is to go back to God
to achieve the freedom of onersquos soul
In the Material World called Assiah is where the man-
ifestation of birth takes place where the body without formation but with
genetic and Godrsquos instruction and information from past lives gets ac-
quainted with himself and those around him
In the Formative World called Yetsirah life and aca-
demic formation is acquired to be applied to the rest of onersquos life The
person shall have the teachings perception affirmation and confidence
supplied by those around him
In the Creative World called Briah the most important
stage in a personrsquos life is found In it we can apply everything learned
and observed in the previous world Decisions taken in this world will
affect us twice as much in the following world
The Archetypical World called Atziluth is a world of
closeness to the Divinity here is where we should stop and analyzes our
existence prepare the balance sheet of our soul When we get here we
can see what we have contributed to the growth of our soul
The road to Maturity
As we know each sefirath is a tree in itself and each world con-
tains the other four inside that is why we must analyze our maturity from
the moment of birth and the growing years as well
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93
Pro
tec-
tion
Co
ntr
ol
Le
arning
Chi
ldh
ood
Bi
rt
h
Tr
us
t
Ple
asure
Giving
Li
gh
t
S
up
ra
O
ne
Heart
The stages of growth
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
94
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah when we are born
our ldquopatternrdquo of life is not finished because our body spirit and soul are
not completely integrated
Between the ages of five and seven the central column formed
by Yesod Tipherzt and the ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath Led molds the operative
personality The Heart Trust and Foundation are the basis of a childrsquos
personal development
At the age of thirteen Hod and Neshah stability and glory for-
mation and pleasures become active This is the age of awakening of
knowledge
Between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one Kether and
Malkuth intertwine forming the central structure of the tree and they
give it meaning and dimension
During the following years Geburah Hesed Binah and
Hokhmah integrate themselves completing the incarnation of the plains
When we see rebellious youths who have not yet grasped the
concepts of justice or generosity (gangs drugs) it is because they have
not incarnated completely and Geburah and Hesed have not taken their
places yet There is no set age for complete incarnation because it de-
pends on the surroundings and social experience
The child of an alcoholic and a drug addict who live in poverty
does not have to follow that path If he could find support in a family or
educational group that could help him to develop the missing sefiroth and
that way obtain incarnation he could become a person who understands
the proper concepts of justice and greatness thus clearing his life and ob-
taining personal success
On the other hand the son of an aristocrat or millionaire be-
tween the ages of thirteen and twenty will react against his class but
from there on and according to the integration of his sefiroth to the tree
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
95
he will only be interested in developing within his social circle marrying
someone accordingly and following the family pattern but if he should
find a link that could help him develop the missing sefiroth in order to
complete his incarnation he would change his concepts on class and
would obtain personal success
Of course both examples are generalizations which do not apply
to all people If you are reading this book you are a spiritual researcher
and surely do not fall under generalizations
Many people consider a good marriage and a good social posi-
tion as valid objectives but after twenty years or more of walking the
same path they understand that even though they have a good marriage
with someone they love and good economic resources they have no
goals
This usually happens after the age of forty-five or fifty For those
based on their bodies this is the beginning of the end and will seek the
physical methods (surgeries) to slow this process
The Tree of the Maturity
These physical methods are not bad if they go together with a
spiritual development with growth in the tree of the spiritual worlds un-
til the highest point is reached and it is understood that the body is the
container of the spirit and soul
Often enough people get stuck emotionally here and no matter
how old they are they cannot get out of Tipherzt or the sefirath of Trust
It is here where emotions are sometimes confused with feelings obscur-
ing thoughts and the development of spiritual maturity
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96
Under-
standing
Truth
Awakening
Trust
Real
World
Foundation
Power
Humility
Experience
Essence
Heath
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97
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
Hod Glory
The Human Being
Soul and Spirit
The Worlds of the Spirit The Battle of the Spirit
The terror and the Fears
Difficult Situations The Problems of the Spirit
The Worlds of Solutions Instincts feelings and senses
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
98
Soul and Spirit
We already know that neither one of us is a new soul all of us
have accumulated experience from previous lives in other incarnations
We also know that those celestial beings that occupy our body
have come during the last thousands of years
We also know that this inter-relation or connection between soul
and body helps to correct the soul
What we need to know now is What is the spirit
The spirit is our inner Self our mind it is what we really are and
who we are
Our spirit is formed by four worlds Each world relates to the
other on the basis of interactive processes and it works its way up from
the concrete (tangible) to the ethereal (spiritual) levels
1 The Material World called Assiah or the world of
Logic is based on Malkut passes through Yessed and opens up into
Hod and Neshagh The logical though is something you can almost
touch it has foundation stability and glory
2 The Formative World called Yetsirah or the world of
the Perceptions is based on Tipherzt and opens its arms into Ge-
brurah and Hesed The perceptions of the human being are beauty
justice and greatness
3 The Creative World called Briah or the world of Feel-
ings is based on Led (heart) and from there goes on to Binah and
Hokhmah Our feelings are the product of the alchemy formed by
the ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath of the heart intelligence and wisdom
4 The Archetypical World called Atziluth or the world
of Intuition has only one sefirath as base Kether Divinity resides
here that is intuition is the direct link to Divinity
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99
As we can see the spirit is the part that connects our contained
(physical body) to our soul (or celestial body) and that is who we really
are The spirit must take care of the body so that it ldquolastsrdquo as long as pos-
sible When it is mistreated with external products (poor nutrition alco-
hol tobacco or drugs) the soulrsquos stay and learning period is shortened
this will cause the soul to come back in another container to continue
learning
When an illness or accident causes the brain to stop the spirit is
affected never the soul The soul keeps learning even though the body is
inert or in a deep coma and it will stay there for some ldquotimerdquo after the
heart stops beating It could be minutes maybe hours or days before the
soul abandons the body
When the death is surprising and unexpected (accident violence
etc) both the soul and the spirit stay in condition of shock and are late
many time in dividing
Each person has in its spirit what we know as personality stud-
ied by Jung even his profession is related to these worlds For example a
person with an Assiah personality will be in the armed forces Profes-
sionals are Yetsirah the artists are in the world of Briah and the mysti-
cal people live in Atziluth
Even as we are crossing the tree sefiroacutethico the personality was
passing of being introverted and logical to extrovert and dreamy
Undoubtedly the complexity of the spirit and the dynamic that
surrounds it could generate multiple models Human beings depending
on the inherited genes educational environment social development will
modify some of the parameters associated to these worlds in order to be
accepted by society
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
100
The soul is very important in this development since in its mis-
sion of learning it will try to put the person in challenging situations
provoking logical feelings and intuitive sensations
The way to analyze these worlds and know to which ones we
blong (surely to all of them but some more than others) is to know our
strengths and our weaknesses to find our fears and the chance to
ovecome them
Each world has its own ten sefiroth that respond to its own
behavior
The residents of the world of intuition or Atziluth
are generalists hypothetical not precise speculative idealists in-
ventive illogical indecisive futurists and disperse
Those who live in the world of feelings or Briah are a
logical poetic artistic passionate personal cordial ethical justice seek-
ers individualists and humanitarians
The inhabitants of the world of the senses or Yetsirah
are careful detail minded specialists objective precise concrete real-
ists profound practical and conventional
Those who live in the world of logic or Assiah are log-
ical analytic extremist scientific cold dispassionate theoretical imper-
sonal shrewd and insensitive
Neither world is better than another and there isnrsquot a single hu-
man being that ldquofitsrdquo exactly into one defined world we all have behav-
iors from all of them but the proportions are different in each one of us
and that is what makes us all different from each other
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101
The worlds of the Spirit
In the center ldquoThe Column of Equilibriumrdquo (Balance)
Intuition Atziluth
Feelings Briah
Sense Yetsirah
Logical Assiah
Thought
Intelli-
li-gence
Jus
tice
Glo
ry
Foun-
dation
Ma-
teri
al
Be
au-
ty
Sta-
bil-
ity
Grea
tness
Wisdom
Su-
pra
One
Heart
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102
The Battle of the Spirit
As we could see the battle is not very fair three worlds are ruled
by the heart and only one is ruled by the brain That is why in most cas-
es instincts or feelings ldquowinrdquo over reason When free will was given to
us it was so that we could ldquothink overrdquo our acts
Are two ways of thinking intuition and reasoning with very dif-
ferent characteristics
Some thoughts come to mind in a spontaneous way in reality
that is what happens most of the time Because Atziluth Briah and
Yetsirah are always present in a potential way ready to jump in and re-
spond in a way of which we are not totally conscious and cannot control
The actions of these three worlds are quick without effort associative
and very often charged with emotions They are ruled by habits that is
why it is difficult to modify or control them
The world of Assiah instead is ruled by conscience and delib-
erate reasoning it is slower serial and requires effort it follows rules
Needs more time when something upsets us it clouds our reasoning
This means the issue is stuck on the upper worlds and it doesnrsquot allow us
to make logical decisions usually because we are afraid to reason
For example the idea that something awful can happen if we
take a plane even though that possibility is remote will not let us think
of anything else The upper worlds become dominant Emotion is over-
come in turn by the possibility by what could happen and not by reality
so much
The emotional and issue is the less ldquoreasonablerdquo people are
According to Daniel Kahneman winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize
in Economics
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
103
ldquoEmotions in general do not influence decision making but one
emotion in particular (fear) distorts the perception of risk and generates
errors in the making of decisionsrdquo
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah fear originates in the
upper world but if we can take it to the world of Assiah or logical it
vanishes into thin air
Nevertheless if once we make a reasoned decision we donrsquot reg-
ister having made it curious enough we are not conscious we have
changed our way of thinking
Most people after changing their way of thinking reconstruct
the old pattern They underestimate their change Besides when they
have been persuaded of something they believe they always thought that
way The upper worlds hide behind the mask that reason displays and
have us believing they were never there we are convinced that we al-
ways think rationally
It is true that many people admit making a mistake at one time
or another ndash you could be one of them ndash but that doesnrsquot mean that they
have changed their way of thinking on a particular issue and that they
wonrsquot make the same mistake again
Fears
All living beings have fears it is natural and it responds to the
instinct of survival You donrsquot have to be a caballist or scientist to state
that man is a fearful ldquoanimalrdquo One hundred percent of the human spirit is
ldquoshyrdquo or timid and it fears an endless amount of things and situations He
is intimidated by them The important thing is to identify the things he
fears and why Donrsquot even think you are the only one who fears some-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
104
thing ALL OF US fear something The thing is that that ldquosomethingrdquo is
different for each one of us
Fear is not bad or good it simply is disturbing feeling about
something unknown or if it is known we canrsquot control and we are afraid
it might hurt us
When God created the four elements or semi gods (Fire Water
Air and Earth) He gave them the ability to help or hurt mankind that is
why Fire can cook our food or it can destroy us Water is for drinking or
drowning Earth can give us vegetables or bury us with Air we live and
without it we die The four elements can give or take life And it is pre-
cisely in them that the depth of all fears lies
Fear has companions such as anguish
obsessions and phobias
Many cultures and old and modern religions disguise fears (in
many cases to manipulate people) with the presence of the Devil or dia-
bolic things The Judeo-Christian Kaballah upholds that mankind in its
search for alternative gods created this evil figure to justify its fears and
anguishes
Fear lives in the upper part of the Sefirotic Tree of both worlds of
the spirit where man thinks less and fears more First he starts at Atzi-
luth where he acts mostly based on instinct he is almost irrational and
here is where he ignites the anguish fearrsquos best friend From there it goes
down to Briah and it leans on phobic feelings to go on to Yetsirah
where it can attract obsessions
In the emotional sentimental world or Briah reside an endless
number of opposed phobic fears darkness or light open spaces or closed
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
105
space crowds or loneliness heights or depths planes or boatshellip and we
could go on for pages
In the world of the sensations or Yetsirah live the obsessive
fears disguised as concern
Worry for details rules lists order schedules up to
the point of losing of sight the principal object of the activity
Perfectionism which interferes with the completion of
a task (unable to finish a project because it doesnrsquot comply with
onersquos own demands which are overly strict)
Excessive dedication to onersquos work and to the produc-
tivity with exclusion of the activities of leisure and the friend-
ship (not attributable to economic evident needs)
Excessive stubbornness very scrupulous and inflexi-
ble when it comes to moral issues ethics or values (not attributed
to the identification with religion)
Unable to discard old and useless items even when
there is no sentimental value attached
Unable to share the work load with others unless
they will accept to do it your way exactly
Excessive thriftiness in spending money must be ac-
cumulated to cover future catastrophes
All these fears which live in the worlds of instincts feelings and
sensations are not related to diabolic situations Satan does not exist in
the Divine Universe Satan is a creation of our spirit to encourage the
learning and development of our soul The best way to teach our soul is
to overcome our fears bringing them down to the rational world of Assi-
ah to keep them under control and letting them go
This can be done following these steps
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
106
1 The first step is to put your fears in the world of
logic or Assiah not worrying about why this fear exists but how
do we respond to this fear behavior (eg paralysis desperation)
Hesed origin
2 Be specific when it comes to defining your con-
duct of fear and its consequences because the problem it self is
the solution Geburah control
3 Donrsquot look at your fear as such but as an obsta-
cle in attaining your goals Take it to Tipherzt trust
4 Define exactly the way you want to change your
conduct Go to Neshah balance
5 Establish a time limit to obtain the proposed
change For this Hod learning is the right sefirath
Search for an adequate way to make your change with-
out going to extremes for instance becoming a perfectionist
What you want to change is not making mistakes but the irra-
tional fear for avoiding making mistakes If you are set out to
making mistakes to change you will stop worrying about per-
fection but you will also stop worrying about the mistakes you
could make That is the mistakes are not the problem but the
fear of making mistakes is Work on Yesod construc-
tionbuilding
6 Be patient changes donrsquot take place overnight
whatrsquos more there could be a set back especially when there is a
fast progression in the change of the conduct of fear Please un-
derstand that a straight forward improvement is not always to be
expected you could be going forward there could be stops and
set backs which will allow you to compare and value the differ-
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
107
ences between your previous status with your situation of pro-
gress Go through Malkuth action
Once the world of Assiah logic overcomes your fears you will
see how your fears crashed with logic and vanish
Donrsquot forget that fear is a close friend of depression Fear attracts
dissonance synonym of physical and spiritual disease When one of the
elements stops working the machinery works with serious difficulties
When one of the parts slows down or over speeds therersquos also a lack of
balance and things donrsquot run well
Fear is one of those elements in the human being with great
power to generate lack of harmony correspondence and balance Its
negativity does not allow us to act neither with freedom intelligence nor
with common sense On the contrary it makes us highlight aspects of our
life which we shouldnrsquot consider so important It makes us go back
when we should be going forward It makes us lie when we should be
telling the truth And it takes away our plenitude creativity and capacity
to love
Problematic Situations
Man faces difficult situations all his life from childhood to old
age He finds himself with the obligation to address them with systemat-
ic processes of thought but he doesnrsquot know how important they are All
problems can be grouped in these three definitions
Urgent and important
Urgent or important
Neither urgent nor important
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
108
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah and the sefirotic trees show us
that if we establish priorities if we analyze situations if we identify op-
portunities there are no problems without a solution and that solution is
usually much simpler than we would have thought The method to apply
the adequate solution to a problem is part of the kaballistic teachings
Problems of the Spirit
The Spirit is made up of four worlds (logic sensations emotions
and intuition) if we know how to apply them correctly and how to dis-
tribute our problems amongst these worlds each one of them will solve
the part of the problem to which it applies and the general solution will
become available without stress nor complications
The World of logical thought is the one that analyzes a problem
concretely creating a new Sefirotic Tree with four worlds Ideas Caus-
es Opportunities and Solutions we go through them from the column
of forms or shapes looking for the world of detail or feminine
Atziluth is the world of Ideas formed by Kether Binah and Hokhmah
Kether is the situation worrying you the problem in your
head or philosophical it could be physical or mental could be serious or
momentary but none the less it is the center of the worry
Binah is the expansive thought the one that analyzes the
components distinguishes the pertinent parts the real causes of the prob-
lem Binah clarifies the information to define the situation
Hokhmah is the convergent thought it evaluates and develops
the main idea of the problem compares theorizes and creates a hypothe-
sis which means it is the one that focuses on the problem to be solved
looking for the way to follow and the steps to take
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
109
Briah is the world of Causes formed by Leb Geburah and Hesed
Leb is the virtual sefirath of the heart which plays a part in
every problem and even though thought is the most concrete world of
the spirit the heart has its influence when the time to make a decision
comes We should make the problem ldquovirtualrdquo analyze the solution with
the heart and without it in order to be objective and make the right deci-
sion
Geburah is justice Try to think as a lawyer they only deal
with proven facts they donrsquot go by hearsay Clean your mind of external
ldquoadditionsrdquo analyze ldquowhat problems make up this problemrdquo
Hesed is greatness It is very important to know where the
problem was originated in order not to repeat it you must have the
greatness to admit your percentage of responsibility in the origin of the
problem Donrsquot put the responsibility all out there blaming others do
know that we alwayshellip alwayshellip are partly responsible for what happens
to us Admitting responsibility requires greatness
Yetsirah is the world of Opportunities formed by
Tipherzt Hod and Neshah
Tiphezt is the sefirath of beauty and every problem has a
beautiful side to it which is the opportunity it opens up to the other
worlds Every problem is the starting point towards truth Many times
the truth is hidden and the problems bring it out in the light Look for the
positive side of the problem there always is one look for the sun after
the storm
Hod is the glory and glory is acknowledgement To
acknowledge a problem is part of the solution If we describe the prob-
lem and its consequences we could see clearly which opportunity it is
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
110
revealing Remember facts or situations it will help us recognize the real
scenario of the problem
Neshah is stability which will come when we solve the prob-
lem Imagine your life without the problem try to see which things will
be better and analyze which ones could be worse in order to avoid them
Donrsquot let it catch you off guard Just like in a chess match every move
must be carefully thought out and advantage taken of the adversaryrsquos lit-
tle mistakes
Assiah is the world of Solutions formed by Yesod and Malkuth
Yesod is the sefirath of foundation it is the one to support and
filter the information sent by the rest to Malkuth If the other nine have
done their job correctly the problem would reach this point practically
resolved In some cases it doesnrsquot even reach this point since it was re-
solved on its way As long as we clarify and converge ideas analyze the
real causes and describe its consequences the storm we saw coming at
first becomes a sea breeze
Malkuth is the earth action It establishes these ways to fol-
low to resolve a problem or whatrsquos left of it The truth is that Malkuth
steps in less than 5 of the cases because the big problems do not ex-
ist but small problems that transformed a snow ball rolling downhill that
breaks up into thousands of harmless little particles when it hits a serious
and conclusive analytical spirit
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
111
The Sefiroacutethico
Tree of the logical thought
Diverge
Facts
Acknowl-
edging
Filtration
Action
Serenity
Equilibrium
Origin
Converge
Knowing
Heart
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
112
The Worlds of Solutions
The other three worlds of the spirit (sensations emotions and intuition)
are present in the previous development as observers but sometimes
(many times) they are present in the analysis of the concrete world where
logical thoughts occur taking the solution to the problem through not so
logical paths In these cases we have to appeal to the central column or
Column of Equilibrium of the Sefirotic Tree of the Spirit
Kether (Intuition) receiving the energy that the Divinity and Its
Light sends us
Leb (Heart) will find answers in our feelings
Tipherzt (Beauty) will consult our inner sensations
Yesod and Malkuth (Foundation and Earth) bring us back to the
world of reasoning and logic
This means that we can solve many problems using our intuition our
feelings or our sensations but we should always put them through the
filter of logical thought of truth putting passion aside and trying to be as
analytical as possible
Instincts Feelings and Sensations
Instincts or Atziluth feelings or Briah and sensations or Yetsirah to-
gether create an inner stir up when motivated by action Mankind is
mostly conditioned by emotions and sensations by likes and dislikes
Often enough feelings and sensations are side tracked by mankindrsquos own
interests and selfishness to the point of invalidating sense and reason
making one behave in ways which one sees with consternation that Assi-
ah has been forgotten Thus logic is destroyed by the three upper
worlds When we snap out later and we see the mistake it is too late to
do anything about it
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
113
The upper worlds usually come up as an answer to the spontaneous eval-
uation of perceptions Emotions such as anger or fear can be harmful or
healthy such as fondness or compassion While aversions are typical un-
healthy emotions good love and compassion are outstanding examples of
noble emotions that lift our human nature
Human beings are pretty open to emotional development and so is the
range and strength of their emotions We are all somewhat passionate
and impulsive and cold and reflective at the same time What varies is
the percentage some get angry very fast and others are patient While
one person could be not impulsive emotionally another could go through
a wide range of emotions at the speed of light
The emotional worlds hurt the physical body that is why they should be
controlled According to clinical experience a person dominated by
emotions could have consecutively or simultaneously health issues af-
fecting several organic systems I will mention a few psychosomatic
health problems
Migraines
This symptom is made up of other somatic symptoms that go to-
gether in people with a perfectionist personality with changing moods
They usually manifest themselves with painful muscle contractions of the
neck as well as nausea and vomiting
Obesity
Obesity usually develops within the frame of anxieties in re-
sponse to frustrations and disappointment through devotion to food8
Hypertension
The main reason for vascular hypertension is emotional tension
in people who show apparent serenity and affability but are really cover-
ing up hostile emotions and predisposition ndash that must be restrained ndash for
social or employment reasons
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
114
Cardiovascular System
It has been proven that the stress caused by anguish tends to fre-
quently increase your heart beat cardiac distress and blood pressure
Respiratory System
Crying laughing screaming o talking imply changes your
breathing action excessive breathing or the opposite are typical respons-
es during contrasting periods of action or relaxation Examples of this are
the hyperventilation syndrome and asthma amongst others
The Gastrointestinal Tract
The symptoms of gastrointestinal disorders are multiple the most
frequent they are anorexia bulimia nausea nervous indigestion vomit-
ing and diarrhea
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
115
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Yesod Foundation
Free Will
The emotional worlds
Control of emotions
Who controls me
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
116
The emotional worlds
The emotional worlds are distributed within the Sefirotic Tree from
Kether to Malkuth
Kether is imagination it is ethereal and impalpable it comes
from within and surprises us as if it came from outside We imagine
things or situations this is the world of Atziluth
What happens in our lives makes better sense when we use our imagina-
tion and create our own stories These could be situations related directly
to what is happening to us or just the opposite For example if we are
watching a Superman movie we unconsciously accept that the character
flies We know the actor is supported by ropes of steel or that it is a
computerized trick but we go prepared to accept this The same thing
happens with a horror movie we donrsquot ignore that the monster is made
out of some synthetic material that those masks are created with makeup
or that the blood could be tomato sauce but while we are watching the
movie we let the world of Atziluth take over our spirit and we accept
what takes place in the screen as real
The important thing is to know when the movie ends and reality begins
There have been cases of people jumping off rooftops believing they
were Superman or have shot others thinking they were either Rambo or
Terminator Without going to these extreme examples many people be-
lieve they are living stories out of soap operas in which the characters
are either good or bad In them the manipulation of society is done
through ldquobelievablerdquo or ldquodetestablerdquo stereotypes In these stories the
ldquogood guysrdquo consume the sponsorrsquos products that is why they are good
looking and successful while the ldquobad guys are very badrdquo and always
end up in jail or dead Very far from the reality
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117
Hokhmah is memory it is our particular wisdom it is what we
learn from the past the things our own life has taught us But memories
sometimes play tricks on us
Often enough we associate what we see with some other type of experi-
ence or memory For instance if somebody speaks loudly we feel we are
being attacked because we remember that tone of voice being used by a
teacher or our father to make an observation or punish us This memory
which is not rational will put us on alert waking all our feelings of de-
fense But it could be that this person speaks loudly because he needs to
be listened to with the best intentions towards us In this case Atziluth
would have reacted against our relationship with the other person We
usually do not notice these processes because these are unconscious be-
haviors of which we are not aware When we remember the incident we
only describe our experience related to the visual perception and with
conscientious thought We almost never refer to what we heard felt im-
agined or what our intuition told us What this does is that we visualize
an incomplete picture of the situation
Binah is the comprehension our intelligence While we hear the
other person speaking loudly we generate currents of thought These
thoughts could relate directly and we could probably raise our voice as
well Both of us speaking loudly almost screaming will dull our compre-
hension and we wonrsquot be able to reason the other personrsquos words nor
will we understand why we are being loud In unexpected situations
such as an accident in transit (like somebody hitting our car in the free-
way) we create an opinion of the other person while we observe the in-
cident But we do not reason the occurrence It is not easy for us to un-
derstand in those circumstances and we unchain reactions that we will
regret later
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
118
ldquoThe three sefiroth of the tree of emotions make up the trilogy of At-
ziluth where everything is potential everything is relative where im-
agination lives with memories and comprehe nsionrdquo
Listening is Hesed greatness since knowing how to listen is
greatness Our hearing perceives in a selective way depending on the
attention we are paying In first place we hear the most discordant
sounds Some people listen independently from what they see while
others associate what they hear to what they see Closer sounds also get
mixed with those coming from afar (planes trains)
Seeing is Geburah justice When the police investigate an acci-
dent talks to five witnesses and gets five different versions of the same
accident This is because each witness perceived the same scene in a dif-
ferent way according to their distance and angle their surprise their
memories and their fears What each one was doing and how long it took
their minds to react to adapt to the new situation is also important
Feeling is Tipherzt beauty Any situation of relationship or ac-
tion (somebody yelling at us somebody crashing into us somebody hug-
ging us or loving us) triggers our instinctive emotions and can make us
feel uncomfortable sad surprised tender excited furious anxious nos-
talgichellip and so many other ways
It is important to know how to handle them from the sefirath of beauty
Both love and fury are born there It is the provider of spiritual nourish-
ment it is the one that sends the order to our hand to slap or caress to our
mouth the order to insult or say words of love to our legs the order to get
closer or start running away If we control our reactions and let our brain
make the decision we will save ourselves lots of problems apologies and
unpleasantness
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
119
ldquoThese three sefiroth of the tree of emotions form the trilogy of
Briah the world of creation where strength idea and ways of liste n-
ing seeing and feeling come togetherrdquo
Taste and smell are Hod and Neshah or glory and stability the sev-
enth and eighth sefiroth These two senses go together When we smell a
dish we like we feel our mouth ldquowateringrdquo This is because our sense of
taste already sent the known flavors to our brain which in turn already
started in Yetsirah the registered memories In some gas stations we
taste the smell of gasoline in our mouth as if we had drunk it Being close
to a trash dump makes us nauseous since the smell is perceived by our
nose and mouth irritating our throat
In these cases the formative world of Yetsirah makes us react instinc-
tively to aggressive odors
Reflexes are Yesod foundation This sefirah closes the trilogy of the
world of Yetsirah which is the formative or conceptual world and re-
flexes just like taste and smell are instinctive concepts that we cannot
control When we watch a thriller or action movie we move as if we
were the character in it we flinch when they stick a knife into somebody
or we move avoiding the punch We usually experience some movements
as if we were moving ourselves we even experience tension in our mus-
cles Itrsquos common that if we see others dancing we will also feel the im-
pulse to dance
ldquoThese three sefiroth are the base of our instinctive and intuitive sys-
tem We can control all other sefiroth imagination memories un-
derstanding listening seeing and even feeling but the senses of smell
and taste and reflexes are very hard to control that is why we must
concentrate our attention on themrdquo
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
120
Re-
mem-
ber
Lis-tening
Tast-
ing
Re-
flexes
Rea-
soning
Feel-
ing
Smell-ing
Seeing
Compre-
hension
Imag-
ining
As we can see Malkuth is in the world of Assiah and takes no part in
emotions It is the material world reason and reasoning If we manage to
handle our emotions and ldquobring them downrdquo to Malkuth reason will
prevail and our behavior will be logical improving our relation with the
world
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
121
Controlling your emotions
Now that we know our emotions we know where their origin
takes place and which worlds rule them we can analyze the possibility of
controlling them to reach our goals since a person who angers easily
spoils hisher own happiness and disturbs otherrsquos peace of mind
Without a deliberate effort emotions will not be under the direct
control of our will of Assiah and we will be able to control them in this
rational and logic world We must train our mind to control our emotions
the moment they stir up This can be done by watching them objectively
as soon as they flourish identifying them with a name or a mental label
such as ldquoAngerrdquo ldquoJealousyrdquo ldquoSorrowrdquo ldquoFuryrdquo etc
Once we have names for our emotions we will be then in a bet-
ter position to let go of them without being dragged by them The mo-
ment we can register our anger calmly (when we become aware that this
anger originated in the upper worlds) that is when we make it descend to
Assiah to the world of reason and our anger will leave us
At first this could be useful if during the day we repeat to our-
selves a formula such as
ldquoWhat am I feeling nowrdquohellip ldquoWhat am I thinkingrdquohellip
We respond immediately
ldquoI am feeling angerrdquohellip ldquoI am jealousrdquohellip
We can also investigate even afterwards why the anger (or any
other adverse emotion) took over us so that we can avoid these situations
or responses in the future
Who controls me
Even though every human being has in its spirit the world of As-
siah very few use this world to think logically and by themselves This
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
122
passivity or indifference is the result of the development of massive
communication media
Radio television yellow journalism even the Internet push their
messages on all of us every minute of the day and its penetration power
is reinforced by the rooted human disposition to accept everything we are
being told and comply with what we are dared to do Bombarded by
thousands of stimuli we donrsquot think by ourselves anymore we donrsquot feel
our emotions anymore or start up our own actions instead we feel how
others want us to feel The pressure of the multitude is irresistible
When we explain that Kether accepts that Superman flies be-
cause it is part of the film game we must control that Kether does not
accept that my self esteem depends on the perfume or shirt I buy or that
my relationship with people does not depend on the car I have
We saw that in the world of Atziluth everything is relative eve-
rything is in a potential state that is why commercials aim at our imagina-
tion memories and comprehension to get us to buy their products
All these communication means teach us to hold our capacity to
reason or if we happen to reason to do it the way they expect us to
Those who manipulate the media (not necessarily the owners but the
sponsors) are motivated by their own interests which are fortune and
power They play important roles in several means of life such as politic
business law medicine and education
Publicity newscasts soap operas even reality shows penetrate
us through the world of Briah which is the listeningseeingfeeling trilo-
gy In Briah we find the idea in formation that is why journalism is con-
sidered the ldquofourth powerrdquo Nevertheless in todayrsquos globalizes world
Kabbalah places it at the top over all other earthly powers because it
manipulates images ideas and it gives us the news ldquoaimedrdquo at their inter-
ests The role of reasoning tends to be subordinated to that of emotion
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
123
while the mental inertia and indifference eases the conquest of reason
That is why when public opinion is formed through manipulation a small
minority is able to control the majority Publicity and newscasts are the
most effective mechanism to make us ldquobelieverdquo what is good or bad for
our spirit and body
Control of decisions and Free Will
All of those who are part of the small but powerful marketing
minority have something to sell Commercials make us wish more and
more things that will not necessarily make us happier or give us peace of
mind They tell us that happiness is having the latest entertainment center
or the new cooking system But no matter how many things we buy we
could still feel our lives painfully empty
The speed power and efficiency of all this technological and so-
cial development drive us into an increasing frequency of illness due to
stress and nervous crisis Those who do not collapse under this pressure
find other ways to escape such as drugs alcohol and psychotic cults
The battle is not easy because the offer is gratifying we are even part of
that wheel because we sell a product or service which is commercialized
that way The only significant comparison we can make is with our-
selves between the person we were one month earlier a year earlier or
even a decade earlier and the person we are at present physically intel-
lectually morally and financially If there hasnrsquot been an improvement
or it hasnrsquot been enough we should ask ourselves why that is and do
something to modify this without delay If done regularly this ldquocheck-
uprdquo could be very beneficial If we set our pride and prejudice aside and
we check out our values and perspectives then we will be able to live a
simpler healthier and happier life
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
124
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Malkuth
The Kingdom
The Rational World
Education and freedom
Rights and obligations
Daily negotiations Responsibilities
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
125
Education and freedom
As a child I was told that
ldquoThe better educated a person is the freer that person isrdquo
At the time I didnrsquot understand the significance of those words
because at the age of ten to me education was school teachers and
studying
Today a few years older the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah taught
me that education is knowledge and it is much more profound than what I
was taught in school
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the first thing educa-
tion should do is warn the students that all knowledge implies a certain
risk of error and illusion Human knowledge is exposed to errors in per-
ception and judgment and illusions caused by the narrowness of ideas
cultural influence and the emotions and experiences of each person
Scientific knowledge is not even immune to error and illusion
theories and methods of investigation protect their own errors and illu-
sions That is why the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah education gives the kind
of knowledge that allows for self criticism and detects errors and illu-
sions The ldquoknowledge blindnessrdquo can be cured with a more open and
reflexive education that self-criticizes
The media overwhelms us with information It is fundamental
that we learn to discern what is relevant and what is accessorial
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah invites us to analyze the four
worlds of the human spirit together with the four worlds of the societies
in which they live political cultural religious and financial
The archetypical world called Atziluth is the one where eve-
rything is in a latent potential state That is the spirituality and religious
world
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
126
In the creative world called Briah we find the strength in its
pure form and the ideas This is the emotional or cultural world
In the formative world called Yetsirah everything is in the
formation or a conceptual process which is the world of sensations or
political
In the material world called Assiah is where the physical
manifestation takes place which is the logical or financial world
Globalization is another important issue that conditions our free-
dom According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the world has been
globalizing from its inception God never discriminated we are all His
children Moses was a ldquoglobalizesrdquo when he took his people to the Prom-
ised Land through the desert So were Abraham Noah Jesus when he
asked his apostles to take his word evangelizing throughout the Earth
The current systems of communication make us realize how sim-
ilar and at the same time how different we are from each other The
Judeo-Christian Kabbalah struggles for unity not to erase diversity and
vice-versa Neither is the individual person above religion culture or so-
ciety nor is religion culture or society above the individual person Only
God is above each and every one of us
Let us remember that God created the four Genii or Elements
(Earth Air Water and Fire) and it is the obligation of all human beings
to protect them since they are our only support Mankind is destroying
them with the contamination it has created which will derive in our own
destruction But this depends on our free will thai is why there is an
even more powerful globalization than the financial one the intellectual
affective and moral globalization This is the only way we will achieve
the Freedom to which the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah invites you the
world is united by its culture technology and the financial exchange and
at the same time it is divided by politics and religion
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
127
To need
Control
Respect
Free Will
LIFE
Happiness
Dignity
Freedom
To know
To love
Kabbalah teach us to understand that every human being shares
the same worries feelings and the same destiny no matter where he
lives
The values of the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah are solidarity hos-
pitality tolerance and respect towards the dignity of every person This
means that every culture should learn from other cultures and each socie-
ty from other societies
The kabballistic ideals of freedom consist in respect for the indi-
viduality and diversity and promoting solidarity and comprehension
Responsibilities
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
128
Rights and obligations
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah bases its doctrine on the rights and obliga-
tions of all human beings Each person has certain right and obligations
which become basic responsibilities of which each person must take
charge one hundred percent like the responsibility to control and manage
its own life building its own life plan and following it by accomplishing
goals
These obligations have three important axes based on the first three
sefiroth
bull Kether or Crown and self-esteem
bull Hokhmah or the Wisdom to known oneself
bull Binah or the Intelligence to make decisions according
to onersquos inner and outer personal needs without hurting
oneself or others
The basic rights are found in the seven lower sefiroth
bull Hesed and the right to freedom
bull Geburah and the right to control your life
bull Tipherzt and the right to happiness
bull Neshah and the right to dignity
bull Hod and the right to (respect) be respected
bull Yesod and the right of free expression
bull Malkuth and the right to life
Mankind in its daily interaction relates to its sefiroth and its funda-
mental rights according to three different styles of response based on the
lower worlds
The world of Briah or pure or emotional power
It promotes inequality always having a loser and winner This is not a
creative or equal relation
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
129
The person denies its own respect rights and needs hurting itself
These are mostly selfish individualist and passionate people
The world of Yetsirah or conceptual
It deals with defending onersquos own rights without hurting others It im-
plies equality and respect
The person knows the border line between its own individuality and
those of others
They are mostly realistic practical conventional and objective
The world of Assiah or physical or logical manifestation
They are mostly analytic calculating cold and insensitive
It promotes non-equal relationships against the rights of others It is
an unbalanced relationship in which manipulation takes place
The person invades the rights of others getting Responses of fear
Daily negotiations
When people speak of negotiations they think they are talking about
money but negotiation is part of daily life and it is also analyzed
through the sefirotic trees of the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah
The negotiation can be with oneself for instance
Irsquom staying in bed another fifteen minutes even if I have to go
to work without breakfast
The negotiation can be with your spouse for instance
We can spend Christmas with your family if we spend New
Yearrsquos with mine
We can negotiate with our children for example
You can have the car tonight if you come home early and
wash it tomorrow
We can negotiate with our fellow workers for instance
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
130
If you cover me this Saturday Irsquoll cover you next Sunday
As you can see in none of these examples and many more that surely
you must remember is money mentioned as exchange In a negotiation
the effort must be compensated equally
Nobody should win or lose or better yet both should come out winning
obtaining something each one wants In a negotiation everybody should
know what is at stake and what each one will obtain in exchange
Let us remember that the method of solving problems is based on the
lower or material world of Assiah but a negotiation reaches for the upper
worlds like Yetsirah or intuition or the world of Briah or emotions in
some cases it even appeals to Atziluth or spirit
You must train you brain to stay in the lower worlds to negotiate be-
cause it will be more to your benefit Try to be objective since feelings
or emotions play against you and the effort will not be compensated
equally
You must create what is called a creative antagonism separating the ob-
jective facts in order to get to a reasonable and logic agreement It is very
important that both parties feel they are winners Get used to listening to
every word the other person is saying In Kabbalah the word is very im-
portant it has a double message what is being said and what is meant
When your spouse child or friend get angry and scream for something
you already know it is not important they are really saying something
else Hug himher kiss himher on the forehead and tell himher you
want to hear the reasons behind the anger But on the contrary if you
feel offended and respond screaming even louder you will have lost the
negotiation before you even begin
Turn your defects into virtues that way you will get a just negotiation
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
131
If you are passive think of the object and state your argument
with precision and not getting nervous
If you are aggressive look for the motives and keep them
away while negotiating
If triumph is important to you think the other one is right and
try to be unbiased
If you are anguished think of the reasons in your favor not to
show weakness
If you are a fatalist and you think you are going to lose nego-
tiate with a relaxed mind you have nothing to risk act without
worrying about the end result
When Jesus says
ldquoPut the other cheekrdquo
He refers to Judeo-Christian Kabbalah because it is not to be
slapped but to accept the embrace of negotiation
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
132
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Conclusions
The Tree of Trees
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
133
The Tree of Trees
Reading this book we have learned to go through the different
sefirotic trees the creation of the universe its worlds and centers of
strength the sefirotic columns the Adam Kadmon tree Jesusrsquo genealogy
the Our Father the Sermon in the Mountain (Beatitudes) the evolution of
mankind gestation development maturing the spirit decisions emo-
tions and even responsibilities
But we also learned about the existence of infinite sefirotic trees
because each sefirath (no matter how small) contains a tree within and
each tree (no matter how big) is only a sefirath of a larger tree
If we try to unify all the sefirotic trees we will see that they are
all similar we could even say the same they all have the same logical
pattern they were all created by the same Divine Architect
The sefiroth take different names according to their presence but
their strength does not change since they are endless sources of energy
That is why when we see Sephiroth we see its gifts
Kether Crown Inspiration Divine Light Supra-One א
Hokhmah Wisdom Word Experience Soul ב
Binah Intelligence Spirit Thought Fortune ג
Hesed Greatness Love Humility Strength Giving ד
Geburah Justice David Truth Respect Shape ה
Tipherzt Beauty Salomon Purity Fidelity Goodness ו
Neshah Stability Power Forgiveness Trust Effort ז
Hod Glory Blessing Protection Education ח
Yesod Foundation Simplicity Assistance Purification ט
Malkuth Kingdom Peace Prayer Freedom Birth י
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
134
The only sefirath that has only one meaning or name is Leb the
sefirath of the heart and for that reason it cannot be modified Because it
is virtual it appears or disappears according to the tree we are looking at
because its power is so big that it doesnrsquot need to be identified or be pre-
sent in the tree because it is a Sefirotic Tree in itself and it is the one that
guides us and protects us
Each one of us has its own Sefirotic Tree which we
must go through without a doubt from Kether to Malkuth and from
Malkuth to Kether
Free will lets us chose the road to take the sefiroth to go
through but it does not let us get out of our own and only tree
We are the only craft men of our own destiny we devel-
op our only precious and exclusive Tree of Life
It is up to us to comply with our Logics Divine Plan or to
decide to evade our responsibilities looking for shortcuts and trying to
twist the Divine assignments
The free will given to us by God demands that we put our spir-
itual and philosophical life in order without further delay to build a dig-
nified future and face each day as if it were the last one
The physical and spiritual kaballistic world from Kether to
Malkuth is truly a happy place to live in if people only thought of go-
ing through their personal and unique Sefirotic Tree
Let us remember these wise words
ldquoDeath is certain life is uncertainrdquo
(Maranam niyatam jivitam aniyatam)
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
135
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
The Divine Logic
Cesar Leo Marcus
Windmills International Editions Inc
wwwwindmillseditionscom
California - USA ndash 2012
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
136
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
3
With much love to
The One ndash my Kether
Mariacutea Maruca Matzkin ndash my Hokhmah Israel Isrul Malcug ndash my Binah
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
4
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
He was born in Buenos Aires Argentina He has studied journalism lo-
gistics renewable energy resources (wind hydroelectric and solar)
economy and sociology in South America and Europe He researched
and compared religions in different parts of the world including the Pa-
pal Library of the Vatican
Has published over a hundred pieces in newspapers and magazines in
the US Latin America and Spain
He has won awards such as El Sol Azteca and was recognized for his
work in journalism literature and sociology by the United States con-
gress and by California senators and assembly republicans and demo-
crats of California
He is Member of International Coach Federation (ICF) and the National
Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ)
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
5
Table of Contents
Prologue - 06 -
Introduction - 07 -
Kether the Crown - The Holy Scriptures - 10 -
Hokhmah Wisdom - The Sacred Ideas - 21 -
Binah Intelligence- The Tree of Life - 26 -
Hesed Greatness - Adam Kadmon - 36 -
Geburah Judgment - Letters and Numbers - 41-
Tipherzt Beauty Christian Kabbalah - 56 -
Neshah Stability The Divine Creation -80-
Hod Glory The human being - 97 -
Yesod Foundation Senses - 115 -
Malkuth The rational Kingdom - 124-
Conclusions The Tree of trees - 132-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
6
Prologue
Many years ago the paths of my Sefirotic Tree took me to Jerusa-
lem where Rabbi Zev ben Itzjhak introduced me to the secret world of
Kabbalah Those sefirotic paths took me to the Vatican to pry into the
Papal library with Pope Paul VIrsquos authorization to plunge myself into
de Holy Scriptures analyze different religions to research their similari-
ties and to compare them
I understood the teachings of the Divine Masters such as Adam
Abraham Moses Akiba Jesus and Mohammed discovering that no path
will take us to happiness because happiness is in finding our own path
in our own Tree of Life
I wrote this book because the 21st century will open up for all
mankind a spiritual space never seen yet It is the century of revelations
and the time for ldquokabbalistic evangelizationrdquo through which we will un-
derstand there is no reason for the erroneously called religious war be-
cause the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah allows us to cross the gates towards
the union of souls where each and everyone of us are very important
pieces of this Logic Divine Plan
That the Sky illuminates him
Cesar Leo Marcus - 2005
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
7
Introduction
Since the beginning of the Divine Creation since water earth air
and fire combined to form life since early vegetation covered the land
since animals developed into dinosaurs since giants (vegetable and ani-
mal) disappeared giving way to the world as we know it today since the
first man understood that he was no longer an ape and learned to use his
intelligence which is forever the Kabbalah Judeo-Christian was pre-
sent revealing every step and every line of this Logic Divine Plan
This book answers the four most difficult questions us humans
ask ourselves the easiest way possible
Which is the Divine Logic Plan for each one of us
What should we do to find our Path
Who are we really and what is our goal
What is free will and how does it benefit us
To find these answers we must travel the road or path of the
sefirot which is not easy In order to do so each one of us can adopt one
of two possible attitudes
We can envision the road or path as a barrier that sepa-
rates us from our goals or sefirot battling with strength against obstacles
considering every step a conquest But I must warn you many desist half
way down the road and the few that do make it end up totally worn out
and without the strength to enjoy their triumph
Or we can envision the sefirotic road or path as the way
to achieve our objectives as part of the affixed goal From the very first
moment we step onto the road we will be walking the arm of the sefirot
or desired goal and without battling or effort we will get there Walking
through it we will gain from whatever the sefirotic path offers us Most
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
8
people will get there without effort or exhaustion enjoying the tiny daily
triumphs and finally achieving their goals
The students of Judeo-Christian Kabbalah chose the second op-
tion we know that the path itself is our teacher that we learn just by
walking through the sefirotic paths and as we near our goal we leave
behind our weaknesses our fears and we value our spiritual weapons our
inner resources our strengths
The students of Judeo-Christian Kabbalah
know that we have come to this world to be happyhellip
Understanding happiness as a means to offer our spirit and soul the
opportunity to learn surrounded by light and positive e nergy
Those who wish to study Judeo-Christian Kabbalah will search
in this book for answers to questions they hadnrsquot even thought of before
and that were hidden from regular people in the past
This book seeks the interpretation of the Sacred Books
and most especially of the symbolism of the sefirot
This book seeks to explain the existence of man the pur-
pose of his life and where he comes from
This book seeks to unveil the occult understanding the
sefirotic trees and the four worlds that make them up
This book seeks to discover the hidden scenarios of your
life achieving the much desired happiness without effort
This book seeks to acknowledge the mystical magic and
creative power of the Tree of Life and its sefirot
This book seeks to be not a abstract study quite the con-
trary whoever studies Judeo-Christian Kabbalah will be able to analyze
the Tree of Life and its sefirot understanding their importance on onersquos
life
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
9
This bookrsquos search takes place within each reader because
ldquoKabbalahrdquo comes from the Hebrew words ldquoLaykabbelrdquo meaning To
Receive and ldquoHabbalahrdquo which means Tradition which refers to the Tra-
dition of To Receive and Kabbalah describes this action as ldquoThe tradi-
tion of wishing to receiverdquo This tradition of wishing to receive develops
and grows in four worlds that continuously come together and grow
apart
To Receive the pleasure of money and power this is the
material world
To Receive the pleasure of acknowledgement and hon-
ors this is the conceptual world
To Receive the pleasure of love and affection this is the
world of senses
To Receive the pleasure of the union with the Divinity
which is the spiritual world which is the highest in the pyramid of the
desires because it wraps and raises all the rest
ldquoHe who acknowledges the power of the
Kabbalah and the tradition of to receivehellip
Will search the means to attain its Lightrdquo
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10
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Kether The Crown
The Sacred Books
Old Testament
New Testament
Koran or Quram
The Zohar
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11
The Old Testament
The Hebrew has three scriptures The Tanakh or Old Testament
the Talmud or collection of erudite commentaries on the Tanakh and
The Kabbalah or mystic interpretation of the Torah Ancient rabbis
would say that the first of these three books represented the Divine Body
the second one the Divine Spirit and the fourth one the Divine Soul The
average person can benefit from reading and obeying the first book eru-
dite scholars can study the second one but wise people meditate with the
third one
The Tanakh
Old Testament also called The Book of Books is divided in
three parts
The Torah the Law which envelops the first five books
ldquoJumashrdquo(5) in hebrew also called ldquoPentateuchrdquo or the Law of Moses
These are the five books Genesis (Bereshit) Exodus (Shemoth) Leviti-
cus (Vayikra) Numbers (Bamidbar) and Deuteronomy (Devarim) They
cover the period between the Genesis up to Mosesrsquo death on the thresh-
old of the entry into the Promised Land (Canaan)
Nevirsquoim (Prophets) The second part of the Tanakh co-
vers a vast period which goes from the conquest up to the last prophets
These are the books contained therein Joshua (the conquest period)
Judges I and II Samuel I and II Kings and those dedicated to the major
prophets Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel and Daniel and the minor prophets
Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah
Haggai Zecariah and Malachi
Ketuvim (writings) This third part of the Tanakh is
made up of the book of Psalms Proverbs Job Ezra Nehemiah Ruth
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12
Song of Songs Lamentations (Eichah) Ecclesiastes Esther and Chroni-
cles I and II They cover a vast period that goes from the VII century of
the Common Era up to the Persian period the return to Israel and the
building of the second Temple of Jerusalem
The Talmud
The Halakha-Mishnah-Aggada-Talmud Bavli (of Babylon)-
Yerushalmi (of Jerusalem) is a compilation of the oral tradition transmit-
ted from generation to generation which covers all topics in the Tanakh
including
The Halakha or the Law explains the rules and princi-
ples pronounced in the Torah rules of conduct religious principles and
rituals Covers a wide variety of issues revolving around the individual
the family and living in community The Halakha has ruled life for centu-
ryrsquos right up to the present
The Mishnah which cover the following rules and regu-
lations are six basic sedarim or treaties (singular=seder)
Moed talks about the festivities א
Zeraim (Seeds) deals with labor practices ב
Nezikin deals with relationships within a group ג
Nashim are the family rules ד
Kodoshim deals with sanctity and holiness ה
Tohorot-kosher are Laws of purity ו
The Gemara the oral law with comments and exegetical rabbin-
ic statements has been study material for centuries nourishing philoso-
phy teachings It contains practically every bit of traditional wisdom col-
lected for centuries
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13
This oral law also contains a vast literary work Haggadah and
Midrashim (legends and comments) on biblical figures of exemplary
conduct
The Kabbalah
The Kabbalah was in ancient literature the totality of the reli-
gious doctrine obtained with the exception of the Pentateuch As of the
X century DC Kabbalah was considered a secret mysterious and theo-
sophical science destined to explain always in a cryptic language the
Creation of the Universe by the Being defined as ldquoOne and Absoluterdquo
Some kabbalists such as Pico Della Mirandola Reuchlin and
Schikard adopt the old tradition according to which Kabbalah develops
from the inspiration that God instilled in Adam Abraham Moses Bud-
dha Jesus Mohammed Bahi and all those that constitute the mystic cir-
cle of the Latter Prophets
Kabbalah is not exclusively Jewish since first Jesus and later
Mohammed were kabbalist scholars
The New Testament
Having taken Jesus as an example as we know it when he was
born there were three religious doctrines in Palestine the Pharisees and
Sadducees of which the Gospels often speak and the Essenes which are
never mentioned Tradition states that the boy Emanuel ben Yoseph was
sent by the erudite doctors of the Law to the community of the Essenes
near the Dead Sea after being heard at the Temple at the age of thirteen
to be educated according to the mystic tradition of Israel The Kabbalah
He stayed with the Essenes until he was thirty years old Emanuel ben
Yoseph or Jesus Christ teaches the continuity of the Hebrew Scriptures
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14
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the
Prophets I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them I tell you
the truth until heaven and earth disappear not the smallest letter not the
least stroke of a pen will by any means disappear from the Law until
everything is accomplished (Mt 517)
However I admit that I worship the God of our fathers
as a follower of the Way which they call a sect I believe everything that
agrees with the Law and that is written in the Prophetsrdquo (Acts 2414)
Jesus answered It is written Man does not live on
bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God (Mat-
thew 44) referring to Deuteronomy 83 ldquohellipto teach you that man does
not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of
Godrdquo
In the chapter called Tipherzt-Beauty you will find a broader ex-
planation of the Christian Kabbalah and an analysis of the Kabbalistic
Jesus and his apostles
The Koran or Quram
The Koran or Quram is the sacred book of Islam containing the
word of Allah (God) as revealed to Mohammed through the angel Gabri-
el (Gibrail or Yibril)
During his life the Prophet Mohammed received the revelations
either verbally or written on palm leaves pieces of leather or bones etc
Upon the death of Mohammed in the year 632 his followers began to
gather all these revelations which during the period in which Uthman ibn
Affan was Caliph took the shape we know nowadays 114 chapters each
one called surah subdivided into verses or phrases
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15
For the Muslims the Koran is the eternal and un-created work of
God therefore it was to be transmitted without the slightest change in the
original language the classic Arabic considered a sacred tongue for all
purposes
However in recent times the Koran has been translated to many
languages aimed specially at the believer whose native language is not
Arabic But even so believers are obligated to read it in its original lan-
guage because they claim that the contents of the Koran has not been
modified in centuries and a translation is an interpretation
Mohamed admits the continuity of the Hebrew Scriptures in the
following passages of the Koran
ldquoAnd most certainly We gave Musa (Moses) the Book
and We sent apostles after him one after anotherrdquo (Koran surah 287)
ldquoSurely We revealed the Taurat (Torah) in which was
guidance and light with it the prophets who submitted themselves
(to Allah) judged (matters) for those who were Jewsrdquo (surah 544)
ldquoCertainly We made a covenant with the children of Is-
rael and We sent to them apostlesrdquo (surah 570)
ldquoAnd certainly We gave the Book to Musa so be not in
doubt concerning the receiving of it and we made it a guide for the
children of Israelrdquo (surah 3223)
According to the Koran ldquothe Messiah Isa (Jesus) son of
Marium (Mary) is only an apostle of Allah and word which He
communicated to Marium and a spirit from Himrdquo (surah 4171)
He is a prophet or a servant of Allah (surah 4359) but
not His son(surah 6101)
The Muslims consider him a Messiah (in Arabic
ldquoMasihrdquo very similar to the Hebrew ldquoMashiacuteajrdquo) to them it means an
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16
elevated prophet (ldquoanointedrdquo) the closest one to Allah before Mo-
hammed
The word Messiah Masih (ldquoanointedrdquo) can be found in
Surahs 345 4157 171-172 517-72-75 930-31 The highest
prophet except for Mohammed
The Islam considers the mystery of the Trinity and in-
carnation an ldquoassociationrdquo and therefore an offense against the
uniqueness of Allah (surah 112)
But not this way the first three sefirot that wrap the symbolism of
the Trinity
Mohammed sensed the Kabbalah in the Koran since Isa (Je-
sus) is the word of Allah and a spirit from Him son of the Holy Spirit
but they do not exactly consider Isa (Jesus) as if he were Allah
And furthermore the Koran affirms that at the end of time when
humanity will be called to judgment by Allah Isa (Jesus) will stand by
Him as witness and part therein (surah 4361) And everyone who did
not believe in him will believe in him (surah 4157)
Those who interpret the Koran affirm that Isa (Jesus) will come
back to this world at the end of time to save Humanity from damnation
and convert it to Allah
The Zohar
The composition of the Kabbalistic doctrine as we know it to-
day it attributed to Rabbi Shimeon ben Yochai in century II He is the
author of the Zohar ldquoThe Book of Splendorrdquo one of the basic texts of
the Kabbalah Shimeon ben Yochai (80-160) was a disciple of Rebbi
Akiva ldquoRashbirdquo (40-137) who had been sentenced to death by the Ro-
mans because he would not acknowledge nor obey the ruling authority of
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
17
Rome nor would he reveal any Kabbalah secrets to them Even though
the Zohar was written by Rabbi Shimeon ben Yochai Rebbi Akiva was
its true inspirer
Adam Kadmon Zohar XVII Century
Rebbi Akiva ben Joseph was born southeast of Judea close to the
Mediterranean shore His father was a humble Jewish peasant who was
not acquainted with the literature of his people nor the traditions he had
never read the Torah nor visited the Temple Due to the precarious eco-
nomic conditions in which there was living the family Akiba none of her
children received formal education in her infancy The reality was that
Akiba ben Joseph I pass your childhood and adolescence as an illiterate
Mediterranean shepherd until a few years later he married with Raacutechel
who convinced it to leave your activity and to study with the big rabbini-
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18
cal teachers Akiba faced many difficulties in your learning That is why
he started learning the alphabet with his 5 year old son and soon was
reading text books in Hebrew he went on to study the Torah at Rabbi
Joseph ben Zakkairsquos renowned Yeshiva (academy) His teachers Eliezer
ben Hyrkanos Joshua ben Hananiah and Nahum of Gimzo became his
best friends because they admired his bright fast and resourceful mind
Fifteen years later at the top of his mental and physical faculties he be-
gan his monumental work the reconstruction of the Law and the estab-
lishment of an academy of permanent studies
At the age of 57 in the year 97 Akiba was already revered by
both by his colleagues and by the masses He visited rabbis and experts
of the Toraacute with the purpose of combining all the Jewish traditions and
then went on to classify them in a legal code divided up logistically The
effective combination of conciseness and precision served as example the
future generations In the centuries following Mishna (codification of
Jewish laws and traditions) it was acknowledged and studied by the rab-
binical authorities
With more than 65 years Rebbi Akiva founded his private Ye-
shiva (academy) in Bene Berak (Sons of Lightning) to the north of Jeru-
salem wanted to found several in the whole Israel for the study of the
Tora and of the Kabbalah
Everything went along smoothly until the year 125 CE when the
relationship between Jews and Romans deteriorated Emperor Hadrianusrsquo
decision to build a pagan sanctuary on Mount Moria (where the old tem-
ple had been) exacerbated spirits Excitement grew within the Jewish
people and led by Shimon bar Kojba they rebelled
In a little less than three years the Roman armies destroyed all
evidence of Jewish resistance The cruelty of the repression grew month
by month and in the year 134 the Romans enacted a drastic decree pro-
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19
hibiting the practice and study of the Torah Rebbi Akiva was convinced
it was the end If the study of the Torah was abolished his life lacked all
meaning At the age of 95 defying the Roman authority he gathered his
students with the sole purpose to study Kabbalah
A few days later Rebbi Akiva was incarcerated The Romans re-
spected his knowledge reputation and distinguished personality Akiva
continued teaching his disciples from his cell which earned him judg-
ment He was found guilty tortured and sentenced to death With Rebbi
Akiva 24000 of his disciples were killed by the Romans only Rabbi
Simeon bar Yochai and four others survived Before being captured Reb-
bi Akiva and Rabbi Yehuda ben Baba authorized ldquoRashbirdquo to transmit to
future generations the Kabbalah they had taught him
The Zohar or ldquoBook of Splendorrdquo was composed by Simeon bar
Yochai and his son Elazar during the thirteen years they lived in a cave
hiding from the Roman army
ldquoRashbirdquo came out of the cave with the Zohar a flawless meth-
od to study the Kabbalah and having accomplished spirituality Rabbi
Simeon bar Yochai attained the 125 levels a human being can achieve
during his whole life in this world According to the latest investigations
the revelation of the current Kabbalah could be resumed this way
The historic Kabbalah was preceded by a movement (900-1200)
that preserved and encouraged the legacy of the Jewish gnosis
(knowledge of spiritual truth) Later on this movement penetrated Eu-
rope constantly at different stages Hasidism was an important intermedi-
ate stage Furthermore besides all the theoretical and mystical variances
of Kabbalah there was a much older one in which the secret names of
God and the angels were used the same way they are used in white mag-
ic not causing any harm to people Not to be confused with ldquoblack mag-
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20
icrdquo (kishcuf in Hebrew) international current containing elements from
Arabic Jewish and Christian magic
After the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in the year 1492 and
the establishment of a Jewish center in Safed (north of Galilea) Kabba-
lah also experienced a change since two systems flourished the Kabba-
lah of Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (1522-1570) and Kabbalah of Isaac
Luria (1534-1572)
In brief Cordoverorsquos Kabbalah could be defined as a theoretical
variant with many gnostic elements while Luriarsquos Kabbalah would be a
practical mysticism
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21
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Hokhmah
Wisdom
The Sacred Ideas
Light
The spiritual Will
Tetragramaton
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22
Light
We all have this sixth sense which we will call spiritual sense
still not awakened in some people When people study Kabbalah they can
learn things that were not available to them before because a sixth sense
is developed in order to envision life and the world from a different point
of view
The sixth sense is also called ldquothe spiritual vaserdquo(kli) this vase
is in all of us and it is ruled by basic kabbalistic concepts
A regular personrsquos spiritual vase is still not adequately א
developed to perceive the spiritual world
When light enters a personrsquos heart or soul it ignites the ב
spiritual perception in that person
Nothing is possible without light When we take the light ג
that surrounds us it will gradually light our path
Even if we donrsquot recognize said light there is a direct ד
connection between our heart and the light that will fill it
The light is destined the surrounding lights stand by ה
waiting for you to prepare your vase to receive them
The light we receive when we give in to the wisdom of ו
self-knowledge attracts a celestial charm which gives us abundance
of sanctity and purity that take us closer to realization
ldquoThe person who studies the Kabbalah Judeo-Christian with
the purpose of self-modification will attain the light and will notice
that the desired improvement and success can be achieved with the
least cost or sufferingrdquo
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23
The Spiritual Will
The Creator wants us to indulge in spiritual pleasures that we
are full That can only be possible through enormous will perfection We
can only reach the spiritual world through a rectified will which will
make us strong and active Only by means of a passionate desire strong-
ly and dedication we will be able to reach really the spiritual world re-
turning forts and assets A small desire will not damage us very much
nor a lot of good The passionate desire only works from the Divine
stimulus which we it will obtain from the Intuition which is a part of the
Spirit
There is a pyramid of souls based on the will to receive
At the base are the many souls with small earthly wills
searching a comfortable animal like life (food and affection)
The following level with minor number of souls those who
want to acquire richness Those are the people who dedicate their lives to
make money and will sacrifice themselves in exchange for fortune
Next are the ones that would do anything to control others to
govern and reach positions of power
At the highest level are the souls that are seeking spirituality
who are open to the light
Man in turn has the same pyramid within him he must invert it
so that the weight goes to the purest desire or will the infinite will for
spirituality When we truly wish to increase our will for spiritually the
surrounding light (the hidden spiritual world) begins to reflect upon us
increasing the desire for even more If we identify with matter we will
try to obtain satisfaction through it searching outside our spirit for mate-
rial things until these material things no longer satisfy us thus becoming
less materialistic and discovering our true spirit
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24
Our body is matter matter is energy and therefore has life but it
has no spirit or spiritual energy because it is all material energy dense
energy the spirit is light energy The difference between one and the
other is that the material energy has no conscience because it doesnrsquot
perceive reality that is why we see with our eyes and not our heart our
eyes show us the outer figures of things or people its beauty or ugliness
but we can see what they are like inside Spiritual energy is what gives
us conscience of reality of love of truth That is why when we become
conscious of ourselves we transform our matter into spirit and become
more conscious
Albert Einstein was so right when he said ldquoEnergy cannot be
created nor destroyed it can only be transformedrdquo thus dense (mate-
rial) energy can be transformed into lighter (spiritual) energy again and
again
The biggest change we observe in the souls that are descending
nowadays is mainly in their well defined will to achieve a spiritual sys-
tem Even the most common people without any religious or mystic in-
struction are looking for something beyond this world something spir-
itual furthermore more and more scientists or people into pragmatic pro-
fessions are searching for their spiritual light In the last thirty years the
descent of new souls has been activated and accelerated
Their will is much bigger and more genuine They want to
achieve authentic spiritualityhellip nothing morehellip and nothing less
We will discover that we have no other alternative but to
acknowledge the spiritual world of which we are a part This acknowl-
edgement will take us to a new situation where we will begin to act con-
sciously in unison no longer as isolated individuals All of us from one
generation to another are connected in one soul We share a collective
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
25
responsibility That is why the Kabbalist is considered ldquofounder of the
worldrdquo He affects the whole world and the whole World affects him
The Tetragrammaton
In Kabbalah the concept of Shem or ldquoDivine Namerdquo plays a
first degree role which makes a lot of sense given the importance of eve-
rything related to the Emanations of the Sefirotic Tree the mystery of the
letters and the beauty in words
The meditation about the ldquoName of Godrdquo constitutes one of the
pillars of the initiation path to Kabbalah
The Tetragram or Tetragrammatonhellipfrom the Greek four (tetra)
and letters (grammaton)hellip is the name formed by four consonants one
yod (Y) two he (H) and one vav (V) The combination of these four let-
ters spell YHVH the ldquoHoly Namerdquo or Yahavah (as literally read) which
in Kabbalah is called Shem Herman Forash ldquocomplete namerdquo or the
ldquoexplicit namerdquo
Said ldquoSacred Namerdquo is usually transcribed as Jehovah or Yah-
veh nevertheless such description is no more than a hypothetical and
approximate restoration Therefore the word YHVH in which all mys-
teries and the savior power communicated by God are contained has
been designated by tradition as the ldquolost wordrdquo
The ldquocomplete or whole namerdquo was replaced by others also at-
tributed by the Bible as Yahveh such as Adonai El Shaddai or Elohim
Sometimes the four letter name is substituted by half of the Tetra-
grammaton the so-called ldquotwo letter Namerdquo HY or ldquoHaimrdquo interpreted
or translated as LIFE
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26
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Binah Intelligence
The Tree of Life
Creation
The Tree of Life
The Columns
Tree Sefirot and Letters
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27
Creation
An example of the depth in the interpretation of the Bible offered
by the kabbalistic doctrine is its version of the biblical narration of the
Creation as contained in the Book of ldquoGenesisrdquo usually considered a na-
ive and childish story to explain a process that modern science has
demonstrated to be much more complex In regard to said mythical-
symbolic narration similar to many others contained in other spiritual
traditions in humanity the kabbalistic doctrine makes two basic observa-
tions of major importance
1 According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the biblical crea-
tion is the process through which the universal manifestation takes place
It is a logical process its place is in the Divine world and it gives form to
the Divinity In it the Supreme Being is determined and revealed as such
going from the Nothing to the Whole The Everything
It is not ldquoGodrsquos Creationrdquo but
ldquoThe Creation in Godrdquo
In this process the Creation of the Cosmos is only a consequence
which just like the latter takes place not sooner nor later but in a con-
tinuous and uninterrupted way in an instant beyond time in the ldquoeternal
nowrdquo
2 The six days of the Creation identify with the creative sefirot
from the fourth one (Hesed) to the ninth one (Yesod) referring to the
specific action or purpose of each one of them while the seventh day
Shabbath in which God rested relates to the tenth sefirot (Malkuth) All
of this is contained in the initial words of the ldquoGenesisrdquo Book ldquoIn the
beginning God created the heavens and the earthrdquo (according to the
common interpretation Authorized Version)
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28
The key words here are the first three if we want an exact under-
standing of them we must turn to the Hebrew text
ldquoBereshit Bara Elohim
Bereshit means ldquoin the beginningrdquo which according to the Kab-
balistic interpretation it does no refer to a beginning in time but a logical
beginning it is what proceeds not in time but in hierarchy (rank)
and function This principle is Hokhmah the second sefirath
This text should be interpreted this way
ldquoIn the intelligent and intelligible
Beginning which is the Divine Wisdomrdquo
The second word of this quote is Bara ldquocreatedrdquo It is a verb of
action without a subject it doesnrsquot say who created That action has no
subject because the ldquowhordquo of which it speaks is the sefirath Kether ldquothe
Crownrdquo which goes beyond anything personal since in it the ldquoNothingrdquo
of the Supra Being or Absolute
As far as the third word is concerned Elohim we must indicate
that besides not being the subject of the sentence it is in its plural for
literally meaning ldquogodsrdquo
The kabbalistic exegesis (explanation) identifies this Elohim
with the third sefirath Binah the Intelligencerdquo which contains and de-
signs within itself the seven sefirot of the cosmic composition the six
active ones and the receptive one which is the receptacle for the rest of
them (Malkuth the tenth sefirot)
This is why the interpretation to which we are used ldquoGod creat-
edrdquo is not exact A more accurate interpretation of the original hebrew
text would be ldquoThe Nothing created godsrdquo that is it created or profiled
the qualities or aspects of the Divine Reality of which afterwards -not in
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
29
a time order but in an order of principles a cosmic order arises the Crea-
tion or universal manifestation
Therefore here is the message contained in the initial verse of
the ldquoGenesisrdquo according to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah
ldquoThe Supra Being constitutes Itself eternally the causal Being
and the object or purpose of all things in which all qualities poss i-
bilities and forms of the created and uncreated reality are presentrdquo
The Sefirotic Tree and the four worlds
And the twenty-two paths that unite the
Crown (Kether) with the Kingdom (Malkuth)
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
Binah
Geburah
Hod
Yesod
Malkuth
Tipherzt
Neshah
Hesed
Hok-mah
Kether
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30
The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life is the Divine Architecture which symbolizes the
soul of man and the Universe and as He is divided into four levels known
as the four inner Worlds
In the Ideal World - Atziluth is where everything is
in a latent potential state
In the Creative World - Briah is where the pure
power and the ideas in their shapes are
In the Formative World - Yetsirah everything is in
a conceptual process or one or formation
In the Material World - Assiah is where the physi-
cal manifestation takes place
This tree consists of 10 fixed spheres and a ldquovirtualrdquo one and 22
paths that connect them In a very broad sense we can say that the
spheres or Sefirot are stages of the emanations of the Spirit of God
from the primordial existence to the physical manifestation
ldquoThey are inexhaustible centers of powerrdquo
The model of the Tree of Life mirror and synthesis of man and
the cosmos is divided in three columns or pillars this traditional division
in three columns is in close connection with the alchemical or magic
principles which were discovered by the kabbalists of the 12th
century
and have been present to this day and always will be
The whole manifestation is based on duality this duality is rep-
resented in the tree the three Sefirot to the right form the active pillar
masculine and the three Sefirot to the left form the passive pillar femi-
nine
The duality is also present in each Sefirath The only Unit is
found in the Non-Manifested which is above the Tree
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31
The Non-Manifested is the pure state of the In-Existence from
where Existence arises which is the first Sefirath the Sefirot in the cen-
ter form the middle or balance pillar
Therefore we observe that one of the columns is active-
masculine another one is passive-feminine and the third one or central
axis equidistant from both of them is neuter and is constantly combining
and harmonizing them both
Power corresponds to the Active energy column integrated by the
following Sefirot Hokhmah (2) Hesed (4) and Neshah (7) Form or
shape corresponds to the passive energy columns which is made up of
the following Sefirot Binah (3) Geburah (5) and Hod (8) The central
or axle column or pillar integrated by Kether (1) Tipherzt (6) Yesod
(9) and Malkuth (10) is neuter and eternally assimilating the opposites
thus creating new possibilities of indefinite developments It is called the
column or pillar of equilibrium or balance
This is the image of permanent order of the Creation It is the
idea upon which all sciences are based and which are called ldquoThesis An-
tithesis and Synthesisrdquo techno science and modern physics have ldquodis-
coveredrdquo formations similar to that of the Tree of Life in the universe
around us such as the quantum structure or the DNA map of all living
things (vegetables animals humans) This proves that the Tree of Life
rules all norms of matter and spirit from the beginning of time
Kabbalah teaches us that energies run through the Tree of Life
from the Unity Kether identified with the number one up to the formal
and substantial manifestation the world and matter just as we know
them and perceive them through our senses This flow of energies or
vibrations is called emanations and they make up any manifestation
The energies of the Sefirot ndash all of the invisible except for
Malkuth which resumes and contains the whole Tree ndash travel a continu-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
32
Binah
Geburah
Hod
Yesod
Malkuth
Tipherzt
Neshah
Hesed
Hokmah
Kether
Leb
ous descending path from (1) Kether down to Earth or the World
Malkuth (10) which is an inverted image of Kether (10=1+0=1) The
rest of the Sefirot or numerals are taken as intermediaries between mani-
festation and the lack of it
The columns of the Tree of Life
Passive Column Neuter Column Active Column
Feminine Form Central Equilibrium Mascu-
line Power
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
33
Tree Sefirot and letters
According to the Pentateuch Moses went to the top of Mount
Sinai and surrounded by fantastic clouds received the Ten Command-
ments God gave him On the other hand Kabbalist affirm that Moses
also received from Heaven besides the Commandments the most pro-
found and secret knowledge to be transmitted only to those truly worthy
of it Going even further back in time some say they can see in the Kab-
balah the mysterious instructions given to Adam in his sleep which per-
mitted him to give a name to everything within the Creation meaning
that Kabbalah is the philosophy of the infinite power of the word the
sound that God gave man in his image calling everything by its name
This search for the practical use of the word is good for reading
the future as well as for really manipulating the secret vibrating energies
for useful purposes or according to the legend to create beings the go-
lems which make up the active aspect of the Kabbalah
On the other hand this also entails a speculative aspect a mysti-
cism aimed at discovering through the interpretation of the Scriptures
and meditation on the sound and the name the diagram of the Universe
and the destiny of man
Ein Sof (the infinite the ineffable) affirms itself revealing itself
to humanity it becomes Shekinah (Godrsquos presence and its feminine side)
which has the responsibility of creation its product
Creation is the result of a progressive descent of the divine
(which never loses its own unity nor its transcendence) in a pure and in-
telligent series associated to the divine until it takes over matter
Thus the cosmos is structured like an immense organism a
drawn path in which all divine intelligence (sefirah plural sefirot) is
communicated with the preceding one from which it receives and with
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34
the next one to which it gives until the final stage contact with our
world
The ten sefirot all connected by imposed paths denoting their in-
terdependence and represented by a symbolic structure of a tree or a man
(Adam Kadmon) follow an order
Kether Crown - 1 א
Hokhmah Wisdom - 2 ב
Binah Intelligence - 3 ג
Leb Heart
Hesed Greatness - 4 ד
Geburah Justice - 5 ה
Tipherzt Beauty - 6 ו
Neshah Stability - 7 ז
Hod Glory - 8 ח
Yesod Foundation - 9 ט
Malkuth Kingdom - 10 י
The admirable and complex organization of the Sefirotic Tree
with its 22 paths which connect the ten divine emanations permit us to
see right away the close connection there is between the sefirot and the
22 letters in the hebrew alphabet the 22 images of the Tarot and the 22
astrological signs (12 signs and 10 planets)
Since God created the world pronouncing the name of things
each letter is associated to the descent of the divine intelligences and
holds within itself an infinite power
The hebrew language is just like Arabic Egyptian Sanscrit or
Chinese a liturgical language full of the voices of thousand of men who
speak with the divinity therefore to pronounce one sound instead of an-
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
35
other is like changing or modifying creation itself based on a subtle vi-
brating equilibrium Within that same chain of ideas prayer by principle
a devout plea also becomes an active and energetic system that shakes
up the intermediate spheres between man and God holder of the cosmic
order
Kabbalah whether is aimed exclusively at theoretic speculation
or it proposes practical and precise goals like the making of talismans
(from the Arabic tilsam ndash a charm to avert evil and bring good fortune it
appeals to specific instruments based of calculus and numbers
Ad- am
Kadmon Zohar XVII Century
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36
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
Hesed Greatness
Adam Kadmon
And The Sefirot
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
37
Adam Kadmon
Adam Kadmon (Primordial Man) is described by the Zohar as a
ldquobig and powerful tree with branches reaching up to the sky source of
all spiritual lightrdquo In this sefirotic and tree shaped human figure the dif-
ferent sefirot have been placed according to the parts of the human body
to which they relate Each one of them has a very particular mystical
value in the cosmic vision
The first three sefirot correspond symbolically to the head
Kether (the Crown) placed at the top or what the kabbalistic
doctrine calls the ldquohidden brainrdquo Hokhmah (Wisdom) and Binah (In-
telligence) relate to the right and left sides of the brain respectively or
also the right and left eye The two sefirot at mid level Hesed (Great-
ness) and Geburah (Justice) are identified with both arms ldquoGreatnessrdquo
the right one and ldquoJusticerdquo the left one The two central sefirot Leb (the
Heart) which is Virtual that is why it is not represented and Tipherzt
(Beauty) identified with the navel energetic center source of connection
to the mother and nucleus or sun of the body Tipherzt embodies com-
pleteness union and harmony The two sefirot of the inner level Neshah
(Stability) and Hod (Glory) represent both legs ldquoStabilityrdquo the right
thigh and ldquoGloryrdquo the left one Yesod (Foundation) another central
sefirah found between both thighs represents the genitalia the tools and
foundation for procreation Sefirah number ten the last one is Malkuth
(the Kingdom) from which the cosmic manifestation springs and is in
permanent contact with Earth it is related to both feet always in contact
with the ground This sefirah connecting all this to man the Sefirotic
Tree proves that everything in the human being can be spiritualized
Man must achieve in his own being that harmoniously elevated
unity that the figure in the divine Tree of Life and Light shows us
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
38
In order to be an authentic ldquoTree of Liferdquo man must discover and
update that sefirotic mystery that is within him as if it were a treasure
full of light waiting to be found
The Sefirot
Kether ndash The Crown - The first sefirah is the Admirable Intelligence
it is the light that gives the power of understanding the First Principle
which has no beginning It is the one and only reality the absolute mys-
tery the essence from which the rest of the sefirot emanate Related to
Crown Knowledge Principle Essence and Light
Hokhmah ndash Wisdom- The second sefirah is the Enlightening Intelli-
gence the Wisdom through which the Deity knows Itself and allows eve-
ry Being to know the unity within itself It is the symbolism of the pure
and eternal fire a place in heaven where the archangels angels
Related to Wisdom Experience Convergence Intuition
Binah ndash Intelligence - The third sefirah is the Sanctifying Intelligence
it is the Great Mother or Holy Universal Spirit matrix of all the worlds
and beings shaping them to return them again to the One
Idea Intelligence Awareness Protection Morale Divergence
(discrepancyvariance)
These first three sefirot are really only one
Kether is Knowledge
Hokhmah is the subject that knows (active)
Binah is the known object (passive)
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
39
In these three sefirot the Judeo-Christian Kaballistic dotrine
discovers the endowments of the Holy Trinity
Kether or God the Father
Hokhmah or God the Son (active on the right side)
Binah or God the Mother or Holy Spirit (passive)
ldquoThe all emanations of God the Father and Son and Holy
Spirit is only one Beingrdquo
Hesed ndash Greatness - The fourth sefirah is the Receptive Intelligence it
contains all the holy powers and all the spiritual virtues emanate from it
such as Greatness Love and Mercy Related to Greatness Love Hum-
bleness Strength Deliverance
Geburah ndash Justice - The fifth sefirah is the Righteous Intelligence
which contains all the spiritual mandates It is the Divine Justice Relat-
ed to Justice Truth Freedom Shape Control
Tipherzt ndash Beauty - The sixth sefirah is the Intelligence Provider of
Spiritual Nouishment Ii is the Divine Beauty that entwines all the other
sefirot It is the Center of centers it clearly relates to the Sun giver of
life light and warmth Related to Beauty Serenity Sweetness Trust
Family
Neshah ndash Stability - The seventh sefirah is the Occult Intelligence it is
the bright Splendor of the intellectual virtues perceived by the eyes of the
intellect It is the energy that produces all the worlds Related to Sta-
bility Power Victory Balance Pleasures
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40
Hod ndash Glory - The eighth sefirah is the Absolute or Perfect Intelli-
gence which has no support or base and descends from Geburah from
which it receives its Expertise Related to Glory Acknowledgement
Learning Awakening
Yesod ndash Foundation - The ninth sefirah is the Pure Intelligence because
it purifies tries corrects and centralizes the emanations It is the founda-
tion that balances the all previous Sephiroth Related to Founding
Building Childhood Filtering
Malkuth ndash The Kingdom - The tenth sefirah is Glowing Intelligence It
is the Kingdom of Heaven or Kingdom on Earth the descent of Kether
upon the material world represents the Divine Omnipresence over
things Related to The Kingdom Earth Heaven and Real World
Each one of these sefirot has a hidden face and a visible one
Every sefirah a complete Sefirotic Tree can be found and in every
sefirah in that Tree another one and so on until the smallest infiniteness
And vice-versa every Tree no matter how big we imagine it is only a
sefirah of a bigger Tree which in turn is another sefirah of an even big-
ger one to the infinite as well
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
41
Kabbalah
Judeo Christian
Geburah Justice
The letters and numbers
The Letters of Kabbalah
Gematriacutea Table
Gematriacutea or Numerology
The Meaning of the Hebrew Letters
Angels of Kabbalah
Geniuses of Kabbalah
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42
The Letters of Kabbalah
The formulas in the medieval books on magic are so full of He-
brew names to speak of God the angels the spirits and demons that at
this point it is impossible to pinpoint the inexactness and the abuse The
Hebrew language like other former language has magicrsquos powers
Sound is a vibration found in numbers Numbers are groups of geometric
relations of spaces that activate energy
Each letter in the hebrew alphabet corresponds exactly just as in
an ldquoencoded languagerdquo to a number because the Hebrews Greeks and
Arabs used for many centuries the same graphic sign for a sound or
amount until the Indians and the Arabs introduced their ldquonumbersrdquo the
ldquozerordquo was invented in the IV century and the Arabs and Hebrews began
to use it in the VII century with the name ldquoceferrdquo which means devoid
empty vacuum From it derived zero and cipher
It was Leonardo Fibonacci (1170-1240) an Italian mathemati-
cian the first one to write a book in 1202 Liber Abaci (Book of Calcula-
tion) on Arabic numbers in occident and began to replace the Roman
numbers It was not until the year 1500 that they were completely re-
placed
This means that it is not Kabbalah that replaces letters with num-
bers historically the letters ldquowererdquo numbers since these were enforced in
the western culture five hundred years ago If we accept this concept we
will not regard numerology or gematriacutea of the Hebrew letters as some-
thing new or capricious but as a historical reality
For those who do not read Hebrew writing there is another meth-
od called transcription It is no easy task to transcribe from a holy lan-
guage to one that is not
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
43
A kabballistic practice suggests that as long as the hebrew lan-
guage is not completely unknown to replace each number in a date with
its corresponding letter bearing in mind that the Jewish calendar starts
with the year of the creation which took place 3760 years before the
birth of Jesus when the western calendar begins counting
Thus the year 1989 becomes 5749 which translated to Hebrew
letters gives us Tau Shin Mem Chefh which add up to Tismach mean-
ing ldquoyou will be overjoyedrdquo and that was the year the Berlin wall came
down In the same way 1914 the start of World War I becomes Tau
Resch Ayin Daleth which add up to Tirtzach ldquoYou will killrdquo and for
1938 start of World War II Tirrsquoad ldquoYou will tremble in terrorrdquo
Table of Gematriacutea of Hebrew Letters
Letter
Name Absolute
Value
Ordinal
Value
Reduced
Value
Latin
Alphabet
Alefh 1 1 1 A-H
Beth 2 2 2 B
Guimel 3 3 3 G
Daleth 4 4 4 D
Hei 5 5 5 H-E-A
Vav 6 6 6 V-U-Y
Zain 7 7 7 Z
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44
Heth 8 8 8 Y-J
Thet 9 9 9 TH
YodJod 10 10 1 Y-I
KafJaf 20 11 2 K-C
Lamed 30 12 3 L
Mem 40 13 4 M
Nun 50 14 5 N
Samej 60 15 6 S
Ayn 70 16 7 O-E
PehFeh 80 17 8 P-F
Tzadik 90 18 9 T-Z-X
Kuof 100 19 1 K-Q
Reish 200 20 2 R
Shin 300 21 3 S-SH
TafTau 400 22 4 T
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
45
Gematriacutea or Hebrew Numerology
As we said earlier in the Hebrew language each letter has a nu-
merical value Gematriacutea is the calculation of the numerical value of let-
ters words or phrases to obtain a better understanding of the relation be-
tween the different concepts and to explore the relation between words
and ideas
In this technique it is assumed that the numerical equivalency is
no coincidence From the moment the world was created through the
Creatorrsquos ldquowordrdquo each letter represents a different creative power
Therefore the numerical equivalence of two words reveals an inner con-
nection between its potential creators
There are four ways to calculate the equivalency of individual
letters and each way corresponds to a different world in the Tree of Life
The Zohar tells us that the concept of reduced value is related to
the spiritual world of Yetsirah Based on this we can establish a relation
between the four methods of calculation the four spiritual kingdoms and
the four letters of the name of the Divine which are YHVH or in He-
brew Yod Hei Vav and Hei
The Absolute Value of Yod itrsquos to the world of Atziluth
The Ordinal Value of Hei itrsquos to the world of Briah
The Reduced Value of Vav itrsquos to the world of Yetsirah
The Whole Value of Hei itrsquos to the world of Assiah
ldquoAbsolute value (in Hebrew mispar hejrajiacute) also known as
normative or normal Valuerdquo
Each letter takes the value of its accepted numeral equivalent
alef (the first letter) worth 1 bet (second one) worth 2 and so on up to
the tenth letter iud which is worth 10 and the following ones are worth
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46
20 30 40 up to the letter kuf close to the end of the alef-bet which is
worth 100 and then 200 300 up to the last letter tav which is worth 400
In this type of calculation the letters kafjaf sofit (sofit=end)
mem sofit nun sofit pehfeh sofit and tzadik sofit which are the ldquofinal
shapesrdquo of the respective letters when they are at the end of a word usu-
ally take the same numeric value of the common shape of the letter
Nonetheless sometimes the following are considered equivalents kafjaf
sofit = 500 mem sofit = 600 nun sofit = 700 pehfeh sofit = 800 y tza-
dik sofit = 900
Following this method of calculation the Hebrew alphabet is a
complete circle the tzadik at the end is equal to 900 and then alef is
equal to one and one thousand In the Hebrew language the same letters
are used to write the name of the letter alef equal to one and to write the
word elef which means ldquothousandrdquo
ldquoOne the first number follows one thousand
in a complete and perfect circlerdquo
Ordinal Value (in hebrew mispar siduriacute) It assigns to each
one of the 22 letters a numerical equivalent according to the order in
which they appear in the alef-bet For example alef equals 1 kaf = 11
taf = 22 The final kaf is 23 and the final tzadik is 27
Reduced Value (en hebrew mispar kataacuten and in mathemati-
cal terminology the module 9) The value of each letter is reduced to
one digit For example alef is equal to 1 iud to 10 and kuf to 100 but
according to this system all three have a numerical value of one beit is
equal to 2 kaf to 20 and reish to 200 therefore all three are equal to 2
etc Therefore letters have only 9 equivalencies instead of twenty-two
Integral Value (in hebrew mispar mispariacute) This is the fourth
way to calculate In this fashion the total numeric value of a word is re-
duced to one digit If the sum of these numbers exceeds 9 the numbers
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
47
in the total figure are added until a single digit is obtained The same
result will be obtained whether you take the absolute the ordinal or the
reduced values
The meaning of the Hebrew Letters
Alefh Represents the Divine Presence It is the symbol of
the absolute and unique faith in only one Creator and Lord It is pro-
nounced ah-left which derives from the word Alufh which means prince
minister or chief It is made up of two dots which are two iod (the tenth
letter of the alphabet) and a slanted vav (sixth letter) If we add the two
iod (20) and the one vav (6) we get 26 which is equal to the sum of the
letters YHVH Yod (10) Hei(5) Vav(6) Hei(5) of the name of the
Creator
Beth The Torah begins with this second letter ldquoBereshitrdquo
(In the Beginning) This is because it represents and symbolizes the
Berehia (Creation) and the Berajaacute (Blessing) The purpose of Creation is
to give abundance to the human being Its value is two It represents and
shows us that there is nothing in this world totally complete and indivisi-
ble Everything can be parted in two Only God is unique and indivisible
Guimel This letter is close to the root of the word Bra
keep complete and give That is why it is used in ldquoGuemilut Hasadimrdquo
to do favors Guimel represents the third column on which the world
rests it is the giver or favor doer spirit and also proof that God constantly
helps and favors the human being and His whole Creation Its value is
three
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48
Daleth When we pronounce this fourth letter we find a
great closeness to the word deleth (door) The letter Daleth relates to the
word ldquodalhrdquo poor going from door to door seeking food Daleth follows
Guimel creating a unified thought to help the poor Its value (4) reminds
us of the material world because poverty can be found everywhere in our
planet
Hei The Talmud says God created the world with two
letters that represent His Name ldquoYod and Heirdquo With the first one He
created the world to come and with the second one this world Its shape
is made up of two parts a dalet and an iod Daleth has a vertical line
and a horizontal line It represents this world where everything has a
body and occupies space The iod which is just a dot represents the in-
finite world where there are no physical laws Meaning that in this
world too the spiritual Divine component is present
Vav Its value six represents something complete and
finished The world was created completely in six days Every complete
and closed object has six sides top bottom right left front and back
The letter vav is used to unite phrases concepts objects similar ldquoandrdquo
Vav is therefore union Except for some exceptions all paragraphs in the
Bible as written in the scrolls begin with Vav The written Torah (5
books) + ldquovavrdquo (Kabbalah) The oral Torah (6 books)
Zain It represents the seven spiritual values which are
the object of this world Zan means ldquonourishmentrdquo and Zain means ldquoar-
mamentrdquo Its shape is similar to that of a sword Its shows us that man
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
49
must confront and overcome adversity many times in order to obtain his
nourishment
Heth Just as Zain represents manrsquos purpose on earth Heth
with the value of eight represents manrsquos possibility to cross the limits
imposed by the earth Seven is nature eight are the values and goals
which represent what is above nature It also connects to the letter Haim
which means life The top part of the heth has an arrow pointing up-
wards meaning that life always belongs to God and everything depends
on Him
Thet This letter is first written in the Torah in the word
Tov (good) Each one of the days of the Creation was crowned with
qualifying phrase ldquoAnd God saw that it was goodrdquo Thet is synonym of
the relationship of God towards man which is always good even though
we donrsquot always see it that way Goodness or Kindness is a Divine quali-
ty and it should be emulated The most exquisite act of kindness is to
help our neighbor without causing him embarrassment
Iod Its size earns it the category of the smallest and most
indivisible letter not like the rest which are made up of different parts
and that is why it represents the Almighty in His condition of Unique and
Indivisible Its shape according to the Zohar has a point facing up to-
wards God another one facing down towards earth and the central point
which unites both That is why when a person prays the heart faces up
and the eyes down in humbleness in front on God Its value Ten is very
representative of the whole Torah Ten generations from Adam to Noah
and another ten from Noah to Abraham the Patriarch Ten are the Divine
Commandments given to Moses and ten are the sefirot The number ten
is actually ONE
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50
Kaf It symbolizes Kether the crown (written in Hebrew
with kaf) as the Talmud says ldquoGod will place the Kether on he who
helps his neighbor the way he should and according to his possibilitiesrdquo
Its shape (curved) has a relation to its name which represents the hum-
bleness that the person who carries the crown should have
Lamed Its shape is made up of a kaf and a vav together
they add up to 26 like the Divine Name Its name lamed is the root of
the verbs to teach and to learn The name Israel begins with iod the
smallest letter and ends with lamed the biggest one The Torah begins
with bet and ends with lamed together they spell the word led (heart)
the fundamental basis to find light and accomplish precepts
Mem This letter has two aspects one known as the open
mem it is used in the beginning and middle of a word indicating that
there are points which refer to God Almightyrsquos doing which are within
our comprehension and a closed mem which is only used at the end of
words indicating the occult and incomprehensible part Moshe and
Mashiacuteaj begin with mem Its value is 40 the necessary time period for
the concretion of different stages
The fetus needs 40 days to have a complete form
The Great Flood lasted 40 days and 40 nights
Moses was up at Mount Sinai 40 days and 40 nights
The Jewish people walked for 40 years in the desert
It is at the age of 40 that a person is considered to have
reached wisdom
Nun This letter also has two shapes one for any part of the
word with a curved shape and the other straight for the endings of
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
51
words Both indicate the exclusive quality of God who is Neeman
which means loyal to His word and worthy of trust This word restarts
with a Nun and ends with another
Samej This letter represents the concept of the Divine
support (Semej in Hebrew) Godrsquos support towards man as well as manrsquos
support towards God The certainty of God is the foundation of faith and
the base upon which the human being can search and reach for its goal in
this world
Ayn in Hebrew it means ldquoeyerdquo Its shape is made up two
parts an Yod leaning against a Zain Reclining both on the base the nu-
meric value of both parts is 17 just like the word Tob (good) This indi-
cates that the ayn (eye) has to be used to observe only the good things
Its value is 70
70 are the names of the Almighty and the Torah
70 are the basic people (towns) in the world
70 are the holidays in a year (52 Saturdays 18 holy
days)
Jesus sent out 70 disciples to evangelize
The Great Temple of Jerusalem had 70 columns
70 old wise men received the Torah from Moses they
are called ldquothe eyes of the congregationrdquo the symbol of the ayn (eye)
precisely
Peh it means ldquomouthrdquo in Hebrew It is through this ex-
quisite sense that the human being differentiates and raises itself over the
rest of the creation There are two peh one for any part of the word and
the other for the endings The first one is said to be closed and its shape
symbolizes the fetus in the motherrsquos womb (fetal position) with its mouth
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
52
closed The other open resembles the newborn babe stretching its limbs
It also reminds us of the control we should have over it sometimes
closed and others open when to speak and when not to
Tzadik The 18th letter The Talmud names the Tzadik per-
son the just person The title of ldquoTzadikrdquo is not given to just anybody It
is written that God is Tzadik and Perfect This quality of Tzadik when it
comes to God is manifested through kindness Those people who go
about and act according to the divine will are said to be ldquoTzadikrdquo They
are fair just and kind to the maximum of their possibilities
Kuof This letter shows us and symbolizes the Divine
Sanctity Kadosh God is Holy Man can also be called kuof if he is supe-
rior rising above the others The shape of kuof is made up of a kaf and a
vav which add up to 26 just as the four letter name for God Kuof is
very similar to kof which means ldquomonkeyrdquo The Zohar calls monkeys
those human beings who do not believe in the divine will and do not dig-
nify being created in Godrsquos image According to Kabbalah the road is
open for man he can be holy and thus get close to God or walk away
from Him and become a monkey
Reish Up until now we saw how the letters show us and
represent the Divine Presence On the contrary reish represents and
symbolizes Evil ldquoRashardquo in Hebrew Reish follows kuof which repre-
sents the Divine Sanctity The word ldquoroshrdquo (first beginning or head) in
Aramaic is pronounced ldquoreishrdquo just like the letter Midrash tells us the
Almighty is ldquoRoshrdquo since he is the beginning and head of the world and
its end as well Evil does not exist what we judge as bad is only a part of
the Divine Plan and we do not know and therefore cannot understand
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53
Shin this letter has an important place since shalom
(peace) begins with it Only God is the source and root of true peace Its
shape with three arms and three heads represents the wish of all of us to
rise to heaven lifting our hands to receive His help It also encompasses
the symbolism of something that has three limbs but only one purpose
We live in three worlds past present and future
The human being has a spirit a soul and a body
The human creation has three partners
Kether Binah and Hokhmah or the Holy
Trinity
Taf unlike the other letters which we have seen through
analysis and symbology that each represented a word being the first eg
Shin Shalom (peace) Sheker (lie) the symbol for taf is given by the last
letter in the word ldquoEmetrdquo (truth) This is exactly the general characteris-
tic of truth at first the lie seems more interesting Truth is appreciated in
the end Truth involves everything since its letters are one in the begin-
ning the other one in the middle and the third one at the end
The Angels of Kabbalah
The etymological meaning of the word angel is messenger from
the Greek ldquoAggeloacutesrdquo ldquoAngirasrdquo in Sanskrit in Persian ldquoAngarosrdquo in
Hebrew and Arabic ldquoMalakhrdquo and ldquoDevardquo for the Hindus
Doubts about their existence disappear before the coincidences
amongst cultures and diverse beliefs that describe them
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
54
Angels constantly remind us who we are due to the message that
is attributed to them For us their place is the same as that of God they
are above us and within us
To come in contact with them could take us to doubt if we did so
with a superior reality or with the highest part of ourselves
The mythical history of Kabbalah tells us that after man was
driven out of the Garden of Eden the angels transmitted the kabballistic
teachings to man so that he could reconquer it through the never ending
divine energy which is present everywhere in the Universe
The 72 Angeles of Kabbalah
Seraphim
Vehuiah ndash Elemiah ndash Jeliel ndash Lelahel
Sitael ndash Achaiah ndash Mahasiah ndash Cahethel
Cherubim
Haziel ndash Aladiah ndash Lauviah ndash Hahaiah
Iezalel ndash Mebael ndash Hariel ndash He Kamiah
Thrones (also known as Ophanim)
Lauviah ndash Caliel ndash Lauviah ndash Pahaliah
Nelkhael ndash Yeiaiel ndash Melahel ndash Haheuiah
Dominions (or Kyriotetes)
Nith ndashHahaiah ndash Yerathel ndash Sheikh
Reiyel ndash Omael ndash Lecabel ndash Vasariah
Powers
Vehuiah ndash Lehahiah ndash Chavakiah ndash Menadel
Aniel ndash Haamiah ndash Rehael ndash Ieiazel
Virtues
Hahahel ndash Mikael ndash Veuliah ndash Ylahiah
Sealiah ndashAriel ndash Asaliah ndash Mihael
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
55
Principalities
Vehuel ndash Daniel ndash Hahasiah ndash Imamiah
Nanael ndash Nithael ndash Mebahiah ndash Poyel
Archangels
Nemamiah ndash Yeialel ndash Aacuterale ndash Mitzrael
Umabel ndash Iah ndashAnauel ndash Mehiel
Angels
Damabiah ndash Manakel ndash Eyael ndash Habuhiah
Rochel ndash Yabamiah ndash Haiayel ndash Mum
Geniuses of Kabbalah
Air ndash Earth ndash Water - Fire
The first three verses of the Torah are revealing in regard to the
Divine Creation In the morning of the first day God created the four
geniuses or semi-gods to help Him directly preparing the platform for
the coming of man
Genesis 11 ndash
ldquoIn the beginning God created heaven and earthrdquo
Genesis 12 ndash
ldquohellipthe Spirit of God was hovering over the watersrdquo
Genesis 13 ndash
Let there be light and there was light
Nothing would exist in the Universe without the four geniuses
or elements only God and with the creation of these geniuses He
proves to us that He does not want to be alone but surrounded by
vegetation animals and specially the HUMAN BEING
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
56
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Tipherzt
Beauty
Christian Kabbalah
Jesus and the Kabbalah
The Sacred Books
The Apostle Matthew
The Sermon on the Mountain
(The Beatitudes)
The Our Father
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
57
Jesus and the Kabbalah
Up until now we have analyzed the Bible from the Tanaj and the
Talmud we have also taken the Torah as the foundation of Kabbalah
The New Testament has an important kabballistic content provided by
Jesus and his apostles
Emmanuel ben Yoseph known as Jesus Christ lived between
the ages of thirteen and thirty-three with the Essenes Fraternity of the
Dead Sea where he learned the secrets of the Kabbalah that his Father
had given to mankind and because of his illumination he was declared
Master of Justice
In the New Testament the four evangelists analyzed Jesus from
the four kabballistic worlds which are completely separated and diffeent
Matthew describes a physical Jesus generations that preceded
him and his relationship with the people of Israel
This is the World of Assiah
Luke tells the story of Jesus intimate life he describes moving
images of the Master along his pathway
This is the World of Yetsirah
Mark talks to us of a miraculous Jesus with a Divine mag-
netism and its soul healing rays
This is the World of Briah
John gave us the gospel of a metaphysical Jesus the abstract
spirit and visions of an astral world
This is the World of Atziluth
The Kabbalah develops its doctrine in the light that invades us
and emanates from our bodies because we are part of it
Jesus in John 812 says I am the light of the world Those who
follow me will never walk in darkness They will have the light that leads
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58
to life and in Ephesians 58 he confirms ldquoAt one time you were in the
dark But now you are in the light because of what the Lord has donerdquo
When Matthew in verse 223 says ldquohellipand came and lived in a
city called Nazarethrdquo This was to fulfill what was spoken through the
prophets He shall be called a Nazarene he explains that Jesus had to
be a Nazarene that is he had to wear the Crown or Kether according to
what God told Moses in the oral or kabballistic precepts In Numbers 66-
7 it is said ldquothroughout the period of their dedication to the LORD the
Nazirite must not go near a dead body Even if their own father or
motherrdquo
In Matthew 822 Jesus stresses this precept saying ldquohelliplet the
dead bury their own dead
According to the Kabballists the Torah is fountain of wine and
milk In Isaiah 551 we read hellip and he who has no money come buy
wine and milk without money without pricehelliprdquo In many quotes Jesus
mentions the wine as his spiritual blood Peter 22 ldquohellipLike newborn ba-
bies crave pure spiritual milk so that by it you may grow up in your sal-
vationhelliprdquo
The Old and New Testament
The Old Testament or Tanaj is made up of 39 books and the New
Testament 29 a total of 66 books As we all know there is no such thing
as luck it is the message of God that we still cannot decipher If we ana-
lyze that message through kabballistic numerology we will decipher it
and be surprised
According to the kabballistic numerology ldquo39 books in the Ta-
najrdquohellip 3+9=12hellip 1+2=3 and ldquo3rdquo represents the Holy Trinity
Kether or God the Father
Hokhmah or God the Son (active to the right of the Father)
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59
Binah or God the Mother or Holy Spirit (passive)
They are all emanations of God the Father and therefore only
one Being It is the announcement of the Divine Trilogy based on the
Admirable Intelligence of Kether the Illuminating Intelligence of
Hokhmah and the Sanctifying Intelligence of Binah If we take away the
substance of the Tanaj which are the five books that make up the Penta-
teuch we are left with 34 books or the number 7 which were the re-
maining emanations with which God created the Universe The 27 books
of the New Testament add up to the kabballistic nine which is the Divine
or Complete number since it contains all the numbers and closes the
wheel That is the New Testament not only does it complement but also
contains the previous one and completes it The sum of both is 66 its
kabballistic number is 3 and it returns to the Holy Trinity the Three
Sefirot or divine emanations
The Apostle Matthew
In chapter one Matthew explains the genealogy of Jesus with a
result of 42 generations from Abraham to Jesus in three periods of 14
generations each This he does from the physical world or Assiah to ex-
plain with real facts Abrahamrsquos descendants and how Jesus really was
the King of the Jews
Forty-two (generations from Abraham to Jesus) adds up to six
like the sefirot of the Creation (on the seventh one He rested) which
means God rested in Malkuth the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth but
the message from Matthew is that we should distribute these three peri-
ods amongst the six sefirot of the Creation
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60
The transition between Abraham and David takes place be-
tween the fourth sefirah Hesed (Greatness) and the fifth Geburah (Jus-
tice)
Hesed is the sefirah from which the rest of the sefirot emanate
like Abraham the Patriarch from whom three religions ldquoemanaterdquo Juda-
ism Christianism and Islam Hesed is the foundation of the spiritual vir-
tues and it is connected to the Holy Son like Abraham
Geburah is the sefirah of David the Justice seeker who uni-
fied the kingdoms for the greatness of the Chosen People he is the strict
Warrior King
With Salomon son of David starts the second period as told by
Matthew and it ends with the deportation of the people to Babylon This
is the passage from the sixth sefirah Tipherzt (Beauty) to the seventh
sefirah Neshah (Power)
Tipherzt is Beauty serenity trust just what King Salomon
was to his people In the same manner it is in the column of the Crown
of God and it is directly supported by Abraham and David
Neshah is the hidden Intelligence of stability and spiritual
power it is the powerful faith against adversity the expulsion to Baby-
lon
When the Babylonian invasion comes to an end the passage to
the coming of Jesus begins it takes place between the eighth sefirah Hod
(Glory) and the ninth sefirah Yesod (Foundation)
Hod is the Divine Glory the Divine Healer which healed the
wounds inflicted on the chosen people by the invaders It is awakening
and learning
Yesod is the foundation and filter of all emanations before
reaching the Kingdom it is the Pure Intelligence it is Unity without Di-
vision this is the sefirah to which both the moon and the waters respond
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61
and the tides and earth as well the sefirah that builds and founds That is
why this is the sefirah that Matthew attributes to Jesus It is the one that
brings together to the Father before reaching Malkuth the Kingdom of
Earth and Heaven in a straight line passing by Tipherzt (Salomon) and
with the virtual sefirah of the Sacred Heart
As we can see the Apostle Matthew shows us in a kabballis-
tic way the presence of Jesus from the patriarch Abraham to the
present
Holy Spirit
David
Glory
Jesus
Kingdom
Salomon
Power
Abraham
Holy Son
Holy Father
Heart
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The Sermon on the Mountain
(The Beatitudes)
With The Sermon on the Mountain Jesus teaches us the basic
Concepts of Kabbalah to be interpreted in many centuries to come be-
cause the land of the tribe of Israel to which Jesus belonged was under
the domain of the Greco-Roman Empire which wanted to impose its
own gods That is why Jesusrsquo message is stronger the deeper you go into
it It should be observed the same as the ocean it is not the quiet waters
and small waves that rule but the strong currents that flow in the deepest
depths
Somebody told me once that even a child could understand the
Sermon and it is true which shows the intelligence of the Master be-
cause the Sermon holds many levels of understanding
From the Gospel according to Matthew chapter five we can ex-
tract the essence of the Sermon on the Mountain contained in the first
nine verses two of them introductory and the other seven making up the
Beatitudes
51 ldquoAnd seeing the multitudes He went up onto a mountain
and when He was set His disciples came unto Him ldquo
5 2 ldquoAnd He opened His mouth and taught them sayinghelliprdquo
To go up to the mountain in Kabbalah means to rise to the high-
est degree of spirituality (eg Moses went up the mountain to speak with
God) which means he went up to the Crown or Kether When it says
ldquoHe opened His mouth and taught them sayingrdquo sounds redundant since
nobody can say anything without opening his mouth But we have to
consider that there are two aspects in Kabbalah thought or intelligence
Binah and the word or wisdom Hokhmah Jesus uses the first to ignite
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63
the soul of His followers and the word to transmit the vibratory energy or
surrounding magnetic field and that way get to the spirit of people
53rdquoBlessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom
of Heavenrdquo
According to Kabbalah a rich man with many possessions can
enter the Kingdom of God if he doesnrsquot develop the materialistic spirit
that goes with them On the other hand a poor man without possessions
could be not admitted in the Kingdom of God if he develops that materi-
alistic spirit and is absorbed by the only wish of having fortune Kabba-
lah teaches that neither richness nor poorness is the ideal state Jesus re-
fers to the heart or Leb the simplicity and easiness of spirit because to
have possessions or not does not interfere with the progress towards the
path of foundation and spiritual uplifting
54 Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted
Kabbalah does not preach sadness but joy and happiness In the
Kabbalah the act of crying is a symbol of redemption greatness and
love or Hesed it is also a symbol of acknowledgment of errors made
and therefore seeking spiritual evolution in love for another The begin-
ning of change is identified with crying That is why whoever accepts
the change will be comforted
55 Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth
God said to Moses ldquoYou shall not adore other gods and you
shall respect my Namerdquo This means He demanded meekness Jesus re-
fers in kabballistic terms to meek men before God those will be able to
live in harmony and freedom achieving Divine Justice or Geburah be-
cause they are the ones who increase their spiritual level
56 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteous-
ness for they will be filled
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64
Those who hunger within will seek the nourishment to satisfy it
And will begin a search for justice which will take them to the spiritual
Glory Hod This means that those who hunger and thirst for spiritual
truth will be filled with the blessing and perfection seeker Those who
abandon the spiritual search of the truth will condemn their souls to come
back as many times as it is necessary to achieve it
57 Blessed are the merciful for they will be shown mercy
To be merciful is to forgive others to have the power or Neshah
of not having negative thoughts actions or answers to aggressiveness
from others Negative feelings affect our spiritual body and poison our
physical body altering the nervous system
58 Blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God
The pure in heart are those who achieve inner beauty or
Tipherzt In order to have a clean and beautiful heart we must nourish it
with love and not hate with forgiveness not vengeance with truth not
lies or falsehood There must be harmony in our body soul and spirit
59 Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called sons
of Godrdquo
Peace in Aramaic is the same as harmony in Greek and both
words represent the foundation of life on this earth or Yesod and Jesus
suggests the Peace of the just
510 Blessed are those who are persecuted because of right-
eousness for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
511 Blessed are you when people insult you persecute you
and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me
In these two verses Jesus foretells the persecutions his followers
even the Kabballists will suffer anticipating the manifested idea of ob-
taining the communion of the Kingdom of Heaven or Malkuth in com-
plete peace and harmony
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65
In the next two verses Jesus refers to the eighth sefirah Hod the
Glory (elevation) and its connection with Geburah Justice (respect)
which means we must respect the Just because they are the prophets and
we will be blessed by them
512 Rejoice and be glad because great is your reward in
heaven for in the same way they persecuted the prophets
who were before you
513 You are the salt of the earth But if the salt loses its salt-
iness how can it be made salty again It is no longer good for
anything except to be thrown out and trampled by men
In the following words Jesus takes us through the Tree of Live
or Sefirotic Tree bringing us even closer to the kabballistic message and
his spiritual profoundness
514 You are the light of the world A city on a hill cannot be
hidden
Kether is the Crown of God the Divine light that which is
above everything else above the mountain It reminds us that the moun-
tain is the highest level of spirituality
514 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl
Instead they put it on its stand and it gives light to everyone
in the house
Hokhmah is Wisdom to the right of the Kether the Crown of
God it is the light of Christ which lights up all homes
516 In the same way let your light shine before men that
they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in
heaven
Binah is Intelligence it is the light that reaches to the spirit of
mankind as a holy protection it is the light of the Holy Spirit that reaches
the heart through good deeds
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66
These three verses refer to the first three sefirot that is the Holy
Trinity which is the potent Divine light since it contains in only one ray
of light the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit
The following four verses refer to Geburah or Justice This is the
sefirah that dictates the Law the one that enforces the Law the one that
unites Heaven (Kether) with Earth (Malkuth) according to the Divine
teachings and is called the sefirah of Divine Justice
517 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the
Prophets I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them
518 I tell you the truth until heaven and earth disappear not
the smallest letter not the least stroke of a pen will by any
means disappear from the Law until everything is accom-
plished
519 Anyone who breaks one of the least of these command-
ments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in
the kingdom of heaven but whoever practices and teaches
these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heav-
en
520 For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses
that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law you will ce r-
tainly not enter the kingdom of heaven
Hesed is the sefirah of Greatness and it is known that the origin
of greatness is HumilityHumbleness the person that is not humble is
not great In the following verses Jesus explains to us how to irradiate
Love Mercy Greatness and above all Humbleness
521 You have heard that it was said to the people long ago
Do not murder[a]
and anyone who murders will be subject to
judgment
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67
522 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother
will be subject to judgment Again anyone who says to his brother
Raca (An Aramaic term of contempt is answerable to the Sanhed-
rin But anyone who says You fool will be in danger of the fire of
hell
523 ldquoTherefore if you are offering your gift at the altar and
there remember that your brother has something against you
Ponder
Respect
Blessing
Peace
Kingdom
Love
Acceptance
Help
Speech
Inspiration
Heart
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68
524 leave your gift there in front of the altar First go and be
reconciled to your brother then come and offer your gift
525 ldquoSettle matters quickly with your adversary who is tak-
ing you to court Do it while you are still with him on the way or he
may hand you over to the judge and the judge may hand you over to
the officer and you may be thrown into prison
526 I tell you the truth you will not get out until you have
paid the last penny
The following sefirah that Jesus speaks of in the Sermon on the
Mountain is Tipherzt beauty serenity trust family it is the one with
the noble attributes fidelity A through this sefirah he talks to us about
the family blessings and how Divinity intertwines with it
Tipherzt is the one that provides the spiritual nourishment and
family blessings that is why Jesus protects the relationship between man
and woman as fountain of life and punishes above all deceit and adul-
tery
527 You have heard that it was said Do not commit adul-
tery
528 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustful-
ly has already committed adultery with her in his heart
529 If your right eye causes you to sin gouge it out and
throw it away It is better for you to lose one part of your body than
for your whole body to be thrown into hell
530 And if your right hand causes you to sin cut it off and
throw it away It is better for you to lose one part of your body than
for your whole body to go into hell
531 It has been said anyone who divorces his wife must
give her a certificate of divorce
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69
532 But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife except
for marital unfaithfulness causes her to become an adulteress and
anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery
The following sefirah is Neshah which represents Stability and
Balance and the following five verses Jesus that swearing is the loss of
stability and balance before God
He who requires an oath does not trust what is being said and he
who gives an oath does not trust himself rdquoYes or Nordquo should be enough
for those who speak the truth
533 Again you have heard that it was said to the people long
ago Do not break your oath but keep the oaths you have made to
the Lord
534 but I tell you Do not swear at all either by heaven for
it is Gods throne
535 nor by the earth for it is his footstool or by Jerusalem
for it is the city of the Great King
536 And do not swear by your head for you cannot make
even one hair white or black
537 simply let your Yes be Yes and your No No any-
thing beyond this comes from the evil one
Hod is the sefirah of glory the compensation and acknowledge-
ment And there is no better glory and acknowledgement than to love the
enemy and bless those who curse and hate us
As Jesus tells us in the next eleven verses
If you love only those who love you
What are you doing extra
What reward are you seeking
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70
538 You have heard that it was said Eye for eye and tooth
for tooth
539 But I tell you Do not resist an evil person If someone
strikes you on the right cheek turn to him the other also
540 And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic let
him have your cloak as well
541 If someone forces you to go one mile go with him two
miles
542 Give to the one who asks you and do not turn away
from the one who wants to borrow from you
543 You have heard that it was said Love your neighbor
and hate your enemy
544 But I tell you Love your enemies and pray for those
who persecute you
545 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven He caus-
es his sun to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the
righteous and the unrighteous
546 If you love those who love you what reward will you
get Are not even the tax collectors doing that
547 And if you greet only your brothers what are you doing
more than others Do not even pagans do that
548 Be perfect therefore as your heavenly Father is perfect
Yesod the ninth sefirah is Foundation because it purifies
proves and corrects all previous sefiroth Helping others is exactly what
this sefirah is all about not only to love them but to help them He who
helps receives purification from Yesod and he who helps in secret is
blessed by The Father
Matthew 6
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
71
61 Be careful not to do your acts of righteousness before
men to be seen by them If you do you will have no reward from
your Father in heaven
62 So when you give to the needy do not announce it with
trumpets as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets
to be honored by men I tell you the truth they have received their
reward in full
63 But when you give to the needy do not let your left hand
know what your right hand is doing
64 so that yoursquore giving may be in secret Then yoursquore Fa-
ther who sees what is done in secret will reward you
Malkuth is the sefirah that represents the Kingdom of Heaven
and Earth that is why Jesus tells us that prayer must be in private in or-
der to be rewarded in public without repetitions and lots of words be-
cause the Father knows what we need before we even ask
65 And when you pray do not be like the hypocrites for
they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street cor-
ners to be seen by men I tell you the truth they have received their
reward in full
66 But when you pray go into your room close the door and
pray to your Father who is unseen Then your Father who sees what
is done in secret will reward you
67 And when you pray do not keep on babbling like pagans
for they think they will be heard because of their many words
68 Do not be like them for your Father knows what you
need before you ask him
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The Our Father
Jesus reaffirms part of the Kabbalah by following the path of the
Sefirotic Tree in his most important prayer
69 This then is how you should pray Our in heaven
hallowed be your name
Our Father the admirable intelligence or Crown Kether first sefirah
In Heaven the enlightening intelligence or wisdom Hokhmah the sec-
ond sefirah
Hallowed be your name the sanctifying intelligence Binah the third
sefirah completing the Holy Trinity
610 your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is
in heaven
Your kingdom come the intelligence of love Hesed
Your will be done righteous intelligence Geburah
On Earth as it is in Heaven that is form Kether to Malkuth
611 Give us today our daily bread
Give us our daily bread the intelligence which provides Spiritual
Nourishment and beauty Tipherzt
612 Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our
debtrs
Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors the hidden
intelligence which is power victory and stability or Nesha
613 And lea us not into temptation but deliver us from the
evil for yours is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for
every century Amen
And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil the absolute
intelligence or perfect glory or Hod
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73
Holy
Justice
Freedom
Foundation
Prayer
Love
Forgiveness
Spiritual
Nourishment
Heaven
Father
Heart
For yours is the Kingdom Kether the Power Hokhmah and the
Glory Briah which means You are the Holy Trinity
Amen is the foundation of Holy Prayer
After teaching us this Prayer Jesus continues showing us the truth about
the emanations of the Sefirotic Tree Starting once again at the Kether
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74
to remind us privacy in acts such as forgiveness fasting and prayer will
be rewarded in public by the Father who wears the Crown
614 For if you forgive men when they sin against you your
heavenly Father will also forgive you
615 But if you do not forgive men their sins your Father will
not forgive your sins
616 When you fast do not look somber as the hypocrites
do for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fast-
ing I tell you the truth they have received their reward in
full
617 But when fast put oil on your head and wash your face
618 so that it will not be obvious to men that you are fasting
but only to your Father who is unseen and your Father who
sees what is done in secret will reward you
Jesus explains that our treasures are not in the Kingdom of Earth but in
the wisdom of Hokhmah which is the treasure of Heaven that God sent
to us
619 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth
where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and
steal
620 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven where
moth and rust do not destroy and where thieves do not
break in and steal
Binah is the intelligence that Jesus asks us to use to see the light within
our heart he asks that we be intelligent to stay away from evil because
wise men donrsquot have two bosses
621 For where your treasure is there your heart will be also
622 The eye is the lamp of the body If your eyes are good
your whole body will be full of light
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
75
623 But if your eyes are bad your whole body will be full of
darkness If then the light within you is darkness how great
is that darkness
624 No one can serve two masters Either he will hate the
one and love the other or he will be devoted to the one and
despise the other You cannot serve both God and Money
Hesed is greatness Jesus shows us how Great we are that greatness is
not eating drinking or dressing up but greatness is being on the path to
the Kether or Crown
625 Therefore I tell you do not worry about your life what
you will eat or drink or about your body what you will
wear Is not life more important than food and the body
more important than clothes
626 Look at the birds of the air they do not sow or reap or
store away in barns and yet your heavenly Father feeds
them Are you not much more valuable than they
627 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his
life
628 And why do you worry about clothes See how the lil-
ies of the field grow They do not labor or spin
629 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor
was dressed like one of these
630 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field which is
here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire will he not
much more clothe you O you of little faith
631 So do not worry saying What shall we eat or What
shall we drink or What shall we wear
632 For the pagans run after all these things and your heav-
enly Father knows that you need them
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76
Godrsquos Fortune
Godrsquos
Justice
Godrsquos Education
Godrsquos Purification
Godrsquos
Freedom
Godrsquos
Love
Godrsquos Effort
Godrsquos
Greatness
Godrsquos Treasure
Godrsquos
Forgiveness
Godrsquos
Heart
633 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all
these things will be given to you as well
634 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow
will worry about itself Each day has enough trouble of its
own
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
77
Once we obtain Greatness or Hesed Jesus asks us to seek Justice or
Geburah the next sefirah Justice is learning to judge others and to look
more with our heart than our eyes
71 Do not judge or you too will be judged
72 For in the same way you judge others you will be judged
and with the measure you use it will be measured to you
73 Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your broth-
ers eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye
74 How can you say to your brother Let me take the speck
out of your eye when all the time there is a plank in your
own eye
75 You hypocrite first take the plank out of your own eye
and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your
brothers eye
76 Do not give dogs what is sacred do not throw your
pearls to pigs If you do they may trample them under their
feet and then turn and tear you to pieces
After Geburah comes Tipherzt beauty this sefirah is the provider of spir-
itual nourishment that is why Jesus invites us to ask seek and knock and
he reminds the law of the Torah because Tipherzt is in the center and
unites the past with the present the law of the prophets with the law of
Jesus
77 Ask and it will be given to you seek and you will find
knock and the door will be opened to you
78 For everyone who asks receives he who seeks finds and
to him who knocks the door will be opened
79 Which of you if his son asks for bread will give him a
stone
710 Or if he asks for a fish will give him a snake
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78
711 If you then though you are evil know how to give good
gifts to your children how much more will your Father in
heaven give good gifts to those who ask him
712 So in everything do to others what you would have
them do to you for this sums up the Law and the Prophets
Neshah is stability the sefirah of the intellectual virtues the eye of the
intellect which shows us the path of life and Jesus shows us the road of
tranquility
713 Enter through the narrow gate For wide is the gate
and broad is the road that leads to destruction and many e n-
ter through it
714 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to
life and only a few find it
Hod is glory or recognition Jesus shows us how to recognize those who
are said to be prophets or wise men Jesus tells us the best way to do so
is by their fruit (results) or deeds if we observe others objectively we
will know who will really support us and who would like to take ad-
vantage of us
715 Watch out for false prophets They come to you in
sheeps clothing but inwardly they are ferocious wolves
716 By their fruit you will recognize them Do people pick
grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles
717 Likewise every good tree bears good fruit but a bad tree
bears bad fruit
718 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit and a bad tree cannot
bear good fruit
719 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and
thrown into the fire
7 20 Thus by their fruit you will recognize them
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79
The ninth sefirah is Yesod or foundation This is the sefirah of purifica-
tion in it Jesus separates the chaste from the impure to take evil away
from us
721 Not everyone who says to me Lord Lord will enter
the kingdom of heaven but only he who does the will of my
Father who is in heaven
722 Many will say to me on that day Lord Lord did we
not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out de-
mons and perform many miracles
723 Then I will tell them plainly I never knew you Away
from me you evildoers
The tenth sefirah is Malkuth the Kingdom of Earth and Heaven where
Jesus gives us an example of free will so that we make wise decisions
and chose the Kingdom in which we will live
724 Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and
puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house
on the rock
725 The rain came down the streams rose and the winds
blew and beat against that house yet it did not fall because it
had its foundation on the rock
726 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does
not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his
house on sand
727 The rain came down the streams rose and the winds
blew and beat against that house and it fell with a great
crash
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80
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Neshah Stability
The Divine Creation
The Divine Creation
Adam Eve and the Genesis
Gestation and Conception
Development and Growth
Maturity
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81
The Divine Creation From the ape up to Adam and Eve
During the early ages of life on Earth the new thinking beings invested
most of their time in learning to survive humans had to adapt to and in-
tegrate themselves to the four elements or genius (Air Fire Earth and
Water) they also had to learn to interact with animals and plants
Man began to notice that all animals were born and died as natural pro-
cess They ldquocame inrdquo (were born) to this world from the maternal womb
or from an egg and all of them inevitably someday disappeared or
ldquoleftrdquo (died) this world
Man also noticed that all animals ldquochangedrdquo in size (grew) being small
when they ldquocame inrdquo to the world and as the ldquosuns and moonsrdquo passed
(time) they developed and grew getting stronger until reaching a point
in which they ldquodisappearedrdquo (died)
Furthermore the learning was part of the ldquoroadrdquo when they ldquoarrivedrdquo
they didnrsquot know how to walk or fly they couldnrsquot see their parents had
to get their food and protect them they were weak and dependant In
time they learned to be self-sufficient and to live independently even
though they were part
of a heard o a community
In every age thinkers and scientists asked them selves how early mankind
evolved to the point of becoming what we are nowadays The Judeo-
Christian Kabbalah answers this question without interfering with sci-
ence The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah explains mankindrsquos ldquoevolutionrdquo in
ten steps and goes through the Sefirotic Tree starting from the feminine
column reminding us that it is the female who receives the Divine herit-
age of Creation
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82
1 The Crown or Divine Light
First the Divine Light Crowned the undeveloped brain of the wild ape
and transformed it into a ldquothinking aperdquo That Divine ldquotouchrdquo caused
the transformation of the apersquos simple brain into the complex brain or
ldquocrownrdquo of this new being This change contains the celestial blow of the
future human being
2 Intelligence or understanding
Undoubtedly what made de difference between mankind and the rest of
the animals was that awareness since they all went through the same
changes they were all born grew up and died they could all see the
moon replacing the sun and all of them could see the vegetables grow
but the other species either did take notice or did not acknowledge it The
human being could ldquothinkrdquo mankind had the ldquointelligencerdquo to be aware
and that made it different
3 Wisdom or experience
As time went by mankind acquired experience which added to intelli-
gence resulted in ldquowisdomrdquo This wisdom made man outstand over the
rest of the species This wisdom permitted man to learn from other spe-
cies in a certain way and in many cases to dominate them
These three sefiroth that represents the Holy Trinity separated to
the man of the rest of the world animal and vegetable determining
their supremacy by order and Divine grace
4 Justice or respect
Man began to put his abilities to use and the first thing he did with his
intelligence and wisdom was to acknowledge ldquojusticerdquo but the Divine
free will permitted them to apply it or not Mankind understood that
without spiritual justice intelligence and wisdom cannot not be applied
5 Greatness or humility
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83
Mankind learned that spiritual greatness meant knowing how to apply
justice in every act of life
To be just and great is to be wise and intelligent
Man learned that to be great does not mean to be above the rest but to
apply intelligence and wisdom to improve the life and spirit of others
These four qualities must go together if man is to continue his evolution
and stay away from the ape otherwise he would be stuck and the ape
would overcome
6 Beauty or sweetness
As mankind evolved it became understood that each act good or bad as
well as every thought obscure or bright marks the inner character and
outer appearance of a person with a defined particularity that will either
dull it or illuminate it The beauty of the Spirit is more real and perma-
nent than physical beauty The secret of this beauty which lights up pu-
pils with the serene light of the stars y gives faces the sweet look of the
angels lies within a just behavior and greatness in thought
The Bible and Science go of the hand The Creation and the Evolution are work of God
7 Glory or acknowledgement
As man made his inner evolution he wanted to be acknowledged by the
Divinity first and by his peers later
ldquoGloryrdquo is the acknowledgement of onersquos values by others All human
beings need this physical and spiritual acknowledgement The Just has
the Spiritual Greatness Beauty of the Soul and the Divine Glory
8 Stability or Balance
The sensory and spiritual stability and balance of the new being meant
inner growth Stability came about with the bluntness of power and the
victory of his actions The spiritual powers of stability are the foundation
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84
Awareness
Respect
Knowledge
Building
Real World
Sweetness
Balance
Humility
Experience
Divine Light
of tolerance discernment and being able to face up to reality and to co-
operate with our peers powers that are attained through Justice Great-
ness and the Divine Glory
9 Foundation or construction
The foundation or founding of communities is a major stepping-stone
for this new being It was like planting a seed to watch a tree grow Man
understood that if the foundation was done right he would ldquobuildrdquo a
whole culture for the future of mankind But if due to selfishness ava-
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85
rice or greediness he failed and started with a poor foundation of com-
munities instead these would dissolve in time That is why he would
have to apply everything he had learned and all the accumulated experi-
ence correctly
10 The Kingdom of Earth or real world
The Kingdom of Earth is the summit in the process of evolution from
ape to man it is the matter substance the physical and real world This
is the peak of the creation cycle the creation of Adam and Eve Thanks
to the powers of God the ape was transformed into the human being that
now lives in the Kingdom of God which is the Earth It is at this point
where all divine teachings and human experiences converge all celestial
and earthly matters meet here the soul with the spirit and the senses
with the physical world
Adam Eve and the Genesis
ldquoFor the Kabbalah in animals femininity finds itself in front of mas-
culinity while masculinity confirms itself through femininity In the
human level masculinity and femininity are distinguished and at the
same time complement each otherrdquo
In the first book of the Pentateuch the ldquoBook of Genesisrdquo there are two
explanations that would appear to contradict each other that is why we
will analyze them textually
Chapter One verses 27 through 31
27 So God created man in his own image in the image of God he
created him male and female he created them
28 God blessed them and said to them Be fruitful and increase in
number fill the earth and subdue it Rule over the fish of the sea
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86
and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves
on the ground
29 Then God said I give you every seed-bearing plant on the
face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in
it They will be yours for food
30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and
all the creatures that move on the groundmdasheverything that has
the breath of life in itmdashI give every green plant for food And it
was so
31 God saw all that he had made and it was very good And there
was evening and there was morningmdashthe sixth day
Chapter Two verses 7 and 15 through 23
7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and the man became a
living being
15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of
Eden to work it and take care of it
16 And the LORD God commanded the man You are free to eat
from any tree in the garden
17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil for when you eat of it you will surely die
18 The LORD God said It is not good for the man to be alone I
will make a helper suitable for him
19 Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the
beasts of the field and all the birds of the air He brought them to
the man to see what he would name them and whatever the man
called each living creature that was its name
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87
20 So the man gave names to all the livestock the birds of the air
and all the beasts of the field But for Adam no suitable helper
was found
21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep and
while he was sleeping he took one of the mans ribs and closed
up the place with flesh
22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken
out of the man and he brought her to the man
23 The man said This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my
flesh she shall be called woman for she was taken out of man
According to these two texts which differ in just a few pages within the
Sacred Book first man and woman were created at the same time but
later it explains that woman was created from the rib taken from man
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah takes it as a cryptically allegory which
means we are not to understand this explanation as saying first and sec-
ond having another ahead does not make one a subordinate
The ten sefiroth that created the universe were simultaneous and the crea-
tion of the first ldquothinking aperdquo was simultaneous in male and female If
we try to understand the Divine message decoding it into common lingo
we find that the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah gives us several clues
The Book of Genesis 2 does not void what is stated in Genesis 1 it is
revealing another aspect of the human being The intention of the second
text is not to tell us how creation took place in a chronological order but
to explain ndash in a symbolic language ndash something more profound
According to the Book of Genesis 1 God created them ldquoin one single
actrdquo and gave them a mission in common Be fruitful and increase in
number fill the earth and subdue it This clarifies the equality of dignity
in both as well as the equality in the mission imparted since both are
given the same responsibility the family and protection of the world
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88
According to this there doesnrsquot seem to be tasks or responsibilities ex-
clusively reserved to men or women family as well as culture are to be
done by both
Adam does not take woman out of himself he was asleep doing noth-
ing Furthermore God expressly wanted to hide from him the way in
which he made woman doing so while he slept when he could not notice
what was happening
About the reasons for God putting Adam to sleep we can take some
concepts from the Divine reasoning The lonely Adam pictured in the
Book of Genesis 27 is a generic Adam because the characteristics
which describe him are the same for either man or woman and are
meshed in the verses 215 through 223 in the four worlds of the Sefirotic
Tree
The original loneliness (interpreted as the transcendence of
mankind with respect to the Cosmos) is the world of Atziluth or
divine protection
It is not good for the man to be alonerdquo is the need to opening
up this is the world of Briah or giving to others
The search for the appropriate assistance (conceived as mutual
and reciprocal) is the world of Yetsirah or trust and learning
The call for man woman and their animals to work together is
the world of Assiah or Earth and its fruits
The symbolism of the rib taken by God from Adam while he slept re-
veals a relationship between man and woman from which two conse-
quences derive Is a reciprocal relationship (there is no woman without
man but there is no man without woman) which leads us to conclude
that both ends of this relationship must be simultaneous
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89
Spirit
Form
Muscles
Organs
Birth
Nerves
Bones
Strength
Soul
Supra
One
Heart
Gestation
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
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90
Conception
A person is born at a particular moment in time due to a specific
situation or to connect with specific people or one person in particular
When speaking of gestation it is important to assign the archetypical
worlds to each step of this process
1 The Archetypical World called Atziluth is where everything
is in a latent state where everything is potential This is the world in
which the Divinity unites soul and spirit It is in this world where the
essence on an individual is found There is a ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath of the
heart here which lives in both the spiritual and the creative worlds
2 In the Creative World called Briah we find strength and the
pure form which gives shape to the physical life where the cellular mul-
tiplication begins The heart sends the energy of the soul and spirit to the
new being in gestation
3 In the Formative World called Yetsirah the whole body is
in the process of development creating the nervous system muscles
bones organs etc
4 In the Material World called Assiah is where the physical
manifestation takes place It is the moment of birth when the new inte-
grated being sees the light of the Sun
Development
At birth the physical body manifests itself in the Malkut of As-
siah or the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth after going through the se-
quence of conception Birth takes place at the end of the descending path
from Kether (God) to Malkut (Earth) After birth the path is inverted
while developing we begin to ascend from Malkut (Earth) to Kether
(God)
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91
The personality of an adult individual is reflected in the stage or
sefirath where he stopped or in which he weakened the most We can
associate these stages with the worlds in an ascending manner reverting
the way of the gestation
For example the Malkut of Assiah is the material world in
which a person must see and touch in order to learn He needs to touch
the fire to know that it burns or needs to knock himself to know how hard
matter is and how weak is the spirit
Yetsirah is the world in which responsibility is formed where
most people have stopped at one point in their lives for not being able to
assimilate one or more of sefiroth that make up this world
A person who stopped in hisher childhood has stopped at the
sefirath Yesod a person seeking information or news or is forever study-
ing is at Hod and the one seeking pleasures (sex food fun) is still going
through Neshah And those searching for trust in themselves are at
Tipherzt
Mature people are in the world of Briah Justice and greatness
will help these people to develop the acquired knowledge
Those who have stopped at Geburah are people who experience
constant hardship until they learn to grasp control of themselves and
once they achieve inner peace they dedicate their lives to good acts On
the other hand those who come out of Hesed are the ones who negotiate
with generosity those who give to receive who seek to buy love affec-
tion or respect
Atziluth the last world is the one closest to God one that takes
us to Him
Those worried about death are at the sefirath Binah They age
prematurely and constantly complain about illnesses
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92
Those who reach Hokhmah is because they have profound en-
lightening visions which in some cases and for certain social groups are
similar to insanity
To reach Kether at the end of life on earth is to go back to God
to achieve the freedom of onersquos soul
In the Material World called Assiah is where the man-
ifestation of birth takes place where the body without formation but with
genetic and Godrsquos instruction and information from past lives gets ac-
quainted with himself and those around him
In the Formative World called Yetsirah life and aca-
demic formation is acquired to be applied to the rest of onersquos life The
person shall have the teachings perception affirmation and confidence
supplied by those around him
In the Creative World called Briah the most important
stage in a personrsquos life is found In it we can apply everything learned
and observed in the previous world Decisions taken in this world will
affect us twice as much in the following world
The Archetypical World called Atziluth is a world of
closeness to the Divinity here is where we should stop and analyzes our
existence prepare the balance sheet of our soul When we get here we
can see what we have contributed to the growth of our soul
The road to Maturity
As we know each sefirath is a tree in itself and each world con-
tains the other four inside that is why we must analyze our maturity from
the moment of birth and the growing years as well
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93
Pro
tec-
tion
Co
ntr
ol
Le
arning
Chi
ldh
ood
Bi
rt
h
Tr
us
t
Ple
asure
Giving
Li
gh
t
S
up
ra
O
ne
Heart
The stages of growth
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
94
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah when we are born
our ldquopatternrdquo of life is not finished because our body spirit and soul are
not completely integrated
Between the ages of five and seven the central column formed
by Yesod Tipherzt and the ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath Led molds the operative
personality The Heart Trust and Foundation are the basis of a childrsquos
personal development
At the age of thirteen Hod and Neshah stability and glory for-
mation and pleasures become active This is the age of awakening of
knowledge
Between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one Kether and
Malkuth intertwine forming the central structure of the tree and they
give it meaning and dimension
During the following years Geburah Hesed Binah and
Hokhmah integrate themselves completing the incarnation of the plains
When we see rebellious youths who have not yet grasped the
concepts of justice or generosity (gangs drugs) it is because they have
not incarnated completely and Geburah and Hesed have not taken their
places yet There is no set age for complete incarnation because it de-
pends on the surroundings and social experience
The child of an alcoholic and a drug addict who live in poverty
does not have to follow that path If he could find support in a family or
educational group that could help him to develop the missing sefiroth and
that way obtain incarnation he could become a person who understands
the proper concepts of justice and greatness thus clearing his life and ob-
taining personal success
On the other hand the son of an aristocrat or millionaire be-
tween the ages of thirteen and twenty will react against his class but
from there on and according to the integration of his sefiroth to the tree
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95
he will only be interested in developing within his social circle marrying
someone accordingly and following the family pattern but if he should
find a link that could help him develop the missing sefiroth in order to
complete his incarnation he would change his concepts on class and
would obtain personal success
Of course both examples are generalizations which do not apply
to all people If you are reading this book you are a spiritual researcher
and surely do not fall under generalizations
Many people consider a good marriage and a good social posi-
tion as valid objectives but after twenty years or more of walking the
same path they understand that even though they have a good marriage
with someone they love and good economic resources they have no
goals
This usually happens after the age of forty-five or fifty For those
based on their bodies this is the beginning of the end and will seek the
physical methods (surgeries) to slow this process
The Tree of the Maturity
These physical methods are not bad if they go together with a
spiritual development with growth in the tree of the spiritual worlds un-
til the highest point is reached and it is understood that the body is the
container of the spirit and soul
Often enough people get stuck emotionally here and no matter
how old they are they cannot get out of Tipherzt or the sefirath of Trust
It is here where emotions are sometimes confused with feelings obscur-
ing thoughts and the development of spiritual maturity
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96
Under-
standing
Truth
Awakening
Trust
Real
World
Foundation
Power
Humility
Experience
Essence
Heath
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97
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
Hod Glory
The Human Being
Soul and Spirit
The Worlds of the Spirit The Battle of the Spirit
The terror and the Fears
Difficult Situations The Problems of the Spirit
The Worlds of Solutions Instincts feelings and senses
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98
Soul and Spirit
We already know that neither one of us is a new soul all of us
have accumulated experience from previous lives in other incarnations
We also know that those celestial beings that occupy our body
have come during the last thousands of years
We also know that this inter-relation or connection between soul
and body helps to correct the soul
What we need to know now is What is the spirit
The spirit is our inner Self our mind it is what we really are and
who we are
Our spirit is formed by four worlds Each world relates to the
other on the basis of interactive processes and it works its way up from
the concrete (tangible) to the ethereal (spiritual) levels
1 The Material World called Assiah or the world of
Logic is based on Malkut passes through Yessed and opens up into
Hod and Neshagh The logical though is something you can almost
touch it has foundation stability and glory
2 The Formative World called Yetsirah or the world of
the Perceptions is based on Tipherzt and opens its arms into Ge-
brurah and Hesed The perceptions of the human being are beauty
justice and greatness
3 The Creative World called Briah or the world of Feel-
ings is based on Led (heart) and from there goes on to Binah and
Hokhmah Our feelings are the product of the alchemy formed by
the ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath of the heart intelligence and wisdom
4 The Archetypical World called Atziluth or the world
of Intuition has only one sefirath as base Kether Divinity resides
here that is intuition is the direct link to Divinity
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99
As we can see the spirit is the part that connects our contained
(physical body) to our soul (or celestial body) and that is who we really
are The spirit must take care of the body so that it ldquolastsrdquo as long as pos-
sible When it is mistreated with external products (poor nutrition alco-
hol tobacco or drugs) the soulrsquos stay and learning period is shortened
this will cause the soul to come back in another container to continue
learning
When an illness or accident causes the brain to stop the spirit is
affected never the soul The soul keeps learning even though the body is
inert or in a deep coma and it will stay there for some ldquotimerdquo after the
heart stops beating It could be minutes maybe hours or days before the
soul abandons the body
When the death is surprising and unexpected (accident violence
etc) both the soul and the spirit stay in condition of shock and are late
many time in dividing
Each person has in its spirit what we know as personality stud-
ied by Jung even his profession is related to these worlds For example a
person with an Assiah personality will be in the armed forces Profes-
sionals are Yetsirah the artists are in the world of Briah and the mysti-
cal people live in Atziluth
Even as we are crossing the tree sefiroacutethico the personality was
passing of being introverted and logical to extrovert and dreamy
Undoubtedly the complexity of the spirit and the dynamic that
surrounds it could generate multiple models Human beings depending
on the inherited genes educational environment social development will
modify some of the parameters associated to these worlds in order to be
accepted by society
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
100
The soul is very important in this development since in its mis-
sion of learning it will try to put the person in challenging situations
provoking logical feelings and intuitive sensations
The way to analyze these worlds and know to which ones we
blong (surely to all of them but some more than others) is to know our
strengths and our weaknesses to find our fears and the chance to
ovecome them
Each world has its own ten sefiroth that respond to its own
behavior
The residents of the world of intuition or Atziluth
are generalists hypothetical not precise speculative idealists in-
ventive illogical indecisive futurists and disperse
Those who live in the world of feelings or Briah are a
logical poetic artistic passionate personal cordial ethical justice seek-
ers individualists and humanitarians
The inhabitants of the world of the senses or Yetsirah
are careful detail minded specialists objective precise concrete real-
ists profound practical and conventional
Those who live in the world of logic or Assiah are log-
ical analytic extremist scientific cold dispassionate theoretical imper-
sonal shrewd and insensitive
Neither world is better than another and there isnrsquot a single hu-
man being that ldquofitsrdquo exactly into one defined world we all have behav-
iors from all of them but the proportions are different in each one of us
and that is what makes us all different from each other
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101
The worlds of the Spirit
In the center ldquoThe Column of Equilibriumrdquo (Balance)
Intuition Atziluth
Feelings Briah
Sense Yetsirah
Logical Assiah
Thought
Intelli-
li-gence
Jus
tice
Glo
ry
Foun-
dation
Ma-
teri
al
Be
au-
ty
Sta-
bil-
ity
Grea
tness
Wisdom
Su-
pra
One
Heart
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102
The Battle of the Spirit
As we could see the battle is not very fair three worlds are ruled
by the heart and only one is ruled by the brain That is why in most cas-
es instincts or feelings ldquowinrdquo over reason When free will was given to
us it was so that we could ldquothink overrdquo our acts
Are two ways of thinking intuition and reasoning with very dif-
ferent characteristics
Some thoughts come to mind in a spontaneous way in reality
that is what happens most of the time Because Atziluth Briah and
Yetsirah are always present in a potential way ready to jump in and re-
spond in a way of which we are not totally conscious and cannot control
The actions of these three worlds are quick without effort associative
and very often charged with emotions They are ruled by habits that is
why it is difficult to modify or control them
The world of Assiah instead is ruled by conscience and delib-
erate reasoning it is slower serial and requires effort it follows rules
Needs more time when something upsets us it clouds our reasoning
This means the issue is stuck on the upper worlds and it doesnrsquot allow us
to make logical decisions usually because we are afraid to reason
For example the idea that something awful can happen if we
take a plane even though that possibility is remote will not let us think
of anything else The upper worlds become dominant Emotion is over-
come in turn by the possibility by what could happen and not by reality
so much
The emotional and issue is the less ldquoreasonablerdquo people are
According to Daniel Kahneman winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize
in Economics
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
103
ldquoEmotions in general do not influence decision making but one
emotion in particular (fear) distorts the perception of risk and generates
errors in the making of decisionsrdquo
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah fear originates in the
upper world but if we can take it to the world of Assiah or logical it
vanishes into thin air
Nevertheless if once we make a reasoned decision we donrsquot reg-
ister having made it curious enough we are not conscious we have
changed our way of thinking
Most people after changing their way of thinking reconstruct
the old pattern They underestimate their change Besides when they
have been persuaded of something they believe they always thought that
way The upper worlds hide behind the mask that reason displays and
have us believing they were never there we are convinced that we al-
ways think rationally
It is true that many people admit making a mistake at one time
or another ndash you could be one of them ndash but that doesnrsquot mean that they
have changed their way of thinking on a particular issue and that they
wonrsquot make the same mistake again
Fears
All living beings have fears it is natural and it responds to the
instinct of survival You donrsquot have to be a caballist or scientist to state
that man is a fearful ldquoanimalrdquo One hundred percent of the human spirit is
ldquoshyrdquo or timid and it fears an endless amount of things and situations He
is intimidated by them The important thing is to identify the things he
fears and why Donrsquot even think you are the only one who fears some-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
104
thing ALL OF US fear something The thing is that that ldquosomethingrdquo is
different for each one of us
Fear is not bad or good it simply is disturbing feeling about
something unknown or if it is known we canrsquot control and we are afraid
it might hurt us
When God created the four elements or semi gods (Fire Water
Air and Earth) He gave them the ability to help or hurt mankind that is
why Fire can cook our food or it can destroy us Water is for drinking or
drowning Earth can give us vegetables or bury us with Air we live and
without it we die The four elements can give or take life And it is pre-
cisely in them that the depth of all fears lies
Fear has companions such as anguish
obsessions and phobias
Many cultures and old and modern religions disguise fears (in
many cases to manipulate people) with the presence of the Devil or dia-
bolic things The Judeo-Christian Kaballah upholds that mankind in its
search for alternative gods created this evil figure to justify its fears and
anguishes
Fear lives in the upper part of the Sefirotic Tree of both worlds of
the spirit where man thinks less and fears more First he starts at Atzi-
luth where he acts mostly based on instinct he is almost irrational and
here is where he ignites the anguish fearrsquos best friend From there it goes
down to Briah and it leans on phobic feelings to go on to Yetsirah
where it can attract obsessions
In the emotional sentimental world or Briah reside an endless
number of opposed phobic fears darkness or light open spaces or closed
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
105
space crowds or loneliness heights or depths planes or boatshellip and we
could go on for pages
In the world of the sensations or Yetsirah live the obsessive
fears disguised as concern
Worry for details rules lists order schedules up to
the point of losing of sight the principal object of the activity
Perfectionism which interferes with the completion of
a task (unable to finish a project because it doesnrsquot comply with
onersquos own demands which are overly strict)
Excessive dedication to onersquos work and to the produc-
tivity with exclusion of the activities of leisure and the friend-
ship (not attributable to economic evident needs)
Excessive stubbornness very scrupulous and inflexi-
ble when it comes to moral issues ethics or values (not attributed
to the identification with religion)
Unable to discard old and useless items even when
there is no sentimental value attached
Unable to share the work load with others unless
they will accept to do it your way exactly
Excessive thriftiness in spending money must be ac-
cumulated to cover future catastrophes
All these fears which live in the worlds of instincts feelings and
sensations are not related to diabolic situations Satan does not exist in
the Divine Universe Satan is a creation of our spirit to encourage the
learning and development of our soul The best way to teach our soul is
to overcome our fears bringing them down to the rational world of Assi-
ah to keep them under control and letting them go
This can be done following these steps
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
106
1 The first step is to put your fears in the world of
logic or Assiah not worrying about why this fear exists but how
do we respond to this fear behavior (eg paralysis desperation)
Hesed origin
2 Be specific when it comes to defining your con-
duct of fear and its consequences because the problem it self is
the solution Geburah control
3 Donrsquot look at your fear as such but as an obsta-
cle in attaining your goals Take it to Tipherzt trust
4 Define exactly the way you want to change your
conduct Go to Neshah balance
5 Establish a time limit to obtain the proposed
change For this Hod learning is the right sefirath
Search for an adequate way to make your change with-
out going to extremes for instance becoming a perfectionist
What you want to change is not making mistakes but the irra-
tional fear for avoiding making mistakes If you are set out to
making mistakes to change you will stop worrying about per-
fection but you will also stop worrying about the mistakes you
could make That is the mistakes are not the problem but the
fear of making mistakes is Work on Yesod construc-
tionbuilding
6 Be patient changes donrsquot take place overnight
whatrsquos more there could be a set back especially when there is a
fast progression in the change of the conduct of fear Please un-
derstand that a straight forward improvement is not always to be
expected you could be going forward there could be stops and
set backs which will allow you to compare and value the differ-
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
107
ences between your previous status with your situation of pro-
gress Go through Malkuth action
Once the world of Assiah logic overcomes your fears you will
see how your fears crashed with logic and vanish
Donrsquot forget that fear is a close friend of depression Fear attracts
dissonance synonym of physical and spiritual disease When one of the
elements stops working the machinery works with serious difficulties
When one of the parts slows down or over speeds therersquos also a lack of
balance and things donrsquot run well
Fear is one of those elements in the human being with great
power to generate lack of harmony correspondence and balance Its
negativity does not allow us to act neither with freedom intelligence nor
with common sense On the contrary it makes us highlight aspects of our
life which we shouldnrsquot consider so important It makes us go back
when we should be going forward It makes us lie when we should be
telling the truth And it takes away our plenitude creativity and capacity
to love
Problematic Situations
Man faces difficult situations all his life from childhood to old
age He finds himself with the obligation to address them with systemat-
ic processes of thought but he doesnrsquot know how important they are All
problems can be grouped in these three definitions
Urgent and important
Urgent or important
Neither urgent nor important
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108
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah and the sefirotic trees show us
that if we establish priorities if we analyze situations if we identify op-
portunities there are no problems without a solution and that solution is
usually much simpler than we would have thought The method to apply
the adequate solution to a problem is part of the kaballistic teachings
Problems of the Spirit
The Spirit is made up of four worlds (logic sensations emotions
and intuition) if we know how to apply them correctly and how to dis-
tribute our problems amongst these worlds each one of them will solve
the part of the problem to which it applies and the general solution will
become available without stress nor complications
The World of logical thought is the one that analyzes a problem
concretely creating a new Sefirotic Tree with four worlds Ideas Caus-
es Opportunities and Solutions we go through them from the column
of forms or shapes looking for the world of detail or feminine
Atziluth is the world of Ideas formed by Kether Binah and Hokhmah
Kether is the situation worrying you the problem in your
head or philosophical it could be physical or mental could be serious or
momentary but none the less it is the center of the worry
Binah is the expansive thought the one that analyzes the
components distinguishes the pertinent parts the real causes of the prob-
lem Binah clarifies the information to define the situation
Hokhmah is the convergent thought it evaluates and develops
the main idea of the problem compares theorizes and creates a hypothe-
sis which means it is the one that focuses on the problem to be solved
looking for the way to follow and the steps to take
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
109
Briah is the world of Causes formed by Leb Geburah and Hesed
Leb is the virtual sefirath of the heart which plays a part in
every problem and even though thought is the most concrete world of
the spirit the heart has its influence when the time to make a decision
comes We should make the problem ldquovirtualrdquo analyze the solution with
the heart and without it in order to be objective and make the right deci-
sion
Geburah is justice Try to think as a lawyer they only deal
with proven facts they donrsquot go by hearsay Clean your mind of external
ldquoadditionsrdquo analyze ldquowhat problems make up this problemrdquo
Hesed is greatness It is very important to know where the
problem was originated in order not to repeat it you must have the
greatness to admit your percentage of responsibility in the origin of the
problem Donrsquot put the responsibility all out there blaming others do
know that we alwayshellip alwayshellip are partly responsible for what happens
to us Admitting responsibility requires greatness
Yetsirah is the world of Opportunities formed by
Tipherzt Hod and Neshah
Tiphezt is the sefirath of beauty and every problem has a
beautiful side to it which is the opportunity it opens up to the other
worlds Every problem is the starting point towards truth Many times
the truth is hidden and the problems bring it out in the light Look for the
positive side of the problem there always is one look for the sun after
the storm
Hod is the glory and glory is acknowledgement To
acknowledge a problem is part of the solution If we describe the prob-
lem and its consequences we could see clearly which opportunity it is
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
110
revealing Remember facts or situations it will help us recognize the real
scenario of the problem
Neshah is stability which will come when we solve the prob-
lem Imagine your life without the problem try to see which things will
be better and analyze which ones could be worse in order to avoid them
Donrsquot let it catch you off guard Just like in a chess match every move
must be carefully thought out and advantage taken of the adversaryrsquos lit-
tle mistakes
Assiah is the world of Solutions formed by Yesod and Malkuth
Yesod is the sefirath of foundation it is the one to support and
filter the information sent by the rest to Malkuth If the other nine have
done their job correctly the problem would reach this point practically
resolved In some cases it doesnrsquot even reach this point since it was re-
solved on its way As long as we clarify and converge ideas analyze the
real causes and describe its consequences the storm we saw coming at
first becomes a sea breeze
Malkuth is the earth action It establishes these ways to fol-
low to resolve a problem or whatrsquos left of it The truth is that Malkuth
steps in less than 5 of the cases because the big problems do not ex-
ist but small problems that transformed a snow ball rolling downhill that
