New Mirror: Tree Fields 001

[m1thr0s]

Tree Fields - P'an Ku Arrangement

http://abrahadabra.com/images/treefields001.jpg

note: recent events have made it abundantly clear that some of the mirrors discussed on this site may, in fact, be more powerful than expected. While there is no good reason to believe they are capable of causing any harm in themselves, it is adviseable that people have a solid foundation in centering and grounding techniques before attempting to engage them extensively.

Ok...there's a lot of ground to cover here so be a little patient. This is one of my trump cards that I typically hold back on revealing as long as possible because it tends to completely overwhelm people. I am presenting it here for a number of reasons, one of which being that it is important to understand that *Mutational Alchemy* is not a game...is not a world conquest fantasy...is not for the dim or the distortional on any level whatsoever. Mutational Alchemy is where the logic of Physics meets the mysticism of Magick and the end result is a language of Energy quite unlike anything ever seen before.

There are a number of critical charts and keys that will help to explain this whole thing and I will get to those as soon as possible. If you don't get any of this at all (and you sure as hell don't trust it!) there is no reason to be alarmed or feel uncomfortable or threatened or stupid. I wouldn't expect anyone to get all of this simply from looking at this glyph alone. The good news is that everything you see here is built upon logical deduction, so that if you understand a handful of underscoring principles, you could build this thing from scratch without ever having to resort to memorizing anything at all. For the moment I am displaying it for its pure energy value, since without even understanding any of it, its mere appearance should be sufficient to convey a powerful sense of coordinated energy activity within the Body of Light itself. Therefor the image has intrinsic magickal value even if you don't understand any of its logical properties.

There are a number of very important reasons that we might want to fuse the I Ching Hexagrams with the Qabbalistic Tree of Life as well as a great range of indicators suggesting that we should accomplish this if we have not done so. It would require a book to enumerate all of these but among the more dominant are these:

(1) The Tree of Life is built around the 4 Cardinal Elements as manifest in the 4 Elemental Worlds from which the Tree derives. The I Ching Hexagrams are built upon the 4 Principle Bigrams which exactly parallel the 4 Cardinal Elements.

(2) On the ternary (trinary) side, the 27 Principle Trigrams corresponding to the 729 extended Hexagrams exactly parallels the Qabbalah of 9 Chambers, which actually represents exactly 27 numerical slots from 1 - 999, which then resolves into 1000, where the letter for 1 is expressed as a large case letter and the cycle continues again.

(3) The Tree of Life constitutes an unfolding of energy from the subtlest to the coarsest in 32 graduated steps, the first 10 represented as Sepheroth and the remaining 22 represented as Paths. The balancing of opposites has always been asserted as the Key to mastering the Tree of Life and harnessing its full potential, yet the language of *opposites* it provides us with makes this a practical impossibility. It is a goal that is stated over and over again to which there has never been any rational means of accomplishing it! The 64 binary Hexagrams of the I Ching naturally pair into polar opposites both mathematically and elementally, giving us an exact tally of 32 Balanced Pairs. If there were some way to match these Pairs (ie *Fields*) to the 32 Tree of Life coordinates, we would then have a logical system for accomplish this *balancing of opposites* with pinpoint accuracy.

(3a) It should be observed that one of our greatest hindrances to aligning Paths to Hexagrams has always been the general failure of the Tree of Life Paths and Sepheroth to adhere to any kind of proper chronological order. The Tree follows a pseudo-chronology that feigns a logical progression but cannot be substantiated as one at the end of the day since there exists no principle of chronology to define its sequential organization. It is, in fact, a makeshift chronology at best. The hexagrams, by contrast, are mathematically exact constructs that can be arranged from a numerically coherent beginning to middle to end, following any one of several different methods. The Proximity Principle (http://www.abrahadabra.com/proximity.principle.htm) resolves this conflict, making it possible to know with confidence which Hexagams correspond to which Paths. Once that barrier has been removed, there really is no reason not to line up the Hexagrams...the only question that remains is which organization best satisfies the needs of the Tree of Life itself.

(4) While the I Ching Hexagrams have been employed as a geomantic oracle historically, it is perfectly possible to utilize them as Mantric Templates following the guidelines laid down in Tetragrammaton itself. Using the Alchemical Word of Perfection, we can assign a standing 4-part value of Microprospus (YHVH) to Yin Lines and a 4-part value of Macroprosopus (AHYH) to Yang Lines to achieve this objective. The Word of Perfection also contains a hidden 4-part Jen Line value (AHVH) which can be applied to the Ternary Hexagrams so that in either the 64 Binary or the 729 Ternary Hexagrams, we can accomplish all of these constructions following the same uniform elemental standard. This is an application of Hexagrams that has virtually never been published to my knowledge in either Western or Eastern texts but is built right into the language of the Hexagrams themselves. We can therefor apply this standard, much as the Bija Mantras have been applied to Chakras, to *build* Hexagrammal structures mantrically. Because Tetragrammaton is a flexible standard, we can actually use any combination of words or phrases that effectively adhere to its criterion to achieve the same ends. So again we have a means of balancing opposites both at the levels of light and sound. Since we still have access to their geomantic properties, it is possible to *divine* Hexagrams or choose them at random as a means of determining which Hexagrams might be most optimal to work with at any given time.

(5) Though the science of Genetics is still a fairly new player, its role in the future of science itself is unquestioned. Since the I Ching Hexagrams exactly parallel the 64 Genetic Templates of the DNA/RNA codes, we have good reason to suppose that we are at least speaking the same language when we run Hexagrammal Fields as a form of meditative discipline. It's a little too soon yet to know just how far that connection goes, but we can at least be fairly certain that we are harmonically in accordance with the DNA code itself and this may turn out to be extremely important over time. It is highly possible that this particular Alchemical Practise is the only method available to us that can actually accomplish this with pinpoint accuracy. In any case, we have a means here of speaking in the exact same language as life itself employs.

The simple truth of the matter is that the vast majority of the goals defined in magickal literature from around the world have not and cannot ever be accomplished by any of the methods that have ever been defined for us. We can choose to live in some fantasy wonderland about the mythical accomplishments of people we never met and will never be able to confirm our assumptions with, or we can assume the worst and begin the process of examining alternative paths whereby these same goals might be finally accomplished. What is emerging in this particular model of Inner Alchemy is something so starkly lucid as to defy explanation all by itself, and this is not insignificant. Internal cohesion is one of the most important markers we have to work with corresponding to *new* ideas of any kind. Their ability to conform within well established guidelines is another. It is difficult to imagine that anything so intrinsically potent in both categories might not ultimately be able to succeed where so many other things have apparently failed.

m1thr0s

[Ainsloch]

its mere appearance should be sufficient to convey a powerful sense of coordinated energy activity within the Body of Light itself. Therefor the image has intrinsic magickal value even if you don't understand any of its logical properties.

Excellent work! What I find most impressive is that every path now has a designated balance point, given by a hexagram. Also, your logical approach to the positioning of the hexagrams has to be commended. I got fed up myself some time ago with the illogical reasoning that one often uncovers in magical systems and diagrams... though it must be admitted that usually this was a foil to keep certain truths hidden from the "unworthy." Nevertheless, times have changed, and for there to be a true renaissance of occultism, the veil must be lifted that bit more. Which it certainly has already, given the resources available nowadays through books and the internet and suchlike. I often wonder how occult scholars and practitioners got by in the past!

[m1thr0s]

Thanks Ainsloch. I completely understand that particular frustration. It would be akin to trying to learn mathematics when all your text examples were in error, being told all the while that when you have learned enough perhaps someone will show you examples that actually work (and then again, perhaps not...)! Sorry, I don't buy it. I think the unfortunate truth is that people have been working overtime to hide what they never really knew to begin with...Certainly not even one of these supposed enlightened masters has ever come forward to further my own work and I know godamm well that it completely warrants it. Rather, I have to watch complete frauds (or half-wits) raking in hoards of cash off of people's weak ambitions and petty vanities while a true Magus can barely make ends meet. In one sense I don't really care all that much, but it certainly limits my enthusiasm for believing in their presumed successes... What's the legal term? Show me the body?

I have an odd assortment of charts & graphs I will try to upload pretty soon. I used to do everything by hand so virtually everything has to be reconstructed on the computer...which produces great looking stuff...it just takes a lot of time. There's a lot to be said for doing things by hand but you can't beat computers for finishing work...

m1thr0s

[m1thr0s]

couldn't resist a sleazy background tile...reminds me of the whole "order out of chaos" motif...

m1thr0s

[MythMath]

m1thr0s,

1. This mirror is great, and your writing is crystalline...

2. I dig the swirls (I used to do paper marbling):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbled_paper

3. I'm very willing to help out with anything graphically, etc...

[m1thr0s]

Thank you MythMath...I do hope my periodic whining does not convey the wrong message. I am very aware of a powerful well of support that exists if I can manage to reach it effectively...there are hurdles and many things to be sorted out but I am aware of it and am also very excited by the possibilities in this regard...It will just take some time and a certain amount of problem solving I think...

more stuff on the way...

edit: I should mention here that the Binary system shows up as a subset in the Ternary, much as the Tree of Life symmetry shows up as a subset in Abrahadabra, and again in the Flower of Life, as we have seen. But it wasn't until I realized that there was already a well defined system of Hexagrams based in Trigrammaton itself that I began to grasp the whole significance of this. Just as the Binary system links to the DNA/RNA codes, there is a very good chance that something similar, but of a much higher order of matter links to the Ternary system. For want of a better term, I refer to this unknown "other" anatomical property as the "Star", as I have discussed in other places. But it is the Hexagrams themselves that really seem to be driving this home. That being the case, I am more convinced than ever before that this ancient technology absolutely must be revisited in lieu of cutting edge occult-science in the present. These are lost keys left dangling in time that have just barely survived under the guise of being something other than they actually are. Sure, the I Ching is an "oracle", if we choose to call it that...because it yields a very direct bio-feedback dialogue we can very easily access. But it appears to be a whole lot more than this alone. Whether the ancients knew this or not is very hard to say for sure, but they sure as hell sunk a lot of time and energy into these things...much more than one might expect of any popular divination system per se...

m1thr0s

[MythMath]

I've been working with an arbitrary color
code to help me learn the tri/hexagrams...


Here the 32 balanced pairs are expressed as complementary colors:

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q48/MythMath/TreeFieldscolorcopy.jpg

[m1thr0s]

I like the diamond patterns, although I am a devout minimalist when it comes to visual dialogue sorts of tools...just something I fell into after awhile. I used to blast out the colors too and I think it's neat to see others doing that sort of thing personally. Not to sound like Father Time or anything but it's a bit of a phase I think. But you know...like flash cards or whatever...it can really speed up the clock so it's almost always a good thing I think...

There are traditional colors associated to the Trigrams...these are logged in the Diamond of the Hexagrams and a few other places. I am not sure if you are right on track with these or not, I would have to double check it. Probably doesn't matter too much anyway...

m1thr0s

[MythMath]

I chose and assigned those 8 colors as complementary pairs...

