Kabbalah for Health & Wellness by Mark Stavish

Author:Mark Stavish [Stavish, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2010-08-19T03:04:00+00:00

Skipping the Center

Because of these blocks, some seek to avoid those conflicts and sacrifices that occur along the Path of Return. This is most dangerous when the initiate seeks to cheat Nature's demands and climb up the sides of the Tree, that is, enter the higher realms of self-awareness (Tiphareth) without having made the required sacrifice of the ego's dominant features. This happens when the path between Hod and Geburah or Netzach and Chesed is chosen prematurely.

The preference for which pillar to climb will most likely result in earlier preferences; that is, an opening of Netzach without Chesed will lead to a high-strung and irrational approach to one's endless material and sensual desires, but if Hod is open, then the probability of them manifesting is likely. Here one uses one's intellectual powers simply as a means to satisfy earthly desires and a lust for power.

If Hod is opened but Netzach isn't, and the energy flows out of the ego's fear of emotional power and need to be reduced in priority for the solar light to be more pronounced, then neuroses, anxieties, and fear will dominate, as the initiate only has the power of "well-laid plans" that never manifest. Since there is no real passion, even in the most selfish sense, there is no psychic or creative power present.

The problems then presented are simple. The power of the higher sphere must be abandoned and the proper corrections made, or the more highly refined psychic energies unleashed will fall like a weight on the unrefined and weak psychic structure below, reducing it to rubble. If the energy (under the direction of a panicking ego) seeks an escape from this "fall," then it can only increase the complexity of the issues stated by climbing to the top of their respective pillars; follow the course of involution not evolution on their return to Tiphareth; or attempt further premature path crossings, this time across the Abyss, resulting in possible longterm psychological damage.

The problem posed by the Abyss, or Daath, is that it represents Knowledge, or a state of awareness, that is not accessible to the limitations of the ego. That is, it is an access to unrestricted Deity and, as such, shatters all restrictions. On the descent, the energy coming through Daath begins to form the nucleus of our ego, so on the ascent, this same energy can only undo, or de-form, the ego if any is present. Daath is crossed several times, and it can even to some degree be seen in our experiences of our unconscious with its psychic, sexual, and repressed drives and inhibitions (Yesod). Here we are taken aback by the new world of dreams, fantasy, and psychic reality that awaits us, but we must first face the Terror of the Threshold. This terror, loss of control, and devastating encounter with genuine reality would only crush the ego we have so carefully built up over the ages-and our whole sense of being with it-if we did not first, slowly, layer by layer, undo and rebuild ourselves from self to Self.

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