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As we can see, it's not yet cost effective. When left to choice and not forced by the state, consumers will choose the cheaper option.Hide replies
The 4 thumbsdown are from people who want a higher electric bill obviously.
no, it's cause i just don't like you AND fenderguy.
Chuck - actually it's worse than that. They want all of of us to pay more. Kind of a "share the pain" plan that goes along with the recent election. They are more interested in everyone feeling the pain opposed to everyone enjoying a better economy where the rich may see a larger increase in income.
Ya . seems that they are very generous with other peoples money, and the dumber and more wasteful the reason the better they like it.
Bravo! The rates people pay should reflect the cost to generate that power. If a few hippies and treehuggers want solar power, let them pay for it. The rest of us shouldn't be burdened with this nonsense.Hide replies
So glad you moony and fender are finally catching up.
"New York, New Jersey put $71B price tag on Sandy"
That $71 billion should come right from oil, coal, and natural gas revenues.
Same goes for the crop losses this year. Those should be paid from oil, coal and natural gas revenues.
John what exactly are you rambling about? You want green energy, which really isn't green, then you should pay for it. I love the libs. They want everything paid for by other people and when they don't get it, it they who claim racism, hate or ignorance. You want green start writing checks. Same for your bike paths. You want them, you pay for them.
jtr, which part didn't you understand?
So, gas, oil and coal caused Sandy? Glad you aren't a lawyer with that logic.
Chuck, sorry about all those concussions. When did you first begin to think that law school prepared students for science?
Can you find anyone who disagrees? "Koch-Funded Study Finds 'Global Warming Is Real', 'On The High End' And 'Essentially All' Due To Carbon Pollution" http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/07/28/602151/bombshell-koch-funded-study-finds-global-warming-is-real-on-the-high-end-and-essentially-all-due-to-carbon-pollution/
The Koch brothers can't.
jimtherepublican: If I have to pay for my bike lanes, then you foot the bill for the streets required by your SUV. And the free public parking spaces, curbs, street cleaning, higher insurance costs from accidents, health impacts from emissions, environmental ones, too, and all that damn snowplowing. Biking is cheaper than your option. So no, jim, you pay.
We do pay for streets! Its call a gas tax
Talk is cheap, but "green" power isn't. Glad that we'll see how much support really exists for renewable energy, as people finally have to vote with their wallets on a realistic level.Hide replies
Voting with you wallet is the only thing that actually works and is maintainable. People continue to complain that so much manufacturing is moving overseas, yet continue to mandate purchasing from oveseas manufacturers through their purchasing choices.
Exactly, green energy isn't cheap and would be a major burden to the middle class. People think solar power is 100% green but ignore the amount of energy it's required to make the solar panels. Making them a complete wash. It's a viable energy source when you're in a remote location from a power plant, but not as main power supply.
The regulated monopoly and token puppet PSC have spoken, here come the mysterious rolling black outs in the summer as the air conditioners will always be on during peak consumption now. Lets keep building coal powered plants even as natural gas has become super cheap and sorry but our CEO needs a larger bonus but energy efficiency and the recession have caused usage to go down, impacting our profits, time to triple your rates. We are all sheep to WE and dont even realize it.Hide replies
This part really has nothing to do with 'green energy':
"Separately, the PSC also allowed We Energies to discontinue its "energy partners" program that credits residential customers up to $50 if they agree to let the utility shut off their air conditioner during times of peak energy use." why is it suddenly, now not profitable? I've had this program for the last 6 years and have not once noticed my air conditioner being locked out.
Seems counter productive.
The "costs" that no one seems to count here are the health costs associated with coal, the environmental costs of both coal and gas, and if you want to throw transportation into the mix, the military and geo-political costs of supplying oil.
Add all that up and renewables are much cheaper than you think.Hide replies
No, actually it's still much higher per person.
Nope. If you do the actual math on the cost for addressing pollution, solar wins hands down. It's the difference between running a dry cleaning business that's allowed to dump in the river and running one that isn't.
The reality is that @ present Natural Gas prices Solar PV power installed would have to be @ $1/Watt. Prices have come down considerably in the past few years but we still have quite a way to go. To discount Solar power's significance is short sided and dangerous to our energy security. That $1/Watt installed price might get here sooner than you think.
It's a voluntary program. If you want WE to invest in solar and wind then go ahead and pay for it. If not then your rates shouldn't be artificially increased due to someone else's desires.Hide replies
Amen, and About time.
I'm enrolled in the Energy for Tomorrow program at the 100% level. I do it because I made the choice to do so. It's voluntary. No one forced me to subscribe. If you don't like the hike then unsubscribe. Quit whining.
Hey, how about if we have the costs of pollution from WE Energies love affair with coal only fall on those who support coal? Except, we can't do that. So why would we exact costs for clean energy only on those who want to be responsible citizens?
WE Energies signed a contract with RENEW and then they walked away from it. Any company doing business with WE Energies should take note that they do not respect their contractual agreements.Hide replies
Read the article, WE has more than met it's obligation in money spent.
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An estimated 225,000 adults in Kansas City cannot read. They are denied some of the simplest and most important moments in life - from reading a bedtime story to a child to filling out a job application.
To celebrate the joy of literacy and the efforts of individuals who have learned to read as adults, The Writers Place and Literacy Kansas City present the fourth annual The Power of Reading: A Celebration of the Written Word on Thursday, September 13, 2012, at 6:30 p.m. at the Plaza Branch, 4801 Main St.
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When Pacific Theatres operated this theatre the seating capacities were 244, 244, 244, 227.
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i still live around the corner from the Eagle Rock Plaza, all i remember (during it's final years) was one of the screens looked like it had a heavy diffusion lense on the projector. The first patented "Murko-vision".
