On 11 Apr, 23:00, "Bassos" wrote:
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>> Heyas,
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>> I've been away a bit, and will return to being away quite soon.
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>> In the meantime, i have been reading back some of my personal musings, and
>> i kinda liked one.
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>> So feel free to tear apart these musings, cos at the moment i am to busy
>> to > do enough research for this one.
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>> here goes :
>> Musings
>> The four worlds are in most renderings in hermetic kabbalah four identical
>> Â > worlds.
>> They are just repetitions of what came before on a denser scale.
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>> This bothers me.
>> Repetition seems like a sure fire way to end up in stagnation.
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>> There are a myriad of different Tree's of Life out there, with different
>> forms, attributes, a big mess.
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>> A big mess is very good for inducing confusion.
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>> Confusion is good, it can be a road towards change.
>> (see me adding my bit of confusion, right here :P)
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>> The most authoritive text on the tree of life is the sefer yetzirah.
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>> In it, it is made quite clear that there are 3 mother, 7 doubles, and 12
>> single.
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>> Pretty much every rendition of the Tol also has 3 horizontal, 7 vertical,
>> and 12 diagonal connections/paths.
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>> The connection with the planets.
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>> The classic connection is saturn=binah, jupiter=chesed, mars=geburah,
>> sun=tiphareth, venus=netzach, mercury=hod, moon=yesod, malkuth=earth.
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>> I would say that the above classification is pretty accurate, for assiah.
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>> In Assiah, we see the universe from our viewpoint. It is the actual
>> physical > world.
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>> So apparent motion of them wanderers in the sky seems appropriate.
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>> (would make uranus=chokma, neptune=kether; uranus is electricity, neptune
>> is the ocean of consciousness)
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>> [here is the large gap in the progress]
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>> For Atziluth, however, the 'actual situation', this would not do.
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>> For Atziluth we look at the actual properties of our solar system.
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>> The sun is the only thing in our solar system giving it life. (well,
>> jupiter emits more heath than it gets from the sun)
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>> The sun can be seen as Kether, expanding a bubble in 'chaotic' space to
>> create life.
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>> The magnetic field of mercury (strong for it's size) is produced by
>> fossilized magnetized material. It is a static field, not created from
>> moving liquid-metal like the earths. It is Thoth, the messenger, it is
>> chokma, the bringer of wisdom.
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>> (mercury in it's highest aspect is pure wisdom)
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>> Next we move to venus. Venus is weird in our solar system. It is the only
>> planet to rotate retrograde, and it rotates reaaaally slow. Venus, while
>> farther fom the sun than mercury has a hotter surface than mercury. This
>> is due to a continuous clouding of the planet in clouds of sulphuric acid.
>> The greenhouse effect this causes makes the surface hot, and the sulpuric
>> acid rains, make anything on the surface into a, well, generall mish mash
>> of reality :P == Binah.
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>> For Venus her astrological meanings, Venus rules forms. The highest form
>> of Venus thus is the possibility of forms. (== Binah)
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>> (venus being linked to beauty is because of the relation to form, we can
>> only appreciate beauty when it has some form. This form can also be highly
>> abstract)
>> Â Da'ath, the sephira that is not a sephira.
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>> In this article I am equating the sephiroth with objects in our solar
>> system.
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>> Mainly planets and the sun. (kether is quite a different sort of sphere
>> than any other)
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>> A perfect candidate for Janus the gatekeeper is our moon.
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>> It is not a planet vs it is not a sephira.
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>> Da'ath represents knowledge. Pretty much the result of a decision.
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>> The moon simply reflects what is chosen. (mainly the choices of our sun)
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>> (Remember that we are talking Atziluth here, in Assiah it would be about
>> what other people do; what we experience, the moon being linked to our
>> senses and all)
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>> You may ask why I start with sun and make merc/venus supernals.
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>> A valid question.
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>> In my reckoning, humanity, as a species, is in incarnate form restricted
>> to reaching the consciousness represented by chesed.
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>> So, that makes planet earth Chesed
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>> Pretty nice that in the sequence of the solar system, this is actually
>> provided for.
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>> Now we have mars and geburah.
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>> Mars still ruling force.
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>> Well, seeing how it is the same rulership, I will skip explanations.
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>> Tiphereth and Jupiter.
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>> Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system.
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>> It has 4 big moons, and a myriad of smaller ones.
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>> It has a nice big dot on it. (the eye of jupiter, the current one is dying
>> out, but a new one has already been found, no speculation there :P)
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>> The solar symbol is a circle. (woot woot kether)
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>> The solar symbol with a dot in it signifies Tiphareth.
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>> It is the soul seeing itself reflected.
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>> Tiphareth in Atziluth is about happy go lucky like Jupiter is.
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>> It expands what it touches.
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>> Netzach and saturn.
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>> Netzach is about forms.
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>> Actualized forms.
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>> In our daily lives that has far more to do with venus, cos we shape what
>> we like.
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>> But in the solar system, there is no substitute for Saturn when it comes
>> down to materialized forms. Something apt I found online : (mark kampe,
>> printed without permission, which is acceptable for educational purposes
>> :P)
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>> "It is Netzach that will not be defeated, and that persists in the face of
>> frustrations. It is Netzach that cannot decline a challenge. Â It is
>> Netzach that awards and celebrates the victor's laurel crown."
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>> Anyone who knows astrology knows that saturn is the one that gives rewards
>> after persistence.
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>> Hod and Uranus.
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>> Hod is about the knowledge about the structure, the classification of
>> things.
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>> Uranus is about sudden insight, rebellion against form, about technical
>> things.
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>> Think :"specs" (of computers, networks, idea's) all them specs exist
>> simultaniously in our solar system in Atziluth. All of the knowledge of
>> all the possible structures, this is uranus in atziluth.
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>> Yesod and Neptune.
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>> The easiest one.
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>> Neptune is the sea of dreams, contrary to the moon's personal dreams.
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>> Nothing can compare in appropriateness when thinking yesod in atziluth.
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>> Malkuth, in atziluth, or the actual way it is.
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>> It is not pluto, it cannot be only one object.
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>> Luckily the outer band of our solar system is a junkpile of debris, all
>> floating around the sun.
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>> There is nothing more suited for malkuth than this collected pile of
>> debris.
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>> (before the reader get's angry, think about what malkuth essentially
>> stands for; all the bits of differentiated matter.)
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>> Feel free to flame as hard as you can, i will be watching this topic for
>> about a week.
>> (maybe longer if it gets interesting)
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You can think Hod, feel Netsach, experience Tipharas, dream Yesod, and
walk in Malkus. Everything else is extrapolation.
