Assiah (also 'Asiya'
[MEIJERS, L. D., and J. TENNEKES. “SPIRIT AND MATTER IN THE COSMOLOGY OF CHASSIDIC JUDAISM.” Symbolic Anthropology in the Netherlands, edited by P.E. DE JOSSELIN DE JONG and ERIK SCHWIMMER, vol. 95, Brill, 1982, pp. 200–21. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctvbqs310.15. Accessed 12 Aug. 2022.] or 'Asiyah, also known as ''Olam Asiyah'', עוֹלָם עֲשִׂיָּה in Hebrew, literally "the World of Action"
[GUETTA, ALESSANDRO. “Kabbalah and Rationalism in the Works of Mosheh Ḥayyim Luzzatto and Some Kabbalists of His Time.” Italian Jewry in the Early Modern Era: Essays in Intellectual History, Academic Studies Press, 2014, pp. 185–226. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt21h4w96.13. Accessed 12 Aug. 2022.] and Aishah in Arabic) is the last of the four spiritual worlds of the
Kabbalah —
Atziluth,
Beriah,
Yetzirah, 'Asiyah— based on the passage in . It is identical with the existing world that we live in.
According to the ''Maseket Aẓilut,'' it is the region where the
Ofanim
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rule and where they promote the hearing of prayers, support human endeavor, and combat evil. Their ruler is
Sandalphon. According to the system of the later
Land of Israel
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Kabbalah, 'Asiyah is the lowest of the spiritual worlds containing the Ten Heavens and the whole system of mundane Creation. The light of the
Sefirot emanates from these Ten Heavens, which are called the "Ten Sefirot of 'Asiyah"; and through them spirituality and piety are imparted to the realm of matter—the seat of the dark and impure powers.
Representing purely
material existence, it is known as the World of Action, the World of Effects or the World of Making. In
western occultism it is associated with the
Suit of Pentacles
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In Tarotology, occult uses of tarot, Coins is considered part of the "Minor A ...
(or Coins or Disks, the terminology varies according to the deck) in the
Tarot. The world of
Yetzirah precedes it.
Correspondences
* The final letter hei ה in the
Tetragrammaton
* The
sefirah of
Malchut and hence the
partzuf of Nukvah
* The
element of Earth
* The soul-level of nefesh
* The
soul-garment of action
* The mouth (
Patach Eliyahu)
* The
Oral Torah tradition (
Patach Eliyahu)
* The
Shechinah
* The
Birkat HaShachar and the order of the
Korbanot in the
Shacharit prayer service
* In the allegory of the teacher and the student, the final stage where the student comprehends the teacher's lesson, expanding the compressed information to its full breadth
* The fixed, earth, sign of
Taurus (astrology).
Notes
References
*
Four Worlds
Kabbalistic words and phrases
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