Qabbalah assimilation
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Mein question is, what is a good way to get the mind to accept the symbolic system of qabbalah as it's own symbolic roadmap? Tell me your experiences, advice, etc.Danke Schoen,
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Kenneth,
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@Techpries said
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Mein question is, what is a good way to get the mind to accept the symbolic system of qabbalah as it's own symbolic roadmap? Tell me your experiences, advice, etc."In my own experience, corroborated by the experiences of those I've observed, this is a gradual, progressive process of assimilation. It's a combination of intellectual study, meditation on the spheres and paths of the Tree of Life, and most importantly, consistent and long-term application of all the above to our own life experiences, inner and outer. To me, it's less about "making the mind accept" the system, and more about living with the system so that its truths become self-evident.
Crowley has some useful suggestions, in Magick Without Tears IIRC, such as the practice of classifying all our day-to-day experiences into one or another sphere or path on the Tree. Orange leaves draw our mind to the sphere of Hod, the moon reminds us of Yesod, the angry guy on the freeway is associated with Geburah, and so on. It's the "Qabalah as filing cabinet" model.
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David
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TechPriest:
"Mein question is, what is a good way to get the mind to accept the symbolic system of qabbalah as it's own symbolic roadmap?"
I have personally found that immersion into the Work of the Tarot is perhaps the finest method of understanding the Qabalistic symbol set. It is definitely labor intensive and arduous, but the end result are* Stones of Precious Water*.
An excellent school for this study is the Builders of the Adytum:
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I second the recommendation of BOTA as an exceptional school for this type of study. I have found it's worth to be be inestimable.
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@dshoemaker said
"Kenneth,
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@Techpries said
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Mein question is, what is a good way to get the mind to accept the symbolic system of qabbalah as it's own symbolic roadmap? Tell me your experiences, advice, etc."Crowley has some useful suggestions, in Magick Without Tears IIRC, such as the practice of classifying all our day-to-day experiences into one or another sphere or path on the Tree. Orange leaves draw our mind to the sphere of Hod, the moon reminds us of Yesod, the angry guy on the freeway is associated with Geburah, and so on. It's the "Qabalah as filing cabinet" model.
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yes fascinating stuff.. literally!
i have been wondering about this myself of late
i guesse the one who is more imaginative and educated per se and particularly in natural science is the one who truly benefits from this technique because there is a bigger more interesting filing cabinet available to him e.g. the most basic act like walking to the corner shop and buying a pint of milk can throw up all kinds of correspondences; the milk (of Nuit) Netzach, Hod Hermes cars driving past you in the road, Hermes in the shelves of the shop ; the end result of capitalistic goods distribution, a man walks past smoking a cigarette Geburah olfactory reference, the Queen's head (U.K.) on the £1 coins you take oout of your pocket to pay the assistant ; gold Ra Tipareth, ; coins/money Zeus Chesed all father of organised civilsation, two dogs bark at you outside the shop; canine Yesodic automatons .............so on
the paths are subjective and the sephiroth objective (if i'm not mistaken) according to Dion Fortune
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@dshoemaker said
"Crowley has some useful suggestions, in Magick Without Tears IIRC, such as the practice of classifying all our day-to-day experiences into one or another sphere or path on the Tree. Orange leaves draw our mind to the sphere of Hod, the moon reminds us of Yesod, the angry guy on the freeway is associated with Geburah, and so on."
I was 16 or 17 when I read that advice, and decided to try it out, in the "light-hearted" manner that he suggests. At the time, I had a part-time job in a fast food restaurant, and one of the first things I saw when I began this practice was a pile of uncooked chicken pieces (legs and thighs and so on). I was stymied! Where the heck on the Tree of Life do you put uncooked chicken parts? To this day (decades later) the question annoys me, and perhaps this is the reason I have made so little progress on my spiritual path.
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@gmugmble said
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@dshoemaker said
"Crowley has some useful suggestions, in Magick Without Tears IIRC, such as the practice of classifying all our day-to-day experiences into one or another sphere or path on the Tree. Orange leaves draw our mind to the sphere of Hod, the moon reminds us of Yesod, the angry guy on the freeway is associated with Geburah, and so on."I was 16 or 17 when I read that advice, and decided to try it out, in the "light-hearted" manner that he suggests. At the time, I had a part-time job in a fast food restaurant, and one of the first things I saw when I began this practice was a pile of uncooked chicken pieces (legs and thighs and so on). I was stymied! Where the heck on the Tree of Life do you put uncooked chicken parts? To this day (decades later) the question annoys me, and perhaps this is the reason I have made so little progress on my spiritual path.
"Just have a little imagination... The fact that its legs refer it to Hod & Netzach. The fact that its a bird refers it to Air. The fact that it was cooked might be Geburah; uncooked would be the mercy of Chesed
...the fact that it is food/sustenance refers it to Malkuth... etc.IAO131
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@gmugmble said
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@dshoemaker said
"Crowley has some useful suggestions, in Magick Without Tears IIRC, such as the practice of classifying all our day-to-day experiences into one or another sphere or path on the Tree. Orange leaves draw our mind to the sphere of Hod, the moon reminds us of Yesod, the angry guy on the freeway is associated with Geburah, and so on."I was 16 or 17 when I read that advice, and decided to try it out, in the "light-hearted" manner that he suggests. At the time, I had a part-time job in a fast food restaurant, and one of the first things I saw when I began this practice was a pile of uncooked chicken pieces (legs and thighs and so on). I was stymied! Where the heck on the Tree of Life do you put uncooked chicken parts? To this day (decades later) the question annoys me, and perhaps this is the reason I have made so little progress on my spiritual path.
"you could've just referenced the colours of the body parts