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As with many things the Tarot/Qabalah connection depends on your perspective, age, wisdom & sagacity.
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Yygdrasilian said:Until you work through the constellations yourself and solve the Tarot you'll never be able to resurrect the Hanged Man.
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What a beautiful definition.Gavriela said:At its most basic, kabbalah is the Jewish spiritual science that connects everything to everything else. It's the thing that makes you realise not that 'all of us are God', but that 'God is all of us', that we each have that divine spark within us.
Even in the Jungian school, I think Kabbalah might be useful. I'm only a beginner with both, but I can see similarities between the process of individuation and the Tree of Life.Gavriela said:The Waite deck is shot through with Christian mysticism, and with a great deal of kabbalah as well. Tarot and kabbalah are a bit of a forced marriage; as Rosanne said, the only way to understand tarot is to understand tarot. But if it's a path you intend to follow, I do believe you're shorting yourself a bit if you don't have at least a passing acquaintance with kabbalah - unless you're coming from the strictly Jungian school of things.
Gavriela, is that book the same as what's listed at Amazon as In the Shadow of the Ladder: Introductions to Kabbalah by Rabbi Yehudah Lev Ashlag, Mark Cohen, and Yedidah Cohen? Is this the translation you mention?Gavriela said:A book I'd recommend to anyone interested in the basics of kabbalah is In the Shadow of the Ladder, by the Baal ha Sulaan. You want the translation Yedidah Cohen did, available from Nehora Press, if you don't read Hebrew. It's stark and beautiful and the Baal ha Sulaan was of the belief that kabbalah is there for everyone who wants to learn it, for everyone who wants to try to get to the place of wanting to bestow goodness in the world and not simply to receive it.
Found the blog, here:Gavriela said:It's the same. I think you'll enjoy it, and Yedidah did a marvellous job on the translation. She's a really sweet lady, too - might be worth looking up the Nehora Press blog, because I know there's one out there now - I just can't remember where it is.
Are you aware that Newton himself -- who despite Einstein is not in the least outdated (well, except of course for his view of light) -- was a seeker of the prisca sapientia, the pristine knowledge of an age before man degenerated to his present state? He found a morsel or two of it, to be sure, and I have since confirmed that even more exists, embedded in Tarot of Marseilles and the Hebrew and Keltic traditions whose partial preservation of earlier science through numerico-alphabetic symbol informed that deck. It was an understanding that corrects modern physics on several counts, one being that quark theory is a bridge too far (the need to go back to the original parton interpretation, where mesons, not 'gluons', were the medium of the strong force), plus demonstrates clear understanding of how atom-types (chemical 'elements') interact in living matter.Strategeus said:Let's remember that the fact that knowledge is old doesn't necessarily make that knowledge correct. [etc.]