Track 11, David Bowie's 'A Better Future'

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"Why in some forms of the tree do we not have the
side re-inforcing Paths from Netzach to Malkuth and Hod to Malkuth?"

From tribes.tribe.net/godcode/t...28d2627adc

"I used to wonder why I've seen mainly two different types of Tree of Life constructs. One is the Luria construct which has Malchut attached to Yesod without connections to Hod and Netzach and the Cordevero construct which connect Malchut to all three. Leonora Leet cleared this up for me in her book “The Secret Doctrine of Kabblah” when she explained that the Luria tree depicts the Fall or post-breaking of the vessels from the inability of the construct to hold the full brilliant light.

The Cordevero tree depicts the reconnection of Malchut to Hod and Netzach as a result of the "Great Work". Not sure if she used those words but that's how I read it. If we overlay the 10 Commandments to the Tree of Life, we can get some strong linkages to this theme. We know the 10th Commandment refers to coveting and not focusing on lack which the physical world tricks us into believing when we see others possesing things we don't have. The more we feel the lack the more we fall into an instinctual mode of behavior - especially with Yesod reflecting our shadow back to us. Yesod is related to the Moon and the letter Nun which I referenced above, as being the second letter in the Hebrew word Zanah which has been translated as fornication. Yesod is also referred to as the false self and directly relates to the 9th Commandment to not bear false witness. This is the act of deceiving ourselves into justifying our instinctual behavior as right and proper. It's kind of like denial for an addict where there is just no reasoning allowed for by the addict. There is nothing wrong in his or her opinion. Marriages can be lost, lives torn apart, and children hurt unnecessarily because the person is blinded to everything but what is desired. A vicious cycle occurs because pain and shame feed endlessly and is directly related to the disconnection from Hod which is Glory, and Netzach which is Victory.

The 8th Commandment associated with Hod is thou shalt not steal. Steal what? How about the energy of others? Our own sexual energy has been blocked and as soon as we can unite with another's, we drink it up like a vampire. As soon we beome vampires, we spread it on with Netzach and it's associated commandment prohibiting adultry. The flowing energy that was severed in the Fall now has turned into adulterated energy of instinctual based exchanges everywhere, with everyone. This corrupts our sensibilities and keeps us further away from what we really seek which is the solar center of Beauty found in Tipheret, which is also the mediation point for the higher self found in the upper sephirot.

Of course the 6th Commandment is: Donot Murder, which we've effectivelydone to ourselves by cutting off our solar center from the lower light which seeks to merge with the higher light. This then continues the endless cycle of pain and meaninglessness.

Breaking through the instinctual self to the human self is the only way out. The ethical way is when we wake up to each other (and mainly to ourselves) to begin acting with integrity. The more we do this, the more the pathways to Hod, Netzach and Tipheret open up and our humanity born. IMO, this is the meaning of being born again. "

"Daath holds many things. Among them is the realization of what it means to ascend from this reality
to see the next higher emanation, from our perspective."

I equate Daat with Gnosis in that once we've accomplished the "Great Work' of integration I speak of in the previous post, a light bulb turns on which is Daat. It is paradoxical in its role as bottomless pit (abyss) of polarity/duality and in its unification of wisdom and understanding brought through the integration of these opposites.

"Long have the Hebrews called the two sephiroth of Chokmah and Binah
Abba and Amma, Father and Mother. Does this refer to the Archetypal World, or the Material?"

Both imo. Archetype (As Above) Material (So Below). The projection of Archetype into mundane reality is not perfect therefore Adam is first created (Briah) as he and she together, then formed (Yetzirah) from the Clay of the earth (Malchut). Adam Kadmon is reclaiming the original template of Archetype imo, as we stretch back "up" through the same Worlds we came down from finding the inner female we disowned in the process.

"So in a sense we imposed the fracture of the Abyss in order to stay in Malkuth"

We chose duality so we could find unity. Just as God sought to see itself so we sought to see ourself - so we/God could know (gnosis) ourself.

"So, *does* Kether of the lower reality mean the Malkuth of the higher?"

I Am that I Am incorporates Kether's projection into Malchut and Malchut's reconnection with Kether imo. It is a mandala and an aspiration best represented in the notion of the Bride and the Bridegroom in Hebrew text and prayer with Shekinah/David playing out Malchut's desires for reunification imo.

"I would blame no one, other than to say
throughout Biblical history we have had a premonition of the certainty of the end of the world,"

The end of a cycle is how I view it.

