Re: [BardonPraxis] Re: Qabalah Theory Question

[JohnWW <JohnWW@...>]

One correction: The unfinished sentence "Above it, "Ain Sof Aur" or
"Limitless Light" represents " should read instead: "Above it, "Ain Sof
Aur" or "Limitless Light" represents sojourns in solar systems other
than this one, and may correspond to Arcturus, which according to Edgar
Cayce is a sort of way-station for spirits in transit to or from this
solar system and others and is the fixed star with the most important
astrological influence.".

John W.

JohnWW wrote:
> 
> My view is that the Qabalah, by which I presume you mean the Sefer
> Yetzirah or Book of Formation, with its Tree of Life or Etz Chaim, is
> astrological, NOT magical, in nature. It is to be interpreted as a
> soul's evolution through spirit sojourns, in various dimensions of
> consciousness (and in Earth in flesh in 3-dimensional consciousness), in
> the various planets of the solar system (or other solar systems having
> an inhabitable planet like Earth), the spirit activities on which give
> rise to astrological influences. The Tree of Life, in my opinion, shows
> that soul evolution is from the bottom of it upwards; the most central
> sefirah represents the Sun, the lowest Earth AND Moon, the next lowest
> Mercury, the uppermost Pluto, and the next uppermost Uranus and Neptune.
> Above it, "Ain Sof Aur" or "Limitless Light" represents There is nothing
> magical about it at all, except possibly for the paths which together
> represent Moon-Pluto astrological aspects, which I find to be the most
> important in magical or psychokinetic powers.
> 
> The hexagon formed by the sefiroth representing the Sun, Jupiter,
> Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, indicates what is the minimum
> requirement for the horoscope of a soul not requiring any further
> sojourns/incarnations in this solar system, namely Sun either sextile,
> trine, opposite, or conjunct all of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune,
> and Pluto, preferably with Moon also similarly involved, the current
> incarnation being only voluntary. The Dalai Lama's horoscope (6 a.m., 6
> July 1935, eastern Tibet) has such a configuration.
> 
> John W.
> 
> Peter Reist wrote:
> >
> > 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.