Elemental Mysteries

Mystics pursue a reunion with source.

Mystics tend to journey straight up the middle pillar of the Tree of Life, experiencing the horizontal paths like speed bumps.

• Malkuth: Experience the joy of the natural world
• Yesod: Experience our own ego as sublimated to a higher plane of existence
• Tiphareth: Discern the presence of divine light within yet separate from nature and self
• Kether: Filled with the divine as the sunlight penetrates the air

And in between each of the stages, we experience a dark night of the soul that causes us to question all that we gained in the previous stage. And we lose for a time, the joy, the higher plane and the divine light ... only to awaken to an experience that shakes us to our very core.

And at every stage, we struggle to find the words, the images, the melodies that can help us to orient our everyday life experiences into this expanded awareness.

by Katrina Messenger