Re: book 231 paths/gates

["metaphysics0000" <crispinp@...>]

This is very interesting, are these gates approached in Key to the
True Kaballah? At what point does one begin this work? 
Regards,
M



> this is really a mis-use of the term, Kabbalistically speaking. In the
> ancient texts, the term "Path" is used for the Letters AND the Sephirot
> (e.g., the 32 Paths of Wisdom) and is not an indication of a connection
> between the Sephirot. So, the individual Sephirot are each "Paths" as
> are each of the individual Letters.
> 
> To illustrate a simple Gate (which looks like a 'path'), let's look at
> the first Gate in the Sequence of Initiation: Yesod > Tav > Malkuth.
> This Gate is composed of three "Paths": #1 - Yesod, #2 - Tav, #3 -
> Malkuth. It is "worked" or traveled, by first attaining Yesod, and then
> the 'path' of Tav is pursued "down" into Malkuth. This integrates the
> Yesod level of one's consciousness, into the Malkuth level, via the
> journey of Tav. The Gate is then traversed in the opposite direction,
> upwards and officially ends back in Yesod, thus integrating the Malkuth
> level of one's consciousness into the Yesod level, via the reverse
> journey of Tav.
> 
> When working a Gate, one always begins with the highest Sephirot and
> travels first to the lowest Sephirot. In the example of Gate #4
> (8.10.9.8), which is composed of five "Paths", one begins in the highest
> Sephirot of Hod (8) and travels first to the lowest Sephirot in the
> Gate, Malkuth (10). Then one makes their way from Malkuth to Yesod and
> then from Yesod back to Hod, completing the form. And then, one works
> the Gate in the reverse direction by traveling from Hod to Yesod, then
> to Malkuth and ending once again in Hod.
> 
> So, a Gate is composed of *at least* three "Paths" and represents the
> integration of the various levels of consciousness symbolized by the
> "Paths". A "Path" on the other hand, represents just a single discrete
> level of consciousness and not an integration of levels.
> 
> My best to you,
> :) Rawn Clark
> 14 Sept 2003
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