I know everybody starts at Malkuth (Kingdom Earth) and works up to Kether (Crown). Usually after a quick summary of the Ain Soph Aur up top.
But I have noticed an Egyptian relation to this. In the Emerald Tablets of Thoth, at the end of the 15th chapter it ends:
"Now I leave thee, my children.
Down, yet up, to the Halls shall I go.
Win ye the way, my children.
Truly my brothers shall ye become.
Thus finish I my writings.
Keys let them be to those who come after.
But only to those who seek my wisdom,
for only for these am I the Key and the Way."
DOWN, YET UP? Strange directions. Much like the Ain Soph Aur above the Tree of Life. It's "foundation" appears to be opposite of ours and distills downward.
To the point of Ain. Then reflects into Kether.
This could be Astral Light's transmutation into Real Light. Real by our definition at least. I guess it comes to a focus point right before "reflection" to be as pure as possible. All Focus takes simplicity OR purity of randomness.
I can't help but notice that the Greek Hermes I used to love as a kid gave me an impression of a cool, nice guy with wings on his feet. Forget that he's a Messenger of the Underworld.
Maybe this is because very soon people will start to understand the Underworld is the UpperWorld, or Heaven.
Your death is truly a rebirth if you have Knowledge of Eternal Life. So the under becomes the "upper", or the death becomes life. Maybe this is why Hermes has such a good reputation in this Age even though he's associated with the dreaded Underworld.
Knowledge of Eternal Life destroys any and all other possibilities through the power of Belief, which is the Power of Attention + Heart. The Emerald Tablets explain this process as well.
Many monks and even american krishnas subscribe to the idea that an intense, desired Focus at the time of death can lead to a directed birth where the barriers of Time are severed and you will have memory of all past lives in your next incarnation. Or some choose to free themselves from the cycle of Life and Death altogether by using this same Focus to direct themselves out of Time altogether.
Although, the guardian 'dogs' will soon come howling, and Thoth has warned as well to always move in circles and loops, as the guardians hunt in angles.
There is many ways to escape your cycles but I prefer to continue the duty of Soul Development until it reaches it's natural conclusion.
It is odd how the idea of death can transform in the Spiritual Mind who has knowledge of re-incarnation or Eternal Life, in whatever form. Yet the world still operates as though we are ignorant of eternal life when confronted with death.
We are not happy or curious to see others move on. This development is still many years off I think. Compassion does not have to be for flesh only. Compassion can extend to Spirit when the flesh is destroyed but it is a very complex way of thinking.
I think the Tree of Life is telling this Down yet Up story. How eventually we will see that going into the ground is actually sprouting as a fresh flower.
And the brain drops to "Delta" levels just before death and birth where your brain is pumping the lowest amount of "data" possible.
This is represented in Ain I think. The Mind distilled down to it's purest 'data' as possible before exploding to Life in a New Body, or Tree of Life.
*Mem Key*
I think the Underworld has a bad reputation because people think anything down or "under" means Hell.
ReplyDeleteNice article.
Another synchronicity -
ReplyDeleteRight after reading this blog post of yours, I went to continue reading the Gray book. Similar to your statement of falling to the ground to become flowers is this:
"Leaves cannot fall without dying, but
seeds (which represent an evolved Spirit) must fall in order
to become trees themselves."
Jimi, you may remember reading what I said about the Fall of Man, and how it isn't entirely a bad thing, because the Fall allows us to climb up, to grow, from where we landed.
Nice, you got it Sophia. That last line explains it fully to me.
ReplyDeleteThe Fall you speak of also does the most elementary and important part of our process.
In order for a Soul to Develop, there must first be room to grow. If you try to grow a plant with only a couple of inches of space above the soil.....it won't develop much.
I can't help but see the heaviest of all relations in this when you apply these thoughts to Christ.
In order for there to be an All-Sustaining Spirit on Earth, Christ had to die. It is something so sad but then the second you look around you, it is the most beautiful story you've ever seen!!
Death is only one more barrier to be overcome by humanity through Consciousness Development.
Everything on Earth is living and breathing. By "breathing" I mean everything, literally every last thing, eminates and absorbs at the same time from and into it's environment.
All of this Life is sustained through some unseen but unbelievably humble and giving Spirit who asks nothing in return but Love.
His trees give equal fruit to murderer and priest. Sustaining all.
If you believe the last 2,000 years are really being condensed into the 67 year period of 1945-2012, then we will see death conquered in a very short period of time.
What an exciting time to be Alive.
*Mem Key*