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Shekina
The Jewish-Kabbalistic version of Shakti; the female soul of God. The idea was the God could not be complete, whole, until he was united with her. The Kabbalists believed that it was God's lost of his Shekina which brought about evil.

 


Shekinah The divine Presence, the Sephirah Sovereignty.
the Union With the Sephirah of Beauty, known as the 'Holy One, Blessed is He.' The harmony of the Sephiroth is chiefly brought about by the union of the Sephiroth of Beauty and Sovereignty.

Shekinah
The Autiot of the Shekinah by Carlo Suares
Jewish Encyclopedia: Shekinah
Shekhinah - Wikipedia
encyclopedia mythica: Shekhina
Notes on The Hebrew Goddess Raphael Patai USA 1967/78 ...

Shekinah
Personified as a radiant and beautiful Goddess, the Shekinah is a reflection of Binah, the Hebrew Great Mother.

we come to the SHEKINAH GLORY, whose dazzling brilliance hovered over the
Mercy Seat in the WEST ROOM. Before we can enter into this subject, we must
understand all the symbols that lie between the Golden Candlestick and that ...

the whole world, for he is a mighty prince and greater than any in the heavenly cohort, and he ministers oontinually before the King of the Universe, with purity and separation, and with fear and dread of the glory of his Master, because the Shekinah ...

The "Light of the Shekinah" is a key
term in these texts.
Both Pardes and Paradise, in this tradition,
are seen as full of Light. Adam's experience in
the Fall is the loss of the possibility of
contemplating the Light. The loss of garments ...

It is in this sense of reflection that her truest and highest name in bolism is Shekinah--the co-habiting glory. According to Kabalism, there is a Shekinah both above and below.

Because of this important role of the Shekinah in Gnosticism, Gnostic Tarot decks place an especially strong emphasis on female figures, with goddesses appearing where the Christian patriarchy would use male images.

Wolfson starts out with a comparatively tame excursus, "Female Imaging in the Torah," of a tradition that the Torah is the Shekinah: God's female aspect or emanation that the kabbalist unites with.

You stand in a Palace built for the Indwelling Glory, the Shekinah, the Soul of God. Light spelled in Roman numerals LVX adds up to sixty-five, and so does the Divine Name of Malkuth Adonai (ADNI).

Godfrey Higgins, after thirty years of inquiry into the origin of religious beliefs, is of the opinion that "All the Gods of antiquity resolved themselves into the solar fire, sometimes itself as God, or sometimes an emblem or shekinah of that ...

Schnitger, who made deep researches into the French and German Rosicrucian Treatises: to Samuel Liddell Mathers, the translator of portions of the Hebrew "Zohar," and to Frederick Holland, the author of "The Temple Rebuilt," and "The Shekinah ...

like the female hierophant of the Mysteries of Cybele (Sybil), this symbolic figure personifies the Shekinah, or Divine Wisdom.

The Holy of Holies is kept unpolluted, while the thronging multitudes find all they need in the outer courts. Only those who have been anointed with the chrism of spirituality may pass within the veil, and see the dazzling glory of the Shekinah ...

See also: World, Symbol, Spirit, Soul, Light