Re: Qabalah Theory Question

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

Dear Rawn,
Thank you for clearing that up - With all these strange rules and
variations on the Tree of Life I don't know how we are supposed to
make sense of it! As the Western Qabalah seems to contradict the
Jewish Qabalah, which one is right? Perhaps they elucidate the same
thing in a different way. Any road, I will bear this theory in mind - 
Best Wishes,
M



> >> My Question is: If The Pillar of Severity is Water, and Binah and Hod
> correspond to Water, why would Geburah be Fire? And vice versa for the
> other pillar. She casually mentions that water is reflected from Binah,
> through Chesed into Hod, but doesn't explain why. <<
> 
> To my mind, this is a very good example of how the Western Qabbalah
> needs to create very complex rationalizations in order to make its
> interpretation of Jewish Kabbalah correspond with the ancient Jewish
> texts such as the Sepher Yetzirah, Bahir and Zohar. Unfortunately, from
> the perspective of Jewish Kabbalah it doesn't make any sense.
> 
> In order to make the Hermetic conception of the Elements fit into their
> conception of the Jewish Tree of Life, Western Qabbalists invented the
> theory of the "crossover of influences". According to this theory, the
> Elemental attributions of the Sephirot crossover between the Supernal
> Triad (Kether, Chokmah & Binah) and the triad of Tiphareth (Chesed,
> Geburah & Tiphareth), thus passing the Water of Binah to Chesed and the
> Fire of Chokmah to Geburah. In many ways, this reflects the western
> concept that "power" is an exclusively masculine (Fire) attribute and
> that "compassion" is an exclusively feminine attribute. According to
> this theory, the Elemental correspondences do another crossover between
> the Tiphareth triad and the Yesod triad (Netzach, Hod & Tiphareth).
> 
> My best to you,
> :) Rawn Clark
> 13 Nov 2003
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