Kabbalists divide the universe into ten regions or sephiroth. You will probably wonder, ‘Why ten? Is the universe really divided into ten regions?' No, but there is something important here that you must understand. The Sephirotic Tree is not ...
One of the greatest sources of sorrow to men and women is to pass away without leaving any offspring. In the past, a family that did not have children was really looked down on by others. Just read the Old Testament! The greatest joy for a father ...
You have a tree in your garden: you can pass it several times a day without paying it any attention, as if it were a piece of stage set made from plaster or cardboard. But you can also be conscious that it is a living being, and you can even ...
Roots, a trunk, and branches are not sufficient: a tree is only truly a tree when – having been worked on by the universal spirit – it begins to produce leaves, flowers, and fruits. It is the same for human beings. We possess a stomach, lungs, and a ...
In the Psalms we are told, ‘The righteous will flourish like a palm tree'. This is a magnificent image, but how should we interpret it?The palm tree grows in the desert sands where the sun beats down on it ferociously and where water is very scarce. ...
There are similarities between trees and human beings that are interesting to explore.Let's start with the roots: they equate in the human body to the stomach, the belly and the genitals. In effect humans put down roots on the earth by feeding ...
A tree is a reservoir of energies which come from the earth and the sun. And it is possible to capture these energies that constantly circulate between the roots and the tips of the branches. When you are in a garden or a forest, choose a tree – the ...
A tree is made up of seven elements – the roots, trunk, branches, leaves, flowers, fruit and the seeds of the fruit, which when sown will give birth to a new tree. Of course, you know that, but what you may not know is that a tree is a kind of solar ...
...k in you too, so that you can give beautiful, fragrant, succulent fruit, that is, luminous thoughts and warm feelings....
... there are no periods, no seasons; they have to be able to give fruits, that is to say, luminous thoughts and warm feelings, at any time. For the Lord can come at any moment; he does not wait for any particular period, and he does not give adva...
To guide us in our spiritual work and show us which path to follow, we need a method. As I see it, the best method that exists is study of the sephirotic Tree.Many saints and mystics have walked the path of light without knowing the sephirotic Tree, ...
The tree is found in most spiritual traditions as a symbol for the universe. All creatures have a role to play on this tree, anywhere from the roots to the fruits, including the trunk, the branches, the leaves and the flowers. Everything that exists,...
...e is to be done and is a method that can accompany you throughout your life. Follow it, and your thoughts will stop wandering aimlessly, and as you succeed in moving forward along this path blessings will be showered upon you.
Returning often t...
Certain trees inspire us by their imposing mass, but in reality this matter is nothing other than a condensation of energy. Yes, a tree is a living creature that knows how to attract and accumulate solar energy. When we burn it, we see that it is ...
You have a tree in your garden: you can pass it several times a day without paying it any attention, as if it were a piece of stage set made from plaster or cardboard. But you can also be conscious that it is a living being, and you can even ...
In the Book of Genesis, when Moses speaks of the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden, he is obviously referring to a symbol. This Tree of Life represents our universe, and the fruits of this tree are the qualities and virtues of the constellations of ...
When you take a walk in the forest, don't just look at the trees absent-mindedly as you go by, rather tell yourself that these are creatures through which you can regenerate yourself. Choose one: an oak tree, a pine tree, a beech tree, a birch, and ...
We cannot comprehend what life is based on the phenomena we see in the physical world, for they only represent a part of it, an aspect of it. However, as they are the only ones directly available to our five senses, we must look to them to reflect ...
If you open a seed and look at it under the microscope, you won't find the image there of the tree it will produce once you have planted it. How does it end up producing this huge creature with its roots, trunk, branches, leaves, flowers and fruits? ...
...carry the tainted blood.
The leaves, flowers and fruit of a tree correspond to the head. All our thoughts represent our fruit because it is through the mind that a human being bears fruit....
Jacob's ladder is the symbol of the angelic hierarchy that links human beings and God, and which in the Cabbalah, is represented by the Tree of Life, the Sephirotic Tree. To imagine as some people do that we can speak directly to God simply ...
A tree is a living creature that knows how to attract and store up solar energy. When you burn a tree, you can see that it consists of a small amount of earth, a greater amount of water, and an even greater amount of air; but it is fire, light, that ...
A tree has roots, a trunk and branches, but it is not really a tree until the spirit has started to work within it so that it can produce leaves, flowers and fruit.* The same is true of human beings. They have a stomach, lungs and a brain, but these ...
A human being represents a tree, with its roots, trunk, branches, leaves, flowers and fruit. All human beings have roots, a trunk and branches, but very few have fruits or flowers, or even leaves, for most of them never see the spring; they are like ...
It can happen that people, who have for years been absolute pillars of morality and virtue, suddenly fall prey to an all-consuming passion, and start to indulge in all kinds of excesses and vice. Conversely, we have heard of people who have ...
Study the two pillars of the Tree of Life: mercy and severity.* In order to succeed and be useful, a teacher must know how to work with both – sometimes with leniency, sometimes with severity.A Master must be capable of showing a great deal of love ...
Meditate on the image of a tree. A tree consists of roots, a trunk and branches, and the branches bear leaves, flowers and fruit. The roots of a tree live deep underground in total darkness, where they work to absorb nutrients from the soil and to ...
Whenever human beings reject all spiritual and moral authority and do as they please, they unwittingly repeat the fault of Adam and Eve. Genesis tells us that God placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and forbade them to eat the fruit of the ...
We need a method to guide us in our spiritual work and point out the best path to follow. For me, the best method of all is the study of the Sephirotic Tree, the Tree of Life, and that is why I insist that you learn to deepen your knowledge of all ...
As humans, we are linked to beings above us – the angels, the archangels and God Himself, but also to those below us – animals, plants and minerals.Let us take the example of the two currents circulating in the trunk of a tree. The ascending current ...