So I've been fascinated by the Kabbalistic Tree of Life for quite some time, and engaged in trying to "map" it to the energy centers as Ra has explicated them, and I feel I've made some headway in that direction.
This is just my own personal intuitive introspection. No doubt many of my opinions on this will change, and there is too much to go over every reason why I see them in this particular way. Like every spiritual resource, it is frot with reams of dogma, and distorted understandings of the relationships. I realize many people here will have different opinions on these, but I'm happy to explain why I think a given position is associated with a given energy center.
While it is tempting to simply just go up the line of sephirot, from the bottom to the top, and assign energy centers to the sephirot in the order in which they appear, I feel this is extremely incorrect, though I see a lot of sources do it. The Tree of Life is extremely complex to put it mildly, just as the Tarot is complex, and Astrology is complex. There is a plethora of mixed false/true information on the subject. Thankfully, the Ra material is like an illuminating torch in the night in this department.
Here is the normal tree of life:
Now, if you are familiar with the tree of life, you probably know it only has 10 sephirot, so you might be doing a double take looking at this thing and wondering why it has 11 sephirot. The reason is that in most representations of the tree of life, either "Da'at" or "Keter" is left off. Why? Well, there are various reasons, but if you want my opinion it is because Kether represents "unpotentiated intelligent infinity" and "Daa't" represents "potentiated intelligent infinity". Da'at is said to be "the "reflection of" (the "inner dimension" of) the infinity of Keter". Incidentally, "reflection of infinity" is *precisely* how I see the Logos as a 7th density being. You could also think of it as, "the image of god, as seen within the illusion."
So by this reckoning, Kether is attributed to the octave density, whereas Da'at is attributed to seventh density.
On some tree of life depictions, either "Malkuth" or "Da'at" will be left off and it is allegedly supposed to represent, respectively, the condition prior to the "fall" from spiritual edenic conditions and afterwards. Da'at is said to represent "all things as one" in their infinite state of sharing and "ultimate knowledge" so it represents 7th density quite well in my opinion, whereas keter is more like "formless infinity", and is also said to be in interaction with the "Malkuth" in the next set of sephirot above us. Hmmm, what does that sounds like? Yes, the 8th density that becomes 1st density in the later part of its cycles.
Anyway, without further adieu the conclusions I've come to as a result of studying this so far is this:
The right side of the tree of life is called "the pillar of mercy" and represents, for the most part, yang or radiating qualities. The left side is called the "pillar of severity" and represents yin, or absorbent, qualities. This does not make left side automatically STS and the right side automatically STO. They are just tools that may be used in either fashion, similar to the concept of the left side of your brain being associated with "rationality and intellectuality" and the right side of your brain being predominately associated with "creativity and intuition". The tools are simply tools, though there may be a predisposition to some tools being used negatively more than others, and this is what you see with the qualities inherent in the tree of life.
The qualities on the middle pillar represent the most neutral qualities and energies. These are the "balancer" energies, for lack of better description. If you'll notice on my designation, I have put the indigo ray center at Tiferet. Tiferet is connected to almost every quality, it is where multiple qualities, such as wisdom, compassion, judgment, and power come together in the middle above the "personal self" associated with "yesod" the emotional body of consciousness. So you have Yesod as the "personal self", and then above, at Tiferet, the "higher self" and then above that, the "mind/body/spirit/totality/complex" at Da'at, and the octave density above that.
Anyway, these are just some minor observations that I felt I would share. I wish I could go into more detail, but I just don't have the time at the moment. I'm just scratching the surface here, not even going into all the subtle relationships that go on between the stations (and basically make up the tarot) and I'm basically working on weaving together the tarot/astrology/tree of life into a coherent picture in resonance with the energy centers and philosophy presented in the Law of One.
It is slow, but interesting and illuminating work.
This is just my own personal intuitive introspection. No doubt many of my opinions on this will change, and there is too much to go over every reason why I see them in this particular way. Like every spiritual resource, it is frot with reams of dogma, and distorted understandings of the relationships. I realize many people here will have different opinions on these, but I'm happy to explain why I think a given position is associated with a given energy center.
While it is tempting to simply just go up the line of sephirot, from the bottom to the top, and assign energy centers to the sephirot in the order in which they appear, I feel this is extremely incorrect, though I see a lot of sources do it. The Tree of Life is extremely complex to put it mildly, just as the Tarot is complex, and Astrology is complex. There is a plethora of mixed false/true information on the subject. Thankfully, the Ra material is like an illuminating torch in the night in this department.
Here is the normal tree of life:
Now, if you are familiar with the tree of life, you probably know it only has 10 sephirot, so you might be doing a double take looking at this thing and wondering why it has 11 sephirot. The reason is that in most representations of the tree of life, either "Da'at" or "Keter" is left off. Why? Well, there are various reasons, but if you want my opinion it is because Kether represents "unpotentiated intelligent infinity" and "Daa't" represents "potentiated intelligent infinity". Da'at is said to be "the "reflection of" (the "inner dimension" of) the infinity of Keter". Incidentally, "reflection of infinity" is *precisely* how I see the Logos as a 7th density being. You could also think of it as, "the image of god, as seen within the illusion."
So by this reckoning, Kether is attributed to the octave density, whereas Da'at is attributed to seventh density.
On some tree of life depictions, either "Malkuth" or "Da'at" will be left off and it is allegedly supposed to represent, respectively, the condition prior to the "fall" from spiritual edenic conditions and afterwards. Da'at is said to represent "all things as one" in their infinite state of sharing and "ultimate knowledge" so it represents 7th density quite well in my opinion, whereas keter is more like "formless infinity", and is also said to be in interaction with the "Malkuth" in the next set of sephirot above us. Hmmm, what does that sounds like? Yes, the 8th density that becomes 1st density in the later part of its cycles.
Anyway, without further adieu the conclusions I've come to as a result of studying this so far is this:
The right side of the tree of life is called "the pillar of mercy" and represents, for the most part, yang or radiating qualities. The left side is called the "pillar of severity" and represents yin, or absorbent, qualities. This does not make left side automatically STS and the right side automatically STO. They are just tools that may be used in either fashion, similar to the concept of the left side of your brain being associated with "rationality and intellectuality" and the right side of your brain being predominately associated with "creativity and intuition". The tools are simply tools, though there may be a predisposition to some tools being used negatively more than others, and this is what you see with the qualities inherent in the tree of life.
The qualities on the middle pillar represent the most neutral qualities and energies. These are the "balancer" energies, for lack of better description. If you'll notice on my designation, I have put the indigo ray center at Tiferet. Tiferet is connected to almost every quality, it is where multiple qualities, such as wisdom, compassion, judgment, and power come together in the middle above the "personal self" associated with "yesod" the emotional body of consciousness. So you have Yesod as the "personal self", and then above, at Tiferet, the "higher self" and then above that, the "mind/body/spirit/totality/complex" at Da'at, and the octave density above that.
Anyway, these are just some minor observations that I felt I would share. I wish I could go into more detail, but I just don't have the time at the moment. I'm just scratching the surface here, not even going into all the subtle relationships that go on between the stations (and basically make up the tarot) and I'm basically working on weaving together the tarot/astrology/tree of life into a coherent picture in resonance with the energy centers and philosophy presented in the Law of One.
It is slow, but interesting and illuminating work.