Discovering the place of the Future Human Being through the angels of the Kabbalah Tree of Life

Discovering the place of the Future Human Being through the angels of the Kabbalah Tree of Life, a morning workshop on Saturday 8 June 2024 with Rev. Michaël Merle

Reported by John-Peter Gernaat

This workshop was planned for the ten days between Ascension and Whitsun when it would have been possible to engage in a discussion on each day around a particular sefirot of the Tree of Life and its angel. In this morning workshop it was the essence of the information that was shared.

This subject was an opportunity to look at the angelic world and certain of the angels as well as to consider a picture of the relationship between the heavens and the earth. We approached this picture at hand of the Kabbalah Tree of Life. The Kabbalah Tree of Life is brought to us from an esoteric Jewish tradition. This tradition began in the fourteenth century and flourished in the fifteenth century but has its roots in a much older Jewish esoteric tradition that has no written records.

The Tree of Life has ten sefirots which are emanations of the divine. These emanations are a quality of the divine that appears but has not yet manifested. There is an order of the sefirots from sefirot 1 at the top to sefirot 10 at the bottom. The Gospel reading that accompanied this time (John 3: 1-12) informs us that nothing ascends to the heavens that has not first descended to the earth. The idea of an ascension to the heavens is a theme that arises when we consider the angels of the sefirots.

In the Kabbalistic tradition each angel is associated with an angel who cares for the emanation of that sefirot. This angel is responsible for ensuring that the emanation can manifest in time, one can say.

Firstly, we considered the emanations, then the angels associated with the emanations and finally what we could learn once we knew more about these angels. The angels are named in the Kabbalistic tradition. We discovered them also at hand of what some have come to be called in the Christian tradition.

(The full article will appear here later in July.)