Pelops
This is my first post so I'll give a quick intro:
I've been dabbling for the last 3-4 years or so in a mystical mish mash, have recently decided to utilize a laymen's knowledge of Tarot/Kabbalah for creative persuits, have been extremely frustrated and overwhelmed and getting too obsessed in research when perhaps I shouldn't.
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I have been going over psyche.com for some time and have found the information at times helpful and at times frustrating. The one thing that I do take from it pretty seriously is the association of the letters with metaphysical concepts splattered over this webpage:
http://www.psyche.com/psyche/tarot/tarot_natural_order.html
Also, as a decision after facing the multitude of all-imperfect-in-some-way attributions of letters to the tree and trying to create my own (with mem, sheen, and aleph spewing from kether...which seemed to make sense to me as these are elementals (and my reasoning went, therefore more fundamental than singles/doubles and therefore should come from Kether...anyhow...) I made a decision (or at least I think I did) to use what has come under my understanding as the traditional Hebrew layout of the Kabbalah seen here:
http://www.abardoncompanion.com/Book231/br00.jpg
My question is:
On this tree and with the metaphysical properties associated with the letters on the psyche.com page, the utilization of Beth, Gimmel, and Dallet at the "top" of the tree makes complete sense to me as a container of circumstances that needs to be before Heh comes from Kether...however...after Tipharet it would seem to make more sense to me to align Kaf, Lamed, and Mem in a similiar (albeit not EXACTLY similiar, but still "containeresque") way with Mem where it is and Kaf and Lamed on opposite sides like Gimmel and Dalet up top...this would seem to set up the circumstances for Noun to come from Tipharet like Heh exploded from Kether. Also, this seems likely supported by what I understand to be Jacob's Ladder, where Kether in one world is the Tipharet of the World above.
Any help here would be appreciated...
I had a reason to mention Filipes in the title, but it now eludes me. Of course his Tarot attributions and those at Psyche.com (Suares' from what I can tell) are dissimiliar...and I feel a friction there,,,I like each for different reasons. Perhaps if some of you could share your views on these two systems it may spark some of my own thinking into motion.
By the way, I really enjoy this forum. I have particularly enjoyed the posts of kwaw, filipes, jmd, and venicebard (whom I wish had a website or at least an extended posting on his musings of the older alphabet's relationship to everything - that's a request, venicebard).
-Pelo
I've been dabbling for the last 3-4 years or so in a mystical mish mash, have recently decided to utilize a laymen's knowledge of Tarot/Kabbalah for creative persuits, have been extremely frustrated and overwhelmed and getting too obsessed in research when perhaps I shouldn't.
:
I have been going over psyche.com for some time and have found the information at times helpful and at times frustrating. The one thing that I do take from it pretty seriously is the association of the letters with metaphysical concepts splattered over this webpage:
http://www.psyche.com/psyche/tarot/tarot_natural_order.html
Also, as a decision after facing the multitude of all-imperfect-in-some-way attributions of letters to the tree and trying to create my own (with mem, sheen, and aleph spewing from kether...which seemed to make sense to me as these are elementals (and my reasoning went, therefore more fundamental than singles/doubles and therefore should come from Kether...anyhow...) I made a decision (or at least I think I did) to use what has come under my understanding as the traditional Hebrew layout of the Kabbalah seen here:
http://www.abardoncompanion.com/Book231/br00.jpg
My question is:
On this tree and with the metaphysical properties associated with the letters on the psyche.com page, the utilization of Beth, Gimmel, and Dallet at the "top" of the tree makes complete sense to me as a container of circumstances that needs to be before Heh comes from Kether...however...after Tipharet it would seem to make more sense to me to align Kaf, Lamed, and Mem in a similiar (albeit not EXACTLY similiar, but still "containeresque") way with Mem where it is and Kaf and Lamed on opposite sides like Gimmel and Dalet up top...this would seem to set up the circumstances for Noun to come from Tipharet like Heh exploded from Kether. Also, this seems likely supported by what I understand to be Jacob's Ladder, where Kether in one world is the Tipharet of the World above.
Any help here would be appreciated...
I had a reason to mention Filipes in the title, but it now eludes me. Of course his Tarot attributions and those at Psyche.com (Suares' from what I can tell) are dissimiliar...and I feel a friction there,,,I like each for different reasons. Perhaps if some of you could share your views on these two systems it may spark some of my own thinking into motion.
By the way, I really enjoy this forum. I have particularly enjoyed the posts of kwaw, filipes, jmd, and venicebard (whom I wish had a website or at least an extended posting on his musings of the older alphabet's relationship to everything - that's a request, venicebard).
-Pelo