M, To be honest with you, if you're beginning to study the Kabbalah, and you actually think you understand what's going on. Then the chances are pretty good that you are so far off base it's not really funny. :) Western and Jewish Kabbalah are different. That does not necessarily make one right and the other wrong. They are just different paths and different takes on how the psyche, how the divine works, different maps of the landscape. Though a common fault is to mistake the map for the landscape itself. Rawn's commentaries upon the 32 paths of wisdom eluciate rather well the similaries, differences, and some of the faults of both. Love and Live well, Peter Reist