Hermes Trismegistus forged in the Emerald Table a gold key: "What is down, is like what is above; and what is above is like what is down, to do miracles of one single thing... " Arouna Lipschitz takes up this key and invites us to reveal the mysteries of incarnation of Man, his place is the world, through an original lecture of the Tree of Life. The Tree of Life is a symbolical unlimited structure: it is not only a metaphor of the mystery of creation, but also a metaphor of the relation of man to the Self and the Other.
It is this second approach that Arouna Lipschitz will privilege, faithful to the teaching she proposes, as a philosopher of the relationship: the way of the lover.
The tree presents us two types of spirituality: one going up, transcendental, and the other going down, immanent. The spiritual evolution of an individual is linked to this descent, the involution precedes the evolution. Our capacity of evolve depends on our skill to let the light go down on us, the Logos (or verb) to embody. Arouna Lipschitz guides us in this royal path from up to down, from the crown (Kether) to the Realm (Malkuth), from the triangle of transcendence to Creation itself, the Mother "from downstairs", the divine immanence.
In this descent, she will focus on the four triangles which form the central square, it means the four regions of the tree which constitutes the prison of ego. In this junction part called "the door of Men", we are confronted to the unexpected things of daily life, to our need of recognition, of creativity, to love, our desire of fusion... the world of duality and all its struggles which are obstacles which prevent the realization of the Self.
To Arouna Lipschitz, the stake is not to melt in the infinite light but to get to human splendor. To do so we have to open as a « subject in relation », to put ourselves in coherence with our desires and fortify our personal ethic. Since Arouna Lipschitz' way of the lover is a spirituality which aim is the joy of living down here, here and now: Hic et Nunc.
To reach this joy of living do we have to pass up Love, the Other. On what pillars of the Tree do we have to be based on to favor the descent of embodiment ? How does the tree of life transform in a value tree, and how this one becomes a metaphor of the relation with oneself ?
Arouna Lipschitz' answers in this conference in two parts which last 77 minutes, filmed at the Forum 104 and organized by the association Le jardin des idées.
Hermes Trismegistus forged in the Emerald Table a gold key: "What is down, is like what is above; and what is above is like what is down, to do miracles of one single thing... " Arouna Lipschitz takes up this key and invites us to reveal the mysteries of incarnation of Man, his place is the world, through an original lecture of the Tree of Life. The Tree of Life is a symbolical unlimited structure: it is not only a metaphor of the mystery of creation, but also a metaphor of the relation of man to the Self and the Other.
