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Essays from the Frater Eisenheim Blog tagged kabbalah.
An essay on Yesod in the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, exploring imagination, dream and the astral body as bridges between the spiritual world and matter.
Read essay →An essay on Tiferet, the sixth Sephirah of the Kabbalah, and its solar symbolism as the heart of the Tree of Life, a bridge between the higher and the lower, and a figure of the Inner Christ in Christian mysticism.
Read essay →An essay on Abraham's open tent as an archetype of sacred hospitality, and how welcoming the stranger may be understood as spiritual and ethical practice in daily life.
Read essay →An essay on the Kavod, the divine Glory that manifests as a cloud in the Temple of Jerusalem, and on the mystical paradox between revelation and veil in the Jewish tradition and in Kabbalah.
Read essay →An essay on Gevurah, the sephirah of rigor and justice in the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, and its ethical translation into everyday existence and free will.
Read essay →An essay on Ezekiel's Merkabah, the Hekhalot literature, and the spiritual dangers that the ancient Jewish sages recognized in the quest for mystical ascent to the Divine Throne.
Read essay →An essay on the Shekhinah in the Kabbalistic tradition, symbol of the divine feminine and of the presence that accompanies exile, and on the spiritual nostalgia that runs through all traditions of faith.
Read essay →An essay on the celebrated talmudic narrative of the four sages who entered the Pardes, and on the ethical and spiritual risks of direct mystical experience.
Read essay →An essay on Metatron, the enigmatic 'Prince of the Countenance' of Jewish mystical tradition, and on the limits that rabbinic angelology imposed upon his veneration.
Read essay →An essay on the legend of the Golem of Prague, the creative force of sacred language in Jewish mysticism, and the ethical limits of human will before creation.
Read essay →An essay on the Seal of Solomon as a symbol of spiritual authority, exploring magical ethics and the limits of power in the ceremonial tradition.
Read essay →An essay on the Urim and Thummim of the Israelite priestly breastplate, reflecting on the nature of the biblical oracle and the profound ethics involved in consulting the Sacred.
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