KETHER

KETHER - FIRST SEPHIRA

Within Kether there is, as of yet, no division. There is no activity as we understand it. However, inherent in Kether are the potentialities of the remaining Sephirot, and the will of God. This will emanates as “thought”, via Chokmah, and then as “intellect”, via Binah. Kether is “the concealed of the concealed”. In other words, Kether itself is not manifested, but it causes manifestation. We may also see Kether as the crown above the head of the archetypal man Adam Kadmon.

Essentially, Kether is the sphere wherein one’s self is annihilated by the proximity to the Godhead. It is the aim of all spiritual and religious experience to reach the state of existence represented in Kether.

The most important name given to Kether is Arik Anpin, “the Vast Countenance”. Arik Anpin is not God, but rather the partly revealed aspect of the Godhead.

Correspondences:

Titles and Names: Arik Anpin Concealed of the Concealed

Ancient of Ancients Ancient of Days

The Vast Countenance The Godhead

Hebrew Letter(s): Alef, yod, nun – Ayin or Ein (“nothingness”)

God-name: Eheieh or Ehyeh ( I am)

Archangel: Metatron

Tarot: The four Aces

Ace of Wands: Purity/Source of Fire

Ace of Cups: Purity/Source of Water

Ace of Swords: Purity/Source of Air

Ace of Pentacles: Purity/Source of Earth

Pillar: Head of the center Pillar of Mildness/Equilibrium

World: Atziloth, Archetypal

Genesis: (1.1) “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”