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KARMIC FRAME ONE: SOME CLASSICALLY EXPRESSED ROOT PATTERNS, USEFUL IN MYSTICAL & CONCEPTUAL THINKING7. The Meaning of Meaning and Do We Watch What Our Mind Does?
REMNANTS OF THE PREHISTORIC IDENTIFICATION IN SAMENESS OF THE FEMALE VAGINA AND THE UNIVERSE AND THE FEMALE:
8. LAO TSU, THE TAO, AND EXPRESSING THE INFINITE LIFE FORCES OF THE VAGINA
The Dao is infinite and cannot be fully expressed in word or symbol. Time is often thought of as an analog condition of the Past as an entity moving further and further away from us and considered "finished", "a remembrance of things which had existed but are now gone, and the Future as an entity moving further and further away from us and into an analog condition called "not yet begun", "not considered at all, and and an unknown time so far away from us that it is either "not yet begun" and/or (in an infinited system) "never to be begun".
This viewpoint can be very depressing. Also, this viewpoint separates us from much of our own internal functions (esoteric, mental, and physical) both as "individuals" and as "group". This simple belief structure has influenced the human race in an unproductive manner for perhaps approximately 150,000 years or more. If there is an such things as Original Sin, Original Error, or Primal Error, then, it is this belief. It is a belief unproven and unuseful. It is a belief which few wish to challenge.
The predominant Chinese cultural view whether Confucian, Daoist, or Maoist is that Change Itself is made up of 2 Energy Principles which both attract and oppose one another (Yin and Yang) and a 3rd Condition (also seen as Conditional Force, and sometimes seen as Conditional Force with a Something which can be named Indeterminacy. If you take all of these thoughts and include all you experience, know, and see of your immediate and most extended environment - then this is a Small Part of what is called The Dao. This is the entire structure of the Yi King.
Interactions of these element work in a fluidity which contains: Predominance, Endless :hangingness; Disassociation in Immediate Closeness; Disassociation in Immediate Farness; Association in Immediate Closeness; and Association in Immediate Farness. These Aspects are included in the I Qing of King Wu and the later explainations of Confucius.
On a more mystical level these Six Aspects can be further interpretated thusly:
A fluidity which contains: Predominance, (in its near, intermediate distance, and far forms) Endless :Changingness; (as seen in its still, slow, intermediate speed, and fast forms) Disassociation in Immediate Closeness; (in its varied forms of Finished, Nearly Finished, Unfinished, Not Begun, Begun, Perceived Fully, Partially Perceived, Unperceived) Disassociation in Immediate Farness. (in its varied forms of Finished, Nearly Finished, Unfinished, Not Begun, Begun, Perceived Fully, Partially Perceived, Unperceived), Association in Immediate Closeness (in its varied forms of Finished, Nearly Finished, Unfinished, Not Begun, Begun, Perceived Fully, Partially Perceived, and Unperceived); and Association in Immediate Farnessits (in its varied forms of Finished, Nearly Finished, Unfinished, Not Begun, Begun, Perceived Fully, Partially Perceived, Unperceived).
Energies which are considered 'cosmic". "spiritual", "mystical", and "intuitive" are incarna5ted and reincarnated into the same, single lifetime of a human being as well as into other lifetimes and existences of a human being. The Western religions often call this situation: "The Voice of God".
The response of the "cosmic energies" to the human and the response of the human to these "cosmic energies" create what the Eastern Religions often call: "Karma".
All Worlds are Interweavings of an Incredible Complexity of Energy. The Complexity of Energy transcends its own antagonism [dialectic: Nagarjuna through Hegel] of Non-Completion and merges with Completion Itself, to form Relativity (Non-Competion + Completion), this inturn creates Quanta. Quanta appears and disappears. Quanta disappears and appears. It does this with the same frequency as does the continual recreation of Relativity. Both Quanta and Relativity are actual translations of the interweaving force and forces which support one another: Yin (Quanta;female force, and male orgasm) and Yang (Relativity, male force, and female orgasm).
9. THE PHALLUS IS BORN FROM THE VAGINA – CONFUCIUS’ THE UNWOBBLING PIVOT
Those born and instinctive with an understanding of the universe are of the highest form of humanity. Those who understand it as the result of study belong to the second highest type of humanity. Those who study the universe with some great or attendent difficulty are the third type of humanity. And those who find the universe too difficult to study or who refuse to study the universe, are the least form of humanity
Lin Yu: Chapter XVI # 9
There are some who create things without knowledge, but I am not of that type. After being taught much, I selected the very best and I followed it. I observed much and I remembered it. This is the knowledge of the rank of those who understand the universe as a result of study.
Lin Yu: Chapter VII, # 28
The Life and Times of Confucius (551-479 BC):
Confucius was born into a patriarchal, feudal society. At the time of his birth, "China's" only concept of social organization was that of a patriarch-ruled large family. Individual initiative had no sanction. "China", itself was a vertical hierarchy. The overseer at the top was only an overseer. Beneath him was an immediate inferior who, in turn, was overseer to those below him. Immediately below him, his inferiors were overseers to yet another level repeating this same process, until one reached the absolute bottom where there were only inferiors who were subject to all other levels of overseers.
At this time, the "Chinese" native religion recognized the ultimate overseer as Sky. Additionally, within the "Chinese" native religion, there existed the belief in the ghosts of the dead, and of course this included the ghosts of deceased ancestors; a multiplicity of divinities and immortals; demons; fairy-equivalents; as well as personified and individualized natural forces and specific objects. In some ways the native Chinese religion was a fundamentalist, simplified, and primitive equivalent of the religion of Ancient Egypt.
The "Chinese" world of Confucius was a world of small city-states centered at the valley of the Yellow River and its tributaries. Each state consisted of a countryside with sporadic small villages. As Confucian translator, Professor James R. Ware, succintly says: "There were no isolated farmhouses." Geographically, "China" was not the large empire it is today as it had not yet destroyed the sovereignty of Manchuria, Mongolia, and Tibet and commandered their land-mass..There was on-again, off-again local warfare between these city states. A man belonged to one of these city-states, although it was possible (under certain circumstances) to emigrate to a different city-state. There was a loose confederation, which, remarkably, held together.
During this period, the "Chinese" people held the viewpoint that they were living under the rulership of their third central authority. Prior to 1100 BC, they had lived under the Yin or Shang Dynasty. Ca. 1100 BC on, they had lived under the Chou Dynasty. By 500 BC, the Chou Dynasty was self-destructing and for the next 250 years (until approximately 250 BC), all the powerful families did whatever they could to gain the royal succession. Ultimately, the northwest state of Ch'in won this fre-for-all. Ultimately, the Ch'in family name became the state name - "China" Prior to this time, the "Chinese" called their confederated country, Chung-kuo or The Middle Kingdom, which was an expression crucial to their own scientifically limited and supernaturally oriented view of geography.
It seems that Confucius held no particular post within his country's hierarchy. Perhaps, whole aspects of his intelligence were considered too radical, too strange, or too inovative. We may find this hard to believe, but we must remember that The Middle Kingdom, stressed stability in a very static form (again similiar to the Ancient Egyptians) and democratic rights as well as innovation were anathema to their culture. Abundant and obvious evidence supports this. Confucius did make the statement that even a man who simply leads a moral and ethical life can be considered an office-holder, and in so making this statement pressages the concept of democracy "where all men are created equal" which has come to mean "all people of any gender are created equal and endowed with equal rights".
It is important to note that the ancient state of Ch'in believed in an exact legalism. The law was to be applied without exceptions according to a predetermined set of rules and regulations which included exact prescribed penalties for their violation. There were never any exceptions to the rule and no adjustments to individual interests. The Ch'in interpreted any other group which talked of subtleties of situation causing the need for compassionate exceptions as merely a weakness bordering upon criminality.
This cold legalism combined with conquest and intrigue was the foundation for the Ch'in's acts of power. It is interesting to note that the founder's family came into power in 221 BC, remaining in power for no more than 15 years, as their attitude was found unacceptable to the vast majority of people. Within the central capital of this new empire, there appeared large numbers of people who were willing and anxious to express their complete disagreement with the implimented unnatural and cold Ch'in legalism. There was a revolt which lasted until 202 BC with the founding of the Han Dynasty. During the next 50 years, it consolidated the new empire. The Han Dynasty lasted until 220 AD.
The Han Dynasty rejected the earlier Ch'in Dynasty ideas and began to investigae the writing s of the many teachers and thinkers who had lived prior to the Ch'in Dynasty. Confucius became revered as The Great Ancestor and any writings even associated tangentially, were held in reverence.
By 100 BC, Confucius was commonly known as The First Teacher and The Wisest Man of Wisdom. There developed 3 main schools of Confucian thought. Each school immortalized itself with its own versions of collected writings. these schools are: Mo Tzu, Meng Tzu, and Hsun Tzu. The school of Meng Tzu or Mencius became the "Chinese Orthodoxy" as well as the 13th and final Confucian Canon approxiamtely 100 AD.
Over a period of time, the subtleties of Confucian thought were lost and a fundamentalist and elaborationist orthodoxy became dominant. Unfortunately, this fundamentalist orthodoxy became to exhibit many of the characteristics of the earlier Ch'in Dynasty legalism and also various early static behaviours and attitudes.
The Stone Classics and Confucisn Texts:
The Chinese ideogram for the word Classic is an ideogram coming from the craft of weaving. Its literal translation is Warp, which is the initial yarn or thread used on a loom to support the woof which is the totality of the yarn or thread running under-and-over (at a 90 degree angle) the original yarn or thread of the warp. Thus the Warp or the Classic is the initial form/structure which makes it possible for the necessary secondary action of a completion.
There are 13 Classics:
1.) The Changes (I Ching): The popular system of divination based upon 64 hexagrams.
2.) The Writings of Old: Praise for ancestors and fragments of dramas concerning ancestors. Traditionally, Confucius was the editor of this work.
3.) The Poems : References to everyday life and legendary history and behaviours.
4.) Notes on the Rites (Li Chi): A collection of various observations
5.)Ceremonials (I Li)
6.) Chou Li: concerns the bureaucratic orgainzation of the Chou Dynasty 100-250BC. Not compiled by Confucius.
7.)The Year Annals aka The Spring and the Autumn Annals (Ch'un Ch'iu): A rough chronology of political events and natural phenomena 722-481 BC as seen from the city-state of Lu. As he had access to the state archives, tradition maintains that Confucius wrote this and Commentary Tso Chuan.
8.) Kung-Yang Chuan: Commentary to the Annals.
9.) Ku-Liang Chuan [Commentary to the Annals].
10.) The Sayings of Confucius (Lun Yu)
11.) Hsiao Ching: an extremely short dramatized conversation conerning the duty of a son to his father. Not written by Confucius.
12.) Erh Ya (untranslatable): Glosses upon conceptually difficult texts and their ideas.
13.) Mencius: Focused upon the life, travels, and wordy-egotistical sayings and ideas of Mencius (372-289 BC) and clearly shows the deep and fundamental conflicts of thought of the various Confucian schools.
Between 175 and 183 AD, the Chinese Han dynasty created a carved stone edition of Kung Fu Tse (better known as Confucius) and the writers he had influenced. These tablets were kept at the Imperial Academy.
Between the years 240 and 249 AD, the Wei dynasty implanted its own monument of these "Stone Classics" by the side of the Han stone carvings at Lo-yang. These Wei dynasty carvings were inscribed with three different forms of Chinese calligraphy.
In the year 518 AD, these "Stone Classics" were broken up and used for building materials. During the 20th century. 46 fragments of the Han carvings stone tablets were known to exist and of the Wei carvings, only 140 fragments of the original 35 stones were known to exist.
During the period 833-837 AD, the T'ang dynasty carved a "Stone Classics" edition of 227 stones. Each stone meausred 6 feet tall and 2 feet wide. They were set up at the Imperial Academy in Ch'ang-an..
In the year 938 AD, the Shu dynasty began a new complete set of Confucian stone carvings, which was completed during the Sung dynasty in 1124 AD. This was the most ambitious project. It was to include every Confucian and Confucian-influenced text. More than 1,000 stones were needed. By the early part of the 20th century, not one stone or fragment of this "edition" was still known to exist. However, shortly after the completion of this project, rubbings had been made from these stones, many of which still exist. These rubbings were used as the basis for the creation of the first printed "Classic"or Confucius and Confucius-influenced books. Following this, other editions of the "Stone Classics" were produced: 1042-1061 AD at Hang-chou, a second edition by the Sung dynasty; 1791-1794, the Emperor Ch'ien-lung of the Ch'ing (Manchu) dynasty set up 189 stones, which still exist in Beijing.
Within this canon of "Stone Classics" is one sub-text from the Notes on the Rites or Li Chi entitled The Unwobbling Pivot or Chung Yung . This is the surprise text of Confucius. This is the only really overt, "in-you-face" Confucian text concerning metaphysics, or mystical religion.
The word Chung means what is not bent to one or another sides. The word Yung means unchanging. The two ideograms Chung and Yung clearly represent a process in motion; a series of turnings or movements around a still central force. The Unwobbling Pivot was originally written down on bamboo tablets by Tsze Sze and later came into the possession of Mencius.
Why Did Confucius Write As He Did?
Confucius clearly saw that human society could be ignorant, bigotted, unfair, violent, out-of-control, and self-destructive. He saw, also, that human society could be intelligent, fair, peaceful, orderly, and productive. Mankind had choice in the matter. Mankind could follow the Flow of Life Force. Mankind could obey the Process-Dictates of Heaven. Or mankind could ignore them.
First and foremost, Confucius was an educator who wished to teach those who controlled any and all education and those who controlled the daily powers of exchange, law, etc. His desire was to create order and fairness, through an educational process which was based upon his ideas of the Unwobbling Pivot. This whole conceptualization came from an inner need to demonstrate the order can exist, it must exist, and it must be fair. By following, this route with speed, intelligence, a base-line understanding of the Unwobbling Pivot, and compassion and love, that humanity could avoid, or better "retire" from the sort of behaviour which often led to negative and out-of-control situation which. if left unchecked, would lead to apocalyptic events and situations.
He understood that evolutionary or "positive-apocalyptic" change would take place as people found themselves in continuing fluid relationships with the reality of the Unwobbling Pivot, but he could not (or chose not to) bring into full reality, either conceptually or materially, the fact that his very philosophy would destroy the very society it was meant to serve (China being very static, very hierarchical, and unresponsive to wildly new ideas).
Confucius' writings which delineate various rules and ways of doing specific things, must, in many cases, be considered a separate literature, and a separate philosophy to be used in a temporary fashion until the culture was truly ready to understand his most important text, The Unwobbling Pivot. Until this social understanding occured, his "temporary philosophy" would allow conditions for minimizing the problems and social damage of a static, xenophobic society, and perhaps this temporary philosophy" could be the "carrier-wave" through time to keep in existence (and with the future possibility of implimentaion), his greatest text. Even today, with the possibility of some textual destruction and later clumsy and contradictory additions, the true wisdom of Confucius is still clear and fresh enough to use as we approach the end-game of a dissociated world culture, totally conflicted in its desire and fear to move forward and its desire and fear to stay the same. It is this apocalyptic underpinning that is addressed so well in the Confucian legacy of The Unwobbling Pivot.
The Madman of Ch'u, Lu T'ung, passed by Confucius and sang: "O phoenix. O how excellence has declined! yet it is not right to seed blame for what has passed because we have yet to overtake the future. In the meantime, things are as they are. Those who run our government today are dangerous.
Confucius stepped out of his carriage, wanting to speak to him. But this Madman of Chu ran away so quickly that Confucius was not able to talk with him.
