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  A Year Within The Tree of Life

Chesed ~ Mercy

 

 

 

 

Expression through The Four Worlds

* Note: We have viewed Chesed through the thought of foundation and containing all the necessary components or elements needed within to create the appropriate building blocks of manifestation. Let's apply this ideology as we move through Chesed in the Four Worlds and how the elemental attributions might apply.

 

Atziluth – the Creative Urge 

The Supreme Lord of Life

 

* World of Origin (FIRE)

 

Gods/Goddesses of authority wielded through

a higher emanation of Mercy and Love 

 

Osiris - Zeus - The Dagda           

 

In the sphere of Chesed, Atziluth is exemplified in the archetypical energy of those deity who exemplify the merit of sacrifice to achieve right action and the merciful splendor of bestowing the fruits of these labors upon humanity. These Deity act as the guiding Rays of Light towards the Divine and remind us of our spiritual nature that is contained in this incarnation within manifest form. Each of these Deity has the potential, authority and capacity for cruelty and destruction, but each has mastered the necessary control that can be giving and merciful in what is provided. On descent from the Supernals, the Deity within Chesed are a reminder that Mercy is always the conduit that is first attained from the Divine Source. The dismantling of that Mercy that is seen as the energy flows to Geburah is necessary for ultimate manifestation, but is not the original source of intention.  On ascent towards Kether, the authority wielded by the Deity of Chesed is the final stopgap or testing place of pure intent, before one may stand the test of faith in Da'at and return to a natural state of Divinity. These God forms provide hope to humanity and inspire the desire for re-absorption of SELF through Binah and Chokmah and final return to the ONE of Kether, and it is through the beneficence of their Grace that one may aspire to Kingship.

 

 

 Briah – Creation of a Concept- Archangel

Archangel Tzadkiel

“The Righteous of God” 

 

   *  World of Creation (WATER)

The Archangel Tzadkiel is called " The Righteous of God". It is his province that deems that a state of "right" and "correctness" has been achieved once all the previous trials and tests have been faced and successfully navigated. He acts as the higher  conscience of man; the man/woman who does what is right and necessary because there is nothing else that the individual can do. This is the only vision that is seen and it is no longer tainted or skewed by those energies that would produce haphazard correct action. The course is solidly planned and firmly bound by all the Laws to which it may be subject and all is in accord and a state of abundance.

 

Tzadkiel is the angel of judgment who urges us on towards this foundation of right-doing. He is the holder of the what we only fleetingly know as our best nature. It is his job to remind us as we move through our mundane lives of what that best or Divine nature. His is the voice that whispers in your ear when an action is not in keeping with that Divine nature and his is the mage in our minds that calls us forth from our daily slumber when we become sated by illusory wealth and greed.

 

It is the inception of the idea of our "goodness" that we can aspire and fulfill our Higher nature.

 

 

 

 

Yetzirah – Forming the Image of the concept

Angels – Chasmalim

" The Brilliant Ones"

 

 

* World of Formation (AIR)

 

 

 

This angelic vision was recorded in Ezekiel 1:4, where he talks about the beings “enveloped in brightness…which gleamed like electrum” (ChShML).  The figures into which this cloud of the Chasmalim then proceeded to manifest in this vision are the same as those pictured in the Tarot Key: the human, the lion, the ox, and the eagle.

 

 

 

The Chasmalim direct the focus of Archangel Tzadkiel's call to "conscience" in a manner that will be both productive and beneficial.  They are regarded as those who act to bring cohesion and balance to that which has been torn apart and reformed. They are the Angels of FUSION and provide the fires that act in a manner of cauterizing what needs to be healed from the act of excision that occurred at Geburah. In this way they are also considered the restorers of order and work in conjunction with the Seraphim (Fiery Avenging angels of Geburah) of Geburah to light the way for new found balance amidst the chaotic outpour at the level of Geburah.

 

Within the jovial expanse of Chesed, the Chasmalim are the keepers of cosmic joy and bliss. They are the warm feeling that produces the smile of contentment and the the energetic heat that is acquired by a good laugh and state of relaxation and calm.

 

 

 

Assiah – The World of Expression-Planetary

Jupiter

 

 

 

* World of Manifestation (EARTH)

 

 

 

The expression of Jupiterian energy in Chesed is about reaping the abundance of flow and expansion by rising ABOVE the glamour/ seduction and overwhelming experience of unrestricted receiving. It brings the lesson of learning the control of Power (through Geburah's actions) before the use of power may be claimed. There is an abundance of goodwill that can be achieved through the application of restraint and taking an asking only for the amount that is needed, and then passing on what is left in excess to other's in need.

In this place of expression, we are able to enjoy the rewards of right action we have attracted to ourselves, and in so doing provide the model for others to follow suit.

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