I'd be interested in hearing more about this place in the 70's. Too bad there are no cinema's left in the eagle rock area. The theatre scene is dead. These are the final years before D-Day
The Eagle Rock Plaza Theatre, that was located on the second floor next to Wards (Now Target), was owned and operated by Pacific Theatres since 1973. It became second-run in the fall of 1996, and was closed in September, 1998. An Independent theatre operator took over the theatre around January, 1999 after the theatre was newly remodeled and closed down for about a few months and lasted until November, 2001. I remember seeing a lot of movies there such as "Short Circuit 1 & 2", "The War of the Roses", "Good Burger" and many others. They basically played movies on 4 screens whenever the Glendale area isn't playing there. It was a good theatre that lasted for 28 years. I still missed it from this day.
I worked there a couple of times under Pacific Theatres During the mid-80's
Boy, how I remember those shoebox shaped theatres there. I remember how big of a thing it was when the Eagle Rock Plaza, and its theatres, opened since it was the first mall and multiplex in the Glendale area. I remember seeing Rocky and Jaws 2 there (among other films) and how easy it was to just from one theatre to another to see movies, and not get caught.
I saw Phantasm as a kid 1978 there!!!
Joseph, The theater was not on the second floor, it was on the first floor. I worked there when Phantasm showed in 1979! In early 1979, someone walked off with about $10,000 in cash from the managers office. They were sure it was an inside job but they could never prove who did it. They polygraphed everyone but never solved it.
Yeah it was on the 1st floor I had my 1st kiss there wow weird. Oh and to Joe W the janitor took the money it was an opportunity not planned he happen to see it in the bag with the zipper and everyone knows what a money bag looks like. He didn't think it was really the money because it was so packed but he looked and there it was. He waited there which I'm sure seemed like 10 years and he no doubt was sweating with a heartbeat he can see through his shirt. For a while he stood there contemplating what to do and thinking someone just might walk in at that moment. He wanted to just take it and run. The manager went to the restroom for a long time apparently. So he finally threw it in the trash with wheels he used while working and rolled it away and proceeded to keep working and look as normal as possible. When the cops got there he already hid it in a safe place but they never even batted an eye his way. Later he went home when it was time then came back at 2 am and got the loot. Cameras were available this is what happens to cheap skate owners and careless managers. Sad but true there are scumbag people everywhere and you'd never know it no matter how good you think you know them. Case: ~SOLVED~
Wasn't the original Eagle Rock sign different in the 70s/80s? I can't find ANY vintage pics of the place
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If the younger ones in your house are headed off to school this week, or perhaps they've started already, you may be thinking a little about the future. As in how are you going to pay for their college education? Ray Hennessey, editor of SmartMoney.com offers from timely advice.
Perhaps the most important point is that it is never too early to start saving. You don't want to start thinking about putting money aside if your child is a senior in high school. Putting a little aside can go a long way later. "It's like retirement, the earlier you start the more you have at the end," Hennessey explains.
One of the nice things about saving for college now is a 529 college savings plan. They have many advantages if you use them. Withdrawals are tax-free, they are sponsored by states or large fund families for some extra safety, and they are flexible, working as either a savings or prepaid tuition.
However, there are some drawbacks to using the 529 college savings plans. First, there are high fees. Secondly, the money can only be used for education. "Johnny's got to go to college or you lose a lot of the tax benefits," warns Hennessey. Finally, 529 accounts count against your financial aid. If you've saved up a lot, you may not get the best deal on a loan or you might receive less aid.
There are other options other than the 529 plan, but the key is to save your money. How much should you save? Hennessey always suggests never putting money into a college savings that you were originally saving for retirement. "When you get ready to retire, it's not like you can take out a loan," he says.
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Dr. Carl Sagan on November 15, 1983, received a letter addressed to him at the Space Science Building, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. The letter spun stories of possible terrorist happenings. The communiqué was signed "M. Springfield." A pretext call was made to M. Springfield who was located in the telephone directory. The call revealed that M. Springfield died in 1972, and his widow now resides at the address. She had no knowledge of the letter sent to Dr. Sagan.
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Hi,I have translated everything, but categories in the bottom part of my website are not switching to English. Is it template limitation or I do something wrong? Link to my website Oslo Photo Tour
Thank you in advance,
Hi,I have translated everything, but categories in the bottom part of my website are not switching to English. Is it template limitation or I do something wrong? Link to my website Oslo Photo Tour
Thank you in advance,
What category? Everything seems translated to me...
It's "only seems". I was able to translate pages, but not categories. Since my site oriented towards Russian customers I have 1 category in English (it is not translated) and the rest in Russian.
I see...
Are you sure you've created the oslo-tips category in Russian and correctly linked it to the English version?
Also, your permalinks are a bit weird, you have both http://oslophototour.com/en/category/oslo-tips/ and http://oslophototour.com/en/oslo-tips/
Furthermore, do you have access to your theme files? If yes you might want to add a language variable to the loop showing the bottom category, something like:
<?php $lang = substr(get_locale(), 0, 2); ?>
<?php $yourquery = new WP_Query( array( 'lang' => $lang )); ?>
Hi Teolives, sorry being away for too long.
Honestly I don't know where to add the code you have posted. Before we getting in the issue I'll try to explain what kind of problem I have. While adding an extra language in menu I was using "empty" and "main". Unfortunately I don't find something similar for categories or perhaps I do something wrong.
Can you suggest what to do?
thank you in advance,
Sorry, I'd been away from these shores for a while as well.
I don't get this:
I was using "empty" and "main"
What do you mean?
I think if you go to Post -> Categories, you should be able to link the Russian and the English category (you should click on the category you would like to associate to the other language and in the bottom part of the screen, in a dropdown box, you'll find a list of untranslated categories).
Also, do you have the same post translated in both languages? When I'm on your English page I see Russian articles and viceversa: link the two articles together by entering the other language's post ID in the language box in the edit post screen (you'll find the post ID by hovering over the post name in the post list. If the language box is missing in the edit post screen, check your screen options)
Hope this helps... we'll sort it out.