Lin Yu: Chapter XVIII, #5
The Stone Classics and Confucisn Texts:
The Chinese ideogram for the word Classic is an ideogram coming from the craft of weaving. Its literal translation is Warp, which is the initial yarn or thread used on a loom to support the woof which is the totality of the yarn or thread running under-and-over (at a 90 degree angle) the original yarn or thread of the warp. Thus the Warp or the Classic is the initial form/structure which makes it possible for the necessary secondary action of a completion.
There are 13 Classics:
1.) The Changes (I Ching): The popular system of divination based upon 64 hexagrams.
2.) The Writings of Old: Praise for ancestors and fragments of dramas concerning ancestors. Traditionally, Confucius was the editor of this work.
3.) The Poems : References to everyday life and legendary history and behaviours.
4.) Notes on the Rites (Li Chi): A collection of various observations
5.)Ceremonials (I Li)
6.) Chou Li: concerns the bureaucratic orgainzation of the Chou Dynasty 100-250BC. Not compiled by Confucius.
7.)The Year Annals aka The Spring and the Autumn Annals (Ch'un Ch'iu): A rough chronology of political events and natural phenomena 722-481 BC as seen from the city-state of Lu. As he had access to the state archives, tradition maintains that Confucius wrote this and Commentary Tso Chuan.
8.) Kung-Yang Chuan: Commentary to the Annals.
9.) Ku-Liang Chuan [Commentary to the Annals].
10.) The Sayings of Confucius (Lun Yu)
11.) Hsiao Ching: an extremely short dramatized conversation conerning the duty of a son to his father. Not written by Confucius.
12.) Erh Ya (untranslatable): Glosses upon conceptually difficult texts and their ideas.
13.) Mencius: Focused upon the life, travels, and wordy-egotistical sayings and ideas of Mencius (372-289 BC) and clearly shows the deep and fundamental conflicts of thought of the various Confucian schools.
Between 175 and 183 AD, the Chinese Han dynasty created a carved stone edition of Kung Fu Tse (better known as Confucius) and the writers he had influenced. These tablets were kept at the Imperial Academy.
Between the years 240 and 249 AD, the Wei dynasty implanted its own monument of these "Stone Classics" by the side of the Han stone carvings at Lo-yang. These Wei dynasty carvings were inscribed with three different forms of Chinese calligraphy.
In the year 518 AD, these "Stone Classics" were broken up and used for building materials. During the 20th century. 46 fragments of the Han carvings stone tablets were known to exist and of the Wei carvings, only 140 fragments of the original 35 stones were known to exist.
During the period 833-837 AD, the T'ang dynasty carved a "Stone Classics" edition of 227 stones. Each stone meausred 6 feet tall and 2 feet wide. They were set up at the Imperial Academy in Ch'ang-an..
In the year 938 AD, the Shu dynasty began a new complete set of Confucian stone carvings, which was completed during the Sung dynasty in 1124 AD. This was the most ambitious project. It was to include every Confucian and Confucian-influenced text. More than 1,000 stones were needed. By the early part of the 20th century, not one stone or fragment of this "edition" was still known to exist. However, shortly after the completion of this project, rubbings had been made from these stones, many of which still exist. These rubbings were used as the basis for the creation of the first printed "Classic"or Confucius and Confucius-influenced books. Following this, other editions of the "Stone Classics" were produced: 1042-1061 AD at Hang-chou, a second edition by the Sung dynasty; 1791-1794, the Emperor Ch'ien-lung of the Ch'ing (Manchu) dynasty set up 189 stones, which still exist in Beijing.
Within this canon of "Stone Classics" is one sub-text from the Notes on the Rites or Li Chi entitled The Unwobbling Pivot or Chung Yung . This is the surprise text of Confucius. This is the only really overt, "in-you-face" Confucian text concerning metaphysics, or mystical religion.
The word Chung means what is not bent to one or another sides. The word Yung means unchanging. The two ideograms Chung and Yung clearly represent a process in motion; a series of turnings or movements around a still central force. The Unwobbling Pivot was originally written down on bamboo tablets by Tsze Sze and later came into the possession of Mencius.
The Unwobbling Pivot
The Cosmos, Universe, or Omniverse has its own intrinsic nature.
This nature is sealed into the inside of itself, therefore we do not automatically know this process.
We can learn this process through a sub-process which we call true education or education.
This is an ongoing subprocess.
One is never outside of this process and one cannot become detached from this process.
To not be a piece of flotsam or jetsum within this process, an educational human must look into their own heart. B
By doing this a person can "give serious attention to things unheard".
The secrets of the heart are outwardly visible. What one wishes to conceal becomes obvious.
Even when entirely alone, the educational human must look into his/her heart.
For a human to be completely non-dominated (unnmoved) by any feeling, emotion, or attitude, he or she must be positioned in the axis (the unwobbling pivot).
To be moved by these emotions, feelings ideas, and attitudes, "in due degree" equals a condition called "being in harmony".
The Central Axis called The Unwobbling Pivot is the "great root of the Omniverse".
The harmony of directional movement is the Omniverse's "outspread and outspreading process" which we call existence.
Obviously, from this Root and Its Harmonies are established all we see and experience which we can categorize as those things of heaven and those things of earth.
[This is the entire basic premise of the text of The Unwobbling Pivot. From this point onwards, the text fills in details, gives examples, and expansion of the original definition and explanation.]
The educational human seeks and finds the Still Center and remains steadfast through all phenomena, experience, emotion, vision, thought, and consciousness of any kind.
The non-educational human creates , lives within, and expends his/her energy inacting as resistance to the multi-connected cycles of circulation which are the inevitable.
Few people can ever remain within this Still Center for long. Intellectuals are prone to going to extremes.
The average person does not have the interest, will-power, or vision to even attempt to think about, let alone enter the Still Center.
The person of some particular talent, overemphasize their own talent, and, thus, although understanding that the Still Center exists, perhaps even "seeing" it, they will overshoot their own goal.
Most people deal with isolated modules of experience or connected modules of experience.
Few people deal with process.
Few people can really "see" process.
Shun enjoyed asking people questions and equally enjoyed listening to their simple answers.
He ignored any and all moments and meanings of embedding conversational malice and collected in memory all which was good.
He observed all the out-of-control attitudes within peoples' daily expressions and followed a Middle Way which avoided Extremes or Harmonies so difficult to deal with that we would call them Disharmonies or the Opposites of Discord symbolized by the Northern and Southern Nodes of the Moon.
Many people say "Yes, I know", but whatever stillness they have, whatever educational attitude that they might have, usually lasts a very short time, usually less than one lunar period, perhaps, only a moment.
The Energy of the South is to teach with kindly benevolence and not become angry and not to create further unreasonableness when dealing with the unreasonableness of other people.
The educational person will make every attempt to gather and accumulate this specific energy.
The Energy of the North is the energy underlying voluntary poverty, to be able to give or to approach being able to give, one's own life for a protective cause.
People of good ethics who do not publicly display their good ethics, humble, or simple people will have an easier time than others in reaching the Still Center.
But not even the person of hihest wisdom can know All and in so doing know the Entire Process called The Unwobbling Pivot.
When the educational person uses the word Great, he/she means something which can never be contained.
When the educational person uses the word Minute, he/she means something which nothing can split.
Heaven and Earth are Great. Heaven and Earth can and do contain the Small and Less-Than-Great.
The Still Center is always near us.
It is reached by listening to our heart.
The essence of honesty always comes forth from the heart.
The honest person tries to maintain an identity of his/her words with his/her actions.
If we fail, we have created an error, which is to be corrected. The major problem is maintaining and building upon the error without correction.
The correction must take into account that the original error has changed the Ground of Correction Itself, and therefore, True Correction of Error will not be nor appear to be, the way things were before the error came into being.
One must be careful of extremes.
The educational person makes manifest their own seeing within a Clear Light and will not lust after, anything extraneous to his/her vision as comprehended within the act of seeing within their Clear Light (the Clear Light being the Same, but the educational person's position within the Clear Light being always slightly different from all past personal experiences and those positions and experiences of all others).
The educational person should never do anything which shuts him/her self off from the rest of him/her self and also makes this person themself unable to rejoin these "shut-off" aspects.
In the daily world of work, the educational person, when in a High Position does not mistreat his/her subordinates, and when in Low Position, does not flatter his/her superiors.
The educational person is always willing to act through self-correction and does not seek this corrective aspect from demanded positive support from others.
Never should there be resentment towards Heaven.
Never should their be bad sentiment among ourselves.
The Unwobbling Pivot will remain Stable. By rash actions, we only destablize ourselves.
They more we destabilize ourselves, our awareness of self-destablization decreases, and so we can reach the point of confusing and/or identifying self-destabilization with self-stabilization, and this process always takes place within the human, social setting, for if we are truly alone with ourselves, this process of "aloneness" will lead us back to moving into the interior process of communicating with our own heart, which is the path towards The Unwobbling Pivot.
The brightness of the Sunlight, shines down upon us as a multiple splendor.
The sunlight touches us, yet we cannot adequately describe Sunlight with a human word, nor can we hold it imprisoned within a box.
It is important to uses the rites of heaven and earth to honor the Great Creating-Force of Heaven.
It is important to remember and respect our ancestors for either doing good before us and being partt of our chain-into-birth, or, in other cases, not doing good, but nevertheless being part of our chain-into-birth. And in this process show love.
He/She who can understand the meaning and the inherent justice of the motions of understanding and the moving patterns of knowledge from within the Still Center and as harmonic behaviour outside of the Still Center can rule a situation or country as though he/she held clear light within his/her hand.
Sanity is based upon an understanding relationship of the Still Center and the harmonic movements around the Unwobbling Pivot. In power, this Sanity is identical to the force which allows the directly swift complexity-growth process of all aspects of Our Earth Below Heaven. Full-Use Talent is an aspect of this Sanity.
[due to the ideogram used in XX.5 of a sacrificial vase or vase of holy containment, it is not stated, but directly implied that the earliest nomadic culture known to Confucius, was a culture which could only see the law and justice of group or tribe as a condition of either mine or another's. The more sophisticated agricultural culture "sacrificed" the herded animal for their newer culture, broke the vase of holy containment, and began to think in more complex terms. Thus the original animal sacrifice may have been (at one point, at least) merely, the lowering or de-emphasizing in value of the herded, grazing animal as the primary food, food producer, and initial source for such other necessities as clothing, tools, etc. Implied, is the idea that philosophy of law and economics and "practicality" began with the conscious use of and cooperation with the Earth's ability of vegetable-usage. One can reference the Biblical Genesis story of Cain and Abel and well as the South Pacific Taro (Wild Yam) Cult. In the story of Cain and Abel, Abel's agricultural gift and gifting is superior to Cain's sacrifice of killing animal(s). This superiority is decreed by Jahweh Himself. As the judgement of God is extremely abstract to a person (Cain) who can only think in terms of either mine or another's, he kills Abel in order to transform the another's into his own mine. In the case of the Taro Cult, the practicioners who worshipped the inner force and spiritual entity-aspect of the wild yam, in an amazingly short period of time, ceated a well-organized social structure ferom virtually nothing and became strongly pacifist, even developing aspects of intra-cultural diversity (for Taro Cult see chapter on Cargo Cult).]
Affection for life creates courtesy within humans.
In a working social system this courtesy automatically honors all true and honest talent.
This allows the true and honest talent to feed and nurture the vital-positive-culture (which, of course, is always in a state of movement, never static)
[Here follows a disputed ideogram of a hunting dog and a bird under the grass. It is quite possible that this ideogram relates to the issue of a culture honoring all true and honest talent. To impliment this honoring, one must have knowledge of a fundamental subtlety. We search for the talent and/or the truth, without, necessarily, being able to see any model or having any prior experience for or of this model. In a manner of speaking for this talent and/or truth, we search in the dark as though blind. At the same time, through courtesy leading to knowledge, or knowledge leading to courtesy, or both our awareness of the Unwobbling Pivot and the energies which flow around it, allow our heart-insticnts to lead us correctly to the talent and/or truth.]
All reasonable mechanics of social systems are based upon knowledge, courtesy and compassion, and pure energy - all of which can exist only under the umbrella of genuine spirituality and all of which are indivisible and cannot exist separately.
Finally, genuine spirituality cannot exist without love, which is created by doing genuine, good practical things, such as learning, practicing charity, and dealing directly with one's own fears and the fears of others..
Hold in low or lesser esteem, all material riches. Hold in high esteem, the personal use by anyone, of looking with direct gaze into one's own heart, seeking the inner clarity which resides there.
[Then there follow quite a few specific injunctions which would hold true for the Chinese world within which Confucius lived. By today's standards many of these injunctions are either very obvious (too obvious to mention) or only were appropriate for those earlier times and conditions which Confucius personally experienced, including, to some degree having to guard his tongue from creating offense and thus endangering his life. Here are mentioned socials rules either obvious or obsolete.]
Sincerity is the Process of Heaven which produces Ethics.
A person who is Sincere can find the Unwobbling Pivot without using force against him/her self, and naturally moves into the mainstream of his/her own process.
He/She is in a condition where Goodness has seized power in the surrounding ten directions (of the person's form and life) of Up and Down; East, South, West, and North; South East, South-West, West-North, and North-East.
One does not walk away from one's own ignorance.
A stupid person can gain enlightenment.
A weak person can acquire energy.
Intelligence which comes from sincerity is inborn talent. Sincerity which comes from reason is education. But sincerity will create intelligence and the light of reason will create sincerity.
The highest and most absolute form of sincerity will fully develop one's inborn talent to its own completest form.
This can be visualized as a new fullness, completely filling the cup of oneself, which then displaces one's own cruder natures, which then allows one to practice of powerful condition of charity, which includes the aid to others in helping them come closer to the transformative and nutritive powers of Heaven-in-relation-to Earth, which, while it does not identify mankind with either Heaven or Earth, nor does it place mankind above Heaven or below Earth, nevertheless does make mankind unique.
It is important to speak clearly and completely and engage in clarifying activities.
In its highest aspect Clarifying Activity is without limit, does not stop within its own path or any other, does not stay, always endures, and seeks the smallest aspects of things.
A seed brings forth movements which are continuous, which we call growth. By this, ,the of Abstract/Primal-Solid is penetrated, and further development takes place as Primal-Light. This process creates the many aspects of our daily reality, including external things.
The Highest Full Aspect of Clarifying Activity is in its Own Intrinsic Nature. It is Unseen, yet creates Harmony. It Transforms Freely, yet is Unmoved. It Perfects through Its Very Existence.
There is no measuring the model for the Creation of Things.
The Celestial-Earthly process is lucent, giving light and comprehending light, extending transcendent of boundary and eternal. When we look at the sky, we see shining sparks or planets, stars, and meteorites. But what is beyond these sparks is not that of what can be thought of as a semi-abstract version of a corpse shut up within a cavern.
The power of light creates movement of the sparks, the movement of the sparks creates time, time create succession, and succession creates non-random/non-chaotic order.
The Visible Heaven is only one among many. Heavens.
Visible Order is only one among many orders.
Heaven and Heavenly Nature are always cooperative and combined and can be considered one entity, although, in reality, not bound by the concept nor any limited reality of Entity.
There is no end to Its Beauty.
15th BREATHING: IF YOU WANT TO DISRUPT HUMAN TIME, HERE IS HOW TO DO IT.
Its seems as though both Human Prehistory and Human History are seen through the single lense and identification of a continual progress towards reasonable, valid, and humane goals with increasing progress towards human personal and collective rights, greater knowledge, and greater and greater practical healing, etc. And, this progress continues, albeit at a much slower pace, even during times of catastrophe and war.
