Tree of Life — Nazirene

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In view of the fact that Binah/Understanding and Chokhmah/Wisdom is the outer columns of the Tree of Duality (aka Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil) -- which is also representative of the division of male/female -- the Jewish way of drawing the paths of the 10 sphere Tree of Life is virtually impossible, because the required oneness of duality between the Left and Right Outer Columns (Tree of Duality) has not been brought about -- as presented in the Gospel of Thomas: "When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female female..." . Which means that the 10 sphere Tree of Life with the energy paths connecting Binah and Chokhmah with Kether is fatally flawed. But from the perspective of the inner core of Jewish mystics, a disciple/initiate was not prepared to move on until they came to the realization that you can't return/access Kether while in the divided state of the Tree of Duality. And that the death which was pronounced from eating the fruit of the Tree of Duality, was because of the loss of vital life-force into Nature, instead of the return of the energy within one's self to the Source. Only when the Jewish Kabbalah initiate arrived at the point where this understanding began to come to them, were they ready to receive the higher esoteric knowledge that was never given into the hands of those outside of the core group.

It is interesting that one Internet source that portrays itself as The School Of Spiritual Integrity, on a page entitled What Is Daath?, not only embodies the theories as to why Daath can't be counted as a sphere of the Tree of Life, but repeats one of the typical Jewish errors of applying both the Tree of Life and the scriptures externally -- i.e., (quoting): "To describe the Universe in terms of "flow and form" (ascending/descending tree)" . And thus, we observe them throwing away the Key of Knowledge in their external and historical interpretations.

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Let's take the above portrayal of (Jewish) Kabbalah one step further. Because the Jews generally interpret the scriptures outwardly -- i.e., throwing away the Key of Knowledge -- interpreting the Tree of Life cosmically, they portray the top sphere (Kether) as God. Which in their externalization would be synonymous with saying that one of the 12 tribes of Israel was God -- or from a Gospel perspective, one of the disciples of Yeshua/Jesus was God -- but Judaism has always had a problem with the concept that the Kingdom is within us. In the image of the 12 sphere Tree of Life, what we have is four (4) Primary Trinities (as well as a number of sub-trinities) -- and to see this, you must understand the Intellect sphere as being the physical body itself, which all the other spheres must work through because the physical body encompasses all the other spheres. Which means that the upper most sphere (Kether/Heavenly Kingdom is the paired opposite of the bottom most sphere or earthly-kingdom -- and the third-force balance is the Intellect sphere.

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The outer columns (male/liner = Binah/Understanding, Gevurah/Severity, Hod/Splendor) and (female/intuitive Chokmah/Wisdom, Hedod/Mercy, Netzah/Victory) represent the Tree of Duality -- the eating of the fruit of which brings death -- with the Life-Giving fruit in the Center of the Tree of Life. And when the Holographic Divine Pattern is understood, it is impossible for either the impressions/thoughts generated through Binah or Chokmah to be returned to the top sphere which is called Kether.

The Tree of Life is comprised of four (4) Trinities containing four male/female paradoxical opposite spheres, and four corresponding third-force balance spheres in the Center of each of the Trinities. Thus, the traditional ten (10) sphere Tree of Life used throughout Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism, cannot properly represent man's Consciousness and his True Pattern of Mind. And as will be demonstrated in the below, unless the seeker/disciple understands the interaction of these male/female paradoxical opposites, and how the third-force offspring is raised up to a higher plane, then the ten sphere Tree of Life will remain a perpetual enigma that can never be fully understood. That the Genuine Pattern of the Tree of Life has Twelve Spheres which represent the Mind of Man, is presented in the statement: "Then he showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb, in the middle of its street. On either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations" (Rev 22:1-2). That only those who put on the required wedding garment of purification, and fulfill the Laws of the Tree of Life within themselves will be able to gain entrance to the Inner Kingdom, is demonstrated in the words: "Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates" (Rev 22:14).

