This is a picture on page 35 in Sveva Caetani’s book “Re-capitulation”, depicting the Kabbalah Emanations as an upside-down tree.

There is a striking continuity of light at the bottom of the upside-down tree, the Tree Beneath the Root. (God the Ground of Life.) En Sof is not even shown; He is too bright. EI Kether’s light, especially that of En Sof’s hair, extends up through Da’at (the miracle of resurrection) all the way to Tiferet, the Flower of our Amazement. Its T stands for Truth ot Top quark (the heaviest matter particle), but it also sYmbolizes Beauty (Bottom quark, the second heaviest). EI Kether’s light also extends sideways to Hokhmah and Binah (Wisdom and Intelligence), the first Divine pair. All these precede the Breaking of the Vessels, i.e. the Big Bang of Creation, before the original sYmmetries were broken. Truth, Wisdom, and Intelligence, as well as Beauty, are beyond this; they are Aeons of primary structure.

A blue-shifted light emanates from the above-ground structures of Life, especially human life (Shekhinah), made in the image of God, and seeking to approach Him (hence blue-shifted); but it is nowhere as bright as that of EI Kether, who himself is just a pale reflection of En Sof (actually only of His single hair.)

The Flash of Wisdom is in the Scroll (Hokhmah’s sign) i.e. wisdom is in the Book (Bible or Q’uran). Binah’s sign, the Comb, also contains a Flash; she “combs” information to extract meaningful knowledge that can be applied. So all the pre-Break aeons (as Gnostics would call them) contain a Flash in their signs.

Binah is the Gnostics’ Sophia, another name for Wisdom. But “Sophie made a choice”: she wanted to create the World, or cause its creation, even though, after the sYmmetry break or the Fall, it would be an imperfect one. She gave birth to Gevurah, who is the Gnostics’ Demiurge, who created this dark fallen world. (notice the absence of light in this region.) Gevurah’s Justice relies on the Axe (his sign), red with blood. He is like Yahweh of the Hebrews, the Lord of Hosts.

But Hesed, Binah’s brighter daughter Mercy (also called Mary), intercedes with Gevurah to save sinners from the just consequences of their sins. Mercy mollifies and moderates. Stern Justice. She is the original Goddess of Love, or Venus. She provides a shelter (her sign) for the (justly) peror prosecuted. If Gevurah represents the Old Testament, Hesed stands in for the New Testament, the forgiveness of sins. Kyrie Eleison – God have Mercy.

Venus’ successor is her daughter-in-law Psyche, as in the Greek myth. Venus’ son and Psyche’s husband is Eros or Amor, the God of Love. Psyche is Nezah, the successor of Hesed, in a similar way. She also is Love, proving Love’s Long-Lasting Endurance (“Love endures much”, wrote St. Paul in his letter to a Christian community). The whole female line in the Kabbalah succession is Love in different forms, from Binah/Sophia to Hesed/Mercy/Venus to Nezah/Psyche. Love is a non-conserved entity, unlike matter or energy, and therefore, paradoxically, it lasts.

This is also true about Life, so fragile and yet so tough, getting through the bottlenecks of 6 or 7 Great Extinctions on Earth. So Nezah is also Gaia, the Goddess of Earth, the Mother of Life, Mother Nature.

Meanwhile, on the male side, Gevurah begat Hod, who symbolizes Majesty or Honour, and whose sign is the Dancer (like Shiva) or the Warrior (like Yahweh). Together, Nezah and Hod (Gaia and Shiva), (sustainability and balance between creation and destruction, i.e. long-lasting homeostasis) produced the Foundation or Fruitfulness, called Yesod, the origin of Life on Earth.

Yesod is Chi (Qi) or Kundalini, the Life Force, called serpent power; “serpent” not as the reptile of reptilian brain, not the tempter of Eve in Eden (though the name “Eve” means “Life”), but serpent as the Uroborus, the snake that eat its own tail, representing the cycles of life as well as the Great Wrap-around.) Yesod is also called “The Root”, and can be identified with the lowest Chakhra, located in the tail-bone.

From this Root grows Malkhut, or Kingdom, meaning the Five Kingdoms of Life on Earth: bacteria, protists, fungi, plants, and animals. The symbol here is the World Plant, rightly so because green plants’ photosynthesis is the basis of all plant and animal life, though some bacteria rely on other processes. This is associated with the second Chakhra, located in the groin, and symbolizing sexual reproduction. Again, the bacteria do not share this. The third Chakhra, in the Solar Plexus, also belongs here, representing other basic mechanism of Life.

Finally, the Chakhras of the Heart (compassion), of the Throat (speech and prophecy), of the Brow (reason) and of the Halo (spirituality) are attributes of humanity. Shekhinah, the Light of Human Reason, is blue-shifted toward God. She represents the Holy spirit, the only Person of the Holy Trinity with whom we can directly identify. She follows us into exile, to Babylon or to sinful-ness, ever helpful, like Love herself.