The jewish cabala equivalent to tao (dao)

[Nungali]

The ten sfirot are human trait.

Keter is Hebrew for king crown representing will power.

Hohma is Hebrew for wisdom.

Bina is reason in Hebrew. And so on.

 

 

This is not the QBL I am familiar with.    I would not call 'Bina' 'reason'   nor spell it that way  ... nor  spell Hohma  ... is this Lurian ... or confusion or ....  ? 

[ralis]

My main use of that scheme lies in assigning hexagrams to the Court Cards of the Tarot, as described in the Book of Thoth, which can be downloaded here:

 

http://keychests.com/item.php?v=zuygcpnchav

 

For exploring these connections, I started a thread entitled "The Court Cards and the I Ching" on Aeclectic Tarot last year:

 

http://tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=226380

 

I am planning to go further into the topic on my blog (link on the bottom of this post), so if you are interested in this, be free to subscribe as not to miss out on those posts.

 

One could also think of using Crowley's scheme for performing the Golden Dawn's Middle Pillar exercise, substituting the trigrams for the sephiroth.

 

Hope this helps.

 

I have a text with the writings of Abraham Abulafia which includes many practices. Also Aryeh Kaplan's Sefer Yetzirah which is very interesting and includes many practices.

[Michael Sternbach]

I have a text with the writings of Abraham Abulafia which includes many practices. Also Aryeh Kaplan's Sefer Yetzirah which is very interesting and includes many practices.

 

Sounds interesting. Kaplan's book is on my reading list since some time. What is the book with the Abraham Abulafia writings called?

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[noonespecial]

Great thread guys!

 

Properly understood, practiced, and interated the Qabalah should lead to equilibrium in the body and psyche of the practioner, a type of wu wei is the desired result. The Tree of Life diagram helps chart what is taking place, it really is quite brilliant, but it should be remebered, the Tree of Life IS NOT the Qabalah, Qabalah means to receive, so the question remains, receive what from who...that is for the practioner to discover, the Rabbis call it Mezla, the Hermeticists call it Lux, the Daoists call it Qi

 

Sounds interesting. Kaplan's book is on my reading list since some time. What is the book with the Abraham Abulafia writings called?

 

There are a couple of chapters on Abulafia, including practical meditations (vowel permutations/head movements) in Kaplan's other book.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Meditation-Kabbalah-Aryeh-Kaplan/dp/0877286167

 

I believe his SY also has some of Abulafia's permutations, but I'm too lazy to go to the bookshelf right now.

[ralis]

Sounds interesting. Kaplan's book is on my reading list since some time. What is the book with the Abraham Abulafia writings called?

 

Here is the link to Moshe Idel's extensive work on Abulafia.

 

 

https://archive.org/stream/AbrahamAbulafiaAStarterKit/Moshe-Idel-The-Mystical-Experience-in-Abraham-Abulafia_djvu.txt

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[ralis]

 Moshe Idel on Abraham Abulafia. 

 

https://www.scribd.com/doc/151236207/Moshe-Idel-the-Mystical-Experience-in-Abraham-Abulafia

 

Breath meditation of Abulafia. This meditation is similar to some of the Dzogchen Semzin meditations.

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/47222633@N05/6813922368

 

http://www.amazon.com/Abraham-Abulafia-Meditations-Divine-ebook/dp/B003YUCR1S

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[Nungali]

Nungali ,I am trying the best to translate sfirot name from Hebrew to english.

Hohema means wisdom,bina means reason. According to interpretation hohema represent wright side of brain,bina the left side. In cabala the right side is yang,the left side is yin.

 

I am familiar with interpreting Sephiroth titles into English ... I am just not familiar with the way you are doing it, and your spelling and language. 

 

'According to interpretation ' ... what or whose interpretation ? 

 

 Are you a Hebrew speaker ? Are you going off modern or ancient? 

 

What is the source of  'bina' being reason ?  I spell it BInah;   beth yod nun he,    and comprehend  the sephiroth title's name  as 'understanding.   Which is totally different from intelligence or reason (as some refer to it ).. 

 

So I am not sure if this is literal,  modern Hebrew, some variant of kabblah or  your own version ( alone or of the variant ) ? 

 

And this left and right side of the brain attribution ... is that based on Zohar , or what is the reference?  I thought this mapping of the ToL on the human body was a Golden Dawn Innovation that has been picked up by 'New Age Kabbalists' ?

[Nungali]

Luria cabala was written by his disypel haim vital and his son arrange it in the book : 8 gates. The first gate:gate of introduction,contain lurian metaphysical theory.

Very few of Hebrew speaking,can understand it,so most are reading interpretation English most cabala is based on rabi ashlag interpretation. Ashlag cabala fail to understand that when or ein sof is going in a vessel it doesn't come out the same,(when light go throw a green filter it become green)

 

Well, I have no idea whether I am an ' Ashlager'  Kabbalist or not      ... but any and all kabbalah I have studied  never  gave me the impression that the energy coming out of a sephiroth was the same energy as went in (if that is what you mean) ... I mean, that would defeat the whole purpose of having  sephiroth/s in the first place. 

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[noonespecial]

There is a neoplatonic influence on cabala,it is in the concept of the 4 worlds

(From the most spiritual down to the material) . the worlds are: aziluth, briah, yezira, asiya .Luria didn't describe the worlds in his system, but it can be understood. Ein sof is aziluth, briah is adam kadmon, yezira is the system of sefirot in the arrangement of 5 faces ( most of Luria writing is about this) ,and asiya which is the material world.

 

I thought AK was considered it's own world above the other 4, the 5 world system?

[noonespecial]

Yes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Worlds

 

1. Adam Kadmon (A"K, אָדָם קַדְמוֹן) meaning Primordial Man. The anthropomorphic metaphor "Adam" denotes the Yosher (Upright) configuration of the sephirot in the form of Man, though not yet manifest. "Kadmon" signifies "primary of all primaries", the first pristine emanation, still united with the Ein Sof. Adam Kadmon is the realm of Keter Elyon (Supernal Crown of Will), "the lucid and luminous light" (Tzachtzachot), "the pure lucid sephirot which are concealed and hidden" in potential. Containing the future emergence of Creation, it is Divine light with no vessels, the manifestation of the specific Divine plan for Existence, within Creation (after the Tzimtzum in Lurianic Kabbalah). In Lurianism, the lights from A"K precipitate Tohu and Tikun. As Keter is elevated above the sephirot, so Adam Kadmon is supreme above the Worlds, and generally only Four Worlds are referred to.

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[noonespecial]

So, wiki said.

Keter is the 1 of 10 sefirot.

Adam kadmon is not keter.

Wiki mix rabi cordevero cabala(tzachtzachot), with lurian cabala.

Nothing is above 4 worlds.

 

Well...Ain Sof is 'above' the four worlds for starters, likewise within Ain Sof lay the hidden nature of the Three Mother letters somehow arousing emanation, anyhow, if we are depending upon authority in the issue, Aryeh Kaplan says as much in Inner Space, the world of AK is the upper tip of the Yod, the hidden 5th world, God's Will as the interface between the Sefirot and Ain Sof, Ha-Rishon, the first garment, which parellels the Yechidah portion of the human soul and he also provides many variations of the theme from numerous sages.

 

FYI - you can believe whatever you want, it's no skin off my back, I'm just relaying the consensus view, of course different schools use different systems of classification. I myself hold my own interpretation.

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[noonespecial]

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