Kabbalah is reception in hebrew

[LAOLONG]

The word קבלה (kabbalah) means

reception in hebrew.

It  correspondent  with hexagram 2

In the I ching ,the receptive

http://www2.unipr.it/~deyoung/I_Ching_Wilhelm_Translation.html#2

 

Edited May 25, 2018 by ONE

[Nungali]

Yes, its a system of teaching   and it means ' to receive'   or     Kabbalah means   'to learn' .... to receive the teachings .

 

 

[Boundlesscostfairy]

Well branches can not always be empty.. they stick out grow and change

 

Which is best represented as the book of changes..equaling the Tree of life..Which has glyphs on it..engineered symbols...to teach the meaning of existence..in prose and professional match ups..

[Nungali]

13 hours ago, Boundlesscostfairy said:

Well branches can not always be empty.. they stick out grow and change

 

Which is best represented as the book of changes..equaling the Tree of life..Which has glyphs on it..engineered symbols...to teach the meaning of existence..in prose and professional match ups..

 

What glyphs  or symbols are on the Tree of Life ?

[Michael Sternbach]

14 minutes ago, Nungali said:

 

What glyphs  or symbols are on the Tree of Life ?

 

Seriously? Alright then...

 

 

 

 

And in accordance with the 3+1 principle, let me add this gem:

 

 

[Boundlesscostfairy]

Thats perfect in every way.. but is only hebrew glyphs..

 

You can fit in any glyphs you want on the tree..

 

Just make sure you put a symbol in the right place!

[Boundlesscostfairy]

They say its your tree to build and share.. Hence the meaning of giving and receiving.

[Nungali]

22 hours ago, Michael Sternbach said:

 

Seriously? Alright then...

 

 

 

 

And in accordance with the 3+1 principle, let me add this gem:

 

 

 

Ohhhh......  he meant the glyphs and symbols people write on or attribute to the Sephira   of the Tree of Life .

 

That last image is pretty cool !

 

19 hours ago, Boundlesscostfairy said:

Thats perfect in every way.. but is only hebrew glyphs..

 

You can fit in any glyphs you want on the tree..

 

Just make sure you put a symbol in the right place!

 

 

Ah !  I think I get you now, you are talking about using the tree of Life as a classification system for  anything .  Yes, that can work if the units are attributed to the right sector of the whole .

 

Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi   (  Warren Kenton ) has written some good examples of that ....  eg, how a car works according to ToL    

 

Kenton is a popular author on kabbalah;

 

"

when talking of the tension between Tradition and Modernism:

This dilemma is captured in ancient notions of balance and harmony; notions that are, for example, expressed in many guises in that wonderful Kabbalistic diagram of the Tree of Life. As the Temenos Fellow, Warren Kenton, so beautifully explains in his lectures to the students of the Academy, the teaching of the Tree of Life is that the "active" and the "passive" aspects of life, which on their own may lead to imbalance and disharmony, must be, can only be, brought together in harmony by the influx into our lives of the Divine and the Sacred. Whether or not we interpret this image as an explanation of an outer or an inner orientation, it is in this way, and only in this way, that the forces, or characteristics, of expansion and constraint can be brought into balance "     

           

- Charles, Prince of Wales.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z'ev_ben_Shimon_Halevi

 

Edited May 29, 2018 by Nungali

[Boundlesscostfairy]

Right now I'm curious about how astrology relates to Kabbalah...

 

Maybe the paths can illuminate the nature of constellations and their input as astrological beacons..

[Nungali]

This depends on whether we are talking traditional Kabbalah or hermetic Kabbalah.

 

There is a traditional association via Sepher Yetzirah via the 'cube of space' concept that is generated from the Hebrew Alphabet

 

 

(3 / 4  manifestation again  )

 

But 'modern' hermetic Kabbalah has attributed a wealth of associations to the ToL , many that   traditional  Judaistic kabbalists would scorn, like attributing the Tarot to the Tol.    In this system the pathways between Sephiroth have astrological associations (as in the diagrams in Michael's post )  - there are more than one system of attribution though.

 

For 'straight'  Hebrew astrology  - Mazzaroth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_views_on_astrology

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Edited May 31, 2018 by Nungali

[Boundlesscostfairy]

Cool,

 

So do you think research and study branch off and go in different directions than the tree of life..

 

Or do you think that the Kabbalah is the be all and end all.. meaning everything relates to the tree of life in and out?

[Nungali]

1 hour ago, Boundlesscostfairy said:

Cool,

 

 

1 hour ago, Boundlesscostfairy said:

 

So do you think research and study branch off and go in different directions than the tree of life..

 

Of course . For a start there is the supreme science  ( research, study, etc. )  of  anthropology.  

 

1 hour ago, Boundlesscostfairy said:

 

Or do you think that the Kabbalah is the be all and end all.. meaning everything relates to the tree of life in and out?

 

 

A 'good kabbalist' can   .... somehow ....    relate everything to the Tree of Life     

[Boundlesscostfairy]

Hmmm, that's an amazing Tree of Life that knows everything!

 

When do you think Good and Evil.. cross on the Tree..

 

I know in Kabbalistic terms it might be da'at.. but Im still unsure what that means..

 

I guess it's kind of like and on and off switch..

 

Also I believe in your new science.. but its amazing to be able to relate everything in existence via ten sephiroth..