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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

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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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

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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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

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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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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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

Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic

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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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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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

Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic

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

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

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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

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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

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)

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

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136

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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

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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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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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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

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136

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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

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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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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

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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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)

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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-

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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)

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

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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

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)

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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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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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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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

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

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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

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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

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115

Kabbalah Judeo-Christian

Yesod Foundation

Free Will

The emotional worlds

Control of emotions

Who controls me

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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Ceacutesar Leo Marcus

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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

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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

Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic

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

Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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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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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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

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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

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

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

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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)

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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

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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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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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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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

Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic

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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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)

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

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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

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

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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

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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)

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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

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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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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

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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

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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)

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

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136

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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

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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

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

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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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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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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

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

Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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

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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)

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

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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

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

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

Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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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

Kabbalah Judeo-Christian The Divine Logic

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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

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