Placement of human entity in Triangle

[Radiant Star]

In http://www.abrahadabra.com/first.triangle.htm why is the human entity placed low and not with its head at 'A' and its feet at 'H'?

[Kain]

I moved this to the Book of Mirrors forum as it looked more relevant here, being a question specific to a Magickal Mirror from Abrahadabra.com...

Kain

[m1thr0s]

The figure is placed proportional to the Tree of Life in that schematic Ricci. What is not shown is the Circle itself. If you run a perfect Circle around that Triangle you will see that it just brushes the feet of the standing character.

This has always been a bit of a problem with the geometric Tree of Life. If you place Malkuth (Kingdom, Earth) symmetrically it won't actually reach a persons feet geometrically. That is why some Trees extent the bottom sepheroth but this isn't actually necessary. In chakras, it actually corresponds to the first, or, muladhara chakra on the body itself.

hope that helps...

m1thr0s

[Radiant Star]

Thanks for that.

I have found the diagram on the website now that shows this very well.

[Dragon]

Ricci...think "Highest Crown"....


:cool:

~D~

[Radiant Star]

Now that helps me a little more I think. Very cool. Cheers Dragon :D

[Carbon Class Six]

Should we be cognizant of the TOL as we are running this or does it just fall in line as we go?

I feel the transition from each quandrant of the circle to the next, but I havn't felt anything as far as the sephiroth goes....

[deviadah]

I have found the diagram on the website now that shows this very well.

http://www.abrahadabra.com/first.circle.htm

:cool:

[fr.novumorganum]

Should we be cognizant of the TOL as we are running this or does it just fall in line as we go?

I feel the transition from each quandrant of the circle to the next, but I havn't felt anything as far as the sephiroth goes....


i think this is a model tht allows alot of room for personal experimentations, but in my case at least, i found the sephira to AUMHUM like little stars after the core meditation became almost rote, much like the quadrants in the LBRP.

also, i found it very interesting to run a traditional sephira meditation, like the middle pillar or flaming sword right after the core meditation...like lighting a fuse...

[m1thr0s]

It's important to bear in mind that the word *sephira* means *numbers* - not planets per se. In a sense we use the model of the planets to embellish our otherwise limited perception of *numbers*...yet these models go well beyond the literal solar system we happen to be a part of, so that assigning planetary attributions in itself is fundamentally makeshift...it's a way of expanding our awareness of the archetypal *resonance* of the numbers themselves. We say 1=Neptune, 2=Uranus, 3=Saturn (Feminine), Daath=Saturn (Masculine), 4=Jupiter, 5=Mars, 6=Sol, 7=Venus, 8=Mercury, 9=Luna, 10=Earth...but do they really, or aren't we actually just employing this as a means of emulating Macrocosm as we are most familiar with it?

The numbers 1-10 as they fall out in the tetractys are the same as the numbers 1-10 as they unfold in the Tree of Life...same numbers - same planetary correspondences - different *grids*, or filing systems. The thing to watch for as you are observing phenomena corresponding to these meditative actions is that both things are happening at once...the tetractys and the tree are both activated through this process, just as the Tree is an intrinsic subset of the Tetractys. When you strike the Tetractyl *bell*, it automatically resonates both tetractys and tree of life (as well as a number of other things, btw)...

In many ways it's all a matter of how you set your focus...if you know that both things are occurring synchronistically you can watch for this and in observing the interaction between the two systems you are also exploring the greater Star/Tree anatomics, thus accessing the entire field of interactive phenomena all at once. One way of adjusting this is to recognize that 1-10 in the Tetractys is *cyclical* in nature while 1-10 in the Tree is *linear*...you will find this is a lot like observing space/time continuum in balanced proportion to itself...or perhaps...to *oneself*...

I have come to believe that this whole notion of being able to think in two complex *synergistic* modalities at the same time is a vital training for human beings that teaches us how to think the way the *universe* thinks... It pushes our minds to a higher level of functionality in some way...perhaps balancing analytical and intuitive faculties so as to break up the linear-hierarchical thinking processes we are more accustomed to. We are, in effect, learning to think *mutationally*...

m1