The Initiatic Path in the Arcana of the
Tarot and Kabala
Samael Aun Weor
CHAPTER 55
THE SEPHIROTH
The ten Sephiroth of universal vibration emanate from the Ain Soph, which is the Microcosmic star that guides our interior, the Real Being of our Being.
People speak of the ten Sephiroth, but in reality there are twelve: the Ain Soph Aur is the 11th and the Ain Soph the 12th, along with its tenebrous antithesis, the abyss.
They are twelve spheres or regions that mutually penetrate and co-penetrate each other without becoming confused. The twelve spheres gravitate toward the central atom of the sign of the infinite. Solar humanity unfolds in these twelve spheres. We have said that the sign of the infinite is in the center of the Earth, in the heart of the Earth. The Sephiroth are atomic. The ten Sephiroth can be reduced into three tables:
1. The Quantum Table of the radiant energy that comes from the Sun.
2. The Table of the Atomic Weights of the elements of nature.
3. The Table of the Molecular Weights of the compounds.
This is Jacob's ladder, which goes from earth to heaven. All the world's oof Cosmic Consciousness are reduced to three tables.
A Sephira cannot be understood in one plane only, because it is of a quadruple nature. Therefore, the Kabalists are speaking clearly when they say that there are four worlds:
Atziluth is the world of Archetypes, or world of Emanations; it is the divine world.
Briah is the World of Creation, also called Khorcia or the world of Schemes.
Yetzirah is the World of Formation and of the Angels.
Assiah is the world of action, the world of matter.
Three Sephiroth of form—Binah, Geburah, Hod—are found in the Pillar of Severity.
Three Sephiroth of Energy—Chokmah, Chesed, Netzach) are found in the Pillar of Mercy.
Between these two pillars is the Pillar of Equilibrium, in which is found the different levels of the Consciousness—Kether, Tiphereth, Yesod, and Malchuth.
The ten known Sephiroth come from Sephira, the Divine Mother, who resides in the heart temple. “IO” is the mantram of the Divine Mother, and ten (10) are the emanations of Prakriti, in other words the ten Sephiroth.
Kether is the Father in us, a breath of the Absolute profoundly unknown to itself. Kether is the Ancient of days, and ultimately each one of us is a blessed Ancient of Days.
Chokmah is the Son, the atomic Christ in us.
Binah is the Mother in us and the Holy Spirit in us.
Kether, Chokmah and Benah are our Sephirothic Crown.
The Holy Spirit is our Divine Mother, dressed with a blue mantle and a white tunic of exquisite splendors.
The Mother holds in her hand a precious lamp; this lamp is the Innermost that burns within the depth of our hearts. The Innermost is contained in a vessel of fine and transparent alabaster. This vessel is our own superlative consciousness; it is our Buddhi.
The Innermost is the Sephira Chesed; Buddhi is the Sephira Geburah. The Innermost and the Buddhi are expressed through the Human Soul. The Human Soul is Tiphereth; willpower and beauty. Therefore, the Innermost with its two Souls, the Divine and the Human, rules on his thron, which is the cerebro-spinal nervous system.
The Innermost is crowned with the Sephirothic Crown. The Innermost lives in his Temple. The Temple of the Innermost has two columns, Jakin and Boaz. Jachin is the mind and Boaz is the astral body. The mind is the Sephira Netzach and the astral body is the Sephira Hod. These two columns of the temple are sustained upon the Cubic Stone of Yesod. This Cubic Stone also serves as a foundation for the Kingdom of Malchuth.
That Cubic Stone is the Etheric Body. Malchuth is the physical body.
Therefore the human being is a complete decade. We have ten fingers on our hands, ten Sephiroth, and ten commandments.
When the Ancient of Days has Self-Realized in Himself the ten Sephiroth, he is transformed into Adam-Kadmon, the Celestial Man.
All who Self-Realize in themselves the ten Sephiroth shine in the World of the Light with ineffable Christic splendors.
When the Ancient of Days has Self-Realized in Himself the ten Sephiroth, they shine in the World of Light as precious gems, as resplendent stones on the body of the Ancient of Days.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; to him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. (Revelations 2:7)
The 10 Sephiroth shine as precious stones in the body of the Elder of Days. This is how we become the Celestial Jerusalem.
…and the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; the fifth, sardonynx; the sixth, sardius, the seventh, chrysolite; the eight, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst. (Revelations 21:19-20)
The ten Sephiroth are atomic, the ten Sephiroth are the Holy City, Jerusalem that comes to shine within the depth of our heart.
…in the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it: and his servants shall serve him: and they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever. (Revelations 22:2-5)
When a human being incarnates the Sephirothic Crown, then the Ancient of Days will shine upon him and he will reign forever and ever.
However, brothers of my soul, truly I tell you that no one reaches the Father except through the Son. The Son is the atomic Christ in us, Chokmah, the Divine Christic Wisdom, the Gnosis that shines in the depth of our heart.
We have to inundate all of our vehicles with atoms of Christic nature; we have to form Christ within ourselves in order to rise towards the Father, for no one reaches the Father except through the Son.
Though Christ be born a thousand times in Bethlehem, worth less it will be, if He is not born in our hearts as well. We need to form Christ within ourselves so as to enter through the doors of the City, triumphant and victorious, on Palm Sunday.
Christmas is a cosmic event that must be performed in each one of us. The Nativity is absolutely individual. There is the need for the Christ to be born in each one of us; the Nativity of heart is urgent.
There is the need to transform the Tree of the Science of Good and evil into the Immolated Lamb of the Holy City.
Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out. (Revelations 3:12)
Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. (Revelation 2:10)
I am the bread of life, I am the living bread, Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath Eternal Life; and I will rise him up at the last day, He that eatheh my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me, and I in him. (John 6:48, 51, 54, 56)
Christ truly is a Sephirothic Crown (Kether, Chokmah and Binah) of incommensurable wisdom, whose purest atoms shine within Chokmah, the world of Ophanim.
That Sephirothic Crown (incommensurable) sent his Buddha, Jesus of Nazareth, who through innumerable reincarnations prepared himself in our terrestrial evolution.
It was in the river Jordan where the Christic crown, the Solar Logos shone and penetrated within his Buddha Jesus of Nazareth.
Behold here the mystery of the double human personality, which is one of the greatest mysteries of occultism.
When the human being receives the Sephirothic Crown then the Ancient of Days illuminates him and guides him towards the waters of pure life.
However, my brothers, no one reaches the Father except through the Son, and the Son is in the depth of the Ark of the Alliance awaiting the instant of realization.
That Ark of the Covenant is our sexual organs. Only through the Perfect Chastity can we form the Christ within ourselves and rise towards the Father.
Brothers and sisters, I have already given you, granted to you the ark of the New Testament.
I have already taught you the path of Sexual Magic.
The much-beloved Father, the much-adored Son and the very wise Holy Spirit live within the depths of our superlative consciousness, awaiting the supreme moment of our Self-Realization....and the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightning, and voices, and thundering and an earthquake, and great hail. (Revelations 11:19)