Dear Rawn, >>>The key to this understanding is the direct perception of essential meaning. I suggest that you apply this faculty of perception to the colors themselves . . .<<< At this moment in time I'm still working upon perfecting my ability to percieve essential meaning. I'm going to be keeping on working on, and eventually I'm sure I'll get it though. >>>Yes, Bardon gave 27. However, Hebrew has 22 Letters (which are all consonants) and 5 basic vowel points. Bardon didn't discriminate between "Letters" and "vowel points" and thus presented 27 "letters". If you examine my Commentary Upon KTQ rather closely, especially my charts 1 & 2, I think you will understand how Bardon's letters and the Hebrew match up.<<< Perhaps a better question would be: why does the Sepher Yetzirah not deal with the five basic vowel points? D these vowel points deal more with the transition from Yetzirah to Assiah? Also, within the inner circle of the Third Key I'm seeing three sets of four different colours. So in the inner circle we've got the three mother letters, the five vowel points...so what do the other four come in? I have been playing around with the Third Key and am starting to see how some of the associations are fitting together. However, I'm sure that it'll take quite a lot of time to be able to see all of them. And I'm also pretty sure that I'll be setting aside this key for some time to more activly persue the work within IIH. Love and Live well, Peter Reist --- In BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com, "Rawn Clark" <rawnclark@n...> wrote: > Dear Peter, > > >> When I made the comment about step 8, I was refering to how all the > colour symbolism relates to the actual universal principles that they > are suppose to represent and what not all. << > > The key to this understanding is the direct perception of essential > meaning. I suggest that you apply this faculty of perception to the > colors themselves . . . > > >> I do believe that the point of confusion that I am finding is that > within Jewish Kaballah, there are only 22 letters. Whereas Bardon's > system posits how many letters, 27, I believe? << > > Yes, Bardon gave 27. However, Hebrew has 22 Letters (which are all > consonants) and 5 basic vowel points. Bardon didn't discriminate > between "Letters" and "vowel points" and thus presented 27 "letters". > If you examine my Commentary Upon KTQ rather closely, especially my > charts 1 & 2, I think you will understand how Bardon's letters and the > Hebrew match up. > > >> Moreover, all the letters are suppose to be mastered within each of > the four realms: akasha, mental, astral and physical, correct? Yet here > you're seeming to say that certian letters have an affinity with certian > realms... << > > Yes. However, the fact that a specific Letter has an affinity with a > specific realm does not preclude its usage in other realms. The nature > of these affinities are the basis upon which formulae are constructed. > > >> Now with regards to what you've said about the use of the key as a > wheel: I think I get the general idea of it. However, I'm going to have > to print out a couple copies of the key and play around with it a bit to > see if I can actually apply it all. << > > :) Good luck! > > My best to you, > :) Rawn Clark > 21 Jun 2003 > rawnclark@n... > rawn@a... > http://www.ABardonCompanion.com > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BardonPraxis > http://E.webring.com/hub?ring=arionthebardonwe