About Beauty
As Saturn is stationary in Pisces.
We contemplate on things.
Sunday, November 5 2023 –
Leo (bright shiny loving heart) moon.
Scorpio Sun Mercury & Mars –
Subject today – Beauty
May our eyes only see beauty!
Always seeking Beauty.

BEAUTY
What is it? What is Beauty?
Maybe Beauty is actually God.
Humanity perhaps is secretly always seeking Beauty.
Because Beauty, that which is harmonious & beautiful, is all that is perceptible of God.
The radiance of Beauty.
Beauty – the most perceptible, experientially available seeing, sensing, recognizing, compelling communion with God.
Knowingly or unknowingly, we seek Beauty.
Thinking we are seeking God.
Kabbalah Tree of Life
On the Kabbalah Tree of Life –
Beauty is one of the “emanations, radiations (sefira)” of God.
It is called Tiferet (or Tiphereth) on the Kabbalah Tree of Life.
Beauty – found in everyday acts, in simple seeing, in observing what is in front of us – simple acts – preparing a meal, everything nature, and the everyday rhythms & practices informed simultaneously by both tradition and experimentation.
Tiferet – beauty, glory, adornment, radiance.
In the Book of Illumination – beauty “is the house of the world to come. Its place is engraved in wisdom & radiant light.”
In the Hebrew Kabbala Tree of Life –
10 Emanations/Illuminations from above to below.
Tiphereth, is the sixth sefira (emanation, flowing outward, from above to below – a Divine Fire, Agni) in the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. It has the common association of “Spirituality”, “Balance”, “Integration”, “Beauty”, “Miracles”, and “Compassion”. Tiphereth (beauty) is a force integrates kindness & strength.

The Name of God associated with Tiferet is Adonai Eloahim. The Archangel of this sphere is Raphael. Malakhim (messengers) are the Angelic order associated with Tiferet, and the planetary/astrological correspondence of Tiferet is the Sun (as the Sun is the center of our solar system).
Earth reflects the beauty of the heavens.
What is above, is also below, a lesser emanation, a reflection.
Water precipitated to earth – a precipitation of heavenly waters.
There is duality on earth – light & dark – there is a balance of male & female – each having a task, a purpose, a vibration –
Kabbalah sees the human soul as mirroring the divine (Genesis 1:27, “God created man (a thinker) in His own image, in the image of God He created him, both male and female He created them”), and more widely, all creations as reflections of their life source in the sefirot (divine emanations). A beautiful creation.
In the world of the mystic & the occultist (a true disciple is both), these “emanations, radiations” (sefira) of God are contemplated, cultivated, explored and later, radiated outward.
The emanations of God offer daily inspiration, they create the inner life of the disciple (both the mystic & the occultist) & orient one in how to serve both God (in praise) & the world (in crisis) – the Way of being in Service.
Further study – Zohar – Book of Radiance.
Further references to the sefirot (emanations, radiations of God), with their later-accepted names, are elaborated on in the medieval Kabbalistic text of the Zohar, which is one of the core texts of Kabbalah. Zohar – Book of Radiance.
Let our eyes only see beauty.
Each day as disciples we lift up the kingdoms of earth to the Kings of Beauty. And we are one of the kingdoms being lifted up.
Note to readers/students:
This is our school, our college, our Ashram, our University of Learning, our Temple of Knowledge, where we all learn together. love, Risa