Tipareth: the 6th Sphere

Tipareth's planet (body) is the Sun and lies at the centre of the Tree of Life. It is the point where the personality, moving up, first ventures into the realm of the soul. It is where spirit, descending, first 'splits off' and becomes physical. Tipareth is at the summit of the personal realm, as Kether is at the summit of the Transpersonal realm. It is where the mundane world meets the spiritual.

Tipareth brings harmony and compassion to the world and is where the "I" is. It is the director of one's personal drama. It is not aloof, but completely involved, bringing spiritual awareness into the mundane realm. It is the small "I," as Kether is the superconscious "I." In Tipareth, we meet our higher selves, and learn to sacrifice lesser desires. It is integration of the higher reality into daily life. The animal nature is below, the spiritual nature is above.

Tipareth is Atman, the Spirit or Self, the immanent aspect of the Godhead. It is also called Jiva, the Atman identified with its coverings - body, mind, senses, etc. Because of Maya, Brahman (Kether) is concealed from the individual soul. The choices made by the Jiva, or individual, are represented in the human incarnation, Temperance.

Tipareth is the Golden Mean, the point of balance. It connects macro to micro, through the Golden Spiral. The Fibonacci Sequence is the human soul, beginning rough, but developing into and converging with the Golden Spiral of nature.

Tipareth, forming a triad with Chesed and Geburah, and balances the three forces: Severity (Geburah), Mercy (Chesed), and Tipareth (Beauty). The three spheres form the triad of soul.

Potentials of Tipareth include: Development of beauty, harmony, balance; centered consciousness, bringing soul into the life. Reaching balance between spiritual and physical forces. It is unlimited devotion, healing, freedom, meditation, realisation, rebirth, redemption, spiritual ecstasy, transcendence, wholeness.

Archangel: Mikal
Astrological Correspondence: The Sun
Path Text: The Sixth path is called the mediating intelligence because in it are multiplied the influxes of the emanations, for it causes that influence to flow into all the reservoirs of the blessings, with which these themselves are united.
Correspondence in the Body: Solar Plexus
Negative Power: ThGRIRVN - Tagiriron (the Disputers)