breaks up into thousands of harmless little particles when it hits a serious
and conclusive analytical spirit
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
111
The Sefiroacutethico
Tree of the logical thought
Diverge
Facts
Acknowl-
edging
Filtration
Action
Serenity
Equilibrium
Origin
Converge
Knowing
Heart
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112
The Worlds of Solutions
The other three worlds of the spirit (sensations emotions and intuition)
are present in the previous development as observers but sometimes
(many times) they are present in the analysis of the concrete world where
logical thoughts occur taking the solution to the problem through not so
logical paths In these cases we have to appeal to the central column or
Column of Equilibrium of the Sefirotic Tree of the Spirit
Kether (Intuition) receiving the energy that the Divinity and Its
Light sends us
Leb (Heart) will find answers in our feelings
Tipherzt (Beauty) will consult our inner sensations
Yesod and Malkuth (Foundation and Earth) bring us back to the
world of reasoning and logic
This means that we can solve many problems using our intuition our
feelings or our sensations but we should always put them through the
filter of logical thought of truth putting passion aside and trying to be as
analytical as possible
Instincts Feelings and Sensations
Instincts or Atziluth feelings or Briah and sensations or Yetsirah to-
gether create an inner stir up when motivated by action Mankind is
mostly conditioned by emotions and sensations by likes and dislikes
Often enough feelings and sensations are side tracked by mankindrsquos own
interests and selfishness to the point of invalidating sense and reason
making one behave in ways which one sees with consternation that Assi-
ah has been forgotten Thus logic is destroyed by the three upper
worlds When we snap out later and we see the mistake it is too late to
do anything about it
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
113
The upper worlds usually come up as an answer to the spontaneous eval-
uation of perceptions Emotions such as anger or fear can be harmful or
healthy such as fondness or compassion While aversions are typical un-
healthy emotions good love and compassion are outstanding examples of
noble emotions that lift our human nature
Human beings are pretty open to emotional development and so is the
range and strength of their emotions We are all somewhat passionate
and impulsive and cold and reflective at the same time What varies is
the percentage some get angry very fast and others are patient While
one person could be not impulsive emotionally another could go through
a wide range of emotions at the speed of light
The emotional worlds hurt the physical body that is why they should be
controlled According to clinical experience a person dominated by
emotions could have consecutively or simultaneously health issues af-
fecting several organic systems I will mention a few psychosomatic
health problems
Migraines
This symptom is made up of other somatic symptoms that go to-
gether in people with a perfectionist personality with changing moods
They usually manifest themselves with painful muscle contractions of the
neck as well as nausea and vomiting
Obesity
Obesity usually develops within the frame of anxieties in re-
sponse to frustrations and disappointment through devotion to food8
Hypertension
The main reason for vascular hypertension is emotional tension
in people who show apparent serenity and affability but are really cover-
ing up hostile emotions and predisposition ndash that must be restrained ndash for
social or employment reasons
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
114
Cardiovascular System
It has been proven that the stress caused by anguish tends to fre-
quently increase your heart beat cardiac distress and blood pressure
Respiratory System
Crying laughing screaming o talking imply changes your
breathing action excessive breathing or the opposite are typical respons-
es during contrasting periods of action or relaxation Examples of this are
the hyperventilation syndrome and asthma amongst others
The Gastrointestinal Tract
The symptoms of gastrointestinal disorders are multiple the most
frequent they are anorexia bulimia nausea nervous indigestion vomit-
ing and diarrhea
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
115
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Yesod Foundation
Free Will
The emotional worlds
Control of emotions
Who controls me
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
116
The emotional worlds
The emotional worlds are distributed within the Sefirotic Tree from
Kether to Malkuth
Kether is imagination it is ethereal and impalpable it comes
from within and surprises us as if it came from outside We imagine
things or situations this is the world of Atziluth
What happens in our lives makes better sense when we use our imagina-
tion and create our own stories These could be situations related directly
to what is happening to us or just the opposite For example if we are
watching a Superman movie we unconsciously accept that the character
flies We know the actor is supported by ropes of steel or that it is a
computerized trick but we go prepared to accept this The same thing
happens with a horror movie we donrsquot ignore that the monster is made
out of some synthetic material that those masks are created with makeup
or that the blood could be tomato sauce but while we are watching the
movie we let the world of Atziluth take over our spirit and we accept
what takes place in the screen as real
The important thing is to know when the movie ends and reality begins
There have been cases of people jumping off rooftops believing they
were Superman or have shot others thinking they were either Rambo or
Terminator Without going to these extreme examples many people be-
lieve they are living stories out of soap operas in which the characters
are either good or bad In them the manipulation of society is done
through ldquobelievablerdquo or ldquodetestablerdquo stereotypes In these stories the
ldquogood guysrdquo consume the sponsorrsquos products that is why they are good
looking and successful while the ldquobad guys are very badrdquo and always
end up in jail or dead Very far from the reality
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
117
Hokhmah is memory it is our particular wisdom it is what we
learn from the past the things our own life has taught us But memories
sometimes play tricks on us
Often enough we associate what we see with some other type of experi-
ence or memory For instance if somebody speaks loudly we feel we are
being attacked because we remember that tone of voice being used by a
teacher or our father to make an observation or punish us This memory
which is not rational will put us on alert waking all our feelings of de-
fense But it could be that this person speaks loudly because he needs to
be listened to with the best intentions towards us In this case Atziluth
would have reacted against our relationship with the other person We
usually do not notice these processes because these are unconscious be-
haviors of which we are not aware When we remember the incident we
only describe our experience related to the visual perception and with
conscientious thought We almost never refer to what we heard felt im-
agined or what our intuition told us What this does is that we visualize
an incomplete picture of the situation
Binah is the comprehension our intelligence While we hear the
other person speaking loudly we generate currents of thought These
thoughts could relate directly and we could probably raise our voice as
well Both of us speaking loudly almost screaming will dull our compre-
hension and we wonrsquot be able to reason the other personrsquos words nor
will we understand why we are being loud In unexpected situations
such as an accident in transit (like somebody hitting our car in the free-
way) we create an opinion of the other person while we observe the in-
cident But we do not reason the occurrence It is not easy for us to un-
derstand in those circumstances and we unchain reactions that we will
regret later
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
118
ldquoThe three sefiroth of the tree of emotions make up the trilogy of At-
ziluth where everything is potential everything is relative where im-
agination lives with memories and comprehe nsionrdquo
Listening is Hesed greatness since knowing how to listen is
greatness Our hearing perceives in a selective way depending on the
attention we are paying In first place we hear the most discordant
sounds Some people listen independently from what they see while
others associate what they hear to what they see Closer sounds also get
mixed with those coming from afar (planes trains)
Seeing is Geburah justice When the police investigate an acci-
dent talks to five witnesses and gets five different versions of the same
accident This is because each witness perceived the same scene in a dif-
ferent way according to their distance and angle their surprise their
memories and their fears What each one was doing and how long it took
their minds to react to adapt to the new situation is also important
Feeling is Tipherzt beauty Any situation of relationship or ac-
tion (somebody yelling at us somebody crashing into us somebody hug-
ging us or loving us) triggers our instinctive emotions and can make us
feel uncomfortable sad surprised tender excited furious anxious nos-
talgichellip and so many other ways
It is important to know how to handle them from the sefirath of beauty
Both love and fury are born there It is the provider of spiritual nourish-
ment it is the one that sends the order to our hand to slap or caress to our
mouth the order to insult or say words of love to our legs the order to get
closer or start running away If we control our reactions and let our brain
make the decision we will save ourselves lots of problems apologies and
unpleasantness
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
119
ldquoThese three sefiroth of the tree of emotions form the trilogy of
Briah the world of creation where strength idea and ways of liste n-
ing seeing and feeling come togetherrdquo
Taste and smell are Hod and Neshah or glory and stability the sev-
enth and eighth sefiroth These two senses go together When we smell a
dish we like we feel our mouth ldquowateringrdquo This is because our sense of
taste already sent the known flavors to our brain which in turn already
started in Yetsirah the registered memories In some gas stations we
taste the smell of gasoline in our mouth as if we had drunk it Being close
to a trash dump makes us nauseous since the smell is perceived by our
nose and mouth irritating our throat
In these cases the formative world of Yetsirah makes us react instinc-
tively to aggressive odors
Reflexes are Yesod foundation This sefirah closes the trilogy of the
world of Yetsirah which is the formative or conceptual world and re-
flexes just like taste and smell are instinctive concepts that we cannot
control When we watch a thriller or action movie we move as if we
were the character in it we flinch when they stick a knife into somebody
or we move avoiding the punch We usually experience some movements
as if we were moving ourselves we even experience tension in our mus-
cles Itrsquos common that if we see others dancing we will also feel the im-
pulse to dance
ldquoThese three sefiroth are the base of our instinctive and intuitive sys-
tem We can control all other sefiroth imagination memories un-
derstanding listening seeing and even feeling but the senses of smell
and taste and reflexes are very hard to control that is why we must
concentrate our attention on themrdquo
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
120
Re-
mem-
ber
Lis-tening
Tast-
ing
Re-
flexes
Rea-
soning
Feel-
ing
Smell-ing
Seeing
Compre-
hension
Imag-
ining
As we can see Malkuth is in the world of Assiah and takes no part in
emotions It is the material world reason and reasoning If we manage to
handle our emotions and ldquobring them downrdquo to Malkuth reason will
prevail and our behavior will be logical improving our relation with the
world
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
121
Controlling your emotions
Now that we know our emotions we know where their origin
takes place and which worlds rule them we can analyze the possibility of
controlling them to reach our goals since a person who angers easily
spoils hisher own happiness and disturbs otherrsquos peace of mind
Without a deliberate effort emotions will not be under the direct
control of our will of Assiah and we will be able to control them in this
rational and logic world We must train our mind to control our emotions
the moment they stir up This can be done by watching them objectively
as soon as they flourish identifying them with a name or a mental label
such as ldquoAngerrdquo ldquoJealousyrdquo ldquoSorrowrdquo ldquoFuryrdquo etc
Once we have names for our emotions we will be then in a bet-
ter position to let go of them without being dragged by them The mo-
ment we can register our anger calmly (when we become aware that this
anger originated in the upper worlds) that is when we make it descend to
Assiah to the world of reason and our anger will leave us
At first this could be useful if during the day we repeat to our-
selves a formula such as
ldquoWhat am I feeling nowrdquohellip ldquoWhat am I thinkingrdquohellip
We respond immediately
ldquoI am feeling angerrdquohellip ldquoI am jealousrdquohellip
We can also investigate even afterwards why the anger (or any
other adverse emotion) took over us so that we can avoid these situations
or responses in the future
Who controls me
Even though every human being has in its spirit the world of As-
siah very few use this world to think logically and by themselves This
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
122
passivity or indifference is the result of the development of massive
communication media
Radio television yellow journalism even the Internet push their
messages on all of us every minute of the day and its penetration power
is reinforced by the rooted human disposition to accept everything we are
being told and comply with what we are dared to do Bombarded by
thousands of stimuli we donrsquot think by ourselves anymore we donrsquot feel
our emotions anymore or start up our own actions instead we feel how
others want us to feel The pressure of the multitude is irresistible
When we explain that Kether accepts that Superman flies be-
cause it is part of the film game we must control that Kether does not
accept that my self esteem depends on the perfume or shirt I buy or that
my relationship with people does not depend on the car I have
We saw that in the world of Atziluth everything is relative eve-
rything is in a potential state that is why commercials aim at our imagina-
tion memories and comprehension to get us to buy their products
All these communication means teach us to hold our capacity to
reason or if we happen to reason to do it the way they expect us to
Those who manipulate the media (not necessarily the owners but the
sponsors) are motivated by their own interests which are fortune and
power They play important roles in several means of life such as politic
business law medicine and education
Publicity newscasts soap operas even reality shows penetrate
us through the world of Briah which is the listeningseeingfeeling trilo-
gy In Briah we find the idea in formation that is why journalism is con-
sidered the ldquofourth powerrdquo Nevertheless in todayrsquos globalizes world
Kabbalah places it at the top over all other earthly powers because it
manipulates images ideas and it gives us the news ldquoaimedrdquo at their inter-
ests The role of reasoning tends to be subordinated to that of emotion
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
123
while the mental inertia and indifference eases the conquest of reason
That is why when public opinion is formed through manipulation a small
minority is able to control the majority Publicity and newscasts are the
most effective mechanism to make us ldquobelieverdquo what is good or bad for
our spirit and body
Control of decisions and Free Will
All of those who are part of the small but powerful marketing
minority have something to sell Commercials make us wish more and
more things that will not necessarily make us happier or give us peace of
mind They tell us that happiness is having the latest entertainment center
or the new cooking system But no matter how many things we buy we
could still feel our lives painfully empty
The speed power and efficiency of all this technological and so-
cial development drive us into an increasing frequency of illness due to
stress and nervous crisis Those who do not collapse under this pressure
find other ways to escape such as drugs alcohol and psychotic cults
The battle is not easy because the offer is gratifying we are even part of
that wheel because we sell a product or service which is commercialized
that way The only significant comparison we can make is with our-
selves between the person we were one month earlier a year earlier or
even a decade earlier and the person we are at present physically intel-
lectually morally and financially If there hasnrsquot been an improvement
or it hasnrsquot been enough we should ask ourselves why that is and do
something to modify this without delay If done regularly this ldquocheck-
uprdquo could be very beneficial If we set our pride and prejudice aside and
we check out our values and perspectives then we will be able to live a
simpler healthier and happier life
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
124
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Malkuth
The Kingdom
The Rational World
Education and freedom
Rights and obligations
Daily negotiations Responsibilities
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
125
Education and freedom
As a child I was told that
ldquoThe better educated a person is the freer that person isrdquo
At the time I didnrsquot understand the significance of those words
because at the age of ten to me education was school teachers and
studying
Today a few years older the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah taught
me that education is knowledge and it is much more profound than what I
was taught in school
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the first thing educa-
tion should do is warn the students that all knowledge implies a certain
risk of error and illusion Human knowledge is exposed to errors in per-
ception and judgment and illusions caused by the narrowness of ideas
cultural influence and the emotions and experiences of each person
Scientific knowledge is not even immune to error and illusion
theories and methods of investigation protect their own errors and illu-
sions That is why the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah education gives the kind
of knowledge that allows for self criticism and detects errors and illu-
sions The ldquoknowledge blindnessrdquo can be cured with a more open and
reflexive education that self-criticizes
The media overwhelms us with information It is fundamental
that we learn to discern what is relevant and what is accessorial
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah invites us to analyze the four
worlds of the human spirit together with the four worlds of the societies
in which they live political cultural religious and financial
The archetypical world called Atziluth is the one where eve-
rything is in a latent potential state That is the spirituality and religious
world
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
126
In the creative world called Briah we find the strength in its
pure form and the ideas This is the emotional or cultural world
In the formative world called Yetsirah everything is in the
formation or a conceptual process which is the world of sensations or
political
In the material world called Assiah is where the physical
manifestation takes place which is the logical or financial world
Globalization is another important issue that conditions our free-
dom According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the world has been
globalizing from its inception God never discriminated we are all His
children Moses was a ldquoglobalizesrdquo when he took his people to the Prom-
ised Land through the desert So were Abraham Noah Jesus when he
asked his apostles to take his word evangelizing throughout the Earth
The current systems of communication make us realize how sim-
ilar and at the same time how different we are from each other The
Judeo-Christian Kabbalah struggles for unity not to erase diversity and
vice-versa Neither is the individual person above religion culture or so-
ciety nor is religion culture or society above the individual person Only
God is above each and every one of us
Let us remember that God created the four Genii or Elements
(Earth Air Water and Fire) and it is the obligation of all human beings
to protect them since they are our only support Mankind is destroying
them with the contamination it has created which will derive in our own
destruction But this depends on our free will thai is why there is an
even more powerful globalization than the financial one the intellectual
affective and moral globalization This is the only way we will achieve
the Freedom to which the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah invites you the
world is united by its culture technology and the financial exchange and
at the same time it is divided by politics and religion
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
127
To need
Control
Respect
Free Will
LIFE
Happiness
Dignity
Freedom
To know
To love
Kabbalah teach us to understand that every human being shares
the same worries feelings and the same destiny no matter where he
lives
The values of the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah are solidarity hos-
pitality tolerance and respect towards the dignity of every person This
means that every culture should learn from other cultures and each socie-
ty from other societies
The kabballistic ideals of freedom consist in respect for the indi-
viduality and diversity and promoting solidarity and comprehension
Responsibilities
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
128
Rights and obligations
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah bases its doctrine on the rights and obliga-
tions of all human beings Each person has certain right and obligations
which become basic responsibilities of which each person must take
charge one hundred percent like the responsibility to control and manage
its own life building its own life plan and following it by accomplishing
goals
These obligations have three important axes based on the first three
sefiroth
bull Kether or Crown and self-esteem
bull Hokhmah or the Wisdom to known oneself
bull Binah or the Intelligence to make decisions according
to onersquos inner and outer personal needs without hurting
oneself or others
The basic rights are found in the seven lower sefiroth
bull Hesed and the right to freedom
bull Geburah and the right to control your life
bull Tipherzt and the right to happiness
bull Neshah and the right to dignity
bull Hod and the right to (respect) be respected
bull Yesod and the right of free expression
bull Malkuth and the right to life
Mankind in its daily interaction relates to its sefiroth and its funda-
mental rights according to three different styles of response based on the
lower worlds
The world of Briah or pure or emotional power
It promotes inequality always having a loser and winner This is not a
creative or equal relation
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
129
The person denies its own respect rights and needs hurting itself
These are mostly selfish individualist and passionate people
The world of Yetsirah or conceptual
It deals with defending onersquos own rights without hurting others It im-
plies equality and respect
The person knows the border line between its own individuality and
those of others
They are mostly realistic practical conventional and objective
The world of Assiah or physical or logical manifestation
They are mostly analytic calculating cold and insensitive
It promotes non-equal relationships against the rights of others It is
an unbalanced relationship in which manipulation takes place
The person invades the rights of others getting Responses of fear
Daily negotiations
When people speak of negotiations they think they are talking about
money but negotiation is part of daily life and it is also analyzed
through the sefirotic trees of the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah
The negotiation can be with oneself for instance
Irsquom staying in bed another fifteen minutes even if I have to go
to work without breakfast
The negotiation can be with your spouse for instance
We can spend Christmas with your family if we spend New
Yearrsquos with mine
We can negotiate with our children for example
You can have the car tonight if you come home early and
wash it tomorrow
We can negotiate with our fellow workers for instance
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
130
If you cover me this Saturday Irsquoll cover you next Sunday
As you can see in none of these examples and many more that surely
you must remember is money mentioned as exchange In a negotiation
the effort must be compensated equally
Nobody should win or lose or better yet both should come out winning
obtaining something each one wants In a negotiation everybody should
know what is at stake and what each one will obtain in exchange
Let us remember that the method of solving problems is based on the
lower or material world of Assiah but a negotiation reaches for the upper
worlds like Yetsirah or intuition or the world of Briah or emotions in
some cases it even appeals to Atziluth or spirit
You must train you brain to stay in the lower worlds to negotiate be-
cause it will be more to your benefit Try to be objective since feelings
or emotions play against you and the effort will not be compensated
equally
You must create what is called a creative antagonism separating the ob-
jective facts in order to get to a reasonable and logic agreement It is very
important that both parties feel they are winners Get used to listening to
every word the other person is saying In Kabbalah the word is very im-
portant it has a double message what is being said and what is meant
When your spouse child or friend get angry and scream for something
you already know it is not important they are really saying something
else Hug himher kiss himher on the forehead and tell himher you
want to hear the reasons behind the anger But on the contrary if you
feel offended and respond screaming even louder you will have lost the
negotiation before you even begin
Turn your defects into virtues that way you will get a just negotiation
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131
If you are passive think of the object and state your argument
with precision and not getting nervous
If you are aggressive look for the motives and keep them
away while negotiating
If triumph is important to you think the other one is right and
try to be unbiased
If you are anguished think of the reasons in your favor not to
show weakness
If you are a fatalist and you think you are going to lose nego-
tiate with a relaxed mind you have nothing to risk act without
worrying about the end result
When Jesus says
ldquoPut the other cheekrdquo
He refers to Judeo-Christian Kabbalah because it is not to be
slapped but to accept the embrace of negotiation
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Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Conclusions
The Tree of Trees
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133
The Tree of Trees
Reading this book we have learned to go through the different
sefirotic trees the creation of the universe its worlds and centers of
strength the sefirotic columns the Adam Kadmon tree Jesusrsquo genealogy
the Our Father the Sermon in the Mountain (Beatitudes) the evolution of
mankind gestation development maturing the spirit decisions emo-
tions and even responsibilities
But we also learned about the existence of infinite sefirotic trees
because each sefirath (no matter how small) contains a tree within and
each tree (no matter how big) is only a sefirath of a larger tree
If we try to unify all the sefirotic trees we will see that they are
all similar we could even say the same they all have the same logical
pattern they were all created by the same Divine Architect
The sefiroth take different names according to their presence but
their strength does not change since they are endless sources of energy
That is why when we see Sephiroth we see its gifts
Kether Crown Inspiration Divine Light Supra-One א
Hokhmah Wisdom Word Experience Soul ב
Binah Intelligence Spirit Thought Fortune ג
Hesed Greatness Love Humility Strength Giving ד
Geburah Justice David Truth Respect Shape ה
Tipherzt Beauty Salomon Purity Fidelity Goodness ו
Neshah Stability Power Forgiveness Trust Effort ז
Hod Glory Blessing Protection Education ח
Yesod Foundation Simplicity Assistance Purification ט
Malkuth Kingdom Peace Prayer Freedom Birth י
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134
The only sefirath that has only one meaning or name is Leb the
sefirath of the heart and for that reason it cannot be modified Because it
is virtual it appears or disappears according to the tree we are looking at
because its power is so big that it doesnrsquot need to be identified or be pre-
sent in the tree because it is a Sefirotic Tree in itself and it is the one that
guides us and protects us
Each one of us has its own Sefirotic Tree which we
must go through without a doubt from Kether to Malkuth and from
Malkuth to Kether
Free will lets us chose the road to take the sefiroth to go
through but it does not let us get out of our own and only tree
We are the only craft men of our own destiny we devel-
op our only precious and exclusive Tree of Life
It is up to us to comply with our Logics Divine Plan or to
decide to evade our responsibilities looking for shortcuts and trying to
twist the Divine assignments
The free will given to us by God demands that we put our spir-
itual and philosophical life in order without further delay to build a dig-
nified future and face each day as if it were the last one
The physical and spiritual kaballistic world from Kether to
Malkuth is truly a happy place to live in if people only thought of go-
ing through their personal and unique Sefirotic Tree
Let us remember these wise words
ldquoDeath is certain life is uncertainrdquo
(Maranam niyatam jivitam aniyatam)
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135
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
The Divine Logic
Cesar Leo Marcus
Windmills International Editions Inc
wwwwindmillseditionscom
California - USA ndash 2012
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136
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
4
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
He was born in Buenos Aires Argentina He has studied journalism lo-
gistics renewable energy resources (wind hydroelectric and solar)
economy and sociology in South America and Europe He researched
and compared religions in different parts of the world including the Pa-
pal Library of the Vatican
Has published over a hundred pieces in newspapers and magazines in
the US Latin America and Spain
He has won awards such as El Sol Azteca and was recognized for his
work in journalism literature and sociology by the United States con-
gress and by California senators and assembly republicans and demo-
crats of California
He is Member of International Coach Federation (ICF) and the National
Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ)
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
5
Table of Contents
Prologue - 06 -
Introduction - 07 -
Kether the Crown - The Holy Scriptures - 10 -
Hokhmah Wisdom - The Sacred Ideas - 21 -
Binah Intelligence- The Tree of Life - 26 -
Hesed Greatness - Adam Kadmon - 36 -
Geburah Judgment - Letters and Numbers - 41-
Tipherzt Beauty Christian Kabbalah - 56 -
Neshah Stability The Divine Creation -80-
Hod Glory The human being - 97 -
Yesod Foundation Senses - 115 -
Malkuth The rational Kingdom - 124-
Conclusions The Tree of trees - 132-
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6
Prologue
Many years ago the paths of my Sefirotic Tree took me to Jerusa-
lem where Rabbi Zev ben Itzjhak introduced me to the secret world of
Kabbalah Those sefirotic paths took me to the Vatican to pry into the
Papal library with Pope Paul VIrsquos authorization to plunge myself into
de Holy Scriptures analyze different religions to research their similari-
ties and to compare them
I understood the teachings of the Divine Masters such as Adam
Abraham Moses Akiba Jesus and Mohammed discovering that no path
will take us to happiness because happiness is in finding our own path
in our own Tree of Life
I wrote this book because the 21st century will open up for all
mankind a spiritual space never seen yet It is the century of revelations
and the time for ldquokabbalistic evangelizationrdquo through which we will un-
derstand there is no reason for the erroneously called religious war be-
cause the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah allows us to cross the gates towards
the union of souls where each and everyone of us are very important
pieces of this Logic Divine Plan
That the Sky illuminates him
Cesar Leo Marcus - 2005
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
7
Introduction
Since the beginning of the Divine Creation since water earth air
and fire combined to form life since early vegetation covered the land
since animals developed into dinosaurs since giants (vegetable and ani-
mal) disappeared giving way to the world as we know it today since the
first man understood that he was no longer an ape and learned to use his
intelligence which is forever the Kabbalah Judeo-Christian was pre-
sent revealing every step and every line of this Logic Divine Plan
This book answers the four most difficult questions us humans
ask ourselves the easiest way possible
Which is the Divine Logic Plan for each one of us
What should we do to find our Path
Who are we really and what is our goal
What is free will and how does it benefit us
To find these answers we must travel the road or path of the
sefirot which is not easy In order to do so each one of us can adopt one
of two possible attitudes
We can envision the road or path as a barrier that sepa-
rates us from our goals or sefirot battling with strength against obstacles
considering every step a conquest But I must warn you many desist half
way down the road and the few that do make it end up totally worn out
and without the strength to enjoy their triumph
Or we can envision the sefirotic road or path as the way
to achieve our objectives as part of the affixed goal From the very first
moment we step onto the road we will be walking the arm of the sefirot
or desired goal and without battling or effort we will get there Walking
through it we will gain from whatever the sefirotic path offers us Most
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8
people will get there without effort or exhaustion enjoying the tiny daily
triumphs and finally achieving their goals
The students of Judeo-Christian Kabbalah chose the second op-
tion we know that the path itself is our teacher that we learn just by
walking through the sefirotic paths and as we near our goal we leave
behind our weaknesses our fears and we value our spiritual weapons our
inner resources our strengths
The students of Judeo-Christian Kabbalah
know that we have come to this world to be happyhellip
Understanding happiness as a means to offer our spirit and soul the
opportunity to learn surrounded by light and positive e nergy
Those who wish to study Judeo-Christian Kabbalah will search
in this book for answers to questions they hadnrsquot even thought of before
and that were hidden from regular people in the past
This book seeks the interpretation of the Sacred Books
and most especially of the symbolism of the sefirot
This book seeks to explain the existence of man the pur-
pose of his life and where he comes from
This book seeks to unveil the occult understanding the
sefirotic trees and the four worlds that make them up
This book seeks to discover the hidden scenarios of your
life achieving the much desired happiness without effort
This book seeks to acknowledge the mystical magic and
creative power of the Tree of Life and its sefirot
This book seeks to be not a abstract study quite the con-
trary whoever studies Judeo-Christian Kabbalah will be able to analyze
the Tree of Life and its sefirot understanding their importance on onersquos
life
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
9
This bookrsquos search takes place within each reader because
ldquoKabbalahrdquo comes from the Hebrew words ldquoLaykabbelrdquo meaning To
Receive and ldquoHabbalahrdquo which means Tradition which refers to the Tra-
dition of To Receive and Kabbalah describes this action as ldquoThe tradi-
tion of wishing to receiverdquo This tradition of wishing to receive develops
and grows in four worlds that continuously come together and grow
apart
To Receive the pleasure of money and power this is the
material world
To Receive the pleasure of acknowledgement and hon-
ors this is the conceptual world
To Receive the pleasure of love and affection this is the
world of senses
To Receive the pleasure of the union with the Divinity
which is the spiritual world which is the highest in the pyramid of the
desires because it wraps and raises all the rest
ldquoHe who acknowledges the power of the
Kabbalah and the tradition of to receivehellip
Will search the means to attain its Lightrdquo
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10
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Kether The Crown
The Sacred Books
Old Testament
New Testament
Koran or Quram
The Zohar
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11
The Old Testament
The Hebrew has three scriptures The Tanakh or Old Testament
the Talmud or collection of erudite commentaries on the Tanakh and
The Kabbalah or mystic interpretation of the Torah Ancient rabbis
would say that the first of these three books represented the Divine Body
the second one the Divine Spirit and the fourth one the Divine Soul The
average person can benefit from reading and obeying the first book eru-
dite scholars can study the second one but wise people meditate with the
third one
The Tanakh
Old Testament also called The Book of Books is divided in
three parts
The Torah the Law which envelops the first five books
ldquoJumashrdquo(5) in hebrew also called ldquoPentateuchrdquo or the Law of Moses
These are the five books Genesis (Bereshit) Exodus (Shemoth) Leviti-
cus (Vayikra) Numbers (Bamidbar) and Deuteronomy (Devarim) They
cover the period between the Genesis up to Mosesrsquo death on the thresh-
old of the entry into the Promised Land (Canaan)
Nevirsquoim (Prophets) The second part of the Tanakh co-
vers a vast period which goes from the conquest up to the last prophets
These are the books contained therein Joshua (the conquest period)
Judges I and II Samuel I and II Kings and those dedicated to the major
prophets Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel and Daniel and the minor prophets
Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah
Haggai Zecariah and Malachi
Ketuvim (writings) This third part of the Tanakh is
made up of the book of Psalms Proverbs Job Ezra Nehemiah Ruth
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12
Song of Songs Lamentations (Eichah) Ecclesiastes Esther and Chroni-
cles I and II They cover a vast period that goes from the VII century of
the Common Era up to the Persian period the return to Israel and the
building of the second Temple of Jerusalem
The Talmud
The Halakha-Mishnah-Aggada-Talmud Bavli (of Babylon)-
Yerushalmi (of Jerusalem) is a compilation of the oral tradition transmit-
ted from generation to generation which covers all topics in the Tanakh
including
The Halakha or the Law explains the rules and princi-
ples pronounced in the Torah rules of conduct religious principles and
rituals Covers a wide variety of issues revolving around the individual
the family and living in community The Halakha has ruled life for centu-
ryrsquos right up to the present
The Mishnah which cover the following rules and regu-
lations are six basic sedarim or treaties (singular=seder)
Moed talks about the festivities א
Zeraim (Seeds) deals with labor practices ב
Nezikin deals with relationships within a group ג
Nashim are the family rules ד
Kodoshim deals with sanctity and holiness ה
Tohorot-kosher are Laws of purity ו
The Gemara the oral law with comments and exegetical rabbin-
ic statements has been study material for centuries nourishing philoso-
phy teachings It contains practically every bit of traditional wisdom col-
lected for centuries
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13
This oral law also contains a vast literary work Haggadah and
Midrashim (legends and comments) on biblical figures of exemplary
conduct
The Kabbalah
The Kabbalah was in ancient literature the totality of the reli-
gious doctrine obtained with the exception of the Pentateuch As of the
X century DC Kabbalah was considered a secret mysterious and theo-
sophical science destined to explain always in a cryptic language the
Creation of the Universe by the Being defined as ldquoOne and Absoluterdquo
Some kabbalists such as Pico Della Mirandola Reuchlin and
Schikard adopt the old tradition according to which Kabbalah develops
from the inspiration that God instilled in Adam Abraham Moses Bud-
dha Jesus Mohammed Bahi and all those that constitute the mystic cir-
cle of the Latter Prophets
Kabbalah is not exclusively Jewish since first Jesus and later
Mohammed were kabbalist scholars
The New Testament
Having taken Jesus as an example as we know it when he was
born there were three religious doctrines in Palestine the Pharisees and
Sadducees of which the Gospels often speak and the Essenes which are
never mentioned Tradition states that the boy Emanuel ben Yoseph was
sent by the erudite doctors of the Law to the community of the Essenes
near the Dead Sea after being heard at the Temple at the age of thirteen
to be educated according to the mystic tradition of Israel The Kabbalah
He stayed with the Essenes until he was thirty years old Emanuel ben
Yoseph or Jesus Christ teaches the continuity of the Hebrew Scriptures
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14
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the
Prophets I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them I tell you
the truth until heaven and earth disappear not the smallest letter not the
least stroke of a pen will by any means disappear from the Law until
everything is accomplished (Mt 517)
However I admit that I worship the God of our fathers
as a follower of the Way which they call a sect I believe everything that
agrees with the Law and that is written in the Prophetsrdquo (Acts 2414)
Jesus answered It is written Man does not live on
bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God (Mat-
thew 44) referring to Deuteronomy 83 ldquohellipto teach you that man does
not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of
Godrdquo
In the chapter called Tipherzt-Beauty you will find a broader ex-
planation of the Christian Kabbalah and an analysis of the Kabbalistic
Jesus and his apostles
The Koran or Quram
The Koran or Quram is the sacred book of Islam containing the
word of Allah (God) as revealed to Mohammed through the angel Gabri-
el (Gibrail or Yibril)
During his life the Prophet Mohammed received the revelations
either verbally or written on palm leaves pieces of leather or bones etc
Upon the death of Mohammed in the year 632 his followers began to
gather all these revelations which during the period in which Uthman ibn
Affan was Caliph took the shape we know nowadays 114 chapters each
one called surah subdivided into verses or phrases
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
15
For the Muslims the Koran is the eternal and un-created work of
God therefore it was to be transmitted without the slightest change in the
original language the classic Arabic considered a sacred tongue for all
purposes
However in recent times the Koran has been translated to many
languages aimed specially at the believer whose native language is not
Arabic But even so believers are obligated to read it in its original lan-
guage because they claim that the contents of the Koran has not been
modified in centuries and a translation is an interpretation
Mohamed admits the continuity of the Hebrew Scriptures in the
following passages of the Koran
ldquoAnd most certainly We gave Musa (Moses) the Book
and We sent apostles after him one after anotherrdquo (Koran surah 287)
ldquoSurely We revealed the Taurat (Torah) in which was
guidance and light with it the prophets who submitted themselves
(to Allah) judged (matters) for those who were Jewsrdquo (surah 544)
ldquoCertainly We made a covenant with the children of Is-
rael and We sent to them apostlesrdquo (surah 570)
ldquoAnd certainly We gave the Book to Musa so be not in
doubt concerning the receiving of it and we made it a guide for the
children of Israelrdquo (surah 3223)
According to the Koran ldquothe Messiah Isa (Jesus) son of
Marium (Mary) is only an apostle of Allah and word which He
communicated to Marium and a spirit from Himrdquo (surah 4171)
He is a prophet or a servant of Allah (surah 4359) but
not His son(surah 6101)
The Muslims consider him a Messiah (in Arabic
ldquoMasihrdquo very similar to the Hebrew ldquoMashiacuteajrdquo) to them it means an
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
16
elevated prophet (ldquoanointedrdquo) the closest one to Allah before Mo-
hammed
The word Messiah Masih (ldquoanointedrdquo) can be found in
Surahs 345 4157 171-172 517-72-75 930-31 The highest
prophet except for Mohammed
The Islam considers the mystery of the Trinity and in-
carnation an ldquoassociationrdquo and therefore an offense against the
uniqueness of Allah (surah 112)
But not this way the first three sefirot that wrap the symbolism of
the Trinity
Mohammed sensed the Kabbalah in the Koran since Isa (Je-
sus) is the word of Allah and a spirit from Him son of the Holy Spirit
but they do not exactly consider Isa (Jesus) as if he were Allah
And furthermore the Koran affirms that at the end of time when
humanity will be called to judgment by Allah Isa (Jesus) will stand by
Him as witness and part therein (surah 4361) And everyone who did
not believe in him will believe in him (surah 4157)
Those who interpret the Koran affirm that Isa (Jesus) will come
back to this world at the end of time to save Humanity from damnation
and convert it to Allah
The Zohar
The composition of the Kabbalistic doctrine as we know it to-
day it attributed to Rabbi Shimeon ben Yochai in century II He is the
author of the Zohar ldquoThe Book of Splendorrdquo one of the basic texts of
the Kabbalah Shimeon ben Yochai (80-160) was a disciple of Rebbi
Akiva ldquoRashbirdquo (40-137) who had been sentenced to death by the Ro-
mans because he would not acknowledge nor obey the ruling authority of
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
17
Rome nor would he reveal any Kabbalah secrets to them Even though
the Zohar was written by Rabbi Shimeon ben Yochai Rebbi Akiva was
its true inspirer
Adam Kadmon Zohar XVII Century
Rebbi Akiva ben Joseph was born southeast of Judea close to the
Mediterranean shore His father was a humble Jewish peasant who was
not acquainted with the literature of his people nor the traditions he had
never read the Torah nor visited the Temple Due to the precarious eco-
nomic conditions in which there was living the family Akiba none of her
children received formal education in her infancy The reality was that
Akiba ben Joseph I pass your childhood and adolescence as an illiterate
Mediterranean shepherd until a few years later he married with Raacutechel
who convinced it to leave your activity and to study with the big rabbini-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
18
cal teachers Akiba faced many difficulties in your learning That is why
he started learning the alphabet with his 5 year old son and soon was
reading text books in Hebrew he went on to study the Torah at Rabbi
Joseph ben Zakkairsquos renowned Yeshiva (academy) His teachers Eliezer
ben Hyrkanos Joshua ben Hananiah and Nahum of Gimzo became his
best friends because they admired his bright fast and resourceful mind
Fifteen years later at the top of his mental and physical faculties he be-
gan his monumental work the reconstruction of the Law and the estab-
lishment of an academy of permanent studies
At the age of 57 in the year 97 Akiba was already revered by
both by his colleagues and by the masses He visited rabbis and experts
of the Toraacute with the purpose of combining all the Jewish traditions and
then went on to classify them in a legal code divided up logistically The
effective combination of conciseness and precision served as example the
future generations In the centuries following Mishna (codification of
Jewish laws and traditions) it was acknowledged and studied by the rab-
binical authorities
With more than 65 years Rebbi Akiva founded his private Ye-
shiva (academy) in Bene Berak (Sons of Lightning) to the north of Jeru-
salem wanted to found several in the whole Israel for the study of the
Tora and of the Kabbalah
Everything went along smoothly until the year 125 CE when the
relationship between Jews and Romans deteriorated Emperor Hadrianusrsquo
decision to build a pagan sanctuary on Mount Moria (where the old tem-
ple had been) exacerbated spirits Excitement grew within the Jewish
people and led by Shimon bar Kojba they rebelled
In a little less than three years the Roman armies destroyed all
evidence of Jewish resistance The cruelty of the repression grew month
by month and in the year 134 the Romans enacted a drastic decree pro-
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
19
hibiting the practice and study of the Torah Rebbi Akiva was convinced
it was the end If the study of the Torah was abolished his life lacked all
meaning At the age of 95 defying the Roman authority he gathered his
students with the sole purpose to study Kabbalah
A few days later Rebbi Akiva was incarcerated The Romans re-
spected his knowledge reputation and distinguished personality Akiva
continued teaching his disciples from his cell which earned him judg-
ment He was found guilty tortured and sentenced to death With Rebbi
Akiva 24000 of his disciples were killed by the Romans only Rabbi
Simeon bar Yochai and four others survived Before being captured Reb-
bi Akiva and Rabbi Yehuda ben Baba authorized ldquoRashbirdquo to transmit to
future generations the Kabbalah they had taught him
The Zohar or ldquoBook of Splendorrdquo was composed by Simeon bar
Yochai and his son Elazar during the thirteen years they lived in a cave
hiding from the Roman army
ldquoRashbirdquo came out of the cave with the Zohar a flawless meth-
od to study the Kabbalah and having accomplished spirituality Rabbi
Simeon bar Yochai attained the 125 levels a human being can achieve
during his whole life in this world According to the latest investigations
the revelation of the current Kabbalah could be resumed this way
The historic Kabbalah was preceded by a movement (900-1200)
that preserved and encouraged the legacy of the Jewish gnosis
(knowledge of spiritual truth) Later on this movement penetrated Eu-
rope constantly at different stages Hasidism was an important intermedi-
ate stage Furthermore besides all the theoretical and mystical variances
of Kabbalah there was a much older one in which the secret names of
God and the angels were used the same way they are used in white mag-
ic not causing any harm to people Not to be confused with ldquoblack mag-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
20
icrdquo (kishcuf in Hebrew) international current containing elements from
Arabic Jewish and Christian magic
After the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in the year 1492 and
the establishment of a Jewish center in Safed (north of Galilea) Kabba-
lah also experienced a change since two systems flourished the Kabba-
lah of Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (1522-1570) and Kabbalah of Isaac
Luria (1534-1572)
In brief Cordoverorsquos Kabbalah could be defined as a theoretical
variant with many gnostic elements while Luriarsquos Kabbalah would be a
practical mysticism
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
21
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Hokhmah
Wisdom
The Sacred Ideas
Light
The spiritual Will
Tetragramaton
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
22
Light
We all have this sixth sense which we will call spiritual sense
still not awakened in some people When people study Kabbalah they can
learn things that were not available to them before because a sixth sense
is developed in order to envision life and the world from a different point
of view
The sixth sense is also called ldquothe spiritual vaserdquo(kli) this vase
is in all of us and it is ruled by basic kabbalistic concepts
A regular personrsquos spiritual vase is still not adequately א
developed to perceive the spiritual world
When light enters a personrsquos heart or soul it ignites the ב
spiritual perception in that person
Nothing is possible without light When we take the light ג
that surrounds us it will gradually light our path
Even if we donrsquot recognize said light there is a direct ד
connection between our heart and the light that will fill it
The light is destined the surrounding lights stand by ה
waiting for you to prepare your vase to receive them
The light we receive when we give in to the wisdom of ו
self-knowledge attracts a celestial charm which gives us abundance
of sanctity and purity that take us closer to realization
ldquoThe person who studies the Kabbalah Judeo-Christian with
the purpose of self-modification will attain the light and will notice
that the desired improvement and success can be achieved with the
least cost or sufferingrdquo
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
23
The Spiritual Will
The Creator wants us to indulge in spiritual pleasures that we
are full That can only be possible through enormous will perfection We
can only reach the spiritual world through a rectified will which will
make us strong and active Only by means of a passionate desire strong-
ly and dedication we will be able to reach really the spiritual world re-
turning forts and assets A small desire will not damage us very much
nor a lot of good The passionate desire only works from the Divine
stimulus which we it will obtain from the Intuition which is a part of the
Spirit
There is a pyramid of souls based on the will to receive
At the base are the many souls with small earthly wills
searching a comfortable animal like life (food and affection)
The following level with minor number of souls those who
want to acquire richness Those are the people who dedicate their lives to
make money and will sacrifice themselves in exchange for fortune
Next are the ones that would do anything to control others to
govern and reach positions of power
At the highest level are the souls that are seeking spirituality
who are open to the light
Man in turn has the same pyramid within him he must invert it
so that the weight goes to the purest desire or will the infinite will for
spirituality When we truly wish to increase our will for spiritually the
surrounding light (the hidden spiritual world) begins to reflect upon us
increasing the desire for even more If we identify with matter we will
try to obtain satisfaction through it searching outside our spirit for mate-
rial things until these material things no longer satisfy us thus becoming
less materialistic and discovering our true spirit
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
24
Our body is matter matter is energy and therefore has life but it
has no spirit or spiritual energy because it is all material energy dense
energy the spirit is light energy The difference between one and the
other is that the material energy has no conscience because it doesnrsquot
perceive reality that is why we see with our eyes and not our heart our
eyes show us the outer figures of things or people its beauty or ugliness
but we can see what they are like inside Spiritual energy is what gives
us conscience of reality of love of truth That is why when we become
conscious of ourselves we transform our matter into spirit and become
more conscious
Albert Einstein was so right when he said ldquoEnergy cannot be
created nor destroyed it can only be transformedrdquo thus dense (mate-
rial) energy can be transformed into lighter (spiritual) energy again and
again
The biggest change we observe in the souls that are descending
nowadays is mainly in their well defined will to achieve a spiritual sys-
tem Even the most common people without any religious or mystic in-
struction are looking for something beyond this world something spir-
itual furthermore more and more scientists or people into pragmatic pro-
fessions are searching for their spiritual light In the last thirty years the
descent of new souls has been activated and accelerated
Their will is much bigger and more genuine They want to
achieve authentic spiritualityhellip nothing morehellip and nothing less
We will discover that we have no other alternative but to
acknowledge the spiritual world of which we are a part This acknowl-
edgement will take us to a new situation where we will begin to act con-
sciously in unison no longer as isolated individuals All of us from one
generation to another are connected in one soul We share a collective
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
25
responsibility That is why the Kabbalist is considered ldquofounder of the
worldrdquo He affects the whole world and the whole World affects him
The Tetragrammaton
In Kabbalah the concept of Shem or ldquoDivine Namerdquo plays a
first degree role which makes a lot of sense given the importance of eve-
rything related to the Emanations of the Sefirotic Tree the mystery of the
letters and the beauty in words
The meditation about the ldquoName of Godrdquo constitutes one of the
pillars of the initiation path to Kabbalah
The Tetragram or Tetragrammatonhellipfrom the Greek four (tetra)
and letters (grammaton)hellip is the name formed by four consonants one
yod (Y) two he (H) and one vav (V) The combination of these four let-
ters spell YHVH the ldquoHoly Namerdquo or Yahavah (as literally read) which
in Kabbalah is called Shem Herman Forash ldquocomplete namerdquo or the
ldquoexplicit namerdquo
Said ldquoSacred Namerdquo is usually transcribed as Jehovah or Yah-
veh nevertheless such description is no more than a hypothetical and
approximate restoration Therefore the word YHVH in which all mys-
teries and the savior power communicated by God are contained has
been designated by tradition as the ldquolost wordrdquo
The ldquocomplete or whole namerdquo was replaced by others also at-
tributed by the Bible as Yahveh such as Adonai El Shaddai or Elohim
Sometimes the four letter name is substituted by half of the Tetra-
grammaton the so-called ldquotwo letter Namerdquo HY or ldquoHaimrdquo interpreted
or translated as LIFE
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26
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Binah Intelligence
The Tree of Life
Creation
The Tree of Life
The Columns
Tree Sefirot and Letters
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
27
Creation
An example of the depth in the interpretation of the Bible offered
by the kabbalistic doctrine is its version of the biblical narration of the
Creation as contained in the Book of ldquoGenesisrdquo usually considered a na-
ive and childish story to explain a process that modern science has
demonstrated to be much more complex In regard to said mythical-
symbolic narration similar to many others contained in other spiritual
traditions in humanity the kabbalistic doctrine makes two basic observa-
tions of major importance
1 According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the biblical crea-
tion is the process through which the universal manifestation takes place
It is a logical process its place is in the Divine world and it gives form to
the Divinity In it the Supreme Being is determined and revealed as such
going from the Nothing to the Whole The Everything
It is not ldquoGodrsquos Creationrdquo but
ldquoThe Creation in Godrdquo
In this process the Creation of the Cosmos is only a consequence
which just like the latter takes place not sooner nor later but in a con-
tinuous and uninterrupted way in an instant beyond time in the ldquoeternal
nowrdquo
2 The six days of the Creation identify with the creative sefirot
from the fourth one (Hesed) to the ninth one (Yesod) referring to the
specific action or purpose of each one of them while the seventh day
Shabbath in which God rested relates to the tenth sefirot (Malkuth) All
of this is contained in the initial words of the ldquoGenesisrdquo Book ldquoIn the
beginning God created the heavens and the earthrdquo (according to the
common interpretation Authorized Version)
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28
The key words here are the first three if we want an exact under-
standing of them we must turn to the Hebrew text
ldquoBereshit Bara Elohim
Bereshit means ldquoin the beginningrdquo which according to the Kab-
balistic interpretation it does no refer to a beginning in time but a logical
beginning it is what proceeds not in time but in hierarchy (rank)
and function This principle is Hokhmah the second sefirath
This text should be interpreted this way
ldquoIn the intelligent and intelligible
Beginning which is the Divine Wisdomrdquo
The second word of this quote is Bara ldquocreatedrdquo It is a verb of
action without a subject it doesnrsquot say who created That action has no
subject because the ldquowhordquo of which it speaks is the sefirath Kether ldquothe
Crownrdquo which goes beyond anything personal since in it the ldquoNothingrdquo
of the Supra Being or Absolute
As far as the third word is concerned Elohim we must indicate
that besides not being the subject of the sentence it is in its plural for
literally meaning ldquogodsrdquo
The kabbalistic exegesis (explanation) identifies this Elohim
with the third sefirath Binah the Intelligencerdquo which contains and de-
signs within itself the seven sefirot of the cosmic composition the six
active ones and the receptive one which is the receptacle for the rest of
them (Malkuth the tenth sefirot)
This is why the interpretation to which we are used ldquoGod creat-
edrdquo is not exact A more accurate interpretation of the original hebrew
text would be ldquoThe Nothing created godsrdquo that is it created or profiled
the qualities or aspects of the Divine Reality of which afterwards -not in
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
29
a time order but in an order of principles a cosmic order arises the Crea-
tion or universal manifestation
Therefore here is the message contained in the initial verse of
the ldquoGenesisrdquo according to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah
ldquoThe Supra Being constitutes Itself eternally the causal Being
and the object or purpose of all things in which all qualities poss i-
bilities and forms of the created and uncreated reality are presentrdquo
The Sefirotic Tree and the four worlds
And the twenty-two paths that unite the
Crown (Kether) with the Kingdom (Malkuth)
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
Binah
Geburah
Hod
Yesod
Malkuth
Tipherzt
Neshah
Hesed
Hok-mah
Kether
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30
The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life is the Divine Architecture which symbolizes the
soul of man and the Universe and as He is divided into four levels known
as the four inner Worlds
In the Ideal World - Atziluth is where everything is
in a latent potential state
In the Creative World - Briah is where the pure
power and the ideas in their shapes are
In the Formative World - Yetsirah everything is in
a conceptual process or one or formation
In the Material World - Assiah is where the physi-
cal manifestation takes place
This tree consists of 10 fixed spheres and a ldquovirtualrdquo one and 22
paths that connect them In a very broad sense we can say that the
spheres or Sefirot are stages of the emanations of the Spirit of God
from the primordial existence to the physical manifestation
ldquoThey are inexhaustible centers of powerrdquo
The model of the Tree of Life mirror and synthesis of man and
the cosmos is divided in three columns or pillars this traditional division
in three columns is in close connection with the alchemical or magic
principles which were discovered by the kabbalists of the 12th
century
and have been present to this day and always will be
The whole manifestation is based on duality this duality is rep-
resented in the tree the three Sefirot to the right form the active pillar
masculine and the three Sefirot to the left form the passive pillar femi-
nine
The duality is also present in each Sefirath The only Unit is
found in the Non-Manifested which is above the Tree
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
31
The Non-Manifested is the pure state of the In-Existence from
where Existence arises which is the first Sefirath the Sefirot in the cen-
ter form the middle or balance pillar
Therefore we observe that one of the columns is active-
masculine another one is passive-feminine and the third one or central
axis equidistant from both of them is neuter and is constantly combining
and harmonizing them both
Power corresponds to the Active energy column integrated by the
following Sefirot Hokhmah (2) Hesed (4) and Neshah (7) Form or
shape corresponds to the passive energy columns which is made up of
the following Sefirot Binah (3) Geburah (5) and Hod (8) The central
or axle column or pillar integrated by Kether (1) Tipherzt (6) Yesod
(9) and Malkuth (10) is neuter and eternally assimilating the opposites
thus creating new possibilities of indefinite developments It is called the
column or pillar of equilibrium or balance
This is the image of permanent order of the Creation It is the
idea upon which all sciences are based and which are called ldquoThesis An-
tithesis and Synthesisrdquo techno science and modern physics have ldquodis-
coveredrdquo formations similar to that of the Tree of Life in the universe
around us such as the quantum structure or the DNA map of all living
things (vegetables animals humans) This proves that the Tree of Life
rules all norms of matter and spirit from the beginning of time
Kabbalah teaches us that energies run through the Tree of Life
from the Unity Kether identified with the number one up to the formal
and substantial manifestation the world and matter just as we know
them and perceive them through our senses This flow of energies or
vibrations is called emanations and they make up any manifestation
The energies of the Sefirot ndash all of the invisible except for
Malkuth which resumes and contains the whole Tree ndash travel a continu-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
32
Binah
Geburah
Hod
Yesod
Malkuth
Tipherzt
Neshah
Hesed
Hokmah
Kether
Leb
ous descending path from (1) Kether down to Earth or the World
Malkuth (10) which is an inverted image of Kether (10=1+0=1) The
rest of the Sefirot or numerals are taken as intermediaries between mani-
festation and the lack of it
The columns of the Tree of Life
Passive Column Neuter Column Active Column
Feminine Form Central Equilibrium Mascu-
line Power
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
33
Tree Sefirot and letters
According to the Pentateuch Moses went to the top of Mount
Sinai and surrounded by fantastic clouds received the Ten Command-
ments God gave him On the other hand Kabbalist affirm that Moses
also received from Heaven besides the Commandments the most pro-
found and secret knowledge to be transmitted only to those truly worthy
of it Going even further back in time some say they can see in the Kab-
balah the mysterious instructions given to Adam in his sleep which per-
mitted him to give a name to everything within the Creation meaning
that Kabbalah is the philosophy of the infinite power of the word the
sound that God gave man in his image calling everything by its name
This search for the practical use of the word is good for reading
the future as well as for really manipulating the secret vibrating energies
for useful purposes or according to the legend to create beings the go-
lems which make up the active aspect of the Kabbalah
On the other hand this also entails a speculative aspect a mysti-
cism aimed at discovering through the interpretation of the Scriptures
and meditation on the sound and the name the diagram of the Universe
and the destiny of man
Ein Sof (the infinite the ineffable) affirms itself revealing itself
to humanity it becomes Shekinah (Godrsquos presence and its feminine side)
which has the responsibility of creation its product
Creation is the result of a progressive descent of the divine
(which never loses its own unity nor its transcendence) in a pure and in-
telligent series associated to the divine until it takes over matter
Thus the cosmos is structured like an immense organism a
drawn path in which all divine intelligence (sefirah plural sefirot) is
communicated with the preceding one from which it receives and with
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
34
the next one to which it gives until the final stage contact with our
world
The ten sefirot all connected by imposed paths denoting their in-
terdependence and represented by a symbolic structure of a tree or a man
(Adam Kadmon) follow an order
Kether Crown - 1 א
Hokhmah Wisdom - 2 ב
Binah Intelligence - 3 ג
Leb Heart
Hesed Greatness - 4 ד
Geburah Justice - 5 ה
Tipherzt Beauty - 6 ו
Neshah Stability - 7 ז
Hod Glory - 8 ח
Yesod Foundation - 9 ט
Malkuth Kingdom - 10 י
The admirable and complex organization of the Sefirotic Tree
with its 22 paths which connect the ten divine emanations permit us to
see right away the close connection there is between the sefirot and the
22 letters in the hebrew alphabet the 22 images of the Tarot and the 22
astrological signs (12 signs and 10 planets)
Since God created the world pronouncing the name of things
each letter is associated to the descent of the divine intelligences and
holds within itself an infinite power
The hebrew language is just like Arabic Egyptian Sanscrit or
Chinese a liturgical language full of the voices of thousand of men who
speak with the divinity therefore to pronounce one sound instead of an-
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
35
other is like changing or modifying creation itself based on a subtle vi-
brating equilibrium Within that same chain of ideas prayer by principle
a devout plea also becomes an active and energetic system that shakes
up the intermediate spheres between man and God holder of the cosmic
order
Kabbalah whether is aimed exclusively at theoretic speculation
or it proposes practical and precise goals like the making of talismans
(from the Arabic tilsam ndash a charm to avert evil and bring good fortune it
appeals to specific instruments based of calculus and numbers
Ad- am
Kadmon Zohar XVII Century
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
36
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
Hesed Greatness
Adam Kadmon
And The Sefirot
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
37
Adam Kadmon
Adam Kadmon (Primordial Man) is described by the Zohar as a
ldquobig and powerful tree with branches reaching up to the sky source of
all spiritual lightrdquo In this sefirotic and tree shaped human figure the dif-
ferent sefirot have been placed according to the parts of the human body
to which they relate Each one of them has a very particular mystical
value in the cosmic vision
The first three sefirot correspond symbolically to the head
Kether (the Crown) placed at the top or what the kabbalistic
doctrine calls the ldquohidden brainrdquo Hokhmah (Wisdom) and Binah (In-
telligence) relate to the right and left sides of the brain respectively or
also the right and left eye The two sefirot at mid level Hesed (Great-
ness) and Geburah (Justice) are identified with both arms ldquoGreatnessrdquo
the right one and ldquoJusticerdquo the left one The two central sefirot Leb (the
Heart) which is Virtual that is why it is not represented and Tipherzt
(Beauty) identified with the navel energetic center source of connection
to the mother and nucleus or sun of the body Tipherzt embodies com-
pleteness union and harmony The two sefirot of the inner level Neshah
(Stability) and Hod (Glory) represent both legs ldquoStabilityrdquo the right
thigh and ldquoGloryrdquo the left one Yesod (Foundation) another central
sefirah found between both thighs represents the genitalia the tools and
foundation for procreation Sefirah number ten the last one is Malkuth
(the Kingdom) from which the cosmic manifestation springs and is in
permanent contact with Earth it is related to both feet always in contact
with the ground This sefirah connecting all this to man the Sefirotic
Tree proves that everything in the human being can be spiritualized
Man must achieve in his own being that harmoniously elevated
unity that the figure in the divine Tree of Life and Light shows us
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
38
In order to be an authentic ldquoTree of Liferdquo man must discover and
update that sefirotic mystery that is within him as if it were a treasure
full of light waiting to be found
The Sefirot
Kether ndash The Crown - The first sefirah is the Admirable Intelligence
it is the light that gives the power of understanding the First Principle
which has no beginning It is the one and only reality the absolute mys-
tery the essence from which the rest of the sefirot emanate Related to
Crown Knowledge Principle Essence and Light
Hokhmah ndash Wisdom- The second sefirah is the Enlightening Intelli-
gence the Wisdom through which the Deity knows Itself and allows eve-
ry Being to know the unity within itself It is the symbolism of the pure
and eternal fire a place in heaven where the archangels angels
Related to Wisdom Experience Convergence Intuition
Binah ndash Intelligence - The third sefirah is the Sanctifying Intelligence
it is the Great Mother or Holy Universal Spirit matrix of all the worlds
and beings shaping them to return them again to the One
Idea Intelligence Awareness Protection Morale Divergence
(discrepancyvariance)
These first three sefirot are really only one
Kether is Knowledge
Hokhmah is the subject that knows (active)
Binah is the known object (passive)
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
39
In these three sefirot the Judeo-Christian Kaballistic dotrine
discovers the endowments of the Holy Trinity
Kether or God the Father
Hokhmah or God the Son (active on the right side)
Binah or God the Mother or Holy Spirit (passive)
ldquoThe all emanations of God the Father and Son and Holy
Spirit is only one Beingrdquo
Hesed ndash Greatness - The fourth sefirah is the Receptive Intelligence it
contains all the holy powers and all the spiritual virtues emanate from it
such as Greatness Love and Mercy Related to Greatness Love Hum-
bleness Strength Deliverance
Geburah ndash Justice - The fifth sefirah is the Righteous Intelligence
which contains all the spiritual mandates It is the Divine Justice Relat-
ed to Justice Truth Freedom Shape Control
Tipherzt ndash Beauty - The sixth sefirah is the Intelligence Provider of
Spiritual Nouishment Ii is the Divine Beauty that entwines all the other
sefirot It is the Center of centers it clearly relates to the Sun giver of
life light and warmth Related to Beauty Serenity Sweetness Trust
Family
Neshah ndash Stability - The seventh sefirah is the Occult Intelligence it is
the bright Splendor of the intellectual virtues perceived by the eyes of the
intellect It is the energy that produces all the worlds Related to Sta-
bility Power Victory Balance Pleasures
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
40
Hod ndash Glory - The eighth sefirah is the Absolute or Perfect Intelli-
gence which has no support or base and descends from Geburah from
which it receives its Expertise Related to Glory Acknowledgement
Learning Awakening
Yesod ndash Foundation - The ninth sefirah is the Pure Intelligence because
it purifies tries corrects and centralizes the emanations It is the founda-
tion that balances the all previous Sephiroth Related to Founding
Building Childhood Filtering
Malkuth ndash The Kingdom - The tenth sefirah is Glowing Intelligence It
is the Kingdom of Heaven or Kingdom on Earth the descent of Kether
upon the material world represents the Divine Omnipresence over
things Related to The Kingdom Earth Heaven and Real World
Each one of these sefirot has a hidden face and a visible one
Every sefirah a complete Sefirotic Tree can be found and in every
sefirah in that Tree another one and so on until the smallest infiniteness
And vice-versa every Tree no matter how big we imagine it is only a
sefirah of a bigger Tree which in turn is another sefirah of an even big-
ger one to the infinite as well
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
41
Kabbalah
Judeo Christian
Geburah Justice
The letters and numbers
The Letters of Kabbalah
Gematriacutea Table
Gematriacutea or Numerology
The Meaning of the Hebrew Letters
Angels of Kabbalah
Geniuses of Kabbalah
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
42
The Letters of Kabbalah
The formulas in the medieval books on magic are so full of He-
brew names to speak of God the angels the spirits and demons that at
this point it is impossible to pinpoint the inexactness and the abuse The
Hebrew language like other former language has magicrsquos powers
Sound is a vibration found in numbers Numbers are groups of geometric
relations of spaces that activate energy
Each letter in the hebrew alphabet corresponds exactly just as in
an ldquoencoded languagerdquo to a number because the Hebrews Greeks and
Arabs used for many centuries the same graphic sign for a sound or
amount until the Indians and the Arabs introduced their ldquonumbersrdquo the
ldquozerordquo was invented in the IV century and the Arabs and Hebrews began
to use it in the VII century with the name ldquoceferrdquo which means devoid
empty vacuum From it derived zero and cipher
It was Leonardo Fibonacci (1170-1240) an Italian mathemati-
cian the first one to write a book in 1202 Liber Abaci (Book of Calcula-
tion) on Arabic numbers in occident and began to replace the Roman
numbers It was not until the year 1500 that they were completely re-
placed
This means that it is not Kabbalah that replaces letters with num-
bers historically the letters ldquowererdquo numbers since these were enforced in
the western culture five hundred years ago If we accept this concept we
will not regard numerology or gematriacutea of the Hebrew letters as some-
thing new or capricious but as a historical reality
For those who do not read Hebrew writing there is another meth-
od called transcription It is no easy task to transcribe from a holy lan-
guage to one that is not
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
43
A kabballistic practice suggests that as long as the hebrew lan-
guage is not completely unknown to replace each number in a date with
its corresponding letter bearing in mind that the Jewish calendar starts
with the year of the creation which took place 3760 years before the
birth of Jesus when the western calendar begins counting
Thus the year 1989 becomes 5749 which translated to Hebrew
letters gives us Tau Shin Mem Chefh which add up to Tismach mean-
ing ldquoyou will be overjoyedrdquo and that was the year the Berlin wall came
down In the same way 1914 the start of World War I becomes Tau
Resch Ayin Daleth which add up to Tirtzach ldquoYou will killrdquo and for
1938 start of World War II Tirrsquoad ldquoYou will tremble in terrorrdquo
Table of Gematriacutea of Hebrew Letters
Letter
Name Absolute
Value
Ordinal
Value
Reduced
Value
Latin
Alphabet
Alefh 1 1 1 A-H
Beth 2 2 2 B
Guimel 3 3 3 G
Daleth 4 4 4 D
Hei 5 5 5 H-E-A
Vav 6 6 6 V-U-Y
Zain 7 7 7 Z
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
44
Heth 8 8 8 Y-J
Thet 9 9 9 TH
YodJod 10 10 1 Y-I
KafJaf 20 11 2 K-C
Lamed 30 12 3 L
Mem 40 13 4 M
Nun 50 14 5 N
Samej 60 15 6 S
Ayn 70 16 7 O-E
PehFeh 80 17 8 P-F
Tzadik 90 18 9 T-Z-X
Kuof 100 19 1 K-Q
Reish 200 20 2 R
Shin 300 21 3 S-SH
TafTau 400 22 4 T
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
45
Gematriacutea or Hebrew Numerology
As we said earlier in the Hebrew language each letter has a nu-
merical value Gematriacutea is the calculation of the numerical value of let-
ters words or phrases to obtain a better understanding of the relation be-
tween the different concepts and to explore the relation between words
and ideas
In this technique it is assumed that the numerical equivalency is
no coincidence From the moment the world was created through the
Creatorrsquos ldquowordrdquo each letter represents a different creative power
Therefore the numerical equivalence of two words reveals an inner con-
nection between its potential creators
There are four ways to calculate the equivalency of individual
letters and each way corresponds to a different world in the Tree of Life
The Zohar tells us that the concept of reduced value is related to
the spiritual world of Yetsirah Based on this we can establish a relation
between the four methods of calculation the four spiritual kingdoms and
the four letters of the name of the Divine which are YHVH or in He-
brew Yod Hei Vav and Hei
The Absolute Value of Yod itrsquos to the world of Atziluth
The Ordinal Value of Hei itrsquos to the world of Briah
The Reduced Value of Vav itrsquos to the world of Yetsirah
The Whole Value of Hei itrsquos to the world of Assiah
ldquoAbsolute value (in Hebrew mispar hejrajiacute) also known as
normative or normal Valuerdquo
Each letter takes the value of its accepted numeral equivalent
alef (the first letter) worth 1 bet (second one) worth 2 and so on up to
the tenth letter iud which is worth 10 and the following ones are worth
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
46
20 30 40 up to the letter kuf close to the end of the alef-bet which is
worth 100 and then 200 300 up to the last letter tav which is worth 400
In this type of calculation the letters kafjaf sofit (sofit=end)
mem sofit nun sofit pehfeh sofit and tzadik sofit which are the ldquofinal
shapesrdquo of the respective letters when they are at the end of a word usu-
ally take the same numeric value of the common shape of the letter
Nonetheless sometimes the following are considered equivalents kafjaf
sofit = 500 mem sofit = 600 nun sofit = 700 pehfeh sofit = 800 y tza-
dik sofit = 900
Following this method of calculation the Hebrew alphabet is a
complete circle the tzadik at the end is equal to 900 and then alef is
equal to one and one thousand In the Hebrew language the same letters
are used to write the name of the letter alef equal to one and to write the
word elef which means ldquothousandrdquo
ldquoOne the first number follows one thousand
in a complete and perfect circlerdquo
Ordinal Value (in hebrew mispar siduriacute) It assigns to each
one of the 22 letters a numerical equivalent according to the order in
which they appear in the alef-bet For example alef equals 1 kaf = 11
taf = 22 The final kaf is 23 and the final tzadik is 27
Reduced Value (en hebrew mispar kataacuten and in mathemati-
cal terminology the module 9) The value of each letter is reduced to
one digit For example alef is equal to 1 iud to 10 and kuf to 100 but
according to this system all three have a numerical value of one beit is
equal to 2 kaf to 20 and reish to 200 therefore all three are equal to 2
etc Therefore letters have only 9 equivalencies instead of twenty-two
Integral Value (in hebrew mispar mispariacute) This is the fourth
way to calculate In this fashion the total numeric value of a word is re-
duced to one digit If the sum of these numbers exceeds 9 the numbers
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
47
in the total figure are added until a single digit is obtained The same
result will be obtained whether you take the absolute the ordinal or the
reduced values
The meaning of the Hebrew Letters
Alefh Represents the Divine Presence It is the symbol of
the absolute and unique faith in only one Creator and Lord It is pro-
nounced ah-left which derives from the word Alufh which means prince
minister or chief It is made up of two dots which are two iod (the tenth
letter of the alphabet) and a slanted vav (sixth letter) If we add the two
iod (20) and the one vav (6) we get 26 which is equal to the sum of the
letters YHVH Yod (10) Hei(5) Vav(6) Hei(5) of the name of the
Creator
Beth The Torah begins with this second letter ldquoBereshitrdquo
(In the Beginning) This is because it represents and symbolizes the
Berehia (Creation) and the Berajaacute (Blessing) The purpose of Creation is
to give abundance to the human being Its value is two It represents and
shows us that there is nothing in this world totally complete and indivisi-
ble Everything can be parted in two Only God is unique and indivisible
Guimel This letter is close to the root of the word Bra
keep complete and give That is why it is used in ldquoGuemilut Hasadimrdquo
to do favors Guimel represents the third column on which the world
rests it is the giver or favor doer spirit and also proof that God constantly
helps and favors the human being and His whole Creation Its value is
three
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
48
Daleth When we pronounce this fourth letter we find a
great closeness to the word deleth (door) The letter Daleth relates to the
word ldquodalhrdquo poor going from door to door seeking food Daleth follows
Guimel creating a unified thought to help the poor Its value (4) reminds
us of the material world because poverty can be found everywhere in our
planet
Hei The Talmud says God created the world with two
letters that represent His Name ldquoYod and Heirdquo With the first one He
created the world to come and with the second one this world Its shape
is made up of two parts a dalet and an iod Daleth has a vertical line
and a horizontal line It represents this world where everything has a
body and occupies space The iod which is just a dot represents the in-
finite world where there are no physical laws Meaning that in this
world too the spiritual Divine component is present
Vav Its value six represents something complete and
finished The world was created completely in six days Every complete
and closed object has six sides top bottom right left front and back
The letter vav is used to unite phrases concepts objects similar ldquoandrdquo
Vav is therefore union Except for some exceptions all paragraphs in the
Bible as written in the scrolls begin with Vav The written Torah (5
books) + ldquovavrdquo (Kabbalah) The oral Torah (6 books)
Zain It represents the seven spiritual values which are
the object of this world Zan means ldquonourishmentrdquo and Zain means ldquoar-
mamentrdquo Its shape is similar to that of a sword Its shows us that man
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
49
must confront and overcome adversity many times in order to obtain his
nourishment
Heth Just as Zain represents manrsquos purpose on earth Heth
with the value of eight represents manrsquos possibility to cross the limits
imposed by the earth Seven is nature eight are the values and goals
which represent what is above nature It also connects to the letter Haim
which means life The top part of the heth has an arrow pointing up-
wards meaning that life always belongs to God and everything depends
on Him
Thet This letter is first written in the Torah in the word
Tov (good) Each one of the days of the Creation was crowned with
qualifying phrase ldquoAnd God saw that it was goodrdquo Thet is synonym of
the relationship of God towards man which is always good even though
we donrsquot always see it that way Goodness or Kindness is a Divine quali-
ty and it should be emulated The most exquisite act of kindness is to
help our neighbor without causing him embarrassment
Iod Its size earns it the category of the smallest and most
indivisible letter not like the rest which are made up of different parts
and that is why it represents the Almighty in His condition of Unique and
Indivisible Its shape according to the Zohar has a point facing up to-
wards God another one facing down towards earth and the central point
which unites both That is why when a person prays the heart faces up
and the eyes down in humbleness in front on God Its value Ten is very
representative of the whole Torah Ten generations from Adam to Noah
and another ten from Noah to Abraham the Patriarch Ten are the Divine
Commandments given to Moses and ten are the sefirot The number ten
is actually ONE
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50
Kaf It symbolizes Kether the crown (written in Hebrew
with kaf) as the Talmud says ldquoGod will place the Kether on he who
helps his neighbor the way he should and according to his possibilitiesrdquo
Its shape (curved) has a relation to its name which represents the hum-
bleness that the person who carries the crown should have
Lamed Its shape is made up of a kaf and a vav together
they add up to 26 like the Divine Name Its name lamed is the root of
the verbs to teach and to learn The name Israel begins with iod the
smallest letter and ends with lamed the biggest one The Torah begins
with bet and ends with lamed together they spell the word led (heart)
the fundamental basis to find light and accomplish precepts
Mem This letter has two aspects one known as the open
mem it is used in the beginning and middle of a word indicating that
there are points which refer to God Almightyrsquos doing which are within
our comprehension and a closed mem which is only used at the end of
words indicating the occult and incomprehensible part Moshe and
Mashiacuteaj begin with mem Its value is 40 the necessary time period for
the concretion of different stages
The fetus needs 40 days to have a complete form
The Great Flood lasted 40 days and 40 nights
Moses was up at Mount Sinai 40 days and 40 nights
The Jewish people walked for 40 years in the desert
It is at the age of 40 that a person is considered to have
reached wisdom
Nun This letter also has two shapes one for any part of the
word with a curved shape and the other straight for the endings of
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51
words Both indicate the exclusive quality of God who is Neeman
which means loyal to His word and worthy of trust This word restarts
with a Nun and ends with another
Samej This letter represents the concept of the Divine
support (Semej in Hebrew) Godrsquos support towards man as well as manrsquos
support towards God The certainty of God is the foundation of faith and
the base upon which the human being can search and reach for its goal in
this world
Ayn in Hebrew it means ldquoeyerdquo Its shape is made up two
parts an Yod leaning against a Zain Reclining both on the base the nu-
meric value of both parts is 17 just like the word Tob (good) This indi-
cates that the ayn (eye) has to be used to observe only the good things
Its value is 70
70 are the names of the Almighty and the Torah
70 are the basic people (towns) in the world
70 are the holidays in a year (52 Saturdays 18 holy
days)
Jesus sent out 70 disciples to evangelize
The Great Temple of Jerusalem had 70 columns
70 old wise men received the Torah from Moses they
are called ldquothe eyes of the congregationrdquo the symbol of the ayn (eye)
precisely
Peh it means ldquomouthrdquo in Hebrew It is through this ex-
quisite sense that the human being differentiates and raises itself over the
rest of the creation There are two peh one for any part of the word and
the other for the endings The first one is said to be closed and its shape
symbolizes the fetus in the motherrsquos womb (fetal position) with its mouth
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52
closed The other open resembles the newborn babe stretching its limbs
It also reminds us of the control we should have over it sometimes
closed and others open when to speak and when not to
Tzadik The 18th letter The Talmud names the Tzadik per-
son the just person The title of ldquoTzadikrdquo is not given to just anybody It
is written that God is Tzadik and Perfect This quality of Tzadik when it
comes to God is manifested through kindness Those people who go
about and act according to the divine will are said to be ldquoTzadikrdquo They
are fair just and kind to the maximum of their possibilities
Kuof This letter shows us and symbolizes the Divine
Sanctity Kadosh God is Holy Man can also be called kuof if he is supe-
rior rising above the others The shape of kuof is made up of a kaf and a
vav which add up to 26 just as the four letter name for God Kuof is
very similar to kof which means ldquomonkeyrdquo The Zohar calls monkeys
those human beings who do not believe in the divine will and do not dig-
nify being created in Godrsquos image According to Kabbalah the road is
open for man he can be holy and thus get close to God or walk away
from Him and become a monkey
Reish Up until now we saw how the letters show us and
represent the Divine Presence On the contrary reish represents and
symbolizes Evil ldquoRashardquo in Hebrew Reish follows kuof which repre-
sents the Divine Sanctity The word ldquoroshrdquo (first beginning or head) in
Aramaic is pronounced ldquoreishrdquo just like the letter Midrash tells us the
Almighty is ldquoRoshrdquo since he is the beginning and head of the world and
its end as well Evil does not exist what we judge as bad is only a part of
the Divine Plan and we do not know and therefore cannot understand
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53
Shin this letter has an important place since shalom
(peace) begins with it Only God is the source and root of true peace Its
shape with three arms and three heads represents the wish of all of us to
rise to heaven lifting our hands to receive His help It also encompasses
the symbolism of something that has three limbs but only one purpose
We live in three worlds past present and future
The human being has a spirit a soul and a body
The human creation has three partners
Kether Binah and Hokhmah or the Holy
Trinity
Taf unlike the other letters which we have seen through
analysis and symbology that each represented a word being the first eg
Shin Shalom (peace) Sheker (lie) the symbol for taf is given by the last
letter in the word ldquoEmetrdquo (truth) This is exactly the general characteris-
tic of truth at first the lie seems more interesting Truth is appreciated in
the end Truth involves everything since its letters are one in the begin-
ning the other one in the middle and the third one at the end
The Angels of Kabbalah
The etymological meaning of the word angel is messenger from
the Greek ldquoAggeloacutesrdquo ldquoAngirasrdquo in Sanskrit in Persian ldquoAngarosrdquo in
Hebrew and Arabic ldquoMalakhrdquo and ldquoDevardquo for the Hindus
Doubts about their existence disappear before the coincidences
amongst cultures and diverse beliefs that describe them
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54
Angels constantly remind us who we are due to the message that
is attributed to them For us their place is the same as that of God they
are above us and within us
To come in contact with them could take us to doubt if we did so
with a superior reality or with the highest part of ourselves
The mythical history of Kabbalah tells us that after man was
driven out of the Garden of Eden the angels transmitted the kabballistic
teachings to man so that he could reconquer it through the never ending
divine energy which is present everywhere in the Universe
The 72 Angeles of Kabbalah
Seraphim
Vehuiah ndash Elemiah ndash Jeliel ndash Lelahel
Sitael ndash Achaiah ndash Mahasiah ndash Cahethel
Cherubim
Haziel ndash Aladiah ndash Lauviah ndash Hahaiah
Iezalel ndash Mebael ndash Hariel ndash He Kamiah
Thrones (also known as Ophanim)
Lauviah ndash Caliel ndash Lauviah ndash Pahaliah
Nelkhael ndash Yeiaiel ndash Melahel ndash Haheuiah
Dominions (or Kyriotetes)
Nith ndashHahaiah ndash Yerathel ndash Sheikh
Reiyel ndash Omael ndash Lecabel ndash Vasariah
Powers
Vehuiah ndash Lehahiah ndash Chavakiah ndash Menadel
Aniel ndash Haamiah ndash Rehael ndash Ieiazel
Virtues
Hahahel ndash Mikael ndash Veuliah ndash Ylahiah
Sealiah ndashAriel ndash Asaliah ndash Mihael
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55
Principalities
Vehuel ndash Daniel ndash Hahasiah ndash Imamiah
Nanael ndash Nithael ndash Mebahiah ndash Poyel
Archangels
Nemamiah ndash Yeialel ndash Aacuterale ndash Mitzrael
Umabel ndash Iah ndashAnauel ndash Mehiel
Angels
Damabiah ndash Manakel ndash Eyael ndash Habuhiah
Rochel ndash Yabamiah ndash Haiayel ndash Mum
Geniuses of Kabbalah
Air ndash Earth ndash Water - Fire
The first three verses of the Torah are revealing in regard to the
Divine Creation In the morning of the first day God created the four
geniuses or semi-gods to help Him directly preparing the platform for
the coming of man
Genesis 11 ndash
ldquoIn the beginning God created heaven and earthrdquo
Genesis 12 ndash
ldquohellipthe Spirit of God was hovering over the watersrdquo
Genesis 13 ndash
Let there be light and there was light
Nothing would exist in the Universe without the four geniuses
or elements only God and with the creation of these geniuses He
proves to us that He does not want to be alone but surrounded by
vegetation animals and specially the HUMAN BEING
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56
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Tipherzt
Beauty
Christian Kabbalah
Jesus and the Kabbalah
The Sacred Books
The Apostle Matthew
The Sermon on the Mountain
(The Beatitudes)
The Our Father
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57
Jesus and the Kabbalah
Up until now we have analyzed the Bible from the Tanaj and the
Talmud we have also taken the Torah as the foundation of Kabbalah
The New Testament has an important kabballistic content provided by
Jesus and his apostles
Emmanuel ben Yoseph known as Jesus Christ lived between
the ages of thirteen and thirty-three with the Essenes Fraternity of the
Dead Sea where he learned the secrets of the Kabbalah that his Father
had given to mankind and because of his illumination he was declared
Master of Justice
In the New Testament the four evangelists analyzed Jesus from
the four kabballistic worlds which are completely separated and diffeent
Matthew describes a physical Jesus generations that preceded
him and his relationship with the people of Israel
This is the World of Assiah
Luke tells the story of Jesus intimate life he describes moving
images of the Master along his pathway
This is the World of Yetsirah
Mark talks to us of a miraculous Jesus with a Divine mag-
netism and its soul healing rays
This is the World of Briah
John gave us the gospel of a metaphysical Jesus the abstract
spirit and visions of an astral world
This is the World of Atziluth
The Kabbalah develops its doctrine in the light that invades us
and emanates from our bodies because we are part of it
Jesus in John 812 says I am the light of the world Those who
follow me will never walk in darkness They will have the light that leads
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58
to life and in Ephesians 58 he confirms ldquoAt one time you were in the
dark But now you are in the light because of what the Lord has donerdquo
When Matthew in verse 223 says ldquohellipand came and lived in a
city called Nazarethrdquo This was to fulfill what was spoken through the
prophets He shall be called a Nazarene he explains that Jesus had to
be a Nazarene that is he had to wear the Crown or Kether according to
what God told Moses in the oral or kabballistic precepts In Numbers 66-
7 it is said ldquothroughout the period of their dedication to the LORD the
Nazirite must not go near a dead body Even if their own father or
motherrdquo
In Matthew 822 Jesus stresses this precept saying ldquohelliplet the
dead bury their own dead
According to the Kabballists the Torah is fountain of wine and
milk In Isaiah 551 we read hellip and he who has no money come buy
wine and milk without money without pricehelliprdquo In many quotes Jesus
mentions the wine as his spiritual blood Peter 22 ldquohellipLike newborn ba-
bies crave pure spiritual milk so that by it you may grow up in your sal-
vationhelliprdquo
The Old and New Testament
The Old Testament or Tanaj is made up of 39 books and the New
Testament 29 a total of 66 books As we all know there is no such thing
as luck it is the message of God that we still cannot decipher If we ana-
lyze that message through kabballistic numerology we will decipher it
and be surprised
According to the kabballistic numerology ldquo39 books in the Ta-
najrdquohellip 3+9=12hellip 1+2=3 and ldquo3rdquo represents the Holy Trinity
Kether or God the Father
Hokhmah or God the Son (active to the right of the Father)
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59
Binah or God the Mother or Holy Spirit (passive)
They are all emanations of God the Father and therefore only
one Being It is the announcement of the Divine Trilogy based on the
Admirable Intelligence of Kether the Illuminating Intelligence of
Hokhmah and the Sanctifying Intelligence of Binah If we take away the
substance of the Tanaj which are the five books that make up the Penta-
teuch we are left with 34 books or the number 7 which were the re-
maining emanations with which God created the Universe The 27 books
of the New Testament add up to the kabballistic nine which is the Divine
or Complete number since it contains all the numbers and closes the
wheel That is the New Testament not only does it complement but also
contains the previous one and completes it The sum of both is 66 its
kabballistic number is 3 and it returns to the Holy Trinity the Three
Sefirot or divine emanations
The Apostle Matthew
In chapter one Matthew explains the genealogy of Jesus with a
result of 42 generations from Abraham to Jesus in three periods of 14
generations each This he does from the physical world or Assiah to ex-
plain with real facts Abrahamrsquos descendants and how Jesus really was
the King of the Jews
Forty-two (generations from Abraham to Jesus) adds up to six
like the sefirot of the Creation (on the seventh one He rested) which
means God rested in Malkuth the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth but
the message from Matthew is that we should distribute these three peri-
ods amongst the six sefirot of the Creation
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60
The transition between Abraham and David takes place be-
tween the fourth sefirah Hesed (Greatness) and the fifth Geburah (Jus-
tice)
Hesed is the sefirah from which the rest of the sefirot emanate
like Abraham the Patriarch from whom three religions ldquoemanaterdquo Juda-
ism Christianism and Islam Hesed is the foundation of the spiritual vir-
tues and it is connected to the Holy Son like Abraham
Geburah is the sefirah of David the Justice seeker who uni-
fied the kingdoms for the greatness of the Chosen People he is the strict
Warrior King
With Salomon son of David starts the second period as told by
Matthew and it ends with the deportation of the people to Babylon This
is the passage from the sixth sefirah Tipherzt (Beauty) to the seventh
sefirah Neshah (Power)
Tipherzt is Beauty serenity trust just what King Salomon
was to his people In the same manner it is in the column of the Crown
of God and it is directly supported by Abraham and David
Neshah is the hidden Intelligence of stability and spiritual
power it is the powerful faith against adversity the expulsion to Baby-
lon
When the Babylonian invasion comes to an end the passage to
the coming of Jesus begins it takes place between the eighth sefirah Hod
(Glory) and the ninth sefirah Yesod (Foundation)
Hod is the Divine Glory the Divine Healer which healed the
wounds inflicted on the chosen people by the invaders It is awakening
and learning
Yesod is the foundation and filter of all emanations before
reaching the Kingdom it is the Pure Intelligence it is Unity without Di-
vision this is the sefirah to which both the moon and the waters respond
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61
and the tides and earth as well the sefirah that builds and founds That is
why this is the sefirah that Matthew attributes to Jesus It is the one that
brings together to the Father before reaching Malkuth the Kingdom of
Earth and Heaven in a straight line passing by Tipherzt (Salomon) and
with the virtual sefirah of the Sacred Heart
As we can see the Apostle Matthew shows us in a kabballis-
tic way the presence of Jesus from the patriarch Abraham to the
present
Holy Spirit
David
Glory
Jesus
Kingdom
Salomon
Power
Abraham
Holy Son
Holy Father
Heart
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62
The Sermon on the Mountain
(The Beatitudes)
With The Sermon on the Mountain Jesus teaches us the basic
Concepts of Kabbalah to be interpreted in many centuries to come be-
cause the land of the tribe of Israel to which Jesus belonged was under
the domain of the Greco-Roman Empire which wanted to impose its
own gods That is why Jesusrsquo message is stronger the deeper you go into
it It should be observed the same as the ocean it is not the quiet waters
and small waves that rule but the strong currents that flow in the deepest
depths
Somebody told me once that even a child could understand the
Sermon and it is true which shows the intelligence of the Master be-
cause the Sermon holds many levels of understanding
From the Gospel according to Matthew chapter five we can ex-
tract the essence of the Sermon on the Mountain contained in the first
nine verses two of them introductory and the other seven making up the
Beatitudes
51 ldquoAnd seeing the multitudes He went up onto a mountain
and when He was set His disciples came unto Him ldquo
5 2 ldquoAnd He opened His mouth and taught them sayinghelliprdquo
To go up to the mountain in Kabbalah means to rise to the high-
est degree of spirituality (eg Moses went up the mountain to speak with
God) which means he went up to the Crown or Kether When it says
ldquoHe opened His mouth and taught them sayingrdquo sounds redundant since
nobody can say anything without opening his mouth But we have to
consider that there are two aspects in Kabbalah thought or intelligence
Binah and the word or wisdom Hokhmah Jesus uses the first to ignite
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63
the soul of His followers and the word to transmit the vibratory energy or
surrounding magnetic field and that way get to the spirit of people
53rdquoBlessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom
of Heavenrdquo
According to Kabbalah a rich man with many possessions can
enter the Kingdom of God if he doesnrsquot develop the materialistic spirit
that goes with them On the other hand a poor man without possessions
could be not admitted in the Kingdom of God if he develops that materi-
alistic spirit and is absorbed by the only wish of having fortune Kabba-
lah teaches that neither richness nor poorness is the ideal state Jesus re-
fers to the heart or Leb the simplicity and easiness of spirit because to
have possessions or not does not interfere with the progress towards the
path of foundation and spiritual uplifting
54 Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted
Kabbalah does not preach sadness but joy and happiness In the
Kabbalah the act of crying is a symbol of redemption greatness and
love or Hesed it is also a symbol of acknowledgment of errors made
and therefore seeking spiritual evolution in love for another The begin-
ning of change is identified with crying That is why whoever accepts
the change will be comforted
55 Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth
God said to Moses ldquoYou shall not adore other gods and you
shall respect my Namerdquo This means He demanded meekness Jesus re-
fers in kabballistic terms to meek men before God those will be able to
live in harmony and freedom achieving Divine Justice or Geburah be-
cause they are the ones who increase their spiritual level
56 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteous-
ness for they will be filled
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64
Those who hunger within will seek the nourishment to satisfy it
And will begin a search for justice which will take them to the spiritual
Glory Hod This means that those who hunger and thirst for spiritual
truth will be filled with the blessing and perfection seeker Those who
abandon the spiritual search of the truth will condemn their souls to come
back as many times as it is necessary to achieve it
57 Blessed are the merciful for they will be shown mercy
To be merciful is to forgive others to have the power or Neshah
of not having negative thoughts actions or answers to aggressiveness
from others Negative feelings affect our spiritual body and poison our
physical body altering the nervous system
58 Blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God
The pure in heart are those who achieve inner beauty or
Tipherzt In order to have a clean and beautiful heart we must nourish it
with love and not hate with forgiveness not vengeance with truth not
lies or falsehood There must be harmony in our body soul and spirit
59 Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called sons
of Godrdquo
Peace in Aramaic is the same as harmony in Greek and both
words represent the foundation of life on this earth or Yesod and Jesus
suggests the Peace of the just
510 Blessed are those who are persecuted because of right-
eousness for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
511 Blessed are you when people insult you persecute you
and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me
In these two verses Jesus foretells the persecutions his followers
even the Kabballists will suffer anticipating the manifested idea of ob-
taining the communion of the Kingdom of Heaven or Malkuth in com-
plete peace and harmony
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65
In the next two verses Jesus refers to the eighth sefirah Hod the
Glory (elevation) and its connection with Geburah Justice (respect)
which means we must respect the Just because they are the prophets and
we will be blessed by them
512 Rejoice and be glad because great is your reward in
heaven for in the same way they persecuted the prophets
who were before you
513 You are the salt of the earth But if the salt loses its salt-
iness how can it be made salty again It is no longer good for
anything except to be thrown out and trampled by men
In the following words Jesus takes us through the Tree of Live
or Sefirotic Tree bringing us even closer to the kabballistic message and
his spiritual profoundness
514 You are the light of the world A city on a hill cannot be
hidden
Kether is the Crown of God the Divine light that which is
above everything else above the mountain It reminds us that the moun-
tain is the highest level of spirituality
514 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl
Instead they put it on its stand and it gives light to everyone
in the house
Hokhmah is Wisdom to the right of the Kether the Crown of
God it is the light of Christ which lights up all homes
516 In the same way let your light shine before men that
they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in
heaven
Binah is Intelligence it is the light that reaches to the spirit of
mankind as a holy protection it is the light of the Holy Spirit that reaches
the heart through good deeds
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
66
These three verses refer to the first three sefirot that is the Holy
Trinity which is the potent Divine light since it contains in only one ray
of light the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit
The following four verses refer to Geburah or Justice This is the
sefirah that dictates the Law the one that enforces the Law the one that
unites Heaven (Kether) with Earth (Malkuth) according to the Divine
teachings and is called the sefirah of Divine Justice
517 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the
Prophets I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them
518 I tell you the truth until heaven and earth disappear not
the smallest letter not the least stroke of a pen will by any
means disappear from the Law until everything is accom-
plished
519 Anyone who breaks one of the least of these command-
ments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in
the kingdom of heaven but whoever practices and teaches
these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heav-
en
520 For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses
that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law you will ce r-
tainly not enter the kingdom of heaven
Hesed is the sefirah of Greatness and it is known that the origin
of greatness is HumilityHumbleness the person that is not humble is
not great In the following verses Jesus explains to us how to irradiate
Love Mercy Greatness and above all Humbleness
521 You have heard that it was said to the people long ago
Do not murder[a]
and anyone who murders will be subject to
judgment
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
67
522 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother
will be subject to judgment Again anyone who says to his brother
Raca (An Aramaic term of contempt is answerable to the Sanhed-
rin But anyone who says You fool will be in danger of the fire of
hell
523 ldquoTherefore if you are offering your gift at the altar and
there remember that your brother has something against you
Ponder
Respect
Blessing
Peace
Kingdom
Love
Acceptance
Help
Speech
Inspiration
Heart
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
68
524 leave your gift there in front of the altar First go and be
reconciled to your brother then come and offer your gift
525 ldquoSettle matters quickly with your adversary who is tak-
ing you to court Do it while you are still with him on the way or he
may hand you over to the judge and the judge may hand you over to
the officer and you may be thrown into prison
526 I tell you the truth you will not get out until you have
paid the last penny
The following sefirah that Jesus speaks of in the Sermon on the
Mountain is Tipherzt beauty serenity trust family it is the one with
the noble attributes fidelity A through this sefirah he talks to us about
the family blessings and how Divinity intertwines with it
Tipherzt is the one that provides the spiritual nourishment and
family blessings that is why Jesus protects the relationship between man
and woman as fountain of life and punishes above all deceit and adul-
tery
527 You have heard that it was said Do not commit adul-
tery
528 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustful-
ly has already committed adultery with her in his heart
529 If your right eye causes you to sin gouge it out and
throw it away It is better for you to lose one part of your body than
for your whole body to be thrown into hell
530 And if your right hand causes you to sin cut it off and
throw it away It is better for you to lose one part of your body than
for your whole body to go into hell
531 It has been said anyone who divorces his wife must
give her a certificate of divorce
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
69
532 But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife except
for marital unfaithfulness causes her to become an adulteress and
anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery
The following sefirah is Neshah which represents Stability and
Balance and the following five verses Jesus that swearing is the loss of
stability and balance before God
He who requires an oath does not trust what is being said and he
who gives an oath does not trust himself rdquoYes or Nordquo should be enough
for those who speak the truth
533 Again you have heard that it was said to the people long
ago Do not break your oath but keep the oaths you have made to
the Lord
534 but I tell you Do not swear at all either by heaven for
it is Gods throne
535 nor by the earth for it is his footstool or by Jerusalem
for it is the city of the Great King
536 And do not swear by your head for you cannot make
even one hair white or black
537 simply let your Yes be Yes and your No No any-
thing beyond this comes from the evil one
Hod is the sefirah of glory the compensation and acknowledge-
ment And there is no better glory and acknowledgement than to love the
enemy and bless those who curse and hate us
As Jesus tells us in the next eleven verses
If you love only those who love you
What are you doing extra
What reward are you seeking
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70
538 You have heard that it was said Eye for eye and tooth
for tooth
539 But I tell you Do not resist an evil person If someone
strikes you on the right cheek turn to him the other also
540 And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic let
him have your cloak as well
541 If someone forces you to go one mile go with him two
miles
542 Give to the one who asks you and do not turn away
from the one who wants to borrow from you
543 You have heard that it was said Love your neighbor
and hate your enemy
544 But I tell you Love your enemies and pray for those
who persecute you
545 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven He caus-
es his sun to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the
righteous and the unrighteous
546 If you love those who love you what reward will you
get Are not even the tax collectors doing that
547 And if you greet only your brothers what are you doing
more than others Do not even pagans do that
548 Be perfect therefore as your heavenly Father is perfect
Yesod the ninth sefirah is Foundation because it purifies
proves and corrects all previous sefiroth Helping others is exactly what
this sefirah is all about not only to love them but to help them He who
helps receives purification from Yesod and he who helps in secret is
blessed by The Father
Matthew 6
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
71
61 Be careful not to do your acts of righteousness before
men to be seen by them If you do you will have no reward from
your Father in heaven
62 So when you give to the needy do not announce it with
trumpets as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets
to be honored by men I tell you the truth they have received their
reward in full
63 But when you give to the needy do not let your left hand
know what your right hand is doing
64 so that yoursquore giving may be in secret Then yoursquore Fa-
ther who sees what is done in secret will reward you
Malkuth is the sefirah that represents the Kingdom of Heaven
and Earth that is why Jesus tells us that prayer must be in private in or-
der to be rewarded in public without repetitions and lots of words be-
cause the Father knows what we need before we even ask
65 And when you pray do not be like the hypocrites for
they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street cor-
ners to be seen by men I tell you the truth they have received their
reward in full
66 But when you pray go into your room close the door and
pray to your Father who is unseen Then your Father who sees what
is done in secret will reward you
67 And when you pray do not keep on babbling like pagans
for they think they will be heard because of their many words
68 Do not be like them for your Father knows what you
need before you ask him
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The Our Father
Jesus reaffirms part of the Kabbalah by following the path of the
Sefirotic Tree in his most important prayer
69 This then is how you should pray Our in heaven
hallowed be your name
Our Father the admirable intelligence or Crown Kether first sefirah
In Heaven the enlightening intelligence or wisdom Hokhmah the sec-
ond sefirah
Hallowed be your name the sanctifying intelligence Binah the third
sefirah completing the Holy Trinity
610 your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is
in heaven
Your kingdom come the intelligence of love Hesed
Your will be done righteous intelligence Geburah
On Earth as it is in Heaven that is form Kether to Malkuth
611 Give us today our daily bread
Give us our daily bread the intelligence which provides Spiritual
Nourishment and beauty Tipherzt
612 Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our
debtrs
Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors the hidden
intelligence which is power victory and stability or Nesha
613 And lea us not into temptation but deliver us from the
evil for yours is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for
every century Amen
And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil the absolute
intelligence or perfect glory or Hod
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73
Holy
Justice
Freedom
Foundation
Prayer
Love
Forgiveness
Spiritual
Nourishment
Heaven
Father
Heart
For yours is the Kingdom Kether the Power Hokhmah and the
Glory Briah which means You are the Holy Trinity
Amen is the foundation of Holy Prayer
After teaching us this Prayer Jesus continues showing us the truth about
the emanations of the Sefirotic Tree Starting once again at the Kether
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to remind us privacy in acts such as forgiveness fasting and prayer will
be rewarded in public by the Father who wears the Crown
614 For if you forgive men when they sin against you your
heavenly Father will also forgive you
615 But if you do not forgive men their sins your Father will
not forgive your sins
616 When you fast do not look somber as the hypocrites
do for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fast-
ing I tell you the truth they have received their reward in
full
617 But when fast put oil on your head and wash your face
618 so that it will not be obvious to men that you are fasting
but only to your Father who is unseen and your Father who
sees what is done in secret will reward you
Jesus explains that our treasures are not in the Kingdom of Earth but in
the wisdom of Hokhmah which is the treasure of Heaven that God sent
to us
619 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth
where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and
steal
620 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven where
moth and rust do not destroy and where thieves do not
break in and steal
Binah is the intelligence that Jesus asks us to use to see the light within
our heart he asks that we be intelligent to stay away from evil because
wise men donrsquot have two bosses
621 For where your treasure is there your heart will be also
622 The eye is the lamp of the body If your eyes are good
your whole body will be full of light
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75
623 But if your eyes are bad your whole body will be full of
darkness If then the light within you is darkness how great
is that darkness
624 No one can serve two masters Either he will hate the
one and love the other or he will be devoted to the one and
despise the other You cannot serve both God and Money
Hesed is greatness Jesus shows us how Great we are that greatness is
not eating drinking or dressing up but greatness is being on the path to
the Kether or Crown
625 Therefore I tell you do not worry about your life what
you will eat or drink or about your body what you will
wear Is not life more important than food and the body
more important than clothes
626 Look at the birds of the air they do not sow or reap or
store away in barns and yet your heavenly Father feeds
them Are you not much more valuable than they
627 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his
life
628 And why do you worry about clothes See how the lil-
ies of the field grow They do not labor or spin
629 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor
was dressed like one of these
630 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field which is
here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire will he not
much more clothe you O you of little faith
631 So do not worry saying What shall we eat or What
shall we drink or What shall we wear
632 For the pagans run after all these things and your heav-
enly Father knows that you need them
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Godrsquos Fortune
Godrsquos
Justice
Godrsquos Education
Godrsquos Purification
Godrsquos
Freedom
Godrsquos
Love
Godrsquos Effort
Godrsquos
Greatness
Godrsquos Treasure
Godrsquos
Forgiveness
Godrsquos
Heart
633 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all
these things will be given to you as well
634 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow
will worry about itself Each day has enough trouble of its
own
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77
Once we obtain Greatness or Hesed Jesus asks us to seek Justice or
Geburah the next sefirah Justice is learning to judge others and to look
more with our heart than our eyes
71 Do not judge or you too will be judged
72 For in the same way you judge others you will be judged
and with the measure you use it will be measured to you
73 Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your broth-
ers eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye
74 How can you say to your brother Let me take the speck
out of your eye when all the time there is a plank in your
own eye
75 You hypocrite first take the plank out of your own eye
and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your
brothers eye
76 Do not give dogs what is sacred do not throw your
pearls to pigs If you do they may trample them under their
feet and then turn and tear you to pieces
After Geburah comes Tipherzt beauty this sefirah is the provider of spir-
itual nourishment that is why Jesus invites us to ask seek and knock and
he reminds the law of the Torah because Tipherzt is in the center and
unites the past with the present the law of the prophets with the law of
Jesus
77 Ask and it will be given to you seek and you will find
knock and the door will be opened to you
78 For everyone who asks receives he who seeks finds and
to him who knocks the door will be opened
79 Which of you if his son asks for bread will give him a
stone
710 Or if he asks for a fish will give him a snake
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711 If you then though you are evil know how to give good
gifts to your children how much more will your Father in
heaven give good gifts to those who ask him
712 So in everything do to others what you would have
them do to you for this sums up the Law and the Prophets
Neshah is stability the sefirah of the intellectual virtues the eye of the
intellect which shows us the path of life and Jesus shows us the road of
tranquility
713 Enter through the narrow gate For wide is the gate
and broad is the road that leads to destruction and many e n-
ter through it
714 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to
life and only a few find it
Hod is glory or recognition Jesus shows us how to recognize those who
are said to be prophets or wise men Jesus tells us the best way to do so
is by their fruit (results) or deeds if we observe others objectively we
will know who will really support us and who would like to take ad-
vantage of us
715 Watch out for false prophets They come to you in
sheeps clothing but inwardly they are ferocious wolves
716 By their fruit you will recognize them Do people pick
grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles
717 Likewise every good tree bears good fruit but a bad tree
bears bad fruit
718 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit and a bad tree cannot
bear good fruit
719 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and
thrown into the fire
7 20 Thus by their fruit you will recognize them
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79
The ninth sefirah is Yesod or foundation This is the sefirah of purifica-
tion in it Jesus separates the chaste from the impure to take evil away
from us
721 Not everyone who says to me Lord Lord will enter
the kingdom of heaven but only he who does the will of my
Father who is in heaven
722 Many will say to me on that day Lord Lord did we
not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out de-
mons and perform many miracles
723 Then I will tell them plainly I never knew you Away
from me you evildoers
The tenth sefirah is Malkuth the Kingdom of Earth and Heaven where
Jesus gives us an example of free will so that we make wise decisions
and chose the Kingdom in which we will live
724 Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and
puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house
on the rock
725 The rain came down the streams rose and the winds
blew and beat against that house yet it did not fall because it
had its foundation on the rock
726 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does
not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his
house on sand
727 The rain came down the streams rose and the winds
blew and beat against that house and it fell with a great
crash
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Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Neshah Stability
The Divine Creation
The Divine Creation
Adam Eve and the Genesis
Gestation and Conception
Development and Growth
Maturity
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81
The Divine Creation From the ape up to Adam and Eve
During the early ages of life on Earth the new thinking beings invested
most of their time in learning to survive humans had to adapt to and in-
tegrate themselves to the four elements or genius (Air Fire Earth and
Water) they also had to learn to interact with animals and plants
Man began to notice that all animals were born and died as natural pro-
cess They ldquocame inrdquo (were born) to this world from the maternal womb
or from an egg and all of them inevitably someday disappeared or
ldquoleftrdquo (died) this world
Man also noticed that all animals ldquochangedrdquo in size (grew) being small
when they ldquocame inrdquo to the world and as the ldquosuns and moonsrdquo passed
(time) they developed and grew getting stronger until reaching a point
in which they ldquodisappearedrdquo (died)
Furthermore the learning was part of the ldquoroadrdquo when they ldquoarrivedrdquo
they didnrsquot know how to walk or fly they couldnrsquot see their parents had
to get their food and protect them they were weak and dependant In
time they learned to be self-sufficient and to live independently even
though they were part
of a heard o a community
In every age thinkers and scientists asked them selves how early mankind
evolved to the point of becoming what we are nowadays The Judeo-
Christian Kabbalah answers this question without interfering with sci-
ence The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah explains mankindrsquos ldquoevolutionrdquo in
ten steps and goes through the Sefirotic Tree starting from the feminine
column reminding us that it is the female who receives the Divine herit-
age of Creation
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82
1 The Crown or Divine Light
First the Divine Light Crowned the undeveloped brain of the wild ape
and transformed it into a ldquothinking aperdquo That Divine ldquotouchrdquo caused
the transformation of the apersquos simple brain into the complex brain or
ldquocrownrdquo of this new being This change contains the celestial blow of the
future human being
2 Intelligence or understanding
Undoubtedly what made de difference between mankind and the rest of
the animals was that awareness since they all went through the same
changes they were all born grew up and died they could all see the
moon replacing the sun and all of them could see the vegetables grow
but the other species either did take notice or did not acknowledge it The
human being could ldquothinkrdquo mankind had the ldquointelligencerdquo to be aware
and that made it different
3 Wisdom or experience
As time went by mankind acquired experience which added to intelli-
gence resulted in ldquowisdomrdquo This wisdom made man outstand over the
rest of the species This wisdom permitted man to learn from other spe-
cies in a certain way and in many cases to dominate them
These three sefiroth that represents the Holy Trinity separated to
the man of the rest of the world animal and vegetable determining
their supremacy by order and Divine grace
4 Justice or respect
Man began to put his abilities to use and the first thing he did with his
intelligence and wisdom was to acknowledge ldquojusticerdquo but the Divine
free will permitted them to apply it or not Mankind understood that
without spiritual justice intelligence and wisdom cannot not be applied
5 Greatness or humility
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83
Mankind learned that spiritual greatness meant knowing how to apply
justice in every act of life
To be just and great is to be wise and intelligent
Man learned that to be great does not mean to be above the rest but to
apply intelligence and wisdom to improve the life and spirit of others
These four qualities must go together if man is to continue his evolution
and stay away from the ape otherwise he would be stuck and the ape
would overcome
6 Beauty or sweetness
As mankind evolved it became understood that each act good or bad as
well as every thought obscure or bright marks the inner character and
outer appearance of a person with a defined particularity that will either
dull it or illuminate it The beauty of the Spirit is more real and perma-
nent than physical beauty The secret of this beauty which lights up pu-
pils with the serene light of the stars y gives faces the sweet look of the
angels lies within a just behavior and greatness in thought
The Bible and Science go of the hand The Creation and the Evolution are work of God
7 Glory or acknowledgement
As man made his inner evolution he wanted to be acknowledged by the
Divinity first and by his peers later
ldquoGloryrdquo is the acknowledgement of onersquos values by others All human
beings need this physical and spiritual acknowledgement The Just has
the Spiritual Greatness Beauty of the Soul and the Divine Glory
8 Stability or Balance
The sensory and spiritual stability and balance of the new being meant
inner growth Stability came about with the bluntness of power and the
victory of his actions The spiritual powers of stability are the foundation
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84
Awareness
Respect
Knowledge
Building
Real World
Sweetness
Balance
Humility
Experience
Divine Light
of tolerance discernment and being able to face up to reality and to co-
operate with our peers powers that are attained through Justice Great-
ness and the Divine Glory
9 Foundation or construction
The foundation or founding of communities is a major stepping-stone
for this new being It was like planting a seed to watch a tree grow Man
understood that if the foundation was done right he would ldquobuildrdquo a
whole culture for the future of mankind But if due to selfishness ava-
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85
rice or greediness he failed and started with a poor foundation of com-
munities instead these would dissolve in time That is why he would
have to apply everything he had learned and all the accumulated experi-
ence correctly
10 The Kingdom of Earth or real world
The Kingdom of Earth is the summit in the process of evolution from
ape to man it is the matter substance the physical and real world This
is the peak of the creation cycle the creation of Adam and Eve Thanks
to the powers of God the ape was transformed into the human being that
now lives in the Kingdom of God which is the Earth It is at this point
where all divine teachings and human experiences converge all celestial
and earthly matters meet here the soul with the spirit and the senses
with the physical world
Adam Eve and the Genesis
ldquoFor the Kabbalah in animals femininity finds itself in front of mas-
culinity while masculinity confirms itself through femininity In the
human level masculinity and femininity are distinguished and at the
same time complement each otherrdquo
In the first book of the Pentateuch the ldquoBook of Genesisrdquo there are two
explanations that would appear to contradict each other that is why we
will analyze them textually
Chapter One verses 27 through 31
27 So God created man in his own image in the image of God he
created him male and female he created them
28 God blessed them and said to them Be fruitful and increase in
number fill the earth and subdue it Rule over the fish of the sea
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and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves
on the ground
29 Then God said I give you every seed-bearing plant on the
face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in
it They will be yours for food
30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and
all the creatures that move on the groundmdasheverything that has
the breath of life in itmdashI give every green plant for food And it
was so
31 God saw all that he had made and it was very good And there
was evening and there was morningmdashthe sixth day
Chapter Two verses 7 and 15 through 23
7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and the man became a
living being
15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of
Eden to work it and take care of it
16 And the LORD God commanded the man You are free to eat
from any tree in the garden
17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil for when you eat of it you will surely die
18 The LORD God said It is not good for the man to be alone I
will make a helper suitable for him
19 Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the
beasts of the field and all the birds of the air He brought them to
the man to see what he would name them and whatever the man
called each living creature that was its name
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87
20 So the man gave names to all the livestock the birds of the air
and all the beasts of the field But for Adam no suitable helper
was found
21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep and
while he was sleeping he took one of the mans ribs and closed
up the place with flesh
22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken
out of the man and he brought her to the man
23 The man said This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my
flesh she shall be called woman for she was taken out of man
According to these two texts which differ in just a few pages within the
Sacred Book first man and woman were created at the same time but
later it explains that woman was created from the rib taken from man
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah takes it as a cryptically allegory which
means we are not to understand this explanation as saying first and sec-
ond having another ahead does not make one a subordinate
The ten sefiroth that created the universe were simultaneous and the crea-
tion of the first ldquothinking aperdquo was simultaneous in male and female If
we try to understand the Divine message decoding it into common lingo
we find that the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah gives us several clues
The Book of Genesis 2 does not void what is stated in Genesis 1 it is
revealing another aspect of the human being The intention of the second
text is not to tell us how creation took place in a chronological order but
to explain ndash in a symbolic language ndash something more profound
According to the Book of Genesis 1 God created them ldquoin one single
actrdquo and gave them a mission in common Be fruitful and increase in
number fill the earth and subdue it This clarifies the equality of dignity
in both as well as the equality in the mission imparted since both are
given the same responsibility the family and protection of the world
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88
According to this there doesnrsquot seem to be tasks or responsibilities ex-
clusively reserved to men or women family as well as culture are to be
done by both
Adam does not take woman out of himself he was asleep doing noth-
ing Furthermore God expressly wanted to hide from him the way in
which he made woman doing so while he slept when he could not notice
what was happening
About the reasons for God putting Adam to sleep we can take some
concepts from the Divine reasoning The lonely Adam pictured in the
Book of Genesis 27 is a generic Adam because the characteristics
which describe him are the same for either man or woman and are
meshed in the verses 215 through 223 in the four worlds of the Sefirotic
Tree
The original loneliness (interpreted as the transcendence of
mankind with respect to the Cosmos) is the world of Atziluth or
divine protection
It is not good for the man to be alonerdquo is the need to opening
up this is the world of Briah or giving to others
The search for the appropriate assistance (conceived as mutual
and reciprocal) is the world of Yetsirah or trust and learning
The call for man woman and their animals to work together is
the world of Assiah or Earth and its fruits
The symbolism of the rib taken by God from Adam while he slept re-
veals a relationship between man and woman from which two conse-
quences derive Is a reciprocal relationship (there is no woman without
man but there is no man without woman) which leads us to conclude
that both ends of this relationship must be simultaneous
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89
Spirit
Form
Muscles
Organs
Birth
Nerves
Bones
Strength
Soul
Supra
One
Heart
Gestation
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
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90
Conception
A person is born at a particular moment in time due to a specific
situation or to connect with specific people or one person in particular
When speaking of gestation it is important to assign the archetypical
worlds to each step of this process
1 The Archetypical World called Atziluth is where everything
is in a latent state where everything is potential This is the world in
which the Divinity unites soul and spirit It is in this world where the
essence on an individual is found There is a ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath of the
heart here which lives in both the spiritual and the creative worlds
2 In the Creative World called Briah we find strength and the
pure form which gives shape to the physical life where the cellular mul-
tiplication begins The heart sends the energy of the soul and spirit to the
new being in gestation
3 In the Formative World called Yetsirah the whole body is
in the process of development creating the nervous system muscles
bones organs etc
4 In the Material World called Assiah is where the physical
manifestation takes place It is the moment of birth when the new inte-
grated being sees the light of the Sun
Development
At birth the physical body manifests itself in the Malkut of As-
siah or the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth after going through the se-
quence of conception Birth takes place at the end of the descending path
from Kether (God) to Malkut (Earth) After birth the path is inverted
while developing we begin to ascend from Malkut (Earth) to Kether
(God)
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91
The personality of an adult individual is reflected in the stage or
sefirath where he stopped or in which he weakened the most We can
associate these stages with the worlds in an ascending manner reverting
the way of the gestation
For example the Malkut of Assiah is the material world in
which a person must see and touch in order to learn He needs to touch
the fire to know that it burns or needs to knock himself to know how hard
matter is and how weak is the spirit
Yetsirah is the world in which responsibility is formed where
most people have stopped at one point in their lives for not being able to
assimilate one or more of sefiroth that make up this world
A person who stopped in hisher childhood has stopped at the
sefirath Yesod a person seeking information or news or is forever study-
ing is at Hod and the one seeking pleasures (sex food fun) is still going
through Neshah And those searching for trust in themselves are at
Tipherzt
Mature people are in the world of Briah Justice and greatness
will help these people to develop the acquired knowledge
Those who have stopped at Geburah are people who experience
constant hardship until they learn to grasp control of themselves and
once they achieve inner peace they dedicate their lives to good acts On
the other hand those who come out of Hesed are the ones who negotiate
with generosity those who give to receive who seek to buy love affec-
tion or respect
Atziluth the last world is the one closest to God one that takes
us to Him
Those worried about death are at the sefirath Binah They age
prematurely and constantly complain about illnesses
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92
Those who reach Hokhmah is because they have profound en-
lightening visions which in some cases and for certain social groups are
similar to insanity
To reach Kether at the end of life on earth is to go back to God
to achieve the freedom of onersquos soul
In the Material World called Assiah is where the man-
ifestation of birth takes place where the body without formation but with
genetic and Godrsquos instruction and information from past lives gets ac-
quainted with himself and those around him
In the Formative World called Yetsirah life and aca-
demic formation is acquired to be applied to the rest of onersquos life The
person shall have the teachings perception affirmation and confidence
supplied by those around him
In the Creative World called Briah the most important
stage in a personrsquos life is found In it we can apply everything learned
and observed in the previous world Decisions taken in this world will
affect us twice as much in the following world
The Archetypical World called Atziluth is a world of
closeness to the Divinity here is where we should stop and analyzes our
existence prepare the balance sheet of our soul When we get here we
can see what we have contributed to the growth of our soul
The road to Maturity
As we know each sefirath is a tree in itself and each world con-
tains the other four inside that is why we must analyze our maturity from
the moment of birth and the growing years as well
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93
Pro
tec-
tion
Co
ntr
ol
Le
arning
Chi
ldh
ood
Bi
rt
h
Tr
us
t
Ple
asure
Giving
Li
gh
t
S
up
ra
O
ne
Heart
The stages of growth
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
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94
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah when we are born
our ldquopatternrdquo of life is not finished because our body spirit and soul are
not completely integrated
Between the ages of five and seven the central column formed
by Yesod Tipherzt and the ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath Led molds the operative
personality The Heart Trust and Foundation are the basis of a childrsquos
personal development
At the age of thirteen Hod and Neshah stability and glory for-
mation and pleasures become active This is the age of awakening of
knowledge
Between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one Kether and
Malkuth intertwine forming the central structure of the tree and they
give it meaning and dimension
During the following years Geburah Hesed Binah and
Hokhmah integrate themselves completing the incarnation of the plains
When we see rebellious youths who have not yet grasped the
concepts of justice or generosity (gangs drugs) it is because they have
not incarnated completely and Geburah and Hesed have not taken their
places yet There is no set age for complete incarnation because it de-
pends on the surroundings and social experience
The child of an alcoholic and a drug addict who live in poverty
does not have to follow that path If he could find support in a family or
educational group that could help him to develop the missing sefiroth and
that way obtain incarnation he could become a person who understands
the proper concepts of justice and greatness thus clearing his life and ob-
taining personal success
On the other hand the son of an aristocrat or millionaire be-
tween the ages of thirteen and twenty will react against his class but
from there on and according to the integration of his sefiroth to the tree
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95
he will only be interested in developing within his social circle marrying
someone accordingly and following the family pattern but if he should
find a link that could help him develop the missing sefiroth in order to
complete his incarnation he would change his concepts on class and
would obtain personal success
Of course both examples are generalizations which do not apply
to all people If you are reading this book you are a spiritual researcher
and surely do not fall under generalizations
Many people consider a good marriage and a good social posi-
tion as valid objectives but after twenty years or more of walking the
same path they understand that even though they have a good marriage
with someone they love and good economic resources they have no
goals
This usually happens after the age of forty-five or fifty For those
based on their bodies this is the beginning of the end and will seek the
physical methods (surgeries) to slow this process
The Tree of the Maturity
These physical methods are not bad if they go together with a
spiritual development with growth in the tree of the spiritual worlds un-
til the highest point is reached and it is understood that the body is the
container of the spirit and soul
Often enough people get stuck emotionally here and no matter
how old they are they cannot get out of Tipherzt or the sefirath of Trust
It is here where emotions are sometimes confused with feelings obscur-
ing thoughts and the development of spiritual maturity
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96
Under-
standing
Truth
Awakening
Trust
Real
World
Foundation
Power
Humility
Experience
Essence
Heath
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97
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
Hod Glory
The Human Being
Soul and Spirit
The Worlds of the Spirit The Battle of the Spirit
The terror and the Fears
Difficult Situations The Problems of the Spirit
The Worlds of Solutions Instincts feelings and senses
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98
Soul and Spirit
We already know that neither one of us is a new soul all of us
have accumulated experience from previous lives in other incarnations
We also know that those celestial beings that occupy our body
have come during the last thousands of years
We also know that this inter-relation or connection between soul
and body helps to correct the soul
What we need to know now is What is the spirit
The spirit is our inner Self our mind it is what we really are and
who we are
Our spirit is formed by four worlds Each world relates to the
other on the basis of interactive processes and it works its way up from
the concrete (tangible) to the ethereal (spiritual) levels
1 The Material World called Assiah or the world of
Logic is based on Malkut passes through Yessed and opens up into
Hod and Neshagh The logical though is something you can almost
touch it has foundation stability and glory
2 The Formative World called Yetsirah or the world of
the Perceptions is based on Tipherzt and opens its arms into Ge-
brurah and Hesed The perceptions of the human being are beauty
justice and greatness
3 The Creative World called Briah or the world of Feel-
ings is based on Led (heart) and from there goes on to Binah and
Hokhmah Our feelings are the product of the alchemy formed by
the ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath of the heart intelligence and wisdom
4 The Archetypical World called Atziluth or the world
of Intuition has only one sefirath as base Kether Divinity resides
here that is intuition is the direct link to Divinity
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99
As we can see the spirit is the part that connects our contained
(physical body) to our soul (or celestial body) and that is who we really
are The spirit must take care of the body so that it ldquolastsrdquo as long as pos-
sible When it is mistreated with external products (poor nutrition alco-
hol tobacco or drugs) the soulrsquos stay and learning period is shortened
this will cause the soul to come back in another container to continue
learning
When an illness or accident causes the brain to stop the spirit is
affected never the soul The soul keeps learning even though the body is
inert or in a deep coma and it will stay there for some ldquotimerdquo after the
heart stops beating It could be minutes maybe hours or days before the
soul abandons the body
When the death is surprising and unexpected (accident violence
etc) both the soul and the spirit stay in condition of shock and are late
many time in dividing
Each person has in its spirit what we know as personality stud-
ied by Jung even his profession is related to these worlds For example a
person with an Assiah personality will be in the armed forces Profes-
sionals are Yetsirah the artists are in the world of Briah and the mysti-
cal people live in Atziluth
Even as we are crossing the tree sefiroacutethico the personality was
passing of being introverted and logical to extrovert and dreamy
Undoubtedly the complexity of the spirit and the dynamic that
surrounds it could generate multiple models Human beings depending
on the inherited genes educational environment social development will
modify some of the parameters associated to these worlds in order to be
accepted by society
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100
The soul is very important in this development since in its mis-
sion of learning it will try to put the person in challenging situations
provoking logical feelings and intuitive sensations
The way to analyze these worlds and know to which ones we
blong (surely to all of them but some more than others) is to know our
strengths and our weaknesses to find our fears and the chance to
ovecome them
Each world has its own ten sefiroth that respond to its own
behavior
The residents of the world of intuition or Atziluth
are generalists hypothetical not precise speculative idealists in-
ventive illogical indecisive futurists and disperse
Those who live in the world of feelings or Briah are a
logical poetic artistic passionate personal cordial ethical justice seek-
ers individualists and humanitarians
The inhabitants of the world of the senses or Yetsirah
are careful detail minded specialists objective precise concrete real-
ists profound practical and conventional
Those who live in the world of logic or Assiah are log-
ical analytic extremist scientific cold dispassionate theoretical imper-
sonal shrewd and insensitive
Neither world is better than another and there isnrsquot a single hu-
man being that ldquofitsrdquo exactly into one defined world we all have behav-
iors from all of them but the proportions are different in each one of us
and that is what makes us all different from each other
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101
The worlds of the Spirit
In the center ldquoThe Column of Equilibriumrdquo (Balance)
Intuition Atziluth
Feelings Briah
Sense Yetsirah
Logical Assiah
Thought
Intelli-
li-gence
Jus
tice
Glo
ry
Foun-
dation
Ma-
teri
al
Be
au-
ty
Sta-
bil-
ity
Grea
tness
Wisdom
Su-
pra
One
Heart
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102
The Battle of the Spirit
As we could see the battle is not very fair three worlds are ruled
by the heart and only one is ruled by the brain That is why in most cas-
es instincts or feelings ldquowinrdquo over reason When free will was given to
us it was so that we could ldquothink overrdquo our acts
Are two ways of thinking intuition and reasoning with very dif-
ferent characteristics
Some thoughts come to mind in a spontaneous way in reality
that is what happens most of the time Because Atziluth Briah and
Yetsirah are always present in a potential way ready to jump in and re-
spond in a way of which we are not totally conscious and cannot control
The actions of these three worlds are quick without effort associative
and very often charged with emotions They are ruled by habits that is
why it is difficult to modify or control them
The world of Assiah instead is ruled by conscience and delib-
erate reasoning it is slower serial and requires effort it follows rules
Needs more time when something upsets us it clouds our reasoning
This means the issue is stuck on the upper worlds and it doesnrsquot allow us
to make logical decisions usually because we are afraid to reason
For example the idea that something awful can happen if we
take a plane even though that possibility is remote will not let us think
of anything else The upper worlds become dominant Emotion is over-
come in turn by the possibility by what could happen and not by reality
so much
The emotional and issue is the less ldquoreasonablerdquo people are
According to Daniel Kahneman winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize
in Economics
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
103
ldquoEmotions in general do not influence decision making but one
emotion in particular (fear) distorts the perception of risk and generates
errors in the making of decisionsrdquo
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah fear originates in the
upper world but if we can take it to the world of Assiah or logical it
vanishes into thin air
Nevertheless if once we make a reasoned decision we donrsquot reg-
ister having made it curious enough we are not conscious we have
changed our way of thinking
Most people after changing their way of thinking reconstruct
the old pattern They underestimate their change Besides when they
have been persuaded of something they believe they always thought that
way The upper worlds hide behind the mask that reason displays and
have us believing they were never there we are convinced that we al-
ways think rationally
It is true that many people admit making a mistake at one time
or another ndash you could be one of them ndash but that doesnrsquot mean that they
have changed their way of thinking on a particular issue and that they
wonrsquot make the same mistake again
Fears
All living beings have fears it is natural and it responds to the
instinct of survival You donrsquot have to be a caballist or scientist to state
that man is a fearful ldquoanimalrdquo One hundred percent of the human spirit is
ldquoshyrdquo or timid and it fears an endless amount of things and situations He
is intimidated by them The important thing is to identify the things he
fears and why Donrsquot even think you are the only one who fears some-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
104
thing ALL OF US fear something The thing is that that ldquosomethingrdquo is
different for each one of us
Fear is not bad or good it simply is disturbing feeling about
something unknown or if it is known we canrsquot control and we are afraid
it might hurt us
When God created the four elements or semi gods (Fire Water
Air and Earth) He gave them the ability to help or hurt mankind that is
why Fire can cook our food or it can destroy us Water is for drinking or
drowning Earth can give us vegetables or bury us with Air we live and
without it we die The four elements can give or take life And it is pre-
cisely in them that the depth of all fears lies
Fear has companions such as anguish
obsessions and phobias
Many cultures and old and modern religions disguise fears (in
many cases to manipulate people) with the presence of the Devil or dia-
bolic things The Judeo-Christian Kaballah upholds that mankind in its
search for alternative gods created this evil figure to justify its fears and
anguishes
Fear lives in the upper part of the Sefirotic Tree of both worlds of
the spirit where man thinks less and fears more First he starts at Atzi-
luth where he acts mostly based on instinct he is almost irrational and
here is where he ignites the anguish fearrsquos best friend From there it goes
down to Briah and it leans on phobic feelings to go on to Yetsirah
where it can attract obsessions
In the emotional sentimental world or Briah reside an endless
number of opposed phobic fears darkness or light open spaces or closed
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
105
space crowds or loneliness heights or depths planes or boatshellip and we
could go on for pages
In the world of the sensations or Yetsirah live the obsessive
fears disguised as concern
Worry for details rules lists order schedules up to
the point of losing of sight the principal object of the activity
Perfectionism which interferes with the completion of
a task (unable to finish a project because it doesnrsquot comply with
onersquos own demands which are overly strict)
Excessive dedication to onersquos work and to the produc-
tivity with exclusion of the activities of leisure and the friend-
ship (not attributable to economic evident needs)
Excessive stubbornness very scrupulous and inflexi-
ble when it comes to moral issues ethics or values (not attributed
to the identification with religion)
Unable to discard old and useless items even when
there is no sentimental value attached
Unable to share the work load with others unless
they will accept to do it your way exactly
Excessive thriftiness in spending money must be ac-
cumulated to cover future catastrophes
All these fears which live in the worlds of instincts feelings and
sensations are not related to diabolic situations Satan does not exist in
the Divine Universe Satan is a creation of our spirit to encourage the
learning and development of our soul The best way to teach our soul is
to overcome our fears bringing them down to the rational world of Assi-
ah to keep them under control and letting them go
This can be done following these steps
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106
1 The first step is to put your fears in the world of
logic or Assiah not worrying about why this fear exists but how
do we respond to this fear behavior (eg paralysis desperation)
Hesed origin
2 Be specific when it comes to defining your con-
duct of fear and its consequences because the problem it self is
the solution Geburah control
3 Donrsquot look at your fear as such but as an obsta-
cle in attaining your goals Take it to Tipherzt trust
4 Define exactly the way you want to change your
conduct Go to Neshah balance
5 Establish a time limit to obtain the proposed
change For this Hod learning is the right sefirath
Search for an adequate way to make your change with-
out going to extremes for instance becoming a perfectionist
What you want to change is not making mistakes but the irra-
tional fear for avoiding making mistakes If you are set out to
making mistakes to change you will stop worrying about per-
fection but you will also stop worrying about the mistakes you
could make That is the mistakes are not the problem but the
fear of making mistakes is Work on Yesod construc-
tionbuilding
6 Be patient changes donrsquot take place overnight
whatrsquos more there could be a set back especially when there is a
fast progression in the change of the conduct of fear Please un-
derstand that a straight forward improvement is not always to be
expected you could be going forward there could be stops and
set backs which will allow you to compare and value the differ-
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
107
ences between your previous status with your situation of pro-
gress Go through Malkuth action
Once the world of Assiah logic overcomes your fears you will
see how your fears crashed with logic and vanish
Donrsquot forget that fear is a close friend of depression Fear attracts
dissonance synonym of physical and spiritual disease When one of the
elements stops working the machinery works with serious difficulties
When one of the parts slows down or over speeds therersquos also a lack of
balance and things donrsquot run well
Fear is one of those elements in the human being with great
power to generate lack of harmony correspondence and balance Its
negativity does not allow us to act neither with freedom intelligence nor
with common sense On the contrary it makes us highlight aspects of our
life which we shouldnrsquot consider so important It makes us go back
when we should be going forward It makes us lie when we should be
telling the truth And it takes away our plenitude creativity and capacity
to love
Problematic Situations
Man faces difficult situations all his life from childhood to old
age He finds himself with the obligation to address them with systemat-
ic processes of thought but he doesnrsquot know how important they are All
problems can be grouped in these three definitions
Urgent and important
Urgent or important
Neither urgent nor important
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108
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah and the sefirotic trees show us
that if we establish priorities if we analyze situations if we identify op-
portunities there are no problems without a solution and that solution is
usually much simpler than we would have thought The method to apply
the adequate solution to a problem is part of the kaballistic teachings
Problems of the Spirit
The Spirit is made up of four worlds (logic sensations emotions
and intuition) if we know how to apply them correctly and how to dis-
tribute our problems amongst these worlds each one of them will solve
the part of the problem to which it applies and the general solution will
become available without stress nor complications
The World of logical thought is the one that analyzes a problem
concretely creating a new Sefirotic Tree with four worlds Ideas Caus-
es Opportunities and Solutions we go through them from the column
of forms or shapes looking for the world of detail or feminine
Atziluth is the world of Ideas formed by Kether Binah and Hokhmah
Kether is the situation worrying you the problem in your
head or philosophical it could be physical or mental could be serious or
momentary but none the less it is the center of the worry
Binah is the expansive thought the one that analyzes the
components distinguishes the pertinent parts the real causes of the prob-
lem Binah clarifies the information to define the situation
Hokhmah is the convergent thought it evaluates and develops
the main idea of the problem compares theorizes and creates a hypothe-
sis which means it is the one that focuses on the problem to be solved
looking for the way to follow and the steps to take
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109
Briah is the world of Causes formed by Leb Geburah and Hesed
Leb is the virtual sefirath of the heart which plays a part in
every problem and even though thought is the most concrete world of
the spirit the heart has its influence when the time to make a decision
comes We should make the problem ldquovirtualrdquo analyze the solution with
the heart and without it in order to be objective and make the right deci-
sion
Geburah is justice Try to think as a lawyer they only deal
with proven facts they donrsquot go by hearsay Clean your mind of external
ldquoadditionsrdquo analyze ldquowhat problems make up this problemrdquo
Hesed is greatness It is very important to know where the
problem was originated in order not to repeat it you must have the
greatness to admit your percentage of responsibility in the origin of the
problem Donrsquot put the responsibility all out there blaming others do
know that we alwayshellip alwayshellip are partly responsible for what happens
to us Admitting responsibility requires greatness
Yetsirah is the world of Opportunities formed by
Tipherzt Hod and Neshah
Tiphezt is the sefirath of beauty and every problem has a
beautiful side to it which is the opportunity it opens up to the other
worlds Every problem is the starting point towards truth Many times
the truth is hidden and the problems bring it out in the light Look for the
positive side of the problem there always is one look for the sun after
the storm
Hod is the glory and glory is acknowledgement To
acknowledge a problem is part of the solution If we describe the prob-
lem and its consequences we could see clearly which opportunity it is
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
110
revealing Remember facts or situations it will help us recognize the real
scenario of the problem
Neshah is stability which will come when we solve the prob-
lem Imagine your life without the problem try to see which things will
be better and analyze which ones could be worse in order to avoid them
Donrsquot let it catch you off guard Just like in a chess match every move
must be carefully thought out and advantage taken of the adversaryrsquos lit-
tle mistakes
Assiah is the world of Solutions formed by Yesod and Malkuth
Yesod is the sefirath of foundation it is the one to support and
filter the information sent by the rest to Malkuth If the other nine have
done their job correctly the problem would reach this point practically
resolved In some cases it doesnrsquot even reach this point since it was re-
solved on its way As long as we clarify and converge ideas analyze the
real causes and describe its consequences the storm we saw coming at
first becomes a sea breeze
Malkuth is the earth action It establishes these ways to fol-
low to resolve a problem or whatrsquos left of it The truth is that Malkuth
steps in less than 5 of the cases because the big problems do not ex-
ist but small problems that transformed a snow ball rolling downhill that
breaks up into thousands of harmless little particles when it hits a serious
and conclusive analytical spirit
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111
The Sefiroacutethico
Tree of the logical thought
Diverge
Facts
Acknowl-
edging
Filtration
Action
Serenity
Equilibrium
Origin
Converge
Knowing
Heart
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112
The Worlds of Solutions
The other three worlds of the spirit (sensations emotions and intuition)
are present in the previous development as observers but sometimes
(many times) they are present in the analysis of the concrete world where
logical thoughts occur taking the solution to the problem through not so
logical paths In these cases we have to appeal to the central column or
Column of Equilibrium of the Sefirotic Tree of the Spirit
Kether (Intuition) receiving the energy that the Divinity and Its
Light sends us
Leb (Heart) will find answers in our feelings
Tipherzt (Beauty) will consult our inner sensations
Yesod and Malkuth (Foundation and Earth) bring us back to the
world of reasoning and logic
This means that we can solve many problems using our intuition our
feelings or our sensations but we should always put them through the
filter of logical thought of truth putting passion aside and trying to be as
analytical as possible
Instincts Feelings and Sensations
Instincts or Atziluth feelings or Briah and sensations or Yetsirah to-
gether create an inner stir up when motivated by action Mankind is
mostly conditioned by emotions and sensations by likes and dislikes
Often enough feelings and sensations are side tracked by mankindrsquos own
interests and selfishness to the point of invalidating sense and reason
making one behave in ways which one sees with consternation that Assi-
ah has been forgotten Thus logic is destroyed by the three upper
worlds When we snap out later and we see the mistake it is too late to
do anything about it
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113
The upper worlds usually come up as an answer to the spontaneous eval-
uation of perceptions Emotions such as anger or fear can be harmful or
healthy such as fondness or compassion While aversions are typical un-
healthy emotions good love and compassion are outstanding examples of
noble emotions that lift our human nature
Human beings are pretty open to emotional development and so is the
range and strength of their emotions We are all somewhat passionate
and impulsive and cold and reflective at the same time What varies is
the percentage some get angry very fast and others are patient While
one person could be not impulsive emotionally another could go through
a wide range of emotions at the speed of light
The emotional worlds hurt the physical body that is why they should be
controlled According to clinical experience a person dominated by
emotions could have consecutively or simultaneously health issues af-
fecting several organic systems I will mention a few psychosomatic
health problems
Migraines
This symptom is made up of other somatic symptoms that go to-
gether in people with a perfectionist personality with changing moods
They usually manifest themselves with painful muscle contractions of the
neck as well as nausea and vomiting
Obesity
Obesity usually develops within the frame of anxieties in re-
sponse to frustrations and disappointment through devotion to food8
Hypertension
The main reason for vascular hypertension is emotional tension
in people who show apparent serenity and affability but are really cover-
ing up hostile emotions and predisposition ndash that must be restrained ndash for
social or employment reasons
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
114
Cardiovascular System
It has been proven that the stress caused by anguish tends to fre-
quently increase your heart beat cardiac distress and blood pressure
Respiratory System
Crying laughing screaming o talking imply changes your
breathing action excessive breathing or the opposite are typical respons-
es during contrasting periods of action or relaxation Examples of this are
the hyperventilation syndrome and asthma amongst others
The Gastrointestinal Tract
The symptoms of gastrointestinal disorders are multiple the most
frequent they are anorexia bulimia nausea nervous indigestion vomit-
ing and diarrhea
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115
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Yesod Foundation
Free Will
The emotional worlds
Control of emotions
Who controls me
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
116
The emotional worlds
The emotional worlds are distributed within the Sefirotic Tree from
Kether to Malkuth
Kether is imagination it is ethereal and impalpable it comes
from within and surprises us as if it came from outside We imagine
things or situations this is the world of Atziluth
What happens in our lives makes better sense when we use our imagina-
tion and create our own stories These could be situations related directly
to what is happening to us or just the opposite For example if we are
watching a Superman movie we unconsciously accept that the character
flies We know the actor is supported by ropes of steel or that it is a
computerized trick but we go prepared to accept this The same thing
happens with a horror movie we donrsquot ignore that the monster is made
out of some synthetic material that those masks are created with makeup
or that the blood could be tomato sauce but while we are watching the
movie we let the world of Atziluth take over our spirit and we accept
what takes place in the screen as real
The important thing is to know when the movie ends and reality begins
There have been cases of people jumping off rooftops believing they
were Superman or have shot others thinking they were either Rambo or
Terminator Without going to these extreme examples many people be-
lieve they are living stories out of soap operas in which the characters
are either good or bad In them the manipulation of society is done
through ldquobelievablerdquo or ldquodetestablerdquo stereotypes In these stories the
ldquogood guysrdquo consume the sponsorrsquos products that is why they are good
looking and successful while the ldquobad guys are very badrdquo and always
end up in jail or dead Very far from the reality
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117
Hokhmah is memory it is our particular wisdom it is what we
learn from the past the things our own life has taught us But memories
sometimes play tricks on us
Often enough we associate what we see with some other type of experi-
ence or memory For instance if somebody speaks loudly we feel we are
being attacked because we remember that tone of voice being used by a
teacher or our father to make an observation or punish us This memory
which is not rational will put us on alert waking all our feelings of de-
fense But it could be that this person speaks loudly because he needs to
be listened to with the best intentions towards us In this case Atziluth
would have reacted against our relationship with the other person We
usually do not notice these processes because these are unconscious be-
haviors of which we are not aware When we remember the incident we
only describe our experience related to the visual perception and with
conscientious thought We almost never refer to what we heard felt im-
agined or what our intuition told us What this does is that we visualize
an incomplete picture of the situation
Binah is the comprehension our intelligence While we hear the
other person speaking loudly we generate currents of thought These
thoughts could relate directly and we could probably raise our voice as
well Both of us speaking loudly almost screaming will dull our compre-
hension and we wonrsquot be able to reason the other personrsquos words nor
will we understand why we are being loud In unexpected situations
such as an accident in transit (like somebody hitting our car in the free-
way) we create an opinion of the other person while we observe the in-
cident But we do not reason the occurrence It is not easy for us to un-
derstand in those circumstances and we unchain reactions that we will
regret later
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
118
ldquoThe three sefiroth of the tree of emotions make up the trilogy of At-
ziluth where everything is potential everything is relative where im-
agination lives with memories and comprehe nsionrdquo
Listening is Hesed greatness since knowing how to listen is
greatness Our hearing perceives in a selective way depending on the
attention we are paying In first place we hear the most discordant
sounds Some people listen independently from what they see while
others associate what they hear to what they see Closer sounds also get
mixed with those coming from afar (planes trains)
Seeing is Geburah justice When the police investigate an acci-
dent talks to five witnesses and gets five different versions of the same
accident This is because each witness perceived the same scene in a dif-
ferent way according to their distance and angle their surprise their
memories and their fears What each one was doing and how long it took
their minds to react to adapt to the new situation is also important
Feeling is Tipherzt beauty Any situation of relationship or ac-
tion (somebody yelling at us somebody crashing into us somebody hug-
ging us or loving us) triggers our instinctive emotions and can make us
feel uncomfortable sad surprised tender excited furious anxious nos-
talgichellip and so many other ways
It is important to know how to handle them from the sefirath of beauty
Both love and fury are born there It is the provider of spiritual nourish-
ment it is the one that sends the order to our hand to slap or caress to our
mouth the order to insult or say words of love to our legs the order to get
closer or start running away If we control our reactions and let our brain
make the decision we will save ourselves lots of problems apologies and
unpleasantness
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
119
ldquoThese three sefiroth of the tree of emotions form the trilogy of
Briah the world of creation where strength idea and ways of liste n-
ing seeing and feeling come togetherrdquo
Taste and smell are Hod and Neshah or glory and stability the sev-
enth and eighth sefiroth These two senses go together When we smell a
dish we like we feel our mouth ldquowateringrdquo This is because our sense of
taste already sent the known flavors to our brain which in turn already
started in Yetsirah the registered memories In some gas stations we
taste the smell of gasoline in our mouth as if we had drunk it Being close
to a trash dump makes us nauseous since the smell is perceived by our
nose and mouth irritating our throat
In these cases the formative world of Yetsirah makes us react instinc-
tively to aggressive odors
Reflexes are Yesod foundation This sefirah closes the trilogy of the
world of Yetsirah which is the formative or conceptual world and re-
flexes just like taste and smell are instinctive concepts that we cannot
control When we watch a thriller or action movie we move as if we
were the character in it we flinch when they stick a knife into somebody
or we move avoiding the punch We usually experience some movements
as if we were moving ourselves we even experience tension in our mus-
cles Itrsquos common that if we see others dancing we will also feel the im-
pulse to dance
ldquoThese three sefiroth are the base of our instinctive and intuitive sys-
tem We can control all other sefiroth imagination memories un-
derstanding listening seeing and even feeling but the senses of smell
and taste and reflexes are very hard to control that is why we must
concentrate our attention on themrdquo
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
120
Re-
mem-
ber
Lis-tening
Tast-
ing
Re-
flexes
Rea-
soning
Feel-
ing
Smell-ing
Seeing
Compre-
hension
Imag-
ining
As we can see Malkuth is in the world of Assiah and takes no part in
emotions It is the material world reason and reasoning If we manage to
handle our emotions and ldquobring them downrdquo to Malkuth reason will
prevail and our behavior will be logical improving our relation with the
world
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
121
Controlling your emotions
Now that we know our emotions we know where their origin
takes place and which worlds rule them we can analyze the possibility of
controlling them to reach our goals since a person who angers easily
spoils hisher own happiness and disturbs otherrsquos peace of mind
Without a deliberate effort emotions will not be under the direct
control of our will of Assiah and we will be able to control them in this
rational and logic world We must train our mind to control our emotions
the moment they stir up This can be done by watching them objectively
as soon as they flourish identifying them with a name or a mental label
such as ldquoAngerrdquo ldquoJealousyrdquo ldquoSorrowrdquo ldquoFuryrdquo etc
Once we have names for our emotions we will be then in a bet-
ter position to let go of them without being dragged by them The mo-
ment we can register our anger calmly (when we become aware that this
anger originated in the upper worlds) that is when we make it descend to
Assiah to the world of reason and our anger will leave us
At first this could be useful if during the day we repeat to our-
selves a formula such as
ldquoWhat am I feeling nowrdquohellip ldquoWhat am I thinkingrdquohellip
We respond immediately
ldquoI am feeling angerrdquohellip ldquoI am jealousrdquohellip
We can also investigate even afterwards why the anger (or any
other adverse emotion) took over us so that we can avoid these situations
or responses in the future
Who controls me
Even though every human being has in its spirit the world of As-
siah very few use this world to think logically and by themselves This
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
122
passivity or indifference is the result of the development of massive
communication media
Radio television yellow journalism even the Internet push their
messages on all of us every minute of the day and its penetration power
is reinforced by the rooted human disposition to accept everything we are
being told and comply with what we are dared to do Bombarded by
thousands of stimuli we donrsquot think by ourselves anymore we donrsquot feel
our emotions anymore or start up our own actions instead we feel how
others want us to feel The pressure of the multitude is irresistible
When we explain that Kether accepts that Superman flies be-
cause it is part of the film game we must control that Kether does not
accept that my self esteem depends on the perfume or shirt I buy or that
my relationship with people does not depend on the car I have
We saw that in the world of Atziluth everything is relative eve-
rything is in a potential state that is why commercials aim at our imagina-
tion memories and comprehension to get us to buy their products
All these communication means teach us to hold our capacity to
reason or if we happen to reason to do it the way they expect us to
Those who manipulate the media (not necessarily the owners but the
sponsors) are motivated by their own interests which are fortune and
power They play important roles in several means of life such as politic
business law medicine and education
Publicity newscasts soap operas even reality shows penetrate
us through the world of Briah which is the listeningseeingfeeling trilo-
gy In Briah we find the idea in formation that is why journalism is con-
sidered the ldquofourth powerrdquo Nevertheless in todayrsquos globalizes world
Kabbalah places it at the top over all other earthly powers because it
manipulates images ideas and it gives us the news ldquoaimedrdquo at their inter-
ests The role of reasoning tends to be subordinated to that of emotion
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
123
while the mental inertia and indifference eases the conquest of reason
That is why when public opinion is formed through manipulation a small
minority is able to control the majority Publicity and newscasts are the
most effective mechanism to make us ldquobelieverdquo what is good or bad for
our spirit and body
Control of decisions and Free Will
All of those who are part of the small but powerful marketing
minority have something to sell Commercials make us wish more and
more things that will not necessarily make us happier or give us peace of
mind They tell us that happiness is having the latest entertainment center
or the new cooking system But no matter how many things we buy we
could still feel our lives painfully empty
The speed power and efficiency of all this technological and so-
cial development drive us into an increasing frequency of illness due to
stress and nervous crisis Those who do not collapse under this pressure
find other ways to escape such as drugs alcohol and psychotic cults
The battle is not easy because the offer is gratifying we are even part of
that wheel because we sell a product or service which is commercialized
that way The only significant comparison we can make is with our-
selves between the person we were one month earlier a year earlier or
even a decade earlier and the person we are at present physically intel-
lectually morally and financially If there hasnrsquot been an improvement
or it hasnrsquot been enough we should ask ourselves why that is and do
something to modify this without delay If done regularly this ldquocheck-
uprdquo could be very beneficial If we set our pride and prejudice aside and
we check out our values and perspectives then we will be able to live a
simpler healthier and happier life
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124
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Malkuth
The Kingdom
The Rational World
Education and freedom
Rights and obligations
Daily negotiations Responsibilities
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125
Education and freedom
As a child I was told that
ldquoThe better educated a person is the freer that person isrdquo
At the time I didnrsquot understand the significance of those words
because at the age of ten to me education was school teachers and
studying
Today a few years older the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah taught
me that education is knowledge and it is much more profound than what I
was taught in school
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the first thing educa-
tion should do is warn the students that all knowledge implies a certain
risk of error and illusion Human knowledge is exposed to errors in per-
ception and judgment and illusions caused by the narrowness of ideas
cultural influence and the emotions and experiences of each person
Scientific knowledge is not even immune to error and illusion
theories and methods of investigation protect their own errors and illu-
sions That is why the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah education gives the kind
of knowledge that allows for self criticism and detects errors and illu-
sions The ldquoknowledge blindnessrdquo can be cured with a more open and
reflexive education that self-criticizes
The media overwhelms us with information It is fundamental
that we learn to discern what is relevant and what is accessorial
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah invites us to analyze the four
worlds of the human spirit together with the four worlds of the societies
in which they live political cultural religious and financial
The archetypical world called Atziluth is the one where eve-
rything is in a latent potential state That is the spirituality and religious
world
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126
In the creative world called Briah we find the strength in its
pure form and the ideas This is the emotional or cultural world
In the formative world called Yetsirah everything is in the
formation or a conceptual process which is the world of sensations or
political
In the material world called Assiah is where the physical
manifestation takes place which is the logical or financial world
Globalization is another important issue that conditions our free-
dom According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the world has been
globalizing from its inception God never discriminated we are all His
children Moses was a ldquoglobalizesrdquo when he took his people to the Prom-
ised Land through the desert So were Abraham Noah Jesus when he
asked his apostles to take his word evangelizing throughout the Earth
The current systems of communication make us realize how sim-
ilar and at the same time how different we are from each other The
Judeo-Christian Kabbalah struggles for unity not to erase diversity and
vice-versa Neither is the individual person above religion culture or so-
ciety nor is religion culture or society above the individual person Only
God is above each and every one of us
Let us remember that God created the four Genii or Elements
(Earth Air Water and Fire) and it is the obligation of all human beings
to protect them since they are our only support Mankind is destroying
them with the contamination it has created which will derive in our own
destruction But this depends on our free will thai is why there is an
even more powerful globalization than the financial one the intellectual
affective and moral globalization This is the only way we will achieve
the Freedom to which the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah invites you the
world is united by its culture technology and the financial exchange and
at the same time it is divided by politics and religion
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127
To need
Control
Respect
Free Will
LIFE
Happiness
Dignity
Freedom
To know
To love
Kabbalah teach us to understand that every human being shares
the same worries feelings and the same destiny no matter where he
lives
The values of the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah are solidarity hos-
pitality tolerance and respect towards the dignity of every person This
means that every culture should learn from other cultures and each socie-
ty from other societies
The kabballistic ideals of freedom consist in respect for the indi-
viduality and diversity and promoting solidarity and comprehension
Responsibilities
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128
Rights and obligations
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah bases its doctrine on the rights and obliga-
tions of all human beings Each person has certain right and obligations
which become basic responsibilities of which each person must take
charge one hundred percent like the responsibility to control and manage
its own life building its own life plan and following it by accomplishing
goals
These obligations have three important axes based on the first three
sefiroth
bull Kether or Crown and self-esteem
bull Hokhmah or the Wisdom to known oneself
bull Binah or the Intelligence to make decisions according
to onersquos inner and outer personal needs without hurting
oneself or others
The basic rights are found in the seven lower sefiroth
bull Hesed and the right to freedom
bull Geburah and the right to control your life
bull Tipherzt and the right to happiness
bull Neshah and the right to dignity
bull Hod and the right to (respect) be respected
bull Yesod and the right of free expression
bull Malkuth and the right to life
Mankind in its daily interaction relates to its sefiroth and its funda-
mental rights according to three different styles of response based on the
lower worlds
The world of Briah or pure or emotional power
It promotes inequality always having a loser and winner This is not a
creative or equal relation
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
129
The person denies its own respect rights and needs hurting itself
These are mostly selfish individualist and passionate people
The world of Yetsirah or conceptual
It deals with defending onersquos own rights without hurting others It im-
plies equality and respect
The person knows the border line between its own individuality and
those of others
They are mostly realistic practical conventional and objective
The world of Assiah or physical or logical manifestation
They are mostly analytic calculating cold and insensitive
It promotes non-equal relationships against the rights of others It is
an unbalanced relationship in which manipulation takes place
The person invades the rights of others getting Responses of fear
Daily negotiations
When people speak of negotiations they think they are talking about
