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Who are the seraphim? There are only two times the word seraphim is used in the Old Testament, and the actual word used is seraph (singular). They are in the book of Isaiah, verses 6:2 and 6:6. It is my belief that you would have to be a Quabalistic scholar to fully comprehend what Isaiah was conveying in this passage. We can, however, get an excellent understanding of who a seraph is by looking at the definition of the Hebrew word seraph, spelled shin –resh – peh. Also by a definition of the individual Hebrew letters, as each letter of the Hebrew alphabet is also a word.

The Hebrew alphabet is actually the Chaldean flame alphabet. Every letter in their alphabet is a permutation of the letter yod which looks like a flame. A yod embodies the form of a spiral galaxy. Geometrically this is a logarithmic spiral. This is the Pythagorean golden section, or extreme and mean proportion. It is a mathematical ratio that appears throughout the natural world, from the subatomic structure of water molecules to structures in the mineral, plant, and animal Kingdoms. In the macrocosm its crowning glory is the spiral galaxy.

I won’t go into the gematria or numerology of the word seraph at this time. The Hebrew alphabet is also their numerical system, as is the Greek alphabet, so when they think of a word there is a number that accompanies it. Many esoteric truths are concealed in the numerical value of words. For example the number 666 has correlations to various words and phrases in both Greek and Hebrew, as well as mathematical and astrological correlations.

Serpents have been employed as symbols of spirit in many religions and cultures both oriental and occidental throughout history. It is the serpent power fohat or kundalini of the Hindus. It is the serpent in Genesis, the Old Testament symbol for Satan. Christ referred to his disciples as good serpents. He also admonished them to be “wise as serpents”. The medical symbol, the caduceus, is two serpents intertwined ascending a pole surmounted by a sphere. This is an esoteric symbol depicting the rising of kundalini energy up the spinal cord. Notice that there are two serpents to symbolize the positive and negative or masculine and feminine elements.

Satan, in the book of Genesis of The Bible, is symbolized by the serpent in the garden and referred to as the most subtle beast of the field, because it is this serpentine vibration of spirit that we perceive as every object, every substance, and every type of energy that exists in the physical universe. Many people think that satan is the name of some supreme evil being who’s job it is to torment sinners who burn in hell forever. “Satan” simply refers to an element in human personality. Satan, or הַשָׂטָן ha-Satan, (Shaitan in Aramaic) is a Hebrew word that means an opponent, an adversary. It is a reference to the carnal nature; the phrenic mind. Even Jesus struggled with this element in his own personality, shown through the 40 days of fasting in the wilderness when Satan tempts him to “change these stones into bread, you could do it on your head." OK, I made that last part up.

The Hebrew word used in the bible for the carnal nature is Nephesh, translated as “soul”. The vital soul is seated in the tree of life in Labanah (moon). (The Tree of Life is a geometrically constructed, very powerful Quabalistic symbol depicting all the elements: spiritual, mental, emotional and physical in human personality.) The sphere of the moon is also called Yesod, or foundation. Yesod is a symbol for the astral plane. It is the natural dwelling place of the astral body, sometimes referred to as the lunar body.

Interestingly, the serpent is also employed as a symbol for Christ or messiah. In exodus where Moses carried a staff surmounted by a serpent on a cross. Biblical scholars consider this to be a symbol for Christ crucified. The lion was also employed as a symbol for both Christ and Satan. Christ being the Lion of Judea and Satan being a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.

This use of identical symbols to represent opposite things is a powerful subliminal tool used through out sacred writings. It causes the subconscious minds of those “who have ears to hear and eyes to see” to ruminate on the strand that connects these polar opposites. There is a unifying principal that underlies all polar opposites.

The Hebrew word for serpent, Nachash, is numerically identical to messiah (the Hebrew equivalent of Christ). Nachash also means copper (notice the direct correlation to seraph), the metal attributed to Venus, goddess of love and desire. Anyone’s opponent or adversary is nothing more than the carnal nature, or inappropriately expressed body of desires of another person. And of course a spiritual being can be the adversary of a carnal one and vise versa.

The Tree of Life

On the tree of life, the sephirot (emanation) Tiphareth (beauty / sphere of the sun) is the seat of the true ego in humanity; the true ego in humanity being Christ. It’s what Jesus meant when he said “What you do to the least of these my brothers you do it to me”. Directly below Tiphareth, the sphere of the sun, is the sphere of the moon, called Yesod (foundation). Moonlight is polarized or reflected or inverted sunlight. The true ego of humanity, Christ, seated in Tiphareth is reflected and inverted in Yesod. The true egos’ murky and inverted reflection is called Nephesh, the vital soul.

