I got some time. I'll talk about those associated things that peopel use in meditative workings. A lot of people use the old Crowley versions of them, but we(the scientific awareness of the planet Earth plus the unstoppable Internet) know more than he does now, so some switching around is okay.
Kether is "Crown" becasue it(Unity) is the symbol for God's leadership and purpose for even having a kingdom. Kether is on the Middle Pillar, making it less an archetypical thing and more of an attainable "location" for consciousness. Kether is the divine, Daath is our interface for the divine, Tiphereth is self-consciousness, Yesod is our interface for the world, and Maluth is the world. Collapse them through meditation.
Kether is attributed in Tarot cardgames to the aces. Crowley called them "roots of the powers of blank", but I figure they're more like our deepest and most primal understanding of the four suits. Like Ace of Wands is simply "Volition". The querent can interpret that anyway ze likes, and push the game along by talking about it. Likewise for Cups/Compassion, Swords/Analysis, and Pentacles/Manifestation.
Kether as an imaginable realm, is best thought of as the Void of Light. All things are compressed to a singularity where the nothing IS the everything. So, of course, the corresponding color would be white. Each of the "Four Worlds" has a color attribution to Kether, but they get redundant. The only one that makes sense in the scheme of division from the other Sephiroth is by giving it "white" and staying quiet.
Comparative mythology also comes into this by associating father or king gods to Kether. That's pointless because most father/king gods are found in Chesed or Hod. The problem I have with associating them to Kether is because they have "personas"... father/kings usually have mythic stories that imply learning or behavior or character, all things that Kether both includes and annihilates by its lack of Time. Even Jehovah has a personality, so I usually give up at this point. If there's gonna be a god in Kether, it'll be the self-god you find there once you hit causal self-sense. And then you'll both fade and hit the ground of being.
In the mighty tradition of State flowers and National birds, Kether also has distinct plants and animals associated or "sacred" to it. Crowley gives us the almond for its flower, diamond for its stone, ambergris for its scent, galactic mass as it's planet, and Metatron as its archangel in addition to several other things I'm sure others will list. First of all, I don't see the point of having these things unless you're going to use them in some sort of communion-style meditative working. So, for me, you'd have to pick things that invade your senses regardless of connotations. Of these, I think ambergris is the only one useful. Scent can be breathed in while you're all lotus style and om-ing. And if you're the type who likes to meditate with eyes open, I'd hang up a sheet of white posterboard and stare into it.
Someone suggested using sound and music to make a compilation of Kabbalistically approved music  . I suggest anything by Brian Eno, music for airports, for the Kether episode. I personally think music is anathema to Kether, but Eno seems to understand that and keeps pace with Time.
Let's move on to Chokmah. |
