John D. Brey
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Masaccio's Trinity is one of the greatest works of the Renaissance, and one of the greatest kabbalistic works of all time. It depicts an anthropomorphic image of the Father, with the Son stationed as the reproductive organ of God.
God's circumcision is depicted as the crucifixion. Jesus represents the Father's seminal organ, his firstborn, his first fruit, being cut and bleed to produce a new species of fruit.
So little is required to interpret the image and yet all the historians and art books botch it pretty badly. For instance, the Akedah (the sacrifice of Isaac) is understood throughout Jewish scripture and thought to be presaged by Abraham's circumcision. In other words, any serious Jewish scholar is aware that Abraham's circumcision is a ritualistic enactment of the later Akedah, the later sacrifice of Isaac.
Masaccio's Trinity pictures God the Father being circumcised when his son is naked and bleeding on the cross (his son is being sacrificed). Throughout Jewish scripture and thought circumcising one's son is a ritualistic offering of the son to God, a ritualistic sacrifice of the son. Humanistic historians even imply that it takes the place of the actual pagan sacrifices of the firstborn practiced by Israel's neighbors (and at times by Israel herself).
But Masaccio's Trinity goes much further. In kabbalah, God's penis is called "Yesod." On the anthropomorphic Sefirotic Tree (of Life) the penis of Adam Kadmon is called "Yesod" (all ten sefirot represent a limb of an anthropomorphic God, with "Yesod" being God's penis).
Every circumcised penis represents Yesod (God's penis). In the very passage quoted from the Zohar, in the thread, Scions of Faith, the sages of the Zohar point out that the scar on the circumcised penis of a Jewish male is an "insignia" of the fact that the circumcised Jew comes from a different fruit Tree than the uncircumcised Gentile. The circumcised Jew comes from God's circumcised organ, while the Gentile comes from God's uncircumcised organ.
So what does the scar on the penis represent? How does the scar make a Jewish penis represent God's penis?
Masaccio's Trinity points out the answer to that question. And there's little doubt that the sage or sages who wrote and compiled the Zohar stood staring at Masaccio's Trinity as part and parcel of the meditations that led to the quotation given in the Scion's of Faith thread.
At the bottom of Masaccio's Trinity is an image of an entombed skeleton. Art experts and historians tell us this skeleton is Adam. The cross is growing out of the ground where Adam is buried as though Jesus is a "scion" (asexual sprout) from the root of Adam's dead body.
The Bible uses agricultural metaphors (the Tree of Life, and the Tree of Knowledge) for the express reason that in agriculture there are two ways to propagate a tree. One is sexual. One is asexual.
Often times a fruit farmer will graft a fruit tree, say an orange tree, onto a more hearty tree's root-stem. Say a fruit-farmer grafts a orange tree onto an oak root. Say somewhere down the line this hybrid is given as a gift to a friend of the farmer who knows not that the orange tree is a hybrid. He plants it in his backyard until at some point he intends to go on an long term hiatus.
Rather than let the fruit pile up and rot in his absence he cuts the tree down below the surface of the ground and buries if for dead.
When he returns many years later his jaw drops to the ground. There in his back yard, exactly where the fruit tree was cut down, he sees an absolutely beautiful oak tree growing in all its glory. He's dumbfounded. It seems miraculous. What's going on? He pruned an orange tree, cut it all the way down to beneath the ground, and now it's resurrected as a hearty oak?
That's what Masaccio's Trinity is getting at. And it's profound as all get out.
Adam's prelapse body is the root-stem of every circumcised member of the human race (every actual Jew). Since his body is the root of the original human race, every cell of his body is a seed. He has no sexual reproductive organ or seed since his body is the root of the human race. If you cut the roots of a tree properly they can function as asexual seeds.
You can literally grow hundreds of clones of a tree (this kind of propagation produces a clone rather than a sexual hybrid of two different trees).
In Genesis 2:21 God takes cells from this root and builds a temple around them to protect them against the original sin he knows is around the corner. The Jewish sages are clear that Eve's body is "built" not "created" as a "house" (Rashi), a "temple" (beit) for Adam's flesh (so to say).
