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Shalom everybody. In today's video, I will be discussing the process and methodology behind the second school maimot as well as ascension and alchemical transmutation. With that being said, let us begin.
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Now I have explained in previous videos how the lower seven spherote correspond to the seven forms sometimes called the world of mida or attributes. This corresponding to the world of yetira are aspects of the ruach an example of the spirit. These lower seven spheres corresponding to our spirit form, desire form, our holy form, our soul form, our emotion form, our mental form and our physical form are alluded to where it is written seven days under the mother on the eighth day fire offering to Hashem. The mother is the eighth spher called Vina. And seven days under the mother was the hakic requirement to a baby animal being under its mother for seven days. This teaches us that the lower seven spirro correspond to the nature of animals. Thus it is written out of his right hand goes loving kindness oret. It is also written and they all had the face of a lion to the right side. Gavura corresponding to the left side is also as it is written they all had the face of an ox to the left side etc. Thus we find that the lower seven spherote are associated with the attributes of animals.
The centralized spher of the parts called Zuronpin which personify these collective seven is Tiferet. Tiferet being in the center corresponds to the heart. Thus this is the dwelling place of what is called the beastial soul. It is called the beastial soul or nephesh bahima because it derives its influences from the surrounding animal attributes. This beastial soul dwelling in the heart is as it is written the life force is in the blood or the life is in the blood. this in reference to the heart and again the thoughts of a man's heart are evil continually.
Now I've given explanation of the lower seven spherote which correspond to seven forms. The reason being is that every single spira has with inside of it all of the other spherote. An example Katherhok mina da kasagore terasakod and maloot to each of them and it is written man is a tree. Therefore the tree an example this amalgamation of spherot personify and take the form of a man. When using the term man or Adam it is written zakar vanuka. He made them male and female. Thus it personifies the archetypal form of both male and female. These forms are the secret of the world of yet which contains the word Yer that is to say form.
Now it should be noted and expressed that it is written gather ye yourself O Israel. Israel personifies the central sphira called Tiferet. It contains the word yesar. That is to say straight. For the center column or the middle path of the tree of life is called Yeshar. That is to say straight. And the remaining aspect of the word Israel is L. That is to say God. Thus Israel means Yesh. Gather yourself O Israel means gathering the surrounding forms into that place called Israel. That is the secret of the heart which is Tiferet. And the explanation is that all of the sphero contain tifer and thus tifth is made out of an amalgamation of all of the surrounding trets. For example, the of the spher of tifret is formed by the tifth of or the gura inside of tifrath is formed from the tifrath inside of gura. A clear demonstration and example of the aforementioned principle can be seen here. As it was stated, man is a tree. Thus, the tree of life is the form of the human body. We can see that zuranpin or this quality of six is in the form and the shape of the human torso. We find again that the of is the tifas of thus the gura of tifas is the tifas of kavorura. Again, the explanation is gather yourself, O Israel. Those aspects that are called Israel are all of those aspects from the middle line. An example that part called Yeshar. And the gathering of those things is into that quality and form called holiness. The reason why tiferas is called the holy form is because the name of god corresponding to the sphere of tiferat is yodk vav and it is written holiness or kadosh to yudke vav. Thus this means a transformation of the nature of the surrounding forms or spheros.
