(05-04-2017, 12:30 PM)Henosis Wrote: I agree with you. I would say Father, Son and Holy Spirit represents the supernal triad of Kether, Chokmah and Binah. But then viewing this from another perspective I would say the Father/Kether does not represent the Absolute or God, but the first movement of the Absolute.
I also lean toward the theosophical approach that Kether would be the unmanifested Logos, Chokmah the semi-manifest, and Binah the manifest or "form-maker".
I believe the trinity for sure is relating to the supernal triad....the way I'm attempting to use the terms is a bit more archaic and perhaps more "gnostic".
For example, if we take the persona of the Virgin Mary, her "character" would not fit anywhere on the Tree of Life, but if we consider the three sublime states above the tree, from my perspective her persona or "role" becomes clear.
As far as my flip flopping the potential/kinetic and passive/active principles....I can't help but see Chokmah as "potential" yet active while seeing Binah as "kinetic" yet passive...not sure if this is my own understanding confusing me. Chokmah is usually seen as "the potential of what is". Any suggestions for helping me see this more clearly?
Well, kabbalah is a very personal thing, and there is nothing wrong with how you see it if you are deriving value from it. Personally, for me, I've always been of the understanding that the right side represented the "pillar of force/mercy" and the left side represented the "pillar of form/severity". To me Chokmah is pure creative energy. It is all possibilities manifesting at once (actual rather than potential -- could also be described as "infinite knowing"). Binah, is the passive aspect that "constricts" the raw energy of chokmah much in the same way that a funnel would restrict and concentrate water flowing through it. It is like a condenser of possibilities. However, I see the actual "form maker" as Daath, though Binah certainly does play a role in it. Daath balances the two forces in a coherent and stabilized fashion.
Binah focuses the energy by virtue of its form. You could think of Chokmah like the fuel and Binah as the engine that compresses that fuel causing combustion, thereby producing locomotion/transformation. The right side of the tree radiates energy, and the left side of the tree absorbs and manipulates, passively, the energy thus radiated and directs it to where it wants it to go. The only exception would be Gevurah and Chesed, because it is flipped there where Gevurah is the kinetic male/kinetic force, and Chesed is the passive/potential female force.
As far as the Virgin Mary, I don't have any clue where she would go, as I don't consider her to be a real archetypal aspect (but maybe I'm wrong).
I agree that Kether represents the first movement/distortion. It is the manifestation of "will". Though, I don't actually count Kether as a sephirah. Kether is equal to the other ten. Kether is all the sephira as one sephira. It only appears as a sephira, from a perspective below it, but in actuality, it is all the sephira as one. This is just my personal perspective based on my own studies. It is essentially synonymous with the octave concept.