MikeTheAltarboy
I just read over that site, wizzle. He hasn't changed *my* mind. ;-)
First, comments like
This is just as off-putting to me as a God-created gay man as a "One God with a Penis" is to women.
He seems to base his ideas on the Kirscher tree, which is hardly definitive. He argues that the path-letter assignment is right, but that the trump-letter assignment isn't; yet never mentions the Sepher Yetzirah associations that make for the link.
Puting Jupiter, Saturn, Sol, and Mars out of order doesn't make a lot of sense to me (and isn't justified by him except in appeal to the Kirscher tree), and while puting Mars on the right and Venus on the left maintains their *gender* associations, it blows away completely the "mercy/severity" distinction that seems more important to the pillars.
He says the fool belongs at 20.5 or whatever because it's the "aspirant leaving malkuth". If that's the only reason, well, reasons just as good place the world, temperance, and the popesse on the middle pillar.
His explanation as to why 0 doesn't precede 1 kabbalistically I can't follow at all; however, it *certainly* fails to explain why 0 = 20.5 or otherwise falls between 20 and 21 kabbalistically.
I would still be able to be convinced to rearange my assignments and paths - but not by Mr. Collet. ;-)
First, comments like
I find to be an example of "mistaking the finger for the moon." Of course, I'm not an adept yet, but I have a very strong suspision that *God doesn't have genital sex with him/herself*.n Eliphas Levis’ system, in on the 1652 Tree layout, the Emperor and Empress Paths cross in Da’at, ‘Knowledge’ in the Biblical sense. The message of Divine sexual unity and equality couldn’t be clearer. This was also lost to the Golden Dawn. Mathers’ own marriage, with no sexual consummation, seems consistent with this.
This is just as off-putting to me as a God-created gay man as a "One God with a Penis" is to women.
He seems to base his ideas on the Kirscher tree, which is hardly definitive. He argues that the path-letter assignment is right, but that the trump-letter assignment isn't; yet never mentions the Sepher Yetzirah associations that make for the link.
Puting Jupiter, Saturn, Sol, and Mars out of order doesn't make a lot of sense to me (and isn't justified by him except in appeal to the Kirscher tree), and while puting Mars on the right and Venus on the left maintains their *gender* associations, it blows away completely the "mercy/severity" distinction that seems more important to the pillars.
He says the fool belongs at 20.5 or whatever because it's the "aspirant leaving malkuth". If that's the only reason, well, reasons just as good place the world, temperance, and the popesse on the middle pillar.
His explanation as to why 0 doesn't precede 1 kabbalistically I can't follow at all; however, it *certainly* fails to explain why 0 = 20.5 or otherwise falls between 20 and 21 kabbalistically.
I would still be able to be convinced to rearange my assignments and paths - but not by Mr. Collet. ;-)