Dave's Angel
Hello everyone
I haven't been here for a while, I've been beavering away devotedly at my own stuff (well I say devotedly - blushes). I've run up against two random things that I'd appreciate some pointers on.
(1) Alternate version of the Tree of Life.
Somebody posted a diagram of it here a while back. There's the "standard" version of the Tree which I find in pretty much every book, where they've ordered the paths methodically going downwards from Kether. Then there's another one - and I've been limited Googling it because I don't know the name of this version - where the mother letters match the horizontal paths, the doubles match the verticals, and the other letters are on the diagonals.
What I am trying to find is some sort of resource (book? website?) that goes a little into why / how a particular Hebrew letter matches a path. For example I've found Israel Regardie's Garden of Pomegranates very useful because for each path it explains what the path is about, what the letter symbolises and hence why the two go together. Ideally I'd love a book that does the same thing with this other version of the tree.
Can anyone point me in a good direction? Thanks.
(2) Greek alphabet and Gnostic Aeons
I know the Greeks made a bit of a thing about how there were seven planets and seven vowels, and matched each vowel to a planet. I've got Edwin Allen Hulse's "The Key of it All" books (thank you Ross) and I've come across a section where he states that the Gnostics took the 24 letters of the Greek alphabet, added I-E-S-O-U-S to the end to make 30, and then compared that to the thirty Gnostic Aeons.
The thing is, Hulse gives a table with the Aeons going down one column, and the letters of the alphabet down the other, matching one Aeon to one letter. Did the Gnostics actually take it this far? Because I've found Hulse's work less than reliable many times, and from what I've read, it seems to me that they only went as far as making the number of letters match the number of Aeons - IE it was never a correlation of a letter to an Aeon.
Again, can anybody point me to books or websites that would clear up my uncertainty?
Thank you very much in advance.
I haven't been here for a while, I've been beavering away devotedly at my own stuff (well I say devotedly - blushes). I've run up against two random things that I'd appreciate some pointers on.
(1) Alternate version of the Tree of Life.
Somebody posted a diagram of it here a while back. There's the "standard" version of the Tree which I find in pretty much every book, where they've ordered the paths methodically going downwards from Kether. Then there's another one - and I've been limited Googling it because I don't know the name of this version - where the mother letters match the horizontal paths, the doubles match the verticals, and the other letters are on the diagonals.
What I am trying to find is some sort of resource (book? website?) that goes a little into why / how a particular Hebrew letter matches a path. For example I've found Israel Regardie's Garden of Pomegranates very useful because for each path it explains what the path is about, what the letter symbolises and hence why the two go together. Ideally I'd love a book that does the same thing with this other version of the tree.
Can anyone point me in a good direction? Thanks.
(2) Greek alphabet and Gnostic Aeons
I know the Greeks made a bit of a thing about how there were seven planets and seven vowels, and matched each vowel to a planet. I've got Edwin Allen Hulse's "The Key of it All" books (thank you Ross) and I've come across a section where he states that the Gnostics took the 24 letters of the Greek alphabet, added I-E-S-O-U-S to the end to make 30, and then compared that to the thirty Gnostic Aeons.
The thing is, Hulse gives a table with the Aeons going down one column, and the letters of the alphabet down the other, matching one Aeon to one letter. Did the Gnostics actually take it this far? Because I've found Hulse's work less than reliable many times, and from what I've read, it seems to me that they only went as far as making the number of letters match the number of Aeons - IE it was never a correlation of a letter to an Aeon.
Again, can anybody point me to books or websites that would clear up my uncertainty?
Thank you very much in advance.