money but negotiation is part of daily life and it is also analyzed
through the sefirotic trees of the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah
The negotiation can be with oneself for instance
Irsquom staying in bed another fifteen minutes even if I have to go
to work without breakfast
The negotiation can be with your spouse for instance
We can spend Christmas with your family if we spend New
Yearrsquos with mine
We can negotiate with our children for example
You can have the car tonight if you come home early and
wash it tomorrow
We can negotiate with our fellow workers for instance
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130
If you cover me this Saturday Irsquoll cover you next Sunday
As you can see in none of these examples and many more that surely
you must remember is money mentioned as exchange In a negotiation
the effort must be compensated equally
Nobody should win or lose or better yet both should come out winning
obtaining something each one wants In a negotiation everybody should
know what is at stake and what each one will obtain in exchange
Let us remember that the method of solving problems is based on the
lower or material world of Assiah but a negotiation reaches for the upper
worlds like Yetsirah or intuition or the world of Briah or emotions in
some cases it even appeals to Atziluth or spirit
You must train you brain to stay in the lower worlds to negotiate be-
cause it will be more to your benefit Try to be objective since feelings
or emotions play against you and the effort will not be compensated
equally
You must create what is called a creative antagonism separating the ob-
jective facts in order to get to a reasonable and logic agreement It is very
important that both parties feel they are winners Get used to listening to
every word the other person is saying In Kabbalah the word is very im-
portant it has a double message what is being said and what is meant
When your spouse child or friend get angry and scream for something
you already know it is not important they are really saying something
else Hug himher kiss himher on the forehead and tell himher you
want to hear the reasons behind the anger But on the contrary if you
feel offended and respond screaming even louder you will have lost the
negotiation before you even begin
Turn your defects into virtues that way you will get a just negotiation
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
131
If you are passive think of the object and state your argument
with precision and not getting nervous
If you are aggressive look for the motives and keep them
away while negotiating
If triumph is important to you think the other one is right and
try to be unbiased
If you are anguished think of the reasons in your favor not to
show weakness
If you are a fatalist and you think you are going to lose nego-
tiate with a relaxed mind you have nothing to risk act without
worrying about the end result
When Jesus says
ldquoPut the other cheekrdquo
He refers to Judeo-Christian Kabbalah because it is not to be
slapped but to accept the embrace of negotiation
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132
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Conclusions
The Tree of Trees
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
133
The Tree of Trees
Reading this book we have learned to go through the different
sefirotic trees the creation of the universe its worlds and centers of
strength the sefirotic columns the Adam Kadmon tree Jesusrsquo genealogy
the Our Father the Sermon in the Mountain (Beatitudes) the evolution of
mankind gestation development maturing the spirit decisions emo-
tions and even responsibilities
But we also learned about the existence of infinite sefirotic trees
because each sefirath (no matter how small) contains a tree within and
each tree (no matter how big) is only a sefirath of a larger tree
If we try to unify all the sefirotic trees we will see that they are
all similar we could even say the same they all have the same logical
pattern they were all created by the same Divine Architect
The sefiroth take different names according to their presence but
their strength does not change since they are endless sources of energy
That is why when we see Sephiroth we see its gifts
Kether Crown Inspiration Divine Light Supra-One א
Hokhmah Wisdom Word Experience Soul ב
Binah Intelligence Spirit Thought Fortune ג
Hesed Greatness Love Humility Strength Giving ד
Geburah Justice David Truth Respect Shape ה
Tipherzt Beauty Salomon Purity Fidelity Goodness ו
Neshah Stability Power Forgiveness Trust Effort ז
Hod Glory Blessing Protection Education ח
Yesod Foundation Simplicity Assistance Purification ט
Malkuth Kingdom Peace Prayer Freedom Birth י
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134
The only sefirath that has only one meaning or name is Leb the
sefirath of the heart and for that reason it cannot be modified Because it
is virtual it appears or disappears according to the tree we are looking at
because its power is so big that it doesnrsquot need to be identified or be pre-
sent in the tree because it is a Sefirotic Tree in itself and it is the one that
guides us and protects us
Each one of us has its own Sefirotic Tree which we
must go through without a doubt from Kether to Malkuth and from
Malkuth to Kether
Free will lets us chose the road to take the sefiroth to go
through but it does not let us get out of our own and only tree
We are the only craft men of our own destiny we devel-
op our only precious and exclusive Tree of Life
It is up to us to comply with our Logics Divine Plan or to
decide to evade our responsibilities looking for shortcuts and trying to
twist the Divine assignments
The free will given to us by God demands that we put our spir-
itual and philosophical life in order without further delay to build a dig-
nified future and face each day as if it were the last one
The physical and spiritual kaballistic world from Kether to
Malkuth is truly a happy place to live in if people only thought of go-
ing through their personal and unique Sefirotic Tree
Let us remember these wise words
ldquoDeath is certain life is uncertainrdquo
(Maranam niyatam jivitam aniyatam)
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135
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
The Divine Logic
Cesar Leo Marcus
Windmills International Editions Inc
wwwwindmillseditionscom
California - USA ndash 2012
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
136
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
5
Table of Contents
Prologue - 06 -
Introduction - 07 -
Kether the Crown - The Holy Scriptures - 10 -
Hokhmah Wisdom - The Sacred Ideas - 21 -
Binah Intelligence- The Tree of Life - 26 -
Hesed Greatness - Adam Kadmon - 36 -
Geburah Judgment - Letters and Numbers - 41-
Tipherzt Beauty Christian Kabbalah - 56 -
Neshah Stability The Divine Creation -80-
Hod Glory The human being - 97 -
Yesod Foundation Senses - 115 -
Malkuth The rational Kingdom - 124-
Conclusions The Tree of trees - 132-
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6
Prologue
Many years ago the paths of my Sefirotic Tree took me to Jerusa-
lem where Rabbi Zev ben Itzjhak introduced me to the secret world of
Kabbalah Those sefirotic paths took me to the Vatican to pry into the
Papal library with Pope Paul VIrsquos authorization to plunge myself into
de Holy Scriptures analyze different religions to research their similari-
ties and to compare them
I understood the teachings of the Divine Masters such as Adam
Abraham Moses Akiba Jesus and Mohammed discovering that no path
will take us to happiness because happiness is in finding our own path
in our own Tree of Life
I wrote this book because the 21st century will open up for all
mankind a spiritual space never seen yet It is the century of revelations
and the time for ldquokabbalistic evangelizationrdquo through which we will un-
derstand there is no reason for the erroneously called religious war be-
cause the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah allows us to cross the gates towards
the union of souls where each and everyone of us are very important
pieces of this Logic Divine Plan
That the Sky illuminates him
Cesar Leo Marcus - 2005
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
7
Introduction
Since the beginning of the Divine Creation since water earth air
and fire combined to form life since early vegetation covered the land
since animals developed into dinosaurs since giants (vegetable and ani-
mal) disappeared giving way to the world as we know it today since the
first man understood that he was no longer an ape and learned to use his
intelligence which is forever the Kabbalah Judeo-Christian was pre-
sent revealing every step and every line of this Logic Divine Plan
This book answers the four most difficult questions us humans
ask ourselves the easiest way possible
Which is the Divine Logic Plan for each one of us
What should we do to find our Path
Who are we really and what is our goal
What is free will and how does it benefit us
To find these answers we must travel the road or path of the
sefirot which is not easy In order to do so each one of us can adopt one
of two possible attitudes
We can envision the road or path as a barrier that sepa-
rates us from our goals or sefirot battling with strength against obstacles
considering every step a conquest But I must warn you many desist half
way down the road and the few that do make it end up totally worn out
and without the strength to enjoy their triumph
Or we can envision the sefirotic road or path as the way
to achieve our objectives as part of the affixed goal From the very first
moment we step onto the road we will be walking the arm of the sefirot
or desired goal and without battling or effort we will get there Walking
through it we will gain from whatever the sefirotic path offers us Most
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
8
people will get there without effort or exhaustion enjoying the tiny daily
triumphs and finally achieving their goals
The students of Judeo-Christian Kabbalah chose the second op-
tion we know that the path itself is our teacher that we learn just by
walking through the sefirotic paths and as we near our goal we leave
behind our weaknesses our fears and we value our spiritual weapons our
inner resources our strengths
The students of Judeo-Christian Kabbalah
know that we have come to this world to be happyhellip
Understanding happiness as a means to offer our spirit and soul the
opportunity to learn surrounded by light and positive e nergy
Those who wish to study Judeo-Christian Kabbalah will search
in this book for answers to questions they hadnrsquot even thought of before
and that were hidden from regular people in the past
This book seeks the interpretation of the Sacred Books
and most especially of the symbolism of the sefirot
This book seeks to explain the existence of man the pur-
pose of his life and where he comes from
This book seeks to unveil the occult understanding the
sefirotic trees and the four worlds that make them up
This book seeks to discover the hidden scenarios of your
life achieving the much desired happiness without effort
This book seeks to acknowledge the mystical magic and
creative power of the Tree of Life and its sefirot
This book seeks to be not a abstract study quite the con-
trary whoever studies Judeo-Christian Kabbalah will be able to analyze
the Tree of Life and its sefirot understanding their importance on onersquos
life
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
9
This bookrsquos search takes place within each reader because
ldquoKabbalahrdquo comes from the Hebrew words ldquoLaykabbelrdquo meaning To
Receive and ldquoHabbalahrdquo which means Tradition which refers to the Tra-
dition of To Receive and Kabbalah describes this action as ldquoThe tradi-
tion of wishing to receiverdquo This tradition of wishing to receive develops
and grows in four worlds that continuously come together and grow
apart
To Receive the pleasure of money and power this is the
material world
To Receive the pleasure of acknowledgement and hon-
ors this is the conceptual world
To Receive the pleasure of love and affection this is the
world of senses
To Receive the pleasure of the union with the Divinity
which is the spiritual world which is the highest in the pyramid of the
desires because it wraps and raises all the rest
ldquoHe who acknowledges the power of the
Kabbalah and the tradition of to receivehellip
Will search the means to attain its Lightrdquo
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10
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Kether The Crown
The Sacred Books
Old Testament
New Testament
Koran or Quram
The Zohar
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
11
The Old Testament
The Hebrew has three scriptures The Tanakh or Old Testament
the Talmud or collection of erudite commentaries on the Tanakh and
The Kabbalah or mystic interpretation of the Torah Ancient rabbis
would say that the first of these three books represented the Divine Body
the second one the Divine Spirit and the fourth one the Divine Soul The
average person can benefit from reading and obeying the first book eru-
dite scholars can study the second one but wise people meditate with the
third one
The Tanakh
Old Testament also called The Book of Books is divided in
three parts
The Torah the Law which envelops the first five books
ldquoJumashrdquo(5) in hebrew also called ldquoPentateuchrdquo or the Law of Moses
These are the five books Genesis (Bereshit) Exodus (Shemoth) Leviti-
cus (Vayikra) Numbers (Bamidbar) and Deuteronomy (Devarim) They
cover the period between the Genesis up to Mosesrsquo death on the thresh-
old of the entry into the Promised Land (Canaan)
Nevirsquoim (Prophets) The second part of the Tanakh co-
vers a vast period which goes from the conquest up to the last prophets
These are the books contained therein Joshua (the conquest period)
Judges I and II Samuel I and II Kings and those dedicated to the major
prophets Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel and Daniel and the minor prophets
Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah
Haggai Zecariah and Malachi
Ketuvim (writings) This third part of the Tanakh is
made up of the book of Psalms Proverbs Job Ezra Nehemiah Ruth
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
12
Song of Songs Lamentations (Eichah) Ecclesiastes Esther and Chroni-
cles I and II They cover a vast period that goes from the VII century of
the Common Era up to the Persian period the return to Israel and the
building of the second Temple of Jerusalem
The Talmud
The Halakha-Mishnah-Aggada-Talmud Bavli (of Babylon)-
Yerushalmi (of Jerusalem) is a compilation of the oral tradition transmit-
ted from generation to generation which covers all topics in the Tanakh
including
The Halakha or the Law explains the rules and princi-
ples pronounced in the Torah rules of conduct religious principles and
rituals Covers a wide variety of issues revolving around the individual
the family and living in community The Halakha has ruled life for centu-
ryrsquos right up to the present
The Mishnah which cover the following rules and regu-
lations are six basic sedarim or treaties (singular=seder)
Moed talks about the festivities א
Zeraim (Seeds) deals with labor practices ב
Nezikin deals with relationships within a group ג
Nashim are the family rules ד
Kodoshim deals with sanctity and holiness ה
Tohorot-kosher are Laws of purity ו
The Gemara the oral law with comments and exegetical rabbin-
ic statements has been study material for centuries nourishing philoso-
phy teachings It contains practically every bit of traditional wisdom col-
lected for centuries
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
13
This oral law also contains a vast literary work Haggadah and
Midrashim (legends and comments) on biblical figures of exemplary
conduct
The Kabbalah
The Kabbalah was in ancient literature the totality of the reli-
gious doctrine obtained with the exception of the Pentateuch As of the
X century DC Kabbalah was considered a secret mysterious and theo-
sophical science destined to explain always in a cryptic language the
Creation of the Universe by the Being defined as ldquoOne and Absoluterdquo
Some kabbalists such as Pico Della Mirandola Reuchlin and
Schikard adopt the old tradition according to which Kabbalah develops
from the inspiration that God instilled in Adam Abraham Moses Bud-
dha Jesus Mohammed Bahi and all those that constitute the mystic cir-
cle of the Latter Prophets
Kabbalah is not exclusively Jewish since first Jesus and later
Mohammed were kabbalist scholars
The New Testament
Having taken Jesus as an example as we know it when he was
born there were three religious doctrines in Palestine the Pharisees and
Sadducees of which the Gospels often speak and the Essenes which are
never mentioned Tradition states that the boy Emanuel ben Yoseph was
sent by the erudite doctors of the Law to the community of the Essenes
near the Dead Sea after being heard at the Temple at the age of thirteen
to be educated according to the mystic tradition of Israel The Kabbalah
He stayed with the Essenes until he was thirty years old Emanuel ben
Yoseph or Jesus Christ teaches the continuity of the Hebrew Scriptures
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14
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the
Prophets I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them I tell you
the truth until heaven and earth disappear not the smallest letter not the
least stroke of a pen will by any means disappear from the Law until
everything is accomplished (Mt 517)
However I admit that I worship the God of our fathers
as a follower of the Way which they call a sect I believe everything that
agrees with the Law and that is written in the Prophetsrdquo (Acts 2414)
Jesus answered It is written Man does not live on
bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God (Mat-
thew 44) referring to Deuteronomy 83 ldquohellipto teach you that man does
not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of
Godrdquo
In the chapter called Tipherzt-Beauty you will find a broader ex-
planation of the Christian Kabbalah and an analysis of the Kabbalistic
Jesus and his apostles
The Koran or Quram
The Koran or Quram is the sacred book of Islam containing the
word of Allah (God) as revealed to Mohammed through the angel Gabri-
el (Gibrail or Yibril)
During his life the Prophet Mohammed received the revelations
either verbally or written on palm leaves pieces of leather or bones etc
Upon the death of Mohammed in the year 632 his followers began to
gather all these revelations which during the period in which Uthman ibn
Affan was Caliph took the shape we know nowadays 114 chapters each
one called surah subdivided into verses or phrases
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
15
For the Muslims the Koran is the eternal and un-created work of
God therefore it was to be transmitted without the slightest change in the
original language the classic Arabic considered a sacred tongue for all
purposes
However in recent times the Koran has been translated to many
languages aimed specially at the believer whose native language is not
Arabic But even so believers are obligated to read it in its original lan-
guage because they claim that the contents of the Koran has not been
modified in centuries and a translation is an interpretation
Mohamed admits the continuity of the Hebrew Scriptures in the
following passages of the Koran
ldquoAnd most certainly We gave Musa (Moses) the Book
and We sent apostles after him one after anotherrdquo (Koran surah 287)
ldquoSurely We revealed the Taurat (Torah) in which was
guidance and light with it the prophets who submitted themselves
(to Allah) judged (matters) for those who were Jewsrdquo (surah 544)
ldquoCertainly We made a covenant with the children of Is-
rael and We sent to them apostlesrdquo (surah 570)
ldquoAnd certainly We gave the Book to Musa so be not in
doubt concerning the receiving of it and we made it a guide for the
children of Israelrdquo (surah 3223)
According to the Koran ldquothe Messiah Isa (Jesus) son of
Marium (Mary) is only an apostle of Allah and word which He
communicated to Marium and a spirit from Himrdquo (surah 4171)
He is a prophet or a servant of Allah (surah 4359) but
not His son(surah 6101)
The Muslims consider him a Messiah (in Arabic
ldquoMasihrdquo very similar to the Hebrew ldquoMashiacuteajrdquo) to them it means an
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
16
elevated prophet (ldquoanointedrdquo) the closest one to Allah before Mo-
hammed
The word Messiah Masih (ldquoanointedrdquo) can be found in
Surahs 345 4157 171-172 517-72-75 930-31 The highest
prophet except for Mohammed
The Islam considers the mystery of the Trinity and in-
carnation an ldquoassociationrdquo and therefore an offense against the
uniqueness of Allah (surah 112)
But not this way the first three sefirot that wrap the symbolism of
the Trinity
Mohammed sensed the Kabbalah in the Koran since Isa (Je-
sus) is the word of Allah and a spirit from Him son of the Holy Spirit
but they do not exactly consider Isa (Jesus) as if he were Allah
And furthermore the Koran affirms that at the end of time when
humanity will be called to judgment by Allah Isa (Jesus) will stand by
Him as witness and part therein (surah 4361) And everyone who did
not believe in him will believe in him (surah 4157)
Those who interpret the Koran affirm that Isa (Jesus) will come
back to this world at the end of time to save Humanity from damnation
and convert it to Allah
The Zohar
The composition of the Kabbalistic doctrine as we know it to-
day it attributed to Rabbi Shimeon ben Yochai in century II He is the
author of the Zohar ldquoThe Book of Splendorrdquo one of the basic texts of
the Kabbalah Shimeon ben Yochai (80-160) was a disciple of Rebbi
Akiva ldquoRashbirdquo (40-137) who had been sentenced to death by the Ro-
mans because he would not acknowledge nor obey the ruling authority of
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
17
Rome nor would he reveal any Kabbalah secrets to them Even though
the Zohar was written by Rabbi Shimeon ben Yochai Rebbi Akiva was
its true inspirer
Adam Kadmon Zohar XVII Century
Rebbi Akiva ben Joseph was born southeast of Judea close to the
Mediterranean shore His father was a humble Jewish peasant who was
not acquainted with the literature of his people nor the traditions he had
never read the Torah nor visited the Temple Due to the precarious eco-
nomic conditions in which there was living the family Akiba none of her
children received formal education in her infancy The reality was that
Akiba ben Joseph I pass your childhood and adolescence as an illiterate
Mediterranean shepherd until a few years later he married with Raacutechel
who convinced it to leave your activity and to study with the big rabbini-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
18
cal teachers Akiba faced many difficulties in your learning That is why
he started learning the alphabet with his 5 year old son and soon was
reading text books in Hebrew he went on to study the Torah at Rabbi
Joseph ben Zakkairsquos renowned Yeshiva (academy) His teachers Eliezer
ben Hyrkanos Joshua ben Hananiah and Nahum of Gimzo became his
best friends because they admired his bright fast and resourceful mind
Fifteen years later at the top of his mental and physical faculties he be-
gan his monumental work the reconstruction of the Law and the estab-
lishment of an academy of permanent studies
At the age of 57 in the year 97 Akiba was already revered by
both by his colleagues and by the masses He visited rabbis and experts
of the Toraacute with the purpose of combining all the Jewish traditions and
then went on to classify them in a legal code divided up logistically The
effective combination of conciseness and precision served as example the
future generations In the centuries following Mishna (codification of
Jewish laws and traditions) it was acknowledged and studied by the rab-
binical authorities
With more than 65 years Rebbi Akiva founded his private Ye-
shiva (academy) in Bene Berak (Sons of Lightning) to the north of Jeru-
salem wanted to found several in the whole Israel for the study of the
Tora and of the Kabbalah
Everything went along smoothly until the year 125 CE when the
relationship between Jews and Romans deteriorated Emperor Hadrianusrsquo
decision to build a pagan sanctuary on Mount Moria (where the old tem-
ple had been) exacerbated spirits Excitement grew within the Jewish
people and led by Shimon bar Kojba they rebelled
In a little less than three years the Roman armies destroyed all
evidence of Jewish resistance The cruelty of the repression grew month
by month and in the year 134 the Romans enacted a drastic decree pro-
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
19
hibiting the practice and study of the Torah Rebbi Akiva was convinced
it was the end If the study of the Torah was abolished his life lacked all
meaning At the age of 95 defying the Roman authority he gathered his
students with the sole purpose to study Kabbalah
A few days later Rebbi Akiva was incarcerated The Romans re-
spected his knowledge reputation and distinguished personality Akiva
continued teaching his disciples from his cell which earned him judg-
ment He was found guilty tortured and sentenced to death With Rebbi
Akiva 24000 of his disciples were killed by the Romans only Rabbi
Simeon bar Yochai and four others survived Before being captured Reb-
bi Akiva and Rabbi Yehuda ben Baba authorized ldquoRashbirdquo to transmit to
future generations the Kabbalah they had taught him
The Zohar or ldquoBook of Splendorrdquo was composed by Simeon bar
Yochai and his son Elazar during the thirteen years they lived in a cave
hiding from the Roman army
ldquoRashbirdquo came out of the cave with the Zohar a flawless meth-
od to study the Kabbalah and having accomplished spirituality Rabbi
Simeon bar Yochai attained the 125 levels a human being can achieve
during his whole life in this world According to the latest investigations
the revelation of the current Kabbalah could be resumed this way
The historic Kabbalah was preceded by a movement (900-1200)
that preserved and encouraged the legacy of the Jewish gnosis
(knowledge of spiritual truth) Later on this movement penetrated Eu-
rope constantly at different stages Hasidism was an important intermedi-
ate stage Furthermore besides all the theoretical and mystical variances
of Kabbalah there was a much older one in which the secret names of
God and the angels were used the same way they are used in white mag-
ic not causing any harm to people Not to be confused with ldquoblack mag-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
20
icrdquo (kishcuf in Hebrew) international current containing elements from
Arabic Jewish and Christian magic
After the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in the year 1492 and
the establishment of a Jewish center in Safed (north of Galilea) Kabba-
lah also experienced a change since two systems flourished the Kabba-
lah of Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (1522-1570) and Kabbalah of Isaac
Luria (1534-1572)
In brief Cordoverorsquos Kabbalah could be defined as a theoretical
variant with many gnostic elements while Luriarsquos Kabbalah would be a
practical mysticism
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
21
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Hokhmah
Wisdom
The Sacred Ideas
Light
The spiritual Will
Tetragramaton
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
22
Light
We all have this sixth sense which we will call spiritual sense
still not awakened in some people When people study Kabbalah they can
learn things that were not available to them before because a sixth sense
is developed in order to envision life and the world from a different point
of view
The sixth sense is also called ldquothe spiritual vaserdquo(kli) this vase
is in all of us and it is ruled by basic kabbalistic concepts
A regular personrsquos spiritual vase is still not adequately א
developed to perceive the spiritual world
When light enters a personrsquos heart or soul it ignites the ב
spiritual perception in that person
Nothing is possible without light When we take the light ג
that surrounds us it will gradually light our path
Even if we donrsquot recognize said light there is a direct ד
connection between our heart and the light that will fill it
The light is destined the surrounding lights stand by ה
waiting for you to prepare your vase to receive them
The light we receive when we give in to the wisdom of ו
self-knowledge attracts a celestial charm which gives us abundance
of sanctity and purity that take us closer to realization
ldquoThe person who studies the Kabbalah Judeo-Christian with
the purpose of self-modification will attain the light and will notice
that the desired improvement and success can be achieved with the
least cost or sufferingrdquo
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
23
The Spiritual Will
The Creator wants us to indulge in spiritual pleasures that we
are full That can only be possible through enormous will perfection We
can only reach the spiritual world through a rectified will which will
make us strong and active Only by means of a passionate desire strong-
ly and dedication we will be able to reach really the spiritual world re-
turning forts and assets A small desire will not damage us very much
nor a lot of good The passionate desire only works from the Divine
stimulus which we it will obtain from the Intuition which is a part of the
Spirit
There is a pyramid of souls based on the will to receive
At the base are the many souls with small earthly wills
searching a comfortable animal like life (food and affection)
The following level with minor number of souls those who
want to acquire richness Those are the people who dedicate their lives to
make money and will sacrifice themselves in exchange for fortune
Next are the ones that would do anything to control others to
govern and reach positions of power
At the highest level are the souls that are seeking spirituality
who are open to the light
Man in turn has the same pyramid within him he must invert it
so that the weight goes to the purest desire or will the infinite will for
spirituality When we truly wish to increase our will for spiritually the
surrounding light (the hidden spiritual world) begins to reflect upon us
increasing the desire for even more If we identify with matter we will
try to obtain satisfaction through it searching outside our spirit for mate-
rial things until these material things no longer satisfy us thus becoming
less materialistic and discovering our true spirit
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
24
Our body is matter matter is energy and therefore has life but it
has no spirit or spiritual energy because it is all material energy dense
energy the spirit is light energy The difference between one and the
other is that the material energy has no conscience because it doesnrsquot
perceive reality that is why we see with our eyes and not our heart our
eyes show us the outer figures of things or people its beauty or ugliness
but we can see what they are like inside Spiritual energy is what gives
us conscience of reality of love of truth That is why when we become
conscious of ourselves we transform our matter into spirit and become
more conscious
Albert Einstein was so right when he said ldquoEnergy cannot be
created nor destroyed it can only be transformedrdquo thus dense (mate-
rial) energy can be transformed into lighter (spiritual) energy again and
again
The biggest change we observe in the souls that are descending
nowadays is mainly in their well defined will to achieve a spiritual sys-
tem Even the most common people without any religious or mystic in-
struction are looking for something beyond this world something spir-
itual furthermore more and more scientists or people into pragmatic pro-
fessions are searching for their spiritual light In the last thirty years the
descent of new souls has been activated and accelerated
Their will is much bigger and more genuine They want to
achieve authentic spiritualityhellip nothing morehellip and nothing less
We will discover that we have no other alternative but to
acknowledge the spiritual world of which we are a part This acknowl-
edgement will take us to a new situation where we will begin to act con-
sciously in unison no longer as isolated individuals All of us from one
generation to another are connected in one soul We share a collective
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
25
responsibility That is why the Kabbalist is considered ldquofounder of the
worldrdquo He affects the whole world and the whole World affects him
The Tetragrammaton
In Kabbalah the concept of Shem or ldquoDivine Namerdquo plays a
first degree role which makes a lot of sense given the importance of eve-
rything related to the Emanations of the Sefirotic Tree the mystery of the
letters and the beauty in words
The meditation about the ldquoName of Godrdquo constitutes one of the
pillars of the initiation path to Kabbalah
The Tetragram or Tetragrammatonhellipfrom the Greek four (tetra)
and letters (grammaton)hellip is the name formed by four consonants one
yod (Y) two he (H) and one vav (V) The combination of these four let-
ters spell YHVH the ldquoHoly Namerdquo or Yahavah (as literally read) which
in Kabbalah is called Shem Herman Forash ldquocomplete namerdquo or the
ldquoexplicit namerdquo
Said ldquoSacred Namerdquo is usually transcribed as Jehovah or Yah-
veh nevertheless such description is no more than a hypothetical and
approximate restoration Therefore the word YHVH in which all mys-
teries and the savior power communicated by God are contained has
been designated by tradition as the ldquolost wordrdquo
The ldquocomplete or whole namerdquo was replaced by others also at-
tributed by the Bible as Yahveh such as Adonai El Shaddai or Elohim
Sometimes the four letter name is substituted by half of the Tetra-
grammaton the so-called ldquotwo letter Namerdquo HY or ldquoHaimrdquo interpreted
or translated as LIFE
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
26
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Binah Intelligence
The Tree of Life
Creation
The Tree of Life
The Columns
Tree Sefirot and Letters
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
27
Creation
An example of the depth in the interpretation of the Bible offered
by the kabbalistic doctrine is its version of the biblical narration of the
Creation as contained in the Book of ldquoGenesisrdquo usually considered a na-
ive and childish story to explain a process that modern science has
demonstrated to be much more complex In regard to said mythical-
symbolic narration similar to many others contained in other spiritual
traditions in humanity the kabbalistic doctrine makes two basic observa-
tions of major importance
1 According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the biblical crea-
tion is the process through which the universal manifestation takes place
It is a logical process its place is in the Divine world and it gives form to
the Divinity In it the Supreme Being is determined and revealed as such
going from the Nothing to the Whole The Everything
It is not ldquoGodrsquos Creationrdquo but
ldquoThe Creation in Godrdquo
In this process the Creation of the Cosmos is only a consequence
which just like the latter takes place not sooner nor later but in a con-
tinuous and uninterrupted way in an instant beyond time in the ldquoeternal
nowrdquo
2 The six days of the Creation identify with the creative sefirot
from the fourth one (Hesed) to the ninth one (Yesod) referring to the
specific action or purpose of each one of them while the seventh day
Shabbath in which God rested relates to the tenth sefirot (Malkuth) All
of this is contained in the initial words of the ldquoGenesisrdquo Book ldquoIn the
beginning God created the heavens and the earthrdquo (according to the
common interpretation Authorized Version)
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
28
The key words here are the first three if we want an exact under-
standing of them we must turn to the Hebrew text
ldquoBereshit Bara Elohim
Bereshit means ldquoin the beginningrdquo which according to the Kab-
balistic interpretation it does no refer to a beginning in time but a logical
beginning it is what proceeds not in time but in hierarchy (rank)
and function This principle is Hokhmah the second sefirath
This text should be interpreted this way
ldquoIn the intelligent and intelligible
Beginning which is the Divine Wisdomrdquo
The second word of this quote is Bara ldquocreatedrdquo It is a verb of
action without a subject it doesnrsquot say who created That action has no
subject because the ldquowhordquo of which it speaks is the sefirath Kether ldquothe
Crownrdquo which goes beyond anything personal since in it the ldquoNothingrdquo
of the Supra Being or Absolute
As far as the third word is concerned Elohim we must indicate
that besides not being the subject of the sentence it is in its plural for
literally meaning ldquogodsrdquo
The kabbalistic exegesis (explanation) identifies this Elohim
with the third sefirath Binah the Intelligencerdquo which contains and de-
signs within itself the seven sefirot of the cosmic composition the six
active ones and the receptive one which is the receptacle for the rest of
them (Malkuth the tenth sefirot)
This is why the interpretation to which we are used ldquoGod creat-
edrdquo is not exact A more accurate interpretation of the original hebrew
text would be ldquoThe Nothing created godsrdquo that is it created or profiled
the qualities or aspects of the Divine Reality of which afterwards -not in
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
29
a time order but in an order of principles a cosmic order arises the Crea-
tion or universal manifestation
Therefore here is the message contained in the initial verse of
the ldquoGenesisrdquo according to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah
ldquoThe Supra Being constitutes Itself eternally the causal Being
and the object or purpose of all things in which all qualities poss i-
bilities and forms of the created and uncreated reality are presentrdquo
The Sefirotic Tree and the four worlds
And the twenty-two paths that unite the
Crown (Kether) with the Kingdom (Malkuth)
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
Binah
Geburah
Hod
Yesod
Malkuth
Tipherzt
Neshah
Hesed
Hok-mah
Kether
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
30
The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life is the Divine Architecture which symbolizes the
soul of man and the Universe and as He is divided into four levels known
as the four inner Worlds
In the Ideal World - Atziluth is where everything is
in a latent potential state
In the Creative World - Briah is where the pure
power and the ideas in their shapes are
In the Formative World - Yetsirah everything is in
a conceptual process or one or formation
In the Material World - Assiah is where the physi-
cal manifestation takes place
This tree consists of 10 fixed spheres and a ldquovirtualrdquo one and 22
paths that connect them In a very broad sense we can say that the
spheres or Sefirot are stages of the emanations of the Spirit of God
from the primordial existence to the physical manifestation
ldquoThey are inexhaustible centers of powerrdquo
The model of the Tree of Life mirror and synthesis of man and
the cosmos is divided in three columns or pillars this traditional division
in three columns is in close connection with the alchemical or magic
principles which were discovered by the kabbalists of the 12th
century
and have been present to this day and always will be
The whole manifestation is based on duality this duality is rep-
resented in the tree the three Sefirot to the right form the active pillar
masculine and the three Sefirot to the left form the passive pillar femi-
nine
The duality is also present in each Sefirath The only Unit is
found in the Non-Manifested which is above the Tree
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
31
The Non-Manifested is the pure state of the In-Existence from
where Existence arises which is the first Sefirath the Sefirot in the cen-
ter form the middle or balance pillar
Therefore we observe that one of the columns is active-
masculine another one is passive-feminine and the third one or central
axis equidistant from both of them is neuter and is constantly combining
and harmonizing them both
Power corresponds to the Active energy column integrated by the
following Sefirot Hokhmah (2) Hesed (4) and Neshah (7) Form or
shape corresponds to the passive energy columns which is made up of
the following Sefirot Binah (3) Geburah (5) and Hod (8) The central
or axle column or pillar integrated by Kether (1) Tipherzt (6) Yesod
(9) and Malkuth (10) is neuter and eternally assimilating the opposites
thus creating new possibilities of indefinite developments It is called the
column or pillar of equilibrium or balance
This is the image of permanent order of the Creation It is the
idea upon which all sciences are based and which are called ldquoThesis An-
tithesis and Synthesisrdquo techno science and modern physics have ldquodis-
coveredrdquo formations similar to that of the Tree of Life in the universe
around us such as the quantum structure or the DNA map of all living
things (vegetables animals humans) This proves that the Tree of Life
rules all norms of matter and spirit from the beginning of time
Kabbalah teaches us that energies run through the Tree of Life
from the Unity Kether identified with the number one up to the formal
and substantial manifestation the world and matter just as we know
them and perceive them through our senses This flow of energies or
vibrations is called emanations and they make up any manifestation
The energies of the Sefirot ndash all of the invisible except for
Malkuth which resumes and contains the whole Tree ndash travel a continu-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
32
Binah
Geburah
Hod
Yesod
Malkuth
Tipherzt
Neshah
Hesed
Hokmah
Kether
Leb
ous descending path from (1) Kether down to Earth or the World
Malkuth (10) which is an inverted image of Kether (10=1+0=1) The
rest of the Sefirot or numerals are taken as intermediaries between mani-
festation and the lack of it
The columns of the Tree of Life
Passive Column Neuter Column Active Column
Feminine Form Central Equilibrium Mascu-
line Power
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
33
Tree Sefirot and letters
According to the Pentateuch Moses went to the top of Mount
Sinai and surrounded by fantastic clouds received the Ten Command-
ments God gave him On the other hand Kabbalist affirm that Moses
also received from Heaven besides the Commandments the most pro-
found and secret knowledge to be transmitted only to those truly worthy
of it Going even further back in time some say they can see in the Kab-
balah the mysterious instructions given to Adam in his sleep which per-
mitted him to give a name to everything within the Creation meaning
that Kabbalah is the philosophy of the infinite power of the word the
sound that God gave man in his image calling everything by its name
This search for the practical use of the word is good for reading
the future as well as for really manipulating the secret vibrating energies
for useful purposes or according to the legend to create beings the go-
lems which make up the active aspect of the Kabbalah
On the other hand this also entails a speculative aspect a mysti-
cism aimed at discovering through the interpretation of the Scriptures
and meditation on the sound and the name the diagram of the Universe
and the destiny of man
Ein Sof (the infinite the ineffable) affirms itself revealing itself
to humanity it becomes Shekinah (Godrsquos presence and its feminine side)
which has the responsibility of creation its product
Creation is the result of a progressive descent of the divine
(which never loses its own unity nor its transcendence) in a pure and in-
telligent series associated to the divine until it takes over matter
Thus the cosmos is structured like an immense organism a
drawn path in which all divine intelligence (sefirah plural sefirot) is
communicated with the preceding one from which it receives and with
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
34
the next one to which it gives until the final stage contact with our
world
The ten sefirot all connected by imposed paths denoting their in-
terdependence and represented by a symbolic structure of a tree or a man
(Adam Kadmon) follow an order
Kether Crown - 1 א
Hokhmah Wisdom - 2 ב
Binah Intelligence - 3 ג
Leb Heart
Hesed Greatness - 4 ד
Geburah Justice - 5 ה
Tipherzt Beauty - 6 ו
Neshah Stability - 7 ז
Hod Glory - 8 ח
Yesod Foundation - 9 ט
Malkuth Kingdom - 10 י
The admirable and complex organization of the Sefirotic Tree
with its 22 paths which connect the ten divine emanations permit us to
see right away the close connection there is between the sefirot and the
22 letters in the hebrew alphabet the 22 images of the Tarot and the 22
astrological signs (12 signs and 10 planets)
Since God created the world pronouncing the name of things
each letter is associated to the descent of the divine intelligences and
holds within itself an infinite power
The hebrew language is just like Arabic Egyptian Sanscrit or
Chinese a liturgical language full of the voices of thousand of men who
speak with the divinity therefore to pronounce one sound instead of an-
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
35
other is like changing or modifying creation itself based on a subtle vi-
brating equilibrium Within that same chain of ideas prayer by principle
a devout plea also becomes an active and energetic system that shakes
up the intermediate spheres between man and God holder of the cosmic
order
Kabbalah whether is aimed exclusively at theoretic speculation
or it proposes practical and precise goals like the making of talismans
(from the Arabic tilsam ndash a charm to avert evil and bring good fortune it
appeals to specific instruments based of calculus and numbers
Ad- am
Kadmon Zohar XVII Century
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
36
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
Hesed Greatness
Adam Kadmon
And The Sefirot
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
37
Adam Kadmon
Adam Kadmon (Primordial Man) is described by the Zohar as a
ldquobig and powerful tree with branches reaching up to the sky source of
all spiritual lightrdquo In this sefirotic and tree shaped human figure the dif-
ferent sefirot have been placed according to the parts of the human body
to which they relate Each one of them has a very particular mystical
value in the cosmic vision
The first three sefirot correspond symbolically to the head
Kether (the Crown) placed at the top or what the kabbalistic
doctrine calls the ldquohidden brainrdquo Hokhmah (Wisdom) and Binah (In-
telligence) relate to the right and left sides of the brain respectively or
also the right and left eye The two sefirot at mid level Hesed (Great-
ness) and Geburah (Justice) are identified with both arms ldquoGreatnessrdquo
the right one and ldquoJusticerdquo the left one The two central sefirot Leb (the
Heart) which is Virtual that is why it is not represented and Tipherzt
(Beauty) identified with the navel energetic center source of connection
to the mother and nucleus or sun of the body Tipherzt embodies com-
pleteness union and harmony The two sefirot of the inner level Neshah
(Stability) and Hod (Glory) represent both legs ldquoStabilityrdquo the right
thigh and ldquoGloryrdquo the left one Yesod (Foundation) another central
sefirah found between both thighs represents the genitalia the tools and
foundation for procreation Sefirah number ten the last one is Malkuth
(the Kingdom) from which the cosmic manifestation springs and is in
permanent contact with Earth it is related to both feet always in contact
with the ground This sefirah connecting all this to man the Sefirotic
Tree proves that everything in the human being can be spiritualized
Man must achieve in his own being that harmoniously elevated
unity that the figure in the divine Tree of Life and Light shows us
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
38
In order to be an authentic ldquoTree of Liferdquo man must discover and
update that sefirotic mystery that is within him as if it were a treasure
full of light waiting to be found
The Sefirot
Kether ndash The Crown - The first sefirah is the Admirable Intelligence
it is the light that gives the power of understanding the First Principle
which has no beginning It is the one and only reality the absolute mys-
tery the essence from which the rest of the sefirot emanate Related to
Crown Knowledge Principle Essence and Light
Hokhmah ndash Wisdom- The second sefirah is the Enlightening Intelli-
gence the Wisdom through which the Deity knows Itself and allows eve-
ry Being to know the unity within itself It is the symbolism of the pure
and eternal fire a place in heaven where the archangels angels
Related to Wisdom Experience Convergence Intuition
Binah ndash Intelligence - The third sefirah is the Sanctifying Intelligence
it is the Great Mother or Holy Universal Spirit matrix of all the worlds
and beings shaping them to return them again to the One
Idea Intelligence Awareness Protection Morale Divergence
(discrepancyvariance)
These first three sefirot are really only one
Kether is Knowledge
Hokhmah is the subject that knows (active)
Binah is the known object (passive)
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
39
In these three sefirot the Judeo-Christian Kaballistic dotrine
discovers the endowments of the Holy Trinity
Kether or God the Father
Hokhmah or God the Son (active on the right side)
Binah or God the Mother or Holy Spirit (passive)
ldquoThe all emanations of God the Father and Son and Holy
Spirit is only one Beingrdquo
Hesed ndash Greatness - The fourth sefirah is the Receptive Intelligence it
contains all the holy powers and all the spiritual virtues emanate from it
such as Greatness Love and Mercy Related to Greatness Love Hum-
bleness Strength Deliverance
Geburah ndash Justice - The fifth sefirah is the Righteous Intelligence
which contains all the spiritual mandates It is the Divine Justice Relat-
ed to Justice Truth Freedom Shape Control
Tipherzt ndash Beauty - The sixth sefirah is the Intelligence Provider of
Spiritual Nouishment Ii is the Divine Beauty that entwines all the other
sefirot It is the Center of centers it clearly relates to the Sun giver of
life light and warmth Related to Beauty Serenity Sweetness Trust
Family
Neshah ndash Stability - The seventh sefirah is the Occult Intelligence it is
the bright Splendor of the intellectual virtues perceived by the eyes of the
intellect It is the energy that produces all the worlds Related to Sta-
bility Power Victory Balance Pleasures
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
40
Hod ndash Glory - The eighth sefirah is the Absolute or Perfect Intelli-
gence which has no support or base and descends from Geburah from
which it receives its Expertise Related to Glory Acknowledgement
Learning Awakening
Yesod ndash Foundation - The ninth sefirah is the Pure Intelligence because
it purifies tries corrects and centralizes the emanations It is the founda-
tion that balances the all previous Sephiroth Related to Founding
Building Childhood Filtering
Malkuth ndash The Kingdom - The tenth sefirah is Glowing Intelligence It
is the Kingdom of Heaven or Kingdom on Earth the descent of Kether
upon the material world represents the Divine Omnipresence over
things Related to The Kingdom Earth Heaven and Real World
Each one of these sefirot has a hidden face and a visible one
Every sefirah a complete Sefirotic Tree can be found and in every
sefirah in that Tree another one and so on until the smallest infiniteness
And vice-versa every Tree no matter how big we imagine it is only a
sefirah of a bigger Tree which in turn is another sefirah of an even big-
ger one to the infinite as well
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
41
Kabbalah
Judeo Christian
Geburah Justice
The letters and numbers
The Letters of Kabbalah
Gematriacutea Table
Gematriacutea or Numerology
The Meaning of the Hebrew Letters
Angels of Kabbalah
Geniuses of Kabbalah
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
42
The Letters of Kabbalah
The formulas in the medieval books on magic are so full of He-
brew names to speak of God the angels the spirits and demons that at
this point it is impossible to pinpoint the inexactness and the abuse The
Hebrew language like other former language has magicrsquos powers
Sound is a vibration found in numbers Numbers are groups of geometric
relations of spaces that activate energy
Each letter in the hebrew alphabet corresponds exactly just as in
an ldquoencoded languagerdquo to a number because the Hebrews Greeks and
Arabs used for many centuries the same graphic sign for a sound or
amount until the Indians and the Arabs introduced their ldquonumbersrdquo the
ldquozerordquo was invented in the IV century and the Arabs and Hebrews began
to use it in the VII century with the name ldquoceferrdquo which means devoid
empty vacuum From it derived zero and cipher
It was Leonardo Fibonacci (1170-1240) an Italian mathemati-
cian the first one to write a book in 1202 Liber Abaci (Book of Calcula-
tion) on Arabic numbers in occident and began to replace the Roman
numbers It was not until the year 1500 that they were completely re-
placed
This means that it is not Kabbalah that replaces letters with num-
bers historically the letters ldquowererdquo numbers since these were enforced in
the western culture five hundred years ago If we accept this concept we
will not regard numerology or gematriacutea of the Hebrew letters as some-
thing new or capricious but as a historical reality
For those who do not read Hebrew writing there is another meth-
od called transcription It is no easy task to transcribe from a holy lan-
guage to one that is not
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43
A kabballistic practice suggests that as long as the hebrew lan-
guage is not completely unknown to replace each number in a date with
its corresponding letter bearing in mind that the Jewish calendar starts
with the year of the creation which took place 3760 years before the
birth of Jesus when the western calendar begins counting
Thus the year 1989 becomes 5749 which translated to Hebrew
letters gives us Tau Shin Mem Chefh which add up to Tismach mean-
ing ldquoyou will be overjoyedrdquo and that was the year the Berlin wall came
down In the same way 1914 the start of World War I becomes Tau
Resch Ayin Daleth which add up to Tirtzach ldquoYou will killrdquo and for
1938 start of World War II Tirrsquoad ldquoYou will tremble in terrorrdquo
Table of Gematriacutea of Hebrew Letters
Letter
Name Absolute
Value
Ordinal
Value
Reduced
Value
Latin
Alphabet
Alefh 1 1 1 A-H
Beth 2 2 2 B
Guimel 3 3 3 G
Daleth 4 4 4 D
Hei 5 5 5 H-E-A
Vav 6 6 6 V-U-Y
Zain 7 7 7 Z
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44
Heth 8 8 8 Y-J
Thet 9 9 9 TH
YodJod 10 10 1 Y-I
KafJaf 20 11 2 K-C
Lamed 30 12 3 L
Mem 40 13 4 M
Nun 50 14 5 N
Samej 60 15 6 S
Ayn 70 16 7 O-E
PehFeh 80 17 8 P-F
Tzadik 90 18 9 T-Z-X
Kuof 100 19 1 K-Q
Reish 200 20 2 R
Shin 300 21 3 S-SH
TafTau 400 22 4 T
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45
Gematriacutea or Hebrew Numerology
As we said earlier in the Hebrew language each letter has a nu-
merical value Gematriacutea is the calculation of the numerical value of let-
ters words or phrases to obtain a better understanding of the relation be-
tween the different concepts and to explore the relation between words
and ideas
In this technique it is assumed that the numerical equivalency is
no coincidence From the moment the world was created through the
Creatorrsquos ldquowordrdquo each letter represents a different creative power
Therefore the numerical equivalence of two words reveals an inner con-
nection between its potential creators
There are four ways to calculate the equivalency of individual
letters and each way corresponds to a different world in the Tree of Life
The Zohar tells us that the concept of reduced value is related to
the spiritual world of Yetsirah Based on this we can establish a relation
between the four methods of calculation the four spiritual kingdoms and
the four letters of the name of the Divine which are YHVH or in He-
brew Yod Hei Vav and Hei
The Absolute Value of Yod itrsquos to the world of Atziluth
The Ordinal Value of Hei itrsquos to the world of Briah
The Reduced Value of Vav itrsquos to the world of Yetsirah
The Whole Value of Hei itrsquos to the world of Assiah
ldquoAbsolute value (in Hebrew mispar hejrajiacute) also known as
normative or normal Valuerdquo
Each letter takes the value of its accepted numeral equivalent
alef (the first letter) worth 1 bet (second one) worth 2 and so on up to
the tenth letter iud which is worth 10 and the following ones are worth
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46
20 30 40 up to the letter kuf close to the end of the alef-bet which is
worth 100 and then 200 300 up to the last letter tav which is worth 400
In this type of calculation the letters kafjaf sofit (sofit=end)
mem sofit nun sofit pehfeh sofit and tzadik sofit which are the ldquofinal
shapesrdquo of the respective letters when they are at the end of a word usu-
ally take the same numeric value of the common shape of the letter
Nonetheless sometimes the following are considered equivalents kafjaf
sofit = 500 mem sofit = 600 nun sofit = 700 pehfeh sofit = 800 y tza-
dik sofit = 900
Following this method of calculation the Hebrew alphabet is a
complete circle the tzadik at the end is equal to 900 and then alef is
equal to one and one thousand In the Hebrew language the same letters
are used to write the name of the letter alef equal to one and to write the
word elef which means ldquothousandrdquo
ldquoOne the first number follows one thousand
in a complete and perfect circlerdquo
Ordinal Value (in hebrew mispar siduriacute) It assigns to each
one of the 22 letters a numerical equivalent according to the order in
which they appear in the alef-bet For example alef equals 1 kaf = 11
taf = 22 The final kaf is 23 and the final tzadik is 27
Reduced Value (en hebrew mispar kataacuten and in mathemati-
cal terminology the module 9) The value of each letter is reduced to
one digit For example alef is equal to 1 iud to 10 and kuf to 100 but
according to this system all three have a numerical value of one beit is
equal to 2 kaf to 20 and reish to 200 therefore all three are equal to 2
etc Therefore letters have only 9 equivalencies instead of twenty-two
Integral Value (in hebrew mispar mispariacute) This is the fourth
way to calculate In this fashion the total numeric value of a word is re-
duced to one digit If the sum of these numbers exceeds 9 the numbers
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47
in the total figure are added until a single digit is obtained The same
result will be obtained whether you take the absolute the ordinal or the
reduced values
The meaning of the Hebrew Letters
Alefh Represents the Divine Presence It is the symbol of
the absolute and unique faith in only one Creator and Lord It is pro-
nounced ah-left which derives from the word Alufh which means prince
minister or chief It is made up of two dots which are two iod (the tenth
letter of the alphabet) and a slanted vav (sixth letter) If we add the two
iod (20) and the one vav (6) we get 26 which is equal to the sum of the
letters YHVH Yod (10) Hei(5) Vav(6) Hei(5) of the name of the
Creator
Beth The Torah begins with this second letter ldquoBereshitrdquo
(In the Beginning) This is because it represents and symbolizes the
Berehia (Creation) and the Berajaacute (Blessing) The purpose of Creation is
to give abundance to the human being Its value is two It represents and
shows us that there is nothing in this world totally complete and indivisi-
ble Everything can be parted in two Only God is unique and indivisible
Guimel This letter is close to the root of the word Bra
keep complete and give That is why it is used in ldquoGuemilut Hasadimrdquo
to do favors Guimel represents the third column on which the world
rests it is the giver or favor doer spirit and also proof that God constantly
helps and favors the human being and His whole Creation Its value is
three
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48
Daleth When we pronounce this fourth letter we find a
great closeness to the word deleth (door) The letter Daleth relates to the
word ldquodalhrdquo poor going from door to door seeking food Daleth follows
Guimel creating a unified thought to help the poor Its value (4) reminds
us of the material world because poverty can be found everywhere in our
planet
Hei The Talmud says God created the world with two
letters that represent His Name ldquoYod and Heirdquo With the first one He
created the world to come and with the second one this world Its shape
is made up of two parts a dalet and an iod Daleth has a vertical line
and a horizontal line It represents this world where everything has a
body and occupies space The iod which is just a dot represents the in-
finite world where there are no physical laws Meaning that in this
world too the spiritual Divine component is present
Vav Its value six represents something complete and
finished The world was created completely in six days Every complete
and closed object has six sides top bottom right left front and back
The letter vav is used to unite phrases concepts objects similar ldquoandrdquo
Vav is therefore union Except for some exceptions all paragraphs in the
Bible as written in the scrolls begin with Vav The written Torah (5
books) + ldquovavrdquo (Kabbalah) The oral Torah (6 books)
Zain It represents the seven spiritual values which are
the object of this world Zan means ldquonourishmentrdquo and Zain means ldquoar-
mamentrdquo Its shape is similar to that of a sword Its shows us that man
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49
must confront and overcome adversity many times in order to obtain his
nourishment
Heth Just as Zain represents manrsquos purpose on earth Heth
with the value of eight represents manrsquos possibility to cross the limits
imposed by the earth Seven is nature eight are the values and goals
which represent what is above nature It also connects to the letter Haim
which means life The top part of the heth has an arrow pointing up-
wards meaning that life always belongs to God and everything depends
on Him
Thet This letter is first written in the Torah in the word
Tov (good) Each one of the days of the Creation was crowned with
qualifying phrase ldquoAnd God saw that it was goodrdquo Thet is synonym of
the relationship of God towards man which is always good even though
we donrsquot always see it that way Goodness or Kindness is a Divine quali-
ty and it should be emulated The most exquisite act of kindness is to
help our neighbor without causing him embarrassment
Iod Its size earns it the category of the smallest and most
indivisible letter not like the rest which are made up of different parts
and that is why it represents the Almighty in His condition of Unique and
Indivisible Its shape according to the Zohar has a point facing up to-
wards God another one facing down towards earth and the central point
which unites both That is why when a person prays the heart faces up
and the eyes down in humbleness in front on God Its value Ten is very
representative of the whole Torah Ten generations from Adam to Noah
and another ten from Noah to Abraham the Patriarch Ten are the Divine
Commandments given to Moses and ten are the sefirot The number ten
is actually ONE
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50
Kaf It symbolizes Kether the crown (written in Hebrew
with kaf) as the Talmud says ldquoGod will place the Kether on he who
helps his neighbor the way he should and according to his possibilitiesrdquo
Its shape (curved) has a relation to its name which represents the hum-
bleness that the person who carries the crown should have
Lamed Its shape is made up of a kaf and a vav together
they add up to 26 like the Divine Name Its name lamed is the root of
the verbs to teach and to learn The name Israel begins with iod the
smallest letter and ends with lamed the biggest one The Torah begins
with bet and ends with lamed together they spell the word led (heart)
the fundamental basis to find light and accomplish precepts
Mem This letter has two aspects one known as the open
mem it is used in the beginning and middle of a word indicating that
there are points which refer to God Almightyrsquos doing which are within
our comprehension and a closed mem which is only used at the end of
words indicating the occult and incomprehensible part Moshe and
Mashiacuteaj begin with mem Its value is 40 the necessary time period for
the concretion of different stages
The fetus needs 40 days to have a complete form
The Great Flood lasted 40 days and 40 nights
Moses was up at Mount Sinai 40 days and 40 nights
The Jewish people walked for 40 years in the desert
It is at the age of 40 that a person is considered to have
reached wisdom
Nun This letter also has two shapes one for any part of the
word with a curved shape and the other straight for the endings of
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51
words Both indicate the exclusive quality of God who is Neeman
which means loyal to His word and worthy of trust This word restarts
with a Nun and ends with another
Samej This letter represents the concept of the Divine
support (Semej in Hebrew) Godrsquos support towards man as well as manrsquos
support towards God The certainty of God is the foundation of faith and
the base upon which the human being can search and reach for its goal in
this world
Ayn in Hebrew it means ldquoeyerdquo Its shape is made up two
parts an Yod leaning against a Zain Reclining both on the base the nu-
meric value of both parts is 17 just like the word Tob (good) This indi-
cates that the ayn (eye) has to be used to observe only the good things
Its value is 70
70 are the names of the Almighty and the Torah
70 are the basic people (towns) in the world
70 are the holidays in a year (52 Saturdays 18 holy
days)
Jesus sent out 70 disciples to evangelize
The Great Temple of Jerusalem had 70 columns
70 old wise men received the Torah from Moses they
are called ldquothe eyes of the congregationrdquo the symbol of the ayn (eye)
precisely
Peh it means ldquomouthrdquo in Hebrew It is through this ex-
quisite sense that the human being differentiates and raises itself over the
rest of the creation There are two peh one for any part of the word and
the other for the endings The first one is said to be closed and its shape
symbolizes the fetus in the motherrsquos womb (fetal position) with its mouth
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52
closed The other open resembles the newborn babe stretching its limbs
It also reminds us of the control we should have over it sometimes
closed and others open when to speak and when not to
Tzadik The 18th letter The Talmud names the Tzadik per-
son the just person The title of ldquoTzadikrdquo is not given to just anybody It
is written that God is Tzadik and Perfect This quality of Tzadik when it
comes to God is manifested through kindness Those people who go
about and act according to the divine will are said to be ldquoTzadikrdquo They
are fair just and kind to the maximum of their possibilities
Kuof This letter shows us and symbolizes the Divine
Sanctity Kadosh God is Holy Man can also be called kuof if he is supe-
rior rising above the others The shape of kuof is made up of a kaf and a
vav which add up to 26 just as the four letter name for God Kuof is
very similar to kof which means ldquomonkeyrdquo The Zohar calls monkeys
those human beings who do not believe in the divine will and do not dig-
nify being created in Godrsquos image According to Kabbalah the road is
open for man he can be holy and thus get close to God or walk away
from Him and become a monkey
Reish Up until now we saw how the letters show us and
represent the Divine Presence On the contrary reish represents and
symbolizes Evil ldquoRashardquo in Hebrew Reish follows kuof which repre-
sents the Divine Sanctity The word ldquoroshrdquo (first beginning or head) in
Aramaic is pronounced ldquoreishrdquo just like the letter Midrash tells us the
Almighty is ldquoRoshrdquo since he is the beginning and head of the world and
its end as well Evil does not exist what we judge as bad is only a part of
the Divine Plan and we do not know and therefore cannot understand
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53
Shin this letter has an important place since shalom
(peace) begins with it Only God is the source and root of true peace Its
shape with three arms and three heads represents the wish of all of us to
rise to heaven lifting our hands to receive His help It also encompasses
the symbolism of something that has three limbs but only one purpose
We live in three worlds past present and future
The human being has a spirit a soul and a body
The human creation has three partners
Kether Binah and Hokhmah or the Holy
Trinity
Taf unlike the other letters which we have seen through
analysis and symbology that each represented a word being the first eg
Shin Shalom (peace) Sheker (lie) the symbol for taf is given by the last
letter in the word ldquoEmetrdquo (truth) This is exactly the general characteris-
tic of truth at first the lie seems more interesting Truth is appreciated in
the end Truth involves everything since its letters are one in the begin-
ning the other one in the middle and the third one at the end
The Angels of Kabbalah
The etymological meaning of the word angel is messenger from
the Greek ldquoAggeloacutesrdquo ldquoAngirasrdquo in Sanskrit in Persian ldquoAngarosrdquo in
Hebrew and Arabic ldquoMalakhrdquo and ldquoDevardquo for the Hindus
Doubts about their existence disappear before the coincidences
amongst cultures and diverse beliefs that describe them
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54
Angels constantly remind us who we are due to the message that
is attributed to them For us their place is the same as that of God they
are above us and within us
To come in contact with them could take us to doubt if we did so
with a superior reality or with the highest part of ourselves
The mythical history of Kabbalah tells us that after man was
driven out of the Garden of Eden the angels transmitted the kabballistic
teachings to man so that he could reconquer it through the never ending
divine energy which is present everywhere in the Universe
The 72 Angeles of Kabbalah
Seraphim
Vehuiah ndash Elemiah ndash Jeliel ndash Lelahel
Sitael ndash Achaiah ndash Mahasiah ndash Cahethel
Cherubim
Haziel ndash Aladiah ndash Lauviah ndash Hahaiah
Iezalel ndash Mebael ndash Hariel ndash He Kamiah
Thrones (also known as Ophanim)
Lauviah ndash Caliel ndash Lauviah ndash Pahaliah
Nelkhael ndash Yeiaiel ndash Melahel ndash Haheuiah
Dominions (or Kyriotetes)
Nith ndashHahaiah ndash Yerathel ndash Sheikh
Reiyel ndash Omael ndash Lecabel ndash Vasariah
Powers
Vehuiah ndash Lehahiah ndash Chavakiah ndash Menadel
Aniel ndash Haamiah ndash Rehael ndash Ieiazel
Virtues
Hahahel ndash Mikael ndash Veuliah ndash Ylahiah
Sealiah ndashAriel ndash Asaliah ndash Mihael
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55
Principalities
Vehuel ndash Daniel ndash Hahasiah ndash Imamiah
Nanael ndash Nithael ndash Mebahiah ndash Poyel
Archangels
Nemamiah ndash Yeialel ndash Aacuterale ndash Mitzrael
Umabel ndash Iah ndashAnauel ndash Mehiel
Angels
Damabiah ndash Manakel ndash Eyael ndash Habuhiah
Rochel ndash Yabamiah ndash Haiayel ndash Mum
Geniuses of Kabbalah
Air ndash Earth ndash Water - Fire
The first three verses of the Torah are revealing in regard to the
Divine Creation In the morning of the first day God created the four
geniuses or semi-gods to help Him directly preparing the platform for
the coming of man
Genesis 11 ndash
ldquoIn the beginning God created heaven and earthrdquo
Genesis 12 ndash
ldquohellipthe Spirit of God was hovering over the watersrdquo
Genesis 13 ndash
Let there be light and there was light
Nothing would exist in the Universe without the four geniuses
or elements only God and with the creation of these geniuses He
proves to us that He does not want to be alone but surrounded by
vegetation animals and specially the HUMAN BEING
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56
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Tipherzt
Beauty
Christian Kabbalah
Jesus and the Kabbalah
The Sacred Books
The Apostle Matthew
The Sermon on the Mountain
(The Beatitudes)
The Our Father
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57
Jesus and the Kabbalah
Up until now we have analyzed the Bible from the Tanaj and the
Talmud we have also taken the Torah as the foundation of Kabbalah
The New Testament has an important kabballistic content provided by
Jesus and his apostles
Emmanuel ben Yoseph known as Jesus Christ lived between
the ages of thirteen and thirty-three with the Essenes Fraternity of the
Dead Sea where he learned the secrets of the Kabbalah that his Father
had given to mankind and because of his illumination he was declared
Master of Justice
In the New Testament the four evangelists analyzed Jesus from
the four kabballistic worlds which are completely separated and diffeent
Matthew describes a physical Jesus generations that preceded
him and his relationship with the people of Israel
This is the World of Assiah
Luke tells the story of Jesus intimate life he describes moving
images of the Master along his pathway
This is the World of Yetsirah
Mark talks to us of a miraculous Jesus with a Divine mag-
netism and its soul healing rays
This is the World of Briah
John gave us the gospel of a metaphysical Jesus the abstract
spirit and visions of an astral world
This is the World of Atziluth
The Kabbalah develops its doctrine in the light that invades us
and emanates from our bodies because we are part of it
Jesus in John 812 says I am the light of the world Those who
follow me will never walk in darkness They will have the light that leads
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58
to life and in Ephesians 58 he confirms ldquoAt one time you were in the
dark But now you are in the light because of what the Lord has donerdquo
When Matthew in verse 223 says ldquohellipand came and lived in a
city called Nazarethrdquo This was to fulfill what was spoken through the
prophets He shall be called a Nazarene he explains that Jesus had to
be a Nazarene that is he had to wear the Crown or Kether according to
what God told Moses in the oral or kabballistic precepts In Numbers 66-
7 it is said ldquothroughout the period of their dedication to the LORD the
Nazirite must not go near a dead body Even if their own father or
motherrdquo
In Matthew 822 Jesus stresses this precept saying ldquohelliplet the
dead bury their own dead
According to the Kabballists the Torah is fountain of wine and
milk In Isaiah 551 we read hellip and he who has no money come buy
wine and milk without money without pricehelliprdquo In many quotes Jesus
mentions the wine as his spiritual blood Peter 22 ldquohellipLike newborn ba-
bies crave pure spiritual milk so that by it you may grow up in your sal-
vationhelliprdquo
The Old and New Testament
The Old Testament or Tanaj is made up of 39 books and the New
Testament 29 a total of 66 books As we all know there is no such thing
as luck it is the message of God that we still cannot decipher If we ana-
lyze that message through kabballistic numerology we will decipher it
and be surprised
According to the kabballistic numerology ldquo39 books in the Ta-
najrdquohellip 3+9=12hellip 1+2=3 and ldquo3rdquo represents the Holy Trinity
Kether or God the Father
Hokhmah or God the Son (active to the right of the Father)
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59
Binah or God the Mother or Holy Spirit (passive)
They are all emanations of God the Father and therefore only
one Being It is the announcement of the Divine Trilogy based on the
Admirable Intelligence of Kether the Illuminating Intelligence of
Hokhmah and the Sanctifying Intelligence of Binah If we take away the
substance of the Tanaj which are the five books that make up the Penta-
teuch we are left with 34 books or the number 7 which were the re-
maining emanations with which God created the Universe The 27 books
of the New Testament add up to the kabballistic nine which is the Divine
or Complete number since it contains all the numbers and closes the
wheel That is the New Testament not only does it complement but also
contains the previous one and completes it The sum of both is 66 its
kabballistic number is 3 and it returns to the Holy Trinity the Three
Sefirot or divine emanations
The Apostle Matthew
In chapter one Matthew explains the genealogy of Jesus with a
result of 42 generations from Abraham to Jesus in three periods of 14
generations each This he does from the physical world or Assiah to ex-
plain with real facts Abrahamrsquos descendants and how Jesus really was
the King of the Jews
Forty-two (generations from Abraham to Jesus) adds up to six
like the sefirot of the Creation (on the seventh one He rested) which
means God rested in Malkuth the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth but
the message from Matthew is that we should distribute these three peri-
ods amongst the six sefirot of the Creation
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60
The transition between Abraham and David takes place be-
tween the fourth sefirah Hesed (Greatness) and the fifth Geburah (Jus-
tice)
Hesed is the sefirah from which the rest of the sefirot emanate
like Abraham the Patriarch from whom three religions ldquoemanaterdquo Juda-
ism Christianism and Islam Hesed is the foundation of the spiritual vir-
tues and it is connected to the Holy Son like Abraham
Geburah is the sefirah of David the Justice seeker who uni-
fied the kingdoms for the greatness of the Chosen People he is the strict
Warrior King
With Salomon son of David starts the second period as told by
Matthew and it ends with the deportation of the people to Babylon This
is the passage from the sixth sefirah Tipherzt (Beauty) to the seventh
sefirah Neshah (Power)
Tipherzt is Beauty serenity trust just what King Salomon
was to his people In the same manner it is in the column of the Crown
of God and it is directly supported by Abraham and David
Neshah is the hidden Intelligence of stability and spiritual
power it is the powerful faith against adversity the expulsion to Baby-
lon
When the Babylonian invasion comes to an end the passage to
the coming of Jesus begins it takes place between the eighth sefirah Hod
(Glory) and the ninth sefirah Yesod (Foundation)
Hod is the Divine Glory the Divine Healer which healed the
wounds inflicted on the chosen people by the invaders It is awakening
and learning
Yesod is the foundation and filter of all emanations before
reaching the Kingdom it is the Pure Intelligence it is Unity without Di-
vision this is the sefirah to which both the moon and the waters respond
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61
and the tides and earth as well the sefirah that builds and founds That is
why this is the sefirah that Matthew attributes to Jesus It is the one that
brings together to the Father before reaching Malkuth the Kingdom of
Earth and Heaven in a straight line passing by Tipherzt (Salomon) and
with the virtual sefirah of the Sacred Heart
As we can see the Apostle Matthew shows us in a kabballis-
tic way the presence of Jesus from the patriarch Abraham to the
present
Holy Spirit
David
Glory
Jesus
Kingdom
Salomon
Power
Abraham
Holy Son
Holy Father
Heart
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62
The Sermon on the Mountain
(The Beatitudes)
With The Sermon on the Mountain Jesus teaches us the basic
Concepts of Kabbalah to be interpreted in many centuries to come be-
cause the land of the tribe of Israel to which Jesus belonged was under
the domain of the Greco-Roman Empire which wanted to impose its
own gods That is why Jesusrsquo message is stronger the deeper you go into
it It should be observed the same as the ocean it is not the quiet waters
and small waves that rule but the strong currents that flow in the deepest
depths
Somebody told me once that even a child could understand the
Sermon and it is true which shows the intelligence of the Master be-
cause the Sermon holds many levels of understanding
From the Gospel according to Matthew chapter five we can ex-
tract the essence of the Sermon on the Mountain contained in the first
nine verses two of them introductory and the other seven making up the
Beatitudes
51 ldquoAnd seeing the multitudes He went up onto a mountain
and when He was set His disciples came unto Him ldquo
5 2 ldquoAnd He opened His mouth and taught them sayinghelliprdquo
To go up to the mountain in Kabbalah means to rise to the high-
est degree of spirituality (eg Moses went up the mountain to speak with
God) which means he went up to the Crown or Kether When it says
ldquoHe opened His mouth and taught them sayingrdquo sounds redundant since
nobody can say anything without opening his mouth But we have to
consider that there are two aspects in Kabbalah thought or intelligence
Binah and the word or wisdom Hokhmah Jesus uses the first to ignite
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
63
the soul of His followers and the word to transmit the vibratory energy or
surrounding magnetic field and that way get to the spirit of people
53rdquoBlessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom
of Heavenrdquo
According to Kabbalah a rich man with many possessions can
enter the Kingdom of God if he doesnrsquot develop the materialistic spirit
that goes with them On the other hand a poor man without possessions
could be not admitted in the Kingdom of God if he develops that materi-
alistic spirit and is absorbed by the only wish of having fortune Kabba-
lah teaches that neither richness nor poorness is the ideal state Jesus re-
fers to the heart or Leb the simplicity and easiness of spirit because to
have possessions or not does not interfere with the progress towards the
path of foundation and spiritual uplifting
54 Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted
Kabbalah does not preach sadness but joy and happiness In the
Kabbalah the act of crying is a symbol of redemption greatness and
love or Hesed it is also a symbol of acknowledgment of errors made
and therefore seeking spiritual evolution in love for another The begin-
ning of change is identified with crying That is why whoever accepts
the change will be comforted
55 Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth
God said to Moses ldquoYou shall not adore other gods and you
shall respect my Namerdquo This means He demanded meekness Jesus re-
fers in kabballistic terms to meek men before God those will be able to
live in harmony and freedom achieving Divine Justice or Geburah be-
cause they are the ones who increase their spiritual level
56 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteous-
ness for they will be filled
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
64
Those who hunger within will seek the nourishment to satisfy it
And will begin a search for justice which will take them to the spiritual
Glory Hod This means that those who hunger and thirst for spiritual
truth will be filled with the blessing and perfection seeker Those who
abandon the spiritual search of the truth will condemn their souls to come
back as many times as it is necessary to achieve it
57 Blessed are the merciful for they will be shown mercy
To be merciful is to forgive others to have the power or Neshah
of not having negative thoughts actions or answers to aggressiveness
from others Negative feelings affect our spiritual body and poison our
physical body altering the nervous system
58 Blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God
The pure in heart are those who achieve inner beauty or
Tipherzt In order to have a clean and beautiful heart we must nourish it
with love and not hate with forgiveness not vengeance with truth not
lies or falsehood There must be harmony in our body soul and spirit
59 Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called sons
of Godrdquo
Peace in Aramaic is the same as harmony in Greek and both
words represent the foundation of life on this earth or Yesod and Jesus
suggests the Peace of the just
510 Blessed are those who are persecuted because of right-
eousness for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
511 Blessed are you when people insult you persecute you
and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me
In these two verses Jesus foretells the persecutions his followers
even the Kabballists will suffer anticipating the manifested idea of ob-
taining the communion of the Kingdom of Heaven or Malkuth in com-
plete peace and harmony
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65
In the next two verses Jesus refers to the eighth sefirah Hod the
Glory (elevation) and its connection with Geburah Justice (respect)
which means we must respect the Just because they are the prophets and
we will be blessed by them
512 Rejoice and be glad because great is your reward in
heaven for in the same way they persecuted the prophets
who were before you
513 You are the salt of the earth But if the salt loses its salt-
iness how can it be made salty again It is no longer good for
anything except to be thrown out and trampled by men
In the following words Jesus takes us through the Tree of Live
or Sefirotic Tree bringing us even closer to the kabballistic message and
his spiritual profoundness
514 You are the light of the world A city on a hill cannot be
hidden
Kether is the Crown of God the Divine light that which is
above everything else above the mountain It reminds us that the moun-
tain is the highest level of spirituality
514 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl
Instead they put it on its stand and it gives light to everyone
in the house
Hokhmah is Wisdom to the right of the Kether the Crown of
God it is the light of Christ which lights up all homes
516 In the same way let your light shine before men that
they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in
heaven
Binah is Intelligence it is the light that reaches to the spirit of
mankind as a holy protection it is the light of the Holy Spirit that reaches
the heart through good deeds
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These three verses refer to the first three sefirot that is the Holy
Trinity which is the potent Divine light since it contains in only one ray
of light the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit
The following four verses refer to Geburah or Justice This is the
sefirah that dictates the Law the one that enforces the Law the one that
unites Heaven (Kether) with Earth (Malkuth) according to the Divine
teachings and is called the sefirah of Divine Justice
517 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the
Prophets I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them
518 I tell you the truth until heaven and earth disappear not
the smallest letter not the least stroke of a pen will by any
means disappear from the Law until everything is accom-
plished
519 Anyone who breaks one of the least of these command-
ments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in
the kingdom of heaven but whoever practices and teaches
these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heav-
en
520 For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses
that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law you will ce r-
tainly not enter the kingdom of heaven
Hesed is the sefirah of Greatness and it is known that the origin
of greatness is HumilityHumbleness the person that is not humble is
not great In the following verses Jesus explains to us how to irradiate
Love Mercy Greatness and above all Humbleness
521 You have heard that it was said to the people long ago
Do not murder[a]
and anyone who murders will be subject to
judgment
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67
522 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother
will be subject to judgment Again anyone who says to his brother
Raca (An Aramaic term of contempt is answerable to the Sanhed-
rin But anyone who says You fool will be in danger of the fire of
hell
523 ldquoTherefore if you are offering your gift at the altar and
there remember that your brother has something against you
Ponder
Respect
Blessing
Peace
Kingdom
Love
Acceptance
Help
Speech
Inspiration
Heart
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524 leave your gift there in front of the altar First go and be
reconciled to your brother then come and offer your gift
525 ldquoSettle matters quickly with your adversary who is tak-
ing you to court Do it while you are still with him on the way or he
may hand you over to the judge and the judge may hand you over to
the officer and you may be thrown into prison
526 I tell you the truth you will not get out until you have
paid the last penny
The following sefirah that Jesus speaks of in the Sermon on the
Mountain is Tipherzt beauty serenity trust family it is the one with
the noble attributes fidelity A through this sefirah he talks to us about
the family blessings and how Divinity intertwines with it
Tipherzt is the one that provides the spiritual nourishment and
family blessings that is why Jesus protects the relationship between man
and woman as fountain of life and punishes above all deceit and adul-
tery
527 You have heard that it was said Do not commit adul-
tery
528 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustful-
ly has already committed adultery with her in his heart
529 If your right eye causes you to sin gouge it out and
throw it away It is better for you to lose one part of your body than
for your whole body to be thrown into hell
530 And if your right hand causes you to sin cut it off and
throw it away It is better for you to lose one part of your body than
for your whole body to go into hell
531 It has been said anyone who divorces his wife must
give her a certificate of divorce
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69
532 But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife except
for marital unfaithfulness causes her to become an adulteress and
anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery
The following sefirah is Neshah which represents Stability and
Balance and the following five verses Jesus that swearing is the loss of
stability and balance before God
He who requires an oath does not trust what is being said and he
who gives an oath does not trust himself rdquoYes or Nordquo should be enough
for those who speak the truth
533 Again you have heard that it was said to the people long
ago Do not break your oath but keep the oaths you have made to
the Lord
534 but I tell you Do not swear at all either by heaven for
it is Gods throne
535 nor by the earth for it is his footstool or by Jerusalem
for it is the city of the Great King
536 And do not swear by your head for you cannot make
even one hair white or black
537 simply let your Yes be Yes and your No No any-
thing beyond this comes from the evil one
Hod is the sefirah of glory the compensation and acknowledge-
ment And there is no better glory and acknowledgement than to love the
enemy and bless those who curse and hate us
As Jesus tells us in the next eleven verses
If you love only those who love you
What are you doing extra
What reward are you seeking
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538 You have heard that it was said Eye for eye and tooth
for tooth
539 But I tell you Do not resist an evil person If someone
strikes you on the right cheek turn to him the other also
540 And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic let
him have your cloak as well
541 If someone forces you to go one mile go with him two
miles
542 Give to the one who asks you and do not turn away
from the one who wants to borrow from you
543 You have heard that it was said Love your neighbor
and hate your enemy
544 But I tell you Love your enemies and pray for those
who persecute you
545 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven He caus-
es his sun to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the
righteous and the unrighteous
546 If you love those who love you what reward will you
get Are not even the tax collectors doing that
547 And if you greet only your brothers what are you doing
more than others Do not even pagans do that
548 Be perfect therefore as your heavenly Father is perfect
Yesod the ninth sefirah is Foundation because it purifies
proves and corrects all previous sefiroth Helping others is exactly what
this sefirah is all about not only to love them but to help them He who
helps receives purification from Yesod and he who helps in secret is
blessed by The Father
Matthew 6
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71
61 Be careful not to do your acts of righteousness before
men to be seen by them If you do you will have no reward from
your Father in heaven
62 So when you give to the needy do not announce it with
trumpets as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets
to be honored by men I tell you the truth they have received their
reward in full
63 But when you give to the needy do not let your left hand
know what your right hand is doing
64 so that yoursquore giving may be in secret Then yoursquore Fa-
ther who sees what is done in secret will reward you
Malkuth is the sefirah that represents the Kingdom of Heaven
and Earth that is why Jesus tells us that prayer must be in private in or-
der to be rewarded in public without repetitions and lots of words be-
cause the Father knows what we need before we even ask
65 And when you pray do not be like the hypocrites for
they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street cor-
ners to be seen by men I tell you the truth they have received their
reward in full
66 But when you pray go into your room close the door and
pray to your Father who is unseen Then your Father who sees what
is done in secret will reward you
67 And when you pray do not keep on babbling like pagans
for they think they will be heard because of their many words
68 Do not be like them for your Father knows what you
need before you ask him
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The Our Father
Jesus reaffirms part of the Kabbalah by following the path of the
Sefirotic Tree in his most important prayer
69 This then is how you should pray Our in heaven
hallowed be your name
Our Father the admirable intelligence or Crown Kether first sefirah
In Heaven the enlightening intelligence or wisdom Hokhmah the sec-
ond sefirah
Hallowed be your name the sanctifying intelligence Binah the third
sefirah completing the Holy Trinity
610 your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is
in heaven
Your kingdom come the intelligence of love Hesed
Your will be done righteous intelligence Geburah
On Earth as it is in Heaven that is form Kether to Malkuth
611 Give us today our daily bread
Give us our daily bread the intelligence which provides Spiritual
Nourishment and beauty Tipherzt
612 Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our
debtrs
Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors the hidden
intelligence which is power victory and stability or Nesha
613 And lea us not into temptation but deliver us from the
evil for yours is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for
every century Amen
And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil the absolute
intelligence or perfect glory or Hod
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73
Holy
Justice
Freedom
Foundation
Prayer
Love
Forgiveness
Spiritual
Nourishment
Heaven
Father
Heart
For yours is the Kingdom Kether the Power Hokhmah and the
Glory Briah which means You are the Holy Trinity
Amen is the foundation of Holy Prayer
After teaching us this Prayer Jesus continues showing us the truth about
the emanations of the Sefirotic Tree Starting once again at the Kether
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74
to remind us privacy in acts such as forgiveness fasting and prayer will
be rewarded in public by the Father who wears the Crown
614 For if you forgive men when they sin against you your
heavenly Father will also forgive you
615 But if you do not forgive men their sins your Father will
not forgive your sins
616 When you fast do not look somber as the hypocrites
do for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fast-
ing I tell you the truth they have received their reward in
full
617 But when fast put oil on your head and wash your face
618 so that it will not be obvious to men that you are fasting
but only to your Father who is unseen and your Father who
sees what is done in secret will reward you
Jesus explains that our treasures are not in the Kingdom of Earth but in
the wisdom of Hokhmah which is the treasure of Heaven that God sent
to us
619 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth
where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and
steal
620 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven where
moth and rust do not destroy and where thieves do not
break in and steal
Binah is the intelligence that Jesus asks us to use to see the light within
our heart he asks that we be intelligent to stay away from evil because
wise men donrsquot have two bosses
621 For where your treasure is there your heart will be also
622 The eye is the lamp of the body If your eyes are good
your whole body will be full of light
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75
623 But if your eyes are bad your whole body will be full of
darkness If then the light within you is darkness how great
is that darkness
624 No one can serve two masters Either he will hate the
one and love the other or he will be devoted to the one and
despise the other You cannot serve both God and Money
Hesed is greatness Jesus shows us how Great we are that greatness is
not eating drinking or dressing up but greatness is being on the path to
the Kether or Crown
625 Therefore I tell you do not worry about your life what
you will eat or drink or about your body what you will
wear Is not life more important than food and the body
more important than clothes
626 Look at the birds of the air they do not sow or reap or
store away in barns and yet your heavenly Father feeds
them Are you not much more valuable than they
627 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his
life
628 And why do you worry about clothes See how the lil-
ies of the field grow They do not labor or spin
629 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor
was dressed like one of these
630 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field which is
here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire will he not
much more clothe you O you of little faith
631 So do not worry saying What shall we eat or What
shall we drink or What shall we wear
632 For the pagans run after all these things and your heav-
enly Father knows that you need them
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Godrsquos Fortune
Godrsquos
Justice
Godrsquos Education
Godrsquos Purification
Godrsquos
Freedom
Godrsquos
Love
Godrsquos Effort
Godrsquos
Greatness
Godrsquos Treasure
Godrsquos
Forgiveness
Godrsquos
Heart
633 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all
these things will be given to you as well
634 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow
will worry about itself Each day has enough trouble of its
own
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77
Once we obtain Greatness or Hesed Jesus asks us to seek Justice or
Geburah the next sefirah Justice is learning to judge others and to look
more with our heart than our eyes
71 Do not judge or you too will be judged
72 For in the same way you judge others you will be judged
and with the measure you use it will be measured to you
73 Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your broth-
ers eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye
74 How can you say to your brother Let me take the speck
out of your eye when all the time there is a plank in your
own eye
75 You hypocrite first take the plank out of your own eye
and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your
brothers eye
76 Do not give dogs what is sacred do not throw your
pearls to pigs If you do they may trample them under their
feet and then turn and tear you to pieces
After Geburah comes Tipherzt beauty this sefirah is the provider of spir-
itual nourishment that is why Jesus invites us to ask seek and knock and
he reminds the law of the Torah because Tipherzt is in the center and
unites the past with the present the law of the prophets with the law of
Jesus
77 Ask and it will be given to you seek and you will find
knock and the door will be opened to you
78 For everyone who asks receives he who seeks finds and
to him who knocks the door will be opened
79 Which of you if his son asks for bread will give him a
stone
710 Or if he asks for a fish will give him a snake
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711 If you then though you are evil know how to give good
gifts to your children how much more will your Father in
heaven give good gifts to those who ask him
712 So in everything do to others what you would have
them do to you for this sums up the Law and the Prophets
Neshah is stability the sefirah of the intellectual virtues the eye of the
intellect which shows us the path of life and Jesus shows us the road of
tranquility
713 Enter through the narrow gate For wide is the gate
and broad is the road that leads to destruction and many e n-
ter through it
714 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to
life and only a few find it
Hod is glory or recognition Jesus shows us how to recognize those who
are said to be prophets or wise men Jesus tells us the best way to do so
is by their fruit (results) or deeds if we observe others objectively we
will know who will really support us and who would like to take ad-
vantage of us
715 Watch out for false prophets They come to you in
sheeps clothing but inwardly they are ferocious wolves
716 By their fruit you will recognize them Do people pick
grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles
717 Likewise every good tree bears good fruit but a bad tree
bears bad fruit
718 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit and a bad tree cannot
bear good fruit
719 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and
thrown into the fire
7 20 Thus by their fruit you will recognize them
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79
The ninth sefirah is Yesod or foundation This is the sefirah of purifica-
tion in it Jesus separates the chaste from the impure to take evil away
from us
721 Not everyone who says to me Lord Lord will enter
the kingdom of heaven but only he who does the will of my
Father who is in heaven
722 Many will say to me on that day Lord Lord did we
not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out de-
mons and perform many miracles
723 Then I will tell them plainly I never knew you Away
from me you evildoers
The tenth sefirah is Malkuth the Kingdom of Earth and Heaven where
Jesus gives us an example of free will so that we make wise decisions
and chose the Kingdom in which we will live
724 Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and
puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house
on the rock
725 The rain came down the streams rose and the winds
blew and beat against that house yet it did not fall because it
had its foundation on the rock
726 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does
not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his
house on sand
727 The rain came down the streams rose and the winds
blew and beat against that house and it fell with a great
crash
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Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Neshah Stability
The Divine Creation
The Divine Creation
Adam Eve and the Genesis
Gestation and Conception
Development and Growth
Maturity
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81
The Divine Creation From the ape up to Adam and Eve
During the early ages of life on Earth the new thinking beings invested
most of their time in learning to survive humans had to adapt to and in-
tegrate themselves to the four elements or genius (Air Fire Earth and
Water) they also had to learn to interact with animals and plants
Man began to notice that all animals were born and died as natural pro-
cess They ldquocame inrdquo (were born) to this world from the maternal womb
or from an egg and all of them inevitably someday disappeared or
ldquoleftrdquo (died) this world
Man also noticed that all animals ldquochangedrdquo in size (grew) being small
when they ldquocame inrdquo to the world and as the ldquosuns and moonsrdquo passed
(time) they developed and grew getting stronger until reaching a point
in which they ldquodisappearedrdquo (died)
Furthermore the learning was part of the ldquoroadrdquo when they ldquoarrivedrdquo
they didnrsquot know how to walk or fly they couldnrsquot see their parents had
to get their food and protect them they were weak and dependant In
time they learned to be self-sufficient and to live independently even
though they were part
of a heard o a community
In every age thinkers and scientists asked them selves how early mankind
evolved to the point of becoming what we are nowadays The Judeo-
Christian Kabbalah answers this question without interfering with sci-
ence The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah explains mankindrsquos ldquoevolutionrdquo in
ten steps and goes through the Sefirotic Tree starting from the feminine
column reminding us that it is the female who receives the Divine herit-
age of Creation
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82
1 The Crown or Divine Light
First the Divine Light Crowned the undeveloped brain of the wild ape
and transformed it into a ldquothinking aperdquo That Divine ldquotouchrdquo caused
the transformation of the apersquos simple brain into the complex brain or
ldquocrownrdquo of this new being This change contains the celestial blow of the
future human being
2 Intelligence or understanding
Undoubtedly what made de difference between mankind and the rest of
the animals was that awareness since they all went through the same
changes they were all born grew up and died they could all see the
moon replacing the sun and all of them could see the vegetables grow
but the other species either did take notice or did not acknowledge it The
human being could ldquothinkrdquo mankind had the ldquointelligencerdquo to be aware
and that made it different
3 Wisdom or experience
As time went by mankind acquired experience which added to intelli-
gence resulted in ldquowisdomrdquo This wisdom made man outstand over the
rest of the species This wisdom permitted man to learn from other spe-
cies in a certain way and in many cases to dominate them
These three sefiroth that represents the Holy Trinity separated to
the man of the rest of the world animal and vegetable determining
their supremacy by order and Divine grace
4 Justice or respect
Man began to put his abilities to use and the first thing he did with his
intelligence and wisdom was to acknowledge ldquojusticerdquo but the Divine
free will permitted them to apply it or not Mankind understood that
without spiritual justice intelligence and wisdom cannot not be applied
5 Greatness or humility
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83
Mankind learned that spiritual greatness meant knowing how to apply
justice in every act of life
To be just and great is to be wise and intelligent
Man learned that to be great does not mean to be above the rest but to
apply intelligence and wisdom to improve the life and spirit of others
These four qualities must go together if man is to continue his evolution
and stay away from the ape otherwise he would be stuck and the ape
would overcome
6 Beauty or sweetness
As mankind evolved it became understood that each act good or bad as
well as every thought obscure or bright marks the inner character and
outer appearance of a person with a defined particularity that will either
dull it or illuminate it The beauty of the Spirit is more real and perma-
nent than physical beauty The secret of this beauty which lights up pu-
pils with the serene light of the stars y gives faces the sweet look of the
angels lies within a just behavior and greatness in thought
The Bible and Science go of the hand The Creation and the Evolution are work of God
7 Glory or acknowledgement
As man made his inner evolution he wanted to be acknowledged by the
Divinity first and by his peers later
ldquoGloryrdquo is the acknowledgement of onersquos values by others All human
beings need this physical and spiritual acknowledgement The Just has
the Spiritual Greatness Beauty of the Soul and the Divine Glory
8 Stability or Balance
The sensory and spiritual stability and balance of the new being meant
inner growth Stability came about with the bluntness of power and the
victory of his actions The spiritual powers of stability are the foundation
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84
Awareness
Respect
Knowledge
Building
Real World
Sweetness
Balance
Humility
Experience
Divine Light
of tolerance discernment and being able to face up to reality and to co-
operate with our peers powers that are attained through Justice Great-
ness and the Divine Glory
9 Foundation or construction
The foundation or founding of communities is a major stepping-stone
for this new being It was like planting a seed to watch a tree grow Man
understood that if the foundation was done right he would ldquobuildrdquo a
whole culture for the future of mankind But if due to selfishness ava-
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85
rice or greediness he failed and started with a poor foundation of com-
munities instead these would dissolve in time That is why he would
have to apply everything he had learned and all the accumulated experi-
ence correctly
10 The Kingdom of Earth or real world
The Kingdom of Earth is the summit in the process of evolution from
ape to man it is the matter substance the physical and real world This
is the peak of the creation cycle the creation of Adam and Eve Thanks
to the powers of God the ape was transformed into the human being that
now lives in the Kingdom of God which is the Earth It is at this point
where all divine teachings and human experiences converge all celestial
and earthly matters meet here the soul with the spirit and the senses
with the physical world
Adam Eve and the Genesis
ldquoFor the Kabbalah in animals femininity finds itself in front of mas-
culinity while masculinity confirms itself through femininity In the
human level masculinity and femininity are distinguished and at the
same time complement each otherrdquo
In the first book of the Pentateuch the ldquoBook of Genesisrdquo there are two
explanations that would appear to contradict each other that is why we
will analyze them textually
Chapter One verses 27 through 31
27 So God created man in his own image in the image of God he
created him male and female he created them
28 God blessed them and said to them Be fruitful and increase in
number fill the earth and subdue it Rule over the fish of the sea
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86
and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves
on the ground
29 Then God said I give you every seed-bearing plant on the
face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in
it They will be yours for food
30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and
all the creatures that move on the groundmdasheverything that has
the breath of life in itmdashI give every green plant for food And it
was so
31 God saw all that he had made and it was very good And there
was evening and there was morningmdashthe sixth day
Chapter Two verses 7 and 15 through 23
7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and the man became a
living being
15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of
Eden to work it and take care of it
16 And the LORD God commanded the man You are free to eat
from any tree in the garden
17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil for when you eat of it you will surely die
18 The LORD God said It is not good for the man to be alone I
will make a helper suitable for him
19 Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the
beasts of the field and all the birds of the air He brought them to
the man to see what he would name them and whatever the man
called each living creature that was its name
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87
20 So the man gave names to all the livestock the birds of the air
and all the beasts of the field But for Adam no suitable helper
was found
21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep and
while he was sleeping he took one of the mans ribs and closed
up the place with flesh
22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken
out of the man and he brought her to the man
23 The man said This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my
flesh she shall be called woman for she was taken out of man
According to these two texts which differ in just a few pages within the
Sacred Book first man and woman were created at the same time but
later it explains that woman was created from the rib taken from man
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah takes it as a cryptically allegory which
means we are not to understand this explanation as saying first and sec-
ond having another ahead does not make one a subordinate
The ten sefiroth that created the universe were simultaneous and the crea-
tion of the first ldquothinking aperdquo was simultaneous in male and female If
we try to understand the Divine message decoding it into common lingo
we find that the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah gives us several clues
The Book of Genesis 2 does not void what is stated in Genesis 1 it is
revealing another aspect of the human being The intention of the second
text is not to tell us how creation took place in a chronological order but
to explain ndash in a symbolic language ndash something more profound
According to the Book of Genesis 1 God created them ldquoin one single
actrdquo and gave them a mission in common Be fruitful and increase in
number fill the earth and subdue it This clarifies the equality of dignity
in both as well as the equality in the mission imparted since both are
given the same responsibility the family and protection of the world
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88
According to this there doesnrsquot seem to be tasks or responsibilities ex-
clusively reserved to men or women family as well as culture are to be
done by both
Adam does not take woman out of himself he was asleep doing noth-
ing Furthermore God expressly wanted to hide from him the way in
which he made woman doing so while he slept when he could not notice
what was happening
About the reasons for God putting Adam to sleep we can take some
concepts from the Divine reasoning The lonely Adam pictured in the
Book of Genesis 27 is a generic Adam because the characteristics
which describe him are the same for either man or woman and are
meshed in the verses 215 through 223 in the four worlds of the Sefirotic
Tree
The original loneliness (interpreted as the transcendence of
mankind with respect to the Cosmos) is the world of Atziluth or
divine protection
It is not good for the man to be alonerdquo is the need to opening
up this is the world of Briah or giving to others
The search for the appropriate assistance (conceived as mutual
and reciprocal) is the world of Yetsirah or trust and learning
The call for man woman and their animals to work together is
the world of Assiah or Earth and its fruits
The symbolism of the rib taken by God from Adam while he slept re-
veals a relationship between man and woman from which two conse-
quences derive Is a reciprocal relationship (there is no woman without
man but there is no man without woman) which leads us to conclude
that both ends of this relationship must be simultaneous
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89
Spirit
Form
Muscles
Organs
Birth
Nerves
Bones
Strength
Soul
Supra
One
Heart
Gestation
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
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90
Conception
A person is born at a particular moment in time due to a specific
situation or to connect with specific people or one person in particular
When speaking of gestation it is important to assign the archetypical
worlds to each step of this process
1 The Archetypical World called Atziluth is where everything
is in a latent state where everything is potential This is the world in
which the Divinity unites soul and spirit It is in this world where the
essence on an individual is found There is a ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath of the
heart here which lives in both the spiritual and the creative worlds
2 In the Creative World called Briah we find strength and the
pure form which gives shape to the physical life where the cellular mul-
tiplication begins The heart sends the energy of the soul and spirit to the
new being in gestation
3 In the Formative World called Yetsirah the whole body is
in the process of development creating the nervous system muscles
bones organs etc
4 In the Material World called Assiah is where the physical
manifestation takes place It is the moment of birth when the new inte-
grated being sees the light of the Sun
Development
At birth the physical body manifests itself in the Malkut of As-
siah or the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth after going through the se-
quence of conception Birth takes place at the end of the descending path
from Kether (God) to Malkut (Earth) After birth the path is inverted
while developing we begin to ascend from Malkut (Earth) to Kether
(God)
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91
The personality of an adult individual is reflected in the stage or
sefirath where he stopped or in which he weakened the most We can
associate these stages with the worlds in an ascending manner reverting
the way of the gestation
For example the Malkut of Assiah is the material world in
which a person must see and touch in order to learn He needs to touch
the fire to know that it burns or needs to knock himself to know how hard
matter is and how weak is the spirit
Yetsirah is the world in which responsibility is formed where
most people have stopped at one point in their lives for not being able to
assimilate one or more of sefiroth that make up this world
A person who stopped in hisher childhood has stopped at the
sefirath Yesod a person seeking information or news or is forever study-
ing is at Hod and the one seeking pleasures (sex food fun) is still going
through Neshah And those searching for trust in themselves are at
Tipherzt
Mature people are in the world of Briah Justice and greatness
will help these people to develop the acquired knowledge
Those who have stopped at Geburah are people who experience
constant hardship until they learn to grasp control of themselves and
once they achieve inner peace they dedicate their lives to good acts On
the other hand those who come out of Hesed are the ones who negotiate
with generosity those who give to receive who seek to buy love affec-
tion or respect
Atziluth the last world is the one closest to God one that takes
us to Him
Those worried about death are at the sefirath Binah They age
prematurely and constantly complain about illnesses
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92
Those who reach Hokhmah is because they have profound en-
lightening visions which in some cases and for certain social groups are
similar to insanity
To reach Kether at the end of life on earth is to go back to God
to achieve the freedom of onersquos soul
In the Material World called Assiah is where the man-
ifestation of birth takes place where the body without formation but with
genetic and Godrsquos instruction and information from past lives gets ac-
quainted with himself and those around him
In the Formative World called Yetsirah life and aca-
demic formation is acquired to be applied to the rest of onersquos life The
person shall have the teachings perception affirmation and confidence
supplied by those around him
In the Creative World called Briah the most important
stage in a personrsquos life is found In it we can apply everything learned
and observed in the previous world Decisions taken in this world will
affect us twice as much in the following world
The Archetypical World called Atziluth is a world of
closeness to the Divinity here is where we should stop and analyzes our
existence prepare the balance sheet of our soul When we get here we
can see what we have contributed to the growth of our soul
The road to Maturity
As we know each sefirath is a tree in itself and each world con-
tains the other four inside that is why we must analyze our maturity from
the moment of birth and the growing years as well
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93
Pro
tec-
tion
Co
ntr
ol
Le
arning
Chi
ldh
ood
Bi
rt
h
Tr
us
t
Ple
asure
Giving
Li
gh
t
S
up
ra
O
ne
Heart
The stages of growth
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
94
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah when we are born
our ldquopatternrdquo of life is not finished because our body spirit and soul are
not completely integrated
Between the ages of five and seven the central column formed
by Yesod Tipherzt and the ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath Led molds the operative
personality The Heart Trust and Foundation are the basis of a childrsquos
personal development
At the age of thirteen Hod and Neshah stability and glory for-
mation and pleasures become active This is the age of awakening of
knowledge
Between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one Kether and
Malkuth intertwine forming the central structure of the tree and they
give it meaning and dimension
During the following years Geburah Hesed Binah and
Hokhmah integrate themselves completing the incarnation of the plains
When we see rebellious youths who have not yet grasped the
concepts of justice or generosity (gangs drugs) it is because they have
not incarnated completely and Geburah and Hesed have not taken their
places yet There is no set age for complete incarnation because it de-
pends on the surroundings and social experience
The child of an alcoholic and a drug addict who live in poverty
does not have to follow that path If he could find support in a family or
educational group that could help him to develop the missing sefiroth and
that way obtain incarnation he could become a person who understands
the proper concepts of justice and greatness thus clearing his life and ob-
taining personal success
On the other hand the son of an aristocrat or millionaire be-
tween the ages of thirteen and twenty will react against his class but
from there on and according to the integration of his sefiroth to the tree
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
95
he will only be interested in developing within his social circle marrying
someone accordingly and following the family pattern but if he should
find a link that could help him develop the missing sefiroth in order to
complete his incarnation he would change his concepts on class and
would obtain personal success
Of course both examples are generalizations which do not apply
to all people If you are reading this book you are a spiritual researcher
and surely do not fall under generalizations
Many people consider a good marriage and a good social posi-
tion as valid objectives but after twenty years or more of walking the
same path they understand that even though they have a good marriage
with someone they love and good economic resources they have no
goals
This usually happens after the age of forty-five or fifty For those
based on their bodies this is the beginning of the end and will seek the
physical methods (surgeries) to slow this process
The Tree of the Maturity
These physical methods are not bad if they go together with a
spiritual development with growth in the tree of the spiritual worlds un-
til the highest point is reached and it is understood that the body is the
container of the spirit and soul
Often enough people get stuck emotionally here and no matter
how old they are they cannot get out of Tipherzt or the sefirath of Trust
It is here where emotions are sometimes confused with feelings obscur-
ing thoughts and the development of spiritual maturity
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96
Under-
standing
Truth
Awakening
Trust
Real
World
Foundation
Power
Humility
Experience
Essence
Heath
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97
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
Hod Glory
The Human Being
Soul and Spirit
The Worlds of the Spirit The Battle of the Spirit
The terror and the Fears
Difficult Situations The Problems of the Spirit
The Worlds of Solutions Instincts feelings and senses
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98
Soul and Spirit
We already know that neither one of us is a new soul all of us
have accumulated experience from previous lives in other incarnations
We also know that those celestial beings that occupy our body
have come during the last thousands of years
We also know that this inter-relation or connection between soul
and body helps to correct the soul
What we need to know now is What is the spirit
The spirit is our inner Self our mind it is what we really are and
who we are
Our spirit is formed by four worlds Each world relates to the
other on the basis of interactive processes and it works its way up from
the concrete (tangible) to the ethereal (spiritual) levels
1 The Material World called Assiah or the world of
Logic is based on Malkut passes through Yessed and opens up into
Hod and Neshagh The logical though is something you can almost
touch it has foundation stability and glory
2 The Formative World called Yetsirah or the world of
the Perceptions is based on Tipherzt and opens its arms into Ge-
brurah and Hesed The perceptions of the human being are beauty
justice and greatness
3 The Creative World called Briah or the world of Feel-
ings is based on Led (heart) and from there goes on to Binah and
Hokhmah Our feelings are the product of the alchemy formed by
the ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath of the heart intelligence and wisdom
4 The Archetypical World called Atziluth or the world
of Intuition has only one sefirath as base Kether Divinity resides
here that is intuition is the direct link to Divinity
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99
As we can see the spirit is the part that connects our contained
(physical body) to our soul (or celestial body) and that is who we really
are The spirit must take care of the body so that it ldquolastsrdquo as long as pos-
sible When it is mistreated with external products (poor nutrition alco-
hol tobacco or drugs) the soulrsquos stay and learning period is shortened
this will cause the soul to come back in another container to continue
learning
When an illness or accident causes the brain to stop the spirit is
affected never the soul The soul keeps learning even though the body is
inert or in a deep coma and it will stay there for some ldquotimerdquo after the
heart stops beating It could be minutes maybe hours or days before the
soul abandons the body
When the death is surprising and unexpected (accident violence
etc) both the soul and the spirit stay in condition of shock and are late
many time in dividing
Each person has in its spirit what we know as personality stud-
ied by Jung even his profession is related to these worlds For example a
person with an Assiah personality will be in the armed forces Profes-
sionals are Yetsirah the artists are in the world of Briah and the mysti-
cal people live in Atziluth
Even as we are crossing the tree sefiroacutethico the personality was
passing of being introverted and logical to extrovert and dreamy
Undoubtedly the complexity of the spirit and the dynamic that
surrounds it could generate multiple models Human beings depending
on the inherited genes educational environment social development will
modify some of the parameters associated to these worlds in order to be
accepted by society
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
100
The soul is very important in this development since in its mis-
sion of learning it will try to put the person in challenging situations
provoking logical feelings and intuitive sensations
The way to analyze these worlds and know to which ones we
blong (surely to all of them but some more than others) is to know our
strengths and our weaknesses to find our fears and the chance to
ovecome them
Each world has its own ten sefiroth that respond to its own
behavior
The residents of the world of intuition or Atziluth
are generalists hypothetical not precise speculative idealists in-
ventive illogical indecisive futurists and disperse
Those who live in the world of feelings or Briah are a
logical poetic artistic passionate personal cordial ethical justice seek-
ers individualists and humanitarians
The inhabitants of the world of the senses or Yetsirah
are careful detail minded specialists objective precise concrete real-
ists profound practical and conventional
Those who live in the world of logic or Assiah are log-
ical analytic extremist scientific cold dispassionate theoretical imper-
sonal shrewd and insensitive
Neither world is better than another and there isnrsquot a single hu-
man being that ldquofitsrdquo exactly into one defined world we all have behav-
iors from all of them but the proportions are different in each one of us
and that is what makes us all different from each other
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101
The worlds of the Spirit
In the center ldquoThe Column of Equilibriumrdquo (Balance)
Intuition Atziluth
Feelings Briah
Sense Yetsirah
Logical Assiah
Thought
Intelli-
li-gence
Jus
tice
Glo
ry
Foun-
dation
Ma-
teri
al
Be
au-
ty
Sta-
bil-
ity
Grea
tness
Wisdom
Su-
pra
One
Heart
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102
The Battle of the Spirit
As we could see the battle is not very fair three worlds are ruled
by the heart and only one is ruled by the brain That is why in most cas-
es instincts or feelings ldquowinrdquo over reason When free will was given to
us it was so that we could ldquothink overrdquo our acts
Are two ways of thinking intuition and reasoning with very dif-
ferent characteristics
Some thoughts come to mind in a spontaneous way in reality
that is what happens most of the time Because Atziluth Briah and
Yetsirah are always present in a potential way ready to jump in and re-
spond in a way of which we are not totally conscious and cannot control
The actions of these three worlds are quick without effort associative
and very often charged with emotions They are ruled by habits that is
why it is difficult to modify or control them
The world of Assiah instead is ruled by conscience and delib-
erate reasoning it is slower serial and requires effort it follows rules
Needs more time when something upsets us it clouds our reasoning
This means the issue is stuck on the upper worlds and it doesnrsquot allow us
to make logical decisions usually because we are afraid to reason
For example the idea that something awful can happen if we
take a plane even though that possibility is remote will not let us think
of anything else The upper worlds become dominant Emotion is over-
come in turn by the possibility by what could happen and not by reality
so much
The emotional and issue is the less ldquoreasonablerdquo people are
According to Daniel Kahneman winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize
in Economics
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
103
ldquoEmotions in general do not influence decision making but one
emotion in particular (fear) distorts the perception of risk and generates
errors in the making of decisionsrdquo
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah fear originates in the
upper world but if we can take it to the world of Assiah or logical it
vanishes into thin air
Nevertheless if once we make a reasoned decision we donrsquot reg-
ister having made it curious enough we are not conscious we have
changed our way of thinking
Most people after changing their way of thinking reconstruct
the old pattern They underestimate their change Besides when they
have been persuaded of something they believe they always thought that
way The upper worlds hide behind the mask that reason displays and
have us believing they were never there we are convinced that we al-
ways think rationally
It is true that many people admit making a mistake at one time
or another ndash you could be one of them ndash but that doesnrsquot mean that they
have changed their way of thinking on a particular issue and that they
wonrsquot make the same mistake again
Fears
All living beings have fears it is natural and it responds to the
instinct of survival You donrsquot have to be a caballist or scientist to state
that man is a fearful ldquoanimalrdquo One hundred percent of the human spirit is
ldquoshyrdquo or timid and it fears an endless amount of things and situations He
is intimidated by them The important thing is to identify the things he
fears and why Donrsquot even think you are the only one who fears some-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
104
thing ALL OF US fear something The thing is that that ldquosomethingrdquo is
different for each one of us
Fear is not bad or good it simply is disturbing feeling about
something unknown or if it is known we canrsquot control and we are afraid
it might hurt us
When God created the four elements or semi gods (Fire Water
Air and Earth) He gave them the ability to help or hurt mankind that is
why Fire can cook our food or it can destroy us Water is for drinking or
drowning Earth can give us vegetables or bury us with Air we live and
without it we die The four elements can give or take life And it is pre-
cisely in them that the depth of all fears lies
Fear has companions such as anguish
obsessions and phobias
Many cultures and old and modern religions disguise fears (in
many cases to manipulate people) with the presence of the Devil or dia-
bolic things The Judeo-Christian Kaballah upholds that mankind in its
search for alternative gods created this evil figure to justify its fears and
anguishes
Fear lives in the upper part of the Sefirotic Tree of both worlds of
the spirit where man thinks less and fears more First he starts at Atzi-
luth where he acts mostly based on instinct he is almost irrational and
here is where he ignites the anguish fearrsquos best friend From there it goes
down to Briah and it leans on phobic feelings to go on to Yetsirah
where it can attract obsessions
In the emotional sentimental world or Briah reside an endless
number of opposed phobic fears darkness or light open spaces or closed
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
105
space crowds or loneliness heights or depths planes or boatshellip and we
could go on for pages
In the world of the sensations or Yetsirah live the obsessive
fears disguised as concern
Worry for details rules lists order schedules up to
the point of losing of sight the principal object of the activity
Perfectionism which interferes with the completion of
a task (unable to finish a project because it doesnrsquot comply with
onersquos own demands which are overly strict)
Excessive dedication to onersquos work and to the produc-
tivity with exclusion of the activities of leisure and the friend-
ship (not attributable to economic evident needs)
Excessive stubbornness very scrupulous and inflexi-
ble when it comes to moral issues ethics or values (not attributed
to the identification with religion)
Unable to discard old and useless items even when
there is no sentimental value attached
Unable to share the work load with others unless
they will accept to do it your way exactly
Excessive thriftiness in spending money must be ac-
cumulated to cover future catastrophes
All these fears which live in the worlds of instincts feelings and
sensations are not related to diabolic situations Satan does not exist in
the Divine Universe Satan is a creation of our spirit to encourage the
learning and development of our soul The best way to teach our soul is
to overcome our fears bringing them down to the rational world of Assi-
ah to keep them under control and letting them go
This can be done following these steps
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
106
1 The first step is to put your fears in the world of
logic or Assiah not worrying about why this fear exists but how
do we respond to this fear behavior (eg paralysis desperation)
Hesed origin
2 Be specific when it comes to defining your con-
duct of fear and its consequences because the problem it self is
the solution Geburah control
3 Donrsquot look at your fear as such but as an obsta-
cle in attaining your goals Take it to Tipherzt trust
4 Define exactly the way you want to change your
conduct Go to Neshah balance
5 Establish a time limit to obtain the proposed
change For this Hod learning is the right sefirath
Search for an adequate way to make your change with-
out going to extremes for instance becoming a perfectionist
What you want to change is not making mistakes but the irra-
tional fear for avoiding making mistakes If you are set out to
making mistakes to change you will stop worrying about per-
fection but you will also stop worrying about the mistakes you
could make That is the mistakes are not the problem but the
fear of making mistakes is Work on Yesod construc-
tionbuilding
6 Be patient changes donrsquot take place overnight
whatrsquos more there could be a set back especially when there is a
fast progression in the change of the conduct of fear Please un-
derstand that a straight forward improvement is not always to be
expected you could be going forward there could be stops and
set backs which will allow you to compare and value the differ-
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
107
ences between your previous status with your situation of pro-
gress Go through Malkuth action
Once the world of Assiah logic overcomes your fears you will
see how your fears crashed with logic and vanish
Donrsquot forget that fear is a close friend of depression Fear attracts
dissonance synonym of physical and spiritual disease When one of the
elements stops working the machinery works with serious difficulties
When one of the parts slows down or over speeds therersquos also a lack of
balance and things donrsquot run well
Fear is one of those elements in the human being with great
power to generate lack of harmony correspondence and balance Its
negativity does not allow us to act neither with freedom intelligence nor
with common sense On the contrary it makes us highlight aspects of our
life which we shouldnrsquot consider so important It makes us go back
when we should be going forward It makes us lie when we should be
telling the truth And it takes away our plenitude creativity and capacity
to love
Problematic Situations
Man faces difficult situations all his life from childhood to old
age He finds himself with the obligation to address them with systemat-
ic processes of thought but he doesnrsquot know how important they are All
problems can be grouped in these three definitions
Urgent and important
Urgent or important
Neither urgent nor important
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
108
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah and the sefirotic trees show us
that if we establish priorities if we analyze situations if we identify op-
portunities there are no problems without a solution and that solution is
usually much simpler than we would have thought The method to apply
the adequate solution to a problem is part of the kaballistic teachings
Problems of the Spirit
The Spirit is made up of four worlds (logic sensations emotions
and intuition) if we know how to apply them correctly and how to dis-
tribute our problems amongst these worlds each one of them will solve
the part of the problem to which it applies and the general solution will
become available without stress nor complications
The World of logical thought is the one that analyzes a problem
concretely creating a new Sefirotic Tree with four worlds Ideas Caus-
es Opportunities and Solutions we go through them from the column
of forms or shapes looking for the world of detail or feminine
Atziluth is the world of Ideas formed by Kether Binah and Hokhmah
Kether is the situation worrying you the problem in your
head or philosophical it could be physical or mental could be serious or
momentary but none the less it is the center of the worry
Binah is the expansive thought the one that analyzes the
components distinguishes the pertinent parts the real causes of the prob-
lem Binah clarifies the information to define the situation
Hokhmah is the convergent thought it evaluates and develops
the main idea of the problem compares theorizes and creates a hypothe-
sis which means it is the one that focuses on the problem to be solved
looking for the way to follow and the steps to take
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
109
Briah is the world of Causes formed by Leb Geburah and Hesed
Leb is the virtual sefirath of the heart which plays a part in
every problem and even though thought is the most concrete world of
the spirit the heart has its influence when the time to make a decision
comes We should make the problem ldquovirtualrdquo analyze the solution with
the heart and without it in order to be objective and make the right deci-
sion
Geburah is justice Try to think as a lawyer they only deal
with proven facts they donrsquot go by hearsay Clean your mind of external
ldquoadditionsrdquo analyze ldquowhat problems make up this problemrdquo
Hesed is greatness It is very important to know where the
problem was originated in order not to repeat it you must have the
greatness to admit your percentage of responsibility in the origin of the
problem Donrsquot put the responsibility all out there blaming others do
know that we alwayshellip alwayshellip are partly responsible for what happens
to us Admitting responsibility requires greatness
Yetsirah is the world of Opportunities formed by
Tipherzt Hod and Neshah
Tiphezt is the sefirath of beauty and every problem has a
beautiful side to it which is the opportunity it opens up to the other
worlds Every problem is the starting point towards truth Many times
the truth is hidden and the problems bring it out in the light Look for the
positive side of the problem there always is one look for the sun after
the storm
Hod is the glory and glory is acknowledgement To
acknowledge a problem is part of the solution If we describe the prob-
lem and its consequences we could see clearly which opportunity it is
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
110
revealing Remember facts or situations it will help us recognize the real
scenario of the problem
Neshah is stability which will come when we solve the prob-
lem Imagine your life without the problem try to see which things will
be better and analyze which ones could be worse in order to avoid them
Donrsquot let it catch you off guard Just like in a chess match every move
must be carefully thought out and advantage taken of the adversaryrsquos lit-
tle mistakes
Assiah is the world of Solutions formed by Yesod and Malkuth
Yesod is the sefirath of foundation it is the one to support and
filter the information sent by the rest to Malkuth If the other nine have
done their job correctly the problem would reach this point practically
resolved In some cases it doesnrsquot even reach this point since it was re-
solved on its way As long as we clarify and converge ideas analyze the
real causes and describe its consequences the storm we saw coming at
first becomes a sea breeze
Malkuth is the earth action It establishes these ways to fol-
low to resolve a problem or whatrsquos left of it The truth is that Malkuth
steps in less than 5 of the cases because the big problems do not ex-
ist but small problems that transformed a snow ball rolling downhill that
breaks up into thousands of harmless little particles when it hits a serious
and conclusive analytical spirit
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
111
The Sefiroacutethico
Tree of the logical thought
Diverge
Facts
Acknowl-
edging
Filtration
Action
Serenity
Equilibrium
Origin
Converge
Knowing
Heart
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
112
The Worlds of Solutions
The other three worlds of the spirit (sensations emotions and intuition)
are present in the previous development as observers but sometimes
(many times) they are present in the analysis of the concrete world where
logical thoughts occur taking the solution to the problem through not so
logical paths In these cases we have to appeal to the central column or
Column of Equilibrium of the Sefirotic Tree of the Spirit
Kether (Intuition) receiving the energy that the Divinity and Its
Light sends us
Leb (Heart) will find answers in our feelings
Tipherzt (Beauty) will consult our inner sensations
Yesod and Malkuth (Foundation and Earth) bring us back to the
world of reasoning and logic
This means that we can solve many problems using our intuition our
feelings or our sensations but we should always put them through the
filter of logical thought of truth putting passion aside and trying to be as
analytical as possible
Instincts Feelings and Sensations
Instincts or Atziluth feelings or Briah and sensations or Yetsirah to-
gether create an inner stir up when motivated by action Mankind is
mostly conditioned by emotions and sensations by likes and dislikes
Often enough feelings and sensations are side tracked by mankindrsquos own
interests and selfishness to the point of invalidating sense and reason
making one behave in ways which one sees with consternation that Assi-
ah has been forgotten Thus logic is destroyed by the three upper
worlds When we snap out later and we see the mistake it is too late to
do anything about it
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
113
The upper worlds usually come up as an answer to the spontaneous eval-
uation of perceptions Emotions such as anger or fear can be harmful or
healthy such as fondness or compassion While aversions are typical un-
healthy emotions good love and compassion are outstanding examples of
noble emotions that lift our human nature
Human beings are pretty open to emotional development and so is the
range and strength of their emotions We are all somewhat passionate
and impulsive and cold and reflective at the same time What varies is
the percentage some get angry very fast and others are patient While
one person could be not impulsive emotionally another could go through
a wide range of emotions at the speed of light
The emotional worlds hurt the physical body that is why they should be
controlled According to clinical experience a person dominated by
emotions could have consecutively or simultaneously health issues af-
fecting several organic systems I will mention a few psychosomatic
health problems
Migraines
This symptom is made up of other somatic symptoms that go to-
gether in people with a perfectionist personality with changing moods
They usually manifest themselves with painful muscle contractions of the
neck as well as nausea and vomiting
Obesity
Obesity usually develops within the frame of anxieties in re-
sponse to frustrations and disappointment through devotion to food8
Hypertension
The main reason for vascular hypertension is emotional tension
in people who show apparent serenity and affability but are really cover-
ing up hostile emotions and predisposition ndash that must be restrained ndash for
social or employment reasons
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
114
Cardiovascular System
It has been proven that the stress caused by anguish tends to fre-
quently increase your heart beat cardiac distress and blood pressure
Respiratory System
Crying laughing screaming o talking imply changes your
breathing action excessive breathing or the opposite are typical respons-
es during contrasting periods of action or relaxation Examples of this are
the hyperventilation syndrome and asthma amongst others
The Gastrointestinal Tract
The symptoms of gastrointestinal disorders are multiple the most
frequent they are anorexia bulimia nausea nervous indigestion vomit-
ing and diarrhea
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
115
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Yesod Foundation
Free Will
The emotional worlds
Control of emotions
Who controls me
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
116
The emotional worlds
The emotional worlds are distributed within the Sefirotic Tree from
Kether to Malkuth
Kether is imagination it is ethereal and impalpable it comes
from within and surprises us as if it came from outside We imagine
things or situations this is the world of Atziluth
What happens in our lives makes better sense when we use our imagina-
tion and create our own stories These could be situations related directly
to what is happening to us or just the opposite For example if we are
watching a Superman movie we unconsciously accept that the character
flies We know the actor is supported by ropes of steel or that it is a
computerized trick but we go prepared to accept this The same thing
happens with a horror movie we donrsquot ignore that the monster is made
out of some synthetic material that those masks are created with makeup
or that the blood could be tomato sauce but while we are watching the
movie we let the world of Atziluth take over our spirit and we accept
what takes place in the screen as real
The important thing is to know when the movie ends and reality begins
There have been cases of people jumping off rooftops believing they
were Superman or have shot others thinking they were either Rambo or
Terminator Without going to these extreme examples many people be-
lieve they are living stories out of soap operas in which the characters
are either good or bad In them the manipulation of society is done
through ldquobelievablerdquo or ldquodetestablerdquo stereotypes In these stories the
ldquogood guysrdquo consume the sponsorrsquos products that is why they are good
looking and successful while the ldquobad guys are very badrdquo and always
end up in jail or dead Very far from the reality
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
117
Hokhmah is memory it is our particular wisdom it is what we
learn from the past the things our own life has taught us But memories
sometimes play tricks on us
Often enough we associate what we see with some other type of experi-
ence or memory For instance if somebody speaks loudly we feel we are
being attacked because we remember that tone of voice being used by a
teacher or our father to make an observation or punish us This memory
which is not rational will put us on alert waking all our feelings of de-
fense But it could be that this person speaks loudly because he needs to
be listened to with the best intentions towards us In this case Atziluth
would have reacted against our relationship with the other person We
usually do not notice these processes because these are unconscious be-
haviors of which we are not aware When we remember the incident we
only describe our experience related to the visual perception and with
conscientious thought We almost never refer to what we heard felt im-
agined or what our intuition told us What this does is that we visualize
an incomplete picture of the situation
Binah is the comprehension our intelligence While we hear the
other person speaking loudly we generate currents of thought These
thoughts could relate directly and we could probably raise our voice as
well Both of us speaking loudly almost screaming will dull our compre-
hension and we wonrsquot be able to reason the other personrsquos words nor
will we understand why we are being loud In unexpected situations
such as an accident in transit (like somebody hitting our car in the free-
way) we create an opinion of the other person while we observe the in-
cident But we do not reason the occurrence It is not easy for us to un-
derstand in those circumstances and we unchain reactions that we will
regret later
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
118
ldquoThe three sefiroth of the tree of emotions make up the trilogy of At-
ziluth where everything is potential everything is relative where im-
agination lives with memories and comprehe nsionrdquo
Listening is Hesed greatness since knowing how to listen is
greatness Our hearing perceives in a selective way depending on the
attention we are paying In first place we hear the most discordant
sounds Some people listen independently from what they see while
others associate what they hear to what they see Closer sounds also get
mixed with those coming from afar (planes trains)
Seeing is Geburah justice When the police investigate an acci-
dent talks to five witnesses and gets five different versions of the same
accident This is because each witness perceived the same scene in a dif-
ferent way according to their distance and angle their surprise their
memories and their fears What each one was doing and how long it took
their minds to react to adapt to the new situation is also important
Feeling is Tipherzt beauty Any situation of relationship or ac-
tion (somebody yelling at us somebody crashing into us somebody hug-
ging us or loving us) triggers our instinctive emotions and can make us
feel uncomfortable sad surprised tender excited furious anxious nos-
talgichellip and so many other ways
It is important to know how to handle them from the sefirath of beauty
Both love and fury are born there It is the provider of spiritual nourish-
ment it is the one that sends the order to our hand to slap or caress to our
mouth the order to insult or say words of love to our legs the order to get
closer or start running away If we control our reactions and let our brain
make the decision we will save ourselves lots of problems apologies and
unpleasantness
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
119
ldquoThese three sefiroth of the tree of emotions form the trilogy of
Briah the world of creation where strength idea and ways of liste n-
ing seeing and feeling come togetherrdquo
Taste and smell are Hod and Neshah or glory and stability the sev-
enth and eighth sefiroth These two senses go together When we smell a
dish we like we feel our mouth ldquowateringrdquo This is because our sense of
taste already sent the known flavors to our brain which in turn already
started in Yetsirah the registered memories In some gas stations we
taste the smell of gasoline in our mouth as if we had drunk it Being close
to a trash dump makes us nauseous since the smell is perceived by our
nose and mouth irritating our throat
In these cases the formative world of Yetsirah makes us react instinc-
tively to aggressive odors
Reflexes are Yesod foundation This sefirah closes the trilogy of the
world of Yetsirah which is the formative or conceptual world and re-
flexes just like taste and smell are instinctive concepts that we cannot
control When we watch a thriller or action movie we move as if we
were the character in it we flinch when they stick a knife into somebody
or we move avoiding the punch We usually experience some movements
as if we were moving ourselves we even experience tension in our mus-
cles Itrsquos common that if we see others dancing we will also feel the im-
pulse to dance
ldquoThese three sefiroth are the base of our instinctive and intuitive sys-
tem We can control all other sefiroth imagination memories un-
derstanding listening seeing and even feeling but the senses of smell
and taste and reflexes are very hard to control that is why we must
concentrate our attention on themrdquo
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
120
Re-
mem-
ber
Lis-tening
Tast-
ing
Re-
flexes
Rea-
soning
Feel-
ing
Smell-ing
Seeing
Compre-
hension
Imag-
ining
As we can see Malkuth is in the world of Assiah and takes no part in
emotions It is the material world reason and reasoning If we manage to
handle our emotions and ldquobring them downrdquo to Malkuth reason will
prevail and our behavior will be logical improving our relation with the
world
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
121
Controlling your emotions
Now that we know our emotions we know where their origin
takes place and which worlds rule them we can analyze the possibility of
controlling them to reach our goals since a person who angers easily
spoils hisher own happiness and disturbs otherrsquos peace of mind
Without a deliberate effort emotions will not be under the direct
control of our will of Assiah and we will be able to control them in this
rational and logic world We must train our mind to control our emotions
the moment they stir up This can be done by watching them objectively
as soon as they flourish identifying them with a name or a mental label
such as ldquoAngerrdquo ldquoJealousyrdquo ldquoSorrowrdquo ldquoFuryrdquo etc
Once we have names for our emotions we will be then in a bet-
ter position to let go of them without being dragged by them The mo-
ment we can register our anger calmly (when we become aware that this
anger originated in the upper worlds) that is when we make it descend to
Assiah to the world of reason and our anger will leave us
At first this could be useful if during the day we repeat to our-
selves a formula such as
ldquoWhat am I feeling nowrdquohellip ldquoWhat am I thinkingrdquohellip
We respond immediately
ldquoI am feeling angerrdquohellip ldquoI am jealousrdquohellip
We can also investigate even afterwards why the anger (or any
other adverse emotion) took over us so that we can avoid these situations
or responses in the future
Who controls me
Even though every human being has in its spirit the world of As-
siah very few use this world to think logically and by themselves This
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
122
passivity or indifference is the result of the development of massive
communication media
Radio television yellow journalism even the Internet push their
messages on all of us every minute of the day and its penetration power
is reinforced by the rooted human disposition to accept everything we are
being told and comply with what we are dared to do Bombarded by
thousands of stimuli we donrsquot think by ourselves anymore we donrsquot feel
our emotions anymore or start up our own actions instead we feel how
others want us to feel The pressure of the multitude is irresistible
When we explain that Kether accepts that Superman flies be-
cause it is part of the film game we must control that Kether does not
accept that my self esteem depends on the perfume or shirt I buy or that
my relationship with people does not depend on the car I have
We saw that in the world of Atziluth everything is relative eve-
rything is in a potential state that is why commercials aim at our imagina-
tion memories and comprehension to get us to buy their products
All these communication means teach us to hold our capacity to
reason or if we happen to reason to do it the way they expect us to
Those who manipulate the media (not necessarily the owners but the
sponsors) are motivated by their own interests which are fortune and
power They play important roles in several means of life such as politic
business law medicine and education
Publicity newscasts soap operas even reality shows penetrate
us through the world of Briah which is the listeningseeingfeeling trilo-
gy In Briah we find the idea in formation that is why journalism is con-
sidered the ldquofourth powerrdquo Nevertheless in todayrsquos globalizes world
Kabbalah places it at the top over all other earthly powers because it
manipulates images ideas and it gives us the news ldquoaimedrdquo at their inter-
ests The role of reasoning tends to be subordinated to that of emotion
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
123
while the mental inertia and indifference eases the conquest of reason
That is why when public opinion is formed through manipulation a small
minority is able to control the majority Publicity and newscasts are the
most effective mechanism to make us ldquobelieverdquo what is good or bad for
our spirit and body
Control of decisions and Free Will
All of those who are part of the small but powerful marketing
minority have something to sell Commercials make us wish more and
more things that will not necessarily make us happier or give us peace of
mind They tell us that happiness is having the latest entertainment center
or the new cooking system But no matter how many things we buy we
could still feel our lives painfully empty
The speed power and efficiency of all this technological and so-
cial development drive us into an increasing frequency of illness due to
stress and nervous crisis Those who do not collapse under this pressure
find other ways to escape such as drugs alcohol and psychotic cults
The battle is not easy because the offer is gratifying we are even part of
that wheel because we sell a product or service which is commercialized
that way The only significant comparison we can make is with our-
selves between the person we were one month earlier a year earlier or
even a decade earlier and the person we are at present physically intel-
lectually morally and financially If there hasnrsquot been an improvement
or it hasnrsquot been enough we should ask ourselves why that is and do
something to modify this without delay If done regularly this ldquocheck-
uprdquo could be very beneficial If we set our pride and prejudice aside and
we check out our values and perspectives then we will be able to live a
simpler healthier and happier life
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
124
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Malkuth
The Kingdom
The Rational World
Education and freedom
Rights and obligations
Daily negotiations Responsibilities
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
125
Education and freedom
As a child I was told that
ldquoThe better educated a person is the freer that person isrdquo
At the time I didnrsquot understand the significance of those words
because at the age of ten to me education was school teachers and
studying
Today a few years older the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah taught
me that education is knowledge and it is much more profound than what I
was taught in school
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the first thing educa-
tion should do is warn the students that all knowledge implies a certain
risk of error and illusion Human knowledge is exposed to errors in per-
ception and judgment and illusions caused by the narrowness of ideas
cultural influence and the emotions and experiences of each person
Scientific knowledge is not even immune to error and illusion
theories and methods of investigation protect their own errors and illu-
sions That is why the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah education gives the kind
of knowledge that allows for self criticism and detects errors and illu-
sions The ldquoknowledge blindnessrdquo can be cured with a more open and
reflexive education that self-criticizes
The media overwhelms us with information It is fundamental
that we learn to discern what is relevant and what is accessorial
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah invites us to analyze the four
worlds of the human spirit together with the four worlds of the societies
in which they live political cultural religious and financial
The archetypical world called Atziluth is the one where eve-
rything is in a latent potential state That is the spirituality and religious
world
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
126
In the creative world called Briah we find the strength in its
pure form and the ideas This is the emotional or cultural world
In the formative world called Yetsirah everything is in the
formation or a conceptual process which is the world of sensations or
political
In the material world called Assiah is where the physical
manifestation takes place which is the logical or financial world
Globalization is another important issue that conditions our free-
dom According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the world has been
globalizing from its inception God never discriminated we are all His
children Moses was a ldquoglobalizesrdquo when he took his people to the Prom-
ised Land through the desert So were Abraham Noah Jesus when he
asked his apostles to take his word evangelizing throughout the Earth
The current systems of communication make us realize how sim-
ilar and at the same time how different we are from each other The
Judeo-Christian Kabbalah struggles for unity not to erase diversity and
vice-versa Neither is the individual person above religion culture or so-
ciety nor is religion culture or society above the individual person Only
God is above each and every one of us
Let us remember that God created the four Genii or Elements
(Earth Air Water and Fire) and it is the obligation of all human beings
to protect them since they are our only support Mankind is destroying
them with the contamination it has created which will derive in our own
destruction But this depends on our free will thai is why there is an
even more powerful globalization than the financial one the intellectual
affective and moral globalization This is the only way we will achieve
the Freedom to which the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah invites you the
world is united by its culture technology and the financial exchange and
at the same time it is divided by politics and religion
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
127
To need
Control
Respect
Free Will
LIFE
Happiness
Dignity
Freedom
To know
To love
Kabbalah teach us to understand that every human being shares
the same worries feelings and the same destiny no matter where he
lives
The values of the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah are solidarity hos-
pitality tolerance and respect towards the dignity of every person This
means that every culture should learn from other cultures and each socie-
ty from other societies
The kabballistic ideals of freedom consist in respect for the indi-
viduality and diversity and promoting solidarity and comprehension
Responsibilities
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
128
Rights and obligations
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah bases its doctrine on the rights and obliga-
tions of all human beings Each person has certain right and obligations
which become basic responsibilities of which each person must take
charge one hundred percent like the responsibility to control and manage
its own life building its own life plan and following it by accomplishing
goals
These obligations have three important axes based on the first three
sefiroth
bull Kether or Crown and self-esteem
bull Hokhmah or the Wisdom to known oneself
bull Binah or the Intelligence to make decisions according
to onersquos inner and outer personal needs without hurting
oneself or others
The basic rights are found in the seven lower sefiroth
bull Hesed and the right to freedom
bull Geburah and the right to control your life
bull Tipherzt and the right to happiness
bull Neshah and the right to dignity
bull Hod and the right to (respect) be respected
bull Yesod and the right of free expression
bull Malkuth and the right to life
Mankind in its daily interaction relates to its sefiroth and its funda-
mental rights according to three different styles of response based on the
lower worlds
The world of Briah or pure or emotional power
It promotes inequality always having a loser and winner This is not a
creative or equal relation
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
129
The person denies its own respect rights and needs hurting itself
These are mostly selfish individualist and passionate people
The world of Yetsirah or conceptual
It deals with defending onersquos own rights without hurting others It im-
plies equality and respect
The person knows the border line between its own individuality and
those of others
They are mostly realistic practical conventional and objective
The world of Assiah or physical or logical manifestation
They are mostly analytic calculating cold and insensitive
It promotes non-equal relationships against the rights of others It is
an unbalanced relationship in which manipulation takes place
The person invades the rights of others getting Responses of fear
Daily negotiations
When people speak of negotiations they think they are talking about
money but negotiation is part of daily life and it is also analyzed
through the sefirotic trees of the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah
The negotiation can be with oneself for instance
Irsquom staying in bed another fifteen minutes even if I have to go
to work without breakfast
The negotiation can be with your spouse for instance
We can spend Christmas with your family if we spend New
Yearrsquos with mine
We can negotiate with our children for example
You can have the car tonight if you come home early and
wash it tomorrow
We can negotiate with our fellow workers for instance
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
130
If you cover me this Saturday Irsquoll cover you next Sunday
As you can see in none of these examples and many more that surely
you must remember is money mentioned as exchange In a negotiation
the effort must be compensated equally
Nobody should win or lose or better yet both should come out winning
obtaining something each one wants In a negotiation everybody should
know what is at stake and what each one will obtain in exchange
Let us remember that the method of solving problems is based on the
lower or material world of Assiah but a negotiation reaches for the upper
worlds like Yetsirah or intuition or the world of Briah or emotions in
some cases it even appeals to Atziluth or spirit
You must train you brain to stay in the lower worlds to negotiate be-
cause it will be more to your benefit Try to be objective since feelings
or emotions play against you and the effort will not be compensated
equally
You must create what is called a creative antagonism separating the ob-
jective facts in order to get to a reasonable and logic agreement It is very
important that both parties feel they are winners Get used to listening to
every word the other person is saying In Kabbalah the word is very im-
portant it has a double message what is being said and what is meant
When your spouse child or friend get angry and scream for something
you already know it is not important they are really saying something
else Hug himher kiss himher on the forehead and tell himher you
want to hear the reasons behind the anger But on the contrary if you
feel offended and respond screaming even louder you will have lost the
negotiation before you even begin
Turn your defects into virtues that way you will get a just negotiation
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
131
If you are passive think of the object and state your argument
with precision and not getting nervous
If you are aggressive look for the motives and keep them
away while negotiating
If triumph is important to you think the other one is right and
try to be unbiased
If you are anguished think of the reasons in your favor not to
show weakness
If you are a fatalist and you think you are going to lose nego-
tiate with a relaxed mind you have nothing to risk act without
worrying about the end result
When Jesus says
ldquoPut the other cheekrdquo
He refers to Judeo-Christian Kabbalah because it is not to be
slapped but to accept the embrace of negotiation
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
132
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Conclusions
The Tree of Trees
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
133
The Tree of Trees
Reading this book we have learned to go through the different
sefirotic trees the creation of the universe its worlds and centers of
strength the sefirotic columns the Adam Kadmon tree Jesusrsquo genealogy
the Our Father the Sermon in the Mountain (Beatitudes) the evolution of
mankind gestation development maturing the spirit decisions emo-
tions and even responsibilities
But we also learned about the existence of infinite sefirotic trees
because each sefirath (no matter how small) contains a tree within and
each tree (no matter how big) is only a sefirath of a larger tree
If we try to unify all the sefirotic trees we will see that they are
all similar we could even say the same they all have the same logical
pattern they were all created by the same Divine Architect
The sefiroth take different names according to their presence but
their strength does not change since they are endless sources of energy
That is why when we see Sephiroth we see its gifts
Kether Crown Inspiration Divine Light Supra-One א
Hokhmah Wisdom Word Experience Soul ב
Binah Intelligence Spirit Thought Fortune ג
Hesed Greatness Love Humility Strength Giving ד
Geburah Justice David Truth Respect Shape ה
Tipherzt Beauty Salomon Purity Fidelity Goodness ו
Neshah Stability Power Forgiveness Trust Effort ז
Hod Glory Blessing Protection Education ח
Yesod Foundation Simplicity Assistance Purification ט
Malkuth Kingdom Peace Prayer Freedom Birth י
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
134
The only sefirath that has only one meaning or name is Leb the
sefirath of the heart and for that reason it cannot be modified Because it
is virtual it appears or disappears according to the tree we are looking at
because its power is so big that it doesnrsquot need to be identified or be pre-
sent in the tree because it is a Sefirotic Tree in itself and it is the one that
guides us and protects us
Each one of us has its own Sefirotic Tree which we
must go through without a doubt from Kether to Malkuth and from
Malkuth to Kether
Free will lets us chose the road to take the sefiroth to go
through but it does not let us get out of our own and only tree
We are the only craft men of our own destiny we devel-
op our only precious and exclusive Tree of Life
It is up to us to comply with our Logics Divine Plan or to
decide to evade our responsibilities looking for shortcuts and trying to
twist the Divine assignments
The free will given to us by God demands that we put our spir-
itual and philosophical life in order without further delay to build a dig-
nified future and face each day as if it were the last one
The physical and spiritual kaballistic world from Kether to
Malkuth is truly a happy place to live in if people only thought of go-
ing through their personal and unique Sefirotic Tree
Let us remember these wise words
ldquoDeath is certain life is uncertainrdquo
(Maranam niyatam jivitam aniyatam)
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
135
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
The Divine Logic
Cesar Leo Marcus
Windmills International Editions Inc
wwwwindmillseditionscom
California - USA ndash 2012
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
136
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
6
Prologue
Many years ago the paths of my Sefirotic Tree took me to Jerusa-
lem where Rabbi Zev ben Itzjhak introduced me to the secret world of
Kabbalah Those sefirotic paths took me to the Vatican to pry into the
Papal library with Pope Paul VIrsquos authorization to plunge myself into
de Holy Scriptures analyze different religions to research their similari-
ties and to compare them
I understood the teachings of the Divine Masters such as Adam
Abraham Moses Akiba Jesus and Mohammed discovering that no path
will take us to happiness because happiness is in finding our own path
in our own Tree of Life
I wrote this book because the 21st century will open up for all
mankind a spiritual space never seen yet It is the century of revelations
and the time for ldquokabbalistic evangelizationrdquo through which we will un-
derstand there is no reason for the erroneously called religious war be-
cause the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah allows us to cross the gates towards
the union of souls where each and everyone of us are very important
pieces of this Logic Divine Plan
That the Sky illuminates him
Cesar Leo Marcus - 2005
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
7
Introduction
Since the beginning of the Divine Creation since water earth air
and fire combined to form life since early vegetation covered the land
since animals developed into dinosaurs since giants (vegetable and ani-
mal) disappeared giving way to the world as we know it today since the
first man understood that he was no longer an ape and learned to use his
intelligence which is forever the Kabbalah Judeo-Christian was pre-
sent revealing every step and every line of this Logic Divine Plan
This book answers the four most difficult questions us humans
ask ourselves the easiest way possible
Which is the Divine Logic Plan for each one of us
What should we do to find our Path
Who are we really and what is our goal
What is free will and how does it benefit us
To find these answers we must travel the road or path of the
sefirot which is not easy In order to do so each one of us can adopt one
of two possible attitudes
We can envision the road or path as a barrier that sepa-
rates us from our goals or sefirot battling with strength against obstacles
considering every step a conquest But I must warn you many desist half
way down the road and the few that do make it end up totally worn out
and without the strength to enjoy their triumph
Or we can envision the sefirotic road or path as the way
to achieve our objectives as part of the affixed goal From the very first
moment we step onto the road we will be walking the arm of the sefirot
or desired goal and without battling or effort we will get there Walking
through it we will gain from whatever the sefirotic path offers us Most
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
8
people will get there without effort or exhaustion enjoying the tiny daily
triumphs and finally achieving their goals
The students of Judeo-Christian Kabbalah chose the second op-
tion we know that the path itself is our teacher that we learn just by
walking through the sefirotic paths and as we near our goal we leave
behind our weaknesses our fears and we value our spiritual weapons our
inner resources our strengths
The students of Judeo-Christian Kabbalah
know that we have come to this world to be happyhellip
Understanding happiness as a means to offer our spirit and soul the
opportunity to learn surrounded by light and positive e nergy
Those who wish to study Judeo-Christian Kabbalah will search
in this book for answers to questions they hadnrsquot even thought of before
and that were hidden from regular people in the past
This book seeks the interpretation of the Sacred Books
and most especially of the symbolism of the sefirot
This book seeks to explain the existence of man the pur-
pose of his life and where he comes from
This book seeks to unveil the occult understanding the
sefirotic trees and the four worlds that make them up
This book seeks to discover the hidden scenarios of your
life achieving the much desired happiness without effort
This book seeks to acknowledge the mystical magic and
creative power of the Tree of Life and its sefirot
This book seeks to be not a abstract study quite the con-
trary whoever studies Judeo-Christian Kabbalah will be able to analyze
the Tree of Life and its sefirot understanding their importance on onersquos
life
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
9
This bookrsquos search takes place within each reader because
ldquoKabbalahrdquo comes from the Hebrew words ldquoLaykabbelrdquo meaning To
Receive and ldquoHabbalahrdquo which means Tradition which refers to the Tra-
dition of To Receive and Kabbalah describes this action as ldquoThe tradi-
tion of wishing to receiverdquo This tradition of wishing to receive develops
and grows in four worlds that continuously come together and grow
apart
To Receive the pleasure of money and power this is the
material world
To Receive the pleasure of acknowledgement and hon-
ors this is the conceptual world
To Receive the pleasure of love and affection this is the
world of senses
To Receive the pleasure of the union with the Divinity
which is the spiritual world which is the highest in the pyramid of the
desires because it wraps and raises all the rest
ldquoHe who acknowledges the power of the
Kabbalah and the tradition of to receivehellip
Will search the means to attain its Lightrdquo
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
10
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Kether The Crown
The Sacred Books
Old Testament
New Testament
Koran or Quram
The Zohar
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
11
The Old Testament
The Hebrew has three scriptures The Tanakh or Old Testament
the Talmud or collection of erudite commentaries on the Tanakh and
The Kabbalah or mystic interpretation of the Torah Ancient rabbis
would say that the first of these three books represented the Divine Body
the second one the Divine Spirit and the fourth one the Divine Soul The
average person can benefit from reading and obeying the first book eru-
dite scholars can study the second one but wise people meditate with the
third one
The Tanakh
Old Testament also called The Book of Books is divided in
three parts
The Torah the Law which envelops the first five books
ldquoJumashrdquo(5) in hebrew also called ldquoPentateuchrdquo or the Law of Moses
These are the five books Genesis (Bereshit) Exodus (Shemoth) Leviti-
cus (Vayikra) Numbers (Bamidbar) and Deuteronomy (Devarim) They
cover the period between the Genesis up to Mosesrsquo death on the thresh-
old of the entry into the Promised Land (Canaan)
Nevirsquoim (Prophets) The second part of the Tanakh co-
vers a vast period which goes from the conquest up to the last prophets
These are the books contained therein Joshua (the conquest period)
Judges I and II Samuel I and II Kings and those dedicated to the major
prophets Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel and Daniel and the minor prophets
Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah
Haggai Zecariah and Malachi
Ketuvim (writings) This third part of the Tanakh is
made up of the book of Psalms Proverbs Job Ezra Nehemiah Ruth
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12
Song of Songs Lamentations (Eichah) Ecclesiastes Esther and Chroni-
cles I and II They cover a vast period that goes from the VII century of
the Common Era up to the Persian period the return to Israel and the
building of the second Temple of Jerusalem
The Talmud
The Halakha-Mishnah-Aggada-Talmud Bavli (of Babylon)-
Yerushalmi (of Jerusalem) is a compilation of the oral tradition transmit-
ted from generation to generation which covers all topics in the Tanakh
including
The Halakha or the Law explains the rules and princi-
ples pronounced in the Torah rules of conduct religious principles and
rituals Covers a wide variety of issues revolving around the individual
the family and living in community The Halakha has ruled life for centu-
ryrsquos right up to the present
The Mishnah which cover the following rules and regu-
lations are six basic sedarim or treaties (singular=seder)
Moed talks about the festivities א
Zeraim (Seeds) deals with labor practices ב
Nezikin deals with relationships within a group ג
Nashim are the family rules ד
Kodoshim deals with sanctity and holiness ה
Tohorot-kosher are Laws of purity ו
The Gemara the oral law with comments and exegetical rabbin-
ic statements has been study material for centuries nourishing philoso-
phy teachings It contains practically every bit of traditional wisdom col-
lected for centuries
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13
This oral law also contains a vast literary work Haggadah and
Midrashim (legends and comments) on biblical figures of exemplary
conduct
The Kabbalah
The Kabbalah was in ancient literature the totality of the reli-
gious doctrine obtained with the exception of the Pentateuch As of the
X century DC Kabbalah was considered a secret mysterious and theo-
sophical science destined to explain always in a cryptic language the
Creation of the Universe by the Being defined as ldquoOne and Absoluterdquo
Some kabbalists such as Pico Della Mirandola Reuchlin and
Schikard adopt the old tradition according to which Kabbalah develops
from the inspiration that God instilled in Adam Abraham Moses Bud-
dha Jesus Mohammed Bahi and all those that constitute the mystic cir-
cle of the Latter Prophets
Kabbalah is not exclusively Jewish since first Jesus and later
Mohammed were kabbalist scholars
The New Testament
Having taken Jesus as an example as we know it when he was
born there were three religious doctrines in Palestine the Pharisees and
Sadducees of which the Gospels often speak and the Essenes which are
never mentioned Tradition states that the boy Emanuel ben Yoseph was
sent by the erudite doctors of the Law to the community of the Essenes
near the Dead Sea after being heard at the Temple at the age of thirteen
to be educated according to the mystic tradition of Israel The Kabbalah
He stayed with the Essenes until he was thirty years old Emanuel ben
Yoseph or Jesus Christ teaches the continuity of the Hebrew Scriptures
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14
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the
Prophets I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them I tell you
the truth until heaven and earth disappear not the smallest letter not the
least stroke of a pen will by any means disappear from the Law until
everything is accomplished (Mt 517)
However I admit that I worship the God of our fathers
as a follower of the Way which they call a sect I believe everything that
agrees with the Law and that is written in the Prophetsrdquo (Acts 2414)
Jesus answered It is written Man does not live on
bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God (Mat-
thew 44) referring to Deuteronomy 83 ldquohellipto teach you that man does
not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of
Godrdquo
In the chapter called Tipherzt-Beauty you will find a broader ex-
planation of the Christian Kabbalah and an analysis of the Kabbalistic
Jesus and his apostles
The Koran or Quram
The Koran or Quram is the sacred book of Islam containing the
word of Allah (God) as revealed to Mohammed through the angel Gabri-
el (Gibrail or Yibril)
During his life the Prophet Mohammed received the revelations
either verbally or written on palm leaves pieces of leather or bones etc
Upon the death of Mohammed in the year 632 his followers began to
gather all these revelations which during the period in which Uthman ibn
Affan was Caliph took the shape we know nowadays 114 chapters each
one called surah subdivided into verses or phrases
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
15
For the Muslims the Koran is the eternal and un-created work of
God therefore it was to be transmitted without the slightest change in the
original language the classic Arabic considered a sacred tongue for all
purposes
However in recent times the Koran has been translated to many
languages aimed specially at the believer whose native language is not
Arabic But even so believers are obligated to read it in its original lan-
guage because they claim that the contents of the Koran has not been
modified in centuries and a translation is an interpretation
Mohamed admits the continuity of the Hebrew Scriptures in the
following passages of the Koran
ldquoAnd most certainly We gave Musa (Moses) the Book
and We sent apostles after him one after anotherrdquo (Koran surah 287)
ldquoSurely We revealed the Taurat (Torah) in which was
guidance and light with it the prophets who submitted themselves
(to Allah) judged (matters) for those who were Jewsrdquo (surah 544)
ldquoCertainly We made a covenant with the children of Is-
rael and We sent to them apostlesrdquo (surah 570)
ldquoAnd certainly We gave the Book to Musa so be not in
doubt concerning the receiving of it and we made it a guide for the
children of Israelrdquo (surah 3223)
According to the Koran ldquothe Messiah Isa (Jesus) son of
Marium (Mary) is only an apostle of Allah and word which He
communicated to Marium and a spirit from Himrdquo (surah 4171)
He is a prophet or a servant of Allah (surah 4359) but
not His son(surah 6101)
The Muslims consider him a Messiah (in Arabic
ldquoMasihrdquo very similar to the Hebrew ldquoMashiacuteajrdquo) to them it means an
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16
elevated prophet (ldquoanointedrdquo) the closest one to Allah before Mo-
hammed
The word Messiah Masih (ldquoanointedrdquo) can be found in
Surahs 345 4157 171-172 517-72-75 930-31 The highest
prophet except for Mohammed
The Islam considers the mystery of the Trinity and in-
carnation an ldquoassociationrdquo and therefore an offense against the
uniqueness of Allah (surah 112)
But not this way the first three sefirot that wrap the symbolism of
the Trinity
Mohammed sensed the Kabbalah in the Koran since Isa (Je-
sus) is the word of Allah and a spirit from Him son of the Holy Spirit
but they do not exactly consider Isa (Jesus) as if he were Allah
And furthermore the Koran affirms that at the end of time when
humanity will be called to judgment by Allah Isa (Jesus) will stand by
Him as witness and part therein (surah 4361) And everyone who did
not believe in him will believe in him (surah 4157)
Those who interpret the Koran affirm that Isa (Jesus) will come
back to this world at the end of time to save Humanity from damnation
and convert it to Allah
The Zohar
The composition of the Kabbalistic doctrine as we know it to-
day it attributed to Rabbi Shimeon ben Yochai in century II He is the
author of the Zohar ldquoThe Book of Splendorrdquo one of the basic texts of
the Kabbalah Shimeon ben Yochai (80-160) was a disciple of Rebbi
Akiva ldquoRashbirdquo (40-137) who had been sentenced to death by the Ro-
mans because he would not acknowledge nor obey the ruling authority of
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
17
Rome nor would he reveal any Kabbalah secrets to them Even though
the Zohar was written by Rabbi Shimeon ben Yochai Rebbi Akiva was
its true inspirer
Adam Kadmon Zohar XVII Century
Rebbi Akiva ben Joseph was born southeast of Judea close to the
Mediterranean shore His father was a humble Jewish peasant who was
not acquainted with the literature of his people nor the traditions he had
never read the Torah nor visited the Temple Due to the precarious eco-
nomic conditions in which there was living the family Akiba none of her
children received formal education in her infancy The reality was that
Akiba ben Joseph I pass your childhood and adolescence as an illiterate
Mediterranean shepherd until a few years later he married with Raacutechel
who convinced it to leave your activity and to study with the big rabbini-
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18
cal teachers Akiba faced many difficulties in your learning That is why
he started learning the alphabet with his 5 year old son and soon was
reading text books in Hebrew he went on to study the Torah at Rabbi
Joseph ben Zakkairsquos renowned Yeshiva (academy) His teachers Eliezer
ben Hyrkanos Joshua ben Hananiah and Nahum of Gimzo became his
best friends because they admired his bright fast and resourceful mind
Fifteen years later at the top of his mental and physical faculties he be-
gan his monumental work the reconstruction of the Law and the estab-
lishment of an academy of permanent studies
At the age of 57 in the year 97 Akiba was already revered by
both by his colleagues and by the masses He visited rabbis and experts
of the Toraacute with the purpose of combining all the Jewish traditions and
then went on to classify them in a legal code divided up logistically The
effective combination of conciseness and precision served as example the
future generations In the centuries following Mishna (codification of
Jewish laws and traditions) it was acknowledged and studied by the rab-
binical authorities
With more than 65 years Rebbi Akiva founded his private Ye-
shiva (academy) in Bene Berak (Sons of Lightning) to the north of Jeru-
salem wanted to found several in the whole Israel for the study of the
Tora and of the Kabbalah
Everything went along smoothly until the year 125 CE when the
relationship between Jews and Romans deteriorated Emperor Hadrianusrsquo
decision to build a pagan sanctuary on Mount Moria (where the old tem-
ple had been) exacerbated spirits Excitement grew within the Jewish
people and led by Shimon bar Kojba they rebelled
In a little less than three years the Roman armies destroyed all
evidence of Jewish resistance The cruelty of the repression grew month
by month and in the year 134 the Romans enacted a drastic decree pro-
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
19
hibiting the practice and study of the Torah Rebbi Akiva was convinced
it was the end If the study of the Torah was abolished his life lacked all
meaning At the age of 95 defying the Roman authority he gathered his
students with the sole purpose to study Kabbalah
A few days later Rebbi Akiva was incarcerated The Romans re-
spected his knowledge reputation and distinguished personality Akiva
continued teaching his disciples from his cell which earned him judg-
ment He was found guilty tortured and sentenced to death With Rebbi
Akiva 24000 of his disciples were killed by the Romans only Rabbi
Simeon bar Yochai and four others survived Before being captured Reb-
bi Akiva and Rabbi Yehuda ben Baba authorized ldquoRashbirdquo to transmit to
future generations the Kabbalah they had taught him
The Zohar or ldquoBook of Splendorrdquo was composed by Simeon bar
Yochai and his son Elazar during the thirteen years they lived in a cave
hiding from the Roman army
ldquoRashbirdquo came out of the cave with the Zohar a flawless meth-
od to study the Kabbalah and having accomplished spirituality Rabbi
Simeon bar Yochai attained the 125 levels a human being can achieve
