Jungian Archetypes & the TOL
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@Alrah said
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I have a quibble.
Eve, Helen of Troy, Mother Mary, Sophia, James Bond, Hemingway - they all have human faces. Behind each face is the archetype of the Skull as a master archetype. We are all born with the innate ability to recognise faces, so this Skull archetype is more than likely 'hardwired' ('I am' the alpha and the omega) and pertains to Da'ath.
Kali Ma (mapped to Binah) with her necklace of skulls is a good image to meditate on in this respect.
It's all well and good to map archetypes on the tree while you're unifying the psyche, but in the second part of the work all is offered up and appears to dissapear in the undifferentitaed understanding of Binah - including the various archetypes of the Self with the result that the supernal 'above' is more fully manifested 'below' without all the clutter.
"Agreed on your quibble.
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Alrah, 93,
Interesting link. I find the Lantern idea is fascinating, especially as I'm trying to learn a language with a brain that isn't an infant's. I'm still pushing the "Binah is the womb, not the skull" button, though. Womb and yoni symbolism are the classic images for gaining access to Binah. The skull image is in there, granted, but the two are differentiated.
93 93/93,
Edward
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Alrah, 93,
Your skull is the valid symbol of AMA, the dark sterile Mother of Binah. The other face of Binah is AIMA, the bright fertile Mother, very much as expressed in the imagery of the Empress, the path linking Binah to Chokmah.
Of the two of us, I think you're the delphinic necrophile. Unite by thine art, so that all disappear.
93 93/93,
Edward
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@Edward said
"Your skull is the valid symbol of AMA, the dark sterile Mother of Binah. The other face of Binah is AIMA, the bright fertile Mother, very much as expressed in the imagery of the Empress, the path linking Binah to Chokmah."
@Alrah said
"I brought up the image of Kali Ma mapped to Binah with the skulls around her neck in respect of all the rest of the Sephirah being embodied in her. Her head is of the supernals and is never seen except by division below the abyss. She wear's the skulls of Da'ath at her neck."
Hmmm...
So the skull would translate as one's emotional reaction to the spectre of death, viewed from below the abyss?
The supernals always confuse me. They seem to me to be simply ultimate attitudes that are possible to be taken by the human mind on the mishmash of creation and limitation. The strange bit of irony is that in Chockma, as Magus (<sigh> No, I'm not claiming to be one), even one's chaos is the result of current conditions (below the abyss) drawing down a charge of lightening. It is pure chaos in its nature, even as it follows the rules and polarizations of the previously spoken "wisdom," which has previously been given form in Binah.
Otherwise, why would a Magus speak at all?
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Sine qua non.
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Yeah... Math.
The cold, precise, unfeeling calculation of Math - math with a scalpel - math with a dentist's drill - math in Dr. Horrible's coat.
As well as the beautiful fractal and cymatic spiderwebs created by Math out of nothing but Mind. The Weaver Weaves.
Spiderwebs is more of the shaman in me speaking though. What I really mean are vibrations within the Akasha, which I interpret to myself as Space/Time/Mind.
Active and Receptive Math...
Math as the reality of the current,
Math as the basis of software creation,
Math as the software,
Math as the act of calculation,
Math as the output.Of course, there's also that switch I can flip in my mind to the Matrix meme and the coder's meme, and they get really happy with the connection between Math and Maat.
But that's a pretty intense trip, honestly.
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Another answer (
) is that HGA is normally associated with Neshamah/Briah, below the abyss.But, then again, Briah reflects Atziluth rather flawlessly... (and blindingly, in Moses' case)
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Here's an image I was pondering this morning. I'm taking some risks with some ideas with which I am only minorly familiar, so please feel free to correct or fill in gaps...
I was imagining the person starting the path as the qabalistic Cube of Space, and I was imagining this Cube of Space as the time-chariot of God.
At first, like I imagine an atom and its electrons being expressed geometrically, potential reflections of this Cube flash around the center cube like the extra dimensions of a hypercube.
I'm not sure about the language of the internal sun, but how I related to an experience of what you're saying is like that initial full-of-random-potential cube finds a satisfactory fixed perspective outside itself. This perspective must be complex enough for the intial cube to find the reflection of each of its own potential universes in order for the two perspectives to bond.
Once it finds another satisfactory fixed perspective in relation to itself, all possibilities collapse down into agreement with the one other perspective. The image here is of a standard double cube. The two hypercubes have collapsed down into a regular double-cube rectangle, consisting of the initial cube and now the secondary cube, beside or on top of it, representing the all the possible combinations of the two perpectives, which will then begin to equilibrate against one another as each yields to one or the other perspective, as it demonstrates its own degree of correctness and success.
Expressed horizontally, this could be an image of the dual-lobe functioning of the human brain and the eyes. Each half representing half your DNA, split vertically down the spiral - at least for metaphorical purposes, but I'm interested in seeing research on that.
Expressed vertically, this could be an image of the higher and lower level functioning of the DNA if the molecule is imagined as chemically expressing an initial successfully reproducing house and network of chakric flow that is to be equilibrated according to the nature of what that individual must live and do in the context of his life in order to survive, succeed, and thrive.
If you've ever seen Dune or 2001, you may recognize the image of the long black rectangular inter-dimensional craft. Mix that concept in with my own description. Now imagine one of the little squiggly floating navigator guys in the front of the ship and another in the back. To move the ship, they must agree with each other...
That's my image if there are only two sources imagined. But when one realizes that all such jumps must be coordinated by all navigators in all ships simultaneously... Then you begin to touch my own metaphor for the Great White Brotherhood.
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So with thy all; thou hast no right but to do thy will.
Do that, and no other shall say nay.