The Tree among the nations

The nature of the human soul is very much developed in the Sepher HaZohar and other kabbalistic texts. The Sepher Gilgulim actually discusses the five kinds of soul substance and the various personages in Jewish history and who they were in terms of the soul natures they carried. There are details through the centuries on how the tree of the ten omakim/depths or spheres covers the expanse of history. This is used to explain how the different qualities of soul have interfaced with the living Earth through linear time. We are now at the very “bottom” roots of the Tree when the ‘first’ initiates into this awesome temple creation are turning up here and there! The full tree is manifesting in a revealed way. In fact it can be said that the physical creation herself is an effect of what is called the “shattering of the vessels” from the period when the physical nature of the creation could not yet hold the awesome power of the soul substance in the tree. The full nature of the world manifested with the holy sparks of light “falling” into the farthest reaches of matter and separation. The journey has therefore encompassed all the possibilities of creatures with individual free will and choice. A lot of adventure and surprise. The Torah portions covered in these weeks has been the fabulous story of Joseph and his brothers. The Technicolor dream coat. In this story Joseph has descended into the depths of creation, called Mitzrayim/Egypt. The incredible culture of ancient Egypt carries so much mystery and the fecund Hoseyck/darkness saw the evolvement of the mineral technologies that interface with the soul realm/ the fifth continuum. And in this story we have the big hint. The Pharaoh, the royal sun power in the physical gives Joseph, the son of Rachel and Jacob, his royal signet ring to wear! Joseph meets up with the sovereignty of power in the physical and becomes a King. He is a Pharoah. He can interpret dreams because he has the Chomat Elokim, the wisdom of the divine in this world. A new stage in the drama has begun, deep deep within the physical stuff. From this time and place the aggadah/legends tells us that the sacred technology of Israel is turned over from the possession of Pharoah in the form of the scepter of Moses. The signet ring is the image in Torah. Only one other place in all of Tanak do we have this ring. This is in the scroll of Esther. The ring of the emperor of Persia who rules 127 provinces, the entire physical spectrum of Malchut/Kingdom, the physical depth. The mineral roots of the Tree. The aggadah tells us that the holy rod of HaShem was transmitted to Joseph from Jacob IN EGYPT. When Joseph died his house was pillaged by the locals and the rod was brought into the “possession of Pharaoh“. We are also told that Pharoah could pronounce seventy of the seventwo secret names of the soul sparks among the nations. The aggadah continues to tell us that Jethro was one of the Pharaohs scribes and he stole the rod and planted it in his own garden where it sprouted and could not be uprooted. That person who would come and pull it from the ground would be the husband of his daughter Zipporah. All others who try would be devoured by this sacred tree. Sound familiar? This transmission of the sacred technology of Israel is hinted at in the passing of the little signet ring onto Joseph’s finger. It is in the next Hebrew month of Shevat, it’s name from a root word for rod or staff, that the kabbalists connect the technology of the staff of precious metal and stone to the great Tree of life that is so much the Kabbalah. This time of year we are in the deepest roots of the tree. Below the surface. Here the aggadah tells us dwells Shamshiel, the angel of paradise, his name is the root word for the radiant sun. The days get longer and the sap deep within the Tree begins to stir. Many of the “nations” bring the sacred tree into their homes to celebrate this time. Initiates awaken from slumber.