Obviously, there is some truth in this, but still whether it is David Hume, Georg Fredrich Hegel, Charles Darwin, Arnold Toynbee, Oswald Spengler, and whomever else, a main point has been missed. Even Karl Marx missed it. And that is that human history mimics the Right Brain – Left Brain synapse, where the synapse is hundreds, even thousands of years, and where the Brain-Mind relationship to Right-Left synapse can run the gamut from stupid to brilliant, compassionate to non-compassionate, and from sane to insane, this group-long range time mimicry functions as a “Hidden Culture”, Unconscious Impulse, “Hive-Mentality” (Dr. Timothy Leary), A Group Mimicing Mental Illness (Dr. Margaret Meade), or as a Series of Unconscious Group Assumptions Combined Totally With A Complete Structure of Group Emotional Response, and Points of Logical Blindness, and Perceptual Retardation.
In other words, patterned on Right-Brain – Left-Brain mental switching, the human race lives in a binary relationship to Time Itself – either + (Plus or 1 Positive) Time or –(Minus or 0 Negative) Time. The Plus Time Periods, the human race (or human subgroup) is “totally switched on” and using all of its abilities to the best of its ability OR in “half switched low” and using only some fraction of its abilities. At no time is ther implied either a Utopian World nor a Dante-esque Hell World.
When the World Culture is in a “Right-Brain” phase, to a large extent, Humanity is sane. Why? Because the Right Brain – that Mystical-Intuitive-Inspired and perhaps Genius (in the latin sense of the word genii) finds it relatively able to communicate with the Left-Brain Mentality and during this period, also, the Left-Brain Mentality finds it easier to both trust Itself and to trust the form of expression and delivery of information from the right brain. These “Right-Brain-Periods” are the periods of greatest invention, compassionate growth, intellectual development, and human evolution.
It appears that the right brain can remain detached and be a cool observer of the mechanations of the Limbic Brain, as well as be cooperative with the left brain.
Now when there is some for of internal human species disaster (which appears to be some very subtle inner mind “meltdown” triggered by various forms of too much stress and or a major disaster, related in an infinite number of different ways to the endangerment of food supplies, disease and plagues, monetary collapse, unforeseen weather changes (i.e. an ice age, etc), noise pollution, etc) throughout history.
At this point, the Cultural Collective Nervous Breakdown, appears to follow this pattern.
Neitzsche stumbled onto to part of this idea, but his own phobias and predjudices made him vere away from making the full discovery and wind up simply ranting against Abrahamic religions (Judaism and Christianity)
[The following is a blend of my ideas with those of Nietzsche in quotes from his Twilight of the Gods and The Antichrist (English, published by MacMillan & Co; London & New York; 1911) Comparison with his complete text will show that his idea now goes in a distinctly different direction].
In the Minus-Left Brain Period, “all the instincts of the subjugated and oppressed” and the traumatized “come to the fore:” Those groups who are the most mentally damaged by external events, create group collective belief systems which become an active attempt to literally be “killing time” by beginning, expanding, developing, creating secondary elaborations of “Sin, self-criticism, and conscience inquisition.
Here the ecstasy in the presence of a powerful being” (Asurnassipal II, Akhnaton, Moses, Buddha, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Jesus of Nabitea (aka Jesus of Nazareth), Constantine, Charlemagne, George Washington, Queen Victoria, Abraham Lincoln, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, and Television) treated as and believed in as “God” “is constantly maintained by means of prayer” or some form of masochistic “humbling” rather than True Spirituality , which often can be called “actual spiritual prayer” which is the exact opposite of the former “prayer” in every and all important ways, “While the highest thing is regarded as unattainable, as a gift, as an act of “grace”.
Here plain dealing is also entirely lacking; concealment and the darkened room…Here the body is dispised, hygiene is repudiated as sensual…” there is “…a certain spirit of cruelity towards one’s self and others…hatred of all those who do not share one’s own views; the will to persecute. Sombre and exciting ideas are in the foreground; the most coveted states and those endowed with the finest names are really epileptic in their nature…” there is mental confusion about how to create working and fair social systems which include all forms of compassionate diversity and there is “…a sort of concealed and secret competition with these…” socially compassionate systems and their representatives. There is implied and stated, active and passive “hatred of the intellect, of pride, of courage, freedom of intellectual libertinage…hatred of the senses, of the joys of the senses, and of joy in general.
These people may be called “…the submerged masses…exhausted men…Here, dissatisfaction with one’s own self, suffering through one’s self…is an inordinate desire for inflicting painfor a discharge of the inner tension in hostile deeds and ideas.” There is a need to master barbarism and barbaric acts…”torture in all its forms, sensual and non-sensual.” Social order is seen as the mastery of “…beasts of prey; its expedient to make them ill – to render feeble…” and thus tame “civilization”.
“The road to truth becomes the forbidden road…strong hope [becomes] a much greater stimulant than any joy could be. Sufferers must be sustained by a hope which no actuality can contradict – and which cannot even be realized…” It is the hope of a future life in a realm of perpetual Childhood…”
So, basically, the human race, in various geographies and times, forgets much of what its own functioning abilities are, and basically shuts of its collective intuition, and/or punishes those who don not shut down their intuition, and vilify and devil-ify any use of what Carl Jung called “the Dark Side of the Brain”. “The Burning Times” in Europe when millions upon millions of people were hanged or burned to death, or tortured to death is one such time when a large area of the planet hunted down Right-Brained, Intuitive, and Mystical people. This started in the 1000s AD period, crested from “1489 through the middle 1700s AD and we can still find examples of this as recently as 2003 AD.
By using Alchemical Yoga, Eastern Anutaratantra, Spell-Craft, various forms of Magick including Qabala and Planetary Magick,and just plain “down-home” Compassionate Living, we can interrupt this process, and “flip-flop” back into “Full-Use-Intelligence-And_Intuitional Postive Right Brain Culture. It need only take a minute, right now as you read this, to begin this process. This Yoga is: Just Understand That This Is So. QUite Simple.
This is the most fundamental and most powerful activity of understanding Alchemy as Invocation.
10. Qabala – Birth Corrections for the Male Father
Qabala, meaning The Tradition, is the higSupreme Generational Multi-Level Forcest mystical practice of the Supreme Generational Multi-Level Forcebrew religion in all of its manifestations and has its own well-defined and structured doctrine. There have been great Qabalistic philosopSupreme Generational Multi-Level Forcers, psychologists, metaphysicians, and mystics for at least 1,500 years, if not longer
It is probable that the Qabala conglomerated first picking up mystical bits and pieces from religious communes such as the one at Qumran; then adapting various ideas from Gnostic metaphysics, such as the Valentinian, Manachaen, and Neo-Pythagorean schools, as well as the Catholic Christian writer Dionysius and Pseudo Dionysius; next being extremely influenced by the Talmud, and at that point becoming much more rabbinically oriented, clear, and usable as an intuitional-symbolic structure for the understanding of the human mind, pure consciousness, and physical reality. Also, it was used for finding hidden meanings in texts, divination, and the attempt to create physical change through extraordinary means (or magic). Underlying the entire Qabalistc structure is the idea that for a creation of Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force, humanity has extraordinary freedom of activity and can switch and combine paradigms, and thus alter reality. Thus the Qabala is a "hands-on" tool for investigating and perhaps creating, evolutionary, scientific, perceptual, and apocalyptic change, but at the same time maintains its own inner balance as a hierarchical structure descending from HigSupreme Generational Multi-Level Forcest Being to Most Basic Knowledge.
In legend, the Qabala in legend dates back to the times of Adam, Abraham, and Moses. Beginnings of the Qabala are attributed to certain statements in the Dead Sea Scrolls circa 1st century BC or speculated (again through legend) to have begun with the teachings and writing attributed to Rabbi Nachunjah ben Hakana ( fl 75 AD), Rabbi Ismael ben Elisa (fl. 130 AD); and Simeon ben Yohai (fl 150 AD).
Texts from the period include:
1.) Othijoth de Rabbi Akiba: the separate letters of the Supreme Generational Multi-Level Forcebrew alphabet are given
a moral, religious, mystical, and dream-symbolic, nature within their existence.
2.) Schiur Komah: a determination of the greatness of the divine nature is in the
format of fantastic numeric and numeric/identity sequences are shown to be
living allegories. It is believed that the manuscript exists only partially.
3.) Supreme Generational Multi-Level Forcechaloth Rabbathi: the is the great treatise on Supreme Generational Multi-Level Forceavenly halls. It gives
methods for reaching mystical ecstasy and what these mystical-ecstatic states
are like.
4.) Gaon Hai: the listing of books containing magic and various amulets, magical
formulas, etc.
5.) Lost books - contents unknown: Sepheroth ha-Jaschar; Sepheroth ha-Rasim; Sepheroth ScSupreme Generational Multi-Level Forcem ben Noach.
The Sepheroth Yetzirah - Second Developmental Phase of Qabbalism:
It is reasonable to say that the earliest proven Qabalistic text is the Sepheroth Yeztirah.
The Sepheroth Yetzirah or Book of Formation concerns the beginning of the Univers with an overall cosmology of the beginning and active elements of appearances. In the book, words themselves and those specifics symbolized by those words create on holistic understanding which actually contains living-life itself. On a level of being greater than the alphabet-word-object-existence-experience are the categories of all that is a part of existence.
As part of the understanding of the greater level of being, there exist the numbers 1 to 10, preceeded by several versions of zero:
“Nothing” as Absolute
“Nothing” as only a Container of Pure Possibility
“Nothing” as the Precise Last Moment before Any Manifestation
And the 3-step version of zero as a whole gives a real existing absolute unity above the actual value of each and every number, and also, above all numbers per se.
The Four Elementary Numbers:
1 = Unity. The breath of the living Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force.
2 = The Spirit of Spirits and the voice into which the 22 letters as elements of things
come into being. Physically, breath represents the air.
3 = Primaeval Water of Chaos, developed from air. Supreme Generational Multi-Level Forcere is the separation of earth and
water.
4 = Primaeval Fire, developed from Primaeval Water. Fire in connection with Air and
Water procreates Supreme Generational Multi-Level Forceaven and the inhabitants of Supreme Generational Multi-Level Forceaven.
The Elementary Dimensions as Number:
5 = Supreme Generational Multi-Level Forceight.
6 = Depth.
7 = Eastern Direction.
8 = Western Direction.
9 = Northern Direction
10 = Southern Direction
The Sepheroth Yetzirah is an attempted demonstration that wSupreme Generational Multi-Level Forcen the 22 letters of the Supreme Generational Multi-Level Forcebrew alphabet connect with the 10 numbers (fundamental principles), being leaves isolation and comes into direct existence. The Pre-Existence and its hierarchical existences and Direct Existence and its Hierarchical Direct Existences are subject to much or continual change and the happens repeatedly. The event structure occurs in accordance with laws, counter-laws, and synthesis between laws and counter-laws. A modern example of the type of thinking is any and all versions of Super String Theory..
It is possible that the author of the Sepher Yetzirah was familiar with the philosophy of the Neo-Pythagoreans.
The Sepher Yezirah exists in two versions: a shorter one which usually is considered the book itself; and a longer version which is sometimes printed as an appendix. Both versions were in existence during the 10th century AD. The earliest known manuscript was found in the Cairo Genizah (11th century?) in the late 1890s.
In both versions, the book is divided into 6 chapters of mishnayot or halakhot which are terse statements presenting the anonymous author's absolute view which contains neither explanation or substantiation, and is easily ignored.
Where did the book come from and what is its date? Some scholars have said that it dates from the Geonic period: 700-1000 AD (Zunz, Graetz, BacSupreme Generational Multi-Level Forcer, Block, and others). Also, it was considered possible that the book had a strong Arab influence. Louis Ginsberg and other scholars dated its composition to the period 200-500 AD. Dr. Erich Bischoff dates the Sepher Yetzirah to the end of the 9th or beginning of the 10th century AD.
Graetz noted analogies between the Sepher Yezirah and the views of Markos the Gnostic of the school of Valentins. Some of the terms in the book are apparently transliterated from from Greek in which the term stoixeia indicates both elements and letters. The duality finds its expression in the Supreme Generational Multi-Level Forcebrew otiyyot yesod = elemental letters. The Sefer Yezirah contains the view of the 'sealing of the six extremities of the world by the six different combinations of the name YHW which occurs in the book as a n independent, fundamental name of Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force, equaling the Greek iow, a word which is frequently used in the Gnostic documents concerning religious and magical syncretism.
The idea that an act of creation was sealed with the name of the Supreme Generation Multi-Level Force is one of the earliest tenets of Merkabah mysticism as found in chapter 9 of ikhalot Rabbati, and also, is found in the Gnostic systems of thought. The Name which has the function to establish the Universe and defining fixed boundaries for the world, is found in Greek consisting of vowels instead of consonants.
The anonymous author of the Sepher Yezirah did not know the symbols for the Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force consist of Hebrew vowels and consonants which are both vowel letters and components of the Tetragrammaton. There are strong similarities between The Sepher Yezirah and Gnostic concepts during the first few centuries AD.
Delineated in more detail, the Sepher Yetzirah begins by declaring that the Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force’s Self-Transcendence created the Universe in 32 mysterous paths of wisdom. These 32 paths are defined as 10 Sefirot beli mah and the 22 elemental letters of the original Hebrew alphabet.
The 10 Sephirot are mental archetypal “spheres”, "seals", and aspects of the Living Universe. In the book, literally: the decade out of nothing...
The appearance of the ten sepheroth out of nothing is like a flash of lightning. The Intention of the Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force in this Transcendental-Default -Created Universe is in them, when they go and return; they run by Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force order, like a whirlwind and humble themselves before theSupreme Generational Multi-Level Force’s force of Transcendence....
The one-tenth part of existence out of nothing has its end linked to its beginning and its beginning linked to its end..."
They are as follows:
1.) Ru'ah: Breath/Spirit of the Living Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force... The articulate word of creative power, the spirit and the word are what we call the holy spirit..." that there is a primal intelligence which is the self-existing cause of all things and that the self-existing entity produces nonentities by a progression of effects and divine knowledge gives existence to all that exists and to all that does not exist.
Next by way of condensation:
2.)Air emanated from the Spirit and establishes the 22 consonants of language. Three of these consonant letters are fundamental letters or mothers, plus seven double and twelve simple consonants. The first consonant is the spirit.
Next by way of condensation: comes:
3.)Primitive Water "Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force says to the snow (coldness), be thou earth" (Job 37,6)."
Next by way of condensation comes:
4.) Fire or Ether. "Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force establishes by it, the Throne of Glory, the Seraphim, and Ophanim, the holy living creature and the angels, and of these three formed habitation, as it reads: 'Who made Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force angels spirits, Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force’s ministers a flaming fire.' (Psalm 104,4). Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force selected three consonants from the simple ones which are in the hidden secret of three mothers or first elements: Ru'ah, air, water, and ether or fire. The Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force sealed them with spirit and fastened them to Its great name and sealed with it 6 dimensions..." (in other words: space and six other dimensions emanated from ether or fire).
Next by way of condensation comes:
5.The sealed Supreme Generational Multi-Level Forceight.
Sealed with: [letter]
6.) The sealed Depth.
Sealed with: [Letter]
7.) The sealed East and the turned Forward.
Sealed with: [letter]
8.) The sealed West and the turned Backward
Sealed with: [letter]
9.) The sealed South and the turned to the Right
Sealed with: [letter]
10.)The sealed North and the turned to the Left
Sealed with [letter]
From the Rise of the Sepherothoth System to the Zohar:Third Developmental Phase of Qabbalism:
Ein Soph:
Ein-Soph is Absolute Perfection. There are no distinctions and no differentiations. Some qabbalists say also that there is no volition. It does not reveal itself in any way which would make knowledge of its Own Nature possible and is probably transcendent to and inaccessible by way of highest thought.
