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Unconditional Love
09:29 / 29.09.05
From the same source>

. Consciousness of the House of Influx (Sekhel Bet HaShefa). By probing with it, a secret mystery (raz) and an allusion are transmitted to those who “dwell in its shadow” and bind themselves to probing its substance from the Cause of Causes.[973]


Those who ‘dwell in the shadow’ of the Almighty are those who trust in G-d
(Psalm 91:1)


The name of G-d for Almighty is Shadai, which is associated with the sefirah of Yesod. The 18th level of consciousness is the gematria of chai – yh. The other name of G-d associated with Yesod is El Chai. The ‘probing’ done from Yesod reveals the secret mystery (raz) and allusion (ramez).

The quasi sefira RaZ is located above Yesod and between Netzah and Hod. When Netzah and Hod join during prophecy, the seeker can enter the gate of RaZ. The double letter connecting Yesod to Tiferets is the letter Resh representing RaZ.[974] Similarly, the double letter representing Tiferets to Keter is the Dalet representing knowledge (daat).

Perhaps and its a big perhaps people have been literally experiencing the shadow of god, because all the traditional knowledge around daat points to it being something very different to how it functions in the hermetic tradition.
 
 
Quantum
10:12 / 29.09.05
Here's a question- if one reconciles the qlippothic aspects of the self (the internal microcosm, the 'below' tree) for example working on each sphere and integrating them all, is that a prerequisite for attempting to heal the Abyss? If the ultimate goal is connection to God again, healing the internal rift, how does reconciling the light/dark aspects of each sphere relate to that work?

The goal of a lot of psychological work is integration of rejected aspects, very similar to a lot of occult work, and I feel that it's got to be easier to bridge the Abyss within if you've done that- fused the spheres and their reflections, or to use the champagne glass metaphor filled them all or fixed the broken ones.

Haus- I assume you've seen the wikipedia Ein Sof entry? Ein Sof "Divine Being", is the name for God... All other existence flows, or emanates from the Ein Sof.
I got a lovely edition of Mathers translation of the Zohar the other day, a splendid book if you'll excuse the pun, which is the primary source of most kabbalic doctrine (correct me if I'm wrong somebody) and I assume the basis for Grants work.
 
 
Unconditional Love
12:23 / 29.09.05
The result of Daat is Knowledge, which flows freely down upon
: Malkhut – Kingship (physical earth). In Genesis we read how
: Adam & Eve ate the fruit of Knowledge of Good & Evil. Do you
: think, this might be the reason why Daat is always visible
: and working? Because Adam & Eve ate of it? And further, for
: this reason, it's referred to in numerous places in the Bible?

RaZ

They are the "[empty] husks" of "[holy] sparks" (nitzotzot) that were cast down after Adam and Eve defied God's command not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden as told in the Book of Genesis.

Qliphoth
 
 
Boy in a Suitcase
12:24 / 29.09.05
Trouser: Yeah, that's my take on Grant as well, I think seen in that light he becomes a much more enjoyable read. For instance, back in high school I used to absolutely hate math and see it as just arbitrary monkeying with numbers that was just busy work and had no relation to "real" life. Then it was explained to me (just before leaving school, naturally) that the point from a pedagogical perspective was not the problems themselves, but that math improves your mind, forms new neural pathways, stretches your cognitive capabilities. If only they had told me that in the first place, maybe I would have paid attention and gotten something more than running C and D grades in math class...

That's really interesting about linear / non-linear processes (maybe even sides of the brain dare I say?), that totally takes out the "dark" aspects of this material and makes a lot of sense especially when you consider it in the light of Illmatic's comments from the very beginning of the thread: all the bad shit we do as a race is in the dayside already. The Goetia are on the dayside too, after all. The red dragon that "infests" the tree in the Golden Dawn diagrams of the "Tree After the Fall" is on the dayside. We're already fucked on the dayside without having to hang all of our problems on a simplistic "dark side."

One way I began to think of these things in a preliminary, conceptual way is that, instead of things being an opposition between good and evil in this model, which could be an easy trap to fall into, it's more a question of a phenomena and then a "distortion" of that phenomena, a parody, echo, hollow mockery, etc, the qlipha being the distortion.
 
 
Quantum
12:37 / 29.09.05
The Qlippoth as the *Sarcastic* side of the tree? :] I like it... satirising the Sephira, heh.
 
 
Gypsy Lantern
13:27 / 29.09.05
The distortion reminds me of the idea of the Ape of Thoth, in a way. There's always a monkey, somewhere.
 
 
Boy in a Suitcase
13:37 / 29.09.05
There's always a monkey, somewhere.

This may be the most concise definition of reality I have ever heard. Seriously.
 
 
Boy in a Suitcase
13:55 / 29.09.05
See the monkey.

Yep, the Ape of Thoth is the Qlipha of the Magician (Bet), in Tunnel Baratchial, tunnel of "Black Science"... check out Linda Falorio's stuff on it.