I knew the colors were non-traditional, but like you suggest, as with
flashcards, any color system would speed up the assimilation process...

I realize that the hexs themselves say it all,
and that using colors, etc. to 'reveal' what's
already there is inefficient, and it is just a 'phase'...

Inevitably this will all be internalized, but there
will always be other new seekers that could also
benefit from the use of such isomorphic learning aids...

[m1thr0s]

true...

every now & then I seem to need to qualify what I do and why...

probably worried I might otherwise lose track or something...

there is a principle going on here though...in a sense what you want to access is actually in the ultra-violet spectrum or something and it moves constantly...something in the motion itself conveys a sense of language and color can actually interfere with this...like too many flashing lights or something...

but you're quite right...as learning tools colors are great...

I should perhaps point out that the Priestess's Field seats in the position of Daath by default so this should not be confused with Daath. Daath is called the Seat of Knowledge in Qaballah and requires a very special kind of field to stabilize it. It needs to be something representative of the whole system (in theory) since it acts in the capacity of the Magus's *Word* or *Law*. The Lo Shu Square works well in this capacity as an example since it is the Axis of the greater extended system. Also theTwinStar suffices quite easily in this context and there may be any number of possible words that can be uttered at this point. I want mainly to draw attention to the logic involved and why it is that Daath appears to have no field of its own...

m1

[MythMath]

there is a principle going on here though...in a sense what you want to access is actually in the ultra-violet spectrum or something and it moves constantly...something in the motion itself conveys a sense of language and color can actually interfere with this...like too many flashing lights or something...
OK, I understand now that by pasting the colors on top of this
finely-tuned piece of enginery to hi-light it's structural content...

That I rendered it completely non-fuctional... :laugh:

________________


What did you mean by this...?


every now & then I seem to need to qualify what I do and why...

probably worried I might otherwise lose track or something...

[m1thr0s]

What did you mean by this...?

"every now & then I seem to need to qualify what I do and why...

probably worried I might otherwise lose track or something..."I dunno...casual self-depreciation maybe...didn't want to seem like I was criticizing cuz actually its all good stuff...I have a hard enough time getting people all stoked up over this stuff without turning right around to diss their work...

It's a matter of context...most of my stuff is stripped down for a reason but that may not apply in every context. And still there are reasons for keeping things clean and sharp and minimal...this whole "maximum inertia- minimum stress" idea and how that plays out in mirror working just based on personal experience and a bit of logical scrutiny...

Sigilistics...complicated stuff at junctions...psychetopological parameters and all of that...

m1thr0s

[MythMath]

The lessons of less-is-more are important here, though...

And your mirrors set an example...

We are not ultimately discussing Ford escorts for the masses,
but rather hand-built, personal, intrastellar neuro-chariots...

Elegant efficiency shall be the hallmark... :yes:

[MythMath]

Hah!

While I'm typing "intrastellar neuro-chariots",
you're editing in "psychetopological parameters"...

It must be gettin' late... :rolleyes:

[m1thr0s]

We are not ultimately discussing Ford escorts for the masses,
but rather hand-built, personal, intrastellar neuro-chariots...bravo...well stated...

you know what's hard to avoid MM? Moret Patterns...Optical Illusion stuff...god I love that stuff...but I have found it constitutes yet another kind of pollution if you are not very very careful. Yet something in the optical illusion vein is extremely useful talismatically...it's the motion thing again. And yet if you approach it with too much gimmickry, you spoil the intended dialogue...

So it's not just colors...we have to walk this razor's edge with this stuff constantly...

m1

[MythMath]

Yeah, noticing these optical effects as a young kid was one
of my first tip-offs that I was a bit different than the others...

http://www.mathematik.com/Moire/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moire

[m1thr0s]

well...third eye stimulation techniques is no small beans...mandallas...thangkas...yantras...religious iconography of all kinds...most of it hoping to hit some target on a sub or superconscious levels...

late indeed...more to topic later...

m1thr0s

[Kain]

Awe-inspiring mirror, really powerful stuff m1thr0s. Good to know you're slowly entering field theory.

The way the Proximity Principle works in this context is just amazing...also, the ascending/descending movements displayed simultaneously by the balanced pairs of hexagrams create a most powerful effect of Wholeness.

One of the best mirrors brought forth so far, perhaps the best. I'm partial to keeping it plain myself, too. Hexagrammal mirror work in particular seems to kind of actively desire the free space, as it generates it's own "embroidery". This is less so with chakras, where the particular colors of the letters of the bija-mantras etc seem to amplify their effect and normalize their function. I think it is due to the fact that they are different languages and that hexagrammal fields speak through a much more plain/simple outset, this plainness being one of their biggest strengths however as it translates to universality and non-manifestation, having the structures thus "pregnant" with the effects to come in a very profound sense.

I like the diamond rendering too though, although it interracts in a different sense. Very useful for showing a positional review of the mirror.

Kain

[m1thr0s]

Awe-inspiring mirror, really powerful stuff m1thr0s. Good to know you're slowly entering field theory.thanks Kain. clearly this one is for people a little more advanced into this trigrammal field stuff already but I need to start addressing those people a bit more since there is still a lot of ground to cover, and also some tough questions to deal with I would think...

The way the Proximity Principle works in this context is just amazing...also, the ascending/descending movements displayed simultaneously by the balanced pairs of hexagrams create a most powerful effect of Wholeness.yes, the PP resolves everything insofar as proper placement is concerned. There are still some issues surrounding variation possibilities in pairs but placement itself is a done deal...which is huge really...for some it would amount to the culmination of a life's work actually.

One of the best mirrors brought forth so far, perhaps the best. I'm partial to keeping it plain myself, too. Hexagrammal mirror work in particular seems to kind of actively desire the free space, as it generates it's own "embroidery". This is less so with chakras, where the particular colors of the letters of the bija-mantras etc seem to amplify their effect and normalize their function. I think it is due to the fact that they are different languages and that hexagrammal fields speak through a much more plain/simple outset, this plainness being one of their biggest strengths however as it translates to universality and non-manifestation, having the structures thus "pregnant" with the effects to come in a very profound sense.yes, quite so. In the Hexagrams we really are dealing in the language of number itself about as closely as we can possibly simulate it and still have something tangible to grasp.

I like the diamond rendering too though, although it interracts in a different sense. Very useful for showing a positional review of the mirror.yep...it all has its place...

I'll try to get some support charts up soon. We will want to begin hammering out the chinks a bit. There is a lot of research has gone into all of this so I do have some very strong arguments for things being just as they are...still we will want to dissect and reassemble as much as may be required...

m1thr0s

[Kain]

thanks Kain. clearly this one is for people a little more advanced into this trigrammal field stuff already but I need to start addressing those people a bit more since there is still a lot of ground to cover, and also some tough questions to deal with I would think...I agree...the time is ripe I think to delve a bit deeper. Holes will always remain to be plugged in a work of such vastness of course, but we can return to those when they properly arise I think.

In the Hexagrams we really are dealing in the language of number itself about as closely as we can possibly simulate it and still have something tangible to grasp. Quite so. And this, I think, is perhaps one of it's most important advantages..."it penetrates the hardest things" as the Tao Te Ching would say...
I'll try to get some support charts up soon. We will want to begin hammering out the chinks a bit. There is a lot of research has gone into all of this so I do have some very strong arguments for things being just as they are...still we will want to dissect and reassemble as much as may be required...That would be great, thanks m1thr0s...

Kain

[m1thr0s]

The Heaven Descending (P'an Ku (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panku)) Arrangement
Trigrammal Fields - (King Wen) Numerical Key

http://abrahadabra.com/images/treefields002.jpg

Note: There are only 4 numerical chronologies that really concern us with respect to trigrams:

(1) Heaven Descending: In Heaven Descending we are tracking the descent of the Yang Element which begins in the Above and carries a numerical value of 0. It gravitates to the Below where it finally mutates into Yin (1).

(2) Heaven Ascending: In Heaven Ascending we are tracking the ascent of the Yang Element which begins in the Below and carries a numerical value of 0. It gravitates to the Above where it finally mutates into Yin (1).

(3) Earth Descending: In Earth Descending we are tracking the descent of the Yin Element which begins in the Above and carries a numerical value of 0. It gravitates to the Below where it finally mutates into Yang (1).

(4) Earth Ascending: In Earth Ascending we are tracking the ascent of the Yin Element which begins in the Below and carries a numerical value of 0. It gravitates to the Above where it finally mutates into Yang (1).

Of these 4, 2 have been selected out as most productive for tantric applications based on a wide range of factors. The Earth Ascending (Nu Kua) Arrangement and the Heaven Descending (P'an Ku) Arrangement represent the most aggressive trigrammal assault against physical imbalance within the Tree of Life matrix. They also happen to best correspond to that organization of Bigrammal structures observable in the Ternary system. As a matter of form, any serious student should become versed in all 4 possibilities, and this is not to discount the King Wen system which, although not properly chronological, nevertheless contains potent mysteries and mathematical properties sufficient to rank it as a viable player in this immediate methodology. In brief, the best synospsis as to why we might want to follow the standard I have defined is to be found in a careful study of Hexagrams #11 and #12, called Harmony and Standstill, respectively (Wilhem Baynes translation). In Hexagram #12 we see the condition of Heaven in the Above and Earth in the below, whose natural gravitations are toward each other, yet no movement has occured (hence its name). In Hexagram #11 we see the reverse condition where Heaven has attained to the Below and Earth to the Above and this condition is thus called Harmony. In tantric work, we are shooting for that condition defined in Hexagram #11. To achieve this we want to do everything possible to encourage Earth Ascension and Heaven Descension. The numerical gravitations found in these two great mathematical chronologies gives us our most comprehensive guide to achieving these ends.

P'an Ku (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panku) Arrangement - Binary Chronological Order (Heaven Descending)

http://abrahadabra.com/images/hexchart001.jpg

There are a number of things of special interest here we want to make a mental note of. Everything in the P'an Ku arrangement is based on a top-down emphasis, the same as the Tree of Life itself. Change occurs more gradually in Heaven and more rapidly in Earth in this arrangement. We begin from Heaven and progress to Earth so that it is the Descending, Yang Triangle that is most especially identified here. Yang lines receive a standing value of 0 and Yins 1 and we run our counts from top-to-bottom, which can then be laid out left-to-right for easy reading in english. This establishes a proper chronological ordering of hexagrams from 1 - 64, but as a matter of convenience, we still refer to the King Wen numerations in most cases to make it easier to look up their standard I Ching interpretations. Certain elemental and organizational considerations are given preference in the P'an Ku Arrangement over the King Wen as regarding field assignments. The P'an Ku follows the same logic as the 4 Binary Bigrams in that the top line is always the "gender line" extending to all line constructions. So all trigrams, tetragrams and hexagrams that have a yang line at the top are always considered to be yangs, even though they may be yins in the King Wen arrangement. The entire first half of this arrangement is thus Yang structures and the entire second half Yins. This is the same logic adhered to in the Tai Hsuan Ching as well, so again, we are lined up with Trigrammaton exactly in doing things this way.