The sphere of the moon, Yesod, symbolizes the astral plane. Your astral or lunar body is the vehicle of Nephesh, your vital soul, or carnal nature. Animal instincts are fine when expressed in the animal kingdom. But when unbridled animal instincts are allowed to habitually posses the personality of anyone, that person becomes what is technically referred to as antichrist. The phrenic (emotional) mind is mental activity rooted in the astral or lunar body. The pneumatic (spiritual) mind is mental activity rooted in the solar body. The soul is their battle ground. The Revelation of St. John is his description of this internal struggle.

The Hebrew word Nephesh means breath, or wind. The Hebrew word Ruach, which means spirit, also means breath or wind. Prana is the Sanskrit word for spirit, and Numa is the Greek. They also mean breath. Nephesh is seated in the subconscious sphere of the moon. Ruach is seated in the self-conscious sphere of the sun. They are the same ego expressing itself on different planes or levels of mental activity or consciousness.

The key to gaining dominion over the carnal nature is to become aware of and then shatter its negative patterns of behavior, which are seated in the subconious or lunar body. These negative patterns of behavior are the accretion of past actions, past negative patterns of thought (stinkin’ thinkin’) and are rooted in Yesod. To overcome these negative patterns, simply stop feeding them. Don’t dwell in the past. Meditate on the negativity, discover the polar opposite, then do that, think that. The negative patterns will starve, and cease to have influence over you.

Yesod is the symbol of the astral plane, the dwelling place of the lunar body, also called the astral body. This body becomes visible through the use of a technology called Kirlian photography. Becoming aware that our carnal nature (Nephesh, the vital soul) is not our true self, but is its inverted reflection in the astral plane, the subconscious sphere of the moon, is the work of the Quabalist (Kabbalah (Hebrew: קַבָּלָה‎, Qabbalah lit. "receiving"; Qabala), or spiritual alchemist. This is “turning lead into gold”.

In the natural human the intellect, or mental activity we attribute the reasoning, or self conscious mind is used to rationalize inappropriate desires. These desires are rooted in the astral body. In a spiritually minded person the intellect is used to filter out desire that is not in harmony with spiritual aspiration. It is the sublimation and purification of the desire nature. Reversing this relationship between the intellect and the desire nature is the necessary first step. So our goal as Quabalists is to attain conscious union with the true ego of humanity. Walking with beauty all around you. Tiphareth,(beauty).

When the conscious or waking mind is seated in Tiphareth then the individual who has attained this level of awareness has the realization that they are not their physical body or their body of desires (accretion of past actions, past thoughts.) or their intellect. We begin to recognize these elements in our personality as vehicles for expressing the will of the true ego, or higher self seated in Tiphareth. Until this transfer of consciousness takes place, the waking mind is dependant on the subconsciously controlled electrochemical /mechanical activities of the physical body. That is the case in the natural human being. In the spiritual human being the waking mind is no longer dependant on the physical body or the brain. The waking mind remains active during sleep or even death. At this point we experience conscious immortality.

The vital soul is the battleground of the higher pneumatic mind and the lower phrenic mind. We are talking about the universal self Yechidah (indivisible) seated in the sephirot Kether (crown), its individual ego/self Christ, seated in Tiphareth, and its imperfect vehicle Nephesh, your vital soul, composed of the accretions of past actions and thoughts of previous incarnations, seated in Yesod.

It’s the same ego operating and expressing on different levels of mental activity or planes of consciousness. Christ is crucified or dormant or un-manifest in the natural, carnal human. Christ is resurrected in the spiritual human. We are talking about a metamorphosis. Morphoo is the Greek word Saul of Tarsus used to describe the process when he said that Christ may be formed (morphoo) in all of you. This relationship between the universal self and its individual ego and the vehicles of that ego is much like the relationship between sound and light and the nerve currents in the human body. Sound is a wave like or serpentine vibration of spirit on one plane. Audible sound has several octaves. Higher octaves of this same energy become manifest as the nerve currents in the human body. Still higher octaves become manifest as visible light. Still higher octaves of this same spiritual energy became manifest as X-rays, Gamma-rays, etc….These higher octaves are much too intense for the human body. They are poisonous to the human body like the venom of a serpent. They burn. And they are emanations of the Seraphim.