In the twelve sphere Tree of Life at the right, Da'at is labeled Knowledge -- but not the Knowledge of this world -- but rather, Gnosis or Divine Manna. But just above the Knowledge sphere is the Intellect sphere -- but not intellect as in a measurement of intelligence or IQ level -- but rather, the application of the lower spheres of the Tree of Life. This application of the spiritual works of the person -- the ability of the person to bring unity to the outer (male/female) columns of the Tree of Duality in the Center, with the proper application that permits the impressions/thoughts/vital life-force to be returned to the Source in the top Heavenly Kingdom, rather than being lost into nature as with the "riotous" living of the prodigal son.

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In understanding the holographic patterns of both the Inner and Cosmic Tree of Life, one must first understand the Natural Laws of Conception -- and then be able to apply these Laws in the evolution, expansion and deepening of the mind. As stated in the above, in order to initiate the process of conception, both the (male) sperm and (female) ovum must split -- each becoming half of the 46 chromosomes associated with man, 23 chromosomes each after splitting. The genetics of the male is "XY" -- and after splitting, if the "X" chromosome fertilizes the split ovum, the offspring is female -- while if the ovum is fertilized by the "Y", the child is male.

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In the pattern of the Tree of Life at the right, we can observe these same Natural Laws of Creation in the generation of a thought where it splits upon entering the Foundation Sphere into both the male and female outer columns. Based upon the level of advancement of the Soul of the person -- the advancement being the product of what can be called the Spiritual DNA which the person entered into the present life as stated by the Church Father Origen who wrote: Every Soul... comes into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous life (Origen, De Principiis) -- the more advanced the Soul, the more they will be able to connect the outer male/female columns in the Center Spheres of the Tree of Life. When one comes to understand the holographic pattern presented in the above of the Twelve Within The Twelve -- and that the bottom Earth-Kingdom Sphere exists within each of the upper eleven spheres -- only then are we able to plot what the Apostle Paul portrayed as the "natural" organic consciousness of man that is incapable of comprehending anything beyond the thinking and very limited realities of this physical world (see The Mystery Of The Gospel). In the case of organic man, the thoughts arise only through the Earth-Segment of each upper Sphere -- limiting the person's consciousness and knowledge to the Earth. And because the thoughts generated remain split and divided across the outer columns of the Tree of Duality -- never merging and coming together in the Center Tree of Life -- the person remains earth-bound in their thinking and perceptive-reasoning and understanding. And because the divided thoughts cannot come together in the Center, the vital life-force which is the inheritance of the prodigal son, is lost into nature on what is portrayed as "riotous" living -- which loss of bio-energy that fails to be properly utilized in the process of the expansion and deepening of the mind, the prodigal son is portrayed as falling under the control of the Citizen of the Far Country -- aka the Outer Darkness and/or Plato's Cave. Resulting in the reality that because the vital life-force is lost into nature -- or squandered away on the things of this world that have no real essential meaning -- the person remains carnal and unable to comprehend his own higher Soul and spiritual reality.

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From the perspective of the embryo that forms in a woman's womb, whatever sperm fails to unite to an ovum, becomes lost and discarded. In like manner, whatever ovum fails to become fertilized by a sperm, becomes lost and discarded. The same is true with respect to the thoughts that man generates within himself that remains divided in the outer columns of the Tree of Duality, and fails to become united in the Center column of the Tree of Life. Thus, in the words of the Gospel account of Jesus: "But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment" (Matt 12:36 KJV) -- or, whatever thoughts, impressions and/or words are polarized to the male or female spheres of the Tree of Duality, without being reunited to their opposite, are idle and dead. And in the same way that the Tree of Life is comprised of Four Trinities, each level arising up the Tree of Life is a portrayal of the Four Stages of Birth. And these subsequent stages of birth are portrayed in the words of Jesus where he said: "There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him. Jesus answered and said to him, Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God..." (John 3:1-12 NKJ). And when Nicodemus again questioned Jesus he replied: "...If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?"

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It is necessary again to understand the words of Jesus' 22nd saying of the Gospel of Thomas 22 (see Saying 22): They said to him, "Shall we then, as children, enter the kingdom?" Jesus said to them, "When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female female ...then will you enter the kingdom." At each level of birth, the development arising through the pattern of the Tree of Life must be likened to that of a child of that level of mind and being. Each level of birth must be brought about by the merger and reuniting of the divided male and female -- i.e., , and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female female". And without this merger of divided male and female opposites and the formation of the Third-Force in the Center, absolutely no higher mental and spiritual progress can be accomplished.

