Names
Binah (Understanding or Intelligence)
Keywords
Understanding, intelligence ...
Binah or "Intelligence". Binah is the expansion or development of Hokhmah, and the "Womb" of the Cosmos; containing all phenomena in latent or seed form. As Gershom Sholem explains: ...
Binah
Guinan is a woman shrouded in mystery. When the plot demands it, she plays the role of mother to the crew, and even Picard goes to her for advice. She is one of his very few confidants.
Say "Binah" (3) and visualize a black sphere that radiates as though it were light and that envelopes the right half of your brain. This is the place of perfect understanding, not understanding of particular things, but of all existence.
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Here again, Binah is the Mother who sorrows for the absent Persephone (the etheric-life force) who spends half of the year in Hades (ninth Sephiroph - Yesod), while winter occurs on earth.
Proceed now to Binah (2). With love, the Great Mother brings forth........what? That which we desire. This is how karma is created, by desire. If can eliminate desire, we can eliminate karma. But we love desire with a passion.
The paths between these spheres are the same, except that the paths that would normally connect Binah with Tiphereth and Chokmah with Tiphereth instead connect Binah with Chesed, and Chokmah with Geburah.
The Supernal Triad Kether, Chokmah, Binah, is indicated by the three crowned female figures at the centre of the dome of the temple.
[20] However, in a study dealing with binah - understanding and its derivatives, Moshe Idel has shown that this term implies an oral transmission of the secret meaning which cannot be understood from the verses alone.
Atque hæ sunt triginta duæ semitæ sapientiæ, quæ à sapientia suprema procedunt, & actuantur à Binah, hoc est, intelligentia.
we find Sephira [Kether], the first androgyne, at the apex of the upper triangle, emitting Hachama [Chochmah], or Wisdom, a masculine and active potency--also called Jah, יה--and Binah, בינה, or Intelligence, ...
The consequence of the fall is chaos in the path structure below the Supernal Triangle (Kether, Chokmah, Binah).
For example in the first triangle Chokmah, the male principle, is opposed by Binah, the female principle. These principles are thought of as the Father and Mother respectively.
Binah: Studies in Jewish Thought: (includes Gershom Scholem: Between History and Historiosophy)
Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - Gershom Scholem: A Life in Letters, 1914-1982 by Gershom Scholem, reviewed by The New Republic Online ...
The Buddhist tells of Amităbha, the Boundless Light, Avalokiteshvara and Manjusri; the Părsî, of Ahura-Mazda, Spento and Angro-Mainyush, and Armaiti; the Hebrew, of Kether, Binah and Chockmah; the Christian, of Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
It corresponds to the Supernal Sephiroth generally, and to Binah specifically.
Personified as a radiant and beautiful Goddess, the Shekinah is a reflection of Binah, the Hebrew Great Mother.
Kether (Heb.) "The Crown, the highest of the ten Sephiroth; the first of the supernal Triad. It corresponds to the Macroprosopus, Vast Countenance, or Arikh Anpin, which differentiates into Chokmah and Binah." ...
 See also: World, Ritual, Spirit, Light, Spiritual
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