Let us now consider the definitions of the Hebrew letters that spell the word Seraph. Remember that each letter of the Hebrew alphabet is also a word. The first letter is Shin, meaning a tooth or fang, the delivery system for the neurotoxin of a poisonous serpent. Many snake poisons digest protein and actually aid in their digestive process. Teeth are primarily tools for masticating food, which is the first step in the process of assimilation. So the idea of assimilation is suggested. The fang of a serpent is a weapon of offense and defense, and the teeth of animals in general are secondarily weapons of defense and offense. From these attributions we may understand Seraph ingests some form of sustenance or energy, and on some level they engage in activities, both offensive and defensive.

Dark matter calls to mind a passage, “Jehovah dwells in the thick blackness.” Thick blackness is a perfect term for dark matter. Hey, you guys, can you please think up a better term than “black hole” for these radiant emanators of the physical plane. (Yes I know emanator is not a word but it should be.) I like the Quabalistic term Ama, which loosely translates as “dark sterile mother”. A black hole is a galactic core or embryo prior to the formation of its galactic body. Ama becomes Aima, “bright fertile mother,” after she has been quickened or inseminated by what is symbolized by the Hebrew letter yod, the equivalent to the english letter I.

Remember the yod is a symbol for a creative power that is employed throughout the mutation of empires from the subatomic world to the galactic bodies. Yod quabalisticly translates as the creative hand of God. The physical shape of the letter yod is the physical shape of a spiral galaxy. Cosmologists tell us that there is a black hole at the core of the galaxy. In every galaxy in which they can verify the existence of a black hole, the mass of the black hole at the galactic core is directly proportional to the mass of the galaxy. Little galaxy, little black hole. Giant galaxy, giant black hole. The mathematical ratio is identical in every galaxy. every time.

As the body of the galaxy grows the seraph at its core grows its body to accommodate it. The galaxy is an extension of the physical body of the seraph at its core. The geometric shape of the Hebrew letter yod is the geometric shape of the spiral galaxy. The spiral galaxy is geometrically a logarithmic spiral. The geometry of a logarithmic spiral is rooted in the mathematical proportion called the Pythagorean golden section, or extreme and mean proportion. The lesser part bears the same ratio to the greater part as the greater part bears to the whole. There’s a hermetic axiom that says “That which is above is as that which is bellow and that which is below is as that which is above.”

This ratio is also manifest in the construction of the pentagram and the hexagram. The hexagram is an esoteric symbol of the universe. The pentagram is the symbol of humanity. Quabalists call humanity the microcosm, or little universe. Spherical water drops will freeze into hexagonal shapes (snow flakes). This same mathematical ratio is employed over and over again in the formation and construction of physical bodies, from the subatomic elemental kingdom to the mineral kingdom, to the plant, to the animal, to the galactic body. This ratio manifests the harmonic unity of nature. All of the animating spiritual energy, i.e. sunlight, electro magnetism…, all of the physical material in the universe - that is, every element on the periodic table - enters into this mental plane of vibration, the "physical plane" through these gatekeepers, these doorways these shining, fiery, radiant stellar beings, our progenitors, the seraphim.

The physical universe stands on their mantra, their meditation, their song of life. Within them we live and move and have our being. And if you can receive it, humanity is the crowning glory of their activity. On all the shining worlds throughout the universe - and there are an infinite number of them - it is human self-consciousness that stands as intermediary between the subconscious world below and the super conscious world above. “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” Hermes was the messenger of the gods. When properly employed, self –consciousness has the ability to bring divine order or super conscious activity into expression through subconscious processes. All of our incredible scientific discoveries and all of the amazing technology that are the products of these discoveries are pale shadows of the dormant powers that sleep in all of us. “And greater miracles than these shall ye do.”

The outer gas giants of our Seraph’s solar body or solar system correspond to its immune system; its defense system. The outer gas giants suck up asteroids, comets and other potentially life exterminating objects that happen to be heading our way. Human self conscious awareness is another offensive or defensive element of the seraphim. At this point in our spiritual development these powers are infantile. The most offensive weapon we exoterically possess is the runaway fusion reaction. We are children playing with matches -a necessary step in the learning process. We’ve got to crawl before we can walk. And we must learn to master these energies on the scientific or self conscious level. Fission is the necessary dirty first step. Clean safe fusion is coming.

