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a+b+c=0, and the A.'. A.'. Grade system.

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    You are taking the "equal" too literally. That is, it seems to me that you are taking it as a secondary set of correspondences or equivalencies that should make logical sense. While a kind of equation or equivalency is intended, it is one that arises out of paradox. That is, the two things "equated" are things that would not (in a literal world) be expected to be equated.

    For example, 2=9 and 9=2 are perhaps best understood through the "equations" of Stability is Change, and Change is Stability. There is an inseparability intended, but it's paradoxical. Same with 5=6, "Deus [6] is Homo [5]" - it's powerful because (absent initiated understanding and way of thinking) it's the opposite of what would be expected.

    So, for 3=8 we might say that "the Mind is a Sea," giving us a new understanding of the nature of the intellect as containment, context, relationship; something which content streams into, through, and out of; etc. (This is quite opposite the conventional theory of the intellect, which is expressed in more masculine language.) On reaching Binah, the reciprocal understanding would be, "The Sea is MIND."

    Take this back into your questions. Presume the paradox.

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      You are taking the "equal" too literally. That is, it seems to me that you are taking it as a secondary set of correspondences or equivalencies that should make logical sense. While a kind of equation or equivalency is intended, it is one that arises out of paradox. That is, the two things "equated" are things that would not (in a literal world) be expected to be equated.

      For example, 2=9 and 9=2 are perhaps best understood through the "equations" of Stability is Change, and Change is Stability. There is an inseparability intended, but it's paradoxical. Same with 5=6, "Deus [6] is Homo [5]" - it's powerful because (absent initiated understanding and way of thinking) it's the opposite of what would be expected.

      So, for 3=8 we might say that "the Mind is a Sea," giving us a new understanding of the nature of the intellect as containment, context, relationship; something which content streams into, through, and out of; etc. (This is quite opposite the conventional theory of the intellect, which is expressed in more masculine language.) On reaching Binah, the reciprocal understanding would be, "The Sea is MIND."

      Take this back into your questions. Presume the paradox.

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      Quintessence
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      Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

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