Ein-Soph is the First Cause of Infinity and is itself the very maintainer of the paradox. The Qabalist author of Ma'arekcet ha-Elohut propounded the idea that the entire canon of Supreme Generational Multi-Level Forcebraic texts and the Oral Law did not reference Ein-Soph and that perhaps some mystics had experienced a very small aspect of Ein-Soph.
In the writings of the Gerona qabbalists, there are a series of terms that try to deal with the beyond-concept concept of Ein-Soph:
ha-ta'alumah = the concealment of secrecy
ha-or ha-mit'allem = the concealed light;
yitron [=translation of Greek hyperousia] = superfluity;
mah sein ha-mahshavah masseget = that which thought cannot attain;
ha-ahdut ha-shavah = indistinguishable unity;;
ha-mahut = the essence.
Ein-Soph has been identified with Aristotle's Prime Cause and the Neoplatonic Root of All Roots.
From Ein-Soph there are Nine Lights of Thought and Manifestation which shine forth, ending the primal concealment. During the 1770s, the qabbalist Baruch Kosover observed that: Ein-Soph is not Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force proper name, but it is merely a world which symbolizes Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force complete concealment. It is not correct to say "Ein-Soph, blessed be Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force" or again; "may Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force be blessed because Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force cannot be blessed by our lips". (Ammud ha-Avodah; 1863; 211d).
The exact form of conceptualization of the single source of creation used by both the Sufis and the kabbalists shows a strong Neoplatonic influence.
Moses ben Jacob Cordovero known as Remak (1522-1570) mentions that the first active and passive steps in which Absolute Divinity goes forward to make itself accessible to human contemplation take place within the “remnants” [assuming that Transcendence does not imply, state, nor include Self-Destruction] of the Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force Itself and do not leave the category of the Divine.
Cordovero wrestled with the question of with the idea Supreme Generational Multi-Level Forcether the first "movement" of the Divine was towards the "outer world" or whether it was a "movement" inward of Ein-Soph, into the depths of itslef. Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force answer was that of Divine movement fowards the outer world. On the other hand, Isaac Luria held the view that the Divine's first movement was inward and augmented the answer with the further belief that all created things already have returned to their source in The Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force and that Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force returned into Itself prior to all creation..[which implies that the paradox exists that The Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force turned into Itself both Before or After Its Own Full Transcendence but before any Change into Universe Itself and that to reflect on this can be The Supreme Spiritual Experience].
Further, Luria said that within Ein-Soph were Spledours (zahzahot) which were higher than any emanation.
Qabalistic Emanation: What is it?
The emergence of Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force from being within Itself into an Active Creation is the foundation of the Sepheroth. Early qabbalists tended to believe that all creatures and creations below the level of the Sepherot, were created beings, who were arcetypally preexistant in the Sepheroth, and by necessity of their creation by the Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force, maintained a personal existence separate from Divine Existence, meaning that Self-Existence and Non-Self-Existence had basically collided and merge as one force within both Time and Non-Time.
The Gnostics in Castille, Spain manitained that emanation had potencies based upon name and color.
The author A. Franck said that the Qabala was a complete emanatist system in which emanation was an actual going forth of Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force's Own Substance and not merely as Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force's Demonstrated Power.. Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force drew Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force conclusions from Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force own higly sensitive readings and interpretations of The Sepheroth ha-Zohar and the writings of Isaac Luria.
Ayin:
Ayin is considered either part of a complex that includes Ein-Soph, or a creatio ex nihilo preceeding Ein-Soph, or the first true emanation of Ein-Soph
Perhaps the best definition of Ayin is that of David ben Abraham ha-Lavan in Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force Masoret ha-Berit (late 13th century AD) as having more being than any other being in the world, but since it is simple, and all other simple things are complex the Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force compared with its simplicity, can in its comparison, be called "nothing".
The Three Hidden Lights:
In a responsum attributed to Hai Gaon, it is stated that above all emanating powers, with the Prime Cause, there are three hidden lights which have no beginning and no end.. There is the primeval inner light and the two other lights are called mezuhzah or simply zah. The ne'lam as le-ein sof is a kabbalistic trinity. It preceeds all sepheroth.
Kether:
Most Qabalists believed and believe that Primal Will is eternal and thus part of Ein-Soph. This being accepted, the paradox is seen as Kether being externally Kether while being internally Ein-Soph.
Isaac ibn Latif (fl 1230-60 AD) talks of the Divine Will in the texts Ginzei ha-Melekh and Zurat ha-Olam:The Primordial Will is not totally identical with Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force, but is a garment clinging to all substance of the wearer on all sides...and was....the first thing to be emanated from the only preexistent being...
Hokhmah:
The higest aspect of Hokhmah or Wisdom is a concept called Haskel which is derived from Jeremiah 9:23. Haskel is divine understanding and the activity of Sekl which is divine intellect. Further, it is believed that the divine understanding can crystalize into wisdom specifics in Hokhmah. Gershom Scholem points out that these conceptualization was used one hundred years later by Meister Eckhardt who called it intelligere.
The Interrelation of Sepheroth to Itself and to Other Sepheroth:
Each Sepheroth comprises all others sucessively and these Sepheroth are infinitely reflected within themselves.There are aspects of each Spheroth that contain millions of worlds. Therefor, within each Sepheroth are other Spehroth and an inifinte number of aspects connected with each Sepheroth (behinot).
According to Cordovero, there are six aspects in each Sepheroth.
1.) The concealed aspect before its manifestation in the Sepheroth which emanates it.
2.) The aspect which is manifest and apparent in the emanating Sepheroth.
3.) The aspect which in which the Sepheroth itself, becomes manifest in its proper
interdependency in the Sepherothic emanation process.
4.) The aspect which allows the preceeding Sepheroth to give the appropriate power to
the Sepheroth in question, itself, and to then further the process through the emanation
and empowering of the subsequent Sepheroth.
5.) The aspect by which the Sepheroth acquires the appropriate power to emanate the
Sepheroth hidden within it to their manifest existence within its own essence.
6.) The aspect by which the following Sepheroth is emanated to its own place;
completing and rebeginning the entire cycle.
Each Sepheroth descends into itself. The process is infinite. Nevertheless the Sepheroth is finite as it has limits. The three zahzahot = three hidden behinot of Kether in Ein-Soph. Therefor, there is no natural boundary between Ein-Soph and Kether and there is a behinot of Kether within Kether within Kether infinitely, but never reach an identity with the Emanator.
The Two Symbolic Modes of Sepheroth Reaching Light to Other Sepheroth:
1. Reflected Light:The is a light which is reflected back from the lower Sepheroth to the higSupreme Generational Multi-Level Forcer Sepherothoth and the reflected light can reascend from any Sepheroth to any higher Sepherothoth. It stimulates differentiation of a greater and greater number of behinot in each Sepheroth to which it reflects back and in doing so facilitates consolidation of potencies and consolidation of behinot of judgement, through its ability to create contraction.
2. Channels: There are specific relationships of radiated light between certain Sepheroth. The is considered a channel (zinnor). The channeling of light is entirely different from emanation. Here there is a process which reverses and counter-reverses cause and effect. There can be "breaks" in the return flow of light from below which has been called breaks in the channels (sevirat ha-zinnorat).
Schematic Order of Sepheroth:
O
O O
O O
O
O O
O
O
The Intellectual Sepheroth (ha-muskal):
Kether Elyon ( The Highest Crown): Zero. Primordial Aura
Hokhman (Wisdom): Primordial Point; the intermediatary between nothingness and being. The Supernal Mother. The Palace is the Womb which through fertilization brings forth the children.
[Daath (Knowledge of the Abyss)]: An "invisible Sepheroth, which was added to the original system of ten Sepheroth during the 13th century.
Binah (Wisdom): The Point Expands Itself Into a Circle
The Psychic Sepheroth (ha-murgash):
Gedulllah (Greatness) or Chesed (Love):
Gevurah (Power) or Din (Judgement)
Tiphereth ( Beauty) or Rahamin (Compassion)
The Sepheroth of Nature (ha-murtha):
Natzach ( Lasting Endurance)
Hod ( Majesty)
Zaddik (Righteous One)
Yesod Olam (Foundations of the World)
Malkuth (Kingdom) or Atarah (Diadem)
Isaac Luria -aka- Isaac De Loria -aka- Isaac Ashkenazi of Luria (1534 - July 15, 1572);
Isaac De Luria's father was a member of the Ashkenazi family which originally came from Poland or Germany. His father emigrated to Jerusalem and married into the Sephardi Frances family. His father died when he was a child (probably about the age of 7 years) and his mother took him to Egypt, where he was brought up and educated by his mother's brother, Mordecai Frances, a well-to-do tax-gatherer. Luria studied under David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra and Bezalel Ashkenazi. With the latter, Luria collaborated on a book, Shitate Mekubbezet and a tractate, Zevahim, (which almost two centuries later in 1735, was burned in Izmir.)
Luria retired to of the island Jazirat al-Rawda on the Nile near Cairo. This island was owned by his uncle, who was, also, his father-in-law.
Generally, Isaac Luria did not publicly teach, but we know that he had at least 30 students. In the neighborhood of Safed, he would take long walks with his closest students. He was known as a holy man who possessed the Holy Spirit and had been given the revelation of Elijah. He taught orally, instructing his students in his own system of theoretical Qabbala and how to communicate with the Zaddikim or The Community of the Souls of the Righteous through a process of unification of the Sepheroth and specific tantric-like exercises of meditative concentration on certain divine names and certain combinations of these divine names, and by means of Kavvanah or the creation of meditation and reflection within the act of prayer.
Luria did not teach in any specific sequence of thinking. Whatever came to mind at the time was what then was taught. He died during an epidemic in Safed.
The main chroniclers of Luria's teachings and ideas were:
1.)Moses Jonah of Safed in his work Kanfei Yonah;
2.)Joseph ibn Tabul who divided Luria's teachings into derushim or disquiisitions, which still exist in manuscript;
3.)Hayyim Vital rendered all of Luria's ideas in great detail and according to his own system of classification: Ez Hayyim (The Tree of Life) He, himself wrote four variants of this book. It contains Lurias teachings (as remembered) from 1573 to 1576.
A.) All material written in Luria's handwriting.
B.) Sha'ar ha-Derushim: the systematic presentaion of Luria's Qabbalistic thinking and ideas.
C.) Sha'ar ha-Pesukim: Explanations of Biblical passages in the same sequential order as the Old Testament.
D.) Sha'ar ha-gilgulim: The mystical doctrine of metempsychosis (Gilgul);
E.) Sha'ar ha-Kavannot: An in-depth explanation of the mystical practices and meditative states within and for prayer (Kavannot ha-tiffilah).
F.) Sha'ar ha-Mizvot: The forms of reasoning within religious precepts.
G.) Tikkunei avonot: The doctrine of atonement of sins.
H ) Yihudim: Instructions for creating one's mystical "unifications" (transmitted individually to each student by Luria himself).
Other versions proposed other "Gates" and categories and there has been much disagreement over what is genuine Lurianic Qabbalism.
Lurianic Qabbalism:
Luria believed that the primal action of Ein-Soph was not emanation and revelation, but instead, it was the action of limitation and concealment. The true essence of Ein-Soph leaves no place for creation, because it is impossible to visual or mentally construct any area or place which is not Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force, because to do so would place limitations upon Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force's own Infinity. Thus an any primal act of creation is only possible through "the entry of Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force into Himself" or Zimzum in which He contracts Himself and socreates the possibility for something, not Ein-Soph (Itself) to exist. This retreat of the Supreme Generational Multi-Level Forcehead, preceeds any emanation. From Supreme Generational Multi-Level Forces point of view, one would try to imagine Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force merely contracting from a small point, while from a human view, Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force would be contracting from all levels of existence, both spiritual and material.
According to Luira,before Zimzum,all the forces of Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force were contained within His Own Infinite Self; completely in balance and without separation. When Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force's Primal Intention to create the Universe began, Ein-Soph came together with the motions which create Din or Judgement, and Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force's first known activity was that of judgement and self-limitationand this process was to continue through progressive extraction and catharsis of Judgement (Din) intermingled in an ununderstanable pattern with the remnants of light of Ein-Soph which had remained like drops of water in an newly emptied vessel. . This is the hylic aspect of the future universe. In this condition, ther descends Yod, which contains a "cosmic measure" (kav ha-middah) which is the power of organization and formation. This power is part of the attribute of overflowing mercy (Rahamin).
Creation is a double activity; the Emanator acts as both receptive substratum through the light of the Reshimu and is a form-giving force which descends from the essence of Ein-Soph to create order within its own non-order. Thus both subject and object on all planes, all times, and all things, and more beyond thought itself have their origin in Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force, but were differentiated by Zimzum. This process creates recepticals or vessels (kelim) in which the Divine Essence that remained in primordial space is precipatated out; First this takes place hylically in the Container of "Primordial Air or Avir Kadmon; next this form of Divine Essence become "clearer" in the Container of Primordial Man or Adam Kadmon.
At the beginning of the text Ez Hayyim there is a description of a process whereby an absoulute vacuum was created within Ein-Soph, into which emanated a ray of light which filled this vacuum with Ten Sepheroth. Since the Zimzum took place equally on all sides, the vacuum had to be circular, or more properly spherical. The light which had entered this vacuum, entered it in a straight line and arranged itself as both concentric circles and as a unilinear structure.
This unilinear structure and concentric circles is the form of Adam Kadmon le-khol ha-kedumin or The Primordial Man Which (or Who) Preceeded All Other Primordial Anythings. This double rhythm of concentric circles and unilinear design is necessary for the creation of all things. This is how our universe works. And it is a gift of Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force's Mercy. This process is given rhythm by the ascent of Ein-Soph into Itself and its partial descent into Zimzum; the expanding outward of Ein-Soph and its desire to return to Itself; Hipashtut or Egression and Histalkut or Regression.
Within these Containers is an Inner Light and around these Containers is a Surrounding Light.. In his fascination with the struture of the spiritual world, Isaac Luria speaks of Kelakut or the structural totality of the forces of emanation and Peratut or the individuality of each power active within the overall structure.
At first, Luria did not differentiate between Ein-Soph and Light. Later, he argued that there was subtle differentiation between Ein-Soph and Light in that Light was the Will of Ein-Soph and thereby possessed Zimzum, whereas Ein-Soph possessed Light.
Zimzum was preceeded by even more subtle processes. In the beginning, Ein-Soph took pleasure in its own autarkic self-sufficiency. This Pleasure created a Shaking (Ni'anu'a) which is the movement of Ein Soph within Itself. This movement or Shaking "from Itself to Itself" aroused the still-indistinguishable root of Din (Justice) still combined with Rahamin (Mercy). This Shaking or these Shakings caused Primordial Points to be "engraved" in the power of Din and becoming the first forms to be within Ein Soph. The shapes of these engravings was primordial space or primordial spaces, which came into being as the end result of this process. The Light of Ein Soph, obviously "outside" and "around" these "engravings" acted upon these "marks" as "points" and the Ideal World came into existence. The "Hidden Law" which is within the "engravings" which produce reality, is active. It expresses itself, in some way through all things, through the power which went into Yod. The World of Points is known as Olim ha-Nekudot. At this stage, this World of Points is without definite structure and describes out beautifully in the descriptive symbolism of atomic physics and Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.
