The Crown of the Seraphim/Comet Holmes

the million fold brightening of the newly visible kochav/comet in the constellation of perseus/Peretz is wonderful to view. The golden glow is spreading out night after night and may widen as large as a full moon according to some astronomers' predictions. The star has appeared in the thigh region of the figure and this relates to the progeny of the line of Judah and Peretz, who we know as David. This also fulfills the prophecies in the world of Islam of the appearance of a comet and a star in the east that will look like the moon, that is a sign of their return of the Imam Mahdi. For them it is also a sign that the scepter of Mosheh/Musa/Moses is now being held. In next weeks Torah parsha on Chayei Sarah, the words end with a list of the twelve princes who descend from Ishmael. The last is in the Hebrew, Kadimah. We recognize the parallel to the twelve Imams of Islam and Kadimah being the root for Adam Kadmon, the complete and original Human. The works of the priestly lineages is to unite the 70 soul roots of all of humanity and bring peace to the world with a new awakening to how we are all related in the being world.

This star has become visible during the week that we read in Torah of the visible appearance of HaShem to Abraham with the three stranger visitors. Two of the visitors then visited Lot. Lot becomes the progenitor of Ruth the Moabite and with the line of Judah and Peretz, the line of David springs. This month of Chesvan as stated before is when the first Beis Hamikdash was completed and when the third is to appear complete from the fourth heaven. The Torah tells us that the swords of the Kerubim guard the way to the Etz Chaiim/Tree of Life. Two bright comet swords; Comet Hale-Bopp and Comet Hayuketake, have come past the Earth in the last ten years and crossed the same constellation perseus/Peretz, where this golden globe has now appeared. We may count the days from this new stars appearance and find the 49th and 50th days are the last two nights of Channukah this year. From the Zohar we have:

"Zohar-Balak 221b We have learned that in the future the Holy One will rebuild Yerushalyim and show one steady star, flashing with 70 pillars of fire, and with 70 sparks which illuminate (receive light) from it in the middle of the sky. There will be 70 other stars which are commanded and controlled from it, and they will illuminate and flame in the sky for 70 days. "

This star then is a sign that the soul sparks of the nations, the 70, will have been united. 70 days from when this newly visible Kochav/comet has appeared brings us to the first day of the new secular year. Edom has been brought into the priestly lineage.

We pray for peace with the daily wheel of this sacred Earth.

bright kochav/comet has appeared in the sky/MarChesvan 5768

"In the past 24 hours, a spectacular event has taken place involving the periodic comet P/Holmes (17P). Its predicted brightness is about magnitude 17 however last night it was discovered by the Spanish amateur, Juan Antonio Henríquez Santana to have undergone a tremendous outburst having attained magnitude 10 at that time (Oct 24 0h UT). It was a similar outburst in 1892 that led to its discovery. Latest reports (Seiichi Yoshida, Oct 24 13h UT) indicate that it is stellar in appearance and 3RD MAGNITUDE in brightness: so bright in fact that it is readily visible to the unaided eye. That's almost one million times brighter than normal ! Fortunately for UK-based observers the comet is well placed for observation and is visible throughout the entire night. Its position at 0h UT tonight (Oct 24/25) will be: R.A. 03h 53.0m, Dec. +50 08' Its appearance will probably be that of a fairly bright naked-eye star moving at an apparent rate of close to 10 arcmin per day at PA 298 deg. It!is currently 1.63 AU (245 million km) from the Earth. Observations are strongly encouraged and should be reported to Jonathan Shanklin, Director of the Comet Section."

This comet has brightened in the constellation the Greeks called Perseus which is related to the Hebrew name Peretz. He you may recall is the son of Judah in Torah who is the progenitor of the line of King David. Some ancient Hebrews considered this constellation the David who is triumphant over his adversaries.

We are moving to the full moon of Chesvan this Shabbos when we sing parsha Vayera about the visitation to Abraham and Sarah of the divine presence and the revelation of a healing for the tzaddik/righteous person that foreshadows a global healing for the Earth. The third temple is becoming visible for those awake.

Baruch HaShem

the Wheel of Eight/the Lyre of eight strings

We are in the ancient eighth month, the time when the pleiades culminates at zenith at midnight. This is a revered place on the wheel of the year. In the tradition of the whispered kabbalah this is the time that the entire globe, "round as a ball", as the Zohar tells us in volume III-Vayikra 10a.becomes aware in a new way, a "temple" becomes completed. Remember the first manuscripts of this great book appeared about 200 years before Copernicus told the world that the Earth was a sphere. Now we are moving again from a "flat earth" to a "round earth". This "round" now being about the ocean of being/soul that the entire physical universe floats within. The integration of the teachings and wisdom of a temple school is found also in Zohar and other texts as the great wheel, the day, the month, the year and a lifetime. Ezekiel's vision of the wheel of initiation is found in the Americas as well in the medicine wheel teachings. The wheel can be worked with the four spokes giving eight points on the round and the continuum-road of self through the center vertically. Here we find "wheel of Earth" as the ancient text of kabbalah quoted last year at this time gives us. The Earth is made into wheel of Earth when the crown of the Seraphim is completed here. This crown has a distance of 502 years according to the Sepher Hechaloth((Hebrew Enoch). This number may also be found by adding up the years of the three Jewish patriarchs lives. There are also two ways of calculating how long it would take in years of duration to bring the Wheel of Earth Chayoth fully united to the Earth sphere herself. The Sepher HaAggadah/Book of Legends gives us one calculation. We are told that it takes a distance of 500 years to get to the first heaven. 500 more years distance to traverse the first heaven and so on through the seven heavens. Therefore you will find that it takes 3500 years to get to the fourth heaven. The legends tell us that it is in the fourth heaven that the eternal third Temple may be found. This same calculation can be found when adding up the distances in years of the spans of the celestial beings as found in the Book of Palaces/Hechaloth. 2500 years for the body of an Ophan, 248 years for the wing of a Cherub and 502 years for the crown of the Seraph. With two wings we have a creature built of a 3498 journey in years. We have come 3500 years since the beginning of the Covenant with Abraham and Sarah as given in last weeks Torah parsha Lech Lecha- Go and make a sacred Earth of this land of Adamah. Bring in the eternal temple chariot supported by the celestial beings fully integrated with the holy Mother Earth. Nine degrees of these celestial beings from the ancient text. In the center of the eight spokes is the Wheel of Earth. The eighth month in an eight year and we sang Lech Lecha on the eighth day of Chesvan! We are in a time that we have gone past the natural wheel of seven with the discovery of matter that radiates light. Students of the alchemical Kabbalah will understand the wheel of the seven days and seven metals that hold the power of each day. Saturday traditionally corresponds to the "heaviest" of the metals in atomic number-82. Our times however are punctuated by the fact that we know about metals so heavy they radiate light like the stars. These times are spoken about with a warning from the Talmud, "The Holy One, Blessed is He, takes the hot sun out of its pouch, and the righteous are cured by it while the evil are judged by it. (Nedarim 8b; see the Pri Tzaddik, Parashas Bo 1). Some Rabbis because of this inference are sure there must be a nuclear nightmare before the redemption/Geulah may begin. They are not aware of what we have right now. There will not be a nuclear holocaust. How can this writer of this little blog be so sure? The third eternal temple has already been consecrated in a sense by the light of a material with the atomic number 88. A piece of the sun, found in the Earth's crust. How is this for the number workings of HaShem? The musical workings and creative dance of the natural world is said to be orchestrated with a lyre of seven strings. The covenant at eight- the eighth mitzvah of Abraham after the seven given to Noach. Torah tells us we are to make a holy wheel of this entire sacred planet.In The times of the ingathering we are to listen for the Harp of Eight strings. Who may hear this sound, this sweet music? The wheel of the octave, the ogdoad, the eight legged weavers of the Earth, the nine degrees of Chayoth, weaving a tapestry of various beautiful colors in Earth and sky. We have a temple, "round as a ball"Zohar III-10a.

Additional weekly teaching story/the Rainbow Lodge

This is an ancient Native American teaching story about the Rainbow lodge; the Temple of initiation in the Americas: Notice here that the

Lodge Chief, the invisible one, has a sister. She is the Shekinah, the Mother Earth herself.

