Regarding The Power Of Soul


By Dorthy Lloyd


A soul has ten powers which correspond with the ten emanations. They all have names similar to these attributes. The soul can be expressed and also manifested using these powers. The powers are of two categories namely the encompassing powers and immanent powers. The super conscious powers named Oneg and Ratzon correspond to the inside and outside dimensions of the Keter. The Immanent aspects of the power of soul have divisions of intellect and emotions with the intellect powers being of three types.

Chochma intellectual power is creative and also unpredictable and is seen in insights and inspirations. Bina is the intellectual ability of understanding. It is the one that develops and also articulates the energies of Chochma so that is becomes detailed and conceptual.

Daat comes takes the third position in intellect faculty. It is gift to internalize and harmonize the opposing views or states of existence. It has dual roles. First is uniting cochma attribute and bina. Second is a bridge between intellect and emotion attributes opposing domains.

Love or chesed comes first in the attributes of emotion. It is inspired by benevolence force and love. It gets termed as gedula often times due to its nurturing the other soul traits to maturity and full development. Tiferet blends and brings harmony to chesed and gevura. It is referred to be the truth trait too because of its reliance to recipient merit to some extent. It however inclines towards chesed making it be known as mercy or rachamim.

There is also a fortitude and restrictive soul power which is associated with discreet judgment that could have been left out by the extreme love and kindness. Is blends the emotional power with some aspects of fear. When kindness and love guide one to be generous and unconditional, this power tells you to assess if it is really worth it. It can actually argue against doing it for the fear that they may actually be helping a non worthy person and misuse their resources. One becomes good to those who do them good.

Netzach got several meanings denoting the different specs inside the soul. It infers orchestration, eternity and victory. Common to all this aspects is persistence and initiative sense necessary to overrule resistance encountered in bringing feeling and thought to positive action. Victory implies initiative, eternity indicates persistence while orchestration implies an innovative plan to dispatch the other qualities intelligently.

Surrendering and acknowledgement complement the powers of victory, eternity and orchestration. As these powers interplay on the intended recipient, the powers of innocence and sincerity ensure that this person acknowledges that his success comes from a divine power which is mighty. This complementary relationship of opposing powers makes a complete individual.

Yesod is that quality that blends all the mentioned qualities to a single unit. It also represents a saintly individual. It builds an individual who is God fearing and acts according to how slaves follow their masters. Being loyal and sovereign also important. If one believes that there are heavenly powers taking control, then he will have the strengths and the wisdom he needs.




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