during his whole life in this world According to the latest investigations
the revelation of the current Kabbalah could be resumed this way
The historic Kabbalah was preceded by a movement (900-1200)
that preserved and encouraged the legacy of the Jewish gnosis
(knowledge of spiritual truth) Later on this movement penetrated Eu-
rope constantly at different stages Hasidism was an important intermedi-
ate stage Furthermore besides all the theoretical and mystical variances
of Kabbalah there was a much older one in which the secret names of
God and the angels were used the same way they are used in white mag-
ic not causing any harm to people Not to be confused with ldquoblack mag-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
20
icrdquo (kishcuf in Hebrew) international current containing elements from
Arabic Jewish and Christian magic
After the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in the year 1492 and
the establishment of a Jewish center in Safed (north of Galilea) Kabba-
lah also experienced a change since two systems flourished the Kabba-
lah of Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (1522-1570) and Kabbalah of Isaac
Luria (1534-1572)
In brief Cordoverorsquos Kabbalah could be defined as a theoretical
variant with many gnostic elements while Luriarsquos Kabbalah would be a
practical mysticism
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21
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Hokhmah
Wisdom
The Sacred Ideas
Light
The spiritual Will
Tetragramaton
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
22
Light
We all have this sixth sense which we will call spiritual sense
still not awakened in some people When people study Kabbalah they can
learn things that were not available to them before because a sixth sense
is developed in order to envision life and the world from a different point
of view
The sixth sense is also called ldquothe spiritual vaserdquo(kli) this vase
is in all of us and it is ruled by basic kabbalistic concepts
A regular personrsquos spiritual vase is still not adequately א
developed to perceive the spiritual world
When light enters a personrsquos heart or soul it ignites the ב
spiritual perception in that person
Nothing is possible without light When we take the light ג
that surrounds us it will gradually light our path
Even if we donrsquot recognize said light there is a direct ד
connection between our heart and the light that will fill it
The light is destined the surrounding lights stand by ה
waiting for you to prepare your vase to receive them
The light we receive when we give in to the wisdom of ו
self-knowledge attracts a celestial charm which gives us abundance
of sanctity and purity that take us closer to realization
ldquoThe person who studies the Kabbalah Judeo-Christian with
the purpose of self-modification will attain the light and will notice
that the desired improvement and success can be achieved with the
least cost or sufferingrdquo
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
23
The Spiritual Will
The Creator wants us to indulge in spiritual pleasures that we
are full That can only be possible through enormous will perfection We
can only reach the spiritual world through a rectified will which will
make us strong and active Only by means of a passionate desire strong-
ly and dedication we will be able to reach really the spiritual world re-
turning forts and assets A small desire will not damage us very much
nor a lot of good The passionate desire only works from the Divine
stimulus which we it will obtain from the Intuition which is a part of the
Spirit
There is a pyramid of souls based on the will to receive
At the base are the many souls with small earthly wills
searching a comfortable animal like life (food and affection)
The following level with minor number of souls those who
want to acquire richness Those are the people who dedicate their lives to
make money and will sacrifice themselves in exchange for fortune
Next are the ones that would do anything to control others to
govern and reach positions of power
At the highest level are the souls that are seeking spirituality
who are open to the light
Man in turn has the same pyramid within him he must invert it
so that the weight goes to the purest desire or will the infinite will for
spirituality When we truly wish to increase our will for spiritually the
surrounding light (the hidden spiritual world) begins to reflect upon us
increasing the desire for even more If we identify with matter we will
try to obtain satisfaction through it searching outside our spirit for mate-
rial things until these material things no longer satisfy us thus becoming
less materialistic and discovering our true spirit
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
24
Our body is matter matter is energy and therefore has life but it
has no spirit or spiritual energy because it is all material energy dense
energy the spirit is light energy The difference between one and the
other is that the material energy has no conscience because it doesnrsquot
perceive reality that is why we see with our eyes and not our heart our
eyes show us the outer figures of things or people its beauty or ugliness
but we can see what they are like inside Spiritual energy is what gives
us conscience of reality of love of truth That is why when we become
conscious of ourselves we transform our matter into spirit and become
more conscious
Albert Einstein was so right when he said ldquoEnergy cannot be
created nor destroyed it can only be transformedrdquo thus dense (mate-
rial) energy can be transformed into lighter (spiritual) energy again and
again
The biggest change we observe in the souls that are descending
nowadays is mainly in their well defined will to achieve a spiritual sys-
tem Even the most common people without any religious or mystic in-
struction are looking for something beyond this world something spir-
itual furthermore more and more scientists or people into pragmatic pro-
fessions are searching for their spiritual light In the last thirty years the
descent of new souls has been activated and accelerated
Their will is much bigger and more genuine They want to
achieve authentic spiritualityhellip nothing morehellip and nothing less
We will discover that we have no other alternative but to
acknowledge the spiritual world of which we are a part This acknowl-
edgement will take us to a new situation where we will begin to act con-
sciously in unison no longer as isolated individuals All of us from one
generation to another are connected in one soul We share a collective
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
25
responsibility That is why the Kabbalist is considered ldquofounder of the
worldrdquo He affects the whole world and the whole World affects him
The Tetragrammaton
In Kabbalah the concept of Shem or ldquoDivine Namerdquo plays a
first degree role which makes a lot of sense given the importance of eve-
rything related to the Emanations of the Sefirotic Tree the mystery of the
letters and the beauty in words
The meditation about the ldquoName of Godrdquo constitutes one of the
pillars of the initiation path to Kabbalah
The Tetragram or Tetragrammatonhellipfrom the Greek four (tetra)
and letters (grammaton)hellip is the name formed by four consonants one
yod (Y) two he (H) and one vav (V) The combination of these four let-
ters spell YHVH the ldquoHoly Namerdquo or Yahavah (as literally read) which
in Kabbalah is called Shem Herman Forash ldquocomplete namerdquo or the
ldquoexplicit namerdquo
Said ldquoSacred Namerdquo is usually transcribed as Jehovah or Yah-
veh nevertheless such description is no more than a hypothetical and
approximate restoration Therefore the word YHVH in which all mys-
teries and the savior power communicated by God are contained has
been designated by tradition as the ldquolost wordrdquo
The ldquocomplete or whole namerdquo was replaced by others also at-
tributed by the Bible as Yahveh such as Adonai El Shaddai or Elohim
Sometimes the four letter name is substituted by half of the Tetra-
grammaton the so-called ldquotwo letter Namerdquo HY or ldquoHaimrdquo interpreted
or translated as LIFE
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
26
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Binah Intelligence
The Tree of Life
Creation
The Tree of Life
The Columns
Tree Sefirot and Letters
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
27
Creation
An example of the depth in the interpretation of the Bible offered
by the kabbalistic doctrine is its version of the biblical narration of the
Creation as contained in the Book of ldquoGenesisrdquo usually considered a na-
ive and childish story to explain a process that modern science has
demonstrated to be much more complex In regard to said mythical-
symbolic narration similar to many others contained in other spiritual
traditions in humanity the kabbalistic doctrine makes two basic observa-
tions of major importance
1 According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the biblical crea-
tion is the process through which the universal manifestation takes place
It is a logical process its place is in the Divine world and it gives form to
the Divinity In it the Supreme Being is determined and revealed as such
going from the Nothing to the Whole The Everything
It is not ldquoGodrsquos Creationrdquo but
ldquoThe Creation in Godrdquo
In this process the Creation of the Cosmos is only a consequence
which just like the latter takes place not sooner nor later but in a con-
tinuous and uninterrupted way in an instant beyond time in the ldquoeternal
nowrdquo
2 The six days of the Creation identify with the creative sefirot
from the fourth one (Hesed) to the ninth one (Yesod) referring to the
specific action or purpose of each one of them while the seventh day
Shabbath in which God rested relates to the tenth sefirot (Malkuth) All
of this is contained in the initial words of the ldquoGenesisrdquo Book ldquoIn the
beginning God created the heavens and the earthrdquo (according to the
common interpretation Authorized Version)
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
28
The key words here are the first three if we want an exact under-
standing of them we must turn to the Hebrew text
ldquoBereshit Bara Elohim
Bereshit means ldquoin the beginningrdquo which according to the Kab-
balistic interpretation it does no refer to a beginning in time but a logical
beginning it is what proceeds not in time but in hierarchy (rank)
and function This principle is Hokhmah the second sefirath
This text should be interpreted this way
ldquoIn the intelligent and intelligible
Beginning which is the Divine Wisdomrdquo
The second word of this quote is Bara ldquocreatedrdquo It is a verb of
action without a subject it doesnrsquot say who created That action has no
subject because the ldquowhordquo of which it speaks is the sefirath Kether ldquothe
Crownrdquo which goes beyond anything personal since in it the ldquoNothingrdquo
of the Supra Being or Absolute
As far as the third word is concerned Elohim we must indicate
that besides not being the subject of the sentence it is in its plural for
literally meaning ldquogodsrdquo
The kabbalistic exegesis (explanation) identifies this Elohim
with the third sefirath Binah the Intelligencerdquo which contains and de-
signs within itself the seven sefirot of the cosmic composition the six
active ones and the receptive one which is the receptacle for the rest of
them (Malkuth the tenth sefirot)
This is why the interpretation to which we are used ldquoGod creat-
edrdquo is not exact A more accurate interpretation of the original hebrew
text would be ldquoThe Nothing created godsrdquo that is it created or profiled
the qualities or aspects of the Divine Reality of which afterwards -not in
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
29
a time order but in an order of principles a cosmic order arises the Crea-
tion or universal manifestation
Therefore here is the message contained in the initial verse of
the ldquoGenesisrdquo according to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah
ldquoThe Supra Being constitutes Itself eternally the causal Being
and the object or purpose of all things in which all qualities poss i-
bilities and forms of the created and uncreated reality are presentrdquo
The Sefirotic Tree and the four worlds
And the twenty-two paths that unite the
Crown (Kether) with the Kingdom (Malkuth)
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
Binah
Geburah
Hod
Yesod
Malkuth
Tipherzt
Neshah
Hesed
Hok-mah
Kether
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
30
The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life is the Divine Architecture which symbolizes the
soul of man and the Universe and as He is divided into four levels known
as the four inner Worlds
In the Ideal World - Atziluth is where everything is
in a latent potential state
In the Creative World - Briah is where the pure
power and the ideas in their shapes are
In the Formative World - Yetsirah everything is in
a conceptual process or one or formation
In the Material World - Assiah is where the physi-
cal manifestation takes place
This tree consists of 10 fixed spheres and a ldquovirtualrdquo one and 22
paths that connect them In a very broad sense we can say that the
spheres or Sefirot are stages of the emanations of the Spirit of God
from the primordial existence to the physical manifestation
ldquoThey are inexhaustible centers of powerrdquo
The model of the Tree of Life mirror and synthesis of man and
the cosmos is divided in three columns or pillars this traditional division
in three columns is in close connection with the alchemical or magic
principles which were discovered by the kabbalists of the 12th
century
and have been present to this day and always will be
The whole manifestation is based on duality this duality is rep-
resented in the tree the three Sefirot to the right form the active pillar
masculine and the three Sefirot to the left form the passive pillar femi-
nine
The duality is also present in each Sefirath The only Unit is
found in the Non-Manifested which is above the Tree
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
31
The Non-Manifested is the pure state of the In-Existence from
where Existence arises which is the first Sefirath the Sefirot in the cen-
ter form the middle or balance pillar
Therefore we observe that one of the columns is active-
masculine another one is passive-feminine and the third one or central
axis equidistant from both of them is neuter and is constantly combining
and harmonizing them both
Power corresponds to the Active energy column integrated by the
following Sefirot Hokhmah (2) Hesed (4) and Neshah (7) Form or
shape corresponds to the passive energy columns which is made up of
the following Sefirot Binah (3) Geburah (5) and Hod (8) The central
or axle column or pillar integrated by Kether (1) Tipherzt (6) Yesod
(9) and Malkuth (10) is neuter and eternally assimilating the opposites
thus creating new possibilities of indefinite developments It is called the
column or pillar of equilibrium or balance
This is the image of permanent order of the Creation It is the
idea upon which all sciences are based and which are called ldquoThesis An-
tithesis and Synthesisrdquo techno science and modern physics have ldquodis-
coveredrdquo formations similar to that of the Tree of Life in the universe
around us such as the quantum structure or the DNA map of all living
things (vegetables animals humans) This proves that the Tree of Life
rules all norms of matter and spirit from the beginning of time
Kabbalah teaches us that energies run through the Tree of Life
from the Unity Kether identified with the number one up to the formal
and substantial manifestation the world and matter just as we know
them and perceive them through our senses This flow of energies or
vibrations is called emanations and they make up any manifestation
The energies of the Sefirot ndash all of the invisible except for
Malkuth which resumes and contains the whole Tree ndash travel a continu-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
32
Binah
Geburah
Hod
Yesod
Malkuth
Tipherzt
Neshah
Hesed
Hokmah
Kether
Leb
ous descending path from (1) Kether down to Earth or the World
Malkuth (10) which is an inverted image of Kether (10=1+0=1) The
rest of the Sefirot or numerals are taken as intermediaries between mani-
festation and the lack of it
The columns of the Tree of Life
Passive Column Neuter Column Active Column
Feminine Form Central Equilibrium Mascu-
line Power
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
33
Tree Sefirot and letters
According to the Pentateuch Moses went to the top of Mount
Sinai and surrounded by fantastic clouds received the Ten Command-
ments God gave him On the other hand Kabbalist affirm that Moses
also received from Heaven besides the Commandments the most pro-
found and secret knowledge to be transmitted only to those truly worthy
of it Going even further back in time some say they can see in the Kab-
balah the mysterious instructions given to Adam in his sleep which per-
mitted him to give a name to everything within the Creation meaning
that Kabbalah is the philosophy of the infinite power of the word the
sound that God gave man in his image calling everything by its name
This search for the practical use of the word is good for reading
the future as well as for really manipulating the secret vibrating energies
for useful purposes or according to the legend to create beings the go-
lems which make up the active aspect of the Kabbalah
On the other hand this also entails a speculative aspect a mysti-
cism aimed at discovering through the interpretation of the Scriptures
and meditation on the sound and the name the diagram of the Universe
and the destiny of man
Ein Sof (the infinite the ineffable) affirms itself revealing itself
to humanity it becomes Shekinah (Godrsquos presence and its feminine side)
which has the responsibility of creation its product
Creation is the result of a progressive descent of the divine
(which never loses its own unity nor its transcendence) in a pure and in-
telligent series associated to the divine until it takes over matter
Thus the cosmos is structured like an immense organism a
drawn path in which all divine intelligence (sefirah plural sefirot) is
communicated with the preceding one from which it receives and with
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
34
the next one to which it gives until the final stage contact with our
world
The ten sefirot all connected by imposed paths denoting their in-
terdependence and represented by a symbolic structure of a tree or a man
(Adam Kadmon) follow an order
Kether Crown - 1 א
Hokhmah Wisdom - 2 ב
Binah Intelligence - 3 ג
Leb Heart
Hesed Greatness - 4 ד
Geburah Justice - 5 ה
Tipherzt Beauty - 6 ו
Neshah Stability - 7 ז
Hod Glory - 8 ח
Yesod Foundation - 9 ט
Malkuth Kingdom - 10 י
The admirable and complex organization of the Sefirotic Tree
with its 22 paths which connect the ten divine emanations permit us to
see right away the close connection there is between the sefirot and the
22 letters in the hebrew alphabet the 22 images of the Tarot and the 22
astrological signs (12 signs and 10 planets)
Since God created the world pronouncing the name of things
each letter is associated to the descent of the divine intelligences and
holds within itself an infinite power
The hebrew language is just like Arabic Egyptian Sanscrit or
Chinese a liturgical language full of the voices of thousand of men who
speak with the divinity therefore to pronounce one sound instead of an-
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
35
other is like changing or modifying creation itself based on a subtle vi-
brating equilibrium Within that same chain of ideas prayer by principle
a devout plea also becomes an active and energetic system that shakes
up the intermediate spheres between man and God holder of the cosmic
order
Kabbalah whether is aimed exclusively at theoretic speculation
or it proposes practical and precise goals like the making of talismans
(from the Arabic tilsam ndash a charm to avert evil and bring good fortune it
appeals to specific instruments based of calculus and numbers
Ad- am
Kadmon Zohar XVII Century
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36
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
Hesed Greatness
Adam Kadmon
And The Sefirot
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
37
Adam Kadmon
Adam Kadmon (Primordial Man) is described by the Zohar as a
ldquobig and powerful tree with branches reaching up to the sky source of
all spiritual lightrdquo In this sefirotic and tree shaped human figure the dif-
ferent sefirot have been placed according to the parts of the human body
to which they relate Each one of them has a very particular mystical
value in the cosmic vision
The first three sefirot correspond symbolically to the head
Kether (the Crown) placed at the top or what the kabbalistic
doctrine calls the ldquohidden brainrdquo Hokhmah (Wisdom) and Binah (In-
telligence) relate to the right and left sides of the brain respectively or
also the right and left eye The two sefirot at mid level Hesed (Great-
ness) and Geburah (Justice) are identified with both arms ldquoGreatnessrdquo
the right one and ldquoJusticerdquo the left one The two central sefirot Leb (the
Heart) which is Virtual that is why it is not represented and Tipherzt
(Beauty) identified with the navel energetic center source of connection
to the mother and nucleus or sun of the body Tipherzt embodies com-
pleteness union and harmony The two sefirot of the inner level Neshah
(Stability) and Hod (Glory) represent both legs ldquoStabilityrdquo the right
thigh and ldquoGloryrdquo the left one Yesod (Foundation) another central
sefirah found between both thighs represents the genitalia the tools and
foundation for procreation Sefirah number ten the last one is Malkuth
(the Kingdom) from which the cosmic manifestation springs and is in
permanent contact with Earth it is related to both feet always in contact
with the ground This sefirah connecting all this to man the Sefirotic
Tree proves that everything in the human being can be spiritualized
Man must achieve in his own being that harmoniously elevated
unity that the figure in the divine Tree of Life and Light shows us
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38
In order to be an authentic ldquoTree of Liferdquo man must discover and
update that sefirotic mystery that is within him as if it were a treasure
full of light waiting to be found
The Sefirot
Kether ndash The Crown - The first sefirah is the Admirable Intelligence
it is the light that gives the power of understanding the First Principle
which has no beginning It is the one and only reality the absolute mys-
tery the essence from which the rest of the sefirot emanate Related to
Crown Knowledge Principle Essence and Light
Hokhmah ndash Wisdom- The second sefirah is the Enlightening Intelli-
gence the Wisdom through which the Deity knows Itself and allows eve-
ry Being to know the unity within itself It is the symbolism of the pure
and eternal fire a place in heaven where the archangels angels
Related to Wisdom Experience Convergence Intuition
Binah ndash Intelligence - The third sefirah is the Sanctifying Intelligence
it is the Great Mother or Holy Universal Spirit matrix of all the worlds
and beings shaping them to return them again to the One
Idea Intelligence Awareness Protection Morale Divergence
(discrepancyvariance)
These first three sefirot are really only one
Kether is Knowledge
Hokhmah is the subject that knows (active)
Binah is the known object (passive)
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
39
In these three sefirot the Judeo-Christian Kaballistic dotrine
discovers the endowments of the Holy Trinity
Kether or God the Father
Hokhmah or God the Son (active on the right side)
Binah or God the Mother or Holy Spirit (passive)
ldquoThe all emanations of God the Father and Son and Holy
Spirit is only one Beingrdquo
Hesed ndash Greatness - The fourth sefirah is the Receptive Intelligence it
contains all the holy powers and all the spiritual virtues emanate from it
such as Greatness Love and Mercy Related to Greatness Love Hum-
bleness Strength Deliverance
Geburah ndash Justice - The fifth sefirah is the Righteous Intelligence
which contains all the spiritual mandates It is the Divine Justice Relat-
ed to Justice Truth Freedom Shape Control
Tipherzt ndash Beauty - The sixth sefirah is the Intelligence Provider of
Spiritual Nouishment Ii is the Divine Beauty that entwines all the other
sefirot It is the Center of centers it clearly relates to the Sun giver of
life light and warmth Related to Beauty Serenity Sweetness Trust
Family
Neshah ndash Stability - The seventh sefirah is the Occult Intelligence it is
the bright Splendor of the intellectual virtues perceived by the eyes of the
intellect It is the energy that produces all the worlds Related to Sta-
bility Power Victory Balance Pleasures
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40
Hod ndash Glory - The eighth sefirah is the Absolute or Perfect Intelli-
gence which has no support or base and descends from Geburah from
which it receives its Expertise Related to Glory Acknowledgement
Learning Awakening
Yesod ndash Foundation - The ninth sefirah is the Pure Intelligence because
it purifies tries corrects and centralizes the emanations It is the founda-
tion that balances the all previous Sephiroth Related to Founding
Building Childhood Filtering
Malkuth ndash The Kingdom - The tenth sefirah is Glowing Intelligence It
is the Kingdom of Heaven or Kingdom on Earth the descent of Kether
upon the material world represents the Divine Omnipresence over
things Related to The Kingdom Earth Heaven and Real World
Each one of these sefirot has a hidden face and a visible one
Every sefirah a complete Sefirotic Tree can be found and in every
sefirah in that Tree another one and so on until the smallest infiniteness
And vice-versa every Tree no matter how big we imagine it is only a
sefirah of a bigger Tree which in turn is another sefirah of an even big-
ger one to the infinite as well
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
41
Kabbalah
Judeo Christian
Geburah Justice
The letters and numbers
The Letters of Kabbalah
Gematriacutea Table
Gematriacutea or Numerology
The Meaning of the Hebrew Letters
Angels of Kabbalah
Geniuses of Kabbalah
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42
The Letters of Kabbalah
The formulas in the medieval books on magic are so full of He-
brew names to speak of God the angels the spirits and demons that at
this point it is impossible to pinpoint the inexactness and the abuse The
Hebrew language like other former language has magicrsquos powers
Sound is a vibration found in numbers Numbers are groups of geometric
relations of spaces that activate energy
Each letter in the hebrew alphabet corresponds exactly just as in
an ldquoencoded languagerdquo to a number because the Hebrews Greeks and
Arabs used for many centuries the same graphic sign for a sound or
amount until the Indians and the Arabs introduced their ldquonumbersrdquo the
ldquozerordquo was invented in the IV century and the Arabs and Hebrews began
to use it in the VII century with the name ldquoceferrdquo which means devoid
empty vacuum From it derived zero and cipher
It was Leonardo Fibonacci (1170-1240) an Italian mathemati-
cian the first one to write a book in 1202 Liber Abaci (Book of Calcula-
tion) on Arabic numbers in occident and began to replace the Roman
numbers It was not until the year 1500 that they were completely re-
placed
This means that it is not Kabbalah that replaces letters with num-
bers historically the letters ldquowererdquo numbers since these were enforced in
the western culture five hundred years ago If we accept this concept we
will not regard numerology or gematriacutea of the Hebrew letters as some-
thing new or capricious but as a historical reality
For those who do not read Hebrew writing there is another meth-
od called transcription It is no easy task to transcribe from a holy lan-
guage to one that is not
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
43
A kabballistic practice suggests that as long as the hebrew lan-
guage is not completely unknown to replace each number in a date with
its corresponding letter bearing in mind that the Jewish calendar starts
with the year of the creation which took place 3760 years before the
birth of Jesus when the western calendar begins counting
Thus the year 1989 becomes 5749 which translated to Hebrew
letters gives us Tau Shin Mem Chefh which add up to Tismach mean-
ing ldquoyou will be overjoyedrdquo and that was the year the Berlin wall came
down In the same way 1914 the start of World War I becomes Tau
Resch Ayin Daleth which add up to Tirtzach ldquoYou will killrdquo and for
1938 start of World War II Tirrsquoad ldquoYou will tremble in terrorrdquo
Table of Gematriacutea of Hebrew Letters
Letter
Name Absolute
Value
Ordinal
Value
Reduced
Value
Latin
Alphabet
Alefh 1 1 1 A-H
Beth 2 2 2 B
Guimel 3 3 3 G
Daleth 4 4 4 D
Hei 5 5 5 H-E-A
Vav 6 6 6 V-U-Y
Zain 7 7 7 Z
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44
Heth 8 8 8 Y-J
Thet 9 9 9 TH
YodJod 10 10 1 Y-I
KafJaf 20 11 2 K-C
Lamed 30 12 3 L
Mem 40 13 4 M
Nun 50 14 5 N
Samej 60 15 6 S
Ayn 70 16 7 O-E
PehFeh 80 17 8 P-F
Tzadik 90 18 9 T-Z-X
Kuof 100 19 1 K-Q
Reish 200 20 2 R
Shin 300 21 3 S-SH
TafTau 400 22 4 T
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
45
Gematriacutea or Hebrew Numerology
As we said earlier in the Hebrew language each letter has a nu-
merical value Gematriacutea is the calculation of the numerical value of let-
ters words or phrases to obtain a better understanding of the relation be-
tween the different concepts and to explore the relation between words
and ideas
In this technique it is assumed that the numerical equivalency is
no coincidence From the moment the world was created through the
Creatorrsquos ldquowordrdquo each letter represents a different creative power
Therefore the numerical equivalence of two words reveals an inner con-
nection between its potential creators
There are four ways to calculate the equivalency of individual
letters and each way corresponds to a different world in the Tree of Life
The Zohar tells us that the concept of reduced value is related to
the spiritual world of Yetsirah Based on this we can establish a relation
between the four methods of calculation the four spiritual kingdoms and
the four letters of the name of the Divine which are YHVH or in He-
brew Yod Hei Vav and Hei
The Absolute Value of Yod itrsquos to the world of Atziluth
The Ordinal Value of Hei itrsquos to the world of Briah
The Reduced Value of Vav itrsquos to the world of Yetsirah
The Whole Value of Hei itrsquos to the world of Assiah
ldquoAbsolute value (in Hebrew mispar hejrajiacute) also known as
normative or normal Valuerdquo
Each letter takes the value of its accepted numeral equivalent
alef (the first letter) worth 1 bet (second one) worth 2 and so on up to
the tenth letter iud which is worth 10 and the following ones are worth
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46
20 30 40 up to the letter kuf close to the end of the alef-bet which is
worth 100 and then 200 300 up to the last letter tav which is worth 400
In this type of calculation the letters kafjaf sofit (sofit=end)
mem sofit nun sofit pehfeh sofit and tzadik sofit which are the ldquofinal
shapesrdquo of the respective letters when they are at the end of a word usu-
ally take the same numeric value of the common shape of the letter
Nonetheless sometimes the following are considered equivalents kafjaf
sofit = 500 mem sofit = 600 nun sofit = 700 pehfeh sofit = 800 y tza-
dik sofit = 900
Following this method of calculation the Hebrew alphabet is a
complete circle the tzadik at the end is equal to 900 and then alef is
equal to one and one thousand In the Hebrew language the same letters
are used to write the name of the letter alef equal to one and to write the
word elef which means ldquothousandrdquo
ldquoOne the first number follows one thousand
in a complete and perfect circlerdquo
Ordinal Value (in hebrew mispar siduriacute) It assigns to each
one of the 22 letters a numerical equivalent according to the order in
which they appear in the alef-bet For example alef equals 1 kaf = 11
taf = 22 The final kaf is 23 and the final tzadik is 27
Reduced Value (en hebrew mispar kataacuten and in mathemati-
cal terminology the module 9) The value of each letter is reduced to
one digit For example alef is equal to 1 iud to 10 and kuf to 100 but
according to this system all three have a numerical value of one beit is
equal to 2 kaf to 20 and reish to 200 therefore all three are equal to 2
etc Therefore letters have only 9 equivalencies instead of twenty-two
Integral Value (in hebrew mispar mispariacute) This is the fourth
way to calculate In this fashion the total numeric value of a word is re-
duced to one digit If the sum of these numbers exceeds 9 the numbers
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
47
in the total figure are added until a single digit is obtained The same
result will be obtained whether you take the absolute the ordinal or the
reduced values
The meaning of the Hebrew Letters
Alefh Represents the Divine Presence It is the symbol of
the absolute and unique faith in only one Creator and Lord It is pro-
nounced ah-left which derives from the word Alufh which means prince
minister or chief It is made up of two dots which are two iod (the tenth
letter of the alphabet) and a slanted vav (sixth letter) If we add the two
iod (20) and the one vav (6) we get 26 which is equal to the sum of the
letters YHVH Yod (10) Hei(5) Vav(6) Hei(5) of the name of the
Creator
Beth The Torah begins with this second letter ldquoBereshitrdquo
(In the Beginning) This is because it represents and symbolizes the
Berehia (Creation) and the Berajaacute (Blessing) The purpose of Creation is
to give abundance to the human being Its value is two It represents and
shows us that there is nothing in this world totally complete and indivisi-
ble Everything can be parted in two Only God is unique and indivisible
Guimel This letter is close to the root of the word Bra
keep complete and give That is why it is used in ldquoGuemilut Hasadimrdquo
to do favors Guimel represents the third column on which the world
rests it is the giver or favor doer spirit and also proof that God constantly
helps and favors the human being and His whole Creation Its value is
three
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48
Daleth When we pronounce this fourth letter we find a
great closeness to the word deleth (door) The letter Daleth relates to the
word ldquodalhrdquo poor going from door to door seeking food Daleth follows
Guimel creating a unified thought to help the poor Its value (4) reminds
us of the material world because poverty can be found everywhere in our
planet
Hei The Talmud says God created the world with two
letters that represent His Name ldquoYod and Heirdquo With the first one He
created the world to come and with the second one this world Its shape
is made up of two parts a dalet and an iod Daleth has a vertical line
and a horizontal line It represents this world where everything has a
body and occupies space The iod which is just a dot represents the in-
finite world where there are no physical laws Meaning that in this
world too the spiritual Divine component is present
Vav Its value six represents something complete and
finished The world was created completely in six days Every complete
and closed object has six sides top bottom right left front and back
The letter vav is used to unite phrases concepts objects similar ldquoandrdquo
Vav is therefore union Except for some exceptions all paragraphs in the
Bible as written in the scrolls begin with Vav The written Torah (5
books) + ldquovavrdquo (Kabbalah) The oral Torah (6 books)
Zain It represents the seven spiritual values which are
the object of this world Zan means ldquonourishmentrdquo and Zain means ldquoar-
mamentrdquo Its shape is similar to that of a sword Its shows us that man
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
49
must confront and overcome adversity many times in order to obtain his
nourishment
Heth Just as Zain represents manrsquos purpose on earth Heth
with the value of eight represents manrsquos possibility to cross the limits
imposed by the earth Seven is nature eight are the values and goals
which represent what is above nature It also connects to the letter Haim
which means life The top part of the heth has an arrow pointing up-
wards meaning that life always belongs to God and everything depends
on Him
Thet This letter is first written in the Torah in the word
Tov (good) Each one of the days of the Creation was crowned with
qualifying phrase ldquoAnd God saw that it was goodrdquo Thet is synonym of
the relationship of God towards man which is always good even though
we donrsquot always see it that way Goodness or Kindness is a Divine quali-
ty and it should be emulated The most exquisite act of kindness is to
help our neighbor without causing him embarrassment
Iod Its size earns it the category of the smallest and most
indivisible letter not like the rest which are made up of different parts
and that is why it represents the Almighty in His condition of Unique and
Indivisible Its shape according to the Zohar has a point facing up to-
wards God another one facing down towards earth and the central point
which unites both That is why when a person prays the heart faces up
and the eyes down in humbleness in front on God Its value Ten is very
representative of the whole Torah Ten generations from Adam to Noah
and another ten from Noah to Abraham the Patriarch Ten are the Divine
Commandments given to Moses and ten are the sefirot The number ten
is actually ONE
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50
Kaf It symbolizes Kether the crown (written in Hebrew
with kaf) as the Talmud says ldquoGod will place the Kether on he who
helps his neighbor the way he should and according to his possibilitiesrdquo
Its shape (curved) has a relation to its name which represents the hum-
bleness that the person who carries the crown should have
Lamed Its shape is made up of a kaf and a vav together
they add up to 26 like the Divine Name Its name lamed is the root of
the verbs to teach and to learn The name Israel begins with iod the
smallest letter and ends with lamed the biggest one The Torah begins
with bet and ends with lamed together they spell the word led (heart)
the fundamental basis to find light and accomplish precepts
Mem This letter has two aspects one known as the open
mem it is used in the beginning and middle of a word indicating that
there are points which refer to God Almightyrsquos doing which are within
our comprehension and a closed mem which is only used at the end of
words indicating the occult and incomprehensible part Moshe and
Mashiacuteaj begin with mem Its value is 40 the necessary time period for
the concretion of different stages
The fetus needs 40 days to have a complete form
The Great Flood lasted 40 days and 40 nights
Moses was up at Mount Sinai 40 days and 40 nights
The Jewish people walked for 40 years in the desert
It is at the age of 40 that a person is considered to have
reached wisdom
Nun This letter also has two shapes one for any part of the
word with a curved shape and the other straight for the endings of
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
51
words Both indicate the exclusive quality of God who is Neeman
which means loyal to His word and worthy of trust This word restarts
with a Nun and ends with another
Samej This letter represents the concept of the Divine
support (Semej in Hebrew) Godrsquos support towards man as well as manrsquos
support towards God The certainty of God is the foundation of faith and
the base upon which the human being can search and reach for its goal in
this world
Ayn in Hebrew it means ldquoeyerdquo Its shape is made up two
parts an Yod leaning against a Zain Reclining both on the base the nu-
meric value of both parts is 17 just like the word Tob (good) This indi-
cates that the ayn (eye) has to be used to observe only the good things
Its value is 70
70 are the names of the Almighty and the Torah
70 are the basic people (towns) in the world
70 are the holidays in a year (52 Saturdays 18 holy
days)
Jesus sent out 70 disciples to evangelize
The Great Temple of Jerusalem had 70 columns
70 old wise men received the Torah from Moses they
are called ldquothe eyes of the congregationrdquo the symbol of the ayn (eye)
precisely
Peh it means ldquomouthrdquo in Hebrew It is through this ex-
quisite sense that the human being differentiates and raises itself over the
rest of the creation There are two peh one for any part of the word and
the other for the endings The first one is said to be closed and its shape
symbolizes the fetus in the motherrsquos womb (fetal position) with its mouth
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
52
closed The other open resembles the newborn babe stretching its limbs
It also reminds us of the control we should have over it sometimes
closed and others open when to speak and when not to
Tzadik The 18th letter The Talmud names the Tzadik per-
son the just person The title of ldquoTzadikrdquo is not given to just anybody It
is written that God is Tzadik and Perfect This quality of Tzadik when it
comes to God is manifested through kindness Those people who go
about and act according to the divine will are said to be ldquoTzadikrdquo They
are fair just and kind to the maximum of their possibilities
Kuof This letter shows us and symbolizes the Divine
Sanctity Kadosh God is Holy Man can also be called kuof if he is supe-
rior rising above the others The shape of kuof is made up of a kaf and a
vav which add up to 26 just as the four letter name for God Kuof is
very similar to kof which means ldquomonkeyrdquo The Zohar calls monkeys
those human beings who do not believe in the divine will and do not dig-
nify being created in Godrsquos image According to Kabbalah the road is
open for man he can be holy and thus get close to God or walk away
from Him and become a monkey
Reish Up until now we saw how the letters show us and
represent the Divine Presence On the contrary reish represents and
symbolizes Evil ldquoRashardquo in Hebrew Reish follows kuof which repre-
sents the Divine Sanctity The word ldquoroshrdquo (first beginning or head) in
Aramaic is pronounced ldquoreishrdquo just like the letter Midrash tells us the
Almighty is ldquoRoshrdquo since he is the beginning and head of the world and
its end as well Evil does not exist what we judge as bad is only a part of
the Divine Plan and we do not know and therefore cannot understand
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53
Shin this letter has an important place since shalom
(peace) begins with it Only God is the source and root of true peace Its
shape with three arms and three heads represents the wish of all of us to
rise to heaven lifting our hands to receive His help It also encompasses
the symbolism of something that has three limbs but only one purpose
We live in three worlds past present and future
The human being has a spirit a soul and a body
The human creation has three partners
Kether Binah and Hokhmah or the Holy
Trinity
Taf unlike the other letters which we have seen through
analysis and symbology that each represented a word being the first eg
Shin Shalom (peace) Sheker (lie) the symbol for taf is given by the last
letter in the word ldquoEmetrdquo (truth) This is exactly the general characteris-
tic of truth at first the lie seems more interesting Truth is appreciated in
the end Truth involves everything since its letters are one in the begin-
ning the other one in the middle and the third one at the end
The Angels of Kabbalah
The etymological meaning of the word angel is messenger from
the Greek ldquoAggeloacutesrdquo ldquoAngirasrdquo in Sanskrit in Persian ldquoAngarosrdquo in
Hebrew and Arabic ldquoMalakhrdquo and ldquoDevardquo for the Hindus
Doubts about their existence disappear before the coincidences
amongst cultures and diverse beliefs that describe them
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
54
Angels constantly remind us who we are due to the message that
is attributed to them For us their place is the same as that of God they
are above us and within us
To come in contact with them could take us to doubt if we did so
with a superior reality or with the highest part of ourselves
The mythical history of Kabbalah tells us that after man was
driven out of the Garden of Eden the angels transmitted the kabballistic
teachings to man so that he could reconquer it through the never ending
divine energy which is present everywhere in the Universe
The 72 Angeles of Kabbalah
Seraphim
Vehuiah ndash Elemiah ndash Jeliel ndash Lelahel
Sitael ndash Achaiah ndash Mahasiah ndash Cahethel
Cherubim
Haziel ndash Aladiah ndash Lauviah ndash Hahaiah
Iezalel ndash Mebael ndash Hariel ndash He Kamiah
Thrones (also known as Ophanim)
Lauviah ndash Caliel ndash Lauviah ndash Pahaliah
Nelkhael ndash Yeiaiel ndash Melahel ndash Haheuiah
Dominions (or Kyriotetes)
Nith ndashHahaiah ndash Yerathel ndash Sheikh
Reiyel ndash Omael ndash Lecabel ndash Vasariah
Powers
Vehuiah ndash Lehahiah ndash Chavakiah ndash Menadel
Aniel ndash Haamiah ndash Rehael ndash Ieiazel
Virtues
Hahahel ndash Mikael ndash Veuliah ndash Ylahiah
Sealiah ndashAriel ndash Asaliah ndash Mihael
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
55
Principalities
Vehuel ndash Daniel ndash Hahasiah ndash Imamiah
Nanael ndash Nithael ndash Mebahiah ndash Poyel
Archangels
Nemamiah ndash Yeialel ndash Aacuterale ndash Mitzrael
Umabel ndash Iah ndashAnauel ndash Mehiel
Angels
Damabiah ndash Manakel ndash Eyael ndash Habuhiah
Rochel ndash Yabamiah ndash Haiayel ndash Mum
Geniuses of Kabbalah
Air ndash Earth ndash Water - Fire
The first three verses of the Torah are revealing in regard to the
Divine Creation In the morning of the first day God created the four
geniuses or semi-gods to help Him directly preparing the platform for
the coming of man
Genesis 11 ndash
ldquoIn the beginning God created heaven and earthrdquo
Genesis 12 ndash
ldquohellipthe Spirit of God was hovering over the watersrdquo
Genesis 13 ndash
Let there be light and there was light
Nothing would exist in the Universe without the four geniuses
or elements only God and with the creation of these geniuses He
proves to us that He does not want to be alone but surrounded by
vegetation animals and specially the HUMAN BEING
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
56
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Tipherzt
Beauty
Christian Kabbalah
Jesus and the Kabbalah
The Sacred Books
The Apostle Matthew
The Sermon on the Mountain
(The Beatitudes)
The Our Father
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
57
Jesus and the Kabbalah
Up until now we have analyzed the Bible from the Tanaj and the
Talmud we have also taken the Torah as the foundation of Kabbalah
The New Testament has an important kabballistic content provided by
Jesus and his apostles
Emmanuel ben Yoseph known as Jesus Christ lived between
the ages of thirteen and thirty-three with the Essenes Fraternity of the
Dead Sea where he learned the secrets of the Kabbalah that his Father
had given to mankind and because of his illumination he was declared
Master of Justice
In the New Testament the four evangelists analyzed Jesus from
the four kabballistic worlds which are completely separated and diffeent
Matthew describes a physical Jesus generations that preceded
him and his relationship with the people of Israel
This is the World of Assiah
Luke tells the story of Jesus intimate life he describes moving
images of the Master along his pathway
This is the World of Yetsirah
Mark talks to us of a miraculous Jesus with a Divine mag-
netism and its soul healing rays
This is the World of Briah
John gave us the gospel of a metaphysical Jesus the abstract
spirit and visions of an astral world
This is the World of Atziluth
The Kabbalah develops its doctrine in the light that invades us
and emanates from our bodies because we are part of it
Jesus in John 812 says I am the light of the world Those who
follow me will never walk in darkness They will have the light that leads
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
58
to life and in Ephesians 58 he confirms ldquoAt one time you were in the
dark But now you are in the light because of what the Lord has donerdquo
When Matthew in verse 223 says ldquohellipand came and lived in a
city called Nazarethrdquo This was to fulfill what was spoken through the
prophets He shall be called a Nazarene he explains that Jesus had to
be a Nazarene that is he had to wear the Crown or Kether according to
what God told Moses in the oral or kabballistic precepts In Numbers 66-
7 it is said ldquothroughout the period of their dedication to the LORD the
Nazirite must not go near a dead body Even if their own father or
motherrdquo
In Matthew 822 Jesus stresses this precept saying ldquohelliplet the
dead bury their own dead
According to the Kabballists the Torah is fountain of wine and
milk In Isaiah 551 we read hellip and he who has no money come buy
wine and milk without money without pricehelliprdquo In many quotes Jesus
mentions the wine as his spiritual blood Peter 22 ldquohellipLike newborn ba-
bies crave pure spiritual milk so that by it you may grow up in your sal-
vationhelliprdquo
The Old and New Testament
The Old Testament or Tanaj is made up of 39 books and the New
Testament 29 a total of 66 books As we all know there is no such thing
as luck it is the message of God that we still cannot decipher If we ana-
lyze that message through kabballistic numerology we will decipher it
and be surprised
According to the kabballistic numerology ldquo39 books in the Ta-
najrdquohellip 3+9=12hellip 1+2=3 and ldquo3rdquo represents the Holy Trinity
Kether or God the Father
Hokhmah or God the Son (active to the right of the Father)
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59
Binah or God the Mother or Holy Spirit (passive)
They are all emanations of God the Father and therefore only
one Being It is the announcement of the Divine Trilogy based on the
Admirable Intelligence of Kether the Illuminating Intelligence of
Hokhmah and the Sanctifying Intelligence of Binah If we take away the
substance of the Tanaj which are the five books that make up the Penta-
teuch we are left with 34 books or the number 7 which were the re-
maining emanations with which God created the Universe The 27 books
of the New Testament add up to the kabballistic nine which is the Divine
or Complete number since it contains all the numbers and closes the
wheel That is the New Testament not only does it complement but also
contains the previous one and completes it The sum of both is 66 its
kabballistic number is 3 and it returns to the Holy Trinity the Three
Sefirot or divine emanations
The Apostle Matthew
In chapter one Matthew explains the genealogy of Jesus with a
result of 42 generations from Abraham to Jesus in three periods of 14
generations each This he does from the physical world or Assiah to ex-
plain with real facts Abrahamrsquos descendants and how Jesus really was
the King of the Jews
Forty-two (generations from Abraham to Jesus) adds up to six
like the sefirot of the Creation (on the seventh one He rested) which
means God rested in Malkuth the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth but
the message from Matthew is that we should distribute these three peri-
ods amongst the six sefirot of the Creation
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60
The transition between Abraham and David takes place be-
tween the fourth sefirah Hesed (Greatness) and the fifth Geburah (Jus-
tice)
Hesed is the sefirah from which the rest of the sefirot emanate
like Abraham the Patriarch from whom three religions ldquoemanaterdquo Juda-
ism Christianism and Islam Hesed is the foundation of the spiritual vir-
tues and it is connected to the Holy Son like Abraham
Geburah is the sefirah of David the Justice seeker who uni-
fied the kingdoms for the greatness of the Chosen People he is the strict
Warrior King
With Salomon son of David starts the second period as told by
Matthew and it ends with the deportation of the people to Babylon This
is the passage from the sixth sefirah Tipherzt (Beauty) to the seventh
sefirah Neshah (Power)
Tipherzt is Beauty serenity trust just what King Salomon
was to his people In the same manner it is in the column of the Crown
of God and it is directly supported by Abraham and David
Neshah is the hidden Intelligence of stability and spiritual
power it is the powerful faith against adversity the expulsion to Baby-
lon
When the Babylonian invasion comes to an end the passage to
the coming of Jesus begins it takes place between the eighth sefirah Hod
(Glory) and the ninth sefirah Yesod (Foundation)
Hod is the Divine Glory the Divine Healer which healed the
wounds inflicted on the chosen people by the invaders It is awakening
and learning
Yesod is the foundation and filter of all emanations before
reaching the Kingdom it is the Pure Intelligence it is Unity without Di-
vision this is the sefirah to which both the moon and the waters respond
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61
and the tides and earth as well the sefirah that builds and founds That is
why this is the sefirah that Matthew attributes to Jesus It is the one that
brings together to the Father before reaching Malkuth the Kingdom of
Earth and Heaven in a straight line passing by Tipherzt (Salomon) and
with the virtual sefirah of the Sacred Heart
As we can see the Apostle Matthew shows us in a kabballis-
tic way the presence of Jesus from the patriarch Abraham to the
present
Holy Spirit
David
Glory
Jesus
Kingdom
Salomon
Power
Abraham
Holy Son
Holy Father
Heart
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62
The Sermon on the Mountain
(The Beatitudes)
With The Sermon on the Mountain Jesus teaches us the basic
Concepts of Kabbalah to be interpreted in many centuries to come be-
cause the land of the tribe of Israel to which Jesus belonged was under
the domain of the Greco-Roman Empire which wanted to impose its
own gods That is why Jesusrsquo message is stronger the deeper you go into
it It should be observed the same as the ocean it is not the quiet waters
and small waves that rule but the strong currents that flow in the deepest
depths
Somebody told me once that even a child could understand the
Sermon and it is true which shows the intelligence of the Master be-
cause the Sermon holds many levels of understanding
From the Gospel according to Matthew chapter five we can ex-
tract the essence of the Sermon on the Mountain contained in the first
nine verses two of them introductory and the other seven making up the
Beatitudes
51 ldquoAnd seeing the multitudes He went up onto a mountain
and when He was set His disciples came unto Him ldquo
5 2 ldquoAnd He opened His mouth and taught them sayinghelliprdquo
To go up to the mountain in Kabbalah means to rise to the high-
est degree of spirituality (eg Moses went up the mountain to speak with
God) which means he went up to the Crown or Kether When it says
ldquoHe opened His mouth and taught them sayingrdquo sounds redundant since
nobody can say anything without opening his mouth But we have to
consider that there are two aspects in Kabbalah thought or intelligence
Binah and the word or wisdom Hokhmah Jesus uses the first to ignite
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63
the soul of His followers and the word to transmit the vibratory energy or
surrounding magnetic field and that way get to the spirit of people
53rdquoBlessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom
of Heavenrdquo
According to Kabbalah a rich man with many possessions can
enter the Kingdom of God if he doesnrsquot develop the materialistic spirit
that goes with them On the other hand a poor man without possessions
could be not admitted in the Kingdom of God if he develops that materi-
alistic spirit and is absorbed by the only wish of having fortune Kabba-
lah teaches that neither richness nor poorness is the ideal state Jesus re-
fers to the heart or Leb the simplicity and easiness of spirit because to
have possessions or not does not interfere with the progress towards the
path of foundation and spiritual uplifting
54 Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted
Kabbalah does not preach sadness but joy and happiness In the
Kabbalah the act of crying is a symbol of redemption greatness and
love or Hesed it is also a symbol of acknowledgment of errors made
and therefore seeking spiritual evolution in love for another The begin-
ning of change is identified with crying That is why whoever accepts
the change will be comforted
55 Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth
God said to Moses ldquoYou shall not adore other gods and you
shall respect my Namerdquo This means He demanded meekness Jesus re-
fers in kabballistic terms to meek men before God those will be able to
live in harmony and freedom achieving Divine Justice or Geburah be-
cause they are the ones who increase their spiritual level
56 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteous-
ness for they will be filled
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64
Those who hunger within will seek the nourishment to satisfy it
And will begin a search for justice which will take them to the spiritual
Glory Hod This means that those who hunger and thirst for spiritual
truth will be filled with the blessing and perfection seeker Those who
abandon the spiritual search of the truth will condemn their souls to come
back as many times as it is necessary to achieve it
57 Blessed are the merciful for they will be shown mercy
To be merciful is to forgive others to have the power or Neshah
of not having negative thoughts actions or answers to aggressiveness
from others Negative feelings affect our spiritual body and poison our
physical body altering the nervous system
58 Blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God
The pure in heart are those who achieve inner beauty or
Tipherzt In order to have a clean and beautiful heart we must nourish it
with love and not hate with forgiveness not vengeance with truth not
lies or falsehood There must be harmony in our body soul and spirit
59 Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called sons
of Godrdquo
Peace in Aramaic is the same as harmony in Greek and both
words represent the foundation of life on this earth or Yesod and Jesus
suggests the Peace of the just
510 Blessed are those who are persecuted because of right-
eousness for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
511 Blessed are you when people insult you persecute you
and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me
In these two verses Jesus foretells the persecutions his followers
even the Kabballists will suffer anticipating the manifested idea of ob-
taining the communion of the Kingdom of Heaven or Malkuth in com-
plete peace and harmony
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65
In the next two verses Jesus refers to the eighth sefirah Hod the
Glory (elevation) and its connection with Geburah Justice (respect)
which means we must respect the Just because they are the prophets and
we will be blessed by them
512 Rejoice and be glad because great is your reward in
heaven for in the same way they persecuted the prophets
who were before you
513 You are the salt of the earth But if the salt loses its salt-
iness how can it be made salty again It is no longer good for
anything except to be thrown out and trampled by men
In the following words Jesus takes us through the Tree of Live
or Sefirotic Tree bringing us even closer to the kabballistic message and
his spiritual profoundness
514 You are the light of the world A city on a hill cannot be
hidden
Kether is the Crown of God the Divine light that which is
above everything else above the mountain It reminds us that the moun-
tain is the highest level of spirituality
514 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl
Instead they put it on its stand and it gives light to everyone
in the house
Hokhmah is Wisdom to the right of the Kether the Crown of
God it is the light of Christ which lights up all homes
516 In the same way let your light shine before men that
they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in
heaven
Binah is Intelligence it is the light that reaches to the spirit of
mankind as a holy protection it is the light of the Holy Spirit that reaches
the heart through good deeds
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66
These three verses refer to the first three sefirot that is the Holy
Trinity which is the potent Divine light since it contains in only one ray
of light the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit
The following four verses refer to Geburah or Justice This is the
sefirah that dictates the Law the one that enforces the Law the one that
unites Heaven (Kether) with Earth (Malkuth) according to the Divine
teachings and is called the sefirah of Divine Justice
517 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the
Prophets I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them
518 I tell you the truth until heaven and earth disappear not
the smallest letter not the least stroke of a pen will by any
means disappear from the Law until everything is accom-
plished
519 Anyone who breaks one of the least of these command-
ments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in
the kingdom of heaven but whoever practices and teaches
these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heav-
en
520 For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses
that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law you will ce r-
tainly not enter the kingdom of heaven
Hesed is the sefirah of Greatness and it is known that the origin
of greatness is HumilityHumbleness the person that is not humble is
not great In the following verses Jesus explains to us how to irradiate
Love Mercy Greatness and above all Humbleness
521 You have heard that it was said to the people long ago
Do not murder[a]
and anyone who murders will be subject to
judgment
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67
522 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother
will be subject to judgment Again anyone who says to his brother
Raca (An Aramaic term of contempt is answerable to the Sanhed-
rin But anyone who says You fool will be in danger of the fire of
hell
523 ldquoTherefore if you are offering your gift at the altar and
there remember that your brother has something against you
Ponder
Respect
Blessing
Peace
Kingdom
Love
Acceptance
Help
Speech
Inspiration
Heart
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68
524 leave your gift there in front of the altar First go and be
reconciled to your brother then come and offer your gift
525 ldquoSettle matters quickly with your adversary who is tak-
ing you to court Do it while you are still with him on the way or he
may hand you over to the judge and the judge may hand you over to
the officer and you may be thrown into prison
526 I tell you the truth you will not get out until you have
paid the last penny
The following sefirah that Jesus speaks of in the Sermon on the
Mountain is Tipherzt beauty serenity trust family it is the one with
the noble attributes fidelity A through this sefirah he talks to us about
the family blessings and how Divinity intertwines with it
Tipherzt is the one that provides the spiritual nourishment and
family blessings that is why Jesus protects the relationship between man
and woman as fountain of life and punishes above all deceit and adul-
tery
527 You have heard that it was said Do not commit adul-
tery
528 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustful-
ly has already committed adultery with her in his heart
529 If your right eye causes you to sin gouge it out and
throw it away It is better for you to lose one part of your body than
for your whole body to be thrown into hell
530 And if your right hand causes you to sin cut it off and
throw it away It is better for you to lose one part of your body than
for your whole body to go into hell
531 It has been said anyone who divorces his wife must
give her a certificate of divorce
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69
532 But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife except
for marital unfaithfulness causes her to become an adulteress and
anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery
The following sefirah is Neshah which represents Stability and
Balance and the following five verses Jesus that swearing is the loss of
stability and balance before God
He who requires an oath does not trust what is being said and he
who gives an oath does not trust himself rdquoYes or Nordquo should be enough
for those who speak the truth
533 Again you have heard that it was said to the people long
ago Do not break your oath but keep the oaths you have made to
the Lord
534 but I tell you Do not swear at all either by heaven for
it is Gods throne
535 nor by the earth for it is his footstool or by Jerusalem
for it is the city of the Great King
536 And do not swear by your head for you cannot make
even one hair white or black
537 simply let your Yes be Yes and your No No any-
thing beyond this comes from the evil one
Hod is the sefirah of glory the compensation and acknowledge-
ment And there is no better glory and acknowledgement than to love the
enemy and bless those who curse and hate us
As Jesus tells us in the next eleven verses
If you love only those who love you
What are you doing extra
What reward are you seeking
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70
538 You have heard that it was said Eye for eye and tooth
for tooth
539 But I tell you Do not resist an evil person If someone
strikes you on the right cheek turn to him the other also
540 And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic let
him have your cloak as well
541 If someone forces you to go one mile go with him two
miles
542 Give to the one who asks you and do not turn away
from the one who wants to borrow from you
543 You have heard that it was said Love your neighbor
and hate your enemy
544 But I tell you Love your enemies and pray for those
who persecute you
545 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven He caus-
es his sun to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the
righteous and the unrighteous
546 If you love those who love you what reward will you
get Are not even the tax collectors doing that
547 And if you greet only your brothers what are you doing
more than others Do not even pagans do that
548 Be perfect therefore as your heavenly Father is perfect
Yesod the ninth sefirah is Foundation because it purifies
proves and corrects all previous sefiroth Helping others is exactly what
this sefirah is all about not only to love them but to help them He who
helps receives purification from Yesod and he who helps in secret is
blessed by The Father
Matthew 6
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71
61 Be careful not to do your acts of righteousness before
men to be seen by them If you do you will have no reward from
your Father in heaven
62 So when you give to the needy do not announce it with
trumpets as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets
to be honored by men I tell you the truth they have received their
reward in full
63 But when you give to the needy do not let your left hand
know what your right hand is doing
64 so that yoursquore giving may be in secret Then yoursquore Fa-
ther who sees what is done in secret will reward you
Malkuth is the sefirah that represents the Kingdom of Heaven
and Earth that is why Jesus tells us that prayer must be in private in or-
der to be rewarded in public without repetitions and lots of words be-
cause the Father knows what we need before we even ask
65 And when you pray do not be like the hypocrites for
they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street cor-
ners to be seen by men I tell you the truth they have received their
reward in full
66 But when you pray go into your room close the door and
pray to your Father who is unseen Then your Father who sees what
is done in secret will reward you
67 And when you pray do not keep on babbling like pagans
for they think they will be heard because of their many words
68 Do not be like them for your Father knows what you
need before you ask him
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72
The Our Father
Jesus reaffirms part of the Kabbalah by following the path of the
Sefirotic Tree in his most important prayer
69 This then is how you should pray Our in heaven
hallowed be your name
Our Father the admirable intelligence or Crown Kether first sefirah
In Heaven the enlightening intelligence or wisdom Hokhmah the sec-
ond sefirah
Hallowed be your name the sanctifying intelligence Binah the third
sefirah completing the Holy Trinity
610 your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is
in heaven
Your kingdom come the intelligence of love Hesed
Your will be done righteous intelligence Geburah
On Earth as it is in Heaven that is form Kether to Malkuth
611 Give us today our daily bread
Give us our daily bread the intelligence which provides Spiritual
Nourishment and beauty Tipherzt
612 Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our
debtrs
Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors the hidden
intelligence which is power victory and stability or Nesha
613 And lea us not into temptation but deliver us from the
evil for yours is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for
every century Amen
And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil the absolute
intelligence or perfect glory or Hod
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73
Holy
Justice
Freedom
Foundation
Prayer
Love
Forgiveness
Spiritual
Nourishment
Heaven
Father
Heart
For yours is the Kingdom Kether the Power Hokhmah and the
Glory Briah which means You are the Holy Trinity
Amen is the foundation of Holy Prayer
After teaching us this Prayer Jesus continues showing us the truth about
the emanations of the Sefirotic Tree Starting once again at the Kether
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74
to remind us privacy in acts such as forgiveness fasting and prayer will
be rewarded in public by the Father who wears the Crown
614 For if you forgive men when they sin against you your
heavenly Father will also forgive you
615 But if you do not forgive men their sins your Father will
not forgive your sins
616 When you fast do not look somber as the hypocrites
do for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fast-
ing I tell you the truth they have received their reward in
full
617 But when fast put oil on your head and wash your face
618 so that it will not be obvious to men that you are fasting
but only to your Father who is unseen and your Father who
sees what is done in secret will reward you
Jesus explains that our treasures are not in the Kingdom of Earth but in
the wisdom of Hokhmah which is the treasure of Heaven that God sent
to us
619 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth
where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and
steal
620 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven where
moth and rust do not destroy and where thieves do not
break in and steal
Binah is the intelligence that Jesus asks us to use to see the light within
our heart he asks that we be intelligent to stay away from evil because
wise men donrsquot have two bosses
621 For where your treasure is there your heart will be also
622 The eye is the lamp of the body If your eyes are good
your whole body will be full of light
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
75
623 But if your eyes are bad your whole body will be full of
darkness If then the light within you is darkness how great
is that darkness
624 No one can serve two masters Either he will hate the
one and love the other or he will be devoted to the one and
despise the other You cannot serve both God and Money
Hesed is greatness Jesus shows us how Great we are that greatness is
not eating drinking or dressing up but greatness is being on the path to
the Kether or Crown
625 Therefore I tell you do not worry about your life what
you will eat or drink or about your body what you will
wear Is not life more important than food and the body
more important than clothes
626 Look at the birds of the air they do not sow or reap or
store away in barns and yet your heavenly Father feeds
them Are you not much more valuable than they
627 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his
life
628 And why do you worry about clothes See how the lil-
ies of the field grow They do not labor or spin
629 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor
was dressed like one of these
630 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field which is
here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire will he not
much more clothe you O you of little faith
631 So do not worry saying What shall we eat or What
shall we drink or What shall we wear
632 For the pagans run after all these things and your heav-
enly Father knows that you need them
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76
Godrsquos Fortune
Godrsquos
Justice
Godrsquos Education
Godrsquos Purification
Godrsquos
Freedom
Godrsquos
Love
Godrsquos Effort
Godrsquos
Greatness
Godrsquos Treasure
Godrsquos
Forgiveness
Godrsquos
Heart
633 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all
these things will be given to you as well
634 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow
will worry about itself Each day has enough trouble of its
own
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77
Once we obtain Greatness or Hesed Jesus asks us to seek Justice or
Geburah the next sefirah Justice is learning to judge others and to look
more with our heart than our eyes
71 Do not judge or you too will be judged
72 For in the same way you judge others you will be judged
and with the measure you use it will be measured to you
73 Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your broth-
ers eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye
74 How can you say to your brother Let me take the speck
out of your eye when all the time there is a plank in your
own eye
75 You hypocrite first take the plank out of your own eye
and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your
brothers eye
76 Do not give dogs what is sacred do not throw your
pearls to pigs If you do they may trample them under their
feet and then turn and tear you to pieces
After Geburah comes Tipherzt beauty this sefirah is the provider of spir-
itual nourishment that is why Jesus invites us to ask seek and knock and
he reminds the law of the Torah because Tipherzt is in the center and
unites the past with the present the law of the prophets with the law of
Jesus
77 Ask and it will be given to you seek and you will find
knock and the door will be opened to you
78 For everyone who asks receives he who seeks finds and
to him who knocks the door will be opened
79 Which of you if his son asks for bread will give him a
stone
710 Or if he asks for a fish will give him a snake
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78
711 If you then though you are evil know how to give good
gifts to your children how much more will your Father in
heaven give good gifts to those who ask him
712 So in everything do to others what you would have
them do to you for this sums up the Law and the Prophets
Neshah is stability the sefirah of the intellectual virtues the eye of the
intellect which shows us the path of life and Jesus shows us the road of
tranquility
713 Enter through the narrow gate For wide is the gate
and broad is the road that leads to destruction and many e n-
ter through it
714 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to
life and only a few find it
Hod is glory or recognition Jesus shows us how to recognize those who
are said to be prophets or wise men Jesus tells us the best way to do so
is by their fruit (results) or deeds if we observe others objectively we
will know who will really support us and who would like to take ad-
vantage of us
715 Watch out for false prophets They come to you in
sheeps clothing but inwardly they are ferocious wolves
716 By their fruit you will recognize them Do people pick
grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles
717 Likewise every good tree bears good fruit but a bad tree
bears bad fruit
718 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit and a bad tree cannot
bear good fruit
719 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and
thrown into the fire
7 20 Thus by their fruit you will recognize them
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79
The ninth sefirah is Yesod or foundation This is the sefirah of purifica-
tion in it Jesus separates the chaste from the impure to take evil away
from us
721 Not everyone who says to me Lord Lord will enter
the kingdom of heaven but only he who does the will of my
Father who is in heaven
722 Many will say to me on that day Lord Lord did we
not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out de-
mons and perform many miracles
723 Then I will tell them plainly I never knew you Away
from me you evildoers
The tenth sefirah is Malkuth the Kingdom of Earth and Heaven where
Jesus gives us an example of free will so that we make wise decisions
and chose the Kingdom in which we will live
724 Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and
puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house
on the rock
725 The rain came down the streams rose and the winds
blew and beat against that house yet it did not fall because it
had its foundation on the rock
726 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does
not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his
house on sand
727 The rain came down the streams rose and the winds
blew and beat against that house and it fell with a great
crash
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80
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Neshah Stability
The Divine Creation
The Divine Creation
Adam Eve and the Genesis
Gestation and Conception
Development and Growth
Maturity
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81
The Divine Creation From the ape up to Adam and Eve
During the early ages of life on Earth the new thinking beings invested
most of their time in learning to survive humans had to adapt to and in-
tegrate themselves to the four elements or genius (Air Fire Earth and
Water) they also had to learn to interact with animals and plants
Man began to notice that all animals were born and died as natural pro-
cess They ldquocame inrdquo (were born) to this world from the maternal womb
or from an egg and all of them inevitably someday disappeared or
ldquoleftrdquo (died) this world
Man also noticed that all animals ldquochangedrdquo in size (grew) being small
when they ldquocame inrdquo to the world and as the ldquosuns and moonsrdquo passed
(time) they developed and grew getting stronger until reaching a point
in which they ldquodisappearedrdquo (died)
Furthermore the learning was part of the ldquoroadrdquo when they ldquoarrivedrdquo
they didnrsquot know how to walk or fly they couldnrsquot see their parents had
to get their food and protect them they were weak and dependant In
time they learned to be self-sufficient and to live independently even
though they were part
of a heard o a community
In every age thinkers and scientists asked them selves how early mankind
evolved to the point of becoming what we are nowadays The Judeo-
Christian Kabbalah answers this question without interfering with sci-
ence The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah explains mankindrsquos ldquoevolutionrdquo in
ten steps and goes through the Sefirotic Tree starting from the feminine
column reminding us that it is the female who receives the Divine herit-
age of Creation
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82
1 The Crown or Divine Light
First the Divine Light Crowned the undeveloped brain of the wild ape
and transformed it into a ldquothinking aperdquo That Divine ldquotouchrdquo caused
the transformation of the apersquos simple brain into the complex brain or
ldquocrownrdquo of this new being This change contains the celestial blow of the
future human being
2 Intelligence or understanding
Undoubtedly what made de difference between mankind and the rest of
the animals was that awareness since they all went through the same
changes they were all born grew up and died they could all see the
moon replacing the sun and all of them could see the vegetables grow
but the other species either did take notice or did not acknowledge it The
human being could ldquothinkrdquo mankind had the ldquointelligencerdquo to be aware
and that made it different
3 Wisdom or experience
As time went by mankind acquired experience which added to intelli-
gence resulted in ldquowisdomrdquo This wisdom made man outstand over the
rest of the species This wisdom permitted man to learn from other spe-
cies in a certain way and in many cases to dominate them
These three sefiroth that represents the Holy Trinity separated to
the man of the rest of the world animal and vegetable determining
their supremacy by order and Divine grace
4 Justice or respect
Man began to put his abilities to use and the first thing he did with his
intelligence and wisdom was to acknowledge ldquojusticerdquo but the Divine
free will permitted them to apply it or not Mankind understood that
without spiritual justice intelligence and wisdom cannot not be applied
5 Greatness or humility
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83
Mankind learned that spiritual greatness meant knowing how to apply
justice in every act of life
To be just and great is to be wise and intelligent
Man learned that to be great does not mean to be above the rest but to
apply intelligence and wisdom to improve the life and spirit of others
These four qualities must go together if man is to continue his evolution
and stay away from the ape otherwise he would be stuck and the ape
would overcome
6 Beauty or sweetness
As mankind evolved it became understood that each act good or bad as
well as every thought obscure or bright marks the inner character and
outer appearance of a person with a defined particularity that will either
dull it or illuminate it The beauty of the Spirit is more real and perma-
nent than physical beauty The secret of this beauty which lights up pu-
pils with the serene light of the stars y gives faces the sweet look of the
angels lies within a just behavior and greatness in thought
The Bible and Science go of the hand The Creation and the Evolution are work of God
7 Glory or acknowledgement
As man made his inner evolution he wanted to be acknowledged by the
Divinity first and by his peers later
ldquoGloryrdquo is the acknowledgement of onersquos values by others All human
beings need this physical and spiritual acknowledgement The Just has
the Spiritual Greatness Beauty of the Soul and the Divine Glory
8 Stability or Balance
The sensory and spiritual stability and balance of the new being meant
inner growth Stability came about with the bluntness of power and the
victory of his actions The spiritual powers of stability are the foundation
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84
Awareness
Respect
Knowledge
Building
Real World
Sweetness
Balance
Humility
Experience
Divine Light
of tolerance discernment and being able to face up to reality and to co-
operate with our peers powers that are attained through Justice Great-
ness and the Divine Glory
9 Foundation or construction
The foundation or founding of communities is a major stepping-stone
for this new being It was like planting a seed to watch a tree grow Man
understood that if the foundation was done right he would ldquobuildrdquo a
whole culture for the future of mankind But if due to selfishness ava-
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85
rice or greediness he failed and started with a poor foundation of com-
munities instead these would dissolve in time That is why he would
have to apply everything he had learned and all the accumulated experi-
ence correctly
10 The Kingdom of Earth or real world
The Kingdom of Earth is the summit in the process of evolution from
ape to man it is the matter substance the physical and real world This
is the peak of the creation cycle the creation of Adam and Eve Thanks
to the powers of God the ape was transformed into the human being that
now lives in the Kingdom of God which is the Earth It is at this point
where all divine teachings and human experiences converge all celestial
and earthly matters meet here the soul with the spirit and the senses
with the physical world
Adam Eve and the Genesis
ldquoFor the Kabbalah in animals femininity finds itself in front of mas-
culinity while masculinity confirms itself through femininity In the
human level masculinity and femininity are distinguished and at the
same time complement each otherrdquo
In the first book of the Pentateuch the ldquoBook of Genesisrdquo there are two
explanations that would appear to contradict each other that is why we
will analyze them textually
Chapter One verses 27 through 31
27 So God created man in his own image in the image of God he
created him male and female he created them
28 God blessed them and said to them Be fruitful and increase in
number fill the earth and subdue it Rule over the fish of the sea
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86
and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves
on the ground
29 Then God said I give you every seed-bearing plant on the
face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in
it They will be yours for food
30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and
all the creatures that move on the groundmdasheverything that has
the breath of life in itmdashI give every green plant for food And it
was so
31 God saw all that he had made and it was very good And there
was evening and there was morningmdashthe sixth day
Chapter Two verses 7 and 15 through 23
7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and the man became a
living being
15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of
Eden to work it and take care of it
16 And the LORD God commanded the man You are free to eat
from any tree in the garden
17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil for when you eat of it you will surely die
18 The LORD God said It is not good for the man to be alone I
will make a helper suitable for him
19 Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the
beasts of the field and all the birds of the air He brought them to
the man to see what he would name them and whatever the man
called each living creature that was its name
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87
20 So the man gave names to all the livestock the birds of the air
and all the beasts of the field But for Adam no suitable helper
was found
21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep and
while he was sleeping he took one of the mans ribs and closed
up the place with flesh
22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken
out of the man and he brought her to the man
23 The man said This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my
flesh she shall be called woman for she was taken out of man
According to these two texts which differ in just a few pages within the
Sacred Book first man and woman were created at the same time but
later it explains that woman was created from the rib taken from man
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah takes it as a cryptically allegory which
means we are not to understand this explanation as saying first and sec-
ond having another ahead does not make one a subordinate
The ten sefiroth that created the universe were simultaneous and the crea-
tion of the first ldquothinking aperdquo was simultaneous in male and female If
we try to understand the Divine message decoding it into common lingo
we find that the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah gives us several clues
The Book of Genesis 2 does not void what is stated in Genesis 1 it is
revealing another aspect of the human being The intention of the second
text is not to tell us how creation took place in a chronological order but
to explain ndash in a symbolic language ndash something more profound
According to the Book of Genesis 1 God created them ldquoin one single
actrdquo and gave them a mission in common Be fruitful and increase in
number fill the earth and subdue it This clarifies the equality of dignity
in both as well as the equality in the mission imparted since both are
given the same responsibility the family and protection of the world
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88
According to this there doesnrsquot seem to be tasks or responsibilities ex-
clusively reserved to men or women family as well as culture are to be
done by both
Adam does not take woman out of himself he was asleep doing noth-
ing Furthermore God expressly wanted to hide from him the way in
which he made woman doing so while he slept when he could not notice
what was happening
About the reasons for God putting Adam to sleep we can take some
concepts from the Divine reasoning The lonely Adam pictured in the
Book of Genesis 27 is a generic Adam because the characteristics
which describe him are the same for either man or woman and are
meshed in the verses 215 through 223 in the four worlds of the Sefirotic
Tree
The original loneliness (interpreted as the transcendence of
mankind with respect to the Cosmos) is the world of Atziluth or
divine protection
It is not good for the man to be alonerdquo is the need to opening
up this is the world of Briah or giving to others
The search for the appropriate assistance (conceived as mutual
and reciprocal) is the world of Yetsirah or trust and learning
The call for man woman and their animals to work together is
the world of Assiah or Earth and its fruits
The symbolism of the rib taken by God from Adam while he slept re-
veals a relationship between man and woman from which two conse-
quences derive Is a reciprocal relationship (there is no woman without
man but there is no man without woman) which leads us to conclude
that both ends of this relationship must be simultaneous
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89
Spirit
Form
Muscles
Organs
Birth
Nerves
Bones
Strength
Soul
Supra
One
Heart
Gestation
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
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90
Conception
A person is born at a particular moment in time due to a specific
situation or to connect with specific people or one person in particular
When speaking of gestation it is important to assign the archetypical
worlds to each step of this process
1 The Archetypical World called Atziluth is where everything
is in a latent state where everything is potential This is the world in
which the Divinity unites soul and spirit It is in this world where the
essence on an individual is found There is a ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath of the
heart here which lives in both the spiritual and the creative worlds
2 In the Creative World called Briah we find strength and the
pure form which gives shape to the physical life where the cellular mul-
tiplication begins The heart sends the energy of the soul and spirit to the
new being in gestation
3 In the Formative World called Yetsirah the whole body is
in the process of development creating the nervous system muscles
bones organs etc
4 In the Material World called Assiah is where the physical
manifestation takes place It is the moment of birth when the new inte-
grated being sees the light of the Sun
Development
At birth the physical body manifests itself in the Malkut of As-
siah or the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth after going through the se-
quence of conception Birth takes place at the end of the descending path
from Kether (God) to Malkut (Earth) After birth the path is inverted
while developing we begin to ascend from Malkut (Earth) to Kether
(God)
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91
The personality of an adult individual is reflected in the stage or
sefirath where he stopped or in which he weakened the most We can
associate these stages with the worlds in an ascending manner reverting
the way of the gestation
For example the Malkut of Assiah is the material world in
which a person must see and touch in order to learn He needs to touch
the fire to know that it burns or needs to knock himself to know how hard
matter is and how weak is the spirit
Yetsirah is the world in which responsibility is formed where
most people have stopped at one point in their lives for not being able to
assimilate one or more of sefiroth that make up this world
A person who stopped in hisher childhood has stopped at the
sefirath Yesod a person seeking information or news or is forever study-
ing is at Hod and the one seeking pleasures (sex food fun) is still going
through Neshah And those searching for trust in themselves are at
Tipherzt
Mature people are in the world of Briah Justice and greatness
will help these people to develop the acquired knowledge
Those who have stopped at Geburah are people who experience
constant hardship until they learn to grasp control of themselves and
once they achieve inner peace they dedicate their lives to good acts On
the other hand those who come out of Hesed are the ones who negotiate
with generosity those who give to receive who seek to buy love affec-
tion or respect
Atziluth the last world is the one closest to God one that takes
us to Him
Those worried about death are at the sefirath Binah They age
prematurely and constantly complain about illnesses
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92
Those who reach Hokhmah is because they have profound en-
lightening visions which in some cases and for certain social groups are
similar to insanity
To reach Kether at the end of life on earth is to go back to God
to achieve the freedom of onersquos soul
In the Material World called Assiah is where the man-
ifestation of birth takes place where the body without formation but with
genetic and Godrsquos instruction and information from past lives gets ac-
quainted with himself and those around him
In the Formative World called Yetsirah life and aca-
demic formation is acquired to be applied to the rest of onersquos life The
person shall have the teachings perception affirmation and confidence
supplied by those around him
In the Creative World called Briah the most important
stage in a personrsquos life is found In it we can apply everything learned
and observed in the previous world Decisions taken in this world will
affect us twice as much in the following world
The Archetypical World called Atziluth is a world of
closeness to the Divinity here is where we should stop and analyzes our
existence prepare the balance sheet of our soul When we get here we
can see what we have contributed to the growth of our soul
The road to Maturity
As we know each sefirath is a tree in itself and each world con-
tains the other four inside that is why we must analyze our maturity from
the moment of birth and the growing years as well
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93
Pro
tec-
tion
Co
ntr
ol
Le
arning
Chi
ldh
ood
Bi
rt
h
Tr
us
t
Ple
asure
Giving
Li
gh
t
S
up
ra
O
ne
Heart
The stages of growth
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
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94
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah when we are born
our ldquopatternrdquo of life is not finished because our body spirit and soul are
not completely integrated
Between the ages of five and seven the central column formed
by Yesod Tipherzt and the ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath Led molds the operative
personality The Heart Trust and Foundation are the basis of a childrsquos
personal development
At the age of thirteen Hod and Neshah stability and glory for-
mation and pleasures become active This is the age of awakening of
knowledge
Between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one Kether and
Malkuth intertwine forming the central structure of the tree and they
give it meaning and dimension
During the following years Geburah Hesed Binah and
Hokhmah integrate themselves completing the incarnation of the plains
When we see rebellious youths who have not yet grasped the
concepts of justice or generosity (gangs drugs) it is because they have
not incarnated completely and Geburah and Hesed have not taken their
places yet There is no set age for complete incarnation because it de-
pends on the surroundings and social experience
The child of an alcoholic and a drug addict who live in poverty
does not have to follow that path If he could find support in a family or
educational group that could help him to develop the missing sefiroth and
that way obtain incarnation he could become a person who understands
the proper concepts of justice and greatness thus clearing his life and ob-
taining personal success
On the other hand the son of an aristocrat or millionaire be-
tween the ages of thirteen and twenty will react against his class but
from there on and according to the integration of his sefiroth to the tree
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95
he will only be interested in developing within his social circle marrying
someone accordingly and following the family pattern but if he should
find a link that could help him develop the missing sefiroth in order to
complete his incarnation he would change his concepts on class and
would obtain personal success
Of course both examples are generalizations which do not apply
to all people If you are reading this book you are a spiritual researcher
and surely do not fall under generalizations
Many people consider a good marriage and a good social posi-
tion as valid objectives but after twenty years or more of walking the
same path they understand that even though they have a good marriage
with someone they love and good economic resources they have no
goals
This usually happens after the age of forty-five or fifty For those
based on their bodies this is the beginning of the end and will seek the
physical methods (surgeries) to slow this process
The Tree of the Maturity
These physical methods are not bad if they go together with a
spiritual development with growth in the tree of the spiritual worlds un-
til the highest point is reached and it is understood that the body is the
container of the spirit and soul
Often enough people get stuck emotionally here and no matter
how old they are they cannot get out of Tipherzt or the sefirath of Trust
It is here where emotions are sometimes confused with feelings obscur-
ing thoughts and the development of spiritual maturity
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96
Under-
standing
Truth
Awakening
Trust
Real
World
Foundation
Power
Humility
Experience
Essence
Heath
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97
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
Hod Glory
The Human Being
Soul and Spirit
The Worlds of the Spirit The Battle of the Spirit
The terror and the Fears
Difficult Situations The Problems of the Spirit
The Worlds of Solutions Instincts feelings and senses
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98
Soul and Spirit
We already know that neither one of us is a new soul all of us
have accumulated experience from previous lives in other incarnations
We also know that those celestial beings that occupy our body
have come during the last thousands of years
We also know that this inter-relation or connection between soul
and body helps to correct the soul
What we need to know now is What is the spirit
The spirit is our inner Self our mind it is what we really are and
who we are
Our spirit is formed by four worlds Each world relates to the
other on the basis of interactive processes and it works its way up from
the concrete (tangible) to the ethereal (spiritual) levels
1 The Material World called Assiah or the world of
Logic is based on Malkut passes through Yessed and opens up into
Hod and Neshagh The logical though is something you can almost
touch it has foundation stability and glory
2 The Formative World called Yetsirah or the world of
the Perceptions is based on Tipherzt and opens its arms into Ge-
brurah and Hesed The perceptions of the human being are beauty
justice and greatness
3 The Creative World called Briah or the world of Feel-
ings is based on Led (heart) and from there goes on to Binah and
Hokhmah Our feelings are the product of the alchemy formed by
the ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath of the heart intelligence and wisdom
4 The Archetypical World called Atziluth or the world
of Intuition has only one sefirath as base Kether Divinity resides
here that is intuition is the direct link to Divinity
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99
As we can see the spirit is the part that connects our contained
(physical body) to our soul (or celestial body) and that is who we really
are The spirit must take care of the body so that it ldquolastsrdquo as long as pos-
sible When it is mistreated with external products (poor nutrition alco-
hol tobacco or drugs) the soulrsquos stay and learning period is shortened
this will cause the soul to come back in another container to continue
learning
When an illness or accident causes the brain to stop the spirit is
affected never the soul The soul keeps learning even though the body is
inert or in a deep coma and it will stay there for some ldquotimerdquo after the
heart stops beating It could be minutes maybe hours or days before the
soul abandons the body
When the death is surprising and unexpected (accident violence
etc) both the soul and the spirit stay in condition of shock and are late
many time in dividing
Each person has in its spirit what we know as personality stud-
ied by Jung even his profession is related to these worlds For example a
person with an Assiah personality will be in the armed forces Profes-
sionals are Yetsirah the artists are in the world of Briah and the mysti-
cal people live in Atziluth
Even as we are crossing the tree sefiroacutethico the personality was
passing of being introverted and logical to extrovert and dreamy
Undoubtedly the complexity of the spirit and the dynamic that
surrounds it could generate multiple models Human beings depending
on the inherited genes educational environment social development will
modify some of the parameters associated to these worlds in order to be
accepted by society
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
100
The soul is very important in this development since in its mis-
sion of learning it will try to put the person in challenging situations
provoking logical feelings and intuitive sensations
The way to analyze these worlds and know to which ones we
blong (surely to all of them but some more than others) is to know our
strengths and our weaknesses to find our fears and the chance to
ovecome them
Each world has its own ten sefiroth that respond to its own
behavior
The residents of the world of intuition or Atziluth
are generalists hypothetical not precise speculative idealists in-
ventive illogical indecisive futurists and disperse
Those who live in the world of feelings or Briah are a
logical poetic artistic passionate personal cordial ethical justice seek-
ers individualists and humanitarians
The inhabitants of the world of the senses or Yetsirah
are careful detail minded specialists objective precise concrete real-
ists profound practical and conventional
Those who live in the world of logic or Assiah are log-
ical analytic extremist scientific cold dispassionate theoretical imper-
sonal shrewd and insensitive
Neither world is better than another and there isnrsquot a single hu-
man being that ldquofitsrdquo exactly into one defined world we all have behav-
iors from all of them but the proportions are different in each one of us
and that is what makes us all different from each other
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101
The worlds of the Spirit
In the center ldquoThe Column of Equilibriumrdquo (Balance)
Intuition Atziluth
Feelings Briah
Sense Yetsirah
Logical Assiah
Thought
Intelli-
li-gence
Jus
tice
Glo
ry
Foun-
dation
Ma-
teri
al
Be
au-
ty
Sta-
bil-
ity
Grea
tness
Wisdom
Su-
pra
One
Heart
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102
The Battle of the Spirit
As we could see the battle is not very fair three worlds are ruled
by the heart and only one is ruled by the brain That is why in most cas-
es instincts or feelings ldquowinrdquo over reason When free will was given to
us it was so that we could ldquothink overrdquo our acts
Are two ways of thinking intuition and reasoning with very dif-
ferent characteristics
Some thoughts come to mind in a spontaneous way in reality
that is what happens most of the time Because Atziluth Briah and
Yetsirah are always present in a potential way ready to jump in and re-
spond in a way of which we are not totally conscious and cannot control
The actions of these three worlds are quick without effort associative
and very often charged with emotions They are ruled by habits that is
why it is difficult to modify or control them
The world of Assiah instead is ruled by conscience and delib-
erate reasoning it is slower serial and requires effort it follows rules
Needs more time when something upsets us it clouds our reasoning
This means the issue is stuck on the upper worlds and it doesnrsquot allow us
to make logical decisions usually because we are afraid to reason
For example the idea that something awful can happen if we
take a plane even though that possibility is remote will not let us think
of anything else The upper worlds become dominant Emotion is over-
come in turn by the possibility by what could happen and not by reality
so much
The emotional and issue is the less ldquoreasonablerdquo people are
According to Daniel Kahneman winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize
in Economics
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
103
ldquoEmotions in general do not influence decision making but one
emotion in particular (fear) distorts the perception of risk and generates
errors in the making of decisionsrdquo
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah fear originates in the
upper world but if we can take it to the world of Assiah or logical it
vanishes into thin air
Nevertheless if once we make a reasoned decision we donrsquot reg-
ister having made it curious enough we are not conscious we have
changed our way of thinking
Most people after changing their way of thinking reconstruct
the old pattern They underestimate their change Besides when they
have been persuaded of something they believe they always thought that
way The upper worlds hide behind the mask that reason displays and
have us believing they were never there we are convinced that we al-
ways think rationally
It is true that many people admit making a mistake at one time
or another ndash you could be one of them ndash but that doesnrsquot mean that they
have changed their way of thinking on a particular issue and that they
wonrsquot make the same mistake again
Fears
All living beings have fears it is natural and it responds to the
instinct of survival You donrsquot have to be a caballist or scientist to state
that man is a fearful ldquoanimalrdquo One hundred percent of the human spirit is
ldquoshyrdquo or timid and it fears an endless amount of things and situations He
is intimidated by them The important thing is to identify the things he
fears and why Donrsquot even think you are the only one who fears some-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
104
thing ALL OF US fear something The thing is that that ldquosomethingrdquo is
different for each one of us
Fear is not bad or good it simply is disturbing feeling about
something unknown or if it is known we canrsquot control and we are afraid
it might hurt us
When God created the four elements or semi gods (Fire Water
Air and Earth) He gave them the ability to help or hurt mankind that is
why Fire can cook our food or it can destroy us Water is for drinking or
drowning Earth can give us vegetables or bury us with Air we live and
without it we die The four elements can give or take life And it is pre-
cisely in them that the depth of all fears lies
Fear has companions such as anguish
obsessions and phobias
Many cultures and old and modern religions disguise fears (in
many cases to manipulate people) with the presence of the Devil or dia-
bolic things The Judeo-Christian Kaballah upholds that mankind in its
search for alternative gods created this evil figure to justify its fears and
anguishes
Fear lives in the upper part of the Sefirotic Tree of both worlds of
the spirit where man thinks less and fears more First he starts at Atzi-
luth where he acts mostly based on instinct he is almost irrational and
here is where he ignites the anguish fearrsquos best friend From there it goes
down to Briah and it leans on phobic feelings to go on to Yetsirah
where it can attract obsessions
In the emotional sentimental world or Briah reside an endless
number of opposed phobic fears darkness or light open spaces or closed
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
105
space crowds or loneliness heights or depths planes or boatshellip and we
could go on for pages
In the world of the sensations or Yetsirah live the obsessive
fears disguised as concern
Worry for details rules lists order schedules up to
the point of losing of sight the principal object of the activity
Perfectionism which interferes with the completion of
a task (unable to finish a project because it doesnrsquot comply with
onersquos own demands which are overly strict)
Excessive dedication to onersquos work and to the produc-
tivity with exclusion of the activities of leisure and the friend-
ship (not attributable to economic evident needs)
Excessive stubbornness very scrupulous and inflexi-
ble when it comes to moral issues ethics or values (not attributed
to the identification with religion)
Unable to discard old and useless items even when
there is no sentimental value attached
Unable to share the work load with others unless
they will accept to do it your way exactly
Excessive thriftiness in spending money must be ac-
cumulated to cover future catastrophes
All these fears which live in the worlds of instincts feelings and
sensations are not related to diabolic situations Satan does not exist in
the Divine Universe Satan is a creation of our spirit to encourage the
learning and development of our soul The best way to teach our soul is
to overcome our fears bringing them down to the rational world of Assi-
ah to keep them under control and letting them go
This can be done following these steps
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
106
1 The first step is to put your fears in the world of
logic or Assiah not worrying about why this fear exists but how
do we respond to this fear behavior (eg paralysis desperation)
Hesed origin
2 Be specific when it comes to defining your con-
duct of fear and its consequences because the problem it self is
the solution Geburah control
3 Donrsquot look at your fear as such but as an obsta-
cle in attaining your goals Take it to Tipherzt trust
4 Define exactly the way you want to change your
conduct Go to Neshah balance
5 Establish a time limit to obtain the proposed
change For this Hod learning is the right sefirath
Search for an adequate way to make your change with-
out going to extremes for instance becoming a perfectionist
What you want to change is not making mistakes but the irra-
tional fear for avoiding making mistakes If you are set out to
making mistakes to change you will stop worrying about per-
fection but you will also stop worrying about the mistakes you
could make That is the mistakes are not the problem but the
fear of making mistakes is Work on Yesod construc-
tionbuilding
6 Be patient changes donrsquot take place overnight
whatrsquos more there could be a set back especially when there is a
fast progression in the change of the conduct of fear Please un-
derstand that a straight forward improvement is not always to be
expected you could be going forward there could be stops and
set backs which will allow you to compare and value the differ-
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
107
ences between your previous status with your situation of pro-
gress Go through Malkuth action
Once the world of Assiah logic overcomes your fears you will
see how your fears crashed with logic and vanish
Donrsquot forget that fear is a close friend of depression Fear attracts
dissonance synonym of physical and spiritual disease When one of the
elements stops working the machinery works with serious difficulties
When one of the parts slows down or over speeds therersquos also a lack of
balance and things donrsquot run well
Fear is one of those elements in the human being with great
power to generate lack of harmony correspondence and balance Its
negativity does not allow us to act neither with freedom intelligence nor
with common sense On the contrary it makes us highlight aspects of our
life which we shouldnrsquot consider so important It makes us go back
when we should be going forward It makes us lie when we should be
telling the truth And it takes away our plenitude creativity and capacity
to love
Problematic Situations
Man faces difficult situations all his life from childhood to old
age He finds himself with the obligation to address them with systemat-
ic processes of thought but he doesnrsquot know how important they are All
problems can be grouped in these three definitions
Urgent and important
Urgent or important
Neither urgent nor important
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108
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah and the sefirotic trees show us
that if we establish priorities if we analyze situations if we identify op-
portunities there are no problems without a solution and that solution is
usually much simpler than we would have thought The method to apply
the adequate solution to a problem is part of the kaballistic teachings
Problems of the Spirit
The Spirit is made up of four worlds (logic sensations emotions
and intuition) if we know how to apply them correctly and how to dis-
tribute our problems amongst these worlds each one of them will solve
the part of the problem to which it applies and the general solution will
become available without stress nor complications
The World of logical thought is the one that analyzes a problem
concretely creating a new Sefirotic Tree with four worlds Ideas Caus-
es Opportunities and Solutions we go through them from the column
of forms or shapes looking for the world of detail or feminine
Atziluth is the world of Ideas formed by Kether Binah and Hokhmah
Kether is the situation worrying you the problem in your
head or philosophical it could be physical or mental could be serious or
momentary but none the less it is the center of the worry
Binah is the expansive thought the one that analyzes the
components distinguishes the pertinent parts the real causes of the prob-
lem Binah clarifies the information to define the situation
Hokhmah is the convergent thought it evaluates and develops
the main idea of the problem compares theorizes and creates a hypothe-
sis which means it is the one that focuses on the problem to be solved
looking for the way to follow and the steps to take
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109
Briah is the world of Causes formed by Leb Geburah and Hesed
Leb is the virtual sefirath of the heart which plays a part in
every problem and even though thought is the most concrete world of
the spirit the heart has its influence when the time to make a decision
comes We should make the problem ldquovirtualrdquo analyze the solution with
the heart and without it in order to be objective and make the right deci-
sion
Geburah is justice Try to think as a lawyer they only deal
with proven facts they donrsquot go by hearsay Clean your mind of external
ldquoadditionsrdquo analyze ldquowhat problems make up this problemrdquo
Hesed is greatness It is very important to know where the
problem was originated in order not to repeat it you must have the
greatness to admit your percentage of responsibility in the origin of the
problem Donrsquot put the responsibility all out there blaming others do
know that we alwayshellip alwayshellip are partly responsible for what happens
to us Admitting responsibility requires greatness
Yetsirah is the world of Opportunities formed by
Tipherzt Hod and Neshah
Tiphezt is the sefirath of beauty and every problem has a
beautiful side to it which is the opportunity it opens up to the other
worlds Every problem is the starting point towards truth Many times
the truth is hidden and the problems bring it out in the light Look for the
positive side of the problem there always is one look for the sun after
the storm
Hod is the glory and glory is acknowledgement To
acknowledge a problem is part of the solution If we describe the prob-
lem and its consequences we could see clearly which opportunity it is
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
110
revealing Remember facts or situations it will help us recognize the real
scenario of the problem
Neshah is stability which will come when we solve the prob-
lem Imagine your life without the problem try to see which things will
be better and analyze which ones could be worse in order to avoid them
Donrsquot let it catch you off guard Just like in a chess match every move
must be carefully thought out and advantage taken of the adversaryrsquos lit-
tle mistakes
Assiah is the world of Solutions formed by Yesod and Malkuth
Yesod is the sefirath of foundation it is the one to support and
filter the information sent by the rest to Malkuth If the other nine have
done their job correctly the problem would reach this point practically
resolved In some cases it doesnrsquot even reach this point since it was re-
solved on its way As long as we clarify and converge ideas analyze the
real causes and describe its consequences the storm we saw coming at
first becomes a sea breeze
Malkuth is the earth action It establishes these ways to fol-
low to resolve a problem or whatrsquos left of it The truth is that Malkuth
steps in less than 5 of the cases because the big problems do not ex-
ist but small problems that transformed a snow ball rolling downhill that
breaks up into thousands of harmless little particles when it hits a serious
and conclusive analytical spirit
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111
The Sefiroacutethico
Tree of the logical thought
Diverge
Facts
Acknowl-
edging
Filtration
Action
Serenity
Equilibrium
Origin
Converge
Knowing
Heart
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112
The Worlds of Solutions
The other three worlds of the spirit (sensations emotions and intuition)
are present in the previous development as observers but sometimes
(many times) they are present in the analysis of the concrete world where
logical thoughts occur taking the solution to the problem through not so
logical paths In these cases we have to appeal to the central column or
Column of Equilibrium of the Sefirotic Tree of the Spirit
Kether (Intuition) receiving the energy that the Divinity and Its
Light sends us
Leb (Heart) will find answers in our feelings
Tipherzt (Beauty) will consult our inner sensations
Yesod and Malkuth (Foundation and Earth) bring us back to the
world of reasoning and logic
This means that we can solve many problems using our intuition our
feelings or our sensations but we should always put them through the
filter of logical thought of truth putting passion aside and trying to be as
analytical as possible
Instincts Feelings and Sensations
Instincts or Atziluth feelings or Briah and sensations or Yetsirah to-
gether create an inner stir up when motivated by action Mankind is
mostly conditioned by emotions and sensations by likes and dislikes
Often enough feelings and sensations are side tracked by mankindrsquos own
interests and selfishness to the point of invalidating sense and reason
making one behave in ways which one sees with consternation that Assi-
ah has been forgotten Thus logic is destroyed by the three upper
worlds When we snap out later and we see the mistake it is too late to
do anything about it
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
113
The upper worlds usually come up as an answer to the spontaneous eval-
uation of perceptions Emotions such as anger or fear can be harmful or
healthy such as fondness or compassion While aversions are typical un-
healthy emotions good love and compassion are outstanding examples of
noble emotions that lift our human nature
Human beings are pretty open to emotional development and so is the
range and strength of their emotions We are all somewhat passionate
and impulsive and cold and reflective at the same time What varies is
the percentage some get angry very fast and others are patient While
one person could be not impulsive emotionally another could go through
a wide range of emotions at the speed of light
The emotional worlds hurt the physical body that is why they should be
controlled According to clinical experience a person dominated by
emotions could have consecutively or simultaneously health issues af-
fecting several organic systems I will mention a few psychosomatic
health problems
Migraines
This symptom is made up of other somatic symptoms that go to-
gether in people with a perfectionist personality with changing moods
They usually manifest themselves with painful muscle contractions of the
neck as well as nausea and vomiting
Obesity
Obesity usually develops within the frame of anxieties in re-
sponse to frustrations and disappointment through devotion to food8
Hypertension
The main reason for vascular hypertension is emotional tension
in people who show apparent serenity and affability but are really cover-
ing up hostile emotions and predisposition ndash that must be restrained ndash for
social or employment reasons
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114
Cardiovascular System
It has been proven that the stress caused by anguish tends to fre-
quently increase your heart beat cardiac distress and blood pressure
Respiratory System
Crying laughing screaming o talking imply changes your
breathing action excessive breathing or the opposite are typical respons-
es during contrasting periods of action or relaxation Examples of this are
the hyperventilation syndrome and asthma amongst others
The Gastrointestinal Tract
The symptoms of gastrointestinal disorders are multiple the most
frequent they are anorexia bulimia nausea nervous indigestion vomit-
ing and diarrhea
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
115
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Yesod Foundation
Free Will
The emotional worlds
Control of emotions
Who controls me
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
116
The emotional worlds
The emotional worlds are distributed within the Sefirotic Tree from
Kether to Malkuth
Kether is imagination it is ethereal and impalpable it comes
from within and surprises us as if it came from outside We imagine
things or situations this is the world of Atziluth
What happens in our lives makes better sense when we use our imagina-
tion and create our own stories These could be situations related directly
to what is happening to us or just the opposite For example if we are
watching a Superman movie we unconsciously accept that the character
flies We know the actor is supported by ropes of steel or that it is a
computerized trick but we go prepared to accept this The same thing
happens with a horror movie we donrsquot ignore that the monster is made
out of some synthetic material that those masks are created with makeup
or that the blood could be tomato sauce but while we are watching the
movie we let the world of Atziluth take over our spirit and we accept
what takes place in the screen as real
The important thing is to know when the movie ends and reality begins
There have been cases of people jumping off rooftops believing they
were Superman or have shot others thinking they were either Rambo or
Terminator Without going to these extreme examples many people be-
lieve they are living stories out of soap operas in which the characters
are either good or bad In them the manipulation of society is done
through ldquobelievablerdquo or ldquodetestablerdquo stereotypes In these stories the
ldquogood guysrdquo consume the sponsorrsquos products that is why they are good
looking and successful while the ldquobad guys are very badrdquo and always
end up in jail or dead Very far from the reality
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117
Hokhmah is memory it is our particular wisdom it is what we
learn from the past the things our own life has taught us But memories
sometimes play tricks on us
Often enough we associate what we see with some other type of experi-
ence or memory For instance if somebody speaks loudly we feel we are
being attacked because we remember that tone of voice being used by a
teacher or our father to make an observation or punish us This memory
which is not rational will put us on alert waking all our feelings of de-
fense But it could be that this person speaks loudly because he needs to
be listened to with the best intentions towards us In this case Atziluth
would have reacted against our relationship with the other person We
usually do not notice these processes because these are unconscious be-
haviors of which we are not aware When we remember the incident we
only describe our experience related to the visual perception and with
conscientious thought We almost never refer to what we heard felt im-
agined or what our intuition told us What this does is that we visualize
an incomplete picture of the situation
Binah is the comprehension our intelligence While we hear the
other person speaking loudly we generate currents of thought These
thoughts could relate directly and we could probably raise our voice as
well Both of us speaking loudly almost screaming will dull our compre-
hension and we wonrsquot be able to reason the other personrsquos words nor
will we understand why we are being loud In unexpected situations
such as an accident in transit (like somebody hitting our car in the free-
way) we create an opinion of the other person while we observe the in-
cident But we do not reason the occurrence It is not easy for us to un-
derstand in those circumstances and we unchain reactions that we will
regret later
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
118
ldquoThe three sefiroth of the tree of emotions make up the trilogy of At-
ziluth where everything is potential everything is relative where im-
agination lives with memories and comprehe nsionrdquo
Listening is Hesed greatness since knowing how to listen is
greatness Our hearing perceives in a selective way depending on the
attention we are paying In first place we hear the most discordant
sounds Some people listen independently from what they see while
others associate what they hear to what they see Closer sounds also get
mixed with those coming from afar (planes trains)
Seeing is Geburah justice When the police investigate an acci-
dent talks to five witnesses and gets five different versions of the same
accident This is because each witness perceived the same scene in a dif-
ferent way according to their distance and angle their surprise their
memories and their fears What each one was doing and how long it took
their minds to react to adapt to the new situation is also important
Feeling is Tipherzt beauty Any situation of relationship or ac-
tion (somebody yelling at us somebody crashing into us somebody hug-
ging us or loving us) triggers our instinctive emotions and can make us
feel uncomfortable sad surprised tender excited furious anxious nos-
talgichellip and so many other ways
It is important to know how to handle them from the sefirath of beauty
Both love and fury are born there It is the provider of spiritual nourish-
ment it is the one that sends the order to our hand to slap or caress to our
mouth the order to insult or say words of love to our legs the order to get
closer or start running away If we control our reactions and let our brain
make the decision we will save ourselves lots of problems apologies and
unpleasantness
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
119
ldquoThese three sefiroth of the tree of emotions form the trilogy of
Briah the world of creation where strength idea and ways of liste n-
ing seeing and feeling come togetherrdquo
Taste and smell are Hod and Neshah or glory and stability the sev-
enth and eighth sefiroth These two senses go together When we smell a
dish we like we feel our mouth ldquowateringrdquo This is because our sense of
taste already sent the known flavors to our brain which in turn already
started in Yetsirah the registered memories In some gas stations we
taste the smell of gasoline in our mouth as if we had drunk it Being close
to a trash dump makes us nauseous since the smell is perceived by our
nose and mouth irritating our throat
In these cases the formative world of Yetsirah makes us react instinc-
tively to aggressive odors
Reflexes are Yesod foundation This sefirah closes the trilogy of the
world of Yetsirah which is the formative or conceptual world and re-
flexes just like taste and smell are instinctive concepts that we cannot
control When we watch a thriller or action movie we move as if we
were the character in it we flinch when they stick a knife into somebody
or we move avoiding the punch We usually experience some movements
as if we were moving ourselves we even experience tension in our mus-
cles Itrsquos common that if we see others dancing we will also feel the im-
pulse to dance
ldquoThese three sefiroth are the base of our instinctive and intuitive sys-
tem We can control all other sefiroth imagination memories un-
derstanding listening seeing and even feeling but the senses of smell
and taste and reflexes are very hard to control that is why we must
concentrate our attention on themrdquo
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
120
Re-
mem-
ber
Lis-tening
Tast-
ing
Re-
flexes
Rea-
soning
Feel-
ing
Smell-ing
Seeing
Compre-
hension
Imag-
ining
As we can see Malkuth is in the world of Assiah and takes no part in
emotions It is the material world reason and reasoning If we manage to
handle our emotions and ldquobring them downrdquo to Malkuth reason will
prevail and our behavior will be logical improving our relation with the
world
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
121
Controlling your emotions
Now that we know our emotions we know where their origin
takes place and which worlds rule them we can analyze the possibility of
controlling them to reach our goals since a person who angers easily
spoils hisher own happiness and disturbs otherrsquos peace of mind
Without a deliberate effort emotions will not be under the direct
control of our will of Assiah and we will be able to control them in this
rational and logic world We must train our mind to control our emotions
the moment they stir up This can be done by watching them objectively
as soon as they flourish identifying them with a name or a mental label
such as ldquoAngerrdquo ldquoJealousyrdquo ldquoSorrowrdquo ldquoFuryrdquo etc
Once we have names for our emotions we will be then in a bet-
ter position to let go of them without being dragged by them The mo-
ment we can register our anger calmly (when we become aware that this
anger originated in the upper worlds) that is when we make it descend to
Assiah to the world of reason and our anger will leave us
At first this could be useful if during the day we repeat to our-
selves a formula such as
ldquoWhat am I feeling nowrdquohellip ldquoWhat am I thinkingrdquohellip
We respond immediately
ldquoI am feeling angerrdquohellip ldquoI am jealousrdquohellip
We can also investigate even afterwards why the anger (or any
other adverse emotion) took over us so that we can avoid these situations
or responses in the future
Who controls me
Even though every human being has in its spirit the world of As-
siah very few use this world to think logically and by themselves This
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
122
passivity or indifference is the result of the development of massive
communication media
Radio television yellow journalism even the Internet push their
messages on all of us every minute of the day and its penetration power
is reinforced by the rooted human disposition to accept everything we are
being told and comply with what we are dared to do Bombarded by
thousands of stimuli we donrsquot think by ourselves anymore we donrsquot feel
our emotions anymore or start up our own actions instead we feel how
others want us to feel The pressure of the multitude is irresistible
When we explain that Kether accepts that Superman flies be-
cause it is part of the film game we must control that Kether does not
accept that my self esteem depends on the perfume or shirt I buy or that
my relationship with people does not depend on the car I have
We saw that in the world of Atziluth everything is relative eve-
rything is in a potential state that is why commercials aim at our imagina-
tion memories and comprehension to get us to buy their products
All these communication means teach us to hold our capacity to
reason or if we happen to reason to do it the way they expect us to
Those who manipulate the media (not necessarily the owners but the
sponsors) are motivated by their own interests which are fortune and
power They play important roles in several means of life such as politic
business law medicine and education
Publicity newscasts soap operas even reality shows penetrate
us through the world of Briah which is the listeningseeingfeeling trilo-
gy In Briah we find the idea in formation that is why journalism is con-
sidered the ldquofourth powerrdquo Nevertheless in todayrsquos globalizes world
Kabbalah places it at the top over all other earthly powers because it
manipulates images ideas and it gives us the news ldquoaimedrdquo at their inter-
ests The role of reasoning tends to be subordinated to that of emotion
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
123
while the mental inertia and indifference eases the conquest of reason
That is why when public opinion is formed through manipulation a small
minority is able to control the majority Publicity and newscasts are the
most effective mechanism to make us ldquobelieverdquo what is good or bad for
our spirit and body
Control of decisions and Free Will
All of those who are part of the small but powerful marketing
minority have something to sell Commercials make us wish more and
more things that will not necessarily make us happier or give us peace of
mind They tell us that happiness is having the latest entertainment center
or the new cooking system But no matter how many things we buy we
could still feel our lives painfully empty
The speed power and efficiency of all this technological and so-
cial development drive us into an increasing frequency of illness due to
stress and nervous crisis Those who do not collapse under this pressure
find other ways to escape such as drugs alcohol and psychotic cults
The battle is not easy because the offer is gratifying we are even part of
that wheel because we sell a product or service which is commercialized
that way The only significant comparison we can make is with our-
selves between the person we were one month earlier a year earlier or
even a decade earlier and the person we are at present physically intel-
lectually morally and financially If there hasnrsquot been an improvement
or it hasnrsquot been enough we should ask ourselves why that is and do
something to modify this without delay If done regularly this ldquocheck-
uprdquo could be very beneficial If we set our pride and prejudice aside and
we check out our values and perspectives then we will be able to live a
simpler healthier and happier life
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
124
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Malkuth
The Kingdom
The Rational World
Education and freedom
Rights and obligations
Daily negotiations Responsibilities
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
125
Education and freedom
As a child I was told that
ldquoThe better educated a person is the freer that person isrdquo
At the time I didnrsquot understand the significance of those words
because at the age of ten to me education was school teachers and
studying
Today a few years older the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah taught
me that education is knowledge and it is much more profound than what I
was taught in school
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the first thing educa-
tion should do is warn the students that all knowledge implies a certain
risk of error and illusion Human knowledge is exposed to errors in per-
ception and judgment and illusions caused by the narrowness of ideas
cultural influence and the emotions and experiences of each person
Scientific knowledge is not even immune to error and illusion
theories and methods of investigation protect their own errors and illu-
sions That is why the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah education gives the kind
of knowledge that allows for self criticism and detects errors and illu-
sions The ldquoknowledge blindnessrdquo can be cured with a more open and
reflexive education that self-criticizes
The media overwhelms us with information It is fundamental
that we learn to discern what is relevant and what is accessorial
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah invites us to analyze the four
worlds of the human spirit together with the four worlds of the societies
in which they live political cultural religious and financial
The archetypical world called Atziluth is the one where eve-
rything is in a latent potential state That is the spirituality and religious
world
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
126
In the creative world called Briah we find the strength in its
pure form and the ideas This is the emotional or cultural world
In the formative world called Yetsirah everything is in the
formation or a conceptual process which is the world of sensations or
political
In the material world called Assiah is where the physical
manifestation takes place which is the logical or financial world
Globalization is another important issue that conditions our free-
dom According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the world has been
globalizing from its inception God never discriminated we are all His
children Moses was a ldquoglobalizesrdquo when he took his people to the Prom-
ised Land through the desert So were Abraham Noah Jesus when he
asked his apostles to take his word evangelizing throughout the Earth
The current systems of communication make us realize how sim-
ilar and at the same time how different we are from each other The
Judeo-Christian Kabbalah struggles for unity not to erase diversity and
vice-versa Neither is the individual person above religion culture or so-
ciety nor is religion culture or society above the individual person Only
God is above each and every one of us
Let us remember that God created the four Genii or Elements
(Earth Air Water and Fire) and it is the obligation of all human beings
to protect them since they are our only support Mankind is destroying
them with the contamination it has created which will derive in our own
destruction But this depends on our free will thai is why there is an
even more powerful globalization than the financial one the intellectual
affective and moral globalization This is the only way we will achieve
the Freedom to which the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah invites you the
world is united by its culture technology and the financial exchange and
at the same time it is divided by politics and religion
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
127
To need
Control
Respect
Free Will
LIFE
Happiness
Dignity
Freedom
To know
To love
Kabbalah teach us to understand that every human being shares
the same worries feelings and the same destiny no matter where he
lives
The values of the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah are solidarity hos-
pitality tolerance and respect towards the dignity of every person This
means that every culture should learn from other cultures and each socie-
ty from other societies
The kabballistic ideals of freedom consist in respect for the indi-
viduality and diversity and promoting solidarity and comprehension
Responsibilities
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
128
Rights and obligations
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah bases its doctrine on the rights and obliga-
tions of all human beings Each person has certain right and obligations
which become basic responsibilities of which each person must take
charge one hundred percent like the responsibility to control and manage
its own life building its own life plan and following it by accomplishing
goals
These obligations have three important axes based on the first three
sefiroth
bull Kether or Crown and self-esteem
bull Hokhmah or the Wisdom to known oneself
bull Binah or the Intelligence to make decisions according
to onersquos inner and outer personal needs without hurting
oneself or others
The basic rights are found in the seven lower sefiroth
bull Hesed and the right to freedom
bull Geburah and the right to control your life
bull Tipherzt and the right to happiness
bull Neshah and the right to dignity
bull Hod and the right to (respect) be respected
bull Yesod and the right of free expression
bull Malkuth and the right to life
Mankind in its daily interaction relates to its sefiroth and its funda-
mental rights according to three different styles of response based on the
lower worlds
The world of Briah or pure or emotional power
It promotes inequality always having a loser and winner This is not a
creative or equal relation
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
129
The person denies its own respect rights and needs hurting itself
These are mostly selfish individualist and passionate people
The world of Yetsirah or conceptual
It deals with defending onersquos own rights without hurting others It im-
plies equality and respect
The person knows the border line between its own individuality and
those of others
They are mostly realistic practical conventional and objective
The world of Assiah or physical or logical manifestation
They are mostly analytic calculating cold and insensitive
It promotes non-equal relationships against the rights of others It is
an unbalanced relationship in which manipulation takes place
The person invades the rights of others getting Responses of fear
Daily negotiations
When people speak of negotiations they think they are talking about
money but negotiation is part of daily life and it is also analyzed
through the sefirotic trees of the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah
The negotiation can be with oneself for instance
Irsquom staying in bed another fifteen minutes even if I have to go
to work without breakfast
The negotiation can be with your spouse for instance
We can spend Christmas with your family if we spend New
Yearrsquos with mine
We can negotiate with our children for example
You can have the car tonight if you come home early and
wash it tomorrow
We can negotiate with our fellow workers for instance
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
130
If you cover me this Saturday Irsquoll cover you next Sunday
As you can see in none of these examples and many more that surely
you must remember is money mentioned as exchange In a negotiation
the effort must be compensated equally
Nobody should win or lose or better yet both should come out winning
obtaining something each one wants In a negotiation everybody should
know what is at stake and what each one will obtain in exchange
Let us remember that the method of solving problems is based on the
lower or material world of Assiah but a negotiation reaches for the upper
worlds like Yetsirah or intuition or the world of Briah or emotions in
some cases it even appeals to Atziluth or spirit
You must train you brain to stay in the lower worlds to negotiate be-
cause it will be more to your benefit Try to be objective since feelings
or emotions play against you and the effort will not be compensated
equally
You must create what is called a creative antagonism separating the ob-
jective facts in order to get to a reasonable and logic agreement It is very
important that both parties feel they are winners Get used to listening to
every word the other person is saying In Kabbalah the word is very im-
portant it has a double message what is being said and what is meant
When your spouse child or friend get angry and scream for something
you already know it is not important they are really saying something
else Hug himher kiss himher on the forehead and tell himher you
want to hear the reasons behind the anger But on the contrary if you
feel offended and respond screaming even louder you will have lost the
negotiation before you even begin
Turn your defects into virtues that way you will get a just negotiation
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
131
If you are passive think of the object and state your argument
with precision and not getting nervous
If you are aggressive look for the motives and keep them
away while negotiating
If triumph is important to you think the other one is right and
try to be unbiased
If you are anguished think of the reasons in your favor not to
show weakness
If you are a fatalist and you think you are going to lose nego-
tiate with a relaxed mind you have nothing to risk act without
worrying about the end result
When Jesus says
ldquoPut the other cheekrdquo
He refers to Judeo-Christian Kabbalah because it is not to be
slapped but to accept the embrace of negotiation
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132
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Conclusions
The Tree of Trees
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133
The Tree of Trees
Reading this book we have learned to go through the different
sefirotic trees the creation of the universe its worlds and centers of
strength the sefirotic columns the Adam Kadmon tree Jesusrsquo genealogy
the Our Father the Sermon in the Mountain (Beatitudes) the evolution of
mankind gestation development maturing the spirit decisions emo-
tions and even responsibilities
But we also learned about the existence of infinite sefirotic trees
because each sefirath (no matter how small) contains a tree within and
each tree (no matter how big) is only a sefirath of a larger tree
If we try to unify all the sefirotic trees we will see that they are
all similar we could even say the same they all have the same logical
pattern they were all created by the same Divine Architect
The sefiroth take different names according to their presence but
their strength does not change since they are endless sources of energy
That is why when we see Sephiroth we see its gifts
Kether Crown Inspiration Divine Light Supra-One א
Hokhmah Wisdom Word Experience Soul ב
Binah Intelligence Spirit Thought Fortune ג
Hesed Greatness Love Humility Strength Giving ד
Geburah Justice David Truth Respect Shape ה
Tipherzt Beauty Salomon Purity Fidelity Goodness ו
Neshah Stability Power Forgiveness Trust Effort ז
Hod Glory Blessing Protection Education ח
Yesod Foundation Simplicity Assistance Purification ט
Malkuth Kingdom Peace Prayer Freedom Birth י
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The only sefirath that has only one meaning or name is Leb the
sefirath of the heart and for that reason it cannot be modified Because it
is virtual it appears or disappears according to the tree we are looking at
because its power is so big that it doesnrsquot need to be identified or be pre-
sent in the tree because it is a Sefirotic Tree in itself and it is the one that
guides us and protects us
Each one of us has its own Sefirotic Tree which we
must go through without a doubt from Kether to Malkuth and from
Malkuth to Kether
Free will lets us chose the road to take the sefiroth to go
through but it does not let us get out of our own and only tree
We are the only craft men of our own destiny we devel-
op our only precious and exclusive Tree of Life
It is up to us to comply with our Logics Divine Plan or to
decide to evade our responsibilities looking for shortcuts and trying to
twist the Divine assignments
The free will given to us by God demands that we put our spir-
itual and philosophical life in order without further delay to build a dig-
nified future and face each day as if it were the last one
The physical and spiritual kaballistic world from Kether to
Malkuth is truly a happy place to live in if people only thought of go-
ing through their personal and unique Sefirotic Tree
Let us remember these wise words
ldquoDeath is certain life is uncertainrdquo
(Maranam niyatam jivitam aniyatam)
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135
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
The Divine Logic
Cesar Leo Marcus
Windmills International Editions Inc
wwwwindmillseditionscom
California - USA ndash 2012
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136
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
7
Introduction
Since the beginning of the Divine Creation since water earth air
and fire combined to form life since early vegetation covered the land
since animals developed into dinosaurs since giants (vegetable and ani-
mal) disappeared giving way to the world as we know it today since the
first man understood that he was no longer an ape and learned to use his
intelligence which is forever the Kabbalah Judeo-Christian was pre-
sent revealing every step and every line of this Logic Divine Plan
This book answers the four most difficult questions us humans
ask ourselves the easiest way possible
Which is the Divine Logic Plan for each one of us
What should we do to find our Path
Who are we really and what is our goal
What is free will and how does it benefit us
To find these answers we must travel the road or path of the
sefirot which is not easy In order to do so each one of us can adopt one
of two possible attitudes
We can envision the road or path as a barrier that sepa-
rates us from our goals or sefirot battling with strength against obstacles
considering every step a conquest But I must warn you many desist half
way down the road and the few that do make it end up totally worn out
and without the strength to enjoy their triumph
Or we can envision the sefirotic road or path as the way
to achieve our objectives as part of the affixed goal From the very first
moment we step onto the road we will be walking the arm of the sefirot
or desired goal and without battling or effort we will get there Walking
through it we will gain from whatever the sefirotic path offers us Most
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8
people will get there without effort or exhaustion enjoying the tiny daily
triumphs and finally achieving their goals
The students of Judeo-Christian Kabbalah chose the second op-
tion we know that the path itself is our teacher that we learn just by
walking through the sefirotic paths and as we near our goal we leave
behind our weaknesses our fears and we value our spiritual weapons our
inner resources our strengths
The students of Judeo-Christian Kabbalah
know that we have come to this world to be happyhellip
Understanding happiness as a means to offer our spirit and soul the
opportunity to learn surrounded by light and positive e nergy
Those who wish to study Judeo-Christian Kabbalah will search
in this book for answers to questions they hadnrsquot even thought of before
and that were hidden from regular people in the past
This book seeks the interpretation of the Sacred Books
and most especially of the symbolism of the sefirot
This book seeks to explain the existence of man the pur-
pose of his life and where he comes from
This book seeks to unveil the occult understanding the
sefirotic trees and the four worlds that make them up
This book seeks to discover the hidden scenarios of your
life achieving the much desired happiness without effort
This book seeks to acknowledge the mystical magic and
creative power of the Tree of Life and its sefirot
This book seeks to be not a abstract study quite the con-
trary whoever studies Judeo-Christian Kabbalah will be able to analyze
the Tree of Life and its sefirot understanding their importance on onersquos
life
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9
This bookrsquos search takes place within each reader because
ldquoKabbalahrdquo comes from the Hebrew words ldquoLaykabbelrdquo meaning To
Receive and ldquoHabbalahrdquo which means Tradition which refers to the Tra-
dition of To Receive and Kabbalah describes this action as ldquoThe tradi-
tion of wishing to receiverdquo This tradition of wishing to receive develops
and grows in four worlds that continuously come together and grow
apart
To Receive the pleasure of money and power this is the
material world
To Receive the pleasure of acknowledgement and hon-
ors this is the conceptual world
To Receive the pleasure of love and affection this is the
world of senses
To Receive the pleasure of the union with the Divinity
which is the spiritual world which is the highest in the pyramid of the
desires because it wraps and raises all the rest
ldquoHe who acknowledges the power of the
Kabbalah and the tradition of to receivehellip
Will search the means to attain its Lightrdquo
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10
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Kether The Crown
The Sacred Books
Old Testament
New Testament
Koran or Quram
The Zohar
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11
The Old Testament
The Hebrew has three scriptures The Tanakh or Old Testament
the Talmud or collection of erudite commentaries on the Tanakh and
The Kabbalah or mystic interpretation of the Torah Ancient rabbis
would say that the first of these three books represented the Divine Body
the second one the Divine Spirit and the fourth one the Divine Soul The
average person can benefit from reading and obeying the first book eru-
dite scholars can study the second one but wise people meditate with the
third one
The Tanakh
Old Testament also called The Book of Books is divided in
three parts
The Torah the Law which envelops the first five books
ldquoJumashrdquo(5) in hebrew also called ldquoPentateuchrdquo or the Law of Moses
These are the five books Genesis (Bereshit) Exodus (Shemoth) Leviti-
cus (Vayikra) Numbers (Bamidbar) and Deuteronomy (Devarim) They
cover the period between the Genesis up to Mosesrsquo death on the thresh-
old of the entry into the Promised Land (Canaan)
Nevirsquoim (Prophets) The second part of the Tanakh co-
vers a vast period which goes from the conquest up to the last prophets
These are the books contained therein Joshua (the conquest period)
Judges I and II Samuel I and II Kings and those dedicated to the major
prophets Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel and Daniel and the minor prophets
Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah
Haggai Zecariah and Malachi
Ketuvim (writings) This third part of the Tanakh is
made up of the book of Psalms Proverbs Job Ezra Nehemiah Ruth
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12
Song of Songs Lamentations (Eichah) Ecclesiastes Esther and Chroni-
cles I and II They cover a vast period that goes from the VII century of
the Common Era up to the Persian period the return to Israel and the
building of the second Temple of Jerusalem
The Talmud
The Halakha-Mishnah-Aggada-Talmud Bavli (of Babylon)-
Yerushalmi (of Jerusalem) is a compilation of the oral tradition transmit-
ted from generation to generation which covers all topics in the Tanakh
including
The Halakha or the Law explains the rules and princi-
ples pronounced in the Torah rules of conduct religious principles and
rituals Covers a wide variety of issues revolving around the individual
the family and living in community The Halakha has ruled life for centu-
ryrsquos right up to the present
The Mishnah which cover the following rules and regu-
lations are six basic sedarim or treaties (singular=seder)
Moed talks about the festivities א
Zeraim (Seeds) deals with labor practices ב
Nezikin deals with relationships within a group ג
Nashim are the family rules ד
Kodoshim deals with sanctity and holiness ה
Tohorot-kosher are Laws of purity ו
The Gemara the oral law with comments and exegetical rabbin-
ic statements has been study material for centuries nourishing philoso-
phy teachings It contains practically every bit of traditional wisdom col-
lected for centuries
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13
This oral law also contains a vast literary work Haggadah and
Midrashim (legends and comments) on biblical figures of exemplary
conduct
The Kabbalah
The Kabbalah was in ancient literature the totality of the reli-
gious doctrine obtained with the exception of the Pentateuch As of the
X century DC Kabbalah was considered a secret mysterious and theo-
sophical science destined to explain always in a cryptic language the
Creation of the Universe by the Being defined as ldquoOne and Absoluterdquo
Some kabbalists such as Pico Della Mirandola Reuchlin and
Schikard adopt the old tradition according to which Kabbalah develops
from the inspiration that God instilled in Adam Abraham Moses Bud-
dha Jesus Mohammed Bahi and all those that constitute the mystic cir-
cle of the Latter Prophets
Kabbalah is not exclusively Jewish since first Jesus and later
Mohammed were kabbalist scholars
The New Testament
Having taken Jesus as an example as we know it when he was
born there were three religious doctrines in Palestine the Pharisees and
Sadducees of which the Gospels often speak and the Essenes which are
never mentioned Tradition states that the boy Emanuel ben Yoseph was
sent by the erudite doctors of the Law to the community of the Essenes
near the Dead Sea after being heard at the Temple at the age of thirteen
to be educated according to the mystic tradition of Israel The Kabbalah
He stayed with the Essenes until he was thirty years old Emanuel ben
Yoseph or Jesus Christ teaches the continuity of the Hebrew Scriptures
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14
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the
Prophets I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them I tell you
the truth until heaven and earth disappear not the smallest letter not the
least stroke of a pen will by any means disappear from the Law until
everything is accomplished (Mt 517)
However I admit that I worship the God of our fathers
as a follower of the Way which they call a sect I believe everything that
agrees with the Law and that is written in the Prophetsrdquo (Acts 2414)
Jesus answered It is written Man does not live on
bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God (Mat-
thew 44) referring to Deuteronomy 83 ldquohellipto teach you that man does
not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of
Godrdquo
In the chapter called Tipherzt-Beauty you will find a broader ex-
planation of the Christian Kabbalah and an analysis of the Kabbalistic
Jesus and his apostles
The Koran or Quram
The Koran or Quram is the sacred book of Islam containing the
word of Allah (God) as revealed to Mohammed through the angel Gabri-
el (Gibrail or Yibril)
During his life the Prophet Mohammed received the revelations
either verbally or written on palm leaves pieces of leather or bones etc
Upon the death of Mohammed in the year 632 his followers began to
gather all these revelations which during the period in which Uthman ibn
Affan was Caliph took the shape we know nowadays 114 chapters each
one called surah subdivided into verses or phrases
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15
For the Muslims the Koran is the eternal and un-created work of
God therefore it was to be transmitted without the slightest change in the
original language the classic Arabic considered a sacred tongue for all
purposes
However in recent times the Koran has been translated to many
languages aimed specially at the believer whose native language is not
Arabic But even so believers are obligated to read it in its original lan-
guage because they claim that the contents of the Koran has not been
modified in centuries and a translation is an interpretation
Mohamed admits the continuity of the Hebrew Scriptures in the
following passages of the Koran
ldquoAnd most certainly We gave Musa (Moses) the Book
and We sent apostles after him one after anotherrdquo (Koran surah 287)
ldquoSurely We revealed the Taurat (Torah) in which was
guidance and light with it the prophets who submitted themselves
(to Allah) judged (matters) for those who were Jewsrdquo (surah 544)
ldquoCertainly We made a covenant with the children of Is-
rael and We sent to them apostlesrdquo (surah 570)
ldquoAnd certainly We gave the Book to Musa so be not in
doubt concerning the receiving of it and we made it a guide for the
children of Israelrdquo (surah 3223)
According to the Koran ldquothe Messiah Isa (Jesus) son of
Marium (Mary) is only an apostle of Allah and word which He
communicated to Marium and a spirit from Himrdquo (surah 4171)
He is a prophet or a servant of Allah (surah 4359) but
not His son(surah 6101)
The Muslims consider him a Messiah (in Arabic
ldquoMasihrdquo very similar to the Hebrew ldquoMashiacuteajrdquo) to them it means an
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16
elevated prophet (ldquoanointedrdquo) the closest one to Allah before Mo-
hammed
The word Messiah Masih (ldquoanointedrdquo) can be found in
Surahs 345 4157 171-172 517-72-75 930-31 The highest
prophet except for Mohammed
The Islam considers the mystery of the Trinity and in-
carnation an ldquoassociationrdquo and therefore an offense against the
uniqueness of Allah (surah 112)
But not this way the first three sefirot that wrap the symbolism of
the Trinity
Mohammed sensed the Kabbalah in the Koran since Isa (Je-
sus) is the word of Allah and a spirit from Him son of the Holy Spirit
but they do not exactly consider Isa (Jesus) as if he were Allah
And furthermore the Koran affirms that at the end of time when
humanity will be called to judgment by Allah Isa (Jesus) will stand by
Him as witness and part therein (surah 4361) And everyone who did
not believe in him will believe in him (surah 4157)
Those who interpret the Koran affirm that Isa (Jesus) will come
back to this world at the end of time to save Humanity from damnation
and convert it to Allah
The Zohar
The composition of the Kabbalistic doctrine as we know it to-
day it attributed to Rabbi Shimeon ben Yochai in century II He is the
author of the Zohar ldquoThe Book of Splendorrdquo one of the basic texts of
the Kabbalah Shimeon ben Yochai (80-160) was a disciple of Rebbi
Akiva ldquoRashbirdquo (40-137) who had been sentenced to death by the Ro-
mans because he would not acknowledge nor obey the ruling authority of
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17
Rome nor would he reveal any Kabbalah secrets to them Even though
the Zohar was written by Rabbi Shimeon ben Yochai Rebbi Akiva was
its true inspirer
Adam Kadmon Zohar XVII Century
Rebbi Akiva ben Joseph was born southeast of Judea close to the
Mediterranean shore His father was a humble Jewish peasant who was
not acquainted with the literature of his people nor the traditions he had
never read the Torah nor visited the Temple Due to the precarious eco-
nomic conditions in which there was living the family Akiba none of her
children received formal education in her infancy The reality was that
Akiba ben Joseph I pass your childhood and adolescence as an illiterate
Mediterranean shepherd until a few years later he married with Raacutechel
who convinced it to leave your activity and to study with the big rabbini-
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18
cal teachers Akiba faced many difficulties in your learning That is why
he started learning the alphabet with his 5 year old son and soon was
reading text books in Hebrew he went on to study the Torah at Rabbi
Joseph ben Zakkairsquos renowned Yeshiva (academy) His teachers Eliezer
ben Hyrkanos Joshua ben Hananiah and Nahum of Gimzo became his
best friends because they admired his bright fast and resourceful mind
Fifteen years later at the top of his mental and physical faculties he be-
gan his monumental work the reconstruction of the Law and the estab-
lishment of an academy of permanent studies
At the age of 57 in the year 97 Akiba was already revered by
both by his colleagues and by the masses He visited rabbis and experts
of the Toraacute with the purpose of combining all the Jewish traditions and
then went on to classify them in a legal code divided up logistically The
effective combination of conciseness and precision served as example the
future generations In the centuries following Mishna (codification of
Jewish laws and traditions) it was acknowledged and studied by the rab-
binical authorities
With more than 65 years Rebbi Akiva founded his private Ye-
shiva (academy) in Bene Berak (Sons of Lightning) to the north of Jeru-
salem wanted to found several in the whole Israel for the study of the
Tora and of the Kabbalah
Everything went along smoothly until the year 125 CE when the
relationship between Jews and Romans deteriorated Emperor Hadrianusrsquo
decision to build a pagan sanctuary on Mount Moria (where the old tem-
ple had been) exacerbated spirits Excitement grew within the Jewish
people and led by Shimon bar Kojba they rebelled
In a little less than three years the Roman armies destroyed all
evidence of Jewish resistance The cruelty of the repression grew month
by month and in the year 134 the Romans enacted a drastic decree pro-
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19
hibiting the practice and study of the Torah Rebbi Akiva was convinced
it was the end If the study of the Torah was abolished his life lacked all
meaning At the age of 95 defying the Roman authority he gathered his
students with the sole purpose to study Kabbalah
A few days later Rebbi Akiva was incarcerated The Romans re-
spected his knowledge reputation and distinguished personality Akiva
continued teaching his disciples from his cell which earned him judg-
ment He was found guilty tortured and sentenced to death With Rebbi
Akiva 24000 of his disciples were killed by the Romans only Rabbi
Simeon bar Yochai and four others survived Before being captured Reb-
bi Akiva and Rabbi Yehuda ben Baba authorized ldquoRashbirdquo to transmit to
future generations the Kabbalah they had taught him
The Zohar or ldquoBook of Splendorrdquo was composed by Simeon bar
Yochai and his son Elazar during the thirteen years they lived in a cave
hiding from the Roman army
ldquoRashbirdquo came out of the cave with the Zohar a flawless meth-
od to study the Kabbalah and having accomplished spirituality Rabbi
Simeon bar Yochai attained the 125 levels a human being can achieve
during his whole life in this world According to the latest investigations
the revelation of the current Kabbalah could be resumed this way
The historic Kabbalah was preceded by a movement (900-1200)
that preserved and encouraged the legacy of the Jewish gnosis
(knowledge of spiritual truth) Later on this movement penetrated Eu-
rope constantly at different stages Hasidism was an important intermedi-
ate stage Furthermore besides all the theoretical and mystical variances
of Kabbalah there was a much older one in which the secret names of
God and the angels were used the same way they are used in white mag-
ic not causing any harm to people Not to be confused with ldquoblack mag-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
20
icrdquo (kishcuf in Hebrew) international current containing elements from
Arabic Jewish and Christian magic
After the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in the year 1492 and
the establishment of a Jewish center in Safed (north of Galilea) Kabba-
lah also experienced a change since two systems flourished the Kabba-
lah of Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (1522-1570) and Kabbalah of Isaac
Luria (1534-1572)
In brief Cordoverorsquos Kabbalah could be defined as a theoretical
variant with many gnostic elements while Luriarsquos Kabbalah would be a
practical mysticism
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21
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Hokhmah
Wisdom
The Sacred Ideas
Light
The spiritual Will
Tetragramaton
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22
Light
We all have this sixth sense which we will call spiritual sense
still not awakened in some people When people study Kabbalah they can
learn things that were not available to them before because a sixth sense
is developed in order to envision life and the world from a different point
of view
The sixth sense is also called ldquothe spiritual vaserdquo(kli) this vase
is in all of us and it is ruled by basic kabbalistic concepts
A regular personrsquos spiritual vase is still not adequately א
developed to perceive the spiritual world
When light enters a personrsquos heart or soul it ignites the ב
spiritual perception in that person
Nothing is possible without light When we take the light ג
that surrounds us it will gradually light our path
Even if we donrsquot recognize said light there is a direct ד
connection between our heart and the light that will fill it
The light is destined the surrounding lights stand by ה
waiting for you to prepare your vase to receive them
The light we receive when we give in to the wisdom of ו
self-knowledge attracts a celestial charm which gives us abundance
of sanctity and purity that take us closer to realization
ldquoThe person who studies the Kabbalah Judeo-Christian with
the purpose of self-modification will attain the light and will notice
that the desired improvement and success can be achieved with the
least cost or sufferingrdquo
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23
The Spiritual Will
The Creator wants us to indulge in spiritual pleasures that we
are full That can only be possible through enormous will perfection We
can only reach the spiritual world through a rectified will which will
make us strong and active Only by means of a passionate desire strong-
ly and dedication we will be able to reach really the spiritual world re-
turning forts and assets A small desire will not damage us very much
nor a lot of good The passionate desire only works from the Divine
stimulus which we it will obtain from the Intuition which is a part of the
Spirit
There is a pyramid of souls based on the will to receive
At the base are the many souls with small earthly wills
searching a comfortable animal like life (food and affection)
The following level with minor number of souls those who
want to acquire richness Those are the people who dedicate their lives to
make money and will sacrifice themselves in exchange for fortune
Next are the ones that would do anything to control others to
govern and reach positions of power
At the highest level are the souls that are seeking spirituality
who are open to the light
Man in turn has the same pyramid within him he must invert it
so that the weight goes to the purest desire or will the infinite will for
spirituality When we truly wish to increase our will for spiritually the
surrounding light (the hidden spiritual world) begins to reflect upon us
increasing the desire for even more If we identify with matter we will
try to obtain satisfaction through it searching outside our spirit for mate-
rial things until these material things no longer satisfy us thus becoming
less materialistic and discovering our true spirit
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
24
Our body is matter matter is energy and therefore has life but it
has no spirit or spiritual energy because it is all material energy dense
energy the spirit is light energy The difference between one and the
other is that the material energy has no conscience because it doesnrsquot
perceive reality that is why we see with our eyes and not our heart our
eyes show us the outer figures of things or people its beauty or ugliness
but we can see what they are like inside Spiritual energy is what gives
us conscience of reality of love of truth That is why when we become
conscious of ourselves we transform our matter into spirit and become
more conscious
Albert Einstein was so right when he said ldquoEnergy cannot be
created nor destroyed it can only be transformedrdquo thus dense (mate-
rial) energy can be transformed into lighter (spiritual) energy again and
again
The biggest change we observe in the souls that are descending
nowadays is mainly in their well defined will to achieve a spiritual sys-
tem Even the most common people without any religious or mystic in-
struction are looking for something beyond this world something spir-
itual furthermore more and more scientists or people into pragmatic pro-
fessions are searching for their spiritual light In the last thirty years the
descent of new souls has been activated and accelerated
Their will is much bigger and more genuine They want to
achieve authentic spiritualityhellip nothing morehellip and nothing less
We will discover that we have no other alternative but to
acknowledge the spiritual world of which we are a part This acknowl-
edgement will take us to a new situation where we will begin to act con-
sciously in unison no longer as isolated individuals All of us from one
generation to another are connected in one soul We share a collective
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
25
responsibility That is why the Kabbalist is considered ldquofounder of the
worldrdquo He affects the whole world and the whole World affects him
The Tetragrammaton
In Kabbalah the concept of Shem or ldquoDivine Namerdquo plays a
first degree role which makes a lot of sense given the importance of eve-
rything related to the Emanations of the Sefirotic Tree the mystery of the
letters and the beauty in words
The meditation about the ldquoName of Godrdquo constitutes one of the
pillars of the initiation path to Kabbalah
The Tetragram or Tetragrammatonhellipfrom the Greek four (tetra)
and letters (grammaton)hellip is the name formed by four consonants one
yod (Y) two he (H) and one vav (V) The combination of these four let-
ters spell YHVH the ldquoHoly Namerdquo or Yahavah (as literally read) which
in Kabbalah is called Shem Herman Forash ldquocomplete namerdquo or the
ldquoexplicit namerdquo
Said ldquoSacred Namerdquo is usually transcribed as Jehovah or Yah-
veh nevertheless such description is no more than a hypothetical and
approximate restoration Therefore the word YHVH in which all mys-
teries and the savior power communicated by God are contained has
been designated by tradition as the ldquolost wordrdquo
The ldquocomplete or whole namerdquo was replaced by others also at-
tributed by the Bible as Yahveh such as Adonai El Shaddai or Elohim
Sometimes the four letter name is substituted by half of the Tetra-
grammaton the so-called ldquotwo letter Namerdquo HY or ldquoHaimrdquo interpreted
or translated as LIFE
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
26
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Binah Intelligence
The Tree of Life
Creation
The Tree of Life
The Columns
Tree Sefirot and Letters
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
27
Creation
An example of the depth in the interpretation of the Bible offered
by the kabbalistic doctrine is its version of the biblical narration of the
Creation as contained in the Book of ldquoGenesisrdquo usually considered a na-
ive and childish story to explain a process that modern science has
demonstrated to be much more complex In regard to said mythical-
symbolic narration similar to many others contained in other spiritual
traditions in humanity the kabbalistic doctrine makes two basic observa-
tions of major importance
1 According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the biblical crea-
tion is the process through which the universal manifestation takes place
It is a logical process its place is in the Divine world and it gives form to
the Divinity In it the Supreme Being is determined and revealed as such
going from the Nothing to the Whole The Everything
It is not ldquoGodrsquos Creationrdquo but
ldquoThe Creation in Godrdquo
In this process the Creation of the Cosmos is only a consequence
which just like the latter takes place not sooner nor later but in a con-
tinuous and uninterrupted way in an instant beyond time in the ldquoeternal
nowrdquo
2 The six days of the Creation identify with the creative sefirot
from the fourth one (Hesed) to the ninth one (Yesod) referring to the
specific action or purpose of each one of them while the seventh day
Shabbath in which God rested relates to the tenth sefirot (Malkuth) All
of this is contained in the initial words of the ldquoGenesisrdquo Book ldquoIn the
beginning God created the heavens and the earthrdquo (according to the
common interpretation Authorized Version)
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28
The key words here are the first three if we want an exact under-
standing of them we must turn to the Hebrew text
ldquoBereshit Bara Elohim
Bereshit means ldquoin the beginningrdquo which according to the Kab-
balistic interpretation it does no refer to a beginning in time but a logical
beginning it is what proceeds not in time but in hierarchy (rank)
and function This principle is Hokhmah the second sefirath
This text should be interpreted this way
ldquoIn the intelligent and intelligible
Beginning which is the Divine Wisdomrdquo
The second word of this quote is Bara ldquocreatedrdquo It is a verb of
action without a subject it doesnrsquot say who created That action has no
subject because the ldquowhordquo of which it speaks is the sefirath Kether ldquothe
Crownrdquo which goes beyond anything personal since in it the ldquoNothingrdquo
of the Supra Being or Absolute
As far as the third word is concerned Elohim we must indicate
that besides not being the subject of the sentence it is in its plural for
literally meaning ldquogodsrdquo
The kabbalistic exegesis (explanation) identifies this Elohim
with the third sefirath Binah the Intelligencerdquo which contains and de-
signs within itself the seven sefirot of the cosmic composition the six
active ones and the receptive one which is the receptacle for the rest of
them (Malkuth the tenth sefirot)
This is why the interpretation to which we are used ldquoGod creat-
edrdquo is not exact A more accurate interpretation of the original hebrew
text would be ldquoThe Nothing created godsrdquo that is it created or profiled
the qualities or aspects of the Divine Reality of which afterwards -not in
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
29
a time order but in an order of principles a cosmic order arises the Crea-
tion or universal manifestation
Therefore here is the message contained in the initial verse of
the ldquoGenesisrdquo according to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah
ldquoThe Supra Being constitutes Itself eternally the causal Being
and the object or purpose of all things in which all qualities poss i-
bilities and forms of the created and uncreated reality are presentrdquo
The Sefirotic Tree and the four worlds
And the twenty-two paths that unite the
Crown (Kether) with the Kingdom (Malkuth)
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
Binah
Geburah
Hod
Yesod
Malkuth
Tipherzt
Neshah
Hesed
Hok-mah
Kether
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30
The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life is the Divine Architecture which symbolizes the
soul of man and the Universe and as He is divided into four levels known
as the four inner Worlds
In the Ideal World - Atziluth is where everything is
in a latent potential state
In the Creative World - Briah is where the pure
power and the ideas in their shapes are
In the Formative World - Yetsirah everything is in
a conceptual process or one or formation
In the Material World - Assiah is where the physi-
cal manifestation takes place
This tree consists of 10 fixed spheres and a ldquovirtualrdquo one and 22
paths that connect them In a very broad sense we can say that the
spheres or Sefirot are stages of the emanations of the Spirit of God
from the primordial existence to the physical manifestation
ldquoThey are inexhaustible centers of powerrdquo
The model of the Tree of Life mirror and synthesis of man and
the cosmos is divided in three columns or pillars this traditional division
in three columns is in close connection with the alchemical or magic
principles which were discovered by the kabbalists of the 12th
century
and have been present to this day and always will be
The whole manifestation is based on duality this duality is rep-
resented in the tree the three Sefirot to the right form the active pillar
masculine and the three Sefirot to the left form the passive pillar femi-
nine
The duality is also present in each Sefirath The only Unit is
found in the Non-Manifested which is above the Tree
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31
The Non-Manifested is the pure state of the In-Existence from
where Existence arises which is the first Sefirath the Sefirot in the cen-
ter form the middle or balance pillar
Therefore we observe that one of the columns is active-
masculine another one is passive-feminine and the third one or central
axis equidistant from both of them is neuter and is constantly combining
and harmonizing them both
Power corresponds to the Active energy column integrated by the
following Sefirot Hokhmah (2) Hesed (4) and Neshah (7) Form or
shape corresponds to the passive energy columns which is made up of
the following Sefirot Binah (3) Geburah (5) and Hod (8) The central
or axle column or pillar integrated by Kether (1) Tipherzt (6) Yesod
(9) and Malkuth (10) is neuter and eternally assimilating the opposites
thus creating new possibilities of indefinite developments It is called the
column or pillar of equilibrium or balance
This is the image of permanent order of the Creation It is the
idea upon which all sciences are based and which are called ldquoThesis An-
tithesis and Synthesisrdquo techno science and modern physics have ldquodis-
coveredrdquo formations similar to that of the Tree of Life in the universe
around us such as the quantum structure or the DNA map of all living
things (vegetables animals humans) This proves that the Tree of Life
rules all norms of matter and spirit from the beginning of time
Kabbalah teaches us that energies run through the Tree of Life
from the Unity Kether identified with the number one up to the formal
and substantial manifestation the world and matter just as we know
them and perceive them through our senses This flow of energies or
vibrations is called emanations and they make up any manifestation
The energies of the Sefirot ndash all of the invisible except for
Malkuth which resumes and contains the whole Tree ndash travel a continu-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
32
Binah
Geburah
Hod
Yesod
Malkuth
Tipherzt
Neshah
Hesed
Hokmah
Kether
Leb
ous descending path from (1) Kether down to Earth or the World
Malkuth (10) which is an inverted image of Kether (10=1+0=1) The
rest of the Sefirot or numerals are taken as intermediaries between mani-
festation and the lack of it
The columns of the Tree of Life
Passive Column Neuter Column Active Column
Feminine Form Central Equilibrium Mascu-
line Power
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
33
Tree Sefirot and letters
According to the Pentateuch Moses went to the top of Mount
Sinai and surrounded by fantastic clouds received the Ten Command-
ments God gave him On the other hand Kabbalist affirm that Moses
also received from Heaven besides the Commandments the most pro-
found and secret knowledge to be transmitted only to those truly worthy
of it Going even further back in time some say they can see in the Kab-
balah the mysterious instructions given to Adam in his sleep which per-
mitted him to give a name to everything within the Creation meaning
that Kabbalah is the philosophy of the infinite power of the word the
sound that God gave man in his image calling everything by its name
This search for the practical use of the word is good for reading
the future as well as for really manipulating the secret vibrating energies
for useful purposes or according to the legend to create beings the go-
lems which make up the active aspect of the Kabbalah
On the other hand this also entails a speculative aspect a mysti-
cism aimed at discovering through the interpretation of the Scriptures
and meditation on the sound and the name the diagram of the Universe
and the destiny of man
Ein Sof (the infinite the ineffable) affirms itself revealing itself
to humanity it becomes Shekinah (Godrsquos presence and its feminine side)
which has the responsibility of creation its product
Creation is the result of a progressive descent of the divine
(which never loses its own unity nor its transcendence) in a pure and in-
telligent series associated to the divine until it takes over matter
Thus the cosmos is structured like an immense organism a
drawn path in which all divine intelligence (sefirah plural sefirot) is
communicated with the preceding one from which it receives and with
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
34
the next one to which it gives until the final stage contact with our
world
The ten sefirot all connected by imposed paths denoting their in-
terdependence and represented by a symbolic structure of a tree or a man
(Adam Kadmon) follow an order
Kether Crown - 1 א
Hokhmah Wisdom - 2 ב
Binah Intelligence - 3 ג
Leb Heart
Hesed Greatness - 4 ד
Geburah Justice - 5 ה
Tipherzt Beauty - 6 ו
Neshah Stability - 7 ז
Hod Glory - 8 ח
Yesod Foundation - 9 ט
Malkuth Kingdom - 10 י
The admirable and complex organization of the Sefirotic Tree
with its 22 paths which connect the ten divine emanations permit us to
see right away the close connection there is between the sefirot and the
22 letters in the hebrew alphabet the 22 images of the Tarot and the 22
astrological signs (12 signs and 10 planets)
Since God created the world pronouncing the name of things
each letter is associated to the descent of the divine intelligences and
holds within itself an infinite power
The hebrew language is just like Arabic Egyptian Sanscrit or
Chinese a liturgical language full of the voices of thousand of men who
speak with the divinity therefore to pronounce one sound instead of an-
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
35
other is like changing or modifying creation itself based on a subtle vi-
brating equilibrium Within that same chain of ideas prayer by principle
a devout plea also becomes an active and energetic system that shakes
up the intermediate spheres between man and God holder of the cosmic
order
Kabbalah whether is aimed exclusively at theoretic speculation
or it proposes practical and precise goals like the making of talismans
(from the Arabic tilsam ndash a charm to avert evil and bring good fortune it
appeals to specific instruments based of calculus and numbers
Ad- am
Kadmon Zohar XVII Century
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
36
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
Hesed Greatness
Adam Kadmon
And The Sefirot
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
37
Adam Kadmon
Adam Kadmon (Primordial Man) is described by the Zohar as a
ldquobig and powerful tree with branches reaching up to the sky source of
all spiritual lightrdquo In this sefirotic and tree shaped human figure the dif-
ferent sefirot have been placed according to the parts of the human body
to which they relate Each one of them has a very particular mystical
value in the cosmic vision
The first three sefirot correspond symbolically to the head
Kether (the Crown) placed at the top or what the kabbalistic
doctrine calls the ldquohidden brainrdquo Hokhmah (Wisdom) and Binah (In-
telligence) relate to the right and left sides of the brain respectively or
also the right and left eye The two sefirot at mid level Hesed (Great-
ness) and Geburah (Justice) are identified with both arms ldquoGreatnessrdquo
the right one and ldquoJusticerdquo the left one The two central sefirot Leb (the
Heart) which is Virtual that is why it is not represented and Tipherzt
(Beauty) identified with the navel energetic center source of connection
to the mother and nucleus or sun of the body Tipherzt embodies com-
pleteness union and harmony The two sefirot of the inner level Neshah
(Stability) and Hod (Glory) represent both legs ldquoStabilityrdquo the right
thigh and ldquoGloryrdquo the left one Yesod (Foundation) another central
sefirah found between both thighs represents the genitalia the tools and
foundation for procreation Sefirah number ten the last one is Malkuth
(the Kingdom) from which the cosmic manifestation springs and is in
permanent contact with Earth it is related to both feet always in contact
with the ground This sefirah connecting all this to man the Sefirotic
Tree proves that everything in the human being can be spiritualized
Man must achieve in his own being that harmoniously elevated
unity that the figure in the divine Tree of Life and Light shows us
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
38
In order to be an authentic ldquoTree of Liferdquo man must discover and
update that sefirotic mystery that is within him as if it were a treasure
full of light waiting to be found
The Sefirot
Kether ndash The Crown - The first sefirah is the Admirable Intelligence
it is the light that gives the power of understanding the First Principle
which has no beginning It is the one and only reality the absolute mys-
tery the essence from which the rest of the sefirot emanate Related to
Crown Knowledge Principle Essence and Light
Hokhmah ndash Wisdom- The second sefirah is the Enlightening Intelli-
gence the Wisdom through which the Deity knows Itself and allows eve-
ry Being to know the unity within itself It is the symbolism of the pure
and eternal fire a place in heaven where the archangels angels
Related to Wisdom Experience Convergence Intuition
Binah ndash Intelligence - The third sefirah is the Sanctifying Intelligence
it is the Great Mother or Holy Universal Spirit matrix of all the worlds
and beings shaping them to return them again to the One
Idea Intelligence Awareness Protection Morale Divergence
(discrepancyvariance)
These first three sefirot are really only one
Kether is Knowledge
Hokhmah is the subject that knows (active)
Binah is the known object (passive)
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
39
In these three sefirot the Judeo-Christian Kaballistic dotrine
discovers the endowments of the Holy Trinity
Kether or God the Father
Hokhmah or God the Son (active on the right side)
Binah or God the Mother or Holy Spirit (passive)
ldquoThe all emanations of God the Father and Son and Holy
Spirit is only one Beingrdquo
Hesed ndash Greatness - The fourth sefirah is the Receptive Intelligence it
contains all the holy powers and all the spiritual virtues emanate from it
such as Greatness Love and Mercy Related to Greatness Love Hum-
bleness Strength Deliverance
Geburah ndash Justice - The fifth sefirah is the Righteous Intelligence
which contains all the spiritual mandates It is the Divine Justice Relat-
ed to Justice Truth Freedom Shape Control
Tipherzt ndash Beauty - The sixth sefirah is the Intelligence Provider of
Spiritual Nouishment Ii is the Divine Beauty that entwines all the other
sefirot It is the Center of centers it clearly relates to the Sun giver of
life light and warmth Related to Beauty Serenity Sweetness Trust
Family
Neshah ndash Stability - The seventh sefirah is the Occult Intelligence it is
the bright Splendor of the intellectual virtues perceived by the eyes of the
intellect It is the energy that produces all the worlds Related to Sta-
bility Power Victory Balance Pleasures
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
40
Hod ndash Glory - The eighth sefirah is the Absolute or Perfect Intelli-
gence which has no support or base and descends from Geburah from
which it receives its Expertise Related to Glory Acknowledgement
Learning Awakening
Yesod ndash Foundation - The ninth sefirah is the Pure Intelligence because
it purifies tries corrects and centralizes the emanations It is the founda-
tion that balances the all previous Sephiroth Related to Founding
Building Childhood Filtering
Malkuth ndash The Kingdom - The tenth sefirah is Glowing Intelligence It
is the Kingdom of Heaven or Kingdom on Earth the descent of Kether
upon the material world represents the Divine Omnipresence over
things Related to The Kingdom Earth Heaven and Real World
Each one of these sefirot has a hidden face and a visible one
Every sefirah a complete Sefirotic Tree can be found and in every
sefirah in that Tree another one and so on until the smallest infiniteness
And vice-versa every Tree no matter how big we imagine it is only a
sefirah of a bigger Tree which in turn is another sefirah of an even big-
ger one to the infinite as well
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
41
Kabbalah
Judeo Christian
Geburah Justice
The letters and numbers
The Letters of Kabbalah
Gematriacutea Table
Gematriacutea or Numerology
The Meaning of the Hebrew Letters
Angels of Kabbalah
Geniuses of Kabbalah
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
42
The Letters of Kabbalah
The formulas in the medieval books on magic are so full of He-
brew names to speak of God the angels the spirits and demons that at
this point it is impossible to pinpoint the inexactness and the abuse The
Hebrew language like other former language has magicrsquos powers
Sound is a vibration found in numbers Numbers are groups of geometric
relations of spaces that activate energy
Each letter in the hebrew alphabet corresponds exactly just as in
an ldquoencoded languagerdquo to a number because the Hebrews Greeks and
Arabs used for many centuries the same graphic sign for a sound or
amount until the Indians and the Arabs introduced their ldquonumbersrdquo the