The Invisible One
A Micmac Legend
There was once a large Indian village situated on the border of a lake, Nameskeek' oodun Kuspemku. At the end of the place was a lodge, in which dwelt a being who was always invisible. He had a sister who attended to his wants, and it was known that any girl who could see him might marry him. Therefore there were indeed few who did not make the trial, but it was long ere one succeeded.
And it passed in this wise. Towards evening, when the Invisible One was supposed to be returning home, his sister would walk with any girls who came down to the shore of the lake. She indeed could see her brother, since to her he was always visible, and beholding him she would say to her companions, "Do you see my brother?" And they would mostly answer, "Yes," though some said, "Nay," -- alt telovejich, aa alttelooejik. And then the sister would say, "Cogoowa' wiskobooksich?" "Of what is his shoulder-strap made?" But as some tell the tale, she would inquire other things, such as, "What is his moose-runner's haul?" or, "With what does he draw his sled?" And they would reply, "A strip of rawhide," or "A green withe," or something of the kind. And then she, knowing they had not told the truth, would reply quietly, "Very well, let us return to the wigwam!"
As they entered the place she would bid them not to take a certain seat, for it was his. After they had helped to cook the supper they would wait with great curiosity to see him eat. Truly he gave proof that he was a real person, for as he took off his moccasins they became visible, and his sister hung them up; but beyond this they beheld nothing not even when they remained all night, as many did.
There dwelt in the village an old man, a widower, with three daughters. The youngest of these was very small, weak, and often ill, which did not prevent her sisters, especially the eldest, treating her with great cruelty. The second daughter was kinder , and sometimes took the part of the poor abused little girl, but the other would burn her hands and face with hot coals; yes, her whole body was scarred with marks made by torture, so that people called her Oochigeaskw (the rough-faced girl). And when her father, coming home, asked what it meant that the child was so disfigured, her sister would promptly say that it was the fault of the girl herself, for that, having been forbidden to go near the fire, she had disobeyed and fallen in.
Now it came to pass that it entered the heads of the two elder sisters of this poor girl that they would go and try their fortune at seeing the Invisible One. So they clad themselves in their finest and strove to look their fairest; and finding his sister at home when with her to the wonted walk down to the water. Then when He came, being asked if they saw him, they said, "Certainly," and also replied to the question of the shoulder-strap or sled cord, "A piece of rawhide." In saying which, they lied, like the rest, for they had seen nothing, and got nothing for their pains.
When their father returned home the next evening, he brought with him many of the pretty little shells from which weiopeskool, or wampum, was made, and they were soon engaged napawejik (stringing them).
That day poor little Oochigeaskw', the burnt-faced girl, who had always run barefoot, got a pair of her father's old moccasins, and put them into water that they might become flexible to wear. And begging her sisters for a few wampum shells, the eldest did but call her "a lying little pest," but the other gave her a few. And having no clothes beyond a few rags, the poor creature went forth and got herself from the woods a few sheets of birch bark, of which she made a dress, putting some figures on the bark. And this dress she shaped like those worn of old. So she made a petticoat and a loose gown, a cap, leggings, and handkerchief, and, having put on her father's great old moccasins,--whcih came nearly up to her knees,--she went forth to try her luck. For even this little thing would see the Invisible One in the great wigwam at the end of the village.
Truly her luck had a most auspicious beginning, for there was one long storm of ridicule and hisses, yells and hoots, from her own door to that of which she went to seek. Her sisters tried to shame her, and bade her to stay home, but she would not obey; and all the idlers, seeing this strange little creature in her odd array, cried, "Shame!" But she went on, for she was greatly resolved; it may be that some spirit inspired her.
Now this poor small wretch in her mad attire, with her hair singed off and her little face as full of burns and scars as there are holes in a sieve, was, for all this, mostly kindly received by the sister of the Invisible One; for this noble girl knew more than the mere outside of thins as the world knows them. And as the brown of the evening sky became black, she took her down to the lake. And erelong the girls knew that He had come. Then the sister said, "Do you see him?" And the other replied in awe, "Truly I do, --and He is wonderful." "And what is his sled string?" "It is," she replied, "the Rainbow." And great fear was on her. "But, my sister," said the other, "what is his bow-string?" "His bow-string is Ketaksoowowcht: (the Spirit's Road, the Milky Way).
"Thou hast seen him, said the sister. And, taking the girl home, she bathed her, and as she washed all the scars disappeared from face and body. Her hair grew again; it was very long, and like a blackbird's wing. Her eyes were like stars. In all the world was no such beauty. Then from her treasures she gave her a wedding garment, and adorned her. Under the comb, as she combed her, her hair grew. It was a great marvel to behold.
Then, having done this, she bade her take the wife's seat in the wigwam,--that by which her brother sat, the seat next the door. And when He entered, terrible and beautiful, he smiled and said, "Wajoolkoos!" "So we are found out!" "Alajulaa." "Yes," was her reply. So she became his wife.

The Ark of Initiation/Autumnal Lodge of Colors

We have now entered the rainy month of Chesvan when the first Beith HaMikdash/temple was completed and when the third Holy House is destined to be revealed to the whole world. We have spent the days of the last two months of Elul and Tishre, 58 days sweetening our souls. The Torah parsha Noach always begins in the month of Chesvan. The value of the name of Noach-nun-cheth is 58. He is the righteous initiate in the temple mysteries who has received the good heart with a relationship to HaShem as we have sweetened our own hearts with the days of teshuvah, awe, and festival(58 days in all). He also has received the mystery of the crystal interface with which to build a holy house, an ark which is to receive the light of the forty day flood. This is parallel to the Sinaitic revelation of forty days. It is only a destructive flood to those who cannot withstand this flood of the upper waters of celestial light. Noach is one of the people mentioned in the legends/aggadah that receives the original secret book of sapphire given to the first Adam by Raziel, the angel of secret things. Noach is said to have used this jewel to light the ark and distinguish day from night during the forty days. The Zohar goes deeply into the colors of initiation which are related to the colors of the special jewels and the covenant of the keshet/rainbow. The colors are directly related to the vision of Ezekiel, the foundation stone of the holy temple and the faces of the four holy creatures/Hayoth HaKodesh.. This month of Chesvan embodies one of these four faces, that of the Eagle. This month involves the great depths(snake, scorpion) and the most awesome heights(eagle). It is the alternating heights and depths that bring the initiate into the most profound levels of the lodge of colors, the tree of the omakim, the directional depths of a shamanic life journey. The Zohar for the parsha Noach tells us,” The firmament is imprinted, at the four corners of a square, with four figures, of a lion, an eagle, an ox, and a man…Further the firmament with its enclosed square contains the gamut of all the colors. Outstanding are four colors…green, red, white, and sapphire, which is made up of all these colors. Hence it is written, “ As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud, in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of HaShem, containing, that is to say, all shades of all colors” Zohar I-71b. The Zohar then connects the Eben Shetiyah, the foundation stone of the temple tradition to this bow of colors of initiation. We have in the Torah this teaching about the rainbow: “ This is the sign of the covenant that I give between Me and you, and every living being that is with you, to generations forever”(Bereisith 9-12) These are the colors that the Kabbalists explain as directions on the great Tree. They are degrees of initiation with corresponding tastes, smells and textures. The eleven ingredients of the temple incense is a part of this mystery tradition. The sacred tree of life gives us resins, flowers, and fruits that awaken our senses to the bounty of Adamah/Earth. We learn about the fruits of the Tree throughout the great Shanah/wheel of the year. The gifts of the Source continually unfolding, flowering and ripening with color and fragrance. In the beginning of the Zohar on this weeks parsha Lech lecha we have a beautiful poem that sums up the lodge of colors, better known as the Tree of the Omakim/Depths or sephirot.
1) One mounts to one side.
2) One descends on that side.
3) One enters between the two.(Abraham and Sarah and the covenant)
4) Two crown themselves with a third.(the Keter-crown-vertice of fifth continuum(crown-kingdom) towards the unchanging“good“)
5) Three enter into one.(the three patriarchs and the priesthood)
6) One produces various colors. (Tiphereth radiates the seven colors "below")
7)Six of them descend on one side and six of them on the other. (spatial directions of this world)
8) Six enter into twelve.(the tribes as embodying the temple building and the edges of the cube of the stone)
9)Twelve bestir themselves to form twenty-two.(the cube=12 edges,6 faces, 3 axis and the center stone=22)
10) Six are comprised in ten.(the six are the matriarchs-Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, Leah, Zilpah, Bilhah)
11) Ten are fixed in one. (Malchut=vertice of 5th continuum as tabernacle stone and Shekinah)(Zohar I-77a)
The seven colors of the six walls of the tabernacle-cube and the seventh center stone of foundation, the special sapphire, are the brighter rainbow being revealed now to the world. The Zohar tells us this bow of colors would brighten in the days of the third temple, meaning its significance would deepen. Those people who have come upon the Native American teachings of the medicine wheels; with the colors and the winds and the elements as well as all living beings and their places on the wheel of initiation, can not help but get the shivers as we come to recognize this lodge of initiation coming from the people’s wisdom of the Earth lodge and joining with the bow in the sky lodge. Heaven and Earth are joining and this Temple that is eternal in the heavens is becoming visible here in sacred Earth. In this eighth month of the wheel we can go out at midnight as the Zohar tells us to do and see the scintillating constellation of the Pleiades, the seven sisters directly overhead at Zenith-the top of the starry sky tree. Cultures all over the Northern latitudes celebrate these nights as especially "Hallowed"(November first-Gregorian) because these seven rainbow stars of the ancesters crown the sky tree at midnight this time of year. A full, sweet and beautiful month of Chesvan, a month of colors, to everyone!

