Soul charts:
Soul Chart part 1: System of the Soul: Description
Essence
Singular, indivisible, uncompounded. Contains in abstract potential all the soul powers and life force that derive from it, but in the essence they do not “exist” as anything other than possibilities of the essence.
“Kochos Makifim-Encompassing soul powers”:
Pleasure
The first revelations/expressions of the soul are the soul powers of pleasure and will power. Pleasure is closest to the essence of the soul.
Will Power
“Will power” is the “external aspect” of pleasure, since a person wants what they have pleasure in. These two soul powers “encompass” all the subsequent soul powers (in particular, the soul powers of intellect and emotion, and the “garments” of thought, speech, and action).
General Life-force
In addition, from the soul comes a general life-force that encompasses the entire body equally, in the sense that the brain is “alive” just as much as the feet are “alive.”
Subconscious
In between the “encompassing” soul powers and the consciously felt “internalizing” soul powers are the subconscious, potential soul powers. This is the (more direct) source of conscious intellect and emotions, that lies between the essence and the consciousness. Relative to the truly “encompassing” soul powers of pleasure and will power, the subconscious is the beginning of “internalizing” soul powers. However, relative to the conscious soul powers, the subconscious is still considered “encompassing” in a certain sense. (See Hosafos for a chart of more details of this “subconscious” state of the soul.)
System of the Soul:
“Kochos Penimi’im-Internalizing soul Powers” (Tikunim-Adornments)
The next level of soul powers is those that come into the limitations of the body, and become internalized in the body. This is both in spiritual soul powers of intellect and emotion, and in the specific life-force that is adapted to every body part. These soul powers are called “Tikunim” adornments, since they reveal the inner beauty and power of the soul, without concealing it.
Intellect
The first of the “spiritual” internalizing soul powers, it can receive new insights from the subconscious intellect, and it is the source, or the trigger, of the emotions, depending on the type of emotion. The intellect is for the soul itself to understand ideas, and in that level, the soul does not need to relate to anyone outside of itself.
Emotion
The second of the “spiritual” internalizing soul powers, it is created or awakened through the intellect, and it is the main driving force behind thought, speech, and action, since, a person needs to have an emotional desire for something in order to think, say, or do something (of his own accord, without being forced).
The purpose of emotion is for the soul to be able to relate to something outside of itself, to either want to connect to something with love/kindness, or to stay away from something with hate/anger.
The conscious emotions are also called “the lower level of desire,” and, in a certain sense, have a deeper connection than intellect to the “encompassing soul powers” of essential pleasure and essential will power.
Specific Life-force
The specific life-force that is adapted to each and every body part, the power for the eye to see being different from the power of the ear to hear, and so too in every body part a different “internalized” life-force.
System of the Soul:
Garments of the soul
These are the external expressions of the soul, as it relates to something outside of itself. These are “garments” directly for the intellect and emotions, and indirectly for the pleasure and will power, and even more indirectly, for the essence. Thus, the essence of the person is also expressed and found even in his “garments” of thought, speech, and action, but only through this system of soul powers. Depending on the “transparency” of the various levels of this system, a person’s actions may directly reflect the state of essence, or completely contradict the essence, or somewhere in between (which is most of the time in most people).
Thought
The first expression of the intellect and emotions is from the person to himself, in his own thoughts. Thoughts themselves are not the “actual” intellect and emotions, but they reflect and reveal the intellect and emotions in the person to himself. Thus, they are the “threshold,” as it were, between the self and outside of the self, where the self can look at itself “from the outside,” as it were.
Speech
The second expression of the intellect and emotions, how the soul actually relates to and connects with another person.
Action
The third expression of the soul, how the soul interacts with physical objects that are not other souls (but could be the body of another person who has a soul, such as giving someone a hug).
Soul Chart part 2: Different levels of the Divine soul, and the different “garments” for the Divine soul (one way to look at it)
Corresponding level of Elokus
Levels of the neshama
Garments for the Nefesh Elokis that are separate entities that it is invested in
Body parts strongly associated with that spiritual garment
Atzmus
Etzem Haneshama, five names are called to “it,” the “it” that transcends all five names
Olamos Ein Sof
Yechida
Atzilus
Chaya
Beria
Neshama
Nefesh Hasichlis
Brain
Yetzira
Ruach
Nefesh Habahamis
Heart (the left part)
Asiyah
Nefesh
Nefesh HaTiviyis
The blood that flows through the body
Parallel level of Hishtalshelus
Adam Kadmon (higher than Parsa of A”K)
Adam Kadmon (after Parsa in A”K)
Akudim
Soul Chart part 3:
Chart of subconscious soul powers:
Pleasure and will
Intellect and emotion
עצם הנשמה Essence in its simplicity
נפש נושא כוחות Essence that contains the possibility for soul powers
תענוג ורצון עצמי The essential power for pleasure and desire
כוחות (היוליים) עצמיים Essential soul powers for intellect and emotion as they are bound up with the essence of the soul
The essence of the soul that transcends revelation in soul powers
The way that the essence “carries” in itself the possibility of all the soul powers, but in the essence, they exist as one singularity
The beginning of separate individual soul powers, but since they are bound up in the essence, they have no expression yet. These are also called “Essential Hiyuli powers” (as opposed to plain “hiyuli” potential powers).
Parallel level of Hishtalshelus
Nekudim
Atzilus (Tikunim)
Pleasure and will
תענוג ורצון שלמעלה מטעם ודעת, אבל קשור לטעם ודעת Suprarational pleasure and will power that is the source for conscious pleasure and desire
Intellect and emotion
כוחות היוליים (שאינם עצמיים, אלא בבחינת המשכה מן העצם, כמו כח המשכיל) “Hiyuli-potential” soul powers for intellect and emotion;
(This level is usually what people refer to when they say “subconscious”)
תענוג ורצון שעל פי טעם ודעת Desire and pleasure that makes sense
כוחות הגלויים Revealed and conscious soul of powers intellect and emotion
As the soul powers begin to be expressed “outside of the essence,” but before the conscious revealed self. There, they exist in abstract potential form. This is like the vegetative power in the ground is a “hiyuli-potential” for all types of vegetations equally. So too, the “Hiyuli” for intellect contains potential for all types of intellect equally in abstract potential state. Similarly with all the other soul powers.
Conscious intellect and emotion; pleasure and desire that makes sense logically and emotionally