Holy Constellations
What was Jacob's aim when he conceived his twelve sons?
He contemplated the universal Soul of all creation to bring down a part of that Soul into each of his sons.
The Book of Creation (Sefer Yetzira) discusses The Creation in terms of the three fundamental aspects; Space, Time and Soul. The entire creation is for the sake of man and is structured accordingly. Man has twelve fundamental soul-functions: speech, thought, motion, sight, hearing, action, coition, smell, sleep, anger, taste and laughter. There are the twelve corresponding divisions of space and time. The twelve divisions of space are the twelve constellations (of stars) through which the sun moves in the course of the solar year. The twelve divisions of time are the twelve months of the year. Each sign of the Zodiac and its corresponding month is uniquely characterized with the associated soul-function[1].
The twelve divisions represented through six dimensions in space, time and soul correspond to the twelve diagonals on the tree of the Sefirot. (When the Sefirot are diagrammatically represented as a "tree" of ten points, there are twenty-two connecting lines, seven of which are vertical, three horizontal and twelve diagonal.) Jacob's twelve sons revealed, to perfection, all of the essential qualities of the inner soul for whom God created the world of Time and Space.
Each of the twelve was unique according to his respective orientation on the tree. They were all personalities of tremendous power, as illustrated in the many Bible stories that refer to them and their illustrious descendants in later generations. Each of the tribes received its own blessings from Jacob and later from Moses according to its unique trait. The tribes had their own emblems. Many of them are associated with animals (such as Judah with the Lion, Joseph with the Ox, Issachar the Donkey, Dan with the Serpent, Naftali with the Deer and Benjamin the Wolf.)
The Bible is testimony to the heritage of these founding tribal leaders. Following the 3 patriarchal generations from Abraham through Isaac and Jacob the roots of the future nation of Israel were finally and firmly established. The record is preserved and the mystical and spiritual analysis backs it up in every sense. By looking at examples, like the story of Jacob, we can unfold its deeper context by reviewing the inner meanings through word context,grammaticall commonality, letter substitution and gematria of each word in the Hebrew Torah. The Torah was handed by G-d to Israel through Moses as a complete code contained in the stones of the 10 commandments, in the teachings and in the writings of Moses, but for the most part the knowledge and energy of Torah was transferred by G-d to the souls of Jewish people.
It is said; "The nations heard and trembled, fear gripped the inhabitants of Philistia. Then the chieftains of Edom were terrified; the mighty men of Moab panic stricken and the inhabitants of Canaan melted away". Israel's departure from Egypt and the subsequent events ofrevelationn was immediately attributed to a power much greater than anything these kings could possibly imagine, after all Egypt was the most powerful nation on earth and Pharaoh its highest god. Like Pharaoh, these rulers were intellectually defeated.
Was Israel's liberation the cause of fear that came over kings and rulers of the land?
Was Israel redeemed by the power of their Omnipotent G-d?
Was their a mystical magic that can bring such a Liberation to so many people?
What would become of any ruler who did not suppress this power?
The magic of this liberation is to be found following the immediate departure from Egypt, during the 49 days when Israel was formed into the nation it ultimately became. Those 49 days are known as The Counting of the Omer, the deepest intellectual pursuit to the inner depths of our souls. This simultaneous process of meditation, prayer andrevelationn struck fear in the hearts of kings and rulers and brought a newfound intelligence to the world at large.
There are many meaningful insights that come from the deeper analysis of each of the tribes and the roles that they played in the development of the nation of Israel and the world, each of these insights are obtained through an understanding and perception of the Holy Sefirot, the engine room of our soul.
[1] (Sefer Yetzirah ch. 5)
He contemplated the universal Soul of all creation to bring down a part of that Soul into each of his sons.
The Book of Creation (Sefer Yetzira) discusses The Creation in terms of the three fundamental aspects; Space, Time and Soul. The entire creation is for the sake of man and is structured accordingly. Man has twelve fundamental soul-functions: speech, thought, motion, sight, hearing, action, coition, smell, sleep, anger, taste and laughter. There are the twelve corresponding divisions of space and time. The twelve divisions of space are the twelve constellations (of stars) through which the sun moves in the course of the solar year. The twelve divisions of time are the twelve months of the year. Each sign of the Zodiac and its corresponding month is uniquely characterized with the associated soul-function[1].
The twelve divisions represented through six dimensions in space, time and soul correspond to the twelve diagonals on the tree of the Sefirot. (When the Sefirot are diagrammatically represented as a "tree" of ten points, there are twenty-two connecting lines, seven of which are vertical, three horizontal and twelve diagonal.) Jacob's twelve sons revealed, to perfection, all of the essential qualities of the inner soul for whom God created the world of Time and Space.
