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To: alt.magick From: paulhume@my-deja.com Subject: Re: which qabalistic tree? Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 06:00:48 GMT > The Qabalistic system that I know is based on Wescott's translation of > the Sepher Yetzirah and I excepted it in my heart. I recently purchased > a copy of Kaplan's translation. Much to my suprise, I discovered a > major difference in the placement of the Hebrew letters on the Tree. > > Kaplan's version sure does explain the concept of Mother letters more > clearly. Shin above, Mem below, and Aleph as the mediator. There are numerous models of the Tree, both in the Judaic Qabala and its bastard offshoot that we all know and love, the Hermetic Qabala. Within Hermetic, for example, you have the Tree used in the GD, based on a design first found in the writings of Athanasius Kircher, you have the variations in Trump placement Crowley experimented with to resolve the "tzaddi is not the Star" verse in Liber AL, you have Charles Stansfield Jones' "inversion" of the Paths (which still derives from the Kircher Tree). And I was just re-reading a study by Robert Stewart which disposes the Trumps along the Paths based on a magical study of a mediaeval mystical prose/verse piece. In Judaic Qabala you have the Zoharic version of the Tree, which is similar to the Kircher, the symmetrical Tree proposed by Luria, and on which Kaplan builds, and other approaches. Each model explicates a particular view of the Universe prpounded by the qabalist or school of thought which uses it, and each has great utility. One analogy I've always found useful was a reference (Ben Rowe's maybe) to the Tree as a circuit diagram, so that these different layouts are useful (to the irredeemably what-is-it-good-for types like me) in different roles, for different ends. Paul Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.
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