Its Resonance within the Sephiroth

Matthew 5:3

Almost hypnotic in cadence, the beatitudes of the Matthew gospel promise the approval of God and the bounty of his Life Breath to all whose souls honor divine principles. Not pleasantries or random thoughts, the beatitudes address the seats and operations of the Father's Holy Spirit in each of us, stirring our attention and arousing our hope. These teachings establish guardrails for the path that leads to fulfillment of the Ten Sayings that came through Moshe; and they were given to open our ears, that we might hear; to clarify our vision, that we might see; and to soften our hearts, that we might be healed.

Considered in light of the principles expressed in the beatitudes, the ten sayings of Moses are understood as holy prophecies that speak of God's love for us, rather than as dictums to which we must adhere by exercise or denial of personal will. When understood as One, the voices of Moses, the prophets, and the man who is "called" the messiah in Matthew 1:16, proclaim the same path to redemption.

The two-edged sword of scripture holds overtones of betrothal that are more compelling than its warnings against disobedience; and the simple words of the beatitudes, delivered on a lowly hill of Galilee, drive that point home: into the very darkness of our hearts. Strengthening us as it gives us hope, the Sermon on the Mount is a song whose chorus rings clearly with the words, "I will have mercy, not sacrifice."

When the dark powers of the nations are driven out of souls, the attributes of the Kingdom of Names arise within us as HaShem awakens those soul attributes that have been dreaming in darkness, arousing them from deep sleep by the light of the Morning Star. Already in the hearts of the worst of us, Heaven's kingdom has always been advancing against out conscious minds, under the auspices of the hidden presence of ImmanuAL.

At all times, through the depths and the heights of every moment of every life, God's song of point and counterpoint calls upon us to enter into the blessings stored up against the day Mashiyach owcwhy shall guide us into alignment with the will and principles of Father hy.

This study approaches the beatitudes as they relate to Jacob's Ladder, the symbol of the Tree of  Life. It begins with focus on the sphere of Malkuth, which speaks of manifestation of the Kingdom of HaShem, then shifts to a focus on postulations drawn from distant Kether, in order to explore the context of the promised blessings. Personal estimations of paraneters are inadequate and, frankly, irrelevent. The beatitudes encourage us to draw upon the righteousness of hwhy for guidance, as we shall be enabled by HaShem. Correct focus brings appropriate blessings.

To proceed with one eye focused on kether; the other, on malkuth is not so disorderly as it seems. This bifurcated approach is  elegantly set forth in the saying, "As above, so below." However, there are pitfalls to this dual focus, which are addressed by the prophets and affirmed in the message delivered to the angel at Ephesus. The Churches of Asia, which house the seven candlesticks of the inward menorah, are ignited by a single flame. We are heavenly worms of fire buried in cocoons of flesh, and we will emerge as moths drawn by the comforting Light of Heaven, that we might alight without fear upon the hand of God as it presses against our hearts.

What, then, do we make of the night? As evenings come upon us, we trust that mornings will follow, comforted in expectations of a new day. But what of the night? If we find our paths have dead-ended in the land of Canaan, where we find ourselves slain daily by inward swords, we are forced to acknowledge what little we perceive of inward darkness, trusting the Father to be faithful to his promise to forgive and to cleanse. The holy war we must fight is wholly within each of us. The combattants are the twins wrestling within the spiritual womb we perceive as our lives, which are truly hidden with HaShem. Jihad is God's war, not ours; and he must fight for us. Our role search out and welcome his victory. The twins that war in the womb of the soul strengthen us against the outward adversity we encounter in our lives. In the holy war, we measure the spiritual darkness that presses upon inward conflict, longing for reconciliation and relief that will repair breaches, turning the twins born of duality, making each his brother's keeper.

This study is intended to examine what the lenses of kabbalah can add to appreciation of the beatitudes. Whatever the sephiroth contribute to understanding such matters is welcome; for revelation, we recall, is given by the "littles." I don't mean to suggest, therefore, that what follows is ground-breaking interpretation of the gospel's words of Y'shua. To be scrupulously honest, I rely upon the prayers of brethren who read these words, that struggles with this text not be in vain.

To those who think kabbalists make too much of imagery and numbers in scripture, whether implied or explicitly stated, I offer reminder that the hairs of our heads are numbered, a point to which the Essene Teacher of Righteousness gave cryptic emphasis. It's not presumptuous, therefore, to argue that the operation of numbers in the parables of scripture, stated or implied, have purposeful, intended significance.

The beattitudes recorded by Saint Matthew are nine in number. As the sephiroth are ten, the relevance of the nine blessings isn't immediately apparent. However, a tenth beatitude is hidden in the precepts beginning with Matthew 5:13 and continuing, minimally, through the end of Matthew 7 in the teaching of the wise man who both hears and performs the sayings that came by Y'shua. This unstated, tenth beatitude is also affirmed in Revelation 22 by the words of the angel, "Blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of this book."

Kingdoms are ordered by the operation of law, however much grace may abound; and Malkuth, which anchors the inward Kingdom of Elohim, is ordered by the spiritual precepts of Elohim myhla. Y'shúa might have taught, "Blessed are they who shall hear the words of Life and do them: for they shall dwell securely." It's  wonderful, however, that the Silent Voice, giving utterance through Y'shua, a Son of Man, withheld a blessing, keeping it in reserve. Some shall imagine themselves worthy of the nine but shall be confounded by the tenth; so, also, shall some see themselves as unworthy in the nine, but shall, by the tenth blessing, be confirmed in all to all, as it's written, "and the last, first."

