As above, so below
“As below, so above” is an expression of the Kabbalistic principle of the macrocosm and the microcosm, reflections of the same Divine intent. If G!d wanted to teach or guide, us, would He not manifest the principle of “as in Heaven, so it is on Earth”? That is, use the “Laws of Nature” to lead us to Heaven? Would that not be the way of a compassionate G!d?
There are some interesting examples of this. An intricate one, is following the idea of the brain as being a quantum computer. Consequently we, at some point, became aware of the quantum nature of this reality.
#free_will
What if angels did have free choice? It is just that being on a higher spiritual level, which means they have a greater understanding and deeper perception of Creation than we do, they accept the Sovereignty of G-d, knowing His Omnipotence, and thus serve His Will without doubt, nor question—with all their heart and all their soul.
Spiritual - Manifest awareness of itself
#consciousness
Does spiritual mean in essence a manifest awareness of self? Would one call the lion spiritual, except in being an expression of the Spirit we perceive in everything? This might be a way of differentiating between consciousness and spirituality.
The conscious being has an unquestioning awareness of its existence, whereas the spiritual being has a awareness of itself as a construct.
Angels of G-d
#story{.tag .is-dark} #exc{.tag .is-dark} #angel
Let us propose the atoms and molecules as Angels of G!d. They react, they do the work they have been created to do, never deviating from their appointed mission, sacrificing themselves if necessary, but always “providing” the same interface, the same “message”. While we are the uncertainty—gifted with what we call “free choice”—that live in a world of probability, or rather indeterminacy, expressing our “human spirit”—living in that it can be influenced by intention and will—that which we call “choice”.
When G-d first started the creation of the world, He wanted it to be made up only of Chesed, light and love. So he created Heaven/Garden of Eden. There all was peace and love and harmony. We praised G-d continuously, sang beautiful harmonies together. Everything we did was in service to G-d. We never erred, never fought, all was peaceful and fulfilled.
But that was not the end of Creation yet. It had not reached its ultimate goal. He knew that He had to ask the angels to descend lower, to, in a sense, clip their wings—but the gift of such a sacrifice would be to launch a world in which the miraculous could take place. So He gathered the council around Him, and said to them: “You are my holiest, and the mightiest of My angels. I need you all to gather your minions, and choose those among you those who will be blessed by carrying out an arduous and dangerous task in My Name.”
Once they had chosen, He, Blessed is His Holy Name, then said to them: “This is what you will do. You will remove their wings every aeon, (what we know today as Plank’s constant), and appear in and as My creation. From there others will direct you to your place. Each aeon you will appear in this guise until you are no longer needed. Know that you are My beloveds, and will be the forces that will form creation. Go forth and emanate, for I am going to create a world which will form live beings who will become the guardians of the realm of both good and evil.”
The Lord said to these angels, of whom this story is about, “Go and be (quanta/atoms?) a specific piece of the puzzle we call Creation.” Because they were angels, they could do nothing else other than be what the Divine Will wished them to be.
So it was done.
Now one might think that this job might have been a small job. Not so. It was an immense job. These angels, though very small, were immensely powerful. Each one became a point that held infinity in its grasp. You could imagine them as a gigantic, infinitely long web, the strands of which are the (infinite) bonds that weave the reality in which we awaken. Each one was like superman, keeping these infinitely long, infinitely powerful energies joined. And each one responding in its own fashion to each connection. They are what create(s) the web of our reality. They are not the Elohim, the great architects of the finite universe, the ones who fashioned stars, and brought living beings to fruition, who guide and facilitate our angelic host. These tiny angels are the actual elements that hold and form the objects, living and manifest, that we have around us. They truly are angels, without whom we would not continue to exist for even one moment.
That they obey the Will of the Creator without any hesitation is what makes them measurable. What we call patterns, and write formula to describe and equations to solve, are the effects of His Will. Thus when we write formulae to describe their behaviour, we are in fact writing the Word of G-d down. This is how we can perceive His Will. For He is the one that Created everything, and thus His Voice is in everything. Those that completely obey His Will are then pure expression of His Being. These are the ‘words’ the He Speaks. Therein lies the Voice of G-d. Through these living forms we can begin to understand His Words in a way that is unique, and perhaps inch closer to realising the True Purpose of (our) existence.
These angels were often, what we might call, mischievous and entertained themselves in this way. Contrary to what might be someone’s understanding of what it means to obey the Will of G-d as that of a place of absolute obedience and lack of choice, these angels, being messengers of G-d do his bidding. However they do have a choice in how they do it, for they are natural expressions of the creativity of the Creator. One could say within the almost infinite possibilities inherent in the Infinite Being that are available to any entity, angels have a huge range of possible pathways by which they can express the intent of the manifestation. They flit in and out of manifest reality, and the smaller they are, the more often they appear and disappear. Because it is only a point of the (higher dimensional or other worldly) object that you are able to perceive, it will naturally be very fleeting. Just as it is difficult to formulate a complete picture, or even a coherent one from something that one managed only to get a brief glimpse of.
In those days there were many that used their energy, blissfully unaware of the life force extant in each of them. That is part of what made it easy, for they were identified as a species, a type, and not as god-like entities.
There will always be qualities that they contain that will make them identifiable as a type, thus bringing us to the concept of a meta-angel. One who rules over a specific “set” of entities. In modern terminology it might be that one would call a tribe by strange names such as quarks or bosons, or more accepted ones like iron or sodium. The alchemists appreciated this, and appreciated the energy of any object as divine energy.
