Chochmah

In classical Kabbalistic schemata Chochmah issues immediately below Keter. Sources describe Keter as undifferentiated divine potentiality; Chochmah is the first manifestation of conscious intellect that emerges from that potential. As such it is portrayed not as a created personage but as an ontological stage or emanation — the initial, active point of wisdom from which further formation (notably Binah) proceeds (Source: Wikipedia entry on Chokmah; The Tree of the Sephiroth discussion).

Chochmah is not given an anthropomorphic or corporeal form in the provided materials. Kabbalistic treatments represent it conceptually on the Tree of Life as a point or node — the second sefirah — signifying an initial 'flash' or seed of insight rather than a visible being. Classical sources frame it as a metaphysical locus within the sefirotic map rather than a sensory apparition (Source: Wikipedia; The Tree of the Sephiroth).

Described in technical theological language, Chochmah functions as the first posteriorization of conscious intellect: the active, intelligent energy or seed of thought that arises from Keter's potentiality. In interaction with Binah (the receptive/formative sefirah), the seed supplied by Chochmah is developed into discernible understanding; some accounts describe the resulting manifest thought (often discussed with reference to Daath) as the flow produced when Chochmah's initial insight is taken up by Binah (Sources: Wikipedia; The Tree of the Sephiroth). The supplied sources do not depict Chochmah as an agent acting independently in the material world or as engaging in interpersonal encounters.