And He created His world with three books: with writing, with number, and with story. - Sefer Yetzirah 1:1
Cosmogony & Cosmology: Origin, Nature & Structure of Reality
I. Book of Formation
Book I lays the cosmogonic and cosmological foundation of the Royal Art: the origin of being, the architecture of the worlds, and the formation of reality through writing, number, and story. It is the Book in which the Work receives its map, its grammar, and its deep structure. The Tree, the Letter, the Number, the Name, and the unfolding of the One into the Many.
- I. The Mystery of the Absolute — Ain, Ein Sof, and Divine Darkness
- II. The Divine Word and the First Emanation
- III. Creation & Revelation
- IV. Creation, Emanation and Contraction
- V. The Four Worlds and the Architecture of Reality
- VI. Etz Chaim — The Tree of Life
- VII. The Creative Alphabet, Names and Tarot Paths
- VIII. The Mathematics of Creation
- IX. Tarot as the Cosmological Grammar of the Royal Art
- X. The Primordial Human — Image, Sonship and Microcosm
- XI. Time, Space and Cosmic Order
- XII. Comparative Cosmologies and Sacred Diagrams
- XIII. The Original Kingdom and the Sabbath
I. The Mystery of the Absolute — Ain, Ein Sof, and Divine Darkness
The Absolute: God, Being, Infinity & Divine PerfectionApophatic & Cataphatic Theology: Darkness, Names & Divine RevelationThe Divine DarknessThe AbyssThe Three Veils of Negative ExistenceAin: Void, Mystery, NothingThe Alpha & The OmegaPrima CausaAeternitas: EternityGod: All That IsI AM - The ONEExistence ISPerfectionInfinityII. The Divine Word and the First Emanation
In the Beginning…Ehye Asher Ehye - “I am that I am”Fiat Lux: “Let there be Light”The Cosmic EggTwo aspects of GODIAO & AUM: The Primordial SoundLight: The Primoridal Fire of the DivineThe Logos: The WordDarkness & LightAncient of DaysThe Cosmic Language: Letter, Number, Sound, FormTetragammaton יהוה - The Fourfold Name of DeityYHShWH: The Divine SonThe Creative Word: Divine Names, Letters & the Language of RealityIII. Creation & Revelation
Why Does God Create?The One and the ManyThe Transcendental Qualities of DietyCreation as Revelation
IV. Creation, Emanation and Contraction
The Divine Ideas & FormsCreation, Emanation, & ExtensionThe Creation of the WorldThe Tzimtzum ("The Contraction")Reshimu and Kav: Trace and Ray after TzimtzumEmanations, Light, VesselThe Big Bang of ConsciousnessThe Point and the CircleCreation ex nihilo through the four elementsCreatio Continua: Ongoing CreationV. The Four Worlds and the Architecture of Reality
Roots/Branches of LifeThe 4 ElementsThe Three Worlds: Divine, Celestial, TerrestrialThe Five Levels of RealityDensity & DimensionThe 4 Kabbalistic WorldsShamayim: The HeavensThe Waters of the FirmamentScala Naturae: The Great Chain of BeingThe Angelic HierarchyAeons & Angels: Emanations of DivinityThe Celestial HierarchyVI. Etz Chaim — The Tree of Life
The Tree of LifeThe 10 SephirotThree SupernalsThe Middle PillarThe Lightning Flash & The Serpent’s PathPartzufim: The Restored Faces of the SephirotSepher BahirThe Zohar: The Book of SplendorFrom Kether To Malkuth & Back AgainThe Pillar of LightKether — CrownChokhmah — WisdomBinah — UnderstandingDa’ath — KnowledgeChesed — MercyGevurah — SeverityTiferet — BeautyNetzach — VictoryHod — SplendorYesod — FoundationMalkuth — Kingdom_and_Immanuel_surrounding_an_inverted_heart_containing_a_Tetractys_of_flaming_Hebrew_letters_of_the_Tetragrammaton_and_at_the_bottom_the_Pentagrammaton/w=1920,quality=90,fit=scale-down)