The ketheric template
The outermost layer of the model, structured like the first, third and fifth, and usually described as a fine golden grid that holds the other six inside it. The name comes from Kether, the first sefirah of the Kabbalistic tree.
- Position
- Outermost of the seven
- Reported reach
- About a metre out and beyond
- Structure
- Structured, a fine grid, usually reported as gold
- Paired centre
- Crown chakra
- Concerns
- The pattern of a whole life
- Name from
- Kether, the crown of the Kabbalistic tree
- Model
- Modern, from Theosophical sources
What is described
The seventh layer is reported as the container of the other six: a grid or shell, gold rather than coloured, holding the whole field. In the healing literature it is where the pattern of a life is said to be held rather than the pattern of a body.
Being the outermost, it is also where descriptions become least specific, which is a common feature of layered models generally.
The name
Kether is the first sefirah of the Kabbalistic tree of life, usually translated crown. Its appearance in a model otherwise built from Sanskrit vocabulary is a good illustration of how this material was assembled: Indian centres, a Western occult layer scheme, and a Hebrew term for the top of it.
Saying so is not a criticism. It is how syncretic systems are made, and the honest version of teaching one is to name its parts.
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