Keter
Kether (Heb. כתר keter " Crown") represents the Tree of Life of the Jewish Kabbalah, the highest Sephira ( the singular of Sephiroth ) dar. Kabbalists applies Kether as the goal of the spiritual quest. Kether is meant purely as a divine being. The Sephira Kether, one imagines so sublime that it is dubbed as the Zohar, as " the hidden secret of all ," the human understanding entirely escapes.
The Tree of Life, Kether has both her Sephiroth Chokmah and Binah following at the top of a triangle. This triad is designated in its entirety as Atzilut (Hebrew אֲצִילוּת = " nobility, grandeur, fire "). Kether represents the highest element Aziluts, the first Kabbalistic and completely spiritual world conception of three other kabbalistic world levels, which are denoted by " Beriah ", " Yetzirah " and " Assiah ".
Statements of famous Kabbalists about Kether
Rabbi Moshe Cordovero ( 1522 - 1570) of Safed, in his book Pardes Rimonim ( Garden of Pomegranates, 1548) Kether as the source of the 13 highest sources of mercy.
Influences in occultism and esotericism
As Western occult- esoteric doctrine with roots in pagan antiquity, the hermetic terminology and concepts of Kabbalah has received. These religious revelation and secret doctrine has roots in the Hellenistic syncretism of the Greek god Hermes with the Egyptian god Thoth to Hermes Trismegistus, the father of alchemy. Hermeticism as a synonym for the Western teachings of alchemy, the occult and esoteric shaped the Western scientific world view, even into the 17th century.
Kether in Western Hermeticism
The Christian Renaissance philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola first joined the occult teachings of the Hermetic with the Jewish Kabbalah. He is regarded as the first Christian Kabbalist without Jewish descent, who from 1486 was trying to make the Kabbalah Christian- occidental available. It instructed the Jewish convert Flavius Mithridates, Jewish Kabbalah literature translate into Latin with the aim of Kabbalah to bring together like all philosophical and religious teachings ultimately in the Christian world mission.
The correspondences ( correspondence ) for כתר ( keter, " crown " ) in Western Hermeticism:
- God's Name: ehye ( אהיה )
- Archangel: Metatron
- Host of angels: Chaiot ha - Qodesh ( Holy Living Creatures )
- Tarot: The four aces of the minor arcana
- Element: Fire
- Colours: available in Atzilut - clear gloss, in Beriah - shining white, in Yetzirah - shining white, in Assiah - white with golden spots
- Microcosm: Jechidah, the essence, the self-
- The human body: Above the apex
- Inauguration degree of Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia ( SRIA ): 10 ° = 1 ( Ipsissimus )
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