Each of the twelve was unique according to his respective orientation on the tree. They were all personalities of tremendous power, as illustrated in the many Bible stories that refer to them and their illustrious descendants in later generations. Each of the tribes received its own blessings from Jacob and later from Moses according to its unique trait. The tribes had their own emblems. Many of them are associated with animals (such as Judah with the Lion, Joseph with the Ox, Issachar the Donkey, Dan with the Serpent, Naftali with the Deer and Benjamin the Wolf.)
The Bible is testimony to the heritage of these founding tribal leaders. Following the 3 patriarchal generations from Abraham through Isaac and Jacob the roots of the future nation of Israel were finally and firmly established. The record is preserved and the mystical and spiritual analysis backs it up in every sense. By looking at examples, like the story of Jacob, we can unfold its deeper context by reviewing the inner meanings through word context,grammaticall commonality, letter substitution and gematria of each word in the Hebrew Torah. The Torah was handed by G-d to Israel through Moses as a complete code contained in the stones of the 10 commandments, in the teachings and in the writings of Moses, but for the most part the knowledge and energy of Torah was transferred by G-d to the souls of Jewish people.
It is said; "The nations heard and trembled, fear gripped the inhabitants of Philistia. Then the chieftains of Edom were terrified; the mighty men of Moab panic stricken and the inhabitants of Canaan melted away". Israel's departure from Egypt and the subsequent events ofrevelationn was immediately attributed to a power much greater than anything these kings could possibly imagine, after all Egypt was the most powerful nation on earth and Pharaoh its highest god. Like Pharaoh, these rulers were intellectually defeated.
Was Israel's liberation the cause of fear that came over kings and rulers of the land?
Was Israel redeemed by the power of their Omnipotent G-d?
Was their a mystical magic that can bring such a Liberation to so many people?
What would become of any ruler who did not suppress this power?
The magic of this liberation is to be found following the immediate departure from Egypt, during the 49 days when Israel was formed into the nation it ultimately became. Those 49 days are known as The Counting of the Omer, the deepest intellectual pursuit to the inner depths of our souls. This simultaneous process of meditation, prayer andrevelationn struck fear in the hearts of kings and rulers and brought a newfound intelligence to the world at large.
There are many meaningful insights that come from the deeper analysis of each of the tribes and the roles that they played in the development of the nation of Israel and the world, each of these insights are obtained through an understanding and perception of the Holy Sefirot, the engine room of our soul.
[1] (Sefer Yetzirah ch. 5)
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Bring Holy convey much about the holy constellations that the Creator put around planet Earth, and which helps differenciate human personalities -- even of siblings with similar genes and environment.
I had already presented an essay on the zodiac, but will here post a rendition of Jacob's blessings of his 12 sons. This was recently read in synagogues as Beresheet or Genesis was concluded.
This is an uncorrected draft from "From The Beginning" which may be ready in 2007:
49:2 (39:2)
Collect your divergent selves and understand, you genetic Children of Israel; also understand your symbolic father, all you disparate tribes of mankind.
[Jacob’s final prophecy addresses both the 12 tribes and all of humanity, via their 12 general zodiacal traits. The sun signs, better adjusted to conception, not birth, are not to be confused with forbidden astrological systems for prognostication. The 12 tribe/sun signs in the zodiacal belt around Earth help shape various human tendencies, while Abram is shown that fate is in our hands, and that we are above the stars -- Genesis 15:5. Several classical commentators worked with the zodiac, while the Gur Aryeh or Maharal of Prague (16th C.) strongly linked the 12 sons and sun signs. -- Unlike the “census” of chapter 46, birth order is essential here – here it is learned that blessing children must fit the uniqueness of the recipient, not the same one that a Jacob and Esau must struggle with.]
49:3 (39:3)
Reuben / Aries [symbols: spring flowers, the (pascal) lamb, or ram], you are first born and born to pioneer,[ reflecting energy and a headstrong optimism and a guiding, spring-like, naive romanticism,] with excess will to strongly lead – [and Reuben could have been the double-portioned tribe of kings and priests].
49:4 (39:4)
But, like water, you can be too quick to find the lowest level, a liquidity that emboldened you to tamper with your father’s marriage bed -- [as Reuben did after Rachel died, in 35:22] -- causing you no partisan gain [for Leah’s side, but this drive to supplant elders with the brash redirection of my bed] only brought you disgraceful consequences –
[and the birthright to Joseph, the throne to Judah, and the priesthood to Levi].
