The Heart of the Master
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I have questions about the section in the Vision called Aves. The nine birds correspond (according to 776 1/2), to the Sephiroth Kether through Yesod. My question is, are there other correspondences? I ask because I don't understand how the formulae correspond to the sephiroth in all cases. Why, for instance, does ABRAHADABRA go with Hod, rather than with Tiphereth?
Also, why go with birds at all?
Why is Malkuth left out?
Dan
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@ar said
"I have questions about the section in the Vision called Aves. The nine birds correspond (according to 776 1/2), to the Sephiroth Kether through Yesod. My question is, are there other correspondences? I ask because I don't understand how the formulae correspond to the sephiroth in all cases. Why, for instance, does ABRAHADABRA go with Hod, rather than with Tiphereth?"
That's am obscure one - your eye caught the least defensible of the nine (since the others fit so very well). The only connection I see is through the ABRAHADABRA = 418 = ChYTh valuation; and Cheth is 8.
But you may notice that this one wasn't a correspondence I raced to include in Col. 808 of Magical Formulae!
"Also, why go with birds at all?"
It's a vision. It's poetic, and not a product of logic. Many things could have been used. In this case, "all Heaven" became "aflame with a great blast of trumpets." It could have been angels that poured forth but, instead, it was birds. As examples of flight, birds are often used to represent forces of spirit, or at least of mind.
"Why is Malkuth left out?"
This isn't rare in magical and, especially, alchemical writings. The first idea that pops into my head is that, as symbols of flight, they embody everything that is above the plane of the earth. Malkuth is the symbol, here, of the seer, who is on earth and then caught up into them.