In Defense Of The Twelve Sphere Tree Of Life: Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism uses the above 10 sphere Tree of Life -- and when they encounter the pattern of the 12 sphere Tree of Life, they immediately reject what they don't understand. First off it must be recognized that Kabbalah is rejected as a type of witchcraft among mainstream Jews where it is often classified as false and foreign teachings brought into Judaism during the what they assume to be the Babylonian captivity. Which means that in order to even make Kabbalah remotely acceptable as part of Judaism, it must be expressed externally -- even though the core Jewish Mystics have always known otherwise. Why? Because Jews -- like Christians and Muslims and much of the New Age -- look for the Kingdom to come externally. And if the true reality of the Tree of Life was to be revealed, it would have to be admitted that its only real application is within one's own mind and being in search of an Inner Kingdom that does not, and never can, come upon the earth outwardly in the manner that most religions look for it to come. So, what we have in Kabbalah is basically a Cosmic Tree of Life with the top sphere being what they call Keter or The Crown -- and in associated with God in relation to the spheres below it.

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When the 4th century Roman Emperor Constantine inaugurated his (secular) version of the Trinity -- Father, Son and Holy Spirit -- he totally undermined the wisdom of the ancient teachings on the Trinity, and then infused this grave error into Christianity. "The Council of Nicea was a pivotal event in the history of Christianity. The sudden adoption of a quasi-philosophic term to define the historic Jesus as equal to God was a major departure from scripture and tradition. Further, the use of this term 'trinity' in a Creed meant that, from 325 on, Nicenes could and did proclaim other dogmas that have no basis in Scripture" (State Church of the Roman Empire; Ben H. Swett; 1998). The Encyclopedia Britannica (1998 edition) writes of the word Logos: In Greek philosophy and theology, the divine reason implicit in the cosmos, ordering it and giving it form and meaning. Though the concept defined by the term logos is found in Greek, Indian, Egyptian, and Persian philosophical and theological systems... The idea of the logos in Greek thought harks back at least to the 6th-century-BC philosopher Heracleitus, who discerned in the cosmic process a logos analogous to the reasoning power in man. Later, the Stoics, philosophers who followed the teachings of the thinker Zeno of Citium (4th-3rd century BC), defined the logos as an active rational and spiritual principle that permeated all reality... Philo of Alexandria, a 1st-century-AD Jewish philosopher, taught that the logos was the intermediary between God and the cosmos, being both the agent of creation and the agent through which the human mind can apprehend and comprehend God. According to Philo and the Middle Platonists, philosophers who interpreted in religious terms the teachings of the 4th-century-BC Greek master philosopher Plato, the logos was both immanent in the world and at the same time the transcendent divine mind...

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The identification of Jesus with the logos, which is implied in various places in the New Testament but stated specifically in the Fourth Gospel, was further developed in the early church but more on the basis of Greek philosophical ideas... the early Christian Fathers stated that Christ as the preexistent logos (1) reveals the Father to mankind and is the subject of the Old Testament manifestations of God; (2) is the divine reason in which the whole human race shares, so that the 6th-century-BC philosopher and others who lived with reason were Christians before Christ; and (3) is the divine will and word by which the worlds were framed .

