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E. Seder Hishtalshlus-The order of hierarch responsible for the world’s agriculture:[1]
The following is the order of hierarchy that is responsible for the growth of products that serve as our food and sustenance in the physical world:
- The Mazal in charge of the produce: All growth and vegetation that we consume, grows not just as a result of a natural process that G-d imbued within the world, but as the result of a Mazal which is appointed over it and tells it to grow, as the sages state that there is no blade of grass below in this world that doesn’t have a Mazal which oversees it. Thus, it is the Mazalos, which are known as the constellations of the stars, which are in charge of giving the physical world all of its vitality and energy, as the verse states that grains grow a result of the sun and vegetables grow as a result of the moon.
- The 70 angelic ministers in charge of the Mazal: The constellations themselves do not contain any intrinsic power which they then send to the world below, but rather receive all of their energy and vitality on behalf of the physical world from the 70 angelic ministers which are appointed over them, and draw to them the divine energy and power for them to transfer to the physical world. [These 70 angelic ministers correspond to each one of the 70 nations, and hence we find different properties of growth within the various countries of the world, with each country developing and producing produce that is unique to it. Such as for example, the country of Brazil contains a unique capability of growing many different types of fruits. The state of Florida contains a capability of growing many oranges. India contains a capability of growing much of the tea consumed today, and so on and so forth with each country containing its unique fertility of land with specific growth potentials. The spiritual reason behind this is because the angelic minister of that nation provides the constellations which reside over that country with the specific and unique powers and energies to grow their produce.]
- The Ofanim angels in charge of the 70 angelic ministers: The 70 angelic ministers themselves do not contain any intrinsic power which they then send to the constellations, but rather receive all of their energy and vitality which they hand over to the constellations from the angels called Ofanim who are appointed over them, and draw to them the divine energy and power for them to transfer to the constellations.
- The hierarchy of angels: The Ofanim angels do not contain any intrinsic power which they then send to the 70 angelic ministers, but rather receive all of their energy and vitality, on behalf of the angelic ministers, from higher angels which are appointed over them, and draw to them the divine energy and power for them to transfer to the 70 angelic minister. The same applies so on and so forth, that each level of angels contains a higher level of angels that is appointed over them which gives them the divine energy and power to transfer to the next level of angels.
- Malchus of Atzilus: The highest of the angels who is in charge of transferring the divine energy and powers to the Angels of levels below it, until it eventually reaches the physical world, receives from the divine level of Malchus of Atzilus, which is itself a mere ray of G-dliness. It is thus found that all of the divine energy and power that all the levels seem to have in truth come from G-d himself, and this itself is a mere glimmer of G-d’s infinite light and capabilities.
Contemplating the above leads to a desire and passion to attach to G-d Himself: By contemplating the above order of hierarchy and the fact that all of the aspects of all the worlds derive from a mere ray of G-dliness, one’s soul becomes aroused with a great fiery love and passion to leave the darkness and concealment of the physical world and to only attach to G-d Himself. One does not even desire at all to be found in the lower garden of Eden or the higher garden of Eden being that there it is a mere ray of G-dliness, and rather he desires to attach to G-d Himself.
[1] Torah Or p. 9a
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