Looking For Pearls of Wisdom
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Hello Brothers and Sisters looking for some help in Gematria not really good with numbers,and how this works,could use some Help. Also doing some work on the Stele any Pearls of Wisdom would be very much appreciated,, L.V.X. and Love to you,,Frater N,,,,,,
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Before dealing directly with gametria you will have to do intensive work with the tree of life and the correspondences of 777, of course you have to start by rote memorization, but its not until it clicks in that gamatria will start to make sense.
Kabbalah is like learning a language like Japanese, you can memorize words and phrases (correspandances), and study the kanji. (Sepheroth) However, you still do not speak japanese. You have to learn at least 700 kanji by heart, and internalize the basic rules, as well as harmonizing with the culture. Then it clicks, you can think in japanese, and you can truly understand unfamiliar phrases in relation to what yau know. (gametria)
Gametria is a process of understanding unfamiliar concepts in terms of the Kabbalah. Before one can make a success at it, one must integrate the Kabbalah into ones own mind, the semantic matrix. Its not always a mechanical process, the tree is not static, it must be a part of your mind.
Work on this, then the gametria should come natural.
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Dear Froclown,
Excellent view on gematria. Any chance that you have studied Japanese?
Are there Thelemites in Japan?
In L.V.X.,
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93,
Crowley's essay on Gematria is included in "777 and other Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley." It's reprinted from the Equinox, Vol 1., No. 5.
I doubt many people read it - most just go straight to the tables of correspondences - but it's worth studying. He lays out a lot of the principles relating to number in the system of gematria. I know I finally felt I understood "the point" of gematria after reading it. Before, it was just one of those subjects I assumed was 'good for me to know,' but couldn't really see why.
93 93/93,
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hmm, it seems there is an OTO is japan, but are there Thelemites, that's your call to make.
I am trying to study Japanese, Im not very good at it, it hasn't clicked yet, however Kabblah has clicked that way for me. I am the reverse of my example I guess.
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I'm in Japan
And yes, I'm a Thelemite.As for at least 700 Kanji, ha... I wish it only took that many to be competent. While the numbers used today total close to 3 times that, you'll need about twice that to be a "fluent" reader. Your typical newspaper will have about 1200 different Kanji in it.
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Well, not fluent.
700 is a place to start, where kanji begin to make sense and sentences can be deciphered.
In Kabbalah, you only need to know the 10 sepheroth and 22 paths, the problem is that fully grasping these can only be done holistically, and the each concept is complex and develops personally.
When we learn what a tree is, we look at a tree, and the perceptive experience fills in all the gaps, but a Sepheroth is not a tangible object, we have to create the limits and fill in the gaps on our own. The brain is preset to see trees and such, but the sepheroth are created categories of perception. Each a sort of facet of a paradigm.
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93,
Ha! Try Chinese. I've been studying for over a year and a half and still don't have the 2000+ characters needed to get the gist of your average newspaper.
Not to belittle anyone else's language path. After all, "Every tongue and every grammar is a star."
Love=Law
- C (é«å€©æïŒ
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Also, that should have been "over two and a half years," not "a year and half."
Just want to make sure I fully characterize the depth of my futility.
- C