Nature of Life

There is misery in the world. Obviously this is true. Perhaps no one is more cognizant of this little fact than myself. It is the nature of Existence.

Most view existence as a very good thing. It is what we see, feel, hear and touch, ergo, this is what was supposed to happen. What if it was an accident? What if each new layer of Creation added walls between us and Godhead? We know, through references to the Edomite Kings in the Old Testament, and through other writings in the Sepher ha-Zohar that there were failed worlds, in which the balance was upset and the Edomite Kings ruled. This world is simply the one that sort of worked.

But why does it work? The Fall. The Fall is the only reason that we're here today, thinking, feeling, smelling, touching, tasting, &c. The Fall of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden is a simplified notion of the Qaballistic dealing with the Fall. Creation was formed by contractions of the Divine Will, by adding layers and layers of reality, almost like an onion, except God started with nothing in the beginning and technically ended up with no onion. The Tree of Life comes into play as follows: Take Light from Ain Soph Aur, the Limitless Light, and pour it into Kether, the first sephira, let it flow into it until even Kether can hold no more, and spills over in Chokmah, which spills into Binah, and all the way down into Malkuth. Now, Malkuth is the last sephira, so where does this spilling over of Light go? It cannot go any further, so the whole system gets "backed up" with Divine Light, and the sephira all crack, except for the Supernal Triad, Kether, Chokmah, and Binah, who retain their Divine shape and properties.

The other sephiroht didn't precisely crack, it is more like someone smacked a sphere too hard and broke off a few outer layers, which they shed like skin. These shells became the Qlippoth (the Kelli-poht) or Shells. They mirror the positive sephiroht with negative ones. The reason we are here is because of them. They formed the Balance. The entire Tree dropped when the Fall ocurred, and now Malkuth and the last of the Qlippoth (because the Tree of the Qlippoth is upside down to mirror the Tree of Life)... they didn't merge but they are a bit too close for comfort. And now we are susceptible to the influence of both Sephiroht and Qlippoth. The goal of Qaballah is to correct the Fall in each of us.