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Post by imakegarb on Jul 14, 2006 4:34:51 GMT
And another thing . . . I don't see visions or any such thing. The Infinite seems to not work with me that way. However, I do see lessons in "ordinary" things. I was walking to my bus stop after work, as I do every work day evening, and I passed this same row of trees I always pass. Only today I noticed they were growing from within circles cut into the concrete. The circles of earth are themselves at the center of a larger circle drawn into the concrete. In other words, each trees is growing from the point within the circle. The Monad. I stopped at one of the trees and looked at it from its roots in the circle's center, up to its highest branches reaching into the sky and then back "down" again. And it hit me: the tree is Malkuth. And the point from which it grows is Yesod and above. Now, to me, the direction it grows looks like up and from wence it grows looks like down but . . . not any more. Oh my.
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Post by hollandr on Jul 14, 2006 5:30:00 GMT
Karen
here is a trick for you. The Tree of Life is built into the first 3 fingers of the right hand. You can access it with your thumb.
When you are meditating slide the tip of your thumb up each of the first 3 fingers looking for sephira at the joints. Note the sharp change that occurs to your head energies as your thumb makes contact with the next joint
Cheers
Russell
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Post by ruffashlar on Sept 3, 2006 1:55:54 GMT
I think this Kabbalah-related thread has languished rather a while.
Why don't we get the finger out and do something with it?
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Post by imakegarb on Sept 7, 2006 5:56:41 GMT
Finger?
I did get to play a bit, today, with Binah and Chokmah but since we're suppose to move up, the next Sephirot would be Yesod. How'bout you take that one, Ruff? ;D
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Post by ruffashlar on Sept 10, 2006 14:46:51 GMT
That would be like Stevie Wonder opening a school of motoring.
I am a student, and what is more a bad student. If I don't know the subject already, and can't bluff or bluster or blag my way through it, I lose interest and sit up the back of the class, throwing ink bombs or chatting to pretty girls.
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Post by imakegarb on Sept 11, 2006 8:00:29 GMT
(staring, from across the classroom, at the student who sure looks like Ruff) Who are you and what have you done with Ruff? K. You may be a student but if we wait for someone who isn't a student, we'll never, ever rise from Malkuth. And if you need a place to bluff or bluster or blag, *I* would think Yesod would be your kind of sephirot. Just saying.
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Post by jmd on Sept 11, 2006 11:18:19 GMT
I agree with you, imakegarb - I suspect that ruffashlar's chatting to pretty girls at the back of the class is directly related to this sefirah
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Post by imakegarb on Sept 12, 2006 1:30:33 GMT
Uh-huh.
So, you like your Yesod straight up? C'mon, Ruff (whiskers twitching sweetly). Please, do elaborate. ;D
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Post by imakegarb on Sept 22, 2006 8:17:02 GMT
Ahhhhh, well, I guess I'll do it ;D Anyone who sees a need to correct me, or anything I might leave out, have at it. For, as Ruff pointed out, the best of us are students with a lot to learn. IMHO, the properties of Yesod are clearly sexual in a reproducive sort of way. It is the channel of united and creative energy. It is the culmination of all the sephirot above it and, therefore, it is the demarcation between the physical creation that is Malkuth (below it) and all the spiritual that is above it. Anyone who "operates" in Yesod is called "tzaddik", or "righteous person". They happily reproduce on the spiritual plane. The Baal Shem Tov said that a tzaddik is in Yesod because of the intense pleasure they experience in their spiritual life. They can't function any other way. Now, taking a sharp left into BOTA ('cause I'm like that), Paul Case talks about this in his "Book of Tokens", in the notes on his meditations on the Hanged Man. He says, "Yesod means 'Foundation, or Basis'. Qabalists assign to this Sephirah the reproductive organs of the Cosmic Man. Yesod is thus regarded as the focus of the self-perpetuating potencies of teh Life-power, and esoterically WATER is the seed-principle out of which all forms are developed." Now, the reason I pulled Case into this is because, in the hanged man, the