49:5 (40:1)
[While one is materialistic and the other humanistic,] Simeon / Taurus [symbols: the ramparts or the bull] and Levi /Aquarius [symbols: water (Torah) bearer to the tribes] were brothers in violent weapons [in the sack of Shechem – Genesis 34].
49:6 (40:2)
Israel’s spirit should not join their [xenophobic, anti-gentile] council, nor should my honor be retrograded in their [insular, paranoiac] congregation, for in their anger they killed men -- [avenging an entire town for one man’s rape]-- and with their zealous clannishness they uprooted the glorious firstborn bullock [or Joseph -- Deuteronomy 33:17 -- Joseph threatened their entitlement, and in Reuben’s absence, they were most responsible for his exile]. 49:7 (40:3)
May their powerful anger be diminished: [Simeon / Taurus rage can be dangerously] strong like a snorting bull, [while Levi / Aquarius] indignation can be dangerously harsh
-- [ like their ability to fight family after the Golden Calf, see Exodus 32: 26-29 and Deuteronomy 33:9] – they will therefore be divided and scattered both as sons and tribes [and replaced by Joseph’s sons, with Simeon decimated by lusty assimilation, as in Numbers 25:14, and Levi uprooted to live only in widespread Levitical cities].
49:8 (41:1)
Judah / Leo, [both Torah and Western symbol: the lion] your [gentile] brothers will ultimately sing an ode of acknowledgement [to your Judean or Jewish perseverance through the millennia]; your power will ultimately grab your physical and ideological enemies by the scruff [Edenic KHoReF – even more remarkably,] your own anti-traditional Jewish brothers will make obeisance to your traditional leadership
[as authentic Judean culture will be respected, Jerusalem overtaking Tel Aviv].
49:9 (41:2)
Judah, the [perpetually dying] old lion in winter, shall suddenly reappear as a Ben-Gurion or battling young cub; the victorious Israelis will be above the usual rapine of war, behaving like sons of Jacob -- as you defensively kneel, then finally crouch in leonine security – [after initial decades of fighting holy warriors and their secular supporters who resent your return to history] – eventually being the lionhearted king whom none dare oppose – [Edenic ARI is seen in Latinate words like leo, while LaVi gives us Slavic, Scandinavian, and Germanic lion terms like Lowe].
49:10 (41:3)
The royal scepter shall never permanently swerve aside to another tribe, and the noblest of legislators shall be among his descendents -- [even in the Diaspora – where the very word “judge” derives from Judean magistrates], a tradition of justice culminating with the Millennial King Messiah -- [both Shiloh and messiah add up to 348 in Edenic]-- whose role will be to gather all nations [in a unified, Biblical spirit of global ethics, just as the Levites are joined by priests from many nations at Temple III – Isaiah 66].
49:11 (41:4)
[Not a war steed tethered to a wall, but this world leader of peace] will come with his modest young donkey tied merely to a vine -- [not a jeep, but an agricultural truck –
and his city, Jerusalem, tied to the vine of the risen Judea – which is no longer barren, but fruitful]; his once-asinine people will be spiritually toned [both from Edenic ASoaN or AtoaN, meaning she-donkey and strong] and linked to the praised vine [of the once-desolate vineyard of Israel, their spiritual wine for the world now mellowed with the ages -- the King Messiah] will be awash in this uplifting intoxication, his suit red
with the blood of these rich grapes – [not the blood of vanquished foes].
49:12 (41:5)
[Not plagues and destruction, but plenty and peace will mark history’s Sabbatical era, when Judah emerges] with eyes rosy with the wine of fellowship, and teeth whitened with the milk of compassionate magnanimity.
49:13 (42:1)
Zebulon / Pisces [symbols: boats or fish -- will also affect many nations, with] trade [allowing this wide-ranging, empathetic tribe] to be ensconced in the far havens of the seas, and, in turn, a haven for the vessels of many cultures, beginning with its pivotal role in spreading Mediterranean culture – [as a tribe Zebulon could be lost, but as the sun-sign of Moses, this force remains eternal, and worthy of a one-sentence division].
49:14 (43A:1)
Issachar / Capricorn [symbols: the donkey or goat] is the strong-boned beast of burden, crouching contentedly among the domestic tools [of his expert craft].
49:15 (43A:2)
He [knows that work’s] reward is leisure, and is most gratified by earthly, practical [applications]; so he puts his shoulder to the wheel, and can patiently bear massive burdens [for long-range goals].