11. The Praticchyat Samutpada of Theravadin Buddhism
12. Mind Processes and Cognizers Within Tibetan Buddhism
13. Mind Processes and Spanda Energies Within Kashmir Shaivism
14. Alchemy: What The Hell Is Going On Here?
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KARMIC FRAME ONE: SOME CLASSICALLY EXPRESSED ROOT PATTERNS, USEFUL IN MYSTICAL & CONCEPTUAL THINKING
7. The Meaning of Meaning and Do We Watch What Our Mind Does?
REMNANTS OF THE PREHISTORIC IDENTIFICATION IN SAMENESS OF THE FEMALE VAGINA AND THE UNIVERSE AND THE FEMALE:
8. LAO TSU, THE TAO, AND EXPRESSING THE INFINITE LIFE FORCES OF THE VAGINA
The Dao is infinite and cannot be fully expressed in word or symbol. Time is often thought of as an analog condition of the Past as an entity moving further and further away from us and considered "finished", "a remembrance of things which had existed but are now gone, and the Future as an entity moving further and further away from us and into an analog condition called "not yet begun", "not considered at all, and and an unknown time so far away from us that it is either "not yet begun" and/or (in an infinited system) "never to be begun".
This viewpoint can be very depressing. Also, this viewpoint separates us from much of our own internal functions (esoteric, mental, and physical) both as "individuals" and as "group". This simple belief structure has influenced the human race in an unproductive manner for perhaps approximately 150,000 years or more. If there is an such things as Original Sin, Original Error, or Primal Error, then, it is this belief. It is a belief unproven and unuseful. It is a belief which few wish to challenge.
The predominant Chinese cultural view whether Confucian, Daoist, or Maoist is that Change Itself is made up of 2 Energy Principles which both attract and oppose one another (Yin and Yang) and a 3rd Condition (also seen as Conditional Force, and sometimes seen as Conditional Force with a Something which can be named Indeterminacy. If you take all of these thoughts and include all you experience, know, and see of your immediate and most extended environment - then this is a Small Part of what is called The Dao. This is the entire structure of the Yi King.
Interactions of these element work in a fluidity which contains: Predominance, Endless :hangingness; Disassociation in Immediate Closeness; Disassociation in Immediate Farness; Association in Immediate Closeness; and Association in Immediate Farness. These Aspects are included in the I Qing of King Wu and the later explainations of Confucius.
On a more mystical level these Six Aspects can be further interpretated thusly:
A fluidity which contains: Predominance, (in its near, intermediate distance, and far forms) Endless :Changingness; (as seen in its still, slow, intermediate speed, and fast forms) Disassociation in Immediate Closeness; (in its varied forms of Finished, Nearly Finished, Unfinished, Not Begun, Begun, Perceived Fully, Partially Perceived, Unperceived) Disassociation in Immediate Farness. (in its varied forms of Finished, Nearly Finished, Unfinished, Not Begun, Begun, Perceived Fully, Partially Perceived, Unperceived), Association in Immediate Closeness (in its varied forms of Finished, Nearly Finished, Unfinished, Not Begun, Begun, Perceived Fully, Partially Perceived, and Unperceived); and Association in Immediate Farnessits (in its varied forms of Finished, Nearly Finished, Unfinished, Not Begun, Begun, Perceived Fully, Partially Perceived, Unperceived).
Energies which are considered 'cosmic". "spiritual", "mystical", and "intuitive" are incarna5ted and reincarnated into the same, single lifetime of a human being as well as into other lifetimes and existences of a human being. The Western religions often call this situation: "The Voice of God".
The response of the "cosmic energies" to the human and the response of the human to these "cosmic energies" create what the Eastern Religions often call: "Karma".
All Worlds are Interweavings of an Incredible Complexity of Energy. The Complexity of Energy transcends its own antagonism [dialectic: Nagarjuna through Hegel] of Non-Completion and merges with Completion Itself, to form Relativity (Non-Competion + Completion), this inturn creates Quanta. Quanta appears and disappears. Quanta disappears and appears. It does this with the same frequency as does the continual recreation of Relativity. Both Quanta and Relativity are actual translations of the interweaving force and forces which support one another: Yin (Quanta;female force, and male orgasm) and Yang (Relativity, male force, and female orgasm).
9. THE PHALLUS IS BORN FROM THE VAGINA – CONFUCIUS’ THE UNWOBBLING PIVOT
Those born and instinctive with an understanding of the universe are of the highest form of humanity. Those who understand it as the result of study belong to the second highest type of humanity. Those who study the universe with some great or attendent difficulty are the third type of humanity. And those who find the universe too difficult to study or who refuse to study the universe, are the least form of humanity
Lin Yu: Chapter XVI # 9
There are some who create things without knowledge, but I am not of that type. After being taught much, I selected the very best and I followed it. I observed much and I remembered it. This is the knowledge of the rank of those who understand the universe as a result of study.
Lin Yu: Chapter VII, # 28
The Life and Times of Confucius (551-479 BC):
Confucius was born into a patriarchal, feudal society. At the time of his birth, "China's" only concept of social organization was that of a patriarch-ruled large family. Individual initiative had no sanction. "China", itself was a vertical hierarchy. The overseer at the top was only an overseer. Beneath him was an immediate inferior who, in turn, was overseer to those below him. Immediately below him, his inferiors were overseers to yet another level repeating this same process, until one reached the absolute bottom where there were only inferiors who were subject to all other levels of overseers.
At this time, the "Chinese" native religion recognized the ultimate overseer as Sky. Additionally, within the "Chinese" native religion, there existed the belief in the ghosts of the dead, and of course this included the ghosts of deceased ancestors; a multiplicity of divinities and immortals; demons; fairy-equivalents; as well as personified and individualized natural forces and specific objects. In some ways the native Chinese religion was a fundamentalist, simplified, and primitive equivalent of the religion of Ancient Egypt.
The "Chinese" world of Confucius was a world of small city-states centered at the valley of the Yellow River and its tributaries. Each state consisted of a countryside with sporadic small villages. As Confucian translator, Professor James R. Ware, succintly says: "There were no isolated farmhouses." Geographically, "China" was not the large empire it is today as it had not yet destroyed the sovereignty of Manchuria, Mongolia, and Tibet and commandered their land-mass..There was on-again, off-again local warfare between these city states. A man belonged to one of these city-states, although it was possible (under certain circumstances) to emigrate to a different city-state. There was a loose confederation, which, remarkably, held together.
During this period, the "Chinese" people held the viewpoint that they were living under the rulership of their third central authority. Prior to 1100 BC, they had lived under the Yin or Shang Dynasty. Ca. 1100 BC on, they had lived under the Chou Dynasty. By 500 BC, the Chou Dynasty was self-destructing and for the next 250 years (until approximately 250 BC), all the powerful families did whatever they could to gain the royal succession. Ultimately, the northwest state of Ch'in won this fre-for-all. Ultimately, the Ch'in family name became the state name - "China" Prior to this time, the "Chinese" called their confederated country, Chung-kuo or The Middle Kingdom, which was an expression crucial to their own scientifically limited and supernaturally oriented view of geography.
It seems that Confucius held no particular post within his country's hierarchy. Perhaps, whole aspects of his intelligence were considered too radical, too strange, or too inovative. We may find this hard to believe, but we must remember that The Middle Kingdom, stressed stability in a very static form (again similiar to the Ancient Egyptians) and democratic rights as well as innovation were anathema to their culture. Abundant and obvious evidence supports this. Confucius did make the statement that even a man who simply leads a moral and ethical life can be considered an office-holder, and in so making this statement pressages the concept of democracy "where all men are created equal" which has come to mean "all people of any gender are created equal and endowed with equal rights".
It is important to note that the ancient state of Ch'in believed in an exact legalism. The law was to be applied without exceptions according to a predetermined set of rules and regulations which included exact prescribed penalties for their violation. There were never any exceptions to the rule and no adjustments to individual interests. The Ch'in interpreted any other group which talked of subtleties of situation causing the need for compassionate exceptions as merely a weakness bordering upon criminality.
This cold legalism combined with conquest and intrigue was the foundation for the Ch'in's acts of power. It is interesting to note that the founder's family came into power in 221 BC, remaining in power for no more than 15 years, as their attitude was found unacceptable to the vast majority of people. Within the central capital of this new empire, there appeared large numbers of people who were willing and anxious to express their complete disagreement with the implimented unnatural and cold Ch'in legalism. There was a revolt which lasted until 202 BC with the founding of the Han Dynasty. During the next 50 years, it consolidated the new empire. The Han Dynasty lasted until 220 AD.
The Han Dynasty rejected the earlier Ch'in Dynasty ideas and began to investigae the writing s of the many teachers and thinkers who had lived prior to the Ch'in Dynasty. Confucius became revered as The Great Ancestor and any writings even associated tangentially, were held in reverence.
By 100 BC, Confucius was commonly known as The First Teacher and The Wisest Man of Wisdom. There developed 3 main schools of Confucian thought. Each school immortalized itself with its own versions of collected writings. these schools are: Mo Tzu, Meng Tzu, and Hsun Tzu. The school of Meng Tzu or Mencius became the "Chinese Orthodoxy" as well as the 13th and final Confucian Canon approxiamtely 100 AD.
Over a period of time, the subtleties of Confucian thought were lost and a fundamentalist and elaborationist orthodoxy became dominant. Unfortunately, this fundamentalist orthodoxy became to exhibit many of the characteristics of the earlier Ch'in Dynasty legalism and also various early static behaviours and attitudes.
The Stone Classics and Confucisn Texts:
The Chinese ideogram for the word Classic is an ideogram coming from the craft of weaving. Its literal translation is Warp, which is the initial yarn or thread used on a loom to support the woof which is the totality of the yarn or thread running under-and-over (at a 90 degree angle) the original yarn or thread of the warp. Thus the Warp or the Classic is the initial form/structure which makes it possible for the necessary secondary action of a completion.
There are 13 Classics:
1.) The Changes (I Ching): The popular system of divination based upon 64 hexagrams.
2.) The Writings of Old: Praise for ancestors and fragments of dramas concerning ancestors. Traditionally, Confucius was the editor of this work.
3.) The Poems : References to everyday life and legendary history and behaviours.
4.) Notes on the Rites (Li Chi): A collection of various observations
5.)Ceremonials (I Li)
6.) Chou Li: concerns the bureaucratic orgainzation of the Chou Dynasty 100-250BC. Not compiled by Confucius.
7.)The Year Annals aka The Spring and the Autumn Annals (Ch'un Ch'iu): A rough chronology of political events and natural phenomena 722-481 BC as seen from the city-state of Lu. As he had access to the state archives, tradition maintains that Confucius wrote this and Commentary Tso Chuan.
8.) Kung-Yang Chuan: Commentary to the Annals.
9.) Ku-Liang Chuan [Commentary to the Annals].
10.) The Sayings of Confucius (Lun Yu)
11.) Hsiao Ching: an extremely short dramatized conversation conerning the duty of a son to his father. Not written by Confucius.
12.) Erh Ya (untranslatable): Glosses upon conceptually difficult texts and their ideas.
13.) Mencius: Focused upon the life, travels, and wordy-egotistical sayings and ideas of Mencius (372-289 BC) and clearly shows the deep and fundamental conflicts of thought of the various Confucian schools.
Between 175 and 183 AD, the Chinese Han dynasty created a carved stone edition of Kung Fu Tse (better known as Confucius) and the writers he had influenced. These tablets were kept at the Imperial Academy.
Between the years 240 and 249 AD, the Wei dynasty implanted its own monument of these "Stone Classics" by the side of the Han stone carvings at Lo-yang. These Wei dynasty carvings were inscribed with three different forms of Chinese calligraphy.
In the year 518 AD, these "Stone Classics" were broken up and used for building materials. During the 20th century. 46 fragments of the Han carvings stone tablets were known to exist and of the Wei carvings, only 140 fragments of the original 35 stones were known to exist.
During the period 833-837 AD, the T'ang dynasty carved a "Stone Classics" edition of 227 stones. Each stone meausred 6 feet tall and 2 feet wide. They were set up at the Imperial Academy in Ch'ang-an..
In the year 938 AD, the Shu dynasty began a new complete set of Confucian stone carvings, which was completed during the Sung dynasty in 1124 AD. This was the most ambitious project. It was to include every Confucian and Confucian-influenced text. More than 1,000 stones were needed. By the early part of the 20th century, not one stone or fragment of this "edition" was still known to exist. However, shortly after the completion of this project, rubbings had been made from these stones, many of which still exist. These rubbings were used as the basis for the creation of the first printed "Classic"or Confucius and Confucius-influenced books. Following this, other editions of the "Stone Classics" were produced: 1042-1061 AD at Hang-chou, a second edition by the Sung dynasty; 1791-1794, the Emperor Ch'ien-lung of the Ch'ing (Manchu) dynasty set up 189 stones, which still exist in Beijing.
Within this canon of "Stone Classics" is one sub-text from the Notes on the Rites or Li Chi entitled The Unwobbling Pivot or Chung Yung . This is the surprise text of Confucius. This is the only really overt, "in-you-face" Confucian text concerning metaphysics, or mystical religion.
The word Chung means what is not bent to one or another sides. The word Yung means unchanging. The two ideograms Chung and Yung clearly represent a process in motion; a series of turnings or movements around a still central force. The Unwobbling Pivot was originally written down on bamboo tablets by Tsze Sze and later came into the possession of Mencius.
Why Did Confucius Write As He Did?
Confucius clearly saw that human society could be ignorant, bigotted, unfair, violent, out-of-control, and self-destructive. He saw, also, that human society could be intelligent, fair, peaceful, orderly, and productive. Mankind had choice in the matter. Mankind could follow the Flow of Life Force. Mankind could obey the Process-Dictates of Heaven. Or mankind could ignore them.
First and foremost, Confucius was an educator who wished to teach those who controlled any and all education and those who controlled the daily powers of exchange, law, etc. His desire was to create order and fairness, through an educational process which was based upon his ideas of the Unwobbling Pivot. This whole conceptualization came from an inner need to demonstrate the order can exist, it must exist, and it must be fair. By following, this route with speed, intelligence, a base-line understanding of the Unwobbling Pivot, and compassion and love, that humanity could avoid, or better "retire" from the sort of behaviour which often led to negative and out-of-control situation which. if left unchecked, would lead to apocalyptic events and situations.
He understood that evolutionary or "positive-apocalyptic" change would take place as people found themselves in continuing fluid relationships with the reality of the Unwobbling Pivot, but he could not (or chose not to) bring into full reality, either conceptually or materially, the fact that his very philosophy would destroy the very society it was meant to serve (China being very static, very hierarchical, and unresponsive to wildly new ideas).
Confucius' writings which delineate various rules and ways of doing specific things, must, in many cases, be considered a separate literature, and a separate philosophy to be used in a temporary fashion until the culture was truly ready to understand his most important text, The Unwobbling Pivot. Until this social understanding occured, his "temporary philosophy" would allow conditions for minimizing the problems and social damage of a static, xenophobic society, and perhaps this temporary philosophy" could be the "carrier-wave" through time to keep in existence (and with the future possibility of implimentaion), his greatest text. Even today, with the possibility of some textual destruction and later clumsy and contradictory additions, the true wisdom of Confucius is still clear and fresh enough to use as we approach the end-game of a dissociated world culture, totally conflicted in its desire and fear to move forward and its desire and fear to stay the same. It is this apocalyptic underpinning that is addressed so well in the Confucian legacy of The Unwobbling Pivot.
The Madman of Ch'u, Lu T'ung, passed by Confucius and sang: "O phoenix. O how excellence has declined! yet it is not right to seed blame for what has passed because we have yet to overtake the future. In the meantime, things are as they are. Those who run our government today are dangerous.