Now it has been explained that the heart is the root of the beastial soul. Thus the various influences of the various forms are different kinds of animals and this is the swed and secret of the animal sacrifices which are made on the altar of the heart using a very special fire. The sacrifice is thus the beastial nature of the beastial soul which finds its existence inside of the heart. To understand the nature of the fire, it is written a refinery for silver and a furnace for gold. Gold is the metal of the sun which exemplifies a sphere of tifat in various places. Sometimes the sun is called kama and sometimes it is called sheamesh. When the sun is called sheamesh, it corresponds to tiferat. Regarding this matter, the furnace here, the word in Hebrew, hence to zakur, that is to say remembrance. Using the kuzu cipher, the letter vav becomes the letter z, which then spells the Hebrew word for remembrance. This is called the path of remembrance. Zakur is also the secret of the word zakar, which is to say the male Again, Tifereth is the central spher of Zeronpin who is called Zakar. That is to say, the male. The word furnace is the secret of the heart being a furnace. And the fire that needs to be placed inside of the heart is the fire called remembrance. Thus, we find inside of the heart are seven chambers. These seven chambers are the lights or influences of the various midote or forms of Zuron. Zuronpin is spelled Zin and D. These are the letters of Zane Rah. That is to say seven evils. Because it is written, the thoughts of a man's heart are evil continually. The heart is the throne of the beastial soul. Inside of it are the lights or the influences of these various forms. That is to say, the influences of desires and emotions etc. Things involving the nephesh, the beastial soul. We thus find here a heart which is the seventh being the seventh form in example the physical and six eyes. The six eyes are because it is written the seven eyes of Hashem and this is because the seven forms which are the lower seven spheres see reality and judge it. This is the secret of spilling your seed on the ground and the prohibition against it. C is the word zer which are the same letters as zer and spilling it on the ground is the secret of what can I take as a witness to you and what can I liken to you. What is the secret of a witness and a likeness as it is written I call heaven and earth to bear witness against you this day. Thus reality or the earth is both witness and likeness to God. And what bigger idol or spilling of seed can occur than to project and limit God and reality to the nature of our own limits as opposed to God's limits and definitions of creation. And so in doing so we find that this is the purpose of the beastial soul and we become deceived by it.
Now what does it mean the fire of remembrance? A furnace for gold teaches us that the heart is a furnace. And the word furnace is an illusion to the word remembrance. The word heart in Hebrew is lamemed bait. Lamemed bait has a numerical value of 32. It hints to the 22 letters and the 10 spherote which are the path of remembrance. For the cavode or glory of God which cavode or glory also has the numerical value of 32 alluding to the 22 letters and the 10 spheres are the remembrance the zakur of the furnace for the heart. It is the illumination of God that transmutes the lower seven base metals, an example, the lower seven influences of the seven forms into gold. Those lower seven forms are personified by the seven planets as shown here. We find is Saturn, Gavur is Jupiter, Treth is Mars, the sun is Nat, Hod is Noga or Venus, Mercury is and the moon is Malcoot. Thus, the lower seven forms are personified by the lower seven planets. These seven planets are in turn attributed to a series of seven different kinds of metal. Thus with the fire of remembrance, zikor, as it was written, a furnace for gold, we transmute the influences of the light of the seven forms into gold. and in doing so transmutate the nature of base metals as well as the heart itself. And as it was stated, the heart spelled Lev lamemed bait having a value of 32 is transmutated by the 22 letters and the 10 spherote which is the illumination of the attributes, the 10 attributes and the 22 letters or lights of God. And this is called remembrance. And this takes place inside of the heart. And so when a person then becomes illuminated by these things, their desires transform so that their desire form becomes sanctified. It transmutates from being a base metal into gold which is receptive of light. Therefore, the desire becomes for the holy things. and likewise emotions and likewise the nature of spiritual practices and likewise the mental form etc. These things then get lifted up to the remembrance of God through two things. These things which are called the mind and thought. This being hma and bina or the brain come together through the contemplation upon keter that is to say the highest attributes of the elimitable that being God and his glory which are the 32 paths of wisdom or the 22 letters and the 10 spherote which then transmutate the lower seven spirrote or the base forms. An example when thought and the mind come together it produces awe and love. True awe and true love. And these two produce another type of love. For awe and love are rooted in the brain which is hma and bina which comes about through the mind which is hma and the thought which is bina when they are one they become one underneath cather the contemplation upon god when god fills the mind and the thought this produces awe or yra and love. These two things then produce and emanate two other attributes. This being that is to say a different kind of love. Love for something outside and dean or gava which is a type of or fear and this is the fear of sin. And these two things, love and fear, which are produced out of awe and love in the god sense a gather inside of the heart. The heart being filled with those chambers and that place or furnace of transmutation and transmutates the danger of emotion so that the emotions become sanctified, the mind becomes sanctified. And this is what is written. Lift up your eyes and behold me bar who has created these me bar. And then after the eyes of this it is written the seven eyes of Hashem which are those lower seven forms once are lifted up it is written a river goes out of Eden. A river is a sphere of bina and Eden is the supernal whiteness of hikma. Thus a river is an illusion to the flow of thoughts and Eden is the mind when it is illuminated by the whiteness of superernal wisdom. And then these things wash the eyes, that is to say the lower seven forms, transmutating them into that superernal and perfected gold, which is the qualities of Atsilus. Thus, one is in preparation for ascension into the higher healote.