Here is how the traditional King Wen Hexagrams line up in this arrangement...

P'an Ku (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panku) Arrangement - King Wen Numerations

http://abrahadabra.com/images/hexchart002.jpg

P'an Ku (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panku) Arrangement - Proximity Paths

http://abrahadabra.com/images/hexchart003.jpg


m1thr0s

[m1thr0s]

Note: I am going to run a little ahead of things here and just sort of give everybody a heads-up on what is going to be emerging in this thread. There are a number of careful graphics I need to lay out to make all of this as visibly clear as possible and I only have a few hours a day to work on any of it.

What I am going to show all of you is what amounts to the most engaging Tree of Life Meditation practise that I have ever seen anywhere at any time. That I happen to have developed it myself is really just my supreme good fortune and is something that was born out of many hundreds of hours of trial and error...almost certainly thousands in truth. That may seem a little strange to some but the fact of the matter is that there is an ongoing dialogue that occurs in this meditation practise that sets up a chain-reaction of powerful insightful ideas that just never seems to stop or run out of fascinating and unexpected journeys.

There are actually two arrangements to be considered in the complete meditation: The Nu-Kua Arrangement and the P'an-Ku Arrangement. Both of these are mathematically chronological arrangements of the 64 Binary Hexagrams paired into 32 Elemental Opposites, which I then have come to call the Hexagrammal (or Trigrammal) Fields. These are laid over the Tree of Life following the Proximity Principle so that we can rationally regard their placements to be chronologically correct. To reap the benefit of this meditation you will want to learn as much as you can about the standard Tree of Life assignments as well as their periodic variations. Here again I am introducing a (very) few alterations in the usual ToL attribution assignments which should ultimately all make perfect sense in lieu of the Proximity Principle.

The Nu-Kua - P'an-Ku arrangements are tracking opposite gravitational flows of Yin and Yang as they unfold along the Tree of Life matrix and are counted differently and also exhibit a number of other field distinctions as a result. According to legend, it is the P'an Ku arrangement that is the most "primal"...it is the First Order of things to emerge from the First Chaos and also balances the the greater 729 Ternary Hexagrams exactly...which is to say that the order of Hexagrams containing only Yin and Yang line values in the Tai Hsuan Ching (of which there are 64) is exactly the same order as we find in the P'an-Ku arrangement of Binary Hexagrams.

In the P'an-Ku Arrangement we begin from Heaven and follow the descent of Heaven to Earth numerically. We know that this is occuring because of the way our Hexagrams are arranged and counted. In the P'an-Ku Arrangement, Yang Lines receive a value of 0 and Yin Lines a value of 1 and we run our counts from top to bottom to determine proper binary orders. It is important to understand that the binary values of 0 & 1 are not to be confused as "Even & Odd" but are more to be understood as "Alpha & Omega". Leibniz errs in his thinking in this regard as have many scholars to come after him. Our standard is to be found in the Tao Te Ching which roughly stipulates: *From Nothing cometh One: From One cometh Two: From Two cometh Three: From Three cometh the Myriad (10,000) things.* This statement is defining elemental and numerical chronology itself as it is to be understood in the unfolding of matter from the highest to the lowest rungs. Therefor our Alpha point must always be 0 and our Omega point 1 in the Binary system, but we are free to begin from either Yin or Yang to chart our course. In the P'an-Ku arrangement we are beginning from Heaven (Yang) and descending logically to Earth (Yin). Therefor the Yang is our Alpha (0) point and Yin is our Omega (1).

In the Nu-Kua Arrangement the reverse occurs. Here we are starting from Earth and ascending to Heaven so that our chronological order is based on Yin = 0 & Yang =1 and our counts run from Bottom to Top in all cases. Legend has it that the Nu-Kua Arrangement follows the great Deluge and represents the Second Order stemming from the Second Chaos, wherein P'an Ku has been slain and his body become all parts of Heaven and Earth. Nu-Kua repairs Heaven and reestablishes Order in Earth.

In the complete Tree of Life Fields meditation we are simulating this whole process, but beginning from our own natural positions in the scheme of things. We begin from Earth and "repair heaven" step-by-step, by creating balanced trigrammal fields at ordered intervals from the lowest to the highest. Having done this, we complete the process by "drawing heaven down" to meet Earth according to the P'an Ku (or First Order) Arrangement. So we literally (and figuratively) repair heaven and heaven unfolds to meet earth. It is really the most logically exquisite meditation practise on Earth if our objective is to assert a Perfect Elemental Order on the Tree of Life matrix itself.

Most meditations have you humming along doing not much of anything really and they seem to be quite proud of the fact that this is the case...that you should somehow count yourselves superior for spending so much time babbling about nothing to no avail. They can believe whatever they want. It is almost certain that no meditation practise will work out well for everyone and that kind of wheel-spinning gibberish really just doesn't do it for me. I suspect a lot of other people are actually in the same boat but that no one ever seems to offer a more intelligent alternative. So we are left with all this "stilling the mind" crap to chew on, which ought not to be a strained effort to begin with! Here in this meditation we achieve a natural "stilling of mind" by engaging a perfect elemental language directed at a perfectly logical objective. We are not trying to perform psychic surgery on our minds at all...that just naturally occurs as it needs to. We are trying to restore a condition of perfect elemental balance to the Tree of Life (or the Body of Light) itself and no more or less than this.

So that's sort of the overview of what is going on here. There are all kinds of things you can do in trigrammal fields but I want to leave everyone with a very good sense of how to perform the complete Tree of Life Meditation according to Mutational Alchemical protocols and logics.

m1thr0s

[Kain]

Nice...a most interesting meditation practice, and equally powerful. Thank you m1thr0s!

Kain

[m1thr0s]

Nice...a most interesting meditation practice, and equally powerful. Thank you m1thr0s!*interesting* is definitely its edge. This is a meditation practise that engages the intellect and does not make some vain attempt to dispell it. I understand the reasoning behind other methodologies and have studied them extensively. Turning human beings into sea-urchins is not the business we are in and this strategy has failed to produce a caliber of humanity sufficient to justify its bullshit. It's had a very long time at bat...it's way past time we tried something more intelligent. Pioneers in these realms have only themselves to experiment upon but I can certainly report that this particular meditation is indeed both powerful and engaging. But more than this, it is legitmately *stellar* in every conceiveable sort of way.

It takes awhile to complete...you want to try to get through it all with pinpoint accuracy and force and you've got 128 hexagrams to compile plus two passes at Daath which is not being dealt with here yet. On the upside you work solely in counter-clockwise rotations and on the downside solely in clockwise rotations back to ground. It's ok to work fast but not so fast as to become sloppy and inattentive. It's a very athletic meditation and can be worked either entirely internally or externally. I prefer to work externally as I have said before but have in fact worked both extensively. It can be completed in about 30 minutes...longer at the beginning as you are learning the technique becoming much faster and much more coordinated as you advance.

For those with the ability to manage their own high space it can in fact be worked very effectively in shamanic-style sessions...no extranneous speaking is recommended and not around people who can't keep their damn mouths shut while energy is being raised. This is optional, not absolutely essential or mandatory. Working in tangent with others is entirely possible and unspeakably powerful but should only be applied with more experienced practitioners. Everyone needn't be on exactly the same page at every step but the group needs to be able to function as an organic whole...focused and tight. Working in strategic positions is recommended here, triangles, circles, etc... Partners should work opposite each other for a whole new insight on so-called *sex-magick*...

I will be discussing technique and specific application more as this thing unfolds...There are also many other viable and potent applications...clockwork applications and astrological and freeform talismanic and many many possibilities...this is just one very dynamic meditation aimed at navigating and charging the Tree of Life itself. One learns to think in terms of elemental *fields*, *bubbles*, *spheres* etc... One develops the ability to interact with universal mind at the highest levels...

It will not make you *rich* so stow all that kind of questions please...it makes you noticeably smarter than you would have been without it though and if you choose to use that edge to become *rich*, so mote it be.

m1thr0s

[MythMath]

Here in this meditation we achieve a natural "stilling of mind" by engaging
a perfect elemental language directed at a perfectly logical objective.

We are not trying to perform psychic surgery on our minds at all...
that just naturally occurs as it needs to.

We are trying to restore a condition of perfect elemental balance to the
Tree of Life (or the Body of Light) itself and no more or less than this.
m1thr0s, you are the maven of morphogenesis... :yes:

[m1thr0s]

m1thr0s, you are the maven of morphogenesis... :yes:not without a certain agitation mind you...but yeah...that seems to be the basic job description...
morphology...topology...cosmology...genetics...all that stuff is definitely going on here...

m1thr0s

[m1thr0s]

The Earth Ascending (Nu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu_Kua)Kua (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu_Kua)) Arrangement
Trigrammal Fields - (King Wen) Numerical Key

http://abrahadabra.com/images/treefields003.jpg

The lowest point on the Tree of Life is not actually Malkuth (Kingdom, 10) as we might expect looking only at the geometry, but is actually the Universe Path which runs between numbers 9 & 10, or Yesod (Foundation, 9) and Malkuth (Kingdom, 10) respectively. In the P'an Ku Arrangement we begin from the highest point (Kether = Crown, 1) and descend, first through the 10 sepheroth and then through the 22 paths to wind up at path #32, called the Universe in Thoth. In the Nu Kua Arrangement we simply reverse this order, beginning from path #32, scaling the 22 paths upwards, finally reaching the 10 sepheroth where we continue our final ascent from 10 - 1. Our field values seem to vary somewhat dramatically, in part because our ordering of trigrams is different and also because our "gender line" is now at the bottom instead of the top as it is in the P'an Ku Arrangement. In both systems, the *gender line* determines the Yin or Yang constitution of the entire hexagram so that in some cases a hexagram which is deemed to be a Yang in P'an Ku will turn out to be a Yin in Nu Kua and vice versa. This actually trains us to pay special attention to context in our valuation of things so that it turns out to be a very productive sort of hurdle for us to navigate relative to all other areas of analysis.

We also run into another puzzling issue with respect to the pairing of hexagrams left & right which is important enough that I will be addressing it more thoroughly a little later on. All of our 32 paired opposites are actually the exact same pairs on both sides of the aisle, but in the P'an Ku we see a number of situations where a paired opposite will read (example) [55 - 59] which, when we locate the same pair in the Nu Kua we find it both in a different place as well as reading backwards (example) [59 - 55]! This is because our pairs are being positioned synchronistically with the Tree of Life itself with Yin hexagrams on the Yin Side (left facing) and Yangs on the Yang Side (right facing) following the universal standard of the 4 Bigrams in lieu of the special *gender line* valuations endemic to each system. It will take a more extensive explanation than this to be perfectly clear. I will be addressing this in greater depth further on as it is very important to understand why our fields are always structured in very specific ways.