Confucius stepped out of his carriage, wanting to speak to him. But this Madman of Chu ran away so quickly that Confucius was not able to talk with him.
Lin Yu: Chapter XVIII, #5
The Stone Classics and Confucisn Texts:
The Chinese ideogram for the word Classic is an ideogram coming from the craft of weaving. Its literal translation is Warp, which is the initial yarn or thread used on a loom to support the woof which is the totality of the yarn or thread running under-and-over (at a 90 degree angle) the original yarn or thread of the warp. Thus the Warp or the Classic is the initial form/structure which makes it possible for the necessary secondary action of a completion.
There are 13 Classics:
1.) The Changes (I Ching): The popular system of divination based upon 64 hexagrams.
2.) The Writings of Old: Praise for ancestors and fragments of dramas concerning ancestors. Traditionally, Confucius was the editor of this work.
3.) The Poems : References to everyday life and legendary history and behaviours.
4.) Notes on the Rites (Li Chi): A collection of various observations
5.)Ceremonials (I Li)
6.) Chou Li: concerns the bureaucratic orgainzation of the Chou Dynasty 100-250BC. Not compiled by Confucius.
7.)The Year Annals aka The Spring and the Autumn Annals (Ch'un Ch'iu): A rough chronology of political events and natural phenomena 722-481 BC as seen from the city-state of Lu. As he had access to the state archives, tradition maintains that Confucius wrote this and Commentary Tso Chuan.
8.) Kung-Yang Chuan: Commentary to the Annals.
9.) Ku-Liang Chuan [Commentary to the Annals].
10.) The Sayings of Confucius (Lun Yu)
11.) Hsiao Ching: an extremely short dramatized conversation conerning the duty of a son to his father. Not written by Confucius.
12.) Erh Ya (untranslatable): Glosses upon conceptually difficult texts and their ideas.
13.) Mencius: Focused upon the life, travels, and wordy-egotistical sayings and ideas of Mencius (372-289 BC) and clearly shows the deep and fundamental conflicts of thought of the various Confucian schools.
Between 175 and 183 AD, the Chinese Han dynasty created a carved stone edition of Kung Fu Tse (better known as Confucius) and the writers he had influenced. These tablets were kept at the Imperial Academy.
Between the years 240 and 249 AD, the Wei dynasty implanted its own monument of these "Stone Classics" by the side of the Han stone carvings at Lo-yang. These Wei dynasty carvings were inscribed with three different forms of Chinese calligraphy.
In the year 518 AD, these "Stone Classics" were broken up and used for building materials. During the 20th century. 46 fragments of the Han carvings stone tablets were known to exist and of the Wei carvings, only 140 fragments of the original 35 stones were known to exist.
During the period 833-837 AD, the T'ang dynasty carved a "Stone Classics" edition of 227 stones. Each stone meausred 6 feet tall and 2 feet wide. They were set up at the Imperial Academy in Ch'ang-an..
In the year 938 AD, the Shu dynasty began a new complete set of Confucian stone carvings, which was completed during the Sung dynasty in 1124 AD. This was the most ambitious project. It was to include every Confucian and Confucian-influenced text. More than 1,000 stones were needed. By the early part of the 20th century, not one stone or fragment of this "edition" was still known to exist. However, shortly after the completion of this project, rubbings had been made from these stones, many of which still exist. These rubbings were used as the basis for the creation of the first printed "Classic"or Confucius and Confucius-influenced books. Following this, other editions of the "Stone Classics" were produced: 1042-1061 AD at Hang-chou, a second edition by the Sung dynasty; 1791-1794, the Emperor Ch'ien-lung of the Ch'ing (Manchu) dynasty set up 189 stones, which still exist in Beijing.
Within this canon of "Stone Classics" is one sub-text from the Notes on the Rites or Li Chi entitled The Unwobbling Pivot or Chung Yung . This is the surprise text of Confucius. This is the only really overt, "in-you-face" Confucian text concerning metaphysics, or mystical religion.
The word Chung means what is not bent to one or another sides. The word Yung means unchanging. The two ideograms Chung and Yung clearly represent a process in motion; a series of turnings or movements around a still central force. The Unwobbling Pivot was originally written down on bamboo tablets by Tsze Sze and later came into the possession of Mencius.
The Unwobbling Pivot
The Cosmos, Universe, or Omniverse has its own intrinsic nature.
This nature is sealed into the inside of itself, therefore we do not automatically know this process.
We can learn this process through a sub-process which we call true education or education.
This is an ongoing subprocess.
One is never outside of this process and one cannot become detached from this process.
To not be a piece of flotsam or jetsum within this process, an educational human must look into their own heart. B
By doing this a person can "give serious attention to things unheard".
The secrets of the heart are outwardly visible. What one wishes to conceal becomes obvious.
Even when entirely alone, the educational human must look into his/her heart.
For a human to be completely non-dominated (unnmoved) by any feeling, emotion, or attitude, he or she must be positioned in the axis (the unwobbling pivot).
To be moved by these emotions, feelings ideas, and attitudes, "in due degree" equals a condition called "being in harmony".
The Central Axis called The Unwobbling Pivot is the "great root of the Omniverse".
The harmony of directional movement is the Omniverse's "outspread and outspreading process" which we call existence.
Obviously, from this Root and Its Harmonies are established all we see and experience which we can categorize as those things of heaven and those things of earth.
[This is the entire basic premise of the text of The Unwobbling Pivot. From this point onwards, the text fills in details, gives examples, and expansion of the original definition and explanation.]
The educational human seeks and finds the Still Center and remains steadfast through all phenomena, experience, emotion, vision, thought, and consciousness of any kind.
The non-educational human creates , lives within, and expends his/her energy inacting as resistance to the multi-connected cycles of circulation which are the inevitable.
Few people can ever remain within this Still Center for long. Intellectuals are prone to going to extremes.
The average person does not have the interest, will-power, or vision to even attempt to think about, let alone enter the Still Center.
The person of some particular talent, overemphasize their own talent, and, thus, although understanding that the Still Center exists, perhaps even "seeing" it, they will overshoot their own goal.
Most people deal with isolated modules of experience or connected modules of experience.
Few people deal with process.
Few people can really "see" process.
Shun enjoyed asking people questions and equally enjoyed listening to their simple answers.
He ignored any and all moments and meanings of embedding conversational malice and collected in memory all which was good.
He observed all the out-of-control attitudes within peoples' daily expressions and followed a Middle Way which avoided Extremes or Harmonies so difficult to deal with that we would call them Disharmonies or the Opposites of Discord symbolized by the Northern and Southern Nodes of the Moon.
Many people say "Yes, I know", but whatever stillness they have, whatever educational attitude that they might have, usually lasts a very short time, usually less than one lunar period, perhaps, only a moment.
The Energy of the South is to teach with kindly benevolence and not become angry and not to create further unreasonableness when dealing with the unreasonableness of other people.
The educational person will make every attempt to gather and accumulate this specific energy.
The Energy of the North is the energy underlying voluntary poverty, to be able to give or to approach being able to give, one's own life for a protective cause.
People of good ethics who do not publicly display their good ethics, humble, or simple people will have an easier time than others in reaching the Still Center.
But not even the person of hihest wisdom can know All and in so doing know the Entire Process called The Unwobbling Pivot.
When the educational person uses the word Great, he/she means something which can never be contained.
When the educational person uses the word Minute, he/she means something which nothing can split.
Heaven and Earth are Great. Heaven and Earth can and do contain the Small and Less-Than-Great.
The Still Center is always near us.
It is reached by listening to our heart.
The essence of honesty always comes forth from the heart.
The honest person tries to maintain an identity of his/her words with his/her actions.
If we fail, we have created an error, which is to be corrected. The major problem is maintaining and building upon the error without correction.
The correction must take into account that the original error has changed the Ground of Correction Itself, and therefore, True Correction of Error will not be nor appear to be, the way things were before the error came into being.
One must be careful of extremes.
The educational person makes manifest their own seeing within a Clear Light and will not lust after, anything extraneous to his/her vision as comprehended within the act of seeing within their Clear Light (the Clear Light being the Same, but the educational person's position within the Clear Light being always slightly different from all past personal experiences and those positions and experiences of all others).
The educational person should never do anything which shuts him/her self off from the rest of him/her self and also makes this person themself unable to rejoin these "shut-off" aspects.
In the daily world of work, the educational person, when in a High Position does not mistreat his/her subordinates, and when in Low Position, does not flatter his/her superiors.
The educational person is always willing to act through self-correction and does not seek this corrective aspect from demanded positive support from others.
Never should there be resentment towards Heaven.
Never should their be bad sentiment among ourselves.
The Unwobbling Pivot will remain Stable. By rash actions, we only destablize ourselves.
They more we destabilize ourselves, our awareness of self-destablization decreases, and so we can reach the point of confusing and/or identifying self-destabilization with self-stabilization, and this process always takes place within the human, social setting, for if we are truly alone with ourselves, this process of "aloneness" will lead us back to moving into the interior process of communicating with our own heart, which is the path towards The Unwobbling Pivot.
The brightness of the Sunlight, shines down upon us as a multiple splendor.
The sunlight touches us, yet we cannot adequately describe Sunlight with a human word, nor can we hold it imprisoned within a box.
It is important to uses the rites of heaven and earth to honor the Great Creating-Force of Heaven.
It is important to remember and respect our ancestors for either doing good before us and being partt of our chain-into-birth, or, in other cases, not doing good, but nevertheless being part of our chain-into-birth. And in this process show love.
He/She who can understand the meaning and the inherent justice of the motions of understanding and the moving patterns of knowledge from within the Still Center and as harmonic behaviour outside of the Still Center can rule a situation or country as though he/she held clear light within his/her hand.
Sanity is based upon an understanding relationship of the Still Center and the harmonic movements around the Unwobbling Pivot. In power, this Sanity is identical to the force which allows the directly swift complexity-growth process of all aspects of Our Earth Below Heaven. Full-Use Talent is an aspect of this Sanity.
[due to the ideogram used in XX.5 of a sacrificial vase or vase of holy containment, it is not stated, but directly implied that the earliest nomadic culture known to Confucius, was a culture which could only see the law and justice of group or tribe as a condition of either mine or another's. The more sophisticated agricultural culture "sacrificed" the herded animal for their newer culture, broke the vase of holy containment, and began to think in more complex terms. Thus the original animal sacrifice may have been (at one point, at least) merely, the lowering or de-emphasizing in value of the herded, grazing animal as the primary food, food producer, and initial source for such other necessities as clothing, tools, etc. Implied, is the idea that philosophy of law and economics and "practicality" began with the conscious use of and cooperation with the Earth's ability of vegetable-usage. One can reference the Biblical Genesis story of Cain and Abel and well as the South Pacific Taro (Wild Yam) Cult. In the story of Cain and Abel, Abel's agricultural gift and gifting is superior to Cain's sacrifice of killing animal(s). This superiority is decreed by Jahweh Himself. As the judgement of God is extremely abstract to a person (Cain) who can only think in terms of either mine or another's, he kills Abel in order to transform the another's into his own mine. In the case of the Taro Cult, the practicioners who worshipped the inner force and spiritual entity-aspect of the wild yam, in an amazingly short period of time, ceated a well-organized social structure ferom virtually nothing and became strongly pacifist, even developing aspects of intra-cultural diversity (for Taro Cult see chapter on Cargo Cult).]
Affection for life creates courtesy within humans.
In a working social system this courtesy automatically honors all true and honest talent.
This allows the true and honest talent to feed and nurture the vital-positive-culture (which, of course, is always in a state of movement, never static)
[Here follows a disputed ideogram of a hunting dog and a bird under the grass. It is quite possible that this ideogram relates to the issue of a culture honoring all true and honest talent. To impliment this honoring, one must have knowledge of a fundamental subtlety. We search for the talent and/or the truth, without, necessarily, being able to see any model or having any prior experience for or of this model. In a manner of speaking for this talent and/or truth, we search in the dark as though blind. At the same time, through courtesy leading to knowledge, or knowledge leading to courtesy, or both our awareness of the Unwobbling Pivot and the energies which flow around it, allow our heart-insticnts to lead us correctly to the talent and/or truth.]
All reasonable mechanics of social systems are based upon knowledge, courtesy and compassion, and pure energy - all of which can exist only under the umbrella of genuine spirituality and all of which are indivisible and cannot exist separately.
Finally, genuine spirituality cannot exist without love, which is created by doing genuine, good practical things, such as learning, practicing charity, and dealing directly with one's own fears and the fears of others..
Hold in low or lesser esteem, all material riches. Hold in high esteem, the personal use by anyone, of looking with direct gaze into one's own heart, seeking the inner clarity which resides there.
[Then there follow quite a few specific injunctions which would hold true for the Chinese world within which Confucius lived. By today's standards many of these injunctions are either very obvious (too obvious to mention) or only were appropriate for those earlier times and conditions which Confucius personally experienced, including, to some degree having to guard his tongue from creating offense and thus endangering his life. Here are mentioned socials rules either obvious or obsolete.]
Sincerity is the Process of Heaven which produces Ethics.
A person who is Sincere can find the Unwobbling Pivot without using force against him/her self, and naturally moves into the mainstream of his/her own process.
He/She is in a condition where Goodness has seized power in the surrounding ten directions (of the person's form and life) of Up and Down; East, South, West, and North; South East, South-West, West-North, and North-East.
One does not walk away from one's own ignorance.
A stupid person can gain enlightenment.
A weak person can acquire energy.
Intelligence which comes from sincerity is inborn talent. Sincerity which comes from reason is education. But sincerity will create intelligence and the light of reason will create sincerity.
The highest and most absolute form of sincerity will fully develop one's inborn talent to its own completest form.
This can be visualized as a new fullness, completely filling the cup of oneself, which then displaces one's own cruder natures, which then allows one to practice of powerful condition of charity, which includes the aid to others in helping them come closer to the transformative and nutritive powers of Heaven-in-relation-to Earth, which, while it does not identify mankind with either Heaven or Earth, nor does it place mankind above Heaven or below Earth, nevertheless does make mankind unique.
It is important to speak clearly and completely and engage in clarifying activities.
In its highest aspect Clarifying Activity is without limit, does not stop within its own path or any other, does not stay, always endures, and seeks the smallest aspects of things.
A seed brings forth movements which are continuous, which we call growth. By this, ,the of Abstract/Primal-Solid is penetrated, and further development takes place as Primal-Light. This process creates the many aspects of our daily reality, including external things.
The Highest Full Aspect of Clarifying Activity is in its Own Intrinsic Nature. It is Unseen, yet creates Harmony. It Transforms Freely, yet is Unmoved. It Perfects through Its Very Existence.
There is no measuring the model for the Creation of Things.
The Celestial-Earthly process is lucent, giving light and comprehending light, extending transcendent of boundary and eternal. When we look at the sky, we see shining sparks or planets, stars, and meteorites. But what is beyond these sparks is not that of what can be thought of as a semi-abstract version of a corpse shut up within a cavern.
The power of light creates movement of the sparks, the movement of the sparks creates time, time create succession, and succession creates non-random/non-chaotic order.
The Visible Heaven is only one among many. Heavens.
Visible Order is only one among many orders.
Heaven and Heavenly Nature are always cooperative and combined and can be considered one entity, although, in reality, not bound by the concept nor any limited reality of Entity.
There is no end to Its Beauty.
15th BREATHING: IF YOU WANT TO DISRUPT HUMAN TIME, HERE IS HOW TO DO IT.
Its seems as though both Human Prehistory and Human History are seen through the single lense and identification of a continual progress towards reasonable, valid, and humane goals with increasing progress towards human personal and collective rights, greater knowledge, and greater and greater practical healing, etc. And, this progress continues, albeit at a much slower pace, even during times of catastrophe and war.