"The flowers appear on the Earth"/The Keshet Lodge

We begin anew the cycle of our sacred circle. This circle that defines the divine immanence in our world is the 22 Hebrew letters and the living Torah. This shamans magic circle is how we affect the Earth in becoming the tabernacle that glows with the primordial light. The prologue of the book of this light, Sepher HaZohar, describes this sacred circle of the numinous, thirteen petals, the attributes of mercy, and five strong sepals, the gates of redemption. These are the number of words in the Torah that separate the first mention of the creative power - the Elohim. Eighteen words in all 13 + 5 = 18. We are now in this year 5768 completing the first 18 years since the year 5750 when at the passover we entered the period called the ingathering. The eighteen also equals the value of the Hebrew word for life and the number of wings of the three strangers who first visited Abraham and began a covenantal arrow through time that would bring "the time of singing and the voice of the turtledove in our land" as the Song of Songs and the prologue of Zohar relates to us. The three (3)strangers,the five(5) sepals of the Rose,the covenant at eight(8)days and the thirteen(13)petals we recognize as the important numbers in the Fibonacci series-the golden mean unfolding as the signature of Life -the fifth continuum of being in the physical universe. This is the life=18 of the Chayah who is the bundle of life of the being world that supports the physical creation. Ezekiel saw all of this including the Chayah on the sacred sapphire throne. This prologue of Zohar also tells us about the souls who appear in our time to announce the fulfillment of the great work; "Thus when Joseph entered the Holy Land he planted them there, and thus they "appeared on the Earth" and revealed themselves there. When do they become visible? When the rainbow/keshet betokens that "the time of pruning is come"...and who is it that upholds the world and causes the patriarchs to appear? It is the voice of tender children studying the Torah; and for their sakes the world is saved..." Zohar I-1a.

The rainbow is the visible key to the most secret and sacred of the lodge of initiations- the seven colors that the celestial beings may wear as the sign of their office. Our Earth lodge has entered a new time, the fifth world amongst American Native Elders, where the planet Herself has joined with the rainbow chiefs in a new cycle. The planet Meadim/Mars in the sky is being a bright herald signifying this change to the entire world as mentioned in the previous post. This globe gets ever brighter in the sky as we complete the first eighteen years of the ingathering. We pray that the people will listen for the sound and see the rainbow lodge of color. For the traditional Jews we are entering the completion stage of the Nineteen blessings of the Amidah, the standing prayer. The nineteenth is completed with the Birchat HaChamah, the blessing of the sacred Sun at the eve of the pesach,5769. Our very footsteps are dancing a holy rhythm.

54 parashot/Meadim/Mars in the sky

This year the value of Chaiim/the living infuses all that we do and strive for. This word has the value from the Hebrew of 68-this year 57-68. This year is a leap year sabbatical year, with thirteen lunar months and all the 54-Torah portions are sung by themselves on the Sabbath.

Three strangers came to Abraham, they were connected to the celestial beings called the Seraphim/the feathered serpents of meso-america and each of the three had the six wings. 3X6=18. 18 equals life. The true identity of these beings who came to the man whose heart was on fire with ahavah/love, has been a big mystery. This is because one of these three could only be manifest with the success of the arrow of time of the priestly peoples. These Seraphim are traditionally related to the heaven veiled by the planet meadim/Mars. This sphere has been undergoing an awesome dance in the sky that will become increasingly beautiful as we move towards the winter solstice and the festivals of light. By the full moon of the month of Tevet/December 24,2007- Mars will rise exactly when the sun sets and travel through the night very high in the sky, setting exactly when the new morning sun rises. The planetary sun of the night. The planet will almost equal the brightness of Tzedeq/Jupiter. The planet will culminate at midnight exactly overhead in the latitude of the American southwest. The Pueblo elders will be noticing closely as the peacemaking morning star moves across the opening of emergence of the Earth temple kivas. We are emerging into the fifth world of a global temple school and the keepers of the true mystery tradition among the Jews, Navajos, Pueblos, Mayans, Buddhists,Moslems, Christians and Hindus all have their own special names for this transformation.Meadim is said to veil the Fifth very special heaven in traditional teachings of Kabbalah.

A very loud trumpet of freedom was sounded on the Sabbath of Sabbaths when Yom Kippur was celebrated on the Sabbath in a Sabbatical year ending with the eight of the octave/ogdoad. The most influential Mime of history Marcel Marceau returned his being to HaShem in his awesome dance of life. This man survived the Holocaust to live a life filled with passion. His life was dedicated to expressing the exuberant essence of self, of the living gift of the Source.

Tekiyah Gedolah/ ketoret of Joining

L'Shanah Tova to all readers of these writings- may a great moment of transformation/Shanah- wheel of awesome change enter into your lives. The world is now in this great leap of radical renewal as the being world, the "upper waters" floods our lives. One of the whispered secrets of the ancient mekubalim, the Hebrew tribal shamans was that the box of 72 "names" as given in the Zohar II is a great clock face. The stars in the night sky are the hands and when the mekubalim would go out at midnight to pray as Zohar tells us, they could read the time of the great chronometer- the 26 thousand year wobble of the holy Earth as followed by the movement of the stars. As stated before, this is in a synchronous pulse with the 26 thousand light years, the time it takes light, to reach the galactic center. The dancing mekubal knows where she is in time! As all the tribal people who walk the beauty path; where we stand is the HaMakom- the holy place from - m' kom - where we arise. From the Omak/depth we arise-komi- within this sacred dance of life. To know where we are in the continuums of space & time & being - this is the gift of the Temple tradition. We are grateful for this. This year 5768 contains the 368- shin-sameck-chet-in the Hebrew date-which is equal to the 368 minah weight of ketoret- sacred incense used in the Beith HaMikdash/Holy temple. This is a very special shemittah/sabbatical year. The entire value-5768- equals the value of Ha-eben shetiyah-the foundation stone. This crystal "stoneflower" is the book of remembrance. The cup of blessing. The crystalline interface that allows this bundle of life/Chayah to become Earth-Adamah. May the sacred incense offering bring the heaven world and the fifth level of soul, the Yechidah in joining with Earth to establish an entire world awakened to the Source from where peace comes. This Shabbos-Yom kippur- is the Sabbath of Sabbaths when we pray five times and bring in our most rarefied Yechidah soul/fifth level, to awaken the globe, the Mother Earth, to the experience of Sabbath. The is the tenth of the seventh month, the Holy of Holies of time. May the prayerful incense and those celebrating life in the moment and the place, bring the trumpet horn/qeren of awakening to this fragile beauty of the planetary tabernacle.

the tablets of crystal Earth/Shabbatai in betulah

Today the planet Shabbatai/Saturn enters the sign of the maiden/betulah(virgo) for the next two years and some. The past movement through the aryeh/lion is complete and we have seen the great changes in "leadership" as we move through this period of the ingathering and approach the phase that will bring the shalem, the greater complete sovereignty of HaShem into the physical Earth. This bigger change involves the planet that veils the crown-kingdom continuum, called pluto by astrologers. This physical globe is set to enter the Earth sign of the gedi/kid in the coming months where it will reside for some twelve years and this sign belongs to the four signs that incorporate that level of initiation of divine will in the physical. Some of us are already experiencing this in their personal lives, others are preparing for this next global phase of this forty year period that we entered in 5750/1990. Shabbatai is a herald so to speak within the sign of the maiden who in Hebrew tradition is the matriarch Rebbecca. She gives birth to the sacred twins-Yakov and Esau and their struggle and journey is the journey of the priestly peoples bringing about an Earth that can embody the most rarefied levels of the light of the divine Source in a physical manifestation. Nine months after the sign of betulah in the wheel of the year, the birth takes place, we have the sign of the Teomin, the twins. This in the wheel of the yearly shanah/transformation was when the first tablets, twins, came down from the Har Sinai, to a people not yet ready to embody the omakim, the great depth of the divine effulgence. However the second set of tablets of sacred Earth crystal were brought to the people after the time that Moshe rabbeinu/Moses spent forty days on the mountain, from the first of Elul to the tenth of Tishre. The eternal complete Luhoth abanim-tablets of stone, were brought to the people of Earth on Yom kippur. This engraved stone would allow the union of all the worlds with the wheel of the earth. As mentioned in a previous post the nine degrees of Chayoth HaKodesh/holy wheel creatures, are all brought together only in a physical creation, the ninth degree in the ancient Kabbalistic text is called "Wheel of Earth". In fact herein lies the very secret sod for why a physical creation manifests from the Divine Source. In the sepher HaZohar for this weeks Torah parsha we have a portion about the special Shirah/song sung by Moses and the uniting of upper and lower worlds through the engraved holy Earth. " Rabbi Simeon said: What is the most perfect hymn? One that is addressed by both the lower to the higher and by the higher to the lower, and which then combines the two. From whose example do we know this? From this song of Moses...For so we have explained in the presence of Rabbi Simeon, that Amen draws blessings from the Source to the King and from the King to the matrona, from A(aleph) to M(mem) and from M to N(nun)(AMN=amen) and when blessings come to N, from there they issue forth from higher to lower and spread through all."Zohar III-285a. The hint here for the initiates on the path of wisdom is that the word amen has the value of one of the names of the 72 discussed in the second volume of the Zohar. This name can only be fully manifest in the Earth creation. Our world is now experiencing in a widening circle of effects the manifestation of this name which has this value of AMN=91. This is the fruit of the line of initiates of the Adam Baal Shem within the Hebrew tradition. This is important now for yesterday, Chai Elul, was the birthday of the

Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov and on his eighth day of life, the coming 25th of Elul, is the day in the shanah of the year that the physical world is said to have come into manifestation. Six "days" later is Rosh HaShanah when the first Adam, male & female appears. The calendar wheel is an interface for all worlds and continuums and is in part how the priestly peoples sing the shirah, the song that unites worlds and brings the entire Earth into experiencing the seventh day which is the place of the mishkan/tabernacle.

