Tree of Life vs. the Aethyrs
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I've been pondering the following passage from the 12th Aethyr in Vision and Voice:
But I reveal unto thee a mystery of the Aethyrs, that not only are they bound up with the Sephiroth, but also with the Paths. Now, the plane of the Aethyrs interpenetrateth and surroundeth the universe wherein the Sephiroth are established, and therefore is the order of the Aethyrs not the order of the Tree of Life. And only in a few places do they coincide.
Does anyone have any idea where the Aethyrs coincide on the TOL?
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@gmugmble said
"Isn't the point of "only in a few places do they coincide" that you can't map the Aethyrs onto the Tree?"
Yes, that's exactly what I'm thinking. The fact the Aethyrs and Tree are separate orders would seem to confirm Paul Foster Case's warnings against Enochian. I wonder whether Daath (and all the warnings contained therein) would be one of the places where the Aethyrs coincide with the Tree given the fact Dee contacted the angels in search of knowledge.
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Mapping the Tarot onto the TOL makes sense and seems sound on an intuitive level, but the Aethyrs are a completely different story.
I did some research and found a total of 18 places where AC ascribes TOL attributions to the Aethyrs, but already this seems irreconcilable with the Angels’ claim of a “few places”. Either the Angels were lying or, more likely, AC reduced to his understanding something beyond him. The Angels’ claim that the Aethyrs are far older than the TOL indicates, at the very least, they are alien to our world and human race.
By comparing the Aethyrs against their TOL attributions in the Vision and the Voice, we can trace AC’s descent/ascent into madness at exactly the 16th Aethyr as evidenced by the strange and disturbing TOL attributions of path 80/Pe/Mouth/Mars = Atu XVI/The Tower and Kether = The Four Aces/All 22 Atus - elsewhere the Aethyrs coincide with only a single path or sephira. AC describes the 16th Aethyr as “The Overthrow of the Salve-Gods by The Beast 666”, linking it to the divine madness of Atu XI/Lust. The lust and rebellion against the order of things suggests, in turn, the Fallen Ones who fathered the superhuman Nephilim.
My questions:
- Shouldn’t AC have attained to 8=3 before attempting the Bou Saada Working rather than *during or as a result of *the experience?
- Was his mapping of Babalon onto Binah and Chaos onto Chokmah a direct result of the Bou Saada Working?