Nu Kua (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu_Kua) Arrangement - Binary Chronological Order (Earth Ascending)

http://abrahadabra.com/images/hexchart004.jpg

The correct way to display the Nu Kua Arrangement in a keychart is to place the navigational guides along the bottom and side as I have done here. The thing to remember is that in the Nu Kua Arrangement, change happens more slowly in Earth and more rapidly in Heaven, opposite from the P'an Ku Arrangement. In this way you can read your Trigrammal Houses in vertical Columns, the same as in the P'an Ku. This chart simply demonstrates the binary properties of the 64 Hexagrams following the Earth Ascending pattern.

Nu Kua (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu_Kua) Arrangement - King Wen Numerations

http://abrahadabra.com/images/hexchart005.jpg

For the convenience of it, I am also showing the King Wen key chart here which may help somewhat with analyzing the order of the hexagrams according to the King Wen numerations. Students will want to acquire a copy of the I Ching to delve into classical images and interpretations of the hexagrams. I highly recommend the Wilhelm/Baynes translation as a starting point.

Nu Kua (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu_Kua) Arrangement - Proximity Paths

http://abrahadabra.com/images/hexchart006.jpg

Again, for the simplicity of it I am illustrating the 32 paths as they unfold in the Proximity Principal Tree of Life arrangement. We could also spend a fair amount of time examining Thoth attributions according to this model but for the moment I want to lay out the basic molecular logic of the chronological hexagrams themselves. There is a lot to assimilate here and people are likely to be overwhelmed by it all. Bear in mind thatit is my *job* at this junction to create a sense of the power that resides in the logic as a whole...not so much to tell anybody how they must or must not run their own personal experiments. I want to establish what this language is capable of and why it should be taken seriously in general. There are things we can do here in a very rational sort of way that simply cannot be done any other way that I have yet encountered. But there are many things we can do and (to the best of my knowledge) there has yet to emerge any bona fide *best way* of doing anything along these lines so far. We can nevertheless attack such issues *in context* so that if we know what we are trying to accomplish, given the properties at our disposals, we can ascertain with a high degree of accuracy what processes will tend to be more favorable over others.

The Combined Total
Earth Ascending (Nu Kua) - Heaven Descending (P'an Ku)

http://abrahadabra.com/images/treefields004.jpg

It may have already been observed by a few people that there are certain things that are possible in a base 10 system that are not possible in a Base 8, so that we ultimately have to abandon a few tasks as mathematically impossible. We cannot, for instance, extrapolate a rational 10 primary hexagrams which can then be identified as the logical hub of all 64. There are all kinds of hoops we can jump through to make various modifications but we lose continuity in so doing and our 64 into 32 becomes a maze of exceptions-clauses that is frankly rather ugly to contemplate and betrays the natural beauty of what we can do just by following the numbers. At the end of the day it is the chronological order itself that needs to be calling the shots as to what goes where and why or the whole thing breaks down and fails to achieve its most basic tasks. So we may find ourselves at variance in some instances, feeling as though a certain arrangement is not quite as we would like it, based on how we have learned the hexagrams or our personal favorites, or any number of other factors. It is important to remember that what is happening here is all about chronology and about aligning the chronology of the Tree of Life to the natural chronology of the binary hexagrams. There are many other things we can also do with this language and many kinds of experiments we can run.

Perseverance Furthers,

m1thr0s

[MythMath]

I did this the other day for a different project, but thought I'd slip it in since you mentioned it:

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q48/MythMath/TreehouseofTarotcopy.jpg

[m1thr0s]

Excellent...thank you very much MythMath...it's really great to have your help on these things. It looks perfect right now but you can imagine my eyes are a bit fried since I've been crafting charts all day... I will double-check it in the morning but everything looks very good at present.

Among the few changes that have occured in this...the linking of the Devil Card between 6 & 9 is by far the most compelling (to me personally)...that is its whole symbolism to begin with (phallus etc)...

Note: I should perhaps point out that the repositioning of Atu is based upon their assigned Hebrew Letters which do follow a numerical chronology, even though letters in themselves do not do this. Some people will almost certainly be uncomfortable with this but my objective is to leave as much intact as possible with respect to existing systems. I have no tremendous personal investment in reinventing Tarot itself, but if it boils down to a choice between swapping out letter-card assignments or simply changing their positions (as it does), I am a lot more comfortable with the latter.

On the plus side...once you get used to it these changes are really very liveable and make a great deal of sense in their own right. But what you do with peripheral tables & correspondences is pretty much up to you. There is nothing etched in stone here that I know of. At the end of the day the Proximity Principle only specifically applies to legitimate chronologies...

m1thr0s

[MythMath]

Always glad to help...
_____________

I did that layout for a Thothdeck-based card
game that I was introducing to my kids...

I labeled the chart Tree House of Tarot, to
tickle their Simpsons-loving funnybones...

[m1thr0s]

Curiously, since we are looking at AC's work again, nothing in the Book of the Law addresses actual positions of cards. There is a passage confirming Letter-Image alignments with the exception of Heh & Tzaddi..."...but Tzaddi is not the Star"...etc.

So there is really nothing informing us that we may be in error defying conventions with regards to placements. There is also a good likelihood the Atu Numerations are off in several instances. Alphabets are not mathematically chronological (in almost all instances), yet it can be argued that a kind chronological order will eventually emerge with most alphabets if they are employed widely enough. Tenuous but vaguely defensible.

So I think it is interesting that nothing in my work has given me any cause to challenge letter-image placements. A few positional switches and the possibility of a few Atu corrections only...something to discuss again at another time & place...

m1thr0s

[m1thr0s]

Note: A few cosmetic changes on the Nu Kua side have occured in the last 24 hours in case anybody is actually copying down any of this stuff. Might want to update.

I am well aware that most of this seems way too much to handle. It's important to lay out the big picture in advance of discussions pertaining to technique. Believe it or not, this stuff is nowhere near as complicated as it may look...big maybe...but not really especially complicated.

I'll be beginning to address things from a simpler perspective here pretty quick...once people begin to get a handle on how to actually construct trigrammal fields on a smaller scale than this, the grander scale will begin to look a lot more doable...

m1thr0s

[Kain]

Note: A few cosmetic changes on the Nu Kua side have occured in the last 24 hours in case anybody is actually copying down any of this stuff. Might want to update. Thanks m1thr0s...I certainly am, so I'll be updating my copy shortly...

Awaiting the additions on this...this is top class material you've been putting up until now :) Very concise, very powerful...

Kain

[m1thr0s]

Thanks Kain. I appreciate your support very much.

It would be very easy for me to abandon the whole attempt to explain any of this at all owing to the complexity of the subject matter compounded by the fact that only a relative few people are actually in a place where they are ready to receive this kind of information. As a matter of fact, that is exactly what I did for many years, while the system itself continued to evolve and mature far beyond my original expectations! So it's between a rock & a hard place I find myself to some extent, but the bottom line is that I have good reason to suppose that sooner or later anyone who has tried to make any sense of the Tree of Life is going to hit an impassable wall.

That wall is not a passing "phase"...it has to do with the inherent limitations of the language itself and its general failure to keep pace with entire store of knowledge available to us today. Consequently it will tend to be the most ardent students of hermetic knowledge that are going to be the first to really experience this general "burnout". Others will sense it and simply not want to go there at all, thinking themselves clever for avoiding the entire matter. Unfortunately, this is a grievous self-deception as there is an enormous good to be had in this body of wisdom (however incomplete) that none of us can actually afford to abandon completely. People do not always recognize the extent to which they are on the hook against what they know. Our own knowledge can seem to be our worst enemy sometimes...particularly when our assertions do not really mesh properly with what we actually do know. We may take a certain comfort in playing stupid, but we are not as stupid as we pretend and by and by that pretense is going to bite us in the ass in severe and unpleasant ways.

One cannot correct this kind of problem without also correcting the entire body of assumptions upon which that outmoded data has been built. Knowledge evolves (like everything else in life) and it is simply time for western hermeticism to reinvent itself on a higher plane. The form of Alchemy that is being defined here is not a simple tweaking of old ideas...it is a systematic restructuring of western hermetic thought as we have known it...not because I relish the idea of doing that...but because that knowledge is no longer capable of keeping pace with everything else we know...know about ourselves...know about the world we live in and how it operates in real time.

So this is about filling a need before that need becomes an absolute crisis. In a very real sense, it already has become an absolute crisis but only a relative few people are yet aware of this and most of them probably spend way too much time criticizing themselves about it. We are trained to blame ourselves for being unhappy with the staus quo from birth. For some reason I am not wired that way...if a hammer fails me...I chuck the piece of shit and go for a bigger hammer. If that hammer does not already exist then I forge the damn thing from scratch, based on a working knowledge of hammers and their properties. What I am laying out right here is the toughest damn hammer I have ever seen at any time.

m1thr0s

[Kain]

You're welcome m1thr0s...this work has helped me enormously throughout these years so I am naturally interested to help in seeing it properly brought out to public view. Our own knowledge can seem to be our worst enemy sometimes...particularly when our assertions do not really mesh properly with what we actually do know. We may take a certain comfort in playing stupid, but we are not as stupid as we pretend and by and by that pretense is going to bite us in the ass in severe and unpleasant ways.

One cannot correct this kind of problem without also correcting the entire body of assumptions upon which that outmoded data has been built. This is so true an assertion, and one I was deeply thinking about just now as the ever turning proverbial wheel of self-revision has completed another round, biting me hard in the ass as it often does...these sort of things work in various cycles of symultaneous growth and evolution, "microcosmic" and "macrocosmic" as it always is. In the end, after the numerous 'campaigns' that one has gloriously emerged victorious out of, one will ultimately find one's most potent, intelligent and adaptive opponent of all times in the constitution of one's own self, and in the body of codified knowledge and assumptions that compose it.

Kain

[m1thr0s]

Occasionally I get asked why we don't just line up the 64 Hexagrams exactly as they unfold in the King Wen Arrangement, which is the expected order of things as they unfold in the traditional I Ching. It's very reasonable to ask that question just as it is very reasonable to ask any question pertaining to this kind of operation...one that certainly constitutes an element of risk stemming from many different quarters...

I have surely tried. The King Wen arrangement is a remarkable system in itself. It's author is credited as being the greatest mathematical genius of his time and I have no reason to doubt this, although it has to be remembered that he was also a military leader and a politician with many pressing issues on his plate...not a sage or a lofty scholar with nothing else before him than the ascertaining of higher truths. Nevertheless the King Wen arrangement succeeds in setting a powerful standard which then goes on to flourish and greatly impact every other aspect of Chinese culture. It is at the very heart of Ying-Yang medicine for instance and permeates literally everything in China's ancient past.

The King Wen arrangement is not well suited to elemental fields operations primarily because it is not a mathematically chronological arrangement. Despite this, it unfolds in many ways indicative of trigrammal fields rationales, such as the fact that it is lined up in balanced *pairs* of hexagrams from start to finish in a series of poetic *epics* depicting an intial condition and then its reciprocal, or resulting condition in the following hexagram. But the entire catalog of hexagrammal pairs is not mathematically *tight* (not even close) and despite the best efforts of many people to uncover some kind of encrypted chronology over the years, no one has yet been able to produce anything confirming that King Wen ever had an exact mathematical chronology in mind when he arranged the hexagrams as he did.

