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Now this is the tree of life, which is the basic tool.

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And in rudimentary terms, it's quite recognizable

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because of course, we are trees of life.

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We have a body, we have the capacity to act

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and to think and to feel.

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And there's the ordinary mind, the ordinary ego mind.

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And here is the self of Jung, the higher self.

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These are the two sephiroth concerned with both psychology

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and biology here, the emotional

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contraction and expansion of mercy

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and judgment, the heart and the soul.

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And here of the intellect, the higher intellect, the spirit,

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revelation or wisdom, reason or understanding.

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And here in this white triad  is a divine element.

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So this is a picture of a human being, body, ego,

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the various ordinary functions, 

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the side triad of memory

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here and here, the soul, the self

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or essence, the spirit

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or the transpersonal, the place of inner knowledge.

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And then here, the place of illumination

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and the contact with the divine.

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Now, those of you are familiar with this, will say, ah, yes,

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I mean, but when one first sees it, when says, well,

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it looks very rigid, but in fact it's very flexible

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and very versatile, as we shall see later on.

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Next one, Where's the

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origin of the tree of life?

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Well, the origin comes from

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that time when Moses was on Mount Sinai

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and given the specifications for the tabernacle.

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And one of them was the Menorah, the seven branch candlestick.

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And here's the whole doctrine here, the sephiroth the crown,

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wisdom and understanding, mercy

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and judgment,  eternity, reverberation, knowledge,

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beauty, foundation and kingdom.

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Here's the divine world, the creative world of the spirit,

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the word of the soul or formation.

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Here's the word of action.

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Here's the Yang side, the masculine side.

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Here’s the Yin side, the feminine side

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and the 22 decorations

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of the 22 paths which connect the various sephiroth

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And you can see this in the tarot, which is based on

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that the 22, uh, major Ana represent these,

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uh, connections.

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And of course, the four packs represent the four worlds,

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each of them with the 10 sephiroth plus four,

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the king, the queen, the knight,

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and the page, which represent the four levels within

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each particular world.

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And this is why the, the Tarot has such a profundity

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because it's based on Kabbalah.