Jhāna (Dhyāna) Tree of Life Correspondences
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According to Thelemapedia's hub on The Tree Of Life 32 out of the 40 Buddhist meditations of the kammaṭṭhāna (the place/basis of the work), have correspondences (either as Seripoth or on The Paths) to the Tree of Life. The ones "left out" are the rūpajhānas (Dhyāna) and the four arūpajhānas.
Question1: Do the four jhānas and four arūpajhānas correspond to Ain, Ain Soph, and Ain Soph Aur?
Question 2: And if so, do the the rūpajhānas correspond to Ain, and the arūpajhānas to Ain Soph and Ain Soph Aur? And if so, which of the arūpajhānas correspond to Ain Soph and which of them correspond to Ain Soph Aur?
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Going strictly by the definitions in the articles you linked, at least the first three Jhana's are clearly Yetziratic. The fourth could be descriptive of transcendence of that. Using the A.'.A.'. scale of association, this means that at least the first three are below Tifereth. This is not surprising, since Dhyana (in Samkhya-derived yoga) is descriptive of the Dominus Liminis threshold before Tifereth.
As described in the articles you cited, the Arupa Jhana's appear to be stages after the onset of Adepthood. They could be as high as Magister Templi. I hasten to add, though, that they have no formal place in the A.'.A.'. system as such - I'm just comparing the stages of consciousness.
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@Jim Eshelman said
"I hasten to add, though, that they have no formal place in the A.'.A.'. system as such - I'm just comparing the stages of consciousness."
Thanks, Jim.
But the A.'.A.'. system is not a closed system, and has plenty of room for improvement, no? Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you mean by "formal"? -
@landis said
"But the A.'.A.'. system is not a closed system, and has plenty of room for improvement, no? Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you mean by "formal"?"
By "formal place in the system," I mean it is not assigned in any grade, taught in any grade, tested in any grade, nor part of the system per se in any way.
In terms of "plenty of room for improivement" : In the sense that everything is subject to improvement, yes, I'd have to admit that. However, in practice, for the long foreseeable future, it's "closed" in the sense that our duty and commitment are to deliver it exactly as its founders created it. This is my commitment to Soror Meral, and I see no reason to waver from it.
The system works as is. One needn't mess with success. Having the some tasks and means of testing for all people is pretty basic to its constitution. All of us in the system do, of course, also explore all sorts of things that are not in the system - that's what people naturally do. But that doesn't change the core system itself.