> Ok...
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> I'm also saying thje tree as a whole is an emanation.....thus we'dd have 11 (2 er emanations.......(cue someone quoting the sefer yetziirah)
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> arguably the fool of course can go anywhere....
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I meant to expand on my understanding of the paths and the lack of them in the model i offered, but i forgot to do so.

However, to correct that oversight, i conceptualize 0 as a symbol for both (in some irrational way) the centre/core of my own being and the Universe as a whole.

An multi-omni-inter-dimensional Mobius strip of one many all is about as good as i can describe it in words.

And the stages of this as symbolized by the paths of the TOL can just as easily be illustrated by the lack of them:)

In so far as we postulate 10 concentric spheres, we delineate a difference and distinction between them, thus, like the spaces between the musical notes the "spaces" between the sphere produce the music of them:)

Are implied rather than explicit and are more spherical, nested one inside the other than they are lineal and proceeding in straight or curved lines and rather more like radiation emanating multi directionally, as well as receiving multi dimensional influence form all around and both inside and out?

> the modern image that is associated with hermetic kabbalah is associated with Kircher.....of course as a christian cleric, and if we do some digging...the association of kircher is garbage...
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> The best argument I have seen for the paths is sacred geommetry...and the flower of life
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Esoteric Anatomy.

> the tree can be modelled in many ways....the kircher glyph as am sure you know...is really quite modern
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If by Kircher glyph you mean....

http://img04.ti-da.net/usr/kukururagu/Tree_of_life_kircher_hebrew.png

12-1300's c.e. iirc, previous to that the so called "tree of life" or QBL diagram was 10 concentric spheres with various names/attributes inscribed between each ring of the nested spheres. Is zero kether as the mathematical point or is zero behind kether as ain soph aur and Kether as #1 is the central, core sphere. Or is Kether the mathematical point, central core sphere 0. And Chokmah while labelled number 2 is really most peoples #1 or first sphere. There is a necessarily recognizable ambiguity in it all that i despair of ever doing justice to in any descriptive form attempting to explain it all. Something distinctly irrational that is only attempted to be explained by Daath.

The earliest forms of the so called Kircher TOL have differing mapping for the paths than the modern versions. Which i have had explained to me as like trying to open up the nested spheres and demonstrate in a more lineal manner the transmission or evolution of something from nothing, i find it easier to think of the nested spheres than the extended TOL of the Kiercher glyph.

My experience of the phenomena as an example of esoteric anatomy does not qualify me to suggest even an opinion on the efficacy of either approach. I know less about one than i do the other:)

And the experiential aspect i mentioned is based on my own perceptions of my own awareness, which is ordinary in the extreme, and biased in favour of its own existence, even when its comfortable contemplating its own illusory nature.

A passing, transient, ephemeral phenomena not unlike a twig momentarily held motionless in a turbulent stream of water, a brief, accidental interlude of mutual contending forces producing, seemingly, a cessation of motion, a transcendental stillness.

In so far as a body in motion will remain in motion & etc. how is it we come to have reports of these twigs held steady by the perfectly balanced currents of water? Of course, unlike the ancient natural philosophers, we cant remove the specific from the general. No matter how still the individual twig in its individual stream may be it is still whirling madly through the universe, the momentary stillness of any particular twig is just an illusion.
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JL