Dear teolives thank you for coming back. Is it any way how I can attach print-screens? It seems like I have a theme limitations.
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St. Patrick's Day
Tomorrow will be dedicated to planting a new bed of leeks and onions. If there is time I will likely add a few more rows of peas. Today has been spent potting flowers and hanging baskets. I love flowers and we have a beautiful assortment of beautiful colors waiting for our on farm and farm market customers. From petunias and osteospurnam to juncos twister, rose moss and a huge assortment of succulents… we will have several unique ideas that will combine flowers with edibles and create a full season of flowering beauty.
This weekend we are offering our on-farm visitors a special treat. We are offering special deals on our asparagus crowns and strawberry plants. Now is the perfect time to plant both for a great start to the season. Visitors to the farm will be treated to a special thank you… a free Toucan Tango… a lovely delicate flower with beautiful lavender petals and a bright green center. The toucan tango is so pretty and unique it is worth the trip all by itself. While you are here you can take a sneak peak at the many hanging basket designs we will offer this spring.
Happy St. Patrick's Day and fair warning my girls will pinch you if you forget to wear your green!v


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He was Frank Spychalski, from Steigertsbraun, Germany.
Mr Spychalski died after apparently falling about 200m from
near the top of the Cascade Saddlein the Mount Aspiring
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Police recovered the man's body yesterday after an aerial
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Acting Search and Rescue (SAR) co-ordinator Senior Constable
Mike Johnston, of Wanaka, said a friend of the deceased
contacted police on December 23 to report the man was overdue
from a tramp which he started on November 29.
''The deceased has fallen on a snow patch very near the top
of the climb. He has been unable to stop his fall and slid
down the snow and over the edge of a ridge into a near
vertical gully, stopping approximately 200m below,'' Snr
Const Johnston said.
''This area of the Cascade Track has had previous
The recovery was conducted by members of Wanaka LandSAR,
Alpine Cliff Rescue, Wanaka police and Aspiring Helicopters.
Snr Const Johnston said the Cascade Track was a steep and
challenging ''poled'' route over the Cascade Saddle which had
a high level of risk and required a high level of skill.
Police will publicly identify the man once his family in
Germany has been contacted.
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The Legacy of Martin Luther King: Time to Break the Silence
[Editor's Note: In anticipation of the anniversary of the March on Washington on August 28, 1963, God's Politics will feature a series of posts on the
This year, as we celebrate the birth of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. we are too often tempted to celebrate what has been achieved rather than examine what God continues to call out of us. Hopefully we know that there is no such thing as "post-racial," even after the election of an African American president.
Many would have read reports of Rowan Williams wonderful sermon in Copenhagen. Below are some of my favorite quotes. What some may have missed is this fantastic talk he gave. ...
"He who sings prays twice." -- Saint Augustine
"What's going on?" -- Marvin Gaye


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Sweet Pea and Potato Pasta
- 12 ounces fettuccine (3/4 box)
- 6 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/2 pound Yukon gold potatoes, cut into 1-inch pieces
- kosher salt and pepper
- 2 pounds garden peas in their pods (2 cups shelled)
- 6 scallions, trimmed and chopped
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan
- Cook the pasta according to the package directions. Drain, return the pasta to the pot, and toss with 4 tablespoons of the oil.
- While the pasta cooks, place the potatoes in a large pot, cover with cold water, and bring to a simmer. Add 1 tablespoon salt and cook until tender, about 12 minutes.
- Meanwhile, shell the peas. When the potatoes have 2 minutes left to cook, add the peas to the pot. Finish cooking, drain, and transfer to pasta pot.
- Stir in the scallions, ¼ cup Parmesan, remaining 2 tablespoons oil, ¾ teaspoon salt, and ½ teaspoon pepper.
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Tokyo Narita Flights Resume After Quake Strands 13,800 People
Tokyo's Narita International Airport, Japan's main overseas gateway, said nine flights would leave today as carriers begin clearing a backlog of about 13,800 travelers stranded by delays following an earthquake.
No planes will land at the airport, Shohei Kagawa, a spokesman, said by telephone. It has yet been decided what services will operate tomorrow, he said. There was no visible damage to runways, Ryoko Yabe, a spokeswoman, said earlier.
Tokyo's Haneda airport, Asia's second-busiest by passengers, resumed flights after an initial shutdown following the 2:46 p.m. earthquake, the nation's biggest in at least a century. Japan Airlines Corp. and All Nippon Airways Co. canceled at least 292 flights nationwide, affecting more than 60,000 travelers, following the magnitude 8.9 quake, which also forced the suspension of Tokyo subway and bullet-train services.
"It is likely that flights to Japan may continue to be affected in the coming days," Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. said in an e-mailed statement. The carrier advised passengers to check its website before traveling.
China Southern Airlines Co., the nation's largest carrier, canceled four Tokyo flights for tomorrow and halted ticket sales for services on March 13, it said in an e-mailed statement.
British Airways canceled its Narita and Haneda flights today and the return legs tomorrow, Cathy West, a spokeswoman, said by phone. Air France-KLM Group diverted a flight to Osaka and delayed takeoff for another in Paris by four and half hours, it said by e-mail.
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Directors: Kazuo Minami, Howard Davison, John Quinn
Company: Playboy Entertainment Group
Distribution Companies: Image Entertainment
Cast: Traci Dali, Inari Vachs, Tony Menke, Mick Thomas, Tawny Roberts, Others
Critical Rating: Not Yet Rated
Genre: Alternative
In this humorous look at four "urban legends," Playboy puts its money where the camera is and brings each of these tales to life. Professionalism is right on the mark in this video, with realistic sets, great photo work and gorgeous actors.