Total Eclipse/ Full moon of Elul/ Ani L'Dodi

We are now in the eight day period of time where the planet nogah/venus is gone from the sky and in conjunction with the shemesh/sun and shabbatai/saturn in the aryeh/lion. We are in the great Hebrew month of Elul, the month of compassionate return in our relationship to the divine Mystery, the source we call HaShem. The signs are always everywhere for the initiate on the journey within the temple/school that is our olam/world and our olamot/universes. There are great planetary and lunar changes this month as well as the ongoing trembling of the winds, oceans and earth's crust. The acronym that is the letters for the month of Elul, aleph-lamed-vav-lamed, is taken from the holiest of Songs, Shir HaShirim chapter VI verse 3; "Ani l'dodi vedodi li, I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine". The Earth and the lovers who find themselves here in this sacred house are being shaken awake. The verse from the holy song ends with haroaah be'shoshanim. The traditional shepherd among the roses is also the powerful shout-roaa-among the flower of the omakim, the ten depths/omakim that make up the olam/world of the individual within the creation. We are to be shaken in this month of return as each moment we face the reishit/beginning that is "aleph be'Tishre", the first of the month of Tishre(Rosh HaShanah) having the same letters as the first word of Torah- Bereishit - in the beginning. In these seven weeks from Tisha'B'Av to Rosh Hashanah that hold the seven "lower" sephirot/directions we have the reappearance of the planet Nogah/Venus as morning star this week the fourth which corresponds to the depth Netzach/Mosheh Rabbeinu and Nogah/Venus. The following week on Elul-14 we have a very long total eclipse, over an hour of totality, of Levunah/moon which week corresponds with the sephirah Hod/Aaron HaCohen Gadol and the priesthood that uses the moon for establishing the priestly sacred calendar dance of time. This eclipse is an awesome sign of the marriage of the depth and silence - sun and moon- within the succah-tabernacle of living Earth. The following week then corresponds to yesod/foundation which holds the moon herself who is the foundation being of the seventh week and sephirah/Malchuth- Earth/Adamah. So where are the two lovers in all this, that this month is about? We have mentioned them as the gnostic bythus/depth and sige/silence. These two in the eternal embrace as the Hebrew omak/depth and domiyah/silence: Keter/crown and Malchuth/kingdom. As above/so below; as outside and inside. I am hers and she is mine. He reddens the moon in eclipse and she shakes the Earth with tempest and earthquake. The Sepher HaZohar begins with a verse from Shir HaShirim about the Shoshanah, the Rose flower of the human being and dance of the Habanot, the maidens, the initiates in this growing vine of love and adventure."As a rose among thorns, What, he said does the flower symbolize? It symbolizes the community of Israel. ...as the flower possesses thirteen leaves, so the community of Israel is vouchsafed thirteen categories of compassion which surround her on every side."Zohar I-1a. This very month of compassion where we are to bring the ending, the acharit to the reisith, to the beginning in every moment. It is within this month of compassion that the first "day" of the olam/world began with the 25th of Elul. The first of Tishre being the sixth "day" and appearance/creation of the Adam, male and female. And here the "lovers" appear again in the numbers(the 25 letters of the shema) of the great Mathematician - the kamea of me'adim having the 25 boxes with the 13(petals-mercies/echad=13) in the middle and the kamea of Nogah/Venus with the 25 in the middle box. I am hers and she is mine, wheels within wheels and an unfolding flower of the depths, HaShoshanat Haomakim, on every human journey. The Shalom Shalem is being born from this flower.

the season of the trumpets/ 49 days again

As stated earlier we are in the 49 day count(7 weeks of consolation) from the ninth of Av to Rosh HaShanah that does in a sense track all of the history of the priestly people wandering over the entire Earth and "walking in beauty", as the Navajo prayer goes. Making this a holy Makom as it was stated in last weeks torah parsha-Eikev, "Cal HaMakom", every place you walk will be made sacred. This 49 days we are in now are also coinciding with the important cycle of Nogah/Venus moving from the evening star phase to the dawn star in the fourth of the seven weeks. Rosh Chodesh Elul, the new moon of Elul comes during the special eight days when Nogah is in conjunction with the Shemesh/sun in the aryeh/lion, and not visible in the sky. During that week we read the parsha Shoftim and in the Sepher HaZohar we have a brief part of the Reeh Mehemnah/Faithful Sheperd ZoharIII-274b-275b concerning Shoftim/Judges. here the Zohar tells us that the number 49 is equal to the prayer of the Shema that unifies the worlds, the 25 letters of the six words of the Shema and the 24 letters of the Baruch Shem Cavod....equaling the 49. Here we are again in the seven weeks/49 day walk from destruction to the ingathering of the dance of history. The sacred walk away from Har Sinai to the return of Sinai by the building and revealing of the sacred temple who is the Mother Earth. At the beginning of the moon of Elul, the moon of return, we sound the shofar every dawn till the festival of trumpets. This is actually another 49 day count if we extend it to Hoshanah Rabbah during the feast of Sukkoth when we celebrate the Temple earth whose vault is the starry sky and whose walls are the tree boughs and leaves and fruits. The Zohar in this part reminds us that the 7 midot/sephirot of the Etz Chaiim/tree of live hold the 248 limbs of the complete human(also the number of words in the vahavta/shema) that reflect the positive mitzvoth. Our individual walk builds the tabernacle, a sacred temple of the trees and sky and Earth. " Blessed is he/she who is attached to the Tree of life, with his/her body and limbs, for they are a candle. Each branch is a candle of a mitzvah with the 248 positive mitzvoth."Zohar III-274b. The individual walk and the journey of history, the 49 days, have lighted that sacred fire of emunah/faith that is being felt through a shuddering planet Earth. We are to feel, see and hear the awe. The Zohar on Shofitim speaks to us about the sanhedrin/council of the 72, how this is the value of the word Chesed/compassion. ""the greater light to rule the day", it says, HaShem will command steadfast love/Chesed in the daytime. "and the lesser light to rule the night" means: and in the night HaShem's song shall be with me", the song of the levites that is the yesod/foundation. The son of Jesse/David lives upon the adamah/sacred Earth. "Zohar 275b. The living adamah/Earth joins the chai/life of the holy tree, the limbs of all humanity and the plants and the animals and the rocks, in the mystery dance that this ingathering is all about. The Zohar ends here by telling us about ten types of shirim/songs. With our ten fingers we build this pleasant tabernacle and holy temple whose vault is the starry night sky. With our ten toes we have walked through all of history and made this tabernacle a place of celebration. A dwelling for song and dance.

PS-long time friend of this blog, JS asked me about using the kameas/magic boxes. the book "Secret of the Torah" by Ibn Ezra has a good commentary about using the square of 3X3/9 and how it relates to the names. These grids reveal patterns in the continuum of being/heavens and how these patterns may manifest in the physical creation. Our sacred seven day week is directly related to the seven boxes. Time is holy. the 49 day counts are therefore always somehow related to the 7X7 grid of Nogah/Venus. That box has the number 25 in the central square which relates to the Shema and the grid of 5X5-Me'adim. If we study the interrelationships of the seven boxes we have a path of bringing in the chockmah conciousness beyond regular thinking. HaShem is the supreme mathematician. This brings awe into our life. American baseball fans may connect to how "we are all related" if they know who is wearing the number "25" in the center spotlight these days.

