FEAR VERSUS LOVE #2

 The Three Triads on the Tree of Life

 

1. The Triad of Ego is balance by Non-Attachment or Attachment to Ego's three deadly sins 

 (Cherishing of the small self, Desirous Attachment and Judgment.)

Netzach or Non-Attachment to these three are key to opening up to the the Triad of Love.

Do you listen with your heart or are you hearing with your ego.
The possible peril is not a punishment, it is a consequence.
Choice is not enough, action must follow.
Intent, willingness, openness and trust - if you want it all you must offer all. The Ancestors

2. The Triad of Love is balanced by Judgment and Mercy. Judgment is a harder nut to crack and hence it features again in the Triad of Love.

Just as the Heart Chakra is central to the Chakra hierarchy, so is Tiferet or the Sephira of Love central to the T.O.L. The heart Chakra is the most challenging of the energy centers to open, as is the Sephira of Love. Kabbalah states that when the student has mastered Love s/he can teach themselves. Opening the heart Chakra and mastering the Triad of Love is the gateway to 

3. The Triad of Becoming - Enlightenment or Self-Realization.

It will be given to you according to the measure of your humility, the measure of you love and the measure of your faith.

We are continually being tested - not about how much we know or how well we perform but that our ego, our love and our faith are being always tested at unexpected times in often unrecognized guises… The Ancestors

There are ten sephirot or centers of energy similar to the chakras in Yoga. They are linked by 22 pathways. These remind us that everything is in flow at any one time and we are continually being challenged by an excess of constraints inherent on the left side of the Tree as well those of expansion on the right. At any time when we assimilate what does not create balance and harmony we descend vibrationally to a lower level. Spiritual transformation is about coexisting with the unskillful challenges and not assimilating them. 

Finding the middle path of the Buddha is not easy.

The Love Triad on the T.O.L. comprises Love in the center column balanced by Judgment on the left and Mercy on the right. 

Love of God

You need not to love more but to love deeper, not to know more but to know perfectly, not to act compassionately but to be compassion itself, not to follow God but to care for Him/Her; to do His bidding and to share with Him the use of His power through yourself and to let Him use your power. This is why you must become all of who you are.

Our love for the Creator manifests in the practice of Bhakti Yoga, the Christian mystics and other sages It is also typified in the ecstatic poetry of the Sufis, David's psalms and Ecclesiastes. The potential of being able to have a personal relationship with the Divine empowers many to love the Creator with all of their strength, heart and will. 

God’s love does not seek worth, God’s love creates worth.

God's Love for Us

"No human soul is like any other human soul, 

and therefore, the love of God for any human soul is infinite, 

for no other soul can satisfy the same need in God.” Yeats

The Creator wants to have a personal relationship with each one of us so that we can fulfill our God give mission or destiny with His/Her divine help. 

God is not a test of love, God's love is not a test.

 The Ancestors

The Creator's love for us is unconditional. His/Her love is not the test, Karma is the test and is built into the soul as a default. The Creator does not micromanage and the love is expressed by the parable of the prodigal son or daughter returning to the Father/Mother in good standing. The law of Karma, however, is conditional and levels the playing "Field." 

We are made in the image of the Divine and we are a microcosmic chip or a tiny holographic imprint of the Great Spirit. As above so below, as without so within.

God wants a personal relationship with all of us. We are all important and have a spark of Divinity within. Each of us have been given a unique task to fulfill in order to heal the planet. 

The path is not to God but with God.

God is a persistent lover wooing us with many pleasures, lavishing endless grace, wanting our delight, hoping for our trust. The Ancestors

The Supreme Being is said to be playing hide and seek but no one wants to play.

Jeremia says;

 "Search for me and you will find me. Seek me with all your heart and I will let you find me..."

God cannot be realized if there is the slightest trace of pride.

Yoga wisdom

If we put ego aside, open the heart and have faith we are all capable of hearing the soft, silent, still voice of the Divine. It does not come as a trumpeting sound but like a whisper on the wind. The requirements for such a conversation, however, are quite stringent.

God’s breath is heard in quietness and felt in stillness.
Beware the noises and clamor of ego which drown out the Divine whisper. 

In stillness you will be filled with God’s breath. 

The soft, silent, still voice of the Infinite one is heard when Ego is set aside and the Heart is open. This also requires purity and faith.

Determine well your Heart’s desire for in releasing your intention its energy will affect its holiness or unholiness.

Among all who possess great wisdom only those act wisely, who act from love. The early sages taught that the pursuit of wisdom ennobled the intellect with knowledge of God while love brought one into His presence.

To heal the world, you must illuminate with love, warm with compassion and open with wisdom. You must let the Creator continue to create with you.
The thoughts you think are what dominates your lives. You must conjure with care as in carefully and care as in caringly.

The route is not to God but with God.

The Ancestors

 There are certain things the Supreme Being cannot do for the creation that we can. We can tap into and be assisted by the infinite power resident in the "Field" if we are correctly aligned to the Great Spirit, as well as our guides and our ancestors. African wisdom teaches that the ancestors are the intermediaries between us and the  Great Spirit. Kabbalah refers to the metaphor of making bread. The Creator supplies the ingredients but it requires us and the "yeast" to complete the act. Bread is also the staff of life. 

The teaching of the prophets direct us to listen with our hearts;” I am your God you are my child.” The teachings of the mystics reveal to us that God awaits our growth.

 

Among all who possess great wisdom. only those act wisely who act from love…

Listen with your heart, risk being a fool, and risk all if you would gain all.
Risk for love not for gain, acceptance of love will affect gain in your life.

We need to act with love and not for love. Love for its own sake and not for any agenda or perceived outcome

For gain on any level, giving yourself to love will actualize the benefits, often in the most bizarre or perhaps most extraordinary situations but not if that is the reason, instead of for itself, so be true to your motivation.

We can have all the Wisdom necessary (sephira on the top right) to reach Keter but without love we will not realize the Triad of  Becoming. 

If study and prayer do not serve justice and compassion they are but a conceit and a hollow sound. 

Wisdom without love is the deceit of the soul.