Also see the (longish, sorry, but good) info on the Qliphoth from "The Magician's Dictionary" by E. E. Rehmus, finally rehosted at this site:

Q Section of Magician's Dictionary
 
 
Unconditional Love
13:58 / 29.09.05
I just yesterday watched the 5th prophecy movie so the whole above sentence just took on a completely different character, at least for a few seconds
 
 
Boy in a Suitcase
14:01 / 29.09.05
What happens in that movie?
 
 
Unconditional Love
14:09 / 29.09.05
Perhaps the distortion is in perception, perhaps a critcal paranoid view would invoke a certain kind of perspective that may if not checked lead to a map consistent with a motive of fear at its basis. Baseing work on this perspective would then lay foundation similar to the map makers, upon which further explorers would build, confirming the predecessors but also adding to the general charcter of the map as it prevails in the original context.

Perhaps.
 
 
Unconditional Love
14:15 / 29.09.05
Its about an angel that is trying to stop the anti christ from being born so the apocalypse will not happen because then the faithful will ascend to heaven, jealousy basically. The main character is a nephilim who protects a book with the name of the anti christ in and is also protected by lucifer, who wants armaggeddon because he gets to keep the souls who dont make the grade and fill hell up a little more. It wasnt bad, intresting story if a little full of ham. The angels refer to humans as talking monkeys. The supporting character is a hitman who developes a conscience and wont do the job of his angel boss and kill the nephilim charcter. the story is well put together, but the production and acting,well......
 
 
Unconditional Love
15:27 / 29.09.05
The human solution

***The human solution

Man himself was created with the potential to provide the solution to the strategic problem facing the Klipa.

Man is the only creature in the universe with the capacity for free will. This means that he was created to serve as the interface between the 'fruit', the Holy part of the universe, and the peel, the Klipa. Man's physical body is formed from a Klipa called Klipat Nogah. Remember that the Nefesh Elokit is wrapped within the Nefesh Habehamit, the physical life force, and connected through it to the body. The Nefesh Elokit is permeated with the Divine light of the Shechina that flows into it through Naran, but it is also inextricably intertwined with the Nefesh Habahamit of man, the most delicate Klipa in the universe.

Through the Nefesh Habehamit, which serves as the wrapper around the Nefesh Elokit, the Klipa can draw the Divine energy it must have for its survival. But it can only draw the Divne Energy in the Nefesh Elokit safely into itself if it detaches the Nefesh Elokit from its connection with the Shechina. By definition, if the Klipa ever connected directly with the Shechina, it would discorporate.***

*** means i didnt do it.cool.it wasnt me.
 
 
Anthony
16:50 / 29.09.05
great thread.
i'm wondering what the XIII degree is though..
 
 
Unconditional Love
20:34 / 29.09.05
okay, i had this running through my head on the way back from chi gung and had a kind of epiphany very briefly. if lower daath were limited knowledge, ie the forms of words formed by light in consciousness, then higher daath would be knowing knowledge without form, formless knowledge. An for a brief moment there everything was as clear as tripping, and i became a complete smiler. But the voice that tuned in next said, i have to understand that without intellectual knowing to retain that, but the voice never told me how. Its something to do with the throat and speech as false knowledge, perhaps false is wrong but incomplete more accurate. Its something illmatic mentioned sometime ago about words that get stuck in the throat, but its not only the throat but tensions in consciousness that combine with the laryngeal muscles.

I have an example of what i mean, its hard to explain but here goes, at a mental health conference recently i was in conversation with an afro caribbean lady, an exnurse, who was explaining that in her language, shenmue, if i remember correctly there were no words for depression, and only one came close, she started to discuss the physical symptoms, at which point i introduced her to reich (also of illmatics teaching) and my own research on chinese medicine, especially concerning the kidneys, lower back problems were the main subject of discussion, now its not quite the same as formless knowledge, but because in shenmue the language wasnt there to express the feeling the only way i could think of helping her was to get at the problem through the body, massage and reichs case studys with depression and also accupressure, body psychotherapy etc.

Not the same but makes the point, if the language of creation is formless how do you approach communicating with god? As the article by shoshana suggests through faith, or would it be possible through shekinah, the holy spirit? Or as god is immanent in all creation then every interaction/relationship is communication with god? Now to work on becoming aware of that.

As Money shot wrote sometime ago sanctifying awareness of the eternal in every action.
 
 
Unconditional Love
21:52 / 29.09.05
This may need a seperate thread i will let a mod decide,

***Therefore, at the beginning of the Talmudic era, the word Shekhina meant the aspect of God that dwelt among people and could be apprehended by the senses. For example, one Talmudic verse said: "Let them make Me a sanctuary that I may dwell (ve'shakhanti) among them." However, in a later version, the translation said "Let them make Me a Sanctuary so that My Shekhina will dwell among them." In other words, a separate entity.

