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the Soul: 2 - The soul as a tree Chapter 11 of Mysteries and Symbols of the Soul The soul is often seen A tree expresses this beautifully, as from the trunk, the symbol of origin, many branches grow out. being, through which water and nutrients rise up from the soil, through the roots, the trunk and the branches carbon dioxide, water and sunlight through photosynthesis in the leaves, flows to the roots from the branches clearly distinguishes between the three higher sefiroth – Keter, Chokmah and Binah – and the other seven

You have grown forth, o soul, from a certain tree-trunk; and of that tree you are a branch. However far the branch may go forth from its trunk, there is still connection and contact between trunk and branch whereby every branch seeks nutriment from its trunk. If anything were interposed between the trunk and the branch it would cut off from the branch its supply of nutriment, and so the branch would forthwith wither and die.

Then let us study God, the One, the Three, the Seven. And when the Triune God breathed forth, lo, seven Spirits stood before the throne. And Tao Great was One; the One became the Two; the Two became the Three, the Three evolved the Seven, the same old book we read of man: He has a spirit knit to Tao Great; a soul which lives within the seven It is because our aspirations are based on the lower ego, even if we think this is not so.

London but was only published in 1668 when he was living in Amsterdam – he described, amongst others, seven In the course of history, these seven ways of the intellectual light have been developing one after the personal perception 2. conversation 3. public meetings 4. writing 5. book printing 6. seafaring over the seven which mortals, everyone, everywhere will see everything that is necessary for their bliss Between the seven At this gate to eternity there will be thinkers, poets and builders, people who are called from all branches

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But you, tarry in Jerusalem and abide in prayer, and after seven days you shall receive power from on Jesus ascended into heaven, and he had not yet attained his fiftieth year, for it was necessary that seven times seven years should be fulfilled in his life. These four bodies have been developed over the course of millions of years, during several human ages This Mary corresponds to the light-power of the Seven-Spirit flowing in the ‘descending serpent’ of the

let all who come to you, find rest and shade and food, and let the birds of the air rejoice in your branches Behold the tree grew and flourished exceedingly, and its branches took root downward and sent shoots They can be seen as historical events but also as milestones on a gnostic spiritual path that we as human In the serenity of this life field the soul gains strength and knowledge to guide the outer being on In the next eight days, it would therefore be helpful to focus on the gospel narrative in the evening

This sevenfold path is fully described as the seven new days of creation in the book The Alchemical Wedding

For the same things appear different to different minds, and even to the same mind at different times And that which is seen and received by one, is not seen and received by another. The Gospel of the Holy Twelve 91: 3-4 In the previous seven reflections of this module ‘Spiritual Pentecost They are the 49 plexi-circles, the seven times seven nodes of the nervous system. That which is seen and received by one, is not seen and received by another.

No, nor even Herod, for I sent you to him and look! Nothing worthy of death was found in him. They filled a sponge with vinegar from a vessel and put it on a branch of hyssop and put it to his mouth The Burial of Jesus When evening had come, Joseph of Arimathea, an honourable councillor, who also waited The Holy Spirit, the seven-fold transforming light, is a feminine, manifesting principle and the seven The disciples symbolize the twelve aspects of the personality which like branches of a tree spring forth