hanged man is flipped. And, as such, his head is in yesod and, well . . . I'm going to talk about yesod but I'm also inclined to apply it. Here's the card in question with the TOL next to it. Yesod is 9: Yesod is the link between Tiferet (beauty) and Malkuth (Kingdom). Tiferet is usually over the heart because it is indeed at the heart of the TOL. As such, it's a sort of hub of reconciliation with the various sephirot around it and is the central axis of what, I think, is fair to call the Middle Pillar. Just as an illustration, because I think it's important, let's look at Chesed (Mercy) and Geburah (Severity) and what happens when Tiferet reconciles them. Chesed would say "Give". Geburah would say "No one deserves it." Tiferet would say, "Yes, Geburah is right, no one really 'deserves' its but show mercy and give anyway." In other words (and if I understand it correctly) Tiferet here acts as a blend between Chesed and Geburah but shows a definate bias toward Chesed. But the Hanged man is flipped over but the TOL didn't flip with him. He's hanging by a thread from Kether and his left leg is bent between Binah and Chokmah. His head is in Yesod, his hair (white and surrounded by the solar halo) extending toward (I think) Malkuth. But Tiferet is over his pelvis, which I think means it's starting to take on some of the properties I usually associate with Yesod. And his head, which usually would be in Kether, is now down in Yesod. And Kether is usually the beginning of creation, where all thought and conception begins. Yesod is where that creation physically happens. So to put Kether down in Yesod . . . I think this would be to create as soon as you think of it, without any of the intervening "stops" on the tree. But I don't see how that can be. But, then, Athena is born from the head of Zeus . . . And his collar, belt and - I dunno. White trim along his shirt - forms the alchemical symbol of Mercury. And, if I'm not mistaken, Alchemists said mercury was suspended between solid and liquid, so is between heaven and earth, life and death.
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Post by wayseer on Sept 22, 2006 10:07:29 GMT
Yawn ... Stetch ... Ummmm ... What's the time ...
Madonna kabala - What's on the other channel.
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Post by ptbojim on Sept 22, 2006 12:08:52 GMT
It certainly doesn't take intelligence to offer criticism without providing knowledge based insight into the discussion. What would a non-Madonna cabalist have to say on the matter?
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Post by hollandr on Sept 22, 2006 12:12:17 GMT
Karen
It may be that Wayseer is asking how do we apply your propositions to improve our lives
Cheers
Russell
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Post by imakegarb on Sept 22, 2006 18:55:49 GMT
I was actually trying to apply it by bringing in Case's deck and his thoughts on the sephirot. Which probably was a mistake. I am very, very good at research, even on topics no one else wants to approach, but I'm very poor at application. I've noticed, though, that this works rather happily. When I'm among my brethren in my lodge, if I bring up a point of research, someone else at the table will, invariably, take my point and discuss how to apply it. And the general discussion goes from there. It would seem the majority of my brethren are far better at expounding on application than am I. And when they do, I am happy to listen. So, yeah, Wayseer (who by his name can see further than me), or someone else, probably could do a much better job at explaining application. Though I did, at the time, seem to be the only one willing to delve into this point of research which, in turn, made such discussion possible. And now that I have done so, Wayseer, or who ever, I will be very content to listen to an instruction on application
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Post by jmd on Sept 24, 2006 13:24:12 GMT
Since Atouts XII of the Tarot has been mentioned, below is a more 'common' depiction, with the overall image of card twelve resembling the overall shape of the twelfth letter of the Hebrew alphabet (Lamed): Yesod is at times described as reflecting the sexual surge, or passion of involvement, of the aspirant. What is quite astounding about this depiction is the sacrifice implied in the overall imagery. In some way, one can also see such 'sacrifice' as having similarity to the covenant made in the old testament - a covenant that links both the spoken word (covenant of the tongue - linked in some way with card II) and that of the membrum, here possibly implied.
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