ldquozerordquo was invented in the IV century and the Arabs and Hebrews began
to use it in the VII century with the name ldquoceferrdquo which means devoid
empty vacuum From it derived zero and cipher
It was Leonardo Fibonacci (1170-1240) an Italian mathemati-
cian the first one to write a book in 1202 Liber Abaci (Book of Calcula-
tion) on Arabic numbers in occident and began to replace the Roman
numbers It was not until the year 1500 that they were completely re-
placed
This means that it is not Kabbalah that replaces letters with num-
bers historically the letters ldquowererdquo numbers since these were enforced in
the western culture five hundred years ago If we accept this concept we
will not regard numerology or gematriacutea of the Hebrew letters as some-
thing new or capricious but as a historical reality
For those who do not read Hebrew writing there is another meth-
od called transcription It is no easy task to transcribe from a holy lan-
guage to one that is not
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
43
A kabballistic practice suggests that as long as the hebrew lan-
guage is not completely unknown to replace each number in a date with
its corresponding letter bearing in mind that the Jewish calendar starts
with the year of the creation which took place 3760 years before the
birth of Jesus when the western calendar begins counting
Thus the year 1989 becomes 5749 which translated to Hebrew
letters gives us Tau Shin Mem Chefh which add up to Tismach mean-
ing ldquoyou will be overjoyedrdquo and that was the year the Berlin wall came
down In the same way 1914 the start of World War I becomes Tau
Resch Ayin Daleth which add up to Tirtzach ldquoYou will killrdquo and for
1938 start of World War II Tirrsquoad ldquoYou will tremble in terrorrdquo
Table of Gematriacutea of Hebrew Letters
Letter
Name Absolute
Value
Ordinal
Value
Reduced
Value
Latin
Alphabet
Alefh 1 1 1 A-H
Beth 2 2 2 B
Guimel 3 3 3 G
Daleth 4 4 4 D
Hei 5 5 5 H-E-A
Vav 6 6 6 V-U-Y
Zain 7 7 7 Z
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
44
Heth 8 8 8 Y-J
Thet 9 9 9 TH
YodJod 10 10 1 Y-I
KafJaf 20 11 2 K-C
Lamed 30 12 3 L
Mem 40 13 4 M
Nun 50 14 5 N
Samej 60 15 6 S
Ayn 70 16 7 O-E
PehFeh 80 17 8 P-F
Tzadik 90 18 9 T-Z-X
Kuof 100 19 1 K-Q
Reish 200 20 2 R
Shin 300 21 3 S-SH
TafTau 400 22 4 T
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
45
Gematriacutea or Hebrew Numerology
As we said earlier in the Hebrew language each letter has a nu-
merical value Gematriacutea is the calculation of the numerical value of let-
ters words or phrases to obtain a better understanding of the relation be-
tween the different concepts and to explore the relation between words
and ideas
In this technique it is assumed that the numerical equivalency is
no coincidence From the moment the world was created through the
Creatorrsquos ldquowordrdquo each letter represents a different creative power
Therefore the numerical equivalence of two words reveals an inner con-
nection between its potential creators
There are four ways to calculate the equivalency of individual
letters and each way corresponds to a different world in the Tree of Life
The Zohar tells us that the concept of reduced value is related to
the spiritual world of Yetsirah Based on this we can establish a relation
between the four methods of calculation the four spiritual kingdoms and
the four letters of the name of the Divine which are YHVH or in He-
brew Yod Hei Vav and Hei
The Absolute Value of Yod itrsquos to the world of Atziluth
The Ordinal Value of Hei itrsquos to the world of Briah
The Reduced Value of Vav itrsquos to the world of Yetsirah
The Whole Value of Hei itrsquos to the world of Assiah
ldquoAbsolute value (in Hebrew mispar hejrajiacute) also known as
normative or normal Valuerdquo
Each letter takes the value of its accepted numeral equivalent
alef (the first letter) worth 1 bet (second one) worth 2 and so on up to
the tenth letter iud which is worth 10 and the following ones are worth
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
46
20 30 40 up to the letter kuf close to the end of the alef-bet which is
worth 100 and then 200 300 up to the last letter tav which is worth 400
In this type of calculation the letters kafjaf sofit (sofit=end)
mem sofit nun sofit pehfeh sofit and tzadik sofit which are the ldquofinal
shapesrdquo of the respective letters when they are at the end of a word usu-
ally take the same numeric value of the common shape of the letter
Nonetheless sometimes the following are considered equivalents kafjaf
sofit = 500 mem sofit = 600 nun sofit = 700 pehfeh sofit = 800 y tza-
dik sofit = 900
Following this method of calculation the Hebrew alphabet is a
complete circle the tzadik at the end is equal to 900 and then alef is
equal to one and one thousand In the Hebrew language the same letters
are used to write the name of the letter alef equal to one and to write the
word elef which means ldquothousandrdquo
ldquoOne the first number follows one thousand
in a complete and perfect circlerdquo
Ordinal Value (in hebrew mispar siduriacute) It assigns to each
one of the 22 letters a numerical equivalent according to the order in
which they appear in the alef-bet For example alef equals 1 kaf = 11
taf = 22 The final kaf is 23 and the final tzadik is 27
Reduced Value (en hebrew mispar kataacuten and in mathemati-
cal terminology the module 9) The value of each letter is reduced to
one digit For example alef is equal to 1 iud to 10 and kuf to 100 but
according to this system all three have a numerical value of one beit is
equal to 2 kaf to 20 and reish to 200 therefore all three are equal to 2
etc Therefore letters have only 9 equivalencies instead of twenty-two
Integral Value (in hebrew mispar mispariacute) This is the fourth
way to calculate In this fashion the total numeric value of a word is re-
duced to one digit If the sum of these numbers exceeds 9 the numbers
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
47
in the total figure are added until a single digit is obtained The same
result will be obtained whether you take the absolute the ordinal or the
reduced values
The meaning of the Hebrew Letters
Alefh Represents the Divine Presence It is the symbol of
the absolute and unique faith in only one Creator and Lord It is pro-
nounced ah-left which derives from the word Alufh which means prince
minister or chief It is made up of two dots which are two iod (the tenth
letter of the alphabet) and a slanted vav (sixth letter) If we add the two
iod (20) and the one vav (6) we get 26 which is equal to the sum of the
letters YHVH Yod (10) Hei(5) Vav(6) Hei(5) of the name of the
Creator
Beth The Torah begins with this second letter ldquoBereshitrdquo
(In the Beginning) This is because it represents and symbolizes the
Berehia (Creation) and the Berajaacute (Blessing) The purpose of Creation is
to give abundance to the human being Its value is two It represents and
shows us that there is nothing in this world totally complete and indivisi-
ble Everything can be parted in two Only God is unique and indivisible
Guimel This letter is close to the root of the word Bra
keep complete and give That is why it is used in ldquoGuemilut Hasadimrdquo
to do favors Guimel represents the third column on which the world
rests it is the giver or favor doer spirit and also proof that God constantly
helps and favors the human being and His whole Creation Its value is
three
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
48
Daleth When we pronounce this fourth letter we find a
great closeness to the word deleth (door) The letter Daleth relates to the
word ldquodalhrdquo poor going from door to door seeking food Daleth follows
Guimel creating a unified thought to help the poor Its value (4) reminds
us of the material world because poverty can be found everywhere in our
planet
Hei The Talmud says God created the world with two
letters that represent His Name ldquoYod and Heirdquo With the first one He
created the world to come and with the second one this world Its shape
is made up of two parts a dalet and an iod Daleth has a vertical line
and a horizontal line It represents this world where everything has a
body and occupies space The iod which is just a dot represents the in-
finite world where there are no physical laws Meaning that in this
world too the spiritual Divine component is present
Vav Its value six represents something complete and
finished The world was created completely in six days Every complete
and closed object has six sides top bottom right left front and back
The letter vav is used to unite phrases concepts objects similar ldquoandrdquo
Vav is therefore union Except for some exceptions all paragraphs in the
Bible as written in the scrolls begin with Vav The written Torah (5
books) + ldquovavrdquo (Kabbalah) The oral Torah (6 books)
Zain It represents the seven spiritual values which are
the object of this world Zan means ldquonourishmentrdquo and Zain means ldquoar-
mamentrdquo Its shape is similar to that of a sword Its shows us that man
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
49
must confront and overcome adversity many times in order to obtain his
nourishment
Heth Just as Zain represents manrsquos purpose on earth Heth
with the value of eight represents manrsquos possibility to cross the limits
imposed by the earth Seven is nature eight are the values and goals
which represent what is above nature It also connects to the letter Haim
which means life The top part of the heth has an arrow pointing up-
wards meaning that life always belongs to God and everything depends
on Him
Thet This letter is first written in the Torah in the word
Tov (good) Each one of the days of the Creation was crowned with
qualifying phrase ldquoAnd God saw that it was goodrdquo Thet is synonym of
the relationship of God towards man which is always good even though
we donrsquot always see it that way Goodness or Kindness is a Divine quali-
ty and it should be emulated The most exquisite act of kindness is to
help our neighbor without causing him embarrassment
Iod Its size earns it the category of the smallest and most
indivisible letter not like the rest which are made up of different parts
and that is why it represents the Almighty in His condition of Unique and
Indivisible Its shape according to the Zohar has a point facing up to-
wards God another one facing down towards earth and the central point
which unites both That is why when a person prays the heart faces up
and the eyes down in humbleness in front on God Its value Ten is very
representative of the whole Torah Ten generations from Adam to Noah
and another ten from Noah to Abraham the Patriarch Ten are the Divine
Commandments given to Moses and ten are the sefirot The number ten
is actually ONE
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
50
Kaf It symbolizes Kether the crown (written in Hebrew
with kaf) as the Talmud says ldquoGod will place the Kether on he who
helps his neighbor the way he should and according to his possibilitiesrdquo
Its shape (curved) has a relation to its name which represents the hum-
bleness that the person who carries the crown should have
Lamed Its shape is made up of a kaf and a vav together
they add up to 26 like the Divine Name Its name lamed is the root of
the verbs to teach and to learn The name Israel begins with iod the
smallest letter and ends with lamed the biggest one The Torah begins
with bet and ends with lamed together they spell the word led (heart)
the fundamental basis to find light and accomplish precepts
Mem This letter has two aspects one known as the open
mem it is used in the beginning and middle of a word indicating that
there are points which refer to God Almightyrsquos doing which are within
our comprehension and a closed mem which is only used at the end of
words indicating the occult and incomprehensible part Moshe and
Mashiacuteaj begin with mem Its value is 40 the necessary time period for
the concretion of different stages
The fetus needs 40 days to have a complete form
The Great Flood lasted 40 days and 40 nights
Moses was up at Mount Sinai 40 days and 40 nights
The Jewish people walked for 40 years in the desert
It is at the age of 40 that a person is considered to have
reached wisdom
Nun This letter also has two shapes one for any part of the
word with a curved shape and the other straight for the endings of
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
51
words Both indicate the exclusive quality of God who is Neeman
which means loyal to His word and worthy of trust This word restarts
with a Nun and ends with another
Samej This letter represents the concept of the Divine
support (Semej in Hebrew) Godrsquos support towards man as well as manrsquos
support towards God The certainty of God is the foundation of faith and
the base upon which the human being can search and reach for its goal in
this world
Ayn in Hebrew it means ldquoeyerdquo Its shape is made up two
parts an Yod leaning against a Zain Reclining both on the base the nu-
meric value of both parts is 17 just like the word Tob (good) This indi-
cates that the ayn (eye) has to be used to observe only the good things
Its value is 70
70 are the names of the Almighty and the Torah
70 are the basic people (towns) in the world
70 are the holidays in a year (52 Saturdays 18 holy
days)
Jesus sent out 70 disciples to evangelize
The Great Temple of Jerusalem had 70 columns
70 old wise men received the Torah from Moses they
are called ldquothe eyes of the congregationrdquo the symbol of the ayn (eye)
precisely
Peh it means ldquomouthrdquo in Hebrew It is through this ex-
quisite sense that the human being differentiates and raises itself over the
rest of the creation There are two peh one for any part of the word and
the other for the endings The first one is said to be closed and its shape
symbolizes the fetus in the motherrsquos womb (fetal position) with its mouth
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
52
closed The other open resembles the newborn babe stretching its limbs
It also reminds us of the control we should have over it sometimes
closed and others open when to speak and when not to
Tzadik The 18th letter The Talmud names the Tzadik per-
son the just person The title of ldquoTzadikrdquo is not given to just anybody It
is written that God is Tzadik and Perfect This quality of Tzadik when it
comes to God is manifested through kindness Those people who go
about and act according to the divine will are said to be ldquoTzadikrdquo They
are fair just and kind to the maximum of their possibilities
Kuof This letter shows us and symbolizes the Divine
Sanctity Kadosh God is Holy Man can also be called kuof if he is supe-
rior rising above the others The shape of kuof is made up of a kaf and a
vav which add up to 26 just as the four letter name for God Kuof is
very similar to kof which means ldquomonkeyrdquo The Zohar calls monkeys
those human beings who do not believe in the divine will and do not dig-
nify being created in Godrsquos image According to Kabbalah the road is
open for man he can be holy and thus get close to God or walk away
from Him and become a monkey
Reish Up until now we saw how the letters show us and
represent the Divine Presence On the contrary reish represents and
symbolizes Evil ldquoRashardquo in Hebrew Reish follows kuof which repre-
sents the Divine Sanctity The word ldquoroshrdquo (first beginning or head) in
Aramaic is pronounced ldquoreishrdquo just like the letter Midrash tells us the
Almighty is ldquoRoshrdquo since he is the beginning and head of the world and
its end as well Evil does not exist what we judge as bad is only a part of
the Divine Plan and we do not know and therefore cannot understand
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53
Shin this letter has an important place since shalom
(peace) begins with it Only God is the source and root of true peace Its
shape with three arms and three heads represents the wish of all of us to
rise to heaven lifting our hands to receive His help It also encompasses
the symbolism of something that has three limbs but only one purpose
We live in three worlds past present and future
The human being has a spirit a soul and a body
The human creation has three partners
Kether Binah and Hokhmah or the Holy
Trinity
Taf unlike the other letters which we have seen through
analysis and symbology that each represented a word being the first eg
Shin Shalom (peace) Sheker (lie) the symbol for taf is given by the last
letter in the word ldquoEmetrdquo (truth) This is exactly the general characteris-
tic of truth at first the lie seems more interesting Truth is appreciated in
the end Truth involves everything since its letters are one in the begin-
ning the other one in the middle and the third one at the end
The Angels of Kabbalah
The etymological meaning of the word angel is messenger from
the Greek ldquoAggeloacutesrdquo ldquoAngirasrdquo in Sanskrit in Persian ldquoAngarosrdquo in
Hebrew and Arabic ldquoMalakhrdquo and ldquoDevardquo for the Hindus
Doubts about their existence disappear before the coincidences
amongst cultures and diverse beliefs that describe them
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54
Angels constantly remind us who we are due to the message that
is attributed to them For us their place is the same as that of God they
are above us and within us
To come in contact with them could take us to doubt if we did so
with a superior reality or with the highest part of ourselves
The mythical history of Kabbalah tells us that after man was
driven out of the Garden of Eden the angels transmitted the kabballistic
teachings to man so that he could reconquer it through the never ending
divine energy which is present everywhere in the Universe
The 72 Angeles of Kabbalah
Seraphim
Vehuiah ndash Elemiah ndash Jeliel ndash Lelahel
Sitael ndash Achaiah ndash Mahasiah ndash Cahethel
Cherubim
Haziel ndash Aladiah ndash Lauviah ndash Hahaiah
Iezalel ndash Mebael ndash Hariel ndash He Kamiah
Thrones (also known as Ophanim)
Lauviah ndash Caliel ndash Lauviah ndash Pahaliah
Nelkhael ndash Yeiaiel ndash Melahel ndash Haheuiah
Dominions (or Kyriotetes)
Nith ndashHahaiah ndash Yerathel ndash Sheikh
Reiyel ndash Omael ndash Lecabel ndash Vasariah
Powers
Vehuiah ndash Lehahiah ndash Chavakiah ndash Menadel
Aniel ndash Haamiah ndash Rehael ndash Ieiazel
Virtues
Hahahel ndash Mikael ndash Veuliah ndash Ylahiah
Sealiah ndashAriel ndash Asaliah ndash Mihael
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55
Principalities
Vehuel ndash Daniel ndash Hahasiah ndash Imamiah
Nanael ndash Nithael ndash Mebahiah ndash Poyel
Archangels
Nemamiah ndash Yeialel ndash Aacuterale ndash Mitzrael
Umabel ndash Iah ndashAnauel ndash Mehiel
Angels
Damabiah ndash Manakel ndash Eyael ndash Habuhiah
Rochel ndash Yabamiah ndash Haiayel ndash Mum
Geniuses of Kabbalah
Air ndash Earth ndash Water - Fire
The first three verses of the Torah are revealing in regard to the
Divine Creation In the morning of the first day God created the four
geniuses or semi-gods to help Him directly preparing the platform for
the coming of man
Genesis 11 ndash
ldquoIn the beginning God created heaven and earthrdquo
Genesis 12 ndash
ldquohellipthe Spirit of God was hovering over the watersrdquo
Genesis 13 ndash
Let there be light and there was light
Nothing would exist in the Universe without the four geniuses
or elements only God and with the creation of these geniuses He
proves to us that He does not want to be alone but surrounded by
vegetation animals and specially the HUMAN BEING
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56
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Tipherzt
Beauty
Christian Kabbalah
Jesus and the Kabbalah
The Sacred Books
The Apostle Matthew
The Sermon on the Mountain
(The Beatitudes)
The Our Father
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57
Jesus and the Kabbalah
Up until now we have analyzed the Bible from the Tanaj and the
Talmud we have also taken the Torah as the foundation of Kabbalah
The New Testament has an important kabballistic content provided by
Jesus and his apostles
Emmanuel ben Yoseph known as Jesus Christ lived between
the ages of thirteen and thirty-three with the Essenes Fraternity of the
Dead Sea where he learned the secrets of the Kabbalah that his Father
had given to mankind and because of his illumination he was declared
Master of Justice
In the New Testament the four evangelists analyzed Jesus from
the four kabballistic worlds which are completely separated and diffeent
Matthew describes a physical Jesus generations that preceded
him and his relationship with the people of Israel
This is the World of Assiah
Luke tells the story of Jesus intimate life he describes moving
images of the Master along his pathway
This is the World of Yetsirah
Mark talks to us of a miraculous Jesus with a Divine mag-
netism and its soul healing rays
This is the World of Briah
John gave us the gospel of a metaphysical Jesus the abstract
spirit and visions of an astral world
This is the World of Atziluth
The Kabbalah develops its doctrine in the light that invades us
and emanates from our bodies because we are part of it
Jesus in John 812 says I am the light of the world Those who
follow me will never walk in darkness They will have the light that leads
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58
to life and in Ephesians 58 he confirms ldquoAt one time you were in the
dark But now you are in the light because of what the Lord has donerdquo
When Matthew in verse 223 says ldquohellipand came and lived in a
city called Nazarethrdquo This was to fulfill what was spoken through the
prophets He shall be called a Nazarene he explains that Jesus had to
be a Nazarene that is he had to wear the Crown or Kether according to
what God told Moses in the oral or kabballistic precepts In Numbers 66-
7 it is said ldquothroughout the period of their dedication to the LORD the
Nazirite must not go near a dead body Even if their own father or
motherrdquo
In Matthew 822 Jesus stresses this precept saying ldquohelliplet the
dead bury their own dead
According to the Kabballists the Torah is fountain of wine and
milk In Isaiah 551 we read hellip and he who has no money come buy
wine and milk without money without pricehelliprdquo In many quotes Jesus
mentions the wine as his spiritual blood Peter 22 ldquohellipLike newborn ba-
bies crave pure spiritual milk so that by it you may grow up in your sal-
vationhelliprdquo
The Old and New Testament
The Old Testament or Tanaj is made up of 39 books and the New
Testament 29 a total of 66 books As we all know there is no such thing
as luck it is the message of God that we still cannot decipher If we ana-
lyze that message through kabballistic numerology we will decipher it
and be surprised
According to the kabballistic numerology ldquo39 books in the Ta-
najrdquohellip 3+9=12hellip 1+2=3 and ldquo3rdquo represents the Holy Trinity
Kether or God the Father
Hokhmah or God the Son (active to the right of the Father)
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59
Binah or God the Mother or Holy Spirit (passive)
They are all emanations of God the Father and therefore only
one Being It is the announcement of the Divine Trilogy based on the
Admirable Intelligence of Kether the Illuminating Intelligence of
Hokhmah and the Sanctifying Intelligence of Binah If we take away the
substance of the Tanaj which are the five books that make up the Penta-
teuch we are left with 34 books or the number 7 which were the re-
maining emanations with which God created the Universe The 27 books
of the New Testament add up to the kabballistic nine which is the Divine
or Complete number since it contains all the numbers and closes the
wheel That is the New Testament not only does it complement but also
contains the previous one and completes it The sum of both is 66 its
kabballistic number is 3 and it returns to the Holy Trinity the Three
Sefirot or divine emanations
The Apostle Matthew
In chapter one Matthew explains the genealogy of Jesus with a
result of 42 generations from Abraham to Jesus in three periods of 14
generations each This he does from the physical world or Assiah to ex-
plain with real facts Abrahamrsquos descendants and how Jesus really was
the King of the Jews
Forty-two (generations from Abraham to Jesus) adds up to six
like the sefirot of the Creation (on the seventh one He rested) which
means God rested in Malkuth the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth but
the message from Matthew is that we should distribute these three peri-
ods amongst the six sefirot of the Creation
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60
The transition between Abraham and David takes place be-
tween the fourth sefirah Hesed (Greatness) and the fifth Geburah (Jus-
tice)
Hesed is the sefirah from which the rest of the sefirot emanate
like Abraham the Patriarch from whom three religions ldquoemanaterdquo Juda-
ism Christianism and Islam Hesed is the foundation of the spiritual vir-
tues and it is connected to the Holy Son like Abraham
Geburah is the sefirah of David the Justice seeker who uni-
fied the kingdoms for the greatness of the Chosen People he is the strict
Warrior King
With Salomon son of David starts the second period as told by
Matthew and it ends with the deportation of the people to Babylon This
is the passage from the sixth sefirah Tipherzt (Beauty) to the seventh
sefirah Neshah (Power)
Tipherzt is Beauty serenity trust just what King Salomon
was to his people In the same manner it is in the column of the Crown
of God and it is directly supported by Abraham and David
Neshah is the hidden Intelligence of stability and spiritual
power it is the powerful faith against adversity the expulsion to Baby-
lon
When the Babylonian invasion comes to an end the passage to
the coming of Jesus begins it takes place between the eighth sefirah Hod
(Glory) and the ninth sefirah Yesod (Foundation)
Hod is the Divine Glory the Divine Healer which healed the
wounds inflicted on the chosen people by the invaders It is awakening
and learning
Yesod is the foundation and filter of all emanations before
reaching the Kingdom it is the Pure Intelligence it is Unity without Di-
vision this is the sefirah to which both the moon and the waters respond
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61
and the tides and earth as well the sefirah that builds and founds That is
why this is the sefirah that Matthew attributes to Jesus It is the one that
brings together to the Father before reaching Malkuth the Kingdom of
Earth and Heaven in a straight line passing by Tipherzt (Salomon) and
with the virtual sefirah of the Sacred Heart
As we can see the Apostle Matthew shows us in a kabballis-
tic way the presence of Jesus from the patriarch Abraham to the
present
Holy Spirit
David
Glory
Jesus
Kingdom
Salomon
Power
Abraham
Holy Son
Holy Father
Heart
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62
The Sermon on the Mountain
(The Beatitudes)
With The Sermon on the Mountain Jesus teaches us the basic
Concepts of Kabbalah to be interpreted in many centuries to come be-
cause the land of the tribe of Israel to which Jesus belonged was under
the domain of the Greco-Roman Empire which wanted to impose its
own gods That is why Jesusrsquo message is stronger the deeper you go into
it It should be observed the same as the ocean it is not the quiet waters
and small waves that rule but the strong currents that flow in the deepest
depths
Somebody told me once that even a child could understand the
Sermon and it is true which shows the intelligence of the Master be-
cause the Sermon holds many levels of understanding
From the Gospel according to Matthew chapter five we can ex-
tract the essence of the Sermon on the Mountain contained in the first
nine verses two of them introductory and the other seven making up the
Beatitudes
51 ldquoAnd seeing the multitudes He went up onto a mountain
and when He was set His disciples came unto Him ldquo
5 2 ldquoAnd He opened His mouth and taught them sayinghelliprdquo
To go up to the mountain in Kabbalah means to rise to the high-
est degree of spirituality (eg Moses went up the mountain to speak with
God) which means he went up to the Crown or Kether When it says
ldquoHe opened His mouth and taught them sayingrdquo sounds redundant since
nobody can say anything without opening his mouth But we have to
consider that there are two aspects in Kabbalah thought or intelligence
Binah and the word or wisdom Hokhmah Jesus uses the first to ignite
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63
the soul of His followers and the word to transmit the vibratory energy or
surrounding magnetic field and that way get to the spirit of people
53rdquoBlessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom
of Heavenrdquo
According to Kabbalah a rich man with many possessions can
enter the Kingdom of God if he doesnrsquot develop the materialistic spirit
that goes with them On the other hand a poor man without possessions
could be not admitted in the Kingdom of God if he develops that materi-
alistic spirit and is absorbed by the only wish of having fortune Kabba-
lah teaches that neither richness nor poorness is the ideal state Jesus re-
fers to the heart or Leb the simplicity and easiness of spirit because to
have possessions or not does not interfere with the progress towards the
path of foundation and spiritual uplifting
54 Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted
Kabbalah does not preach sadness but joy and happiness In the
Kabbalah the act of crying is a symbol of redemption greatness and
love or Hesed it is also a symbol of acknowledgment of errors made
and therefore seeking spiritual evolution in love for another The begin-
ning of change is identified with crying That is why whoever accepts
the change will be comforted
55 Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth
God said to Moses ldquoYou shall not adore other gods and you
shall respect my Namerdquo This means He demanded meekness Jesus re-
fers in kabballistic terms to meek men before God those will be able to
live in harmony and freedom achieving Divine Justice or Geburah be-
cause they are the ones who increase their spiritual level
56 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteous-
ness for they will be filled
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64
Those who hunger within will seek the nourishment to satisfy it
And will begin a search for justice which will take them to the spiritual
Glory Hod This means that those who hunger and thirst for spiritual
truth will be filled with the blessing and perfection seeker Those who
abandon the spiritual search of the truth will condemn their souls to come
back as many times as it is necessary to achieve it
57 Blessed are the merciful for they will be shown mercy
To be merciful is to forgive others to have the power or Neshah
of not having negative thoughts actions or answers to aggressiveness
from others Negative feelings affect our spiritual body and poison our
physical body altering the nervous system
58 Blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God
The pure in heart are those who achieve inner beauty or
Tipherzt In order to have a clean and beautiful heart we must nourish it
with love and not hate with forgiveness not vengeance with truth not
lies or falsehood There must be harmony in our body soul and spirit
59 Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called sons
of Godrdquo
Peace in Aramaic is the same as harmony in Greek and both
words represent the foundation of life on this earth or Yesod and Jesus
suggests the Peace of the just
510 Blessed are those who are persecuted because of right-
eousness for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
511 Blessed are you when people insult you persecute you
and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me
In these two verses Jesus foretells the persecutions his followers
even the Kabballists will suffer anticipating the manifested idea of ob-
taining the communion of the Kingdom of Heaven or Malkuth in com-
plete peace and harmony
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65
In the next two verses Jesus refers to the eighth sefirah Hod the
Glory (elevation) and its connection with Geburah Justice (respect)
which means we must respect the Just because they are the prophets and
we will be blessed by them
512 Rejoice and be glad because great is your reward in
heaven for in the same way they persecuted the prophets
who were before you
513 You are the salt of the earth But if the salt loses its salt-
iness how can it be made salty again It is no longer good for
anything except to be thrown out and trampled by men
In the following words Jesus takes us through the Tree of Live
or Sefirotic Tree bringing us even closer to the kabballistic message and
his spiritual profoundness
514 You are the light of the world A city on a hill cannot be
hidden
Kether is the Crown of God the Divine light that which is
above everything else above the mountain It reminds us that the moun-
tain is the highest level of spirituality
514 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl
Instead they put it on its stand and it gives light to everyone
in the house
Hokhmah is Wisdom to the right of the Kether the Crown of
God it is the light of Christ which lights up all homes
516 In the same way let your light shine before men that
they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in
heaven
Binah is Intelligence it is the light that reaches to the spirit of
mankind as a holy protection it is the light of the Holy Spirit that reaches
the heart through good deeds
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66
These three verses refer to the first three sefirot that is the Holy
Trinity which is the potent Divine light since it contains in only one ray
of light the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit
The following four verses refer to Geburah or Justice This is the
sefirah that dictates the Law the one that enforces the Law the one that
unites Heaven (Kether) with Earth (Malkuth) according to the Divine
teachings and is called the sefirah of Divine Justice
517 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the
Prophets I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them
518 I tell you the truth until heaven and earth disappear not
the smallest letter not the least stroke of a pen will by any
means disappear from the Law until everything is accom-
plished
519 Anyone who breaks one of the least of these command-
ments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in
the kingdom of heaven but whoever practices and teaches
these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heav-
en
520 For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses
that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law you will ce r-
tainly not enter the kingdom of heaven
Hesed is the sefirah of Greatness and it is known that the origin
of greatness is HumilityHumbleness the person that is not humble is
not great In the following verses Jesus explains to us how to irradiate
Love Mercy Greatness and above all Humbleness
521 You have heard that it was said to the people long ago
Do not murder[a]
and anyone who murders will be subject to
judgment
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
67
522 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother
will be subject to judgment Again anyone who says to his brother
Raca (An Aramaic term of contempt is answerable to the Sanhed-
rin But anyone who says You fool will be in danger of the fire of
hell
523 ldquoTherefore if you are offering your gift at the altar and
there remember that your brother has something against you
Ponder
Respect
Blessing
Peace
Kingdom
Love
Acceptance
Help
Speech
Inspiration
Heart
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68
524 leave your gift there in front of the altar First go and be
reconciled to your brother then come and offer your gift
525 ldquoSettle matters quickly with your adversary who is tak-
ing you to court Do it while you are still with him on the way or he
may hand you over to the judge and the judge may hand you over to
the officer and you may be thrown into prison
526 I tell you the truth you will not get out until you have
paid the last penny
The following sefirah that Jesus speaks of in the Sermon on the
Mountain is Tipherzt beauty serenity trust family it is the one with
the noble attributes fidelity A through this sefirah he talks to us about
the family blessings and how Divinity intertwines with it
Tipherzt is the one that provides the spiritual nourishment and
family blessings that is why Jesus protects the relationship between man
and woman as fountain of life and punishes above all deceit and adul-
tery
527 You have heard that it was said Do not commit adul-
tery
528 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustful-
ly has already committed adultery with her in his heart
529 If your right eye causes you to sin gouge it out and
throw it away It is better for you to lose one part of your body than
for your whole body to be thrown into hell
530 And if your right hand causes you to sin cut it off and
throw it away It is better for you to lose one part of your body than
for your whole body to go into hell
531 It has been said anyone who divorces his wife must
give her a certificate of divorce
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
69
532 But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife except
for marital unfaithfulness causes her to become an adulteress and
anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery
The following sefirah is Neshah which represents Stability and
Balance and the following five verses Jesus that swearing is the loss of
stability and balance before God
He who requires an oath does not trust what is being said and he
who gives an oath does not trust himself rdquoYes or Nordquo should be enough
for those who speak the truth
533 Again you have heard that it was said to the people long
ago Do not break your oath but keep the oaths you have made to
the Lord
534 but I tell you Do not swear at all either by heaven for
it is Gods throne
535 nor by the earth for it is his footstool or by Jerusalem
for it is the city of the Great King
536 And do not swear by your head for you cannot make
even one hair white or black
537 simply let your Yes be Yes and your No No any-
thing beyond this comes from the evil one
Hod is the sefirah of glory the compensation and acknowledge-
ment And there is no better glory and acknowledgement than to love the
enemy and bless those who curse and hate us
As Jesus tells us in the next eleven verses
If you love only those who love you
What are you doing extra
What reward are you seeking
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70
538 You have heard that it was said Eye for eye and tooth
for tooth
539 But I tell you Do not resist an evil person If someone
strikes you on the right cheek turn to him the other also
540 And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic let
him have your cloak as well
541 If someone forces you to go one mile go with him two
miles
542 Give to the one who asks you and do not turn away
from the one who wants to borrow from you
543 You have heard that it was said Love your neighbor
and hate your enemy
544 But I tell you Love your enemies and pray for those
who persecute you
545 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven He caus-
es his sun to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the
righteous and the unrighteous
546 If you love those who love you what reward will you
get Are not even the tax collectors doing that
547 And if you greet only your brothers what are you doing
more than others Do not even pagans do that
548 Be perfect therefore as your heavenly Father is perfect
Yesod the ninth sefirah is Foundation because it purifies
proves and corrects all previous sefiroth Helping others is exactly what
this sefirah is all about not only to love them but to help them He who
helps receives purification from Yesod and he who helps in secret is
blessed by The Father
Matthew 6
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71
61 Be careful not to do your acts of righteousness before
men to be seen by them If you do you will have no reward from
your Father in heaven
62 So when you give to the needy do not announce it with
trumpets as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets
to be honored by men I tell you the truth they have received their
reward in full
63 But when you give to the needy do not let your left hand
know what your right hand is doing
64 so that yoursquore giving may be in secret Then yoursquore Fa-
ther who sees what is done in secret will reward you
Malkuth is the sefirah that represents the Kingdom of Heaven
and Earth that is why Jesus tells us that prayer must be in private in or-
der to be rewarded in public without repetitions and lots of words be-
cause the Father knows what we need before we even ask
65 And when you pray do not be like the hypocrites for
they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street cor-
ners to be seen by men I tell you the truth they have received their
reward in full
66 But when you pray go into your room close the door and
pray to your Father who is unseen Then your Father who sees what
is done in secret will reward you
67 And when you pray do not keep on babbling like pagans
for they think they will be heard because of their many words
68 Do not be like them for your Father knows what you
need before you ask him
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72
The Our Father
Jesus reaffirms part of the Kabbalah by following the path of the
Sefirotic Tree in his most important prayer
69 This then is how you should pray Our in heaven
hallowed be your name
Our Father the admirable intelligence or Crown Kether first sefirah
In Heaven the enlightening intelligence or wisdom Hokhmah the sec-
ond sefirah
Hallowed be your name the sanctifying intelligence Binah the third
sefirah completing the Holy Trinity
610 your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is
in heaven
Your kingdom come the intelligence of love Hesed
Your will be done righteous intelligence Geburah
On Earth as it is in Heaven that is form Kether to Malkuth
611 Give us today our daily bread
Give us our daily bread the intelligence which provides Spiritual
Nourishment and beauty Tipherzt
612 Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our
debtrs
Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors the hidden
intelligence which is power victory and stability or Nesha
613 And lea us not into temptation but deliver us from the
evil for yours is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for
every century Amen
And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil the absolute
intelligence or perfect glory or Hod
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73
Holy
Justice
Freedom
Foundation
Prayer
Love
Forgiveness
Spiritual
Nourishment
Heaven
Father
Heart
For yours is the Kingdom Kether the Power Hokhmah and the
Glory Briah which means You are the Holy Trinity
Amen is the foundation of Holy Prayer
After teaching us this Prayer Jesus continues showing us the truth about
the emanations of the Sefirotic Tree Starting once again at the Kether
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74
to remind us privacy in acts such as forgiveness fasting and prayer will
be rewarded in public by the Father who wears the Crown
614 For if you forgive men when they sin against you your
heavenly Father will also forgive you
615 But if you do not forgive men their sins your Father will
not forgive your sins
616 When you fast do not look somber as the hypocrites
do for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fast-
ing I tell you the truth they have received their reward in
full
617 But when fast put oil on your head and wash your face
618 so that it will not be obvious to men that you are fasting
but only to your Father who is unseen and your Father who
sees what is done in secret will reward you
Jesus explains that our treasures are not in the Kingdom of Earth but in
the wisdom of Hokhmah which is the treasure of Heaven that God sent
to us
619 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth
where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and
steal
620 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven where
moth and rust do not destroy and where thieves do not
break in and steal
Binah is the intelligence that Jesus asks us to use to see the light within
our heart he asks that we be intelligent to stay away from evil because
wise men donrsquot have two bosses
621 For where your treasure is there your heart will be also
622 The eye is the lamp of the body If your eyes are good
your whole body will be full of light
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75
623 But if your eyes are bad your whole body will be full of
darkness If then the light within you is darkness how great
is that darkness
624 No one can serve two masters Either he will hate the
one and love the other or he will be devoted to the one and
despise the other You cannot serve both God and Money
Hesed is greatness Jesus shows us how Great we are that greatness is
not eating drinking or dressing up but greatness is being on the path to
the Kether or Crown
625 Therefore I tell you do not worry about your life what
you will eat or drink or about your body what you will
wear Is not life more important than food and the body
more important than clothes
626 Look at the birds of the air they do not sow or reap or
store away in barns and yet your heavenly Father feeds
them Are you not much more valuable than they
627 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his
life
628 And why do you worry about clothes See how the lil-
ies of the field grow They do not labor or spin
629 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor
was dressed like one of these
630 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field which is
here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire will he not
much more clothe you O you of little faith
631 So do not worry saying What shall we eat or What
shall we drink or What shall we wear
632 For the pagans run after all these things and your heav-
enly Father knows that you need them
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76
Godrsquos Fortune
Godrsquos
Justice
Godrsquos Education
Godrsquos Purification
Godrsquos
Freedom
Godrsquos
Love
Godrsquos Effort
Godrsquos
Greatness
Godrsquos Treasure
Godrsquos
Forgiveness
Godrsquos
Heart
633 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all
these things will be given to you as well
634 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow
will worry about itself Each day has enough trouble of its
own
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77
Once we obtain Greatness or Hesed Jesus asks us to seek Justice or
Geburah the next sefirah Justice is learning to judge others and to look
more with our heart than our eyes
71 Do not judge or you too will be judged
72 For in the same way you judge others you will be judged
and with the measure you use it will be measured to you
73 Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your broth-
ers eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye
74 How can you say to your brother Let me take the speck
out of your eye when all the time there is a plank in your
own eye
75 You hypocrite first take the plank out of your own eye
and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your
brothers eye
76 Do not give dogs what is sacred do not throw your
pearls to pigs If you do they may trample them under their
feet and then turn and tear you to pieces
After Geburah comes Tipherzt beauty this sefirah is the provider of spir-
itual nourishment that is why Jesus invites us to ask seek and knock and
he reminds the law of the Torah because Tipherzt is in the center and
unites the past with the present the law of the prophets with the law of
Jesus
77 Ask and it will be given to you seek and you will find
knock and the door will be opened to you
78 For everyone who asks receives he who seeks finds and
to him who knocks the door will be opened
79 Which of you if his son asks for bread will give him a
stone
710 Or if he asks for a fish will give him a snake
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711 If you then though you are evil know how to give good
gifts to your children how much more will your Father in
heaven give good gifts to those who ask him
712 So in everything do to others what you would have
them do to you for this sums up the Law and the Prophets
Neshah is stability the sefirah of the intellectual virtues the eye of the
intellect which shows us the path of life and Jesus shows us the road of
tranquility
713 Enter through the narrow gate For wide is the gate
and broad is the road that leads to destruction and many e n-
ter through it
714 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to
life and only a few find it
Hod is glory or recognition Jesus shows us how to recognize those who
are said to be prophets or wise men Jesus tells us the best way to do so
is by their fruit (results) or deeds if we observe others objectively we
will know who will really support us and who would like to take ad-
vantage of us
715 Watch out for false prophets They come to you in
sheeps clothing but inwardly they are ferocious wolves
716 By their fruit you will recognize them Do people pick
grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles
717 Likewise every good tree bears good fruit but a bad tree
bears bad fruit
718 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit and a bad tree cannot
bear good fruit
719 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and
thrown into the fire
7 20 Thus by their fruit you will recognize them
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79
The ninth sefirah is Yesod or foundation This is the sefirah of purifica-
tion in it Jesus separates the chaste from the impure to take evil away
from us
721 Not everyone who says to me Lord Lord will enter
the kingdom of heaven but only he who does the will of my
Father who is in heaven
722 Many will say to me on that day Lord Lord did we
not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out de-
mons and perform many miracles
723 Then I will tell them plainly I never knew you Away
from me you evildoers
The tenth sefirah is Malkuth the Kingdom of Earth and Heaven where
Jesus gives us an example of free will so that we make wise decisions
and chose the Kingdom in which we will live
724 Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and
puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house
on the rock
725 The rain came down the streams rose and the winds
blew and beat against that house yet it did not fall because it
had its foundation on the rock
726 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does
not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his
house on sand
727 The rain came down the streams rose and the winds
blew and beat against that house and it fell with a great
crash
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80
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Neshah Stability
The Divine Creation
The Divine Creation
Adam Eve and the Genesis
Gestation and Conception
Development and Growth
Maturity
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81
The Divine Creation From the ape up to Adam and Eve
During the early ages of life on Earth the new thinking beings invested
most of their time in learning to survive humans had to adapt to and in-
tegrate themselves to the four elements or genius (Air Fire Earth and
Water) they also had to learn to interact with animals and plants
Man began to notice that all animals were born and died as natural pro-
cess They ldquocame inrdquo (were born) to this world from the maternal womb
or from an egg and all of them inevitably someday disappeared or
ldquoleftrdquo (died) this world
Man also noticed that all animals ldquochangedrdquo in size (grew) being small
when they ldquocame inrdquo to the world and as the ldquosuns and moonsrdquo passed
(time) they developed and grew getting stronger until reaching a point
in which they ldquodisappearedrdquo (died)
Furthermore the learning was part of the ldquoroadrdquo when they ldquoarrivedrdquo
they didnrsquot know how to walk or fly they couldnrsquot see their parents had
to get their food and protect them they were weak and dependant In
time they learned to be self-sufficient and to live independently even
though they were part
of a heard o a community
In every age thinkers and scientists asked them selves how early mankind
evolved to the point of becoming what we are nowadays The Judeo-
Christian Kabbalah answers this question without interfering with sci-
ence The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah explains mankindrsquos ldquoevolutionrdquo in
ten steps and goes through the Sefirotic Tree starting from the feminine
column reminding us that it is the female who receives the Divine herit-
age of Creation
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82
1 The Crown or Divine Light
First the Divine Light Crowned the undeveloped brain of the wild ape
and transformed it into a ldquothinking aperdquo That Divine ldquotouchrdquo caused
the transformation of the apersquos simple brain into the complex brain or
ldquocrownrdquo of this new being This change contains the celestial blow of the
future human being
2 Intelligence or understanding
Undoubtedly what made de difference between mankind and the rest of
the animals was that awareness since they all went through the same
changes they were all born grew up and died they could all see the
moon replacing the sun and all of them could see the vegetables grow
but the other species either did take notice or did not acknowledge it The
human being could ldquothinkrdquo mankind had the ldquointelligencerdquo to be aware
and that made it different
3 Wisdom or experience
As time went by mankind acquired experience which added to intelli-
gence resulted in ldquowisdomrdquo This wisdom made man outstand over the
rest of the species This wisdom permitted man to learn from other spe-
cies in a certain way and in many cases to dominate them
These three sefiroth that represents the Holy Trinity separated to
the man of the rest of the world animal and vegetable determining
their supremacy by order and Divine grace
4 Justice or respect
Man began to put his abilities to use and the first thing he did with his
intelligence and wisdom was to acknowledge ldquojusticerdquo but the Divine
free will permitted them to apply it or not Mankind understood that
without spiritual justice intelligence and wisdom cannot not be applied
5 Greatness or humility
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83
Mankind learned that spiritual greatness meant knowing how to apply
justice in every act of life
To be just and great is to be wise and intelligent
Man learned that to be great does not mean to be above the rest but to
apply intelligence and wisdom to improve the life and spirit of others
These four qualities must go together if man is to continue his evolution
and stay away from the ape otherwise he would be stuck and the ape
would overcome
6 Beauty or sweetness
As mankind evolved it became understood that each act good or bad as
well as every thought obscure or bright marks the inner character and
outer appearance of a person with a defined particularity that will either
dull it or illuminate it The beauty of the Spirit is more real and perma-
nent than physical beauty The secret of this beauty which lights up pu-
pils with the serene light of the stars y gives faces the sweet look of the
angels lies within a just behavior and greatness in thought
The Bible and Science go of the hand The Creation and the Evolution are work of God
7 Glory or acknowledgement
As man made his inner evolution he wanted to be acknowledged by the
Divinity first and by his peers later
ldquoGloryrdquo is the acknowledgement of onersquos values by others All human
beings need this physical and spiritual acknowledgement The Just has
the Spiritual Greatness Beauty of the Soul and the Divine Glory
8 Stability or Balance
The sensory and spiritual stability and balance of the new being meant
inner growth Stability came about with the bluntness of power and the
victory of his actions The spiritual powers of stability are the foundation
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84
Awareness
Respect
Knowledge
Building
Real World
Sweetness
Balance
Humility
Experience
Divine Light
of tolerance discernment and being able to face up to reality and to co-
operate with our peers powers that are attained through Justice Great-
ness and the Divine Glory
9 Foundation or construction
The foundation or founding of communities is a major stepping-stone
for this new being It was like planting a seed to watch a tree grow Man
understood that if the foundation was done right he would ldquobuildrdquo a
whole culture for the future of mankind But if due to selfishness ava-
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85
rice or greediness he failed and started with a poor foundation of com-
munities instead these would dissolve in time That is why he would
have to apply everything he had learned and all the accumulated experi-
ence correctly
10 The Kingdom of Earth or real world
The Kingdom of Earth is the summit in the process of evolution from
ape to man it is the matter substance the physical and real world This
is the peak of the creation cycle the creation of Adam and Eve Thanks
to the powers of God the ape was transformed into the human being that
now lives in the Kingdom of God which is the Earth It is at this point
where all divine teachings and human experiences converge all celestial
and earthly matters meet here the soul with the spirit and the senses
with the physical world
Adam Eve and the Genesis
ldquoFor the Kabbalah in animals femininity finds itself in front of mas-
culinity while masculinity confirms itself through femininity In the
human level masculinity and femininity are distinguished and at the
same time complement each otherrdquo
In the first book of the Pentateuch the ldquoBook of Genesisrdquo there are two
explanations that would appear to contradict each other that is why we
will analyze them textually
Chapter One verses 27 through 31
27 So God created man in his own image in the image of God he
created him male and female he created them
28 God blessed them and said to them Be fruitful and increase in
number fill the earth and subdue it Rule over the fish of the sea
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86
and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves
on the ground
29 Then God said I give you every seed-bearing plant on the
face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in
it They will be yours for food
30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and
all the creatures that move on the groundmdasheverything that has
the breath of life in itmdashI give every green plant for food And it
was so
31 God saw all that he had made and it was very good And there
was evening and there was morningmdashthe sixth day
Chapter Two verses 7 and 15 through 23
7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and the man became a
living being
15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of
Eden to work it and take care of it
16 And the LORD God commanded the man You are free to eat
from any tree in the garden
17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil for when you eat of it you will surely die
18 The LORD God said It is not good for the man to be alone I
will make a helper suitable for him
19 Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the
beasts of the field and all the birds of the air He brought them to
the man to see what he would name them and whatever the man
called each living creature that was its name
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87
20 So the man gave names to all the livestock the birds of the air
and all the beasts of the field But for Adam no suitable helper
was found
21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep and
while he was sleeping he took one of the mans ribs and closed
up the place with flesh
22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken
out of the man and he brought her to the man
23 The man said This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my
flesh she shall be called woman for she was taken out of man
According to these two texts which differ in just a few pages within the
Sacred Book first man and woman were created at the same time but
later it explains that woman was created from the rib taken from man
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah takes it as a cryptically allegory which
means we are not to understand this explanation as saying first and sec-
ond having another ahead does not make one a subordinate
The ten sefiroth that created the universe were simultaneous and the crea-
tion of the first ldquothinking aperdquo was simultaneous in male and female If
we try to understand the Divine message decoding it into common lingo
we find that the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah gives us several clues
The Book of Genesis 2 does not void what is stated in Genesis 1 it is
revealing another aspect of the human being The intention of the second
text is not to tell us how creation took place in a chronological order but
to explain ndash in a symbolic language ndash something more profound
According to the Book of Genesis 1 God created them ldquoin one single
actrdquo and gave them a mission in common Be fruitful and increase in
number fill the earth and subdue it This clarifies the equality of dignity
in both as well as the equality in the mission imparted since both are
given the same responsibility the family and protection of the world
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88
According to this there doesnrsquot seem to be tasks or responsibilities ex-
clusively reserved to men or women family as well as culture are to be
done by both
Adam does not take woman out of himself he was asleep doing noth-
ing Furthermore God expressly wanted to hide from him the way in
which he made woman doing so while he slept when he could not notice
what was happening
About the reasons for God putting Adam to sleep we can take some
concepts from the Divine reasoning The lonely Adam pictured in the
Book of Genesis 27 is a generic Adam because the characteristics
which describe him are the same for either man or woman and are
meshed in the verses 215 through 223 in the four worlds of the Sefirotic
Tree
The original loneliness (interpreted as the transcendence of
mankind with respect to the Cosmos) is the world of Atziluth or
divine protection
It is not good for the man to be alonerdquo is the need to opening
up this is the world of Briah or giving to others
The search for the appropriate assistance (conceived as mutual
and reciprocal) is the world of Yetsirah or trust and learning
The call for man woman and their animals to work together is
the world of Assiah or Earth and its fruits
The symbolism of the rib taken by God from Adam while he slept re-
veals a relationship between man and woman from which two conse-
quences derive Is a reciprocal relationship (there is no woman without
man but there is no man without woman) which leads us to conclude
that both ends of this relationship must be simultaneous
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89
Spirit
Form
Muscles
Organs
Birth
Nerves
Bones
Strength
Soul
Supra
One
Heart
Gestation
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
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90
Conception
A person is born at a particular moment in time due to a specific
situation or to connect with specific people or one person in particular
When speaking of gestation it is important to assign the archetypical
worlds to each step of this process
1 The Archetypical World called Atziluth is where everything
is in a latent state where everything is potential This is the world in
which the Divinity unites soul and spirit It is in this world where the
essence on an individual is found There is a ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath of the
heart here which lives in both the spiritual and the creative worlds
2 In the Creative World called Briah we find strength and the
pure form which gives shape to the physical life where the cellular mul-
tiplication begins The heart sends the energy of the soul and spirit to the
new being in gestation
3 In the Formative World called Yetsirah the whole body is
in the process of development creating the nervous system muscles
bones organs etc
4 In the Material World called Assiah is where the physical
manifestation takes place It is the moment of birth when the new inte-
grated being sees the light of the Sun
Development
At birth the physical body manifests itself in the Malkut of As-
siah or the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth after going through the se-
quence of conception Birth takes place at the end of the descending path
from Kether (God) to Malkut (Earth) After birth the path is inverted
while developing we begin to ascend from Malkut (Earth) to Kether
(God)
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91
The personality of an adult individual is reflected in the stage or
sefirath where he stopped or in which he weakened the most We can
associate these stages with the worlds in an ascending manner reverting
the way of the gestation
For example the Malkut of Assiah is the material world in
which a person must see and touch in order to learn He needs to touch
the fire to know that it burns or needs to knock himself to know how hard
matter is and how weak is the spirit
Yetsirah is the world in which responsibility is formed where
most people have stopped at one point in their lives for not being able to
assimilate one or more of sefiroth that make up this world
A person who stopped in hisher childhood has stopped at the
sefirath Yesod a person seeking information or news or is forever study-
ing is at Hod and the one seeking pleasures (sex food fun) is still going
through Neshah And those searching for trust in themselves are at
Tipherzt
Mature people are in the world of Briah Justice and greatness
will help these people to develop the acquired knowledge
Those who have stopped at Geburah are people who experience
constant hardship until they learn to grasp control of themselves and
once they achieve inner peace they dedicate their lives to good acts On
the other hand those who come out of Hesed are the ones who negotiate
with generosity those who give to receive who seek to buy love affec-
tion or respect
Atziluth the last world is the one closest to God one that takes
us to Him
Those worried about death are at the sefirath Binah They age
prematurely and constantly complain about illnesses
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92
Those who reach Hokhmah is because they have profound en-
lightening visions which in some cases and for certain social groups are
similar to insanity
To reach Kether at the end of life on earth is to go back to God
to achieve the freedom of onersquos soul
In the Material World called Assiah is where the man-
ifestation of birth takes place where the body without formation but with
genetic and Godrsquos instruction and information from past lives gets ac-
quainted with himself and those around him
In the Formative World called Yetsirah life and aca-
demic formation is acquired to be applied to the rest of onersquos life The
person shall have the teachings perception affirmation and confidence
supplied by those around him
In the Creative World called Briah the most important
stage in a personrsquos life is found In it we can apply everything learned
and observed in the previous world Decisions taken in this world will
affect us twice as much in the following world
The Archetypical World called Atziluth is a world of
closeness to the Divinity here is where we should stop and analyzes our
existence prepare the balance sheet of our soul When we get here we
can see what we have contributed to the growth of our soul
The road to Maturity
As we know each sefirath is a tree in itself and each world con-
tains the other four inside that is why we must analyze our maturity from
the moment of birth and the growing years as well
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93
Pro
tec-
tion
Co
ntr
ol
Le
arning
Chi
ldh
ood
Bi
rt
h
Tr
us
t
Ple
asure
Giving
Li
gh
t
S
up
ra
O
ne
Heart
The stages of growth
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
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94
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah when we are born
our ldquopatternrdquo of life is not finished because our body spirit and soul are
not completely integrated
Between the ages of five and seven the central column formed
by Yesod Tipherzt and the ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath Led molds the operative
personality The Heart Trust and Foundation are the basis of a childrsquos
personal development
At the age of thirteen Hod and Neshah stability and glory for-
mation and pleasures become active This is the age of awakening of
knowledge
Between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one Kether and
Malkuth intertwine forming the central structure of the tree and they
give it meaning and dimension
During the following years Geburah Hesed Binah and
Hokhmah integrate themselves completing the incarnation of the plains
When we see rebellious youths who have not yet grasped the
concepts of justice or generosity (gangs drugs) it is because they have
not incarnated completely and Geburah and Hesed have not taken their
places yet There is no set age for complete incarnation because it de-
pends on the surroundings and social experience
The child of an alcoholic and a drug addict who live in poverty
does not have to follow that path If he could find support in a family or
educational group that could help him to develop the missing sefiroth and
that way obtain incarnation he could become a person who understands
the proper concepts of justice and greatness thus clearing his life and ob-
taining personal success
On the other hand the son of an aristocrat or millionaire be-
tween the ages of thirteen and twenty will react against his class but
from there on and according to the integration of his sefiroth to the tree
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95
he will only be interested in developing within his social circle marrying
someone accordingly and following the family pattern but if he should
find a link that could help him develop the missing sefiroth in order to
complete his incarnation he would change his concepts on class and
would obtain personal success
Of course both examples are generalizations which do not apply
to all people If you are reading this book you are a spiritual researcher
and surely do not fall under generalizations
Many people consider a good marriage and a good social posi-
tion as valid objectives but after twenty years or more of walking the
same path they understand that even though they have a good marriage
with someone they love and good economic resources they have no
goals
This usually happens after the age of forty-five or fifty For those
based on their bodies this is the beginning of the end and will seek the
physical methods (surgeries) to slow this process
The Tree of the Maturity
These physical methods are not bad if they go together with a
spiritual development with growth in the tree of the spiritual worlds un-
til the highest point is reached and it is understood that the body is the
container of the spirit and soul
Often enough people get stuck emotionally here and no matter
how old they are they cannot get out of Tipherzt or the sefirath of Trust
It is here where emotions are sometimes confused with feelings obscur-
ing thoughts and the development of spiritual maturity
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96
Under-
standing
Truth
Awakening
Trust
Real
World
Foundation
Power
Humility
Experience
Essence
Heath
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97
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
Hod Glory
The Human Being
Soul and Spirit
The Worlds of the Spirit The Battle of the Spirit
The terror and the Fears
Difficult Situations The Problems of the Spirit
The Worlds of Solutions Instincts feelings and senses
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98
Soul and Spirit
We already know that neither one of us is a new soul all of us
have accumulated experience from previous lives in other incarnations
We also know that those celestial beings that occupy our body
have come during the last thousands of years
We also know that this inter-relation or connection between soul
and body helps to correct the soul
What we need to know now is What is the spirit
The spirit is our inner Self our mind it is what we really are and
who we are
Our spirit is formed by four worlds Each world relates to the
other on the basis of interactive processes and it works its way up from
the concrete (tangible) to the ethereal (spiritual) levels
1 The Material World called Assiah or the world of
Logic is based on Malkut passes through Yessed and opens up into
Hod and Neshagh The logical though is something you can almost
touch it has foundation stability and glory
2 The Formative World called Yetsirah or the world of
the Perceptions is based on Tipherzt and opens its arms into Ge-
brurah and Hesed The perceptions of the human being are beauty
justice and greatness
3 The Creative World called Briah or the world of Feel-
ings is based on Led (heart) and from there goes on to Binah and
Hokhmah Our feelings are the product of the alchemy formed by
the ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath of the heart intelligence and wisdom
4 The Archetypical World called Atziluth or the world
of Intuition has only one sefirath as base Kether Divinity resides
here that is intuition is the direct link to Divinity
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99
As we can see the spirit is the part that connects our contained
(physical body) to our soul (or celestial body) and that is who we really
are The spirit must take care of the body so that it ldquolastsrdquo as long as pos-
sible When it is mistreated with external products (poor nutrition alco-
hol tobacco or drugs) the soulrsquos stay and learning period is shortened
this will cause the soul to come back in another container to continue
learning
When an illness or accident causes the brain to stop the spirit is
affected never the soul The soul keeps learning even though the body is
inert or in a deep coma and it will stay there for some ldquotimerdquo after the
heart stops beating It could be minutes maybe hours or days before the
soul abandons the body
When the death is surprising and unexpected (accident violence
etc) both the soul and the spirit stay in condition of shock and are late
many time in dividing
Each person has in its spirit what we know as personality stud-
ied by Jung even his profession is related to these worlds For example a
person with an Assiah personality will be in the armed forces Profes-
sionals are Yetsirah the artists are in the world of Briah and the mysti-
cal people live in Atziluth
Even as we are crossing the tree sefiroacutethico the personality was
passing of being introverted and logical to extrovert and dreamy
Undoubtedly the complexity of the spirit and the dynamic that
surrounds it could generate multiple models Human beings depending
on the inherited genes educational environment social development will
modify some of the parameters associated to these worlds in order to be
accepted by society
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
100
The soul is very important in this development since in its mis-
sion of learning it will try to put the person in challenging situations
provoking logical feelings and intuitive sensations
The way to analyze these worlds and know to which ones we
blong (surely to all of them but some more than others) is to know our
strengths and our weaknesses to find our fears and the chance to
ovecome them
Each world has its own ten sefiroth that respond to its own
behavior
The residents of the world of intuition or Atziluth
are generalists hypothetical not precise speculative idealists in-
ventive illogical indecisive futurists and disperse
Those who live in the world of feelings or Briah are a
logical poetic artistic passionate personal cordial ethical justice seek-
ers individualists and humanitarians
The inhabitants of the world of the senses or Yetsirah
are careful detail minded specialists objective precise concrete real-
ists profound practical and conventional
Those who live in the world of logic or Assiah are log-
ical analytic extremist scientific cold dispassionate theoretical imper-
sonal shrewd and insensitive
Neither world is better than another and there isnrsquot a single hu-
man being that ldquofitsrdquo exactly into one defined world we all have behav-
iors from all of them but the proportions are different in each one of us
and that is what makes us all different from each other
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101
The worlds of the Spirit
In the center ldquoThe Column of Equilibriumrdquo (Balance)
Intuition Atziluth
Feelings Briah
Sense Yetsirah
Logical Assiah
Thought
Intelli-
li-gence
Jus
tice
Glo
ry
Foun-
dation
Ma-
teri
al
Be
au-
ty
Sta-
bil-
ity
Grea
tness
Wisdom
Su-
pra
One
Heart
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102
The Battle of the Spirit
As we could see the battle is not very fair three worlds are ruled
by the heart and only one is ruled by the brain That is why in most cas-
es instincts or feelings ldquowinrdquo over reason When free will was given to
us it was so that we could ldquothink overrdquo our acts
Are two ways of thinking intuition and reasoning with very dif-
ferent characteristics
Some thoughts come to mind in a spontaneous way in reality
that is what happens most of the time Because Atziluth Briah and
Yetsirah are always present in a potential way ready to jump in and re-
spond in a way of which we are not totally conscious and cannot control
The actions of these three worlds are quick without effort associative
and very often charged with emotions They are ruled by habits that is
why it is difficult to modify or control them
The world of Assiah instead is ruled by conscience and delib-
erate reasoning it is slower serial and requires effort it follows rules
Needs more time when something upsets us it clouds our reasoning
This means the issue is stuck on the upper worlds and it doesnrsquot allow us
to make logical decisions usually because we are afraid to reason
For example the idea that something awful can happen if we
take a plane even though that possibility is remote will not let us think
of anything else The upper worlds become dominant Emotion is over-
come in turn by the possibility by what could happen and not by reality
so much
The emotional and issue is the less ldquoreasonablerdquo people are
According to Daniel Kahneman winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize
in Economics
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
103
ldquoEmotions in general do not influence decision making but one
emotion in particular (fear) distorts the perception of risk and generates
errors in the making of decisionsrdquo
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah fear originates in the
upper world but if we can take it to the world of Assiah or logical it
vanishes into thin air
Nevertheless if once we make a reasoned decision we donrsquot reg-
ister having made it curious enough we are not conscious we have
changed our way of thinking
Most people after changing their way of thinking reconstruct
the old pattern They underestimate their change Besides when they
have been persuaded of something they believe they always thought that
way The upper worlds hide behind the mask that reason displays and
have us believing they were never there we are convinced that we al-
ways think rationally
It is true that many people admit making a mistake at one time
or another ndash you could be one of them ndash but that doesnrsquot mean that they
have changed their way of thinking on a particular issue and that they
wonrsquot make the same mistake again
Fears
All living beings have fears it is natural and it responds to the
instinct of survival You donrsquot have to be a caballist or scientist to state
that man is a fearful ldquoanimalrdquo One hundred percent of the human spirit is
ldquoshyrdquo or timid and it fears an endless amount of things and situations He
is intimidated by them The important thing is to identify the things he
fears and why Donrsquot even think you are the only one who fears some-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
104
thing ALL OF US fear something The thing is that that ldquosomethingrdquo is
different for each one of us
Fear is not bad or good it simply is disturbing feeling about
something unknown or if it is known we canrsquot control and we are afraid
it might hurt us
When God created the four elements or semi gods (Fire Water
Air and Earth) He gave them the ability to help or hurt mankind that is
why Fire can cook our food or it can destroy us Water is for drinking or
drowning Earth can give us vegetables or bury us with Air we live and
without it we die The four elements can give or take life And it is pre-
cisely in them that the depth of all fears lies
Fear has companions such as anguish
obsessions and phobias
Many cultures and old and modern religions disguise fears (in
many cases to manipulate people) with the presence of the Devil or dia-
bolic things The Judeo-Christian Kaballah upholds that mankind in its
search for alternative gods created this evil figure to justify its fears and
anguishes
Fear lives in the upper part of the Sefirotic Tree of both worlds of
the spirit where man thinks less and fears more First he starts at Atzi-
luth where he acts mostly based on instinct he is almost irrational and
here is where he ignites the anguish fearrsquos best friend From there it goes
down to Briah and it leans on phobic feelings to go on to Yetsirah
where it can attract obsessions
In the emotional sentimental world or Briah reside an endless
number of opposed phobic fears darkness or light open spaces or closed
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
105
space crowds or loneliness heights or depths planes or boatshellip and we
could go on for pages
In the world of the sensations or Yetsirah live the obsessive
fears disguised as concern
Worry for details rules lists order schedules up to
the point of losing of sight the principal object of the activity
Perfectionism which interferes with the completion of
a task (unable to finish a project because it doesnrsquot comply with
onersquos own demands which are overly strict)
Excessive dedication to onersquos work and to the produc-
tivity with exclusion of the activities of leisure and the friend-
ship (not attributable to economic evident needs)
Excessive stubbornness very scrupulous and inflexi-
ble when it comes to moral issues ethics or values (not attributed
to the identification with religion)
Unable to discard old and useless items even when
there is no sentimental value attached
Unable to share the work load with others unless
they will accept to do it your way exactly
Excessive thriftiness in spending money must be ac-
cumulated to cover future catastrophes
All these fears which live in the worlds of instincts feelings and
sensations are not related to diabolic situations Satan does not exist in
the Divine Universe Satan is a creation of our spirit to encourage the
learning and development of our soul The best way to teach our soul is
to overcome our fears bringing them down to the rational world of Assi-
ah to keep them under control and letting them go
This can be done following these steps
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
106
1 The first step is to put your fears in the world of
logic or Assiah not worrying about why this fear exists but how
do we respond to this fear behavior (eg paralysis desperation)
Hesed origin
2 Be specific when it comes to defining your con-
duct of fear and its consequences because the problem it self is
the solution Geburah control
3 Donrsquot look at your fear as such but as an obsta-
cle in attaining your goals Take it to Tipherzt trust
4 Define exactly the way you want to change your
conduct Go to Neshah balance
5 Establish a time limit to obtain the proposed
change For this Hod learning is the right sefirath
Search for an adequate way to make your change with-
out going to extremes for instance becoming a perfectionist
What you want to change is not making mistakes but the irra-
tional fear for avoiding making mistakes If you are set out to
making mistakes to change you will stop worrying about per-
fection but you will also stop worrying about the mistakes you
could make That is the mistakes are not the problem but the
fear of making mistakes is Work on Yesod construc-
tionbuilding
6 Be patient changes donrsquot take place overnight
whatrsquos more there could be a set back especially when there is a
fast progression in the change of the conduct of fear Please un-
derstand that a straight forward improvement is not always to be
expected you could be going forward there could be stops and
set backs which will allow you to compare and value the differ-
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
107
ences between your previous status with your situation of pro-
gress Go through Malkuth action
Once the world of Assiah logic overcomes your fears you will
see how your fears crashed with logic and vanish
Donrsquot forget that fear is a close friend of depression Fear attracts
dissonance synonym of physical and spiritual disease When one of the
elements stops working the machinery works with serious difficulties
When one of the parts slows down or over speeds therersquos also a lack of
balance and things donrsquot run well
Fear is one of those elements in the human being with great
power to generate lack of harmony correspondence and balance Its
negativity does not allow us to act neither with freedom intelligence nor
with common sense On the contrary it makes us highlight aspects of our
life which we shouldnrsquot consider so important It makes us go back
when we should be going forward It makes us lie when we should be
telling the truth And it takes away our plenitude creativity and capacity
to love
Problematic Situations
Man faces difficult situations all his life from childhood to old
age He finds himself with the obligation to address them with systemat-
ic processes of thought but he doesnrsquot know how important they are All
problems can be grouped in these three definitions
Urgent and important
Urgent or important
Neither urgent nor important
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
108
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah and the sefirotic trees show us
that if we establish priorities if we analyze situations if we identify op-
portunities there are no problems without a solution and that solution is
usually much simpler than we would have thought The method to apply
the adequate solution to a problem is part of the kaballistic teachings
Problems of the Spirit
The Spirit is made up of four worlds (logic sensations emotions
and intuition) if we know how to apply them correctly and how to dis-
tribute our problems amongst these worlds each one of them will solve
the part of the problem to which it applies and the general solution will
become available without stress nor complications
The World of logical thought is the one that analyzes a problem
concretely creating a new Sefirotic Tree with four worlds Ideas Caus-
es Opportunities and Solutions we go through them from the column
of forms or shapes looking for the world of detail or feminine
Atziluth is the world of Ideas formed by Kether Binah and Hokhmah
Kether is the situation worrying you the problem in your
head or philosophical it could be physical or mental could be serious or
momentary but none the less it is the center of the worry
Binah is the expansive thought the one that analyzes the
components distinguishes the pertinent parts the real causes of the prob-
lem Binah clarifies the information to define the situation
Hokhmah is the convergent thought it evaluates and develops
the main idea of the problem compares theorizes and creates a hypothe-
sis which means it is the one that focuses on the problem to be solved
looking for the way to follow and the steps to take
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
109
Briah is the world of Causes formed by Leb Geburah and Hesed
Leb is the virtual sefirath of the heart which plays a part in
every problem and even though thought is the most concrete world of
the spirit the heart has its influence when the time to make a decision
comes We should make the problem ldquovirtualrdquo analyze the solution with
the heart and without it in order to be objective and make the right deci-
sion
Geburah is justice Try to think as a lawyer they only deal
with proven facts they donrsquot go by hearsay Clean your mind of external
ldquoadditionsrdquo analyze ldquowhat problems make up this problemrdquo
Hesed is greatness It is very important to know where the
problem was originated in order not to repeat it you must have the
greatness to admit your percentage of responsibility in the origin of the
problem Donrsquot put the responsibility all out there blaming others do
know that we alwayshellip alwayshellip are partly responsible for what happens
to us Admitting responsibility requires greatness
Yetsirah is the world of Opportunities formed by
Tipherzt Hod and Neshah
Tiphezt is the sefirath of beauty and every problem has a
beautiful side to it which is the opportunity it opens up to the other
worlds Every problem is the starting point towards truth Many times
the truth is hidden and the problems bring it out in the light Look for the
positive side of the problem there always is one look for the sun after
the storm
Hod is the glory and glory is acknowledgement To
acknowledge a problem is part of the solution If we describe the prob-
lem and its consequences we could see clearly which opportunity it is
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
110
revealing Remember facts or situations it will help us recognize the real
scenario of the problem
Neshah is stability which will come when we solve the prob-
lem Imagine your life without the problem try to see which things will
be better and analyze which ones could be worse in order to avoid them
Donrsquot let it catch you off guard Just like in a chess match every move
must be carefully thought out and advantage taken of the adversaryrsquos lit-
tle mistakes
Assiah is the world of Solutions formed by Yesod and Malkuth
Yesod is the sefirath of foundation it is the one to support and
filter the information sent by the rest to Malkuth If the other nine have
done their job correctly the problem would reach this point practically
resolved In some cases it doesnrsquot even reach this point since it was re-
solved on its way As long as we clarify and converge ideas analyze the
real causes and describe its consequences the storm we saw coming at
first becomes a sea breeze
Malkuth is the earth action It establishes these ways to fol-
low to resolve a problem or whatrsquos left of it The truth is that Malkuth
steps in less than 5 of the cases because the big problems do not ex-
ist but small problems that transformed a snow ball rolling downhill that
breaks up into thousands of harmless little particles when it hits a serious
and conclusive analytical spirit
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
111
The Sefiroacutethico
Tree of the logical thought
Diverge
Facts
Acknowl-
edging
Filtration
Action
Serenity
Equilibrium
Origin
Converge
Knowing
Heart
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
112
The Worlds of Solutions
The other three worlds of the spirit (sensations emotions and intuition)
are present in the previous development as observers but sometimes
(many times) they are present in the analysis of the concrete world where
logical thoughts occur taking the solution to the problem through not so
logical paths In these cases we have to appeal to the central column or
Column of Equilibrium of the Sefirotic Tree of the Spirit
Kether (Intuition) receiving the energy that the Divinity and Its
Light sends us
Leb (Heart) will find answers in our feelings
Tipherzt (Beauty) will consult our inner sensations
Yesod and Malkuth (Foundation and Earth) bring us back to the
world of reasoning and logic
This means that we can solve many problems using our intuition our
feelings or our sensations but we should always put them through the
filter of logical thought of truth putting passion aside and trying to be as
analytical as possible
Instincts Feelings and Sensations
Instincts or Atziluth feelings or Briah and sensations or Yetsirah to-
gether create an inner stir up when motivated by action Mankind is
mostly conditioned by emotions and sensations by likes and dislikes
Often enough feelings and sensations are side tracked by mankindrsquos own
interests and selfishness to the point of invalidating sense and reason
making one behave in ways which one sees with consternation that Assi-
ah has been forgotten Thus logic is destroyed by the three upper
worlds When we snap out later and we see the mistake it is too late to
do anything about it
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
113
The upper worlds usually come up as an answer to the spontaneous eval-
uation of perceptions Emotions such as anger or fear can be harmful or
healthy such as fondness or compassion While aversions are typical un-
healthy emotions good love and compassion are outstanding examples of
noble emotions that lift our human nature
Human beings are pretty open to emotional development and so is the
range and strength of their emotions We are all somewhat passionate
and impulsive and cold and reflective at the same time What varies is
the percentage some get angry very fast and others are patient While
one person could be not impulsive emotionally another could go through
a wide range of emotions at the speed of light
The emotional worlds hurt the physical body that is why they should be
controlled According to clinical experience a person dominated by
emotions could have consecutively or simultaneously health issues af-
fecting several organic systems I will mention a few psychosomatic
health problems
Migraines
This symptom is made up of other somatic symptoms that go to-
gether in people with a perfectionist personality with changing moods
They usually manifest themselves with painful muscle contractions of the
neck as well as nausea and vomiting
Obesity
Obesity usually develops within the frame of anxieties in re-
sponse to frustrations and disappointment through devotion to food8
Hypertension
The main reason for vascular hypertension is emotional tension
in people who show apparent serenity and affability but are really cover-
ing up hostile emotions and predisposition ndash that must be restrained ndash for
social or employment reasons
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
114
Cardiovascular System
It has been proven that the stress caused by anguish tends to fre-
quently increase your heart beat cardiac distress and blood pressure
Respiratory System
Crying laughing screaming o talking imply changes your
breathing action excessive breathing or the opposite are typical respons-
es during contrasting periods of action or relaxation Examples of this are
the hyperventilation syndrome and asthma amongst others
The Gastrointestinal Tract
The symptoms of gastrointestinal disorders are multiple the most
frequent they are anorexia bulimia nausea nervous indigestion vomit-
ing and diarrhea
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
115
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Yesod Foundation
Free Will
The emotional worlds
Control of emotions
Who controls me
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
116
The emotional worlds
The emotional worlds are distributed within the Sefirotic Tree from
Kether to Malkuth
Kether is imagination it is ethereal and impalpable it comes
from within and surprises us as if it came from outside We imagine
things or situations this is the world of Atziluth
What happens in our lives makes better sense when we use our imagina-
tion and create our own stories These could be situations related directly
to what is happening to us or just the opposite For example if we are
watching a Superman movie we unconsciously accept that the character
flies We know the actor is supported by ropes of steel or that it is a
computerized trick but we go prepared to accept this The same thing
happens with a horror movie we donrsquot ignore that the monster is made
out of some synthetic material that those masks are created with makeup
or that the blood could be tomato sauce but while we are watching the
movie we let the world of Atziluth take over our spirit and we accept
what takes place in the screen as real
The important thing is to know when the movie ends and reality begins
There have been cases of people jumping off rooftops believing they
were Superman or have shot others thinking they were either Rambo or
Terminator Without going to these extreme examples many people be-
lieve they are living stories out of soap operas in which the characters
are either good or bad In them the manipulation of society is done
through ldquobelievablerdquo or ldquodetestablerdquo stereotypes In these stories the
ldquogood guysrdquo consume the sponsorrsquos products that is why they are good
looking and successful while the ldquobad guys are very badrdquo and always
end up in jail or dead Very far from the reality
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
117
Hokhmah is memory it is our particular wisdom it is what we
learn from the past the things our own life has taught us But memories
sometimes play tricks on us
Often enough we associate what we see with some other type of experi-
ence or memory For instance if somebody speaks loudly we feel we are
being attacked because we remember that tone of voice being used by a
teacher or our father to make an observation or punish us This memory
which is not rational will put us on alert waking all our feelings of de-
fense But it could be that this person speaks loudly because he needs to
be listened to with the best intentions towards us In this case Atziluth
would have reacted against our relationship with the other person We
usually do not notice these processes because these are unconscious be-
haviors of which we are not aware When we remember the incident we
only describe our experience related to the visual perception and with
conscientious thought We almost never refer to what we heard felt im-
agined or what our intuition told us What this does is that we visualize
an incomplete picture of the situation
Binah is the comprehension our intelligence While we hear the
other person speaking loudly we generate currents of thought These
thoughts could relate directly and we could probably raise our voice as
well Both of us speaking loudly almost screaming will dull our compre-
hension and we wonrsquot be able to reason the other personrsquos words nor
will we understand why we are being loud In unexpected situations
such as an accident in transit (like somebody hitting our car in the free-
way) we create an opinion of the other person while we observe the in-
cident But we do not reason the occurrence It is not easy for us to un-
derstand in those circumstances and we unchain reactions that we will
regret later
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
118
ldquoThe three sefiroth of the tree of emotions make up the trilogy of At-
ziluth where everything is potential everything is relative where im-
agination lives with memories and comprehe nsionrdquo
Listening is Hesed greatness since knowing how to listen is
greatness Our hearing perceives in a selective way depending on the
attention we are paying In first place we hear the most discordant
sounds Some people listen independently from what they see while
others associate what they hear to what they see Closer sounds also get
mixed with those coming from afar (planes trains)
Seeing is Geburah justice When the police investigate an acci-
dent talks to five witnesses and gets five different versions of the same
accident This is because each witness perceived the same scene in a dif-
ferent way according to their distance and angle their surprise their
memories and their fears What each one was doing and how long it took
their minds to react to adapt to the new situation is also important
Feeling is Tipherzt beauty Any situation of relationship or ac-
tion (somebody yelling at us somebody crashing into us somebody hug-
ging us or loving us) triggers our instinctive emotions and can make us
feel uncomfortable sad surprised tender excited furious anxious nos-
talgichellip and so many other ways
It is important to know how to handle them from the sefirath of beauty
Both love and fury are born there It is the provider of spiritual nourish-
ment it is the one that sends the order to our hand to slap or caress to our
mouth the order to insult or say words of love to our legs the order to get
closer or start running away If we control our reactions and let our brain
make the decision we will save ourselves lots of problems apologies and
unpleasantness
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
119
ldquoThese three sefiroth of the tree of emotions form the trilogy of
Briah the world of creation where strength idea and ways of liste n-
ing seeing and feeling come togetherrdquo
Taste and smell are Hod and Neshah or glory and stability the sev-
enth and eighth sefiroth These two senses go together When we smell a
dish we like we feel our mouth ldquowateringrdquo This is because our sense of
taste already sent the known flavors to our brain which in turn already
started in Yetsirah the registered memories In some gas stations we
taste the smell of gasoline in our mouth as if we had drunk it Being close
to a trash dump makes us nauseous since the smell is perceived by our
nose and mouth irritating our throat
In these cases the formative world of Yetsirah makes us react instinc-
tively to aggressive odors
Reflexes are Yesod foundation This sefirah closes the trilogy of the
world of Yetsirah which is the formative or conceptual world and re-
flexes just like taste and smell are instinctive concepts that we cannot
control When we watch a thriller or action movie we move as if we
were the character in it we flinch when they stick a knife into somebody
or we move avoiding the punch We usually experience some movements
as if we were moving ourselves we even experience tension in our mus-
cles Itrsquos common that if we see others dancing we will also feel the im-
pulse to dance
ldquoThese three sefiroth are the base of our instinctive and intuitive sys-
tem We can control all other sefiroth imagination memories un-
derstanding listening seeing and even feeling but the senses of smell
and taste and reflexes are very hard to control that is why we must
concentrate our attention on themrdquo
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
120
Re-
mem-
ber
Lis-tening
Tast-
ing
Re-
flexes
Rea-
soning
Feel-
ing
Smell-ing
Seeing
Compre-
hension
Imag-
ining
As we can see Malkuth is in the world of Assiah and takes no part in
emotions It is the material world reason and reasoning If we manage to
handle our emotions and ldquobring them downrdquo to Malkuth reason will
prevail and our behavior will be logical improving our relation with the
world
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
121
Controlling your emotions
Now that we know our emotions we know where their origin
takes place and which worlds rule them we can analyze the possibility of
controlling them to reach our goals since a person who angers easily
spoils hisher own happiness and disturbs otherrsquos peace of mind
Without a deliberate effort emotions will not be under the direct
control of our will of Assiah and we will be able to control them in this
rational and logic world We must train our mind to control our emotions
the moment they stir up This can be done by watching them objectively
as soon as they flourish identifying them with a name or a mental label
such as ldquoAngerrdquo ldquoJealousyrdquo ldquoSorrowrdquo ldquoFuryrdquo etc
Once we have names for our emotions we will be then in a bet-
ter position to let go of them without being dragged by them The mo-
ment we can register our anger calmly (when we become aware that this
anger originated in the upper worlds) that is when we make it descend to
Assiah to the world of reason and our anger will leave us
At first this could be useful if during the day we repeat to our-
selves a formula such as
ldquoWhat am I feeling nowrdquohellip ldquoWhat am I thinkingrdquohellip
We respond immediately
ldquoI am feeling angerrdquohellip ldquoI am jealousrdquohellip
We can also investigate even afterwards why the anger (or any
other adverse emotion) took over us so that we can avoid these situations
or responses in the future
Who controls me
Even though every human being has in its spirit the world of As-
siah very few use this world to think logically and by themselves This
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
122
passivity or indifference is the result of the development of massive
communication media
Radio television yellow journalism even the Internet push their
messages on all of us every minute of the day and its penetration power
is reinforced by the rooted human disposition to accept everything we are
being told and comply with what we are dared to do Bombarded by
thousands of stimuli we donrsquot think by ourselves anymore we donrsquot feel
our emotions anymore or start up our own actions instead we feel how
others want us to feel The pressure of the multitude is irresistible
When we explain that Kether accepts that Superman flies be-
cause it is part of the film game we must control that Kether does not
accept that my self esteem depends on the perfume or shirt I buy or that
my relationship with people does not depend on the car I have
We saw that in the world of Atziluth everything is relative eve-
rything is in a potential state that is why commercials aim at our imagina-
tion memories and comprehension to get us to buy their products
All these communication means teach us to hold our capacity to
reason or if we happen to reason to do it the way they expect us to
Those who manipulate the media (not necessarily the owners but the
sponsors) are motivated by their own interests which are fortune and
power They play important roles in several means of life such as politic
business law medicine and education
Publicity newscasts soap operas even reality shows penetrate
us through the world of Briah which is the listeningseeingfeeling trilo-
gy In Briah we find the idea in formation that is why journalism is con-
sidered the ldquofourth powerrdquo Nevertheless in todayrsquos globalizes world
Kabbalah places it at the top over all other earthly powers because it
manipulates images ideas and it gives us the news ldquoaimedrdquo at their inter-
ests The role of reasoning tends to be subordinated to that of emotion
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
123
while the mental inertia and indifference eases the conquest of reason
That is why when public opinion is formed through manipulation a small
minority is able to control the majority Publicity and newscasts are the
most effective mechanism to make us ldquobelieverdquo what is good or bad for
our spirit and body
Control of decisions and Free Will
All of those who are part of the small but powerful marketing
minority have something to sell Commercials make us wish more and
more things that will not necessarily make us happier or give us peace of
mind They tell us that happiness is having the latest entertainment center
or the new cooking system But no matter how many things we buy we
could still feel our lives painfully empty
The speed power and efficiency of all this technological and so-
cial development drive us into an increasing frequency of illness due to
stress and nervous crisis Those who do not collapse under this pressure
find other ways to escape such as drugs alcohol and psychotic cults
The battle is not easy because the offer is gratifying we are even part of
that wheel because we sell a product or service which is commercialized
that way The only significant comparison we can make is with our-
selves between the person we were one month earlier a year earlier or
even a decade earlier and the person we are at present physically intel-
lectually morally and financially If there hasnrsquot been an improvement
or it hasnrsquot been enough we should ask ourselves why that is and do
something to modify this without delay If done regularly this ldquocheck-
uprdquo could be very beneficial If we set our pride and prejudice aside and
we check out our values and perspectives then we will be able to live a
simpler healthier and happier life
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
124
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Malkuth
The Kingdom
The Rational World
Education and freedom
Rights and obligations
Daily negotiations Responsibilities
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
125
Education and freedom
As a child I was told that
ldquoThe better educated a person is the freer that person isrdquo
At the time I didnrsquot understand the significance of those words
because at the age of ten to me education was school teachers and
studying
Today a few years older the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah taught
me that education is knowledge and it is much more profound than what I
was taught in school
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the first thing educa-
tion should do is warn the students that all knowledge implies a certain
risk of error and illusion Human knowledge is exposed to errors in per-
ception and judgment and illusions caused by the narrowness of ideas
cultural influence and the emotions and experiences of each person
Scientific knowledge is not even immune to error and illusion
theories and methods of investigation protect their own errors and illu-
sions That is why the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah education gives the kind
of knowledge that allows for self criticism and detects errors and illu-
sions The ldquoknowledge blindnessrdquo can be cured with a more open and
reflexive education that self-criticizes
The media overwhelms us with information It is fundamental
that we learn to discern what is relevant and what is accessorial
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah invites us to analyze the four
worlds of the human spirit together with the four worlds of the societies
in which they live political cultural religious and financial
The archetypical world called Atziluth is the one where eve-
rything is in a latent potential state That is the spirituality and religious
world
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126
In the creative world called Briah we find the strength in its
pure form and the ideas This is the emotional or cultural world
In the formative world called Yetsirah everything is in the
formation or a conceptual process which is the world of sensations or
political
In the material world called Assiah is where the physical
manifestation takes place which is the logical or financial world
Globalization is another important issue that conditions our free-
dom According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the world has been
globalizing from its inception God never discriminated we are all His
children Moses was a ldquoglobalizesrdquo when he took his people to the Prom-
ised Land through the desert So were Abraham Noah Jesus when he
asked his apostles to take his word evangelizing throughout the Earth
The current systems of communication make us realize how sim-
ilar and at the same time how different we are from each other The
Judeo-Christian Kabbalah struggles for unity not to erase diversity and
vice-versa Neither is the individual person above religion culture or so-
ciety nor is religion culture or society above the individual person Only
God is above each and every one of us
Let us remember that God created the four Genii or Elements
(Earth Air Water and Fire) and it is the obligation of all human beings
to protect them since they are our only support Mankind is destroying
them with the contamination it has created which will derive in our own
destruction But this depends on our free will thai is why there is an
even more powerful globalization than the financial one the intellectual
affective and moral globalization This is the only way we will achieve
the Freedom to which the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah invites you the
world is united by its culture technology and the financial exchange and
at the same time it is divided by politics and religion
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127
To need
Control
Respect
Free Will
LIFE
Happiness
Dignity
Freedom
To know
To love
Kabbalah teach us to understand that every human being shares
the same worries feelings and the same destiny no matter where he
lives
The values of the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah are solidarity hos-
pitality tolerance and respect towards the dignity of every person This
means that every culture should learn from other cultures and each socie-
ty from other societies
The kabballistic ideals of freedom consist in respect for the indi-
viduality and diversity and promoting solidarity and comprehension
Responsibilities
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Rights and obligations
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah bases its doctrine on the rights and obliga-
tions of all human beings Each person has certain right and obligations
which become basic responsibilities of which each person must take
charge one hundred percent like the responsibility to control and manage
its own life building its own life plan and following it by accomplishing
goals
These obligations have three important axes based on the first three
sefiroth
bull Kether or Crown and self-esteem
bull Hokhmah or the Wisdom to known oneself
bull Binah or the Intelligence to make decisions according
to onersquos inner and outer personal needs without hurting
oneself or others
The basic rights are found in the seven lower sefiroth
bull Hesed and the right to freedom
bull Geburah and the right to control your life
bull Tipherzt and the right to happiness
bull Neshah and the right to dignity
bull Hod and the right to (respect) be respected
bull Yesod and the right of free expression
bull Malkuth and the right to life
Mankind in its daily interaction relates to its sefiroth and its funda-
mental rights according to three different styles of response based on the
lower worlds
The world of Briah or pure or emotional power
It promotes inequality always having a loser and winner This is not a
creative or equal relation
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129
The person denies its own respect rights and needs hurting itself
These are mostly selfish individualist and passionate people
The world of Yetsirah or conceptual
It deals with defending onersquos own rights without hurting others It im-
plies equality and respect
The person knows the border line between its own individuality and
those of others
They are mostly realistic practical conventional and objective
The world of Assiah or physical or logical manifestation
They are mostly analytic calculating cold and insensitive
It promotes non-equal relationships against the rights of others It is
an unbalanced relationship in which manipulation takes place
The person invades the rights of others getting Responses of fear
Daily negotiations
When people speak of negotiations they think they are talking about
money but negotiation is part of daily life and it is also analyzed
through the sefirotic trees of the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah
The negotiation can be with oneself for instance
Irsquom staying in bed another fifteen minutes even if I have to go
to work without breakfast
The negotiation can be with your spouse for instance
We can spend Christmas with your family if we spend New
Yearrsquos with mine
We can negotiate with our children for example
You can have the car tonight if you come home early and
wash it tomorrow
We can negotiate with our fellow workers for instance
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130
If you cover me this Saturday Irsquoll cover you next Sunday
As you can see in none of these examples and many more that surely
you must remember is money mentioned as exchange In a negotiation
the effort must be compensated equally
Nobody should win or lose or better yet both should come out winning
obtaining something each one wants In a negotiation everybody should
know what is at stake and what each one will obtain in exchange
Let us remember that the method of solving problems is based on the
lower or material world of Assiah but a negotiation reaches for the upper
worlds like Yetsirah or intuition or the world of Briah or emotions in
some cases it even appeals to Atziluth or spirit
You must train you brain to stay in the lower worlds to negotiate be-
cause it will be more to your benefit Try to be objective since feelings
or emotions play against you and the effort will not be compensated
equally
You must create what is called a creative antagonism separating the ob-
jective facts in order to get to a reasonable and logic agreement It is very
important that both parties feel they are winners Get used to listening to
every word the other person is saying In Kabbalah the word is very im-
portant it has a double message what is being said and what is meant
When your spouse child or friend get angry and scream for something
you already know it is not important they are really saying something
else Hug himher kiss himher on the forehead and tell himher you
want to hear the reasons behind the anger But on the contrary if you
feel offended and respond screaming even louder you will have lost the
negotiation before you even begin
Turn your defects into virtues that way you will get a just negotiation
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131
If you are passive think of the object and state your argument
with precision and not getting nervous
If you are aggressive look for the motives and keep them
away while negotiating
If triumph is important to you think the other one is right and
try to be unbiased
If you are anguished think of the reasons in your favor not to
show weakness
If you are a fatalist and you think you are going to lose nego-
tiate with a relaxed mind you have nothing to risk act without
worrying about the end result
When Jesus says
ldquoPut the other cheekrdquo
He refers to Judeo-Christian Kabbalah because it is not to be
slapped but to accept the embrace of negotiation
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132
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Conclusions
The Tree of Trees
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133
The Tree of Trees
Reading this book we have learned to go through the different
sefirotic trees the creation of the universe its worlds and centers of
strength the sefirotic columns the Adam Kadmon tree Jesusrsquo genealogy
the Our Father the Sermon in the Mountain (Beatitudes) the evolution of
mankind gestation development maturing the spirit decisions emo-
tions and even responsibilities
But we also learned about the existence of infinite sefirotic trees
because each sefirath (no matter how small) contains a tree within and
each tree (no matter how big) is only a sefirath of a larger tree
If we try to unify all the sefirotic trees we will see that they are
all similar we could even say the same they all have the same logical
pattern they were all created by the same Divine Architect
The sefiroth take different names according to their presence but
their strength does not change since they are endless sources of energy
That is why when we see Sephiroth we see its gifts
Kether Crown Inspiration Divine Light Supra-One א
Hokhmah Wisdom Word Experience Soul ב
Binah Intelligence Spirit Thought Fortune ג
Hesed Greatness Love Humility Strength Giving ד
Geburah Justice David Truth Respect Shape ה
Tipherzt Beauty Salomon Purity Fidelity Goodness ו
Neshah Stability Power Forgiveness Trust Effort ז
Hod Glory Blessing Protection Education ח
Yesod Foundation Simplicity Assistance Purification ט
Malkuth Kingdom Peace Prayer Freedom Birth י
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134
The only sefirath that has only one meaning or name is Leb the
sefirath of the heart and for that reason it cannot be modified Because it
is virtual it appears or disappears according to the tree we are looking at
because its power is so big that it doesnrsquot need to be identified or be pre-
sent in the tree because it is a Sefirotic Tree in itself and it is the one that
guides us and protects us
Each one of us has its own Sefirotic Tree which we
must go through without a doubt from Kether to Malkuth and from
Malkuth to Kether
Free will lets us chose the road to take the sefiroth to go
through but it does not let us get out of our own and only tree
We are the only craft men of our own destiny we devel-
op our only precious and exclusive Tree of Life
It is up to us to comply with our Logics Divine Plan or to
decide to evade our responsibilities looking for shortcuts and trying to
twist the Divine assignments
The free will given to us by God demands that we put our spir-
itual and philosophical life in order without further delay to build a dig-
nified future and face each day as if it were the last one
The physical and spiritual kaballistic world from Kether to
Malkuth is truly a happy place to live in if people only thought of go-
ing through their personal and unique Sefirotic Tree
Let us remember these wise words
ldquoDeath is certain life is uncertainrdquo
(Maranam niyatam jivitam aniyatam)
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135
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
The Divine Logic
Cesar Leo Marcus
Windmills International Editions Inc
wwwwindmillseditionscom
California - USA ndash 2012
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136
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8
people will get there without effort or exhaustion enjoying the tiny daily
triumphs and finally achieving their goals
The students of Judeo-Christian Kabbalah chose the second op-
tion we know that the path itself is our teacher that we learn just by
walking through the sefirotic paths and as we near our goal we leave
behind our weaknesses our fears and we value our spiritual weapons our
inner resources our strengths
The students of Judeo-Christian Kabbalah
know that we have come to this world to be happyhellip
Understanding happiness as a means to offer our spirit and soul the
opportunity to learn surrounded by light and positive e nergy
Those who wish to study Judeo-Christian Kabbalah will search
in this book for answers to questions they hadnrsquot even thought of before
and that were hidden from regular people in the past
This book seeks the interpretation of the Sacred Books
and most especially of the symbolism of the sefirot
This book seeks to explain the existence of man the pur-
pose of his life and where he comes from
This book seeks to unveil the occult understanding the
sefirotic trees and the four worlds that make them up
This book seeks to discover the hidden scenarios of your
life achieving the much desired happiness without effort
This book seeks to acknowledge the mystical magic and
creative power of the Tree of Life and its sefirot
This book seeks to be not a abstract study quite the con-
trary whoever studies Judeo-Christian Kabbalah will be able to analyze
the Tree of Life and its sefirot understanding their importance on onersquos
life
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
9
This bookrsquos search takes place within each reader because
ldquoKabbalahrdquo comes from the Hebrew words ldquoLaykabbelrdquo meaning To
Receive and ldquoHabbalahrdquo which means Tradition which refers to the Tra-
dition of To Receive and Kabbalah describes this action as ldquoThe tradi-
tion of wishing to receiverdquo This tradition of wishing to receive develops
and grows in four worlds that continuously come together and grow
apart
To Receive the pleasure of money and power this is the
material world
To Receive the pleasure of acknowledgement and hon-
ors this is the conceptual world
To Receive the pleasure of love and affection this is the
world of senses
To Receive the pleasure of the union with the Divinity
which is the spiritual world which is the highest in the pyramid of the
desires because it wraps and raises all the rest
ldquoHe who acknowledges the power of the
Kabbalah and the tradition of to receivehellip
Will search the means to attain its Lightrdquo
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10
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Kether The Crown
The Sacred Books
Old Testament
New Testament
Koran or Quram
The Zohar
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11
The Old Testament
The Hebrew has three scriptures The Tanakh or Old Testament
the Talmud or collection of erudite commentaries on the Tanakh and
The Kabbalah or mystic interpretation of the Torah Ancient rabbis
would say that the first of these three books represented the Divine Body
the second one the Divine Spirit and the fourth one the Divine Soul The
average person can benefit from reading and obeying the first book eru-
dite scholars can study the second one but wise people meditate with the
third one
The Tanakh
Old Testament also called The Book of Books is divided in
three parts
The Torah the Law which envelops the first five books
ldquoJumashrdquo(5) in hebrew also called ldquoPentateuchrdquo or the Law of Moses
These are the five books Genesis (Bereshit) Exodus (Shemoth) Leviti-
cus (Vayikra) Numbers (Bamidbar) and Deuteronomy (Devarim) They
cover the period between the Genesis up to Mosesrsquo death on the thresh-
old of the entry into the Promised Land (Canaan)
Nevirsquoim (Prophets) The second part of the Tanakh co-
vers a vast period which goes from the conquest up to the last prophets
These are the books contained therein Joshua (the conquest period)
Judges I and II Samuel I and II Kings and those dedicated to the major
prophets Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel and Daniel and the minor prophets
Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah
Haggai Zecariah and Malachi
Ketuvim (writings) This third part of the Tanakh is
made up of the book of Psalms Proverbs Job Ezra Nehemiah Ruth
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12
Song of Songs Lamentations (Eichah) Ecclesiastes Esther and Chroni-
cles I and II They cover a vast period that goes from the VII century of
the Common Era up to the Persian period the return to Israel and the
building of the second Temple of Jerusalem
The Talmud
The Halakha-Mishnah-Aggada-Talmud Bavli (of Babylon)-
Yerushalmi (of Jerusalem) is a compilation of the oral tradition transmit-
ted from generation to generation which covers all topics in the Tanakh
including
The Halakha or the Law explains the rules and princi-
ples pronounced in the Torah rules of conduct religious principles and
rituals Covers a wide variety of issues revolving around the individual
the family and living in community The Halakha has ruled life for centu-
ryrsquos right up to the present
The Mishnah which cover the following rules and regu-
lations are six basic sedarim or treaties (singular=seder)
Moed talks about the festivities א
Zeraim (Seeds) deals with labor practices ב
Nezikin deals with relationships within a group ג
Nashim are the family rules ד
Kodoshim deals with sanctity and holiness ה
Tohorot-kosher are Laws of purity ו
The Gemara the oral law with comments and exegetical rabbin-
ic statements has been study material for centuries nourishing philoso-
phy teachings It contains practically every bit of traditional wisdom col-
lected for centuries
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13
This oral law also contains a vast literary work Haggadah and
Midrashim (legends and comments) on biblical figures of exemplary
conduct
The Kabbalah
The Kabbalah was in ancient literature the totality of the reli-
gious doctrine obtained with the exception of the Pentateuch As of the
X century DC Kabbalah was considered a secret mysterious and theo-
sophical science destined to explain always in a cryptic language the
Creation of the Universe by the Being defined as ldquoOne and Absoluterdquo
Some kabbalists such as Pico Della Mirandola Reuchlin and
Schikard adopt the old tradition according to which Kabbalah develops
from the inspiration that God instilled in Adam Abraham Moses Bud-
dha Jesus Mohammed Bahi and all those that constitute the mystic cir-
cle of the Latter Prophets
Kabbalah is not exclusively Jewish since first Jesus and later
Mohammed were kabbalist scholars
The New Testament
Having taken Jesus as an example as we know it when he was
born there were three religious doctrines in Palestine the Pharisees and
Sadducees of which the Gospels often speak and the Essenes which are
never mentioned Tradition states that the boy Emanuel ben Yoseph was
sent by the erudite doctors of the Law to the community of the Essenes
near the Dead Sea after being heard at the Temple at the age of thirteen
to be educated according to the mystic tradition of Israel The Kabbalah
He stayed with the Essenes until he was thirty years old Emanuel ben
Yoseph or Jesus Christ teaches the continuity of the Hebrew Scriptures
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14
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the
Prophets I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them I tell you
the truth until heaven and earth disappear not the smallest letter not the
least stroke of a pen will by any means disappear from the Law until
everything is accomplished (Mt 517)
However I admit that I worship the God of our fathers
as a follower of the Way which they call a sect I believe everything that
agrees with the Law and that is written in the Prophetsrdquo (Acts 2414)
Jesus answered It is written Man does not live on
bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God (Mat-
thew 44) referring to Deuteronomy 83 ldquohellipto teach you that man does
not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of
Godrdquo
In the chapter called Tipherzt-Beauty you will find a broader ex-
planation of the Christian Kabbalah and an analysis of the Kabbalistic
Jesus and his apostles
The Koran or Quram
The Koran or Quram is the sacred book of Islam containing the
word of Allah (God) as revealed to Mohammed through the angel Gabri-
el (Gibrail or Yibril)
During his life the Prophet Mohammed received the revelations
either verbally or written on palm leaves pieces of leather or bones etc
Upon the death of Mohammed in the year 632 his followers began to
gather all these revelations which during the period in which Uthman ibn
Affan was Caliph took the shape we know nowadays 114 chapters each
one called surah subdivided into verses or phrases
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
15
For the Muslims the Koran is the eternal and un-created work of
God therefore it was to be transmitted without the slightest change in the
original language the classic Arabic considered a sacred tongue for all
purposes
However in recent times the Koran has been translated to many
languages aimed specially at the believer whose native language is not
Arabic But even so believers are obligated to read it in its original lan-
guage because they claim that the contents of the Koran has not been
modified in centuries and a translation is an interpretation
Mohamed admits the continuity of the Hebrew Scriptures in the
following passages of the Koran
ldquoAnd most certainly We gave Musa (Moses) the Book
and We sent apostles after him one after anotherrdquo (Koran surah 287)
ldquoSurely We revealed the Taurat (Torah) in which was
guidance and light with it the prophets who submitted themselves
(to Allah) judged (matters) for those who were Jewsrdquo (surah 544)
ldquoCertainly We made a covenant with the children of Is-
rael and We sent to them apostlesrdquo (surah 570)
ldquoAnd certainly We gave the Book to Musa so be not in
doubt concerning the receiving of it and we made it a guide for the
children of Israelrdquo (surah 3223)
According to the Koran ldquothe Messiah Isa (Jesus) son of
Marium (Mary) is only an apostle of Allah and word which He
communicated to Marium and a spirit from Himrdquo (surah 4171)
He is a prophet or a servant of Allah (surah 4359) but
not His son(surah 6101)
The Muslims consider him a Messiah (in Arabic
ldquoMasihrdquo very similar to the Hebrew ldquoMashiacuteajrdquo) to them it means an
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16
elevated prophet (ldquoanointedrdquo) the closest one to Allah before Mo-
hammed
The word Messiah Masih (ldquoanointedrdquo) can be found in
Surahs 345 4157 171-172 517-72-75 930-31 The highest
prophet except for Mohammed
The Islam considers the mystery of the Trinity and in-
carnation an ldquoassociationrdquo and therefore an offense against the
uniqueness of Allah (surah 112)
But not this way the first three sefirot that wrap the symbolism of
the Trinity
Mohammed sensed the Kabbalah in the Koran since Isa (Je-
sus) is the word of Allah and a spirit from Him son of the Holy Spirit
but they do not exactly consider Isa (Jesus) as if he were Allah
And furthermore the Koran affirms that at the end of time when
humanity will be called to judgment by Allah Isa (Jesus) will stand by
Him as witness and part therein (surah 4361) And everyone who did
not believe in him will believe in him (surah 4157)
Those who interpret the Koran affirm that Isa (Jesus) will come
back to this world at the end of time to save Humanity from damnation
and convert it to Allah
The Zohar
The composition of the Kabbalistic doctrine as we know it to-
day it attributed to Rabbi Shimeon ben Yochai in century II He is the
author of the Zohar ldquoThe Book of Splendorrdquo one of the basic texts of
the Kabbalah Shimeon ben Yochai (80-160) was a disciple of Rebbi
Akiva ldquoRashbirdquo (40-137) who had been sentenced to death by the Ro-
mans because he would not acknowledge nor obey the ruling authority of
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
17
Rome nor would he reveal any Kabbalah secrets to them Even though
the Zohar was written by Rabbi Shimeon ben Yochai Rebbi Akiva was
its true inspirer
Adam Kadmon Zohar XVII Century
Rebbi Akiva ben Joseph was born southeast of Judea close to the
Mediterranean shore His father was a humble Jewish peasant who was
not acquainted with the literature of his people nor the traditions he had
never read the Torah nor visited the Temple Due to the precarious eco-
nomic conditions in which there was living the family Akiba none of her
children received formal education in her infancy The reality was that
Akiba ben Joseph I pass your childhood and adolescence as an illiterate
Mediterranean shepherd until a few years later he married with Raacutechel
who convinced it to leave your activity and to study with the big rabbini-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
18
cal teachers Akiba faced many difficulties in your learning That is why
he started learning the alphabet with his 5 year old son and soon was
reading text books in Hebrew he went on to study the Torah at Rabbi
Joseph ben Zakkairsquos renowned Yeshiva (academy) His teachers Eliezer
ben Hyrkanos Joshua ben Hananiah and Nahum of Gimzo became his
best friends because they admired his bright fast and resourceful mind
Fifteen years later at the top of his mental and physical faculties he be-
gan his monumental work the reconstruction of the Law and the estab-
lishment of an academy of permanent studies
At the age of 57 in the year 97 Akiba was already revered by
both by his colleagues and by the masses He visited rabbis and experts
of the Toraacute with the purpose of combining all the Jewish traditions and
then went on to classify them in a legal code divided up logistically The
effective combination of conciseness and precision served as example the
future generations In the centuries following Mishna (codification of
Jewish laws and traditions) it was acknowledged and studied by the rab-
binical authorities
With more than 65 years Rebbi Akiva founded his private Ye-
shiva (academy) in Bene Berak (Sons of Lightning) to the north of Jeru-
salem wanted to found several in the whole Israel for the study of the
Tora and of the Kabbalah
Everything went along smoothly until the year 125 CE when the
relationship between Jews and Romans deteriorated Emperor Hadrianusrsquo
decision to build a pagan sanctuary on Mount Moria (where the old tem-
ple had been) exacerbated spirits Excitement grew within the Jewish
people and led by Shimon bar Kojba they rebelled
In a little less than three years the Roman armies destroyed all
evidence of Jewish resistance The cruelty of the repression grew month
by month and in the year 134 the Romans enacted a drastic decree pro-
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19
hibiting the practice and study of the Torah Rebbi Akiva was convinced
it was the end If the study of the Torah was abolished his life lacked all
meaning At the age of 95 defying the Roman authority he gathered his
students with the sole purpose to study Kabbalah
A few days later Rebbi Akiva was incarcerated The Romans re-
spected his knowledge reputation and distinguished personality Akiva
continued teaching his disciples from his cell which earned him judg-
ment He was found guilty tortured and sentenced to death With Rebbi
Akiva 24000 of his disciples were killed by the Romans only Rabbi
Simeon bar Yochai and four others survived Before being captured Reb-
bi Akiva and Rabbi Yehuda ben Baba authorized ldquoRashbirdquo to transmit to
future generations the Kabbalah they had taught him
The Zohar or ldquoBook of Splendorrdquo was composed by Simeon bar
Yochai and his son Elazar during the thirteen years they lived in a cave
hiding from the Roman army
ldquoRashbirdquo came out of the cave with the Zohar a flawless meth-
od to study the Kabbalah and having accomplished spirituality Rabbi
Simeon bar Yochai attained the 125 levels a human being can achieve
during his whole life in this world According to the latest investigations
the revelation of the current Kabbalah could be resumed this way
The historic Kabbalah was preceded by a movement (900-1200)
that preserved and encouraged the legacy of the Jewish gnosis
(knowledge of spiritual truth) Later on this movement penetrated Eu-
rope constantly at different stages Hasidism was an important intermedi-
ate stage Furthermore besides all the theoretical and mystical variances
of Kabbalah there was a much older one in which the secret names of
God and the angels were used the same way they are used in white mag-
ic not causing any harm to people Not to be confused with ldquoblack mag-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
20
icrdquo (kishcuf in Hebrew) international current containing elements from
Arabic Jewish and Christian magic
After the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in the year 1492 and
the establishment of a Jewish center in Safed (north of Galilea) Kabba-
lah also experienced a change since two systems flourished the Kabba-
lah of Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (1522-1570) and Kabbalah of Isaac
Luria (1534-1572)
In brief Cordoverorsquos Kabbalah could be defined as a theoretical
variant with many gnostic elements while Luriarsquos Kabbalah would be a
practical mysticism
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
21
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Hokhmah
Wisdom
The Sacred Ideas
Light
The spiritual Will
Tetragramaton
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22
Light
We all have this sixth sense which we will call spiritual sense
still not awakened in some people When people study Kabbalah they can
learn things that were not available to them before because a sixth sense
is developed in order to envision life and the world from a different point
of view
The sixth sense is also called ldquothe spiritual vaserdquo(kli) this vase
is in all of us and it is ruled by basic kabbalistic concepts
A regular personrsquos spiritual vase is still not adequately א
developed to perceive the spiritual world
When light enters a personrsquos heart or soul it ignites the ב
spiritual perception in that person
Nothing is possible without light When we take the light ג
that surrounds us it will gradually light our path
Even if we donrsquot recognize said light there is a direct ד
connection between our heart and the light that will fill it
The light is destined the surrounding lights stand by ה
waiting for you to prepare your vase to receive them
The light we receive when we give in to the wisdom of ו
self-knowledge attracts a celestial charm which gives us abundance
of sanctity and purity that take us closer to realization
ldquoThe person who studies the Kabbalah Judeo-Christian with
the purpose of self-modification will attain the light and will notice
that the desired improvement and success can be achieved with the
least cost or sufferingrdquo
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
23
The Spiritual Will
The Creator wants us to indulge in spiritual pleasures that we
are full That can only be possible through enormous will perfection We
can only reach the spiritual world through a rectified will which will
make us strong and active Only by means of a passionate desire strong-
ly and dedication we will be able to reach really the spiritual world re-
turning forts and assets A small desire will not damage us very much
nor a lot of good The passionate desire only works from the Divine
stimulus which we it will obtain from the Intuition which is a part of the
Spirit
There is a pyramid of souls based on the will to receive
At the base are the many souls with small earthly wills
searching a comfortable animal like life (food and affection)
The following level with minor number of souls those who
want to acquire richness Those are the people who dedicate their lives to
make money and will sacrifice themselves in exchange for fortune
Next are the ones that would do anything to control others to
govern and reach positions of power
At the highest level are the souls that are seeking spirituality
who are open to the light
Man in turn has the same pyramid within him he must invert it
so that the weight goes to the purest desire or will the infinite will for
spirituality When we truly wish to increase our will for spiritually the
surrounding light (the hidden spiritual world) begins to reflect upon us
increasing the desire for even more If we identify with matter we will
try to obtain satisfaction through it searching outside our spirit for mate-
rial things until these material things no longer satisfy us thus becoming
less materialistic and discovering our true spirit
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
24
Our body is matter matter is energy and therefore has life but it
has no spirit or spiritual energy because it is all material energy dense
energy the spirit is light energy The difference between one and the
other is that the material energy has no conscience because it doesnrsquot
perceive reality that is why we see with our eyes and not our heart our
eyes show us the outer figures of things or people its beauty or ugliness
but we can see what they are like inside Spiritual energy is what gives
us conscience of reality of love of truth That is why when we become
conscious of ourselves we transform our matter into spirit and become
more conscious
Albert Einstein was so right when he said ldquoEnergy cannot be
created nor destroyed it can only be transformedrdquo thus dense (mate-
rial) energy can be transformed into lighter (spiritual) energy again and
again
The biggest change we observe in the souls that are descending
nowadays is mainly in their well defined will to achieve a spiritual sys-
tem Even the most common people without any religious or mystic in-
struction are looking for something beyond this world something spir-
itual furthermore more and more scientists or people into pragmatic pro-
fessions are searching for their spiritual light In the last thirty years the
descent of new souls has been activated and accelerated
Their will is much bigger and more genuine They want to
achieve authentic spiritualityhellip nothing morehellip and nothing less
We will discover that we have no other alternative but to
acknowledge the spiritual world of which we are a part This acknowl-
edgement will take us to a new situation where we will begin to act con-
sciously in unison no longer as isolated individuals All of us from one
generation to another are connected in one soul We share a collective
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
25
responsibility That is why the Kabbalist is considered ldquofounder of the
worldrdquo He affects the whole world and the whole World affects him
The Tetragrammaton
In Kabbalah the concept of Shem or ldquoDivine Namerdquo plays a
first degree role which makes a lot of sense given the importance of eve-
rything related to the Emanations of the Sefirotic Tree the mystery of the
letters and the beauty in words
The meditation about the ldquoName of Godrdquo constitutes one of the
pillars of the initiation path to Kabbalah
The Tetragram or Tetragrammatonhellipfrom the Greek four (tetra)
and letters (grammaton)hellip is the name formed by four consonants one
yod (Y) two he (H) and one vav (V) The combination of these four let-
ters spell YHVH the ldquoHoly Namerdquo or Yahavah (as literally read) which
in Kabbalah is called Shem Herman Forash ldquocomplete namerdquo or the
ldquoexplicit namerdquo
Said ldquoSacred Namerdquo is usually transcribed as Jehovah or Yah-
veh nevertheless such description is no more than a hypothetical and
approximate restoration Therefore the word YHVH in which all mys-
teries and the savior power communicated by God are contained has
been designated by tradition as the ldquolost wordrdquo
The ldquocomplete or whole namerdquo was replaced by others also at-
tributed by the Bible as Yahveh such as Adonai El Shaddai or Elohim
Sometimes the four letter name is substituted by half of the Tetra-
grammaton the so-called ldquotwo letter Namerdquo HY or ldquoHaimrdquo interpreted
or translated as LIFE
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
26
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Binah Intelligence
The Tree of Life
Creation
The Tree of Life
The Columns
Tree Sefirot and Letters
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
27
Creation
An example of the depth in the interpretation of the Bible offered
by the kabbalistic doctrine is its version of the biblical narration of the
Creation as contained in the Book of ldquoGenesisrdquo usually considered a na-
ive and childish story to explain a process that modern science has
demonstrated to be much more complex In regard to said mythical-
symbolic narration similar to many others contained in other spiritual
traditions in humanity the kabbalistic doctrine makes two basic observa-
tions of major importance
1 According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the biblical crea-
tion is the process through which the universal manifestation takes place
It is a logical process its place is in the Divine world and it gives form to
the Divinity In it the Supreme Being is determined and revealed as such
going from the Nothing to the Whole The Everything
It is not ldquoGodrsquos Creationrdquo but
ldquoThe Creation in Godrdquo
In this process the Creation of the Cosmos is only a consequence
which just like the latter takes place not sooner nor later but in a con-
tinuous and uninterrupted way in an instant beyond time in the ldquoeternal
nowrdquo
2 The six days of the Creation identify with the creative sefirot
from the fourth one (Hesed) to the ninth one (Yesod) referring to the
specific action or purpose of each one of them while the seventh day
Shabbath in which God rested relates to the tenth sefirot (Malkuth) All
of this is contained in the initial words of the ldquoGenesisrdquo Book ldquoIn the
beginning God created the heavens and the earthrdquo (according to the
common interpretation Authorized Version)
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
28
The key words here are the first three if we want an exact under-
standing of them we must turn to the Hebrew text
ldquoBereshit Bara Elohim
Bereshit means ldquoin the beginningrdquo which according to the Kab-
balistic interpretation it does no refer to a beginning in time but a logical
beginning it is what proceeds not in time but in hierarchy (rank)
and function This principle is Hokhmah the second sefirath
This text should be interpreted this way
ldquoIn the intelligent and intelligible
Beginning which is the Divine Wisdomrdquo
The second word of this quote is Bara ldquocreatedrdquo It is a verb of
action without a subject it doesnrsquot say who created That action has no
subject because the ldquowhordquo of which it speaks is the sefirath Kether ldquothe
Crownrdquo which goes beyond anything personal since in it the ldquoNothingrdquo
of the Supra Being or Absolute
As far as the third word is concerned Elohim we must indicate
that besides not being the subject of the sentence it is in its plural for
literally meaning ldquogodsrdquo
The kabbalistic exegesis (explanation) identifies this Elohim
with the third sefirath Binah the Intelligencerdquo which contains and de-
signs within itself the seven sefirot of the cosmic composition the six
active ones and the receptive one which is the receptacle for the rest of
them (Malkuth the tenth sefirot)
This is why the interpretation to which we are used ldquoGod creat-
edrdquo is not exact A more accurate interpretation of the original hebrew
text would be ldquoThe Nothing created godsrdquo that is it created or profiled
the qualities or aspects of the Divine Reality of which afterwards -not in
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
29
a time order but in an order of principles a cosmic order arises the Crea-
tion or universal manifestation
Therefore here is the message contained in the initial verse of
the ldquoGenesisrdquo according to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah
ldquoThe Supra Being constitutes Itself eternally the causal Being
and the object or purpose of all things in which all qualities poss i-
bilities and forms of the created and uncreated reality are presentrdquo
The Sefirotic Tree and the four worlds
And the twenty-two paths that unite the
Crown (Kether) with the Kingdom (Malkuth)
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
Binah
Geburah
Hod
Yesod
Malkuth
Tipherzt
Neshah
Hesed
Hok-mah
Kether
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
30
The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life is the Divine Architecture which symbolizes the
soul of man and the Universe and as He is divided into four levels known
as the four inner Worlds
In the Ideal World - Atziluth is where everything is
in a latent potential state
In the Creative World - Briah is where the pure
power and the ideas in their shapes are
In the Formative World - Yetsirah everything is in
a conceptual process or one or formation
In the Material World - Assiah is where the physi-
cal manifestation takes place
This tree consists of 10 fixed spheres and a ldquovirtualrdquo one and 22
paths that connect them In a very broad sense we can say that the
spheres or Sefirot are stages of the emanations of the Spirit of God
from the primordial existence to the physical manifestation
ldquoThey are inexhaustible centers of powerrdquo
The model of the Tree of Life mirror and synthesis of man and
the cosmos is divided in three columns or pillars this traditional division
in three columns is in close connection with the alchemical or magic
principles which were discovered by the kabbalists of the 12th
century
and have been present to this day and always will be
The whole manifestation is based on duality this duality is rep-
resented in the tree the three Sefirot to the right form the active pillar
masculine and the three Sefirot to the left form the passive pillar femi-
nine
The duality is also present in each Sefirath The only Unit is
found in the Non-Manifested which is above the Tree
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
31
The Non-Manifested is the pure state of the In-Existence from
where Existence arises which is the first Sefirath the Sefirot in the cen-
ter form the middle or balance pillar
Therefore we observe that one of the columns is active-
masculine another one is passive-feminine and the third one or central
axis equidistant from both of them is neuter and is constantly combining
and harmonizing them both
Power corresponds to the Active energy column integrated by the
following Sefirot Hokhmah (2) Hesed (4) and Neshah (7) Form or
shape corresponds to the passive energy columns which is made up of
the following Sefirot Binah (3) Geburah (5) and Hod (8) The central
or axle column or pillar integrated by Kether (1) Tipherzt (6) Yesod
(9) and Malkuth (10) is neuter and eternally assimilating the opposites
thus creating new possibilities of indefinite developments It is called the
column or pillar of equilibrium or balance
This is the image of permanent order of the Creation It is the
idea upon which all sciences are based and which are called ldquoThesis An-
tithesis and Synthesisrdquo techno science and modern physics have ldquodis-
coveredrdquo formations similar to that of the Tree of Life in the universe
around us such as the quantum structure or the DNA map of all living
things (vegetables animals humans) This proves that the Tree of Life
rules all norms of matter and spirit from the beginning of time
Kabbalah teaches us that energies run through the Tree of Life
from the Unity Kether identified with the number one up to the formal
and substantial manifestation the world and matter just as we know
them and perceive them through our senses This flow of energies or
vibrations is called emanations and they make up any manifestation
The energies of the Sefirot ndash all of the invisible except for
Malkuth which resumes and contains the whole Tree ndash travel a continu-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
32
Binah
Geburah
Hod
Yesod
Malkuth
Tipherzt
Neshah
Hesed
Hokmah
Kether
Leb
ous descending path from (1) Kether down to Earth or the World
Malkuth (10) which is an inverted image of Kether (10=1+0=1) The
rest of the Sefirot or numerals are taken as intermediaries between mani-
festation and the lack of it
The columns of the Tree of Life
Passive Column Neuter Column Active Column
Feminine Form Central Equilibrium Mascu-
line Power
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
33
Tree Sefirot and letters
According to the Pentateuch Moses went to the top of Mount
Sinai and surrounded by fantastic clouds received the Ten Command-
ments God gave him On the other hand Kabbalist affirm that Moses
also received from Heaven besides the Commandments the most pro-
found and secret knowledge to be transmitted only to those truly worthy
of it Going even further back in time some say they can see in the Kab-
balah the mysterious instructions given to Adam in his sleep which per-
mitted him to give a name to everything within the Creation meaning
that Kabbalah is the philosophy of the infinite power of the word the
sound that God gave man in his image calling everything by its name
This search for the practical use of the word is good for reading
the future as well as for really manipulating the secret vibrating energies
for useful purposes or according to the legend to create beings the go-
lems which make up the active aspect of the Kabbalah
On the other hand this also entails a speculative aspect a mysti-
cism aimed at discovering through the interpretation of the Scriptures
and meditation on the sound and the name the diagram of the Universe
and the destiny of man
Ein Sof (the infinite the ineffable) affirms itself revealing itself
to humanity it becomes Shekinah (Godrsquos presence and its feminine side)
which has the responsibility of creation its product
Creation is the result of a progressive descent of the divine
(which never loses its own unity nor its transcendence) in a pure and in-
telligent series associated to the divine until it takes over matter
Thus the cosmos is structured like an immense organism a
drawn path in which all divine intelligence (sefirah plural sefirot) is
communicated with the preceding one from which it receives and with
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
34
the next one to which it gives until the final stage contact with our
world
The ten sefirot all connected by imposed paths denoting their in-
terdependence and represented by a symbolic structure of a tree or a man
(Adam Kadmon) follow an order
Kether Crown - 1 א
Hokhmah Wisdom - 2 ב
Binah Intelligence - 3 ג
Leb Heart
Hesed Greatness - 4 ד
Geburah Justice - 5 ה
Tipherzt Beauty - 6 ו
Neshah Stability - 7 ז
Hod Glory - 8 ח
Yesod Foundation - 9 ט
Malkuth Kingdom - 10 י
The admirable and complex organization of the Sefirotic Tree
with its 22 paths which connect the ten divine emanations permit us to
see right away the close connection there is between the sefirot and the
22 letters in the hebrew alphabet the 22 images of the Tarot and the 22
astrological signs (12 signs and 10 planets)
Since God created the world pronouncing the name of things
each letter is associated to the descent of the divine intelligences and
holds within itself an infinite power
The hebrew language is just like Arabic Egyptian Sanscrit or
Chinese a liturgical language full of the voices of thousand of men who
speak with the divinity therefore to pronounce one sound instead of an-
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
35
other is like changing or modifying creation itself based on a subtle vi-
brating equilibrium Within that same chain of ideas prayer by principle
a devout plea also becomes an active and energetic system that shakes
up the intermediate spheres between man and God holder of the cosmic
order
Kabbalah whether is aimed exclusively at theoretic speculation
or it proposes practical and precise goals like the making of talismans
(from the Arabic tilsam ndash a charm to avert evil and bring good fortune it
appeals to specific instruments based of calculus and numbers
Ad- am
Kadmon Zohar XVII Century
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
36
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
Hesed Greatness
Adam Kadmon
And The Sefirot
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
37
Adam Kadmon
Adam Kadmon (Primordial Man) is described by the Zohar as a
ldquobig and powerful tree with branches reaching up to the sky source of
all spiritual lightrdquo In this sefirotic and tree shaped human figure the dif-
ferent sefirot have been placed according to the parts of the human body
to which they relate Each one of them has a very particular mystical
value in the cosmic vision
The first three sefirot correspond symbolically to the head
Kether (the Crown) placed at the top or what the kabbalistic
doctrine calls the ldquohidden brainrdquo Hokhmah (Wisdom) and Binah (In-
telligence) relate to the right and left sides of the brain respectively or
also the right and left eye The two sefirot at mid level Hesed (Great-
ness) and Geburah (Justice) are identified with both arms ldquoGreatnessrdquo
the right one and ldquoJusticerdquo the left one The two central sefirot Leb (the
Heart) which is Virtual that is why it is not represented and Tipherzt
(Beauty) identified with the navel energetic center source of connection
to the mother and nucleus or sun of the body Tipherzt embodies com-
pleteness union and harmony The two sefirot of the inner level Neshah
(Stability) and Hod (Glory) represent both legs ldquoStabilityrdquo the right
thigh and ldquoGloryrdquo the left one Yesod (Foundation) another central
sefirah found between both thighs represents the genitalia the tools and
foundation for procreation Sefirah number ten the last one is Malkuth
(the Kingdom) from which the cosmic manifestation springs and is in
permanent contact with Earth it is related to both feet always in contact
with the ground This sefirah connecting all this to man the Sefirotic
Tree proves that everything in the human being can be spiritualized
Man must achieve in his own being that harmoniously elevated
unity that the figure in the divine Tree of Life and Light shows us
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
38
In order to be an authentic ldquoTree of Liferdquo man must discover and
update that sefirotic mystery that is within him as if it were a treasure
full of light waiting to be found
The Sefirot
Kether ndash The Crown - The first sefirah is the Admirable Intelligence
it is the light that gives the power of understanding the First Principle
which has no beginning It is the one and only reality the absolute mys-
tery the essence from which the rest of the sefirot emanate Related to
Crown Knowledge Principle Essence and Light
Hokhmah ndash Wisdom- The second sefirah is the Enlightening Intelli-
gence the Wisdom through which the Deity knows Itself and allows eve-
ry Being to know the unity within itself It is the symbolism of the pure
and eternal fire a place in heaven where the archangels angels
Related to Wisdom Experience Convergence Intuition
Binah ndash Intelligence - The third sefirah is the Sanctifying Intelligence
it is the Great Mother or Holy Universal Spirit matrix of all the worlds
and beings shaping them to return them again to the One
Idea Intelligence Awareness Protection Morale Divergence
(discrepancyvariance)
These first three sefirot are really only one
Kether is Knowledge
Hokhmah is the subject that knows (active)
Binah is the known object (passive)
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
39
In these three sefirot the Judeo-Christian Kaballistic dotrine
discovers the endowments of the Holy Trinity
Kether or God the Father
Hokhmah or God the Son (active on the right side)
Binah or God the Mother or Holy Spirit (passive)
ldquoThe all emanations of God the Father and Son and Holy
Spirit is only one Beingrdquo
Hesed ndash Greatness - The fourth sefirah is the Receptive Intelligence it
contains all the holy powers and all the spiritual virtues emanate from it
such as Greatness Love and Mercy Related to Greatness Love Hum-
bleness Strength Deliverance
Geburah ndash Justice - The fifth sefirah is the Righteous Intelligence
which contains all the spiritual mandates It is the Divine Justice Relat-
ed to Justice Truth Freedom Shape Control
Tipherzt ndash Beauty - The sixth sefirah is the Intelligence Provider of
Spiritual Nouishment Ii is the Divine Beauty that entwines all the other
sefirot It is the Center of centers it clearly relates to the Sun giver of
life light and warmth Related to Beauty Serenity Sweetness Trust
Family
Neshah ndash Stability - The seventh sefirah is the Occult Intelligence it is
the bright Splendor of the intellectual virtues perceived by the eyes of the
intellect It is the energy that produces all the worlds Related to Sta-
bility Power Victory Balance Pleasures
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
40
Hod ndash Glory - The eighth sefirah is the Absolute or Perfect Intelli-
gence which has no support or base and descends from Geburah from
which it receives its Expertise Related to Glory Acknowledgement
Learning Awakening
Yesod ndash Foundation - The ninth sefirah is the Pure Intelligence because
it purifies tries corrects and centralizes the emanations It is the founda-
tion that balances the all previous Sephiroth Related to Founding
Building Childhood Filtering
Malkuth ndash The Kingdom - The tenth sefirah is Glowing Intelligence It
is the Kingdom of Heaven or Kingdom on Earth the descent of Kether
upon the material world represents the Divine Omnipresence over
things Related to The Kingdom Earth Heaven and Real World
Each one of these sefirot has a hidden face and a visible one
Every sefirah a complete Sefirotic Tree can be found and in every
sefirah in that Tree another one and so on until the smallest infiniteness
And vice-versa every Tree no matter how big we imagine it is only a
sefirah of a bigger Tree which in turn is another sefirah of an even big-
ger one to the infinite as well
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
41
Kabbalah
Judeo Christian
Geburah Justice
The letters and numbers
The Letters of Kabbalah
Gematriacutea Table
Gematriacutea or Numerology
The Meaning of the Hebrew Letters
Angels of Kabbalah
Geniuses of Kabbalah
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
42
The Letters of Kabbalah
The formulas in the medieval books on magic are so full of He-
brew names to speak of God the angels the spirits and demons that at
this point it is impossible to pinpoint the inexactness and the abuse The
Hebrew language like other former language has magicrsquos powers
Sound is a vibration found in numbers Numbers are groups of geometric
relations of spaces that activate energy
Each letter in the hebrew alphabet corresponds exactly just as in
an ldquoencoded languagerdquo to a number because the Hebrews Greeks and
Arabs used for many centuries the same graphic sign for a sound or
amount until the Indians and the Arabs introduced their ldquonumbersrdquo the
ldquozerordquo was invented in the IV century and the Arabs and Hebrews began
to use it in the VII century with the name ldquoceferrdquo which means devoid
empty vacuum From it derived zero and cipher
It was Leonardo Fibonacci (1170-1240) an Italian mathemati-
cian the first one to write a book in 1202 Liber Abaci (Book of Calcula-
tion) on Arabic numbers in occident and began to replace the Roman
numbers It was not until the year 1500 that they were completely re-
placed
This means that it is not Kabbalah that replaces letters with num-
bers historically the letters ldquowererdquo numbers since these were enforced in
the western culture five hundred years ago If we accept this concept we
will not regard numerology or gematriacutea of the Hebrew letters as some-
thing new or capricious but as a historical reality
For those who do not read Hebrew writing there is another meth-
od called transcription It is no easy task to transcribe from a holy lan-
guage to one that is not
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
43
A kabballistic practice suggests that as long as the hebrew lan-
guage is not completely unknown to replace each number in a date with
its corresponding letter bearing in mind that the Jewish calendar starts
with the year of the creation which took place 3760 years before the
birth of Jesus when the western calendar begins counting
Thus the year 1989 becomes 5749 which translated to Hebrew
letters gives us Tau Shin Mem Chefh which add up to Tismach mean-
ing ldquoyou will be overjoyedrdquo and that was the year the Berlin wall came
down In the same way 1914 the start of World War I becomes Tau
Resch Ayin Daleth which add up to Tirtzach ldquoYou will killrdquo and for
1938 start of World War II Tirrsquoad ldquoYou will tremble in terrorrdquo
Table of Gematriacutea of Hebrew Letters
Letter
Name Absolute
Value
Ordinal
Value
Reduced
Value
Latin
Alphabet
Alefh 1 1 1 A-H
Beth 2 2 2 B
Guimel 3 3 3 G
Daleth 4 4 4 D
Hei 5 5 5 H-E-A
Vav 6 6 6 V-U-Y
Zain 7 7 7 Z
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
44
Heth 8 8 8 Y-J
Thet 9 9 9 TH
YodJod 10 10 1 Y-I
KafJaf 20 11 2 K-C
Lamed 30 12 3 L
Mem 40 13 4 M
Nun 50 14 5 N
Samej 60 15 6 S
Ayn 70 16 7 O-E
PehFeh 80 17 8 P-F
Tzadik 90 18 9 T-Z-X
Kuof 100 19 1 K-Q
Reish 200 20 2 R
Shin 300 21 3 S-SH
TafTau 400 22 4 T
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
45
Gematriacutea or Hebrew Numerology
As we said earlier in the Hebrew language each letter has a nu-
merical value Gematriacutea is the calculation of the numerical value of let-
ters words or phrases to obtain a better understanding of the relation be-
tween the different concepts and to explore the relation between words
and ideas
In this technique it is assumed that the numerical equivalency is
no coincidence From the moment the world was created through the
Creatorrsquos ldquowordrdquo each letter represents a different creative power
Therefore the numerical equivalence of two words reveals an inner con-
nection between its potential creators
There are four ways to calculate the equivalency of individual
letters and each way corresponds to a different world in the Tree of Life
The Zohar tells us that the concept of reduced value is related to
the spiritual world of Yetsirah Based on this we can establish a relation
between the four methods of calculation the four spiritual kingdoms and
the four letters of the name of the Divine which are YHVH or in He-
brew Yod Hei Vav and Hei
The Absolute Value of Yod itrsquos to the world of Atziluth
The Ordinal Value of Hei itrsquos to the world of Briah
The Reduced Value of Vav itrsquos to the world of Yetsirah
The Whole Value of Hei itrsquos to the world of Assiah
ldquoAbsolute value (in Hebrew mispar hejrajiacute) also known as
normative or normal Valuerdquo
Each letter takes the value of its accepted numeral equivalent
alef (the first letter) worth 1 bet (second one) worth 2 and so on up to
the tenth letter iud which is worth 10 and the following ones are worth
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
46
20 30 40 up to the letter kuf close to the end of the alef-bet which is
worth 100 and then 200 300 up to the last letter tav which is worth 400
In this type of calculation the letters kafjaf sofit (sofit=end)
mem sofit nun sofit pehfeh sofit and tzadik sofit which are the ldquofinal
shapesrdquo of the respective letters when they are at the end of a word usu-
ally take the same numeric value of the common shape of the letter
Nonetheless sometimes the following are considered equivalents kafjaf
sofit = 500 mem sofit = 600 nun sofit = 700 pehfeh sofit = 800 y tza-
dik sofit = 900
Following this method of calculation the Hebrew alphabet is a
complete circle the tzadik at the end is equal to 900 and then alef is
equal to one and one thousand In the Hebrew language the same letters
are used to write the name of the letter alef equal to one and to write the
word elef which means ldquothousandrdquo
ldquoOne the first number follows one thousand
in a complete and perfect circlerdquo
Ordinal Value (in hebrew mispar siduriacute) It assigns to each
one of the 22 letters a numerical equivalent according to the order in
which they appear in the alef-bet For example alef equals 1 kaf = 11
taf = 22 The final kaf is 23 and the final tzadik is 27
Reduced Value (en hebrew mispar kataacuten and in mathemati-
cal terminology the module 9) The value of each letter is reduced to
one digit For example alef is equal to 1 iud to 10 and kuf to 100 but
according to this system all three have a numerical value of one beit is
equal to 2 kaf to 20 and reish to 200 therefore all three are equal to 2
etc Therefore letters have only 9 equivalencies instead of twenty-two
Integral Value (in hebrew mispar mispariacute) This is the fourth
way to calculate In this fashion the total numeric value of a word is re-
duced to one digit If the sum of these numbers exceeds 9 the numbers
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
47
in the total figure are added until a single digit is obtained The same
result will be obtained whether you take the absolute the ordinal or the
reduced values
The meaning of the Hebrew Letters
Alefh Represents the Divine Presence It is the symbol of
the absolute and unique faith in only one Creator and Lord It is pro-
nounced ah-left which derives from the word Alufh which means prince
minister or chief It is made up of two dots which are two iod (the tenth
letter of the alphabet) and a slanted vav (sixth letter) If we add the two
iod (20) and the one vav (6) we get 26 which is equal to the sum of the
letters YHVH Yod (10) Hei(5) Vav(6) Hei(5) of the name of the
Creator
Beth The Torah begins with this second letter ldquoBereshitrdquo
(In the Beginning) This is because it represents and symbolizes the
Berehia (Creation) and the Berajaacute (Blessing) The purpose of Creation is
to give abundance to the human being Its value is two It represents and
shows us that there is nothing in this world totally complete and indivisi-
ble Everything can be parted in two Only God is unique and indivisible
Guimel This letter is close to the root of the word Bra
keep complete and give That is why it is used in ldquoGuemilut Hasadimrdquo
to do favors Guimel represents the third column on which the world
rests it is the giver or favor doer spirit and also proof that God constantly
helps and favors the human being and His whole Creation Its value is
three
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48
Daleth When we pronounce this fourth letter we find a
great closeness to the word deleth (door) The letter Daleth relates to the
word ldquodalhrdquo poor going from door to door seeking food Daleth follows
Guimel creating a unified thought to help the poor Its value (4) reminds
us of the material world because poverty can be found everywhere in our
planet
Hei The Talmud says God created the world with two
letters that represent His Name ldquoYod and Heirdquo With the first one He
created the world to come and with the second one this world Its shape
is made up of two parts a dalet and an iod Daleth has a vertical line
and a horizontal line It represents this world where everything has a
body and occupies space The iod which is just a dot represents the in-
finite world where there are no physical laws Meaning that in this
world too the spiritual Divine component is present
Vav Its value six represents something complete and
finished The world was created completely in six days Every complete
and closed object has six sides top bottom right left front and back
The letter vav is used to unite phrases concepts objects similar ldquoandrdquo
Vav is therefore union Except for some exceptions all paragraphs in the
Bible as written in the scrolls begin with Vav The written Torah (5
books) + ldquovavrdquo (Kabbalah) The oral Torah (6 books)
Zain It represents the seven spiritual values which are
the object of this world Zan means ldquonourishmentrdquo and Zain means ldquoar-
mamentrdquo Its shape is similar to that of a sword Its shows us that man
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
49
must confront and overcome adversity many times in order to obtain his
nourishment
Heth Just as Zain represents manrsquos purpose on earth Heth
with the value of eight represents manrsquos possibility to cross the limits
imposed by the earth Seven is nature eight are the values and goals
which represent what is above nature It also connects to the letter Haim
which means life The top part of the heth has an arrow pointing up-
wards meaning that life always belongs to God and everything depends
on Him
Thet This letter is first written in the Torah in the word
Tov (good) Each one of the days of the Creation was crowned with
qualifying phrase ldquoAnd God saw that it was goodrdquo Thet is synonym of
the relationship of God towards man which is always good even though
we donrsquot always see it that way Goodness or Kindness is a Divine quali-
ty and it should be emulated The most exquisite act of kindness is to
help our neighbor without causing him embarrassment
Iod Its size earns it the category of the smallest and most
indivisible letter not like the rest which are made up of different parts
and that is why it represents the Almighty in His condition of Unique and
Indivisible Its shape according to the Zohar has a point facing up to-
wards God another one facing down towards earth and the central point
which unites both That is why when a person prays the heart faces up
and the eyes down in humbleness in front on God Its value Ten is very
representative of the whole Torah Ten generations from Adam to Noah
and another ten from Noah to Abraham the Patriarch Ten are the Divine
Commandments given to Moses and ten are the sefirot The number ten
is actually ONE
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50
Kaf It symbolizes Kether the crown (written in Hebrew
with kaf) as the Talmud says ldquoGod will place the Kether on he who
helps his neighbor the way he should and according to his possibilitiesrdquo
Its shape (curved) has a relation to its name which represents the hum-
bleness that the person who carries the crown should have
Lamed Its shape is made up of a kaf and a vav together
they add up to 26 like the Divine Name Its name lamed is the root of
the verbs to teach and to learn The name Israel begins with iod the
smallest letter and ends with lamed the biggest one The Torah begins
with bet and ends with lamed together they spell the word led (heart)
the fundamental basis to find light and accomplish precepts
Mem This letter has two aspects one known as the open
mem it is used in the beginning and middle of a word indicating that
there are points which refer to God Almightyrsquos doing which are within
our comprehension and a closed mem which is only used at the end of
words indicating the occult and incomprehensible part Moshe and
Mashiacuteaj begin with mem Its value is 40 the necessary time period for
the concretion of different stages
The fetus needs 40 days to have a complete form
The Great Flood lasted 40 days and 40 nights
Moses was up at Mount Sinai 40 days and 40 nights
The Jewish people walked for 40 years in the desert
It is at the age of 40 that a person is considered to have
reached wisdom
Nun This letter also has two shapes one for any part of the
word with a curved shape and the other straight for the endings of
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51
words Both indicate the exclusive quality of God who is Neeman
which means loyal to His word and worthy of trust This word restarts
with a Nun and ends with another
Samej This letter represents the concept of the Divine
support (Semej in Hebrew) Godrsquos support towards man as well as manrsquos
support towards God The certainty of God is the foundation of faith and
the base upon which the human being can search and reach for its goal in
this world
Ayn in Hebrew it means ldquoeyerdquo Its shape is made up two
parts an Yod leaning against a Zain Reclining both on the base the nu-
meric value of both parts is 17 just like the word Tob (good) This indi-
cates that the ayn (eye) has to be used to observe only the good things
Its value is 70
70 are the names of the Almighty and the Torah
70 are the basic people (towns) in the world
70 are the holidays in a year (52 Saturdays 18 holy
days)
Jesus sent out 70 disciples to evangelize
The Great Temple of Jerusalem had 70 columns
70 old wise men received the Torah from Moses they
are called ldquothe eyes of the congregationrdquo the symbol of the ayn (eye)
precisely
Peh it means ldquomouthrdquo in Hebrew It is through this ex-
quisite sense that the human being differentiates and raises itself over the
rest of the creation There are two peh one for any part of the word and
the other for the endings The first one is said to be closed and its shape
symbolizes the fetus in the motherrsquos womb (fetal position) with its mouth
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52
closed The other open resembles the newborn babe stretching its limbs
It also reminds us of the control we should have over it sometimes
closed and others open when to speak and when not to
Tzadik The 18th letter The Talmud names the Tzadik per-
son the just person The title of ldquoTzadikrdquo is not given to just anybody It
is written that God is Tzadik and Perfect This quality of Tzadik when it
comes to God is manifested through kindness Those people who go
about and act according to the divine will are said to be ldquoTzadikrdquo They
are fair just and kind to the maximum of their possibilities
Kuof This letter shows us and symbolizes the Divine
Sanctity Kadosh God is Holy Man can also be called kuof if he is supe-
rior rising above the others The shape of kuof is made up of a kaf and a
vav which add up to 26 just as the four letter name for God Kuof is
very similar to kof which means ldquomonkeyrdquo The Zohar calls monkeys
those human beings who do not believe in the divine will and do not dig-
nify being created in Godrsquos image According to Kabbalah the road is
open for man he can be holy and thus get close to God or walk away
from Him and become a monkey
Reish Up until now we saw how the letters show us and
represent the Divine Presence On the contrary reish represents and
symbolizes Evil ldquoRashardquo in Hebrew Reish follows kuof which repre-
sents the Divine Sanctity The word ldquoroshrdquo (first beginning or head) in
Aramaic is pronounced ldquoreishrdquo just like the letter Midrash tells us the
Almighty is ldquoRoshrdquo since he is the beginning and head of the world and
its end as well Evil does not exist what we judge as bad is only a part of
the Divine Plan and we do not know and therefore cannot understand
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53
Shin this letter has an important place since shalom
(peace) begins with it Only God is the source and root of true peace Its
shape with three arms and three heads represents the wish of all of us to
rise to heaven lifting our hands to receive His help It also encompasses
the symbolism of something that has three limbs but only one purpose
We live in three worlds past present and future
The human being has a spirit a soul and a body
The human creation has three partners
Kether Binah and Hokhmah or the Holy
Trinity
Taf unlike the other letters which we have seen through
analysis and symbology that each represented a word being the first eg
Shin Shalom (peace) Sheker (lie) the symbol for taf is given by the last
letter in the word ldquoEmetrdquo (truth) This is exactly the general characteris-
tic of truth at first the lie seems more interesting Truth is appreciated in
the end Truth involves everything since its letters are one in the begin-
ning the other one in the middle and the third one at the end
The Angels of Kabbalah
The etymological meaning of the word angel is messenger from
the Greek ldquoAggeloacutesrdquo ldquoAngirasrdquo in Sanskrit in Persian ldquoAngarosrdquo in
Hebrew and Arabic ldquoMalakhrdquo and ldquoDevardquo for the Hindus
Doubts about their existence disappear before the coincidences
amongst cultures and diverse beliefs that describe them
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54
Angels constantly remind us who we are due to the message that
is attributed to them For us their place is the same as that of God they
are above us and within us
To come in contact with them could take us to doubt if we did so
with a superior reality or with the highest part of ourselves
The mythical history of Kabbalah tells us that after man was
driven out of the Garden of Eden the angels transmitted the kabballistic
teachings to man so that he could reconquer it through the never ending
divine energy which is present everywhere in the Universe
The 72 Angeles of Kabbalah
Seraphim
Vehuiah ndash Elemiah ndash Jeliel ndash Lelahel
Sitael ndash Achaiah ndash Mahasiah ndash Cahethel
Cherubim
Haziel ndash Aladiah ndash Lauviah ndash Hahaiah
Iezalel ndash Mebael ndash Hariel ndash He Kamiah
Thrones (also known as Ophanim)
Lauviah ndash Caliel ndash Lauviah ndash Pahaliah
Nelkhael ndash Yeiaiel ndash Melahel ndash Haheuiah
Dominions (or Kyriotetes)
Nith ndashHahaiah ndash Yerathel ndash Sheikh
Reiyel ndash Omael ndash Lecabel ndash Vasariah
Powers
Vehuiah ndash Lehahiah ndash Chavakiah ndash Menadel
Aniel ndash Haamiah ndash Rehael ndash Ieiazel
Virtues
Hahahel ndash Mikael ndash Veuliah ndash Ylahiah
Sealiah ndashAriel ndash Asaliah ndash Mihael
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55
Principalities
Vehuel ndash Daniel ndash Hahasiah ndash Imamiah
Nanael ndash Nithael ndash Mebahiah ndash Poyel
Archangels
Nemamiah ndash Yeialel ndash Aacuterale ndash Mitzrael
Umabel ndash Iah ndashAnauel ndash Mehiel
Angels
Damabiah ndash Manakel ndash Eyael ndash Habuhiah
Rochel ndash Yabamiah ndash Haiayel ndash Mum
Geniuses of Kabbalah
Air ndash Earth ndash Water - Fire
The first three verses of the Torah are revealing in regard to the
Divine Creation In the morning of the first day God created the four
geniuses or semi-gods to help Him directly preparing the platform for
the coming of man
Genesis 11 ndash
ldquoIn the beginning God created heaven and earthrdquo
Genesis 12 ndash
ldquohellipthe Spirit of God was hovering over the watersrdquo
Genesis 13 ndash
Let there be light and there was light
Nothing would exist in the Universe without the four geniuses
or elements only God and with the creation of these geniuses He
proves to us that He does not want to be alone but surrounded by
vegetation animals and specially the HUMAN BEING
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56
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Tipherzt
Beauty
Christian Kabbalah
Jesus and the Kabbalah
The Sacred Books
The Apostle Matthew
The Sermon on the Mountain
(The Beatitudes)
The Our Father
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57
Jesus and the Kabbalah
Up until now we have analyzed the Bible from the Tanaj and the
Talmud we have also taken the Torah as the foundation of Kabbalah
The New Testament has an important kabballistic content provided by
Jesus and his apostles
Emmanuel ben Yoseph known as Jesus Christ lived between
the ages of thirteen and thirty-three with the Essenes Fraternity of the
Dead Sea where he learned the secrets of the Kabbalah that his Father
had given to mankind and because of his illumination he was declared
Master of Justice
In the New Testament the four evangelists analyzed Jesus from
the four kabballistic worlds which are completely separated and diffeent
Matthew describes a physical Jesus generations that preceded
him and his relationship with the people of Israel
This is the World of Assiah
Luke tells the story of Jesus intimate life he describes moving
images of the Master along his pathway
This is the World of Yetsirah
Mark talks to us of a miraculous Jesus with a Divine mag-
netism and its soul healing rays
This is the World of Briah
John gave us the gospel of a metaphysical Jesus the abstract
spirit and visions of an astral world
This is the World of Atziluth
The Kabbalah develops its doctrine in the light that invades us
and emanates from our bodies because we are part of it
Jesus in John 812 says I am the light of the world Those who
follow me will never walk in darkness They will have the light that leads
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58
to life and in Ephesians 58 he confirms ldquoAt one time you were in the
dark But now you are in the light because of what the Lord has donerdquo
When Matthew in verse 223 says ldquohellipand came and lived in a
city called Nazarethrdquo This was to fulfill what was spoken through the
prophets He shall be called a Nazarene he explains that Jesus had to
be a Nazarene that is he had to wear the Crown or Kether according to
what God told Moses in the oral or kabballistic precepts In Numbers 66-
7 it is said ldquothroughout the period of their dedication to the LORD the
Nazirite must not go near a dead body Even if their own father or
motherrdquo
In Matthew 822 Jesus stresses this precept saying ldquohelliplet the
dead bury their own dead
According to the Kabballists the Torah is fountain of wine and
milk In Isaiah 551 we read hellip and he who has no money come buy
wine and milk without money without pricehelliprdquo In many quotes Jesus
mentions the wine as his spiritual blood Peter 22 ldquohellipLike newborn ba-
bies crave pure spiritual milk so that by it you may grow up in your sal-
vationhelliprdquo
The Old and New Testament
The Old Testament or Tanaj is made up of 39 books and the New
Testament 29 a total of 66 books As we all know there is no such thing
as luck it is the message of God that we still cannot decipher If we ana-
lyze that message through kabballistic numerology we will decipher it
and be surprised
According to the kabballistic numerology ldquo39 books in the Ta-
najrdquohellip 3+9=12hellip 1+2=3 and ldquo3rdquo represents the Holy Trinity
Kether or God the Father
Hokhmah or God the Son (active to the right of the Father)
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59
Binah or God the Mother or Holy Spirit (passive)
They are all emanations of God the Father and therefore only
one Being It is the announcement of the Divine Trilogy based on the
Admirable Intelligence of Kether the Illuminating Intelligence of
Hokhmah and the Sanctifying Intelligence of Binah If we take away the
substance of the Tanaj which are the five books that make up the Penta-
teuch we are left with 34 books or the number 7 which were the re-
maining emanations with which God created the Universe The 27 books
of the New Testament add up to the kabballistic nine which is the Divine
or Complete number since it contains all the numbers and closes the
wheel That is the New Testament not only does it complement but also
contains the previous one and completes it The sum of both is 66 its
kabballistic number is 3 and it returns to the Holy Trinity the Three
Sefirot or divine emanations
The Apostle Matthew
In chapter one Matthew explains the genealogy of Jesus with a
result of 42 generations from Abraham to Jesus in three periods of 14
generations each This he does from the physical world or Assiah to ex-
plain with real facts Abrahamrsquos descendants and how Jesus really was
the King of the Jews
Forty-two (generations from Abraham to Jesus) adds up to six
like the sefirot of the Creation (on the seventh one He rested) which
means God rested in Malkuth the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth but
the message from Matthew is that we should distribute these three peri-
ods amongst the six sefirot of the Creation
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60
The transition between Abraham and David takes place be-
tween the fourth sefirah Hesed (Greatness) and the fifth Geburah (Jus-
tice)
Hesed is the sefirah from which the rest of the sefirot emanate
like Abraham the Patriarch from whom three religions ldquoemanaterdquo Juda-
ism Christianism and Islam Hesed is the foundation of the spiritual vir-
tues and it is connected to the Holy Son like Abraham
Geburah is the sefirah of David the Justice seeker who uni-
fied the kingdoms for the greatness of the Chosen People he is the strict
Warrior King
With Salomon son of David starts the second period as told by
Matthew and it ends with the deportation of the people to Babylon This
is the passage from the sixth sefirah Tipherzt (Beauty) to the seventh
sefirah Neshah (Power)
Tipherzt is Beauty serenity trust just what King Salomon
was to his people In the same manner it is in the column of the Crown
of God and it is directly supported by Abraham and David
Neshah is the hidden Intelligence of stability and spiritual
power it is the powerful faith against adversity the expulsion to Baby-
lon
When the Babylonian invasion comes to an end the passage to
the coming of Jesus begins it takes place between the eighth sefirah Hod
(Glory) and the ninth sefirah Yesod (Foundation)
Hod is the Divine Glory the Divine Healer which healed the
wounds inflicted on the chosen people by the invaders It is awakening
and learning
Yesod is the foundation and filter of all emanations before
reaching the Kingdom it is the Pure Intelligence it is Unity without Di-
vision this is the sefirah to which both the moon and the waters respond
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61
and the tides and earth as well the sefirah that builds and founds That is
why this is the sefirah that Matthew attributes to Jesus It is the one that
brings together to the Father before reaching Malkuth the Kingdom of
Earth and Heaven in a straight line passing by Tipherzt (Salomon) and
with the virtual sefirah of the Sacred Heart
As we can see the Apostle Matthew shows us in a kabballis-
tic way the presence of Jesus from the patriarch Abraham to the
present
Holy Spirit
David
Glory
Jesus
Kingdom
Salomon
Power
Abraham
Holy Son
Holy Father
Heart
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62
The Sermon on the Mountain
(The Beatitudes)
With The Sermon on the Mountain Jesus teaches us the basic
Concepts of Kabbalah to be interpreted in many centuries to come be-
cause the land of the tribe of Israel to which Jesus belonged was under
the domain of the Greco-Roman Empire which wanted to impose its
own gods That is why Jesusrsquo message is stronger the deeper you go into
it It should be observed the same as the ocean it is not the quiet waters
and small waves that rule but the strong currents that flow in the deepest
depths
Somebody told me once that even a child could understand the
Sermon and it is true which shows the intelligence of the Master be-
cause the Sermon holds many levels of understanding
From the Gospel according to Matthew chapter five we can ex-
tract the essence of the Sermon on the Mountain contained in the first
nine verses two of them introductory and the other seven making up the
Beatitudes
51 ldquoAnd seeing the multitudes He went up onto a mountain
and when He was set His disciples came unto Him ldquo
5 2 ldquoAnd He opened His mouth and taught them sayinghelliprdquo
To go up to the mountain in Kabbalah means to rise to the high-
est degree of spirituality (eg Moses went up the mountain to speak with
God) which means he went up to the Crown or Kether When it says
ldquoHe opened His mouth and taught them sayingrdquo sounds redundant since
nobody can say anything without opening his mouth But we have to
consider that there are two aspects in Kabbalah thought or intelligence
Binah and the word or wisdom Hokhmah Jesus uses the first to ignite
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63
the soul of His followers and the word to transmit the vibratory energy or
surrounding magnetic field and that way get to the spirit of people
53rdquoBlessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom
of Heavenrdquo
According to Kabbalah a rich man with many possessions can
