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What I keenly observed at Woodstock in the above picture is the Tree of the Sefiroth (that 10 part diagram.) You see, the figure in the bottom right of the picture in En Sof (litterally without end.) It is an unknowable diety that we cannot possibly comprehend; however, there are 10 aspects of itself that this unknowable diety has made known to the created world... hence the tree of sefiroth ("numerations.")
The ten are as follows: 1) Kether Elyon: the "Surpreme Crown" 2) Hokhmah: "Wisdom" 3) Binah: "Intelligence" 4) Hesed: "Love" or "Mercy" 5) Din: "Power" 6) Rakhamim: "Compassion" (sometimes called Tifereth: "Beauty") 7) Netsakh: "Lasting Endurance" 8) Hod: "Majesty" 9) Yesod: "Foundation" 10) Malkuth or Shekinah: "Kingdom"
En Sof has used these sefirah to make itself know to the world through revelation. If you look closely at the picture there is a bodylike shape in the midst of the diagram. This is Yahweh, the personal God who has been revealed to the Jewish people. En Sof, inmattrate if you will.
***I appologise if I do not have this theology exact, I am not am expert on medieval Jewish mysticism. But I do believe it is roughly accurate.*** |
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