3. Binah - Understanding, realization

Binah is the Triad, the perception and understanding of Chokmah, and is the first initiation of consciousness.

Binah represents Neshamah of the soul, the World of Briah, where individual potentials and powers are identified and specificated. It combines perception, realization and understanding.

The first three spheres are the basic substance of the whole Tree of Life, the starting points of the three pillars of manifestation (also called the 'Supernal Triad'). Kether is the neutral point initiating the pillar of moderation, Chokmah is the beginning of the active, all-encompassing, positive force of the right pillar, and Binah is the beginning of the passive, restrictive, negative force of the left pillar.

They work purely at the causative level of events, live in the abstraction of ideas only, while the following seven spheres are the basic archetypes of action and result.

See below the Tarot cards corresponding to Binah - the Threes: