In responding to the original post, anyone who has begun to study QBL and understand any bit of it, will most likely tell you that they will never understand it all. What Kabbalah does, specifically the QBL of the Hebrew Aleph-bet, is it restructures the mind in accordance with the principles that God uses to maintain Creation. These principles are displayed succinctly in the diagram of the Tree of Life, with the 10 sephiroth and the 22 letters connecting them as paths.
The Tree of Life depicts the 10 emanations of God, which are not really aspects, but more of a step-by-step process through which God reveals His nature to us. I'll go briefly into it here, though volumes have been written about this one subject, so don't expect someone like myself to be able to explain it clearly in one short post.
Before the Tree of Life begins, there is Ain Soph, which translated means something to the effect of "Limitlessness" and means absolute nothingness, which can for our purposes here be taken to mean the unknowable God. Its unknowable because we cant conceive of nothing. The best we can do is to form a concept of nothing, and that concept in itself is something. Its a concept! So that concept, that idea, basically a concept of an idea, is the first emanation or sephira, which is called Kether, or Crown. It is the Ain Soph, the nothingness and limitlessness, condensed and crystallized into a single point, the point which is an idea of nothingness.
Inherent in the concept of nothing is of course the potential for everything, because a blank slate has no limits as to what can grow from it. The transition from Nothingness to Everythingness is the path from the first sephira to the second, which is called Chokmah or Wisdom. Traditionally symbolism surrounding Chokmah calls it the first Father or paternal source of life, and a well-spring or fountain. What that means is it is the first place where there is real meaning, a somethingness that can be given to the world.
Now, what good is a well-spring, a source of water and life, without something to absorb that life-potential? This takes us to the third sephira, Binah, or Understanding, which is represented as a Mother, a womb to be impregnated by the seed of Wisdom. The book Bahir I believe uses the symbolism of a garden to allude to Binah, in that the well-spring feeds the garden, which in turn takes that life-potential and from it births all that is perceptible to us.
What has happened up until this point has taken place in what is called the Supernal Triad, meaning that these three sephiroth are indeed supernal and above our direct experience. What takes place below Binah is in the realm of the 7 lower sephiroth, which can be related to the 6 directions (north, south, east, west, up, down) and the 7th is the center point which ties them all together, in order to create 3-dimensional space. This shows relatively clearly the way in which the Supernal Triad is outside the realm of our 3d world, and so is not clearly understood and conceived of by us.
Ill leave my letter here unfinished at this point, as the lower 7th sephiroth will take up more space than I think anyone cares to read in one sitting. I should have more time today to continue on.
Paul