So I've been thinking of making a post about this for a while and now finally feel I have something worthwhile to share about it.
Though this is a very serious post and not just written for entertainment, so please take it seriously and try to absorb as much from it as you can, as I feel there is something of value here.
Also, it's mostly meant for spiritual seekers of the positive orientation, so Atheists and ones devoted to more negative forms of spirituality might as well stay out of it. At least I don't want it to turn out as a place full of people arguing.
Anyway, I don't have much control of that, but moving on, I think I want to start with the excerpt from Ezekiel (from The Bible), which is supposed to be one of the best descriptions:
"The word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
Son of man, take up lamentation upon the king of Tyrus and say unto him, thus saith the Lord GOD:
Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
Thou were in the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering; the Sardius, Topaz, and the Diamond, the Beryl, the Onyx, and the Jasper, the Sapphire, the Emerald, and the Carbuncle, and Gold. The workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes (instruments placed within his being - as gods are supposed to have music - as well as light) was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
Thou were the anointed Cherub that covereth, and I had made thee so. Thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou walked in the midst of the fiery stones. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day thou wast created until iniquity was found in thy heart.
But, now, by the multitude of thy industry the midst of thee has been filled with violence, and thou hast sinned. Therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering Cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thy wisdom corrupted by reason of thy brightness: So I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee and pay ridicule to thee.
Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret they can hide from thee. With thy wisdom and thine understanding thou hast increased thy riches, hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures, and thine heart has been lifted up because of thy riches.
And thou hast said: I am a god, I sit in the seat of God in the midst of the seas. Yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God.
Thus saith the Lord GOD: Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God, I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations, and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom and defile thy brightness.
Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick. Therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
All they that know thee shall be astonished at thee: Thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be no more."
Well, this is pretty good as prophecies go, if only for its poetic value, and has a certain grandiousity about it (well, it is The Bible).
You'd also have to say it's pretty heartbreaking, though, if you were to consider it as something that really happened - that the highest of all the angels could fall and be destroyed like that. "Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty." At least, since I started to believe there might be something to this legend I've felt a sense of grief about it.
Anyway, moving onto the point.
So quite recently I had a look at a chart of the Kabbalistic tree - the tree of life, that is a sort of illustration of how Creation works (in a complex way).
I've done a bit of reading on it. I've even read The Zohar, which is impressive enough, but so complex and abstract it's kind of hard to relate to human life or find much meaning in (especially if you're still young and inexperienced). So it didn't really affect my consciousness or how I lived my life in any way, but just seemed to confirm the idea of a polarity between "light" and "darkness", etc.
Here is a chart of the Kabbalistic Tree:
http://postfiles1.naver.net/2012072...DE%C0%CC%C0%FA_%BA%AF%C8%AF%C7%A5.jpg?type=w3
This is a good enough chart, you can find countless versions of it. I'll try to explain a little of what I know of the chatacteristics of the tree, but try to keep it short.
Right, so thee different spheres you see, divided into 3 columns in several levels, are called "Sephiroths" which means something like "Vessel", a vessel for the power of Creation to flow through. Then the different paths between the different "vessels" (you can also see them as different dimensions or planes of existence).
The top, Kether, or "The Crown" is meant to represent God or the highest expression of God, The Godhead, where no one else can enter, or live, aside from his guardian angels - the Seraphim (yes, apparantly even God needs guardian angels to protect his throne).
Then, at the bottom, Malkuth, is the Earth. The lowest dimension with the least power and the least of everything.
So the energy is somehow stepped down to the different Sephiroths, through all the paths, until it reaches the Earth. It's basically like an illustration of a huge energy system (maybe that's why they say "Man is like the Universe in miniature"?).
I think that's enough explnation of the Kabbalistic Tree for now.
Then one day quite recently I got a look at another chart which had the words "Lucifer" and "Michael" written into the two highest Sephiroths- Lucifer on the left and Michael on the right. So I thought "Hmmmm...".
It then went on to explain that when God wanted to try out the polarity experiment, or the first Creation of Good and Evil (at least to this degree), Lucifer, being considered the highest of the angels, was asked if he would be willing to head the negative polarity, as he was seen as the most likely to succeed, and Michael, as the second highest, the positive.
Then it said he then accepted to sacrifice himself - for God and humanity and for what could be accomplished for himself through it. Though it was always considered very risky and it was never known ahead whether he would succeed, or even survive, or what would happen to him.
Now, this was a new idea for me, or at least the first time I started to really think about it and consider it seriously. So, I started thinking along the lines of, maybe Lucifer never really "fell" and it all happened by design (as if God could make a mistake on that scale or allow something like that to happen). So could his present state be only temporary and he'll possibly be back in his true nature when this cycle of Creation has been completed? (Or that's what is hoped for?).
At least that's what it pretty much said - that it was all to accomplish something for God, but also for humanity, by giving us real choice between good and evil, so we could choose for ourselves, and if we succeeded and became truly good of our own will, that would be a real accomplishment. Or, we wouldn't be like pre-programmed computers who have no other will than God's, like angels who have never left heaven. We would actually have accomplished something great for ourselves and God (maybe that's where the saying that souls having gone through the human evolution would become "Higher than angels" came from?).
So the way it's represented is that it was basically so we could go through a different kind of evolution. One with more challenges, that was harder but faster, and where we had free will to choose between the negative and the positive. Which had the potential to acheive something great for both God and ourselves.
To be continued...