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When rightly understood, the Logos portrays the Mind of God -- and it is drawn from the knowledge of the Diving Pattern of Creation which is holographically replicated into every aspect of Creation. Enlightened visionaries often portray the Logos as the third-force balance between the two male/female paradoxical opposites of Creation. And as I have often stated, Duality is really Trinitarian -- and the higher reality can only manifest in the Center-Balance of the opposing opposites. Therefore, perhaps the easiest way to understand the relationship of the three aspects of mind, is to use the example of marriage between a man and woman. The validity, essence and substance of the marriage can only be perceived and understood in the theric which in http://SoulSelf.org , I portray as the Morphic Field that is created and evolved that immerses the man and woman within what can be portrayed as their own atmosphere -- wherein, because they are immersed in this singular theric atmosphere, they become "One Flesh". And what is true in the holographic pattern of man and woman, is also true within your own mind where the male and female columns of the Tree of Duality must be brought together in the Center -- as patterned in the Tree of Life. The same dynamic pattern that exists at all levels of Creation, also exists within your own mind and being -- as presented in Gospel of Thomas saying 22 which states: "When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female female; ...then will you enter the kingdom". With the missing aspect of this ultra-important teaching being preserved in the Gospel of the Nazirenes where it states: And one of the disciples asked him, "How shall a man enter into the Kingdom?" And he answered and said, "If you don't make below as the above, and the left as the right, and the behind as the before, entering into the center and passing into the spirit, you will not enter into the kingdom of God". With the key words being "...entering into the center and passing into the spirit". In order to enter in at the Center, there must exist evolved balance in the four (4) Trinitarian paradoxical opposites that comprise the 12 sphere pattern of the Tree of Life -- i.e., the pattern of your own mind.

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In the above the reference to male and female, or left and right, portrays the male/female outer columns of the Tree of Duality. The reference to the above that must be united with the below, is portraying the Heavenly and Earthly Kingdoms -- i.e., thus, the upper three spiritual centers (chakras) in the head with their opposite or other half in the lower three spiritual centers in the lower body. Which means that while such things as meditation -- or the focus on the sixth spiritual center or third-eye will provide higher vision and insight -- it will remain just that so long as the lower opposite is suppressed or not evolved -- thereby inhibiting the ability to access and enter through the Center. And while all these realities of self are explored in the article on the Tree of Life ( http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org ), much understanding is required to comprehend the difference and application of Kabbalah in relation to the understanding of the twelve sphere Tree of Life being the pattern of one's own mind. The Jews do what Jews do -- and that is to read the letter of the written word that Paul correctly portrayed as the "letter that killeth [and] Jewish folktales" (see 2 Cor 3:6; Titus 1:14). Therefore, you simply can't convey to a Jew that what is being portrayed in the twelve tribes of Israel, is in fact an allegorical portrayal of the person's own mind. Neither can you convey to a Christian that the Gospel portrays the perfected mind because instead of tribes which is comprised of a divided multitude, the Gospels portray the mind as twelve singular spheres -- and the final stage of birth cannot be brought about until the death (transformation) of Judah which is the Jew. Therefore, in the same way that the highly evolved spiritual authors of the scriptures portrayed dogs and swine as a negative personification of man's undeveloped consciousness, so too is the allegorical portrayal of the Jews also a negative personification that must be transformed and done away with. And this is one of the reasons why the Spiritual Christians condemned and rejected the god of the Jews. Therefore, the scriptures aren't about the Jews as most people think -- because in reality the scriptures are about putting to death the Jew that exists within each of us -- just as in the symbolism of the dog and swine that each person must prevail over.

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In the same way that there simply is no way to explain to a Jew the true meaning of their own scriptures, neither is there any means to convey to them the reality of the pattern of the Tree of Life as the means and catalyst to gain entrance into the Inner Kingdom -- which the vast majority of Jews totally reject. The Jews believe that they are the Chosen People -- and that when the Messiah inaugurates the Kingdom upon the earth, that he will rule the world from Jerusalem. A very large segment of religious Jews who believe they are the Chosen People, view the people of the Nations as being of an animal-Soul that was created in order to serve the Jews -- and this is documented in the subheading Organic Man Ruled Over His Lower Animal Nature. And that as Jews, they have been created on a higher plane than the rest of mankind. So, to even suggest to them that the 12 tribes of Israel is an allegorical portrayal of their own mind -- and that the symbol of the Jew is representative of someone who has received the Law but observes it externally -- and is therefore limited to 1/12 (one twelfth) of their potential of mind and consciousness -- is simply something that the Jews (and most Christians) simply would refuse to even consider. Judaism is an ancient Mystery Religion -- and while there has always existed an inner core of initiates who possessed the above knowledge, this wisdom could in no manner be revealed to those outside the core initiates. What has come to be known as the Gospels was actually a revolution from the Mystery Religion environment -- and can be considered a Spiritual Reformation. While the Gospels are very much allegorical, what they did was place the essential wisdom and knowledge that was designed to free the people from the Mystery Religion environment, and enable the individual seeker to bring about their own transformation and birth -- thereby enabling the lost prodigal son to become At-One with the Essence of the Logos within them -- which can be personified as the Kingdom coming within them. Quoting from The Great Lie at http://SoulSelf.org#AnimalNature The Ebionites were unjustly condemned as heretics because it was said that they were Torah Observant. Yet, they rejected all animal sacrifice, were strict vegetarians, and they rejected the literal interpretation of the Law of Moses.

