THE TREE

OF LIFE

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WAYS OF GROUPING THE SEPHIROTH

MIDDLE

SEVERITY 1 MERCY The pillars are now easy to see

KETHER when you look at your drawing:
one on the left containing Binah,
3 2 Geburah, and Hod; one in the
BINAH CHOKMAH
center holding Kether, Tiphareth,
Yesod, and Malkuth; and one on
the right with Chokmah, Chesed,
and Netzach on it.
5 4
GEBURAH CHESED

6
TIPHARETH

8 7
HOD NETZACH

9
YESOD

10
MALKUTH

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THE PILLAR OF SEVERITY
Binah
This is the feminine, odd you might think
at the top of the pillar of severity, but
think of the decisions a mother must
make and how tough love can be. It’s
the Great Mother, directing with an
understanding that goes beyond what
might be obvious to those who are at
the receiving end of such decisions.
She shows where you might experience
limits, but limits that will ultimately
shape your destiny.
Geburah
Often this Sephira is seen as challenging
but all it really wants to do is to cut
away what is no longer required.
Sometimes its influence is seen through
trials and tribulations, but if you
recognize that’s what’s happening, are
you not better equipped to deal with
them? This turns what you may have
perceived as a weakness into a strength.
Hod
This represents worldly matters like
business and career, and how you
approach these things, which are by
their very nature analytical. It’s how you
communicate and what images you
create. Here sits the very powerhouse of
affirmations as you seek to create your
world through positive thoughts and
images. It asks, ‘How do you think? With
your head, your heart, your gut?’
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THE PILLAR OF MERCY
Chokmah
Opposite the Great Mother, here
you will find the Cosmic Father,
balanced behavior, and where we
have responsibilities. Logic is the way
of Chokmah, but don’t think of this as
a dull Sephira, it is far from it. When
choices that require both logic and
sudden illumination need to be made
then this is the place to be.
Chesed
Here you’re rewarded for the work
you put in, the opportunities you are
prepared to take, and the adventurous
side of your nature that helps you
take them. Compassion, peace, and
positivity are reflected in Chesed and
here you can manifest abundance
in your life – be that financial or
emotional wealth.
Netzach
Emotional attachments and your
feelings are represented here: what
you desire and perhaps who you
find attractive, as well as who your
BFF is and what makes them that.
Use Netzach to understand your
relationships, what you want from
them and how others make you feel
when you’re around them.
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THE MIDDLE PILLAR
Kether
At the crown of the Tree of Life sits
your full potential – new starts and
inspirational ideas are found here. Here
are the spiritual realms and that place
you go to when you’re sitting on your
rug, eyes closed and nothing bothering
you. It can also represent where you
may lose yourself and perhaps be too
heavenly-minded.
Tiphareth
A beautiful Sephira, it represents your
higher self, perhaps best described as
your soul. It’s all about higher ideals
as well as where you meet the part of
you that would sacrifice all for those
you love. It also sits in the center of the
tree and, as such, sits at the center of
ourselves. Can you remember the last
time you felt truly balanced?
Yesod
Habits and cycles are shown here, what
you repeat. When you know how to look in
the mirror of this Sephira, you will be able
to see where that habit or pattern comes
from: this life, past lives…? It also shines a
light on your hopes and fears as well as
affecting your physical dreams, allowing
the subconscious to communicate clearly,
if you want to listen.
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Malkuth
Your kingdom on Earth – this is where
you live and, in this physical world, all
that’s manifest in your life sits here.
Here you become consciously aware
of everything above you, to your left
and to your right. All you have done
gathers in Malkuth, including your
physical body – the vehicle for all your
thoughts, feelings, dreams, aspirations,
logical decisions, adventures, tough
love, images, etc.
SUMMARY OF
THE THREE PILLARS
Severity
The principles of taking tough
decisions when they need to be taken,
in a way that is firm but fair. What
needs to be done in order to move
forward to your goal. Divine Justice.
Mercy
Here is your benevolent side, the part
of you that wants peace and, when
you have brought it into your life, to
enjoy that peace and all the rewards
for your efforts. Divine Mercy.
Middle
When you have cut away that which
doesn’t work and embraced all those
opportunities that have come your
way, you will find yourself in a place of
Divine balance.
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THE TRIANGLES ATZILUTH

Supernal/Spiritual
• The top one governs the bigger
picture, humanity as a whole, and is
your spiritual triangle.
BRIAH
• The middle one is about your intuition
and your soul, as well as that of
humanity, and is your soul triangle.
• The bottom one is personality led and Etheric/Soul
reflects not just your own personality
but that of humanity’s too, and is your
personality triangle. YETZIRAH

THE FOUR WORLDS Astral/Personality

The Qabalah suggests we exist in four
worlds, not four planets but four aspects
of the divine – the divine within you and
external to you.
In each sphere the energetic vibration
slows down and, as it passes from divine, ASSIAH
through spiritual, astral and into the
physical, it becomes denser and denser.
Each of us contains a way of being in
and being off these worlds. This is the
connection between human and God,
source, divine energy, whatever you
Briah
choose to call the expression of all there is.
The world manifests through the
10 mighty archangels, names you
Atziluth will come to know as you progress
Atziluth means ‘stand near,’ where all through the Sephiroth. Expansion,
that is willed into being waits, literally contraction, and balance – use of the
stands near, waiting for the moment three pillars to help manifest that
to come for its potential to be realized. place of peace within you. Here are
Here is your divine spark, where you the teaching rooms, the schools, and
come from and to whence you will divine temples of the inner planes,
return, manifested by the Ten Holy where your immortal self gathers
Names of God. In Tarot, this is where the information as well as informs the
four kings sit and its element is Fire. universe, God, of what you have learnt

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‘It’s important to remember

and have still to understand. Here is the that the four worlds do not
mighty Archangel Metatron, the great
headmaster, gatherer, and keeper of
run as individual worlds but
information. In Tarot, this is where the work together as one.’
four queens sit and its element is Air.

Yetzirah
Here are the astral worlds, where images
are formed before manifestation in
dreams, visions, and meditation. Here
we meet the angelic worlds, hosts of
angelic beings responsible for the world
we see in front us, from the stars in their
firmament to a blade of grass under our
feet. Here, too, we meet disincarnate
humans, living in their version of heaven
or hell of their own choosing. This is
often seen as our emotional body too, a
dimension that’s the final halt before it
meets the physical. The four knights of
the Tarot sit here as well as the element
of Water.
Assiah
The final world, Assiah, is unsurprisingly
the physical world where we experience
our incarnate existence. It’s the physical
body and the densest of all four worlds
and, as such, has rules attached –
universal laws that we will discuss later.
The element is Earth and the Tarot cards
are the four pages.
It’s important to remember they do
not run as individual worlds but work
together as one, as you are already one
with the Godhead, energy, or source.

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