Frater FP - The Magician's Kabbalah.pdf - Federal Jack

Kether is in its role in defining the process of Zimzum as Din, which will be examined later in this
chapter. The connection to "primordial wisdom", or Chockmah represents that Geburah plays a role
in connection with the expansion of Chesed (the "Chockmah below the Abyss", as explained in the
former chapter) in a similar way to the role played by Chockmah in ordering the "first swirlings"
resulting from the expansion of Kether.
Indeed, it is hard to examine Geburah without connecting it with Chesed, or showing how
the two merge into Tiphareth as a functional Triad. Geburah, like all the Sephiroth is only one
"snapshot" of a synergetic process, or one node of a network, and thus can only be fully expressed as a
relationship to the whole.
If Chesed is the irrepressibly expanding impulse of love and growth, then Geburah is the
counteracting restraint and concentration. If Chesed is the inclination towards things, the outgoing
nature and the opening-up of the Psyche, then Geburah is the inward withdrawal of powers and the
concentration of power. In Tiphareth is married these dynamic attributes of attraction and repulsion.
An example of the difference between the two Sephiroth is further provided in the martial
arts, and can be found in any other system, where the flow of Tai Chi Chuan is that akin to Chesed,
whereas the Chi focusing of Kung Fu is of the nature of Geburah.
Din, or "judgement", associated with Geburah, plays an important role in the doctrine of
Zimzum, "contraction", detailing the creative process of manifestation. In this Lurianic doctrine, Ain
Soph gathered the "roots" of Din and placed them aside for the process of Zimzum, thus showing the
"withdrawal" of the point of Kether from the Ain Soph Aur as a concentrated act of judgement and
self-limitation. Indeed, it could be called the "original definition", and Geburah embodies the qualities
of definition in its aspect as positive limitation.
In cosmological terms, Geburah represents the state 300,000 years after the Point Zero of the
Big Bang model, the "Epoch of Recombination" (at -255 degrees), where heavy chemical elements
were first formed in the gravitational collapse of stars and the first formation of galaxies. In
Kabbalistic terminology, "the Left hand of God traced the firmament". In the Book of the Law, by
Aleister Crowley, a similar model is utilised in symbolism :
III.72. I am the Lord of the Double Wand of Power; the wand of the force of Coph Nia - but
my left hand is empty, for I have crushed an Universe; & nought remains.