The negative energy creates the Severity (Judgment) pillar on the left side and the positive energy creates the Mercy pillar on the right side of the Tree of Life. And thus the next two Sephiroth arise: Chokmah (Wisdom) on the right side, and Binah (Understanding) on the left side. The left pillar is also called the Pillar of Form, the right pillar the Pillar of Force, and the middle pillar, the Pillar of Consciousness. Of the middle pillar it is said that it both shows how God reveals Himself to us (downward movement) and how it is our path for "conforming to His image" (upward movement).
Ok, now we have three Sephiroth, and they form a trinity, called the Supernal triad. Under this trinity is the Abyss. Above the Abyss is the realm of ideas, or the Ideal. Under the Abyss, is the world of the real, or Reality and Causality, in which the next seven Sephiroth are to come. The next seven Sephiroth are the crystallization, the densification, of the subtle ether. Together they produce the universe, the world we know.
This pattern not only occurs in humans, it also occurs in land masses. The first time I saw it was on Iona. These days people only live in the areas of the lower sephira. St Columba however lived in the areas that anchor the higher sephira.
Recently I was observing a Tree of Life across a landscape and saw that the Tree was alive and therefore an entity. The entity was attempting to stand up from it horizontal position.
I have trouble trying to imagine how earth and elemental energies 'individualise' and take on form which operates independently (?) of what surrounds it. I guess the same goes for everything we sense as 'individual' be it seen or unseen.
I don't know how we humans did it either LOL But I can see the evidence.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting…trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home -Wordsworth
> how earth and elemental energies 'individualise' and take on form which operates independently (?) of what surrounds it
As in the case of a human it is a matter of a higher entity shaping the bodies of the lower entities so that they form a body of manifestation for the higher entity
It is further asserted that there are three columns, or pillars, that support the lodge. These are the equinoctial colure, the solstitial colure, and the meridian. They are the support of the lodge because the lodge is the vault of heaven and all calculations relating to it are referred to one or more of these three lines, or pillars. Thus the celestial longitude of a stellar body is always calculated as so many degrees, or hours, from one end of the equinoctial colure, which is called the first point of Aries. Celestial latitude is reckoned as so many degrees north or south of the ecliptic; the ecliptic being a circle passing over both ends of the equinoctial colure and also over both ends of the solstitial colure; the latter line, or pillar, being necessary to determine the plane of the ecliptic. Yet astronomical calculations to be of value on the earth must not stop with defining the position of a celestial body in terms of latitude and longitude, but must designate the position with reference to a given spot on the earth. This third necessary element is calculated from the third Masonic pillar, the meridian. Thus if we say a planet is 12 degrees of Sagittarius, has 3 degrees south latitude, and that 9 degrees of Sagittarius is on the meridian, its position is completely defined. Without these three elements precise definition of celestial position is impossible. Therefore, the Meridian, the Solstitial Colure, and the Equinoctial Colure, are truly the supports of the celestial lodge.
When the sun rests upon the quinoctial colure the days and nights are equal, masculine and feminine forces are united by the colure in equilibrium, as pictured in the zodiac by the Scales of Libra, the zodiacal sign of marriage. And because proper marriage is considered a constructive function, the Ancient Masons named the pillar Wisdom.
When the sun rests upon the top, or northern end, of the solstitial colure, the days are longest and the masculine forces are dominant; when it rests upon the bottom, or southern end of the solstitial colure, the nights are longest and feminine forces are dominant. Because that man is strongest who is dominantly masculine, and that woman is strongest who is dominantly feminine, the Ancient Masons named this pillar Strength. When the sun rests upon the meridian it is noon and there is the maximum sunshine for that day. This light makes more plainly visible the innumerable beauties of nature. Because of this the Ancient Masons named this pillar Beauty.
Furthermore, to make the identity of the lodge unmistakable, Masons assert that it has a clouded canopy, or starry decked heaven, where all good Masons hope to arrive.
While Astrology is way over my head there are a remarkable number of scholarly (masonic) papers on the subject. Wheels within wheels, a veritable clock. What hour is it?
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting…trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home -Wordsworth
Under Goethe's theory of colour, the colours of the dawn are not the same as the colours of the dusk - e.g. a different form of red. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Colours
Hmmnn - the more I think of it the more the Schindler cover image speaks to me... maybe it is the one I have. Darn, now I will have to do a search when I get home ...
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting…trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home -Wordsworth
I found the Schindler book very useful. Using a prism with her black and white plates I could see the 5 colour spectrum (dark into light) as well as the usual Newtonian 7 colour spectrum (light into dark)
For the benefit of others, the light-dark spectrum has green in the middle and the dark-light spectrum has peach-blossom as the central colour.
The reason proposed by Goethe for the formation of colours is the presence of a dark-light interface.
This can be seen in action when looking out of a window in a dark room to the daylight. A coloured fringe can often be seen at the edge of the window pane.
Once the eye is adjusted Goethe's theory of colour can be seen operating in many places.
Hopefully as one proceeds up the mysterious ladder (veiled by Jacob's) there is increasing capacity for direct perception (using the heart chakra) and thereby a progressively greater perception of Reality.
Using the TB of the ToL - that would be Tipareth/Jesus/Beauty. It is also the point halfway between creator and created.
The problems of life are nothing but mental forms with two poles: one positive and the other negative. Problems are sustained by the mind and are created by the mind. When we stop thinking on a problem, the latter ends inevitably.
Happiness and sadness; pleasure and pain; good and evil; victory and defeat, constitute the battle of the opposites on which the I is founded.
The entire miserable life that we live goes from one opposite to another: victory, defeat; like, dislike; pleasure, pain; failure, success; this, that, etc.
We need to free ourselves of the tyranny of the opposites; this is only possible by learning to live from instant to instant without abstractions of any type, without dreams, without fantasies.