Mick and Tony set the stage for each vignette, providing lots of wise guy remarks and horny humor. Every story centers around sex of course, and there's plenty of it, in all positions and very realistically portrayed. Even in the dialogue, girls beg, "Fuck me, oh, please fuck me harder!" and men moan in ecstasy while longhaired beauties fellate them.
Each story is amusing, arousing and "comes" with a surprise ending.
Playboy fans and couples won't want to miss this one: highly entertaining.


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Local Vulnerabilities in Current Kernels
Recent kernel versions back to the older kernel 2.6.17 may contain a vulnerability that can be exploited by local attackers.
Although a fix for the vulnerability is now available, the solution does not seem to be totally secure. A vulnerability gives local attackers the ability to manipulate or hijack the system. Network attackers are said not to work. The vulnerability has been confirmed in kernel versions 2.6.17 through 188.8.131.52. A new kernel version, 2.24.2, was released Monday, however, the developers were not entirely sure if the vulnerability had really been removed. The current developer kernel 2.6.25 is said to have reliably fixed the security bug.
The bug was caused by pointer handling in programs. The "vmsplice" function, which was affected, was introduced with kernel 2.6.17. It supports faster transfer between various memory areas. The vulnerability was caused by incorrect validation by the "vmsplice_to_user()", "copy_from_user_mmap_sem()" and "get_iovec_page_array()" functions prior to performing memory operations. Under certain circumstances attackers could use a carefully crafted call to "vmsplice()" to read or write to kernel memory space.
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Chapter One:
The Kabbalah of Gnostic Christianity
Purpose and Nature of the Kabbalah
The Kabbalah is an archaic system of Jewish Mysticism that has its roots in the assembly of prophets of ancient Israel and the Merkavah Mysticism of Palestine during the time of Jesus (Yeshua in Aramaic). Considering that Yeshua was Jewish and his disciples were Jewish, and understanding him to be a mystic and prophet of his time, it is reasonable to assume that he taught a form of the mystical tradition that has come to be known as the Kabbalah.
For this reason, many mystical and gnostic currents of Christianity have arisen that take the Kabbalah as their foundation. This is certainly true of the Sophian Tradition, which is so interwoven with the teachings of the Kabbalah that it is impossible to separate out Gnosticism and Kabbalah in the Tradition. Essentially, one might call the Sophian Tradition a Christian Kabbalah or a form of Gnostic Christianity that draws heavily upon its Judaic roots. Therefore, to explore Gnostic Christianity, as expressed in the Sophian Tradition, we must explore some of the basic ideas of the Kabbalah from which the teachings and principles of our Gnostic Christianity are derived.
The principal teachings of the Kabbalah were designed to explore and find answers to some basic questions:
Considering the vast height, depth, and breadth of these metaphysical questions, one can imagine the enormous amount of esoteric teachings, practices, and literature that has formed around the Kabbalah in the course of thousands of years. Although there are many modern truth-seekers who have read a book or two on the Kabbalah and mistakenly assumed they know the Kabbalah, the truth is that even a master of the Tradition, who has studied and practiced the Kabbalah all of his or her life and who actively embodies something of the enlightenment experience it represents, would not claim to know the Kabbalah. One could say that God knows the Kabbalah and that, for our part, we know what we have received of it in our own experience—which is a far cry from knowing the Kabbalah as God knows it.
Essentially, the teachings of the Kabbalah represent the accumulated knowledge, understanding, and wisdom of initiates, which have been gathered from their own direct spiritual experience of the metaphysical dimensions of creatures, creation, and God. The Kabbalah itself is the knowledge, understanding, and wisdom of the true nature of creatures, creation, and God-which is known in full only to God. If the whole of the Kabbalah is in a book, then it is the heavenly Book of Life of which the Holy Scriptures speak, and not any earthly book.
The teachings of the Kabbalah are founded upon the Bible, along with other books of Scripture that did not make their way into the canonized Bible. Thus, to study and understand the Kabbalah in its proper context is to study and understand the Scriptures also. Just as many mistakenly assume that they know the Kabbalah from reading a book or two, likewise many assume that they are knowledgeable in the Kabbalah without being well-studied in the Scriptures. Ultimately, however, one cannot study and understand the Kabbalah without also studying and gaining some understanding of the Holy Scriptures. To engage in the study and practice of the Kabbalah is to embark upon a mystical journey into hidden levels of the Scriptures and the secret wisdom they contain. In essence, the Scriptures and the Kabbalah are one and the same.
Three Branches of the Kabbalah
The teachings of the Kabbalah are divided into three principal forms: the theoretical or contemplative Kabbalah, the meditative Kabbalah, and the practical or magical Kabbalah. The theoretical or contemplative Kabbalah is an intellectual study and contemplation of the principles, doctrines, and correspondences of esoteric wisdom, including gematria, the associations of numbers and geometrical patterns, and so on. The meditative Kabbalah represents the teachings and practices of mystical prayer and prophetic meditation-methods through which one can enter a higher state of consciousness and experience unification with the divine. The practical or magical Kabbalah represents teachings of invocations, incantations, rituals, and such, through which one is able to shift states of consciousness at will and to consciously direct hidden spiritual forces. From this, one will understand that the Kabbalah is both a mystical and a magical Tradition. Here, we will be dealing primarily with the contemplative Kabbalah and to some extent the meditative Kabbalah. The magical Kabbalah will be referred to in passing at different points of this book; however, it is not the subject of this work.
The Ten Holy Sefirot and the Tree of Life
There are ten Sefirot (plural), which are generally referred to as Midot, meaning "measurements" or "dimensions" and, by extension, also meaning "attributes" or "qualities." The Sefirot are emanations of the divine presence and power of God, or the infinite light of God, and they are vessels receiving God's light and transmitting it to creation. They are gradations of the involution of the infinite light into finite creation, and thus are gradations of the evolution of creatures on the path of return-like rungs on a ladder of light. When we read of Jacob's vision of a ladder reaching up from the earth to the heavens, upon which he beheld angels ascending and descending, the Kabbalah would say that that Jacob had a vision of the constellation of the Sefirot that forms the Tree of Life.
