0=2
I see that Similia and AW have already mentioned creation and birth. I think they are good observations considering that this verse forms part of the latter half of the Gimel decanate of verses. Almost as if this verse is representative of that part of the Priestess/Gimel that manifests as it crosses the path of the Empress on the Tree of Life.
Also the verse number, 28, is suggestive to me of the path between Chokmah(2) and Hod(8) - The Star & The Devil. 17 + 15 = 32 - the total number of paths on the tree of life. An unfolding of infinite potential into actual manifestation.
I wonder if the out-flowing breath is related to speech. The creative words are the dualistic symbols of manifestation?
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& in the middle looks like a kind of centre point to me. There are 5 words on the left of it, and 6 on the right. 5=6?
None, breathed the light, faint & faery, of the stars, and two.
There's so much in this one short verse that it is difficult to know where to begin. Maybe that's the intention behind a verse that encapsulates 0=2?
At either end of the verse there is None and Two. 0=2. Everything else takes place (oscillates?) within these two extremes of unitary infinite nothing, and manifest finite duality.
breathed the light. I keep thinking about the breath of God here. It is the Pranna, the universal life force that the western mysteries symbolises as light, LVX.
The whole verse starts at a Zero point and increases in density until actual manifestation in Two is reached. There's a breath of light, faint & faery, out of nothing. This is then identified at a latter point with Stars. But which stars? The metaphysical stars we have mentioned so frequently in these posts? Or the physical thermo-nuclear fireballs that radiate light and energy. I suspect that both are implied, but on different levels.
I keep thinking back to early science lessons and the initial child-like wonder of learning that every atom in the universe was made inside stars.
On another level we are outer shell of our star, made to express it's light and energy outwards into the physical world, and realise the some of the infinite possibilities of Nuit.