enter the Kingdom of God if he doesnrsquot develop the materialistic spirit
that goes with them On the other hand a poor man without possessions
could be not admitted in the Kingdom of God if he develops that materi-
alistic spirit and is absorbed by the only wish of having fortune Kabba-
lah teaches that neither richness nor poorness is the ideal state Jesus re-
fers to the heart or Leb the simplicity and easiness of spirit because to
have possessions or not does not interfere with the progress towards the
path of foundation and spiritual uplifting
54 Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted
Kabbalah does not preach sadness but joy and happiness In the
Kabbalah the act of crying is a symbol of redemption greatness and
love or Hesed it is also a symbol of acknowledgment of errors made
and therefore seeking spiritual evolution in love for another The begin-
ning of change is identified with crying That is why whoever accepts
the change will be comforted
55 Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth
God said to Moses ldquoYou shall not adore other gods and you
shall respect my Namerdquo This means He demanded meekness Jesus re-
fers in kabballistic terms to meek men before God those will be able to
live in harmony and freedom achieving Divine Justice or Geburah be-
cause they are the ones who increase their spiritual level
56 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteous-
ness for they will be filled
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
64
Those who hunger within will seek the nourishment to satisfy it
And will begin a search for justice which will take them to the spiritual
Glory Hod This means that those who hunger and thirst for spiritual
truth will be filled with the blessing and perfection seeker Those who
abandon the spiritual search of the truth will condemn their souls to come
back as many times as it is necessary to achieve it
57 Blessed are the merciful for they will be shown mercy
To be merciful is to forgive others to have the power or Neshah
of not having negative thoughts actions or answers to aggressiveness
from others Negative feelings affect our spiritual body and poison our
physical body altering the nervous system
58 Blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God
The pure in heart are those who achieve inner beauty or
Tipherzt In order to have a clean and beautiful heart we must nourish it
with love and not hate with forgiveness not vengeance with truth not
lies or falsehood There must be harmony in our body soul and spirit
59 Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called sons
of Godrdquo
Peace in Aramaic is the same as harmony in Greek and both
words represent the foundation of life on this earth or Yesod and Jesus
suggests the Peace of the just
510 Blessed are those who are persecuted because of right-
eousness for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
511 Blessed are you when people insult you persecute you
and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me
In these two verses Jesus foretells the persecutions his followers
even the Kabballists will suffer anticipating the manifested idea of ob-
taining the communion of the Kingdom of Heaven or Malkuth in com-
plete peace and harmony
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
65
In the next two verses Jesus refers to the eighth sefirah Hod the
Glory (elevation) and its connection with Geburah Justice (respect)
which means we must respect the Just because they are the prophets and
we will be blessed by them
512 Rejoice and be glad because great is your reward in
heaven for in the same way they persecuted the prophets
who were before you
513 You are the salt of the earth But if the salt loses its salt-
iness how can it be made salty again It is no longer good for
anything except to be thrown out and trampled by men
In the following words Jesus takes us through the Tree of Live
or Sefirotic Tree bringing us even closer to the kabballistic message and
his spiritual profoundness
514 You are the light of the world A city on a hill cannot be
hidden
Kether is the Crown of God the Divine light that which is
above everything else above the mountain It reminds us that the moun-
tain is the highest level of spirituality
514 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl
Instead they put it on its stand and it gives light to everyone
in the house
Hokhmah is Wisdom to the right of the Kether the Crown of
God it is the light of Christ which lights up all homes
516 In the same way let your light shine before men that
they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in
heaven
Binah is Intelligence it is the light that reaches to the spirit of
mankind as a holy protection it is the light of the Holy Spirit that reaches
the heart through good deeds
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
66
These three verses refer to the first three sefirot that is the Holy
Trinity which is the potent Divine light since it contains in only one ray
of light the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit
The following four verses refer to Geburah or Justice This is the
sefirah that dictates the Law the one that enforces the Law the one that
unites Heaven (Kether) with Earth (Malkuth) according to the Divine
teachings and is called the sefirah of Divine Justice
517 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the
Prophets I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them
518 I tell you the truth until heaven and earth disappear not
the smallest letter not the least stroke of a pen will by any
means disappear from the Law until everything is accom-
plished
519 Anyone who breaks one of the least of these command-
ments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in
the kingdom of heaven but whoever practices and teaches
these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heav-
en
520 For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses
that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law you will ce r-
tainly not enter the kingdom of heaven
Hesed is the sefirah of Greatness and it is known that the origin
of greatness is HumilityHumbleness the person that is not humble is
not great In the following verses Jesus explains to us how to irradiate
Love Mercy Greatness and above all Humbleness
521 You have heard that it was said to the people long ago
Do not murder[a]
and anyone who murders will be subject to
judgment
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
67
522 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother
will be subject to judgment Again anyone who says to his brother
Raca (An Aramaic term of contempt is answerable to the Sanhed-
rin But anyone who says You fool will be in danger of the fire of
hell
523 ldquoTherefore if you are offering your gift at the altar and
there remember that your brother has something against you
Ponder
Respect
Blessing
Peace
Kingdom
Love
Acceptance
Help
Speech
Inspiration
Heart
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
68
524 leave your gift there in front of the altar First go and be
reconciled to your brother then come and offer your gift
525 ldquoSettle matters quickly with your adversary who is tak-
ing you to court Do it while you are still with him on the way or he
may hand you over to the judge and the judge may hand you over to
the officer and you may be thrown into prison
526 I tell you the truth you will not get out until you have
paid the last penny
The following sefirah that Jesus speaks of in the Sermon on the
Mountain is Tipherzt beauty serenity trust family it is the one with
the noble attributes fidelity A through this sefirah he talks to us about
the family blessings and how Divinity intertwines with it
Tipherzt is the one that provides the spiritual nourishment and
family blessings that is why Jesus protects the relationship between man
and woman as fountain of life and punishes above all deceit and adul-
tery
527 You have heard that it was said Do not commit adul-
tery
528 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustful-
ly has already committed adultery with her in his heart
529 If your right eye causes you to sin gouge it out and
throw it away It is better for you to lose one part of your body than
for your whole body to be thrown into hell
530 And if your right hand causes you to sin cut it off and
throw it away It is better for you to lose one part of your body than
for your whole body to go into hell
531 It has been said anyone who divorces his wife must
give her a certificate of divorce
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
69
532 But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife except
for marital unfaithfulness causes her to become an adulteress and
anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery
The following sefirah is Neshah which represents Stability and
Balance and the following five verses Jesus that swearing is the loss of
stability and balance before God
He who requires an oath does not trust what is being said and he
who gives an oath does not trust himself rdquoYes or Nordquo should be enough
for those who speak the truth
533 Again you have heard that it was said to the people long
ago Do not break your oath but keep the oaths you have made to
the Lord
534 but I tell you Do not swear at all either by heaven for
it is Gods throne
535 nor by the earth for it is his footstool or by Jerusalem
for it is the city of the Great King
536 And do not swear by your head for you cannot make
even one hair white or black
537 simply let your Yes be Yes and your No No any-
thing beyond this comes from the evil one
Hod is the sefirah of glory the compensation and acknowledge-
ment And there is no better glory and acknowledgement than to love the
enemy and bless those who curse and hate us
As Jesus tells us in the next eleven verses
If you love only those who love you
What are you doing extra
What reward are you seeking
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538 You have heard that it was said Eye for eye and tooth
for tooth
539 But I tell you Do not resist an evil person If someone
strikes you on the right cheek turn to him the other also
540 And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic let
him have your cloak as well
541 If someone forces you to go one mile go with him two
miles
542 Give to the one who asks you and do not turn away
from the one who wants to borrow from you
543 You have heard that it was said Love your neighbor
and hate your enemy
544 But I tell you Love your enemies and pray for those
who persecute you
545 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven He caus-
es his sun to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the
righteous and the unrighteous
546 If you love those who love you what reward will you
get Are not even the tax collectors doing that
547 And if you greet only your brothers what are you doing
more than others Do not even pagans do that
548 Be perfect therefore as your heavenly Father is perfect
Yesod the ninth sefirah is Foundation because it purifies
proves and corrects all previous sefiroth Helping others is exactly what
this sefirah is all about not only to love them but to help them He who
helps receives purification from Yesod and he who helps in secret is
blessed by The Father
Matthew 6
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71
61 Be careful not to do your acts of righteousness before
men to be seen by them If you do you will have no reward from
your Father in heaven
62 So when you give to the needy do not announce it with
trumpets as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets
to be honored by men I tell you the truth they have received their
reward in full
63 But when you give to the needy do not let your left hand
know what your right hand is doing
64 so that yoursquore giving may be in secret Then yoursquore Fa-
ther who sees what is done in secret will reward you
Malkuth is the sefirah that represents the Kingdom of Heaven
and Earth that is why Jesus tells us that prayer must be in private in or-
der to be rewarded in public without repetitions and lots of words be-
cause the Father knows what we need before we even ask
65 And when you pray do not be like the hypocrites for
they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street cor-
ners to be seen by men I tell you the truth they have received their
reward in full
66 But when you pray go into your room close the door and
pray to your Father who is unseen Then your Father who sees what
is done in secret will reward you
67 And when you pray do not keep on babbling like pagans
for they think they will be heard because of their many words
68 Do not be like them for your Father knows what you
need before you ask him
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The Our Father
Jesus reaffirms part of the Kabbalah by following the path of the
Sefirotic Tree in his most important prayer
69 This then is how you should pray Our in heaven
hallowed be your name
Our Father the admirable intelligence or Crown Kether first sefirah
In Heaven the enlightening intelligence or wisdom Hokhmah the sec-
ond sefirah
Hallowed be your name the sanctifying intelligence Binah the third
sefirah completing the Holy Trinity
610 your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is
in heaven
Your kingdom come the intelligence of love Hesed
Your will be done righteous intelligence Geburah
On Earth as it is in Heaven that is form Kether to Malkuth
611 Give us today our daily bread
Give us our daily bread the intelligence which provides Spiritual
Nourishment and beauty Tipherzt
612 Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our
debtrs
Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors the hidden
intelligence which is power victory and stability or Nesha
613 And lea us not into temptation but deliver us from the
evil for yours is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for
every century Amen
And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil the absolute
intelligence or perfect glory or Hod
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73
Holy
Justice
Freedom
Foundation
Prayer
Love
Forgiveness
Spiritual
Nourishment
Heaven
Father
Heart
For yours is the Kingdom Kether the Power Hokhmah and the
Glory Briah which means You are the Holy Trinity
Amen is the foundation of Holy Prayer
After teaching us this Prayer Jesus continues showing us the truth about
the emanations of the Sefirotic Tree Starting once again at the Kether
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to remind us privacy in acts such as forgiveness fasting and prayer will
be rewarded in public by the Father who wears the Crown
614 For if you forgive men when they sin against you your
heavenly Father will also forgive you
615 But if you do not forgive men their sins your Father will
not forgive your sins
616 When you fast do not look somber as the hypocrites
do for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fast-
ing I tell you the truth they have received their reward in
full
617 But when fast put oil on your head and wash your face
618 so that it will not be obvious to men that you are fasting
but only to your Father who is unseen and your Father who
sees what is done in secret will reward you
Jesus explains that our treasures are not in the Kingdom of Earth but in
the wisdom of Hokhmah which is the treasure of Heaven that God sent
to us
619 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth
where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and
steal
620 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven where
moth and rust do not destroy and where thieves do not
break in and steal
Binah is the intelligence that Jesus asks us to use to see the light within
our heart he asks that we be intelligent to stay away from evil because
wise men donrsquot have two bosses
621 For where your treasure is there your heart will be also
622 The eye is the lamp of the body If your eyes are good
your whole body will be full of light
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75
623 But if your eyes are bad your whole body will be full of
darkness If then the light within you is darkness how great
is that darkness
624 No one can serve two masters Either he will hate the
one and love the other or he will be devoted to the one and
despise the other You cannot serve both God and Money
Hesed is greatness Jesus shows us how Great we are that greatness is
not eating drinking or dressing up but greatness is being on the path to
the Kether or Crown
625 Therefore I tell you do not worry about your life what
you will eat or drink or about your body what you will
wear Is not life more important than food and the body
more important than clothes
626 Look at the birds of the air they do not sow or reap or
store away in barns and yet your heavenly Father feeds
them Are you not much more valuable than they
627 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his
life
628 And why do you worry about clothes See how the lil-
ies of the field grow They do not labor or spin
629 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor
was dressed like one of these
630 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field which is
here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire will he not
much more clothe you O you of little faith
631 So do not worry saying What shall we eat or What
shall we drink or What shall we wear
632 For the pagans run after all these things and your heav-
enly Father knows that you need them
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Godrsquos Fortune
Godrsquos
Justice
Godrsquos Education
Godrsquos Purification
Godrsquos
Freedom
Godrsquos
Love
Godrsquos Effort
Godrsquos
Greatness
Godrsquos Treasure
Godrsquos
Forgiveness
Godrsquos
Heart
633 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all
these things will be given to you as well
634 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow
will worry about itself Each day has enough trouble of its
own
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77
Once we obtain Greatness or Hesed Jesus asks us to seek Justice or
Geburah the next sefirah Justice is learning to judge others and to look
more with our heart than our eyes
71 Do not judge or you too will be judged
72 For in the same way you judge others you will be judged
and with the measure you use it will be measured to you
73 Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your broth-
ers eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye
74 How can you say to your brother Let me take the speck
out of your eye when all the time there is a plank in your
own eye
75 You hypocrite first take the plank out of your own eye
and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your
brothers eye
76 Do not give dogs what is sacred do not throw your
pearls to pigs If you do they may trample them under their
feet and then turn and tear you to pieces
After Geburah comes Tipherzt beauty this sefirah is the provider of spir-
itual nourishment that is why Jesus invites us to ask seek and knock and
he reminds the law of the Torah because Tipherzt is in the center and
unites the past with the present the law of the prophets with the law of
Jesus
77 Ask and it will be given to you seek and you will find
knock and the door will be opened to you
78 For everyone who asks receives he who seeks finds and
to him who knocks the door will be opened
79 Which of you if his son asks for bread will give him a
stone
710 Or if he asks for a fish will give him a snake
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711 If you then though you are evil know how to give good
gifts to your children how much more will your Father in
heaven give good gifts to those who ask him
712 So in everything do to others what you would have
them do to you for this sums up the Law and the Prophets
Neshah is stability the sefirah of the intellectual virtues the eye of the
intellect which shows us the path of life and Jesus shows us the road of
tranquility
713 Enter through the narrow gate For wide is the gate
and broad is the road that leads to destruction and many e n-
ter through it
714 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to
life and only a few find it
Hod is glory or recognition Jesus shows us how to recognize those who
are said to be prophets or wise men Jesus tells us the best way to do so
is by their fruit (results) or deeds if we observe others objectively we
will know who will really support us and who would like to take ad-
vantage of us
715 Watch out for false prophets They come to you in
sheeps clothing but inwardly they are ferocious wolves
716 By their fruit you will recognize them Do people pick
grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles
717 Likewise every good tree bears good fruit but a bad tree
bears bad fruit
718 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit and a bad tree cannot
bear good fruit
719 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and
thrown into the fire
7 20 Thus by their fruit you will recognize them
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79
The ninth sefirah is Yesod or foundation This is the sefirah of purifica-
tion in it Jesus separates the chaste from the impure to take evil away
from us
721 Not everyone who says to me Lord Lord will enter
the kingdom of heaven but only he who does the will of my
Father who is in heaven
722 Many will say to me on that day Lord Lord did we
not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out de-
mons and perform many miracles
723 Then I will tell them plainly I never knew you Away
from me you evildoers
The tenth sefirah is Malkuth the Kingdom of Earth and Heaven where
Jesus gives us an example of free will so that we make wise decisions
and chose the Kingdom in which we will live
724 Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and
puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house
on the rock
725 The rain came down the streams rose and the winds
blew and beat against that house yet it did not fall because it
had its foundation on the rock
726 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does
not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his
house on sand
727 The rain came down the streams rose and the winds
blew and beat against that house and it fell with a great
crash
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Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Neshah Stability
The Divine Creation
The Divine Creation
Adam Eve and the Genesis
Gestation and Conception
Development and Growth
Maturity
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81
The Divine Creation From the ape up to Adam and Eve
During the early ages of life on Earth the new thinking beings invested
most of their time in learning to survive humans had to adapt to and in-
tegrate themselves to the four elements or genius (Air Fire Earth and
Water) they also had to learn to interact with animals and plants
Man began to notice that all animals were born and died as natural pro-
cess They ldquocame inrdquo (were born) to this world from the maternal womb
or from an egg and all of them inevitably someday disappeared or
ldquoleftrdquo (died) this world
Man also noticed that all animals ldquochangedrdquo in size (grew) being small
when they ldquocame inrdquo to the world and as the ldquosuns and moonsrdquo passed
(time) they developed and grew getting stronger until reaching a point
in which they ldquodisappearedrdquo (died)
Furthermore the learning was part of the ldquoroadrdquo when they ldquoarrivedrdquo
they didnrsquot know how to walk or fly they couldnrsquot see their parents had
to get their food and protect them they were weak and dependant In
time they learned to be self-sufficient and to live independently even
though they were part
of a heard o a community
In every age thinkers and scientists asked them selves how early mankind
evolved to the point of becoming what we are nowadays The Judeo-
Christian Kabbalah answers this question without interfering with sci-
ence The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah explains mankindrsquos ldquoevolutionrdquo in
ten steps and goes through the Sefirotic Tree starting from the feminine
column reminding us that it is the female who receives the Divine herit-
age of Creation
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82
1 The Crown or Divine Light
First the Divine Light Crowned the undeveloped brain of the wild ape
and transformed it into a ldquothinking aperdquo That Divine ldquotouchrdquo caused
the transformation of the apersquos simple brain into the complex brain or
ldquocrownrdquo of this new being This change contains the celestial blow of the
future human being
2 Intelligence or understanding
Undoubtedly what made de difference between mankind and the rest of
the animals was that awareness since they all went through the same
changes they were all born grew up and died they could all see the
moon replacing the sun and all of them could see the vegetables grow
but the other species either did take notice or did not acknowledge it The
human being could ldquothinkrdquo mankind had the ldquointelligencerdquo to be aware
and that made it different
3 Wisdom or experience
As time went by mankind acquired experience which added to intelli-
gence resulted in ldquowisdomrdquo This wisdom made man outstand over the
rest of the species This wisdom permitted man to learn from other spe-
cies in a certain way and in many cases to dominate them
These three sefiroth that represents the Holy Trinity separated to
the man of the rest of the world animal and vegetable determining
their supremacy by order and Divine grace
4 Justice or respect
Man began to put his abilities to use and the first thing he did with his
intelligence and wisdom was to acknowledge ldquojusticerdquo but the Divine
free will permitted them to apply it or not Mankind understood that
without spiritual justice intelligence and wisdom cannot not be applied
5 Greatness or humility
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83
Mankind learned that spiritual greatness meant knowing how to apply
justice in every act of life
To be just and great is to be wise and intelligent
Man learned that to be great does not mean to be above the rest but to
apply intelligence and wisdom to improve the life and spirit of others
These four qualities must go together if man is to continue his evolution
and stay away from the ape otherwise he would be stuck and the ape
would overcome
6 Beauty or sweetness
As mankind evolved it became understood that each act good or bad as
well as every thought obscure or bright marks the inner character and
outer appearance of a person with a defined particularity that will either
dull it or illuminate it The beauty of the Spirit is more real and perma-
nent than physical beauty The secret of this beauty which lights up pu-
pils with the serene light of the stars y gives faces the sweet look of the
angels lies within a just behavior and greatness in thought
The Bible and Science go of the hand The Creation and the Evolution are work of God
7 Glory or acknowledgement
As man made his inner evolution he wanted to be acknowledged by the
Divinity first and by his peers later
ldquoGloryrdquo is the acknowledgement of onersquos values by others All human
beings need this physical and spiritual acknowledgement The Just has
the Spiritual Greatness Beauty of the Soul and the Divine Glory
8 Stability or Balance
The sensory and spiritual stability and balance of the new being meant
inner growth Stability came about with the bluntness of power and the
victory of his actions The spiritual powers of stability are the foundation
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84
Awareness
Respect
Knowledge
Building
Real World
Sweetness
Balance
Humility
Experience
Divine Light
of tolerance discernment and being able to face up to reality and to co-
operate with our peers powers that are attained through Justice Great-
ness and the Divine Glory
9 Foundation or construction
The foundation or founding of communities is a major stepping-stone
for this new being It was like planting a seed to watch a tree grow Man
understood that if the foundation was done right he would ldquobuildrdquo a
whole culture for the future of mankind But if due to selfishness ava-
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85
rice or greediness he failed and started with a poor foundation of com-
munities instead these would dissolve in time That is why he would
have to apply everything he had learned and all the accumulated experi-
ence correctly
10 The Kingdom of Earth or real world
The Kingdom of Earth is the summit in the process of evolution from
ape to man it is the matter substance the physical and real world This
is the peak of the creation cycle the creation of Adam and Eve Thanks
to the powers of God the ape was transformed into the human being that
now lives in the Kingdom of God which is the Earth It is at this point
where all divine teachings and human experiences converge all celestial
and earthly matters meet here the soul with the spirit and the senses
with the physical world
Adam Eve and the Genesis
ldquoFor the Kabbalah in animals femininity finds itself in front of mas-
culinity while masculinity confirms itself through femininity In the
human level masculinity and femininity are distinguished and at the
same time complement each otherrdquo
In the first book of the Pentateuch the ldquoBook of Genesisrdquo there are two
explanations that would appear to contradict each other that is why we
will analyze them textually
Chapter One verses 27 through 31
27 So God created man in his own image in the image of God he
created him male and female he created them
28 God blessed them and said to them Be fruitful and increase in
number fill the earth and subdue it Rule over the fish of the sea
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and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves
on the ground
29 Then God said I give you every seed-bearing plant on the
face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in
it They will be yours for food
30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and
all the creatures that move on the groundmdasheverything that has
the breath of life in itmdashI give every green plant for food And it
was so
31 God saw all that he had made and it was very good And there
was evening and there was morningmdashthe sixth day
Chapter Two verses 7 and 15 through 23
7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and the man became a
living being
15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of
Eden to work it and take care of it
16 And the LORD God commanded the man You are free to eat
from any tree in the garden
17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil for when you eat of it you will surely die
18 The LORD God said It is not good for the man to be alone I
will make a helper suitable for him
19 Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the
beasts of the field and all the birds of the air He brought them to
the man to see what he would name them and whatever the man
called each living creature that was its name
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87
20 So the man gave names to all the livestock the birds of the air
and all the beasts of the field But for Adam no suitable helper
was found
21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep and
while he was sleeping he took one of the mans ribs and closed
up the place with flesh
22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken
out of the man and he brought her to the man
23 The man said This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my
flesh she shall be called woman for she was taken out of man
According to these two texts which differ in just a few pages within the
Sacred Book first man and woman were created at the same time but
later it explains that woman was created from the rib taken from man
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah takes it as a cryptically allegory which
means we are not to understand this explanation as saying first and sec-
ond having another ahead does not make one a subordinate
The ten sefiroth that created the universe were simultaneous and the crea-
tion of the first ldquothinking aperdquo was simultaneous in male and female If
we try to understand the Divine message decoding it into common lingo
we find that the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah gives us several clues
The Book of Genesis 2 does not void what is stated in Genesis 1 it is
revealing another aspect of the human being The intention of the second
text is not to tell us how creation took place in a chronological order but
to explain ndash in a symbolic language ndash something more profound
According to the Book of Genesis 1 God created them ldquoin one single
actrdquo and gave them a mission in common Be fruitful and increase in
number fill the earth and subdue it This clarifies the equality of dignity
in both as well as the equality in the mission imparted since both are
given the same responsibility the family and protection of the world
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88
According to this there doesnrsquot seem to be tasks or responsibilities ex-
clusively reserved to men or women family as well as culture are to be
done by both
Adam does not take woman out of himself he was asleep doing noth-
ing Furthermore God expressly wanted to hide from him the way in
which he made woman doing so while he slept when he could not notice
what was happening
About the reasons for God putting Adam to sleep we can take some
concepts from the Divine reasoning The lonely Adam pictured in the
Book of Genesis 27 is a generic Adam because the characteristics
which describe him are the same for either man or woman and are
meshed in the verses 215 through 223 in the four worlds of the Sefirotic
Tree
The original loneliness (interpreted as the transcendence of
mankind with respect to the Cosmos) is the world of Atziluth or
divine protection
It is not good for the man to be alonerdquo is the need to opening
up this is the world of Briah or giving to others
The search for the appropriate assistance (conceived as mutual
and reciprocal) is the world of Yetsirah or trust and learning
The call for man woman and their animals to work together is
the world of Assiah or Earth and its fruits
The symbolism of the rib taken by God from Adam while he slept re-
veals a relationship between man and woman from which two conse-
quences derive Is a reciprocal relationship (there is no woman without
man but there is no man without woman) which leads us to conclude
that both ends of this relationship must be simultaneous
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89
Spirit
Form
Muscles
Organs
Birth
Nerves
Bones
Strength
Soul
Supra
One
Heart
Gestation
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
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90
Conception
A person is born at a particular moment in time due to a specific
situation or to connect with specific people or one person in particular
When speaking of gestation it is important to assign the archetypical
worlds to each step of this process
1 The Archetypical World called Atziluth is where everything
is in a latent state where everything is potential This is the world in
which the Divinity unites soul and spirit It is in this world where the
essence on an individual is found There is a ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath of the
heart here which lives in both the spiritual and the creative worlds
2 In the Creative World called Briah we find strength and the
pure form which gives shape to the physical life where the cellular mul-
tiplication begins The heart sends the energy of the soul and spirit to the
new being in gestation
3 In the Formative World called Yetsirah the whole body is
in the process of development creating the nervous system muscles
bones organs etc
4 In the Material World called Assiah is where the physical
manifestation takes place It is the moment of birth when the new inte-
grated being sees the light of the Sun
Development
At birth the physical body manifests itself in the Malkut of As-
siah or the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth after going through the se-
quence of conception Birth takes place at the end of the descending path
from Kether (God) to Malkut (Earth) After birth the path is inverted
while developing we begin to ascend from Malkut (Earth) to Kether
(God)
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91
The personality of an adult individual is reflected in the stage or
sefirath where he stopped or in which he weakened the most We can
associate these stages with the worlds in an ascending manner reverting
the way of the gestation
For example the Malkut of Assiah is the material world in
which a person must see and touch in order to learn He needs to touch
the fire to know that it burns or needs to knock himself to know how hard
matter is and how weak is the spirit
Yetsirah is the world in which responsibility is formed where
most people have stopped at one point in their lives for not being able to
assimilate one or more of sefiroth that make up this world
A person who stopped in hisher childhood has stopped at the
sefirath Yesod a person seeking information or news or is forever study-
ing is at Hod and the one seeking pleasures (sex food fun) is still going
through Neshah And those searching for trust in themselves are at
Tipherzt
Mature people are in the world of Briah Justice and greatness
will help these people to develop the acquired knowledge
Those who have stopped at Geburah are people who experience
constant hardship until they learn to grasp control of themselves and
once they achieve inner peace they dedicate their lives to good acts On
the other hand those who come out of Hesed are the ones who negotiate
with generosity those who give to receive who seek to buy love affec-
tion or respect
Atziluth the last world is the one closest to God one that takes
us to Him
Those worried about death are at the sefirath Binah They age
prematurely and constantly complain about illnesses
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92
Those who reach Hokhmah is because they have profound en-
lightening visions which in some cases and for certain social groups are
similar to insanity
To reach Kether at the end of life on earth is to go back to God
to achieve the freedom of onersquos soul
In the Material World called Assiah is where the man-
ifestation of birth takes place where the body without formation but with
genetic and Godrsquos instruction and information from past lives gets ac-
quainted with himself and those around him
In the Formative World called Yetsirah life and aca-
demic formation is acquired to be applied to the rest of onersquos life The
person shall have the teachings perception affirmation and confidence
supplied by those around him
In the Creative World called Briah the most important
stage in a personrsquos life is found In it we can apply everything learned
and observed in the previous world Decisions taken in this world will
affect us twice as much in the following world
The Archetypical World called Atziluth is a world of
closeness to the Divinity here is where we should stop and analyzes our
existence prepare the balance sheet of our soul When we get here we
can see what we have contributed to the growth of our soul
The road to Maturity
As we know each sefirath is a tree in itself and each world con-
tains the other four inside that is why we must analyze our maturity from
the moment of birth and the growing years as well
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93
Pro
tec-
tion
Co
ntr
ol
Le
arning
Chi
ldh
ood
Bi
rt
h
Tr
us
t
Ple
asure
Giving
Li
gh
t
S
up
ra
O
ne
Heart
The stages of growth
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
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94
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah when we are born
our ldquopatternrdquo of life is not finished because our body spirit and soul are
not completely integrated
Between the ages of five and seven the central column formed
by Yesod Tipherzt and the ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath Led molds the operative
personality The Heart Trust and Foundation are the basis of a childrsquos
personal development
At the age of thirteen Hod and Neshah stability and glory for-
mation and pleasures become active This is the age of awakening of
knowledge
Between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one Kether and
Malkuth intertwine forming the central structure of the tree and they
give it meaning and dimension
During the following years Geburah Hesed Binah and
Hokhmah integrate themselves completing the incarnation of the plains
When we see rebellious youths who have not yet grasped the
concepts of justice or generosity (gangs drugs) it is because they have
not incarnated completely and Geburah and Hesed have not taken their
places yet There is no set age for complete incarnation because it de-
pends on the surroundings and social experience
The child of an alcoholic and a drug addict who live in poverty
does not have to follow that path If he could find support in a family or
educational group that could help him to develop the missing sefiroth and
that way obtain incarnation he could become a person who understands
the proper concepts of justice and greatness thus clearing his life and ob-
taining personal success
On the other hand the son of an aristocrat or millionaire be-
tween the ages of thirteen and twenty will react against his class but
from there on and according to the integration of his sefiroth to the tree
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95
he will only be interested in developing within his social circle marrying
someone accordingly and following the family pattern but if he should
find a link that could help him develop the missing sefiroth in order to
complete his incarnation he would change his concepts on class and
would obtain personal success
Of course both examples are generalizations which do not apply
to all people If you are reading this book you are a spiritual researcher
and surely do not fall under generalizations
Many people consider a good marriage and a good social posi-
tion as valid objectives but after twenty years or more of walking the
same path they understand that even though they have a good marriage
with someone they love and good economic resources they have no
goals
This usually happens after the age of forty-five or fifty For those
based on their bodies this is the beginning of the end and will seek the
physical methods (surgeries) to slow this process
The Tree of the Maturity
These physical methods are not bad if they go together with a
spiritual development with growth in the tree of the spiritual worlds un-
til the highest point is reached and it is understood that the body is the
container of the spirit and soul
Often enough people get stuck emotionally here and no matter
how old they are they cannot get out of Tipherzt or the sefirath of Trust
It is here where emotions are sometimes confused with feelings obscur-
ing thoughts and the development of spiritual maturity
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96
Under-
standing
Truth
Awakening
Trust
Real
World
Foundation
Power
Humility
Experience
Essence
Heath
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97
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
Hod Glory
The Human Being
Soul and Spirit
The Worlds of the Spirit The Battle of the Spirit
The terror and the Fears
Difficult Situations The Problems of the Spirit
The Worlds of Solutions Instincts feelings and senses
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98
Soul and Spirit
We already know that neither one of us is a new soul all of us
have accumulated experience from previous lives in other incarnations
We also know that those celestial beings that occupy our body
have come during the last thousands of years
We also know that this inter-relation or connection between soul
and body helps to correct the soul
What we need to know now is What is the spirit
The spirit is our inner Self our mind it is what we really are and
who we are
Our spirit is formed by four worlds Each world relates to the
other on the basis of interactive processes and it works its way up from
the concrete (tangible) to the ethereal (spiritual) levels
1 The Material World called Assiah or the world of
Logic is based on Malkut passes through Yessed and opens up into
Hod and Neshagh The logical though is something you can almost
touch it has foundation stability and glory
2 The Formative World called Yetsirah or the world of
the Perceptions is based on Tipherzt and opens its arms into Ge-
brurah and Hesed The perceptions of the human being are beauty
justice and greatness
3 The Creative World called Briah or the world of Feel-
ings is based on Led (heart) and from there goes on to Binah and
Hokhmah Our feelings are the product of the alchemy formed by
the ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath of the heart intelligence and wisdom
4 The Archetypical World called Atziluth or the world
of Intuition has only one sefirath as base Kether Divinity resides
here that is intuition is the direct link to Divinity
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99
As we can see the spirit is the part that connects our contained
(physical body) to our soul (or celestial body) and that is who we really
are The spirit must take care of the body so that it ldquolastsrdquo as long as pos-
sible When it is mistreated with external products (poor nutrition alco-
hol tobacco or drugs) the soulrsquos stay and learning period is shortened
this will cause the soul to come back in another container to continue
learning
When an illness or accident causes the brain to stop the spirit is
affected never the soul The soul keeps learning even though the body is
inert or in a deep coma and it will stay there for some ldquotimerdquo after the
heart stops beating It could be minutes maybe hours or days before the
soul abandons the body
When the death is surprising and unexpected (accident violence
etc) both the soul and the spirit stay in condition of shock and are late
many time in dividing
Each person has in its spirit what we know as personality stud-
ied by Jung even his profession is related to these worlds For example a
person with an Assiah personality will be in the armed forces Profes-
sionals are Yetsirah the artists are in the world of Briah and the mysti-
cal people live in Atziluth
Even as we are crossing the tree sefiroacutethico the personality was
passing of being introverted and logical to extrovert and dreamy
Undoubtedly the complexity of the spirit and the dynamic that
surrounds it could generate multiple models Human beings depending
on the inherited genes educational environment social development will
modify some of the parameters associated to these worlds in order to be
accepted by society
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100
The soul is very important in this development since in its mis-
sion of learning it will try to put the person in challenging situations
provoking logical feelings and intuitive sensations
The way to analyze these worlds and know to which ones we
blong (surely to all of them but some more than others) is to know our
strengths and our weaknesses to find our fears and the chance to
ovecome them
Each world has its own ten sefiroth that respond to its own
behavior
The residents of the world of intuition or Atziluth
are generalists hypothetical not precise speculative idealists in-
ventive illogical indecisive futurists and disperse
Those who live in the world of feelings or Briah are a
logical poetic artistic passionate personal cordial ethical justice seek-
ers individualists and humanitarians
The inhabitants of the world of the senses or Yetsirah
are careful detail minded specialists objective precise concrete real-
ists profound practical and conventional
Those who live in the world of logic or Assiah are log-
ical analytic extremist scientific cold dispassionate theoretical imper-
sonal shrewd and insensitive
Neither world is better than another and there isnrsquot a single hu-
man being that ldquofitsrdquo exactly into one defined world we all have behav-
iors from all of them but the proportions are different in each one of us
and that is what makes us all different from each other
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101
The worlds of the Spirit
In the center ldquoThe Column of Equilibriumrdquo (Balance)
Intuition Atziluth
Feelings Briah
Sense Yetsirah
Logical Assiah
Thought
Intelli-
li-gence
Jus
tice
Glo
ry
Foun-
dation
Ma-
teri
al
Be
au-
ty
Sta-
bil-
ity
Grea
tness
Wisdom
Su-
pra
One
Heart
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102
The Battle of the Spirit
As we could see the battle is not very fair three worlds are ruled
by the heart and only one is ruled by the brain That is why in most cas-
es instincts or feelings ldquowinrdquo over reason When free will was given to
us it was so that we could ldquothink overrdquo our acts
Are two ways of thinking intuition and reasoning with very dif-
ferent characteristics
Some thoughts come to mind in a spontaneous way in reality
that is what happens most of the time Because Atziluth Briah and
Yetsirah are always present in a potential way ready to jump in and re-
spond in a way of which we are not totally conscious and cannot control
The actions of these three worlds are quick without effort associative
and very often charged with emotions They are ruled by habits that is
why it is difficult to modify or control them
The world of Assiah instead is ruled by conscience and delib-
erate reasoning it is slower serial and requires effort it follows rules
Needs more time when something upsets us it clouds our reasoning
This means the issue is stuck on the upper worlds and it doesnrsquot allow us
to make logical decisions usually because we are afraid to reason
For example the idea that something awful can happen if we
take a plane even though that possibility is remote will not let us think
of anything else The upper worlds become dominant Emotion is over-
come in turn by the possibility by what could happen and not by reality
so much
The emotional and issue is the less ldquoreasonablerdquo people are
According to Daniel Kahneman winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize
in Economics
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
103
ldquoEmotions in general do not influence decision making but one
emotion in particular (fear) distorts the perception of risk and generates
errors in the making of decisionsrdquo
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah fear originates in the
upper world but if we can take it to the world of Assiah or logical it
vanishes into thin air
Nevertheless if once we make a reasoned decision we donrsquot reg-
ister having made it curious enough we are not conscious we have
changed our way of thinking
Most people after changing their way of thinking reconstruct
the old pattern They underestimate their change Besides when they
have been persuaded of something they believe they always thought that
way The upper worlds hide behind the mask that reason displays and
have us believing they were never there we are convinced that we al-
ways think rationally
It is true that many people admit making a mistake at one time
or another ndash you could be one of them ndash but that doesnrsquot mean that they
have changed their way of thinking on a particular issue and that they
wonrsquot make the same mistake again
Fears
All living beings have fears it is natural and it responds to the
instinct of survival You donrsquot have to be a caballist or scientist to state
that man is a fearful ldquoanimalrdquo One hundred percent of the human spirit is
ldquoshyrdquo or timid and it fears an endless amount of things and situations He
is intimidated by them The important thing is to identify the things he
fears and why Donrsquot even think you are the only one who fears some-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
104
thing ALL OF US fear something The thing is that that ldquosomethingrdquo is
different for each one of us
Fear is not bad or good it simply is disturbing feeling about
something unknown or if it is known we canrsquot control and we are afraid
it might hurt us
When God created the four elements or semi gods (Fire Water
Air and Earth) He gave them the ability to help or hurt mankind that is
why Fire can cook our food or it can destroy us Water is for drinking or
drowning Earth can give us vegetables or bury us with Air we live and
without it we die The four elements can give or take life And it is pre-
cisely in them that the depth of all fears lies
Fear has companions such as anguish
obsessions and phobias
Many cultures and old and modern religions disguise fears (in
many cases to manipulate people) with the presence of the Devil or dia-
bolic things The Judeo-Christian Kaballah upholds that mankind in its
search for alternative gods created this evil figure to justify its fears and
anguishes
Fear lives in the upper part of the Sefirotic Tree of both worlds of
the spirit where man thinks less and fears more First he starts at Atzi-
luth where he acts mostly based on instinct he is almost irrational and
here is where he ignites the anguish fearrsquos best friend From there it goes
down to Briah and it leans on phobic feelings to go on to Yetsirah
where it can attract obsessions
In the emotional sentimental world or Briah reside an endless
number of opposed phobic fears darkness or light open spaces or closed
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
105
space crowds or loneliness heights or depths planes or boatshellip and we
could go on for pages
In the world of the sensations or Yetsirah live the obsessive
fears disguised as concern
Worry for details rules lists order schedules up to
the point of losing of sight the principal object of the activity
Perfectionism which interferes with the completion of
a task (unable to finish a project because it doesnrsquot comply with
onersquos own demands which are overly strict)
Excessive dedication to onersquos work and to the produc-
tivity with exclusion of the activities of leisure and the friend-
ship (not attributable to economic evident needs)
Excessive stubbornness very scrupulous and inflexi-
ble when it comes to moral issues ethics or values (not attributed
to the identification with religion)
Unable to discard old and useless items even when
there is no sentimental value attached
Unable to share the work load with others unless
they will accept to do it your way exactly
Excessive thriftiness in spending money must be ac-
cumulated to cover future catastrophes
All these fears which live in the worlds of instincts feelings and
sensations are not related to diabolic situations Satan does not exist in
the Divine Universe Satan is a creation of our spirit to encourage the
learning and development of our soul The best way to teach our soul is
to overcome our fears bringing them down to the rational world of Assi-
ah to keep them under control and letting them go
This can be done following these steps
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
106
1 The first step is to put your fears in the world of
logic or Assiah not worrying about why this fear exists but how
do we respond to this fear behavior (eg paralysis desperation)
Hesed origin
2 Be specific when it comes to defining your con-
duct of fear and its consequences because the problem it self is
the solution Geburah control
3 Donrsquot look at your fear as such but as an obsta-
cle in attaining your goals Take it to Tipherzt trust
4 Define exactly the way you want to change your
conduct Go to Neshah balance
5 Establish a time limit to obtain the proposed
change For this Hod learning is the right sefirath
Search for an adequate way to make your change with-
out going to extremes for instance becoming a perfectionist
What you want to change is not making mistakes but the irra-
tional fear for avoiding making mistakes If you are set out to
making mistakes to change you will stop worrying about per-
fection but you will also stop worrying about the mistakes you
could make That is the mistakes are not the problem but the
fear of making mistakes is Work on Yesod construc-
tionbuilding
6 Be patient changes donrsquot take place overnight
whatrsquos more there could be a set back especially when there is a
fast progression in the change of the conduct of fear Please un-
derstand that a straight forward improvement is not always to be
expected you could be going forward there could be stops and
set backs which will allow you to compare and value the differ-
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
107
ences between your previous status with your situation of pro-
gress Go through Malkuth action
Once the world of Assiah logic overcomes your fears you will
see how your fears crashed with logic and vanish
Donrsquot forget that fear is a close friend of depression Fear attracts
dissonance synonym of physical and spiritual disease When one of the
elements stops working the machinery works with serious difficulties
When one of the parts slows down or over speeds therersquos also a lack of
balance and things donrsquot run well
Fear is one of those elements in the human being with great
power to generate lack of harmony correspondence and balance Its
negativity does not allow us to act neither with freedom intelligence nor
with common sense On the contrary it makes us highlight aspects of our
life which we shouldnrsquot consider so important It makes us go back
when we should be going forward It makes us lie when we should be
telling the truth And it takes away our plenitude creativity and capacity
to love
Problematic Situations
Man faces difficult situations all his life from childhood to old
age He finds himself with the obligation to address them with systemat-
ic processes of thought but he doesnrsquot know how important they are All
problems can be grouped in these three definitions
Urgent and important
Urgent or important
Neither urgent nor important
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
108
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah and the sefirotic trees show us
that if we establish priorities if we analyze situations if we identify op-
portunities there are no problems without a solution and that solution is
usually much simpler than we would have thought The method to apply
the adequate solution to a problem is part of the kaballistic teachings
Problems of the Spirit
The Spirit is made up of four worlds (logic sensations emotions
and intuition) if we know how to apply them correctly and how to dis-
tribute our problems amongst these worlds each one of them will solve
the part of the problem to which it applies and the general solution will
become available without stress nor complications
The World of logical thought is the one that analyzes a problem
concretely creating a new Sefirotic Tree with four worlds Ideas Caus-
es Opportunities and Solutions we go through them from the column
of forms or shapes looking for the world of detail or feminine
Atziluth is the world of Ideas formed by Kether Binah and Hokhmah
Kether is the situation worrying you the problem in your
head or philosophical it could be physical or mental could be serious or
momentary but none the less it is the center of the worry
Binah is the expansive thought the one that analyzes the
components distinguishes the pertinent parts the real causes of the prob-
lem Binah clarifies the information to define the situation
Hokhmah is the convergent thought it evaluates and develops
the main idea of the problem compares theorizes and creates a hypothe-
sis which means it is the one that focuses on the problem to be solved
looking for the way to follow and the steps to take
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109
Briah is the world of Causes formed by Leb Geburah and Hesed
Leb is the virtual sefirath of the heart which plays a part in
every problem and even though thought is the most concrete world of
the spirit the heart has its influence when the time to make a decision
comes We should make the problem ldquovirtualrdquo analyze the solution with
the heart and without it in order to be objective and make the right deci-
sion
Geburah is justice Try to think as a lawyer they only deal
with proven facts they donrsquot go by hearsay Clean your mind of external
ldquoadditionsrdquo analyze ldquowhat problems make up this problemrdquo
Hesed is greatness It is very important to know where the
problem was originated in order not to repeat it you must have the
greatness to admit your percentage of responsibility in the origin of the
problem Donrsquot put the responsibility all out there blaming others do
know that we alwayshellip alwayshellip are partly responsible for what happens
to us Admitting responsibility requires greatness
Yetsirah is the world of Opportunities formed by
Tipherzt Hod and Neshah
Tiphezt is the sefirath of beauty and every problem has a
beautiful side to it which is the opportunity it opens up to the other
worlds Every problem is the starting point towards truth Many times
the truth is hidden and the problems bring it out in the light Look for the
positive side of the problem there always is one look for the sun after
the storm
Hod is the glory and glory is acknowledgement To
acknowledge a problem is part of the solution If we describe the prob-
lem and its consequences we could see clearly which opportunity it is
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
110
revealing Remember facts or situations it will help us recognize the real
scenario of the problem
Neshah is stability which will come when we solve the prob-
lem Imagine your life without the problem try to see which things will
be better and analyze which ones could be worse in order to avoid them
Donrsquot let it catch you off guard Just like in a chess match every move
must be carefully thought out and advantage taken of the adversaryrsquos lit-
tle mistakes
Assiah is the world of Solutions formed by Yesod and Malkuth
Yesod is the sefirath of foundation it is the one to support and
filter the information sent by the rest to Malkuth If the other nine have
done their job correctly the problem would reach this point practically
resolved In some cases it doesnrsquot even reach this point since it was re-
solved on its way As long as we clarify and converge ideas analyze the
real causes and describe its consequences the storm we saw coming at
first becomes a sea breeze
Malkuth is the earth action It establishes these ways to fol-
low to resolve a problem or whatrsquos left of it The truth is that Malkuth
steps in less than 5 of the cases because the big problems do not ex-
ist but small problems that transformed a snow ball rolling downhill that
breaks up into thousands of harmless little particles when it hits a serious
and conclusive analytical spirit
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111
The Sefiroacutethico
Tree of the logical thought
Diverge
Facts
Acknowl-
edging
Filtration
Action
Serenity
Equilibrium
Origin
Converge
Knowing
Heart
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112
The Worlds of Solutions
The other three worlds of the spirit (sensations emotions and intuition)
are present in the previous development as observers but sometimes
(many times) they are present in the analysis of the concrete world where
logical thoughts occur taking the solution to the problem through not so
logical paths In these cases we have to appeal to the central column or
Column of Equilibrium of the Sefirotic Tree of the Spirit
Kether (Intuition) receiving the energy that the Divinity and Its
Light sends us
Leb (Heart) will find answers in our feelings
Tipherzt (Beauty) will consult our inner sensations
Yesod and Malkuth (Foundation and Earth) bring us back to the
world of reasoning and logic
This means that we can solve many problems using our intuition our
feelings or our sensations but we should always put them through the
filter of logical thought of truth putting passion aside and trying to be as
analytical as possible
Instincts Feelings and Sensations
Instincts or Atziluth feelings or Briah and sensations or Yetsirah to-
gether create an inner stir up when motivated by action Mankind is
mostly conditioned by emotions and sensations by likes and dislikes
Often enough feelings and sensations are side tracked by mankindrsquos own
interests and selfishness to the point of invalidating sense and reason
making one behave in ways which one sees with consternation that Assi-
ah has been forgotten Thus logic is destroyed by the three upper
worlds When we snap out later and we see the mistake it is too late to
do anything about it
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
113
The upper worlds usually come up as an answer to the spontaneous eval-
uation of perceptions Emotions such as anger or fear can be harmful or
healthy such as fondness or compassion While aversions are typical un-
healthy emotions good love and compassion are outstanding examples of
noble emotions that lift our human nature
Human beings are pretty open to emotional development and so is the
range and strength of their emotions We are all somewhat passionate
and impulsive and cold and reflective at the same time What varies is
the percentage some get angry very fast and others are patient While
one person could be not impulsive emotionally another could go through
a wide range of emotions at the speed of light
The emotional worlds hurt the physical body that is why they should be
controlled According to clinical experience a person dominated by
emotions could have consecutively or simultaneously health issues af-
fecting several organic systems I will mention a few psychosomatic
health problems
Migraines
This symptom is made up of other somatic symptoms that go to-
gether in people with a perfectionist personality with changing moods
They usually manifest themselves with painful muscle contractions of the
neck as well as nausea and vomiting
Obesity
Obesity usually develops within the frame of anxieties in re-
sponse to frustrations and disappointment through devotion to food8
Hypertension
The main reason for vascular hypertension is emotional tension
in people who show apparent serenity and affability but are really cover-
ing up hostile emotions and predisposition ndash that must be restrained ndash for
social or employment reasons
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
114
Cardiovascular System
It has been proven that the stress caused by anguish tends to fre-
quently increase your heart beat cardiac distress and blood pressure
Respiratory System
Crying laughing screaming o talking imply changes your
breathing action excessive breathing or the opposite are typical respons-
es during contrasting periods of action or relaxation Examples of this are
the hyperventilation syndrome and asthma amongst others
The Gastrointestinal Tract
The symptoms of gastrointestinal disorders are multiple the most
frequent they are anorexia bulimia nausea nervous indigestion vomit-
ing and diarrhea
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
115
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Yesod Foundation
Free Will
The emotional worlds
Control of emotions
Who controls me
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
116
The emotional worlds
The emotional worlds are distributed within the Sefirotic Tree from
Kether to Malkuth
Kether is imagination it is ethereal and impalpable it comes
from within and surprises us as if it came from outside We imagine
things or situations this is the world of Atziluth
What happens in our lives makes better sense when we use our imagina-
tion and create our own stories These could be situations related directly
to what is happening to us or just the opposite For example if we are
watching a Superman movie we unconsciously accept that the character
flies We know the actor is supported by ropes of steel or that it is a
computerized trick but we go prepared to accept this The same thing
happens with a horror movie we donrsquot ignore that the monster is made
out of some synthetic material that those masks are created with makeup
or that the blood could be tomato sauce but while we are watching the
movie we let the world of Atziluth take over our spirit and we accept
what takes place in the screen as real
The important thing is to know when the movie ends and reality begins
There have been cases of people jumping off rooftops believing they
were Superman or have shot others thinking they were either Rambo or
Terminator Without going to these extreme examples many people be-
lieve they are living stories out of soap operas in which the characters
are either good or bad In them the manipulation of society is done
through ldquobelievablerdquo or ldquodetestablerdquo stereotypes In these stories the
ldquogood guysrdquo consume the sponsorrsquos products that is why they are good
looking and successful while the ldquobad guys are very badrdquo and always
end up in jail or dead Very far from the reality
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
117
Hokhmah is memory it is our particular wisdom it is what we
learn from the past the things our own life has taught us But memories
sometimes play tricks on us
Often enough we associate what we see with some other type of experi-
ence or memory For instance if somebody speaks loudly we feel we are
being attacked because we remember that tone of voice being used by a
teacher or our father to make an observation or punish us This memory
which is not rational will put us on alert waking all our feelings of de-
fense But it could be that this person speaks loudly because he needs to
be listened to with the best intentions towards us In this case Atziluth
would have reacted against our relationship with the other person We
usually do not notice these processes because these are unconscious be-
haviors of which we are not aware When we remember the incident we
only describe our experience related to the visual perception and with
conscientious thought We almost never refer to what we heard felt im-
agined or what our intuition told us What this does is that we visualize
an incomplete picture of the situation
Binah is the comprehension our intelligence While we hear the
other person speaking loudly we generate currents of thought These
thoughts could relate directly and we could probably raise our voice as
well Both of us speaking loudly almost screaming will dull our compre-
hension and we wonrsquot be able to reason the other personrsquos words nor
will we understand why we are being loud In unexpected situations
such as an accident in transit (like somebody hitting our car in the free-
way) we create an opinion of the other person while we observe the in-
cident But we do not reason the occurrence It is not easy for us to un-
derstand in those circumstances and we unchain reactions that we will
regret later
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
118
ldquoThe three sefiroth of the tree of emotions make up the trilogy of At-
ziluth where everything is potential everything is relative where im-
agination lives with memories and comprehe nsionrdquo
Listening is Hesed greatness since knowing how to listen is
greatness Our hearing perceives in a selective way depending on the
attention we are paying In first place we hear the most discordant
sounds Some people listen independently from what they see while
others associate what they hear to what they see Closer sounds also get
mixed with those coming from afar (planes trains)
Seeing is Geburah justice When the police investigate an acci-
dent talks to five witnesses and gets five different versions of the same
accident This is because each witness perceived the same scene in a dif-
ferent way according to their distance and angle their surprise their
memories and their fears What each one was doing and how long it took
their minds to react to adapt to the new situation is also important
Feeling is Tipherzt beauty Any situation of relationship or ac-
tion (somebody yelling at us somebody crashing into us somebody hug-
ging us or loving us) triggers our instinctive emotions and can make us
feel uncomfortable sad surprised tender excited furious anxious nos-
talgichellip and so many other ways
It is important to know how to handle them from the sefirath of beauty
Both love and fury are born there It is the provider of spiritual nourish-
ment it is the one that sends the order to our hand to slap or caress to our
mouth the order to insult or say words of love to our legs the order to get
closer or start running away If we control our reactions and let our brain
make the decision we will save ourselves lots of problems apologies and
unpleasantness
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
119
ldquoThese three sefiroth of the tree of emotions form the trilogy of
Briah the world of creation where strength idea and ways of liste n-
ing seeing and feeling come togetherrdquo
Taste and smell are Hod and Neshah or glory and stability the sev-
enth and eighth sefiroth These two senses go together When we smell a
dish we like we feel our mouth ldquowateringrdquo This is because our sense of
taste already sent the known flavors to our brain which in turn already
started in Yetsirah the registered memories In some gas stations we
taste the smell of gasoline in our mouth as if we had drunk it Being close
to a trash dump makes us nauseous since the smell is perceived by our
nose and mouth irritating our throat
In these cases the formative world of Yetsirah makes us react instinc-
tively to aggressive odors
Reflexes are Yesod foundation This sefirah closes the trilogy of the
world of Yetsirah which is the formative or conceptual world and re-
flexes just like taste and smell are instinctive concepts that we cannot
control When we watch a thriller or action movie we move as if we
were the character in it we flinch when they stick a knife into somebody
or we move avoiding the punch We usually experience some movements
as if we were moving ourselves we even experience tension in our mus-
cles Itrsquos common that if we see others dancing we will also feel the im-
pulse to dance
ldquoThese three sefiroth are the base of our instinctive and intuitive sys-
tem We can control all other sefiroth imagination memories un-
derstanding listening seeing and even feeling but the senses of smell
and taste and reflexes are very hard to control that is why we must
concentrate our attention on themrdquo
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120
Re-
mem-
ber
Lis-tening
Tast-
ing
Re-
flexes
Rea-
soning
Feel-
ing
Smell-ing
Seeing
Compre-
hension
Imag-
ining
As we can see Malkuth is in the world of Assiah and takes no part in
emotions It is the material world reason and reasoning If we manage to
handle our emotions and ldquobring them downrdquo to Malkuth reason will
prevail and our behavior will be logical improving our relation with the
world
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
121
Controlling your emotions
Now that we know our emotions we know where their origin
takes place and which worlds rule them we can analyze the possibility of
controlling them to reach our goals since a person who angers easily
spoils hisher own happiness and disturbs otherrsquos peace of mind
Without a deliberate effort emotions will not be under the direct
control of our will of Assiah and we will be able to control them in this
rational and logic world We must train our mind to control our emotions
the moment they stir up This can be done by watching them objectively
as soon as they flourish identifying them with a name or a mental label
such as ldquoAngerrdquo ldquoJealousyrdquo ldquoSorrowrdquo ldquoFuryrdquo etc
Once we have names for our emotions we will be then in a bet-
ter position to let go of them without being dragged by them The mo-
ment we can register our anger calmly (when we become aware that this
anger originated in the upper worlds) that is when we make it descend to
Assiah to the world of reason and our anger will leave us
At first this could be useful if during the day we repeat to our-
selves a formula such as
ldquoWhat am I feeling nowrdquohellip ldquoWhat am I thinkingrdquohellip
We respond immediately
ldquoI am feeling angerrdquohellip ldquoI am jealousrdquohellip
We can also investigate even afterwards why the anger (or any
other adverse emotion) took over us so that we can avoid these situations
or responses in the future
Who controls me
Even though every human being has in its spirit the world of As-
siah very few use this world to think logically and by themselves This
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122
passivity or indifference is the result of the development of massive
communication media
Radio television yellow journalism even the Internet push their
messages on all of us every minute of the day and its penetration power
is reinforced by the rooted human disposition to accept everything we are
being told and comply with what we are dared to do Bombarded by
thousands of stimuli we donrsquot think by ourselves anymore we donrsquot feel
our emotions anymore or start up our own actions instead we feel how
others want us to feel The pressure of the multitude is irresistible
When we explain that Kether accepts that Superman flies be-
cause it is part of the film game we must control that Kether does not
accept that my self esteem depends on the perfume or shirt I buy or that
my relationship with people does not depend on the car I have
We saw that in the world of Atziluth everything is relative eve-
rything is in a potential state that is why commercials aim at our imagina-
tion memories and comprehension to get us to buy their products
All these communication means teach us to hold our capacity to
reason or if we happen to reason to do it the way they expect us to
Those who manipulate the media (not necessarily the owners but the
sponsors) are motivated by their own interests which are fortune and
power They play important roles in several means of life such as politic
business law medicine and education
Publicity newscasts soap operas even reality shows penetrate
us through the world of Briah which is the listeningseeingfeeling trilo-
gy In Briah we find the idea in formation that is why journalism is con-
sidered the ldquofourth powerrdquo Nevertheless in todayrsquos globalizes world
Kabbalah places it at the top over all other earthly powers because it
manipulates images ideas and it gives us the news ldquoaimedrdquo at their inter-
ests The role of reasoning tends to be subordinated to that of emotion
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
123
while the mental inertia and indifference eases the conquest of reason
That is why when public opinion is formed through manipulation a small
minority is able to control the majority Publicity and newscasts are the
most effective mechanism to make us ldquobelieverdquo what is good or bad for
our spirit and body
Control of decisions and Free Will
All of those who are part of the small but powerful marketing
minority have something to sell Commercials make us wish more and
more things that will not necessarily make us happier or give us peace of
mind They tell us that happiness is having the latest entertainment center
or the new cooking system But no matter how many things we buy we
could still feel our lives painfully empty
The speed power and efficiency of all this technological and so-
cial development drive us into an increasing frequency of illness due to
stress and nervous crisis Those who do not collapse under this pressure
find other ways to escape such as drugs alcohol and psychotic cults
The battle is not easy because the offer is gratifying we are even part of
that wheel because we sell a product or service which is commercialized
that way The only significant comparison we can make is with our-
selves between the person we were one month earlier a year earlier or
even a decade earlier and the person we are at present physically intel-
lectually morally and financially If there hasnrsquot been an improvement
or it hasnrsquot been enough we should ask ourselves why that is and do
something to modify this without delay If done regularly this ldquocheck-
uprdquo could be very beneficial If we set our pride and prejudice aside and
we check out our values and perspectives then we will be able to live a
simpler healthier and happier life
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124
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Malkuth
The Kingdom
The Rational World
Education and freedom
Rights and obligations
Daily negotiations Responsibilities
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
125
Education and freedom
As a child I was told that
ldquoThe better educated a person is the freer that person isrdquo
At the time I didnrsquot understand the significance of those words
because at the age of ten to me education was school teachers and
studying
Today a few years older the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah taught
me that education is knowledge and it is much more profound than what I
was taught in school
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the first thing educa-
tion should do is warn the students that all knowledge implies a certain
risk of error and illusion Human knowledge is exposed to errors in per-
ception and judgment and illusions caused by the narrowness of ideas
cultural influence and the emotions and experiences of each person
Scientific knowledge is not even immune to error and illusion
theories and methods of investigation protect their own errors and illu-
sions That is why the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah education gives the kind
of knowledge that allows for self criticism and detects errors and illu-
sions The ldquoknowledge blindnessrdquo can be cured with a more open and
reflexive education that self-criticizes
The media overwhelms us with information It is fundamental
that we learn to discern what is relevant and what is accessorial
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah invites us to analyze the four
worlds of the human spirit together with the four worlds of the societies
in which they live political cultural religious and financial
The archetypical world called Atziluth is the one where eve-
rything is in a latent potential state That is the spirituality and religious
world
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126
In the creative world called Briah we find the strength in its
pure form and the ideas This is the emotional or cultural world
In the formative world called Yetsirah everything is in the
formation or a conceptual process which is the world of sensations or
political
In the material world called Assiah is where the physical
manifestation takes place which is the logical or financial world
Globalization is another important issue that conditions our free-
dom According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the world has been
globalizing from its inception God never discriminated we are all His
children Moses was a ldquoglobalizesrdquo when he took his people to the Prom-
ised Land through the desert So were Abraham Noah Jesus when he
asked his apostles to take his word evangelizing throughout the Earth
The current systems of communication make us realize how sim-
ilar and at the same time how different we are from each other The
Judeo-Christian Kabbalah struggles for unity not to erase diversity and
vice-versa Neither is the individual person above religion culture or so-
ciety nor is religion culture or society above the individual person Only
God is above each and every one of us
Let us remember that God created the four Genii or Elements
(Earth Air Water and Fire) and it is the obligation of all human beings
to protect them since they are our only support Mankind is destroying
them with the contamination it has created which will derive in our own
destruction But this depends on our free will thai is why there is an
even more powerful globalization than the financial one the intellectual
affective and moral globalization This is the only way we will achieve
the Freedom to which the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah invites you the
world is united by its culture technology and the financial exchange and
at the same time it is divided by politics and religion
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127
To need
Control
Respect
Free Will
LIFE
Happiness
Dignity
Freedom
To know
To love
Kabbalah teach us to understand that every human being shares
the same worries feelings and the same destiny no matter where he
lives
The values of the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah are solidarity hos-
pitality tolerance and respect towards the dignity of every person This
means that every culture should learn from other cultures and each socie-
ty from other societies
The kabballistic ideals of freedom consist in respect for the indi-
viduality and diversity and promoting solidarity and comprehension
Responsibilities
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128
Rights and obligations
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah bases its doctrine on the rights and obliga-
tions of all human beings Each person has certain right and obligations
which become basic responsibilities of which each person must take
charge one hundred percent like the responsibility to control and manage
its own life building its own life plan and following it by accomplishing
goals
These obligations have three important axes based on the first three
sefiroth
bull Kether or Crown and self-esteem
bull Hokhmah or the Wisdom to known oneself
bull Binah or the Intelligence to make decisions according
to onersquos inner and outer personal needs without hurting
oneself or others
The basic rights are found in the seven lower sefiroth
bull Hesed and the right to freedom
bull Geburah and the right to control your life
bull Tipherzt and the right to happiness
bull Neshah and the right to dignity
bull Hod and the right to (respect) be respected
bull Yesod and the right of free expression
bull Malkuth and the right to life
Mankind in its daily interaction relates to its sefiroth and its funda-
mental rights according to three different styles of response based on the
lower worlds
The world of Briah or pure or emotional power
It promotes inequality always having a loser and winner This is not a
creative or equal relation
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129
The person denies its own respect rights and needs hurting itself
These are mostly selfish individualist and passionate people
The world of Yetsirah or conceptual
It deals with defending onersquos own rights without hurting others It im-
plies equality and respect
The person knows the border line between its own individuality and
those of others
They are mostly realistic practical conventional and objective
The world of Assiah or physical or logical manifestation
They are mostly analytic calculating cold and insensitive
It promotes non-equal relationships against the rights of others It is
an unbalanced relationship in which manipulation takes place
The person invades the rights of others getting Responses of fear
Daily negotiations
When people speak of negotiations they think they are talking about
money but negotiation is part of daily life and it is also analyzed
through the sefirotic trees of the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah
The negotiation can be with oneself for instance
Irsquom staying in bed another fifteen minutes even if I have to go
to work without breakfast
The negotiation can be with your spouse for instance
We can spend Christmas with your family if we spend New
Yearrsquos with mine
We can negotiate with our children for example
You can have the car tonight if you come home early and
wash it tomorrow
We can negotiate with our fellow workers for instance
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
130
If you cover me this Saturday Irsquoll cover you next Sunday
As you can see in none of these examples and many more that surely
you must remember is money mentioned as exchange In a negotiation
the effort must be compensated equally
Nobody should win or lose or better yet both should come out winning
obtaining something each one wants In a negotiation everybody should
know what is at stake and what each one will obtain in exchange
Let us remember that the method of solving problems is based on the
lower or material world of Assiah but a negotiation reaches for the upper
worlds like Yetsirah or intuition or the world of Briah or emotions in
some cases it even appeals to Atziluth or spirit
You must train you brain to stay in the lower worlds to negotiate be-
cause it will be more to your benefit Try to be objective since feelings
or emotions play against you and the effort will not be compensated
equally
You must create what is called a creative antagonism separating the ob-
jective facts in order to get to a reasonable and logic agreement It is very
important that both parties feel they are winners Get used to listening to
every word the other person is saying In Kabbalah the word is very im-
portant it has a double message what is being said and what is meant
When your spouse child or friend get angry and scream for something
you already know it is not important they are really saying something
else Hug himher kiss himher on the forehead and tell himher you
want to hear the reasons behind the anger But on the contrary if you
feel offended and respond screaming even louder you will have lost the
negotiation before you even begin
Turn your defects into virtues that way you will get a just negotiation
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
131
If you are passive think of the object and state your argument
with precision and not getting nervous
If you are aggressive look for the motives and keep them
away while negotiating
If triumph is important to you think the other one is right and
try to be unbiased
If you are anguished think of the reasons in your favor not to
show weakness
If you are a fatalist and you think you are going to lose nego-
tiate with a relaxed mind you have nothing to risk act without
worrying about the end result
When Jesus says
ldquoPut the other cheekrdquo
He refers to Judeo-Christian Kabbalah because it is not to be
slapped but to accept the embrace of negotiation
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132
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Conclusions
The Tree of Trees
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
133
The Tree of Trees
Reading this book we have learned to go through the different
sefirotic trees the creation of the universe its worlds and centers of
strength the sefirotic columns the Adam Kadmon tree Jesusrsquo genealogy
the Our Father the Sermon in the Mountain (Beatitudes) the evolution of
mankind gestation development maturing the spirit decisions emo-
tions and even responsibilities
But we also learned about the existence of infinite sefirotic trees
because each sefirath (no matter how small) contains a tree within and
each tree (no matter how big) is only a sefirath of a larger tree
If we try to unify all the sefirotic trees we will see that they are
all similar we could even say the same they all have the same logical
pattern they were all created by the same Divine Architect
The sefiroth take different names according to their presence but
their strength does not change since they are endless sources of energy
That is why when we see Sephiroth we see its gifts
Kether Crown Inspiration Divine Light Supra-One א
Hokhmah Wisdom Word Experience Soul ב
Binah Intelligence Spirit Thought Fortune ג
Hesed Greatness Love Humility Strength Giving ד
Geburah Justice David Truth Respect Shape ה
Tipherzt Beauty Salomon Purity Fidelity Goodness ו
Neshah Stability Power Forgiveness Trust Effort ז
Hod Glory Blessing Protection Education ח
Yesod Foundation Simplicity Assistance Purification ט
Malkuth Kingdom Peace Prayer Freedom Birth י
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
134
The only sefirath that has only one meaning or name is Leb the
sefirath of the heart and for that reason it cannot be modified Because it
is virtual it appears or disappears according to the tree we are looking at
because its power is so big that it doesnrsquot need to be identified or be pre-
sent in the tree because it is a Sefirotic Tree in itself and it is the one that
guides us and protects us
Each one of us has its own Sefirotic Tree which we
must go through without a doubt from Kether to Malkuth and from
Malkuth to Kether
Free will lets us chose the road to take the sefiroth to go
through but it does not let us get out of our own and only tree
We are the only craft men of our own destiny we devel-
op our only precious and exclusive Tree of Life
It is up to us to comply with our Logics Divine Plan or to
decide to evade our responsibilities looking for shortcuts and trying to
twist the Divine assignments
The free will given to us by God demands that we put our spir-
itual and philosophical life in order without further delay to build a dig-
nified future and face each day as if it were the last one
The physical and spiritual kaballistic world from Kether to
Malkuth is truly a happy place to live in if people only thought of go-
ing through their personal and unique Sefirotic Tree
Let us remember these wise words
ldquoDeath is certain life is uncertainrdquo
(Maranam niyatam jivitam aniyatam)
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135
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
The Divine Logic
Cesar Leo Marcus
Windmills International Editions Inc
wwwwindmillseditionscom
California - USA ndash 2012
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
136
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
9
This bookrsquos search takes place within each reader because
ldquoKabbalahrdquo comes from the Hebrew words ldquoLaykabbelrdquo meaning To
Receive and ldquoHabbalahrdquo which means Tradition which refers to the Tra-
dition of To Receive and Kabbalah describes this action as ldquoThe tradi-
tion of wishing to receiverdquo This tradition of wishing to receive develops
and grows in four worlds that continuously come together and grow
apart
To Receive the pleasure of money and power this is the
material world
To Receive the pleasure of acknowledgement and hon-
ors this is the conceptual world
To Receive the pleasure of love and affection this is the
world of senses
To Receive the pleasure of the union with the Divinity
which is the spiritual world which is the highest in the pyramid of the
desires because it wraps and raises all the rest
ldquoHe who acknowledges the power of the
Kabbalah and the tradition of to receivehellip
Will search the means to attain its Lightrdquo
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10
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Kether The Crown
The Sacred Books
Old Testament
New Testament
Koran or Quram
The Zohar
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
11
The Old Testament
The Hebrew has three scriptures The Tanakh or Old Testament
the Talmud or collection of erudite commentaries on the Tanakh and
The Kabbalah or mystic interpretation of the Torah Ancient rabbis
would say that the first of these three books represented the Divine Body
the second one the Divine Spirit and the fourth one the Divine Soul The
average person can benefit from reading and obeying the first book eru-
dite scholars can study the second one but wise people meditate with the
third one
The Tanakh
Old Testament also called The Book of Books is divided in
three parts
The Torah the Law which envelops the first five books
ldquoJumashrdquo(5) in hebrew also called ldquoPentateuchrdquo or the Law of Moses
These are the five books Genesis (Bereshit) Exodus (Shemoth) Leviti-
cus (Vayikra) Numbers (Bamidbar) and Deuteronomy (Devarim) They
cover the period between the Genesis up to Mosesrsquo death on the thresh-
old of the entry into the Promised Land (Canaan)
Nevirsquoim (Prophets) The second part of the Tanakh co-
vers a vast period which goes from the conquest up to the last prophets
These are the books contained therein Joshua (the conquest period)
Judges I and II Samuel I and II Kings and those dedicated to the major
prophets Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel and Daniel and the minor prophets
Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah
Haggai Zecariah and Malachi
Ketuvim (writings) This third part of the Tanakh is
made up of the book of Psalms Proverbs Job Ezra Nehemiah Ruth
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
12
Song of Songs Lamentations (Eichah) Ecclesiastes Esther and Chroni-
cles I and II They cover a vast period that goes from the VII century of
the Common Era up to the Persian period the return to Israel and the
building of the second Temple of Jerusalem
The Talmud
The Halakha-Mishnah-Aggada-Talmud Bavli (of Babylon)-
Yerushalmi (of Jerusalem) is a compilation of the oral tradition transmit-
ted from generation to generation which covers all topics in the Tanakh
including
The Halakha or the Law explains the rules and princi-
ples pronounced in the Torah rules of conduct religious principles and
rituals Covers a wide variety of issues revolving around the individual
the family and living in community The Halakha has ruled life for centu-
ryrsquos right up to the present
The Mishnah which cover the following rules and regu-
lations are six basic sedarim or treaties (singular=seder)
Moed talks about the festivities א
Zeraim (Seeds) deals with labor practices ב
Nezikin deals with relationships within a group ג
Nashim are the family rules ד
Kodoshim deals with sanctity and holiness ה
Tohorot-kosher are Laws of purity ו
The Gemara the oral law with comments and exegetical rabbin-
ic statements has been study material for centuries nourishing philoso-
phy teachings It contains practically every bit of traditional wisdom col-
lected for centuries
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
13
This oral law also contains a vast literary work Haggadah and
Midrashim (legends and comments) on biblical figures of exemplary
conduct
The Kabbalah
The Kabbalah was in ancient literature the totality of the reli-
gious doctrine obtained with the exception of the Pentateuch As of the
X century DC Kabbalah was considered a secret mysterious and theo-
sophical science destined to explain always in a cryptic language the
Creation of the Universe by the Being defined as ldquoOne and Absoluterdquo
Some kabbalists such as Pico Della Mirandola Reuchlin and
Schikard adopt the old tradition according to which Kabbalah develops
from the inspiration that God instilled in Adam Abraham Moses Bud-
dha Jesus Mohammed Bahi and all those that constitute the mystic cir-
cle of the Latter Prophets
Kabbalah is not exclusively Jewish since first Jesus and later
Mohammed were kabbalist scholars
The New Testament
Having taken Jesus as an example as we know it when he was
born there were three religious doctrines in Palestine the Pharisees and
Sadducees of which the Gospels often speak and the Essenes which are
never mentioned Tradition states that the boy Emanuel ben Yoseph was
sent by the erudite doctors of the Law to the community of the Essenes
near the Dead Sea after being heard at the Temple at the age of thirteen
to be educated according to the mystic tradition of Israel The Kabbalah
He stayed with the Essenes until he was thirty years old Emanuel ben
Yoseph or Jesus Christ teaches the continuity of the Hebrew Scriptures
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14
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the
Prophets I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them I tell you
the truth until heaven and earth disappear not the smallest letter not the
least stroke of a pen will by any means disappear from the Law until
everything is accomplished (Mt 517)
However I admit that I worship the God of our fathers
as a follower of the Way which they call a sect I believe everything that
agrees with the Law and that is written in the Prophetsrdquo (Acts 2414)
Jesus answered It is written Man does not live on
bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God (Mat-
thew 44) referring to Deuteronomy 83 ldquohellipto teach you that man does
not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of
Godrdquo
In the chapter called Tipherzt-Beauty you will find a broader ex-
planation of the Christian Kabbalah and an analysis of the Kabbalistic
Jesus and his apostles
The Koran or Quram
The Koran or Quram is the sacred book of Islam containing the
word of Allah (God) as revealed to Mohammed through the angel Gabri-
el (Gibrail or Yibril)
During his life the Prophet Mohammed received the revelations
either verbally or written on palm leaves pieces of leather or bones etc
Upon the death of Mohammed in the year 632 his followers began to
gather all these revelations which during the period in which Uthman ibn
Affan was Caliph took the shape we know nowadays 114 chapters each
one called surah subdivided into verses or phrases
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
15
For the Muslims the Koran is the eternal and un-created work of
God therefore it was to be transmitted without the slightest change in the
original language the classic Arabic considered a sacred tongue for all
purposes
However in recent times the Koran has been translated to many
languages aimed specially at the believer whose native language is not
Arabic But even so believers are obligated to read it in its original lan-
guage because they claim that the contents of the Koran has not been
modified in centuries and a translation is an interpretation
Mohamed admits the continuity of the Hebrew Scriptures in the
following passages of the Koran
ldquoAnd most certainly We gave Musa (Moses) the Book
and We sent apostles after him one after anotherrdquo (Koran surah 287)
ldquoSurely We revealed the Taurat (Torah) in which was
guidance and light with it the prophets who submitted themselves
(to Allah) judged (matters) for those who were Jewsrdquo (surah 544)
ldquoCertainly We made a covenant with the children of Is-
rael and We sent to them apostlesrdquo (surah 570)
ldquoAnd certainly We gave the Book to Musa so be not in
doubt concerning the receiving of it and we made it a guide for the
children of Israelrdquo (surah 3223)
According to the Koran ldquothe Messiah Isa (Jesus) son of
Marium (Mary) is only an apostle of Allah and word which He
communicated to Marium and a spirit from Himrdquo (surah 4171)
He is a prophet or a servant of Allah (surah 4359) but
not His son(surah 6101)
The Muslims consider him a Messiah (in Arabic
ldquoMasihrdquo very similar to the Hebrew ldquoMashiacuteajrdquo) to them it means an
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
16
elevated prophet (ldquoanointedrdquo) the closest one to Allah before Mo-
hammed
The word Messiah Masih (ldquoanointedrdquo) can be found in
Surahs 345 4157 171-172 517-72-75 930-31 The highest
prophet except for Mohammed
The Islam considers the mystery of the Trinity and in-
carnation an ldquoassociationrdquo and therefore an offense against the
uniqueness of Allah (surah 112)
But not this way the first three sefirot that wrap the symbolism of
the Trinity
Mohammed sensed the Kabbalah in the Koran since Isa (Je-
sus) is the word of Allah and a spirit from Him son of the Holy Spirit
but they do not exactly consider Isa (Jesus) as if he were Allah
And furthermore the Koran affirms that at the end of time when
humanity will be called to judgment by Allah Isa (Jesus) will stand by
Him as witness and part therein (surah 4361) And everyone who did
not believe in him will believe in him (surah 4157)
Those who interpret the Koran affirm that Isa (Jesus) will come
back to this world at the end of time to save Humanity from damnation
and convert it to Allah
The Zohar
The composition of the Kabbalistic doctrine as we know it to-
day it attributed to Rabbi Shimeon ben Yochai in century II He is the
author of the Zohar ldquoThe Book of Splendorrdquo one of the basic texts of
the Kabbalah Shimeon ben Yochai (80-160) was a disciple of Rebbi
Akiva ldquoRashbirdquo (40-137) who had been sentenced to death by the Ro-
mans because he would not acknowledge nor obey the ruling authority of
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
17
Rome nor would he reveal any Kabbalah secrets to them Even though
the Zohar was written by Rabbi Shimeon ben Yochai Rebbi Akiva was
its true inspirer
Adam Kadmon Zohar XVII Century
Rebbi Akiva ben Joseph was born southeast of Judea close to the
Mediterranean shore His father was a humble Jewish peasant who was
not acquainted with the literature of his people nor the traditions he had
never read the Torah nor visited the Temple Due to the precarious eco-
nomic conditions in which there was living the family Akiba none of her
children received formal education in her infancy The reality was that
Akiba ben Joseph I pass your childhood and adolescence as an illiterate
Mediterranean shepherd until a few years later he married with Raacutechel
who convinced it to leave your activity and to study with the big rabbini-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
18
cal teachers Akiba faced many difficulties in your learning That is why
he started learning the alphabet with his 5 year old son and soon was
reading text books in Hebrew he went on to study the Torah at Rabbi
Joseph ben Zakkairsquos renowned Yeshiva (academy) His teachers Eliezer
ben Hyrkanos Joshua ben Hananiah and Nahum of Gimzo became his
best friends because they admired his bright fast and resourceful mind
Fifteen years later at the top of his mental and physical faculties he be-
gan his monumental work the reconstruction of the Law and the estab-
lishment of an academy of permanent studies
At the age of 57 in the year 97 Akiba was already revered by
both by his colleagues and by the masses He visited rabbis and experts
of the Toraacute with the purpose of combining all the Jewish traditions and
then went on to classify them in a legal code divided up logistically The
effective combination of conciseness and precision served as example the
future generations In the centuries following Mishna (codification of
Jewish laws and traditions) it was acknowledged and studied by the rab-
binical authorities
With more than 65 years Rebbi Akiva founded his private Ye-
shiva (academy) in Bene Berak (Sons of Lightning) to the north of Jeru-
salem wanted to found several in the whole Israel for the study of the
Tora and of the Kabbalah
Everything went along smoothly until the year 125 CE when the
relationship between Jews and Romans deteriorated Emperor Hadrianusrsquo
decision to build a pagan sanctuary on Mount Moria (where the old tem-
ple had been) exacerbated spirits Excitement grew within the Jewish
people and led by Shimon bar Kojba they rebelled
In a little less than three years the Roman armies destroyed all
evidence of Jewish resistance The cruelty of the repression grew month
by month and in the year 134 the Romans enacted a drastic decree pro-
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
19
hibiting the practice and study of the Torah Rebbi Akiva was convinced
it was the end If the study of the Torah was abolished his life lacked all
meaning At the age of 95 defying the Roman authority he gathered his
students with the sole purpose to study Kabbalah
A few days later Rebbi Akiva was incarcerated The Romans re-
spected his knowledge reputation and distinguished personality Akiva
continued teaching his disciples from his cell which earned him judg-
ment He was found guilty tortured and sentenced to death With Rebbi
Akiva 24000 of his disciples were killed by the Romans only Rabbi
Simeon bar Yochai and four others survived Before being captured Reb-
bi Akiva and Rabbi Yehuda ben Baba authorized ldquoRashbirdquo to transmit to
future generations the Kabbalah they had taught him
The Zohar or ldquoBook of Splendorrdquo was composed by Simeon bar
Yochai and his son Elazar during the thirteen years they lived in a cave
hiding from the Roman army
ldquoRashbirdquo came out of the cave with the Zohar a flawless meth-
od to study the Kabbalah and having accomplished spirituality Rabbi
Simeon bar Yochai attained the 125 levels a human being can achieve
during his whole life in this world According to the latest investigations
the revelation of the current Kabbalah could be resumed this way
The historic Kabbalah was preceded by a movement (900-1200)
that preserved and encouraged the legacy of the Jewish gnosis
(knowledge of spiritual truth) Later on this movement penetrated Eu-
rope constantly at different stages Hasidism was an important intermedi-
ate stage Furthermore besides all the theoretical and mystical variances
of Kabbalah there was a much older one in which the secret names of
God and the angels were used the same way they are used in white mag-
ic not causing any harm to people Not to be confused with ldquoblack mag-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
20
icrdquo (kishcuf in Hebrew) international current containing elements from
Arabic Jewish and Christian magic
After the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in the year 1492 and
the establishment of a Jewish center in Safed (north of Galilea) Kabba-
lah also experienced a change since two systems flourished the Kabba-
lah of Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (1522-1570) and Kabbalah of Isaac
Luria (1534-1572)
In brief Cordoverorsquos Kabbalah could be defined as a theoretical
variant with many gnostic elements while Luriarsquos Kabbalah would be a
practical mysticism
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
21
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Hokhmah
Wisdom
The Sacred Ideas
Light
The spiritual Will
Tetragramaton
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
22
Light
We all have this sixth sense which we will call spiritual sense
still not awakened in some people When people study Kabbalah they can
learn things that were not available to them before because a sixth sense
is developed in order to envision life and the world from a different point
of view
The sixth sense is also called ldquothe spiritual vaserdquo(kli) this vase
is in all of us and it is ruled by basic kabbalistic concepts
A regular personrsquos spiritual vase is still not adequately א
developed to perceive the spiritual world
When light enters a personrsquos heart or soul it ignites the ב
spiritual perception in that person
Nothing is possible without light When we take the light ג
that surrounds us it will gradually light our path
Even if we donrsquot recognize said light there is a direct ד
connection between our heart and the light that will fill it
The light is destined the surrounding lights stand by ה
waiting for you to prepare your vase to receive them
The light we receive when we give in to the wisdom of ו
self-knowledge attracts a celestial charm which gives us abundance
of sanctity and purity that take us closer to realization
ldquoThe person who studies the Kabbalah Judeo-Christian with
the purpose of self-modification will attain the light and will notice
that the desired improvement and success can be achieved with the
least cost or sufferingrdquo
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
23
The Spiritual Will
The Creator wants us to indulge in spiritual pleasures that we
are full That can only be possible through enormous will perfection We
can only reach the spiritual world through a rectified will which will
make us strong and active Only by means of a passionate desire strong-
ly and dedication we will be able to reach really the spiritual world re-
turning forts and assets A small desire will not damage us very much
nor a lot of good The passionate desire only works from the Divine
stimulus which we it will obtain from the Intuition which is a part of the
Spirit
There is a pyramid of souls based on the will to receive
At the base are the many souls with small earthly wills
searching a comfortable animal like life (food and affection)
The following level with minor number of souls those who
want to acquire richness Those are the people who dedicate their lives to
make money and will sacrifice themselves in exchange for fortune
Next are the ones that would do anything to control others to
govern and reach positions of power
At the highest level are the souls that are seeking spirituality
who are open to the light
Man in turn has the same pyramid within him he must invert it
so that the weight goes to the purest desire or will the infinite will for
spirituality When we truly wish to increase our will for spiritually the
surrounding light (the hidden spiritual world) begins to reflect upon us
increasing the desire for even more If we identify with matter we will
try to obtain satisfaction through it searching outside our spirit for mate-
rial things until these material things no longer satisfy us thus becoming
less materialistic and discovering our true spirit
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
24
Our body is matter matter is energy and therefore has life but it
has no spirit or spiritual energy because it is all material energy dense
energy the spirit is light energy The difference between one and the
other is that the material energy has no conscience because it doesnrsquot
perceive reality that is why we see with our eyes and not our heart our
eyes show us the outer figures of things or people its beauty or ugliness
but we can see what they are like inside Spiritual energy is what gives
us conscience of reality of love of truth That is why when we become
conscious of ourselves we transform our matter into spirit and become
more conscious
Albert Einstein was so right when he said ldquoEnergy cannot be
created nor destroyed it can only be transformedrdquo thus dense (mate-
rial) energy can be transformed into lighter (spiritual) energy again and
again
The biggest change we observe in the souls that are descending
nowadays is mainly in their well defined will to achieve a spiritual sys-
tem Even the most common people without any religious or mystic in-
struction are looking for something beyond this world something spir-
itual furthermore more and more scientists or people into pragmatic pro-
fessions are searching for their spiritual light In the last thirty years the
descent of new souls has been activated and accelerated
Their will is much bigger and more genuine They want to
achieve authentic spiritualityhellip nothing morehellip and nothing less
We will discover that we have no other alternative but to
acknowledge the spiritual world of which we are a part This acknowl-
edgement will take us to a new situation where we will begin to act con-
sciously in unison no longer as isolated individuals All of us from one
generation to another are connected in one soul We share a collective
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
25
responsibility That is why the Kabbalist is considered ldquofounder of the
worldrdquo He affects the whole world and the whole World affects him
The Tetragrammaton
In Kabbalah the concept of Shem or ldquoDivine Namerdquo plays a
first degree role which makes a lot of sense given the importance of eve-
rything related to the Emanations of the Sefirotic Tree the mystery of the
letters and the beauty in words
The meditation about the ldquoName of Godrdquo constitutes one of the
pillars of the initiation path to Kabbalah
The Tetragram or Tetragrammatonhellipfrom the Greek four (tetra)
and letters (grammaton)hellip is the name formed by four consonants one
yod (Y) two he (H) and one vav (V) The combination of these four let-
ters spell YHVH the ldquoHoly Namerdquo or Yahavah (as literally read) which
in Kabbalah is called Shem Herman Forash ldquocomplete namerdquo or the
ldquoexplicit namerdquo
Said ldquoSacred Namerdquo is usually transcribed as Jehovah or Yah-
veh nevertheless such description is no more than a hypothetical and
approximate restoration Therefore the word YHVH in which all mys-
teries and the savior power communicated by God are contained has
been designated by tradition as the ldquolost wordrdquo
The ldquocomplete or whole namerdquo was replaced by others also at-
tributed by the Bible as Yahveh such as Adonai El Shaddai or Elohim
Sometimes the four letter name is substituted by half of the Tetra-
grammaton the so-called ldquotwo letter Namerdquo HY or ldquoHaimrdquo interpreted
or translated as LIFE
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
26
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Binah Intelligence
The Tree of Life
Creation
The Tree of Life
The Columns
Tree Sefirot and Letters
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
27
Creation
An example of the depth in the interpretation of the Bible offered
by the kabbalistic doctrine is its version of the biblical narration of the
Creation as contained in the Book of ldquoGenesisrdquo usually considered a na-
ive and childish story to explain a process that modern science has
demonstrated to be much more complex In regard to said mythical-
symbolic narration similar to many others contained in other spiritual
traditions in humanity the kabbalistic doctrine makes two basic observa-
tions of major importance
1 According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the biblical crea-
tion is the process through which the universal manifestation takes place
It is a logical process its place is in the Divine world and it gives form to
the Divinity In it the Supreme Being is determined and revealed as such
going from the Nothing to the Whole The Everything
It is not ldquoGodrsquos Creationrdquo but
ldquoThe Creation in Godrdquo
In this process the Creation of the Cosmos is only a consequence
which just like the latter takes place not sooner nor later but in a con-
tinuous and uninterrupted way in an instant beyond time in the ldquoeternal
nowrdquo
2 The six days of the Creation identify with the creative sefirot
from the fourth one (Hesed) to the ninth one (Yesod) referring to the
specific action or purpose of each one of them while the seventh day
Shabbath in which God rested relates to the tenth sefirot (Malkuth) All
of this is contained in the initial words of the ldquoGenesisrdquo Book ldquoIn the
beginning God created the heavens and the earthrdquo (according to the
common interpretation Authorized Version)
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
28
The key words here are the first three if we want an exact under-
standing of them we must turn to the Hebrew text
ldquoBereshit Bara Elohim
Bereshit means ldquoin the beginningrdquo which according to the Kab-
balistic interpretation it does no refer to a beginning in time but a logical
beginning it is what proceeds not in time but in hierarchy (rank)
and function This principle is Hokhmah the second sefirath
This text should be interpreted this way
ldquoIn the intelligent and intelligible
Beginning which is the Divine Wisdomrdquo
The second word of this quote is Bara ldquocreatedrdquo It is a verb of
action without a subject it doesnrsquot say who created That action has no
subject because the ldquowhordquo of which it speaks is the sefirath Kether ldquothe
Crownrdquo which goes beyond anything personal since in it the ldquoNothingrdquo
of the Supra Being or Absolute
As far as the third word is concerned Elohim we must indicate
that besides not being the subject of the sentence it is in its plural for
literally meaning ldquogodsrdquo
The kabbalistic exegesis (explanation) identifies this Elohim
with the third sefirath Binah the Intelligencerdquo which contains and de-
signs within itself the seven sefirot of the cosmic composition the six
active ones and the receptive one which is the receptacle for the rest of
them (Malkuth the tenth sefirot)
This is why the interpretation to which we are used ldquoGod creat-
edrdquo is not exact A more accurate interpretation of the original hebrew
text would be ldquoThe Nothing created godsrdquo that is it created or profiled
the qualities or aspects of the Divine Reality of which afterwards -not in
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
29
a time order but in an order of principles a cosmic order arises the Crea-
tion or universal manifestation
Therefore here is the message contained in the initial verse of
the ldquoGenesisrdquo according to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah
ldquoThe Supra Being constitutes Itself eternally the causal Being
and the object or purpose of all things in which all qualities poss i-
bilities and forms of the created and uncreated reality are presentrdquo
The Sefirotic Tree and the four worlds
And the twenty-two paths that unite the
Crown (Kether) with the Kingdom (Malkuth)
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
Binah
Geburah
Hod
Yesod
Malkuth
Tipherzt
Neshah
Hesed
Hok-mah
Kether
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
30
The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life is the Divine Architecture which symbolizes the
soul of man and the Universe and as He is divided into four levels known
as the four inner Worlds
In the Ideal World - Atziluth is where everything is
in a latent potential state
In the Creative World - Briah is where the pure
power and the ideas in their shapes are
In the Formative World - Yetsirah everything is in
a conceptual process or one or formation
In the Material World - Assiah is where the physi-
cal manifestation takes place
This tree consists of 10 fixed spheres and a ldquovirtualrdquo one and 22
paths that connect them In a very broad sense we can say that the
spheres or Sefirot are stages of the emanations of the Spirit of God
from the primordial existence to the physical manifestation
ldquoThey are inexhaustible centers of powerrdquo
The model of the Tree of Life mirror and synthesis of man and
the cosmos is divided in three columns or pillars this traditional division
in three columns is in close connection with the alchemical or magic
principles which were discovered by the kabbalists of the 12th
century
and have been present to this day and always will be
The whole manifestation is based on duality this duality is rep-
resented in the tree the three Sefirot to the right form the active pillar
masculine and the three Sefirot to the left form the passive pillar femi-
nine
The duality is also present in each Sefirath The only Unit is
found in the Non-Manifested which is above the Tree
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
31
The Non-Manifested is the pure state of the In-Existence from
where Existence arises which is the first Sefirath the Sefirot in the cen-
ter form the middle or balance pillar
Therefore we observe that one of the columns is active-
masculine another one is passive-feminine and the third one or central
axis equidistant from both of them is neuter and is constantly combining
and harmonizing them both
Power corresponds to the Active energy column integrated by the
following Sefirot Hokhmah (2) Hesed (4) and Neshah (7) Form or
shape corresponds to the passive energy columns which is made up of
the following Sefirot Binah (3) Geburah (5) and Hod (8) The central
or axle column or pillar integrated by Kether (1) Tipherzt (6) Yesod
(9) and Malkuth (10) is neuter and eternally assimilating the opposites
thus creating new possibilities of indefinite developments It is called the
column or pillar of equilibrium or balance
This is the image of permanent order of the Creation It is the
idea upon which all sciences are based and which are called ldquoThesis An-
tithesis and Synthesisrdquo techno science and modern physics have ldquodis-
coveredrdquo formations similar to that of the Tree of Life in the universe
around us such as the quantum structure or the DNA map of all living
things (vegetables animals humans) This proves that the Tree of Life
rules all norms of matter and spirit from the beginning of time
Kabbalah teaches us that energies run through the Tree of Life
from the Unity Kether identified with the number one up to the formal
and substantial manifestation the world and matter just as we know
them and perceive them through our senses This flow of energies or
vibrations is called emanations and they make up any manifestation
The energies of the Sefirot ndash all of the invisible except for
Malkuth which resumes and contains the whole Tree ndash travel a continu-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
32
Binah
Geburah
Hod
Yesod
Malkuth
Tipherzt
Neshah
Hesed
Hokmah
Kether
Leb
ous descending path from (1) Kether down to Earth or the World
Malkuth (10) which is an inverted image of Kether (10=1+0=1) The
rest of the Sefirot or numerals are taken as intermediaries between mani-
festation and the lack of it
The columns of the Tree of Life
Passive Column Neuter Column Active Column
Feminine Form Central Equilibrium Mascu-
line Power
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
33
Tree Sefirot and letters
According to the Pentateuch Moses went to the top of Mount
Sinai and surrounded by fantastic clouds received the Ten Command-
ments God gave him On the other hand Kabbalist affirm that Moses
also received from Heaven besides the Commandments the most pro-
found and secret knowledge to be transmitted only to those truly worthy
of it Going even further back in time some say they can see in the Kab-
balah the mysterious instructions given to Adam in his sleep which per-
mitted him to give a name to everything within the Creation meaning
that Kabbalah is the philosophy of the infinite power of the word the
sound that God gave man in his image calling everything by its name
This search for the practical use of the word is good for reading
the future as well as for really manipulating the secret vibrating energies
for useful purposes or according to the legend to create beings the go-
lems which make up the active aspect of the Kabbalah
On the other hand this also entails a speculative aspect a mysti-
cism aimed at discovering through the interpretation of the Scriptures
and meditation on the sound and the name the diagram of the Universe
and the destiny of man
Ein Sof (the infinite the ineffable) affirms itself revealing itself
to humanity it becomes Shekinah (Godrsquos presence and its feminine side)
which has the responsibility of creation its product
Creation is the result of a progressive descent of the divine
(which never loses its own unity nor its transcendence) in a pure and in-
telligent series associated to the divine until it takes over matter
Thus the cosmos is structured like an immense organism a
drawn path in which all divine intelligence (sefirah plural sefirot) is
communicated with the preceding one from which it receives and with
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
34
the next one to which it gives until the final stage contact with our
world
The ten sefirot all connected by imposed paths denoting their in-
terdependence and represented by a symbolic structure of a tree or a man
(Adam Kadmon) follow an order
Kether Crown - 1 א
Hokhmah Wisdom - 2 ב
Binah Intelligence - 3 ג
Leb Heart
Hesed Greatness - 4 ד
Geburah Justice - 5 ה
Tipherzt Beauty - 6 ו
Neshah Stability - 7 ז
Hod Glory - 8 ח
Yesod Foundation - 9 ט
Malkuth Kingdom - 10 י
The admirable and complex organization of the Sefirotic Tree
with its 22 paths which connect the ten divine emanations permit us to
see right away the close connection there is between the sefirot and the
22 letters in the hebrew alphabet the 22 images of the Tarot and the 22
astrological signs (12 signs and 10 planets)
Since God created the world pronouncing the name of things
each letter is associated to the descent of the divine intelligences and
holds within itself an infinite power
The hebrew language is just like Arabic Egyptian Sanscrit or
Chinese a liturgical language full of the voices of thousand of men who
speak with the divinity therefore to pronounce one sound instead of an-
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
35
other is like changing or modifying creation itself based on a subtle vi-
brating equilibrium Within that same chain of ideas prayer by principle
a devout plea also becomes an active and energetic system that shakes
up the intermediate spheres between man and God holder of the cosmic
order
Kabbalah whether is aimed exclusively at theoretic speculation
or it proposes practical and precise goals like the making of talismans
(from the Arabic tilsam ndash a charm to avert evil and bring good fortune it
appeals to specific instruments based of calculus and numbers
Ad- am
Kadmon Zohar XVII Century
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
36
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
Hesed Greatness
Adam Kadmon
And The Sefirot
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
37
Adam Kadmon
Adam Kadmon (Primordial Man) is described by the Zohar as a
ldquobig and powerful tree with branches reaching up to the sky source of
all spiritual lightrdquo In this sefirotic and tree shaped human figure the dif-
ferent sefirot have been placed according to the parts of the human body
to which they relate Each one of them has a very particular mystical
value in the cosmic vision
The first three sefirot correspond symbolically to the head
Kether (the Crown) placed at the top or what the kabbalistic
doctrine calls the ldquohidden brainrdquo Hokhmah (Wisdom) and Binah (In-
telligence) relate to the right and left sides of the brain respectively or
also the right and left eye The two sefirot at mid level Hesed (Great-
ness) and Geburah (Justice) are identified with both arms ldquoGreatnessrdquo
the right one and ldquoJusticerdquo the left one The two central sefirot Leb (the
Heart) which is Virtual that is why it is not represented and Tipherzt
(Beauty) identified with the navel energetic center source of connection
to the mother and nucleus or sun of the body Tipherzt embodies com-
pleteness union and harmony The two sefirot of the inner level Neshah
(Stability) and Hod (Glory) represent both legs ldquoStabilityrdquo the right
thigh and ldquoGloryrdquo the left one Yesod (Foundation) another central
sefirah found between both thighs represents the genitalia the tools and
foundation for procreation Sefirah number ten the last one is Malkuth
(the Kingdom) from which the cosmic manifestation springs and is in
permanent contact with Earth it is related to both feet always in contact
with the ground This sefirah connecting all this to man the Sefirotic
Tree proves that everything in the human being can be spiritualized
Man must achieve in his own being that harmoniously elevated
unity that the figure in the divine Tree of Life and Light shows us
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
38
In order to be an authentic ldquoTree of Liferdquo man must discover and
update that sefirotic mystery that is within him as if it were a treasure
full of light waiting to be found
The Sefirot
Kether ndash The Crown - The first sefirah is the Admirable Intelligence
it is the light that gives the power of understanding the First Principle
which has no beginning It is the one and only reality the absolute mys-
tery the essence from which the rest of the sefirot emanate Related to
Crown Knowledge Principle Essence and Light
Hokhmah ndash Wisdom- The second sefirah is the Enlightening Intelli-
gence the Wisdom through which the Deity knows Itself and allows eve-
ry Being to know the unity within itself It is the symbolism of the pure
and eternal fire a place in heaven where the archangels angels
Related to Wisdom Experience Convergence Intuition
Binah ndash Intelligence - The third sefirah is the Sanctifying Intelligence
it is the Great Mother or Holy Universal Spirit matrix of all the worlds
and beings shaping them to return them again to the One
Idea Intelligence Awareness Protection Morale Divergence
(discrepancyvariance)
These first three sefirot are really only one
Kether is Knowledge
Hokhmah is the subject that knows (active)
Binah is the known object (passive)
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
39
In these three sefirot the Judeo-Christian Kaballistic dotrine
discovers the endowments of the Holy Trinity
Kether or God the Father
Hokhmah or God the Son (active on the right side)
Binah or God the Mother or Holy Spirit (passive)
ldquoThe all emanations of God the Father and Son and Holy
Spirit is only one Beingrdquo
Hesed ndash Greatness - The fourth sefirah is the Receptive Intelligence it
contains all the holy powers and all the spiritual virtues emanate from it
such as Greatness Love and Mercy Related to Greatness Love Hum-
bleness Strength Deliverance
Geburah ndash Justice - The fifth sefirah is the Righteous Intelligence
which contains all the spiritual mandates It is the Divine Justice Relat-
ed to Justice Truth Freedom Shape Control
Tipherzt ndash Beauty - The sixth sefirah is the Intelligence Provider of
Spiritual Nouishment Ii is the Divine Beauty that entwines all the other
sefirot It is the Center of centers it clearly relates to the Sun giver of
life light and warmth Related to Beauty Serenity Sweetness Trust
Family
Neshah ndash Stability - The seventh sefirah is the Occult Intelligence it is
the bright Splendor of the intellectual virtues perceived by the eyes of the
intellect It is the energy that produces all the worlds Related to Sta-
bility Power Victory Balance Pleasures
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
40
Hod ndash Glory - The eighth sefirah is the Absolute or Perfect Intelli-
gence which has no support or base and descends from Geburah from
which it receives its Expertise Related to Glory Acknowledgement
Learning Awakening
Yesod ndash Foundation - The ninth sefirah is the Pure Intelligence because
it purifies tries corrects and centralizes the emanations It is the founda-
tion that balances the all previous Sephiroth Related to Founding
Building Childhood Filtering
Malkuth ndash The Kingdom - The tenth sefirah is Glowing Intelligence It
is the Kingdom of Heaven or Kingdom on Earth the descent of Kether
upon the material world represents the Divine Omnipresence over
things Related to The Kingdom Earth Heaven and Real World
Each one of these sefirot has a hidden face and a visible one
Every sefirah a complete Sefirotic Tree can be found and in every
sefirah in that Tree another one and so on until the smallest infiniteness
And vice-versa every Tree no matter how big we imagine it is only a
sefirah of a bigger Tree which in turn is another sefirah of an even big-
ger one to the infinite as well
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
41
Kabbalah
Judeo Christian
Geburah Justice
The letters and numbers
The Letters of Kabbalah
Gematriacutea Table
Gematriacutea or Numerology
The Meaning of the Hebrew Letters
Angels of Kabbalah
Geniuses of Kabbalah
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
42
The Letters of Kabbalah
The formulas in the medieval books on magic are so full of He-
brew names to speak of God the angels the spirits and demons that at
this point it is impossible to pinpoint the inexactness and the abuse The
Hebrew language like other former language has magicrsquos powers
Sound is a vibration found in numbers Numbers are groups of geometric
relations of spaces that activate energy
Each letter in the hebrew alphabet corresponds exactly just as in
an ldquoencoded languagerdquo to a number because the Hebrews Greeks and
Arabs used for many centuries the same graphic sign for a sound or
amount until the Indians and the Arabs introduced their ldquonumbersrdquo the
ldquozerordquo was invented in the IV century and the Arabs and Hebrews began
to use it in the VII century with the name ldquoceferrdquo which means devoid
empty vacuum From it derived zero and cipher
It was Leonardo Fibonacci (1170-1240) an Italian mathemati-
cian the first one to write a book in 1202 Liber Abaci (Book of Calcula-
tion) on Arabic numbers in occident and began to replace the Roman
numbers It was not until the year 1500 that they were completely re-
placed
This means that it is not Kabbalah that replaces letters with num-
bers historically the letters ldquowererdquo numbers since these were enforced in
the western culture five hundred years ago If we accept this concept we
will not regard numerology or gematriacutea of the Hebrew letters as some-
thing new or capricious but as a historical reality
For those who do not read Hebrew writing there is another meth-
od called transcription It is no easy task to transcribe from a holy lan-
guage to one that is not
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
43
A kabballistic practice suggests that as long as the hebrew lan-
guage is not completely unknown to replace each number in a date with
its corresponding letter bearing in mind that the Jewish calendar starts
with the year of the creation which took place 3760 years before the
birth of Jesus when the western calendar begins counting
Thus the year 1989 becomes 5749 which translated to Hebrew
letters gives us Tau Shin Mem Chefh which add up to Tismach mean-
ing ldquoyou will be overjoyedrdquo and that was the year the Berlin wall came
down In the same way 1914 the start of World War I becomes Tau
Resch Ayin Daleth which add up to Tirtzach ldquoYou will killrdquo and for
1938 start of World War II Tirrsquoad ldquoYou will tremble in terrorrdquo
Table of Gematriacutea of Hebrew Letters
Letter
Name Absolute
Value
Ordinal
Value
Reduced
Value
Latin
Alphabet
Alefh 1 1 1 A-H
Beth 2 2 2 B
Guimel 3 3 3 G
Daleth 4 4 4 D
Hei 5 5 5 H-E-A
Vav 6 6 6 V-U-Y
Zain 7 7 7 Z
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
44
Heth 8 8 8 Y-J
Thet 9 9 9 TH
YodJod 10 10 1 Y-I
KafJaf 20 11 2 K-C
Lamed 30 12 3 L
Mem 40 13 4 M
Nun 50 14 5 N
Samej 60 15 6 S
Ayn 70 16 7 O-E
PehFeh 80 17 8 P-F
Tzadik 90 18 9 T-Z-X
Kuof 100 19 1 K-Q
Reish 200 20 2 R
Shin 300 21 3 S-SH
TafTau 400 22 4 T
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45
Gematriacutea or Hebrew Numerology
As we said earlier in the Hebrew language each letter has a nu-
merical value Gematriacutea is the calculation of the numerical value of let-
ters words or phrases to obtain a better understanding of the relation be-
tween the different concepts and to explore the relation between words
and ideas
In this technique it is assumed that the numerical equivalency is
no coincidence From the moment the world was created through the
Creatorrsquos ldquowordrdquo each letter represents a different creative power
Therefore the numerical equivalence of two words reveals an inner con-
nection between its potential creators
There are four ways to calculate the equivalency of individual
letters and each way corresponds to a different world in the Tree of Life
The Zohar tells us that the concept of reduced value is related to
the spiritual world of Yetsirah Based on this we can establish a relation
between the four methods of calculation the four spiritual kingdoms and
the four letters of the name of the Divine which are YHVH or in He-
brew Yod Hei Vav and Hei
The Absolute Value of Yod itrsquos to the world of Atziluth
The Ordinal Value of Hei itrsquos to the world of Briah
The Reduced Value of Vav itrsquos to the world of Yetsirah
The Whole Value of Hei itrsquos to the world of Assiah
ldquoAbsolute value (in Hebrew mispar hejrajiacute) also known as
normative or normal Valuerdquo
Each letter takes the value of its accepted numeral equivalent
alef (the first letter) worth 1 bet (second one) worth 2 and so on up to
the tenth letter iud which is worth 10 and the following ones are worth
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46
20 30 40 up to the letter kuf close to the end of the alef-bet which is
worth 100 and then 200 300 up to the last letter tav which is worth 400
In this type of calculation the letters kafjaf sofit (sofit=end)
mem sofit nun sofit pehfeh sofit and tzadik sofit which are the ldquofinal
shapesrdquo of the respective letters when they are at the end of a word usu-
ally take the same numeric value of the common shape of the letter
Nonetheless sometimes the following are considered equivalents kafjaf
sofit = 500 mem sofit = 600 nun sofit = 700 pehfeh sofit = 800 y tza-
dik sofit = 900
Following this method of calculation the Hebrew alphabet is a
complete circle the tzadik at the end is equal to 900 and then alef is
equal to one and one thousand In the Hebrew language the same letters
are used to write the name of the letter alef equal to one and to write the
word elef which means ldquothousandrdquo
ldquoOne the first number follows one thousand
in a complete and perfect circlerdquo
Ordinal Value (in hebrew mispar siduriacute) It assigns to each
one of the 22 letters a numerical equivalent according to the order in
which they appear in the alef-bet For example alef equals 1 kaf = 11
taf = 22 The final kaf is 23 and the final tzadik is 27
Reduced Value (en hebrew mispar kataacuten and in mathemati-
cal terminology the module 9) The value of each letter is reduced to
one digit For example alef is equal to 1 iud to 10 and kuf to 100 but
according to this system all three have a numerical value of one beit is
equal to 2 kaf to 20 and reish to 200 therefore all three are equal to 2
etc Therefore letters have only 9 equivalencies instead of twenty-two
Integral Value (in hebrew mispar mispariacute) This is the fourth
way to calculate In this fashion the total numeric value of a word is re-
duced to one digit If the sum of these numbers exceeds 9 the numbers
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47
in the total figure are added until a single digit is obtained The same
result will be obtained whether you take the absolute the ordinal or the
reduced values
The meaning of the Hebrew Letters
Alefh Represents the Divine Presence It is the symbol of
the absolute and unique faith in only one Creator and Lord It is pro-
nounced ah-left which derives from the word Alufh which means prince
minister or chief It is made up of two dots which are two iod (the tenth
letter of the alphabet) and a slanted vav (sixth letter) If we add the two
iod (20) and the one vav (6) we get 26 which is equal to the sum of the
letters YHVH Yod (10) Hei(5) Vav(6) Hei(5) of the name of the
Creator
Beth The Torah begins with this second letter ldquoBereshitrdquo
(In the Beginning) This is because it represents and symbolizes the
Berehia (Creation) and the Berajaacute (Blessing) The purpose of Creation is
to give abundance to the human being Its value is two It represents and
shows us that there is nothing in this world totally complete and indivisi-
ble Everything can be parted in two Only God is unique and indivisible
Guimel This letter is close to the root of the word Bra
keep complete and give That is why it is used in ldquoGuemilut Hasadimrdquo
to do favors Guimel represents the third column on which the world
rests it is the giver or favor doer spirit and also proof that God constantly
helps and favors the human being and His whole Creation Its value is
three
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48
Daleth When we pronounce this fourth letter we find a
great closeness to the word deleth (door) The letter Daleth relates to the
word ldquodalhrdquo poor going from door to door seeking food Daleth follows
Guimel creating a unified thought to help the poor Its value (4) reminds
us of the material world because poverty can be found everywhere in our
planet
Hei The Talmud says God created the world with two
letters that represent His Name ldquoYod and Heirdquo With the first one He
created the world to come and with the second one this world Its shape
is made up of two parts a dalet and an iod Daleth has a vertical line
and a horizontal line It represents this world where everything has a
body and occupies space The iod which is just a dot represents the in-
finite world where there are no physical laws Meaning that in this
world too the spiritual Divine component is present
Vav Its value six represents something complete and
finished The world was created completely in six days Every complete
and closed object has six sides top bottom right left front and back
The letter vav is used to unite phrases concepts objects similar ldquoandrdquo
Vav is therefore union Except for some exceptions all paragraphs in the
Bible as written in the scrolls begin with Vav The written Torah (5
books) + ldquovavrdquo (Kabbalah) The oral Torah (6 books)
Zain It represents the seven spiritual values which are
the object of this world Zan means ldquonourishmentrdquo and Zain means ldquoar-
mamentrdquo Its shape is similar to that of a sword Its shows us that man
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49
must confront and overcome adversity many times in order to obtain his
nourishment
Heth Just as Zain represents manrsquos purpose on earth Heth
with the value of eight represents manrsquos possibility to cross the limits
imposed by the earth Seven is nature eight are the values and goals
which represent what is above nature It also connects to the letter Haim
which means life The top part of the heth has an arrow pointing up-
wards meaning that life always belongs to God and everything depends
on Him
Thet This letter is first written in the Torah in the word
Tov (good) Each one of the days of the Creation was crowned with
qualifying phrase ldquoAnd God saw that it was goodrdquo Thet is synonym of
the relationship of God towards man which is always good even though
we donrsquot always see it that way Goodness or Kindness is a Divine quali-
ty and it should be emulated The most exquisite act of kindness is to
help our neighbor without causing him embarrassment
Iod Its size earns it the category of the smallest and most
indivisible letter not like the rest which are made up of different parts
and that is why it represents the Almighty in His condition of Unique and
Indivisible Its shape according to the Zohar has a point facing up to-
wards God another one facing down towards earth and the central point
which unites both That is why when a person prays the heart faces up
and the eyes down in humbleness in front on God Its value Ten is very
representative of the whole Torah Ten generations from Adam to Noah
and another ten from Noah to Abraham the Patriarch Ten are the Divine
Commandments given to Moses and ten are the sefirot The number ten
is actually ONE
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50
Kaf It symbolizes Kether the crown (written in Hebrew
with kaf) as the Talmud says ldquoGod will place the Kether on he who
helps his neighbor the way he should and according to his possibilitiesrdquo
Its shape (curved) has a relation to its name which represents the hum-
bleness that the person who carries the crown should have
Lamed Its shape is made up of a kaf and a vav together
they add up to 26 like the Divine Name Its name lamed is the root of
the verbs to teach and to learn The name Israel begins with iod the
smallest letter and ends with lamed the biggest one The Torah begins
with bet and ends with lamed together they spell the word led (heart)
the fundamental basis to find light and accomplish precepts
Mem This letter has two aspects one known as the open
mem it is used in the beginning and middle of a word indicating that
there are points which refer to God Almightyrsquos doing which are within
our comprehension and a closed mem which is only used at the end of
words indicating the occult and incomprehensible part Moshe and
Mashiacuteaj begin with mem Its value is 40 the necessary time period for
the concretion of different stages
The fetus needs 40 days to have a complete form
The Great Flood lasted 40 days and 40 nights
Moses was up at Mount Sinai 40 days and 40 nights
The Jewish people walked for 40 years in the desert
It is at the age of 40 that a person is considered to have
reached wisdom
Nun This letter also has two shapes one for any part of the
word with a curved shape and the other straight for the endings of
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51
words Both indicate the exclusive quality of God who is Neeman
which means loyal to His word and worthy of trust This word restarts
with a Nun and ends with another
Samej This letter represents the concept of the Divine
support (Semej in Hebrew) Godrsquos support towards man as well as manrsquos
support towards God The certainty of God is the foundation of faith and
the base upon which the human being can search and reach for its goal in
this world
Ayn in Hebrew it means ldquoeyerdquo Its shape is made up two
parts an Yod leaning against a Zain Reclining both on the base the nu-
meric value of both parts is 17 just like the word Tob (good) This indi-
cates that the ayn (eye) has to be used to observe only the good things
Its value is 70
70 are the names of the Almighty and the Torah
70 are the basic people (towns) in the world
70 are the holidays in a year (52 Saturdays 18 holy
days)
Jesus sent out 70 disciples to evangelize
The Great Temple of Jerusalem had 70 columns
70 old wise men received the Torah from Moses they
are called ldquothe eyes of the congregationrdquo the symbol of the ayn (eye)
precisely
Peh it means ldquomouthrdquo in Hebrew It is through this ex-
quisite sense that the human being differentiates and raises itself over the
rest of the creation There are two peh one for any part of the word and
the other for the endings The first one is said to be closed and its shape
symbolizes the fetus in the motherrsquos womb (fetal position) with its mouth
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52
closed The other open resembles the newborn babe stretching its limbs
It also reminds us of the control we should have over it sometimes
closed and others open when to speak and when not to
Tzadik The 18th letter The Talmud names the Tzadik per-
son the just person The title of ldquoTzadikrdquo is not given to just anybody It
is written that God is Tzadik and Perfect This quality of Tzadik when it
comes to God is manifested through kindness Those people who go
about and act according to the divine will are said to be ldquoTzadikrdquo They
are fair just and kind to the maximum of their possibilities
Kuof This letter shows us and symbolizes the Divine
Sanctity Kadosh God is Holy Man can also be called kuof if he is supe-
rior rising above the others The shape of kuof is made up of a kaf and a
vav which add up to 26 just as the four letter name for God Kuof is
very similar to kof which means ldquomonkeyrdquo The Zohar calls monkeys
those human beings who do not believe in the divine will and do not dig-
nify being created in Godrsquos image According to Kabbalah the road is
open for man he can be holy and thus get close to God or walk away
from Him and become a monkey
Reish Up until now we saw how the letters show us and
represent the Divine Presence On the contrary reish represents and
symbolizes Evil ldquoRashardquo in Hebrew Reish follows kuof which repre-
sents the Divine Sanctity The word ldquoroshrdquo (first beginning or head) in
Aramaic is pronounced ldquoreishrdquo just like the letter Midrash tells us the
Almighty is ldquoRoshrdquo since he is the beginning and head of the world and
its end as well Evil does not exist what we judge as bad is only a part of
the Divine Plan and we do not know and therefore cannot understand
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53
Shin this letter has an important place since shalom
(peace) begins with it Only God is the source and root of true peace Its
shape with three arms and three heads represents the wish of all of us to
rise to heaven lifting our hands to receive His help It also encompasses
the symbolism of something that has three limbs but only one purpose
We live in three worlds past present and future
The human being has a spirit a soul and a body
The human creation has three partners
Kether Binah and Hokhmah or the Holy
Trinity
Taf unlike the other letters which we have seen through
analysis and symbology that each represented a word being the first eg
Shin Shalom (peace) Sheker (lie) the symbol for taf is given by the last
letter in the word ldquoEmetrdquo (truth) This is exactly the general characteris-
tic of truth at first the lie seems more interesting Truth is appreciated in
the end Truth involves everything since its letters are one in the begin-
ning the other one in the middle and the third one at the end
The Angels of Kabbalah
The etymological meaning of the word angel is messenger from
the Greek ldquoAggeloacutesrdquo ldquoAngirasrdquo in Sanskrit in Persian ldquoAngarosrdquo in
Hebrew and Arabic ldquoMalakhrdquo and ldquoDevardquo for the Hindus
Doubts about their existence disappear before the coincidences
amongst cultures and diverse beliefs that describe them
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54
Angels constantly remind us who we are due to the message that
is attributed to them For us their place is the same as that of God they
are above us and within us
To come in contact with them could take us to doubt if we did so
with a superior reality or with the highest part of ourselves
The mythical history of Kabbalah tells us that after man was
driven out of the Garden of Eden the angels transmitted the kabballistic
teachings to man so that he could reconquer it through the never ending
divine energy which is present everywhere in the Universe
The 72 Angeles of Kabbalah
Seraphim
Vehuiah ndash Elemiah ndash Jeliel ndash Lelahel
Sitael ndash Achaiah ndash Mahasiah ndash Cahethel
Cherubim
Haziel ndash Aladiah ndash Lauviah ndash Hahaiah
Iezalel ndash Mebael ndash Hariel ndash He Kamiah
Thrones (also known as Ophanim)
Lauviah ndash Caliel ndash Lauviah ndash Pahaliah
Nelkhael ndash Yeiaiel ndash Melahel ndash Haheuiah
Dominions (or Kyriotetes)
Nith ndashHahaiah ndash Yerathel ndash Sheikh
Reiyel ndash Omael ndash Lecabel ndash Vasariah
Powers
Vehuiah ndash Lehahiah ndash Chavakiah ndash Menadel
Aniel ndash Haamiah ndash Rehael ndash Ieiazel
Virtues
Hahahel ndash Mikael ndash Veuliah ndash Ylahiah
Sealiah ndashAriel ndash Asaliah ndash Mihael
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55
Principalities
Vehuel ndash Daniel ndash Hahasiah ndash Imamiah
Nanael ndash Nithael ndash Mebahiah ndash Poyel
Archangels
Nemamiah ndash Yeialel ndash Aacuterale ndash Mitzrael
Umabel ndash Iah ndashAnauel ndash Mehiel
Angels
Damabiah ndash Manakel ndash Eyael ndash Habuhiah
Rochel ndash Yabamiah ndash Haiayel ndash Mum
Geniuses of Kabbalah
Air ndash Earth ndash Water - Fire
The first three verses of the Torah are revealing in regard to the
Divine Creation In the morning of the first day God created the four
geniuses or semi-gods to help Him directly preparing the platform for
the coming of man
Genesis 11 ndash
ldquoIn the beginning God created heaven and earthrdquo
Genesis 12 ndash
ldquohellipthe Spirit of God was hovering over the watersrdquo
Genesis 13 ndash
Let there be light and there was light
Nothing would exist in the Universe without the four geniuses
or elements only God and with the creation of these geniuses He
proves to us that He does not want to be alone but surrounded by
vegetation animals and specially the HUMAN BEING
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56
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Tipherzt
Beauty
Christian Kabbalah
Jesus and the Kabbalah
The Sacred Books
The Apostle Matthew
The Sermon on the Mountain
(The Beatitudes)
The Our Father
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57
Jesus and the Kabbalah
Up until now we have analyzed the Bible from the Tanaj and the
Talmud we have also taken the Torah as the foundation of Kabbalah
The New Testament has an important kabballistic content provided by
Jesus and his apostles
Emmanuel ben Yoseph known as Jesus Christ lived between
the ages of thirteen and thirty-three with the Essenes Fraternity of the
Dead Sea where he learned the secrets of the Kabbalah that his Father
had given to mankind and because of his illumination he was declared
Master of Justice
In the New Testament the four evangelists analyzed Jesus from
the four kabballistic worlds which are completely separated and diffeent
Matthew describes a physical Jesus generations that preceded
him and his relationship with the people of Israel
This is the World of Assiah
Luke tells the story of Jesus intimate life he describes moving
images of the Master along his pathway
This is the World of Yetsirah
Mark talks to us of a miraculous Jesus with a Divine mag-
netism and its soul healing rays
This is the World of Briah
John gave us the gospel of a metaphysical Jesus the abstract
spirit and visions of an astral world
This is the World of Atziluth
The Kabbalah develops its doctrine in the light that invades us
and emanates from our bodies because we are part of it
Jesus in John 812 says I am the light of the world Those who
follow me will never walk in darkness They will have the light that leads
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58
to life and in Ephesians 58 he confirms ldquoAt one time you were in the
dark But now you are in the light because of what the Lord has donerdquo
When Matthew in verse 223 says ldquohellipand came and lived in a
city called Nazarethrdquo This was to fulfill what was spoken through the
prophets He shall be called a Nazarene he explains that Jesus had to
be a Nazarene that is he had to wear the Crown or Kether according to
what God told Moses in the oral or kabballistic precepts In Numbers 66-
7 it is said ldquothroughout the period of their dedication to the LORD the
Nazirite must not go near a dead body Even if their own father or
motherrdquo
In Matthew 822 Jesus stresses this precept saying ldquohelliplet the
dead bury their own dead
According to the Kabballists the Torah is fountain of wine and
milk In Isaiah 551 we read hellip and he who has no money come buy
wine and milk without money without pricehelliprdquo In many quotes Jesus
mentions the wine as his spiritual blood Peter 22 ldquohellipLike newborn ba-
bies crave pure spiritual milk so that by it you may grow up in your sal-
vationhelliprdquo
The Old and New Testament
The Old Testament or Tanaj is made up of 39 books and the New
Testament 29 a total of 66 books As we all know there is no such thing
as luck it is the message of God that we still cannot decipher If we ana-
lyze that message through kabballistic numerology we will decipher it
and be surprised
According to the kabballistic numerology ldquo39 books in the Ta-
najrdquohellip 3+9=12hellip 1+2=3 and ldquo3rdquo represents the Holy Trinity
Kether or God the Father
Hokhmah or God the Son (active to the right of the Father)
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59
Binah or God the Mother or Holy Spirit (passive)
They are all emanations of God the Father and therefore only
one Being It is the announcement of the Divine Trilogy based on the
Admirable Intelligence of Kether the Illuminating Intelligence of
Hokhmah and the Sanctifying Intelligence of Binah If we take away the
substance of the Tanaj which are the five books that make up the Penta-
teuch we are left with 34 books or the number 7 which were the re-
maining emanations with which God created the Universe The 27 books
of the New Testament add up to the kabballistic nine which is the Divine
or Complete number since it contains all the numbers and closes the
wheel That is the New Testament not only does it complement but also
contains the previous one and completes it The sum of both is 66 its
kabballistic number is 3 and it returns to the Holy Trinity the Three
Sefirot or divine emanations
The Apostle Matthew
In chapter one Matthew explains the genealogy of Jesus with a
result of 42 generations from Abraham to Jesus in three periods of 14
generations each This he does from the physical world or Assiah to ex-
plain with real facts Abrahamrsquos descendants and how Jesus really was
the King of the Jews
Forty-two (generations from Abraham to Jesus) adds up to six
like the sefirot of the Creation (on the seventh one He rested) which
means God rested in Malkuth the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth but
the message from Matthew is that we should distribute these three peri-
ods amongst the six sefirot of the Creation
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60
The transition between Abraham and David takes place be-
tween the fourth sefirah Hesed (Greatness) and the fifth Geburah (Jus-
tice)
Hesed is the sefirah from which the rest of the sefirot emanate
like Abraham the Patriarch from whom three religions ldquoemanaterdquo Juda-
ism Christianism and Islam Hesed is the foundation of the spiritual vir-
tues and it is connected to the Holy Son like Abraham
Geburah is the sefirah of David the Justice seeker who uni-
fied the kingdoms for the greatness of the Chosen People he is the strict
Warrior King
With Salomon son of David starts the second period as told by
Matthew and it ends with the deportation of the people to Babylon This
is the passage from the sixth sefirah Tipherzt (Beauty) to the seventh
sefirah Neshah (Power)
Tipherzt is Beauty serenity trust just what King Salomon
was to his people In the same manner it is in the column of the Crown
of God and it is directly supported by Abraham and David
Neshah is the hidden Intelligence of stability and spiritual
power it is the powerful faith against adversity the expulsion to Baby-
lon
When the Babylonian invasion comes to an end the passage to
the coming of Jesus begins it takes place between the eighth sefirah Hod
(Glory) and the ninth sefirah Yesod (Foundation)
Hod is the Divine Glory the Divine Healer which healed the
wounds inflicted on the chosen people by the invaders It is awakening
and learning
Yesod is the foundation and filter of all emanations before
reaching the Kingdom it is the Pure Intelligence it is Unity without Di-
vision this is the sefirah to which both the moon and the waters respond
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61
and the tides and earth as well the sefirah that builds and founds That is
why this is the sefirah that Matthew attributes to Jesus It is the one that
brings together to the Father before reaching Malkuth the Kingdom of
Earth and Heaven in a straight line passing by Tipherzt (Salomon) and
with the virtual sefirah of the Sacred Heart
As we can see the Apostle Matthew shows us in a kabballis-
tic way the presence of Jesus from the patriarch Abraham to the
present
Holy Spirit
David
Glory
Jesus
Kingdom
Salomon
Power
Abraham
Holy Son
Holy Father
Heart
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62
The Sermon on the Mountain
(The Beatitudes)
With The Sermon on the Mountain Jesus teaches us the basic
Concepts of Kabbalah to be interpreted in many centuries to come be-
cause the land of the tribe of Israel to which Jesus belonged was under
the domain of the Greco-Roman Empire which wanted to impose its
own gods That is why Jesusrsquo message is stronger the deeper you go into
it It should be observed the same as the ocean it is not the quiet waters
and small waves that rule but the strong currents that flow in the deepest
depths
Somebody told me once that even a child could understand the
Sermon and it is true which shows the intelligence of the Master be-
cause the Sermon holds many levels of understanding
From the Gospel according to Matthew chapter five we can ex-
tract the essence of the Sermon on the Mountain contained in the first
nine verses two of them introductory and the other seven making up the
Beatitudes
51 ldquoAnd seeing the multitudes He went up onto a mountain
and when He was set His disciples came unto Him ldquo
5 2 ldquoAnd He opened His mouth and taught them sayinghelliprdquo
To go up to the mountain in Kabbalah means to rise to the high-
est degree of spirituality (eg Moses went up the mountain to speak with
God) which means he went up to the Crown or Kether When it says
ldquoHe opened His mouth and taught them sayingrdquo sounds redundant since
nobody can say anything without opening his mouth But we have to
consider that there are two aspects in Kabbalah thought or intelligence
Binah and the word or wisdom Hokhmah Jesus uses the first to ignite
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63
the soul of His followers and the word to transmit the vibratory energy or
surrounding magnetic field and that way get to the spirit of people
53rdquoBlessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom
of Heavenrdquo
According to Kabbalah a rich man with many possessions can
enter the Kingdom of God if he doesnrsquot develop the materialistic spirit
that goes with them On the other hand a poor man without possessions
could be not admitted in the Kingdom of God if he develops that materi-
alistic spirit and is absorbed by the only wish of having fortune Kabba-
lah teaches that neither richness nor poorness is the ideal state Jesus re-
fers to the heart or Leb the simplicity and easiness of spirit because to
have possessions or not does not interfere with the progress towards the
path of foundation and spiritual uplifting
54 Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted
Kabbalah does not preach sadness but joy and happiness In the
Kabbalah the act of crying is a symbol of redemption greatness and
love or Hesed it is also a symbol of acknowledgment of errors made
and therefore seeking spiritual evolution in love for another The begin-
ning of change is identified with crying That is why whoever accepts
the change will be comforted
55 Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth
God said to Moses ldquoYou shall not adore other gods and you
shall respect my Namerdquo This means He demanded meekness Jesus re-
fers in kabballistic terms to meek men before God those will be able to
live in harmony and freedom achieving Divine Justice or Geburah be-
cause they are the ones who increase their spiritual level
56 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteous-
ness for they will be filled
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
64
Those who hunger within will seek the nourishment to satisfy it
And will begin a search for justice which will take them to the spiritual
Glory Hod This means that those who hunger and thirst for spiritual
truth will be filled with the blessing and perfection seeker Those who
abandon the spiritual search of the truth will condemn their souls to come
back as many times as it is necessary to achieve it
57 Blessed are the merciful for they will be shown mercy
To be merciful is to forgive others to have the power or Neshah
of not having negative thoughts actions or answers to aggressiveness
from others Negative feelings affect our spiritual body and poison our
physical body altering the nervous system
58 Blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God
The pure in heart are those who achieve inner beauty or
Tipherzt In order to have a clean and beautiful heart we must nourish it
with love and not hate with forgiveness not vengeance with truth not
lies or falsehood There must be harmony in our body soul and spirit
59 Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called sons
of Godrdquo
Peace in Aramaic is the same as harmony in Greek and both
words represent the foundation of life on this earth or Yesod and Jesus
suggests the Peace of the just
510 Blessed are those who are persecuted because of right-
eousness for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
511 Blessed are you when people insult you persecute you
and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me
In these two verses Jesus foretells the persecutions his followers
even the Kabballists will suffer anticipating the manifested idea of ob-
taining the communion of the Kingdom of Heaven or Malkuth in com-
plete peace and harmony
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
65
In the next two verses Jesus refers to the eighth sefirah Hod the
Glory (elevation) and its connection with Geburah Justice (respect)
which means we must respect the Just because they are the prophets and
we will be blessed by them
512 Rejoice and be glad because great is your reward in
heaven for in the same way they persecuted the prophets
who were before you
513 You are the salt of the earth But if the salt loses its salt-
iness how can it be made salty again It is no longer good for
anything except to be thrown out and trampled by men
In the following words Jesus takes us through the Tree of Live
or Sefirotic Tree bringing us even closer to the kabballistic message and
his spiritual profoundness
514 You are the light of the world A city on a hill cannot be
hidden
Kether is the Crown of God the Divine light that which is
above everything else above the mountain It reminds us that the moun-
tain is the highest level of spirituality
514 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl
Instead they put it on its stand and it gives light to everyone
in the house
Hokhmah is Wisdom to the right of the Kether the Crown of
God it is the light of Christ which lights up all homes
516 In the same way let your light shine before men that
they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in
heaven
Binah is Intelligence it is the light that reaches to the spirit of
mankind as a holy protection it is the light of the Holy Spirit that reaches
the heart through good deeds
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These three verses refer to the first three sefirot that is the Holy
Trinity which is the potent Divine light since it contains in only one ray
of light the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit
The following four verses refer to Geburah or Justice This is the
sefirah that dictates the Law the one that enforces the Law the one that
unites Heaven (Kether) with Earth (Malkuth) according to the Divine
teachings and is called the sefirah of Divine Justice
517 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the
Prophets I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them
518 I tell you the truth until heaven and earth disappear not
the smallest letter not the least stroke of a pen will by any
means disappear from the Law until everything is accom-
plished
519 Anyone who breaks one of the least of these command-
ments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in
the kingdom of heaven but whoever practices and teaches
these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heav-
en
520 For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses
that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law you will ce r-
tainly not enter the kingdom of heaven
Hesed is the sefirah of Greatness and it is known that the origin
of greatness is HumilityHumbleness the person that is not humble is
not great In the following verses Jesus explains to us how to irradiate
Love Mercy Greatness and above all Humbleness
521 You have heard that it was said to the people long ago
Do not murder[a]
and anyone who murders will be subject to
judgment
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67
522 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother
will be subject to judgment Again anyone who says to his brother
Raca (An Aramaic term of contempt is answerable to the Sanhed-
rin But anyone who says You fool will be in danger of the fire of
hell
523 ldquoTherefore if you are offering your gift at the altar and
there remember that your brother has something against you
Ponder
Respect
Blessing
Peace
Kingdom
Love
Acceptance
Help
Speech
Inspiration
Heart
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524 leave your gift there in front of the altar First go and be
reconciled to your brother then come and offer your gift
525 ldquoSettle matters quickly with your adversary who is tak-
ing you to court Do it while you are still with him on the way or he
may hand you over to the judge and the judge may hand you over to
the officer and you may be thrown into prison
526 I tell you the truth you will not get out until you have
paid the last penny
The following sefirah that Jesus speaks of in the Sermon on the
Mountain is Tipherzt beauty serenity trust family it is the one with
the noble attributes fidelity A through this sefirah he talks to us about
the family blessings and how Divinity intertwines with it
Tipherzt is the one that provides the spiritual nourishment and
family blessings that is why Jesus protects the relationship between man
and woman as fountain of life and punishes above all deceit and adul-
tery
527 You have heard that it was said Do not commit adul-
tery
528 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustful-
ly has already committed adultery with her in his heart
529 If your right eye causes you to sin gouge it out and
throw it away It is better for you to lose one part of your body than
for your whole body to be thrown into hell
530 And if your right hand causes you to sin cut it off and
throw it away It is better for you to lose one part of your body than
for your whole body to go into hell
531 It has been said anyone who divorces his wife must
give her a certificate of divorce
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69
532 But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife except
for marital unfaithfulness causes her to become an adulteress and
anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery
The following sefirah is Neshah which represents Stability and
Balance and the following five verses Jesus that swearing is the loss of
stability and balance before God
He who requires an oath does not trust what is being said and he
who gives an oath does not trust himself rdquoYes or Nordquo should be enough
for those who speak the truth
533 Again you have heard that it was said to the people long
ago Do not break your oath but keep the oaths you have made to
the Lord
534 but I tell you Do not swear at all either by heaven for
it is Gods throne
535 nor by the earth for it is his footstool or by Jerusalem
for it is the city of the Great King
536 And do not swear by your head for you cannot make
even one hair white or black
537 simply let your Yes be Yes and your No No any-
thing beyond this comes from the evil one
Hod is the sefirah of glory the compensation and acknowledge-
ment And there is no better glory and acknowledgement than to love the
enemy and bless those who curse and hate us
As Jesus tells us in the next eleven verses
If you love only those who love you
What are you doing extra
What reward are you seeking
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538 You have heard that it was said Eye for eye and tooth
for tooth
539 But I tell you Do not resist an evil person If someone
strikes you on the right cheek turn to him the other also
540 And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic let
him have your cloak as well
541 If someone forces you to go one mile go with him two
miles
542 Give to the one who asks you and do not turn away
from the one who wants to borrow from you
543 You have heard that it was said Love your neighbor
and hate your enemy
544 But I tell you Love your enemies and pray for those
who persecute you
545 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven He caus-
es his sun to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the
righteous and the unrighteous
546 If you love those who love you what reward will you
get Are not even the tax collectors doing that
547 And if you greet only your brothers what are you doing
more than others Do not even pagans do that
548 Be perfect therefore as your heavenly Father is perfect
Yesod the ninth sefirah is Foundation because it purifies
proves and corrects all previous sefiroth Helping others is exactly what
this sefirah is all about not only to love them but to help them He who
helps receives purification from Yesod and he who helps in secret is
blessed by The Father
Matthew 6
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71
61 Be careful not to do your acts of righteousness before
men to be seen by them If you do you will have no reward from
your Father in heaven
62 So when you give to the needy do not announce it with
trumpets as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets
to be honored by men I tell you the truth they have received their
reward in full
63 But when you give to the needy do not let your left hand
know what your right hand is doing
64 so that yoursquore giving may be in secret Then yoursquore Fa-
ther who sees what is done in secret will reward you
Malkuth is the sefirah that represents the Kingdom of Heaven
and Earth that is why Jesus tells us that prayer must be in private in or-
der to be rewarded in public without repetitions and lots of words be-
cause the Father knows what we need before we even ask
65 And when you pray do not be like the hypocrites for
they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street cor-
ners to be seen by men I tell you the truth they have received their
reward in full
66 But when you pray go into your room close the door and
pray to your Father who is unseen Then your Father who sees what
is done in secret will reward you
67 And when you pray do not keep on babbling like pagans
for they think they will be heard because of their many words
68 Do not be like them for your Father knows what you
need before you ask him
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The Our Father
Jesus reaffirms part of the Kabbalah by following the path of the
Sefirotic Tree in his most important prayer
69 This then is how you should pray Our in heaven
hallowed be your name
Our Father the admirable intelligence or Crown Kether first sefirah
In Heaven the enlightening intelligence or wisdom Hokhmah the sec-
ond sefirah
Hallowed be your name the sanctifying intelligence Binah the third
sefirah completing the Holy Trinity
610 your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is
in heaven
Your kingdom come the intelligence of love Hesed
Your will be done righteous intelligence Geburah
On Earth as it is in Heaven that is form Kether to Malkuth
611 Give us today our daily bread
Give us our daily bread the intelligence which provides Spiritual
Nourishment and beauty Tipherzt
612 Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our
debtrs
Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors the hidden
intelligence which is power victory and stability or Nesha
613 And lea us not into temptation but deliver us from the
evil for yours is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for
every century Amen
And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil the absolute
intelligence or perfect glory or Hod
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73
Holy
Justice
Freedom
Foundation
Prayer
Love
Forgiveness
Spiritual
Nourishment
Heaven
Father
Heart
For yours is the Kingdom Kether the Power Hokhmah and the
Glory Briah which means You are the Holy Trinity
Amen is the foundation of Holy Prayer
After teaching us this Prayer Jesus continues showing us the truth about
the emanations of the Sefirotic Tree Starting once again at the Kether
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to remind us privacy in acts such as forgiveness fasting and prayer will
be rewarded in public by the Father who wears the Crown
614 For if you forgive men when they sin against you your
heavenly Father will also forgive you
615 But if you do not forgive men their sins your Father will
not forgive your sins
616 When you fast do not look somber as the hypocrites
do for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fast-
ing I tell you the truth they have received their reward in
full
617 But when fast put oil on your head and wash your face
618 so that it will not be obvious to men that you are fasting
but only to your Father who is unseen and your Father who
sees what is done in secret will reward you
Jesus explains that our treasures are not in the Kingdom of Earth but in
the wisdom of Hokhmah which is the treasure of Heaven that God sent
to us
619 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth
where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and
steal
620 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven where
moth and rust do not destroy and where thieves do not
break in and steal
Binah is the intelligence that Jesus asks us to use to see the light within
our heart he asks that we be intelligent to stay away from evil because
wise men donrsquot have two bosses
621 For where your treasure is there your heart will be also
622 The eye is the lamp of the body If your eyes are good
your whole body will be full of light
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75
623 But if your eyes are bad your whole body will be full of
darkness If then the light within you is darkness how great
is that darkness
624 No one can serve two masters Either he will hate the
one and love the other or he will be devoted to the one and
despise the other You cannot serve both God and Money
Hesed is greatness Jesus shows us how Great we are that greatness is
not eating drinking or dressing up but greatness is being on the path to
the Kether or Crown
625 Therefore I tell you do not worry about your life what
you will eat or drink or about your body what you will
wear Is not life more important than food and the body
more important than clothes
626 Look at the birds of the air they do not sow or reap or
store away in barns and yet your heavenly Father feeds
them Are you not much more valuable than they
627 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his
life
628 And why do you worry about clothes See how the lil-
ies of the field grow They do not labor or spin
629 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor
was dressed like one of these
630 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field which is
here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire will he not
much more clothe you O you of little faith
631 So do not worry saying What shall we eat or What
shall we drink or What shall we wear
632 For the pagans run after all these things and your heav-
enly Father knows that you need them
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Godrsquos Fortune
Godrsquos
Justice
Godrsquos Education
Godrsquos Purification
Godrsquos
Freedom
Godrsquos
Love
Godrsquos Effort
Godrsquos
Greatness
Godrsquos Treasure
Godrsquos
Forgiveness
Godrsquos
Heart
633 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all
these things will be given to you as well
634 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow
will worry about itself Each day has enough trouble of its
own
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77
Once we obtain Greatness or Hesed Jesus asks us to seek Justice or
Geburah the next sefirah Justice is learning to judge others and to look
more with our heart than our eyes
71 Do not judge or you too will be judged
72 For in the same way you judge others you will be judged
and with the measure you use it will be measured to you
73 Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your broth-
ers eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye
74 How can you say to your brother Let me take the speck
out of your eye when all the time there is a plank in your
own eye
75 You hypocrite first take the plank out of your own eye
and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your
brothers eye
76 Do not give dogs what is sacred do not throw your
pearls to pigs If you do they may trample them under their
feet and then turn and tear you to pieces
After Geburah comes Tipherzt beauty this sefirah is the provider of spir-
itual nourishment that is why Jesus invites us to ask seek and knock and
he reminds the law of the Torah because Tipherzt is in the center and
unites the past with the present the law of the prophets with the law of
Jesus
77 Ask and it will be given to you seek and you will find
knock and the door will be opened to you
78 For everyone who asks receives he who seeks finds and
to him who knocks the door will be opened
79 Which of you if his son asks for bread will give him a
stone
710 Or if he asks for a fish will give him a snake
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711 If you then though you are evil know how to give good
gifts to your children how much more will your Father in
heaven give good gifts to those who ask him
712 So in everything do to others what you would have
them do to you for this sums up the Law and the Prophets
Neshah is stability the sefirah of the intellectual virtues the eye of the
intellect which shows us the path of life and Jesus shows us the road of
tranquility
713 Enter through the narrow gate For wide is the gate
and broad is the road that leads to destruction and many e n-
ter through it
714 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to
life and only a few find it
Hod is glory or recognition Jesus shows us how to recognize those who
are said to be prophets or wise men Jesus tells us the best way to do so
is by their fruit (results) or deeds if we observe others objectively we
will know who will really support us and who would like to take ad-
vantage of us
715 Watch out for false prophets They come to you in
sheeps clothing but inwardly they are ferocious wolves
716 By their fruit you will recognize them Do people pick
grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles
717 Likewise every good tree bears good fruit but a bad tree
bears bad fruit
718 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit and a bad tree cannot
bear good fruit
719 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and
thrown into the fire
7 20 Thus by their fruit you will recognize them
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79
The ninth sefirah is Yesod or foundation This is the sefirah of purifica-
tion in it Jesus separates the chaste from the impure to take evil away
from us
721 Not everyone who says to me Lord Lord will enter
the kingdom of heaven but only he who does the will of my
Father who is in heaven
722 Many will say to me on that day Lord Lord did we
not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out de-
mons and perform many miracles
723 Then I will tell them plainly I never knew you Away
from me you evildoers
The tenth sefirah is Malkuth the Kingdom of Earth and Heaven where
Jesus gives us an example of free will so that we make wise decisions
and chose the Kingdom in which we will live
724 Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and
puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house
on the rock
725 The rain came down the streams rose and the winds
blew and beat against that house yet it did not fall because it
had its foundation on the rock
726 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does
not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his
house on sand
727 The rain came down the streams rose and the winds
blew and beat against that house and it fell with a great
crash
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Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Neshah Stability
The Divine Creation
The Divine Creation
Adam Eve and the Genesis
Gestation and Conception
Development and Growth
Maturity
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81
The Divine Creation From the ape up to Adam and Eve
During the early ages of life on Earth the new thinking beings invested
most of their time in learning to survive humans had to adapt to and in-
tegrate themselves to the four elements or genius (Air Fire Earth and
Water) they also had to learn to interact with animals and plants
Man began to notice that all animals were born and died as natural pro-
cess They ldquocame inrdquo (were born) to this world from the maternal womb
or from an egg and all of them inevitably someday disappeared or
ldquoleftrdquo (died) this world
Man also noticed that all animals ldquochangedrdquo in size (grew) being small
when they ldquocame inrdquo to the world and as the ldquosuns and moonsrdquo passed
(time) they developed and grew getting stronger until reaching a point
in which they ldquodisappearedrdquo (died)
Furthermore the learning was part of the ldquoroadrdquo when they ldquoarrivedrdquo
they didnrsquot know how to walk or fly they couldnrsquot see their parents had
to get their food and protect them they were weak and dependant In
time they learned to be self-sufficient and to live independently even
though they were part
of a heard o a community
In every age thinkers and scientists asked them selves how early mankind
evolved to the point of becoming what we are nowadays The Judeo-
Christian Kabbalah answers this question without interfering with sci-
ence The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah explains mankindrsquos ldquoevolutionrdquo in
ten steps and goes through the Sefirotic Tree starting from the feminine
column reminding us that it is the female who receives the Divine herit-
age of Creation
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82
1 The Crown or Divine Light
First the Divine Light Crowned the undeveloped brain of the wild ape
and transformed it into a ldquothinking aperdquo That Divine ldquotouchrdquo caused
the transformation of the apersquos simple brain into the complex brain or
ldquocrownrdquo of this new being This change contains the celestial blow of the
future human being
2 Intelligence or understanding
Undoubtedly what made de difference between mankind and the rest of
the animals was that awareness since they all went through the same
changes they were all born grew up and died they could all see the
moon replacing the sun and all of them could see the vegetables grow
but the other species either did take notice or did not acknowledge it The
human being could ldquothinkrdquo mankind had the ldquointelligencerdquo to be aware
and that made it different
3 Wisdom or experience
As time went by mankind acquired experience which added to intelli-
gence resulted in ldquowisdomrdquo This wisdom made man outstand over the
rest of the species This wisdom permitted man to learn from other spe-
cies in a certain way and in many cases to dominate them
These three sefiroth that represents the Holy Trinity separated to
the man of the rest of the world animal and vegetable determining
their supremacy by order and Divine grace
4 Justice or respect
Man began to put his abilities to use and the first thing he did with his
intelligence and wisdom was to acknowledge ldquojusticerdquo but the Divine
free will permitted them to apply it or not Mankind understood that
without spiritual justice intelligence and wisdom cannot not be applied
5 Greatness or humility
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83
Mankind learned that spiritual greatness meant knowing how to apply
justice in every act of life
To be just and great is to be wise and intelligent
Man learned that to be great does not mean to be above the rest but to
apply intelligence and wisdom to improve the life and spirit of others
These four qualities must go together if man is to continue his evolution
and stay away from the ape otherwise he would be stuck and the ape
would overcome
6 Beauty or sweetness
As mankind evolved it became understood that each act good or bad as
well as every thought obscure or bright marks the inner character and
outer appearance of a person with a defined particularity that will either
dull it or illuminate it The beauty of the Spirit is more real and perma-
nent than physical beauty The secret of this beauty which lights up pu-
pils with the serene light of the stars y gives faces the sweet look of the
angels lies within a just behavior and greatness in thought
The Bible and Science go of the hand The Creation and the Evolution are work of God
7 Glory or acknowledgement
As man made his inner evolution he wanted to be acknowledged by the
Divinity first and by his peers later
ldquoGloryrdquo is the acknowledgement of onersquos values by others All human
beings need this physical and spiritual acknowledgement The Just has
the Spiritual Greatness Beauty of the Soul and the Divine Glory
8 Stability or Balance
The sensory and spiritual stability and balance of the new being meant
inner growth Stability came about with the bluntness of power and the
victory of his actions The spiritual powers of stability are the foundation
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84
Awareness
Respect
Knowledge
Building
Real World
Sweetness
Balance
Humility
Experience
Divine Light
of tolerance discernment and being able to face up to reality and to co-
operate with our peers powers that are attained through Justice Great-
ness and the Divine Glory
9 Foundation or construction
The foundation or founding of communities is a major stepping-stone
for this new being It was like planting a seed to watch a tree grow Man
understood that if the foundation was done right he would ldquobuildrdquo a
whole culture for the future of mankind But if due to selfishness ava-
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85
rice or greediness he failed and started with a poor foundation of com-
munities instead these would dissolve in time That is why he would
have to apply everything he had learned and all the accumulated experi-
ence correctly
10 The Kingdom of Earth or real world
The Kingdom of Earth is the summit in the process of evolution from
ape to man it is the matter substance the physical and real world This
is the peak of the creation cycle the creation of Adam and Eve Thanks
to the powers of God the ape was transformed into the human being that
now lives in the Kingdom of God which is the Earth It is at this point
where all divine teachings and human experiences converge all celestial
and earthly matters meet here the soul with the spirit and the senses
with the physical world
Adam Eve and the Genesis
ldquoFor the Kabbalah in animals femininity finds itself in front of mas-
culinity while masculinity confirms itself through femininity In the
human level masculinity and femininity are distinguished and at the
same time complement each otherrdquo
In the first book of the Pentateuch the ldquoBook of Genesisrdquo there are two
explanations that would appear to contradict each other that is why we
will analyze them textually
Chapter One verses 27 through 31
27 So God created man in his own image in the image of God he
created him male and female he created them
28 God blessed them and said to them Be fruitful and increase in
number fill the earth and subdue it Rule over the fish of the sea
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86
and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves
on the ground
29 Then God said I give you every seed-bearing plant on the
face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in
it They will be yours for food
30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and
all the creatures that move on the groundmdasheverything that has
the breath of life in itmdashI give every green plant for food And it
was so
31 God saw all that he had made and it was very good And there
was evening and there was morningmdashthe sixth day
Chapter Two verses 7 and 15 through 23
7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and the man became a