The lack of any certain chronological order means that we have no way to be sure of where things should go in relation to other chronological orders. The numbers simply don't add up. King Wen's hexagrammal pairs follow a system I refer to as *vertical opposites*, whereby a hexagram is paired with its exact inverse in as many cases as this may be possible. Unfortunately, it is not possible to achieve this uniformly from start to finish. A hexagram with six Yangs lines turned upside down will simply yield another six Yang lines for instance. In cases like this he turns to *horizontal opposites* to resolve the conflict, so the six Yang lines would then be paired with six Yin lines as happens right at the beginning of the book in Hexagrams #1 (The Creative, Heaven) & #2 (The Receptive, Earth). The resulting organization is a mathematical mish-mash which bears many handsome aesthetic features but is simply not geared to mathematically exact kinds of operations requiring all the hexagrams to be playing by the same set of rules at every pass from beginning to end. We get all kinds of squirrely aberrations impossible to sort out in the pairs he offers us, following completely different rules or no apparent rules at all in some cases.

Yet the traditional I Ching is unquestionably a work of creative genius and should be preserved intact for what it is and what it has to offer. King Wen did not invent the I Ching itself but simply reorganized it according to the most pressing priorities of his time, much as I have done again in the trigrammal fields system. There are definitely qualities in that system too precious to be dismissed, even if they don't provide us with exactly what we require in elemental fields applications per se. In the end I think it is probably a good thing that we cannot apply it exactly as compiled to the context of Abrahadabra and Trigrammaton etc. This actually speaks to the internal power of the mathematics as a whole...that it is adaptable to many different kinds of situations and is not confined to any one historical philosophical niche anymore than geometry would be or any other formal mathematical logic.

So this is what I have run into but I am only just one person and do not have 800 million scholars at my immediate disposal to make an absolute end of it necessarily. If you see something that the world may have missed, my best advice would be to go and get it. Until I see something to the contrary, my best guess on this matter is that the King Wen arrangement simply doesn't work out (logically) in trigrammal fields theory.

m1thr0s

[Kain]

The King Wen arrangement is not well suited to elemental fields operations primarily because it is not a mathematically chronological arrangement. Despite this, it unfolds in many ways indicative of trigrammal fields rationales, such as the fact that it is lined up in balanced *pairs* of hexagrams from start to finish in a series of poetic *epics* depicting an intial condition and then its reciprocal, or resulting condition in the following hexagram. But the entire catalog of hexagrammal pairs is not mathematically *tight* (not even close) and despite the best efforts of many people to uncover some kind of encrypted chronology over the years, no one has yet been able to produce anything confirming that King Wen ever had an exact mathematical chronology in mind when he arranged the hexagrams as he did. That's my perception of the matter too actually, and even though the King Wen arrangement provides a very interesting mode of operation, it still acts based on different principles and does not seem to aim towards maintaining any tight mathematical cohesion (at least as far as can be seen). The patern that emerges is very well-put none the less, but remains unfit for the set of operations this particular system is concerned with which, admitedly, pays more immediate attention to mathematical relationships.

Kain

[oak]

interesting stuff, not sure i get most of it for now but hope it'll straighten out as things progress. as an aside, sometimes when doing repair work on my self, these long-ass number sequences run quickly through my mind, maybe it has something to do with this...

[m1thr0s]

Nice to see you again oak. In some ways I may be going at all of this ass-backwards from what is most useful to people at the beginning. Being able to do an I Ching Reading and then cross-reference that on the Tree and also be able to build that Trigrammal Field energetically etc are all much more rational starting places to deciding if this whole system is a good match for you. But all these charts and such will still be important to have acess to, so I'll get to the simpler applications here pretty soon.

all of this stuff has some kind of basis in genetics and I'm not going to pretend to anything I don't fully understand but the I Ching in particular has its biological origins there, so it's always possible for you (or any of us) to be picking up on bits of this intuitively in different ways. That may account for your numbers strings since that is typical of binary number strings...not entirely sure though...

m1thr0s

[MythMath]

This article linked is ten years old,
but it does discuss all of our favorite
overlapping, isomorphic systems...

Occult Genetic Code
The Great Primordial Language Rediscovered

http://www.erowid.org/culture/references/other/1997_krakowski_resproject_1.shtml

[MythMath]

Yet something in the optical illusion vein is extremely useful talismatically...it's the motion thing again.
http://fusionanomaly.net/psychedelic.gif

[m1thr0s]

thanks MythMath...pretty descent article. I'm not altogether sure why more has not been made of this whole genetics connection. I think it's just one of those things that naturally falls to occultism to sort out first. Then modern science can come along and steal the solution and pretend they came up with it all by themselves...certainly no help from *alchemy* or anything silly like that...

One day soon the *scapegoat* strikes back...suddenly...with no warning...and no pity...hehe...

m1thr0s

[m1thr0s]

The Four Pillars

http://abrahadabra.com/images/fourpillars02.jpg

The Four Pillars is a sufficiently important principle that it should not be glossed over lightly. In order to make this as plain as I can make it, I am going to take a few minutes just to address this principle by itself. Everything I have asserted regarding the organization of chronological trigrammal fields in the Tree of Life (thus far) is rooted in this principle so that it amounts to one of the core assumptions we are dealing with here. If there is any error in the Four Pillars, that error will carry over to the entire trigrammal fields system. If there is not, then that system is as logically sound as the numbers will permit.

That still doesn't make it the only way to get the job (of Completion) done, so we should be very clear about that. But it renders the trigrammal fields system a rational assault on the Tree of Life from start to finish, and there aren't too many systems that can even remotely lay claim to this. Not everyone will be ready for this stuff...perhaps not 1 in 10,000 people are likely to even give a shit. Those of us who take on difficult issues of this sort aren't especially concerned about the short-range popularity of our discoveries and assertions. Rather, we are dealing in long-range inevitabilities, so that when the time does finally come that these questions absolutely must be answered, some solid body of work will exist to illuminate that path properly. We are in many respects crisis specialists who run ahead of the curve anticipating sudden-death conditions in the attempt to avert the worst possible kinds of disasters. If we can manage to pull out an immediate success from this, so much the better...but if not...no matter...the work itself is aimed at bridging futures anyway.

When Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz) successfully assigned the binary number system to the I Ching in about 1676 he did so with a remarkable amount of haste for a person of his intellectual reknown. Leibniz had his own scholastic agenda which clearly did not include mastering an understanding of the I Ching and its potential scientific applications on its own merits. It happened to validate an idea he had already been working on and this was about the long and the short of his attention to the matter. He was your average hyperactive academic primarily obsessed with his own intellectual acclaim. Astonishingly, his first official "job" was that of a paid *alchemist*, but this was never anything more than a passing novelty from all appearances. Indeed, his work with the I Ching is hardly ever cited at all in his overly impressive list of accomplishments, yet we seem to be forever straddled with the limited conclusions he arrived at and subsequently published. Leibniz was not wrong in assigning a binary numerical constance to the I Ching...he was simply starkly incomplete in his thinking, since he had no vested interest in exploring all available possibilities as we have in trigrammal field theory today.

If we never strayed beyond Leibniz's assigning of 0 to Yins and 1 to Yangs, we would have only two chronological arrangements to concern ourselves with, one of which parallels the 64 binary *Earlier Heaven* Sequence of hexagrams (typically attributed to Fu Hsi) of the I Ching and the other which inversely parallels the binary subset of 64 hexagrams unfolding in the 729 ternary hexagrams of the Tai Hsuan Ching, occasionally identified as the "Mystery Sequence" by the very few who have even noticed it at all. These are demonstrated in the Four Pillars as the Earth Ascending and Earth Descending arrangements, respectively.

The problem we are confronted with is a simple one: So long as we are limited to the notion that Yins = 0 and Yangs = 1 alone, any arrangement of trigrams which begins from Heaven (as opposing Earth) will be running backwards in the numbers and will not amount to a true numerical representation of the directional flow of the lines themselves. Liebniz himself bemoans this limitation, yet seems unable to breach his own self-imposed protocols by including an alternate numeration method allowing that Yangs = 0 and Yins = 1. There is actually no rational reason for avoiding this as it is a mistake to confound 0's and 1's with Yins and Yangs on the basis of their even or odd, passive or active valuations. Since we are attempting to track motion itself and are not concerning ourselves with defining elemental attributions in this instance, characteristics of this sort have no value to us of any kind. We are only interested in what comes before and what comes after in this immediate context. In any binary numeration, 0 is always a lesser value than 1 and thus comes before 1 in chronological progression. There seems to be an instinctive urge to assign passive states to 0 and active states to 1 which also carries over into computer logic, for instance. Be that as it may, not everything that is instinctively natural is logically correct in all cases. The Four Pillars corrects this problem by requiring that any chronological starting point will always equal 0 in the numbers, regardless of its elemental characteristics. This will give us a grand total of 4 chronological progression possibilities in trigrams, no more, and no less.

In all other respects it makes perfect sense to me that we would logically arrive at 4 directional possibilities of movement within the binary I Ching system. The stamp of tetragrammaton is all over this thing no matter where we look, from the 4 principal Bigrams on down. That there might even appear to be two "active" and two "passive" allignments with respect to Tree of Life operations is simply no surprise at all, though one cannot help a sense of awe, I think, at just how persistent this whole pattern seems to be. In any case I am at a point with this particular conversation where I think the argument has basically been established. There is always a great deal more to be said but there is a lot of ground to cover here so I think it best to let the diagram speak for itself as to any other mysteries embedded in its tally...

note: sorry about the geek-art...couldn't resist...looks like one of those travel games you played when you were a kid...

m1thr0s

[Naomi]

Great post, just thought I'd say thumbs up, totally lucid and explains it nicely. Awesome cool post...I don't understand the bits about changing yin to 1 and yang to 0..., but it's a learning process...

M1thr0s you ever see Kachina faces? They have eyes, mouths and symbols painted on them that look alot like the trigrams.

I like how this table eliminates air and water and only addresses heaven and earth, seems more in tune...I know it's the Chinese thing but I just now realized that...should I thank Abrahadabra meds or myself? -_-

[m1thr0s]

Great post, just thought I'd say thumbs up, totally lucid and explains it nicely. Awesome cool post...I don't understand the bits about changing yin to 1 and yang to 0..., but it's a learning process...hey, thanks Naomi! throughout the entire I Ching we see this whole dance going on between yins and yangs mutating into each other while still retaining their own identities...in other words, a yin or passive "state" cannot always remain that way and will eventually become a "yang" or active state and vice versa. So the only thing that really remains constant is the ebbs & flows of change itself. That probably still isn't 100% clear but that's about the general gist of it...

m1thr0s

[Kain]

I agree, it's a great post m1thr0s.

I like the 'geek'-art myself actually :) .

note on graphics: By the way, the color hue of the first column's trigrams is a bit different from the other three...

Kain

[m1thr0s]

rats...my monitor is going out which pretty much sucks for a graphic artist. looks like there was some confusion where some bits were in CMYK and others in RGB...tell me if that looks better please.

