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Excerpts from
The Tree of Life
by Ari
And when upon His
simple will, came the desire to create the world and emanate the
emanations,
To bring to light the perfection of His deeds, His names, His
appellations,
Which was the cause of the creation of the worlds,
He then restricted Himself, in the middle,
Precisely in the center,
He restricted the light.
And the light drew far off to the sides around that middle point.
And there remained an empty space, a vacuum
Circling the middle point.
And the restriction had been uniform
Around the empty point,
So that the space
Was evenly circled around it.
There, after the restriction,
Having formed a vacuum and a space
Precisely in the middle of the endless light,
A place was formed,
Where the emanated and the created might reside.
Then from Endless Light a single line hung down,
Lowered down into that space.
And through that line, He emanated, formed,
Created all the worlds.
The Sun is the not a planet yet without it
the planets wouldn't exist, however, a Sun can exist without the
planets, it's the source of their existence, not theirs of its';
hence we call it the Solar System, the Solar King of the realm of life
where we exist. Similarly, Zero is not a quantity number yet it determines
all quantities by reference to its position, it's their reference point, their qualifier, and
thereby the source of their relative value.
The Earth is our relative center in regards to our
perspective of the universe; and the Moon, its' satellite,
is subject to this planets motion, the Moon primarily only influences the Earths' condition
and nourishes its' growth. Similarly, Knowledge influences the
conditions with which we live in and nourishes our emotional, physical,
mental or spiritual growth, or any other interests or stances we
take in life.
Now imagine the Moon in motion, revolving around
Tiphareth ( in this model the sphere of
the Earth); it would become full in Yesod (in this model the sphere of Saturn). In turn, the New Moon or Solar eclipse, while in
Da'ath, its
place of conception. This could also be
said about the old approach with Malkuth as Earth, Yesod as Moon, and
Tiphareth as the Sun. The progression is the same from the lateral
perspective of the Earth. The major differences are in the point of view:
In this model the view of the feminine is raised from the former,
underfoot
position, to the centerpiece of our attention and relative point of view,
Beauty.
We now know that the Sun's domain extents even deeper
into space then we ever knew before. As a result of our present knowledge
of the solar system, three outer planets and asteroids in particular, are
also now known. I can't help but wonder if the ancients were aware
of these others dynamics of the solar system. They did recognize that the
observations of factors in the world within which they lived, the
Microcosm, would have corresponding factors in the world without, the
Macrocosm. They also very much understood that there was more to life than
meets the eye. The tradition wasn't just about preserving what was known,
but more importantly, it was a living tradition of research and discovery;
a tradition of a continual conversation of what we know of Life.
One of the major reconsiderations is
the manner with which the Moon and the outer planets need to be placed
with regards to a New Universal Tree of Life. Previous attempts
simply placed the planets in three supernal Sephiroth of the Tree of Life, which were
heretofore unassociated with a planet. This solution however failed
to consider the repercussions these new discoveries have had on our collective consciousness;
as well as, the reassessments that our collective understanding of the solar system
had made over the past two hundred years. Along with the discovery of the
outer planets came a resurgence of old artifacts being dug up from the
past and we are simultaneously learning how to break away from old family
and cultural patterns that we have been unconsciously perpetuating for
generations.
In this Tree of Life, Pluto is
associated with the eighth number, and position, not the
ninth; I've done this because it is now known in astrophysics that
Pluto passes within the orbit of
Neptune and is a subset of Neptune's realm of influence. Neptune's orbit had moved closer to the Sun
very some long time ago and that is why Pluto's
orbit was squeezed outward like it is now. However, Pluto's
orbit is still subject to Neptune's, so it is getting smaller to adjust to Neptune's
dominate influence and it's orbit will eventually be completely within the
orbit of Neptune again. Due to the observations from the Hubble telescope of
other solar systems in the universe, this fact is now well known in
astrophysics. The puzzle of Pluto's eccentric orbit has been
solved, but it's classification is still debated: Is it a planet or a
planetoid? Either way it is still a dynamic object, which has a observable
effect on the solar system, whose data can be analyzed and utilized,
Astronomically and Astrologically.
It can easily be argued that since the Sun is the
innermost body of the solar system then it should, respectively, be placed
in the middle of the Tree of Life. This Tree of Life system's
approach is just a matter of taking a geocentric perspective instead of a
Solar centric. From our
relative point of view here on Earth we are in the middle of all
existence; the Sun is
above us, with Mercury and Venus by it's side in the morning and
evening light. The most fundamental direction in
which life grows is up towards the Sun. In turn everything that dies releases its carbon substance back
down into the
ground (Yesod as our carbon based foundation) and its liquid even further
down into the water table or sea below the earth (Malkuth as our water based kingdom of life).
There is also an interesting
note from western mythology, in which the old gods, Neptune and Pluto, ruled the depths of the ocean and the dark
caverns of the underworld, both signifying forces from below. I find this
and countless other examples from mythology only add to my suspicions that
these stories have survived from a far more ancient time then we presently
realize. Much of the speculation so far on the Planets and their relative
placement on the Tree of Life have been based on the assumption that the
ancients couldn't have possibly had a clue about the outer planets and
therefore they weren't part of the original equation. However, their
influences had been observed over time and the patterns of their behavior
could be observed within nature and Man. And most importantly, they could
be observed, as can be still be seen today, in the Indian/Arabic
number system; with it's Ten Ideal Numbers 0-9.
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Within the Ten Ideal Numbers are
the very same patterns as can be seen within our solar system:
0, the birth of all
numbers = Sun, the Crown of Life
1, the first physical number
= Mercury, the Intelligence of Life
2, the first reproduced number = Venus, the Wisdom of Life
3, the first plane number = Earth, the Beauty of Life
1+2+3=6
4, the structure of number
= Mars, the Severity of Life
5, the expansion of number = Jupiter, the Love of Life
6, the harmony of number = Saturn, the Foundation of Life
4+5+6=15=1+5=6
7, the uniqueness of number
= Uranus, the Splendor of Life
8, the power of number = Pluto, the Glory of Life
9, the deception of number = Neptune, the Kingdom of Life
7+8+9=24=2+4=6
The material nature of the planets are represented by
the quantitative numbers, one thru nine, and the life force of the
Sun is represented by the qualitative, source number Zero. Return to the
source of enlightenment and overcome the temptations of the materialistic
Beast, a.k.a. 666 ;-)
Ten, 10, represents the return to
zero and is a summation of the first complete set of ideal numbers, set 1,
plus the beginning of the second set, 0. The ten completes the numeric
progression from beginning to beginning, zero to zero, and quantifies the
whole waveform as one complete set. This is why ten is the easiest number
to tally by in this general system of numeric notation.
These eleven dimensions of
considerations can be broken down into ten spatial considerations and one
time consideration. The observable world only consists of four of these
dimensions: Time as represented by Zero, the number of the Now, and the
three dimensions of solids, Height, Width, Depth as represented by One,
Two and Three respectively. Life on Earth, the third planet from the Sun,
is perceived in Three spatial dimensions, within the Solar Time System of
temporal reference.
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= Sun
= Mercury
= Venus
= Earth
= Mars
= Jupiter
= Saturn
= Uranus
= Pluto
= Neptune
= Taurus
= Libra
= Pieces
= Scorpio
= Sagittarius
= Capricorn
= Aries
= Aquarius
= Cancer
= Leo
= Gemini
= Virgo