Does anyone here have any tales of the Merkaba...?
I do, though I always found Melchizedech to be off-puttingly flaky. This may simply be translated into my being a grouch who has spent too much time in academic philosophy.

In any account however I have contemplated this figure alot. Clearly one can take a layout such as the abrahadabra grid and consider it as a 'side' of a given tetrahedron. The various excercises and such that m1thr0s gives (or that one may design oneself, considering these techniques) are pretty solid material for constructing such tetrahedri. then it's just a matter of counterspining two of them. Sounds basically like a 3-d version of the effect of putting two opposite trangular grids together to form a Magen star("Star of David")... So, the no brainer is that the Merkaba is a 3rd dimensional Magen star ! okay.

The historical Merkabi, not to be confused with Drunvalo's methods, were vehicles or chariots built, as far as I can tell, out of the names of God. While I am no expert on these matters, am told that the Sepher Yetzirah is basically an instruction manual for the construction of such a chariot. "Merkabah Mysticism" was Proto-Qabalistic Hebrew mysticism which flourished in the first Millenium of the Christianized Era. The mystics would build these chariots and then use them to explore altered states of being, traveling through 7 heavens called Hechalot... the objective was to witness God seated upon his throne. DOC HOLIDAY is the man to tell us about this in more detail, I suspect...
In any account we can also link the Merkabah to the Tarot trump, the Chariot (for obvious reasons). This gives us so many options it would be impossible to play them all out in this post. Firstly we should notice that as the 7th trump, it draws our attention to the Magen star again: 6 points and a centre. Moreover, since it is associated to 8, through 'Cheth' (which can be expanded to 418 easily, since Cheth, by Hebrew Gematria= Ch+I+Th, or 8+10+400) it is linked to the octahedron, which Mythmath mentioned (Please mythmath, show me how I can extend the sides of the octahedron to produce the two interlaced tetrahedri, I'm not seeing it completely).

The Octahedron can do tons of stuff. It was the first figure I really got into. I generally would build it by conjoining an upwards and a downwards pentacle (which have been rendered as pyramids), though now I simply build it by interlacing two twinstars (which actually produces a sideways Octahedron). One of the coolest things about it is that you can actually map the entire tarot of 22 trumps onto it. This is only one of the countless ways that 22 is related to 418, but it is a powerful one. I know I have mentioned it alot, but in this respect, have another look at the Abrahadabra Key, since it is the powerhouse of my work.Here are the two methods:





I will leave off the specifics of the Trump attributions for this post, but basically, check out all the points and lines on the constructed octahedron. There are 7 points, and 15 lines. The points correspond to teh Hebrew 'double' letters and I attribute them as per the central Hexagram on the Tree of life. The lines are divides as follows. There are 3 inside the figure, which correspond to the mother letters (this includes the axis of the Octahedron, which while it does not get automatically generated by the pyramid method(you gotta just assume it), does indeed if you use the TwinStar). There are also twelve outer lines, which correspond to the simple letters (the Zodiac). Conveniently these are grouped into three sets: those which rise to the Zenith, those which hold the central square, and those which descend towards the Nadir. These divide along the same lines as the cardinal, mutable and fixed signs.

It's neat also that the TwinStar method actually encloses this octahedron inside a magen star: is this perhaps a way of rendering the Stella Octangulata?

Well, that's it for now...
-Ibisis-