Note: One of the important things that the Four Pillars resolves is that either Heaven or Earth ascend and descend and this is something we will want to bookmark as we will be returning to this issue at various points in this whole discussion. When we are looking at Earth and Heaven positionally on the Tree of Life, Heaven is in the Above and Earth is in the Below. If Heaven Ascends from this relation and Earth descends, we will get a situation where energy is moving away from the Tree at either end. It is also important to recognize that the Sepheroth & Paths themselves follow a Heaven Descending progression, which renders this a dominant factor in whatever actions we might choose to assert.

So in this case we want to assert Earth Ascending and Heaven Descending so that Heaven comes to meet Earth and vice versa. But there are other times when we want to assert the opposite, all depending on where we are in relation to whatever matrix we are dealing with. Assuming that we are simulating the natural polarity of the Supernals (with the Yin Pillar on our left and Yang Pillar on our right) if you draw energy down from Crown in a counter-clockwise direction in a full circle so that it both originates from and resolves back into Crown, you will be asserting a Yin-Down / Yang-Up pattern. This is the passive ascend-descend pattern...this is how things normally are *at rest* so to speak. Reverse directions and run the circle clockwise and the opposite occurs, since now you are asserting a Yang-Down / Yin-Up pattern. This is the active ascend-descend pattern. So we need to be free to think in terms of either Heaven or Earth being capable of moving in either direction, depending upon the situation at hand and our placement in relation. This might seem like a petty detail until it is omitted from our conscious thinking. In a case like that we are failing to observe the whole process correctly and this failure will also impact our ability to merge with it effectively. Observation is always half the work involved in Scrying which is always a Passive-Active discipline by its very nature. In traditional Vedic terminology, we want to afford a "right thinking" and a "right action" as much as possible at all times. In truth we can only really take our best shot at this since there are so many things to consider that we cannot afford to presume to be absolutely sure of anything. Even so, some guidelines are inherently more robust than others. This is what the Four Pillars really affords us...a dynamic compass settings that are very nearly numerically invincible. From this we can then proceed to lay in elements with a certain degree of confidence, knowing that even if we get these a little off in terms of their definitions, their exact placement is still within our grasp.

m1thr0s

[m1thr0s]

Sun Kachina

http://abrahadabra.com/images/sun.kachina.jpg

yeah...I've seen them. Don't know too much about them though. Some controversy I was reading recently or something how the art form has been stolen by people who don't even know how to do it right etc...

details are blurry...but they're cool little dudes...very geometric...always seems to me like an interest in geometry has been part of the evolution of our brains or something...cuz it's linked to other stuff like basket weaving and textiles and durable shelters and all of that...weapons for xst sake...just about everything signifying human culture almost...

m1thr0s

[Kain]

rats...my monitor is going out which pretty much sucks for a graphic artist. looks like there was some confusion where some bits were in CMYK and others in RGB...tell me if that looks better please.Looks great...a going out monitor is a pain in the ass indeed...

The Sun Kachina image is very powerful also...
Assuming that we are simulating the natural polarity of the Supernals (with the Yin Pillar on our left and Yang Pillar on our right) if you draw energy down from Crown in a counter-clockwise direction in a full circle so that it both originates from and resolves back into Crown, you will be asserting a Yin-Down / Yang-Up pattern. This is the passive ascend-descend pattern...this is how things normally are *at rest* so to speak. Reverse directions and run the circle clockwise and the opposite occurs, since now you are asserting a Yang-Down / Yin-Up pattern. This is the active ascend-descend pattern. So we need to be free to think in terms of either Heaven or Earth being capable of moving in either direction, depending upon the situation at hand and our placement in relation. Indeed...! Very interesting and potent approach, to be sure.
...always seems to me like an interest in geometry has been part of the evolution of our brains or something...cuz it's linked to other stuff like basket weaving and textiles and durable shelters and all of that...weapons for xst sake...just about everything signifying human culture almost...I've often thought about this myself...geometry certainly plays a very prominent and important role in our mental evolution. It is perhaps one of the most profound and *primal* ways of defining Intellect in any situaton, in my mind at least...perhaps I'm a visual-learner and that about sums it up, although I think there's more to it than this.

Kain

[m1thr0s]

Looks great...a going out monitor is a pain in the ass indeed...yeah...looks like I'll have to double-check code for awhile till I can get it replaced...visual cues are getting useless...

the Sun Kachina isn't mine or anything...just found it someplace...they're nice though...very distinctive style...

m1thr0s

[m1thr0s]

When I started off onto this path of investigation many years ago there were two things that I was especially hoping to find: A comprehensive physics that could ultimately account for every little stitch of mind & matter continuum and a central axiom or kingpin dynamic of some kind that could effectively reduce all of that to the head of a pin, if need be. Why? Look around you...the world exacts such a high price from people in terms of time and energy that no one is ever really going to have that much extra to spend learning how to implement something they cannot even be certain of to begin with. There needs to be a condensed practise of some kind that can effectively incorporate all of it or the whole damn thing is a wash in practical application. No one can motivate from the "big picture" per se...it's just too damn big and much too overwhelming. Only from the infinitely simple can the infinitely complex hope to emerge triumphant, since people need to be able to motivate from within...not from without. They need to be able to take on the "seeds" of these kinds of ideas and try them out on their own initiatives. Only in this way can any greater abundance ever really come into being...so it is the most important test of all (in my view) that any would-be breakthrough metaphysics is capable of meeting both objectives with ease...that it can bowl the mighty over with all the tit-for-tat data they might ever want or need while at the same time provide virtually anybody with simple and powerful tools they can try on at their leisure...without actually losing anything of substance in so doing.

One of the really intriguing things that the whole Mutational Alchemy construct provides is a very simple core dynamic that fans out fractally to incorporate complexities so vast it might take us thousands of years to even tag it all. But we don't have to wait any thousands of years to begin working with the best it has to offer. What we find occurring both in the Abrahadabra matrix as well as the whole elemental enginery of Trigrammaton proper, is that they both revolve around the so-called Qamea of Saturn, also called the First Magic Square, also called the Lo Shu Diagram, also represented in the Tetractys of the Decad and identified across the globe under a variety of names and forms. So it is important to bear in mind when all of this stuff begins to seem just a little too "out there" to ever be relevant to much of anything, that it all reduces to some very powerful and very simple tools we can pick up and run with with very little effort. What all this backgrounding really does is give of us some tangible sense of just exactly how much may actually be riding on these simplified First Principles. It also allows that some of us who may already be ready to push the envelope a step further have some pragmatic where to go...some solid body of data around which to begin exploring the language in greater depth.

Now it happens that Daath is positioned in such a way that it is very much to our advantage to be able to approach it with the utmost possible simplicity...yet anything which is frail or incomplete will not meet with its sterner characteristics. Daath is called the Seat of Knowledge so any half-baked knowledge is going to come crashing down around our ankles in Daath. It is curious to me that Daath has long been associated to Saturn and that Abrahadabra itself provides a means of utilizing the Key of Saturn to calm and manage it. Whatever system you work with, the basic principle of Daath remains about the same...what you need to be able to pull rank on Daath is a well trained Axiom that packs a tremendous punch behind it...big enough to satisfy the Mind itself...big enough to build and maintain entire functional universe. As it happens, this whole mechanism can accomodate just that. To my way of thinking, this is the whole idea behind declaring one's magickal "law" or "word". It's not just the thing in itself but everything lined up, loaded and locked, standing right behind it.

How you fashion that tool is up to you, but this is where the TwinStar really excels from my perspective, since it is one way of asserting all of the above in an incredibly articulate and persuasive manner. But the underlying principle I want to impress is that the Seat of Knowledge is where you want to plant your "governing dynamic", by whatever means you might happen to express it. In terms of Trigrammaton proper, this would almost certainly have to involve asserting the Key of Saturn in some remarkable way. Technically speaking, the TwinStar is not only a Trigrammal Field synthesis...it is all trigrammal fields asserted in one fell swoop...both binary and ternary sides of the equation. That is actually what it really is and is also the more sophisticated reasoning we might have for feeling confident of its abilities. A beginner doesn't have to know this necessarily but a more advanced practitioner does, since what stands behind the Axis is where its power ultimately derives. Whether you use that tool or not is no odds to me personally, but you should at least be aware of what has gone into its construction since anything else you might come up with will need to incorporate the very same kinds of things to be found structurally sound in the full light of Daath.

One should perhaps keep in mind that this whole idea of Daath as some kind of universal garbage disposal is a fairly recent invention and not at all the unified perception of everyone. The tantrics never seemed to have this problem, the Vedas never mention it, the Tibetan Book of the Dead does not address it in this way, Taoism recognizes no such property, even traditional hebrew qaballists dispute it. Yet other philosophies have perceived a Seat of Judgment roughly corresponding to this whole idea of a Great Divide between the Finite and the Infinite as a kind of weighing station where the wheat and the shaft (of the human soul itself) are parted. Sound opinion runs both ways and it is possible that those who are not ready to approach that gate may in fact be better off avoiding it completely. But here in this immediate context I mainly want to suggest a strategy for dealing with Daath that is both (philosophically) flexible and (elementally) exact. If you have some kind of problem with the TwinStar itself, that's fine by me. Insofar as you might be opting to run with Trigrammaton, however, you will want to pay special attention to the Key of Saturn, of which the Tetractys is a direct expression.

m1thr0s

[Naomi]

That mirror in the first post really cleared my sinuses - literally. Probably the most powerful of your mirrors I've viewed.

I posted in the middle of the thread without even seeing the initial post, rudely...oops Now I need a bigger computer monitor to see it better....

Great post on Da'ath too, M, not sure if I understand it all yet, read it three times now, but I LOVE IT!!!

[m1thr0s]

Thanks again Naomi...I have to say it fascinates the hell out of me that you are able to pick up immediately on the meaty bits even if you don't altogether get the lingo... that's a remarkable skill...that's a very rare thing in my experience.

Hopefully with time and enough articles plugging all the little gaps and such, all of this will begin to come together in a more comprehensive picture.... This is actually kind a crazy way to write a book but it has its qualities...

m1thr0s

[Kain]

I will have to agree, I found the post on Daath most engaging...thanks m1thr0s...

Kain

[m1thr0s]

the subject matter is a whole lot bigger than I am...which concerns me a bit sometimes. People will just have to get used to that to some extent...get used to ignoring the "man in the corner" so to speak...he's just a messenger...not the living proof of anything really...that is all embedded in the language itself.

m1thr0s

[MythMath]

So in this case we want to assert Earth Ascending and Heaven Descending so that Heaven comes to meet Earth and vice versa. But there are other times when we want to assert the opposite, all depending on where we are in relation to whatever matrix we are dealing with. Assuming that we are simulating the natural polarity of the Supernals (with the Yin Pillar on our left and Yang Pillar on our right) if you draw energy down from Crown in a counter-clockwise direction in a full circle so that it both originates from and resolves back into Crown, you will be asserting a Yin-Down / Yang-Up pattern. This is the passive ascend-descend pattern...this is how things normally are *at rest* so to speak. Reverse directions and run the circle clockwise and the opposite occurs, since now you are asserting a Yang-Down / Yin-Up pattern. This is the active ascend-descend pattern. So we need to be free to think in terms of either Heaven or Earth being capable of moving in either direction, depending upon the situation at hand and our placement in relation.
The quote reminds me of something I read recently in
Mircea Eliade's A History of Religious Ideas (Vol. 3, pg. 163):

The first phase of Jewish mysticism is characterized by the importance
accorded to the ecstatic ascension up to the Divine Throne, the Merkabah.