Obviously, there is some truth in this, but still whether it is David Hume, Georg Fredrich Hegel, Charles Darwin, Arnold Toynbee, Oswald Spengler, and whomever else, a main point has been missed. Even Karl Marx missed it. And that is that human history mimics the Right Brain – Left Brain synapse, where the synapse is hundreds, even thousands of years, and where the Brain-Mind relationship to Right-Left synapse can run the gamut from stupid to brilliant, compassionate to non-compassionate, and from sane to insane, this group-long range time mimicry functions as a “Hidden Culture”, Unconscious Impulse, “Hive-Mentality” (Dr. Timothy Leary), A Group Mimicing Mental Illness (Dr. Margaret Meade), or as a Series of Unconscious Group Assumptions Combined Totally With A Complete Structure of Group Emotional Response, and Points of Logical Blindness, and Perceptual Retardation.
In other words, patterned on Right-Brain – Left-Brain mental switching, the human race lives in a binary relationship to Time Itself – either + (Plus or 1 Positive) Time or –(Minus or 0 Negative) Time. The Plus Time Periods, the human race (or human subgroup) is “totally switched on” and using all of its abilities to the best of its ability OR in “half switched low” and using only some fraction of its abilities. At no time is ther implied either a Utopian World nor a Dante-esque Hell World.
When the World Culture is in a “Right-Brain” phase, to a large extent, Humanity is sane. Why? Because the Right Brain – that Mystical-Intuitive-Inspired and perhaps Genius (in the latin sense of the word genii) finds it relatively able to communicate with the Left-Brain Mentality and during this period, also, the Left-Brain Mentality finds it easier to both trust Itself and to trust the form of expression and delivery of information from the right brain. These “Right-Brain-Periods” are the periods of greatest invention, compassionate growth, intellectual development, and human evolution.
It appears that the right brain can remain detached and be a cool observer of the mechanations of the Limbic Brain, as well as be cooperative with the left brain.
Now when there is some for of internal human species disaster (which appears to be some very subtle inner mind “meltdown” triggered by various forms of too much stress and or a major disaster, related in an infinite number of different ways to the endangerment of food supplies, disease and plagues, monetary collapse, unforeseen weather changes (i.e. an ice age, etc), noise pollution, etc) throughout history.
At this point, the Cultural Collective Nervous Breakdown, appears to follow this pattern.
Neitzsche stumbled onto to part of this idea, but his own phobias and predjudices made him vere away from making the full discovery and wind up simply ranting against Abrahamic religions (Judaism and Christianity)
[The following is a blend of my ideas with those of Nietzsche in quotes from his Twilight of the Gods and The Antichrist (English, published by MacMillan & Co; London & New York; 1911) Comparison with his complete text will show that his idea now goes in a distinctly different direction].
In the Minus-Left Brain Period, “all the instincts of the subjugated and oppressed” and the traumatized “come to the fore:” Those groups who are the most mentally damaged by external events, create group collective belief systems which become an active attempt to literally be “killing time” by beginning, expanding, developing, creating secondary elaborations of “Sin, self-criticism, and conscience inquisition.
Here the ecstasy in the presence of a powerful being” (Asurnassipal II, Akhnaton, Moses, Buddha, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Jesus of Nabitea (aka Jesus of Nazareth), Constantine, Charlemagne, George Washington, Queen Victoria, Abraham Lincoln, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, and Television) treated as and believed in as “God” “is constantly maintained by means of prayer” or some form of masochistic “humbling” rather than True Spirituality , which often can be called “actual spiritual prayer” which is the exact opposite of the former “prayer” in every and all important ways, “While the highest thing is regarded as unattainable, as a gift, as an act of “grace”.
Here plain dealing is also entirely lacking; concealment and the darkened room…Here the body is dispised, hygiene is repudiated as sensual…” there is “…a certain spirit of cruelity towards one’s self and others…hatred of all those who do not share one’s own views; the will to persecute. Sombre and exciting ideas are in the foreground; the most coveted states and those endowed with the finest names are really epileptic in their nature…” there is mental confusion about how to create working and fair social systems which include all forms of compassionate diversity and there is “…a sort of concealed and secret competition with these…” socially compassionate systems and their representatives. There is implied and stated, active and passive “hatred of the intellect, of pride, of courage, freedom of intellectual libertinage…hatred of the senses, of the joys of the senses, and of joy in general.
These people may be called “…the submerged masses…exhausted men…Here, dissatisfaction with one’s own self, suffering through one’s self…is an inordinate desire for inflicting painfor a discharge of the inner tension in hostile deeds and ideas.” There is a need to master barbarism and barbaric acts…”torture in all its forms, sensual and non-sensual.” Social order is seen as the mastery of “…beasts of prey; its expedient to make them ill – to render feeble…” and thus tame “civilization”.
“The road to truth becomes the forbidden road…strong hope [becomes] a much greater stimulant than any joy could be. Sufferers must be sustained by a hope which no actuality can contradict – and which cannot even be realized…” It is the hope of a future life in a realm of perpetual Childhood…”
So, basically, the human race, in various geographies and times, forgets much of what its own functioning abilities are, and basically shuts of its collective intuition, and/or punishes those who don not shut down their intuition, and vilify and devil-ify any use of what Carl Jung called “the Dark Side of the Brain”. “The Burning Times” in Europe when millions upon millions of people were hanged or burned to death, or tortured to death is one such time when a large area of the planet hunted down Right-Brained, Intuitive, and Mystical people. This started in the 1000s AD period, crested from “1489 through the middle 1700s AD and we can still find examples of this as recently as 2003 AD.
By using Alchemical Yoga, Eastern Anutaratantra, Spell-Craft, various forms of Magick including Qabala and Planetary Magick,and just plain “down-home” Compassionate Living, we can interrupt this process, and “flip-flop” back into “Full-Use-Intelligence-And_Intuitional Postive Right Brain Culture. It need only take a minute, right now as you read this, to begin this process. This Yoga is: Just Understand That This Is So. QUite Simple.
This is the most fundamental and most powerful activity of understanding Alchemy as Invocation.
10. Qabala – Birth Corrections for the Male Father
Qabala, meaning The Tradition, is the high Supreme Generational Multi-Level Forcest mystical practice of the Supreme Generational Multi-Level Forcebrew religion in all of its manifestations and has its own well-defined and structured doctrine. There have been great Qabalistic philosopSupreme Generational Multi-Level Forcers, psychologists, metaphysicians, and mystics for at least 1,500 years, if not longer
It is probable that the Qabala conglomerated first picking up mystical bits and pieces from religious communes such as the one at Qumran; then adapting various ideas from Gnostic metaphysics, such as the Valentinian, Manachaen, and Neo-Pythagorean schools, as well as the Catholic Christian writer Dionysius and Pseudo Dionysius; next being extremely influenced by the Talmud, and at that point becoming much more rabbinically oriented, clear, and usable as an intuitional-symbolic structure for the understanding of the human mind, pure consciousness, and physical reality. Also, it was used for finding hidden meanings in texts, divination, and the attempt to create physical change through extraordinary means (or magic). Underlying the entire Qabalistc structure is the idea that for a creation of Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force, humanity has extraordinary freedom of activity and can switch and combine paradigms, and thus alter reality. Thus the Qabala is a "hands-on" tool for investigating and perhaps creating, evolutionary, scientific, perceptual, and apocalyptic change, but at the same time maintains its own inner balance as a hierarchical structure descending from HigSupreme Generational Multi-Level Forcest Being to Most Basic Knowledge.
In legend, the Qabala in legend dates back to the times of Adam, Abraham, and Moses. Beginnings of the Qabala are attributed to certain statements in the Dead Sea Scrolls circa 1st century BC or speculated (again through legend) to have begun with the teachings and writing attributed to Rabbi Nachunjah ben Hakana ( fl 75 AD), Rabbi Ismael ben Elisa (fl. 130 AD); and Simeon ben Yohai (fl 150 AD).
Texts from the period include:
1.) Othijoth de Rabbi Akiba: the separate letters of the Supreme Generational Multi-Level Forcebrew alphabet are given
a moral, religious, mystical, and dream-symbolic, nature within their existence.
2.) Schiur Komah: a determination of the greatness of the divine nature is in the
format of fantastic numeric and numeric/identity sequences are shown to be
living allegories. It is believed that the manuscript exists only partially.
3.) Supreme Generational Multi-Level Forcechaloth Rabbathi: the is the great treatise on Supreme Generational Multi-Level Forceavenly halls. It gives
methods for reaching mystical ecstasy and what these mystical-ecstatic states
are like.
4.) Gaon Hai: the listing of books containing magic and various amulets, magical
formulas, etc.
5.) Lost books - contents unknown: Sepheroth ha-Jaschar; Sepheroth ha-Rasim; Sepheroth ScSupreme Generational Multi-Level Forcem ben Noach.
The Sepheroth Yetzirah - Second Developmental Phase of Qabbalism:
It is reasonable to say that the earliest proven Qabalistic text is the Sepheroth Yeztirah.
The Sepheroth Yetzirah or Book of Formation concerns the beginning of the Univers with an overall cosmology of the beginning and active elements of appearances. In the book, words themselves and those specifics symbolized by those words create on holistic understanding which actually contains living-life itself. On a level of being greater than the alphabet-word-object-existence-experience are the categories of all that is a part of existence.
As part of the understanding of the greater level of being, there exist the numbers 1 to 10, preceeded by several versions of zero:
“Nothing” as Absolute
“Nothing” as only a Container of Pure Possibility
“Nothing” as the Precise Last Moment before Any Manifestation
And the 3-step version of zero as a whole gives a real existing absolute unity above the actual value of each and every number, and also, above all numbers per se.
The Four Elementary Numbers:
1 = Unity. The breath of the living Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force.
2 = The Spirit of Spirits and the voice into which the 22 letters as elements of things
come into being. Physically, breath represents the air.
3 = Primaeval Water of Chaos, developed from air. Supreme Generational Multi-Level Forcere is the separation of earth and
water.
4 = Primaeval Fire, developed from Primaeval Water. Fire in connection with Air and
Water procreates Supreme Generational Multi-Level Forceaven and the inhabitants of Supreme Generational Multi-Level Forceaven.
The Elementary Dimensions as Number:
5 = Supreme Generational Multi-Level Forceight.
6 = Depth.
7 = Eastern Direction.
8 = Western Direction.
9 = Northern Direction
10 = Southern Direction
The Sepheroth Yetzirah is an attempted demonstration that wSupreme Generational Multi-Level Forcen the 22 letters of the Supreme Generational Multi-Level Forcebrew alphabet connect with the 10 numbers (fundamental principles), being leaves isolation and comes into direct existence. The Pre-Existence and its hierarchical existences and Direct Existence and its Hierarchical Direct Existences are subject to much or continual change and the happens repeatedly. The event structure occurs in accordance with laws, counter-laws, and synthesis between laws and counter-laws. A modern example of the type of thinking is any and all versions of Super String Theory..
It is possible that the author of the Sepher Yetzirah was familiar with the philosophy of the Neo-Pythagoreans.
The Sepher Yezirah exists in two versions: a shorter one which usually is considered the book itself; and a longer version which is sometimes printed as an appendix. Both versions were in existence during the 10th century AD. The earliest known manuscript was found in the Cairo Genizah (11th century?) in the late 1890s.
In both versions, the book is divided into 6 chapters of mishnayot or halakhot which are terse statements presenting the anonymous author's absolute view which contains neither explanation or substantiation, and is easily ignored.
Where did the book come from and what is its date? Some scholars have said that it dates from the Geonic period: 700-1000 AD (Zunz, Graetz, BacSupreme Generational Multi-Level Forcer, Block, and others). Also, it was considered possible that the book had a strong Arab influence. Louis Ginsberg and other scholars dated its composition to the period 200-500 AD. Dr. Erich Bischoff dates the Sepher Yetzirah to the end of the 9th or beginning of the 10th century AD.
Graetz noted analogies between the Sepher Yezirah and the views of Markos the Gnostic of the school of Valentins. Some of the terms in the book are apparently transliterated from from Greek in which the term stoixeia indicates both elements and letters. The duality finds its expression in the Supreme Generational Multi-Level Forcebrew otiyyot yesod = elemental letters. The Sefer Yezirah contains the view of the 'sealing of the six extremities of the world by the six different combinations of the name YHW which occurs in the book as a n independent, fundamental name of Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force, equaling the Greek iow, a word which is frequently used in the Gnostic documents concerning religious and magical syncretism.
The idea that an act of creation was sealed with the name of the Supreme Generation Multi-Level Force is one of the earliest tenets of Merkabah mysticism as found in chapter 9 of ikhalot Rabbati, and also, is found in the Gnostic systems of thought. The Name which has the function to establish the Universe and defining fixed boundaries for the world, is found in Greek consisting of vowels instead of consonants.
The anonymous author of the Sepher Yezirah did not know the symbols for the Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force consist of Hebrew vowels and consonants which are both vowel letters and components of the Tetragrammaton. There are strong similarities between The Sepher Yezirah and Gnostic concepts during the first few centuries AD.
Delineated in more detail, the Sepher Yetzirah begins by declaring that the Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force’s Self-Transcendence created the Universe in 32 mysterous paths of wisdom. These 32 paths are defined as 10 Sefirot beli mah and the 22 elemental letters of the original Hebrew alphabet.
The 10 Sephirot are mental archetypal “spheres”, "seals", and aspects of the Living Universe. In the book, literally: the decade out of nothing...
The appearance of the ten sepheroth out of nothing is like a flash of lightning. The Intention of the Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force in this Transcendental-Default -Created Universe is in them, when they go and return; they run by Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force order, like a whirlwind and humble themselves before theSupreme Generational Multi-Level Force’s force of Transcendence....
The one-tenth part of existence out of nothing has its end linked to its beginning and its beginning linked to its end..."
They are as follows:
1.) Ru'ah: Breath/Spirit of the Living Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force... The articulate word of creative power, the spirit and the word are what we call the holy spirit..." that there is a primal intelligence which is the self-existing cause of all things and that the self-existing entity produces nonentities by a progression of effects and divine knowledge gives existence to all that exists and to all that does not exist.
Next by way of condensation:
2.)Air emanated from the Spirit and establishes the 22 consonants of language. Three of these consonant letters are fundamental letters or mothers, plus seven double and twelve simple consonants. The first consonant is the spirit.
Next by way of condensation: comes:
3.)Primitive Water "Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force says to the snow (coldness), be thou earth" (Job 37,6)."
Next by way of condensation comes:
4.) Fire or Ether. "Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force establishes by it, the Throne of Glory, the Seraphim, and Ophanim, the holy living creature and the angels, and of these three formed habitation, as it reads: 'Who made Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force angels spirits, Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force’s ministers a flaming fire.' (Psalm 104,4). Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force selected three consonants from the simple ones which are in the hidden secret of three mothers or first elements: Ru'ah, air, water, and ether or fire. The Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force sealed them with spirit and fastened them to Its great name and sealed with it 6 dimensions..." (in other words: space and six other dimensions emanated from ether or fire).
Next by way of condensation comes:
5.The sealed Supreme Generational Multi-Level Forceight.
Sealed with: [letter]
6.) The sealed Depth.
Sealed with: [Letter]
7.) The sealed East and the turned Forward.