49:16 (43B:1)
Dan / Libra [Torah and Western symbol: the balance, scales] is the legal dean of his people, symbolizing one of the characteristics of Israel -- [though his playful intelligence can be put off-balance by a weakness for pleasure, as Samson’s Delilah].
49:17 (43B:2)
Danite [defenders of Israel must use guile] like a snake on the roadside, or an asp on [an enemy’s] runway; [against unbalanced odds, staging pre-emptive strikes] at the war-horses’ hoofs, to make their riders lose balance and fall back – [attacking their enemies’ vehicles when vulnerable].
49:18 (43B:3)
[These Samson-like pre-Millennia leaders of Israel can be indecisive, and too concerned with being liked, making drastic Samson-like sacrifices necessary; so,] I hope to God as Mercy that [this tribe of over-deliberation and too-little justice] is rescued.
Fifth Reading
49:19 (43C:1)
Gad / Cancer [symbols: interior tents or the crab in its shell] will gather cadres together [with the tribe’s heartfelt sense of community and history], and put the gate-crashers on their heels -- [as in the time of Jephtah the Gileadite].
49:20 (43D:1)
Asher / Saggitarius [symbols: spreading tree or archer] will richly expand food supplies from [the tribe’s inherited gifts of optimism, energy and benevolence], though providers of royal, Edenic-philosophical delights [that offer more than agricultural wealth].
49:21 (43D:1)
Naftali / Gemini [symbols: the four legs of the constellation have been seen as one mercurial deer or as human twins] rushes to communicate with the reflexes and grace of a gazelle; its verbal skills are superlative – [from Deborah to R.W. Emerson].
49:22 (43E:1)
Joseph / Virgo [symbols of a girl holding wheat or just a virgin, befitting the Egyptian experience of he who fed a region through famine and resisted seduction] is a noble son [who will provide many nations with royal lines] from its tribe’s source, and the fruitful son who will provide two territorial tribes within; its offshoots will overrun any wall [put up to hold them back].
49:23 (43E:2)
[Many a future leader, like their ancestor Joseph], would be embittered [by the slings and] arrows of those who hated him as a rival, and would shoot him down [to thwart his dreamed destiny].
49:24 (43E:3)
But [Joseph again] overpowered himself [and the opportunity for vengeance], when the bow of power came to his hands, when his arms wore the golden [royalty of the Egyptian viceroy], and he received the outstretched blessing of barony [Edenic ABeeR] from the hands of Jacob – from this [past will come future royalty for this rejected] cornerstone of Israel – [before Judah’s ultimate kingship there will be even European monarchs crowned with a secret Israelite Coronation Stone].
49:25 (43E:4)
With both the helpful blessings of your earthy father and the blessings of the Hidden Nurturing Breast, [your heavenly Parent,] you will receive both transcendent blessings and material ones for mundane concerns beneath the depths – [Virgo being the only naturally spiritual one of the practical Earth signs -- and Joseph, who resisted adulterous seduction,] shall have the blessings of breasts and womb -- [of procreating and nurturing children].
49:26 (43E:5)
The blessings of your father add gravity to your ancestral blessings, which will facilitate the [historical prophecies for Mankind to fulfil the potential of Creation] -- strivings as old as the hills – such destined control will fall on the heads from Joseph, the crowned head of the brother who exemplified self-control.
Sixth Reading
49:27 (44:1 -- The scroll separates Israel-born Benjamin, as the final section of Genesis anticipates Exodus.)
Benjamin / Scorpio [the constellation appears like a creature with a tail, thus the symbols of a wolf or scorpion for this garrulous, competitive personality] shall tear and rip [Edenic TeRePH] the predatory wolf [who preys on the flock of Believers]; as the Millennium dawns he shall devour [this deathly beast of disbelief], but even in the twilight darkness of Diaspora -- [like Benjamite Mordechai’s triumph in Persia] -- there will be morsels of life-giving hope to distribute -- while innocent in the Joseph saga,
and worthy of hosting the Temple and the brief reign of Saul, Benjamin, in incidents like Judges 19-20, was not free of the potential personality flaws that kept all the son tribes/ sun signs from equaling the leadership role of Judah].
49:28 (44:2)
[Yet] all are equally valuable as tribes of Israel [and the 12 main types of humankind], and this is how their father [Jacob, and our Heavenly Father] charged each person to fulfil the potential destiny of his / her particular blessing -- [the son tribes / sun signs are blessed again at the end of the Five Books of Moses – where primary revelation ends, and various levels of inspired Scripture begins].
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