As is implied in the Talmud and Jewish midrashim, a particular tree is grafted onto Adam's body when the cells are taken to put into the temple that is Eve. A Gentile fruit tree, an uncircumcised penis, is added to Adam's body in Genesis 2:21. Once that fruit tree is grafted onto the hearty root of Adam's body it produces the produce we know as murder and death best exemplified by the first fruit of the tree: Cain.
Every person born of that fruit tree is death's produce ----and thus produces death in the end.
Jump forward to Abraham. ------ According to no less that Rabbi Samson Hirsch, correct interpretation of God's statements to Abraham suggest that he's not establishing a new covenant with Abraham, but is renewing the original covenant with prelapse Adam. To some degree then, circumcision makes every circumcised Jew like Adam prior to the first sin (Rabbi Kaplan).
So what does God have Abraham do to renew the original covenant with mankind? He has him cut down the tree grafted onto Adam's root in order to produce Cain; and the produce we know as death. ----Abraham ritually removes the tree grafted onto Adam's root-stem and goes on about his business.
Jump forward to the cross depicted in Masaccio's Trinity. Jesus' disciples are under the impression that Jesus is Abraham's true spiritual seed, Messiah. And yet they see him being cut down like any other tree of death. They see him producing the produce of the tree grafted onto Adam's body (which Abraham ritually removed)? They see Jesus as subject to the death that only hybrid trees should be subject to?
After Jesus' tree is cut down to the root, and covered with earth, Jesus' disciples leave to morn and contemplate the bizarre events that have just taken place. But it gets more bizarre when three days later they return to where Jesus stump was covered in earth and find not Jesus, but prelapse Adam standing before them. A perfect facsimile of pre-lapse Adam, an actual clone of Adam, stands before them?
Over the next few years and decades they realize the same thing that motivated Masaccio's painting. The female body, until pollinated sexually by the tree grafted onto Adam's root-stem, is a temple with an intact veil (hymen). Hidden behind the intact veil of the Jewish temple is a small root from the body of prelapse Adam, its the seed that will birth Messiah. If that root (the unfertilized ovum) sends out a "scion" (an asexual Branch) then the Tree that grows out of that Branch is the Tree of Life who root-stem is Adam's pre-lapse body (the Zohar, Be-Re****, 1:33a).
John
God's circumcision is depicted as the crucifixion. Jesus represents the Father's seminal organ, his firstborn, his first fruit, being cut and bleed to produce a new species of fruit.
So little is required to interpret the image and yet all the historians and art books botch it pretty badly. For instance, the Akedah (the sacrifice of Isaac) is understood throughout Jewish scripture and thought to be presaged by Abraham's circumcision. In other words, any serious Jewish scholar is aware that Abraham's circumcision is a ritualistic enactment of the later Akedah, the later sacrifice of Isaac.
Masaccio's Trinity pictures God the Father being circumcised when his son is naked and bleeding on the cross (his son is being sacrificed). Throughout Jewish scripture and thought circumcising one's son is a ritualistic offering of the son to God, a ritualistic sacrifice of the son. Humanistic historians even imply that it takes the place of the actual pagan sacrifices of the firstborn practiced by Israel's neighbors (and at times by Israel herself).
But Masaccio's Trinity goes much further. In kabbalah, God's penis is called "Yesod." On the anthropomorphic Sefirotic Tree (of Life) the penis of Adam Kadmon is called "Yesod" (all ten sefirot represent a limb of an anthropomorphic God, with "Yesod" being God's penis).
Every circumcised penis represents Yesod (God's penis). In the very passage quoted from the Zohar, in the thread, Scions of Faith, the sages of the Zohar point out that the scar on the circumcised penis of a Jewish male is an "insignia" of the fact that the circumcised Jew comes from a different fruit Tree than the uncircumcised Gentile. The circumcised Jew comes from God's circumcised organ, while the Gentile comes from God's uncircumcised organ.
So what does the scar on the penis represent? How does the scar make a Jewish penis represent God's penis?
Masaccio's Trinity points out the answer to that question. And there's little doubt that the sage or sages who wrote and compiled the Zohar stood staring at Masaccio's Trinity as part and parcel of the meditations that led to the quotation given in the Scion's of Faith thread.
