Recently, I’ve been studying the “Tree of Life” symbol, which is the foundation of Kabbalah. Theosophist Helena Blavatsky said Kabbalah is only the Jewish version of universal ancient wisdom based on much older works. The problem today is that the tree symbol is used in New Age teachings that don’t seem to correlate with each other at all. In this post, I’d like to give my understanding of the Tree of Life in light of what we now know about the human form, physical universe and higher spiritual concepts. What is our Tree of Life?
How many Trees of Life are there?
Many wisdom teachings get diluted over the years. It seems that every Joe, Dick and Harriet has constructed their own version of a Tree of Life. The Kabbalistic Tree of Life has 10 spheres arranged in the shape of the letter A or H with pillars and sacred geometry within it (below).
It also depicts zigzagging lines between the spheres, such as the “lightning flash” (inspiration from heaven to earth). The lines can create three different paths called descension (involution), ascension (evolution) and integration (balanced). The spheres can represent different planets.
- Most New Age Trees of Life have 11-12 spheres, which are assigned to different chakras, planets, I Ching trigrams or archetypes of consciousness in various different ways.
- Since our physical universe is made of twelve frequency bands, it means that the physical Tree of Life would have twelve spheres, one for each frequency level within the universe.
- Since our human form is made of ten frequency levels, ten of those twelve spheres are associated with our “biosuit,” but only seven of them correspond to our chakras.
When it comes to assigning planets to spheres, we have a problem. Why? Because Earth itself is a panfrequential body. There are ten versions of Earth, including our gross physical Earth (at frequency bands 1-3) plus a different “New Earth” at every level above that at FB 4-12.
- You could stack them up like a ladder, but that’s not quite accurate. The Earths are arranged as nested spheres within spheres (like everything else in our multiverse).
- Each higher level Earth is more expansive and “lighter” in content that overlaps and intertwines with the content of the “denser” Earths below it in a holographic manner.
- The Earth at the top of the universe would appear totally “white” to our physical eyes and would be filled with content, i.e. structure, event spaces and collective entities of all sorts.
Not stacked like this… but nested like this… and looking more like this to our eyes!
In my understanding the planets assigned to certain spheres refer to the astrologic signs and their ruling planets, which are part of the story but not the whole story of the spheres.
What about the pillars?
When it comes to assigning yin (“feminine”) and yang (“masculine”) energies to one side of the tree or the other, we have a problem, because the physical universe is dualistic at every level.
- All objects, situations, perceptions, categories of experiences and concepts are made of an interblending of yin and yang qualities in varying proportions. They have to be balanced.
- This is best illustrated by the I Ching mandala that shows the yin/yang symbol in the middle. It represents unity prior to splitting into a binary code made of a single yin (divided) line and a single yang (solid) line (below, click to enlarge).
You can see a bit of the “A-tree” and “H-tree” in this I Ching mandala, too.
The single lines can be paired in four combinations called “bigrams.” When a third line is added to each bigram, they create eight different “trigrams” (below).
- They are the building blocks used to create 8×8 = 64 “hexagrams” or I Ching gates that correspond to our genetic code and 64 archetypal states of consciousness. The hexagrams are six levels below unity, as we split from 1 to 2-4-8-16-32-64 (or go from 0 to 6 lines).
- The eight trigrams can be mapped to a Tree of Life in a specific sequence, as shown by Stephen Phillips in his book, “The Mathematical Connection Between Religion and Science.”
Since his tree illustrated only 11 spheres, I have modified it a bit to create a 12-sphere tree with the same set of trigrams and corresponding hexagrams (made of doubled trigrams) that form the eight sub-branches of the tree-like structure shown in the I Ching mandala (above).
Using the I Ching mandala/Human Design wheel, the hexagrams can be mapped to Pluto (1), Saturn (58), Uranus (30), Mars (51), Venus (57), Mercury (29), Moon (52) and Earth (2).
What is our true Tree of Life?
Our true Tree of Life is the event space tree, that we create by the decisions we make at every fork in the road. It is a temporary fractalized tree whose branches are continuously being created and dissolved here, there and everywhere throughout our life, like a live action movie.
- If we wish to explore more than one option, we split into two or more “parallel selves” that explore different parallel realities within the same lifetime to learn about the cause and effect of things (see How Do We Jump Timelines? – Big Picture Questions.com).
- This is the Tree of Life our soul will examine after death in our life review process (below).
An event space tree shown in fractalized (left) and schematic versions (right, click to enlarge).
Final Thoughts
I hope this post helps you see the Tree of Life as an ancient tool used by wisdom teachers to present a two-dimensional representation of higher dimensional concepts, which can be misleading at times. Occult knowledge is often kept from the many and held by the few “in the know” or in error. There is no need to perpetuate those errors in New Age teachings.
While it may still be useful in some ways, this is how Blavatsky summed it up:
“The Jewish Kabalah, with its numerical methods, is now only one of the keys to the ancient mysteries, and the Eastern or Aryan systems alone can supply the rest, and unveil the whole truth of Creation. … Even as it stands now, the Kabalah, with its several methods, can only puzzle by offering several versions; it can never divulge the whole truth.” — H.P. Blavatsky, The Kabalah and The Kabalists
Stay tuned — my next posts will explore how all this relates to no less than the universal blueprint for creation! 🙂
What Is the Fundamental Cycle Of Creation? – Big Picture Questions.com & How Do Hexagrams Fit Into the Cycle Of Creation? – Big Picture Questions.com
For more information, please see:
Stephen Phillips: The Mathematical Connection Between Religion and Science, 2009
Richard Rudd: Gene Keys, 2009
Chetan Parkyn: The Book of Lines, 2012
Mondo Secter: The I Ching Handbook, 2002
Guy Needler: Home – Guy Steven Needler | The Dawn of a New Age of Science (new website) & books: The History of God, Beyond the Source – Book 1, Beyond the Source – Book 2, Avoiding Karma, The Origin Speaks, 2015, The Anne Dialogues, 2016
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How Do Hexagrams Fit Into the Cycle Of Creation? – Big Picture Questions.com
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Thank you! There is much more to this story that I’m unraveling as we speak. 😉
Guy is a teacher of teachers and the two Richards are wonderful teachers, too, each in their own way. All I know is that I have something to learn from everybody.
Hi, thanks for sharing this. I cant pretend to understand it all because I don’t! I have a number of books on the Kabbalah/Tree of Life, I have been interested in this for some years but always found it difficult to fully understand the teachings. Your take on it seems quite unique, I have never had it explained to me like this before. I attended a presentation by Guy Steven Needler a few years ago now. My reaction to him was mixed, I resonated with most of his material but not all. I also have a ‘Hologenetic Profile’ from Gene Keys/Richard Rudd. I do ask deep questions but often do not fully understand the answers I get! I love your interpretation of the Tree of Life, even the bits that I don’t fully understand I feel that ‘spark of Truth’ within me. Thank you for opening my eyes again and my mind.