Manjusri
I am studying Sefer Yetzirah commentary book by Aryeh Kaplan from Weiser publishing.
He outlines basic principles. :
That,
There are 22 hebrew letters.
There are divided into three mothers, 7 doubles, 12 elementals.
and
This numbering schemes can be derived from Mother.
In the Tree of Life, there are 3 horizontal lines, 7 vertical lines, 12 diagonal lines.
When you move Tiferet and Yesod just a little upward, the arrangement is
clear.
And you can see that if just one number is decided, everything follows.
The relationship can be written as :
Mother - n
then
Points(Sefirot) - 3n +1
Verticals(Double) - 3n-2
Diagonals(Elemental) - 4n
Total(letters) - Mother + Vert + Dia = 8n -2
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This is what's in the book,
and he does not mention tarot.
But when you think about 8n-2, you can see that
78 = 8*10 -2.
that makes 10 mothers, 28 vert.s, 40 dia.s., 31 Points.
I tried to find 10, 28, 40 arrangement in Tarot
but it is not obvious.
Maybe 40 can be numbers in 4 suits.
then 28 would be 16 from the courts of the suits,
then Major arcana should be devided into 12 and 10.
and maybe Fool, Magician, Priestess, Empress, Emperor, Pope, Lovers, Hermit, Hanged man, Devil can be pulled out,
in that all these cards depict somewhat "humanly" characters.
Yeah, all the major contain characters, but I think they are rather
"Circumstances" or forces of nature... and these 10 is more related to actual human like beings...
Is it a viewpoint which is already shared widely and I was just blind??
However...
I thought it was interesting and wanted to know what you shall make of it...
He outlines basic principles. :
That,
There are 22 hebrew letters.
There are divided into three mothers, 7 doubles, 12 elementals.
and
This numbering schemes can be derived from Mother.
In the Tree of Life, there are 3 horizontal lines, 7 vertical lines, 12 diagonal lines.
When you move Tiferet and Yesod just a little upward, the arrangement is
clear.
And you can see that if just one number is decided, everything follows.
The relationship can be written as :
Mother - n
then
Points(Sefirot) - 3n +1
Verticals(Double) - 3n-2
Diagonals(Elemental) - 4n
Total(letters) - Mother + Vert + Dia = 8n -2
------------------------
This is what's in the book,
and he does not mention tarot.
But when you think about 8n-2, you can see that
78 = 8*10 -2.
that makes 10 mothers, 28 vert.s, 40 dia.s., 31 Points.
I tried to find 10, 28, 40 arrangement in Tarot
but it is not obvious.
Maybe 40 can be numbers in 4 suits.
then 28 would be 16 from the courts of the suits,
then Major arcana should be devided into 12 and 10.
and maybe Fool, Magician, Priestess, Empress, Emperor, Pope, Lovers, Hermit, Hanged man, Devil can be pulled out,
in that all these cards depict somewhat "humanly" characters.
Yeah, all the major contain characters, but I think they are rather
"Circumstances" or forces of nature... and these 10 is more related to actual human like beings...
Is it a viewpoint which is already shared widely and I was just blind??
However...
I thought it was interesting and wanted to know what you shall make of it...