At the bottom of Masaccio's Trinity is an image of an entombed skeleton. Art experts and historians tell us this skeleton is Adam. The cross is growing out of the ground where Adam is buried as though Jesus is a "scion" (asexual sprout) from the root of Adam's dead body.
The Bible uses agricultural metaphors (the Tree of Life, and the Tree of Knowledge) for the express reason that in agriculture there are two ways to propagate a tree. One is sexual. One is asexual.
Often times a fruit farmer will graft a fruit tree, say an orange tree, onto a more hearty tree's root-stem. Say a fruit-farmer grafts a orange tree onto an oak root. Say somewhere down the line this hybrid is given as a gift to a friend of the farmer who knows not that the orange tree is a hybrid. He plants it in his backyard until at some point he intends to go on an long term hiatus.
Rather than let the fruit pile up and rot in his absence he cuts the tree down below the surface of the ground and buries if for dead.
When he returns many years later his jaw drops to the ground. There in his back yard, exactly where the fruit tree was cut down, he sees an absolutely beautiful oak tree growing in all its glory. He's dumbfounded. It seems miraculous. What's going on? He pruned an orange tree, cut it all the way down to beneath the ground, and now it's resurrected as a hearty oak?
That's what Masaccio's Trinity is getting at. And it's profound as all get out.
Adam's prelapse body is the root-stem of every circumcised member of the human race (every actual Jew). Since his body is the root of the original human race, every cell of his body is a seed. He has no sexual reproductive organ or seed since his body is the root of the human race. If you cut the roots of a tree properly they can function as asexual seeds.
You can literally grow hundreds of clones of a tree (this kind of propagation produces a clone rather than a sexual hybrid of two different trees).
In Genesis 2:21 God takes cells from this root and builds a temple around them to protect them against the original sin he knows is around the corner. The Jewish sages are clear that Eve's body is "built" not "created" as a "house" (Rashi), a "temple" (beit) for Adam's flesh (so to say).
As is implied in the Talmud and Jewish midrashim, a particular tree is grafted onto Adam's body when the cells are taken to put into the temple that is Eve. A Gentile fruit tree, an uncircumcised penis, is added to Adam's body in Genesis 2:21. Once that fruit tree is grafted onto the hearty root of Adam's body it produces the produce we know as murder and death best exemplified by the first fruit of the tree: Cain.
Every person born of that fruit tree is death's produce ----and thus produces death in the end.
Jump forward to Abraham. ------ According to no less that Rabbi Samson Hirsch, correct interpretation of God's statements to Abraham suggest that he's not establishing a new covenant with Abraham, but is renewing the original covenant with prelapse Adam. To some degree then, circumcision makes every circumcised Jew like Adam prior to the first sin (Rabbi Kaplan).
So what does God have Abraham do to renew the original covenant with mankind? He has him cut down the tree grafted onto Adam's root in order to produce Cain; and the produce we know as death. ----Abraham ritually removes the tree grafted onto Adam's root-stem and goes on about his business.
Jump forward to the cross depicted in Masaccio's Trinity. Jesus' disciples are under the impression that Jesus is Abraham's true spiritual seed, Messiah. And yet they see him being cut down like any other tree of death. They see him producing the produce of the tree grafted onto Adam's body (which Abraham ritually removed)? They see Jesus as subject to the death that only hybrid trees should be subject to?
After Jesus' tree is cut down to the root, and covered with earth, Jesus' disciples leave to morn and contemplate the bizarre events that have just taken place. But it gets more bizarre when three days later they return to where Jesus stump was covered in earth and find not Jesus, but prelapse Adam standing before them. A perfect facsimile of pre-lapse Adam, an actual clone of Adam, stands before them?
Over the next few years and decades they realize the same thing that motivated Masaccio's painting. The female body, until pollinated sexually by the tree grafted onto Adam's root-stem, is a temple with an intact veil (hymen). Hidden behind the intact veil of the Jewish temple is a small root from the body of prelapse Adam, its the seed that will birth Messiah. If that root (the unfertilized ovum) sends out a "scion" (an asexual Branch) then the Tree that grows out of that Branch is the Tree of Life who root-stem is Adam's pre-lapse body (the Zohar, Be-Re****, 1:33a).
John