The site of the manifestation of divine glory, the World of the Throne,
corresponds for the Jewish mystic to the pleroma (the "plentitude") of the
Gnostic Christians and the Hermeticists. The brief and frequently obscure
texts are called the "Books of the Hekhaloth" (Heavenly Palace").

They describe the rooms and the palace which the visionary passes through
in his journey, before he arrives in the seventh and last hekhal where the
Throne of Glory is found.

The ecstatic journey, known in the beginning as the "ascension to
the Merkabah", was around 500 designated, for unknown reasons,
as "the descent toward the Merkabah".

Paradoxically, the descriptions of the "descent", use metaphors of ascent.

[m1thr0s]

lift & thrust principles of some kind I think MythMath...things just sort of seem to follow that general pattern...

and yes...the whole Merkabah principle is clearly paralleled in all of this...with some important distinctions, however...in Abrahadabra, the Chariot and the Charioteer are one and the same. This is not always so clearly implicated in traditional Merkabah doctrines...

m1thr0s

[MythMath]

Tell us more...?

[m1thr0s]

It's possible that my original readings of the merkabah (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkabah) were limited, in part owing to the lack of any clear specification of its principle at that time. As I scan things now, there appears to be a lot more information available about it, although we still have something very cloaked in mystery and embued with controversy. Since the whole doctrine derives from a very brief passage in the book of Ezekiel, most of anything else which has been defined has been handed down piecemeal from a handful of fairly obscure rabbinical sources...certainly nothing as comprehensive as Trigrammaton in any case.

Some while ago I stumbled upon an image I wound up calling the Smart Bomb (http://www.abrahadabra.com/smartbomb001.htm) due to various associations going on at that time. One of the things this image reveals is a very clear interlocking ascending and descending triangles that manifests internally surrounding Tiphareth on the Tree of Life. It was my original appraisal of this "ghost" image that it met the classic descriptions of the merkabah that I had thus far seen and this was interesting to me in part because it only becomes clearly visible when you interlock 2 Abrahadabra Grids ascending and descending. Yet this structure of itself does not ascend to Ain Soph Aur but primarily manifests through Kether (Crown) on the Tree of Life.

Nothing wrong with this but it would not go the same distance Abrahadabra itself is able to go and seemed to be a better portrayal of the merkabah defined in relation to the whole notion of "god", a notion that has no real value to me personally. In a very pragmatic sense, I am one of those who can state emphatically "there is no god where I am" and even demonstrate why that is and why it serves no useful purpose to belabor this kind of rhetoric.

More current information regarding the merkabah might suggest that limiting the notion of "god" to any form at all inherently belies its actual properties. In a case like this, "god" and "tao" become virtually identical definitions, since here we are mainly employing a convenient term to implicate self-identified intelligence of universe itself...even extending beyond the boundaries (or "form") of universe as we know it. This would also broaden the possibilities for merkabah, logically, as well...since in this case the merkabah is really the vehicle of manifestation itself and not the so-called "chariot of god" per se...

So I am leaving this door open...I don't really know the end result of this kind of analogy for sure. I think it should be explored since I feel like this is a rewarding thing to examine which has roots in the very ancient past...much like the Flower of Life and others. But at the end of the day I refuse to get ditched by the ambiguities inherent in oblique rhetorics from antiquity. I have a vital and urgent technology to explore right here and now and that's where my principal interest lies at all times...

Perhaps these things are the same...perhaps not. It is certainly worth exploring the possibilities, up to a point at least...

m1thr0s

[MythMath]

Perhaps these things are the same...
My instinct suggests a deep connection...

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q48/MythMath/96cellstarsmallnoshadow.jpg
The Merkabah via the Twinstar...

The tris, the pents, the hexs, the stars, the tetracti...

[Naomi]

Sitting here now, with a cup of green tea.

Wanted to say perhaps should put a bigger warning sign on this mirror and also a thumbs up from me...

Because I just had one of the craziest nights of my life....

Cannot even begin to put into words the experience or the level of awesomeness...now I can't even remember all of the great insights I wanted to tell about...oops...probably went into storage for later compression.

Pretty Void right now...should I continue pushing further or rest a bit? Advice?

[Kain]

It's pretty much to take in all at once, especially when you first utilize this mechanism. You will perhaps find that this "too big to take in all at once and articulate" sensation will continue for a very long time, allowing a bit of the puzzle to be correctly and articulably placed each time you have the whole experience. It is so with all profound transcedental mechanisms and assorted experiences I guess...that's why the "having drunk, having drunk, having again drunk" quote of Tantric lore (the one I recently brought up in another thread) is so relevant in such instances.

So I think the best approach is repeated pursuit of the experience until it all settles in your mind as frictionlessly and naturally as possible. Wait and allow it to resurface naturally, don't push premature articulation as it often leads to unnecessary and false crystalizations. I think this is the optimum way to work with approaching experiences of such sheer magnitude.

Kain

[Naomi]

The cloud swirling energy I experience is perhaps manifest by the cloud background, or is this intentional copy of what real experience should look like?

Is the field taking the background and projecting it?

Cloud shaped energy was here for an hour but only during communication as I became comfortable with the energy. Felt headthrob start up again a few minutes after I viewed the mirror. Shocking!!!!!!


Naomi

also offer free art service with MM for M1, did not realize until now it was not understood...nothing urgent though, lolz I get sidetracked, creativity begins again when the headrush stops....x_x

[m1thr0s]

The cloud swirling energy I experience is perhaps manifest by the cloud background, or is this intentional copy of what real experience should look like?

Is the field taking the background and projecting it?sort of a trick really, but a calculated one...the energy called "mezla" (or non-differentiated light energy in lurianic qabbalah) precedes even the Abrahadabra Grid...the Grid is a direct emanation of this energy come into a First-Born Organization but this primal Khaos-before-Khaos actually comes first. It's a curious thing really...no matter how perfect an organization may be...they all get tedious at points and they all have a certain predisposition towards fanaticism and so on. It's a thing we come to acknowledge and tolerate only insofar as our organizational models are capable of folding back into their non-differentiated state without incident. So it's not a trivial visual prop...it's actually an important part of the whole "knowledge & conversation"...

edit: We could wrongly conclude from this that the most enlightened action of all is simply no action, and indeed this philosophy has had its turn at bat many times...but in virtually all cases this simply leads to stagnation. Like it or not, we are coded energy critters and as such have a certain business to complete with respect to organized space & time continuum. The only way to transcend the code is to crack the damn thing in the final analysis...simply pretending it isn't real only accomplishes a false *nothing*. Passive *surrendering* is the ultimate blaspheme against True Self and is no different than a rank Denial in the end. Active surrendering, by way of contrast, involves consciously acting in accordance to our own highest possible standards.

m1thr0s

[Kain]

sort of a trick really, but a calculated one...the energy called "mezla" (or non-differentiated light energy in lurianic qabbalah) precedes even the Abrahadabra Grid...the Grid is a direct emanation of this energy come into a First-Born Organization but this primal Khaos-before-Khaos actually comes first. It's a curious thing really...no matter how perfect an organization may be...they all get tedious at points and they all have a certain predisposition towards fanaticism and so on. It's a thing we come to acknowledge and tolerate only insofar as our organizational models are capable of folding back into their non-differentiated state without incident. So it's not a trivial visual prop...it's actually an important part of the whole "knowledge & conversation"...I think m1thr0s put it perfectly in this paragraph. It is important to remember this part of the whole process, and also actively allow all our formulated constructs to freely retract to this undifferentiated and unmanifest state at will. I also uploaded this (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Goyios/Forum%20stuff/octarine2.jpg) image of undifferentiated energy related to Mezla in a different thread yesterday, I think you may find the pattern relevant Naomi.
We could wrongly conclude from this that the most enlightened action of all is simply no action, and indeed this philosophy has had its turn at bat many times...but in virtually all cases this simply leads to stagnation. Like it or not, we are coded energy critters and as such have a certain business to complete with respect to organized space & time continuum. The only way to transcend the code is to crack the damn thing in the final analysis...simply pretending it isn't real only accomplishes a false *nothing*. Passive *surrendering* is the ultimate blaspheme against True Self and is no different than a rank Denial in the end. Active surrendering, by way of contrast, involves consciously acting in accordance to our own highest possible standards.Masterfully said, I couldn't have described it any better myself. Thanks m1thr0s. Indeed, *Active surrendering* could be said to be the essence of the whole process in a way. Non-action can lead no-where, at least not unless it is preceded by correct action. This is due to the fact that we are part of this moving pattern, not simple spectators of it, and we need to actively hack ourselves out of it in order to be able to "not act" and "tap the unmanifest" freely and successfully. Until the right actions are made to position us in a certain way, non-action only provides us with a different kind of samsaric momentum, not eliminating the momentum per se.

Kain

[Naomi]

So last night, felt that need to lie down again and applied tech.

First I heard the sound Iiiiiii ringing in my left ear again, and using the Vigyan Bhairav teachings I entered the sound. It magnified itself and started to sound more like a thrum. Then I felt the dropping feeling like warm oil on my crown. Then I started feeling waves over my left brain hemisphere - the same feeling as was dropping on my crown. I, didn't have mind to count the number of times it passed over. Felt like I was being petted or something...also I felt this trickling into my forhead and alight in the third eye area.

Then all at once it STOPPED and it felt like someone shot my crown with a warm beam of electricity. No visions up until this point but then I saw a huge sparkling green snake and it began creeping down the beam of energy still shooting into my skull and then crawled through the left side of my brain and down my spine. Let the energy establish a bit then remembered M1's advice to use tree of life to ground and contain the energy, did that. Felt really good. Just spaced out letting the energy seep in for who knows how long. Did not feel much going on down below throat, some twitching on my toe after all this, and felt blockage in my right side, deep inside next to the hip bone. Some slight prickling in abdomen and my right toe twitching. Felt it go into my eyes after crossing them and found myself looking at eyes staring back at me from the blackness behind my eyelids. Siva. Also felt streams of energy going down in the places where cheetahs have marks when playing with my tongue's position on the roof of my mouth.

Energy began to ebb slowly, not much recall as it did this, was too blissed out...decided to go to sleep.

