Ravenswing
Axiom 1—reality is comprised of number and letter.
Axiom 2—the Tree of Life is a blueprint of reality.
Axiom 3—Kabala, Tarot and Astrology form an integrated system by which reality can be examined.
These are my basic precepts. I use the Ari’s variant of the tree of life. There are two basic reasons for this. The first deals with the Lightning Flash. As it decends, it goes from Understanding to Mercy. I don’t believe that this primal pathway vanishes. The second deals with the paths that connect Victory and Splendor with the Kingdom. I believe that manifestation comes from the center pillar only. There must be a stable Foundation to enter the Kingdom.
Gematria is my tool in the analysis of reality.
I started my gematric studies using Hebrew as the alphabetic basis. I read through the Sepher Yetzirah, Crowley’s 777, Godwin’s Cabalistic Encyclopedia and Hulse’s The Key of it All. I totaled up words, analyzed and contemplated. I could feel the depth, but I could not find it.
Then I came across this from Mathers translation of The Book of Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage:
“Let us then walk in the right way, let us speak before God with heart and mouth alike opened, in our own maternal language, since how can you pretend to obtain any Grace from the Lord, if ye yourselves know not what ye ask? Yet, however, the number of those who lose themselves utterly in vanity is infinite; many say that the Grecian language is more agreeable to God, it may be true that it was perhaps at one time, but how many among us to-day understand it perfectly, this is the reason why it would be the most senseless thing to employ it.”
I started from scratch using American English, my maternal tongue.
Big problem. Twenty-six letters in the alphabet, twenty-two paths on the tree. I couldn’t justify adding any pathway. The Tree is the Tree—not to be tampered with.
There’s one large difference between the alph-bet and the alphabet. The alphabet has vowels built into the system. As I see it, vowels are the identity principle for English words. Take a group of consonants. Let’s use THR. By placement of vowels we can get ‘there’, ‘three’, ‘their’, ‘other’.
Similarly, I see the Fool as the identity principle in Tarot. S/he goes on hir Journey, and by hir interaction with reality, the trumphs are experienced. So I relate the Fool to the set of vowels and place hir on the path between Foundation and the Kingdom. The path of manifestation.
And hey! There’s 21 consonants…
More to come
fly well
ravenswing
Axiom 2—the Tree of Life is a blueprint of reality.
Axiom 3—Kabala, Tarot and Astrology form an integrated system by which reality can be examined.
These are my basic precepts. I use the Ari’s variant of the tree of life. There are two basic reasons for this. The first deals with the Lightning Flash. As it decends, it goes from Understanding to Mercy. I don’t believe that this primal pathway vanishes. The second deals with the paths that connect Victory and Splendor with the Kingdom. I believe that manifestation comes from the center pillar only. There must be a stable Foundation to enter the Kingdom.
Gematria is my tool in the analysis of reality.
I started my gematric studies using Hebrew as the alphabetic basis. I read through the Sepher Yetzirah, Crowley’s 777, Godwin’s Cabalistic Encyclopedia and Hulse’s The Key of it All. I totaled up words, analyzed and contemplated. I could feel the depth, but I could not find it.
Then I came across this from Mathers translation of The Book of Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage:
“Let us then walk in the right way, let us speak before God with heart and mouth alike opened, in our own maternal language, since how can you pretend to obtain any Grace from the Lord, if ye yourselves know not what ye ask? Yet, however, the number of those who lose themselves utterly in vanity is infinite; many say that the Grecian language is more agreeable to God, it may be true that it was perhaps at one time, but how many among us to-day understand it perfectly, this is the reason why it would be the most senseless thing to employ it.”
I started from scratch using American English, my maternal tongue.
Big problem. Twenty-six letters in the alphabet, twenty-two paths on the tree. I couldn’t justify adding any pathway. The Tree is the Tree—not to be tampered with.
There’s one large difference between the alph-bet and the alphabet. The alphabet has vowels built into the system. As I see it, vowels are the identity principle for English words. Take a group of consonants. Let’s use THR. By placement of vowels we can get ‘there’, ‘three’, ‘their’, ‘other’.
Similarly, I see the Fool as the identity principle in Tarot. S/he goes on hir Journey, and by hir interaction with reality, the trumphs are experienced. So I relate the Fool to the set of vowels and place hir on the path between Foundation and the Kingdom. The path of manifestation.
And hey! There’s 21 consonants…
More to come
fly well
ravenswing