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Qabalah - Tree of Life - Malkuth
On the Tree of Life, Malkut - Kingdom - is the final emanation.
Malkuth is at times claimed to be the 'matrix' from which the physical world manifests from the four elements.
The four elements were first discussed by the ancient Greeks, who sought to understand the actual structure of the world. The culmination of this inquiry culminated with the writings and recorded thoughts of Plato and Aristotle in which, though in different ways, they postulated earlier considerations on these elements. The world, then, contained rocks, trees, blood, bones, hair, etc, each of which was viewed to be made up of various combinations of these four elements.
Cosmologically, they viewed that the centre of the world was the Earth, containing the 'heaviest' element, above which is Water, above which is Air, above which is Fire, above which are the planetary abodes.
The four elements, in their pure form, transcend any observable phenomena, and another way of considering these is as states of Solidity, Fluidity, Gaseousness, and Metamorphosising 'fieriness'.
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In this Sefirah, the Golden Dawn system places the four Tens of the minor Arcana; Wirth places the Wheel of Fortune; I personally favour I the Magician/XI Strength (classical numbering, not later change made on the Waite deck).
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Looking forward to reading your comments and views, which may differ from mine.
On the Tree of Life, Malkut - Kingdom - is the final emanation.
Malkuth is at times claimed to be the 'matrix' from which the physical world manifests from the four elements.
The four elements were first discussed by the ancient Greeks, who sought to understand the actual structure of the world. The culmination of this inquiry culminated with the writings and recorded thoughts of Plato and Aristotle in which, though in different ways, they postulated earlier considerations on these elements. The world, then, contained rocks, trees, blood, bones, hair, etc, each of which was viewed to be made up of various combinations of these four elements.
Cosmologically, they viewed that the centre of the world was the Earth, containing the 'heaviest' element, above which is Water, above which is Air, above which is Fire, above which are the planetary abodes.
The four elements, in their pure form, transcend any observable phenomena, and another way of considering these is as states of Solidity, Fluidity, Gaseousness, and Metamorphosising 'fieriness'.
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In this Sefirah, the Golden Dawn system places the four Tens of the minor Arcana; Wirth places the Wheel of Fortune; I personally favour I the Magician/XI Strength (classical numbering, not later change made on the Waite deck).
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Looking forward to reading your comments and views, which may differ from mine.