"So in a sense we imposed the fracture of the Abyss in order to stay in Malkuth."

The area of the neck is linked to daath. The head - the supernals & the body the 7 (lower) sephiras.

As to this: "Conjoined permanently with your love *of the opposite sex*"

I don't think it really matters whether your love is male or female or whether
you are homosexual or not, it's the non-physical love which is important,
and since everyone has a microcosmic Binah on their Tree, it could be
that over-receptiveness might be causing homosexuality in some spiritual
manner, but in whatever case I do not care, I will not judge, since I do not
need to solely focus on the physical, and insist on not being prejudicial
about human problems when we all are causing them to be perpetuated.

Reading through all these seems to get very mixed up. But as far as my understanding goes the tree of life can be shown to represent many aspects of life the universe and everything. and that DAATH is not really a sephiroth and known as the Abyss is because when a soul finally gets fed up with ist paths and many lifetimes in Hindu and Budhism is the same..... it is said to go on the Great Search and in the Kabbala this is known as The Great Work, in doing so it may seek knowledge everywhere, and become lost, and also begin to let go of doctrine and dogma BUT search for its own experiential TRUTH.

Crossing Daath therfore becomes the abyss, many get lost or give up, some fall on stoney ground, but for the real Seeker after Truth they will find that Truth, each the same but in their own unique way. But first we may have to let go of beliefs, and let go of known to go out into the unknown. This is the Abyss, But you will find it for all it takes is Perseverence. and those old but good things called trust and faith.

Malkult is the physicAL world, and sometimes owver Malkuth is seen a Rainbow for it is the gateway to higher things and Truth, Yesod is 5th dimension from which we fell, in Adams fall, for here we were guided so that we would be ready for a physical life.

The 5th dimension is where we may visit in our dreams or visions, and is sometimes known as "the little heaven" because our glimpses, may lead us to believe we have 'arrived'. It is in these three higher sephiroth that the magical triangle is touched on and many get stuck here too. As B|udha says neti neti not this not this yet! Or Gate' gate' Beyond Beyond.

But once you leave malkult, you are beginning a journey and can communicate with gUARDIANS, guides, in Yesod the Astral dimension. You go there every night in 'dreams'. It is like this one and vast, it is where shamans have their visions, as some American Indian call Walking in the SKy. Aborigini's call the 'Dreamtime'. This is why so many stories show Labarynths and the hero getting distracted from his path, or lost in the woods. These can be the dark nights of the soul, and often we reach up and get knocked back down again.

From the great 1 and the big bang the universe unfolded, Keter, to Binah so from the Holy divine Father the Great Mother opened up a great space or womb for the universe to take place in. In Raj Yoga this is the dark universe and there is another entirely of light. Beyond Beyond.

Male and Female matter very much - yin Yang, Light Dark. For this is what we must contend with and reconcile, in order to return and become whole. On the tree of life you have the Black Pillar and the White, So the qualities of male and Female need bee balanced, the middle path or the middle Pillar. If you think of them as energies it gets easier. The Divine Father that guide with wisdome and the Divine Mother that has compassion. Intuition balanced with intellect. Feelings and Thoughts. Honouring our Mother and Father, we become Whole or Holy. The child.

So get climbing that tree!

For ME the idea or the statement “Crossing the Abyss” refers more to a process than a place- however when one is in the process of changing ones way of receiving ( receiving data, perceptions- ones view of reality- or ones ACCEPTANCE of receiving Reality) then it can and does feel like you are in a place- or a void.
- Being in a void- is where one is constanly attempting to AVOID the obvious aspects of reality. We, as magiains- when approaching the process of “crossing the abyss” begin to shed our childish ( not chilkike or chilhood) ways of appreciating reality. This is almost always a painful process- unless you can claim that your upbringing was “perfect” ( and I would not beleive you). Even if you had no real Trauma as a child or young adult- the very pressure and fact of being alive should be enough to throw anyone into Trauma. Trauma and Fear are key elements in the growth of anything, be it a person, plant or planet.
- One can understand the term “Crossing the Abyss” in other ways just by looking at the Tree of Life- and seeing where DAATH is situated. Of course you will not be able to understand DAATH unless you understand what surrounds it- and the imaginary linear time of Initiation through each Sphere and Path.
- DAATH "seems" a Secret door in which The Tree of Life is "inverted,"