Curious Christian

Some observations on the Qabalah.

What has come out of my meditations is the realisation that for concepts such as Chesed (Mercy) and Netzach (Victory) to be transformative, they must cut you to the bone.

So long as the sefiroth are used conventionally, they have no power to upend your world. Is that which is signified behind the sign ‘a nice idea’ about God or something so shocking, so profound, that you can’t look at the world the same way again?

The real magic behind the Qabalah is not that the symbolic correspondences can be used to manipulate reality, but that the mystery they point towards has the potential to rip you apart and transform you. What is this mystery? Tiphareth (beauty) is the hermeneutical key. Tiphareth is associated with Jesus, the paradoxical self-sacrificing one. Tiphareth unveils the mystery of Chesed, Netzach and the other sefiroth.