Chockmah
- See Chokhma (disambiguation) for other meanings.
Chokhma, Hockmah, Hokhma, Chockmah, Chackmah, Chakhmah, Hokma, or Chakma, in the Kabbalah of Judaism is the second sephira of the Kabbalistic Tree of life (Kabbalah). It derives from chokhma חכמה in the Hebrew language meaning "wisdom."
Chokhma sits below Keter, Across from Binah, and Below Chesed. It commonly has four paths going to Kether, Binah, Tifereth, and Chesed. (Some Kabbalahists attribute a path between Chockma to Gevurah.)
In Jewish mysticism, it denotes the first intermediate step between Keter and the rest of the sephiroth, forwarding and channelling Or Ein sof through the rest of the sefiroth.
In 777 Chokhma is repersented as The Four twos of the Tarot, Illuminating, Thoth, Vishnu, Joy, Odin, Uranus, Athena, God the Father, Man, Amaranth, VIAOV, Star Ruby, Lingam, Hashish, Phosphorus, Musk, and Yang (not a complete list)
In Kaplans commentary on the Bahir he says "Wisdom (Chokhma) is therefore the first thing that the mind can grasp, and is therefore called a "beginning." and according to the Chassidut site Inner.org, Chockma refurs to "the first power of conscious intellect within Creation."
It is sometimes called arikh anpin – "the long countenance" – or "father," in Kabbalah.
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References
- 777, Aleister Crowley (1955). Red Wheel/Weiser. (ISBN 0–87728–670–1)
- Bahir, Aryeh Kaplan (1995). Aronson. (ISBN 1–56821–383–2)