Briah
In the Kabbalah, this is the third of three stages of the progress of the spirit, in three original ranks or classes. Men are called upon to proceed from the lower to the higher.
At the level Briah/Creation, we function through our vehicle of consciousness called spirit. This is a level so abstract, that we can only grasp it through numbers, pure mathematics, the suchness of things.
B 1 to B 10, Briah, the Archangelic World of Creations.
C 1 to C 10, Yetzirah, the Hierarchal World of Formations.
D 1 to D 10, Assiah, the Elemental World of Substances.
II. Meditations for BRIAH.
Answer these questions (22 questions numbered 32 to 11 to aid in relating them to the diagrams and to other material in this book.)
32. Taw: What do the words: "Totality of the material universe" mean to you?
The four worlds are Atlizuth - the world of emanation or nearness Briah - the world of creation Yetzirah - the world of formation Assiah - the world of making The names of three of the four worlds can be found in Isaiah 43.
Kabbalists view the Tree as acting in or through four worlds: Atziluth (Archetypal World), Briah (Creative World), Yetsirah (Formative World) and Assiah (Manifest World).
The second Adam resided in the sphere of Briah. Like the first Adam, this being was androgynous and the tenth division of its body (its heel, Malchuth) corresponded to the church of Israel that shall bruise the serpent's head.
The four scales of colour are a Qabalistic idea, and pertain to the Four Worlds: Atziluth, Briah, Yetzirah and Assiah. They are given in the tables in Aleister Crowley's The Book of Thoth, as well as in his celebrated Liber 777.
Each sephirath is a level of attainment in knowledge, corresponding to energy centers in the body, and is also divided into four interlocking sections or 'Worlds', which constitute the cosmos: emanation (Atziluth), creation (Briah), ...
The three worlds below this point are called: Briah, Creation; Yetzira, Formation and Assiah, our mundane world, which terminate even with at of the feet of the source of all sources, Adam Kadmori.
Next is Briah, or the World of Archetypes and forms as our human mind can grasp them. It is symbolized as the World of Air, and is the result as a barrier world that is formed by the creation of the next World, Yetzirah, or Water.
 See also: World, Ritual, Light, Spirit, Spiritual
  
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