The word Sefirah (singular) is related to the Hebrew word saper, meaning "to express" or "to communicate," and to the word sapir, meaning "sapphire," "brilliance," or "luminary." It is also related to the words sefar, meaning "boundary"; sefer, meaning "book"; and safar, meaning "number." All of these terms represent related concepts and indicate the two basic functions of the Sefirot: lights or emanations that act to reveal and express God's presence and power (Shekinah); and vessels that limit and delineate the infinite light of God, bringing it down into the finite realm of numeration and boundary.
Essentially, the Sefirot, and the various levels of their manifestation called Olamot or universes, represent the metaphysical structure of creation or the vehicle through which creature, creation, and God are connected and interact. In Genesis, ten utterances are listed through which God creates. These correspond with the ten Sefirot and suggest the idea of creature and creation as the revelation or expression of God and as the vessel receiving and imparting the divine presence-hence the body of God. Through the Sefirot, God reaches out to us and we are able to reach into God.
The most common way these Sefirot are represented is as a glyph called the Tree of Life (Otz ha-Hayyim). The Sefirot are depicted as ten circles that form three triads, one atop, one in the middle, and one below, with a single Sefirah set as a pendant below the lowest triad. In this same configuration they also appear as ten circles divided into three columns-one to the right, one to the left, and one in the middle-which are called "pillars." These are two ways to view the same glyph (figure 1, below).
The Middle Pillar is therefore the path of the ascension, representing the dynamic balance of all polarities or opposites, and the integration of everything that would otherwise be fragmented. The Kabbalah teaches the Middle Way, akin to what is found in forms of Hinduism and Buddhism in the Eastern schools. For this reason, whether the tree is viewed in terms of the triads or the three pillars, the Sefirah Tiferet (beauty), which is the Christ center on the tree, is in the middle.
As there are ten circles representing the Sefirot on the Tree of Life, so also are there twenty-two lines connecting the Sefirot, to which the Hebrew letters are attributed. Thus the tree is composed of thirty-two paths, which in the Sefer Yetzirah are called the "Thirty-Two Paths of Wisdom." Various correspondences are given to both the Sefirot and the Hebrew letters. Through the interrelationship of correspondences, initiates are able to look and see the mysteries contained in the Scriptures and are able to gain insight into the mysteries of creation and God. Yet more, they are able to receive the ongoing divine revelation in the same way as the prophets and apostles of God before them.
The Olamot-Universes
The ten Sefirot manifest through five different levels or dimensions, which are called Olamot, meaning "universes." These Olamot are known as the universe of Adam Kadmon (primordial human being), the universe of Atzilut (emanation or nearness), the universe of Beriyah (creation), the universe of Yetzirah (formation), and the universe of Asiyah (action or making). The Olamot extend from the supernal abode of the divine to the material plane of existence, the universe of Adam Kadmon being nearest to the light of the Infinite and Asiyah being the material plane of existence. The ten Sefirot manifest in each Olam, thus there are ten Sefirot of Adam Kadmon, ten Sefirot of Atzilut, ten Sefirot of Beriyah, ten Sefirot of Yetzirah, and ten Sefirot of Asiyah, for a total of fifty Sefirot, which are called the "Fifty Gates of Understanding."
These five Olamot correspond to the divine name of Yahweh (Yod-He-Vau-He), frequently called the "Tetragrammaton" because it is composed of four letters. Adam Kadmon is represented by the upper tip of the Yod (y), Atzilut by the body of the Yod, Beriyah by the first He (h), Yetzirah by the Vau (v), and Asiyah by the final He. This divine name is said to be contained in the universe of Adam Kadmon and it is said to contain all other divine names, the divine names being within it and yet being worn by it as "garments."
The divine name of Yeshua or Yeheshuah (Yod-He-Shin-Vau-He), which is the name of Yahweh with the addition of the letter Shin (w), represents the embodiment of the divine presence and power of Yahweh and thus something of the spiritual energy of Adam Kadmon. The universe of Adam Kadmon and the Sefirot it contains, therefore, represent the Soul of the Messiah. This gives insight into the title "Son of Adam" (son of man), used for Yeshua in the Gospels.
To gain some insight into the nature of the Olamot, one might contemplate them in terms of the sun and its light and the moon that reflects the light. First, one must understand that, looking at the sun, one does not see the sun but rather sees the glory or radiance of the sun. Therefore, within and beyond what one sees is the sun itself. From the "sun within the sun," light is generated and that hidden place of the generation of light would correspond to Adam Kadmon. The glory or light of the sun one beholds would correspond to Atzilut. The light passing to the moon would correspond to Beriyah. The light of the moon itself would correspond to Yetzirah, and the light of the full moon shining upon the earth would correspond to Asiyah. In a similar way, the light of the Infinite passes through the Olamot from Adam Kadmon to Asiyah, and thus, the supernal light is progressively veiled and reduced in intensity.
Another way of gaining some understanding of the Olamot is to consider them at the level of human experience. The inmost will of a human being corresponds to the universe of Adam Kadmon. The level of pure awareness or preconceptual and undifferentiated mind corresponds to Atzilut. The process of thought itself corresponds to Beriyah. Speech or communication corresponds to Yetzirah, and action corresponds to Asiyah.
Adam Kadmon = Will
The best way to contemplate this is to consider the creative process of an architect who is designing a large building complex. First he or she decides what kind of buildings will fit the purposes for which they are being constructed. Then he or she draws up the corresponding plans and considers how each building will serve its function in relationship to the other structures. Finally, he or she gives orders to his or her workers and the actual construction begins.
