Atziluth – the Creative Urge 

The Supreme Lord of Life

* World of Origin (FIRE)

The Creatrix Goddesses

Isis - Nuit - Shakti   

In the sphere of Binah, Atziluth is exemplified in the archetypical energy of those deity from whose being worlds are given the spark of life.These Goddess are considered the  Aloath Elohim  or Mother of Mothers. They initialize the realization of the Higher Self and the potential for exchange and interchange between Lower and Higher SELF. They act as the mother who wants the best for her child and prods and urges that child towards its highest potential and eventual understanding of its own nature

Isis is the path of memory of wholeness and reassembling the parts to make the whole so that Osiris may transform all who pass through the Gates of the Underworld. Nuit is the body of the heavens that gives birth to all matter cosmic as Geb is the sustaining seed that is enlivened. And Shakti with her Lord Shiva in union is the fire and heat of the first Divine spark that enlivens the primordial waters towards creation from creation.

 Briah – Creation of a Concept- Archangel

Archangel Tzaphkiel

“The Beholder of God” 

   *  World of Creation (WATER)

The Archangel Tzaphkiel (not a typo and not to be confused with Tzadkiel of Chesed)  is called " The Beholder of God". It is his province

to observe and contemplate the Divinity of matter. It is through this channel that God and Man can observe one another. Tzaphkiel acts to focus the intent of scrutiny where it may be best used towards the realization of what the creator has created and what the creation sees of himself reflected through the force that created him.

Knowledge is gained through observation and action is upheld by knowing what that action will bring. Tzaphkiel looks from all perspectives, sees all and then forms that knowing into what may transformed by Binah into deep understanding. To see the true face of God is to see the image of our Divine Selves and ultimately to bring that divinity to a place of understanding within our own being.

Yetzirah – Forming the Image of the concept

Angels – Aralim

" The Thrones"

* World of Formation (AIR)

" The exuberant outpoured energies of Paternal Chokmah must be contained and defined down by Maternal Binah.  The Aralim are the agents of this process.  They might fairly be described as the God-Holders operating on all levels of being. Whether they are the dark holders of light, silent holders of sound, dry containers of liquid, or cold containers of heat, they act both as retainers and restrainers of (spiritual) potencies."

W. Gray

The Aralim are strength and stability. They are the necessary foundation upon which Binah can build. And, help the individual build and form their own throne and temple of power within. It is through their efforts that one learns and masters authority over and of the self so that a higher form of this SELF may come to a place of selflessness. They are also the upholders of containers through which the energy of Binah may move in a stabilized and controlled way.

Assiah – The World of Expression-Planetary

Saturn

* World of Manifestation (EARTH)

Boundaries/limitations/restriction to create form 

Saturn is the planet of initiation. Of taking those lessons learned by way of other life time experience or experience within this lifetime and reforming them, restating them and then setting up the necessary limiting form to make us confront them head on.  Every initiation is considered a ‘death and rebirth’ of mind, body soul or way of life.  This is the Saturn of Binah.  This is the womb before rebirth/manifestation, the barrier that must be passed, the challenge unrealized and incomplete.  The struggle that teaches us the most about who we are and what our greater purpose is.  What greater struggle is there then birth? Then the separation from that which is comfort, love, and careless blissful existence into the unknown and unknowable.  Taking the leap into the light with the risk of obliteration. This is also the sorrow of Binah. Losing that what has been held closely within and urging it on towards its own place of creation.