Sealed with: [letter]
8.) The sealed West and the turned Backward
Sealed with: [letter]
9.) The sealed South and the turned to the Right
Sealed with: [letter]
10.)The sealed North and the turned to the Left
Sealed with [letter]
From the Rise of the Sepherothoth System to the Zohar:Third Developmental Phase of Qabbalism:
Ein Soph:
Ein-Soph is Absolute Perfection. There are no distinctions and no differentiations. Some qabbalists say also that there is no volition. It does not reveal itself in any way which would make knowledge of its Own Nature possible and is probably transcendent to and inaccessible by way of highest thought.
Ein-Soph is the First Cause of Infinity and is itself the very maintainer of the paradox. The Qabalist author of Ma'arekcet ha-Elohut propounded the idea that the entire canon of Supreme Generational Multi-Level Forcebraic texts and the Oral Law did not reference Ein-Soph and that perhaps some mystics had experienced a very small aspect of Ein-Soph.
In the writings of the Gerona qabbalists, there are a series of terms that try to deal with the beyond-concept concept of Ein-Soph:
ha-ta'alumah = the concealment of secrecy
ha-or ha-mit'allem = the concealed light;
yitron [=translation of Greek hyperousia] = superfluity;
mah sein ha-mahshavah masseget = that which thought cannot attain;
ha-ahdut ha-shavah = indistinguishable unity;;
ha-mahut = the essence.
Ein-Soph has been identified with Aristotle's Prime Cause and the Neoplatonic Root of All Roots.
From Ein-Soph there are Nine Lights of Thought and Manifestation which shine forth, ending the primal concealment. During the 1770s, the qabbalist Baruch Kosover observed that: Ein-Soph is not Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force proper name, but it is merely a world which symbolizes Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force complete concealment. It is not correct to say "Ein-Soph, blessed be Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force" or again; "may Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force be blessed because Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force cannot be blessed by our lips". (Ammud ha-Avodah; 1863; 211d).
The exact form of conceptualization of the single source of creation used by both the Sufis and the kabbalists shows a strong Neoplatonic influence.
Moses ben Jacob Cordovero known as Remak (1522-1570) mentions that the first active and passive steps in which Absolute Divinity goes forward to make itself accessible to human contemplation take place within the “remnants” [assuming that Transcendence does not imply, state, nor include Self-Destruction] of the Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force Itself and do not leave the category of the Divine.
Cordovero wrestled with the question of with the idea Supreme Generational Multi-Level Forcether the first "movement" of the Divine was towards the "outer world" or whether it was a "movement" inward of Ein-Soph, into the depths of itslef. Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force answer was that of Divine movement fowards the outer world. On the other hand, Isaac Luria held the view that the Divine's first movement was inward and augmented the answer with the further belief that all created things already have returned to their source in The Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force and that Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force returned into Itself prior to all creation..[which implies that the paradox exists that The Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force turned into Itself both Before or After Its Own Full Transcendence but before any Change into Universe Itself and that to reflect on this can be The Supreme Spiritual Experience].
Further, Luria said that within Ein-Soph were Spledours (zahzahot) which were higher than any emanation.
Qabalistic Emanation: What is it?
The emergence of Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force from being within Itself into an Active Creation is the foundation of the Sepheroth. Early qabbalists tended to believe that all creatures and creations below the level of the Sepherot, were created beings, who were arcetypally preexistant in the Sepheroth, and by necessity of their creation by the Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force, maintained a personal existence separate from Divine Existence, meaning that Self-Existence and Non-Self-Existence had basically collided and merge as one force within both Time and Non-Time.
The Gnostics in Castille, Spain manitained that emanation had potencies based upon name and color.
The author A. Franck said that the Qabala was a complete emanatist system in which emanation was an actual going forth of Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force's Own Substance and not merely as Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force's Demonstrated Power.. Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force drew Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force conclusions from Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force own higly sensitive readings and interpretations of The Sepheroth ha-Zohar and the writings of Isaac Luria.
Ayin:
Ayin is considered either part of a complex that includes Ein-Soph, or a creatio ex nihilo preceeding Ein-Soph, or the first true emanation of Ein-Soph
Perhaps the best definition of Ayin is that of David ben Abraham ha-Lavan in Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force Masoret ha-Berit (late 13th century AD) as having more being than any other being in the world, but since it is simple, and all other simple things are complex the Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force compared with its simplicity, can in its comparison, be called "nothing".
The Three Hidden Lights:
In a responsum attributed to Hai Gaon, it is stated that above all emanating powers, with the Prime Cause, there are three hidden lights which have no beginning and no end.. There is the primeval inner light and the two other lights are called mezuhzah or simply zah. The ne'lam as le-ein sof is a kabbalistic trinity. It preceeds all sepheroth.
Kether:
Most Qabalists believed and believe that Primal Will is eternal and thus part of Ein-Soph. This being accepted, the paradox is seen as Kether being externally Kether while being internally Ein-Soph.
Isaac ibn Latif (fl 1230-60 AD) talks of the Divine Will in the texts Ginzei ha-Melekh and Zurat ha-Olam:The Primordial Will is not totally identical with Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force, but is a garment clinging to all substance of the wearer on all sides...and was....the first thing to be emanated from the only preexistent being...
Hokhmah:
The higest aspect of Hokhmah or Wisdom is a concept called Haskel which is derived from Jeremiah 9:23. Haskel is divine understanding and the activity of Sekl which is divine intellect. Further, it is believed that the divine understanding can crystalize into wisdom specifics in Hokhmah. Gershom Scholem points out that these conceptualization was used one hundred years later by Meister Eckhardt who called it intelligere.
The Interrelation of Sepheroth to Itself and to Other Sepheroth:
Each Sepheroth comprises all others sucessively and these Sepheroth are infinitely reflected within themselves.There are aspects of each Spheroth that contain millions of worlds. Therefor, within each Sepheroth are other Spehroth and an inifinte number of aspects connected with each Sepheroth (behinot).
According to Cordovero, there are six aspects in each Sepheroth.
1.) The concealed aspect before its manifestation in the Sepheroth which emanates it.
2.) The aspect which is manifest and apparent in the emanating Sepheroth.
3.) The aspect which in which the Sepheroth itself, becomes manifest in its proper
interdependency in the Sepherothic emanation process.
4.) The aspect which allows the preceeding Sepheroth to give the appropriate power to
the Sepheroth in question, itself, and to then further the process through the emanation
and empowering of the subsequent Sepheroth.
5.) The aspect by which the Sepheroth acquires the appropriate power to emanate the
Sepheroth hidden within it to their manifest existence within its own essence.
6.) The aspect by which the following Sepheroth is emanated to its own place;
completing and rebeginning the entire cycle.
Each Sepheroth descends into itself. The process is infinite. Nevertheless the Sepheroth is finite as it has limits. The three zahzahot = three hidden behinot of Kether in Ein-Soph. Therefor, there is no natural boundary between Ein-Soph and Kether and there is a behinot of Kether within Kether within Kether infinitely, but never reach an identity with the Emanator.
The Two Symbolic Modes of Sepheroth Reaching Light to Other Sepheroth:
1. Reflected Light:The is a light which is reflected back from the lower Sepheroth to the higSupreme Generational Multi-Level Forcer Sepherothoth and the reflected light can reascend from any Sepheroth to any higher Sepherothoth. It stimulates differentiation of a greater and greater number of behinot in each Sepheroth to which it reflects back and in doing so facilitates consolidation of potencies and consolidation of behinot of judgement, through its ability to create contraction.
2. Channels: There are specific relationships of radiated light between certain Sepheroth. The is considered a channel (zinnor). The channeling of light is entirely different from emanation. Here there is a process which reverses and counter-reverses cause and effect. There can be "breaks" in the return flow of light from below which has been called breaks in the channels (sevirat ha-zinnorat).
Schematic Order of Sepheroth:
O
O O
O O
O
O O
O
O
The Intellectual Sepheroth (ha-muskal):
Kether Elyon ( The Highest Crown): Zero. Primordial Aura
Hokhman (Wisdom): Primordial Point; the intermediatary between nothingness and being. The Supernal Mother. The Palace is the Womb which through fertilization brings forth the children.
[Daath (Knowledge of the Abyss)]: An "invisible Sepheroth, which was added to the original system of ten Sepheroth during the 13th century.
Binah (Wisdom): The Point Expands Itself Into a Circle
The Psychic Sepheroth (ha-murgash):
Gedulllah (Greatness) or Chesed (Love):
Gevurah (Power) or Din (Judgement)
Tiphereth ( Beauty) or Rahamin (Compassion)
The Sepheroth of Nature (ha-murtha):
Natzach ( Lasting Endurance)
Hod ( Majesty)
Zaddik (Righteous One)
Yesod Olam (Foundations of the World)
Malkuth (Kingdom) or Atarah (Diadem)
Isaac Luria -aka- Isaac De Loria -aka- Isaac Ashkenazi of Luria (1534 - July 15, 1572);
Isaac De Luria's father was a member of the Ashkenazi family which originally came from Poland or Germany. His father emigrated to Jerusalem and married into the Sephardi Frances family. His father died when he was a child (probably about the age of 7 years) and his mother took him to Egypt, where he was brought up and educated by his mother's brother, Mordecai Frances, a well-to-do tax-gatherer. Luria studied under David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra and Bezalel Ashkenazi. With the latter, Luria collaborated on a book, Shitate Mekubbezet and a tractate, Zevahim, (which almost two centuries later in 1735, was burned in Izmir.)
Luria retired to of the island Jazirat al-Rawda on the Nile near Cairo. This island was owned by his uncle, who was, also, his father-in-law.
Generally, Isaac Luria did not publicly teach, but we know that he had at least 30 students. In the neighborhood of Safed, he would take long walks with his closest students. He was known as a holy man who possessed the Holy Spirit and had been given the revelation of Elijah. He taught orally, instructing his students in his own system of theoretical Qabbala and how to communicate with the Zaddikim or The Community of the Souls of the Righteous through a process of unification of the Sepheroth and specific tantric-like exercises of meditative concentration on certain divine names and certain combinations of these divine names, and by means of Kavvanah or the creation of meditation and reflection within the act of prayer.
Luria did not teach in any specific sequence of thinking. Whatever came to mind at the time was what then was taught. He died during an epidemic in Safed.
The main chroniclers of Luria's teachings and ideas were:
1.)Moses Jonah of Safed in his work Kanfei Yonah;
2.)Joseph ibn Tabul who divided Luria's teachings into derushim or disquiisitions, which still exist in manuscript;
3.)Hayyim Vital rendered all of Luria's ideas in great detail and according to his own system of classification: Ez Hayyim (The Tree of Life) He, himself wrote four variants of this book. It contains Lurias teachings (as remembered) from 1573 to 1576.
A.) All material written in Luria's handwriting.
B.) Sha'ar ha-Derushim: the systematic presentaion of Luria's Qabbalistic thinking and ideas.
C.) Sha'ar ha-Pesukim: Explanations of Biblical passages in the same sequential order as the Old Testament.
D.) Sha'ar ha-gilgulim: The mystical doctrine of metempsychosis (Gilgul);
E.) Sha'ar ha-Kavannot: An in-depth explanation of the mystical practices and meditative states within and for prayer (Kavannot ha-tiffilah).
F.) Sha'ar ha-Mizvot: The forms of reasoning within religious precepts.
G.) Tikkunei avonot: The doctrine of atonement of sins.
H ) Yihudim: Instructions for creating one's mystical "unifications" (transmitted individually to each student by Luria himself).
Other versions proposed other "Gates" and categories and there has been much disagreement over what is genuine Lurianic Qabbalism.
Lurianic Qabbalism:
Luria believed that the primal action of Ein-Soph was not emanation and revelation, but instead, it was the action of limitation and concealment. The true essence of Ein-Soph leaves no place for creation, because it is impossible to visual or mentally construct any area or place which is not Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force, because to do so would place limitations upon Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force's own Infinity. Thus an any primal act of creation is only possible through "the entry of Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force into Himself" or Zimzum in which He contracts Himself and socreates the possibility for something, not Ein-Soph (Itself) to exist. This retreat of the Supreme Generational Multi-Level Forcehead, preceeds any emanation. From Supreme Generational Multi-Level Forces point of view, one would try to imagine Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force merely contracting from a small point, while from a human view, Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force would be contracting from all levels of existence, both spiritual and material.
According to Luira,before Zimzum,all the forces of Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force were contained within His Own Infinite Self; completely in balance and without separation. When Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force's Primal Intention to create the Universe began, Ein-Soph came together with the motions which create Din or Judgement, and Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force's first known activity was that of judgement and self-limitationand this process was to continue through progressive extraction and catharsis of Judgement (Din) intermingled in an ununderstanable pattern with the remnants of light of Ein-Soph which had remained like drops of water in an newly emptied vessel. . This is the hylic aspect of the future universe. In this condition, ther descends Yod, which contains a "cosmic measure" (kav ha-middah) which is the power of organization and formation. This power is part of the attribute of overflowing mercy (Rahamin).
Creation is a double activity; the Emanator acts as both receptive substratum through the light of the Reshimu and is a form-giving force which descends from the essence of Ein-Soph to create order within its own non-order. Thus both subject and object on all planes, all times, and all things, and more beyond thought itself have their origin in Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force, but were differentiated by Zimzum. This process creates recepticals or vessels (kelim) in which the Divine Essence that remained in primordial space is precipatated out; First this takes place hylically in the Container of "Primordial Air or Avir Kadmon; next this form of Divine Essence become "clearer" in the Container of Primordial Man or Adam Kadmon.
At the beginning of the text Ez Hayyim there is a description of a process whereby an absoulute vacuum was created within Ein-Soph, into which emanated a ray of light which filled this vacuum with Ten Sepheroth. Since the Zimzum took place equally on all sides, the vacuum had to be circular, or more properly spherical. The light which had entered this vacuum, entered it in a straight line and arranged itself as both concentric circles and as a unilinear structure.
This unilinear structure and concentric circles is the form of Adam Kadmon le-khol ha-kedumin or The Primordial Man Which (or Who) Preceeded All Other Primordial Anythings. This double rhythm of concentric circles and unilinear design is necessary for the creation of all things. This is how our universe works. And it is a gift of Supreme Generational Multi-Level Force's Mercy. This process is given rhythm by the ascent of Ein-Soph into Itself and its partial descent into Zimzum; the expanding outward of Ein-Soph and its desire to return to Itself; Hipashtut or Egression and Histalkut or Regression.
Within these Containers is an Inner Light and around these Containers is a Surrounding Light.. In his fascination with the struture of the spiritual world, Isaac Luria speaks of Kelakut or the structural totality of the forces of emanation and Peratut or the individuality of each power active within the overall structure.
At first, Luria did not differentiate between Ein-Soph and Light. Later, he argued that there was subtle differentiation between Ein-Soph and Light in that Light was the Will of Ein-Soph and thereby possessed Zimzum, whereas Ein-Soph possessed Light.
Zimzum was preceeded by even more subtle processes. In the beginning, Ein-Soph took pleasure in its own autarkic self-sufficiency. This Pleasure created a Shaking (Ni'anu'a) which is the movement of Ein Soph within Itself. This movement or Shaking "from Itself to Itself" aroused the still-indistinguishable root of Din (Justice) still combined with Rahamin (Mercy). This Shaking or these Shakings caused Primordial Points to be "engraved" in the power of Din and becoming the first forms to be within Ein Soph. The shapes of these engravings was primordial space or primordial spaces, which came into being as the end result of this process. The Light of Ein Soph, obviously "outside" and "around" these "engravings" acted upon these "marks" as "points" and the Ideal World came into existence. The "Hidden Law" which is within the "engravings" which produce reality, is active. It expresses itself, in some way through all things, through the power which went into Yod. The World of Points is known as Olim ha-Nekudot. At this stage, this World of Points is without definite structure and describes out beautifully in the descriptive symbolism of atomic physics and Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.
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