I felt compelled to explain how the anctient jewish beleif of QBLh, or Qabalah and my own enochian beleifs both beleive in the begining of creation in the same way. In fact most of the texts that taught me about the creation of the world are jewish such as the Sepher Yetzera. Ill be using many jewish words because that is how i learned it, but ill share their meanings as best a translation can.

Tzimtzum (contraction) is the traditional idea of creation presented by rabbi. It describes the begining as just god. Then god wants to look back on himself. So he created a void within himself and fills it with his light. This breaths life into the first seeds. This beleif originally comes from my own personal qabalistic beleif of creation which is very similar. In fact Tzimtzum is also called "Ain soph aur" by some rabbi.

Qabalah suggests in the begining there was just Soph meaning "god". The name Soph is so inconceivable by us we are not capable of knowing more then that, he is just god. then there was Ain soph, or infinite god. Ain Soph consumed everything. Eveything was filled by him, and it negated his qualities. Nothing could appreciate anything else cause every part was equally great. So then he filled a space within himself with his essence, so the qulities of nothingness and everythingness would mix. He created Ain soph Aur or "god's infinite light". These three formed the supernal triad and the rest of the sephroth and world emenated from them.

The tree of life is a conceptual structure descirbed in the sephroth yetzerha (the book of creation). It describes 10 sephroth connected by the jewish alphebet. Each sephroth from the first to the last emenate from the previous. They are a comingling of sorts of all the sephroth in its path. The first three sephtorth make a triangle called the supernal triad. The supernal triad can be related to through the Ain soph Aur, or even the concept of "the father, the son, and the holy spirit". They are both elements pointed in the same direction. It isnt suprsining. Qabalah led to jeudaism, which lead to muslim and christianity. The first seproth is kether (crown) it is equivelent to Soph. The second is chokmah (Wisdom) = Ain soph = infinite god. The third is Binah (understanding) = god's infinite light = Ain Soph Aur.

Of course the tree of life is 10 sephroth. So there are 7 more past the supernal triad. Ill be breif. Next there is a psudo-sephroth. It doesnt count, sorta. It wasnt there originally you see, It is only there as you come back up the tree from the bottom (where we are). Anyway, this invisible sephroth is called Da'ath (Knowledge). It has no paths to any other sephroth, it just sits in the middle. I think its interesting that knowledge isnt part of god, but it explains why the angels dont entirely understand us. The rest are all real seproth though. The rest eminate down in the following order:

4. Chesed: Mercy
5. Gebuhra: Strength
6. Tiphareth: Beauty
7. Netzach: Victory
8. Hod: Splendor
9. Yesod: Foundation
10. Malkuth: Kingdom

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You wont see Da'ath on that diagram of the tree of life. However if it were there it would be between 1 and 6, floating, and unconnected.

The idea is that we start out our lives down there at malkuth. All we know is our world. Hopefully, as we grow we move up the ladder and closer to god. I could write a book about each sephroth if i wanted. Needless to say I beleive in this model, and it seems most of the world beleives, to some extant, in the same thing. Its amazing how radically different religions by man's standard are often strikingly similar by god's standards.

If anyone is interested in reading a translated Sepher Yetzehra I have posted it here: <a href="http://library.syncleus.com/QBLH/YETZIRAH.TXT">Sepher Yetzhera</a>. Also feel free to perruse my library of digital files on all sorts of the worlds religion here: <a href="http://library.syncleus.com">My Occult Library</a>

I want to finish by giving some quotes from holy texts related to this...

"Before He gave any shape to the world, before He produced any form, He was alone, without form and without resemblance to anything else. Who then can comprehend how He was before the Creation? Hence it is forbidden to lend Him any form or similitude, or even to call Him by His sacred name, or to indicate Him by a single letter or a single point" -- The Zohar

"You have made the heaven... the earth and all that is on it... and You give life to them all" -- Nehemiah 9:6

"All the earth is filled with God's Glory" -- Numbers 14:21

"God's Glory fills the world" -- Isaiah 6:3

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