Nogah/Venus and the seven weeks-Rosh HaShanah5768

The most joyous of days in the Hebrew calendar is on Monday with TuB'Av, the full moon of the month of the Aryeh/Lion in the summertime of life. We are also now in the seven weeks of consolation/49 days between TishaB'Av and the new turn of the wheel-Rosh HaShanah-of the very magical calendar. This year is very special and as is stated in previous posts these few days between the 9th and 15th- we are experiencing an awesome planetary dance involving me'adim/Mars and shabbatai/Saturn in the lion and the bull. Other planets are also very involved and now it is a good time to discuss Nogah/Venus. The kamea associated with Nogah is shown above with the "49" boxes that connect us with the 49 day cycles(7X7) and the number 25 is in the central palace box and connects Venus with Me'adim/Mars who has the 25-5X5 kamea and the 25 letters of the Shema. The outer boxes of both kameas-Mars and Venus are 24+48=the 72 wings of the Seraphim and the sacred names. These seven weeks parallel the seven "lower" sephirot or depths/omakim that involve the emotional world(7 "days"of manifestating a world). The three weeks of "mourning" involved the three "highest" sephirot of the "intelligent" world. The emotions make manifest the more rarefied spheres so to speak. Today the planet Nogah/Venus goes into her 40 day retrograde(moving backwards) period that occurs every 20 months or so. This forty day period is very symbolic and archetypal in the wisdom traditions around the globe. We can especially relate to the forty days that Moshe Rabbeinu spent on Har Sinai, this weeks parsha is about the sacred tablets of stone and the ten suggestions as the Zohar calls the "commandments". The planet Nogah/venus corresponds to the 4th of the seven midot/sephirot-netzach, and during the fourth week of this seven week period-on Elul 8/August 22, Venus reappears in the sky as a bright dawn star after being gone from the sky in conjunction with the Shemesh/sun for eight days. Venus has been the evening star for many months up till now. This is a spectacular synchronicity! All of this gets quite involved since the venus cycle is geared to the number eight-years and we are also within the eight year period of the very rare Venus transit of the sun-2004-2012 which only happens about once a century. The last was 1882, a year very significant to the eventual founding of the State of Israel. This eight year period now, we are witnessing the whole world manifesting the peace of the true holy land that the entire mother Earth is experiencing. We are speaking about wheels within wheels, cycles within cycles and how the planets veil the heavenly spheres in a way that is helping bring the true redemptive dawn to the entire world. Nogah(means dawn)/venus in the kabbalistic tradition involves Moses, Mordechai and Esther(whose name means venus/star) and the "lower" limbs/legs of the complete Adam qadmon in netzach and Hod, which correspond to the planets Venus and Mercury. As stated elsewhere in these writings we began the forty year period of the prophesied ingathering of exiles in 5750/1990 and this summer we are completing two full eight year cycles of Nogah/Venus which began in the summer of 5751/1991 during the dissolution of the soviet union. In fact the eight days that venus was gone from the sky in the summer of 1991 were very tumultuous and significant in that whole process. The entire geulah/redemptive period began at that time and we are now experiencing this process at a more comprehensive level of manifestation. Since the planetary dance is so closely aligned with the sephirot and the sacred calendar cycle we can truly expect the Roar of Peace to continue to get louder as we approach the physical sound of the festival of the Shofar/trumpets. The Ram's horn is directly connected to the heaven of Me'Adim/Mars and the sign telah/aries which is also connected to the month of Nisan and the geulah. The three hags/festivals of the Hebrew calendar are intimately connected. The redemption from slavery/constriction happens in Nisan, haShem sounds the Ram's horn in Shavuoth-49 days later and then 49 days after the 9th of Av, we, the priestly people must sound the trumpet that gathers the entire Earth into the Shalom/Shalem, the peace of the Malchuth/kingdom(7th of the seven weeks) of sacred Life. The three omakim/depths of Gevurah(strength)-Tiphereth(balance)-Netzach(eternity) are veiled by the planets/spheres - Me'adim/mars, Shemesh/sun and Nogah/Venus and they hold within their dance the eternal beith haMikdash, the temple of eternal life in the being/soul continuum. These seven weeks, we as guardians of the temple Earth, dance in fields of life and marry the lovers of omak/depth(crown) and silence/ dumiyah(kingdom). Baruch HaShem.

the Dazzling Red One/bright morning star

The Holiest of all the ketuvim/writings is Shir HaShirim/Song of Songs which unravels in incredible splendour the dawning of a physical creation blossoming with the beauty and bounty from the Source of all. This source is often referred to in the song as the Ain/zero-nothing and with this key this sometimes inscrutable sealed book may be understood. For out times now in the last week of the three traditional weeks of mourning, we may speak about the establishment of the third Beit HaMikdash/Holy Temple. Some of the great sages such as Rabbi Moses Chaim Luzzato and Rashi have taught that the 3rd holy house is eternal in the fifth continuum/being world, and it would just need to be "hooked up" so to speak in a special way to the physical Earth. The Zohar tells us that the gates of the destroyed temple were sunk into the Earth; "and further, it is because thy goodness is hidden within thee that the gates of the temple sank into the ground, as it is written, "Sunk(Tabe'u)in the ground are her gates"(Lam.II,9)"ZoharI,28a. Here is a key which the Song of Songs is very much involved with. The crystalline mineral world is our connection with the third holy temple and our own nephesh/blood soul. We are through our own initiations as humans of the adamah/red Earth re-connecting our souls and hence all the worlds that interpenetrate the sacred Earth. This is happening now. One verse in the Song is especially good for the next few weeks as that powerful planetary square takes place between Shabbatai/Saturn in the aryeh/lion, and Me'adim/mars in the shur/bull. Verse V:10 in Shir HaShirim and notice the number value of this verse. The V=5,the letter heh and the 10=the letter yod= fifteen=Yah. For 15 is the key column and row value of the kamea/magic square(see image above of 3X3 grid) of Shabbatai/Saturn and the total value=45=adam and odem: "My beloved is all radiant and ruddy, distinguished among ten thousand." Short but oh so sweet! Here in this verse is the depth of a secret that reveals a level of initiation that this sealed song is concerned about. Another translation could be "My beloved is the dazzling brilliant red morning star prominent among the numerous and myriads of heavenly chiefs." the word edom(ruddy) is the root for the Hebrew name of the present morning star/Me'adim/mars who is in the strong Earth sign of Shur/Taurus and squaring Shabbatai/Saturn in the Lion. This is about the gate and key to the heaven and soul level of the Chayah where the Adam Rishon/first, male and female reside. From here in this palace flows all potential sexuality into our world. This edom/Adam has numerous deep kabbalistic connections including the Adam qadmon/complete human, Esau-edom/Rome and the Kings of Edom whose metal crowns fell into the Earth(Zohar/Book of Concealed Mystery) and needed to be lifted up again. The magic square of Me'adim/mars whose image is above reveals important "sealed" information about this palace. It has twenty-five boxes (5X5 grid)which are the number of letters in the Shema/ the Jewish proclamation of faith. The middle box has the value of thirteen which is the value of the Hebrew word Echad, the last word of the Shema. Each row and column and diagonal add up to 65= the value of Adonai. This is the name associated with malchut/kingdom.This is a "little" of why the bright red morning star is so important. Next Tuesday is the ninth of Av-Tishab'Av and Tuesday has Me'Adim/Mars as the planetary ruler. This is what the Zohar has to tell us about this special palace of Me'adim;"When that spirit enters the Palace of Love the love-yearning for the supernal kisses is aroused, those concerning which it is written:"And Jacob kissed Rachel"(Gen.XXIX,11), so that the kisses of the supernal love are duly brought forth, and they are the beginning of the awkening of all supernal love, attachment and union. For this reason the Hymn(Shir HaShirim) begins with the words:"Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth."Now who is "he"? He who is hidden within the supernal concealment......This is the starting point of all esoteric mysteries, itself being unknowable(ain)...."ZoharII,146b.

In the same way it is said that calamities have come upon the holy people because they could not handle the rarefied power of an earth linked with the beith HaMikdash to the fifth continuum/heavens, so has the understanding of M'edom-m'edim been hidden. This planetary chief/Rav of the marvavah/myriad star chiefs, veils a very special hechalot/palace. We on earth are connected in a new way to this firmament as did the ancient first Temple allow a certain conduit of blessing come into the earth from the being world. The Shalom Shalem/ Peace is actually the very ground nature of our world now because of this connection. The true nature of the great peacemaking morning star, as the Native Americans tell in their legends, is being revealed in a renewed creation. They predicted the return to the earth world of the blessing-healing power of beings associated with this sphere, the feathered dragons/serpents who in Hebrew are the holy Seraphim. We must walk carefully on and with the beloved Adamah/Earth. The true love/Ahavah= 13 = Echad/unity is the blessings of the Holiest of Songs.

Fair as the moon/yafa calevonah and bright as the sun/barah cachamah, from the holiest of songs, Shir HaShirim, chapter VI verse 10. The zohar in volume one-170a tells us that this verse defines the four stages of the global redemptive process as we move into a world fully experiencing the deepest peace of life. The moon going towards the sun gives us the very middle stage which is where we are at this very moment. Yafa calevonah is usually translated fair as the moon but it can also imply the peh, the mouth of the levonah/moon, levonah can also mean the "white" as well as the moon. The moon also implies the character in Torah of Joshua who the Zohar tells us is as the moon compared to Moses who is as the sun. So we have a hand off so to speak again as the people of the mother Earth enter the true holy land. From the moon, like Joshua, to the sun, like Moses. In the Torah the hand off was in the other direction from the sun to the moon. What people are individually feeling now depends on their own personal stage of initiation into the wisdom temple of the Earth. The general global clamour is towards the great peace. By far the majority of the folks in the world want to live and love and enjoy the bounty of the physical creation. So people might ask now, when do we enter the stage three, "bright as the sun" when the whole world "sees" the light of the geulah? When enough people can "feel" the light is when we move into the brightness. This might be right now in the "three weeks".The answer is the movement stage we are in is a test for initiation and is an initiation. As stated in previous posts the 5767th Torah verse is twelve words that ends with ztur yeshouatoh/rock of "salvation". Here we have a word that refers by it's root to the man Joshua and therefore to the "moon" stage of the geulah. The elder mekubel Rav Kaduri may have been refering to this with the cryptic "message" ascribed to him. But who or what is the tzur, the rock? Moses sings about this "rock" in the book of Torah that we are about to read over the Sabbaths in the following weeks of the shanah. In fact we chant the 5767th verse of Torah on the first sabbath of the "new" year of shanah/turning transformation. But remember last weeks parsha of Pinchas ended with the mitztvot of keeping Rosha HaShanah. What does it all mean?- we are right now in the days of awe of a new big Shanah; a grand turn of the wheel of life. Very blessed are those who can feel the radiant sun while the world is in the swirling grip of the moon as she pulls the ocean with storm and tide(Malachi's final prophecy).