It was explained in absence of this how the seven forms being influences or lights of the heart of the beastial soul ascend from the heart into the mind. And from here there are two types of things that are manifested. Things that are called to or good and things that are called rah or evil. And this was in the secret of the atadas tovara, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. For these influences ascend into the mind, where they become garbed in words and these influences which are lights when garbed in words create angels and demons. Good words form angels. Bad words form demons. And then the amalgamation of these collective words being collective angels and demons form concepts. These concepts thus create heavens and hells. From these two things emerge a seven-headed serpent. And regarding this, it was said there was Zahumah or Zahuma or Zoma or filth and this serpent was birthed from it. These are the collective sums of experiences which then cause a person to go astray. It makes itself into an idol of Odazara. However, this has been explained at length. In this video, however, I will seek to explain the nature of the straight path.
Now, the end goal of the alchemical system was to create what is called the reebus. The reebus is the perfected male and the perfected female as one entity, often shown as a two-headed being. This is when the Yateser Har and the Yateser Tove, the right personifying the male and the left personifying the female are gathered together in the center column. Then it is called the reebus and this is the ultimate goal of the transmutative practice of alchemy. There is a third classification of angels by which means the heart having the numerical value of 32 when it contemplates through the fires of zakur remembrance on the 10 attributes of God and his 22 lights which transmute those base metals then produce divine influences of light from the heart which the process thereof was explained. And those lights in the heart then ascend into the mind where they are guarded in thoughts and become what are called meloss of Hashem, angels of Hashem, angels of God. And then one can enter in to the heavenly palaces of the true hecalotes. That process of pure transmutation was called the reebus. Now I will explain in some brief detail the process and illusions to this.
First know and understand in remembrance or zakur that the body is the world of aa and the world of aa contains all of the worlds. Adam Kadman Atsilus Berea. The level of AA is the most outer. It being the garment of skin and it houses and contains the world of Yatsura which are the house of the organs. And this in turn contains and houses and is surrounded by the world of Berea of Aia. That is to say, the flesh, which contains and is housed, the skeleton, which is the whiteness of the world of Atsilus, which contains and houses the world of Adam Codum of AA, which is the soul, which reflects the light of the influences above them. And it was described here the nature of the seven forms in which are called the seven eyes. And you will notice there are seven eyes. These are called the kaim or the vessels. Now upon these vessels are formed the filth that was mentioned which are the collective sums of experiences. And these collective sums of experiences when increased on these vessels were the secret of the birth of the serpent. As it was stated in the Zohar, the serpent was born from the filth. This serpent has seven heads which is the collective sum of experiences. It is also the secret of the atadas to ver or the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Everything inside of it is right and left. However, if a person were to take the center path which was described by the prices of zakur or remembrance, one would be lifted by the superalina and above they would find themselves in the hecalote or the archetypes of reality. And here they would find the glory of God. And enter into the place called the land of the fathers. This being the secret of the land or Malcs, Atilus. And this is what is written. I will praise you from the land of the living. And as it is written, wisdom or hokma gives life to its possessor. Atsilus here means luta or prayer. It also means that is to say emanation. It is the world of perfection. For everything here including yourselves have an archetypal form within the divine mind of God and a version of you which is archetypal exists within this place. The path of return is to that place and this is the path called Yoshar and this is called the land of Israel.
