#neshemah

[brother-hermes]

Merkhabah & The Five Levels OF Soul

Let's take a look at the Five Levels of Soul in relation to Merkhabah. With so much information available it would behoove of us all to return to the source of the teachings and refresh our understanding. Rock with me as we take the journey within.

“Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.”-Paracelsus When we hear Kabbalists speaking on the Levels of Soul it’s easy to get confused. A- we’re hitting a language barrier with terms that don’t easily translate into English B- most of us aren’t…

[brother-hermes]

Creation & Souls: Merkhavah Wears New Clothes

How did the Wisdom Tradition get lost in translation? When we look at the meditations the Prophets passed down we see a clear lineage of thought explaining how Spirit breathed into being. Click the link for more!

Big Ups To Winter Frieze for nailing this rendition and blending the Fire & Ice. Tohu Wa Bohu (תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ). ‘Without form, and void.’ describes the condition of Earth before God uttered a Word. Tohu is unique to Hebrew and doesn’t really have an English translation so we use words like unformed, chaos, or inconceivable. Tohu is inconceivable because it suggests this totality of a creative…

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Where Souls Breathe Into Creation

IF we dive a bit deeper into the Kingdom of God Yeshua describes to Nicodemus we find a very old mystical tradition. There is a form of meditation that goes back to the prophets kept very much alive in Yeshua's works. click the link for more...

“formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature In the previous post we looked at how mathematics describes our multidimensional existence. We looked at the steps science takes to describe the complex nature of matter, movement, and time works beyond concepts we physically grasp. I hinted at a deeper level of…

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MERKHABAH EXPLAINED IN A PARAGRAPH

“Now though we speak of these levels distinctly, they are of course inter-dependent. This is what we mean by the phenomenon of Merkavah, or ‘chariot’ so often spoken of in Kabbalah. Even while I’m in meditation, or contemplating with Neshemah (intellect), I need the assistance of Ru’ahh (feeling) and Nefesh (action) as well as the body. So my Neshemah (intellect) is riding in the ru’ach of an awakened heart, which is riding in the Nefesh of an awakened energy-field, which is riding in the guf of an awakened body. In this kind of chariot, one vehicle is invested in another.”

-Reb Zalman (Gate To The Heart)