This weeks parsha tells us about the cities of refuge given to us for those who seek balance and rest in the stormy world. The sages tell us these six cities are the six words of the Shema and the forty-two, are the words of the Ahavta. We must express our ahavah/love with all of our heart, soul and power. We are all at different stages of transition from the "wilderness"(sepher bamidbar) of an Earth in a global shanah/change, to the Peace of a holy land. May we all walk carefully in balance.

"let there be light"

there is a kabbalistic tradition that relates the three weeks from the fast of Tammuz 17 this week, to the ninth of the month of Av, as holding the importance of the three "upper" depths/sephirot- crown, wisdom and understanding. The seven weeks of consolation from Tisha'B'av to rosh Hashanah hold the importance of the seven "lower" sephirot/depths. Those who study theoretical kabbalah and have read this blog know that the ten omakim or depths are the very directions that hold the "space" of this creation. The priestly people have not all been ready to understand and live the three "upper" sephirot and so great calamities have occurred during these three weeks and hence the two fast days. the tradition states that there is a time reserved for these three weeks to be lived by the people at the stature of the sacred "space" that they hold. Therefore "Yahi awr veYahi awr/let there be light and the light is"(from sepher genesis), is equal in numerical value to Tammuz17. This original light supports the entire ten depths and the created world. This light embodied in the creation is what we may feel and know as the shalom shalem, the pervading great peace that some may feel or understand is now filling the world in a conscious form. All beings on earth are being affected by the changes this era of change is bringing us. People who are feeling and knowing this "light" are being empowered as peacemakers and creative doers. Those people who are not yet at this stage are being hindered in their imbalanced walk on the sacred mother Earth. This hindrance may bring them in the direction that will help their healing. As more folks fully choose to be in synchronicity with the "will", the keter/crown of the "original light", the global tikkun/healing will become more obvious to the many. This "place" from where the global healing comes is called the "ayin ghedi" the fount of the kid, in the Song of Songs. The kid of Capricorn is the cardinal power of earth which holds the will of the divine(let there be light) in the physical. There are three special groups of four astrological signs. Many are familiar with the fixed signs as the faces of the creatures supporting the throne from Ezekiel's vision. The cardinal signs include the goat, the the crab, the ram/lamb and the balance. This month of Tammuz is related especially to these cardinal signs and the Sepher yetzira gives us the crab for this month, when the shemesh is in this sign. So on the little wheel of the year and the greater wheel of change we are in a time where the creative will/keter of the Divine is becoming manifest in Earth. This does flower as great happiness and simcha/joy. Let there be simcha!

The Ten Songs

from the beginning of the ancient commentary to the Holy of Holies; as the Song is called:

The Aramaic Targum to Song of Songs
English Translation by Jay C. Treat
Introduction: The Ten Songs
1:1 Songs and praises which Solomon the prophet, king of Israel, spoke by the Spirit of Prophecy before the Lord of all the World, YY 1.
Ten songs were spoken in this world, this song being the best of them all. The first song Adam spoke at the time his guilt was forgiven him and the Sabbath Day arrived and protected him. He opened his mouth and said, “A Psalm, a Song for the Sabbath Day” (Psalm 92).
The second song Moses said with the children of Israel at the time the Master of the World divided the Reed Sea for them. All of them opened their mouths together and spoke the song, as it is written: “Then sang Moses and the Israelites” (Exodus 15:1).
The third song the children of Israel spoke at the time the well of water 2 was given to them, as it is written, “Then sang Israel” (Numbers 21:17).
The fourth song Moses, the prophet, uttered, when his time had come to depart from the world. And by it he reproved the people of the house of Israel, as it is written, “Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak” (Deuteronomy 32:1).
The fifth song Joshua, son of Nun, spoke when he waged war in Gibeon, and the sun and moon stood for him thirty-six hours and they ceased to utter the song [of their praise]. He opened his mouth and sang the song, as it is written: “Thus sang Joshua before YY” (Joshua 10:12).
The sixth song Barak and Deborah said on the day YY delivered Sisera and his camp into the hands of the Children of Israel, as it is written: “Then sang Deborah and Barak, son of Abinoam” (Judges 5:1).
The seventh song Hannah said at the time she was granted a son from before YY, as it is written: “And Hannah prayed in the Spirit of prophecy and said” (1Samuel 2:1).
The eighth song David, king of Israel, said because of all the miracles which YY had performed for him. He opened his mouth and spoke a song, as it is written, “And David praised in prophecy before YY” (2Samuel 22:1).
The ninth song Solomon, King of Israel, said by the Holy Spirit, before the Master of all the World, YY (Song of Songs).
And the tenth song the children of the Exile are destined to say at the time they are redeemed from Exile, as it is written and explained by the hand of Isaiah the prophet, as it is written: “You shall have this song for joy, as on the night the feast of Passover is sanctified, and for gladness of heart, as the people who go to appear before YY three times a year with varieties of music and the sound of the drum, to come up to the mountain of YY and to worship before YY, the Strength of Israel” (Isaiah 30:29).

The Truth of the Shir HaShirim, the Song of all Songs; the prince(sar)of all princes(sarim) who meets the precious maiden in black, is the Tenth song.

The prophecy of the times that the people will begin singing this song, is in Zohar for the commentary on Balak for this week.

The star has appeared.

The Earth is precious. All of the Earth is precious. All life is holy.

The woman in black, black yet comely, from the song is spoken of in many traditions if we recognize her. Her clothing changes with the seasons.

The "three weeks" we really have entered already. We must now strive to make our walk; our "Halacha" with integrity. We are walking a sacred land now.

The people have only to awaken and discover the Beith HaMikdash. The holy house.The Sanctuary.

Shalom

TishaB'Av/The Roar of Peace

the sound is getting more pervasive these days as the ancient mekubalim have predicted through the centuries. As stated in the previous post, the 5767th verse of Torah gives us a wake-up call as we move to the end of the Hebrew year 5767 and begin the 5768th. The twelve words in the verse in Deuteronomy/devarim 32:15 end with Tzur Yeshouato, the rock of freedom. This rock is the shalom shalem, the complete peace that is all pervading and beyond time and space yet is penetrating our physical world in a new way. The dance of the planetary/angelic world chiefs is also very much in line with the prophetic tradition. As we enter the month of Av and especially between the ninth and the fifteenth, TishaB'Av and TuB'Av there is a powerful blockbuster of a line-up configuration. Shabbatai/Saturn and Meadim/Mars form a powerful exact square in the fixed signs of the the faces of the Chayoth HaChodesh: the lion/Aryeh and the Bull/Shor. Shabbatai in the Aryeh is exactly trine Pluto in the sign of the archer at the degree of galactic center. This degree is as discussed in the earlier post about the great Baal Shem Tov and the 247 year orbit of Pluto. Tzedeq/Jupiter is also in the archer trine the sun in in the Aryeh/lion. If you understand the sephirot, the omakim or directional depths these planetary spheres represent and hold, then you can take all this astro-lingo a step further. Times are now especially auspicious as we move into the period of the first half of the month of Av. We pray for the roaring dawn of peace to continue to wake us out of slumber and into the rememberance of what we are here for! We also have another astounding gematrial synchronicity for our times. The "rock of freedom" in the torah verse prophecy for 5767, continues in it's profundity as we enter the new Hebrew year 5768 which is a shemmitah/sabbatical year. This is because the word value of the Hebrew- Eben Shetiyah/foundation stone, is 1-2-50(aleph-beth-nun)+300-400-10-5(shin-tav-yod-heh)53+715=768. The sabbatical year beginning in September/Tishre is 5-768. Since several mekubelim Rabbi's have stated that we entered the final seven years of gog and magog trouble in the fall of 2001-ce(and the prophecy of the end of Zohar-Balak portends this) this last year of the seven is a shemmitah and we may hope and pray that the dawn of peace is felt by many more folks.

sanctuaries/hechalot of the matriarchs

This portion of the Sepher HaZohar on the Torah, Shelach, is perhaps one of the most profound and beautiful in these writings. " The women on the eves of Sabbaths and festivals all come to Miriam to gain knowledge of the Sovereign of the universe." Zohar III163a. From this passage on we have a descriptive vision of the Hechalot/the sanctuaries of beings. " In the inner sanctuaries of the holy Matriarchs that were not given to be divulged, and nobody ever saw them...Every night they get together....The sanctuaries of the four Matriarchs are referred to as the sanctuaries of trusting daughters and I did not have enough merit to observe them."Zohar III167b. The portion of Zohar begins with homilies about the Etz Chaiim/Tree of Life in the true holy land. As we are now entering this holy land in the walk of priestly peoples worldwide there is a lot of depth in these writings for us to understand and lighten our walk. The ten depths that encompass our creation are finding a balance in this sacred Earthflower of the depths, Shoshanat Haomakim. The smell of the roses brings the sages in this portion of Zohar into the experience of the palaces and academies.