living being
15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of
Eden to work it and take care of it
16 And the LORD God commanded the man You are free to eat
from any tree in the garden
17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil for when you eat of it you will surely die
18 The LORD God said It is not good for the man to be alone I
will make a helper suitable for him
19 Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the
beasts of the field and all the birds of the air He brought them to
the man to see what he would name them and whatever the man
called each living creature that was its name
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87
20 So the man gave names to all the livestock the birds of the air
and all the beasts of the field But for Adam no suitable helper
was found
21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep and
while he was sleeping he took one of the mans ribs and closed
up the place with flesh
22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken
out of the man and he brought her to the man
23 The man said This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my
flesh she shall be called woman for she was taken out of man
According to these two texts which differ in just a few pages within the
Sacred Book first man and woman were created at the same time but
later it explains that woman was created from the rib taken from man
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah takes it as a cryptically allegory which
means we are not to understand this explanation as saying first and sec-
ond having another ahead does not make one a subordinate
The ten sefiroth that created the universe were simultaneous and the crea-
tion of the first ldquothinking aperdquo was simultaneous in male and female If
we try to understand the Divine message decoding it into common lingo
we find that the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah gives us several clues
The Book of Genesis 2 does not void what is stated in Genesis 1 it is
revealing another aspect of the human being The intention of the second
text is not to tell us how creation took place in a chronological order but
to explain ndash in a symbolic language ndash something more profound
According to the Book of Genesis 1 God created them ldquoin one single
actrdquo and gave them a mission in common Be fruitful and increase in
number fill the earth and subdue it This clarifies the equality of dignity
in both as well as the equality in the mission imparted since both are
given the same responsibility the family and protection of the world
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88
According to this there doesnrsquot seem to be tasks or responsibilities ex-
clusively reserved to men or women family as well as culture are to be
done by both
Adam does not take woman out of himself he was asleep doing noth-
ing Furthermore God expressly wanted to hide from him the way in
which he made woman doing so while he slept when he could not notice
what was happening
About the reasons for God putting Adam to sleep we can take some
concepts from the Divine reasoning The lonely Adam pictured in the
Book of Genesis 27 is a generic Adam because the characteristics
which describe him are the same for either man or woman and are
meshed in the verses 215 through 223 in the four worlds of the Sefirotic
Tree
The original loneliness (interpreted as the transcendence of
mankind with respect to the Cosmos) is the world of Atziluth or
divine protection
It is not good for the man to be alonerdquo is the need to opening
up this is the world of Briah or giving to others
The search for the appropriate assistance (conceived as mutual
and reciprocal) is the world of Yetsirah or trust and learning
The call for man woman and their animals to work together is
the world of Assiah or Earth and its fruits
The symbolism of the rib taken by God from Adam while he slept re-
veals a relationship between man and woman from which two conse-
quences derive Is a reciprocal relationship (there is no woman without
man but there is no man without woman) which leads us to conclude
that both ends of this relationship must be simultaneous
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89
Spirit
Form
Muscles
Organs
Birth
Nerves
Bones
Strength
Soul
Supra
One
Heart
Gestation
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
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90
Conception
A person is born at a particular moment in time due to a specific
situation or to connect with specific people or one person in particular
When speaking of gestation it is important to assign the archetypical
worlds to each step of this process
1 The Archetypical World called Atziluth is where everything
is in a latent state where everything is potential This is the world in
which the Divinity unites soul and spirit It is in this world where the
essence on an individual is found There is a ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath of the
heart here which lives in both the spiritual and the creative worlds
2 In the Creative World called Briah we find strength and the
pure form which gives shape to the physical life where the cellular mul-
tiplication begins The heart sends the energy of the soul and spirit to the
new being in gestation
3 In the Formative World called Yetsirah the whole body is
in the process of development creating the nervous system muscles
bones organs etc
4 In the Material World called Assiah is where the physical
manifestation takes place It is the moment of birth when the new inte-
grated being sees the light of the Sun
Development
At birth the physical body manifests itself in the Malkut of As-
siah or the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth after going through the se-
quence of conception Birth takes place at the end of the descending path
from Kether (God) to Malkut (Earth) After birth the path is inverted
while developing we begin to ascend from Malkut (Earth) to Kether
(God)
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91
The personality of an adult individual is reflected in the stage or
sefirath where he stopped or in which he weakened the most We can
associate these stages with the worlds in an ascending manner reverting
the way of the gestation
For example the Malkut of Assiah is the material world in
which a person must see and touch in order to learn He needs to touch
the fire to know that it burns or needs to knock himself to know how hard
matter is and how weak is the spirit
Yetsirah is the world in which responsibility is formed where
most people have stopped at one point in their lives for not being able to
assimilate one or more of sefiroth that make up this world
A person who stopped in hisher childhood has stopped at the
sefirath Yesod a person seeking information or news or is forever study-
ing is at Hod and the one seeking pleasures (sex food fun) is still going
through Neshah And those searching for trust in themselves are at
Tipherzt
Mature people are in the world of Briah Justice and greatness
will help these people to develop the acquired knowledge
Those who have stopped at Geburah are people who experience
constant hardship until they learn to grasp control of themselves and
once they achieve inner peace they dedicate their lives to good acts On
the other hand those who come out of Hesed are the ones who negotiate
with generosity those who give to receive who seek to buy love affec-
tion or respect
Atziluth the last world is the one closest to God one that takes
us to Him
Those worried about death are at the sefirath Binah They age
prematurely and constantly complain about illnesses
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92
Those who reach Hokhmah is because they have profound en-
lightening visions which in some cases and for certain social groups are
similar to insanity
To reach Kether at the end of life on earth is to go back to God
to achieve the freedom of onersquos soul
In the Material World called Assiah is where the man-
ifestation of birth takes place where the body without formation but with
genetic and Godrsquos instruction and information from past lives gets ac-
quainted with himself and those around him
In the Formative World called Yetsirah life and aca-
demic formation is acquired to be applied to the rest of onersquos life The
person shall have the teachings perception affirmation and confidence
supplied by those around him
In the Creative World called Briah the most important
stage in a personrsquos life is found In it we can apply everything learned
and observed in the previous world Decisions taken in this world will
affect us twice as much in the following world
The Archetypical World called Atziluth is a world of
closeness to the Divinity here is where we should stop and analyzes our
existence prepare the balance sheet of our soul When we get here we
can see what we have contributed to the growth of our soul
The road to Maturity
As we know each sefirath is a tree in itself and each world con-
tains the other four inside that is why we must analyze our maturity from
the moment of birth and the growing years as well
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93
Pro
tec-
tion
Co
ntr
ol
Le
arning
Chi
ldh
ood
Bi
rt
h
Tr
us
t
Ple
asure
Giving
Li
gh
t
S
up
ra
O
ne
Heart
The stages of growth
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
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94
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah when we are born
our ldquopatternrdquo of life is not finished because our body spirit and soul are
not completely integrated
Between the ages of five and seven the central column formed
by Yesod Tipherzt and the ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath Led molds the operative
personality The Heart Trust and Foundation are the basis of a childrsquos
personal development
At the age of thirteen Hod and Neshah stability and glory for-
mation and pleasures become active This is the age of awakening of
knowledge
Between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one Kether and
Malkuth intertwine forming the central structure of the tree and they
give it meaning and dimension
During the following years Geburah Hesed Binah and
Hokhmah integrate themselves completing the incarnation of the plains
When we see rebellious youths who have not yet grasped the
concepts of justice or generosity (gangs drugs) it is because they have
not incarnated completely and Geburah and Hesed have not taken their
places yet There is no set age for complete incarnation because it de-
pends on the surroundings and social experience
The child of an alcoholic and a drug addict who live in poverty
does not have to follow that path If he could find support in a family or
educational group that could help him to develop the missing sefiroth and
that way obtain incarnation he could become a person who understands
the proper concepts of justice and greatness thus clearing his life and ob-
taining personal success
On the other hand the son of an aristocrat or millionaire be-
tween the ages of thirteen and twenty will react against his class but
from there on and according to the integration of his sefiroth to the tree
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
95
he will only be interested in developing within his social circle marrying
someone accordingly and following the family pattern but if he should
find a link that could help him develop the missing sefiroth in order to
complete his incarnation he would change his concepts on class and
would obtain personal success
Of course both examples are generalizations which do not apply
to all people If you are reading this book you are a spiritual researcher
and surely do not fall under generalizations
Many people consider a good marriage and a good social posi-
tion as valid objectives but after twenty years or more of walking the
same path they understand that even though they have a good marriage
with someone they love and good economic resources they have no
goals
This usually happens after the age of forty-five or fifty For those
based on their bodies this is the beginning of the end and will seek the
physical methods (surgeries) to slow this process
The Tree of the Maturity
These physical methods are not bad if they go together with a
spiritual development with growth in the tree of the spiritual worlds un-
til the highest point is reached and it is understood that the body is the
container of the spirit and soul
Often enough people get stuck emotionally here and no matter
how old they are they cannot get out of Tipherzt or the sefirath of Trust
It is here where emotions are sometimes confused with feelings obscur-
ing thoughts and the development of spiritual maturity
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96
Under-
standing
Truth
Awakening
Trust
Real
World
Foundation
Power
Humility
Experience
Essence
Heath
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97
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
Hod Glory
The Human Being
Soul and Spirit
The Worlds of the Spirit The Battle of the Spirit
The terror and the Fears
Difficult Situations The Problems of the Spirit
The Worlds of Solutions Instincts feelings and senses
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98
Soul and Spirit
We already know that neither one of us is a new soul all of us
have accumulated experience from previous lives in other incarnations
We also know that those celestial beings that occupy our body
have come during the last thousands of years
We also know that this inter-relation or connection between soul
and body helps to correct the soul
What we need to know now is What is the spirit
The spirit is our inner Self our mind it is what we really are and
who we are
Our spirit is formed by four worlds Each world relates to the
other on the basis of interactive processes and it works its way up from
the concrete (tangible) to the ethereal (spiritual) levels
1 The Material World called Assiah or the world of
Logic is based on Malkut passes through Yessed and opens up into
Hod and Neshagh The logical though is something you can almost
touch it has foundation stability and glory
2 The Formative World called Yetsirah or the world of
the Perceptions is based on Tipherzt and opens its arms into Ge-
brurah and Hesed The perceptions of the human being are beauty
justice and greatness
3 The Creative World called Briah or the world of Feel-
ings is based on Led (heart) and from there goes on to Binah and
Hokhmah Our feelings are the product of the alchemy formed by
the ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath of the heart intelligence and wisdom
4 The Archetypical World called Atziluth or the world
of Intuition has only one sefirath as base Kether Divinity resides
here that is intuition is the direct link to Divinity
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99
As we can see the spirit is the part that connects our contained
(physical body) to our soul (or celestial body) and that is who we really
are The spirit must take care of the body so that it ldquolastsrdquo as long as pos-
sible When it is mistreated with external products (poor nutrition alco-
hol tobacco or drugs) the soulrsquos stay and learning period is shortened
this will cause the soul to come back in another container to continue
learning
When an illness or accident causes the brain to stop the spirit is
affected never the soul The soul keeps learning even though the body is
inert or in a deep coma and it will stay there for some ldquotimerdquo after the
heart stops beating It could be minutes maybe hours or days before the
soul abandons the body
When the death is surprising and unexpected (accident violence
etc) both the soul and the spirit stay in condition of shock and are late
many time in dividing
Each person has in its spirit what we know as personality stud-
ied by Jung even his profession is related to these worlds For example a
person with an Assiah personality will be in the armed forces Profes-
sionals are Yetsirah the artists are in the world of Briah and the mysti-
cal people live in Atziluth
Even as we are crossing the tree sefiroacutethico the personality was
passing of being introverted and logical to extrovert and dreamy
Undoubtedly the complexity of the spirit and the dynamic that
surrounds it could generate multiple models Human beings depending
on the inherited genes educational environment social development will
modify some of the parameters associated to these worlds in order to be
accepted by society
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
100
The soul is very important in this development since in its mis-
sion of learning it will try to put the person in challenging situations
provoking logical feelings and intuitive sensations
The way to analyze these worlds and know to which ones we
blong (surely to all of them but some more than others) is to know our
strengths and our weaknesses to find our fears and the chance to
ovecome them
Each world has its own ten sefiroth that respond to its own
behavior
The residents of the world of intuition or Atziluth
are generalists hypothetical not precise speculative idealists in-
ventive illogical indecisive futurists and disperse
Those who live in the world of feelings or Briah are a
logical poetic artistic passionate personal cordial ethical justice seek-
ers individualists and humanitarians
The inhabitants of the world of the senses or Yetsirah
are careful detail minded specialists objective precise concrete real-
ists profound practical and conventional
Those who live in the world of logic or Assiah are log-
ical analytic extremist scientific cold dispassionate theoretical imper-
sonal shrewd and insensitive
Neither world is better than another and there isnrsquot a single hu-
man being that ldquofitsrdquo exactly into one defined world we all have behav-
iors from all of them but the proportions are different in each one of us
and that is what makes us all different from each other
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101
The worlds of the Spirit
In the center ldquoThe Column of Equilibriumrdquo (Balance)
Intuition Atziluth
Feelings Briah
Sense Yetsirah
Logical Assiah
Thought
Intelli-
li-gence
Jus
tice
Glo
ry
Foun-
dation
Ma-
teri
al
Be
au-
ty
Sta-
bil-
ity
Grea
tness
Wisdom
Su-
pra
One
Heart
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102
The Battle of the Spirit
As we could see the battle is not very fair three worlds are ruled
by the heart and only one is ruled by the brain That is why in most cas-
es instincts or feelings ldquowinrdquo over reason When free will was given to
us it was so that we could ldquothink overrdquo our acts
Are two ways of thinking intuition and reasoning with very dif-
ferent characteristics
Some thoughts come to mind in a spontaneous way in reality
that is what happens most of the time Because Atziluth Briah and
Yetsirah are always present in a potential way ready to jump in and re-
spond in a way of which we are not totally conscious and cannot control
The actions of these three worlds are quick without effort associative
and very often charged with emotions They are ruled by habits that is
why it is difficult to modify or control them
The world of Assiah instead is ruled by conscience and delib-
erate reasoning it is slower serial and requires effort it follows rules
Needs more time when something upsets us it clouds our reasoning
This means the issue is stuck on the upper worlds and it doesnrsquot allow us
to make logical decisions usually because we are afraid to reason
For example the idea that something awful can happen if we
take a plane even though that possibility is remote will not let us think
of anything else The upper worlds become dominant Emotion is over-
come in turn by the possibility by what could happen and not by reality
so much
The emotional and issue is the less ldquoreasonablerdquo people are
According to Daniel Kahneman winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize
in Economics
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
103
ldquoEmotions in general do not influence decision making but one
emotion in particular (fear) distorts the perception of risk and generates
errors in the making of decisionsrdquo
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah fear originates in the
upper world but if we can take it to the world of Assiah or logical it
vanishes into thin air
Nevertheless if once we make a reasoned decision we donrsquot reg-
ister having made it curious enough we are not conscious we have
changed our way of thinking
Most people after changing their way of thinking reconstruct
the old pattern They underestimate their change Besides when they
have been persuaded of something they believe they always thought that
way The upper worlds hide behind the mask that reason displays and
have us believing they were never there we are convinced that we al-
ways think rationally
It is true that many people admit making a mistake at one time
or another ndash you could be one of them ndash but that doesnrsquot mean that they
have changed their way of thinking on a particular issue and that they
wonrsquot make the same mistake again
Fears
All living beings have fears it is natural and it responds to the
instinct of survival You donrsquot have to be a caballist or scientist to state
that man is a fearful ldquoanimalrdquo One hundred percent of the human spirit is
ldquoshyrdquo or timid and it fears an endless amount of things and situations He
is intimidated by them The important thing is to identify the things he
fears and why Donrsquot even think you are the only one who fears some-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
104
thing ALL OF US fear something The thing is that that ldquosomethingrdquo is
different for each one of us
Fear is not bad or good it simply is disturbing feeling about
something unknown or if it is known we canrsquot control and we are afraid
it might hurt us
When God created the four elements or semi gods (Fire Water
Air and Earth) He gave them the ability to help or hurt mankind that is
why Fire can cook our food or it can destroy us Water is for drinking or
drowning Earth can give us vegetables or bury us with Air we live and
without it we die The four elements can give or take life And it is pre-
cisely in them that the depth of all fears lies
Fear has companions such as anguish
obsessions and phobias
Many cultures and old and modern religions disguise fears (in
many cases to manipulate people) with the presence of the Devil or dia-
bolic things The Judeo-Christian Kaballah upholds that mankind in its
search for alternative gods created this evil figure to justify its fears and
anguishes
Fear lives in the upper part of the Sefirotic Tree of both worlds of
the spirit where man thinks less and fears more First he starts at Atzi-
luth where he acts mostly based on instinct he is almost irrational and
here is where he ignites the anguish fearrsquos best friend From there it goes
down to Briah and it leans on phobic feelings to go on to Yetsirah
where it can attract obsessions
In the emotional sentimental world or Briah reside an endless
number of opposed phobic fears darkness or light open spaces or closed
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
105
space crowds or loneliness heights or depths planes or boatshellip and we
could go on for pages
In the world of the sensations or Yetsirah live the obsessive
fears disguised as concern
Worry for details rules lists order schedules up to
the point of losing of sight the principal object of the activity
Perfectionism which interferes with the completion of
a task (unable to finish a project because it doesnrsquot comply with
onersquos own demands which are overly strict)
Excessive dedication to onersquos work and to the produc-
tivity with exclusion of the activities of leisure and the friend-
ship (not attributable to economic evident needs)
Excessive stubbornness very scrupulous and inflexi-
ble when it comes to moral issues ethics or values (not attributed
to the identification with religion)
Unable to discard old and useless items even when
there is no sentimental value attached
Unable to share the work load with others unless
they will accept to do it your way exactly
Excessive thriftiness in spending money must be ac-
cumulated to cover future catastrophes
All these fears which live in the worlds of instincts feelings and
sensations are not related to diabolic situations Satan does not exist in
the Divine Universe Satan is a creation of our spirit to encourage the
learning and development of our soul The best way to teach our soul is
to overcome our fears bringing them down to the rational world of Assi-
ah to keep them under control and letting them go
This can be done following these steps
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
106
1 The first step is to put your fears in the world of
logic or Assiah not worrying about why this fear exists but how
do we respond to this fear behavior (eg paralysis desperation)
Hesed origin
2 Be specific when it comes to defining your con-
duct of fear and its consequences because the problem it self is
the solution Geburah control
3 Donrsquot look at your fear as such but as an obsta-
cle in attaining your goals Take it to Tipherzt trust
4 Define exactly the way you want to change your
conduct Go to Neshah balance
5 Establish a time limit to obtain the proposed
change For this Hod learning is the right sefirath
Search for an adequate way to make your change with-
out going to extremes for instance becoming a perfectionist
What you want to change is not making mistakes but the irra-
tional fear for avoiding making mistakes If you are set out to
making mistakes to change you will stop worrying about per-
fection but you will also stop worrying about the mistakes you
could make That is the mistakes are not the problem but the
fear of making mistakes is Work on Yesod construc-
tionbuilding
6 Be patient changes donrsquot take place overnight
whatrsquos more there could be a set back especially when there is a
fast progression in the change of the conduct of fear Please un-
derstand that a straight forward improvement is not always to be
expected you could be going forward there could be stops and
set backs which will allow you to compare and value the differ-
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
107
ences between your previous status with your situation of pro-
gress Go through Malkuth action
Once the world of Assiah logic overcomes your fears you will
see how your fears crashed with logic and vanish
Donrsquot forget that fear is a close friend of depression Fear attracts
dissonance synonym of physical and spiritual disease When one of the
elements stops working the machinery works with serious difficulties
When one of the parts slows down or over speeds therersquos also a lack of
balance and things donrsquot run well
Fear is one of those elements in the human being with great
power to generate lack of harmony correspondence and balance Its
negativity does not allow us to act neither with freedom intelligence nor
with common sense On the contrary it makes us highlight aspects of our
life which we shouldnrsquot consider so important It makes us go back
when we should be going forward It makes us lie when we should be
telling the truth And it takes away our plenitude creativity and capacity
to love
Problematic Situations
Man faces difficult situations all his life from childhood to old
age He finds himself with the obligation to address them with systemat-
ic processes of thought but he doesnrsquot know how important they are All
problems can be grouped in these three definitions
Urgent and important
Urgent or important
Neither urgent nor important
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
108
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah and the sefirotic trees show us
that if we establish priorities if we analyze situations if we identify op-
portunities there are no problems without a solution and that solution is
usually much simpler than we would have thought The method to apply
the adequate solution to a problem is part of the kaballistic teachings
Problems of the Spirit
The Spirit is made up of four worlds (logic sensations emotions
and intuition) if we know how to apply them correctly and how to dis-
tribute our problems amongst these worlds each one of them will solve
the part of the problem to which it applies and the general solution will
become available without stress nor complications
The World of logical thought is the one that analyzes a problem
concretely creating a new Sefirotic Tree with four worlds Ideas Caus-
es Opportunities and Solutions we go through them from the column
of forms or shapes looking for the world of detail or feminine
Atziluth is the world of Ideas formed by Kether Binah and Hokhmah
Kether is the situation worrying you the problem in your
head or philosophical it could be physical or mental could be serious or
momentary but none the less it is the center of the worry
Binah is the expansive thought the one that analyzes the
components distinguishes the pertinent parts the real causes of the prob-
lem Binah clarifies the information to define the situation
Hokhmah is the convergent thought it evaluates and develops
the main idea of the problem compares theorizes and creates a hypothe-
sis which means it is the one that focuses on the problem to be solved
looking for the way to follow and the steps to take
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109
Briah is the world of Causes formed by Leb Geburah and Hesed
Leb is the virtual sefirath of the heart which plays a part in
every problem and even though thought is the most concrete world of
the spirit the heart has its influence when the time to make a decision
comes We should make the problem ldquovirtualrdquo analyze the solution with
the heart and without it in order to be objective and make the right deci-
sion
Geburah is justice Try to think as a lawyer they only deal
with proven facts they donrsquot go by hearsay Clean your mind of external
ldquoadditionsrdquo analyze ldquowhat problems make up this problemrdquo
Hesed is greatness It is very important to know where the
problem was originated in order not to repeat it you must have the
greatness to admit your percentage of responsibility in the origin of the
problem Donrsquot put the responsibility all out there blaming others do
know that we alwayshellip alwayshellip are partly responsible for what happens
to us Admitting responsibility requires greatness
Yetsirah is the world of Opportunities formed by
Tipherzt Hod and Neshah
Tiphezt is the sefirath of beauty and every problem has a
beautiful side to it which is the opportunity it opens up to the other
worlds Every problem is the starting point towards truth Many times
the truth is hidden and the problems bring it out in the light Look for the
positive side of the problem there always is one look for the sun after
the storm
Hod is the glory and glory is acknowledgement To
acknowledge a problem is part of the solution If we describe the prob-
lem and its consequences we could see clearly which opportunity it is
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
110
revealing Remember facts or situations it will help us recognize the real
scenario of the problem
Neshah is stability which will come when we solve the prob-
lem Imagine your life without the problem try to see which things will
be better and analyze which ones could be worse in order to avoid them
Donrsquot let it catch you off guard Just like in a chess match every move
must be carefully thought out and advantage taken of the adversaryrsquos lit-
tle mistakes
Assiah is the world of Solutions formed by Yesod and Malkuth
Yesod is the sefirath of foundation it is the one to support and
filter the information sent by the rest to Malkuth If the other nine have
done their job correctly the problem would reach this point practically
resolved In some cases it doesnrsquot even reach this point since it was re-
solved on its way As long as we clarify and converge ideas analyze the
real causes and describe its consequences the storm we saw coming at
first becomes a sea breeze
Malkuth is the earth action It establishes these ways to fol-
low to resolve a problem or whatrsquos left of it The truth is that Malkuth
steps in less than 5 of the cases because the big problems do not ex-
ist but small problems that transformed a snow ball rolling downhill that
breaks up into thousands of harmless little particles when it hits a serious
and conclusive analytical spirit
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
111
The Sefiroacutethico
Tree of the logical thought
Diverge
Facts
Acknowl-
edging
Filtration
Action
Serenity
Equilibrium
Origin
Converge
Knowing
Heart
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
112
The Worlds of Solutions
The other three worlds of the spirit (sensations emotions and intuition)
are present in the previous development as observers but sometimes
(many times) they are present in the analysis of the concrete world where
logical thoughts occur taking the solution to the problem through not so
logical paths In these cases we have to appeal to the central column or
Column of Equilibrium of the Sefirotic Tree of the Spirit
Kether (Intuition) receiving the energy that the Divinity and Its
Light sends us
Leb (Heart) will find answers in our feelings
Tipherzt (Beauty) will consult our inner sensations
Yesod and Malkuth (Foundation and Earth) bring us back to the
world of reasoning and logic
This means that we can solve many problems using our intuition our
feelings or our sensations but we should always put them through the
filter of logical thought of truth putting passion aside and trying to be as
analytical as possible
Instincts Feelings and Sensations
Instincts or Atziluth feelings or Briah and sensations or Yetsirah to-
gether create an inner stir up when motivated by action Mankind is
mostly conditioned by emotions and sensations by likes and dislikes
Often enough feelings and sensations are side tracked by mankindrsquos own
interests and selfishness to the point of invalidating sense and reason
making one behave in ways which one sees with consternation that Assi-
ah has been forgotten Thus logic is destroyed by the three upper
worlds When we snap out later and we see the mistake it is too late to
do anything about it
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
113
The upper worlds usually come up as an answer to the spontaneous eval-
uation of perceptions Emotions such as anger or fear can be harmful or
healthy such as fondness or compassion While aversions are typical un-
healthy emotions good love and compassion are outstanding examples of
noble emotions that lift our human nature
Human beings are pretty open to emotional development and so is the
range and strength of their emotions We are all somewhat passionate
and impulsive and cold and reflective at the same time What varies is
the percentage some get angry very fast and others are patient While
one person could be not impulsive emotionally another could go through
a wide range of emotions at the speed of light
The emotional worlds hurt the physical body that is why they should be
controlled According to clinical experience a person dominated by
emotions could have consecutively or simultaneously health issues af-
fecting several organic systems I will mention a few psychosomatic
health problems
Migraines
This symptom is made up of other somatic symptoms that go to-
gether in people with a perfectionist personality with changing moods
They usually manifest themselves with painful muscle contractions of the
neck as well as nausea and vomiting
Obesity
Obesity usually develops within the frame of anxieties in re-
sponse to frustrations and disappointment through devotion to food8
Hypertension
The main reason for vascular hypertension is emotional tension
in people who show apparent serenity and affability but are really cover-
ing up hostile emotions and predisposition ndash that must be restrained ndash for
social or employment reasons
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
114
Cardiovascular System
It has been proven that the stress caused by anguish tends to fre-
quently increase your heart beat cardiac distress and blood pressure
Respiratory System
Crying laughing screaming o talking imply changes your
breathing action excessive breathing or the opposite are typical respons-
es during contrasting periods of action or relaxation Examples of this are
the hyperventilation syndrome and asthma amongst others
The Gastrointestinal Tract
The symptoms of gastrointestinal disorders are multiple the most
frequent they are anorexia bulimia nausea nervous indigestion vomit-
ing and diarrhea
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
115
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Yesod Foundation
Free Will
The emotional worlds
Control of emotions
Who controls me
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
116
The emotional worlds
The emotional worlds are distributed within the Sefirotic Tree from
Kether to Malkuth
Kether is imagination it is ethereal and impalpable it comes
from within and surprises us as if it came from outside We imagine
things or situations this is the world of Atziluth
What happens in our lives makes better sense when we use our imagina-
tion and create our own stories These could be situations related directly
to what is happening to us or just the opposite For example if we are
watching a Superman movie we unconsciously accept that the character
flies We know the actor is supported by ropes of steel or that it is a
computerized trick but we go prepared to accept this The same thing
happens with a horror movie we donrsquot ignore that the monster is made
out of some synthetic material that those masks are created with makeup
or that the blood could be tomato sauce but while we are watching the
movie we let the world of Atziluth take over our spirit and we accept
what takes place in the screen as real
The important thing is to know when the movie ends and reality begins
There have been cases of people jumping off rooftops believing they
were Superman or have shot others thinking they were either Rambo or
Terminator Without going to these extreme examples many people be-
lieve they are living stories out of soap operas in which the characters
are either good or bad In them the manipulation of society is done
through ldquobelievablerdquo or ldquodetestablerdquo stereotypes In these stories the
ldquogood guysrdquo consume the sponsorrsquos products that is why they are good
looking and successful while the ldquobad guys are very badrdquo and always
end up in jail or dead Very far from the reality
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117
Hokhmah is memory it is our particular wisdom it is what we
learn from the past the things our own life has taught us But memories
sometimes play tricks on us
Often enough we associate what we see with some other type of experi-
ence or memory For instance if somebody speaks loudly we feel we are
being attacked because we remember that tone of voice being used by a
teacher or our father to make an observation or punish us This memory
which is not rational will put us on alert waking all our feelings of de-
fense But it could be that this person speaks loudly because he needs to
be listened to with the best intentions towards us In this case Atziluth
would have reacted against our relationship with the other person We
usually do not notice these processes because these are unconscious be-
haviors of which we are not aware When we remember the incident we
only describe our experience related to the visual perception and with
conscientious thought We almost never refer to what we heard felt im-
agined or what our intuition told us What this does is that we visualize
an incomplete picture of the situation
Binah is the comprehension our intelligence While we hear the
other person speaking loudly we generate currents of thought These
thoughts could relate directly and we could probably raise our voice as
well Both of us speaking loudly almost screaming will dull our compre-
hension and we wonrsquot be able to reason the other personrsquos words nor
will we understand why we are being loud In unexpected situations
such as an accident in transit (like somebody hitting our car in the free-
way) we create an opinion of the other person while we observe the in-
cident But we do not reason the occurrence It is not easy for us to un-
derstand in those circumstances and we unchain reactions that we will
regret later
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118
ldquoThe three sefiroth of the tree of emotions make up the trilogy of At-
ziluth where everything is potential everything is relative where im-
agination lives with memories and comprehe nsionrdquo
Listening is Hesed greatness since knowing how to listen is
greatness Our hearing perceives in a selective way depending on the
attention we are paying In first place we hear the most discordant
sounds Some people listen independently from what they see while
others associate what they hear to what they see Closer sounds also get
mixed with those coming from afar (planes trains)
Seeing is Geburah justice When the police investigate an acci-
dent talks to five witnesses and gets five different versions of the same
accident This is because each witness perceived the same scene in a dif-
ferent way according to their distance and angle their surprise their
memories and their fears What each one was doing and how long it took
their minds to react to adapt to the new situation is also important
Feeling is Tipherzt beauty Any situation of relationship or ac-
tion (somebody yelling at us somebody crashing into us somebody hug-
ging us or loving us) triggers our instinctive emotions and can make us
feel uncomfortable sad surprised tender excited furious anxious nos-
talgichellip and so many other ways
It is important to know how to handle them from the sefirath of beauty
Both love and fury are born there It is the provider of spiritual nourish-
ment it is the one that sends the order to our hand to slap or caress to our
mouth the order to insult or say words of love to our legs the order to get
closer or start running away If we control our reactions and let our brain
make the decision we will save ourselves lots of problems apologies and
unpleasantness
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
119
ldquoThese three sefiroth of the tree of emotions form the trilogy of
Briah the world of creation where strength idea and ways of liste n-
ing seeing and feeling come togetherrdquo
Taste and smell are Hod and Neshah or glory and stability the sev-
enth and eighth sefiroth These two senses go together When we smell a
dish we like we feel our mouth ldquowateringrdquo This is because our sense of
taste already sent the known flavors to our brain which in turn already
started in Yetsirah the registered memories In some gas stations we
taste the smell of gasoline in our mouth as if we had drunk it Being close
to a trash dump makes us nauseous since the smell is perceived by our
nose and mouth irritating our throat
In these cases the formative world of Yetsirah makes us react instinc-
tively to aggressive odors
Reflexes are Yesod foundation This sefirah closes the trilogy of the
world of Yetsirah which is the formative or conceptual world and re-
flexes just like taste and smell are instinctive concepts that we cannot
control When we watch a thriller or action movie we move as if we
were the character in it we flinch when they stick a knife into somebody
or we move avoiding the punch We usually experience some movements
as if we were moving ourselves we even experience tension in our mus-
cles Itrsquos common that if we see others dancing we will also feel the im-
pulse to dance
ldquoThese three sefiroth are the base of our instinctive and intuitive sys-
tem We can control all other sefiroth imagination memories un-
derstanding listening seeing and even feeling but the senses of smell
and taste and reflexes are very hard to control that is why we must
concentrate our attention on themrdquo
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120
Re-
mem-
ber
Lis-tening
Tast-
ing
Re-
flexes
Rea-
soning
Feel-
ing
Smell-ing
Seeing
Compre-
hension
Imag-
ining
As we can see Malkuth is in the world of Assiah and takes no part in
emotions It is the material world reason and reasoning If we manage to
handle our emotions and ldquobring them downrdquo to Malkuth reason will
prevail and our behavior will be logical improving our relation with the
world
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
121
Controlling your emotions
Now that we know our emotions we know where their origin
takes place and which worlds rule them we can analyze the possibility of
controlling them to reach our goals since a person who angers easily
spoils hisher own happiness and disturbs otherrsquos peace of mind
Without a deliberate effort emotions will not be under the direct
control of our will of Assiah and we will be able to control them in this
rational and logic world We must train our mind to control our emotions
the moment they stir up This can be done by watching them objectively
as soon as they flourish identifying them with a name or a mental label
such as ldquoAngerrdquo ldquoJealousyrdquo ldquoSorrowrdquo ldquoFuryrdquo etc
Once we have names for our emotions we will be then in a bet-
ter position to let go of them without being dragged by them The mo-
ment we can register our anger calmly (when we become aware that this
anger originated in the upper worlds) that is when we make it descend to
Assiah to the world of reason and our anger will leave us
At first this could be useful if during the day we repeat to our-
selves a formula such as
ldquoWhat am I feeling nowrdquohellip ldquoWhat am I thinkingrdquohellip
We respond immediately
ldquoI am feeling angerrdquohellip ldquoI am jealousrdquohellip
We can also investigate even afterwards why the anger (or any
other adverse emotion) took over us so that we can avoid these situations
or responses in the future
Who controls me
Even though every human being has in its spirit the world of As-
siah very few use this world to think logically and by themselves This
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
122
passivity or indifference is the result of the development of massive
communication media
Radio television yellow journalism even the Internet push their
messages on all of us every minute of the day and its penetration power
is reinforced by the rooted human disposition to accept everything we are
being told and comply with what we are dared to do Bombarded by
thousands of stimuli we donrsquot think by ourselves anymore we donrsquot feel
our emotions anymore or start up our own actions instead we feel how
others want us to feel The pressure of the multitude is irresistible
When we explain that Kether accepts that Superman flies be-
cause it is part of the film game we must control that Kether does not
accept that my self esteem depends on the perfume or shirt I buy or that
my relationship with people does not depend on the car I have
We saw that in the world of Atziluth everything is relative eve-
rything is in a potential state that is why commercials aim at our imagina-
tion memories and comprehension to get us to buy their products
All these communication means teach us to hold our capacity to
reason or if we happen to reason to do it the way they expect us to
Those who manipulate the media (not necessarily the owners but the
sponsors) are motivated by their own interests which are fortune and
power They play important roles in several means of life such as politic
business law medicine and education
Publicity newscasts soap operas even reality shows penetrate
us through the world of Briah which is the listeningseeingfeeling trilo-
gy In Briah we find the idea in formation that is why journalism is con-
sidered the ldquofourth powerrdquo Nevertheless in todayrsquos globalizes world
Kabbalah places it at the top over all other earthly powers because it
manipulates images ideas and it gives us the news ldquoaimedrdquo at their inter-
ests The role of reasoning tends to be subordinated to that of emotion
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
123
while the mental inertia and indifference eases the conquest of reason
That is why when public opinion is formed through manipulation a small
minority is able to control the majority Publicity and newscasts are the
most effective mechanism to make us ldquobelieverdquo what is good or bad for
our spirit and body
Control of decisions and Free Will
All of those who are part of the small but powerful marketing
minority have something to sell Commercials make us wish more and
more things that will not necessarily make us happier or give us peace of
mind They tell us that happiness is having the latest entertainment center
or the new cooking system But no matter how many things we buy we
could still feel our lives painfully empty
The speed power and efficiency of all this technological and so-
cial development drive us into an increasing frequency of illness due to
stress and nervous crisis Those who do not collapse under this pressure
find other ways to escape such as drugs alcohol and psychotic cults
The battle is not easy because the offer is gratifying we are even part of
that wheel because we sell a product or service which is commercialized
that way The only significant comparison we can make is with our-
selves between the person we were one month earlier a year earlier or
even a decade earlier and the person we are at present physically intel-
lectually morally and financially If there hasnrsquot been an improvement
or it hasnrsquot been enough we should ask ourselves why that is and do
something to modify this without delay If done regularly this ldquocheck-
uprdquo could be very beneficial If we set our pride and prejudice aside and
we check out our values and perspectives then we will be able to live a
simpler healthier and happier life
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124
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Malkuth
The Kingdom
The Rational World
Education and freedom
Rights and obligations
Daily negotiations Responsibilities
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
125
Education and freedom
As a child I was told that
ldquoThe better educated a person is the freer that person isrdquo
At the time I didnrsquot understand the significance of those words
because at the age of ten to me education was school teachers and
studying
Today a few years older the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah taught
me that education is knowledge and it is much more profound than what I
was taught in school
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the first thing educa-
tion should do is warn the students that all knowledge implies a certain
risk of error and illusion Human knowledge is exposed to errors in per-
ception and judgment and illusions caused by the narrowness of ideas
cultural influence and the emotions and experiences of each person
Scientific knowledge is not even immune to error and illusion
theories and methods of investigation protect their own errors and illu-
sions That is why the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah education gives the kind
of knowledge that allows for self criticism and detects errors and illu-
sions The ldquoknowledge blindnessrdquo can be cured with a more open and
reflexive education that self-criticizes
The media overwhelms us with information It is fundamental
that we learn to discern what is relevant and what is accessorial
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah invites us to analyze the four
worlds of the human spirit together with the four worlds of the societies
in which they live political cultural religious and financial
The archetypical world called Atziluth is the one where eve-
rything is in a latent potential state That is the spirituality and religious
world
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126
In the creative world called Briah we find the strength in its
pure form and the ideas This is the emotional or cultural world
In the formative world called Yetsirah everything is in the
formation or a conceptual process which is the world of sensations or
political
In the material world called Assiah is where the physical
manifestation takes place which is the logical or financial world
Globalization is another important issue that conditions our free-
dom According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the world has been
globalizing from its inception God never discriminated we are all His
children Moses was a ldquoglobalizesrdquo when he took his people to the Prom-
ised Land through the desert So were Abraham Noah Jesus when he
asked his apostles to take his word evangelizing throughout the Earth
The current systems of communication make us realize how sim-
ilar and at the same time how different we are from each other The
Judeo-Christian Kabbalah struggles for unity not to erase diversity and
vice-versa Neither is the individual person above religion culture or so-
ciety nor is religion culture or society above the individual person Only
God is above each and every one of us
Let us remember that God created the four Genii or Elements
(Earth Air Water and Fire) and it is the obligation of all human beings
to protect them since they are our only support Mankind is destroying
them with the contamination it has created which will derive in our own
destruction But this depends on our free will thai is why there is an
even more powerful globalization than the financial one the intellectual
affective and moral globalization This is the only way we will achieve
the Freedom to which the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah invites you the
world is united by its culture technology and the financial exchange and
at the same time it is divided by politics and religion
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
127
To need
Control
Respect
Free Will
LIFE
Happiness
Dignity
Freedom
To know
To love
Kabbalah teach us to understand that every human being shares
the same worries feelings and the same destiny no matter where he
lives
The values of the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah are solidarity hos-
pitality tolerance and respect towards the dignity of every person This
means that every culture should learn from other cultures and each socie-
ty from other societies
The kabballistic ideals of freedom consist in respect for the indi-
viduality and diversity and promoting solidarity and comprehension
Responsibilities
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128
Rights and obligations
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah bases its doctrine on the rights and obliga-
tions of all human beings Each person has certain right and obligations
which become basic responsibilities of which each person must take
charge one hundred percent like the responsibility to control and manage
its own life building its own life plan and following it by accomplishing
goals
These obligations have three important axes based on the first three
sefiroth
bull Kether or Crown and self-esteem
bull Hokhmah or the Wisdom to known oneself
bull Binah or the Intelligence to make decisions according
to onersquos inner and outer personal needs without hurting
oneself or others
The basic rights are found in the seven lower sefiroth
bull Hesed and the right to freedom
bull Geburah and the right to control your life
bull Tipherzt and the right to happiness
bull Neshah and the right to dignity
bull Hod and the right to (respect) be respected
bull Yesod and the right of free expression
bull Malkuth and the right to life
Mankind in its daily interaction relates to its sefiroth and its funda-
mental rights according to three different styles of response based on the
lower worlds
The world of Briah or pure or emotional power
It promotes inequality always having a loser and winner This is not a
creative or equal relation
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
129
The person denies its own respect rights and needs hurting itself
These are mostly selfish individualist and passionate people
The world of Yetsirah or conceptual
It deals with defending onersquos own rights without hurting others It im-
plies equality and respect
The person knows the border line between its own individuality and
those of others
They are mostly realistic practical conventional and objective
The world of Assiah or physical or logical manifestation
They are mostly analytic calculating cold and insensitive
It promotes non-equal relationships against the rights of others It is
an unbalanced relationship in which manipulation takes place
The person invades the rights of others getting Responses of fear
Daily negotiations
When people speak of negotiations they think they are talking about
money but negotiation is part of daily life and it is also analyzed
through the sefirotic trees of the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah
The negotiation can be with oneself for instance
Irsquom staying in bed another fifteen minutes even if I have to go
to work without breakfast
The negotiation can be with your spouse for instance
We can spend Christmas with your family if we spend New
Yearrsquos with mine
We can negotiate with our children for example
You can have the car tonight if you come home early and
wash it tomorrow
We can negotiate with our fellow workers for instance
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
130
If you cover me this Saturday Irsquoll cover you next Sunday
As you can see in none of these examples and many more that surely
you must remember is money mentioned as exchange In a negotiation
the effort must be compensated equally
Nobody should win or lose or better yet both should come out winning
obtaining something each one wants In a negotiation everybody should
know what is at stake and what each one will obtain in exchange
Let us remember that the method of solving problems is based on the
lower or material world of Assiah but a negotiation reaches for the upper
worlds like Yetsirah or intuition or the world of Briah or emotions in
some cases it even appeals to Atziluth or spirit
You must train you brain to stay in the lower worlds to negotiate be-
cause it will be more to your benefit Try to be objective since feelings
or emotions play against you and the effort will not be compensated
equally
You must create what is called a creative antagonism separating the ob-
jective facts in order to get to a reasonable and logic agreement It is very
important that both parties feel they are winners Get used to listening to
every word the other person is saying In Kabbalah the word is very im-
portant it has a double message what is being said and what is meant
When your spouse child or friend get angry and scream for something
you already know it is not important they are really saying something
else Hug himher kiss himher on the forehead and tell himher you
want to hear the reasons behind the anger But on the contrary if you
feel offended and respond screaming even louder you will have lost the
negotiation before you even begin
Turn your defects into virtues that way you will get a just negotiation
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
131
If you are passive think of the object and state your argument
with precision and not getting nervous
If you are aggressive look for the motives and keep them
away while negotiating
If triumph is important to you think the other one is right and
try to be unbiased
If you are anguished think of the reasons in your favor not to
show weakness
If you are a fatalist and you think you are going to lose nego-
tiate with a relaxed mind you have nothing to risk act without
worrying about the end result
When Jesus says
ldquoPut the other cheekrdquo
He refers to Judeo-Christian Kabbalah because it is not to be
slapped but to accept the embrace of negotiation
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
132
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Conclusions
The Tree of Trees
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
133
The Tree of Trees
Reading this book we have learned to go through the different
sefirotic trees the creation of the universe its worlds and centers of
strength the sefirotic columns the Adam Kadmon tree Jesusrsquo genealogy
the Our Father the Sermon in the Mountain (Beatitudes) the evolution of
mankind gestation development maturing the spirit decisions emo-
tions and even responsibilities
But we also learned about the existence of infinite sefirotic trees
because each sefirath (no matter how small) contains a tree within and
each tree (no matter how big) is only a sefirath of a larger tree
If we try to unify all the sefirotic trees we will see that they are
all similar we could even say the same they all have the same logical
pattern they were all created by the same Divine Architect
The sefiroth take different names according to their presence but
their strength does not change since they are endless sources of energy
That is why when we see Sephiroth we see its gifts
Kether Crown Inspiration Divine Light Supra-One א
Hokhmah Wisdom Word Experience Soul ב
Binah Intelligence Spirit Thought Fortune ג
Hesed Greatness Love Humility Strength Giving ד
Geburah Justice David Truth Respect Shape ה
Tipherzt Beauty Salomon Purity Fidelity Goodness ו
Neshah Stability Power Forgiveness Trust Effort ז
Hod Glory Blessing Protection Education ח
Yesod Foundation Simplicity Assistance Purification ט
Malkuth Kingdom Peace Prayer Freedom Birth י
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
134
The only sefirath that has only one meaning or name is Leb the
sefirath of the heart and for that reason it cannot be modified Because it
is virtual it appears or disappears according to the tree we are looking at
because its power is so big that it doesnrsquot need to be identified or be pre-
sent in the tree because it is a Sefirotic Tree in itself and it is the one that
guides us and protects us
Each one of us has its own Sefirotic Tree which we
must go through without a doubt from Kether to Malkuth and from
Malkuth to Kether
Free will lets us chose the road to take the sefiroth to go
through but it does not let us get out of our own and only tree
We are the only craft men of our own destiny we devel-
op our only precious and exclusive Tree of Life
It is up to us to comply with our Logics Divine Plan or to
decide to evade our responsibilities looking for shortcuts and trying to
twist the Divine assignments
The free will given to us by God demands that we put our spir-
itual and philosophical life in order without further delay to build a dig-
nified future and face each day as if it were the last one
The physical and spiritual kaballistic world from Kether to
Malkuth is truly a happy place to live in if people only thought of go-
ing through their personal and unique Sefirotic Tree
Let us remember these wise words
ldquoDeath is certain life is uncertainrdquo
(Maranam niyatam jivitam aniyatam)
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135
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
The Divine Logic
Cesar Leo Marcus
Windmills International Editions Inc
wwwwindmillseditionscom
California - USA ndash 2012
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
136
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10
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Kether The Crown
The Sacred Books
Old Testament
New Testament
Koran or Quram
The Zohar
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
11
The Old Testament
The Hebrew has three scriptures The Tanakh or Old Testament
the Talmud or collection of erudite commentaries on the Tanakh and
The Kabbalah or mystic interpretation of the Torah Ancient rabbis
would say that the first of these three books represented the Divine Body
the second one the Divine Spirit and the fourth one the Divine Soul The
average person can benefit from reading and obeying the first book eru-
dite scholars can study the second one but wise people meditate with the
third one
The Tanakh
Old Testament also called The Book of Books is divided in
three parts
The Torah the Law which envelops the first five books
ldquoJumashrdquo(5) in hebrew also called ldquoPentateuchrdquo or the Law of Moses
These are the five books Genesis (Bereshit) Exodus (Shemoth) Leviti-
cus (Vayikra) Numbers (Bamidbar) and Deuteronomy (Devarim) They
cover the period between the Genesis up to Mosesrsquo death on the thresh-
old of the entry into the Promised Land (Canaan)
Nevirsquoim (Prophets) The second part of the Tanakh co-
vers a vast period which goes from the conquest up to the last prophets
These are the books contained therein Joshua (the conquest period)
Judges I and II Samuel I and II Kings and those dedicated to the major
prophets Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel and Daniel and the minor prophets
Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah
Haggai Zecariah and Malachi
Ketuvim (writings) This third part of the Tanakh is
made up of the book of Psalms Proverbs Job Ezra Nehemiah Ruth
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
12
Song of Songs Lamentations (Eichah) Ecclesiastes Esther and Chroni-
cles I and II They cover a vast period that goes from the VII century of
the Common Era up to the Persian period the return to Israel and the
building of the second Temple of Jerusalem
The Talmud
The Halakha-Mishnah-Aggada-Talmud Bavli (of Babylon)-
Yerushalmi (of Jerusalem) is a compilation of the oral tradition transmit-
ted from generation to generation which covers all topics in the Tanakh
including
The Halakha or the Law explains the rules and princi-
ples pronounced in the Torah rules of conduct religious principles and
rituals Covers a wide variety of issues revolving around the individual
the family and living in community The Halakha has ruled life for centu-
ryrsquos right up to the present
The Mishnah which cover the following rules and regu-
lations are six basic sedarim or treaties (singular=seder)
Moed talks about the festivities א
Zeraim (Seeds) deals with labor practices ב
Nezikin deals with relationships within a group ג
Nashim are the family rules ד
Kodoshim deals with sanctity and holiness ה
Tohorot-kosher are Laws of purity ו
The Gemara the oral law with comments and exegetical rabbin-
ic statements has been study material for centuries nourishing philoso-
phy teachings It contains practically every bit of traditional wisdom col-
lected for centuries
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
13
This oral law also contains a vast literary work Haggadah and
Midrashim (legends and comments) on biblical figures of exemplary
conduct
The Kabbalah
The Kabbalah was in ancient literature the totality of the reli-
gious doctrine obtained with the exception of the Pentateuch As of the
X century DC Kabbalah was considered a secret mysterious and theo-
sophical science destined to explain always in a cryptic language the
Creation of the Universe by the Being defined as ldquoOne and Absoluterdquo
Some kabbalists such as Pico Della Mirandola Reuchlin and
Schikard adopt the old tradition according to which Kabbalah develops
from the inspiration that God instilled in Adam Abraham Moses Bud-
dha Jesus Mohammed Bahi and all those that constitute the mystic cir-
cle of the Latter Prophets
Kabbalah is not exclusively Jewish since first Jesus and later
Mohammed were kabbalist scholars
The New Testament
Having taken Jesus as an example as we know it when he was
born there were three religious doctrines in Palestine the Pharisees and
Sadducees of which the Gospels often speak and the Essenes which are
never mentioned Tradition states that the boy Emanuel ben Yoseph was
sent by the erudite doctors of the Law to the community of the Essenes
near the Dead Sea after being heard at the Temple at the age of thirteen
to be educated according to the mystic tradition of Israel The Kabbalah
He stayed with the Essenes until he was thirty years old Emanuel ben
Yoseph or Jesus Christ teaches the continuity of the Hebrew Scriptures
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
14
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the
Prophets I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them I tell you
the truth until heaven and earth disappear not the smallest letter not the
least stroke of a pen will by any means disappear from the Law until
everything is accomplished (Mt 517)
However I admit that I worship the God of our fathers
as a follower of the Way which they call a sect I believe everything that
agrees with the Law and that is written in the Prophetsrdquo (Acts 2414)
Jesus answered It is written Man does not live on
bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God (Mat-
thew 44) referring to Deuteronomy 83 ldquohellipto teach you that man does
not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of
Godrdquo
In the chapter called Tipherzt-Beauty you will find a broader ex-
planation of the Christian Kabbalah and an analysis of the Kabbalistic
Jesus and his apostles
The Koran or Quram
The Koran or Quram is the sacred book of Islam containing the
word of Allah (God) as revealed to Mohammed through the angel Gabri-
el (Gibrail or Yibril)
During his life the Prophet Mohammed received the revelations
either verbally or written on palm leaves pieces of leather or bones etc
Upon the death of Mohammed in the year 632 his followers began to
gather all these revelations which during the period in which Uthman ibn
Affan was Caliph took the shape we know nowadays 114 chapters each
one called surah subdivided into verses or phrases
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
15
For the Muslims the Koran is the eternal and un-created work of
God therefore it was to be transmitted without the slightest change in the
original language the classic Arabic considered a sacred tongue for all
purposes
However in recent times the Koran has been translated to many
languages aimed specially at the believer whose native language is not
Arabic But even so believers are obligated to read it in its original lan-
guage because they claim that the contents of the Koran has not been
modified in centuries and a translation is an interpretation
Mohamed admits the continuity of the Hebrew Scriptures in the
following passages of the Koran
ldquoAnd most certainly We gave Musa (Moses) the Book
and We sent apostles after him one after anotherrdquo (Koran surah 287)
ldquoSurely We revealed the Taurat (Torah) in which was
guidance and light with it the prophets who submitted themselves
(to Allah) judged (matters) for those who were Jewsrdquo (surah 544)
ldquoCertainly We made a covenant with the children of Is-
rael and We sent to them apostlesrdquo (surah 570)
ldquoAnd certainly We gave the Book to Musa so be not in
doubt concerning the receiving of it and we made it a guide for the
children of Israelrdquo (surah 3223)
According to the Koran ldquothe Messiah Isa (Jesus) son of
Marium (Mary) is only an apostle of Allah and word which He
communicated to Marium and a spirit from Himrdquo (surah 4171)
He is a prophet or a servant of Allah (surah 4359) but
not His son(surah 6101)
The Muslims consider him a Messiah (in Arabic
ldquoMasihrdquo very similar to the Hebrew ldquoMashiacuteajrdquo) to them it means an
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
16
elevated prophet (ldquoanointedrdquo) the closest one to Allah before Mo-
hammed
The word Messiah Masih (ldquoanointedrdquo) can be found in
Surahs 345 4157 171-172 517-72-75 930-31 The highest
prophet except for Mohammed
The Islam considers the mystery of the Trinity and in-
carnation an ldquoassociationrdquo and therefore an offense against the
uniqueness of Allah (surah 112)
But not this way the first three sefirot that wrap the symbolism of
the Trinity
Mohammed sensed the Kabbalah in the Koran since Isa (Je-
sus) is the word of Allah and a spirit from Him son of the Holy Spirit
but they do not exactly consider Isa (Jesus) as if he were Allah
And furthermore the Koran affirms that at the end of time when
humanity will be called to judgment by Allah Isa (Jesus) will stand by
Him as witness and part therein (surah 4361) And everyone who did
not believe in him will believe in him (surah 4157)
Those who interpret the Koran affirm that Isa (Jesus) will come
back to this world at the end of time to save Humanity from damnation
and convert it to Allah
The Zohar
The composition of the Kabbalistic doctrine as we know it to-
day it attributed to Rabbi Shimeon ben Yochai in century II He is the
author of the Zohar ldquoThe Book of Splendorrdquo one of the basic texts of
the Kabbalah Shimeon ben Yochai (80-160) was a disciple of Rebbi
Akiva ldquoRashbirdquo (40-137) who had been sentenced to death by the Ro-
mans because he would not acknowledge nor obey the ruling authority of
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
17
Rome nor would he reveal any Kabbalah secrets to them Even though
the Zohar was written by Rabbi Shimeon ben Yochai Rebbi Akiva was
its true inspirer
Adam Kadmon Zohar XVII Century
Rebbi Akiva ben Joseph was born southeast of Judea close to the
Mediterranean shore His father was a humble Jewish peasant who was
not acquainted with the literature of his people nor the traditions he had
never read the Torah nor visited the Temple Due to the precarious eco-
nomic conditions in which there was living the family Akiba none of her
children received formal education in her infancy The reality was that
Akiba ben Joseph I pass your childhood and adolescence as an illiterate
Mediterranean shepherd until a few years later he married with Raacutechel
who convinced it to leave your activity and to study with the big rabbini-
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18
cal teachers Akiba faced many difficulties in your learning That is why
he started learning the alphabet with his 5 year old son and soon was
reading text books in Hebrew he went on to study the Torah at Rabbi
Joseph ben Zakkairsquos renowned Yeshiva (academy) His teachers Eliezer
ben Hyrkanos Joshua ben Hananiah and Nahum of Gimzo became his
best friends because they admired his bright fast and resourceful mind
Fifteen years later at the top of his mental and physical faculties he be-
gan his monumental work the reconstruction of the Law and the estab-
lishment of an academy of permanent studies
At the age of 57 in the year 97 Akiba was already revered by
both by his colleagues and by the masses He visited rabbis and experts
of the Toraacute with the purpose of combining all the Jewish traditions and
then went on to classify them in a legal code divided up logistically The
effective combination of conciseness and precision served as example the
future generations In the centuries following Mishna (codification of
Jewish laws and traditions) it was acknowledged and studied by the rab-
binical authorities
With more than 65 years Rebbi Akiva founded his private Ye-
shiva (academy) in Bene Berak (Sons of Lightning) to the north of Jeru-
salem wanted to found several in the whole Israel for the study of the
Tora and of the Kabbalah
Everything went along smoothly until the year 125 CE when the
relationship between Jews and Romans deteriorated Emperor Hadrianusrsquo
decision to build a pagan sanctuary on Mount Moria (where the old tem-
ple had been) exacerbated spirits Excitement grew within the Jewish
people and led by Shimon bar Kojba they rebelled
In a little less than three years the Roman armies destroyed all
evidence of Jewish resistance The cruelty of the repression grew month
by month and in the year 134 the Romans enacted a drastic decree pro-
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19
hibiting the practice and study of the Torah Rebbi Akiva was convinced
it was the end If the study of the Torah was abolished his life lacked all
meaning At the age of 95 defying the Roman authority he gathered his
students with the sole purpose to study Kabbalah
A few days later Rebbi Akiva was incarcerated The Romans re-
spected his knowledge reputation and distinguished personality Akiva
continued teaching his disciples from his cell which earned him judg-
ment He was found guilty tortured and sentenced to death With Rebbi
Akiva 24000 of his disciples were killed by the Romans only Rabbi
Simeon bar Yochai and four others survived Before being captured Reb-
bi Akiva and Rabbi Yehuda ben Baba authorized ldquoRashbirdquo to transmit to
future generations the Kabbalah they had taught him
The Zohar or ldquoBook of Splendorrdquo was composed by Simeon bar
Yochai and his son Elazar during the thirteen years they lived in a cave
hiding from the Roman army
ldquoRashbirdquo came out of the cave with the Zohar a flawless meth-
od to study the Kabbalah and having accomplished spirituality Rabbi
Simeon bar Yochai attained the 125 levels a human being can achieve
during his whole life in this world According to the latest investigations
the revelation of the current Kabbalah could be resumed this way
The historic Kabbalah was preceded by a movement (900-1200)
that preserved and encouraged the legacy of the Jewish gnosis
(knowledge of spiritual truth) Later on this movement penetrated Eu-
rope constantly at different stages Hasidism was an important intermedi-
ate stage Furthermore besides all the theoretical and mystical variances
of Kabbalah there was a much older one in which the secret names of
God and the angels were used the same way they are used in white mag-
ic not causing any harm to people Not to be confused with ldquoblack mag-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
20
icrdquo (kishcuf in Hebrew) international current containing elements from
Arabic Jewish and Christian magic
After the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in the year 1492 and
the establishment of a Jewish center in Safed (north of Galilea) Kabba-
lah also experienced a change since two systems flourished the Kabba-
lah of Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (1522-1570) and Kabbalah of Isaac
Luria (1534-1572)
In brief Cordoverorsquos Kabbalah could be defined as a theoretical
variant with many gnostic elements while Luriarsquos Kabbalah would be a
practical mysticism
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
21
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Hokhmah
Wisdom
The Sacred Ideas
Light
The spiritual Will
Tetragramaton
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22
Light
We all have this sixth sense which we will call spiritual sense
still not awakened in some people When people study Kabbalah they can
learn things that were not available to them before because a sixth sense
is developed in order to envision life and the world from a different point
of view
The sixth sense is also called ldquothe spiritual vaserdquo(kli) this vase
is in all of us and it is ruled by basic kabbalistic concepts
A regular personrsquos spiritual vase is still not adequately א
developed to perceive the spiritual world
When light enters a personrsquos heart or soul it ignites the ב
spiritual perception in that person
Nothing is possible without light When we take the light ג
that surrounds us it will gradually light our path
Even if we donrsquot recognize said light there is a direct ד
connection between our heart and the light that will fill it
The light is destined the surrounding lights stand by ה
waiting for you to prepare your vase to receive them
The light we receive when we give in to the wisdom of ו
self-knowledge attracts a celestial charm which gives us abundance
of sanctity and purity that take us closer to realization
ldquoThe person who studies the Kabbalah Judeo-Christian with
the purpose of self-modification will attain the light and will notice
that the desired improvement and success can be achieved with the
least cost or sufferingrdquo
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
23
The Spiritual Will
The Creator wants us to indulge in spiritual pleasures that we
are full That can only be possible through enormous will perfection We
can only reach the spiritual world through a rectified will which will
make us strong and active Only by means of a passionate desire strong-
ly and dedication we will be able to reach really the spiritual world re-
turning forts and assets A small desire will not damage us very much
nor a lot of good The passionate desire only works from the Divine
stimulus which we it will obtain from the Intuition which is a part of the
Spirit
There is a pyramid of souls based on the will to receive
At the base are the many souls with small earthly wills
searching a comfortable animal like life (food and affection)
The following level with minor number of souls those who
want to acquire richness Those are the people who dedicate their lives to
make money and will sacrifice themselves in exchange for fortune
Next are the ones that would do anything to control others to
govern and reach positions of power
At the highest level are the souls that are seeking spirituality
who are open to the light
Man in turn has the same pyramid within him he must invert it
so that the weight goes to the purest desire or will the infinite will for
spirituality When we truly wish to increase our will for spiritually the
surrounding light (the hidden spiritual world) begins to reflect upon us
increasing the desire for even more If we identify with matter we will
try to obtain satisfaction through it searching outside our spirit for mate-
rial things until these material things no longer satisfy us thus becoming
less materialistic and discovering our true spirit
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
24
Our body is matter matter is energy and therefore has life but it
has no spirit or spiritual energy because it is all material energy dense
energy the spirit is light energy The difference between one and the
other is that the material energy has no conscience because it doesnrsquot
perceive reality that is why we see with our eyes and not our heart our
eyes show us the outer figures of things or people its beauty or ugliness
but we can see what they are like inside Spiritual energy is what gives
us conscience of reality of love of truth That is why when we become
conscious of ourselves we transform our matter into spirit and become
more conscious
Albert Einstein was so right when he said ldquoEnergy cannot be
created nor destroyed it can only be transformedrdquo thus dense (mate-
rial) energy can be transformed into lighter (spiritual) energy again and
again
The biggest change we observe in the souls that are descending
nowadays is mainly in their well defined will to achieve a spiritual sys-
tem Even the most common people without any religious or mystic in-
struction are looking for something beyond this world something spir-
itual furthermore more and more scientists or people into pragmatic pro-
fessions are searching for their spiritual light In the last thirty years the
descent of new souls has been activated and accelerated
Their will is much bigger and more genuine They want to
achieve authentic spiritualityhellip nothing morehellip and nothing less
We will discover that we have no other alternative but to
acknowledge the spiritual world of which we are a part This acknowl-
edgement will take us to a new situation where we will begin to act con-
sciously in unison no longer as isolated individuals All of us from one
generation to another are connected in one soul We share a collective
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
25
responsibility That is why the Kabbalist is considered ldquofounder of the
worldrdquo He affects the whole world and the whole World affects him
The Tetragrammaton
In Kabbalah the concept of Shem or ldquoDivine Namerdquo plays a
first degree role which makes a lot of sense given the importance of eve-
rything related to the Emanations of the Sefirotic Tree the mystery of the
letters and the beauty in words
The meditation about the ldquoName of Godrdquo constitutes one of the
pillars of the initiation path to Kabbalah
The Tetragram or Tetragrammatonhellipfrom the Greek four (tetra)
and letters (grammaton)hellip is the name formed by four consonants one
yod (Y) two he (H) and one vav (V) The combination of these four let-
ters spell YHVH the ldquoHoly Namerdquo or Yahavah (as literally read) which
in Kabbalah is called Shem Herman Forash ldquocomplete namerdquo or the
ldquoexplicit namerdquo
Said ldquoSacred Namerdquo is usually transcribed as Jehovah or Yah-
veh nevertheless such description is no more than a hypothetical and
approximate restoration Therefore the word YHVH in which all mys-
teries and the savior power communicated by God are contained has
been designated by tradition as the ldquolost wordrdquo
The ldquocomplete or whole namerdquo was replaced by others also at-
tributed by the Bible as Yahveh such as Adonai El Shaddai or Elohim
Sometimes the four letter name is substituted by half of the Tetra-
grammaton the so-called ldquotwo letter Namerdquo HY or ldquoHaimrdquo interpreted
or translated as LIFE
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
26
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Binah Intelligence
The Tree of Life
Creation
The Tree of Life
The Columns
Tree Sefirot and Letters
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
27
Creation
An example of the depth in the interpretation of the Bible offered
by the kabbalistic doctrine is its version of the biblical narration of the
Creation as contained in the Book of ldquoGenesisrdquo usually considered a na-
ive and childish story to explain a process that modern science has
demonstrated to be much more complex In regard to said mythical-
symbolic narration similar to many others contained in other spiritual
traditions in humanity the kabbalistic doctrine makes two basic observa-
tions of major importance
1 According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the biblical crea-
tion is the process through which the universal manifestation takes place
It is a logical process its place is in the Divine world and it gives form to
the Divinity In it the Supreme Being is determined and revealed as such
going from the Nothing to the Whole The Everything
It is not ldquoGodrsquos Creationrdquo but
ldquoThe Creation in Godrdquo
In this process the Creation of the Cosmos is only a consequence
which just like the latter takes place not sooner nor later but in a con-
tinuous and uninterrupted way in an instant beyond time in the ldquoeternal
nowrdquo
2 The six days of the Creation identify with the creative sefirot
from the fourth one (Hesed) to the ninth one (Yesod) referring to the
specific action or purpose of each one of them while the seventh day
Shabbath in which God rested relates to the tenth sefirot (Malkuth) All
of this is contained in the initial words of the ldquoGenesisrdquo Book ldquoIn the
beginning God created the heavens and the earthrdquo (according to the
common interpretation Authorized Version)
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
28
The key words here are the first three if we want an exact under-
standing of them we must turn to the Hebrew text
ldquoBereshit Bara Elohim
Bereshit means ldquoin the beginningrdquo which according to the Kab-
balistic interpretation it does no refer to a beginning in time but a logical
beginning it is what proceeds not in time but in hierarchy (rank)
and function This principle is Hokhmah the second sefirath
This text should be interpreted this way
ldquoIn the intelligent and intelligible
Beginning which is the Divine Wisdomrdquo
The second word of this quote is Bara ldquocreatedrdquo It is a verb of
action without a subject it doesnrsquot say who created That action has no
subject because the ldquowhordquo of which it speaks is the sefirath Kether ldquothe
Crownrdquo which goes beyond anything personal since in it the ldquoNothingrdquo
of the Supra Being or Absolute
As far as the third word is concerned Elohim we must indicate
that besides not being the subject of the sentence it is in its plural for
literally meaning ldquogodsrdquo
The kabbalistic exegesis (explanation) identifies this Elohim
with the third sefirath Binah the Intelligencerdquo which contains and de-
signs within itself the seven sefirot of the cosmic composition the six
active ones and the receptive one which is the receptacle for the rest of
them (Malkuth the tenth sefirot)
This is why the interpretation to which we are used ldquoGod creat-
edrdquo is not exact A more accurate interpretation of the original hebrew
text would be ldquoThe Nothing created godsrdquo that is it created or profiled
the qualities or aspects of the Divine Reality of which afterwards -not in
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
29
a time order but in an order of principles a cosmic order arises the Crea-
tion or universal manifestation
Therefore here is the message contained in the initial verse of
the ldquoGenesisrdquo according to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah
ldquoThe Supra Being constitutes Itself eternally the causal Being
and the object or purpose of all things in which all qualities poss i-
bilities and forms of the created and uncreated reality are presentrdquo
The Sefirotic Tree and the four worlds
And the twenty-two paths that unite the
Crown (Kether) with the Kingdom (Malkuth)
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
Binah
Geburah
Hod
Yesod
Malkuth
Tipherzt
Neshah
Hesed
Hok-mah
Kether
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
30
The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life is the Divine Architecture which symbolizes the
soul of man and the Universe and as He is divided into four levels known
as the four inner Worlds
In the Ideal World - Atziluth is where everything is
in a latent potential state
In the Creative World - Briah is where the pure
power and the ideas in their shapes are
In the Formative World - Yetsirah everything is in
a conceptual process or one or formation
In the Material World - Assiah is where the physi-
cal manifestation takes place
This tree consists of 10 fixed spheres and a ldquovirtualrdquo one and 22
paths that connect them In a very broad sense we can say that the
spheres or Sefirot are stages of the emanations of the Spirit of God
from the primordial existence to the physical manifestation
ldquoThey are inexhaustible centers of powerrdquo
The model of the Tree of Life mirror and synthesis of man and
the cosmos is divided in three columns or pillars this traditional division
in three columns is in close connection with the alchemical or magic
principles which were discovered by the kabbalists of the 12th
century
and have been present to this day and always will be
The whole manifestation is based on duality this duality is rep-
resented in the tree the three Sefirot to the right form the active pillar
masculine and the three Sefirot to the left form the passive pillar femi-
nine
The duality is also present in each Sefirath The only Unit is
found in the Non-Manifested which is above the Tree
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
31
The Non-Manifested is the pure state of the In-Existence from
where Existence arises which is the first Sefirath the Sefirot in the cen-
ter form the middle or balance pillar
Therefore we observe that one of the columns is active-
masculine another one is passive-feminine and the third one or central
axis equidistant from both of them is neuter and is constantly combining
and harmonizing them both
Power corresponds to the Active energy column integrated by the
following Sefirot Hokhmah (2) Hesed (4) and Neshah (7) Form or
shape corresponds to the passive energy columns which is made up of
the following Sefirot Binah (3) Geburah (5) and Hod (8) The central
or axle column or pillar integrated by Kether (1) Tipherzt (6) Yesod
(9) and Malkuth (10) is neuter and eternally assimilating the opposites
thus creating new possibilities of indefinite developments It is called the
column or pillar of equilibrium or balance
This is the image of permanent order of the Creation It is the
idea upon which all sciences are based and which are called ldquoThesis An-
tithesis and Synthesisrdquo techno science and modern physics have ldquodis-
coveredrdquo formations similar to that of the Tree of Life in the universe
around us such as the quantum structure or the DNA map of all living
things (vegetables animals humans) This proves that the Tree of Life
rules all norms of matter and spirit from the beginning of time
Kabbalah teaches us that energies run through the Tree of Life
from the Unity Kether identified with the number one up to the formal
and substantial manifestation the world and matter just as we know
them and perceive them through our senses This flow of energies or
vibrations is called emanations and they make up any manifestation
The energies of the Sefirot ndash all of the invisible except for
Malkuth which resumes and contains the whole Tree ndash travel a continu-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
32
Binah
Geburah
Hod
Yesod
Malkuth
Tipherzt
Neshah
Hesed
Hokmah
Kether
Leb
ous descending path from (1) Kether down to Earth or the World
Malkuth (10) which is an inverted image of Kether (10=1+0=1) The
rest of the Sefirot or numerals are taken as intermediaries between mani-
festation and the lack of it
The columns of the Tree of Life
Passive Column Neuter Column Active Column
Feminine Form Central Equilibrium Mascu-
line Power
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
33
Tree Sefirot and letters
According to the Pentateuch Moses went to the top of Mount
Sinai and surrounded by fantastic clouds received the Ten Command-
ments God gave him On the other hand Kabbalist affirm that Moses
also received from Heaven besides the Commandments the most pro-
found and secret knowledge to be transmitted only to those truly worthy
of it Going even further back in time some say they can see in the Kab-
balah the mysterious instructions given to Adam in his sleep which per-
mitted him to give a name to everything within the Creation meaning
that Kabbalah is the philosophy of the infinite power of the word the
sound that God gave man in his image calling everything by its name
This search for the practical use of the word is good for reading
the future as well as for really manipulating the secret vibrating energies
for useful purposes or according to the legend to create beings the go-
lems which make up the active aspect of the Kabbalah
On the other hand this also entails a speculative aspect a mysti-
cism aimed at discovering through the interpretation of the Scriptures
and meditation on the sound and the name the diagram of the Universe
and the destiny of man
Ein Sof (the infinite the ineffable) affirms itself revealing itself
to humanity it becomes Shekinah (Godrsquos presence and its feminine side)
which has the responsibility of creation its product
Creation is the result of a progressive descent of the divine
(which never loses its own unity nor its transcendence) in a pure and in-
telligent series associated to the divine until it takes over matter
Thus the cosmos is structured like an immense organism a
drawn path in which all divine intelligence (sefirah plural sefirot) is
communicated with the preceding one from which it receives and with
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
34
the next one to which it gives until the final stage contact with our
world
The ten sefirot all connected by imposed paths denoting their in-
terdependence and represented by a symbolic structure of a tree or a man
(Adam Kadmon) follow an order
Kether Crown - 1 א
Hokhmah Wisdom - 2 ב
Binah Intelligence - 3 ג
Leb Heart
Hesed Greatness - 4 ד
Geburah Justice - 5 ה
Tipherzt Beauty - 6 ו
Neshah Stability - 7 ז
Hod Glory - 8 ח
Yesod Foundation - 9 ט
Malkuth Kingdom - 10 י
The admirable and complex organization of the Sefirotic Tree
with its 22 paths which connect the ten divine emanations permit us to
see right away the close connection there is between the sefirot and the
22 letters in the hebrew alphabet the 22 images of the Tarot and the 22
astrological signs (12 signs and 10 planets)
Since God created the world pronouncing the name of things
each letter is associated to the descent of the divine intelligences and
holds within itself an infinite power
The hebrew language is just like Arabic Egyptian Sanscrit or
Chinese a liturgical language full of the voices of thousand of men who
speak with the divinity therefore to pronounce one sound instead of an-
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
35
other is like changing or modifying creation itself based on a subtle vi-
brating equilibrium Within that same chain of ideas prayer by principle
a devout plea also becomes an active and energetic system that shakes
up the intermediate spheres between man and God holder of the cosmic
order
Kabbalah whether is aimed exclusively at theoretic speculation
or it proposes practical and precise goals like the making of talismans
(from the Arabic tilsam ndash a charm to avert evil and bring good fortune it
appeals to specific instruments based of calculus and numbers
Ad- am
Kadmon Zohar XVII Century
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
36
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
Hesed Greatness
Adam Kadmon
And The Sefirot
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
37
Adam Kadmon
Adam Kadmon (Primordial Man) is described by the Zohar as a
ldquobig and powerful tree with branches reaching up to the sky source of
all spiritual lightrdquo In this sefirotic and tree shaped human figure the dif-
ferent sefirot have been placed according to the parts of the human body
to which they relate Each one of them has a very particular mystical
value in the cosmic vision
The first three sefirot correspond symbolically to the head
Kether (the Crown) placed at the top or what the kabbalistic
doctrine calls the ldquohidden brainrdquo Hokhmah (Wisdom) and Binah (In-
telligence) relate to the right and left sides of the brain respectively or
also the right and left eye The two sefirot at mid level Hesed (Great-
ness) and Geburah (Justice) are identified with both arms ldquoGreatnessrdquo
the right one and ldquoJusticerdquo the left one The two central sefirot Leb (the
Heart) which is Virtual that is why it is not represented and Tipherzt
(Beauty) identified with the navel energetic center source of connection
to the mother and nucleus or sun of the body Tipherzt embodies com-
pleteness union and harmony The two sefirot of the inner level Neshah
(Stability) and Hod (Glory) represent both legs ldquoStabilityrdquo the right
thigh and ldquoGloryrdquo the left one Yesod (Foundation) another central
sefirah found between both thighs represents the genitalia the tools and
foundation for procreation Sefirah number ten the last one is Malkuth
(the Kingdom) from which the cosmic manifestation springs and is in
permanent contact with Earth it is related to both feet always in contact
with the ground This sefirah connecting all this to man the Sefirotic
Tree proves that everything in the human being can be spiritualized
Man must achieve in his own being that harmoniously elevated
unity that the figure in the divine Tree of Life and Light shows us
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
38
In order to be an authentic ldquoTree of Liferdquo man must discover and
update that sefirotic mystery that is within him as if it were a treasure
full of light waiting to be found
The Sefirot
Kether ndash The Crown - The first sefirah is the Admirable Intelligence
it is the light that gives the power of understanding the First Principle
which has no beginning It is the one and only reality the absolute mys-
tery the essence from which the rest of the sefirot emanate Related to
Crown Knowledge Principle Essence and Light
Hokhmah ndash Wisdom- The second sefirah is the Enlightening Intelli-
gence the Wisdom through which the Deity knows Itself and allows eve-
ry Being to know the unity within itself It is the symbolism of the pure
and eternal fire a place in heaven where the archangels angels
Related to Wisdom Experience Convergence Intuition
Binah ndash Intelligence - The third sefirah is the Sanctifying Intelligence
it is the Great Mother or Holy Universal Spirit matrix of all the worlds
and beings shaping them to return them again to the One
Idea Intelligence Awareness Protection Morale Divergence
(discrepancyvariance)
These first three sefirot are really only one
Kether is Knowledge
Hokhmah is the subject that knows (active)
Binah is the known object (passive)
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
39
In these three sefirot the Judeo-Christian Kaballistic dotrine
discovers the endowments of the Holy Trinity
Kether or God the Father
Hokhmah or God the Son (active on the right side)
Binah or God the Mother or Holy Spirit (passive)
ldquoThe all emanations of God the Father and Son and Holy
Spirit is only one Beingrdquo
Hesed ndash Greatness - The fourth sefirah is the Receptive Intelligence it
contains all the holy powers and all the spiritual virtues emanate from it
such as Greatness Love and Mercy Related to Greatness Love Hum-
bleness Strength Deliverance
Geburah ndash Justice - The fifth sefirah is the Righteous Intelligence
which contains all the spiritual mandates It is the Divine Justice Relat-
ed to Justice Truth Freedom Shape Control
Tipherzt ndash Beauty - The sixth sefirah is the Intelligence Provider of
Spiritual Nouishment Ii is the Divine Beauty that entwines all the other
sefirot It is the Center of centers it clearly relates to the Sun giver of
life light and warmth Related to Beauty Serenity Sweetness Trust
Family
Neshah ndash Stability - The seventh sefirah is the Occult Intelligence it is
the bright Splendor of the intellectual virtues perceived by the eyes of the
intellect It is the energy that produces all the worlds Related to Sta-
bility Power Victory Balance Pleasures
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
40
Hod ndash Glory - The eighth sefirah is the Absolute or Perfect Intelli-
gence which has no support or base and descends from Geburah from
which it receives its Expertise Related to Glory Acknowledgement
Learning Awakening
Yesod ndash Foundation - The ninth sefirah is the Pure Intelligence because
it purifies tries corrects and centralizes the emanations It is the founda-
tion that balances the all previous Sephiroth Related to Founding
Building Childhood Filtering
Malkuth ndash The Kingdom - The tenth sefirah is Glowing Intelligence It
is the Kingdom of Heaven or Kingdom on Earth the descent of Kether
upon the material world represents the Divine Omnipresence over
things Related to The Kingdom Earth Heaven and Real World
Each one of these sefirot has a hidden face and a visible one
Every sefirah a complete Sefirotic Tree can be found and in every
sefirah in that Tree another one and so on until the smallest infiniteness
And vice-versa every Tree no matter how big we imagine it is only a
sefirah of a bigger Tree which in turn is another sefirah of an even big-
ger one to the infinite as well
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41
Kabbalah
Judeo Christian
Geburah Justice
The letters and numbers
The Letters of Kabbalah
Gematriacutea Table
Gematriacutea or Numerology
The Meaning of the Hebrew Letters
Angels of Kabbalah
Geniuses of Kabbalah
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42
The Letters of Kabbalah
The formulas in the medieval books on magic are so full of He-
brew names to speak of God the angels the spirits and demons that at
this point it is impossible to pinpoint the inexactness and the abuse The
Hebrew language like other former language has magicrsquos powers
Sound is a vibration found in numbers Numbers are groups of geometric
relations of spaces that activate energy
Each letter in the hebrew alphabet corresponds exactly just as in
an ldquoencoded languagerdquo to a number because the Hebrews Greeks and
Arabs used for many centuries the same graphic sign for a sound or
amount until the Indians and the Arabs introduced their ldquonumbersrdquo the
ldquozerordquo was invented in the IV century and the Arabs and Hebrews began
to use it in the VII century with the name ldquoceferrdquo which means devoid
empty vacuum From it derived zero and cipher
It was Leonardo Fibonacci (1170-1240) an Italian mathemati-
cian the first one to write a book in 1202 Liber Abaci (Book of Calcula-
tion) on Arabic numbers in occident and began to replace the Roman
numbers It was not until the year 1500 that they were completely re-
placed
This means that it is not Kabbalah that replaces letters with num-
bers historically the letters ldquowererdquo numbers since these were enforced in
the western culture five hundred years ago If we accept this concept we
will not regard numerology or gematriacutea of the Hebrew letters as some-
thing new or capricious but as a historical reality
For those who do not read Hebrew writing there is another meth-
od called transcription It is no easy task to transcribe from a holy lan-
guage to one that is not
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43
A kabballistic practice suggests that as long as the hebrew lan-
guage is not completely unknown to replace each number in a date with
its corresponding letter bearing in mind that the Jewish calendar starts
with the year of the creation which took place 3760 years before the
birth of Jesus when the western calendar begins counting
Thus the year 1989 becomes 5749 which translated to Hebrew
letters gives us Tau Shin Mem Chefh which add up to Tismach mean-
ing ldquoyou will be overjoyedrdquo and that was the year the Berlin wall came
down In the same way 1914 the start of World War I becomes Tau
Resch Ayin Daleth which add up to Tirtzach ldquoYou will killrdquo and for
1938 start of World War II Tirrsquoad ldquoYou will tremble in terrorrdquo
Table of Gematriacutea of Hebrew Letters
Letter
Name Absolute
Value
Ordinal
Value
Reduced
Value
Latin
Alphabet
Alefh 1 1 1 A-H
Beth 2 2 2 B
Guimel 3 3 3 G
Daleth 4 4 4 D
Hei 5 5 5 H-E-A
Vav 6 6 6 V-U-Y
Zain 7 7 7 Z
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44
Heth 8 8 8 Y-J
Thet 9 9 9 TH
YodJod 10 10 1 Y-I
KafJaf 20 11 2 K-C
Lamed 30 12 3 L
Mem 40 13 4 M
Nun 50 14 5 N
Samej 60 15 6 S
Ayn 70 16 7 O-E
PehFeh 80 17 8 P-F
Tzadik 90 18 9 T-Z-X
Kuof 100 19 1 K-Q
Reish 200 20 2 R
Shin 300 21 3 S-SH
TafTau 400 22 4 T
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45
Gematriacutea or Hebrew Numerology
As we said earlier in the Hebrew language each letter has a nu-
merical value Gematriacutea is the calculation of the numerical value of let-
ters words or phrases to obtain a better understanding of the relation be-
tween the different concepts and to explore the relation between words
and ideas
In this technique it is assumed that the numerical equivalency is
no coincidence From the moment the world was created through the
Creatorrsquos ldquowordrdquo each letter represents a different creative power
Therefore the numerical equivalence of two words reveals an inner con-
nection between its potential creators
There are four ways to calculate the equivalency of individual
letters and each way corresponds to a different world in the Tree of Life
The Zohar tells us that the concept of reduced value is related to
the spiritual world of Yetsirah Based on this we can establish a relation
between the four methods of calculation the four spiritual kingdoms and
the four letters of the name of the Divine which are YHVH or in He-
brew Yod Hei Vav and Hei
The Absolute Value of Yod itrsquos to the world of Atziluth
The Ordinal Value of Hei itrsquos to the world of Briah
The Reduced Value of Vav itrsquos to the world of Yetsirah
The Whole Value of Hei itrsquos to the world of Assiah
ldquoAbsolute value (in Hebrew mispar hejrajiacute) also known as
normative or normal Valuerdquo
Each letter takes the value of its accepted numeral equivalent
alef (the first letter) worth 1 bet (second one) worth 2 and so on up to
the tenth letter iud which is worth 10 and the following ones are worth
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46
20 30 40 up to the letter kuf close to the end of the alef-bet which is
worth 100 and then 200 300 up to the last letter tav which is worth 400
In this type of calculation the letters kafjaf sofit (sofit=end)
mem sofit nun sofit pehfeh sofit and tzadik sofit which are the ldquofinal
shapesrdquo of the respective letters when they are at the end of a word usu-
ally take the same numeric value of the common shape of the letter
Nonetheless sometimes the following are considered equivalents kafjaf
sofit = 500 mem sofit = 600 nun sofit = 700 pehfeh sofit = 800 y tza-
dik sofit = 900
Following this method of calculation the Hebrew alphabet is a
complete circle the tzadik at the end is equal to 900 and then alef is
equal to one and one thousand In the Hebrew language the same letters
are used to write the name of the letter alef equal to one and to write the
word elef which means ldquothousandrdquo
ldquoOne the first number follows one thousand
in a complete and perfect circlerdquo
Ordinal Value (in hebrew mispar siduriacute) It assigns to each
one of the 22 letters a numerical equivalent according to the order in
which they appear in the alef-bet For example alef equals 1 kaf = 11
taf = 22 The final kaf is 23 and the final tzadik is 27
Reduced Value (en hebrew mispar kataacuten and in mathemati-
cal terminology the module 9) The value of each letter is reduced to
one digit For example alef is equal to 1 iud to 10 and kuf to 100 but
according to this system all three have a numerical value of one beit is
equal to 2 kaf to 20 and reish to 200 therefore all three are equal to 2
etc Therefore letters have only 9 equivalencies instead of twenty-two
Integral Value (in hebrew mispar mispariacute) This is the fourth
way to calculate In this fashion the total numeric value of a word is re-
duced to one digit If the sum of these numbers exceeds 9 the numbers
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
47
in the total figure are added until a single digit is obtained The same
result will be obtained whether you take the absolute the ordinal or the
reduced values
The meaning of the Hebrew Letters
Alefh Represents the Divine Presence It is the symbol of
the absolute and unique faith in only one Creator and Lord It is pro-
nounced ah-left which derives from the word Alufh which means prince
minister or chief It is made up of two dots which are two iod (the tenth
letter of the alphabet) and a slanted vav (sixth letter) If we add the two
iod (20) and the one vav (6) we get 26 which is equal to the sum of the
letters YHVH Yod (10) Hei(5) Vav(6) Hei(5) of the name of the
Creator
Beth The Torah begins with this second letter ldquoBereshitrdquo
(In the Beginning) This is because it represents and symbolizes the
Berehia (Creation) and the Berajaacute (Blessing) The purpose of Creation is
to give abundance to the human being Its value is two It represents and
shows us that there is nothing in this world totally complete and indivisi-
ble Everything can be parted in two Only God is unique and indivisible
Guimel This letter is close to the root of the word Bra
keep complete and give That is why it is used in ldquoGuemilut Hasadimrdquo
to do favors Guimel represents the third column on which the world
rests it is the giver or favor doer spirit and also proof that God constantly
helps and favors the human being and His whole Creation Its value is
three
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48
Daleth When we pronounce this fourth letter we find a
great closeness to the word deleth (door) The letter Daleth relates to the
word ldquodalhrdquo poor going from door to door seeking food Daleth follows
Guimel creating a unified thought to help the poor Its value (4) reminds
us of the material world because poverty can be found everywhere in our
planet
Hei The Talmud says God created the world with two
letters that represent His Name ldquoYod and Heirdquo With the first one He
created the world to come and with the second one this world Its shape
is made up of two parts a dalet and an iod Daleth has a vertical line
and a horizontal line It represents this world where everything has a
body and occupies space The iod which is just a dot represents the in-
finite world where there are no physical laws Meaning that in this
world too the spiritual Divine component is present
Vav Its value six represents something complete and
finished The world was created completely in six days Every complete
and closed object has six sides top bottom right left front and back
The letter vav is used to unite phrases concepts objects similar ldquoandrdquo
Vav is therefore union Except for some exceptions all paragraphs in the
Bible as written in the scrolls begin with Vav The written Torah (5
books) + ldquovavrdquo (Kabbalah) The oral Torah (6 books)
Zain It represents the seven spiritual values which are
the object of this world Zan means ldquonourishmentrdquo and Zain means ldquoar-
mamentrdquo Its shape is similar to that of a sword Its shows us that man
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
49
must confront and overcome adversity many times in order to obtain his
nourishment
Heth Just as Zain represents manrsquos purpose on earth Heth
with the value of eight represents manrsquos possibility to cross the limits
imposed by the earth Seven is nature eight are the values and goals
which represent what is above nature It also connects to the letter Haim
which means life The top part of the heth has an arrow pointing up-
wards meaning that life always belongs to God and everything depends
on Him
Thet This letter is first written in the Torah in the word
Tov (good) Each one of the days of the Creation was crowned with
qualifying phrase ldquoAnd God saw that it was goodrdquo Thet is synonym of
the relationship of God towards man which is always good even though
we donrsquot always see it that way Goodness or Kindness is a Divine quali-
ty and it should be emulated The most exquisite act of kindness is to
help our neighbor without causing him embarrassment
Iod Its size earns it the category of the smallest and most
indivisible letter not like the rest which are made up of different parts
and that is why it represents the Almighty in His condition of Unique and
Indivisible Its shape according to the Zohar has a point facing up to-
wards God another one facing down towards earth and the central point
which unites both That is why when a person prays the heart faces up
and the eyes down in humbleness in front on God Its value Ten is very
representative of the whole Torah Ten generations from Adam to Noah
and another ten from Noah to Abraham the Patriarch Ten are the Divine
Commandments given to Moses and ten are the sefirot The number ten
is actually ONE
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50
Kaf It symbolizes Kether the crown (written in Hebrew
with kaf) as the Talmud says ldquoGod will place the Kether on he who
helps his neighbor the way he should and according to his possibilitiesrdquo
Its shape (curved) has a relation to its name which represents the hum-
bleness that the person who carries the crown should have
Lamed Its shape is made up of a kaf and a vav together
they add up to 26 like the Divine Name Its name lamed is the root of
the verbs to teach and to learn The name Israel begins with iod the
smallest letter and ends with lamed the biggest one The Torah begins
with bet and ends with lamed together they spell the word led (heart)
the fundamental basis to find light and accomplish precepts
Mem This letter has two aspects one known as the open
mem it is used in the beginning and middle of a word indicating that
there are points which refer to God Almightyrsquos doing which are within
our comprehension and a closed mem which is only used at the end of
words indicating the occult and incomprehensible part Moshe and
Mashiacuteaj begin with mem Its value is 40 the necessary time period for
the concretion of different stages
The fetus needs 40 days to have a complete form
The Great Flood lasted 40 days and 40 nights
Moses was up at Mount Sinai 40 days and 40 nights
The Jewish people walked for 40 years in the desert
It is at the age of 40 that a person is considered to have
reached wisdom
Nun This letter also has two shapes one for any part of the
word with a curved shape and the other straight for the endings of
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51
words Both indicate the exclusive quality of God who is Neeman
which means loyal to His word and worthy of trust This word restarts
with a Nun and ends with another
Samej This letter represents the concept of the Divine
support (Semej in Hebrew) Godrsquos support towards man as well as manrsquos
support towards God The certainty of God is the foundation of faith and
the base upon which the human being can search and reach for its goal in
this world
Ayn in Hebrew it means ldquoeyerdquo Its shape is made up two
parts an Yod leaning against a Zain Reclining both on the base the nu-
meric value of both parts is 17 just like the word Tob (good) This indi-
cates that the ayn (eye) has to be used to observe only the good things
Its value is 70
70 are the names of the Almighty and the Torah
70 are the basic people (towns) in the world
70 are the holidays in a year (52 Saturdays 18 holy
days)
Jesus sent out 70 disciples to evangelize
The Great Temple of Jerusalem had 70 columns
70 old wise men received the Torah from Moses they
are called ldquothe eyes of the congregationrdquo the symbol of the ayn (eye)
precisely
Peh it means ldquomouthrdquo in Hebrew It is through this ex-
quisite sense that the human being differentiates and raises itself over the
rest of the creation There are two peh one for any part of the word and
the other for the endings The first one is said to be closed and its shape
symbolizes the fetus in the motherrsquos womb (fetal position) with its mouth
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52
closed The other open resembles the newborn babe stretching its limbs
It also reminds us of the control we should have over it sometimes
closed and others open when to speak and when not to
Tzadik The 18th letter The Talmud names the Tzadik per-
son the just person The title of ldquoTzadikrdquo is not given to just anybody It
is written that God is Tzadik and Perfect This quality of Tzadik when it
comes to God is manifested through kindness Those people who go
about and act according to the divine will are said to be ldquoTzadikrdquo They
are fair just and kind to the maximum of their possibilities
Kuof This letter shows us and symbolizes the Divine
Sanctity Kadosh God is Holy Man can also be called kuof if he is supe-
rior rising above the others The shape of kuof is made up of a kaf and a
vav which add up to 26 just as the four letter name for God Kuof is
very similar to kof which means ldquomonkeyrdquo The Zohar calls monkeys
those human beings who do not believe in the divine will and do not dig-
nify being created in Godrsquos image According to Kabbalah the road is
open for man he can be holy and thus get close to God or walk away
from Him and become a monkey
Reish Up until now we saw how the letters show us and
represent the Divine Presence On the contrary reish represents and
symbolizes Evil ldquoRashardquo in Hebrew Reish follows kuof which repre-
sents the Divine Sanctity The word ldquoroshrdquo (first beginning or head) in
Aramaic is pronounced ldquoreishrdquo just like the letter Midrash tells us the
Almighty is ldquoRoshrdquo since he is the beginning and head of the world and
its end as well Evil does not exist what we judge as bad is only a part of
the Divine Plan and we do not know and therefore cannot understand
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53
Shin this letter has an important place since shalom
(peace) begins with it Only God is the source and root of true peace Its
shape with three arms and three heads represents the wish of all of us to
rise to heaven lifting our hands to receive His help It also encompasses
the symbolism of something that has three limbs but only one purpose
We live in three worlds past present and future
The human being has a spirit a soul and a body
The human creation has three partners
Kether Binah and Hokhmah or the Holy
Trinity
Taf unlike the other letters which we have seen through
analysis and symbology that each represented a word being the first eg
Shin Shalom (peace) Sheker (lie) the symbol for taf is given by the last
letter in the word ldquoEmetrdquo (truth) This is exactly the general characteris-
tic of truth at first the lie seems more interesting Truth is appreciated in
the end Truth involves everything since its letters are one in the begin-
ning the other one in the middle and the third one at the end
The Angels of Kabbalah
The etymological meaning of the word angel is messenger from
the Greek ldquoAggeloacutesrdquo ldquoAngirasrdquo in Sanskrit in Persian ldquoAngarosrdquo in
Hebrew and Arabic ldquoMalakhrdquo and ldquoDevardquo for the Hindus
Doubts about their existence disappear before the coincidences
amongst cultures and diverse beliefs that describe them
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54
Angels constantly remind us who we are due to the message that
is attributed to them For us their place is the same as that of God they
are above us and within us
To come in contact with them could take us to doubt if we did so
with a superior reality or with the highest part of ourselves
The mythical history of Kabbalah tells us that after man was
driven out of the Garden of Eden the angels transmitted the kabballistic
teachings to man so that he could reconquer it through the never ending
divine energy which is present everywhere in the Universe
The 72 Angeles of Kabbalah
Seraphim
Vehuiah ndash Elemiah ndash Jeliel ndash Lelahel
Sitael ndash Achaiah ndash Mahasiah ndash Cahethel
Cherubim
Haziel ndash Aladiah ndash Lauviah ndash Hahaiah
Iezalel ndash Mebael ndash Hariel ndash He Kamiah
Thrones (also known as Ophanim)
Lauviah ndash Caliel ndash Lauviah ndash Pahaliah
Nelkhael ndash Yeiaiel ndash Melahel ndash Haheuiah
Dominions (or Kyriotetes)
Nith ndashHahaiah ndash Yerathel ndash Sheikh
Reiyel ndash Omael ndash Lecabel ndash Vasariah
Powers
Vehuiah ndash Lehahiah ndash Chavakiah ndash Menadel
Aniel ndash Haamiah ndash Rehael ndash Ieiazel
Virtues
Hahahel ndash Mikael ndash Veuliah ndash Ylahiah
Sealiah ndashAriel ndash Asaliah ndash Mihael
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55
Principalities
Vehuel ndash Daniel ndash Hahasiah ndash Imamiah
Nanael ndash Nithael ndash Mebahiah ndash Poyel
Archangels
Nemamiah ndash Yeialel ndash Aacuterale ndash Mitzrael
Umabel ndash Iah ndashAnauel ndash Mehiel
Angels
Damabiah ndash Manakel ndash Eyael ndash Habuhiah
Rochel ndash Yabamiah ndash Haiayel ndash Mum
Geniuses of Kabbalah
Air ndash Earth ndash Water - Fire
The first three verses of the Torah are revealing in regard to the
Divine Creation In the morning of the first day God created the four
geniuses or semi-gods to help Him directly preparing the platform for
the coming of man
Genesis 11 ndash
ldquoIn the beginning God created heaven and earthrdquo
Genesis 12 ndash
ldquohellipthe Spirit of God was hovering over the watersrdquo
Genesis 13 ndash
Let there be light and there was light
Nothing would exist in the Universe without the four geniuses
or elements only God and with the creation of these geniuses He
proves to us that He does not want to be alone but surrounded by
vegetation animals and specially the HUMAN BEING
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56
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Tipherzt
Beauty
Christian Kabbalah
Jesus and the Kabbalah
The Sacred Books
The Apostle Matthew
The Sermon on the Mountain
(The Beatitudes)
The Our Father
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
57
Jesus and the Kabbalah
Up until now we have analyzed the Bible from the Tanaj and the
Talmud we have also taken the Torah as the foundation of Kabbalah
The New Testament has an important kabballistic content provided by
Jesus and his apostles
Emmanuel ben Yoseph known as Jesus Christ lived between
the ages of thirteen and thirty-three with the Essenes Fraternity of the
Dead Sea where he learned the secrets of the Kabbalah that his Father
had given to mankind and because of his illumination he was declared
Master of Justice
In the New Testament the four evangelists analyzed Jesus from
the four kabballistic worlds which are completely separated and diffeent
Matthew describes a physical Jesus generations that preceded
him and his relationship with the people of Israel
This is the World of Assiah
Luke tells the story of Jesus intimate life he describes moving
images of the Master along his pathway
This is the World of Yetsirah
Mark talks to us of a miraculous Jesus with a Divine mag-
netism and its soul healing rays
This is the World of Briah
John gave us the gospel of a metaphysical Jesus the abstract
spirit and visions of an astral world
This is the World of Atziluth
The Kabbalah develops its doctrine in the light that invades us
and emanates from our bodies because we are part of it
Jesus in John 812 says I am the light of the world Those who
follow me will never walk in darkness They will have the light that leads
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58
to life and in Ephesians 58 he confirms ldquoAt one time you were in the
dark But now you are in the light because of what the Lord has donerdquo
When Matthew in verse 223 says ldquohellipand came and lived in a
city called Nazarethrdquo This was to fulfill what was spoken through the
prophets He shall be called a Nazarene he explains that Jesus had to
be a Nazarene that is he had to wear the Crown or Kether according to
what God told Moses in the oral or kabballistic precepts In Numbers 66-
7 it is said ldquothroughout the period of their dedication to the LORD the
Nazirite must not go near a dead body Even if their own father or
motherrdquo
In Matthew 822 Jesus stresses this precept saying ldquohelliplet the
dead bury their own dead
According to the Kabballists the Torah is fountain of wine and
milk In Isaiah 551 we read hellip and he who has no money come buy
wine and milk without money without pricehelliprdquo In many quotes Jesus
mentions the wine as his spiritual blood Peter 22 ldquohellipLike newborn ba-
bies crave pure spiritual milk so that by it you may grow up in your sal-
vationhelliprdquo
The Old and New Testament
The Old Testament or Tanaj is made up of 39 books and the New
Testament 29 a total of 66 books As we all know there is no such thing
as luck it is the message of God that we still cannot decipher If we ana-
lyze that message through kabballistic numerology we will decipher it
and be surprised
According to the kabballistic numerology ldquo39 books in the Ta-
najrdquohellip 3+9=12hellip 1+2=3 and ldquo3rdquo represents the Holy Trinity
Kether or God the Father
Hokhmah or God the Son (active to the right of the Father)
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
59
Binah or God the Mother or Holy Spirit (passive)
They are all emanations of God the Father and therefore only
one Being It is the announcement of the Divine Trilogy based on the
Admirable Intelligence of Kether the Illuminating Intelligence of
Hokhmah and the Sanctifying Intelligence of Binah If we take away the
substance of the Tanaj which are the five books that make up the Penta-
teuch we are left with 34 books or the number 7 which were the re-
maining emanations with which God created the Universe The 27 books
of the New Testament add up to the kabballistic nine which is the Divine
or Complete number since it contains all the numbers and closes the
wheel That is the New Testament not only does it complement but also
contains the previous one and completes it The sum of both is 66 its
kabballistic number is 3 and it returns to the Holy Trinity the Three
Sefirot or divine emanations
The Apostle Matthew
In chapter one Matthew explains the genealogy of Jesus with a
result of 42 generations from Abraham to Jesus in three periods of 14
generations each This he does from the physical world or Assiah to ex-
plain with real facts Abrahamrsquos descendants and how Jesus really was
the King of the Jews
Forty-two (generations from Abraham to Jesus) adds up to six
like the sefirot of the Creation (on the seventh one He rested) which
means God rested in Malkuth the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth but
the message from Matthew is that we should distribute these three peri-
ods amongst the six sefirot of the Creation
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60
The transition between Abraham and David takes place be-
tween the fourth sefirah Hesed (Greatness) and the fifth Geburah (Jus-
tice)
Hesed is the sefirah from which the rest of the sefirot emanate
like Abraham the Patriarch from whom three religions ldquoemanaterdquo Juda-
ism Christianism and Islam Hesed is the foundation of the spiritual vir-
tues and it is connected to the Holy Son like Abraham
Geburah is the sefirah of David the Justice seeker who uni-
fied the kingdoms for the greatness of the Chosen People he is the strict
Warrior King
With Salomon son of David starts the second period as told by
Matthew and it ends with the deportation of the people to Babylon This
is the passage from the sixth sefirah Tipherzt (Beauty) to the seventh
sefirah Neshah (Power)
Tipherzt is Beauty serenity trust just what King Salomon
was to his people In the same manner it is in the column of the Crown
of God and it is directly supported by Abraham and David
Neshah is the hidden Intelligence of stability and spiritual
power it is the powerful faith against adversity the expulsion to Baby-
lon
When the Babylonian invasion comes to an end the passage to
the coming of Jesus begins it takes place between the eighth sefirah Hod
(Glory) and the ninth sefirah Yesod (Foundation)
Hod is the Divine Glory the Divine Healer which healed the
wounds inflicted on the chosen people by the invaders It is awakening
and learning
Yesod is the foundation and filter of all emanations before
reaching the Kingdom it is the Pure Intelligence it is Unity without Di-
vision this is the sefirah to which both the moon and the waters respond
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
61
and the tides and earth as well the sefirah that builds and founds That is
why this is the sefirah that Matthew attributes to Jesus It is the one that
brings together to the Father before reaching Malkuth the Kingdom of
Earth and Heaven in a straight line passing by Tipherzt (Salomon) and
with the virtual sefirah of the Sacred Heart
As we can see the Apostle Matthew shows us in a kabballis-
tic way the presence of Jesus from the patriarch Abraham to the
present
Holy Spirit
David
Glory
Jesus
Kingdom
Salomon
Power
Abraham
Holy Son
Holy Father
Heart
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62
The Sermon on the Mountain
(The Beatitudes)
With The Sermon on the Mountain Jesus teaches us the basic
Concepts of Kabbalah to be interpreted in many centuries to come be-
cause the land of the tribe of Israel to which Jesus belonged was under
the domain of the Greco-Roman Empire which wanted to impose its
own gods That is why Jesusrsquo message is stronger the deeper you go into
it It should be observed the same as the ocean it is not the quiet waters
and small waves that rule but the strong currents that flow in the deepest
depths
Somebody told me once that even a child could understand the
Sermon and it is true which shows the intelligence of the Master be-
cause the Sermon holds many levels of understanding
From the Gospel according to Matthew chapter five we can ex-
tract the essence of the Sermon on the Mountain contained in the first
nine verses two of them introductory and the other seven making up the
Beatitudes
51 ldquoAnd seeing the multitudes He went up onto a mountain
and when He was set His disciples came unto Him ldquo
5 2 ldquoAnd He opened His mouth and taught them sayinghelliprdquo
To go up to the mountain in Kabbalah means to rise to the high-
est degree of spirituality (eg Moses went up the mountain to speak with
God) which means he went up to the Crown or Kether When it says
ldquoHe opened His mouth and taught them sayingrdquo sounds redundant since
nobody can say anything without opening his mouth But we have to
consider that there are two aspects in Kabbalah thought or intelligence
Binah and the word or wisdom Hokhmah Jesus uses the first to ignite
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63
the soul of His followers and the word to transmit the vibratory energy or
surrounding magnetic field and that way get to the spirit of people
53rdquoBlessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom
of Heavenrdquo
According to Kabbalah a rich man with many possessions can
enter the Kingdom of God if he doesnrsquot develop the materialistic spirit
that goes with them On the other hand a poor man without possessions
could be not admitted in the Kingdom of God if he develops that materi-
alistic spirit and is absorbed by the only wish of having fortune Kabba-
lah teaches that neither richness nor poorness is the ideal state Jesus re-
fers to the heart or Leb the simplicity and easiness of spirit because to
have possessions or not does not interfere with the progress towards the
path of foundation and spiritual uplifting
54 Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted
Kabbalah does not preach sadness but joy and happiness In the
Kabbalah the act of crying is a symbol of redemption greatness and
love or Hesed it is also a symbol of acknowledgment of errors made
and therefore seeking spiritual evolution in love for another The begin-
ning of change is identified with crying That is why whoever accepts
the change will be comforted
55 Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth
God said to Moses ldquoYou shall not adore other gods and you
shall respect my Namerdquo This means He demanded meekness Jesus re-
fers in kabballistic terms to meek men before God those will be able to
live in harmony and freedom achieving Divine Justice or Geburah be-
cause they are the ones who increase their spiritual level
56 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteous-
ness for they will be filled
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Those who hunger within will seek the nourishment to satisfy it
And will begin a search for justice which will take them to the spiritual
Glory Hod This means that those who hunger and thirst for spiritual
truth will be filled with the blessing and perfection seeker Those who
abandon the spiritual search of the truth will condemn their souls to come
back as many times as it is necessary to achieve it
57 Blessed are the merciful for they will be shown mercy
To be merciful is to forgive others to have the power or Neshah
of not having negative thoughts actions or answers to aggressiveness
from others Negative feelings affect our spiritual body and poison our
physical body altering the nervous system
58 Blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God
The pure in heart are those who achieve inner beauty or
Tipherzt In order to have a clean and beautiful heart we must nourish it
with love and not hate with forgiveness not vengeance with truth not
lies or falsehood There must be harmony in our body soul and spirit
59 Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called sons
of Godrdquo
Peace in Aramaic is the same as harmony in Greek and both
words represent the foundation of life on this earth or Yesod and Jesus
suggests the Peace of the just
510 Blessed are those who are persecuted because of right-
eousness for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
511 Blessed are you when people insult you persecute you
and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me
In these two verses Jesus foretells the persecutions his followers
even the Kabballists will suffer anticipating the manifested idea of ob-
taining the communion of the Kingdom of Heaven or Malkuth in com-
plete peace and harmony
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65
In the next two verses Jesus refers to the eighth sefirah Hod the
Glory (elevation) and its connection with Geburah Justice (respect)
which means we must respect the Just because they are the prophets and
we will be blessed by them
512 Rejoice and be glad because great is your reward in
heaven for in the same way they persecuted the prophets
who were before you
513 You are the salt of the earth But if the salt loses its salt-
iness how can it be made salty again It is no longer good for
anything except to be thrown out and trampled by men
In the following words Jesus takes us through the Tree of Live
or Sefirotic Tree bringing us even closer to the kabballistic message and
his spiritual profoundness
514 You are the light of the world A city on a hill cannot be
hidden
Kether is the Crown of God the Divine light that which is
above everything else above the mountain It reminds us that the moun-
tain is the highest level of spirituality
514 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl
Instead they put it on its stand and it gives light to everyone
in the house
Hokhmah is Wisdom to the right of the Kether the Crown of
God it is the light of Christ which lights up all homes
516 In the same way let your light shine before men that
they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in
heaven
Binah is Intelligence it is the light that reaches to the spirit of
mankind as a holy protection it is the light of the Holy Spirit that reaches
the heart through good deeds
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These three verses refer to the first three sefirot that is the Holy
Trinity which is the potent Divine light since it contains in only one ray
of light the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit
The following four verses refer to Geburah or Justice This is the
sefirah that dictates the Law the one that enforces the Law the one that
unites Heaven (Kether) with Earth (Malkuth) according to the Divine
teachings and is called the sefirah of Divine Justice
517 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the
Prophets I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them
518 I tell you the truth until heaven and earth disappear not
the smallest letter not the least stroke of a pen will by any
means disappear from the Law until everything is accom-
plished
519 Anyone who breaks one of the least of these command-
ments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in
the kingdom of heaven but whoever practices and teaches
these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heav-
en
520 For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses
that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law you will ce r-
tainly not enter the kingdom of heaven
Hesed is the sefirah of Greatness and it is known that the origin
of greatness is HumilityHumbleness the person that is not humble is
not great In the following verses Jesus explains to us how to irradiate
Love Mercy Greatness and above all Humbleness
521 You have heard that it was said to the people long ago
Do not murder[a]
and anyone who murders will be subject to
judgment
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67
522 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother
will be subject to judgment Again anyone who says to his brother
Raca (An Aramaic term of contempt is answerable to the Sanhed-
rin But anyone who says You fool will be in danger of the fire of
hell
523 ldquoTherefore if you are offering your gift at the altar and
there remember that your brother has something against you
Ponder
Respect
Blessing
Peace
Kingdom
Love
Acceptance
Help
Speech
Inspiration
Heart
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524 leave your gift there in front of the altar First go and be
reconciled to your brother then come and offer your gift
525 ldquoSettle matters quickly with your adversary who is tak-
ing you to court Do it while you are still with him on the way or he
may hand you over to the judge and the judge may hand you over to
the officer and you may be thrown into prison
526 I tell you the truth you will not get out until you have
paid the last penny
The following sefirah that Jesus speaks of in the Sermon on the
Mountain is Tipherzt beauty serenity trust family it is the one with
the noble attributes fidelity A through this sefirah he talks to us about
the family blessings and how Divinity intertwines with it
Tipherzt is the one that provides the spiritual nourishment and
family blessings that is why Jesus protects the relationship between man
and woman as fountain of life and punishes above all deceit and adul-
tery
527 You have heard that it was said Do not commit adul-
tery
528 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustful-
ly has already committed adultery with her in his heart
529 If your right eye causes you to sin gouge it out and
throw it away It is better for you to lose one part of your body than
for your whole body to be thrown into hell
530 And if your right hand causes you to sin cut it off and
throw it away It is better for you to lose one part of your body than
for your whole body to go into hell
531 It has been said anyone who divorces his wife must
give her a certificate of divorce
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69
532 But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife except
for marital unfaithfulness causes her to become an adulteress and
anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery
The following sefirah is Neshah which represents Stability and
Balance and the following five verses Jesus that swearing is the loss of
stability and balance before God
He who requires an oath does not trust what is being said and he
who gives an oath does not trust himself rdquoYes or Nordquo should be enough
for those who speak the truth
533 Again you have heard that it was said to the people long
ago Do not break your oath but keep the oaths you have made to
the Lord
534 but I tell you Do not swear at all either by heaven for
it is Gods throne
535 nor by the earth for it is his footstool or by Jerusalem
for it is the city of the Great King
536 And do not swear by your head for you cannot make
even one hair white or black
537 simply let your Yes be Yes and your No No any-
thing beyond this comes from the evil one
Hod is the sefirah of glory the compensation and acknowledge-
ment And there is no better glory and acknowledgement than to love the
enemy and bless those who curse and hate us
As Jesus tells us in the next eleven verses
If you love only those who love you
What are you doing extra
What reward are you seeking
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538 You have heard that it was said Eye for eye and tooth
for tooth
539 But I tell you Do not resist an evil person If someone
strikes you on the right cheek turn to him the other also
540 And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic let
him have your cloak as well
541 If someone forces you to go one mile go with him two
miles
542 Give to the one who asks you and do not turn away
from the one who wants to borrow from you
543 You have heard that it was said Love your neighbor
and hate your enemy
544 But I tell you Love your enemies and pray for those
who persecute you
545 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven He caus-
es his sun to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the
righteous and the unrighteous
546 If you love those who love you what reward will you
get Are not even the tax collectors doing that
547 And if you greet only your brothers what are you doing
more than others Do not even pagans do that
548 Be perfect therefore as your heavenly Father is perfect
Yesod the ninth sefirah is Foundation because it purifies
proves and corrects all previous sefiroth Helping others is exactly what
this sefirah is all about not only to love them but to help them He who
helps receives purification from Yesod and he who helps in secret is
blessed by The Father
Matthew 6
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71
61 Be careful not to do your acts of righteousness before
men to be seen by them If you do you will have no reward from
your Father in heaven
62 So when you give to the needy do not announce it with
trumpets as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets
to be honored by men I tell you the truth they have received their
reward in full
63 But when you give to the needy do not let your left hand
know what your right hand is doing
64 so that yoursquore giving may be in secret Then yoursquore Fa-
ther who sees what is done in secret will reward you
Malkuth is the sefirah that represents the Kingdom of Heaven
and Earth that is why Jesus tells us that prayer must be in private in or-
der to be rewarded in public without repetitions and lots of words be-
cause the Father knows what we need before we even ask
65 And when you pray do not be like the hypocrites for
they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street cor-
ners to be seen by men I tell you the truth they have received their
reward in full
66 But when you pray go into your room close the door and
pray to your Father who is unseen Then your Father who sees what
is done in secret will reward you
67 And when you pray do not keep on babbling like pagans
for they think they will be heard because of their many words
68 Do not be like them for your Father knows what you
need before you ask him
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The Our Father
Jesus reaffirms part of the Kabbalah by following the path of the
Sefirotic Tree in his most important prayer
69 This then is how you should pray Our in heaven
hallowed be your name
Our Father the admirable intelligence or Crown Kether first sefirah
In Heaven the enlightening intelligence or wisdom Hokhmah the sec-
ond sefirah
Hallowed be your name the sanctifying intelligence Binah the third
sefirah completing the Holy Trinity
610 your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is
in heaven
Your kingdom come the intelligence of love Hesed
Your will be done righteous intelligence Geburah
On Earth as it is in Heaven that is form Kether to Malkuth
611 Give us today our daily bread
Give us our daily bread the intelligence which provides Spiritual
Nourishment and beauty Tipherzt
612 Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our
debtrs
Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors the hidden
intelligence which is power victory and stability or Nesha
613 And lea us not into temptation but deliver us from the
evil for yours is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for
every century Amen
And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil the absolute
intelligence or perfect glory or Hod
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73
Holy
Justice
Freedom
Foundation
Prayer
Love
Forgiveness
Spiritual
Nourishment
Heaven
Father
Heart
For yours is the Kingdom Kether the Power Hokhmah and the
Glory Briah which means You are the Holy Trinity
Amen is the foundation of Holy Prayer
After teaching us this Prayer Jesus continues showing us the truth about
the emanations of the Sefirotic Tree Starting once again at the Kether
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74
to remind us privacy in acts such as forgiveness fasting and prayer will
be rewarded in public by the Father who wears the Crown
614 For if you forgive men when they sin against you your
heavenly Father will also forgive you
615 But if you do not forgive men their sins your Father will
not forgive your sins
616 When you fast do not look somber as the hypocrites
do for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fast-
ing I tell you the truth they have received their reward in
full
617 But when fast put oil on your head and wash your face
618 so that it will not be obvious to men that you are fasting
but only to your Father who is unseen and your Father who
sees what is done in secret will reward you
Jesus explains that our treasures are not in the Kingdom of Earth but in
the wisdom of Hokhmah which is the treasure of Heaven that God sent
to us
619 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth
where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and
steal
620 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven where
moth and rust do not destroy and where thieves do not
break in and steal
Binah is the intelligence that Jesus asks us to use to see the light within
our heart he asks that we be intelligent to stay away from evil because
wise men donrsquot have two bosses
621 For where your treasure is there your heart will be also
622 The eye is the lamp of the body If your eyes are good
your whole body will be full of light
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75
623 But if your eyes are bad your whole body will be full of
darkness If then the light within you is darkness how great
is that darkness
624 No one can serve two masters Either he will hate the
one and love the other or he will be devoted to the one and
despise the other You cannot serve both God and Money
Hesed is greatness Jesus shows us how Great we are that greatness is
not eating drinking or dressing up but greatness is being on the path to
the Kether or Crown
625 Therefore I tell you do not worry about your life what
you will eat or drink or about your body what you will
wear Is not life more important than food and the body
more important than clothes
626 Look at the birds of the air they do not sow or reap or
store away in barns and yet your heavenly Father feeds
them Are you not much more valuable than they
627 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his
life
628 And why do you worry about clothes See how the lil-
ies of the field grow They do not labor or spin
629 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor
was dressed like one of these
630 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field which is
here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire will he not
much more clothe you O you of little faith
631 So do not worry saying What shall we eat or What
shall we drink or What shall we wear
632 For the pagans run after all these things and your heav-
enly Father knows that you need them
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Godrsquos Fortune
Godrsquos
Justice
Godrsquos Education
Godrsquos Purification
Godrsquos
Freedom
Godrsquos
Love
Godrsquos Effort
Godrsquos
Greatness
Godrsquos Treasure
Godrsquos
Forgiveness
Godrsquos
Heart
633 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all
these things will be given to you as well
634 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow
will worry about itself Each day has enough trouble of its
own
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77
Once we obtain Greatness or Hesed Jesus asks us to seek Justice or
Geburah the next sefirah Justice is learning to judge others and to look
more with our heart than our eyes
71 Do not judge or you too will be judged
72 For in the same way you judge others you will be judged
and with the measure you use it will be measured to you
73 Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your broth-
ers eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye
74 How can you say to your brother Let me take the speck
out of your eye when all the time there is a plank in your
own eye
75 You hypocrite first take the plank out of your own eye
and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your
brothers eye
76 Do not give dogs what is sacred do not throw your
pearls to pigs If you do they may trample them under their
feet and then turn and tear you to pieces
After Geburah comes Tipherzt beauty this sefirah is the provider of spir-
itual nourishment that is why Jesus invites us to ask seek and knock and
he reminds the law of the Torah because Tipherzt is in the center and
unites the past with the present the law of the prophets with the law of
Jesus
77 Ask and it will be given to you seek and you will find
knock and the door will be opened to you
78 For everyone who asks receives he who seeks finds and
to him who knocks the door will be opened
79 Which of you if his son asks for bread will give him a
stone
710 Or if he asks for a fish will give him a snake
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711 If you then though you are evil know how to give good
gifts to your children how much more will your Father in
heaven give good gifts to those who ask him
712 So in everything do to others what you would have
them do to you for this sums up the Law and the Prophets
Neshah is stability the sefirah of the intellectual virtues the eye of the
intellect which shows us the path of life and Jesus shows us the road of
tranquility
713 Enter through the narrow gate For wide is the gate
and broad is the road that leads to destruction and many e n-
ter through it
714 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to
life and only a few find it
Hod is glory or recognition Jesus shows us how to recognize those who
are said to be prophets or wise men Jesus tells us the best way to do so
is by their fruit (results) or deeds if we observe others objectively we
will know who will really support us and who would like to take ad-
vantage of us
715 Watch out for false prophets They come to you in
sheeps clothing but inwardly they are ferocious wolves
716 By their fruit you will recognize them Do people pick
grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles
717 Likewise every good tree bears good fruit but a bad tree
bears bad fruit
718 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit and a bad tree cannot
bear good fruit
719 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and
thrown into the fire
7 20 Thus by their fruit you will recognize them
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79
The ninth sefirah is Yesod or foundation This is the sefirah of purifica-
tion in it Jesus separates the chaste from the impure to take evil away
from us
721 Not everyone who says to me Lord Lord will enter
the kingdom of heaven but only he who does the will of my
Father who is in heaven
722 Many will say to me on that day Lord Lord did we
not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out de-
mons and perform many miracles
723 Then I will tell them plainly I never knew you Away
from me you evildoers
The tenth sefirah is Malkuth the Kingdom of Earth and Heaven where
Jesus gives us an example of free will so that we make wise decisions
and chose the Kingdom in which we will live
724 Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and
puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house
on the rock
725 The rain came down the streams rose and the winds
blew and beat against that house yet it did not fall because it
had its foundation on the rock
726 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does
not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his
house on sand
727 The rain came down the streams rose and the winds
blew and beat against that house and it fell with a great
crash
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Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Neshah Stability
The Divine Creation
The Divine Creation
Adam Eve and the Genesis
Gestation and Conception
Development and Growth
Maturity
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81
The Divine Creation From the ape up to Adam and Eve
During the early ages of life on Earth the new thinking beings invested
most of their time in learning to survive humans had to adapt to and in-
tegrate themselves to the four elements or genius (Air Fire Earth and
Water) they also had to learn to interact with animals and plants
Man began to notice that all animals were born and died as natural pro-
cess They ldquocame inrdquo (were born) to this world from the maternal womb
or from an egg and all of them inevitably someday disappeared or
ldquoleftrdquo (died) this world
Man also noticed that all animals ldquochangedrdquo in size (grew) being small
when they ldquocame inrdquo to the world and as the ldquosuns and moonsrdquo passed
(time) they developed and grew getting stronger until reaching a point
in which they ldquodisappearedrdquo (died)
Furthermore the learning was part of the ldquoroadrdquo when they ldquoarrivedrdquo
they didnrsquot know how to walk or fly they couldnrsquot see their parents had
to get their food and protect them they were weak and dependant In
time they learned to be self-sufficient and to live independently even
though they were part
of a heard o a community
In every age thinkers and scientists asked them selves how early mankind
evolved to the point of becoming what we are nowadays The Judeo-
Christian Kabbalah answers this question without interfering with sci-
ence The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah explains mankindrsquos ldquoevolutionrdquo in
ten steps and goes through the Sefirotic Tree starting from the feminine
column reminding us that it is the female who receives the Divine herit-
age of Creation
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82
1 The Crown or Divine Light
First the Divine Light Crowned the undeveloped brain of the wild ape
and transformed it into a ldquothinking aperdquo That Divine ldquotouchrdquo caused
the transformation of the apersquos simple brain into the complex brain or
ldquocrownrdquo of this new being This change contains the celestial blow of the
future human being
2 Intelligence or understanding
Undoubtedly what made de difference between mankind and the rest of
the animals was that awareness since they all went through the same
changes they were all born grew up and died they could all see the
moon replacing the sun and all of them could see the vegetables grow
but the other species either did take notice or did not acknowledge it The
human being could ldquothinkrdquo mankind had the ldquointelligencerdquo to be aware
and that made it different
3 Wisdom or experience
As time went by mankind acquired experience which added to intelli-
gence resulted in ldquowisdomrdquo This wisdom made man outstand over the
rest of the species This wisdom permitted man to learn from other spe-
cies in a certain way and in many cases to dominate them
These three sefiroth that represents the Holy Trinity separated to
the man of the rest of the world animal and vegetable determining
their supremacy by order and Divine grace
4 Justice or respect
Man began to put his abilities to use and the first thing he did with his
intelligence and wisdom was to acknowledge ldquojusticerdquo but the Divine
free will permitted them to apply it or not Mankind understood that
without spiritual justice intelligence and wisdom cannot not be applied
5 Greatness or humility
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83
Mankind learned that spiritual greatness meant knowing how to apply
justice in every act of life
To be just and great is to be wise and intelligent
Man learned that to be great does not mean to be above the rest but to
apply intelligence and wisdom to improve the life and spirit of others
These four qualities must go together if man is to continue his evolution
and stay away from the ape otherwise he would be stuck and the ape
would overcome
6 Beauty or sweetness
As mankind evolved it became understood that each act good or bad as
well as every thought obscure or bright marks the inner character and
outer appearance of a person with a defined particularity that will either
dull it or illuminate it The beauty of the Spirit is more real and perma-
nent than physical beauty The secret of this beauty which lights up pu-
pils with the serene light of the stars y gives faces the sweet look of the
angels lies within a just behavior and greatness in thought
The Bible and Science go of the hand The Creation and the Evolution are work of God
7 Glory or acknowledgement
As man made his inner evolution he wanted to be acknowledged by the
Divinity first and by his peers later
ldquoGloryrdquo is the acknowledgement of onersquos values by others All human
beings need this physical and spiritual acknowledgement The Just has
the Spiritual Greatness Beauty of the Soul and the Divine Glory
8 Stability or Balance
The sensory and spiritual stability and balance of the new being meant
inner growth Stability came about with the bluntness of power and the
victory of his actions The spiritual powers of stability are the foundation
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84
Awareness
Respect
Knowledge
Building
Real World
Sweetness
Balance
Humility
Experience
Divine Light
of tolerance discernment and being able to face up to reality and to co-
operate with our peers powers that are attained through Justice Great-
ness and the Divine Glory
9 Foundation or construction
The foundation or founding of communities is a major stepping-stone
for this new being It was like planting a seed to watch a tree grow Man
understood that if the foundation was done right he would ldquobuildrdquo a
whole culture for the future of mankind But if due to selfishness ava-
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85
rice or greediness he failed and started with a poor foundation of com-
munities instead these would dissolve in time That is why he would
have to apply everything he had learned and all the accumulated experi-
ence correctly
10 The Kingdom of Earth or real world
The Kingdom of Earth is the summit in the process of evolution from
ape to man it is the matter substance the physical and real world This
is the peak of the creation cycle the creation of Adam and Eve Thanks
to the powers of God the ape was transformed into the human being that
now lives in the Kingdom of God which is the Earth It is at this point
where all divine teachings and human experiences converge all celestial
and earthly matters meet here the soul with the spirit and the senses
with the physical world
Adam Eve and the Genesis
ldquoFor the Kabbalah in animals femininity finds itself in front of mas-
culinity while masculinity confirms itself through femininity In the
human level masculinity and femininity are distinguished and at the
same time complement each otherrdquo
In the first book of the Pentateuch the ldquoBook of Genesisrdquo there are two
explanations that would appear to contradict each other that is why we
will analyze them textually
Chapter One verses 27 through 31
27 So God created man in his own image in the image of God he
created him male and female he created them
28 God blessed them and said to them Be fruitful and increase in
number fill the earth and subdue it Rule over the fish of the sea
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86
and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves
on the ground
29 Then God said I give you every seed-bearing plant on the
face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in
it They will be yours for food
30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and
all the creatures that move on the groundmdasheverything that has
the breath of life in itmdashI give every green plant for food And it
was so
31 God saw all that he had made and it was very good And there
was evening and there was morningmdashthe sixth day
Chapter Two verses 7 and 15 through 23
7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and the man became a
living being
15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of
Eden to work it and take care of it
16 And the LORD God commanded the man You are free to eat
from any tree in the garden
17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil for when you eat of it you will surely die
18 The LORD God said It is not good for the man to be alone I
will make a helper suitable for him
19 Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the
beasts of the field and all the birds of the air He brought them to
the man to see what he would name them and whatever the man
called each living creature that was its name
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87
20 So the man gave names to all the livestock the birds of the air
and all the beasts of the field But for Adam no suitable helper
was found
21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep and
while he was sleeping he took one of the mans ribs and closed
up the place with flesh
22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken
out of the man and he brought her to the man
23 The man said This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my
flesh she shall be called woman for she was taken out of man
According to these two texts which differ in just a few pages within the
Sacred Book first man and woman were created at the same time but
later it explains that woman was created from the rib taken from man
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah takes it as a cryptically allegory which
means we are not to understand this explanation as saying first and sec-
ond having another ahead does not make one a subordinate
The ten sefiroth that created the universe were simultaneous and the crea-
tion of the first ldquothinking aperdquo was simultaneous in male and female If
we try to understand the Divine message decoding it into common lingo
we find that the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah gives us several clues
The Book of Genesis 2 does not void what is stated in Genesis 1 it is
revealing another aspect of the human being The intention of the second
text is not to tell us how creation took place in a chronological order but
to explain ndash in a symbolic language ndash something more profound
According to the Book of Genesis 1 God created them ldquoin one single
actrdquo and gave them a mission in common Be fruitful and increase in
number fill the earth and subdue it This clarifies the equality of dignity
in both as well as the equality in the mission imparted since both are
given the same responsibility the family and protection of the world
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88
According to this there doesnrsquot seem to be tasks or responsibilities ex-
clusively reserved to men or women family as well as culture are to be
done by both
Adam does not take woman out of himself he was asleep doing noth-
ing Furthermore God expressly wanted to hide from him the way in
which he made woman doing so while he slept when he could not notice
what was happening
About the reasons for God putting Adam to sleep we can take some
concepts from the Divine reasoning The lonely Adam pictured in the
Book of Genesis 27 is a generic Adam because the characteristics
which describe him are the same for either man or woman and are
meshed in the verses 215 through 223 in the four worlds of the Sefirotic
Tree
The original loneliness (interpreted as the transcendence of
mankind with respect to the Cosmos) is the world of Atziluth or
divine protection
It is not good for the man to be alonerdquo is the need to opening
up this is the world of Briah or giving to others
The search for the appropriate assistance (conceived as mutual
and reciprocal) is the world of Yetsirah or trust and learning
The call for man woman and their animals to work together is
the world of Assiah or Earth and its fruits
The symbolism of the rib taken by God from Adam while he slept re-
veals a relationship between man and woman from which two conse-
quences derive Is a reciprocal relationship (there is no woman without
man but there is no man without woman) which leads us to conclude
that both ends of this relationship must be simultaneous
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89
Spirit
Form
Muscles
Organs
Birth
Nerves
Bones
Strength
Soul
Supra
One
Heart
Gestation
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
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90
Conception
A person is born at a particular moment in time due to a specific
situation or to connect with specific people or one person in particular
When speaking of gestation it is important to assign the archetypical
worlds to each step of this process
1 The Archetypical World called Atziluth is where everything
is in a latent state where everything is potential This is the world in
which the Divinity unites soul and spirit It is in this world where the
essence on an individual is found There is a ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath of the
heart here which lives in both the spiritual and the creative worlds
2 In the Creative World called Briah we find strength and the
pure form which gives shape to the physical life where the cellular mul-
tiplication begins The heart sends the energy of the soul and spirit to the
new being in gestation
3 In the Formative World called Yetsirah the whole body is
in the process of development creating the nervous system muscles
bones organs etc
4 In the Material World called Assiah is where the physical
manifestation takes place It is the moment of birth when the new inte-
grated being sees the light of the Sun
Development
At birth the physical body manifests itself in the Malkut of As-
siah or the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth after going through the se-
quence of conception Birth takes place at the end of the descending path
from Kether (God) to Malkut (Earth) After birth the path is inverted
while developing we begin to ascend from Malkut (Earth) to Kether
(God)
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91
The personality of an adult individual is reflected in the stage or
sefirath where he stopped or in which he weakened the most We can
associate these stages with the worlds in an ascending manner reverting
the way of the gestation
For example the Malkut of Assiah is the material world in
which a person must see and touch in order to learn He needs to touch
the fire to know that it burns or needs to knock himself to know how hard
matter is and how weak is the spirit
Yetsirah is the world in which responsibility is formed where
most people have stopped at one point in their lives for not being able to
assimilate one or more of sefiroth that make up this world
A person who stopped in hisher childhood has stopped at the
sefirath Yesod a person seeking information or news or is forever study-
ing is at Hod and the one seeking pleasures (sex food fun) is still going
through Neshah And those searching for trust in themselves are at
Tipherzt
Mature people are in the world of Briah Justice and greatness
will help these people to develop the acquired knowledge
Those who have stopped at Geburah are people who experience
constant hardship until they learn to grasp control of themselves and
once they achieve inner peace they dedicate their lives to good acts On
the other hand those who come out of Hesed are the ones who negotiate
with generosity those who give to receive who seek to buy love affec-
tion or respect
Atziluth the last world is the one closest to God one that takes
us to Him
Those worried about death are at the sefirath Binah They age
prematurely and constantly complain about illnesses
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92
Those who reach Hokhmah is because they have profound en-
lightening visions which in some cases and for certain social groups are
similar to insanity
To reach Kether at the end of life on earth is to go back to God
to achieve the freedom of onersquos soul
In the Material World called Assiah is where the man-
ifestation of birth takes place where the body without formation but with
genetic and Godrsquos instruction and information from past lives gets ac-
quainted with himself and those around him
In the Formative World called Yetsirah life and aca-
demic formation is acquired to be applied to the rest of onersquos life The
person shall have the teachings perception affirmation and confidence
supplied by those around him
In the Creative World called Briah the most important
stage in a personrsquos life is found In it we can apply everything learned
and observed in the previous world Decisions taken in this world will
affect us twice as much in the following world
The Archetypical World called Atziluth is a world of
closeness to the Divinity here is where we should stop and analyzes our
existence prepare the balance sheet of our soul When we get here we
can see what we have contributed to the growth of our soul
The road to Maturity
As we know each sefirath is a tree in itself and each world con-
tains the other four inside that is why we must analyze our maturity from
the moment of birth and the growing years as well
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93
Pro
tec-
tion
Co
ntr
ol
Le
arning
Chi
ldh
ood
Bi
rt
h
Tr
us
t
Ple
asure
Giving
Li
gh
t
S
up
ra
O
ne
Heart
The stages of growth
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
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94
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah when we are born
our ldquopatternrdquo of life is not finished because our body spirit and soul are
not completely integrated
Between the ages of five and seven the central column formed
by Yesod Tipherzt and the ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath Led molds the operative
personality The Heart Trust and Foundation are the basis of a childrsquos
personal development
At the age of thirteen Hod and Neshah stability and glory for-
mation and pleasures become active This is the age of awakening of
knowledge
Between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one Kether and
Malkuth intertwine forming the central structure of the tree and they
give it meaning and dimension
During the following years Geburah Hesed Binah and
Hokhmah integrate themselves completing the incarnation of the plains
When we see rebellious youths who have not yet grasped the
concepts of justice or generosity (gangs drugs) it is because they have
not incarnated completely and Geburah and Hesed have not taken their
places yet There is no set age for complete incarnation because it de-
pends on the surroundings and social experience
The child of an alcoholic and a drug addict who live in poverty
does not have to follow that path If he could find support in a family or
educational group that could help him to develop the missing sefiroth and
that way obtain incarnation he could become a person who understands
the proper concepts of justice and greatness thus clearing his life and ob-
taining personal success
On the other hand the son of an aristocrat or millionaire be-
tween the ages of thirteen and twenty will react against his class but
from there on and according to the integration of his sefiroth to the tree
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95
he will only be interested in developing within his social circle marrying
someone accordingly and following the family pattern but if he should
find a link that could help him develop the missing sefiroth in order to
complete his incarnation he would change his concepts on class and
would obtain personal success
Of course both examples are generalizations which do not apply
to all people If you are reading this book you are a spiritual researcher
and surely do not fall under generalizations
Many people consider a good marriage and a good social posi-
tion as valid objectives but after twenty years or more of walking the
same path they understand that even though they have a good marriage
with someone they love and good economic resources they have no
goals
This usually happens after the age of forty-five or fifty For those
based on their bodies this is the beginning of the end and will seek the
physical methods (surgeries) to slow this process
The Tree of the Maturity
These physical methods are not bad if they go together with a
spiritual development with growth in the tree of the spiritual worlds un-
til the highest point is reached and it is understood that the body is the
container of the spirit and soul
Often enough people get stuck emotionally here and no matter
how old they are they cannot get out of Tipherzt or the sefirath of Trust
It is here where emotions are sometimes confused with feelings obscur-
ing thoughts and the development of spiritual maturity
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96
Under-
standing
Truth
Awakening
Trust
Real
World
Foundation
Power
Humility
Experience
Essence
Heath
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97
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
Hod Glory
The Human Being
Soul and Spirit
The Worlds of the Spirit The Battle of the Spirit
The terror and the Fears
Difficult Situations The Problems of the Spirit
The Worlds of Solutions Instincts feelings and senses
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98
Soul and Spirit
We already know that neither one of us is a new soul all of us
have accumulated experience from previous lives in other incarnations
We also know that those celestial beings that occupy our body
have come during the last thousands of years
We also know that this inter-relation or connection between soul
and body helps to correct the soul
What we need to know now is What is the spirit
The spirit is our inner Self our mind it is what we really are and
who we are
Our spirit is formed by four worlds Each world relates to the
other on the basis of interactive processes and it works its way up from
the concrete (tangible) to the ethereal (spiritual) levels
1 The Material World called Assiah or the world of
Logic is based on Malkut passes through Yessed and opens up into
Hod and Neshagh The logical though is something you can almost
touch it has foundation stability and glory
2 The Formative World called Yetsirah or the world of
the Perceptions is based on Tipherzt and opens its arms into Ge-
brurah and Hesed The perceptions of the human being are beauty
justice and greatness
3 The Creative World called Briah or the world of Feel-
ings is based on Led (heart) and from there goes on to Binah and
Hokhmah Our feelings are the product of the alchemy formed by
the ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath of the heart intelligence and wisdom
4 The Archetypical World called Atziluth or the world
of Intuition has only one sefirath as base Kether Divinity resides
here that is intuition is the direct link to Divinity
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99
As we can see the spirit is the part that connects our contained
(physical body) to our soul (or celestial body) and that is who we really
are The spirit must take care of the body so that it ldquolastsrdquo as long as pos-
sible When it is mistreated with external products (poor nutrition alco-
hol tobacco or drugs) the soulrsquos stay and learning period is shortened
this will cause the soul to come back in another container to continue
learning
When an illness or accident causes the brain to stop the spirit is
affected never the soul The soul keeps learning even though the body is
inert or in a deep coma and it will stay there for some ldquotimerdquo after the
heart stops beating It could be minutes maybe hours or days before the
soul abandons the body
When the death is surprising and unexpected (accident violence
etc) both the soul and the spirit stay in condition of shock and are late
many time in dividing
Each person has in its spirit what we know as personality stud-
ied by Jung even his profession is related to these worlds For example a
person with an Assiah personality will be in the armed forces Profes-
sionals are Yetsirah the artists are in the world of Briah and the mysti-
cal people live in Atziluth
Even as we are crossing the tree sefiroacutethico the personality was
passing of being introverted and logical to extrovert and dreamy
Undoubtedly the complexity of the spirit and the dynamic that
surrounds it could generate multiple models Human beings depending
on the inherited genes educational environment social development will
modify some of the parameters associated to these worlds in order to be
accepted by society
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
100
The soul is very important in this development since in its mis-
sion of learning it will try to put the person in challenging situations
provoking logical feelings and intuitive sensations
The way to analyze these worlds and know to which ones we
blong (surely to all of them but some more than others) is to know our
strengths and our weaknesses to find our fears and the chance to
ovecome them
Each world has its own ten sefiroth that respond to its own
behavior
The residents of the world of intuition or Atziluth
are generalists hypothetical not precise speculative idealists in-
ventive illogical indecisive futurists and disperse
Those who live in the world of feelings or Briah are a
logical poetic artistic passionate personal cordial ethical justice seek-
ers individualists and humanitarians
The inhabitants of the world of the senses or Yetsirah
are careful detail minded specialists objective precise concrete real-
ists profound practical and conventional
Those who live in the world of logic or Assiah are log-
ical analytic extremist scientific cold dispassionate theoretical imper-
sonal shrewd and insensitive
Neither world is better than another and there isnrsquot a single hu-
man being that ldquofitsrdquo exactly into one defined world we all have behav-
iors from all of them but the proportions are different in each one of us
and that is what makes us all different from each other
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101
The worlds of the Spirit
In the center ldquoThe Column of Equilibriumrdquo (Balance)
Intuition Atziluth
Feelings Briah
Sense Yetsirah
Logical Assiah
Thought
Intelli-
li-gence
Jus
tice
Glo
ry
Foun-
dation
Ma-
teri
al
Be
au-
ty
Sta-
bil-
ity
Grea
tness
Wisdom
Su-
pra
One
Heart
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102
The Battle of the Spirit
As we could see the battle is not very fair three worlds are ruled
by the heart and only one is ruled by the brain That is why in most cas-
es instincts or feelings ldquowinrdquo over reason When free will was given to
us it was so that we could ldquothink overrdquo our acts
Are two ways of thinking intuition and reasoning with very dif-
ferent characteristics
Some thoughts come to mind in a spontaneous way in reality
that is what happens most of the time Because Atziluth Briah and
Yetsirah are always present in a potential way ready to jump in and re-
spond in a way of which we are not totally conscious and cannot control
The actions of these three worlds are quick without effort associative
and very often charged with emotions They are ruled by habits that is
why it is difficult to modify or control them
The world of Assiah instead is ruled by conscience and delib-
erate reasoning it is slower serial and requires effort it follows rules
Needs more time when something upsets us it clouds our reasoning
This means the issue is stuck on the upper worlds and it doesnrsquot allow us
to make logical decisions usually because we are afraid to reason
For example the idea that something awful can happen if we
take a plane even though that possibility is remote will not let us think
of anything else The upper worlds become dominant Emotion is over-
come in turn by the possibility by what could happen and not by reality
so much
The emotional and issue is the less ldquoreasonablerdquo people are
According to Daniel Kahneman winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize
in Economics
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
103
ldquoEmotions in general do not influence decision making but one
emotion in particular (fear) distorts the perception of risk and generates
errors in the making of decisionsrdquo
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah fear originates in the
upper world but if we can take it to the world of Assiah or logical it
vanishes into thin air
Nevertheless if once we make a reasoned decision we donrsquot reg-
ister having made it curious enough we are not conscious we have
changed our way of thinking
Most people after changing their way of thinking reconstruct
the old pattern They underestimate their change Besides when they
have been persuaded of something they believe they always thought that
way The upper worlds hide behind the mask that reason displays and
have us believing they were never there we are convinced that we al-
ways think rationally
It is true that many people admit making a mistake at one time
or another ndash you could be one of them ndash but that doesnrsquot mean that they
have changed their way of thinking on a particular issue and that they
wonrsquot make the same mistake again
Fears
All living beings have fears it is natural and it responds to the
instinct of survival You donrsquot have to be a caballist or scientist to state
that man is a fearful ldquoanimalrdquo One hundred percent of the human spirit is
ldquoshyrdquo or timid and it fears an endless amount of things and situations He
is intimidated by them The important thing is to identify the things he
fears and why Donrsquot even think you are the only one who fears some-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
104
thing ALL OF US fear something The thing is that that ldquosomethingrdquo is
different for each one of us
Fear is not bad or good it simply is disturbing feeling about
something unknown or if it is known we canrsquot control and we are afraid
it might hurt us
When God created the four elements or semi gods (Fire Water
Air and Earth) He gave them the ability to help or hurt mankind that is
why Fire can cook our food or it can destroy us Water is for drinking or
drowning Earth can give us vegetables or bury us with Air we live and
without it we die The four elements can give or take life And it is pre-
cisely in them that the depth of all fears lies
Fear has companions such as anguish
obsessions and phobias
Many cultures and old and modern religions disguise fears (in
many cases to manipulate people) with the presence of the Devil or dia-
bolic things The Judeo-Christian Kaballah upholds that mankind in its
search for alternative gods created this evil figure to justify its fears and
anguishes
Fear lives in the upper part of the Sefirotic Tree of both worlds of
the spirit where man thinks less and fears more First he starts at Atzi-
luth where he acts mostly based on instinct he is almost irrational and
here is where he ignites the anguish fearrsquos best friend From there it goes
down to Briah and it leans on phobic feelings to go on to Yetsirah
where it can attract obsessions
In the emotional sentimental world or Briah reside an endless
number of opposed phobic fears darkness or light open spaces or closed
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
105
space crowds or loneliness heights or depths planes or boatshellip and we
could go on for pages
In the world of the sensations or Yetsirah live the obsessive
fears disguised as concern
Worry for details rules lists order schedules up to
the point of losing of sight the principal object of the activity
Perfectionism which interferes with the completion of
a task (unable to finish a project because it doesnrsquot comply with
onersquos own demands which are overly strict)
Excessive dedication to onersquos work and to the produc-
tivity with exclusion of the activities of leisure and the friend-
ship (not attributable to economic evident needs)
Excessive stubbornness very scrupulous and inflexi-
ble when it comes to moral issues ethics or values (not attributed
to the identification with religion)
Unable to discard old and useless items even when
there is no sentimental value attached
Unable to share the work load with others unless
they will accept to do it your way exactly
Excessive thriftiness in spending money must be ac-
cumulated to cover future catastrophes
All these fears which live in the worlds of instincts feelings and
sensations are not related to diabolic situations Satan does not exist in
the Divine Universe Satan is a creation of our spirit to encourage the
learning and development of our soul The best way to teach our soul is
to overcome our fears bringing them down to the rational world of Assi-
ah to keep them under control and letting them go
This can be done following these steps
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
106
1 The first step is to put your fears in the world of
logic or Assiah not worrying about why this fear exists but how
do we respond to this fear behavior (eg paralysis desperation)
Hesed origin
2 Be specific when it comes to defining your con-
duct of fear and its consequences because the problem it self is
the solution Geburah control
3 Donrsquot look at your fear as such but as an obsta-
cle in attaining your goals Take it to Tipherzt trust
4 Define exactly the way you want to change your
conduct Go to Neshah balance
5 Establish a time limit to obtain the proposed
change For this Hod learning is the right sefirath
Search for an adequate way to make your change with-
out going to extremes for instance becoming a perfectionist
What you want to change is not making mistakes but the irra-
tional fear for avoiding making mistakes If you are set out to
making mistakes to change you will stop worrying about per-
fection but you will also stop worrying about the mistakes you
could make That is the mistakes are not the problem but the
fear of making mistakes is Work on Yesod construc-
tionbuilding
6 Be patient changes donrsquot take place overnight
whatrsquos more there could be a set back especially when there is a
fast progression in the change of the conduct of fear Please un-
derstand that a straight forward improvement is not always to be
expected you could be going forward there could be stops and
set backs which will allow you to compare and value the differ-
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
107
ences between your previous status with your situation of pro-
gress Go through Malkuth action
Once the world of Assiah logic overcomes your fears you will
see how your fears crashed with logic and vanish
Donrsquot forget that fear is a close friend of depression Fear attracts
dissonance synonym of physical and spiritual disease When one of the
elements stops working the machinery works with serious difficulties
When one of the parts slows down or over speeds therersquos also a lack of
balance and things donrsquot run well
Fear is one of those elements in the human being with great
power to generate lack of harmony correspondence and balance Its
negativity does not allow us to act neither with freedom intelligence nor
with common sense On the contrary it makes us highlight aspects of our
life which we shouldnrsquot consider so important It makes us go back
when we should be going forward It makes us lie when we should be
telling the truth And it takes away our plenitude creativity and capacity
to love
Problematic Situations
Man faces difficult situations all his life from childhood to old
age He finds himself with the obligation to address them with systemat-
ic processes of thought but he doesnrsquot know how important they are All
problems can be grouped in these three definitions
Urgent and important
Urgent or important
Neither urgent nor important
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
108
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah and the sefirotic trees show us
that if we establish priorities if we analyze situations if we identify op-
portunities there are no problems without a solution and that solution is
usually much simpler than we would have thought The method to apply
the adequate solution to a problem is part of the kaballistic teachings
Problems of the Spirit
The Spirit is made up of four worlds (logic sensations emotions
and intuition) if we know how to apply them correctly and how to dis-
tribute our problems amongst these worlds each one of them will solve
the part of the problem to which it applies and the general solution will
become available without stress nor complications
The World of logical thought is the one that analyzes a problem
concretely creating a new Sefirotic Tree with four worlds Ideas Caus-
es Opportunities and Solutions we go through them from the column
of forms or shapes looking for the world of detail or feminine
Atziluth is the world of Ideas formed by Kether Binah and Hokhmah
Kether is the situation worrying you the problem in your
head or philosophical it could be physical or mental could be serious or
momentary but none the less it is the center of the worry
Binah is the expansive thought the one that analyzes the
components distinguishes the pertinent parts the real causes of the prob-
lem Binah clarifies the information to define the situation
Hokhmah is the convergent thought it evaluates and develops
the main idea of the problem compares theorizes and creates a hypothe-
sis which means it is the one that focuses on the problem to be solved
looking for the way to follow and the steps to take
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
109
Briah is the world of Causes formed by Leb Geburah and Hesed
Leb is the virtual sefirath of the heart which plays a part in
every problem and even though thought is the most concrete world of
the spirit the heart has its influence when the time to make a decision
comes We should make the problem ldquovirtualrdquo analyze the solution with
the heart and without it in order to be objective and make the right deci-
sion
Geburah is justice Try to think as a lawyer they only deal
with proven facts they donrsquot go by hearsay Clean your mind of external
ldquoadditionsrdquo analyze ldquowhat problems make up this problemrdquo
Hesed is greatness It is very important to know where the
problem was originated in order not to repeat it you must have the
greatness to admit your percentage of responsibility in the origin of the
problem Donrsquot put the responsibility all out there blaming others do
know that we alwayshellip alwayshellip are partly responsible for what happens
to us Admitting responsibility requires greatness
Yetsirah is the world of Opportunities formed by
Tipherzt Hod and Neshah
Tiphezt is the sefirath of beauty and every problem has a
beautiful side to it which is the opportunity it opens up to the other
worlds Every problem is the starting point towards truth Many times
the truth is hidden and the problems bring it out in the light Look for the
positive side of the problem there always is one look for the sun after
the storm
Hod is the glory and glory is acknowledgement To
acknowledge a problem is part of the solution If we describe the prob-
lem and its consequences we could see clearly which opportunity it is
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
110
revealing Remember facts or situations it will help us recognize the real
scenario of the problem
Neshah is stability which will come when we solve the prob-
lem Imagine your life without the problem try to see which things will
be better and analyze which ones could be worse in order to avoid them