We are the offspring of a being whose physical manifestation is a beautifully controlled fusion reaction. It is only natural for children to emulate the activities of their parents. Once a thing is mastered on the conscious level, it becomes “head knowledge.” The subconscious mind incorporates this “head knowledge” at the cellular level. Spiritual revelations shatter the boundaries of the conscious or waking mind. This process results in a shift of the seat of the self conscious mind from the astral body, Yesod the sphere of the moon, to the solar body seated in Tiphareth, the sphere of the sun. We are the immortal children of the gods, now whether we realize it or not. This shift results in conscious immortality. In biblical times people were stoned for making statements as blatant as this. I am simply agreeing with Jesus who put it this way,”Those within whom the word of god dwells, you are gods.”

Let’s move on to Resh, the second letter of Seraph. Resh literally translates as the front of the head, i.e. the face. Quabalisticly it is the grand countenance or the face of the sun. Putting a human face on a solar disk has been artistic fun for all throughout human history. I like it.

And finally, the third letter, Peh. Peh means the mouth as the organ of human speech. At this point I would like to refer to a passage right at the beginning of Genesis. “And God said, “Let there be light. And then there was light.” Notice a spoken word preceded the emanation of light. Of course this phrase is symbolic. Cosmologically speaking however, this is exactly the process of star formation. Hydrogen is a vibration of spiritual energy we refer to as a proton and an electron. These are the elemental masculine (electron) and feminine (proton) principals in union on the subatomic level.

Notice at this point in the creative process there is no neutron. The neutron appears, like the birth of a child in the birth of the helium atom, the offspring of fused hydrogen. As above, so below. Hydrogen is the spoken word of a disincarnate seraph, uttered in the amniotic “Thick Darkness” or dark matter. Cosmologists observe hydrogen condensing out of dark matter like raindrops condensing out of the atmosphere. This activity is the spoken word or mantra or meditation of a seraph. Accretion of hydrogen around a vital point (the central point of a seraphs’ meditation referred to quabalisticly as “rashith ha gagalim,” or the beginning of the whirlings) continues until the intense heat and compression causes the hydrogen atoms to start to fuse on the subatomic level. Light becomes manifest at this point. A seraph is born.

Yes, the physical body of a seraph is a star. This phrase “rashith ha gagalim” is an attribution of the sephirot, Kether. The implication is that Seraphim are in conscious union with the universal self, Yechidah (the indivisible), seated in Kether. When a seraph goes supernova it is undergoing an alchemical process: Sublimation, Regeneration, and Reorganization of its physical body. Cosmoligists think of this process as the death of a star. In type 1A novas and lesser novas this is true. But with a hyper nova the process is a metamorphosis.

A supernova is a stellar orgasm… No, really. It inseminates the surrounding space with the seed materials, that is, all the elements on the periodic table. Each element is a chant, a mantra, a song of life uttered by a seraph. This insemination process is received by long living slow burning Seraph like our sun. This impregnation leads to the formation of the planetary bodies, which are the outer organs of the Seraph. The earth correlates to the womb of the sun. We are its offspring. If the Seraph gone supernova has mastered the alchemical process it has entered a new phase of its creative life. A galaxy is born.

As with most Hebrew words there are many subtle definitions of the word Peh, all of them illuminating. But the final definition I would like to leave you with is Peh, meaning two-edged. It calls to my mind a passage from revelation,”And from his mouth proceeded a two-edged sword, and his face shone like the face of the sun”.

All of this that I have written is me trying to put into words my motivation for creating my art. Art is the universal language of the subconscious mind. Images. Symbols. I want you all to catch a glimpse of the universe the way I see it. It is a dance of life. It is a beautiful flower, the crowning glory of a being vast, infinite, and eternal. It is light in extension. Life does not begin here on earth. In the "physical"universe it begins as solar radiance. Solar radiance is the life power of the Seraphim. That light is the life in man.

Please excuse the lack of citations in this blog. It is not meant to be a scholarly work, but as a way to share ideas. There are many sources that you may use yourself, Many books of the bible when properly interperted are wonderfull quabalistic manuscripts. Strong’s Concordance, Wikipedia, and Quabalistic publications if you wish to study any of the presented information. Much great information can be found through study material provided by Builders of the Adytum. The conclusions are purely those of the author of this blog.