The Origin of the Essence

The Monad
The Being is what really counts, but it is very deep, very profound. Really, the Being in himself is the Inner Monad. Let us remember Leibnitz and his famous Monad. The Monad in himself is what we could call Neshamah (נשמת) in Hebrew, that is to say, Atman-Buddhi [in Sanskrit]...

Who is Atman? The Innermost, the Being. The book The Dayspring of Youth says something about him.

Before the false dawn came over this earth, those who survived the hurricane and the storm gave praise to the Innermost, and to them appeared the heralds of the dawn.



Neshamah is Atman-Buddhi, the Monad cited by Leibnitz in his “Monadic Philosophy.” Atman [Chesed] is the Innermost, Buddhi [Geburah] is the Spiritual Soul, the Superlative consciousness of the Being. Both integrated is the Monad, that is obvious.

The Monad [ Neshamah (נשמת)] has unfolded itself in the Human Soul [Tiphereth], the Superior Manas of the Orientalists.

The Human Soul in the beginning is completely germinal, but from it, by unfolding, has appeared the Essence. The Essence is the only thing intellectual animals have incarnated; that Essence is trapped among the different psychic aggregates that we carry inside of us.

In Hebrew, Neshamah (נשמת) is precisely Atman, it is Atman’s ineffable part, whereas Ruach (רוח) is Buddhi; however, generally Atman-Buddhi together are Ruach (Elohim).

Nephesh (נפש) is the Human Soul or Causal Soul; Nephesh is precisely from where the Essence (which everyone has within) is derived. That part of the consciousness that we have inside, that Essence, has to be activated. Unfortunately it is asleep, trapped among the inhuman psychic aggregates that we carry inside.

Day-dreaming creates ego, desire, and when we create those desires, we suffer inside of them. The consciousness is trapped there. In other words, as mythology teaches us, the wife of Orpheus is trapped in hell. Helen is trapped in Troy. The beauty of the soul is asleep (Sleeping Beauty), put to sleep by the apple of desire, created by the witch of evil. Our consciousness (the sephirah Geburah) sleeps in Klipoth and suffers.

This is what we want liberation from. This is not just an idea, this is not just a theory, every one of us is experiencing this. Our consciousness is the only beautiful thing that we have, the only pure element, the greatest beauty in the world, as they described Helen of Troy. Helen is the same as the Beatrice of Dante; Beatrice was the beautiful woman that Dante was longing to be united with. Beatrice is the Divine Soul, part of our consciousness who has become trapped, imprison, captured by the enemy. This is Persephone, hidden in the domain of Pluto, Hades. If you know any mythology, you know this story in some form. This story exists in every single world tradition, and is illustrating a practical reality that is psychological. That is our reality.

There is a way to liberation, and that is through the action of the sephirah Tiphereth. Tiphereth represents the knight, the warrior, the Human Soul. This is our conscious willpower. In mythology, this quality is represented by Orpheus, Perseus, Theseus, Dante, etc., the great heroes who have to be courageous and descend into hell in order to redeem the soul. In other words, the hero cannot go to heaven because the soul is trapped in hell. Orpheus cannot leave his wife in hell; he loves her, he needs to be united with her. So he has to save her, and that is what we have to do: to extract our consciousness from the ego, from Klipoth.