From the great Mayan creation story in their bible, the Popul Vuh:“There was nothing brought together, nothing which could make a noise, nor anything which might move, or tremble, or could make noise in the sky.
There was nothing standing; only the calm water, the placid sea, alone and tranquil. Nothing existed.
There was only immobility and silence in the darkness, in the night. Only the Creator, the Maker, Tepeu, Gucumatz, the Forefathers, were in the water surrounded with light. They were hidden under green and blue feathers, and were therefore called Gucumatz. By nature they were great sages and great thinkers. In this manner the sky existed and also the Heart of Heaven, which is the name of God and thus He is called.” (From Popul Vuh U. of Oklahoma Press1950)
In our Torah parsha for this week of Tisha B’Av/Va’eschanan we have in Devarim/Chapter4:11”So you approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire up to the heart of heaven,” On this verse the special small book of the mekubalim, Sepher haBahir has a commentary:
“Rabbi Berachiah sat and expounded:
What is the Axis(Teli)?
This is the likeness that is before the Blessed Holy One. It is thus written(Song of Songs 5:11), “His locks are curled(Taltalim).”
What is the sphere(gilgul)? This is the womb.(and the wheel/shanah of time and the year)
What is the Heart? It is that regarding which it is written(Devarim 4:11), “unto the heart of heaven.” In it are included the 32 mystical paths of wisdom.”(32=the gematria of lev=heart)(after Kaplan’s translation-page40)
These are at the heart of the mystery of the mekubalim, the three spheres or realms. They hold the key to what has needed to be healed and how we are now in a new olam/world of the Earth as the third Beit haMikdash/Temple.
The Heart is the concealed upper beginning, the reshith and rarely spoken of.
The sphere is the upper mother of understanding, the Earth/haretz in the first verse of Bereshith/Genesis and the Axis, the Teli is the dragon of HaShamayim that unfolds into the depths of space in our manifested physical universe. This “axis” called curled like the helix is as mentioned in previous posts needed to be healed in order to heal the broken vav of the word shalom in parsha Pinchas and allow the upper waters to directly flow into this olam/world.
This weeks Torah parsha includes the second rendition of the Esrei Devarim/The Ten Sayings(commandments) which varies in that HaShem tells us to Shomer/guard the Sabbath while the first rendition in Shemot/Exodus tells us to Zachor/remember the Sabbath. The zachor is a positive form that can be done every day and night while the shomer is a negative commandment that is done on the Sabbath day - all the rules and regulations of how to “protect” the Sabbath day. The negative involves the gilgul and the wheel of time, hence the 365 negative Torah mitzvoth which correspond to the days of the yearly wheel. The positive is the 248 positive mitvot (the total=613) which are said to equal all the bones and organs in the body of Adam Qadmon. The upper mother(Binah) holds the 365 on the left column of the traditional Tree of the depths(womb of time) and the upper father (reshith)holds the 248 on the right column of the Tree. The angel Raziel, the angel of the secret book has a value of 248 in his name and holds the mystery of the Heart of heaven/reshit which he gave to the original Adam Qadmon.
Those mysteries of this angel were a sacred book of crystal and here is where the Mayan story is so revealing for those green feathers in the waters of "heaven"referred to in their creation story refer to the column of green which the zohar tells us is one of the three columns that support the entire creation(red and white are the others).This second rendition of the ten devarim is also different from the first in that it contains the letter teth which the first does not. This letter has the value of nine and the only crystal stone on the breastplate of the high priest that also has the letter teth is the "pitdah" that is said to belong to the tribe of Simeon(Shimon) and relates to the month of Av. So there is this very special green stone that completes a new rebuilt temple earth. The Mayans relate a blue "turquoise" to “Heart of heaven/sky” and a green "turquoise" to heart of earth.
For those who can “Hear/Shema” the root of Shimon's name, to hear;
Celebrate a renewed green Earth temple, within your “decreased joy” at this time of the Teth/nine and then an increased joy for the full moon of Av.
From the Song of Songs Chapter One:
15 "Behold, thou art fair, my love;
behold, thou art fair;
thou hast doves' eyes.
16 Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant:
also our bed is GREEN/Raeinanah."
Good Shabbos
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