Donrsquot let it catch you off guard Just like in a chess match every move
must be carefully thought out and advantage taken of the adversaryrsquos lit-
tle mistakes
Assiah is the world of Solutions formed by Yesod and Malkuth
Yesod is the sefirath of foundation it is the one to support and
filter the information sent by the rest to Malkuth If the other nine have
done their job correctly the problem would reach this point practically
resolved In some cases it doesnrsquot even reach this point since it was re-
solved on its way As long as we clarify and converge ideas analyze the
real causes and describe its consequences the storm we saw coming at
first becomes a sea breeze
Malkuth is the earth action It establishes these ways to fol-
low to resolve a problem or whatrsquos left of it The truth is that Malkuth
steps in less than 5 of the cases because the big problems do not ex-
ist but small problems that transformed a snow ball rolling downhill that
breaks up into thousands of harmless little particles when it hits a serious
and conclusive analytical spirit
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
111
The Sefiroacutethico
Tree of the logical thought
Diverge
Facts
Acknowl-
edging
Filtration
Action
Serenity
Equilibrium
Origin
Converge
Knowing
Heart
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
112
The Worlds of Solutions
The other three worlds of the spirit (sensations emotions and intuition)
are present in the previous development as observers but sometimes
(many times) they are present in the analysis of the concrete world where
logical thoughts occur taking the solution to the problem through not so
logical paths In these cases we have to appeal to the central column or
Column of Equilibrium of the Sefirotic Tree of the Spirit
Kether (Intuition) receiving the energy that the Divinity and Its
Light sends us
Leb (Heart) will find answers in our feelings
Tipherzt (Beauty) will consult our inner sensations
Yesod and Malkuth (Foundation and Earth) bring us back to the
world of reasoning and logic
This means that we can solve many problems using our intuition our
feelings or our sensations but we should always put them through the
filter of logical thought of truth putting passion aside and trying to be as
analytical as possible
Instincts Feelings and Sensations
Instincts or Atziluth feelings or Briah and sensations or Yetsirah to-
gether create an inner stir up when motivated by action Mankind is
mostly conditioned by emotions and sensations by likes and dislikes
Often enough feelings and sensations are side tracked by mankindrsquos own
interests and selfishness to the point of invalidating sense and reason
making one behave in ways which one sees with consternation that Assi-
ah has been forgotten Thus logic is destroyed by the three upper
worlds When we snap out later and we see the mistake it is too late to
do anything about it
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
113
The upper worlds usually come up as an answer to the spontaneous eval-
uation of perceptions Emotions such as anger or fear can be harmful or
healthy such as fondness or compassion While aversions are typical un-
healthy emotions good love and compassion are outstanding examples of
noble emotions that lift our human nature
Human beings are pretty open to emotional development and so is the
range and strength of their emotions We are all somewhat passionate
and impulsive and cold and reflective at the same time What varies is
the percentage some get angry very fast and others are patient While
one person could be not impulsive emotionally another could go through
a wide range of emotions at the speed of light
The emotional worlds hurt the physical body that is why they should be
controlled According to clinical experience a person dominated by
emotions could have consecutively or simultaneously health issues af-
fecting several organic systems I will mention a few psychosomatic
health problems
Migraines
This symptom is made up of other somatic symptoms that go to-
gether in people with a perfectionist personality with changing moods
They usually manifest themselves with painful muscle contractions of the
neck as well as nausea and vomiting
Obesity
Obesity usually develops within the frame of anxieties in re-
sponse to frustrations and disappointment through devotion to food8
Hypertension
The main reason for vascular hypertension is emotional tension
in people who show apparent serenity and affability but are really cover-
ing up hostile emotions and predisposition ndash that must be restrained ndash for
social or employment reasons
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114
Cardiovascular System
It has been proven that the stress caused by anguish tends to fre-
quently increase your heart beat cardiac distress and blood pressure
Respiratory System
Crying laughing screaming o talking imply changes your
breathing action excessive breathing or the opposite are typical respons-
es during contrasting periods of action or relaxation Examples of this are
the hyperventilation syndrome and asthma amongst others
The Gastrointestinal Tract
The symptoms of gastrointestinal disorders are multiple the most
frequent they are anorexia bulimia nausea nervous indigestion vomit-
ing and diarrhea
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
115
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Yesod Foundation
Free Will
The emotional worlds
Control of emotions
Who controls me
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
116
The emotional worlds
The emotional worlds are distributed within the Sefirotic Tree from
Kether to Malkuth
Kether is imagination it is ethereal and impalpable it comes
from within and surprises us as if it came from outside We imagine
things or situations this is the world of Atziluth
What happens in our lives makes better sense when we use our imagina-
tion and create our own stories These could be situations related directly
to what is happening to us or just the opposite For example if we are
watching a Superman movie we unconsciously accept that the character
flies We know the actor is supported by ropes of steel or that it is a
computerized trick but we go prepared to accept this The same thing
happens with a horror movie we donrsquot ignore that the monster is made
out of some synthetic material that those masks are created with makeup
or that the blood could be tomato sauce but while we are watching the
movie we let the world of Atziluth take over our spirit and we accept
what takes place in the screen as real
The important thing is to know when the movie ends and reality begins
There have been cases of people jumping off rooftops believing they
were Superman or have shot others thinking they were either Rambo or
Terminator Without going to these extreme examples many people be-
lieve they are living stories out of soap operas in which the characters
are either good or bad In them the manipulation of society is done
through ldquobelievablerdquo or ldquodetestablerdquo stereotypes In these stories the
ldquogood guysrdquo consume the sponsorrsquos products that is why they are good
looking and successful while the ldquobad guys are very badrdquo and always
end up in jail or dead Very far from the reality
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117
Hokhmah is memory it is our particular wisdom it is what we
learn from the past the things our own life has taught us But memories
sometimes play tricks on us
Often enough we associate what we see with some other type of experi-
ence or memory For instance if somebody speaks loudly we feel we are
being attacked because we remember that tone of voice being used by a
teacher or our father to make an observation or punish us This memory
which is not rational will put us on alert waking all our feelings of de-
fense But it could be that this person speaks loudly because he needs to
be listened to with the best intentions towards us In this case Atziluth
would have reacted against our relationship with the other person We
usually do not notice these processes because these are unconscious be-
haviors of which we are not aware When we remember the incident we
only describe our experience related to the visual perception and with
conscientious thought We almost never refer to what we heard felt im-
agined or what our intuition told us What this does is that we visualize
an incomplete picture of the situation
Binah is the comprehension our intelligence While we hear the
other person speaking loudly we generate currents of thought These
thoughts could relate directly and we could probably raise our voice as
well Both of us speaking loudly almost screaming will dull our compre-
hension and we wonrsquot be able to reason the other personrsquos words nor
will we understand why we are being loud In unexpected situations
such as an accident in transit (like somebody hitting our car in the free-
way) we create an opinion of the other person while we observe the in-
cident But we do not reason the occurrence It is not easy for us to un-
derstand in those circumstances and we unchain reactions that we will
regret later
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
118
ldquoThe three sefiroth of the tree of emotions make up the trilogy of At-
ziluth where everything is potential everything is relative where im-
agination lives with memories and comprehe nsionrdquo
Listening is Hesed greatness since knowing how to listen is
greatness Our hearing perceives in a selective way depending on the
attention we are paying In first place we hear the most discordant
sounds Some people listen independently from what they see while
others associate what they hear to what they see Closer sounds also get
mixed with those coming from afar (planes trains)
Seeing is Geburah justice When the police investigate an acci-
dent talks to five witnesses and gets five different versions of the same
accident This is because each witness perceived the same scene in a dif-
ferent way according to their distance and angle their surprise their
memories and their fears What each one was doing and how long it took
their minds to react to adapt to the new situation is also important
Feeling is Tipherzt beauty Any situation of relationship or ac-
tion (somebody yelling at us somebody crashing into us somebody hug-
ging us or loving us) triggers our instinctive emotions and can make us
feel uncomfortable sad surprised tender excited furious anxious nos-
talgichellip and so many other ways
It is important to know how to handle them from the sefirath of beauty
Both love and fury are born there It is the provider of spiritual nourish-
ment it is the one that sends the order to our hand to slap or caress to our
mouth the order to insult or say words of love to our legs the order to get
closer or start running away If we control our reactions and let our brain
make the decision we will save ourselves lots of problems apologies and
unpleasantness
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
119
ldquoThese three sefiroth of the tree of emotions form the trilogy of
Briah the world of creation where strength idea and ways of liste n-
ing seeing and feeling come togetherrdquo
Taste and smell are Hod and Neshah or glory and stability the sev-
enth and eighth sefiroth These two senses go together When we smell a
dish we like we feel our mouth ldquowateringrdquo This is because our sense of
taste already sent the known flavors to our brain which in turn already
started in Yetsirah the registered memories In some gas stations we
taste the smell of gasoline in our mouth as if we had drunk it Being close
to a trash dump makes us nauseous since the smell is perceived by our
nose and mouth irritating our throat
In these cases the formative world of Yetsirah makes us react instinc-
tively to aggressive odors
Reflexes are Yesod foundation This sefirah closes the trilogy of the
world of Yetsirah which is the formative or conceptual world and re-
flexes just like taste and smell are instinctive concepts that we cannot
control When we watch a thriller or action movie we move as if we
were the character in it we flinch when they stick a knife into somebody
or we move avoiding the punch We usually experience some movements
as if we were moving ourselves we even experience tension in our mus-
cles Itrsquos common that if we see others dancing we will also feel the im-
pulse to dance
ldquoThese three sefiroth are the base of our instinctive and intuitive sys-
tem We can control all other sefiroth imagination memories un-
derstanding listening seeing and even feeling but the senses of smell
and taste and reflexes are very hard to control that is why we must
concentrate our attention on themrdquo
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120
Re-
mem-
ber
Lis-tening
Tast-
ing
Re-
flexes
Rea-
soning
Feel-
ing
Smell-ing
Seeing
Compre-
hension
Imag-
ining
As we can see Malkuth is in the world of Assiah and takes no part in
emotions It is the material world reason and reasoning If we manage to
handle our emotions and ldquobring them downrdquo to Malkuth reason will
prevail and our behavior will be logical improving our relation with the
world
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
121
Controlling your emotions
Now that we know our emotions we know where their origin
takes place and which worlds rule them we can analyze the possibility of
controlling them to reach our goals since a person who angers easily
spoils hisher own happiness and disturbs otherrsquos peace of mind
Without a deliberate effort emotions will not be under the direct
control of our will of Assiah and we will be able to control them in this
rational and logic world We must train our mind to control our emotions
the moment they stir up This can be done by watching them objectively
as soon as they flourish identifying them with a name or a mental label
such as ldquoAngerrdquo ldquoJealousyrdquo ldquoSorrowrdquo ldquoFuryrdquo etc
Once we have names for our emotions we will be then in a bet-
ter position to let go of them without being dragged by them The mo-
ment we can register our anger calmly (when we become aware that this
anger originated in the upper worlds) that is when we make it descend to
Assiah to the world of reason and our anger will leave us
At first this could be useful if during the day we repeat to our-
selves a formula such as
ldquoWhat am I feeling nowrdquohellip ldquoWhat am I thinkingrdquohellip
We respond immediately
ldquoI am feeling angerrdquohellip ldquoI am jealousrdquohellip
We can also investigate even afterwards why the anger (or any
other adverse emotion) took over us so that we can avoid these situations
or responses in the future
Who controls me
Even though every human being has in its spirit the world of As-
siah very few use this world to think logically and by themselves This
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
122
passivity or indifference is the result of the development of massive
communication media
Radio television yellow journalism even the Internet push their
messages on all of us every minute of the day and its penetration power
is reinforced by the rooted human disposition to accept everything we are
being told and comply with what we are dared to do Bombarded by
thousands of stimuli we donrsquot think by ourselves anymore we donrsquot feel
our emotions anymore or start up our own actions instead we feel how
others want us to feel The pressure of the multitude is irresistible
When we explain that Kether accepts that Superman flies be-
cause it is part of the film game we must control that Kether does not
accept that my self esteem depends on the perfume or shirt I buy or that
my relationship with people does not depend on the car I have
We saw that in the world of Atziluth everything is relative eve-
rything is in a potential state that is why commercials aim at our imagina-
tion memories and comprehension to get us to buy their products
All these communication means teach us to hold our capacity to
reason or if we happen to reason to do it the way they expect us to
Those who manipulate the media (not necessarily the owners but the
sponsors) are motivated by their own interests which are fortune and
power They play important roles in several means of life such as politic
business law medicine and education
Publicity newscasts soap operas even reality shows penetrate
us through the world of Briah which is the listeningseeingfeeling trilo-
gy In Briah we find the idea in formation that is why journalism is con-
sidered the ldquofourth powerrdquo Nevertheless in todayrsquos globalizes world
Kabbalah places it at the top over all other earthly powers because it
manipulates images ideas and it gives us the news ldquoaimedrdquo at their inter-
ests The role of reasoning tends to be subordinated to that of emotion
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
123
while the mental inertia and indifference eases the conquest of reason
That is why when public opinion is formed through manipulation a small
minority is able to control the majority Publicity and newscasts are the
most effective mechanism to make us ldquobelieverdquo what is good or bad for
our spirit and body
Control of decisions and Free Will
All of those who are part of the small but powerful marketing
minority have something to sell Commercials make us wish more and
more things that will not necessarily make us happier or give us peace of
mind They tell us that happiness is having the latest entertainment center
or the new cooking system But no matter how many things we buy we
could still feel our lives painfully empty
The speed power and efficiency of all this technological and so-
cial development drive us into an increasing frequency of illness due to
stress and nervous crisis Those who do not collapse under this pressure
find other ways to escape such as drugs alcohol and psychotic cults
The battle is not easy because the offer is gratifying we are even part of
that wheel because we sell a product or service which is commercialized
that way The only significant comparison we can make is with our-
selves between the person we were one month earlier a year earlier or
even a decade earlier and the person we are at present physically intel-
lectually morally and financially If there hasnrsquot been an improvement
or it hasnrsquot been enough we should ask ourselves why that is and do
something to modify this without delay If done regularly this ldquocheck-
uprdquo could be very beneficial If we set our pride and prejudice aside and
we check out our values and perspectives then we will be able to live a
simpler healthier and happier life
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
124
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Malkuth
The Kingdom
The Rational World
Education and freedom
Rights and obligations
Daily negotiations Responsibilities
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
125
Education and freedom
As a child I was told that
ldquoThe better educated a person is the freer that person isrdquo
At the time I didnrsquot understand the significance of those words
because at the age of ten to me education was school teachers and
studying
Today a few years older the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah taught
me that education is knowledge and it is much more profound than what I
was taught in school
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the first thing educa-
tion should do is warn the students that all knowledge implies a certain
risk of error and illusion Human knowledge is exposed to errors in per-
ception and judgment and illusions caused by the narrowness of ideas
cultural influence and the emotions and experiences of each person
Scientific knowledge is not even immune to error and illusion
theories and methods of investigation protect their own errors and illu-
sions That is why the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah education gives the kind
of knowledge that allows for self criticism and detects errors and illu-
sions The ldquoknowledge blindnessrdquo can be cured with a more open and
reflexive education that self-criticizes
The media overwhelms us with information It is fundamental
that we learn to discern what is relevant and what is accessorial
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah invites us to analyze the four
worlds of the human spirit together with the four worlds of the societies
in which they live political cultural religious and financial
The archetypical world called Atziluth is the one where eve-
rything is in a latent potential state That is the spirituality and religious
world
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
126
In the creative world called Briah we find the strength in its
pure form and the ideas This is the emotional or cultural world
In the formative world called Yetsirah everything is in the
formation or a conceptual process which is the world of sensations or
political
In the material world called Assiah is where the physical
manifestation takes place which is the logical or financial world
Globalization is another important issue that conditions our free-
dom According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the world has been
globalizing from its inception God never discriminated we are all His
children Moses was a ldquoglobalizesrdquo when he took his people to the Prom-
ised Land through the desert So were Abraham Noah Jesus when he
asked his apostles to take his word evangelizing throughout the Earth
The current systems of communication make us realize how sim-
ilar and at the same time how different we are from each other The
Judeo-Christian Kabbalah struggles for unity not to erase diversity and
vice-versa Neither is the individual person above religion culture or so-
ciety nor is religion culture or society above the individual person Only
God is above each and every one of us
Let us remember that God created the four Genii or Elements
(Earth Air Water and Fire) and it is the obligation of all human beings
to protect them since they are our only support Mankind is destroying
them with the contamination it has created which will derive in our own
destruction But this depends on our free will thai is why there is an
even more powerful globalization than the financial one the intellectual
affective and moral globalization This is the only way we will achieve
the Freedom to which the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah invites you the
world is united by its culture technology and the financial exchange and
at the same time it is divided by politics and religion
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
127
To need
Control
Respect
Free Will
LIFE
Happiness
Dignity
Freedom
To know
To love
Kabbalah teach us to understand that every human being shares
the same worries feelings and the same destiny no matter where he
lives
The values of the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah are solidarity hos-
pitality tolerance and respect towards the dignity of every person This
means that every culture should learn from other cultures and each socie-
ty from other societies
The kabballistic ideals of freedom consist in respect for the indi-
viduality and diversity and promoting solidarity and comprehension
Responsibilities
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128
Rights and obligations
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah bases its doctrine on the rights and obliga-
tions of all human beings Each person has certain right and obligations
which become basic responsibilities of which each person must take
charge one hundred percent like the responsibility to control and manage
its own life building its own life plan and following it by accomplishing
goals
These obligations have three important axes based on the first three
sefiroth
bull Kether or Crown and self-esteem
bull Hokhmah or the Wisdom to known oneself
bull Binah or the Intelligence to make decisions according
to onersquos inner and outer personal needs without hurting
oneself or others
The basic rights are found in the seven lower sefiroth
bull Hesed and the right to freedom
bull Geburah and the right to control your life
bull Tipherzt and the right to happiness
bull Neshah and the right to dignity
bull Hod and the right to (respect) be respected
bull Yesod and the right of free expression
bull Malkuth and the right to life
Mankind in its daily interaction relates to its sefiroth and its funda-
mental rights according to three different styles of response based on the
lower worlds
The world of Briah or pure or emotional power
It promotes inequality always having a loser and winner This is not a
creative or equal relation
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
129
The person denies its own respect rights and needs hurting itself
These are mostly selfish individualist and passionate people
The world of Yetsirah or conceptual
It deals with defending onersquos own rights without hurting others It im-
plies equality and respect
The person knows the border line between its own individuality and
those of others
They are mostly realistic practical conventional and objective
The world of Assiah or physical or logical manifestation
They are mostly analytic calculating cold and insensitive
It promotes non-equal relationships against the rights of others It is
an unbalanced relationship in which manipulation takes place
The person invades the rights of others getting Responses of fear
Daily negotiations
When people speak of negotiations they think they are talking about
money but negotiation is part of daily life and it is also analyzed
through the sefirotic trees of the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah
The negotiation can be with oneself for instance
Irsquom staying in bed another fifteen minutes even if I have to go
to work without breakfast
The negotiation can be with your spouse for instance
We can spend Christmas with your family if we spend New
Yearrsquos with mine
We can negotiate with our children for example
You can have the car tonight if you come home early and
wash it tomorrow
We can negotiate with our fellow workers for instance
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
130
If you cover me this Saturday Irsquoll cover you next Sunday
As you can see in none of these examples and many more that surely
you must remember is money mentioned as exchange In a negotiation
the effort must be compensated equally
Nobody should win or lose or better yet both should come out winning
obtaining something each one wants In a negotiation everybody should
know what is at stake and what each one will obtain in exchange
Let us remember that the method of solving problems is based on the
lower or material world of Assiah but a negotiation reaches for the upper
worlds like Yetsirah or intuition or the world of Briah or emotions in
some cases it even appeals to Atziluth or spirit
You must train you brain to stay in the lower worlds to negotiate be-
cause it will be more to your benefit Try to be objective since feelings
or emotions play against you and the effort will not be compensated
equally
You must create what is called a creative antagonism separating the ob-
jective facts in order to get to a reasonable and logic agreement It is very
important that both parties feel they are winners Get used to listening to
every word the other person is saying In Kabbalah the word is very im-
portant it has a double message what is being said and what is meant
When your spouse child or friend get angry and scream for something
you already know it is not important they are really saying something
else Hug himher kiss himher on the forehead and tell himher you
want to hear the reasons behind the anger But on the contrary if you
feel offended and respond screaming even louder you will have lost the
negotiation before you even begin
Turn your defects into virtues that way you will get a just negotiation
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
131
If you are passive think of the object and state your argument
with precision and not getting nervous
If you are aggressive look for the motives and keep them
away while negotiating
If triumph is important to you think the other one is right and
try to be unbiased
If you are anguished think of the reasons in your favor not to
show weakness
If you are a fatalist and you think you are going to lose nego-
tiate with a relaxed mind you have nothing to risk act without
worrying about the end result
When Jesus says
ldquoPut the other cheekrdquo
He refers to Judeo-Christian Kabbalah because it is not to be
slapped but to accept the embrace of negotiation
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
132
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Conclusions
The Tree of Trees
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
133
The Tree of Trees
Reading this book we have learned to go through the different
sefirotic trees the creation of the universe its worlds and centers of
strength the sefirotic columns the Adam Kadmon tree Jesusrsquo genealogy
the Our Father the Sermon in the Mountain (Beatitudes) the evolution of
mankind gestation development maturing the spirit decisions emo-
tions and even responsibilities
But we also learned about the existence of infinite sefirotic trees
because each sefirath (no matter how small) contains a tree within and
each tree (no matter how big) is only a sefirath of a larger tree
If we try to unify all the sefirotic trees we will see that they are
all similar we could even say the same they all have the same logical
pattern they were all created by the same Divine Architect
The sefiroth take different names according to their presence but
their strength does not change since they are endless sources of energy
That is why when we see Sephiroth we see its gifts
Kether Crown Inspiration Divine Light Supra-One א
Hokhmah Wisdom Word Experience Soul ב
Binah Intelligence Spirit Thought Fortune ג
Hesed Greatness Love Humility Strength Giving ד
Geburah Justice David Truth Respect Shape ה
Tipherzt Beauty Salomon Purity Fidelity Goodness ו
Neshah Stability Power Forgiveness Trust Effort ז
Hod Glory Blessing Protection Education ח
Yesod Foundation Simplicity Assistance Purification ט
Malkuth Kingdom Peace Prayer Freedom Birth י
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
134
The only sefirath that has only one meaning or name is Leb the
sefirath of the heart and for that reason it cannot be modified Because it
is virtual it appears or disappears according to the tree we are looking at
because its power is so big that it doesnrsquot need to be identified or be pre-
sent in the tree because it is a Sefirotic Tree in itself and it is the one that
guides us and protects us
Each one of us has its own Sefirotic Tree which we
must go through without a doubt from Kether to Malkuth and from
Malkuth to Kether
Free will lets us chose the road to take the sefiroth to go
through but it does not let us get out of our own and only tree
We are the only craft men of our own destiny we devel-
op our only precious and exclusive Tree of Life
It is up to us to comply with our Logics Divine Plan or to
decide to evade our responsibilities looking for shortcuts and trying to
twist the Divine assignments
The free will given to us by God demands that we put our spir-
itual and philosophical life in order without further delay to build a dig-
nified future and face each day as if it were the last one
The physical and spiritual kaballistic world from Kether to
Malkuth is truly a happy place to live in if people only thought of go-
ing through their personal and unique Sefirotic Tree
Let us remember these wise words
ldquoDeath is certain life is uncertainrdquo
(Maranam niyatam jivitam aniyatam)
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135
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
The Divine Logic
Cesar Leo Marcus
Windmills International Editions Inc
wwwwindmillseditionscom
California - USA ndash 2012
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
136
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
11
The Old Testament
The Hebrew has three scriptures The Tanakh or Old Testament
the Talmud or collection of erudite commentaries on the Tanakh and
The Kabbalah or mystic interpretation of the Torah Ancient rabbis
would say that the first of these three books represented the Divine Body
the second one the Divine Spirit and the fourth one the Divine Soul The
average person can benefit from reading and obeying the first book eru-
dite scholars can study the second one but wise people meditate with the
third one
The Tanakh
Old Testament also called The Book of Books is divided in
three parts
The Torah the Law which envelops the first five books
ldquoJumashrdquo(5) in hebrew also called ldquoPentateuchrdquo or the Law of Moses
These are the five books Genesis (Bereshit) Exodus (Shemoth) Leviti-
cus (Vayikra) Numbers (Bamidbar) and Deuteronomy (Devarim) They
cover the period between the Genesis up to Mosesrsquo death on the thresh-
old of the entry into the Promised Land (Canaan)
Nevirsquoim (Prophets) The second part of the Tanakh co-
vers a vast period which goes from the conquest up to the last prophets
These are the books contained therein Joshua (the conquest period)
Judges I and II Samuel I and II Kings and those dedicated to the major
prophets Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel and Daniel and the minor prophets
Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah
Haggai Zecariah and Malachi
Ketuvim (writings) This third part of the Tanakh is
made up of the book of Psalms Proverbs Job Ezra Nehemiah Ruth
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
12
Song of Songs Lamentations (Eichah) Ecclesiastes Esther and Chroni-
cles I and II They cover a vast period that goes from the VII century of
the Common Era up to the Persian period the return to Israel and the
building of the second Temple of Jerusalem
The Talmud
The Halakha-Mishnah-Aggada-Talmud Bavli (of Babylon)-
Yerushalmi (of Jerusalem) is a compilation of the oral tradition transmit-
ted from generation to generation which covers all topics in the Tanakh
including
The Halakha or the Law explains the rules and princi-
ples pronounced in the Torah rules of conduct religious principles and
rituals Covers a wide variety of issues revolving around the individual
the family and living in community The Halakha has ruled life for centu-
ryrsquos right up to the present
The Mishnah which cover the following rules and regu-
lations are six basic sedarim or treaties (singular=seder)
Moed talks about the festivities א
Zeraim (Seeds) deals with labor practices ב
Nezikin deals with relationships within a group ג
Nashim are the family rules ד
Kodoshim deals with sanctity and holiness ה
Tohorot-kosher are Laws of purity ו
The Gemara the oral law with comments and exegetical rabbin-
ic statements has been study material for centuries nourishing philoso-
phy teachings It contains practically every bit of traditional wisdom col-
lected for centuries
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
13
This oral law also contains a vast literary work Haggadah and
Midrashim (legends and comments) on biblical figures of exemplary
conduct
The Kabbalah
The Kabbalah was in ancient literature the totality of the reli-
gious doctrine obtained with the exception of the Pentateuch As of the
X century DC Kabbalah was considered a secret mysterious and theo-
sophical science destined to explain always in a cryptic language the
Creation of the Universe by the Being defined as ldquoOne and Absoluterdquo
Some kabbalists such as Pico Della Mirandola Reuchlin and
Schikard adopt the old tradition according to which Kabbalah develops
from the inspiration that God instilled in Adam Abraham Moses Bud-
dha Jesus Mohammed Bahi and all those that constitute the mystic cir-
cle of the Latter Prophets
Kabbalah is not exclusively Jewish since first Jesus and later
Mohammed were kabbalist scholars
The New Testament
Having taken Jesus as an example as we know it when he was
born there were three religious doctrines in Palestine the Pharisees and
Sadducees of which the Gospels often speak and the Essenes which are
never mentioned Tradition states that the boy Emanuel ben Yoseph was
sent by the erudite doctors of the Law to the community of the Essenes
near the Dead Sea after being heard at the Temple at the age of thirteen
to be educated according to the mystic tradition of Israel The Kabbalah
He stayed with the Essenes until he was thirty years old Emanuel ben
Yoseph or Jesus Christ teaches the continuity of the Hebrew Scriptures
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14
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the
Prophets I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them I tell you
the truth until heaven and earth disappear not the smallest letter not the
least stroke of a pen will by any means disappear from the Law until
everything is accomplished (Mt 517)
However I admit that I worship the God of our fathers
as a follower of the Way which they call a sect I believe everything that
agrees with the Law and that is written in the Prophetsrdquo (Acts 2414)
Jesus answered It is written Man does not live on
bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God (Mat-
thew 44) referring to Deuteronomy 83 ldquohellipto teach you that man does
not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of
Godrdquo
In the chapter called Tipherzt-Beauty you will find a broader ex-
planation of the Christian Kabbalah and an analysis of the Kabbalistic
Jesus and his apostles
The Koran or Quram
The Koran or Quram is the sacred book of Islam containing the
word of Allah (God) as revealed to Mohammed through the angel Gabri-
el (Gibrail or Yibril)
During his life the Prophet Mohammed received the revelations
either verbally or written on palm leaves pieces of leather or bones etc
Upon the death of Mohammed in the year 632 his followers began to
gather all these revelations which during the period in which Uthman ibn
Affan was Caliph took the shape we know nowadays 114 chapters each
one called surah subdivided into verses or phrases
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15
For the Muslims the Koran is the eternal and un-created work of
God therefore it was to be transmitted without the slightest change in the
original language the classic Arabic considered a sacred tongue for all
purposes
However in recent times the Koran has been translated to many
languages aimed specially at the believer whose native language is not
Arabic But even so believers are obligated to read it in its original lan-
guage because they claim that the contents of the Koran has not been
modified in centuries and a translation is an interpretation
Mohamed admits the continuity of the Hebrew Scriptures in the
following passages of the Koran
ldquoAnd most certainly We gave Musa (Moses) the Book
and We sent apostles after him one after anotherrdquo (Koran surah 287)
ldquoSurely We revealed the Taurat (Torah) in which was
guidance and light with it the prophets who submitted themselves
(to Allah) judged (matters) for those who were Jewsrdquo (surah 544)
ldquoCertainly We made a covenant with the children of Is-
rael and We sent to them apostlesrdquo (surah 570)
ldquoAnd certainly We gave the Book to Musa so be not in
doubt concerning the receiving of it and we made it a guide for the
children of Israelrdquo (surah 3223)
According to the Koran ldquothe Messiah Isa (Jesus) son of
Marium (Mary) is only an apostle of Allah and word which He
communicated to Marium and a spirit from Himrdquo (surah 4171)
He is a prophet or a servant of Allah (surah 4359) but
not His son(surah 6101)
The Muslims consider him a Messiah (in Arabic
ldquoMasihrdquo very similar to the Hebrew ldquoMashiacuteajrdquo) to them it means an
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
16
elevated prophet (ldquoanointedrdquo) the closest one to Allah before Mo-
hammed
The word Messiah Masih (ldquoanointedrdquo) can be found in
Surahs 345 4157 171-172 517-72-75 930-31 The highest
prophet except for Mohammed
The Islam considers the mystery of the Trinity and in-
carnation an ldquoassociationrdquo and therefore an offense against the
uniqueness of Allah (surah 112)
But not this way the first three sefirot that wrap the symbolism of
the Trinity
Mohammed sensed the Kabbalah in the Koran since Isa (Je-
sus) is the word of Allah and a spirit from Him son of the Holy Spirit
but they do not exactly consider Isa (Jesus) as if he were Allah
And furthermore the Koran affirms that at the end of time when
humanity will be called to judgment by Allah Isa (Jesus) will stand by
Him as witness and part therein (surah 4361) And everyone who did
not believe in him will believe in him (surah 4157)
Those who interpret the Koran affirm that Isa (Jesus) will come
back to this world at the end of time to save Humanity from damnation
and convert it to Allah
The Zohar
The composition of the Kabbalistic doctrine as we know it to-
day it attributed to Rabbi Shimeon ben Yochai in century II He is the
author of the Zohar ldquoThe Book of Splendorrdquo one of the basic texts of
the Kabbalah Shimeon ben Yochai (80-160) was a disciple of Rebbi
Akiva ldquoRashbirdquo (40-137) who had been sentenced to death by the Ro-
mans because he would not acknowledge nor obey the ruling authority of
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
17
Rome nor would he reveal any Kabbalah secrets to them Even though
the Zohar was written by Rabbi Shimeon ben Yochai Rebbi Akiva was
its true inspirer
Adam Kadmon Zohar XVII Century
Rebbi Akiva ben Joseph was born southeast of Judea close to the
Mediterranean shore His father was a humble Jewish peasant who was
not acquainted with the literature of his people nor the traditions he had
never read the Torah nor visited the Temple Due to the precarious eco-
nomic conditions in which there was living the family Akiba none of her
children received formal education in her infancy The reality was that
Akiba ben Joseph I pass your childhood and adolescence as an illiterate
Mediterranean shepherd until a few years later he married with Raacutechel
who convinced it to leave your activity and to study with the big rabbini-
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18
cal teachers Akiba faced many difficulties in your learning That is why
he started learning the alphabet with his 5 year old son and soon was
reading text books in Hebrew he went on to study the Torah at Rabbi
Joseph ben Zakkairsquos renowned Yeshiva (academy) His teachers Eliezer
ben Hyrkanos Joshua ben Hananiah and Nahum of Gimzo became his
best friends because they admired his bright fast and resourceful mind
Fifteen years later at the top of his mental and physical faculties he be-
gan his monumental work the reconstruction of the Law and the estab-
lishment of an academy of permanent studies
At the age of 57 in the year 97 Akiba was already revered by
both by his colleagues and by the masses He visited rabbis and experts
of the Toraacute with the purpose of combining all the Jewish traditions and
then went on to classify them in a legal code divided up logistically The
effective combination of conciseness and precision served as example the
future generations In the centuries following Mishna (codification of
Jewish laws and traditions) it was acknowledged and studied by the rab-
binical authorities
With more than 65 years Rebbi Akiva founded his private Ye-
shiva (academy) in Bene Berak (Sons of Lightning) to the north of Jeru-
salem wanted to found several in the whole Israel for the study of the
Tora and of the Kabbalah
Everything went along smoothly until the year 125 CE when the
relationship between Jews and Romans deteriorated Emperor Hadrianusrsquo
decision to build a pagan sanctuary on Mount Moria (where the old tem-
ple had been) exacerbated spirits Excitement grew within the Jewish
people and led by Shimon bar Kojba they rebelled
In a little less than three years the Roman armies destroyed all
evidence of Jewish resistance The cruelty of the repression grew month
by month and in the year 134 the Romans enacted a drastic decree pro-
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
19
hibiting the practice and study of the Torah Rebbi Akiva was convinced
it was the end If the study of the Torah was abolished his life lacked all
meaning At the age of 95 defying the Roman authority he gathered his
students with the sole purpose to study Kabbalah
A few days later Rebbi Akiva was incarcerated The Romans re-
spected his knowledge reputation and distinguished personality Akiva
continued teaching his disciples from his cell which earned him judg-
ment He was found guilty tortured and sentenced to death With Rebbi
Akiva 24000 of his disciples were killed by the Romans only Rabbi
Simeon bar Yochai and four others survived Before being captured Reb-
bi Akiva and Rabbi Yehuda ben Baba authorized ldquoRashbirdquo to transmit to
future generations the Kabbalah they had taught him
The Zohar or ldquoBook of Splendorrdquo was composed by Simeon bar
Yochai and his son Elazar during the thirteen years they lived in a cave
hiding from the Roman army
ldquoRashbirdquo came out of the cave with the Zohar a flawless meth-
od to study the Kabbalah and having accomplished spirituality Rabbi
Simeon bar Yochai attained the 125 levels a human being can achieve
during his whole life in this world According to the latest investigations
the revelation of the current Kabbalah could be resumed this way
The historic Kabbalah was preceded by a movement (900-1200)
that preserved and encouraged the legacy of the Jewish gnosis
(knowledge of spiritual truth) Later on this movement penetrated Eu-
rope constantly at different stages Hasidism was an important intermedi-
ate stage Furthermore besides all the theoretical and mystical variances
of Kabbalah there was a much older one in which the secret names of
God and the angels were used the same way they are used in white mag-
ic not causing any harm to people Not to be confused with ldquoblack mag-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
20
icrdquo (kishcuf in Hebrew) international current containing elements from
Arabic Jewish and Christian magic
After the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in the year 1492 and
the establishment of a Jewish center in Safed (north of Galilea) Kabba-
lah also experienced a change since two systems flourished the Kabba-
lah of Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (1522-1570) and Kabbalah of Isaac
Luria (1534-1572)
In brief Cordoverorsquos Kabbalah could be defined as a theoretical
variant with many gnostic elements while Luriarsquos Kabbalah would be a
practical mysticism
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21
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Hokhmah
Wisdom
The Sacred Ideas
Light
The spiritual Will
Tetragramaton
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22
Light
We all have this sixth sense which we will call spiritual sense
still not awakened in some people When people study Kabbalah they can
learn things that were not available to them before because a sixth sense
is developed in order to envision life and the world from a different point
of view
The sixth sense is also called ldquothe spiritual vaserdquo(kli) this vase
is in all of us and it is ruled by basic kabbalistic concepts
A regular personrsquos spiritual vase is still not adequately א
developed to perceive the spiritual world
When light enters a personrsquos heart or soul it ignites the ב
spiritual perception in that person
Nothing is possible without light When we take the light ג
that surrounds us it will gradually light our path
Even if we donrsquot recognize said light there is a direct ד
connection between our heart and the light that will fill it
The light is destined the surrounding lights stand by ה
waiting for you to prepare your vase to receive them
The light we receive when we give in to the wisdom of ו
self-knowledge attracts a celestial charm which gives us abundance
of sanctity and purity that take us closer to realization
ldquoThe person who studies the Kabbalah Judeo-Christian with
the purpose of self-modification will attain the light and will notice
that the desired improvement and success can be achieved with the
least cost or sufferingrdquo
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
23
The Spiritual Will
The Creator wants us to indulge in spiritual pleasures that we
are full That can only be possible through enormous will perfection We
can only reach the spiritual world through a rectified will which will
make us strong and active Only by means of a passionate desire strong-
ly and dedication we will be able to reach really the spiritual world re-
turning forts and assets A small desire will not damage us very much
nor a lot of good The passionate desire only works from the Divine
stimulus which we it will obtain from the Intuition which is a part of the
Spirit
There is a pyramid of souls based on the will to receive
At the base are the many souls with small earthly wills
searching a comfortable animal like life (food and affection)
The following level with minor number of souls those who
want to acquire richness Those are the people who dedicate their lives to
make money and will sacrifice themselves in exchange for fortune
Next are the ones that would do anything to control others to
govern and reach positions of power
At the highest level are the souls that are seeking spirituality
who are open to the light
Man in turn has the same pyramid within him he must invert it
so that the weight goes to the purest desire or will the infinite will for
spirituality When we truly wish to increase our will for spiritually the
surrounding light (the hidden spiritual world) begins to reflect upon us
increasing the desire for even more If we identify with matter we will
try to obtain satisfaction through it searching outside our spirit for mate-
rial things until these material things no longer satisfy us thus becoming
less materialistic and discovering our true spirit
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
24
Our body is matter matter is energy and therefore has life but it
has no spirit or spiritual energy because it is all material energy dense
energy the spirit is light energy The difference between one and the
other is that the material energy has no conscience because it doesnrsquot
perceive reality that is why we see with our eyes and not our heart our
eyes show us the outer figures of things or people its beauty or ugliness
but we can see what they are like inside Spiritual energy is what gives
us conscience of reality of love of truth That is why when we become
conscious of ourselves we transform our matter into spirit and become
more conscious
Albert Einstein was so right when he said ldquoEnergy cannot be
created nor destroyed it can only be transformedrdquo thus dense (mate-
rial) energy can be transformed into lighter (spiritual) energy again and
again
The biggest change we observe in the souls that are descending
nowadays is mainly in their well defined will to achieve a spiritual sys-
tem Even the most common people without any religious or mystic in-
struction are looking for something beyond this world something spir-
itual furthermore more and more scientists or people into pragmatic pro-
fessions are searching for their spiritual light In the last thirty years the
descent of new souls has been activated and accelerated
Their will is much bigger and more genuine They want to
achieve authentic spiritualityhellip nothing morehellip and nothing less
We will discover that we have no other alternative but to
acknowledge the spiritual world of which we are a part This acknowl-
edgement will take us to a new situation where we will begin to act con-
sciously in unison no longer as isolated individuals All of us from one
generation to another are connected in one soul We share a collective
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
25
responsibility That is why the Kabbalist is considered ldquofounder of the
worldrdquo He affects the whole world and the whole World affects him
The Tetragrammaton
In Kabbalah the concept of Shem or ldquoDivine Namerdquo plays a
first degree role which makes a lot of sense given the importance of eve-
rything related to the Emanations of the Sefirotic Tree the mystery of the
letters and the beauty in words
The meditation about the ldquoName of Godrdquo constitutes one of the
pillars of the initiation path to Kabbalah
The Tetragram or Tetragrammatonhellipfrom the Greek four (tetra)
and letters (grammaton)hellip is the name formed by four consonants one
yod (Y) two he (H) and one vav (V) The combination of these four let-
ters spell YHVH the ldquoHoly Namerdquo or Yahavah (as literally read) which
in Kabbalah is called Shem Herman Forash ldquocomplete namerdquo or the
ldquoexplicit namerdquo
Said ldquoSacred Namerdquo is usually transcribed as Jehovah or Yah-
veh nevertheless such description is no more than a hypothetical and
approximate restoration Therefore the word YHVH in which all mys-
teries and the savior power communicated by God are contained has
been designated by tradition as the ldquolost wordrdquo
The ldquocomplete or whole namerdquo was replaced by others also at-
tributed by the Bible as Yahveh such as Adonai El Shaddai or Elohim
Sometimes the four letter name is substituted by half of the Tetra-
grammaton the so-called ldquotwo letter Namerdquo HY or ldquoHaimrdquo interpreted
or translated as LIFE
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
26
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Binah Intelligence
The Tree of Life
Creation
The Tree of Life
The Columns
Tree Sefirot and Letters
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
27
Creation
An example of the depth in the interpretation of the Bible offered
by the kabbalistic doctrine is its version of the biblical narration of the
Creation as contained in the Book of ldquoGenesisrdquo usually considered a na-
ive and childish story to explain a process that modern science has
demonstrated to be much more complex In regard to said mythical-
symbolic narration similar to many others contained in other spiritual
traditions in humanity the kabbalistic doctrine makes two basic observa-
tions of major importance
1 According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the biblical crea-
tion is the process through which the universal manifestation takes place
It is a logical process its place is in the Divine world and it gives form to
the Divinity In it the Supreme Being is determined and revealed as such
going from the Nothing to the Whole The Everything
It is not ldquoGodrsquos Creationrdquo but
ldquoThe Creation in Godrdquo
In this process the Creation of the Cosmos is only a consequence
which just like the latter takes place not sooner nor later but in a con-
tinuous and uninterrupted way in an instant beyond time in the ldquoeternal
nowrdquo
2 The six days of the Creation identify with the creative sefirot
from the fourth one (Hesed) to the ninth one (Yesod) referring to the
specific action or purpose of each one of them while the seventh day
Shabbath in which God rested relates to the tenth sefirot (Malkuth) All
of this is contained in the initial words of the ldquoGenesisrdquo Book ldquoIn the
beginning God created the heavens and the earthrdquo (according to the
common interpretation Authorized Version)
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
28
The key words here are the first three if we want an exact under-
standing of them we must turn to the Hebrew text
ldquoBereshit Bara Elohim
Bereshit means ldquoin the beginningrdquo which according to the Kab-
balistic interpretation it does no refer to a beginning in time but a logical
beginning it is what proceeds not in time but in hierarchy (rank)
and function This principle is Hokhmah the second sefirath
This text should be interpreted this way
ldquoIn the intelligent and intelligible
Beginning which is the Divine Wisdomrdquo
The second word of this quote is Bara ldquocreatedrdquo It is a verb of
action without a subject it doesnrsquot say who created That action has no
subject because the ldquowhordquo of which it speaks is the sefirath Kether ldquothe
Crownrdquo which goes beyond anything personal since in it the ldquoNothingrdquo
of the Supra Being or Absolute
As far as the third word is concerned Elohim we must indicate
that besides not being the subject of the sentence it is in its plural for
literally meaning ldquogodsrdquo
The kabbalistic exegesis (explanation) identifies this Elohim
with the third sefirath Binah the Intelligencerdquo which contains and de-
signs within itself the seven sefirot of the cosmic composition the six
active ones and the receptive one which is the receptacle for the rest of
them (Malkuth the tenth sefirot)
This is why the interpretation to which we are used ldquoGod creat-
edrdquo is not exact A more accurate interpretation of the original hebrew
text would be ldquoThe Nothing created godsrdquo that is it created or profiled
the qualities or aspects of the Divine Reality of which afterwards -not in
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
29
a time order but in an order of principles a cosmic order arises the Crea-
tion or universal manifestation
Therefore here is the message contained in the initial verse of
the ldquoGenesisrdquo according to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah
ldquoThe Supra Being constitutes Itself eternally the causal Being
and the object or purpose of all things in which all qualities poss i-
bilities and forms of the created and uncreated reality are presentrdquo
The Sefirotic Tree and the four worlds
And the twenty-two paths that unite the
Crown (Kether) with the Kingdom (Malkuth)
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
Binah
Geburah
Hod
Yesod
Malkuth
Tipherzt
Neshah
Hesed
Hok-mah
Kether
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
30
The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life is the Divine Architecture which symbolizes the
soul of man and the Universe and as He is divided into four levels known
as the four inner Worlds
In the Ideal World - Atziluth is where everything is
in a latent potential state
In the Creative World - Briah is where the pure
power and the ideas in their shapes are
In the Formative World - Yetsirah everything is in
a conceptual process or one or formation
In the Material World - Assiah is where the physi-
cal manifestation takes place
This tree consists of 10 fixed spheres and a ldquovirtualrdquo one and 22
paths that connect them In a very broad sense we can say that the
spheres or Sefirot are stages of the emanations of the Spirit of God
from the primordial existence to the physical manifestation
ldquoThey are inexhaustible centers of powerrdquo
The model of the Tree of Life mirror and synthesis of man and
the cosmos is divided in three columns or pillars this traditional division
in three columns is in close connection with the alchemical or magic
principles which were discovered by the kabbalists of the 12th
century
and have been present to this day and always will be
The whole manifestation is based on duality this duality is rep-
resented in the tree the three Sefirot to the right form the active pillar
masculine and the three Sefirot to the left form the passive pillar femi-
nine
The duality is also present in each Sefirath The only Unit is
found in the Non-Manifested which is above the Tree
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
31
The Non-Manifested is the pure state of the In-Existence from
where Existence arises which is the first Sefirath the Sefirot in the cen-
ter form the middle or balance pillar
Therefore we observe that one of the columns is active-
masculine another one is passive-feminine and the third one or central
axis equidistant from both of them is neuter and is constantly combining
and harmonizing them both
Power corresponds to the Active energy column integrated by the
following Sefirot Hokhmah (2) Hesed (4) and Neshah (7) Form or
shape corresponds to the passive energy columns which is made up of
the following Sefirot Binah (3) Geburah (5) and Hod (8) The central
or axle column or pillar integrated by Kether (1) Tipherzt (6) Yesod
(9) and Malkuth (10) is neuter and eternally assimilating the opposites
thus creating new possibilities of indefinite developments It is called the
column or pillar of equilibrium or balance
This is the image of permanent order of the Creation It is the
idea upon which all sciences are based and which are called ldquoThesis An-
tithesis and Synthesisrdquo techno science and modern physics have ldquodis-
coveredrdquo formations similar to that of the Tree of Life in the universe
around us such as the quantum structure or the DNA map of all living
things (vegetables animals humans) This proves that the Tree of Life
rules all norms of matter and spirit from the beginning of time
Kabbalah teaches us that energies run through the Tree of Life
from the Unity Kether identified with the number one up to the formal
and substantial manifestation the world and matter just as we know
them and perceive them through our senses This flow of energies or
vibrations is called emanations and they make up any manifestation
The energies of the Sefirot ndash all of the invisible except for
Malkuth which resumes and contains the whole Tree ndash travel a continu-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
32
Binah
Geburah
Hod
Yesod
Malkuth
Tipherzt
Neshah
Hesed
Hokmah
Kether
Leb
ous descending path from (1) Kether down to Earth or the World
Malkuth (10) which is an inverted image of Kether (10=1+0=1) The
rest of the Sefirot or numerals are taken as intermediaries between mani-
festation and the lack of it
The columns of the Tree of Life
Passive Column Neuter Column Active Column
Feminine Form Central Equilibrium Mascu-
line Power
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
33
Tree Sefirot and letters
According to the Pentateuch Moses went to the top of Mount
Sinai and surrounded by fantastic clouds received the Ten Command-
ments God gave him On the other hand Kabbalist affirm that Moses
also received from Heaven besides the Commandments the most pro-
found and secret knowledge to be transmitted only to those truly worthy
of it Going even further back in time some say they can see in the Kab-
balah the mysterious instructions given to Adam in his sleep which per-
mitted him to give a name to everything within the Creation meaning
that Kabbalah is the philosophy of the infinite power of the word the
sound that God gave man in his image calling everything by its name
This search for the practical use of the word is good for reading
the future as well as for really manipulating the secret vibrating energies
for useful purposes or according to the legend to create beings the go-
lems which make up the active aspect of the Kabbalah
On the other hand this also entails a speculative aspect a mysti-
cism aimed at discovering through the interpretation of the Scriptures
and meditation on the sound and the name the diagram of the Universe
and the destiny of man
Ein Sof (the infinite the ineffable) affirms itself revealing itself
to humanity it becomes Shekinah (Godrsquos presence and its feminine side)
which has the responsibility of creation its product
Creation is the result of a progressive descent of the divine
(which never loses its own unity nor its transcendence) in a pure and in-
telligent series associated to the divine until it takes over matter
Thus the cosmos is structured like an immense organism a
drawn path in which all divine intelligence (sefirah plural sefirot) is
communicated with the preceding one from which it receives and with
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
34
the next one to which it gives until the final stage contact with our
world
The ten sefirot all connected by imposed paths denoting their in-
terdependence and represented by a symbolic structure of a tree or a man
(Adam Kadmon) follow an order
Kether Crown - 1 א
Hokhmah Wisdom - 2 ב
Binah Intelligence - 3 ג
Leb Heart
Hesed Greatness - 4 ד
Geburah Justice - 5 ה
Tipherzt Beauty - 6 ו
Neshah Stability - 7 ז
Hod Glory - 8 ח
Yesod Foundation - 9 ט
Malkuth Kingdom - 10 י
The admirable and complex organization of the Sefirotic Tree
with its 22 paths which connect the ten divine emanations permit us to
see right away the close connection there is between the sefirot and the
22 letters in the hebrew alphabet the 22 images of the Tarot and the 22
astrological signs (12 signs and 10 planets)
Since God created the world pronouncing the name of things
each letter is associated to the descent of the divine intelligences and
holds within itself an infinite power
The hebrew language is just like Arabic Egyptian Sanscrit or
Chinese a liturgical language full of the voices of thousand of men who
speak with the divinity therefore to pronounce one sound instead of an-
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
35
other is like changing or modifying creation itself based on a subtle vi-
brating equilibrium Within that same chain of ideas prayer by principle
a devout plea also becomes an active and energetic system that shakes
up the intermediate spheres between man and God holder of the cosmic
order
Kabbalah whether is aimed exclusively at theoretic speculation
or it proposes practical and precise goals like the making of talismans
(from the Arabic tilsam ndash a charm to avert evil and bring good fortune it
appeals to specific instruments based of calculus and numbers
Ad- am
Kadmon Zohar XVII Century
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
36
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
Hesed Greatness
Adam Kadmon
And The Sefirot
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
37
Adam Kadmon
Adam Kadmon (Primordial Man) is described by the Zohar as a
ldquobig and powerful tree with branches reaching up to the sky source of
all spiritual lightrdquo In this sefirotic and tree shaped human figure the dif-
ferent sefirot have been placed according to the parts of the human body
to which they relate Each one of them has a very particular mystical
value in the cosmic vision
The first three sefirot correspond symbolically to the head
Kether (the Crown) placed at the top or what the kabbalistic
doctrine calls the ldquohidden brainrdquo Hokhmah (Wisdom) and Binah (In-
telligence) relate to the right and left sides of the brain respectively or
also the right and left eye The two sefirot at mid level Hesed (Great-
ness) and Geburah (Justice) are identified with both arms ldquoGreatnessrdquo
the right one and ldquoJusticerdquo the left one The two central sefirot Leb (the
Heart) which is Virtual that is why it is not represented and Tipherzt
(Beauty) identified with the navel energetic center source of connection
to the mother and nucleus or sun of the body Tipherzt embodies com-
pleteness union and harmony The two sefirot of the inner level Neshah
(Stability) and Hod (Glory) represent both legs ldquoStabilityrdquo the right
thigh and ldquoGloryrdquo the left one Yesod (Foundation) another central
sefirah found between both thighs represents the genitalia the tools and
foundation for procreation Sefirah number ten the last one is Malkuth
(the Kingdom) from which the cosmic manifestation springs and is in
permanent contact with Earth it is related to both feet always in contact
with the ground This sefirah connecting all this to man the Sefirotic
Tree proves that everything in the human being can be spiritualized
Man must achieve in his own being that harmoniously elevated
unity that the figure in the divine Tree of Life and Light shows us
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38
In order to be an authentic ldquoTree of Liferdquo man must discover and
update that sefirotic mystery that is within him as if it were a treasure
full of light waiting to be found
The Sefirot
Kether ndash The Crown - The first sefirah is the Admirable Intelligence
it is the light that gives the power of understanding the First Principle
which has no beginning It is the one and only reality the absolute mys-
tery the essence from which the rest of the sefirot emanate Related to
Crown Knowledge Principle Essence and Light
Hokhmah ndash Wisdom- The second sefirah is the Enlightening Intelli-
gence the Wisdom through which the Deity knows Itself and allows eve-
ry Being to know the unity within itself It is the symbolism of the pure
and eternal fire a place in heaven where the archangels angels
Related to Wisdom Experience Convergence Intuition
Binah ndash Intelligence - The third sefirah is the Sanctifying Intelligence
it is the Great Mother or Holy Universal Spirit matrix of all the worlds
and beings shaping them to return them again to the One
Idea Intelligence Awareness Protection Morale Divergence
(discrepancyvariance)
These first three sefirot are really only one
Kether is Knowledge
Hokhmah is the subject that knows (active)
Binah is the known object (passive)
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39
In these three sefirot the Judeo-Christian Kaballistic dotrine
discovers the endowments of the Holy Trinity
Kether or God the Father
Hokhmah or God the Son (active on the right side)
Binah or God the Mother or Holy Spirit (passive)
ldquoThe all emanations of God the Father and Son and Holy
Spirit is only one Beingrdquo
Hesed ndash Greatness - The fourth sefirah is the Receptive Intelligence it
contains all the holy powers and all the spiritual virtues emanate from it
such as Greatness Love and Mercy Related to Greatness Love Hum-
bleness Strength Deliverance
Geburah ndash Justice - The fifth sefirah is the Righteous Intelligence
which contains all the spiritual mandates It is the Divine Justice Relat-
ed to Justice Truth Freedom Shape Control
Tipherzt ndash Beauty - The sixth sefirah is the Intelligence Provider of
Spiritual Nouishment Ii is the Divine Beauty that entwines all the other
sefirot It is the Center of centers it clearly relates to the Sun giver of
life light and warmth Related to Beauty Serenity Sweetness Trust
Family
Neshah ndash Stability - The seventh sefirah is the Occult Intelligence it is
the bright Splendor of the intellectual virtues perceived by the eyes of the
intellect It is the energy that produces all the worlds Related to Sta-
bility Power Victory Balance Pleasures
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40
Hod ndash Glory - The eighth sefirah is the Absolute or Perfect Intelli-
gence which has no support or base and descends from Geburah from
which it receives its Expertise Related to Glory Acknowledgement
Learning Awakening
Yesod ndash Foundation - The ninth sefirah is the Pure Intelligence because
it purifies tries corrects and centralizes the emanations It is the founda-
tion that balances the all previous Sephiroth Related to Founding
Building Childhood Filtering
Malkuth ndash The Kingdom - The tenth sefirah is Glowing Intelligence It
is the Kingdom of Heaven or Kingdom on Earth the descent of Kether
upon the material world represents the Divine Omnipresence over
things Related to The Kingdom Earth Heaven and Real World
Each one of these sefirot has a hidden face and a visible one
Every sefirah a complete Sefirotic Tree can be found and in every
sefirah in that Tree another one and so on until the smallest infiniteness
And vice-versa every Tree no matter how big we imagine it is only a
sefirah of a bigger Tree which in turn is another sefirah of an even big-
ger one to the infinite as well
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41
Kabbalah
Judeo Christian
Geburah Justice
The letters and numbers
The Letters of Kabbalah
Gematriacutea Table
Gematriacutea or Numerology
The Meaning of the Hebrew Letters
Angels of Kabbalah
Geniuses of Kabbalah
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42
The Letters of Kabbalah
The formulas in the medieval books on magic are so full of He-
brew names to speak of God the angels the spirits and demons that at
this point it is impossible to pinpoint the inexactness and the abuse The
Hebrew language like other former language has magicrsquos powers
Sound is a vibration found in numbers Numbers are groups of geometric
relations of spaces that activate energy
Each letter in the hebrew alphabet corresponds exactly just as in
an ldquoencoded languagerdquo to a number because the Hebrews Greeks and
Arabs used for many centuries the same graphic sign for a sound or
amount until the Indians and the Arabs introduced their ldquonumbersrdquo the
ldquozerordquo was invented in the IV century and the Arabs and Hebrews began
to use it in the VII century with the name ldquoceferrdquo which means devoid
empty vacuum From it derived zero and cipher
It was Leonardo Fibonacci (1170-1240) an Italian mathemati-
cian the first one to write a book in 1202 Liber Abaci (Book of Calcula-
tion) on Arabic numbers in occident and began to replace the Roman
numbers It was not until the year 1500 that they were completely re-
placed
This means that it is not Kabbalah that replaces letters with num-
bers historically the letters ldquowererdquo numbers since these were enforced in
the western culture five hundred years ago If we accept this concept we
will not regard numerology or gematriacutea of the Hebrew letters as some-
thing new or capricious but as a historical reality
For those who do not read Hebrew writing there is another meth-
od called transcription It is no easy task to transcribe from a holy lan-
guage to one that is not
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43
A kabballistic practice suggests that as long as the hebrew lan-
guage is not completely unknown to replace each number in a date with
its corresponding letter bearing in mind that the Jewish calendar starts
with the year of the creation which took place 3760 years before the
birth of Jesus when the western calendar begins counting
Thus the year 1989 becomes 5749 which translated to Hebrew
letters gives us Tau Shin Mem Chefh which add up to Tismach mean-
ing ldquoyou will be overjoyedrdquo and that was the year the Berlin wall came
down In the same way 1914 the start of World War I becomes Tau
Resch Ayin Daleth which add up to Tirtzach ldquoYou will killrdquo and for
1938 start of World War II Tirrsquoad ldquoYou will tremble in terrorrdquo
Table of Gematriacutea of Hebrew Letters
Letter
Name Absolute
Value
Ordinal
Value
Reduced
Value
Latin
Alphabet
Alefh 1 1 1 A-H
Beth 2 2 2 B
Guimel 3 3 3 G
Daleth 4 4 4 D
Hei 5 5 5 H-E-A
Vav 6 6 6 V-U-Y
Zain 7 7 7 Z
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44
Heth 8 8 8 Y-J
Thet 9 9 9 TH
YodJod 10 10 1 Y-I
KafJaf 20 11 2 K-C
Lamed 30 12 3 L
Mem 40 13 4 M
Nun 50 14 5 N
Samej 60 15 6 S
Ayn 70 16 7 O-E
PehFeh 80 17 8 P-F
Tzadik 90 18 9 T-Z-X
Kuof 100 19 1 K-Q
Reish 200 20 2 R
Shin 300 21 3 S-SH
TafTau 400 22 4 T
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
45
Gematriacutea or Hebrew Numerology
As we said earlier in the Hebrew language each letter has a nu-
merical value Gematriacutea is the calculation of the numerical value of let-
ters words or phrases to obtain a better understanding of the relation be-
tween the different concepts and to explore the relation between words
and ideas
In this technique it is assumed that the numerical equivalency is
no coincidence From the moment the world was created through the
Creatorrsquos ldquowordrdquo each letter represents a different creative power
Therefore the numerical equivalence of two words reveals an inner con-
nection between its potential creators
There are four ways to calculate the equivalency of individual
letters and each way corresponds to a different world in the Tree of Life
The Zohar tells us that the concept of reduced value is related to
the spiritual world of Yetsirah Based on this we can establish a relation
between the four methods of calculation the four spiritual kingdoms and
the four letters of the name of the Divine which are YHVH or in He-
brew Yod Hei Vav and Hei
The Absolute Value of Yod itrsquos to the world of Atziluth
The Ordinal Value of Hei itrsquos to the world of Briah
The Reduced Value of Vav itrsquos to the world of Yetsirah
The Whole Value of Hei itrsquos to the world of Assiah
ldquoAbsolute value (in Hebrew mispar hejrajiacute) also known as
normative or normal Valuerdquo
Each letter takes the value of its accepted numeral equivalent
alef (the first letter) worth 1 bet (second one) worth 2 and so on up to
the tenth letter iud which is worth 10 and the following ones are worth
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46
20 30 40 up to the letter kuf close to the end of the alef-bet which is
worth 100 and then 200 300 up to the last letter tav which is worth 400
In this type of calculation the letters kafjaf sofit (sofit=end)
mem sofit nun sofit pehfeh sofit and tzadik sofit which are the ldquofinal
shapesrdquo of the respective letters when they are at the end of a word usu-
ally take the same numeric value of the common shape of the letter
Nonetheless sometimes the following are considered equivalents kafjaf
sofit = 500 mem sofit = 600 nun sofit = 700 pehfeh sofit = 800 y tza-
dik sofit = 900
Following this method of calculation the Hebrew alphabet is a
complete circle the tzadik at the end is equal to 900 and then alef is
equal to one and one thousand In the Hebrew language the same letters
are used to write the name of the letter alef equal to one and to write the
word elef which means ldquothousandrdquo
ldquoOne the first number follows one thousand
in a complete and perfect circlerdquo
Ordinal Value (in hebrew mispar siduriacute) It assigns to each
one of the 22 letters a numerical equivalent according to the order in
which they appear in the alef-bet For example alef equals 1 kaf = 11
taf = 22 The final kaf is 23 and the final tzadik is 27
Reduced Value (en hebrew mispar kataacuten and in mathemati-
cal terminology the module 9) The value of each letter is reduced to
one digit For example alef is equal to 1 iud to 10 and kuf to 100 but
according to this system all three have a numerical value of one beit is
equal to 2 kaf to 20 and reish to 200 therefore all three are equal to 2
etc Therefore letters have only 9 equivalencies instead of twenty-two
Integral Value (in hebrew mispar mispariacute) This is the fourth
way to calculate In this fashion the total numeric value of a word is re-
duced to one digit If the sum of these numbers exceeds 9 the numbers
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
47
in the total figure are added until a single digit is obtained The same
result will be obtained whether you take the absolute the ordinal or the
reduced values
The meaning of the Hebrew Letters
Alefh Represents the Divine Presence It is the symbol of
the absolute and unique faith in only one Creator and Lord It is pro-
nounced ah-left which derives from the word Alufh which means prince
minister or chief It is made up of two dots which are two iod (the tenth
letter of the alphabet) and a slanted vav (sixth letter) If we add the two
iod (20) and the one vav (6) we get 26 which is equal to the sum of the
letters YHVH Yod (10) Hei(5) Vav(6) Hei(5) of the name of the
Creator
Beth The Torah begins with this second letter ldquoBereshitrdquo
(In the Beginning) This is because it represents and symbolizes the
Berehia (Creation) and the Berajaacute (Blessing) The purpose of Creation is
to give abundance to the human being Its value is two It represents and
shows us that there is nothing in this world totally complete and indivisi-
ble Everything can be parted in two Only God is unique and indivisible
Guimel This letter is close to the root of the word Bra
keep complete and give That is why it is used in ldquoGuemilut Hasadimrdquo
to do favors Guimel represents the third column on which the world
rests it is the giver or favor doer spirit and also proof that God constantly
helps and favors the human being and His whole Creation Its value is
three
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48
Daleth When we pronounce this fourth letter we find a
great closeness to the word deleth (door) The letter Daleth relates to the
word ldquodalhrdquo poor going from door to door seeking food Daleth follows
Guimel creating a unified thought to help the poor Its value (4) reminds
us of the material world because poverty can be found everywhere in our
planet
Hei The Talmud says God created the world with two
letters that represent His Name ldquoYod and Heirdquo With the first one He
created the world to come and with the second one this world Its shape
is made up of two parts a dalet and an iod Daleth has a vertical line
and a horizontal line It represents this world where everything has a
body and occupies space The iod which is just a dot represents the in-
finite world where there are no physical laws Meaning that in this
world too the spiritual Divine component is present
Vav Its value six represents something complete and
finished The world was created completely in six days Every complete
and closed object has six sides top bottom right left front and back
The letter vav is used to unite phrases concepts objects similar ldquoandrdquo
Vav is therefore union Except for some exceptions all paragraphs in the
Bible as written in the scrolls begin with Vav The written Torah (5
books) + ldquovavrdquo (Kabbalah) The oral Torah (6 books)
Zain It represents the seven spiritual values which are
the object of this world Zan means ldquonourishmentrdquo and Zain means ldquoar-
mamentrdquo Its shape is similar to that of a sword Its shows us that man
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
49
must confront and overcome adversity many times in order to obtain his
nourishment
Heth Just as Zain represents manrsquos purpose on earth Heth
with the value of eight represents manrsquos possibility to cross the limits
imposed by the earth Seven is nature eight are the values and goals
which represent what is above nature It also connects to the letter Haim
which means life The top part of the heth has an arrow pointing up-
wards meaning that life always belongs to God and everything depends
on Him
Thet This letter is first written in the Torah in the word
Tov (good) Each one of the days of the Creation was crowned with
qualifying phrase ldquoAnd God saw that it was goodrdquo Thet is synonym of
the relationship of God towards man which is always good even though
we donrsquot always see it that way Goodness or Kindness is a Divine quali-
ty and it should be emulated The most exquisite act of kindness is to
help our neighbor without causing him embarrassment
Iod Its size earns it the category of the smallest and most
indivisible letter not like the rest which are made up of different parts
and that is why it represents the Almighty in His condition of Unique and
Indivisible Its shape according to the Zohar has a point facing up to-
wards God another one facing down towards earth and the central point
which unites both That is why when a person prays the heart faces up
and the eyes down in humbleness in front on God Its value Ten is very
representative of the whole Torah Ten generations from Adam to Noah
and another ten from Noah to Abraham the Patriarch Ten are the Divine
Commandments given to Moses and ten are the sefirot The number ten
is actually ONE
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50
Kaf It symbolizes Kether the crown (written in Hebrew
with kaf) as the Talmud says ldquoGod will place the Kether on he who
helps his neighbor the way he should and according to his possibilitiesrdquo
Its shape (curved) has a relation to its name which represents the hum-
bleness that the person who carries the crown should have
Lamed Its shape is made up of a kaf and a vav together
they add up to 26 like the Divine Name Its name lamed is the root of
the verbs to teach and to learn The name Israel begins with iod the
smallest letter and ends with lamed the biggest one The Torah begins
with bet and ends with lamed together they spell the word led (heart)
the fundamental basis to find light and accomplish precepts
Mem This letter has two aspects one known as the open
mem it is used in the beginning and middle of a word indicating that
there are points which refer to God Almightyrsquos doing which are within
our comprehension and a closed mem which is only used at the end of
words indicating the occult and incomprehensible part Moshe and
Mashiacuteaj begin with mem Its value is 40 the necessary time period for
the concretion of different stages
The fetus needs 40 days to have a complete form
The Great Flood lasted 40 days and 40 nights
Moses was up at Mount Sinai 40 days and 40 nights
The Jewish people walked for 40 years in the desert
It is at the age of 40 that a person is considered to have
reached wisdom
Nun This letter also has two shapes one for any part of the
word with a curved shape and the other straight for the endings of
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
51
words Both indicate the exclusive quality of God who is Neeman
which means loyal to His word and worthy of trust This word restarts
with a Nun and ends with another
Samej This letter represents the concept of the Divine
support (Semej in Hebrew) Godrsquos support towards man as well as manrsquos
support towards God The certainty of God is the foundation of faith and
the base upon which the human being can search and reach for its goal in
this world
Ayn in Hebrew it means ldquoeyerdquo Its shape is made up two
parts an Yod leaning against a Zain Reclining both on the base the nu-
meric value of both parts is 17 just like the word Tob (good) This indi-
cates that the ayn (eye) has to be used to observe only the good things
Its value is 70
70 are the names of the Almighty and the Torah
70 are the basic people (towns) in the world
70 are the holidays in a year (52 Saturdays 18 holy
days)
Jesus sent out 70 disciples to evangelize
The Great Temple of Jerusalem had 70 columns
70 old wise men received the Torah from Moses they
are called ldquothe eyes of the congregationrdquo the symbol of the ayn (eye)
precisely
Peh it means ldquomouthrdquo in Hebrew It is through this ex-
quisite sense that the human being differentiates and raises itself over the
rest of the creation There are two peh one for any part of the word and
the other for the endings The first one is said to be closed and its shape
symbolizes the fetus in the motherrsquos womb (fetal position) with its mouth
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
52
closed The other open resembles the newborn babe stretching its limbs
It also reminds us of the control we should have over it sometimes
closed and others open when to speak and when not to
Tzadik The 18th letter The Talmud names the Tzadik per-
son the just person The title of ldquoTzadikrdquo is not given to just anybody It
is written that God is Tzadik and Perfect This quality of Tzadik when it
comes to God is manifested through kindness Those people who go
about and act according to the divine will are said to be ldquoTzadikrdquo They
are fair just and kind to the maximum of their possibilities
Kuof This letter shows us and symbolizes the Divine
Sanctity Kadosh God is Holy Man can also be called kuof if he is supe-
rior rising above the others The shape of kuof is made up of a kaf and a
vav which add up to 26 just as the four letter name for God Kuof is
very similar to kof which means ldquomonkeyrdquo The Zohar calls monkeys
those human beings who do not believe in the divine will and do not dig-
nify being created in Godrsquos image According to Kabbalah the road is
open for man he can be holy and thus get close to God or walk away
from Him and become a monkey
Reish Up until now we saw how the letters show us and
represent the Divine Presence On the contrary reish represents and
symbolizes Evil ldquoRashardquo in Hebrew Reish follows kuof which repre-
sents the Divine Sanctity The word ldquoroshrdquo (first beginning or head) in
Aramaic is pronounced ldquoreishrdquo just like the letter Midrash tells us the
Almighty is ldquoRoshrdquo since he is the beginning and head of the world and
its end as well Evil does not exist what we judge as bad is only a part of
the Divine Plan and we do not know and therefore cannot understand
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
53
Shin this letter has an important place since shalom
(peace) begins with it Only God is the source and root of true peace Its
shape with three arms and three heads represents the wish of all of us to
rise to heaven lifting our hands to receive His help It also encompasses
the symbolism of something that has three limbs but only one purpose
We live in three worlds past present and future
The human being has a spirit a soul and a body
The human creation has three partners
Kether Binah and Hokhmah or the Holy
Trinity
Taf unlike the other letters which we have seen through
analysis and symbology that each represented a word being the first eg
Shin Shalom (peace) Sheker (lie) the symbol for taf is given by the last
letter in the word ldquoEmetrdquo (truth) This is exactly the general characteris-
tic of truth at first the lie seems more interesting Truth is appreciated in
the end Truth involves everything since its letters are one in the begin-
ning the other one in the middle and the third one at the end
The Angels of Kabbalah
The etymological meaning of the word angel is messenger from
the Greek ldquoAggeloacutesrdquo ldquoAngirasrdquo in Sanskrit in Persian ldquoAngarosrdquo in
Hebrew and Arabic ldquoMalakhrdquo and ldquoDevardquo for the Hindus
Doubts about their existence disappear before the coincidences
amongst cultures and diverse beliefs that describe them
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
54
Angels constantly remind us who we are due to the message that
is attributed to them For us their place is the same as that of God they
are above us and within us
To come in contact with them could take us to doubt if we did so
with a superior reality or with the highest part of ourselves
The mythical history of Kabbalah tells us that after man was
driven out of the Garden of Eden the angels transmitted the kabballistic
teachings to man so that he could reconquer it through the never ending
divine energy which is present everywhere in the Universe
The 72 Angeles of Kabbalah
Seraphim
Vehuiah ndash Elemiah ndash Jeliel ndash Lelahel
Sitael ndash Achaiah ndash Mahasiah ndash Cahethel
Cherubim
Haziel ndash Aladiah ndash Lauviah ndash Hahaiah
Iezalel ndash Mebael ndash Hariel ndash He Kamiah
Thrones (also known as Ophanim)
Lauviah ndash Caliel ndash Lauviah ndash Pahaliah
Nelkhael ndash Yeiaiel ndash Melahel ndash Haheuiah
Dominions (or Kyriotetes)
Nith ndashHahaiah ndash Yerathel ndash Sheikh
Reiyel ndash Omael ndash Lecabel ndash Vasariah
Powers
Vehuiah ndash Lehahiah ndash Chavakiah ndash Menadel
Aniel ndash Haamiah ndash Rehael ndash Ieiazel
Virtues
Hahahel ndash Mikael ndash Veuliah ndash Ylahiah
Sealiah ndashAriel ndash Asaliah ndash Mihael
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
55
Principalities
Vehuel ndash Daniel ndash Hahasiah ndash Imamiah
Nanael ndash Nithael ndash Mebahiah ndash Poyel
Archangels
Nemamiah ndash Yeialel ndash Aacuterale ndash Mitzrael
Umabel ndash Iah ndashAnauel ndash Mehiel
Angels
Damabiah ndash Manakel ndash Eyael ndash Habuhiah
Rochel ndash Yabamiah ndash Haiayel ndash Mum
Geniuses of Kabbalah
Air ndash Earth ndash Water - Fire
The first three verses of the Torah are revealing in regard to the
Divine Creation In the morning of the first day God created the four
geniuses or semi-gods to help Him directly preparing the platform for
the coming of man
Genesis 11 ndash
ldquoIn the beginning God created heaven and earthrdquo
Genesis 12 ndash
ldquohellipthe Spirit of God was hovering over the watersrdquo
Genesis 13 ndash
Let there be light and there was light
Nothing would exist in the Universe without the four geniuses
or elements only God and with the creation of these geniuses He
proves to us that He does not want to be alone but surrounded by
vegetation animals and specially the HUMAN BEING
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
56
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Tipherzt
Beauty
Christian Kabbalah
Jesus and the Kabbalah
The Sacred Books
The Apostle Matthew
The Sermon on the Mountain
(The Beatitudes)
The Our Father
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
57
Jesus and the Kabbalah
Up until now we have analyzed the Bible from the Tanaj and the
Talmud we have also taken the Torah as the foundation of Kabbalah
The New Testament has an important kabballistic content provided by
Jesus and his apostles
Emmanuel ben Yoseph known as Jesus Christ lived between
the ages of thirteen and thirty-three with the Essenes Fraternity of the
Dead Sea where he learned the secrets of the Kabbalah that his Father
had given to mankind and because of his illumination he was declared
Master of Justice
In the New Testament the four evangelists analyzed Jesus from
the four kabballistic worlds which are completely separated and diffeent
Matthew describes a physical Jesus generations that preceded
him and his relationship with the people of Israel
This is the World of Assiah
Luke tells the story of Jesus intimate life he describes moving
images of the Master along his pathway
This is the World of Yetsirah
Mark talks to us of a miraculous Jesus with a Divine mag-
netism and its soul healing rays
This is the World of Briah
John gave us the gospel of a metaphysical Jesus the abstract
spirit and visions of an astral world
This is the World of Atziluth
The Kabbalah develops its doctrine in the light that invades us
and emanates from our bodies because we are part of it
Jesus in John 812 says I am the light of the world Those who
follow me will never walk in darkness They will have the light that leads
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
58
to life and in Ephesians 58 he confirms ldquoAt one time you were in the
dark But now you are in the light because of what the Lord has donerdquo
When Matthew in verse 223 says ldquohellipand came and lived in a
city called Nazarethrdquo This was to fulfill what was spoken through the
prophets He shall be called a Nazarene he explains that Jesus had to
be a Nazarene that is he had to wear the Crown or Kether according to
what God told Moses in the oral or kabballistic precepts In Numbers 66-
7 it is said ldquothroughout the period of their dedication to the LORD the
Nazirite must not go near a dead body Even if their own father or
motherrdquo
In Matthew 822 Jesus stresses this precept saying ldquohelliplet the
dead bury their own dead
According to the Kabballists the Torah is fountain of wine and
milk In Isaiah 551 we read hellip and he who has no money come buy
wine and milk without money without pricehelliprdquo In many quotes Jesus
mentions the wine as his spiritual blood Peter 22 ldquohellipLike newborn ba-
bies crave pure spiritual milk so that by it you may grow up in your sal-
vationhelliprdquo
The Old and New Testament
The Old Testament or Tanaj is made up of 39 books and the New
Testament 29 a total of 66 books As we all know there is no such thing
as luck it is the message of God that we still cannot decipher If we ana-
lyze that message through kabballistic numerology we will decipher it
and be surprised
According to the kabballistic numerology ldquo39 books in the Ta-
najrdquohellip 3+9=12hellip 1+2=3 and ldquo3rdquo represents the Holy Trinity
Kether or God the Father
Hokhmah or God the Son (active to the right of the Father)
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
59
Binah or God the Mother or Holy Spirit (passive)
They are all emanations of God the Father and therefore only
one Being It is the announcement of the Divine Trilogy based on the
Admirable Intelligence of Kether the Illuminating Intelligence of
Hokhmah and the Sanctifying Intelligence of Binah If we take away the
substance of the Tanaj which are the five books that make up the Penta-
teuch we are left with 34 books or the number 7 which were the re-
maining emanations with which God created the Universe The 27 books
of the New Testament add up to the kabballistic nine which is the Divine
or Complete number since it contains all the numbers and closes the
wheel That is the New Testament not only does it complement but also
contains the previous one and completes it The sum of both is 66 its
kabballistic number is 3 and it returns to the Holy Trinity the Three
Sefirot or divine emanations
The Apostle Matthew
In chapter one Matthew explains the genealogy of Jesus with a
result of 42 generations from Abraham to Jesus in three periods of 14
generations each This he does from the physical world or Assiah to ex-
plain with real facts Abrahamrsquos descendants and how Jesus really was
the King of the Jews
Forty-two (generations from Abraham to Jesus) adds up to six
like the sefirot of the Creation (on the seventh one He rested) which
means God rested in Malkuth the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth but
the message from Matthew is that we should distribute these three peri-
ods amongst the six sefirot of the Creation
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60
The transition between Abraham and David takes place be-
tween the fourth sefirah Hesed (Greatness) and the fifth Geburah (Jus-
tice)
Hesed is the sefirah from which the rest of the sefirot emanate
like Abraham the Patriarch from whom three religions ldquoemanaterdquo Juda-
ism Christianism and Islam Hesed is the foundation of the spiritual vir-
tues and it is connected to the Holy Son like Abraham
Geburah is the sefirah of David the Justice seeker who uni-
fied the kingdoms for the greatness of the Chosen People he is the strict
Warrior King
With Salomon son of David starts the second period as told by
Matthew and it ends with the deportation of the people to Babylon This
is the passage from the sixth sefirah Tipherzt (Beauty) to the seventh
sefirah Neshah (Power)
Tipherzt is Beauty serenity trust just what King Salomon
was to his people In the same manner it is in the column of the Crown
of God and it is directly supported by Abraham and David
Neshah is the hidden Intelligence of stability and spiritual
power it is the powerful faith against adversity the expulsion to Baby-
lon
When the Babylonian invasion comes to an end the passage to
the coming of Jesus begins it takes place between the eighth sefirah Hod
(Glory) and the ninth sefirah Yesod (Foundation)
Hod is the Divine Glory the Divine Healer which healed the
wounds inflicted on the chosen people by the invaders It is awakening
and learning
Yesod is the foundation and filter of all emanations before
reaching the Kingdom it is the Pure Intelligence it is Unity without Di-
vision this is the sefirah to which both the moon and the waters respond
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61
and the tides and earth as well the sefirah that builds and founds That is
why this is the sefirah that Matthew attributes to Jesus It is the one that
brings together to the Father before reaching Malkuth the Kingdom of
Earth and Heaven in a straight line passing by Tipherzt (Salomon) and
with the virtual sefirah of the Sacred Heart
As we can see the Apostle Matthew shows us in a kabballis-
tic way the presence of Jesus from the patriarch Abraham to the
present
Holy Spirit
David
Glory
Jesus
Kingdom
Salomon
Power
Abraham
Holy Son
Holy Father
Heart
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The Sermon on the Mountain
(The Beatitudes)
With The Sermon on the Mountain Jesus teaches us the basic
Concepts of Kabbalah to be interpreted in many centuries to come be-
cause the land of the tribe of Israel to which Jesus belonged was under
the domain of the Greco-Roman Empire which wanted to impose its
own gods That is why Jesusrsquo message is stronger the deeper you go into
it It should be observed the same as the ocean it is not the quiet waters
and small waves that rule but the strong currents that flow in the deepest
depths
Somebody told me once that even a child could understand the
Sermon and it is true which shows the intelligence of the Master be-
cause the Sermon holds many levels of understanding
From the Gospel according to Matthew chapter five we can ex-
tract the essence of the Sermon on the Mountain contained in the first
nine verses two of them introductory and the other seven making up the
Beatitudes
51 ldquoAnd seeing the multitudes He went up onto a mountain
and when He was set His disciples came unto Him ldquo
5 2 ldquoAnd He opened His mouth and taught them sayinghelliprdquo
To go up to the mountain in Kabbalah means to rise to the high-
est degree of spirituality (eg Moses went up the mountain to speak with
God) which means he went up to the Crown or Kether When it says
ldquoHe opened His mouth and taught them sayingrdquo sounds redundant since
nobody can say anything without opening his mouth But we have to
consider that there are two aspects in Kabbalah thought or intelligence
Binah and the word or wisdom Hokhmah Jesus uses the first to ignite
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63
the soul of His followers and the word to transmit the vibratory energy or
surrounding magnetic field and that way get to the spirit of people
53rdquoBlessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom
of Heavenrdquo
According to Kabbalah a rich man with many possessions can
enter the Kingdom of God if he doesnrsquot develop the materialistic spirit
that goes with them On the other hand a poor man without possessions
could be not admitted in the Kingdom of God if he develops that materi-
alistic spirit and is absorbed by the only wish of having fortune Kabba-
lah teaches that neither richness nor poorness is the ideal state Jesus re-
fers to the heart or Leb the simplicity and easiness of spirit because to
have possessions or not does not interfere with the progress towards the
path of foundation and spiritual uplifting
54 Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted
Kabbalah does not preach sadness but joy and happiness In the
Kabbalah the act of crying is a symbol of redemption greatness and
love or Hesed it is also a symbol of acknowledgment of errors made
and therefore seeking spiritual evolution in love for another The begin-
ning of change is identified with crying That is why whoever accepts
the change will be comforted
55 Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth
God said to Moses ldquoYou shall not adore other gods and you
shall respect my Namerdquo This means He demanded meekness Jesus re-
fers in kabballistic terms to meek men before God those will be able to
live in harmony and freedom achieving Divine Justice or Geburah be-
cause they are the ones who increase their spiritual level
56 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteous-
ness for they will be filled
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64
Those who hunger within will seek the nourishment to satisfy it
And will begin a search for justice which will take them to the spiritual
Glory Hod This means that those who hunger and thirst for spiritual
truth will be filled with the blessing and perfection seeker Those who
abandon the spiritual search of the truth will condemn their souls to come
back as many times as it is necessary to achieve it
57 Blessed are the merciful for they will be shown mercy
To be merciful is to forgive others to have the power or Neshah
of not having negative thoughts actions or answers to aggressiveness
from others Negative feelings affect our spiritual body and poison our
physical body altering the nervous system
58 Blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God
The pure in heart are those who achieve inner beauty or
Tipherzt In order to have a clean and beautiful heart we must nourish it
with love and not hate with forgiveness not vengeance with truth not
lies or falsehood There must be harmony in our body soul and spirit
59 Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called sons
of Godrdquo
Peace in Aramaic is the same as harmony in Greek and both
words represent the foundation of life on this earth or Yesod and Jesus
suggests the Peace of the just
510 Blessed are those who are persecuted because of right-
eousness for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
511 Blessed are you when people insult you persecute you
and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me
In these two verses Jesus foretells the persecutions his followers
even the Kabballists will suffer anticipating the manifested idea of ob-
taining the communion of the Kingdom of Heaven or Malkuth in com-
plete peace and harmony
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65
In the next two verses Jesus refers to the eighth sefirah Hod the
Glory (elevation) and its connection with Geburah Justice (respect)
which means we must respect the Just because they are the prophets and
we will be blessed by them
512 Rejoice and be glad because great is your reward in
heaven for in the same way they persecuted the prophets
who were before you
513 You are the salt of the earth But if the salt loses its salt-
iness how can it be made salty again It is no longer good for
anything except to be thrown out and trampled by men
In the following words Jesus takes us through the Tree of Live
or Sefirotic Tree bringing us even closer to the kabballistic message and
his spiritual profoundness
514 You are the light of the world A city on a hill cannot be
hidden
Kether is the Crown of God the Divine light that which is
above everything else above the mountain It reminds us that the moun-
tain is the highest level of spirituality
514 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl
Instead they put it on its stand and it gives light to everyone
in the house
Hokhmah is Wisdom to the right of the Kether the Crown of
God it is the light of Christ which lights up all homes
516 In the same way let your light shine before men that
they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in
heaven
Binah is Intelligence it is the light that reaches to the spirit of
mankind as a holy protection it is the light of the Holy Spirit that reaches
the heart through good deeds
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66
These three verses refer to the first three sefirot that is the Holy
Trinity which is the potent Divine light since it contains in only one ray
of light the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit
The following four verses refer to Geburah or Justice This is the
sefirah that dictates the Law the one that enforces the Law the one that
unites Heaven (Kether) with Earth (Malkuth) according to the Divine
teachings and is called the sefirah of Divine Justice
517 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the
Prophets I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them
518 I tell you the truth until heaven and earth disappear not
the smallest letter not the least stroke of a pen will by any
means disappear from the Law until everything is accom-
plished
519 Anyone who breaks one of the least of these command-
ments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in
the kingdom of heaven but whoever practices and teaches
these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heav-
en
520 For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses
that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law you will ce r-
tainly not enter the kingdom of heaven
Hesed is the sefirah of Greatness and it is known that the origin
of greatness is HumilityHumbleness the person that is not humble is
not great In the following verses Jesus explains to us how to irradiate
Love Mercy Greatness and above all Humbleness
521 You have heard that it was said to the people long ago
Do not murder[a]
and anyone who murders will be subject to
judgment
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67
522 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother
will be subject to judgment Again anyone who says to his brother
Raca (An Aramaic term of contempt is answerable to the Sanhed-
rin But anyone who says You fool will be in danger of the fire of
hell
523 ldquoTherefore if you are offering your gift at the altar and
there remember that your brother has something against you
Ponder
Respect
Blessing
Peace
Kingdom
Love
Acceptance
Help
Speech
Inspiration
Heart
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68
524 leave your gift there in front of the altar First go and be
reconciled to your brother then come and offer your gift
525 ldquoSettle matters quickly with your adversary who is tak-
ing you to court Do it while you are still with him on the way or he
may hand you over to the judge and the judge may hand you over to
the officer and you may be thrown into prison
526 I tell you the truth you will not get out until you have
paid the last penny
The following sefirah that Jesus speaks of in the Sermon on the
Mountain is Tipherzt beauty serenity trust family it is the one with
the noble attributes fidelity A through this sefirah he talks to us about
the family blessings and how Divinity intertwines with it
Tipherzt is the one that provides the spiritual nourishment and
family blessings that is why Jesus protects the relationship between man
and woman as fountain of life and punishes above all deceit and adul-
tery
527 You have heard that it was said Do not commit adul-
tery
528 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustful-
ly has already committed adultery with her in his heart
529 If your right eye causes you to sin gouge it out and
throw it away It is better for you to lose one part of your body than
for your whole body to be thrown into hell
530 And if your right hand causes you to sin cut it off and
throw it away It is better for you to lose one part of your body than
for your whole body to go into hell
531 It has been said anyone who divorces his wife must
give her a certificate of divorce
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69
532 But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife except
for marital unfaithfulness causes her to become an adulteress and
anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery
The following sefirah is Neshah which represents Stability and
Balance and the following five verses Jesus that swearing is the loss of
stability and balance before God
He who requires an oath does not trust what is being said and he
who gives an oath does not trust himself rdquoYes or Nordquo should be enough
for those who speak the truth
533 Again you have heard that it was said to the people long
ago Do not break your oath but keep the oaths you have made to
the Lord
534 but I tell you Do not swear at all either by heaven for
it is Gods throne
535 nor by the earth for it is his footstool or by Jerusalem
for it is the city of the Great King
536 And do not swear by your head for you cannot make
even one hair white or black
537 simply let your Yes be Yes and your No No any-
thing beyond this comes from the evil one
Hod is the sefirah of glory the compensation and acknowledge-
ment And there is no better glory and acknowledgement than to love the
enemy and bless those who curse and hate us
As Jesus tells us in the next eleven verses
If you love only those who love you
What are you doing extra
What reward are you seeking
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70
538 You have heard that it was said Eye for eye and tooth
for tooth
539 But I tell you Do not resist an evil person If someone
strikes you on the right cheek turn to him the other also
540 And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic let
him have your cloak as well
541 If someone forces you to go one mile go with him two
miles
542 Give to the one who asks you and do not turn away
from the one who wants to borrow from you
543 You have heard that it was said Love your neighbor
and hate your enemy
544 But I tell you Love your enemies and pray for those
who persecute you
545 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven He caus-
es his sun to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the
righteous and the unrighteous
546 If you love those who love you what reward will you
get Are not even the tax collectors doing that
547 And if you greet only your brothers what are you doing
more than others Do not even pagans do that
548 Be perfect therefore as your heavenly Father is perfect
Yesod the ninth sefirah is Foundation because it purifies
proves and corrects all previous sefiroth Helping others is exactly what
this sefirah is all about not only to love them but to help them He who
helps receives purification from Yesod and he who helps in secret is
blessed by The Father
Matthew 6
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
71
61 Be careful not to do your acts of righteousness before
men to be seen by them If you do you will have no reward from
your Father in heaven
62 So when you give to the needy do not announce it with
trumpets as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets
to be honored by men I tell you the truth they have received their
reward in full
63 But when you give to the needy do not let your left hand
know what your right hand is doing
64 so that yoursquore giving may be in secret Then yoursquore Fa-
ther who sees what is done in secret will reward you
Malkuth is the sefirah that represents the Kingdom of Heaven
and Earth that is why Jesus tells us that prayer must be in private in or-
der to be rewarded in public without repetitions and lots of words be-
cause the Father knows what we need before we even ask
65 And when you pray do not be like the hypocrites for
they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street cor-
ners to be seen by men I tell you the truth they have received their
reward in full
66 But when you pray go into your room close the door and
pray to your Father who is unseen Then your Father who sees what
is done in secret will reward you
67 And when you pray do not keep on babbling like pagans
for they think they will be heard because of their many words
68 Do not be like them for your Father knows what you
need before you ask him
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72
The Our Father
Jesus reaffirms part of the Kabbalah by following the path of the
Sefirotic Tree in his most important prayer
69 This then is how you should pray Our in heaven
hallowed be your name
Our Father the admirable intelligence or Crown Kether first sefirah
In Heaven the enlightening intelligence or wisdom Hokhmah the sec-
ond sefirah
Hallowed be your name the sanctifying intelligence Binah the third
sefirah completing the Holy Trinity
610 your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is
in heaven
Your kingdom come the intelligence of love Hesed
Your will be done righteous intelligence Geburah
On Earth as it is in Heaven that is form Kether to Malkuth
611 Give us today our daily bread
Give us our daily bread the intelligence which provides Spiritual
Nourishment and beauty Tipherzt
612 Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our
debtrs
Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors the hidden
intelligence which is power victory and stability or Nesha
613 And lea us not into temptation but deliver us from the
evil for yours is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for
every century Amen
And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil the absolute
intelligence or perfect glory or Hod
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73
Holy
Justice
Freedom
Foundation
Prayer
Love
Forgiveness
Spiritual
Nourishment
Heaven
Father
Heart
For yours is the Kingdom Kether the Power Hokhmah and the
Glory Briah which means You are the Holy Trinity
Amen is the foundation of Holy Prayer
After teaching us this Prayer Jesus continues showing us the truth about
the emanations of the Sefirotic Tree Starting once again at the Kether
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74
to remind us privacy in acts such as forgiveness fasting and prayer will
be rewarded in public by the Father who wears the Crown
614 For if you forgive men when they sin against you your
heavenly Father will also forgive you
615 But if you do not forgive men their sins your Father will
not forgive your sins
616 When you fast do not look somber as the hypocrites
do for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fast-
ing I tell you the truth they have received their reward in
full
617 But when fast put oil on your head and wash your face
618 so that it will not be obvious to men that you are fasting
but only to your Father who is unseen and your Father who
sees what is done in secret will reward you
Jesus explains that our treasures are not in the Kingdom of Earth but in
the wisdom of Hokhmah which is the treasure of Heaven that God sent
to us
619 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth
where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and
steal
620 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven where
moth and rust do not destroy and where thieves do not
break in and steal
Binah is the intelligence that Jesus asks us to use to see the light within
our heart he asks that we be intelligent to stay away from evil because
wise men donrsquot have two bosses
621 For where your treasure is there your heart will be also
622 The eye is the lamp of the body If your eyes are good
your whole body will be full of light
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75
623 But if your eyes are bad your whole body will be full of
darkness If then the light within you is darkness how great
is that darkness
624 No one can serve two masters Either he will hate the
one and love the other or he will be devoted to the one and
despise the other You cannot serve both God and Money
Hesed is greatness Jesus shows us how Great we are that greatness is
not eating drinking or dressing up but greatness is being on the path to
the Kether or Crown
625 Therefore I tell you do not worry about your life what
you will eat or drink or about your body what you will
wear Is not life more important than food and the body
more important than clothes
626 Look at the birds of the air they do not sow or reap or
store away in barns and yet your heavenly Father feeds
them Are you not much more valuable than they
627 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his
life
628 And why do you worry about clothes See how the lil-
ies of the field grow They do not labor or spin
629 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor
was dressed like one of these
630 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field which is
here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire will he not
much more clothe you O you of little faith
631 So do not worry saying What shall we eat or What
shall we drink or What shall we wear
632 For the pagans run after all these things and your heav-
enly Father knows that you need them
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76
Godrsquos Fortune
Godrsquos
Justice
Godrsquos Education
Godrsquos Purification
Godrsquos
Freedom
Godrsquos
Love
Godrsquos Effort
Godrsquos
Greatness
Godrsquos Treasure
Godrsquos
Forgiveness
Godrsquos
Heart
633 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all
these things will be given to you as well
634 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow
will worry about itself Each day has enough trouble of its
own
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77
Once we obtain Greatness or Hesed Jesus asks us to seek Justice or
Geburah the next sefirah Justice is learning to judge others and to look
more with our heart than our eyes
71 Do not judge or you too will be judged
72 For in the same way you judge others you will be judged
and with the measure you use it will be measured to you
73 Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your broth-
ers eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye
74 How can you say to your brother Let me take the speck
out of your eye when all the time there is a plank in your
own eye
75 You hypocrite first take the plank out of your own eye
and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your
brothers eye
76 Do not give dogs what is sacred do not throw your
pearls to pigs If you do they may trample them under their
feet and then turn and tear you to pieces
After Geburah comes Tipherzt beauty this sefirah is the provider of spir-
itual nourishment that is why Jesus invites us to ask seek and knock and
he reminds the law of the Torah because Tipherzt is in the center and
unites the past with the present the law of the prophets with the law of
Jesus
77 Ask and it will be given to you seek and you will find
knock and the door will be opened to you
78 For everyone who asks receives he who seeks finds and
to him who knocks the door will be opened
79 Which of you if his son asks for bread will give him a
stone
710 Or if he asks for a fish will give him a snake
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78
711 If you then though you are evil know how to give good
gifts to your children how much more will your Father in
heaven give good gifts to those who ask him
712 So in everything do to others what you would have
them do to you for this sums up the Law and the Prophets
Neshah is stability the sefirah of the intellectual virtues the eye of the
intellect which shows us the path of life and Jesus shows us the road of
tranquility
713 Enter through the narrow gate For wide is the gate
and broad is the road that leads to destruction and many e n-
ter through it
714 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to
life and only a few find it
Hod is glory or recognition Jesus shows us how to recognize those who
are said to be prophets or wise men Jesus tells us the best way to do so
is by their fruit (results) or deeds if we observe others objectively we
will know who will really support us and who would like to take ad-
vantage of us
715 Watch out for false prophets They come to you in
sheeps clothing but inwardly they are ferocious wolves
716 By their fruit you will recognize them Do people pick
grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles
717 Likewise every good tree bears good fruit but a bad tree
bears bad fruit
718 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit and a bad tree cannot
bear good fruit
719 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and
thrown into the fire
7 20 Thus by their fruit you will recognize them
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79
The ninth sefirah is Yesod or foundation This is the sefirah of purifica-
tion in it Jesus separates the chaste from the impure to take evil away
from us
721 Not everyone who says to me Lord Lord will enter
the kingdom of heaven but only he who does the will of my
Father who is in heaven
722 Many will say to me on that day Lord Lord did we
not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out de-
mons and perform many miracles
723 Then I will tell them plainly I never knew you Away
from me you evildoers
The tenth sefirah is Malkuth the Kingdom of Earth and Heaven where
Jesus gives us an example of free will so that we make wise decisions
and chose the Kingdom in which we will live
724 Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and
puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house
on the rock
725 The rain came down the streams rose and the winds
blew and beat against that house yet it did not fall because it
had its foundation on the rock
726 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does
not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his
house on sand
727 The rain came down the streams rose and the winds
blew and beat against that house and it fell with a great
crash
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80
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Neshah Stability
The Divine Creation
The Divine Creation
Adam Eve and the Genesis
Gestation and Conception
Development and Growth
Maturity
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81
The Divine Creation From the ape up to Adam and Eve
During the early ages of life on Earth the new thinking beings invested
most of their time in learning to survive humans had to adapt to and in-
tegrate themselves to the four elements or genius (Air Fire Earth and
Water) they also had to learn to interact with animals and plants
Man began to notice that all animals were born and died as natural pro-
cess They ldquocame inrdquo (were born) to this world from the maternal womb
or from an egg and all of them inevitably someday disappeared or
ldquoleftrdquo (died) this world
Man also noticed that all animals ldquochangedrdquo in size (grew) being small
when they ldquocame inrdquo to the world and as the ldquosuns and moonsrdquo passed
(time) they developed and grew getting stronger until reaching a point
in which they ldquodisappearedrdquo (died)
Furthermore the learning was part of the ldquoroadrdquo when they ldquoarrivedrdquo
they didnrsquot know how to walk or fly they couldnrsquot see their parents had
to get their food and protect them they were weak and dependant In
time they learned to be self-sufficient and to live independently even
though they were part
of a heard o a community
In every age thinkers and scientists asked them selves how early mankind
evolved to the point of becoming what we are nowadays The Judeo-
Christian Kabbalah answers this question without interfering with sci-
ence The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah explains mankindrsquos ldquoevolutionrdquo in
ten steps and goes through the Sefirotic Tree starting from the feminine
column reminding us that it is the female who receives the Divine herit-
age of Creation
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82
1 The Crown or Divine Light
First the Divine Light Crowned the undeveloped brain of the wild ape
and transformed it into a ldquothinking aperdquo That Divine ldquotouchrdquo caused
the transformation of the apersquos simple brain into the complex brain or
ldquocrownrdquo of this new being This change contains the celestial blow of the
future human being
2 Intelligence or understanding
Undoubtedly what made de difference between mankind and the rest of
the animals was that awareness since they all went through the same
changes they were all born grew up and died they could all see the
moon replacing the sun and all of them could see the vegetables grow
but the other species either did take notice or did not acknowledge it The
human being could ldquothinkrdquo mankind had the ldquointelligencerdquo to be aware
and that made it different
3 Wisdom or experience
As time went by mankind acquired experience which added to intelli-
gence resulted in ldquowisdomrdquo This wisdom made man outstand over the
rest of the species This wisdom permitted man to learn from other spe-
cies in a certain way and in many cases to dominate them
These three sefiroth that represents the Holy Trinity separated to
the man of the rest of the world animal and vegetable determining
their supremacy by order and Divine grace
4 Justice or respect
Man began to put his abilities to use and the first thing he did with his
intelligence and wisdom was to acknowledge ldquojusticerdquo but the Divine
free will permitted them to apply it or not Mankind understood that
without spiritual justice intelligence and wisdom cannot not be applied
5 Greatness or humility
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83
Mankind learned that spiritual greatness meant knowing how to apply
justice in every act of life
To be just and great is to be wise and intelligent
Man learned that to be great does not mean to be above the rest but to
apply intelligence and wisdom to improve the life and spirit of others
These four qualities must go together if man is to continue his evolution
and stay away from the ape otherwise he would be stuck and the ape
would overcome
6 Beauty or sweetness
As mankind evolved it became understood that each act good or bad as
well as every thought obscure or bright marks the inner character and
outer appearance of a person with a defined particularity that will either
dull it or illuminate it The beauty of the Spirit is more real and perma-
nent than physical beauty The secret of this beauty which lights up pu-
pils with the serene light of the stars y gives faces the sweet look of the
angels lies within a just behavior and greatness in thought
The Bible and Science go of the hand The Creation and the Evolution are work of God
7 Glory or acknowledgement
As man made his inner evolution he wanted to be acknowledged by the
Divinity first and by his peers later
ldquoGloryrdquo is the acknowledgement of onersquos values by others All human
beings need this physical and spiritual acknowledgement The Just has
the Spiritual Greatness Beauty of the Soul and the Divine Glory
8 Stability or Balance
The sensory and spiritual stability and balance of the new being meant
inner growth Stability came about with the bluntness of power and the
victory of his actions The spiritual powers of stability are the foundation
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84
Awareness
Respect
Knowledge
Building
Real World
Sweetness
Balance
Humility
Experience
Divine Light
of tolerance discernment and being able to face up to reality and to co-
operate with our peers powers that are attained through Justice Great-
ness and the Divine Glory
9 Foundation or construction
The foundation or founding of communities is a major stepping-stone
for this new being It was like planting a seed to watch a tree grow Man
understood that if the foundation was done right he would ldquobuildrdquo a
whole culture for the future of mankind But if due to selfishness ava-
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85
rice or greediness he failed and started with a poor foundation of com-
munities instead these would dissolve in time That is why he would
have to apply everything he had learned and all the accumulated experi-
ence correctly
10 The Kingdom of Earth or real world
The Kingdom of Earth is the summit in the process of evolution from
ape to man it is the matter substance the physical and real world This
is the peak of the creation cycle the creation of Adam and Eve Thanks
to the powers of God the ape was transformed into the human being that
now lives in the Kingdom of God which is the Earth It is at this point
where all divine teachings and human experiences converge all celestial
and earthly matters meet here the soul with the spirit and the senses
with the physical world
Adam Eve and the Genesis
ldquoFor the Kabbalah in animals femininity finds itself in front of mas-
culinity while masculinity confirms itself through femininity In the
human level masculinity and femininity are distinguished and at the
same time complement each otherrdquo
In the first book of the Pentateuch the ldquoBook of Genesisrdquo there are two
explanations that would appear to contradict each other that is why we
will analyze them textually
Chapter One verses 27 through 31
27 So God created man in his own image in the image of God he
created him male and female he created them
28 God blessed them and said to them Be fruitful and increase in
number fill the earth and subdue it Rule over the fish of the sea
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and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves
on the ground
29 Then God said I give you every seed-bearing plant on the
face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in
it They will be yours for food
30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and
all the creatures that move on the groundmdasheverything that has
the breath of life in itmdashI give every green plant for food And it
was so
31 God saw all that he had made and it was very good And there
was evening and there was morningmdashthe sixth day
Chapter Two verses 7 and 15 through 23
7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and the man became a
living being
15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of
Eden to work it and take care of it
16 And the LORD God commanded the man You are free to eat
from any tree in the garden
17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil for when you eat of it you will surely die
18 The LORD God said It is not good for the man to be alone I
will make a helper suitable for him
19 Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the
beasts of the field and all the birds of the air He brought them to
the man to see what he would name them and whatever the man
called each living creature that was its name
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87
20 So the man gave names to all the livestock the birds of the air
and all the beasts of the field But for Adam no suitable helper
was found
21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep and
while he was sleeping he took one of the mans ribs and closed
up the place with flesh
22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken
out of the man and he brought her to the man
23 The man said This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my
flesh she shall be called woman for she was taken out of man
According to these two texts which differ in just a few pages within the
Sacred Book first man and woman were created at the same time but
later it explains that woman was created from the rib taken from man
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah takes it as a cryptically allegory which
means we are not to understand this explanation as saying first and sec-
ond having another ahead does not make one a subordinate
The ten sefiroth that created the universe were simultaneous and the crea-
tion of the first ldquothinking aperdquo was simultaneous in male and female If
we try to understand the Divine message decoding it into common lingo
we find that the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah gives us several clues
The Book of Genesis 2 does not void what is stated in Genesis 1 it is
revealing another aspect of the human being The intention of the second
text is not to tell us how creation took place in a chronological order but
to explain ndash in a symbolic language ndash something more profound
According to the Book of Genesis 1 God created them ldquoin one single
actrdquo and gave them a mission in common Be fruitful and increase in
number fill the earth and subdue it This clarifies the equality of dignity
in both as well as the equality in the mission imparted since both are
given the same responsibility the family and protection of the world
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88
According to this there doesnrsquot seem to be tasks or responsibilities ex-
clusively reserved to men or women family as well as culture are to be
done by both
Adam does not take woman out of himself he was asleep doing noth-
ing Furthermore God expressly wanted to hide from him the way in
which he made woman doing so while he slept when he could not notice
what was happening
About the reasons for God putting Adam to sleep we can take some
concepts from the Divine reasoning The lonely Adam pictured in the
Book of Genesis 27 is a generic Adam because the characteristics
which describe him are the same for either man or woman and are
meshed in the verses 215 through 223 in the four worlds of the Sefirotic
Tree
The original loneliness (interpreted as the transcendence of
mankind with respect to the Cosmos) is the world of Atziluth or
divine protection
It is not good for the man to be alonerdquo is the need to opening
up this is the world of Briah or giving to others
The search for the appropriate assistance (conceived as mutual
and reciprocal) is the world of Yetsirah or trust and learning
The call for man woman and their animals to work together is
the world of Assiah or Earth and its fruits
The symbolism of the rib taken by God from Adam while he slept re-
veals a relationship between man and woman from which two conse-
quences derive Is a reciprocal relationship (there is no woman without
man but there is no man without woman) which leads us to conclude
that both ends of this relationship must be simultaneous
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89
Spirit
Form
Muscles
Organs
Birth
Nerves
Bones
Strength
Soul
Supra
One
Heart
Gestation
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
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90
Conception
A person is born at a particular moment in time due to a specific
situation or to connect with specific people or one person in particular
When speaking of gestation it is important to assign the archetypical
worlds to each step of this process
1 The Archetypical World called Atziluth is where everything
is in a latent state where everything is potential This is the world in
which the Divinity unites soul and spirit It is in this world where the
essence on an individual is found There is a ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath of the
heart here which lives in both the spiritual and the creative worlds
2 In the Creative World called Briah we find strength and the
pure form which gives shape to the physical life where the cellular mul-
tiplication begins The heart sends the energy of the soul and spirit to the
new being in gestation
3 In the Formative World called Yetsirah the whole body is
in the process of development creating the nervous system muscles
bones organs etc
4 In the Material World called Assiah is where the physical
manifestation takes place It is the moment of birth when the new inte-
grated being sees the light of the Sun
Development
At birth the physical body manifests itself in the Malkut of As-
siah or the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth after going through the se-
quence of conception Birth takes place at the end of the descending path
from Kether (God) to Malkut (Earth) After birth the path is inverted
while developing we begin to ascend from Malkut (Earth) to Kether
(God)
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91
The personality of an adult individual is reflected in the stage or
sefirath where he stopped or in which he weakened the most We can
associate these stages with the worlds in an ascending manner reverting
the way of the gestation
For example the Malkut of Assiah is the material world in
which a person must see and touch in order to learn He needs to touch
the fire to know that it burns or needs to knock himself to know how hard
matter is and how weak is the spirit
Yetsirah is the world in which responsibility is formed where
most people have stopped at one point in their lives for not being able to
assimilate one or more of sefiroth that make up this world
A person who stopped in hisher childhood has stopped at the
sefirath Yesod a person seeking information or news or is forever study-
ing is at Hod and the one seeking pleasures (sex food fun) is still going
through Neshah And those searching for trust in themselves are at
Tipherzt
Mature people are in the world of Briah Justice and greatness
will help these people to develop the acquired knowledge
Those who have stopped at Geburah are people who experience
constant hardship until they learn to grasp control of themselves and
once they achieve inner peace they dedicate their lives to good acts On
the other hand those who come out of Hesed are the ones who negotiate
with generosity those who give to receive who seek to buy love affec-
tion or respect
Atziluth the last world is the one closest to God one that takes
us to Him
Those worried about death are at the sefirath Binah They age
prematurely and constantly complain about illnesses
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92
Those who reach Hokhmah is because they have profound en-
lightening visions which in some cases and for certain social groups are
similar to insanity
To reach Kether at the end of life on earth is to go back to God
to achieve the freedom of onersquos soul
In the Material World called Assiah is where the man-
ifestation of birth takes place where the body without formation but with
genetic and Godrsquos instruction and information from past lives gets ac-
quainted with himself and those around him
In the Formative World called Yetsirah life and aca-
demic formation is acquired to be applied to the rest of onersquos life The
person shall have the teachings perception affirmation and confidence
supplied by those around him
In the Creative World called Briah the most important
stage in a personrsquos life is found In it we can apply everything learned
and observed in the previous world Decisions taken in this world will
affect us twice as much in the following world
The Archetypical World called Atziluth is a world of
closeness to the Divinity here is where we should stop and analyzes our
existence prepare the balance sheet of our soul When we get here we
can see what we have contributed to the growth of our soul
The road to Maturity
As we know each sefirath is a tree in itself and each world con-
tains the other four inside that is why we must analyze our maturity from
the moment of birth and the growing years as well
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93
Pro
tec-
tion
Co
ntr
ol
Le
arning
Chi
ldh
ood
Bi
rt
h
Tr
us
t
Ple
asure
Giving
Li
gh
t
S
up
ra
O
ne
Heart
The stages of growth
Atziluth
Briah
Yetsirah
Assiah
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94
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah when we are born
our ldquopatternrdquo of life is not finished because our body spirit and soul are
not completely integrated
Between the ages of five and seven the central column formed
by Yesod Tipherzt and the ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath Led molds the operative
personality The Heart Trust and Foundation are the basis of a childrsquos
personal development
At the age of thirteen Hod and Neshah stability and glory for-
mation and pleasures become active This is the age of awakening of
knowledge
Between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one Kether and
Malkuth intertwine forming the central structure of the tree and they
give it meaning and dimension
During the following years Geburah Hesed Binah and
Hokhmah integrate themselves completing the incarnation of the plains
When we see rebellious youths who have not yet grasped the
concepts of justice or generosity (gangs drugs) it is because they have
not incarnated completely and Geburah and Hesed have not taken their
places yet There is no set age for complete incarnation because it de-
pends on the surroundings and social experience
The child of an alcoholic and a drug addict who live in poverty
does not have to follow that path If he could find support in a family or
educational group that could help him to develop the missing sefiroth and
that way obtain incarnation he could become a person who understands
the proper concepts of justice and greatness thus clearing his life and ob-
taining personal success
On the other hand the son of an aristocrat or millionaire be-
tween the ages of thirteen and twenty will react against his class but
from there on and according to the integration of his sefiroth to the tree
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95
he will only be interested in developing within his social circle marrying
someone accordingly and following the family pattern but if he should
find a link that could help him develop the missing sefiroth in order to
complete his incarnation he would change his concepts on class and
would obtain personal success
Of course both examples are generalizations which do not apply
to all people If you are reading this book you are a spiritual researcher
and surely do not fall under generalizations
Many people consider a good marriage and a good social posi-
tion as valid objectives but after twenty years or more of walking the
same path they understand that even though they have a good marriage
with someone they love and good economic resources they have no
goals
This usually happens after the age of forty-five or fifty For those
based on their bodies this is the beginning of the end and will seek the
physical methods (surgeries) to slow this process
The Tree of the Maturity
These physical methods are not bad if they go together with a
spiritual development with growth in the tree of the spiritual worlds un-
til the highest point is reached and it is understood that the body is the
container of the spirit and soul
Often enough people get stuck emotionally here and no matter
how old they are they cannot get out of Tipherzt or the sefirath of Trust
It is here where emotions are sometimes confused with feelings obscur-
ing thoughts and the development of spiritual maturity
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96
Under-
standing
Truth
Awakening
Trust
Real
World
Foundation
Power
Humility
Experience
Essence
Heath
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97
Kabbalah
Judeo-Christian
Hod Glory
The Human Being
Soul and Spirit
The Worlds of the Spirit The Battle of the Spirit
The terror and the Fears
Difficult Situations The Problems of the Spirit
The Worlds of Solutions Instincts feelings and senses
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98
Soul and Spirit
We already know that neither one of us is a new soul all of us
have accumulated experience from previous lives in other incarnations
We also know that those celestial beings that occupy our body
have come during the last thousands of years
We also know that this inter-relation or connection between soul
and body helps to correct the soul
What we need to know now is What is the spirit
The spirit is our inner Self our mind it is what we really are and
who we are
Our spirit is formed by four worlds Each world relates to the
other on the basis of interactive processes and it works its way up from
the concrete (tangible) to the ethereal (spiritual) levels
1 The Material World called Assiah or the world of
Logic is based on Malkut passes through Yessed and opens up into
Hod and Neshagh The logical though is something you can almost
touch it has foundation stability and glory
2 The Formative World called Yetsirah or the world of
the Perceptions is based on Tipherzt and opens its arms into Ge-
brurah and Hesed The perceptions of the human being are beauty
justice and greatness
3 The Creative World called Briah or the world of Feel-
ings is based on Led (heart) and from there goes on to Binah and
Hokhmah Our feelings are the product of the alchemy formed by
the ldquovirtualrdquo sefirath of the heart intelligence and wisdom
4 The Archetypical World called Atziluth or the world
of Intuition has only one sefirath as base Kether Divinity resides
here that is intuition is the direct link to Divinity
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99
As we can see the spirit is the part that connects our contained
(physical body) to our soul (or celestial body) and that is who we really
are The spirit must take care of the body so that it ldquolastsrdquo as long as pos-
sible When it is mistreated with external products (poor nutrition alco-
hol tobacco or drugs) the soulrsquos stay and learning period is shortened
this will cause the soul to come back in another container to continue
learning
When an illness or accident causes the brain to stop the spirit is
affected never the soul The soul keeps learning even though the body is
inert or in a deep coma and it will stay there for some ldquotimerdquo after the
heart stops beating It could be minutes maybe hours or days before the
soul abandons the body
When the death is surprising and unexpected (accident violence
etc) both the soul and the spirit stay in condition of shock and are late
many time in dividing
Each person has in its spirit what we know as personality stud-
ied by Jung even his profession is related to these worlds For example a
person with an Assiah personality will be in the armed forces Profes-
sionals are Yetsirah the artists are in the world of Briah and the mysti-
cal people live in Atziluth
Even as we are crossing the tree sefiroacutethico the personality was
passing of being introverted and logical to extrovert and dreamy
Undoubtedly the complexity of the spirit and the dynamic that
surrounds it could generate multiple models Human beings depending
on the inherited genes educational environment social development will
modify some of the parameters associated to these worlds in order to be
accepted by society
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
100
The soul is very important in this development since in its mis-
sion of learning it will try to put the person in challenging situations
provoking logical feelings and intuitive sensations
The way to analyze these worlds and know to which ones we
blong (surely to all of them but some more than others) is to know our
strengths and our weaknesses to find our fears and the chance to
ovecome them
Each world has its own ten sefiroth that respond to its own
behavior
The residents of the world of intuition or Atziluth
are generalists hypothetical not precise speculative idealists in-
ventive illogical indecisive futurists and disperse
Those who live in the world of feelings or Briah are a
logical poetic artistic passionate personal cordial ethical justice seek-
ers individualists and humanitarians
The inhabitants of the world of the senses or Yetsirah
are careful detail minded specialists objective precise concrete real-
ists profound practical and conventional
Those who live in the world of logic or Assiah are log-
ical analytic extremist scientific cold dispassionate theoretical imper-
sonal shrewd and insensitive
Neither world is better than another and there isnrsquot a single hu-
man being that ldquofitsrdquo exactly into one defined world we all have behav-
iors from all of them but the proportions are different in each one of us
and that is what makes us all different from each other
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101
The worlds of the Spirit
In the center ldquoThe Column of Equilibriumrdquo (Balance)
Intuition Atziluth
Feelings Briah
Sense Yetsirah
Logical Assiah
Thought
Intelli-
li-gence
Jus
tice
Glo
ry
Foun-
dation
Ma-
teri
al
Be
au-
ty
Sta-
bil-
ity
Grea
tness
Wisdom
Su-
pra
One
Heart
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102
The Battle of the Spirit
As we could see the battle is not very fair three worlds are ruled
by the heart and only one is ruled by the brain That is why in most cas-
es instincts or feelings ldquowinrdquo over reason When free will was given to
us it was so that we could ldquothink overrdquo our acts
Are two ways of thinking intuition and reasoning with very dif-
ferent characteristics
Some thoughts come to mind in a spontaneous way in reality
that is what happens most of the time Because Atziluth Briah and
Yetsirah are always present in a potential way ready to jump in and re-
spond in a way of which we are not totally conscious and cannot control
The actions of these three worlds are quick without effort associative
and very often charged with emotions They are ruled by habits that is
why it is difficult to modify or control them
The world of Assiah instead is ruled by conscience and delib-
erate reasoning it is slower serial and requires effort it follows rules
Needs more time when something upsets us it clouds our reasoning
This means the issue is stuck on the upper worlds and it doesnrsquot allow us
to make logical decisions usually because we are afraid to reason
For example the idea that something awful can happen if we
take a plane even though that possibility is remote will not let us think
of anything else The upper worlds become dominant Emotion is over-
come in turn by the possibility by what could happen and not by reality
so much
The emotional and issue is the less ldquoreasonablerdquo people are
According to Daniel Kahneman winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize
in Economics
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
103
ldquoEmotions in general do not influence decision making but one
emotion in particular (fear) distorts the perception of risk and generates
errors in the making of decisionsrdquo
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah fear originates in the
upper world but if we can take it to the world of Assiah or logical it
vanishes into thin air
Nevertheless if once we make a reasoned decision we donrsquot reg-
ister having made it curious enough we are not conscious we have
changed our way of thinking
Most people after changing their way of thinking reconstruct
the old pattern They underestimate their change Besides when they
have been persuaded of something they believe they always thought that
way The upper worlds hide behind the mask that reason displays and
have us believing they were never there we are convinced that we al-
ways think rationally
It is true that many people admit making a mistake at one time
or another ndash you could be one of them ndash but that doesnrsquot mean that they
have changed their way of thinking on a particular issue and that they
wonrsquot make the same mistake again
Fears
All living beings have fears it is natural and it responds to the
instinct of survival You donrsquot have to be a caballist or scientist to state
that man is a fearful ldquoanimalrdquo One hundred percent of the human spirit is
ldquoshyrdquo or timid and it fears an endless amount of things and situations He
is intimidated by them The important thing is to identify the things he
fears and why Donrsquot even think you are the only one who fears some-
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
104
thing ALL OF US fear something The thing is that that ldquosomethingrdquo is
different for each one of us
Fear is not bad or good it simply is disturbing feeling about
something unknown or if it is known we canrsquot control and we are afraid
it might hurt us
When God created the four elements or semi gods (Fire Water
Air and Earth) He gave them the ability to help or hurt mankind that is
why Fire can cook our food or it can destroy us Water is for drinking or
drowning Earth can give us vegetables or bury us with Air we live and
without it we die The four elements can give or take life And it is pre-
cisely in them that the depth of all fears lies
Fear has companions such as anguish
obsessions and phobias
Many cultures and old and modern religions disguise fears (in
many cases to manipulate people) with the presence of the Devil or dia-
bolic things The Judeo-Christian Kaballah upholds that mankind in its
search for alternative gods created this evil figure to justify its fears and
anguishes
Fear lives in the upper part of the Sefirotic Tree of both worlds of
the spirit where man thinks less and fears more First he starts at Atzi-
luth where he acts mostly based on instinct he is almost irrational and
here is where he ignites the anguish fearrsquos best friend From there it goes
down to Briah and it leans on phobic feelings to go on to Yetsirah
where it can attract obsessions
In the emotional sentimental world or Briah reside an endless
number of opposed phobic fears darkness or light open spaces or closed
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
105
space crowds or loneliness heights or depths planes or boatshellip and we
could go on for pages
In the world of the sensations or Yetsirah live the obsessive
fears disguised as concern
Worry for details rules lists order schedules up to
the point of losing of sight the principal object of the activity
Perfectionism which interferes with the completion of
a task (unable to finish a project because it doesnrsquot comply with
onersquos own demands which are overly strict)
Excessive dedication to onersquos work and to the produc-
tivity with exclusion of the activities of leisure and the friend-
ship (not attributable to economic evident needs)
Excessive stubbornness very scrupulous and inflexi-
ble when it comes to moral issues ethics or values (not attributed
to the identification with religion)
Unable to discard old and useless items even when
there is no sentimental value attached
Unable to share the work load with others unless
they will accept to do it your way exactly
Excessive thriftiness in spending money must be ac-
cumulated to cover future catastrophes
All these fears which live in the worlds of instincts feelings and
sensations are not related to diabolic situations Satan does not exist in
the Divine Universe Satan is a creation of our spirit to encourage the
learning and development of our soul The best way to teach our soul is
to overcome our fears bringing them down to the rational world of Assi-
ah to keep them under control and letting them go
This can be done following these steps
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
106
1 The first step is to put your fears in the world of
logic or Assiah not worrying about why this fear exists but how
do we respond to this fear behavior (eg paralysis desperation)
Hesed origin
2 Be specific when it comes to defining your con-
duct of fear and its consequences because the problem it self is
the solution Geburah control
3 Donrsquot look at your fear as such but as an obsta-
cle in attaining your goals Take it to Tipherzt trust
4 Define exactly the way you want to change your
conduct Go to Neshah balance
5 Establish a time limit to obtain the proposed
change For this Hod learning is the right sefirath
Search for an adequate way to make your change with-
out going to extremes for instance becoming a perfectionist
What you want to change is not making mistakes but the irra-
tional fear for avoiding making mistakes If you are set out to
making mistakes to change you will stop worrying about per-
fection but you will also stop worrying about the mistakes you
could make That is the mistakes are not the problem but the
fear of making mistakes is Work on Yesod construc-
tionbuilding
6 Be patient changes donrsquot take place overnight
whatrsquos more there could be a set back especially when there is a
fast progression in the change of the conduct of fear Please un-
derstand that a straight forward improvement is not always to be
expected you could be going forward there could be stops and
set backs which will allow you to compare and value the differ-
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
107
ences between your previous status with your situation of pro-
gress Go through Malkuth action
Once the world of Assiah logic overcomes your fears you will
see how your fears crashed with logic and vanish
Donrsquot forget that fear is a close friend of depression Fear attracts
dissonance synonym of physical and spiritual disease When one of the
elements stops working the machinery works with serious difficulties
When one of the parts slows down or over speeds therersquos also a lack of
balance and things donrsquot run well
Fear is one of those elements in the human being with great
power to generate lack of harmony correspondence and balance Its
negativity does not allow us to act neither with freedom intelligence nor
with common sense On the contrary it makes us highlight aspects of our
life which we shouldnrsquot consider so important It makes us go back
when we should be going forward It makes us lie when we should be
telling the truth And it takes away our plenitude creativity and capacity
to love
Problematic Situations
Man faces difficult situations all his life from childhood to old
age He finds himself with the obligation to address them with systemat-
ic processes of thought but he doesnrsquot know how important they are All
problems can be grouped in these three definitions
Urgent and important
Urgent or important
Neither urgent nor important
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
108
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah and the sefirotic trees show us
that if we establish priorities if we analyze situations if we identify op-
portunities there are no problems without a solution and that solution is
usually much simpler than we would have thought The method to apply
the adequate solution to a problem is part of the kaballistic teachings
Problems of the Spirit
The Spirit is made up of four worlds (logic sensations emotions
and intuition) if we know how to apply them correctly and how to dis-
tribute our problems amongst these worlds each one of them will solve
the part of the problem to which it applies and the general solution will
become available without stress nor complications
The World of logical thought is the one that analyzes a problem
concretely creating a new Sefirotic Tree with four worlds Ideas Caus-
es Opportunities and Solutions we go through them from the column
of forms or shapes looking for the world of detail or feminine
Atziluth is the world of Ideas formed by Kether Binah and Hokhmah
Kether is the situation worrying you the problem in your
head or philosophical it could be physical or mental could be serious or
momentary but none the less it is the center of the worry
Binah is the expansive thought the one that analyzes the
components distinguishes the pertinent parts the real causes of the prob-
lem Binah clarifies the information to define the situation
Hokhmah is the convergent thought it evaluates and develops
the main idea of the problem compares theorizes and creates a hypothe-
sis which means it is the one that focuses on the problem to be solved
looking for the way to follow and the steps to take
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109
Briah is the world of Causes formed by Leb Geburah and Hesed
Leb is the virtual sefirath of the heart which plays a part in
every problem and even though thought is the most concrete world of
the spirit the heart has its influence when the time to make a decision
comes We should make the problem ldquovirtualrdquo analyze the solution with
the heart and without it in order to be objective and make the right deci-
sion
Geburah is justice Try to think as a lawyer they only deal
with proven facts they donrsquot go by hearsay Clean your mind of external
ldquoadditionsrdquo analyze ldquowhat problems make up this problemrdquo
Hesed is greatness It is very important to know where the
problem was originated in order not to repeat it you must have the
greatness to admit your percentage of responsibility in the origin of the
problem Donrsquot put the responsibility all out there blaming others do
know that we alwayshellip alwayshellip are partly responsible for what happens
to us Admitting responsibility requires greatness
Yetsirah is the world of Opportunities formed by
Tipherzt Hod and Neshah
Tiphezt is the sefirath of beauty and every problem has a
beautiful side to it which is the opportunity it opens up to the other
worlds Every problem is the starting point towards truth Many times
the truth is hidden and the problems bring it out in the light Look for the
positive side of the problem there always is one look for the sun after
the storm
Hod is the glory and glory is acknowledgement To
acknowledge a problem is part of the solution If we describe the prob-
lem and its consequences we could see clearly which opportunity it is
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110
revealing Remember facts or situations it will help us recognize the real
scenario of the problem
Neshah is stability which will come when we solve the prob-
lem Imagine your life without the problem try to see which things will
be better and analyze which ones could be worse in order to avoid them
Donrsquot let it catch you off guard Just like in a chess match every move
must be carefully thought out and advantage taken of the adversaryrsquos lit-
tle mistakes
Assiah is the world of Solutions formed by Yesod and Malkuth
Yesod is the sefirath of foundation it is the one to support and
filter the information sent by the rest to Malkuth If the other nine have
done their job correctly the problem would reach this point practically
resolved In some cases it doesnrsquot even reach this point since it was re-
solved on its way As long as we clarify and converge ideas analyze the
real causes and describe its consequences the storm we saw coming at
first becomes a sea breeze
Malkuth is the earth action It establishes these ways to fol-
low to resolve a problem or whatrsquos left of it The truth is that Malkuth
steps in less than 5 of the cases because the big problems do not ex-
ist but small problems that transformed a snow ball rolling downhill that
breaks up into thousands of harmless little particles when it hits a serious
and conclusive analytical spirit
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111
The Sefiroacutethico
Tree of the logical thought
Diverge
Facts
Acknowl-
edging
Filtration
Action
Serenity
Equilibrium
Origin
Converge
Knowing
Heart
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112
The Worlds of Solutions
The other three worlds of the spirit (sensations emotions and intuition)
are present in the previous development as observers but sometimes
(many times) they are present in the analysis of the concrete world where
logical thoughts occur taking the solution to the problem through not so
logical paths In these cases we have to appeal to the central column or
Column of Equilibrium of the Sefirotic Tree of the Spirit
Kether (Intuition) receiving the energy that the Divinity and Its
Light sends us
Leb (Heart) will find answers in our feelings
Tipherzt (Beauty) will consult our inner sensations
Yesod and Malkuth (Foundation and Earth) bring us back to the
world of reasoning and logic
This means that we can solve many problems using our intuition our
feelings or our sensations but we should always put them through the
filter of logical thought of truth putting passion aside and trying to be as
analytical as possible
Instincts Feelings and Sensations
Instincts or Atziluth feelings or Briah and sensations or Yetsirah to-
gether create an inner stir up when motivated by action Mankind is
mostly conditioned by emotions and sensations by likes and dislikes
Often enough feelings and sensations are side tracked by mankindrsquos own
interests and selfishness to the point of invalidating sense and reason
making one behave in ways which one sees with consternation that Assi-
ah has been forgotten Thus logic is destroyed by the three upper
worlds When we snap out later and we see the mistake it is too late to
do anything about it
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
113
The upper worlds usually come up as an answer to the spontaneous eval-
uation of perceptions Emotions such as anger or fear can be harmful or
healthy such as fondness or compassion While aversions are typical un-
healthy emotions good love and compassion are outstanding examples of
noble emotions that lift our human nature
Human beings are pretty open to emotional development and so is the
range and strength of their emotions We are all somewhat passionate
and impulsive and cold and reflective at the same time What varies is
the percentage some get angry very fast and others are patient While
one person could be not impulsive emotionally another could go through
a wide range of emotions at the speed of light
The emotional worlds hurt the physical body that is why they should be
controlled According to clinical experience a person dominated by
emotions could have consecutively or simultaneously health issues af-
fecting several organic systems I will mention a few psychosomatic
health problems
Migraines
This symptom is made up of other somatic symptoms that go to-
gether in people with a perfectionist personality with changing moods
They usually manifest themselves with painful muscle contractions of the
neck as well as nausea and vomiting
Obesity
Obesity usually develops within the frame of anxieties in re-
sponse to frustrations and disappointment through devotion to food8
Hypertension
The main reason for vascular hypertension is emotional tension
in people who show apparent serenity and affability but are really cover-
ing up hostile emotions and predisposition ndash that must be restrained ndash for
social or employment reasons
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114
Cardiovascular System
It has been proven that the stress caused by anguish tends to fre-
quently increase your heart beat cardiac distress and blood pressure
Respiratory System
Crying laughing screaming o talking imply changes your
breathing action excessive breathing or the opposite are typical respons-
es during contrasting periods of action or relaxation Examples of this are
the hyperventilation syndrome and asthma amongst others
The Gastrointestinal Tract
The symptoms of gastrointestinal disorders are multiple the most
frequent they are anorexia bulimia nausea nervous indigestion vomit-
ing and diarrhea
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
115
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Yesod Foundation
Free Will
The emotional worlds
Control of emotions
Who controls me
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116
The emotional worlds
The emotional worlds are distributed within the Sefirotic Tree from
Kether to Malkuth
Kether is imagination it is ethereal and impalpable it comes
from within and surprises us as if it came from outside We imagine
things or situations this is the world of Atziluth
What happens in our lives makes better sense when we use our imagina-
tion and create our own stories These could be situations related directly
to what is happening to us or just the opposite For example if we are
watching a Superman movie we unconsciously accept that the character
flies We know the actor is supported by ropes of steel or that it is a
computerized trick but we go prepared to accept this The same thing
happens with a horror movie we donrsquot ignore that the monster is made
out of some synthetic material that those masks are created with makeup
or that the blood could be tomato sauce but while we are watching the
movie we let the world of Atziluth take over our spirit and we accept
what takes place in the screen as real
The important thing is to know when the movie ends and reality begins
There have been cases of people jumping off rooftops believing they
were Superman or have shot others thinking they were either Rambo or
Terminator Without going to these extreme examples many people be-
lieve they are living stories out of soap operas in which the characters
are either good or bad In them the manipulation of society is done
through ldquobelievablerdquo or ldquodetestablerdquo stereotypes In these stories the
ldquogood guysrdquo consume the sponsorrsquos products that is why they are good
looking and successful while the ldquobad guys are very badrdquo and always
end up in jail or dead Very far from the reality
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117
Hokhmah is memory it is our particular wisdom it is what we
learn from the past the things our own life has taught us But memories
sometimes play tricks on us
Often enough we associate what we see with some other type of experi-
ence or memory For instance if somebody speaks loudly we feel we are
being attacked because we remember that tone of voice being used by a
teacher or our father to make an observation or punish us This memory
which is not rational will put us on alert waking all our feelings of de-
fense But it could be that this person speaks loudly because he needs to
be listened to with the best intentions towards us In this case Atziluth
would have reacted against our relationship with the other person We
usually do not notice these processes because these are unconscious be-
haviors of which we are not aware When we remember the incident we
only describe our experience related to the visual perception and with
conscientious thought We almost never refer to what we heard felt im-
agined or what our intuition told us What this does is that we visualize
an incomplete picture of the situation
Binah is the comprehension our intelligence While we hear the
other person speaking loudly we generate currents of thought These
thoughts could relate directly and we could probably raise our voice as
well Both of us speaking loudly almost screaming will dull our compre-
hension and we wonrsquot be able to reason the other personrsquos words nor
will we understand why we are being loud In unexpected situations
such as an accident in transit (like somebody hitting our car in the free-
way) we create an opinion of the other person while we observe the in-
cident But we do not reason the occurrence It is not easy for us to un-
derstand in those circumstances and we unchain reactions that we will
regret later
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
118
ldquoThe three sefiroth of the tree of emotions make up the trilogy of At-
ziluth where everything is potential everything is relative where im-
agination lives with memories and comprehe nsionrdquo
Listening is Hesed greatness since knowing how to listen is
greatness Our hearing perceives in a selective way depending on the
attention we are paying In first place we hear the most discordant
sounds Some people listen independently from what they see while
others associate what they hear to what they see Closer sounds also get
mixed with those coming from afar (planes trains)
Seeing is Geburah justice When the police investigate an acci-
dent talks to five witnesses and gets five different versions of the same
accident This is because each witness perceived the same scene in a dif-
ferent way according to their distance and angle their surprise their
memories and their fears What each one was doing and how long it took
their minds to react to adapt to the new situation is also important
Feeling is Tipherzt beauty Any situation of relationship or ac-
tion (somebody yelling at us somebody crashing into us somebody hug-
ging us or loving us) triggers our instinctive emotions and can make us
feel uncomfortable sad surprised tender excited furious anxious nos-
talgichellip and so many other ways
It is important to know how to handle them from the sefirath of beauty
Both love and fury are born there It is the provider of spiritual nourish-
ment it is the one that sends the order to our hand to slap or caress to our
mouth the order to insult or say words of love to our legs the order to get
closer or start running away If we control our reactions and let our brain
make the decision we will save ourselves lots of problems apologies and
unpleasantness
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
119
ldquoThese three sefiroth of the tree of emotions form the trilogy of
Briah the world of creation where strength idea and ways of liste n-
ing seeing and feeling come togetherrdquo
Taste and smell are Hod and Neshah or glory and stability the sev-
enth and eighth sefiroth These two senses go together When we smell a
dish we like we feel our mouth ldquowateringrdquo This is because our sense of
taste already sent the known flavors to our brain which in turn already
started in Yetsirah the registered memories In some gas stations we
taste the smell of gasoline in our mouth as if we had drunk it Being close
to a trash dump makes us nauseous since the smell is perceived by our
nose and mouth irritating our throat
In these cases the formative world of Yetsirah makes us react instinc-
tively to aggressive odors
Reflexes are Yesod foundation This sefirah closes the trilogy of the
world of Yetsirah which is the formative or conceptual world and re-
flexes just like taste and smell are instinctive concepts that we cannot
control When we watch a thriller or action movie we move as if we
were the character in it we flinch when they stick a knife into somebody
or we move avoiding the punch We usually experience some movements
as if we were moving ourselves we even experience tension in our mus-
cles Itrsquos common that if we see others dancing we will also feel the im-
pulse to dance
ldquoThese three sefiroth are the base of our instinctive and intuitive sys-
tem We can control all other sefiroth imagination memories un-
derstanding listening seeing and even feeling but the senses of smell
and taste and reflexes are very hard to control that is why we must
concentrate our attention on themrdquo
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120
Re-
mem-
ber
Lis-tening
Tast-
ing
Re-
flexes
Rea-
soning
Feel-
ing
Smell-ing
Seeing
Compre-
hension
Imag-
ining
As we can see Malkuth is in the world of Assiah and takes no part in
emotions It is the material world reason and reasoning If we manage to
handle our emotions and ldquobring them downrdquo to Malkuth reason will
prevail and our behavior will be logical improving our relation with the
world
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
121
Controlling your emotions
Now that we know our emotions we know where their origin
takes place and which worlds rule them we can analyze the possibility of
controlling them to reach our goals since a person who angers easily
spoils hisher own happiness and disturbs otherrsquos peace of mind
Without a deliberate effort emotions will not be under the direct
control of our will of Assiah and we will be able to control them in this
rational and logic world We must train our mind to control our emotions
the moment they stir up This can be done by watching them objectively
as soon as they flourish identifying them with a name or a mental label
such as ldquoAngerrdquo ldquoJealousyrdquo ldquoSorrowrdquo ldquoFuryrdquo etc
Once we have names for our emotions we will be then in a bet-
ter position to let go of them without being dragged by them The mo-
ment we can register our anger calmly (when we become aware that this
anger originated in the upper worlds) that is when we make it descend to
Assiah to the world of reason and our anger will leave us
At first this could be useful if during the day we repeat to our-
selves a formula such as
ldquoWhat am I feeling nowrdquohellip ldquoWhat am I thinkingrdquohellip
We respond immediately
ldquoI am feeling angerrdquohellip ldquoI am jealousrdquohellip
We can also investigate even afterwards why the anger (or any
other adverse emotion) took over us so that we can avoid these situations
or responses in the future
Who controls me
Even though every human being has in its spirit the world of As-
siah very few use this world to think logically and by themselves This
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
122
passivity or indifference is the result of the development of massive
communication media
Radio television yellow journalism even the Internet push their
messages on all of us every minute of the day and its penetration power
is reinforced by the rooted human disposition to accept everything we are
being told and comply with what we are dared to do Bombarded by
thousands of stimuli we donrsquot think by ourselves anymore we donrsquot feel
our emotions anymore or start up our own actions instead we feel how
others want us to feel The pressure of the multitude is irresistible
When we explain that Kether accepts that Superman flies be-
cause it is part of the film game we must control that Kether does not
accept that my self esteem depends on the perfume or shirt I buy or that
my relationship with people does not depend on the car I have
We saw that in the world of Atziluth everything is relative eve-
rything is in a potential state that is why commercials aim at our imagina-
tion memories and comprehension to get us to buy their products
All these communication means teach us to hold our capacity to
reason or if we happen to reason to do it the way they expect us to
Those who manipulate the media (not necessarily the owners but the
sponsors) are motivated by their own interests which are fortune and
power They play important roles in several means of life such as politic
business law medicine and education
Publicity newscasts soap operas even reality shows penetrate
us through the world of Briah which is the listeningseeingfeeling trilo-
gy In Briah we find the idea in formation that is why journalism is con-
sidered the ldquofourth powerrdquo Nevertheless in todayrsquos globalizes world
Kabbalah places it at the top over all other earthly powers because it
manipulates images ideas and it gives us the news ldquoaimedrdquo at their inter-
ests The role of reasoning tends to be subordinated to that of emotion
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
123
while the mental inertia and indifference eases the conquest of reason
That is why when public opinion is formed through manipulation a small
minority is able to control the majority Publicity and newscasts are the
most effective mechanism to make us ldquobelieverdquo what is good or bad for
our spirit and body
Control of decisions and Free Will
All of those who are part of the small but powerful marketing
minority have something to sell Commercials make us wish more and
more things that will not necessarily make us happier or give us peace of
mind They tell us that happiness is having the latest entertainment center
or the new cooking system But no matter how many things we buy we
could still feel our lives painfully empty
The speed power and efficiency of all this technological and so-
cial development drive us into an increasing frequency of illness due to
stress and nervous crisis Those who do not collapse under this pressure
find other ways to escape such as drugs alcohol and psychotic cults
The battle is not easy because the offer is gratifying we are even part of
that wheel because we sell a product or service which is commercialized
that way The only significant comparison we can make is with our-
selves between the person we were one month earlier a year earlier or
even a decade earlier and the person we are at present physically intel-
lectually morally and financially If there hasnrsquot been an improvement
or it hasnrsquot been enough we should ask ourselves why that is and do
something to modify this without delay If done regularly this ldquocheck-
uprdquo could be very beneficial If we set our pride and prejudice aside and
we check out our values and perspectives then we will be able to live a
simpler healthier and happier life
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
124
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Malkuth
The Kingdom
The Rational World
Education and freedom
Rights and obligations
Daily negotiations Responsibilities
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
125
Education and freedom
As a child I was told that
ldquoThe better educated a person is the freer that person isrdquo
At the time I didnrsquot understand the significance of those words
because at the age of ten to me education was school teachers and
studying
Today a few years older the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah taught
me that education is knowledge and it is much more profound than what I
was taught in school
According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the first thing educa-
tion should do is warn the students that all knowledge implies a certain
risk of error and illusion Human knowledge is exposed to errors in per-
ception and judgment and illusions caused by the narrowness of ideas
cultural influence and the emotions and experiences of each person
Scientific knowledge is not even immune to error and illusion
theories and methods of investigation protect their own errors and illu-
sions That is why the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah education gives the kind
of knowledge that allows for self criticism and detects errors and illu-
sions The ldquoknowledge blindnessrdquo can be cured with a more open and
reflexive education that self-criticizes
The media overwhelms us with information It is fundamental
that we learn to discern what is relevant and what is accessorial
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah invites us to analyze the four
worlds of the human spirit together with the four worlds of the societies
in which they live political cultural religious and financial
The archetypical world called Atziluth is the one where eve-
rything is in a latent potential state That is the spirituality and religious
world
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
126
In the creative world called Briah we find the strength in its
pure form and the ideas This is the emotional or cultural world
In the formative world called Yetsirah everything is in the
formation or a conceptual process which is the world of sensations or
political
In the material world called Assiah is where the physical
manifestation takes place which is the logical or financial world
Globalization is another important issue that conditions our free-
dom According to the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah the world has been
globalizing from its inception God never discriminated we are all His
children Moses was a ldquoglobalizesrdquo when he took his people to the Prom-
ised Land through the desert So were Abraham Noah Jesus when he
asked his apostles to take his word evangelizing throughout the Earth
The current systems of communication make us realize how sim-
ilar and at the same time how different we are from each other The
Judeo-Christian Kabbalah struggles for unity not to erase diversity and
vice-versa Neither is the individual person above religion culture or so-
ciety nor is religion culture or society above the individual person Only
God is above each and every one of us
Let us remember that God created the four Genii or Elements
(Earth Air Water and Fire) and it is the obligation of all human beings
to protect them since they are our only support Mankind is destroying
them with the contamination it has created which will derive in our own
destruction But this depends on our free will thai is why there is an
even more powerful globalization than the financial one the intellectual
affective and moral globalization This is the only way we will achieve
the Freedom to which the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah invites you the
world is united by its culture technology and the financial exchange and
at the same time it is divided by politics and religion
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
127
To need
Control
Respect
Free Will
LIFE
Happiness
Dignity
Freedom
To know
To love
Kabbalah teach us to understand that every human being shares
the same worries feelings and the same destiny no matter where he
lives
The values of the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah are solidarity hos-
pitality tolerance and respect towards the dignity of every person This
means that every culture should learn from other cultures and each socie-
ty from other societies
The kabballistic ideals of freedom consist in respect for the indi-
viduality and diversity and promoting solidarity and comprehension
Responsibilities
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
128
Rights and obligations
The Judeo-Christian Kabbalah bases its doctrine on the rights and obliga-
tions of all human beings Each person has certain right and obligations
which become basic responsibilities of which each person must take
charge one hundred percent like the responsibility to control and manage
its own life building its own life plan and following it by accomplishing
goals
These obligations have three important axes based on the first three
sefiroth
bull Kether or Crown and self-esteem
bull Hokhmah or the Wisdom to known oneself
bull Binah or the Intelligence to make decisions according
to onersquos inner and outer personal needs without hurting
oneself or others
The basic rights are found in the seven lower sefiroth
bull Hesed and the right to freedom
bull Geburah and the right to control your life
bull Tipherzt and the right to happiness
bull Neshah and the right to dignity
bull Hod and the right to (respect) be respected
bull Yesod and the right of free expression
bull Malkuth and the right to life
Mankind in its daily interaction relates to its sefiroth and its funda-
mental rights according to three different styles of response based on the
lower worlds
The world of Briah or pure or emotional power
It promotes inequality always having a loser and winner This is not a
creative or equal relation
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
129
The person denies its own respect rights and needs hurting itself
These are mostly selfish individualist and passionate people
The world of Yetsirah or conceptual
It deals with defending onersquos own rights without hurting others It im-
plies equality and respect
The person knows the border line between its own individuality and
those of others
They are mostly realistic practical conventional and objective
The world of Assiah or physical or logical manifestation
They are mostly analytic calculating cold and insensitive
It promotes non-equal relationships against the rights of others It is
an unbalanced relationship in which manipulation takes place
The person invades the rights of others getting Responses of fear
Daily negotiations
When people speak of negotiations they think they are talking about
money but negotiation is part of daily life and it is also analyzed
through the sefirotic trees of the Judeo-Christian Kabbalah
The negotiation can be with oneself for instance
Irsquom staying in bed another fifteen minutes even if I have to go
to work without breakfast
The negotiation can be with your spouse for instance
We can spend Christmas with your family if we spend New
Yearrsquos with mine
We can negotiate with our children for example
You can have the car tonight if you come home early and
wash it tomorrow
We can negotiate with our fellow workers for instance
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
130
If you cover me this Saturday Irsquoll cover you next Sunday
As you can see in none of these examples and many more that surely
you must remember is money mentioned as exchange In a negotiation
the effort must be compensated equally
Nobody should win or lose or better yet both should come out winning
obtaining something each one wants In a negotiation everybody should
know what is at stake and what each one will obtain in exchange
Let us remember that the method of solving problems is based on the
lower or material world of Assiah but a negotiation reaches for the upper
worlds like Yetsirah or intuition or the world of Briah or emotions in
some cases it even appeals to Atziluth or spirit
You must train you brain to stay in the lower worlds to negotiate be-
cause it will be more to your benefit Try to be objective since feelings
or emotions play against you and the effort will not be compensated
equally
You must create what is called a creative antagonism separating the ob-
jective facts in order to get to a reasonable and logic agreement It is very
important that both parties feel they are winners Get used to listening to
every word the other person is saying In Kabbalah the word is very im-
portant it has a double message what is being said and what is meant
When your spouse child or friend get angry and scream for something
you already know it is not important they are really saying something
else Hug himher kiss himher on the forehead and tell himher you
want to hear the reasons behind the anger But on the contrary if you
feel offended and respond screaming even louder you will have lost the
negotiation before you even begin
Turn your defects into virtues that way you will get a just negotiation
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
131
If you are passive think of the object and state your argument
with precision and not getting nervous
If you are aggressive look for the motives and keep them
away while negotiating
If triumph is important to you think the other one is right and
try to be unbiased
If you are anguished think of the reasons in your favor not to
show weakness
If you are a fatalist and you think you are going to lose nego-
tiate with a relaxed mind you have nothing to risk act without
worrying about the end result
When Jesus says
ldquoPut the other cheekrdquo
He refers to Judeo-Christian Kabbalah because it is not to be
slapped but to accept the embrace of negotiation
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
132
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian
Conclusions
The Tree of Trees
Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic
133
The Tree of Trees
Reading this book we have learned to go through the different
sefirotic trees the creation of the universe its worlds and centers of
strength the sefirotic columns the Adam Kadmon tree Jesusrsquo genealogy
the Our Father the Sermon in the Mountain (Beatitudes) the evolution of
mankind gestation development maturing the spirit decisions emo-
tions and even responsibilities
But we also learned about the existence of infinite sefirotic trees
because each sefirath (no matter how small) contains a tree within and
each tree (no matter how big) is only a sefirath of a larger tree
If we try to unify all the sefirotic trees we will see that they are
all similar we could even say the same they all have the same logical
pattern they were all created by the same Divine Architect
The sefiroth take different names according to their presence but
their strength does not change since they are endless sources of energy
That is why when we see Sephiroth we see its gifts
Kether Crown Inspiration Divine Light Supra-One א
Hokhmah Wisdom Word Experience Soul ב
Binah Intelligence Spirit Thought Fortune ג
Hesed Greatness Love Humility Strength Giving ד
Geburah Justice David Truth Respect Shape ה
Tipherzt Beauty Salomon Purity Fidelity Goodness ו
Neshah Stability Power Forgiveness Trust Effort ז
Hod Glory Blessing Protection Education ח
Yesod Foundation Simplicity Assistance Purification ט
Malkuth Kingdom Peace Prayer Freedom Birth י
Ceacutesar Leo Marcus
134
The only sefirath that has only one meaning or name is Leb the
sefirath of the heart and for that reason it cannot be modified Because it
is virtual it appears or disappears according to the tree we are looking at
because its power is so big that it doesnrsquot need to be identified or be pre-
sent in the tree because it is a Sefirotic Tree in itself and it is the one that
guides us and protects us
Each one of us has its own Sefirotic Tree which we
must go through without a doubt from Kether to Malkuth and from
Malkuth to Kether
Free will lets us chose the road to take the sefiroth to go
through but it does not let us get out of our own and only tree
We are the only craft men of our own destiny we devel-
op our only precious and exclusive Tree of Life
It is up to us to comply with our Logics Divine Plan or to
decide to evade our responsibilities looking for shortcuts and trying to
twist the Divine assignments
The free will given to us by God demands that we put our spir-
itual and philosophical life in order without further delay to build a dig-
nified future and face each day as if it were the last one
The physical and spiritual kaballistic world from Kether to
Malkuth is truly a happy place to live in if people only thought of go-
ing through their personal and unique Sefirotic Tree
Let us remember these wise words
ldquoDeath is certain life is uncertainrdquo
(Maranam niyatam jivitam aniyatam)
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Judeo-Christian
The Divine Logic
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