{"id":1246,"date":"2013-07-31T14:13:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T22:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2013-07-31T16:12:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T00:12:32","slug":"the-kabbalistic-tree-of-life-diagram-as-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1246","title":{"rendered":"The Kabbalistic Tree of Life Diagram as Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Below I\u2019ve posted a number of drawings I\u2019ve done over the past 30 years of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, the \u201cEtz Khayyim.\u201d I\u2019ve found this diagram to be useful in evoking contemplations of what\u2019s beyond this apparent reality, and what\u2019s beyond that beyond. The \u201cTree\u201d hints at these essences that give rise to less essential essences, but yet these are more essential than what we have. The idea that there should be just two levels, what\u2019s here and what\u2019s beyond, is so oversimplified to those who contemplate such matters. Interestingly, there\u2019s some complementarity with the Yogic system of the chakras or centers of consciousness along the spine, and with other notions of the hierarchy of realms. Enjoy.<\/p>\n

I have been charmed by the Kabbalistic Tree of Life diagram, a “map” of the stages of emanation from the Divine to the Mundane (going out or down), or (going up) the various levels of meditation and contemplation that hint at successively higher levels of mystical enlightenment. I write of the significance of this latter process in another website. It is the form, though, that offers an opportunity for elaboration in many ways, a form that represents the vertical axis that hints at the “Great Chain of Being,” and the horizontal axis that hints at the range or extent of the variety of elements to be integrated.<\/p>\n

So I’ve drawn a number of pictures of these designs!<\/p>\n

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Maze<\/em><\/p>\n

Others of course have created elegant pictures of the Tree of Life.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Kairotropister is a device that, were it
\nto have 3-dimensional form, looks something like this.<\/em><\/p>\n

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A diagrammatic expression of how these parts work.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nThese are from the odd book titled The Anatomy of the Body of God<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nby Frater Achad. Interesting permutations of geometry.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Vibrational Resonances<\/em><\/p>\n

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Textured Tree<\/em><\/p>\n

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Circle Geometry<\/em><\/p>\n

(I\u2019ve also put this in the category of mind-spectrums because, as the contemporary philosopher Ken Wilber<\/a> has written, what if there is also a spectrum of consciousness?)<\/p>\n

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Below I\u2019ve posted a number of drawings I\u2019ve done over the past 30 years of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, the \u201cEtz Khayyim.\u201d I\u2019ve found this diagram to be useful in evoking contemplations of what\u2019s beyond this apparent reality, and what\u2019s beyond that beyond. The \u201cTree\u201d hints at these essences that give rise to less […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mind-spectrums","category-spirituality-and-philosophy","category-wisdom-ing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1248,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions\/1248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}