#cabalah

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Great Resource: the City University of New York’s Occult Library online.

Alchemy – Digital Occult Library

All images sourced from CUNY Digital Occult Library

Top Left: Dragon eating its own tail; Top Right: Alchemists at work; Bottom: Kabbalah Tree of Life’s 10 Sephiroth

[scogito]

L' Arcano 13, altrimenti detto Morte, è associato alla lettera ebraica Mem, che significa Matrice.

Matrice a sua volta significa utero.

Mem esprime anche il concetto di acqua, di sorgente e di ventre. In assonanza puoi certamente sentire l'eco Mem..mamma..madre.

Eppure nella storia è diventato l'Arcano Morte, o addirittura l'Innominato.

Studiare gli Archetipi può non essere la verità, ma una cosa mettono bene in chiaro: tutto in questo Sistema è femminile, e funziona al contrario di come ti hanno detto.

(PS. So che la Morte negli Arcani porta il concetto di trasformazione, tuttavia a livello inconscio, un conto è parlare di sorgente di vita, un altro è dire morte. Specialmente in un'umanità che la teme già a 12 anni).

[danielginerman]

¡Libros! ¡Libros! Más Allá de la Imposición, el Anhelo: 7 MUJERES PROFETAS Mañana Domingo en Zoom, a las 19 horas de Israel, gala de presentación apenas unos minutos antes de que salga a distribución el vol.4 de nuestros Cuadernos de la Comunidad de Torah (aún puedes conseguir tu ejemplar a precio de pre-venta: https://gum.co/7Mujeres/preventa ) Te espero en Zoom - Meeting ID: 266 760 4198 - Passcode: 610616 Más Allá de la Imposición, el Anhelo: 7 MUJERES PROFETAS Índice del libro. El haz de luz de mi linterna se dibuja en un trazo como éste: Preámbulo a un Viaje de Placer y Dolor: 1 La Plasticidad del Tiempo en la Torah 2 La Plasticidad del Sentido 3 ¿Sólo 7? Desde lo Femenino que hay en Tí Jésed - Sarah: Porque buena, ve, y por bien hacer con lo que ve, se ve bien y da vida. Guevurah - Miriám: Las apariencias no la disuadirán de hacer lo que debe ser TifEret - Devorah: Desear el deseo divino y Bienhacer Nétsaj - Janah: La profecía que mana de lo más hondo de la plegaria El Grifo que sólo un Grito del Alma sabe Abrir Janah, igual que Reb Moishe, cae en la trampa bendita que va a liberar su suerte Hod - Avigáil: Ver lo que viene naciendo, y tomar decisiones proféticas Iesód - Juldah: desde la intimidad con lo invisible, desde la conciencia simple del Uno, es natural ser profeta Maljút - Estér: Allende las palabras, Acción profética. Ser cómplice del Creador en una parodia que salva vidas Tevunah - Siete, para llegar a Ocho. Sólo para llegar a Ocho, que es casi haber retornado al Uno #Libros #librosdigitales #mujeresnotables #sefirot #cabalah #AbracaAdabra #seré_amor #revisar_todos_los_cuentos #shalom (en אמירים Amirim) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSSnswhjSzP/?utm_medium=tumblr

[antimonywolf]

If you are interested in the Cabalah (whichever way you prefer to spell it), tarot, gematria, the phi principle, the golden ratio, Fibonacci numbers, and Jewish mysticism, I think this book would be a good start. As the title states, this is a primer. It's easy to read/understand with a lot of illustrations and examples. Even though written at an introduction-level of detail, I still found some of the information enlightening.

Originally published in 1984, this reprint was published in 2001 by DeVorss and Company, California.

Cover design by Alan Bernstein.

[aurora-dorada]

Los cuatro mundos cabalísticos y correspondencias #cabalah #qabalah #kabbalah https://www.instagram.com/p/B3QJaZ7D0kJ/?igshid=1o9zgbp8pkni6

[phoenix-horineko]

Spreading ways to understanding

I once explained my ideas about spirituality to someone with an analogy of climbing a mountain.  Divinity isn’t at the top of the mountain:  it IS the mountain.  Understanding is at the top.  The roads to the top are numerous, and some of them intertwine, branch off of one another, lead off a cliff (Lookin at you Charlie Manson), etc.  Few of them are solitary roads.  And most paths are easier to follow when you have company.  

