Keter (or Kether) is the highest and most encompassing Sefirah in the kabbalistic Tree of Life. It means crown and relates to the Will of the Creator.
Keter is the highest and most encompassing sefirah in the Kabbalah Tree of Life. As a crown is on top of the head and encompasses it, so keter is on top of all the sephirot and encompasses them all. Because the head of Keter is rooted above the Sephirot in Ein Sof, אין סוף, the Divine Nature of the Creator, it is incomprehensible to man and is called “the most hidden of all hidden things”5 and it is referred to as “Ayin” אין , nothing. It is called “nothing” because
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Vices: Completion of the Great Work
Acquisitions: Greater creativity; any final ending information; inner spiritual quest and it's causes and attainment.
Magical Powers: Union with God
Healing Energies: Cranium, crown chakra
Archangels: Metatron
Angelic Beings: Chaioth ha Qadesh,(Hayyoth), Highest rank of Angels, Merkabah Angels, Responsible for enlightenment and holding up God's throne.
Music: B
Name of Power: Crown
Color Candles & Fragrances: White, frankincense, ambergris
Planet: Universe
Pronunciation: Ket-TAHR
Singularity or the one state.
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The energies in The Crown sephira become less vague and more real as they go from #1 to #10
ReplyDeleteThe tree of life has a symbolic configuration mad of 10 principles but can be shown with 11 because Kether (crown) and Da'at are interchangeable.
ReplyDeleteOn the tree of life, the beginning of the universe is placed in a space above the first sephira (Kether or crown). It is not always pictured but is referred to as Ain Soph (endless light).
It symbolizes that point beyond which our comprehension of being cannot go. It is an infinite nothingness out of which the first energy exploded to create a universe of multiple things.
Kether is thought of as the product of the contraction of Ain Soph Aur(Ein Sof) into a singularly of infinite energy or limitless light...the primordial energy out of which all things were created.
Kether is the creator himself.
Physical image-breaded ruler in profile
Part of the pillar of beneficence/balance.
Name of God...Eheye
ReplyDeleteThe first sphere to emanate as a word from God's mouth.
Crown symbolizes the will of God which is the will foe oneness. God is one....God's will is unity...we are all connected.
All creation emanated from this first word uttered by God.
The Crown is not associated with a planet or sign because the sphere symbolizes emptiness or nothingness.
7th chakra
ReplyDeleteSahasrara Chakra (Crown); Keter
Sahasrara is actually not considered to be a chakra; it is the source of the chakras. “It is the crown of expanded awareness. The power of the chakras does not reside in the chakras themselves, but in Sahasrara. The chakras are only switches. All the potential lies in Sahasrara.”
Patanjali classifies samadhi or enlightenment in three different stages. This would correspond to the position of the Keter of Yezirah on Jacob’s Ladder overlapping the Tiferet of Beriah and the Malkhut of Azilut. “Sahasrara is both formless and with form, yet it is also beyond, and therefore untouched by form.”
There are many descriptions about enlightenment, but ultimately it is not possible to define such an experience. “Super-mental awareness is not a point; it is a process, a range of experience. Just as the term ‘childhood’ refers to a wide span of time, in the same way, samadhi is not a particular point of experience but a sequence of experiences which graduate from one stage to another.”
In the course of one’s development, the chakras may be only partially or temporarily awakened. They can also awaken independently from each other and do not necessarily follow the traditional sequence. In Kabbalah, an individual whose all chakras have fully and permanently awakened would be called the Messiah.