Carolyn Myss in her Anatomy of the Spirit discusses the ten sefirot of the Tree of Life of the Jewish Kabbalah–in which she sees a comparable typology to that of the sacraments and the chakras, as discussed early in this blog. In this typology, Keter or Kether (in Hebrew, “crown”) is the topmost sefirah and is in Myss’ description “the supreme crown of God, representing the part of the Divine that inspires physical manifestation. This sefirah is the most undefined, therefore the most inclusive. There is no identity, no specificity in this point of beginning between heaven and earth” (74). For Myss, this sefirah is akin to the seventh Crown Chakra. Jewish representation also calls Kether the Primum Mobile.
Here in the ninth sphere of the Primum Mobile of The Paradiso, Dante and Beatrice see the angels in their spheres arrayed around that single single point of Divine light which manifests creation and which manifests energetically to us in our ordered creation as a crown, a chakra, a rose.
. . . and turning felt my senses reel
as my own were struck by what shines in heaven
when we look closely at its turning wheel.
I saw a Point that radiated light
of such intensity that the eye it strikes
must close or ever after lose its sight.
(XXVII, 13-18)
