The Seven Rivers

 

In the graphic above, we again go into our own particular psychosomatic nature. On top of the Tree of Life you find the words Ain Soph Aur and Glorian which are related with that light, that are described by the following different Hebrew words.

    <li>Pe’er [פאר], in relation with glory or splendor.
  • Tiphereth [תפארת], in the middle of the tree of life is also related with splendor, with glory, with light.
  • Hod [הוד] The Sephirah Hod is also related with the light, the glorious light.
  • Hadar [הדר] Another Hebrew word with the same meaning
  • Zohar [זוהר] Splendor

All of these words are synonymous, and are used in the Bible in different ways to specify the different aspects of the light. That is why each part of us as we are, physically speaking, have within the different forces that come from the top of the Tree of Life and mix in Malkuth. Here we wrote along side the seven lower Sephiroth the seven fluids related with such light in our organism:

Water is related with the spirit, or Gedulah in Kabbalah; it is that water in which the brain and spinal medulla are floating, the cerebro-spinal fluid where the forces of spirit are floating, or hovering within us. The wine of Geburah is related with fire. The blood of Tiphereth. Both wine and blood or fire and blood are interrelated. In other lectures we have said that Geburah relates with the force of the systole and diastole of the circulatory system, and that Tiphereth relates with the heart that circulates the blood. Both are related with what we call the monad. In Netzach we find what the Bible calls the milk, which is the secretion of all the glands that we have in our organism, the totality of the endocrine glands. The immune system, the lymphatic fluid are related with the dew of Hod. Then we have the olive oil which is that fluid related with our semen or shemen that the Bible refers to; it is the oil with which we have to be anointed. And the last fluid is honey, related with Malkuth.

All of those fluids are rivers or forces that are mixing in the physical body and giving us different types of energies from the Tree of Life. That is why the book of Ecclesiastes 1: 7 says:

“All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; To the source where the rivers flow, there they flow again. – Ecclesiastes 1: 7

You need to understand that all those rivers that we are talking about also relate to all the fluids that we have in our organism, which come from the Glorian, that light that we are pointing as the Ain Soph Aur. All of us are connected to that. Here, we have to understand that all of those fluids or forces that enter our organisms are related with what we call Lucifer, because all of them carry the light in different modalities. That is why the Zohar states:

“As the light passes from one to the other throne through the various channels between them, it becomes more powerful and stronger in its circulatory course, similar to the blood in the veins of the body. Such is the region on high that gives rise to the seven different colors which, in their totality and blending, constitute the great mystery of that unknown something termed light. There are also seven other different colored lights, which, on flowing together and thus becoming blended, form one great ocean of light which then streams forth from its seven different outlets.” – Zohar

The following is quoted from Isaiah:

“And Iod-Havah shall lay waste the tongue of the sea of Egypt (mitzrahim – מצרים), and shall lift up his hand over the river in the strength of his spirit: and he shall strike it in the seven rivers, so that men may pass through it in their shoes.” – Isaiah 11: 15

Isaiah is talking about those alchemists that are working always with all of these fluids or rivers which the master Solomon addresses in Ecclesiastes. The Zohar continues:

“Each of the seven outlets or streams becomes divided and forms into seven reservoirs, and each of these into the source or fount of seven rivers and which subdivide again and form seven brooklets; thus forming a vast circulatory system by which the waters of each separate and then meet again and become blended together.” – Zohar

When you read this passage of the Zohar, if you do not know Alchemy, you might wonder “what is all of this?” When it is said “from one to the other throne through the various channels between them it becomes more powerful and stronger in its circulatory course”; What is that? What throne is the Zohar speaking about? When you study Alchemy and Kabbalah, you understand that the throne of Chesed, the spirit, which is also called Gedulah, is the cerebrospinal or central nervous system, the brain and the medulla. That is why also the Zohar states that when genesis says “and a river came out of Eden and parted into four heads” all of those four heads and the river are related with the Sephirah Chesed or Gedulah. If you analyze this alchemically, you understand that the throne of God is the cerebrospinal nervous system, and our physical body. And when you are united, sexually speaking, with another throne—that is, when husband and wife are united, because it is only through the sexual organs that the two thrones can unite—then you understand what the Zohar says. As the light passes from one to the other throne, it is an interchanging in the sexual act of the forces of the rivers that the physical body has, in both men and women.

The only channel that can interchange that is Yesod, the sexual organ, and all the plexuses that we have in the body. As the sexual act increases, then you find that it becomes stronger in its circulatory course, similar to the blood in the veins of the body. When you know Alchemy and the mystery of Daath, it is easy to understand that the scripture is speaking about the sexual act; that is the only way to interchange the forces between man and woman.

From the lecture “Kristus Lucifer” at the Glorian website.