In our analogy, the level of Adam Kadmon is represented by the desire and decision of the architect to build before there is any particular plan in mind. Atzilut would be represented by the process of designing a plan for the building on the most abstract level. Once there is a blueprint, everything still remains at an abstract level and thought must be given to figure out exactly how the plan will work or how it can actually be implemented. Up to this point, everything has taken place in the architect's office, but now seeking to practically apply the plan, the architect must go to the site.
Going to the site and thinking things through on a more practical level, bringing the idea down from the abstract symbolic form into something that can be implemented, would represent Beriyah. When the architect communicates the actual ideas and methods of construction to the workers, this would be akin to Yetzirah. The actual work of construction would correspond to Asiyah; the finished product itself would represent the final Sefirah of Asiyah (Malkut of Asiyah).
The analogy can be taken even further into all purposeful human activity. Any time a person decides to do something, he or she conceives a general plan. As he or she gets closer to enacting it, his or her thought processes almost spontaneously trigger nerve impulses, which then travel through the body. The person's muscles follow the commands of the brain and bring about the corresponding action.
We are experiencing something of the Olamot all of the time through our own process of translating will or desire into awareness, thought, speech, and action-a communication that happens at light-speed through our nervous system. From the most subtle and imperceptible levels to the actual manifestation, life comes forth, as though something from nothing. This is true throughout creation.
The Universe of Adam Kadmon
One of the most basic teachings of the Kabbalah is that God and Godhead is ultimately nameless and unknowable, and that, therefore, nothing can be said about God. We can talk about emanations and manifestations of God's presence and power, about attributes or qualities of God and how we encounter the presence of God in our experience, but not about God as God is. We can allude to or indicate something about God, but we cannot speak of God directly. For this reason, the most common reference to God in the Kabbalah is Ain Sof, which literally means the "One-Without-End." God has no beginning or end, but is the Infinite, and therefore cannot be characterized or defined.
At the level of Ain Sof, there is only the one being-consciousness-force, the Infinite and eternal, and nothing else exists. Even the distinction of God and Godhead does not exist at this level, and thus, from our point of view, Ain Sof is the unmanifest-completely inconceivable and incomprehensible. From this state of no-thingness (Ain), every idea or category of existence must be created, formed and made as though out of nothing; yet as everything comes from this no-thingness, it can also be called divine fullness. Although nothing exists in it, the unmanifest is pregnant with the divine potential of everything.
Will or desire (Ratzon) is the first expression of Ain Sof in the creative act, for in order to create and sustain creation, God must will or desire to create and sustain creation. The level of Adam Kadmon corresponds to the will or desire of God that is the underlying foundation for all the proceeding levels of existence-the initiating principle of creation. In essence, the first emanation of God's presence and power is the will or desire to create, which precedes creation itself, and that will or desire is what is called Logos and Sophia-the word and wisdom of God.
To say that God "created" this divine will or desire is a fundamental misconception according to the Christian Kabbalah, for this will or desire that is called Adam Kadmon is, in fact, inseparable from the light of Ain Sof (light of the infinite). It is an emanation of the bornless Spirit of God, which, although made distinct from Ain Sof, is completely inseparable from the infinite and eternal. Adam Kadmon always existed in Ain Sof, although as divine potential. At the outset of creation, this divine potential emerged as the first of all holy emanations and is the interface of the infinite with the finite creation.
Because Adam Kadmon is inseparable from Ain Sof, it is called Ain (no-thingness), and thus the Sefer Yetzirah speaks of the Sefirot of Adam Kadmon as "Sefirot of nothingness." The whole of creation comes forth, as it were, from the womb of Adam Kadmon, the womb of God's will; therefore, this idea of nothingness does not imply a lack of existence. It is an emanation of the divine fullness in the no-thingness, from which the whole of creation is brought forth.
Adam Kadmon alludes to the ultimate purpose or intention of God in creating. The term itself is an anthropomorphism that literally means "primordial human being." If the letters of the Tetragrammaton are placed on a vertical line, with Yod at the top and the remaining letters placed in their proper order in descent, the image of a human being is formed by them (see figure 2). Likewise, the configuration of the Sefirot is frequently depicted as the body parts of a human form, each Sefirah corresponding to a part of the human body. What is suggested by this is that the ultimate purpose of God creating was to create the human one-the image and likeness of God.
To understand more deeply what this means, one must consider what a human being is, or is meant to be. A human being is a creature of higher intelligence that is self-aware and therefore can be aware of the existence of God. Because of this intelligence and self-awareness, a human being is capable of conscious evolution toward higher states of awareness and more refined and higher forms of life-specifically, an evolution toward unification with God. A human being has the capacity to consciously unite him- or herself with God and to embody something of God and the Godhead-the capacity to attain supernal consciousness or enlightenment.
To say that the ultimate purpose of creation is the human one is to say that God's ultimate purpose is to express or communicate him- or herself-to reveal him- or herself and make him- or herself known. The ultimate knowledge of God is unification with God and embodiment of God-Messianic consciousness or Christhood.
It is as though God, who is the Being of the Becoming, seeks self-knowledge through the act of creation. God creates because it is God's nature to create-to express and know God. While one can know nothing of God at the ordinary level of consciousness, in a state of conscious unity with God, the presence of God within oneself knows God and Godhead beyond oneself.
This fruition of creation is prefigured in the person of Yeshua Messiah (Jesus Christ), who represents the first human one to emerge from within humanity, embodying something of the Soul of Messiah-one anointed with the supernal light of God. The universe of Adam Kadmon in the Christian Kabbalah represents this level of attainment and all of the mysteries associated with it. It is the universe of the Soul of the Messiah, the Olam of supernal light.