  Right now, i live isolated from other witches and like-minded occultists.  The interwebs is pretty much all I have in the way of community.  I found a forum on tumblr I thought would be really welcoming, but you have to have moderator approval to become a member.  To do this, you have to submit the answers to a list of questions about yourself.  

Now, I was raised Wiccan and my grew up learning ceremonial magick, but my family heritage is Catholic/Episcopalean.  So, i’m currently studying the roots of wiccan/ european magickal traditions - including Kabbalah and the new and old testaments.  So i put, “amateur kabbalist” on my list of things i’m into.  I am not Jewish by heritage and haven’t converted to anything (yet?), nor am i by any means an expert.  I’m just a spiritual seeker trying to learn.

This moderator who is Jewish contacts me about my intro.  (Moderator=pronouns?) grills me about my heritage, and when she finds out that I am not an officially converted jewish person, Xtells me that the” literacy required even superficially is only available to Jews”.  (Moderator) goes on to say that hermeticists and OTA people are all false and have appropriated Cabala, and that no one is allowed to study Kabbalah if they are not officially Jewish.  Other paths are not valid because, quote, “that path is not based in truth” and it “requires a spiritual maturity to fully accept G_d”.

The logical extension of this reasoning equates to:

 Christianity, Wicca and all forms of witchcraft based on ceremonial magick, OTA and the knights templar, Hoodoo, Voodoo, The 12 step program,and modern psychology, and every religious or spiritual group or individual who has been influenced by kabbalistic teachings but is not officially Jewish is culturally appropriative, not based in truth,and is not spiritually mature.  This is supposed to be a forum for WITCHES!!!!   

Now let me say this for myself:

Kabbalah IS based in Judaic tradition.  It is the interpretation of the old testament.  If I am not Jewish , I guess I can see how calling myself a cabalist may be offensive to a Jewish person, since they invented it after all.  I will never call myself a cabalist again, if this is the case. While i’m currently studying the tree of life, I don’t celebrate Jewish holidays or make any pretenses about being a full-fledged kabbalist, anyway. . I suffer from my own brands .of oligarchical Otherness, and the idea that I would hurt someone else by appropriation is incredibly painful. To be accused of violating my own ethics makes me stop in my tracks.   

   This system of magic, however, is also a living part of Christian mystic heritage as well as the foundation of all Western occult practices. It never occured to me anyone would have a problem with this because the histories of Christianity, Euro-Paganism, Judaism, etc are so closely intertwined and connected.  I’m sorry, but to say I am wrong  for studyingsomething as foundational to Western culture as  kabbalah and hermetic philosophy is folly.  Also requiring someone to commit to an orthodox religion BEFORE they understand what it’s about is ludicrous.  

Also it begs the question - Am i supposed to forbid myself from growing spiritually with something that rings true to my soul because i refuse to bind myself to only one religious tradition? 

This moderator then said, as “a test of ethics”:,  you will either say that Kabballah is only Jewish, admitting your beliefs are stolen and false, or you will be barred from the forum (a community of witches whose ceremonies are mostly all derived from Hermetic Philosophy)  This person wasn’t asking me to think seriously about labels and appropriation.  This person was commanding me to declare my beliefs false, and their own beliefs morally superior. This is the opposite of enlightenment.  Insulting and belittling a person’s spiritual experience because you think you are doing it the “right”, socially sanctified way, and lording access to a communal space to a person because they don’t believe what you believe is bigotry.  

I don’t believe there is only one true path up the mountain of spirituality towards grace.  The roads are many, and many are tried and true.  But if you are a serious pilgrim, you may try the path of kindness and acceptance over Ego.  Because whatever path you walk, kindness is always the direction that leads towards Understanding.  

[have-no-reason]

[triste-le-roy]

Cover to Aryeh Kaplan’s Meditation and Kabbalah—containing reprinted works of Abraham Abulafia and other Jewish holy texts (art by Bima Stagg, design by unknown, 1982).

(via Scribd)