The Menorah

The Menorah
And then it is stated:
                                                             

What do you see?

And I said, I saw, and behold [there was]

a candelabrum [מנורה mĕnowrah] all of gold [זהב zahab], with its oil-bowl on top of it, and its seven [שבע sheba`] lamps thereon; seven tubes each to the lamps that were on top of it. And [there were] two olive trees [זית zayith] near it; one on the right of the bowl, and one on its left. So I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord? And the angel who spoke with me answered, and he said to me, Do you not know what these are? And I said, No, my lord.
So, when you read this, you might think that Zechariah is in a temple seeing a candelabrum, which in Hebrew is called a menorah. A menorah has seven lights or flames, and seven pipes that hold the lights or candles on the altar. Nevertheless, the explanation that the Angel gives in Zechariah’s vision is related to our inner parts, those parts which relate to the Man.

The Man is our Innermost, called by St. Paul soma pneumatikon, or “the Heavenly Man.” The Man is our inner Being.

Our inner Being, the Man, has seven bodies.          

Malkuth is the physical body
Yesod is the vital body
Hod is the Astral Body
Netzach is the Mental Body
Tiphereth is the Causal Body
Geburah is the Body of the Consciousness, the Soul, the Buddhic Body
Chesed, the Spiritual Body
Those are the Seven Pipes, the Seven Bodies that we have inside. The physical body is the lowest and generally the only one we know, until we awaken consciousness. Those seven bodies are related to the seven pipes, which are the seven spinal columns. Each of the seven bodies has a spinal column.

Each spinal column has seven lights. The seven lights are related with the seven chakras or the seven churches, which the Book of Revelation mentions. When the Angel sits on the throne of God, which is the spinal column, then we see, together with the Angel, the great menorah, which is ourselves:

seven lights: the seven chakras
seven pipes: seven spinal columns, one in each body
The seventh chakra is the chakra Sahasrāra. When it is awakened, it provides superior spiritual vision, polyvoyance, and is connected to the pineal gland. The pineal gland is where the creator holds the plummet, the plumb-bob (the cord Ida), which is related with creation. Thus, through the Sahasrāra chakra is how we understand what Zechariah or saha sraya (Sahasrāra) is seeing.

All of this is associated with the second chapter of Genesis, which states that on the seventh day God rested from all his work which he had made... Esoterically, the following is what should be written in chapter two of Genesis.

Thus, [this is how] the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And [how] on the seventh day Elohim [was capable of] ending his work which he had made; since he rested on the seventh day in order to do all his work which he had made. – Genesis 2:1,2
This means that he did his work through the seventh day, that is, he did his work through the seventh letter, in other words, ז Zayin the feminine aspect. On the seventh day, on Zayin, Elohim rested for all his works which he had made. In other words, the foundation, the base to do all creation, which Elohim did, was based on the letter ז Zayin. Elohim rested on the letter ז Zayin in order to make the whole creation; this is what chapter 2: 3 is saying in synthesis.

And how Elohim blessed the seventh [letter] and sanctified it, because on the seventh [letter, the woman, ז Zayin] he rested for all his work which Elohim created and made. These are the generations of the heavens [the brain] and of the earth [the sexual organ] when they were created in the day [the seventh day, the seven letter, which symbolizes the woman] that Jehovah Elohim [Binah] made the earth and the heavens and every plant of the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew, for Jehovah Elohim had not cast rain upon the earth and there was not a man to till the ground [the woman]. – Genesis 2: 4-6
So, here in verse five we see how every seed is already there to be created, but seeds in potentiality. Thus, nothing is created there, because it is written that there was every plant of the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew and there was not a man to till the ground, which is the woman. So the man, the letter Vav, was not separated yet from the woman, the letter Zayin, in order to make all this creation that should be created with the seventh letter, which is ז Zayin.

But there went up a mist [sexual feminine creative power] from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground [the womb]. And Jehovah Elohim formed man of the dust [archetypes within his sexual feminine creative power] of the ground [the womb, Adamah], and [through ז Zayin, Elohim] breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and Adam became a living soul [Nephesh Chaiah]. -Genesis 2: 6, 7
The former verses are a simple explanation in synthesis of the first Initiation of Major Mysteries, which explains how everything enters into activity within a man that starts transmuting the sexual energy. It explains how everything that was in potentiality enters into activity on the ground (physicality). So these verses relate to the first Initiation of Major Mysteries, which we attain through our Zayin, through the Shabbath, because without the seventh day we cannot do anything, as it is written: Elohim rested on the seventh day in order to do all his work which he had made. So then this is what is signified by Zechariah’s vision of the Menorah, the seven lamps, the seven pipes, the entire of all of that mystery that we are explaining here.