The Etz ha-Chayyim
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93, As I go over the Tree, I find that I am labelling the Pillar of Mercy as Chaos in its purest sense, the Pillar of Severity as Order. Masculine and feminine, respectively. I also find myself thinking of Hod as a feminine, lower form of Chokmah; and Netzach as a lower, masculine form of Binah. Have any ya'll come up with this before?
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@FiliusBestia said
"93, As I go over the Tree, I find that I am labelling the Pillar of Mercy as Chaos in its purest sense, the Pillar of Severity as Order. Masculine and feminine, respectively. I also find myself thinking of Hod as a feminine, lower form of Chokmah; and Netzach as a lower, masculine form of Binah. Have any ya'll come up with this before?"
You'll have many thoughts about these things over the years, and they will change, supplement each other, rearrange by context, etc.
But to give personal opinions, which you seem to be soliciting: Chaos/Order fits many of the characteristics of Chokmah/Binah specifically, but not the pillars themselves. (Chesed as Chaos is a real loser! - It's essential nature is primarily Order to the max.)
Hod is "feminine" primarily in terms of containment, form, structure - it teaches that what we call "intellect" is the form or pattern, not what flows through it. And what flows through it, at root, is Chokmah. Make of that what you will in your own language.
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@FiliusBestia said
"I also find myself thinking of Hod as a feminine, lower form of Chokmah; and Netzach as a lower, masculine form of Binah."
Compare to Crowley's statement concerning the same in Ch. 0 of Magick In Theory & Practice:
In the number Seven the feminine nature is again predominant, but it is the masculine type of female, the Amazon, who is balanced in the number Eight by the feminine type of male.
Fr. H.H.H.
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@Fr. H.H.H. said
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@FiliusBestia said
"I also find myself thinking of Hod as a feminine, lower form of Chokmah; and Netzach as a lower, masculine form of Binah."Compare to Crowley's statement concerning the same in Ch. 0 of Magick In Theory & Practice:
In the number Seven the feminine nature is again predominant, but it is the masculine type of female, the Amazon, who is balanced in the number Eight by the feminine type of male."
That's expressed especially in the Magical Images of the Sephiroth.