Sephirotic Tree

Цель настоящей статьи состоит в реабилитации в глазах научной общественности древних представлений о мире, имеющих целочисленное выражение, и в их возвращении в понятийный аппарат современной науки. Целочисленное моделирование, кроме математического программирования, встречается в системах микроэлементов деятельности, а также в древних мифах творения и числовых моделях бытия. Разные способы структурирования 10-элементной целостности отражают уровни её системной организации в пифагорейском тетрактисе, древе сефирот иудейской каббалы, древнеиндийской саанкхье. Структура пифагорейского тетрактиса может быть обнаружена во фрактально-кластерной модели, но относительные единицы значения, составляющие её, получают традиционно десятичное или процентное выражение.

This paper aims rehabilitation of the ancient ideas about the world, which have an integer expression in the eyes of the scientific community, and their return to the conceptual apparatus of modern science. Integer modeling, apart from mathematical programming, can be found in the systems of microelements of activity, as well as in ancient myths of creation and numerical models of being. Different ways of structuring 10-element integrity reflect the levels of its system arrangement in the Pythago-rean tetractys, the Sephiroth tree of the Jewish Kabbalah, in the Old Indian Saankhya. The structure of the Pythagorean tetraktis is found in the fractal-cluster model, but the relative units of value, that make it up, have the traditional decimal or percentage expression.

Humanity is beginning to lose its visionary imagination; this blind-spot continues to grow in proportion to the evolution of human materialism.  Many of us find it hard to visualize and cannot imagine the formless, immeasurable nature of the Spirit when human nature requires data that can be measured by the five senses.  The Spirit because it is ineffable is known through attributes or forces that produce and execute the work of divine creation in several steps of phase transitions.  Process is the key to life on Earth in Time.  Very little is left to human imagination in this fast paced world where everything is explicitly revealed and processed in the media and the Internet.  Time moves as fast as our minds can take us.  Our brain is forced to continually upgrade its built in hard-drive as our heart hopes to keep the beat of our mechanical lifestyles.  We live in the scripts of our daily lives like words lost in a sentence due to our lack of literary imagination.  We are bombarded with megabytes of facts and fictions that pose as reality.  Facts can become extinct and reality is not always what it appears to be on the surface.  Sometimes what seems like important facts, aren’t really facts at all. Still the human need for meaning and a feeling of connectedness is unfulfilled and our facts don’t seem to matter much in the face of adversity and death. 
      The public opinion of Apocalyptic and Pseudipigraphic texts is a good example of how unchallenged facts can hamper the progression of human and spiritual evolution.  This literature carries a symbol that means very different things to different groups.  The idea most commonly associated with the term ‘apocalypse’ involves doomsday cults and military religious sects.  Its original connotation implies ‘revelation’ and a continual revelation of hidden things to be exact.
    Cultural, national and political symbols are not always factually true, but they have a great influence on public opinion.  Can symbols be factual? Yes.  Symbols represent realities to the degree that it represents the experience that led to its creation.  Have we lost the ability to consciously experience the meaning of spiritual symbols?  Many of us do not understand how to apply or understand the mystical symbols of apocalyptic texts; we do understand ordinary symbols needed to survive in the business and scientific world.  Our higher spiritual consciousness is not being nurtured if we only rely on cultural, national and physical symbols.  The destiny of humanity is to restore the higher spiritual consciousness of Primordial Adam.  The function of mystical symbols is to allow the mind to transcend its physical limitations and many ancient mystics documented their experiences of this in the literature that has such a negative image in the public eye today.  Should there still be so much antagonism towards the literature that plays such a major role in the development of Christianity?

L'albero rovesciato, come simbolo cosmologico generale, può essere applicato al mondo nel suo insieme (macrocosmo) oppure all'uomo, che ne rappresenta l'immagine sintetica (microcosmo). Questo studio è rivolto specificatamente all'aspetto microcosmico e in particolare alle interpretazioni di tipo anatomico e fisiologico. Il libro contiene anche un'estesa antologia di testi in lingua originale.

O perspectivă științifică asupra Arborelui Sefirotic reprezintă o încercare de a găsi punctele de convergență între viziunea științifică și cea mistică-esoterică (în general cunocută din tradiția kabbalistă) asupra diagramei de tip arbore care acoperă și exprimă în mod abstract-simbolic toate aspectele esențiale ale Realității. Totodată, cartea propune un dialog integrator, în care structura binară a mentalului uman reflectă asupra întregului Cunoașterii printr-o abordare reconciliatoare a celor două paradigme de gândire antagonice, religia și știința.

Renata TATOMIR este profesor universitar și cercetător, doctor în istorie, specializată în egiptologie. Are o formație multidisciplinară, iar preocupările sale academice vizează interese și abordări inter-, pluri- și transdisciplinare, de la istoria antică a Orientului, la arheologie și istoria religiilor, și de la fizică la esoterism.