Shabbat Shalom!

Eben Shetiyah/ stone with seven eyes alive

One rock with seven eyes from the haftorah of Zecharaiah for last weeks parsha.
One golden menorah made of one piece with seven branches.
Miriam, Chieftess of the ocean of soul/being,
the community of Yisrael got an affliction.
We needed a few more thousand years to be ready for Sinai.
Seven days in the divine circle of weeks.
One eben/rock with seven eyes made sacred in Earth.

The consecrated Sabbath.
We are now completing the seventh year after 576 decades. The circle has been squared. (cube has 6 sides x 8 corners x 12 edges = 576)
This year 5767 has a verse in Torah, the 5767th verse of Torah. Haazinu 32:15.
This verse ends with Tzur yeshouato. The verse contains twelve words.

We may fervently strive for the complete peace, shalom shalem, to become a concious source of many peoples lives in this global soul awakening now and as we enter the last two words/two months of this verse and this Hebrew year.
Joshua is the moon according to Zohar.
As the priest leading the people of priests into the holy land.
The old Mekubal Rebbe recently said about this Joshua,
he would have a six- a vav- added to his name.
The walk of a priestly people for millenniums has added the vav, the six lights to the moon.

The moon, Chieftess of the sea, the community of Yisrael.
We sing praises with the bright morning star!

Shavuot / the heavenly throne made Earth

On the last Monday, omer count forty-one, of the beginning of “forever” postage in Edom/Yisrael, we entered yesod of yesod in descending the ladder tree into bringing the light into the world fully. The sphere of Yesod(9) does correspond to the moon sphere(9x9kamea), the levanah, and the 41 is the central place of the moon kamea as previously stated. The prayers of millenniums bring a synchronous economic event in “edom”. Jacob/Israel and Esau/Edom have joined here in America.
On the day of 5 Sivan-May 22, the eve of Shavuot, we coincide with the ancient meso-American Mayan calendar day 5-ahau. The ahau means completion-sun-flowering and the five-of the final H-heh=5, of HaShems’ name-YHVH. The five continuum flower of life is the rose that is giving forth her fragrance, “The divine Rose diffuses a sweet odor , and breaks forth into loud praise-giving , then ascends and rests Her head on the left which is extended to receive Her. Then proclamation goes forth into the world, announcing that it is time for awakening and chanting praises…” Zohar III121a-121b, from the Zohar on parsha Naso for this week.
Shavuot is the great wedding day of the people and The Source, and also traditionally the anniversary of King David’s birth and death. The second day is the yarhzeit/death anniversary of the Baal Shem Tov who some believe had the nefesh soul of David. We are however at this time - 247 years from the day that the “wedding”-death of the Baal Shem Tov took place in 1760-ce. Astrologers/kabbalists will perceive the importance of this number. This is a complete cycle of one orbital period of the planet that kabbalists place at the sphere/sephirot of the crown/keter, Pluto. Pluto’s period around the sun is from 246-248 years.What we have then is a time precisely now, where the manifestation of the essence of the Malchuth/kingdom nefesh soul may be flowering so to speak within the physical Earth. King David and his soul are always connected to the Malchuth sphere of Earth.The deep cosmology of what the festival of Shavuot is all about is implied here. A "wedding” made in heaven so to speak being celebrated and experienced here in the sacred Earth. The degree of this small planet pluto, now called a dwarf planet, associated with the upper three sephirot, is also at a very important place, being at the 26th degree of the sign of the archer which is precisely the degree that points to the galactic center. As we once stated our Earth is in a synchronous pulse with the galactic center which is about 26,000 light years away and it takes the Earth about the same time to wobble once in the year which is called a platonic year, the precession of the equinoxes.
The sign and point of the galactic center with the place of the planet associated with the upper sephirot and being at the same place 247 years ago at Shavuot and the yarhzeit of the sage the Baal Shem Tov, highlights the incredible nature of the present time and holiday cycle. The Sepher HaZohar for the parsha commentary for this week mentions a level of initiation that is related to the marriage of above and below as implied in the receiving of Torah on Har Sinai at Shavuot. It says, “And the grace of HaShem is from everlasting to everlasting(lit. world to world) upon them that fear him. What means from world to world? Said R.Issac:As it has been established in the exposition of the holy assembly; it alludes to the two worlds. …Said R. Eleazar: It is an allusion to the celestial Adam and the earthly Adam. ….Said R. Judah, But there is a teaching that the term Adam signifies the conjunction of male and female. “ Zohar III145b. This “Adam” is the Chayah level of soul that is Adam Rishon, male and female and corresponds to the world of emanation.
All of the works of the wisdom lineages has been to bring the possibility of this complete Adam into physical manifestation and thereby spark a global awakening of unprecedented proportions. The “Adam” that is both male and female involves a conscious level of soul awakening that is at the deeper levels of sexual awareness and the Zohar goes into some very explicit sexuality in this section. The festival of Shavuot is indelibly bound with these aspects of “marriage” of the “worlds” and flowering and growth of the Earth in late spring. The reason for the final “battle” so to speak in the world these days, which is much about values and freedoms, is really due to this deeper level of puberty that the Earth is experiencing. We are moving from a naive view of sexuality into the more sublime that the oral Torah here in Zohar speaks about. This union of the upper and lower waters brings the flood of divine dew that is spoken about in the Idra Raba Kedusha, “the Greater Holy Assembly”, which is contained in this portion of the Zohar. The completed human is the conduit that joins the heaven to Earth and allows for this global initiation. The global community of Israel made Earth is in flower!
A Hag Sameach to you all!

Edom & Israel "FOREVER"/global synchronicity

The prime number forty-one is in the central "palace" square of the ancient Hebrew kamea/dimensional grid, of the moon sphere. On the 41st day of the count of the omer this year which was Monday(moon-day!), between Pesach/passover and Shavuot/feast of weeks, the postage of the first class mail when up to fortyone cents. This is forever postage and a sign that the "currency" of Edom/America is fused with the omer measure-"currency" of Israel, the priestly people. The eagle is in flight. The global being marriage is now taking place and the shalom shalem will unfold in this period of time. More on this post as the week progresses and we move to the marriage of Shavuot.

Brightest Supernova ever/Zohar prophecy Balak

This has just been reported from astronomers and can be found in "The Chandra Chronicles" on the web, about a recently discovered exploding star very far from our galaxy:
"Which stars make the most luminous supernovas? The recent discovery of Supernova 2006gy (SN 2006gy), a supernova that produced more light than any previously recorded supernova, has stimulated a lively discussion of this issue, and may provide insight into how very massive stars die.
3-Panel of Chandra, Lick & Infrared Images of SN 2006gySN 2006gy was first detected by an optical robotic telescope as part of the Texas Supernova Search project on September 18, 2006. It brightened slowly for about 70 days, peaked at a luminosity or intrinsic brightness equal to that of 50 billion suns - ten times brighter than its host galaxy - and began a slow decline."
Now read the prophecy from the Sepher HaZohar at the end of the section on parsha Balak:
"We have learnt that HaShem will one day build Jerusalem and display a certain fixed star flashing with seventy streamers and seventy flames in the midst of the firmament, and it will shine and flash for seventy days. It will appear on the sixth day of the week on the twenty-fifth of the sixth month, and will disappear on the seventh day after seventy days." Zohar III212b.
The date that the supernova was first spotted- September 18, 2006 was the twenty-fifth of Elul which is the date mentioned in Zohar. It shone and brightened for seventy days as stated in Zohar. The Zohar then continues to discuss the falling of great towers in the "city of Rome" and some folks have compared this to the 9/11 tragedy which happened on Elul 23. The 25th of Elul, the date the star was first recorded is also in some traditions the first "day" of the beginning of the creation since we count six days to Rosh HaShanah which is considered the 6th "day" when Adam Rishon was created. This date of Elul has another synchronicity since it is the 8th day from the birthday of the Baal Shem Tov, the time he came into the covenant of Abraham and Sarah. The yahrzeit/anniversary of his death is coming up on Shavuoth/feast of weeks and the great celestial wedding day.
The Zohar continues to explain events after the star is "seen" at the time of the geulah/redemption and the enlivening of the dead, the global soul awakening. Incredible synchronous events display and help reveal the new epoch we are living in at this moment. May the radiant light of "50 billion suns"! that we have just become witnesses to, help speedily bring the shalom shalem.

