My experiences and learnings over the last few months have taken some pretty empowering turns. There's some ideas I want to open up to give over to the floor. If anyone has a good understanding of the Sephirots of the Tree of Life, please I'd love to hear your contributions.
I have been turning over the idea 'the shadows prove the sunshine.' I won't even pretend to understand the Tree of Life, but what I did see in it completely revolutionised my understanding of the Trinity.
I cannot find this picture online, but I saw an inspiring portrait of a Hindu god.. firey orange on one side and cool blue on the other. I believe it was Shiva. Whenever I am in prayer pose, I am reminded of the union of left and right, male and female, dark and light. The balance of these is a thing to be cherished, sought after, highly prized.
In the Tree of Life, I see a similar formula. Down the left hand side are the feminine qualities (sephirot) of the supernatural divine. I was surprised to note how masculine these sounded at first. For example the feminine attribute Gevurah - Power: Discernment, Ethics, Restraints, Justice. Its male counterpart on the right is Chesed- Grace: Unconditional love, Generosity, Expansion. This ran counter to my first responses when asked 'describe the divine feminine!'
After further reading, I'm beginning to think of the male-ness of God as imagination or the possibility of what could be. The feminine is the environment or the setting of what can be brought forth. The product is the Christ. So when we are asked to put away the constraints of the flesh, we are striving to live beyond our 'setting' and to move into bringing forth the divine potential. We are striving to live to our full divinely inspired potential.
In my experiences lately, I'm being forced to embrace what I would have previously denied and commanded simply to leave. Instead, I am forced to continue to strive and hope and see how Christ manifests in my life and within me. It's stupendously empowering.
If anyone has further insights into the Tree of Life, please share.
I have been turning over the idea 'the shadows prove the sunshine.' I won't even pretend to understand the Tree of Life, but what I did see in it completely revolutionised my understanding of the Trinity.
I cannot find this picture online, but I saw an inspiring portrait of a Hindu god.. firey orange on one side and cool blue on the other. I believe it was Shiva. Whenever I am in prayer pose, I am reminded of the union of left and right, male and female, dark and light. The balance of these is a thing to be cherished, sought after, highly prized.
In the Tree of Life, I see a similar formula. Down the left hand side are the feminine qualities (sephirot) of the supernatural divine. I was surprised to note how masculine these sounded at first. For example the feminine attribute Gevurah - Power: Discernment, Ethics, Restraints, Justice. Its male counterpart on the right is Chesed- Grace: Unconditional love, Generosity, Expansion. This ran counter to my first responses when asked 'describe the divine feminine!'
After further reading, I'm beginning to think of the male-ness of God as imagination or the possibility of what could be. The feminine is the environment or the setting of what can be brought forth. The product is the Christ. So when we are asked to put away the constraints of the flesh, we are striving to live beyond our 'setting' and to move into bringing forth the divine potential. We are striving to live to our full divinely inspired potential.
In my experiences lately, I'm being forced to embrace what I would have previously denied and commanded simply to leave. Instead, I am forced to continue to strive and hope and see how Christ manifests in my life and within me. It's stupendously empowering.
If anyone has further insights into the Tree of Life, please share.
Or just pm them to me direct. I'd like that. 
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