Friday, February 14, 2020

The Pillar of Mercy



Is found on the right hand side of diagrams of the Tree of Life, and is associated with the left hand side of the body and right-brain functions. It represents the male side of man.


The right column contains three Sephiroth (Chokmah, Chesed, and Netzach). Each of the Sephiroth in this column is associated with a quality known as Force. In fact, this column is also called the Pillar of Force. This is the active, expansive, volitional, masculine component to experience. In some Eastern systems this is Yang. It corresponds to the Phallus in coital union. When we are discussing the Sephiroth on the Pillar of Mercy, we always find these aspects of experience at some level within them. It is described as "Mercy" because the expansiveness of the underlying currents of the Sephiroth in this column are consciously experienced as more blissful and liberating than those in the next column.



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