Possibly the best known of the World Trees, at least in the Occident, is the Scandinavian Ash or Yggdrasil of the Eddas. This mighty tree has three roots reaching out into three different worlds, and similar to the Sephirothal Tree of the Kabbalists and the Asvattha tree of the Hindus, links these worlds together. www.theosociety.org/ Tzimtzum (Contraction of Creation): The process of creating the world was achieved by the Tzimtzum or contraction which is likened to the folding in of www.art.net/ Central to modern Kabbalistic study is the diagram Otz Chiim, the Tree of Life. www.byzant.com/ Dedicated to publishing modern material on Kabbalah and related topics. www.digital-brilliance.com/ It first appeared to me in a meditational journey in the form of a crystal. I was standing at the center of a magical circle situated in a special astral locale that I frequent, when before me there appeared a great crystal, floating in the air. www.abardoncompanion.com/ Moses receiving the Tables of the Law, The 72 Names of God, The Tetragrammaton, The Hebrew Letters according to the Sepher Yetzirah, The Hebrew Triad, The Tetragrammaton in the Human Heart, The Plan of Divine Activity, The Kabbalistic Scheme of the Four Worlds, The Four Sephirothic Trees, A Table of Sephirothic Correspondences, The Sephirothic Tree of the later Kabbalists, and more. www.prs.org/ Jungian metapsychology, Yoga philosophy, astrology, Tarot, Jewish Mysticism, and Qabala. The Tree of Life is a map; with HTML, it becomes clickable. www.borndigital.com/ The extended chakras and the Tree of Life (Jacob's Ladder) can be understood in relationship to each other. www.fountain-international In Babylonian mythology, the Tree of Life was a magical tree that grew in the center of paradise. altreligion.about.com/ Many people ponder what part of the Tree of Life "Daath" (Hebrew for "Knowledge) is. Is Daath (sometimes transliterated as Da'ath, Da'at or Daas) a real Sephira or not? visit.elysiumgates.com/ The earliest reference to the concept of the Tree of Life is to be found in the philosophy of the Ancient Egyptians. In the Osiris Legend, Osiris was induced by his wicked brother Set to lie down in a magnificent coffer under the pretext of a game at a banquet. Set and his seventy-two conspirators immediately closed the lid and threw the coffer into the Nile. ancientegypt.hypermart.net/ The energies of the letters in the Hebrew alphabet move beyond the physical. The information in the Kabbalah follows the patterns of the sacred geometry that forms our reality. www.crystalinks.com/kabala.html Sefirot According to the Sefer Yezira, the spiritual world consisted of ten spheres... www.mystae.com/restricted/streams/scripts/sefirot.html Ten Sefirot of the Kabbalah The Jewish mystical doctrine known as "Kabbalah" is distinguished by its theory of ten creative forces that intervene between the infinite, unknowable God ("Ein Sof") and our created world. www.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/Sefirot/Sefirot.html Tree of Life Crop Circle Formation Two very significant crop circle formations appeared at Barbury Castle in May 1997... One of the formations was the Kabalistic Tree of Life. www.greatdreams.com/treeol.htm Tree of Life - halexandria.org Out of the limitless light crystallized the primal point Kether. Perfect and self-sustaining, it remains in eternity, the focus of a circle, whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere... www.halexandria.org/dward001.htm The Tree Of Life In Rock Art Photos and information about the meaning of the tree of life in rock art and the connection between the ancient Maya and southwestern petroglyphs. www.angelfire.com/ The Tree of Life is an important symbol in nearly every culture. With its branches reaching into the sky, and roots deep in the earth, it dwells in three worlds - a link between heaven, the earth, and the underworld. altreligion.about.com/library/weekly/aa102902a.htm Tree of Life. Tree of Sephirot. Tree of Books The Tree of life is an important part of the Qabala (Kaballah). It was developed by Jewish mystics between 100 and 600 AD and more thoroughly written between 1280 and 1286 by Moses ben Shem Tov de Leon in Guadalajara, Spain. www.libralion.com/tree1.htm Tree of Life - Wikipedia The Tree of Life, in the Book of Genesis, is a tree whose fruit gives everlasting life, i.e. immortality. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_Life |