At the level of Atzilut, the divine names and the Sefirot are one and the same; the Sefirot are the divine names and the divine names are the Sefirot. Therefore, the level of Adam Kadmon corresponds to the holy letters from which the names are derived and, specifically, to the power of the word-wisdom of God of which the holy names of God serve as vehicles or channels.
The Universe of Atzilut
The word "Atzilut" is derived from the root etzel, which means "nearness." As the name implies, Atzilut is near to the infinite light, so near, in fact, that, like Adam Kadmon, Atzilut is also called Ain or no-thingness. Atzilut is the domain of the Sefirot proper, the holy vessels of Atzilut being filled with the infinite light via Adam Kadmon. If the existence of the primordial essence of the Sefirot at the level of the universe of Adam Kadmon were conceived of as the body of Adam Kadmon, the Sefirot at the level of Atzilut would be as garments of light.
The concept of Atzilut is not an easy one to describe. For all intents and purposes, one could say that it is truly alien to our perception of reality. One could characterize Atzilut as the level of reality that does not yet exist, or a level of reality beyond the space-time-consciousness continuum in which past, present, and future exist as a simultaneous reality-one ever-present reality. If this is not alien enough, at the level of Atzilut, not only are past, present, and future a simultaneous reality, but so also is every possible outcome, which is to say every possibility of the past, present, and future, not only of one single space-time continuum but of all possible space-time continuums!
Another characteristic of Atzilut is that knowledge, the knower, and the known exist in complete unity, so that there is no subject-object relationship and, in truth, no duality whatsoever. It is supernal or supramental. If one were to experience consciousness at the level of Atzilut, one would experience the knowledge and reality of everything within oneself-a state of pure radiant awareness. In the words of St. Paul, "One would know fully, even as one has been known."
With the coming into being of the Sefirot proper in Atzilut, along with God's will or desire, God's wisdom, understanding, love, power, lordship, dominion, splendor, righteousness and kingdom emerge, and through them the great name of God is revealed. At the level of Atzilut, the Sefirot exist in an archetypal state and in perfect unity and harmony with one another-without any differentiation or division between them. God is One and he and his name are One. Only at the point when the Sefirot are manifest in a lower universe can they be conceived of as separate forces.
The Universe of Beriyah
Adam Kadmon and Atzilut together form the realm of Yichud (Unity), but at the level of Beriyah, the realm of Perud (Separation) begins, which is to say, the appearance of independent existence and separation. According to the Kabbalah, creation occurs through a process of tzimtzum (constriction), in which God must withdraw his or her infinite light into him- or herself to make a primordial space in which creation can take place. The effects of this tzimtzum begin to manifest and play themselves out at the level of Beriyah.
The term "Beriyah" is derived from the Hebrew word bara, meaning "to create" and the Aramaic word bar, meaning "outside" or "external." Therefore, Beriyah indicates the concept of creation brought from within God and distinct from God-"outside" of God or "separate" from God to some degree. Likewise, it suggests the creation of something new and distinct or creation "ex nihilo." In Hebrew, this idea is represented in the phrase Yesh Mi-Ani-"Something from nothing." In relationship to Atzilut, which is near unto the divine, Beriyah is outside or apart from the divine-two dimensions removed from the divine.
While the Sefirot at the level of Atzilut are expressed by the divine names, at the level of Beriyah they are expressed by the archangels-the divine powers of creation. However, all cosmic or spiritual forces at the level of Beriyah are not divine, for with the constriction of the infinite light and separation, cosmic ignorance emerges and, with cosmic ignorance, forces of evil and darkness enter into creation. Therefore, along with the divine powers, there are admixed powers and dark powers. All of these together are the cosmic forces through which Beriyah, Yetzirah, and Asiyah come into being-Beriyah being mostly divine and Asiyah being mostly admixed and dark.
Beriyah corresponds to the first He of the Tetragrammaton, which is the "window" through which the true nature of existence is revealed and the mysteries made accessible. But in the process of this revelation, the cosmic forces become distinct and individual entities, some oriented to the universe above and others oriented to the universe below-some in submission to divine will and others seeking their own dominion over creatures and creation. Thus gods and goddesses, archdemons and demons, and all manner of spiritual entities came into being with the holy archangels. In Gnostic Christianity, Beriyah is therefore called the beginning of the dominion of the demiurgos and archons-the cosmic forces of ignorance.
In mentioning the reality of evil at the level of Beriyah, it must be said that evil is not seen as having an independent existence apart from God, as nothing whatsoever can exist in complete separation from God's presence and power. In the Kabbalah, the cosmic forces of ignorance and the "Evil One" are understood to be a secret operation of the Holy Spirit-so secret that such entities do not even know that, ultimately, they are serving God's plan in creation. Cosmic ignorance and evil is what makes free will possible in creation and therefore is an integral part of the divine plan.
The Universe of Yetzirah
The word Yetzirah comes from the root yetzar, which means "to form." Yetzirah therefore denotes the formation of something from a preexistent substance, hence the Hebrew phrase Yesh Mi-Yesh, "something from something." This is illustrated in a verse from the prophet Isaiah in which God says, "I form (yotzer) the light and create (boreh) darkness" (Isaiah 45:7). The light exists before creation and comes from within God and therefore is "something from something," but darkness did not exist before creation, did not come from within God and the Godhead, and therefore was created "something from nothing." However, at the level of Yetzirah, both the light and the darkness are formed, for darkness was created at the level of Beriyah, as were all cosmic principles and cosmic forces. In Yetzirah, the principles and forces found in Beriyah are shaped into more distinct patterns of form-hence the universe of formation.
