Book of Job
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@Ankh said
"Also, I would be very grateful if you or someone else could shed some light on which books in the Christian bible are also Qabalistic works such as Job?"
Pretty much all of them. The first five, for sure. But even the histories (e.g., Kings) are strongly Kabbalistic.
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"Quote JAE: Yes, that was the line. Read it in context. It's a threshold shift. "...till my change come." It's followed by the only answer an Adept can bring to the HGA: "Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.""Also, is this a threshold shift to Briah?"
Not per se. It might by a symptom of one, and is particularly marked in an Adept, but can be a "right state" realized even earlier. But yes, you are correctly discerning a Briatic aspect to the relationship implied in that phrase.
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(Some people wanted to find this more easily.)
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Enjoyed re-reading it. There's something singular about the book, in relation to the rest of the OT.
"Beginning in 40:15 there is an instruction in kundalini. Behemoth (BHMVTh = 453 = NPSh ChIH, Nephesh Chiah, "breath of life"), the kundalini, is established strongly in the loins; its force is raised to the navel region (the second chakra). I think v. 17 refers to a reflexive response of the genitals. His "columns" (the lateral channels) are of alchemical Venus (brass) and Mars (iron). All the rest of this paragraph describes the kundalini phenomena in minute detail if one will but look!"
I dunno, when I read it just now, it seemed to do a little more than just 'describe' the phenomena.
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Really interesting analysis of The Book of Job, specially contrasting this with what Jung write about Job and the evolution of God conception in his essay “Answer to Job”. It´s the one in which Jung talk about how Job´s behaviour to the absolute irrationality of God (who, being omnipotent and omniscient, do that to Job, knowing already what will happen) mark a decisive point for the posterior development of the conception of God (or auto development of God itself, knowing it already what will happen with Job´s case) in the New Testament and Christianity beginnings.
By the way, here goes a little Job´s sketch I did for a future more accurate painting for my (yes, influenced by Crowley´s Book of Lies) project Universal Joke. Just sharing it, but sorry for the spam anyway: universaljoke.blogspot.com.es/2011/12/job.html
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No, you're not.
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Seems like where cursed by such a lack of undestanding between you and I, but I love you anyway, Jim.
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Jim Eshelman:
"No, you're not.
U'd do it again, right? "Wait, you were referring to the sharing of my blog, isn´t? Hahaha.. my goddess, I had no idea what are you talking about...
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Yes. I was referring to your saying you were sorry. I was observing that you probably aren't. You'd do it again.
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Jim Eshelman:
"I was referring to your saying you were sorry."
Fuk! You caught me.
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Well, as far as spam goes, linking to share something we created is pretty low on the spam-meter. I do it myself (unapologetically and often).
I liked your painting. For some reason it reminded me of Jonah more than Job. Perhaps it was the upside-down perspective of the subject, which reminded me of the Hanged Man card, and the watery associations between that card and Jonah.
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Avshalom Binyamin:
"I liked your painting. For some reason it reminded me of Jonah more than Job. Perhaps it was the upside-down perspective of the subject, which reminded me of the Hanged Man card, and the watery associations between that card and Jonah."
Thanks! Interesting point about Jonah. Really, I don’t thought in Job until I made the first drawing sketch and started to paint. Apart, the first drawing sketch was originally not upside down, I have to admit that the Mem card had a little influence in my decision, though the principal idea is that no matter that the painting is upside down, because the (impossible) posture of Job, in relation with the point of view, make that no matter such thing..
But for now it´s a sketch and a provisional thing, I progressively add other things, or change others. I want, in fact, that all this paintings evolve and will be made following only the intuition, inspired always by different and unexpected ways. You are right wondering about the Tarot, in fact the idea is make a sort of personal Tarot, could be said, made of such hieroglyphics and so on. Anyway, is soon yet for a general idea, I started this just a year ago, not yet.
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I highly recommend Stephen Mitchell's translation of the Book of Job. Also his translation of the Tao Teh Ching. Poetic and incisive in both cases!