There is, perhaps, another reason there is not a tenth beatitude in the Srmon on the Mount. Y'shua taught that the Kingdom-- Malkuth-- is like leaven hidden in measures of meal. Without digressing into what these measures of meal might signify, we note that promised blessings explicitly mentioning the Kingdom of Heaven occur twice in the beatitudes. Why not three times, since the Kingdom of Names is hidden in three measures of meal?

The answer is that the inward Kingdom is not of this world, this cosmos, this age; and its leavening presence must remain hidden until appearance of the full manifestation of the Sons of God. Remaining also hidden, then, is the fullness of God's blessings. The full parameters of God's blessings and the sayings of Moshe, as well, can be understood and welcomed only with maturation of ImmanuAL's Kingdom-- with the manifestation of God's Malkuth within each of us; for it is said of those numbered among those who shall share that reality, that in their mouth is found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of la.

The precepts of the Sermon on the Mount are the distilled essence of Y'shua's doctrinal contribution to the Kingdom of Names. They are the very fabric of the righteous mammon with which the Father clothed him during his ministry. To hold them in one's heart-- not as the words of an individual, but as the guiding L precepts a received through the individual who stood among his peers, giving true and faithful testimony of the Inward Presence creating the fruit of his lips as he channeled the words in the moments he received them of ImmanuAL's inward, silent voice. To cherish those words while reading other scripture is to stand openly before the open Door of that same Presence, from which emanates every nuance of sound interpretation.

Sacred geometry, the royal pattern, was released into the cosmos by the Breath of God. That Pattern-- that Logos-- is called Yahushua owcwhy, the "Shout of Father hy," his Battlecry. The Interface between the Creator and Creation, Yahushua is the Angel of God's Presence; for he was with and of God from the beginning. Yahushua rides upon the command, "Let there be"; for without that Presence, there is no thing. By the agency of this Interface, the Father enlivened the first man with his Breath, his Spirit, his Essence, his Pattern. This is why Adam is the called the first and the last: the first, who is also found standing with the last. Adam is the "Son of God," the cornerstone of the temple made without hands; for in Man are joined the collective of the spiritual Names understood as the Sons of Man, the Children of God.

If a man does not recognize the pattern's presence, still it is there. ImmanuAL's hidden Presence proclaims the Father's will from within the thick darkness of unbelieving hearts, projecting the Pattern until such time the Father has chosen to reveal himself through the operations of  the Interface. Whether unknown by doubters or known by believers, the Interface is also called ImmanuAL, God within us. Doing the Father's bidding because he is of the Father, the Interface is busy perfecting the temple of humanity in accordance with the Pattern of which he is the fullest expression, to the end that all living souls shall be raised up and presented before the Father's throne without spot or blemish at the last day, made ready to inhabit immortal tabernacles capable of exploring the nuances of the Father's Essence in all that is and shall forever be.

To be clear: the blessed fullness of ImmanuAL's Presence was first seen in the life of true and faithful Y'shua, whose ministry bore witness to the will and the power of Father hy. As they served, Moses and the prophets didn't know that their faces glowed; but Y'shua knew the significance of his position. Standing in their company in the presence of witnesses, he was transfigured as recognition of his full measurement of the operations of Yahushua within his bodily walk on Earth. By following in his footsteps as grace shall allow, therefore, each of us shares the promise of standing before the throne of Yah in white raiment alongside Y'shua and the storied saints of scripture.

Resting in the Father's Breath, therefore, we are to exercise faith in his Wisdom by accepting Messiah's cross as our own. We are to mpoverish ourselves. We must be willing to suffer the penalties of error in our ministries; for by his stripes we are healed. In dying, Y'shua teaches, we will not surely die; for some will pass from life unto Life without tasting death. Of the rest it is written, "If you do well, shall you not be accepted?" Through his position as host of owcwhy-- as body of the Projected Breath of Elohim, the Interface between Heaven and Earth-- Y'shua understood that every spent breath of every creature on Earth returns to the Father's care, whatever its savor.

The man Y'shua and his church have been tarnished by error due to the operations of  inertia inherent in human affairs, as in the physical uniuverse. The fall following Golgotha came quickly upon the Essene believers, prompting the lament, "The mystery of iniquity doth already work." Confessing their errors, their sins, these same men understood that none but one shall be tarnished with accusation at the end of days. If any is ashamed of errors, that shame accuses brethren who share the same errors.

Impoverish the spirit of manifest destiny at the expense of less fortunate men. Such thinking isolates you, one from another. Be willing to humble yourself, as did Y'shua at the tables of publicans and sinners. Dare to step again into the ditches with which you are familiar, just far enough to give a fallen brother the boost he needs to heal and regain his way. Although an unknowable future lays before us all, we know that no accusation will stand in the fullness of time. If the Son, the Indwelling, shall make you free, you are free, indeed. Though our errors be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow. Although we became unclean through ignorant carelessness, innocence perserveres in us. Practices brought guilt upon us; but because of the active agency of Yahushua, the Interface, Father hy winks at our errors as we recognize and welcome the inward Presence. HaShem stretches out his arms to us as both Redeemer and Deliverer: as both Author and Finisher of the faith he began in us.

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