In this process, there is a further division or separation of things-a further involution of the one becoming many. This is represented by the manifestation of the Sefirot in Yetzirah as orders of angels. Whereas, at the level of Beriyah, the presence and power of the Sefirot manifests as a singular entity, namely an archangel, in Yetzirah, the Sefirot become hosts or choirs of angels, the one presence and power manifesting as the countless many. This further division or separation of things happens through the cosmic ignorance that was created in the process of the tzimtzum. Thus, along with the generation of hosts of holy angels in Yetzirah, there is also the generation of legions of impure and evil spirits-beings-forces of admixture and darkness. At this level of creation, the divine order and the dominion of the demiurge exist in a dynamic balance so that Yetzirah is equally of the light and of the darkness.
In comparison with the realm of Yichud formed by Adam Kadmon and Atzilut, the light of the infinite is extremely restricted and therefore distinctly veiled in Yetzirah. There is a great difference between manifestation at the level of Atzilut and at the level of Yetzirah, which is well reflected by the correspondence of pure awareness or undifferentiated mind to the former and speech to the latter. One need only consider the difficulty of conveying one's mind and one's thoughts through speech to another person and the gap of subjectivity between the speaker and the listener. One might speak quite clearly and yet be sorely misunderstood as the meaning of one's words can easily be taken out of context. The same is true of cosmic forces manifesting at this level. They are often distorted and certainly less than the divine glory of the higher Olamot.
Speech, being attributed to Yetzirah, represents the feeling or emotional level as well as actual words. Speech not only conveys thought but is also a translation of thought into feelings and emotions, which represents a lower gradation of the original ratzon (will or desire) underlying creation. Therefore, emotion is the motivating force at the level of Yetzirah-speech and emotion.
The universe of Yetzirah is often called the world of angels and, conversely, the world of demons. Asiyah is the material or physical universe. Therefore, speaking of Yetzirah as a world of spirits alludes to the play of spiritual forces within and behind everything that transpires in the material world. Essentially, as human beings, whatever we link ourselves with through our thoughts, emotions, speech, and actions, we bring down from Yetzirah into substantial being at the level of Asiyah, whether that be something angelic, admixed, or demonic. Contact with something angelic is a link to the divine, as angels are links between human beings and God. Contact with something admixed or impure is a distorted or imperfect link to the divine, while contact with something demonic is a removal of oneself from the divine presence. To commune with angelic beings and righteous spirits, one merely needs to align one's thoughts, feelings-emotions, words, and actions to those of the holy angels. Angelic beings are always seeking contact with humanity and contact is made any time we are willing. As the Kabbalah says, "Think of the holy angels and they will think of you and come to you."
The Universe of Asiyah
Asiyah is the universe of making, the word Asiyah being derived from the root asah, meaning "to make." Asiyah therefore connotes the final outcome or completion of the process of creation. At the level of Asiyah, the spiritual world and material world interpenetrate and interact, the material world being the most restricted or dense manifestation of spiritual energy. It is in Asiyah where potential is fully realized and actualized-the fulfillment of creation.
The supernal light of Atzilut is the secret center of every particle of matter, matter itself being crystallized light that has assumed the densest possible form-form representing force locked up into patterns of its own making. Thus, at the level of Asiyah, the light of the Infinite is most thickly veiled and hidden. In this sense, Asiyah is the dimension most removed from God's presence or the realm in which God's presence is most restricted, and yet the presence of God is everywhere within creation at the level of Asiyah-within everyone and everything.
Cosmic ignorance is the principle of constriction or restriction; therefore, cosmic ignorance tends to dominate the universe of Asiyah. Although this means that impure and evil forces have a great influence upon creatures and creation at this level, it also means that there is a full and complete freedom of will in Asiyah. Although restriction and bondage is the function of cosmic ignorance, its ultimate purpose is freedom or liberation.
Through cosmic ignorance, the light of the Infinite evolves into the material universe through gradations. Likewise, through gradations, creation is linked with the Infinite and is able to evolve toward the Infinite. Along with making free will possible, darkness also makes evolution possible, providing the resistance, tension, stress, and friction necessary for the development of higher and more refined life-forms and, thus, the development of higher and more refined states of consciousness-being. Therefore, Asiyah is designed for the awakening of souls-for the realization and actualization of divine potential.
This truth is given in the name of Yeshua, one of the esoteric meanings of which is "knowledge of the truth will set you free!" Only through a process of incarnations in Asiyah is a soul able to awaken and actualize the divine potential of the infinite light within it, and thus to evolve beyond the need for the dense forms of physical or material existence. Asiyah allows for individuation so that, returning to the realm of Yichud and uniting itself with the universal and primordial dimensions of divine being, the soul is able to maintain self-awareness while in unification with the divine. Hence, the individual is not simply reabsorbed into an unconscious union but is fulfilled and completed in a conscious unification. It is Asiyah that makes this possible.
The Kabbalah says that, at the level of Asiyah, the spiritual energy of the Sefirot manifests through the stars and planets. Because of this, astrology is often the primary method of divination into the purpose and meaning of the soul's incarnation, as the birth chart reflects the configuration of Sefirotic influence at the time of one's birth. There is also a teaching in the Kabbalah that proposes that the stars serve as the bodies of archangels in the physical universe, their cosmic rays and light being likened to angels. Gnostic Christianity often speaks of God's presence in Asiyah as our "earthly Mother," and of features of the land, creatures, and forces of nature as "angels of our earthly Mother."
While these ideas may fall upon many modern ears as superstition, or seem silly to a noninitiate, the meaning is quite simple: the material and spiritual worlds are intimately connected and are ultimately inseparable. The material universe comes forth from the spiritual universe and is the outermost manifestation of the universe of the Spirit. There is a vast metaphysical reality within and behind the material plane of the universe. In fact, there are countless inner dimensions that are as equally "real" and distinct as the physical or material dimension. When there is the appearance of a miracle, it is simply the operation of the cosmic law acting through the hidden dimensions upon the material dimension. It only appears as a miracle to one who is unaware of the metaphysical dimensions of reality and the play of spiritual forces within and behind what transpires in the material world.


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