Slowly, the manifested entity became stronger. A complete distinction appears in a Talmudic quotation from the end of the 1st century BCE: "...while the Children of Israel were still in Egypt, the Holy One, blessed be He, stipulated that He would liberate them from Egypt only in order that they built him a Sanctuary so that He can let His Shekhina dwell among them... As soon as the Tabernacle was erected, the Shekhina descended and dwelt among them." Another quotation from early 3rd century says: "On that day a thing came about which had never existed since the creation of the world. From the creation of the world and up to that hour the Shekhina had never dwelt among the lower beings. But from the time that the Tabernacle was erected, she did dwell among them." ***

Shekhina

Accepting the eternal is immanent and knowable as shekhina/ashera, that is a starting point for worship.(remember me mentioning ashera all that time ago illmatic?)

***From the first covenant, Yahweh presented an image of a harsh, daunting God. His character almost demanded the birth of an entity like Shekhina. Also, He could not be seen by human eyes, and only a few prophets heard His voice. Yet almost every religion shows that human nature seeks intimacy with a deity. The manifestation of a loving maternal entity, ready to defend her people even from God Himself, brings a feeling of comfort that a paternal, invisible entity like Yahweh cannot bestow upon His worshipers. Shekhina represented compassion in its purest form, and despite being, officially, the female side of God, she was visible and audible as a feminine entity in her own right. A beautiful being of light, whose most important function was to intercede with God on behalf of her children. Such an entity had to come into being to soften the harshness of the original Judaism.***

***THE SECRET OF SABBATH

The Secret of Sabbath:
She is Sabbath!
United in the secret of One
to draw down upon Her
the secret of One.

The prayer for the entrance of Sabbath:

The holy Throne of Glory is united in the secret of One,
prepared for the High Holy King to rest upon Her.
When Sabbath enters She is alone,
separated from the Other Side,
all judgments removed from Her.
Basking in the oneness of holy light,
She is crowned over and over to face the Holy King.
All powers of wrath and masters of judgment flee from Her.
Her face shines with a light from beyond;
She is crowned below by the holy people,
and all of them are crowned with new souls.
Then the beginning of prayer to bless Her with joy and beaming faces:
Barekbu ET YHVH ha-Mevorakh,
"Bless ET YHVH, the-Blessed One,"
ET YHVH, blessing Her first.

(*ET-YHVH is another name for 'Shekinah' (the feminine Divine Presence). In the Kabbalah, ET stands for Aleph to Tav, like our Alpha to Omega, or A to Z. Here ET refers to the song itself as the ultimate speech, hymn or prayer. According to the notes of Daniel Chanan Matt's translation, this passage from the ZOHAR is recited in the Sephardic liturgy on Sabbath Eve.) ***

shekinah, eema, god the mother
 
 
trouser the trouserian
04:52 / 30.09.05
Boy
no, please don't say sides of the brain (why not look at one of the holographic models of brain processing rather than that tired old L/R split-brain crap) - you see how strong the cartographic tendency is? However, I can't resist one myself: "dayside" = tree, "nightside"=rhizhomes (as in Deleuze & Guattari). But hey, let's just keep it simple. Think of it on a sensory level - how do yr senses change when it's night as opposed to day?
 
 
Boy in a Suitcase
12:39 / 30.09.05
Heh heh, yes, I know that's all been disproven and all... just couldn't resist.

Need to get around to reading D & G one of these days...
 
 
Unconditional Love
13:56 / 30.09.05
Intresting question,

being unvocational for many years, ive found that when not preoccupied my body clock changes, i become nocturnal( my mother explained this to me when she was taught on one of her nursery nurse courses that human infants are naturally nocturnal and are socially conditioned to be awake during the day, not sure on the accuracy of this.) The senses especially hearing heighten, this i would think is due to a lack of light, not so much a factor these days but i would think instinctually the body heightens other senses at night.

Another component of the night is the great peace that is prevalent, while everybody is sleeping is the optimum time to go out and feel totally and utterly secure, especially walks in the country, where there are fewer humans to cause problems. This is when the full expanse of the senses become avalible, and a hunting like instinct awakens, all the senses sharpen, the sight graduates into deep blues and blacks and the mind quickly readapts to a more primal persepective, the symbol systems are removed and a more organic perceptual structure evoked.

My own hearing sharpens considerably, and it is perhaps one of the only times that the voices within me become silent, and the sense of sound fills me, from the birds i am disturbing while walking slowly in woods, to the twigs and dead wood under the feet.

Smell, becomes very heightened and a sense that you can almost taste the air, especially on cold winter nights where there is a crispness to the ground under foot and an almost static electric like quality in the environment.

Night can give the senses a predatory like quality, so extraordinary heightened compared to the day when the mind can be firmly locked into the social symbol systems that we are in a sense bound to be preoccupied with, as our environments and interactions are formulated from them.
 
 
Unconditional Love
14:13 / 30.09.05
As an aside, it could be that the darq side social symbolisms are a cultural way to approach the sensory phenomena locked into the bodies adaptation to the flight and fight mechanism and hunting instinct. perhaps.
 
  

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