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Quoting the Church Father Epiphanius: The Ebionites "do not accept Moses' Pentateuch in its entirety; certain sayings they reject... stating Christ has revealed this to me, and will blespheme most of the legislation" (Panarion 30.18.7-9). Epiphanius then quotes the Gospel of the Ebionites/Hebrews where Jesus states: "I have come to destroy the sacrifices" (ibid. 30.16.5). They were Observant of the Law -- but this was the Royal Law that is Spiritual. In reference to the Ebionites, Epiphanius further states: "They are Jews. They use Gospels. Eating meat is abominable to them. They consider water to have sacred properties... they often baptize themselves in water, summer and winter, for sanctification..." (Panarion, 19:28-30). So to say that the Ebionites are Torah Observant in the manner of the Pharisees, in view of the recorded fact that they "...blaspheme most of the legislation ...They use Gospels. Eating meat is abominable to them" -- is a lie that was promoted by the Gentile Church that was too heathen in their mindset to comprehend the spiritual nature of the teachings of Jesus and TheWay -- and the Gentile Church condemned the Ebionites in order to adopt pagan teachings, rituals and religious observances which were common to Pagan Rome. The whole charade of building a temple in Jerusalem was an allegorical portrayal of transforming one's own body into a Living Temple. And the requirement of animal sacrifice was an allegorical portrayal of transforming the seeker's own lower animal nature. As stated in the Gospel of the Nazirenes: "For they, making a god of their belly, sacrificed to their God the innocent creatures of the earth, in place of the carnal nature within themselves. And eating of their flesh and drinking of their blood to their own destruction, corrupted their bodies and shortened their days, even as the Gentiles who did not know the truth, or who knowing it, have changed it into a lie" . And this is openly acknowledge in the AskMoses.com teaching on the Final Temple where it states: "...G-d destroyed the physical Temple and made it a spiritual place. He took that window and placed it within us. Instead of traveling to Jerusalem, G-d wanted us to find Him in our inner Jerusalem. Now, our bodies are our Temples, our Souls are our windows, our minds are our Kohanim and our animal instincts are our sacrifices. We cannot offer physical sacrifices three times a day, but we can pray three times a day.

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We cannot attend Temple services three times a day, but we can tap into our Souls three times a day. We cannot atone for our shortcomings by sacrificing animals, but we can sacrifice our inner animalsour hormones, our lusts, our desires, our beastly compulsions. We cannot find G-d in Jerusalem; we must find Him in us. This was G-ds Master Plan. By exchanging a sweeping, dramatic outdoor concert of public spirituality for an internal, personal, private experience, G-d was bringing Himself even closer to humanity, laying the groundwork for the Third and final Templean age that will synthesize G-ds presence inside our hearts and minds and in the world around us in a totally new reality: the Era of Moshiach" . The problem is that you cannot convey the above reality to the Jews -- or, for that matter, the Christians. And if the inner core of Kabbalists were to reveal the true meaning of the Tree of Life as portrayed in the allegory of the twelve tribes of Israel -- especially with the Jews being portrayed as a level of consciousness that is incapable of comprehending higher reality, and must be overcome (put to death) -- from a Jewish Kabbalist perspective, you would be condemned as a Jew-hating heretic. And in view of the fact that Christians embrace what is known as Replacement Theology -- where because the Jews crucified Jesus, they are the new chosen people -- there is simply no way to convey the truth to them either.