The Lightening Flash

Before we examine the final two ways in which to classify the Kabbalah in terms of Sephiroth, let's look at an abstraction of how Consciousness descends through the Sephiroth in order to create the perception of physicality. It all starts in Kether, which represents Source Consciousness: the state of God. Then, as illustrated below, there is a zigzag of descent as Kether moves to carve a space out of Itself so that It can then be fecundated by Itself and recursively subset from there. This initial volitional impulse is Primordial Force (Chokmah) and its coital partner in Union is Primordial Form (Binah). This Union births all of the dualistic archetypes expressed by the remaining lower Sephiroth: each of which seek to express their own identities downstream as they have a sense of self-awareness derived from Kether, ultimately, and now a sense of separation – from the initial birth of dualistic awareness. Birthed from Non-Duality, the seeds of dualistic awareness, is the expansive nature of Archetypal Force (Chesed) that is furthered tempered and refined through Archetypal Form (Geburah) and which finds a Fulcrum of Self-stability in Solar Consciousness (Tiphereth). From this stage emerge threads of Individualized Forces (Netzach) which seek to express further subsetted movements of passion, of desire, and which do so through certain habitual structures and patterns that are representative of Individualized Forms (Hod). From the sum total of these threads of Individualized Forces and Forms a fulcrum emerges – a node of stabilized self-complexity – that is the personality that is deemed Lunar Consciousness (Yesod) in the Kabbalistic milieu. The entirety and sum total of the perception through all of these layers take on an idea that we know as physicality: representative of the Sephirah of Malkuth.

The Lightning Flash describes the process through which Consciousness becomes individuated: that is the manner in which all of our world and universe with its vast diversity of forms and experiences emerges from One Primordial Awareness. Each of the Four Worlds represents a distinct stage of stable experiential reality as depicted, primarily, by the Sephiroth of the Middle Pillar. Each "World" is a division of the Kabbalah into a row of Sephiroth on a similar level.