four chambered heart/ outside and inside the temple

Within the Reaya Meheimna, the “Faithful Shepherd” portion of the Zohar commentary for this weeks parsha, Behar, is a beautiful summing up of the endless Source, HaShem, in relationship to the directional “space” that is our world. This is a synopsis of the formative working conception of the theoretical part of the path we call Kabbalah. This prayerlike passage is especially beautiful in light of the millenium, the decade and the time of year we are experiencing right now. Every moment now is as a fulfillment of the ancient prophetic traditions. The synchronicities are everywhere and all the time. They are actually now fused with time itself and quite visible. If we remember the image that the primer of Kabbalah(Sepher Yetzira) uses in it's first chapter to explain the working world view of five continuums we will recall the cube. The six faces times the twelve edges times the eight corner points (6X12X8=576)yields 576. This number as stated elsewhere represents a completion of the temple tradition built on the cubic throne. We are in the seventh year of the 576th decade(5767) of the priestly walk of this people who are commanded to be a holy people and make the world holy. From the Zohar we are told how the cube of directions that defines this sacred road are all joined together with the Source. “ Though they are souls in relation to the Throne and the angels they are to You, the Cause of Causes/Eylat Haeylot, as a body/cegoufah. For it is You who unites them and attracts them, and hence our faith/emunah in You, with them. And there is no soul above You , to which You will be as a body, for You are the Soul of Souls/Neshamah Laneshamot… You are outside everything and inside everything, on every side above all and below all. There is no other Elohim above, below, in any direction, or inside the ten sephirot, from which everything comes and upon which everything depends. You are in every sephirah through it’s length and width, above and below; You are between the sephirot/saphirah vesipherah and in the thickness of each and every sephirah/sephirah vesephirah…..For the Shechinah is an offering/korban, an anointing oil/shemen hameschat.”
The knitting together of all the sephirot or directions we may travel in are fully understood with the cubic form. The very substance of the creation allows for the Source, HaShem to unite with the Shechinah who is the soul of the Mother Earth. All neshamahs/souls are rooted in her. The cube is another form of the Tree of Life that weaves all together. The six faces of the cube are the six directions of space - up and down, left and right, front and back. These are made sacred as the faces of the six matriarchs of Israel and the center point, of the cube, the tabernacle, is the shechinah, the seventh who the women of Israel(and all holy women) manifest. These are the same seven spheres we count in these 49 days(seven weeks of seven days) of the omer between Pesach/Passover and Shavuot/weeks. The Shechinah is called in this Zohar parsha the Daughter of the Seven/Bathshevah). This very year 5767 is a completion in a sense of these seven “lower” sephirot. When we complete the counting of the 49 days(7X7) we enter the upper waters, the soul ocean of Binah which is also one of the vertices or endpoints of the continuum of time. Thus we are entering eternity which is one of the three axis of the cube. Three axis+six faces and the center = the Ten. We are counting in microcosm through the faces and center of the sacred cube and we enter the inner workings on the 50th day which is Shavuoth, the day of illumination of the Torah herself. We are however at this same place historically with the millenniums walk of the holy peoples. 576th decade X ten plus seven = this Hebrew year 5767. The last three years of this decade corresponding to the upper worlds of the Tree of the sephirot and the three axis of the cube using that form to visualize the throne in the physical. Like the Zohar tells us the Eyn Soph, the endless source of the entire manifested universe is so fully intertwined with the creation that the Talmudic expression is very fitting, HaShem glories in the hiddeness. In the medieval alchemical wisdom tradition there is said to be the philosophers stone, a stone which is so bright that when a person possesses it, it renders that person invisible. It is so bright that it confuses and dazzles those people around the bearer of the stone. The universe is in a sense under the same condition as a person who has taken possession of the much sought after stone of alchemy. The true Source of the universe may be hard to recognize for those not aware of their own path of initiation, as is the dazzling stone of initiation that a person might carry. The Zohar speaks also in this section about the four chambers of the human heart in relation to the sections of the temple, “The two courtyards refer to the outer part of the heart, representing two handles of the heart. The two inner chambers represent two chambers of the heart. The inner are two and the outer are two. At the time of the Redemption, the Redemption will be for all of them: those close to the heart, which is the Shechinah, and those from afar who came near, since this is the essence of the verse, Peace, Peace, both for far and near(Yeshayah 57:19)Zohar, Faithful Shepard-Behar section)”.
Shalom Shalem for everyone. Happy and Joyous Lag B’omer!

Full Moon in Aqrav/scorpio-The Center of the Tree Etz Chaiim

As previously stated as a major theme of these writings, the entire creation can be summed up as a temple/school of tiered initiation for those on the journey of coming into an intimate conscious relationship with the source of all that is. There are names and titles that refer to the levels of initiation which can be found in the wisdom teachings both written and oral. The sister of Moses/Moshe is a very special character in understanding this temple tradition. Her relationship to her two brothers tells us a lot that can be filled in with oral teaching and the revelation of the moment. Miriam(Mem-raysh-yod-mem) is a Mar-Yam, a Chieftess /keeper of the soul ocean. She had the Chayah soul of the complete Adam-male and female. In many other cultures of the past this woman who undoubtedly shown like a beautiful morning star would have been worshipped as the goddess herself, the Mother Earth. Her being substance needed to come in a particular human form that had not yet happened in this physical world and so the work of her two special brothers began.
The entire world at this time is moving through a rite of passage into a new level of temple initiation. With the return into physical form of the prophet known as Eliyahu HaNavi we have a different experience of being alive and those who die have a different experience of death. This is because Eliyahu has the root of the Ruach soul for all of humanity. This in the basic Native American Shamanic terms means he is the spirit of the entire plant world, which holds the element water and is called the world Yetzira in Kabbalistic texts(place of Ruach soul).
Many have asked why the ancient Rabbi’s pinpointed 5760/2000 as a pivotal-threshold year. The missing number/gematria amount which when added to 5760 equals the full 6000 is the key. This number is two hundred forty. This = mem-raysh in the Hebrew letters. This is the word tile Mar. This was the title implied in Miriam’s name. The Sepher HaBahir, the book of brilliance uses this title of initiation in verse 26 when refering to the sage Mar Rehumay. It is also the same letters of a word that is the name for one of the ingredients of the priestly temple incense derived from a tree. Here we have the plant world again! She who is the mar of the sea is Miriam in the Torah. She has the power over the deep well of Earth. Her brothers have special connections that the Zohar for this week speaks about. Moshe/Moses brings the manna, sustenance from heaven and of course this is in a sense Torah herself. Aaron has the power over the sacred clouds and as High priest he is in charge over the clouds of incense that also join heaven to Earth.
The world is now being prepared for an initiation spoken of in the Zohar on the torah parsha for this week, Emor. This is a description of the entire Earth community-Israel being married to the heaven world consciously. “After she has prepared the king and crowned him she goes to purify the Matrona(Binah=Matrona=67(5767)) and those that are with her. Imagine a King who had an only son whom he united in marriage to a noble lady. What did his mother do? All that night she spent in her storeroom, and she brought forth there from a noble crown set with seventy precious stones to crown him with; she brought forth silken garments and clad him therewith and adorned him royally. Then she went to the bride and saw how her maidens were arranging her crown and her garments with jewels….”Zohar III-98b. This is all about the time of the great circle of festivals that we are in now experiencing both in he year and in the greater wheel of millennia. This is a new initiation for the entire Earth where the divine throne has been fully secured within the physical crust of the Earth. Those who are initiated in the practical work will understand the precious stones and the special mention of the material silk.
The full moon in the sign of the aqrav/scorpio will be on Wednesday on the 29th day of the omer as we enter the sphere of tiphereth if we are counting up the tree for the 49 days. Then we count four more from 29 days to bring us to the 33rd day on Sunday-Tiphereth of Tiphereth. This is the holiday of kabbalists when the author of the Zohar has his yarhzeit, his wedding with the divine as it is called. So we are in the season that has the marriage of upper and lower worlds as it’s theme. We are said by tradition to be in the very center of the seasonal wheel with the feast of Shavuoth-weeks being in Torah tradition a one day festival. This anomaly, a one day Chag festival, signifying the uniting into one of the upper and lower seas(binah & malchuth). The other two yearly festivals are Sukkoth/booths and Pesach/Passover which are each seven day festivals as prescribed by Torah. The noble lady, the soul of the Earth is said to be bedecked with the seventy precious stones, the lineage roots of all the languages of the entire Earth community. In trhe deeper mysteries we have the marriage of her unification in humanity establishing one of the seventy-two sacred soul root guardians as the true living Torah on Earth. This is sameck-ALEPH-lammed, Sael which equals 91 by gematria=AMEN(91)=YHVH(26)+ADNI(65). This involves the full joining of the two soul oceans here in the physical/ Can you feel it? This is happening now. The full moon phase is also depicted in the Zohar as a marriage day with the moon/Shekinah shining with the full light of the radiant sun. This full moon on May 2nd-Iyar14/omer29 is happening at the twelfth degree of the sign of the akrav/scorpio(and eagle). As discussed in an earlier post the ancient kabbalists gave guardianship over the 72- quinaries or five degree sections of the zodiac to the 72 guardian angels. The one who is associated with the 11-15degrees of Akra/scorpio is Saeliah from the root name Sael! Sael remember is the transformed samael with the mem removed. The conquering of death as we have known it. The Zohar for this week also tells us that this time of year is as the Tree in the center of the gan/garden, the Etz Chaiim. At least three great ceremonial traditions find this time of the yearly cycle very important- the full moon time coming up is the birthday, yahrzeit and enlightenment day of the Buddha in Buddhism, the Wesak(and Beltane season is the first week of May) festival in the earth pagan traditions and the time of Lag B’Omer in Judaism. What began to emerge in winter at TuB’Shevat as the new year of the Tree shows a blooming presence now during the season of first fruits and the receiving of the Etz Chaiim on the mountain of Sinai.