Zohar
#zohar
It was the time when the angels were cavorting with the men and women in the Garden. Lilith, who was an angel, wanted Adam. But Samael, the angel of light, was in love with her, and was arrogant, so he devised a plan to gain Lilith.
He came to Adam and said, "You are alone amongst the animals. None of them are a proper mate for you. I will fashion the one who will be your b’shirt, your beloved. So he put Adam into a deep sleep and extracted Eve from his side. Adam was immediately drawn to Eve, and was no longer interested in Lilith. Lilith, who was also arrogant, was upset with him. She began to think up ways to thwart Adam and Eve.
So she convinced Serpent, a being of great wisdom, who also was enamoured by Eve, to seduce Eve, and get her to eat the fruit of the forbidden tree.
God, who had been struggling with the problem of His world not working properly, because it had become stagnant and was not unfolding as it should, realised that He had to do something. There was a whole realm that was not being attended to, and He needed someone to take charge of that realm. But in order for there to be balance, he had to have someone who was to be the Prince of the other, complimentary realm.
When Adam ate of the tree, G-d realised that something had changed. That somehow the very realm that He had been ignoring, which was the actual reason that He had created the world of humans, had fallen from the perfection that He had created—for being perfect Himself, He could only create perfection.
He went to Adam and asked him, "Why did you eat of the fruit?” Adam replied “Eve convinced me to eat of it.” He then asked Eve, who laid the blame on Serpent. So he dressed them all in skins and banished them from the Garden and into the world he had made for them. Adam was dressed in the skin of a man, Eve in that of a woman, and Serpent in that of snake—each with the characteristics and qualities expressed in the text. So their journey began protected only by the skins that He had covered them with with which to contend with the world of light and dark.
In the meantime, Samael, being the angel who had shown Him that what was needed to awaken the world was not light alone, as we know it, for, in order for their to be light, there must also be darkness expressed as constraint, or judgement. Thus, Samael was given these realms of constraint to rule over as a reward, and became known, to us, as the Prince of Darkness. While Lilith became a consort of his and continued to interfere with all life that emerged from Adam and his descendants.
He also raised Enoch up into the heavens and appointed him Prince over all of creation, in that he forms and fashions all that exists, and named him Metatron, the Prince of Light. He chose Enoch, because he was a man who was righteous in a world that had gone mad with lust and depravity.
Then G-d had to close off the channel between the two realms of man and angel, and thus caused the flood, where a new energy permeated the world, and the old ways were wiped out. However, what remained was all the things that the angels had taught us, like language, as well as writing and reading; to make fire, and harvest grain; to tame the animals and the wheel upon which we could load goods; to sow cloth; build buildings, etc.
#todo
However, He found that it was impossible to form anything with only the elements…
Truth & Shechinah
Realising that all energy is an expression of the Divine, and His messenger angels.
#truth
We have argued for millennia about the Truth. We have fought wars and conquered nations in the name of the Truth. We have committed unspeakable acts to convert others to our Truth. But the time of the Truth is over. With so much disinformation and junk information floating around, it is becoming nigh impossible to determine what is True and what is merely a viewpoint. But we can acknowledge that we know energy, though have no idea what it really is, just how it behaves on the physical realm. We are still trying to divine it’s behaviour (and even existe nce) anywhere else. That is the portal to the coming paradigm.
In fact, we have arrived at the conclusion that everything, even that which seems solid, is made up of energy. And we only interact with it as solid because of the energetic response of our bodies to the energy of the object itself.
Those angels that interact with this realm, Malchut, are an expression of the presence of the Divine Creator, which we named Shekhinah, and refer to as the Divine Presence. She is the Divine Present that nourishes us, and everything around us. She is the one who rules over all the angels that have created this world in which we live.
The few that understood this, only entered this Divine Presence after much preparation, always asking permission to be received. They were always humble and trembled in their awareness of awesome majesty of what they were encountering.
One day there was something strange trying to look for them. It had no mind of its own, but was a projection of the living entity whom they all served—in the sense of “for whom they were created”. But it did not approach humbly. Nor did it request permission to enter. It came, a servant of its master, to measure and regulate and manipulate. So they just put up their shields, and every time we look, this is what we now see.
I find it interesting to note here, that that is what we say about the Beast—what I refer to as 3d, existence. A beast can only behave as a beast behaves—it has no choice if it has no consciousness of being anything else, or the possibility of being anything but what it is. For that, our sages say, is what makes us human—in that we have choice. We can choose what to believe. We can choose how to behave. We can choose to change. The lion cannot, and, it seems, neither can the angel. For that’s what angels are supposed to be—perfect, unquestioning expressions of Divine Intent—which the Beast is too!
Angels and light
#angel
Angels are required to influence events up to a certain point. In our terms, we would say that they have a certain quota of light to distribute. During each cycle of their existence they see those who are worthy to receive the light. If they find enough, all is good and balanced. If not, they “randomly” distribute the others. This produces some of the mysterious effects of randomness and probability.
Just to allay your objection to a random and fickle universe, as the wisdom by which these effects are produced is still unknown to us, we call it random. Often those of us who deem ourselves unworthy pray for one of these “random” events. It is even the case that there are those random events that we refer to as “miracles!"