Kabbalah Tree Of Life

Dear Lord, I faithfully volunteer for all that you send my way.

Life is for you, never against you. Kabbalah’s Tree of Life portrays how that is. If you pay close attention to any degree of resistance you feel toward what is happening, you discover eventually that it is based wholly on fear. You discover further that your fear is entirely based on an imaginary projection of what is, was, or will be.

It is simply by paying conscious attention, really examining your experience of what is happening, that you gradually wake up from the Tree of Lies to the Tree of Life. The first stage of this awakening is when you realize that the way that you, other people, your life, reality appears to be is just that, a mere appearance, and that that appearance is a fabrication of your mind. You discover that there really is no such thing as “out there”, that all you experience is “in here”. Even the idea that someone or something exists outside of yourself is a condition of what is going on “in here”, in your mind.

As you continue to consciously examine your experiences, you awaken to the realization that all fearful resistance to life is based on nothing but opinions that something bad is happening, was happening, or can happen in the future, that your opinions or presumptions or speculations about reality is all that causes your emotional suffering.

From that point, you are ready to begin the clearing out process, the alchemical term f or which is “expurgation”. This is a process of recognizing when you experience any fearful anticipation of what is to come, any depressing ideas of what has or is happening, and let them go instead of letting them run your life. The way to let this inner darkness go is to look at it, instead of looking from it. Just observe your present experience of whatever you are thinking or feeling. Conscious observation withdraws power from the thought and feeling and permits your mind to settle down. This settling down is the clearing out process.

The clearing out gradually tames the mind, permitting your higher will to direct it. Before, your emotions and instinctive drives and desires ran the show. But gradually you can direct the creative forces of your thinking and feeling in alignment with what is truly best for you.

As you continue practicing present awareness of your experience during quiet mind periods, which extend for longer and longer periods, you gradually awaken to both the Tree of Lies and the Tree of Life. You see how all of your fear, frustration and unhappiness is rooted in emotional thinking that masquerades as truth – that is the awakening to the Tree of Lies. At the same time, you actually experience the ultimate goodness of reality, the divine love that permeates existence and gives you all that ever really happens.

The Tree of Life describes all that is ever really happening, and your awakening to that through the series of sphere going up from the bottom. So please read the following list from the bottom to the top:

Sphere 1: This sphere is named Crown. It represents the absolute power of Divine Will, which also allows you to have some freedom of will. Your awakening here is the highest or deepest level of awakening, for here you become one with the absolute power that determines events, and willingly surrender your freedom of will to totally align with what is and is to be. You experience the most magnificent freedom here: the freedom to totally accept the Will of God, the current of reality, as nothing to oppose, but rather to utterly embrace.

Sphere 2: The name of this sphere is Wisdom. It represents the level of awakening revealing that wisdom presently perfectly guides you and your life.

Sphere 3: This sphere’s name is Understanding. It represents the realization that every experience you have offers you the opportunity to awaken into deeper understanding of how reality works for you, and how you can more completely cooperate with that process, which we can call Divine Love.

Sphere 4: This sphere’s name is Mercy. It represents the attribute of divine kindness, generosity and grace characterizing reality. Your awakening here reveals that the universe is always and can always do nothing but treat you to total, perfect kindness, compassion, freedom, abundance and generosity.

Sphere 5: The name of this sphere is Severity. It represents the element of existence that imposes restraint or limitation for the sake of form. The human experience of this quality often involves some pain; sometimes excruciating pain. Without this element the soul would have no universe of form to pass through and grow through. Going through form offers the soul the opportunity to accelerate its journey of enlightenment into divine union. This describes the purpose of your life in manifestation or, Kabbalistically, your existence in the Kingdom (Sphere 10 on the Kabbalah Tree of Life). Your awakening at the level represented by Sphere 5 reveals that you only pass through the losses and constraints necessary for your progressive liberation into ultimate fulfillment, so even these experiences are nothing to fear, but rather something to welcome and even to invite and feel grateful for.

Sphere 6: Named Beauty, this sphere points to the fact that your life is always leading you into higher levels of total, absolute beauty

Sphere 7: This sphere’s name is Victory. It represents the realization that all that ever happens leads you into higher levels of ultimate victory

Sphere 8: This sphere is named Honor, also Glory. This is the first stage of higher awakening that occurs within that stage represented by sphere 9. From this point forward (or upward) awakening takes you into the specific qualities or divine attributes of reality composed within the Foundation. So you realize here that reality, another word for God, is always and only bringing you and leading you to the realization of your divine, sacred, glorious nature or true honor.

Sphere 9: This sphere is named Foundation. It represents the total, perfect support of divine providence, delivering all that is good for you all of the time. You can actually see this as you let go of the ideas about reality that report any other opinion about what is possible.

Sphere 10: It is called The Kingdom. It represents the way your life and the universe appears to be. Awakening at this level represents the first stage of spiritual liberation. It dawns as you see all that appears to be happening as nothing more than the manifestation of your state or level of consciousness.

By Bob Lancer

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