Later observations:

Recognized that I no longer saw division, only emanations, yet only in certain people, others nearly impossible to see one of the triumvirate. In Abrahadabra.com purified state, saw things as they were, Siva energy, destruction of barriers. Also recognized occultforums as Brahma, old creation where I spent time paying service to old systems - Ceremonial Magick, or the Goetia, saw how its destruction was good too. When it got hacked the first time I thought it was good. (as did M1 -very siva-like) Then saw Seijuro forums as Vishnu, with preservation of the old in our service to piecing together Tamagahane (original home) Then saw how we interact....Seijuro very Krsna also Abrahadabra very Siva. Also saw ways to bridge these realities and create a cohesive unit.

also having weird experiences....

did not edit above posts because of this, be gentle...

gotta go lie down again....

[Kain]

Sounds like you're approaching it just fine to me, Naomi...very interesting and timely reflections I think...

Keep pursuing it with the same intensity. Giving it it's space and time while also urging it to continue it's machinations...

Kain

[Naomi]

Ok remember wings I recieved in initial phenomenon? Felt uncomfortable pressure there, quite painful, then more third eye energy, felt the golden cobra seep down over it (forgot to include that in previous post with green serpent), then pain in hara and yoni, then great ecstasy followed by a need to go lie down again. Did so on back with hands on chest crossed tongue up - felt a burning energy encircle my neck, very very light crown activity, then listened to a sound like "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" coming from both sides of my crown. which continued on through the session.

Felt very strong "deadly energy" (forget the Japanese word for this) moving *I perceived* on my right side, felt like a presence there. Began feeling prickling sensations on my right and left legs, also various other activity in knees, front shoulders, ankles armpits and wrists.

Alarm started beeping in my room, noticed energy surging in pulses in and on my eyelids when this began, then started to synch WITH the beeping...wtf...rode with the sound waves though....

kept still during this, then alarm stopped, along with it the disruptive sound waves.

Discomfort in lower abdomen combined with various mostly lower leg sensations, became really intense, but I expanded and allowed it to manifest as suggested. Pain in lower right emerged again but dissapeared with time. Felt a slip of energy from crown go down my spine and into my tailbone and felt like my spine was being pulled down, also energy began flowing up through my internal organs frome xternal source like a circuit was being established. Closed my eyes and crossed them and saw eyes again, different though, than the first pair. Felt icy cold "zig zag" sensations crisscross my right brain hemisphere, continued to do so, then felt a comfortable icy sensation cover the entire right side of my brain, then a different unexplainable but pleasant sensation cover my entire brain.

Also during all experiences had periods where could not feel anything but the energy...no bed no room no anything except sensation and floating. and in this case, of light pressure over whole body as if being immobilized.

Also energy was sentient, could tell it things and ask it things (For instance cat jumped on bed and slept on my feet, told energy to keep it there and not disrupt me. People who remember my OF demon reports will laugh at this, a cat started banging on the door it had gotten itself closed into in the next room furiously, asked for it to please shut up as it was making the energy go batty and it did so swiftly...


Will try to refine this post as my thoughts return to coherent state....I know I am leaving out I's and things on accident...syntax is wrong too...happened about 4 hours ago.

[Naomi]

head throbbing just began again....ooh boy....here we go again...this is normal Kain right?

[Naomi]

I just realized something. Was going over the mirror again, felt immediate response and third eye tingling strongly again.

I just randomly glance over the grid and pick either top or bottom. (looks bad when I view smaller in photoshop wholesize) Should I have purpose and technique or simply glance according to intuition?

Actually have no idea what the grid means except it kinda sorta looks like the tree of life.

[m1thr0s]

I am going to keep pressing forward with viewing the grid everytime crown activity dies down. Please advise if this is not wise...I can say this but I don't know how much it will connect just yet...The Abrahadabra Grid is intelligent...it posseses an intelligence of its own kind...it's not going to attack or do anything stupid to hurt you or put you at risk in any way...it has an agenda of its own kind that is a little hard to define...it is an ancient warrior that has survived down throught the ages and comes now to the defense of valiant stars approaching critical velocity. This is its job...this is what it does for a living...

Should I have purpose and technique or simply glance according to intuition?you should have and do both...if you can only summons one, summons the one you've got to the greater establishing of both...purpose/technique and spontanaety/intuition...

Am I coming across clearly? People are not understanding me on other forums. Am I talking weird?
Clear enough I think...what "most people" really know of these things places easily on a postage stamp. It wasn't always that way and it won't always be that way...but right now...that is often how it is.

m1thr0s

[MythMath]

You act like you've never been totally transformed before... :laugh:

[Anibis]

Wow... That was a very intense burst... Amazing...
-Anibis

[m1thr0s]

I shall have to consider a stronger disclaimer on this one...though I did at least indicate a certain caution. But I have a mandate at this point and these things must go forth without respect to persons. The needle has gone to red and kid gloves come off...everything is as it must be and will be again...it is always encouraging (in a dangerous sort of way) to observe such stuff in action...you must absolutely attend to the little things...like eating and sleeping and breathing...

Wisdom says be strong...then canst thou bear more joy...

m1thr0s

[Kain]

Coming along just fine Naomi...like m1thr0s says, take it gradually. As for the hot/cold temprature crisis episodes, it's perfectly normal. Also, good to hear you got a clear "A" at both sides of Crown, very encouraging...

Your zeal is most inspirational, well done :) (Even though I know full well from myself that once you get a sufficiently clear glimpse of such power, you just don't even consider letting it go for even a break...lol...).

EDIT NOTE: By the way, the sweating is also very encouraging and expected, the armpits being usually the dominant place it hits (and often the only one).
you kundalini types always amaze me...I'd have to eat about 5lbs of mescaline buttons to get this kind of action and some people can get there at a glance!

okeedokee...not gonna get all jealous and shit...Lol...you know, Naomi's effects are pretty much identical to my own early crisis episodes with such surges etc . For some reason, intensity has never been something I had to strive very much for. My back scars would also account for that. Handling that intensity correctly, now that has taken *so* much practice and time and I'm not even halfway with that thing...

Naomi is a good example of the sheer strength of this mirror I think. It's power is quite awe-inspiring...my favorite so far, hands down...hehe...

Kain

[m1thr0s]

Naomi is a good example of the sheer strength of this mirror I think. It's power is quite awe-inspiring...my favorite so far, hands down...hehe...That's really very interesting to me since it's one of the ones I usually tend to withhold. Also, technically, it's only half a mirror, although it can be confidently asserted that the so-called P'an Ku arrangement is the dominant one with respect to the Tree of Life itself. This is because of how the energy flows in the P'an Ku, which is a Descending Heaven arrangement, just as the Tree itself is. But...just like the TwinStar, the TwinSerpents and so on, The TwinTree arrangement is ultimately the final tally on this one, as indicated in the numbers...

http://abrahadabra.com/images/treefields004.jpg

note: if we include the two "hidden" or special circumstance fields in Daath, which I have indicated should always be some direct expression of the Key of Saturn, we get a Grand Total of 66 proper fields...incidentally the exact same number of points in Abrahadabra from top to bottom...

m1thr0s

[Kain]

Great mirror, thanks! Much appreciated addition, even though I know that for the Tree of Life at least, the P'an Ku remains the most immediately relevant. note: if we include the two "hidden" or special circumstance fields in Daath, which I have indicated should always be some direct expression of the Key of Saturn, we get a Grand Total of 66 proper fields...incidentally the exact same number of points in Abrahadabra from top to bottom...I love such subtle synchronicities...hehe...

Kain

[m1thr0s]

well...I am a little embarrassed to report that even after all the time I have put into things, I have only fairly recently realized just how important the Nu Kua (Earth Ascending) Arrangement is...so you guys are getting the blow-by-blow from me...which means you'll want to really scrutinize the tally (and do let me know if you find something glaringly incorrect please)... So I have literally years in with the P'an Ku...it actually needed the work the most anyway and still shines through as the preeminent dominant (Yang) arrangement. But the numbers themselves finally convinced me that I need to be juggling both arrangements as one...that it's actually not quite enough to be pairing yins & yangs in the P'an Ku alone. This makes so much sense now that I finally see it...I could just kick myself that it took so long to formalize. In my defense though, I am a meticulous researcher and don't assert these radical universal rebuilds anywhere near as lightly as it may seem. I routinely force things to force their way to the top and indeed...the method works...sooner or later...

Anyway...careful with that Yin...she's a loaded pistol and might not be 100% trained in just yet...all her parts are there though and the basic logic is well intact...and in any case, the TwinStar still steers it all as it does also make repairs as needed...do I sound just a tad proud of my magickal child? rofl...what can I say...kid's a godamm genius...

m1thr0s

[Kain]

Anyway...careful with that Yin...she's a loaded pistol and might not be 100% trained in just yet...all her parts are there though and the basic logic is well intact...You know m1thr0s, it took me so much scrutiny to even understand how the 'Yin Ascending' motion could even be practically possible at first. Much doubt, much repeated experimentation...it was less aparent for me since I was working with less directly arithmetically provable variables. I was eventually convinced though about the 'passive Shiva' and 'active Shakti' way of looking at things...and also eventually accepted this logic as equally important with the Taoist approach, and even necessary to be integrated in a parallel fashion. It is very interesting to look at the numbers of it...

Kain

[m1thr0s]

The numbers are fierce Kain...if we don't adjust them now, how the hell are we ever going to equilibrate (or negate) them later is my general feeling...the chronological progressions are fairly self-evident (though we must necessarily continually challenge them I think). The Four Pillars are essentially adamant on this point... It's a whole Universe Ascending and another whole Universe Descending...godammit...handsome sob if I do say so myself. Afterall...I didn't invent the physics...

m1thr0s

[Kain]

may I suggest putting this material in the magickal diaries (http://forums.abrahadabra.com/showthread.php?t=1214) thread?Yes, good point, it seems like the appropriate place for it...

Kain

[Darin Hamel]

I hope you dont mind me jumping in here as my first post. I have read the entire thread though.

From the first post: (3a) It should be observed that one of our greatest hindrances to aligning Paths to Hexagrams has always been the general failure of the Tree of Life Paths and Sepheroth to adhere to any kind of proper chronological order.

In my experience it goes chronological if you follow the lightening path. You can plot out the Holy Grail quest by Percival on it by his ages. Plus as a side note the ten spheres and ten paths between them can be attributed to the 20 mysteries of the Rosary too.

Perhaps the larger tree that you initially posted (brilliant btw) is the cosmic tree and the smaller trees inscribed by the lightening path are trees of the individual? Could be also the very nature of its Sacred Geometric pattern allows it to fit almost any idea.

[m1thr0s]

Thanks Darin. This a public forum (the same as the others) at least for now, so you needn't worry about jumping in.

Certainly the lightning rods qualify chronology at the level of the sepheroth, but typically do not account for all the paths. Do you happen to have some visual example on hand that demonstrates how all the paths are accounted for by this system?

m1thr0s

[Darin Hamel]

Thanks Darin. This a public forum (the same as the others) at least for now, so you needn't worry about jumping in.

Certainly the lightning rods qualify chronology at the level of the sepheroth, but typically do not account for all the paths. Do you happen to have some visual example on hand that demonstrates how all the paths are accounted for by this system?

m1thr0s