"Holy Mother, in Whom we live, move and have our being, from You all things emerge and unto You all things return." ~Victor Anderson


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 In the Garden of Eden, G-d planted two trees.  One was the Tree of Life.  The other was the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, which the Zohar calls the Tree of Death.  G-d told Adam that he could eat of any tree in the Garden except the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.  If he ate of it, he would surely die.  Then He made Eve.  Some ( Read more... )

Rabbi Hiyya said, "It is written: He makes Earth by His power. Why makes Earth? The verse should read: made Earth. But indeed, makes, continuously! The blessed Holy One illumines and arrays this Earth. By His power--the Righteous One.
~Zohar 1:33b (Pritzker Edition Vol. 1. Pg. 206)

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That light radiated from the midst of darkness hewn by truncheons of the Concealed of All, until a single secret path was carved by the hidden light, leading to darkness below, where light dwells. Who is darkness below? The one called Night, of whom is written: Revealing depths out of darkness ( Read more... )

Another name for Shekhinah is Kavod (כָּבוֹד) meaning Glory. The Shekhinah is the Glory of G-d. Kavod comes from the root כָּבַד, pronounced the same way, meaning to be heavy. The Glory of G-d is a heaviness, G-d's Glory settling on the earth, thick. This is the Skekhinah. Kavod also means honour and abundance. The Shekhinah is G-d's ( Read more... )

When the world above was filled and impregnated, like a female impregnated by a male, it generated two children as one, male and female, who are heaven and earth, as above. Earth is nourished by the waters of heaven, released into her, though the upper are male and the lower are female, the lower nourished by the male. The lower waters call to ( Read more... )

The next part of the Zohar had a couple of interesting lines.  (I didn't want to type in the whole passage.)  The section is about Genesis 1:3, "And God said: 'Let there be light.' And there was light."

Till here, all was suspended in space.
~Zohar 1:16b (Pritzker Edition of the Zohar, Volume I, 122)

The world "space" is Avira.  It manes air, ( Read more... )

On the seventh day God completed--This is Oral Torah, for She is the seventh day. Through Her was the world consummated, for She sustains all.
~Zohar 1:47b (Pritzker Edition of the Zohar Volume I, Page 258)

The seventh day is the Oral Torah, the Shabbat, and the Nukva, Shekhinah, the feminine aspect of G-d.  Of the Sephiroth, the seven days of ( Read more... )

Based on what I've been posting, I designed a Feri Pentacle that I call the Pentacle of Desire.  Going through the pentacle, you have Action, Desire, Pleasure, Contentment, Commitment.  It doesn't really make sense to go around the pentacle in this case.


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