Now all of this is achieved through the 32 paths of wisdom which illumine the heart as was discussed previously through the process of the furnace which is by the fire of zakur or remembrance and the transmutation of the seven base metals which are the influences of the beastial soul into that superernal and most holy form of the reebus which was the center path to God Yesharel by which one then ascends transcending the nature of the serpent and the base natures. This is achieved by the letters the first and foremost of which is the secret of alf separates me from shin which has been explained at great length on this channel and needs no introduction here. However, I will give an illusion to what the sages said regarding the secret I am sharing with you. Rabbi Isaac of Ako writes in the name of Rabbi Mosha, a disciple of Rabbi Yseph Jikatillo, "If a person's heart impels him to rectify his traits, perfecting his personality and deeds, he should pursue humility to the ultimate degree. He should be insulted but not insult, hear himself scorned but not respond. The divine presence will then immediately rest on him and he will not have to learn from any mortal being for the spirit of God will teach him."
Those seven beastial aspects and forms are also an illusion to these six. Yes, these seven my soul hates. This is written regarding what others have called seven sins. Pride, which is an illusion to the brain, envy and greed, which are an illusion to the two eyes. For one is envious and greedy for what they see. Furthermore, envy is an aspect of internality within the eyes and greed is something external from the eyes. Following this is the secret of wrath which corresponds to the hands. For a person can spend many hours building a thing, many years building a thing and in just an instance destroy it. and sloth, which is the chest, by which one yawns when they rest, and gluttony, which is the stomach, and lust, which is the reproductive organ. And one must transmutate all of these things. And what is the transmutation of pride but humility? And humility is rooted in the word humiliated or humiliation. For humility is tested truly by the feeling of being humiliated. For humiliation and being humiliated triggers the response of pride. Furthermore, envy and greed must be transmutated into the aspects of empathy and charity. And the aspects of wrath must be transmutated into attributes of creation. And slothfulness must be transmutated into fruitfulness. And gluttony must be transmutated into temperance and lust must be transmutated into love. Thus the body or the kalin will be perfected for the reception of these lights when they transmutate. This is the preparation not only of the philosopher stone which was hinted to by the alchemists but also the grand goal of all alchemical pursuits the reebus regarding the transmutation of pride. It states Rav Yosesef Caro writes do not worry about anything in the world other than that which will influence your worship of God with regard to all worldly things. Everything should be the same as its opposite. This is the mystery of the words of the sage who asked an initiate who wished to involve himself in the secret of unification, "Have you attained stoicism?" If a person does not see that all good in the physical world is exactly the same as its evil, it is impossible for him to unify all things. And as it was written by Rav Israel Balshamto, I have been stoic. God is before me at all times. This denotes the level of stoicism with regard to all that befalls a person. Whether people insult him or praise him, it should be all equal. The same is true of eating. Whether he eats sweet meats or gal, it should all be equal to him. In this manner, one can dispel the evil urge, the yates completely.
Regarding this, it was also written in another safer. It is told that one of the was once asked what was the happiest occasion in your life. He told the following story. I was once traveling on a ship along with merchants carrying costly goods. I wished to meditate. Hit o dudes on my creator and I went down into the bowels of the ship. Lying there in the lowest place. The young son of one of the merchants stood himself over me insulting me and spitting in my face. He then uncovered himself and urinated on me. I was astounded at his brazeness. But as God lives, my soul was not downcast. And as a result of this, after he left, I was exceedingly happy. Realizing that my soul had reached a level of true humility. I realized that through this trait, one can walk among the ones who stand. This trait dominated me so much that I felt absolutely nothing whatsoever. And this is in the secret of I have quieted my soul or I have become still or I have become stoic. God is before me at all times. And this is in line with the earth is filled with his glory. and glory it has been explained to you are the 22 letters and the tens wrote the archetypes or the atiluuthic aspects of reality and existence.
This concludes our brief introduction and explanations to the process of ascension theurgical transmutation and the sorts. With that being said, open my eyes and I behold the wonders of your Torah. Shalom and sah.
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