New Seers and Old Seers

[Bob May]

White Knight wrote:
Hi Bob,
i saw this picture, the tree of life, many times over spiritual sites, could you do same short practical explanation of it?The best book on the subject that I ever read is linked below. I lost my copy years ago in a fire but just ordered one from Amazon.
http://alleeshadowtradition.com/pdf/mystical_qabala.pdf
Above the Tree of Life is the Limitless Light. The unknowable.
Coming down the Tree there are 10 Sephiroth, beginning with Kether the "Crown" and ending in the world of matter Malkuth "the Kingdom."
Each Sephirah is an "Aspect" of  the One God. We can become "one with" these aspects.
Each Sephirah has a table of correspondences containing the God name, Archangel name, order of angels, Spiritual Experience.
Each of the 22 connecting paths symbolise spiritual awarenesses. On these can be placed the 22 Hebrew Letters, (aeons here since Creation) and the 22 Major Arcana Tarot cards.
It is a Glyph of existence on all levels. As such it is a tools to organize and make comprhensible any sytem of knowledge or philosophy.
By using the Correspondences, a magician or priest can use the Tree to guide his magical working and formulas.
A Mystic can contact his or her Source of Power. Wisdom, Understanding, Mercy, Grace are all on the Tree.
Meditation or Contemplation on the Paths or Sephiroth (plural of Sephirah) can bring these things into your mind.
Also there are vices and virtues on the Tree which can show you what you need to work on in your self.
All levels work by the same patterns whether Physical, Psychological, Spiritual or Divine.
We were Created in "God's Image" so the pattern of the Tree of Life holds the keys of both us and God and our roadmap back to Him.
The Tree acts as a filing cabinet for our subconscious mind. We organise out thoughts and philosophys with this filing and it is almost effortless to recieve connecting thoughts and principles. We hang things there as others thoughout history have. So it is a living system.
We have access to what others have placed upon the Tree also.
As a Christian Mystic my teacher used it to show that in Returning, a Mystic goes up the Middle pillar of which there are three. To become one with a Sephirah on the "Middle Pillar" is to gain an understanding of the Sephiroth "below" and to the sides.
Life is balance. Balance is beauty,..Symetry.
Christ, while here functioned from Tipareth, the center of the Tree while he had a body of matter like us, in Malkuth. But his knowledge came from the Supernal Triangle across the Abyss called Knowledge or Daath. Kether, Chokmah, and Binah.
When Jesus left he went back to Kether yet lives in us and shares the knowledge from across the Abyss.

Here is a good representation that shows the four worlds, the three pillars, firmness, mercy and Grace, the middle pillar.
It also shows how this author fits the levels of progression of a practitioner of Yoga on the left.
The importance of the Tree is to help us understand Creation, the World around us and where we are in the whole scheme of things. Where we need to go and what we need or are lacking in order to get there.
In short, it is a roadmap to higher awarenesses and ultimately, Yoga, or Union with God.
As Jesus said "I and the Father are One."