(Haven't even gotten to the most important part, there's much more to it, but it's getting too long).
Though this is a very serious post and not just written for entertainment, so please take it seriously and try to absorb as much from it as you can, as I feel there is something of value here.
Also, it's mostly meant for spiritual seekers of the positive orientation, so Atheists and ones devoted to more negative forms of spirituality might as well stay out of it. At least I don't want it to turn out as a place full of people arguing.
Anyway, I don't have much control of that, but moving on, I think I want to start with the excerpt from Ezekiel (from The Bible), which is supposed to be one of the best descriptions:
"The word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
Son of man, take up lamentation upon the king of Tyrus and say unto him, thus saith the Lord GOD:
Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
Thou were in the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering; the Sardius, Topaz, and the Diamond, the Beryl, the Onyx, and the Jasper, the Sapphire, the Emerald, and the Carbuncle, and Gold. The workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes (instruments placed within his being - as gods are supposed to have music - as well as light) was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
Thou were the anointed Cherub that covereth, and I had made thee so. Thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou walked in the midst of the fiery stones. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day thou wast created until iniquity was found in thy heart.
But, now, by the multitude of thy industry the midst of thee has been filled with violence, and thou hast sinned. Therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering Cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thy wisdom corrupted by reason of thy brightness: So I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee and pay ridicule to thee.
Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret they can hide from thee. With thy wisdom and thine understanding thou hast increased thy riches, hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures, and thine heart has been lifted up because of thy riches.
And thou hast said: I am a god, I sit in the seat of God in the midst of the seas. Yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God.
Thus saith the Lord GOD: Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God, I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations, and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom and defile thy brightness.
Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick. Therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
All they that know thee shall be astonished at thee: Thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be no more."
Well, this is pretty good as prophecies go, if only for its poetic value, and has a certain grandiousity about it (well, it is The Bible).
You'd also have to say it's pretty heartbreaking, though, if you were to consider it as something that really happened - that the highest of all the angels could fall and be destroyed like that. "Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty." At least, since I started to believe there might be something to this legend I've felt a sense of grief about it.
Anyway, moving onto the point.
So quite recently I had a look at a chart of the Kabbalistic tree - the tree of life, that is a sort of illustration of how Creation works (in a complex way).
I've done a bit of reading on it. I've even read The Zohar, which is impressive enough, but so complex and abstract it's kind of hard to relate to human life or find much meaning in (especially if you're still young and inexperienced). So it didn't really affect my consciousness or how I lived my life in any way, but just seemed to confirm the idea of a polarity between "light" and "darkness", etc.
Here is a chart of the Kabbalistic Tree:
http://postfiles1.naver.net/2012072...DE%C0%CC%C0%FA_%BA%AF%C8%AF%C7%A5.jpg?type=w3
This is a good enough chart, you can find countless versions of it. I'll try to explain a little of what I know of the chatacteristics of the tree, but try to keep it short.
Right, so thee different spheres you see, divided into 3 columns in several levels, are called "Sephiroths" which means something like "Vessel", a vessel for the power of Creation to flow through. Then the different paths between the different "vessels" (you can also see them as different dimensions or planes of existence).
The top, Kether, or "The Crown" is meant to represent God or the highest expression of God, The Godhead, where no one else can enter, or live, aside from his guardian angels - the Seraphim (yes, apparantly even God needs guardian angels to protect his throne).
Then, at the bottom, Malkuth, is the Earth. The lowest dimension with the least power and the least of everything.
So the energy is somehow stepped down to the different Sephiroths, through all the paths, until it reaches the Earth. It's basically like an illustration of a huge energy system (maybe that's why they say "Man is like the Universe in miniature"?).
I think that's enough explnation of the Kabbalistic Tree for now.
Then one day quite recently I got a look at another chart which had the words "Lucifer" and "Michael" written into the two highest Sephiroths- Lucifer on the left and Michael on the right. So I thought "Hmmmm...".
It then went on to explain that when God wanted to try out the polarity experiment, or the first Creation of Good and Evil (at least to this degree), Lucifer, being considered the highest of the angels, was asked if he would be willing to head the negative polarity, as he was seen as the most likely to succeed, and Michael, as the second highest, the positive.
Then it said he then accepted to sacrifice himself - for God and humanity and for what could be accomplished for himself through it. Though it was always considered very risky and it was never known ahead whether he would succeed, or even survive, or what would happen to him.
Now, this was a new idea for me, or at least the first time I started to really think about it and consider it seriously. So, I started thinking along the lines of, maybe Lucifer never really "fell" and it all happened by design (as if God could make a mistake on that scale or allow something like that to happen). So could his present state be only temporary and he'll possibly be back in his true nature when this cycle of Creation has been completed? (Or that's what is hoped for?).
At least that's what it pretty much said - that it was all to accomplish something for God, but also for humanity, by giving us real choice between good and evil, so we could choose for ourselves, and if we succeeded and became truly good of our own will, that would be a real accomplishment. Or, we wouldn't be like pre-programmed computers who have no other will than God's, like angels who have never left heaven. We would actually have accomplished something great for ourselves and God (maybe that's where the saying that souls having gone through the human evolution would become "Higher than angels" came from?).
So the way it's represented is that it was basically so we could go through a different kind of evolution. One with more challenges, that was harder but faster, and where we had free will to choose between the negative and the positive. Which had the potential to acheive something great for both God and ourselves.
To be continued...
(Haven't even gotten to the most important part, there's much more to it, but it's getting too long).