The last member of my family to practice an unknown tradition passed a long time ago and his daughter didn't chose to accept the same ability during his life. My relatives are getting older and his story will die with them. I've been trying to find more info for years but I don't have much to go on besides stories from my grandmother. I'll share what I know about this relative (who I think is my great-great-great-Grandfather). I'll call him O.

1. O was alive probably mid to late 1800's to early 1900's.
2. The primary goal of what O practiced was healing.
3. He had a book he used. This was apparently lost in a fire generations later.
4. O most likely lived in Armenia or Turkey and was most likely ethnically Armenian. There's also a chance of at least part of the family practicing Judaism as my grandma says she would see a male member of the family wearing Tefillin to pray. She was raised Christian and her family moved to Russia before she was born as Armenians were being persecuted/discriminated in Turkey at the time.
5. The tradition was passed in a ritual where O's daughter (or granddaughter) would be tied to a tree and he would be tied to the other side. He would read something and she would stay there for the entire night 'experiencing all of the pain in the world' that he had also experienced. This would come in the form of negative hallucinations. I don't know if any substances were involved.
6. One 'easy thing' that one of his descendants (my great-grandma) could do was lift the evil eye. she would move her hands around the victim 'like reiki' while sighing and whispering the whole time. The energy came out through her absorbing it then sighing out
7. The first story I heard about O is that he performed a trick where he 'made a wave sweep through town' to trick a bully into taking off his clothes and running away, most likely some kind of illusion or hypnosis. This man was heckling him and O warned him to leave him alone or he would prove his ability.
8. My mother has always been lucid while she dreams. She has recurring dreams of rescuing/saving people that are very distressing. She has always been afraid of hospitals and cries easily if she visits one.
9. Without knowing about O or my mother's dreams, I became interested in lucid dreaming when I was around 13. As I started to get better at lucid dreaming, having many strange dreams along the way, I started to experience extreme episodes of sleep paralysis and developed insomnia as a result. After having recovered, I barely ever dream at all. I was raised non-religious although I was baptized.
10. I also remember leaving my body and playing in my room whilst sleeping when I was only 3 or 4 years old. This is one of my earliest memories and it's always been exceptionally clear.
11. I also just found out some family members on his side would practice basic forms of divination like reading coffee grounds, etc. and that both mother and grandmother had insomnia and would feel their dreams were meaningful.

Let me know if any of these things ring a bell. I think the tree ritual is the most unique part so I'm really seeking info about that. Thank you.

Has anyone read this book by Dion Fortune? I just read it and I am still scratching my head as to how -exactly- you are supposed to practice this book! Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks!

As the title says, I'm interesting in studying qabalah to fill those gaps that Christianity leaves as "Mystery of Faith". Even the concept of reincarnation as part of Tikkun is something that I am open to explore. I'm a big fan of Jacob Boheme and I can see a big influence of Hermetic Qabalah in his artworks and writtings. I was wondering which book is better to fill those cosmological and anthropological gaps: Duquette's Chicken Qabalah or Fortune's Mystical Qabalah? I would ideally read the former and then the latter, but time is a scarce resource for my right now :) I think the Zohar definitely covers what I am looking for, but it lacks the latter renaissance incorporation of Hermetic philosophy, plus it might not be suited at all for a beginner. Thoughts?

Sorry if this is the wrong sub. I thought it would be my best bet.

I have this idea for a book that involves a character needing to travel the Tree, going through each Sphere/Sephiroth, to get back home. I just don't know how the Spheres look or differ visually from each other. I only barely understand the meaning of each. I want to make sure I can show/write within reason and not go off the rails.

As the title suggests, I’m looking for the real legit books out there but practical books not just theory. What book completely changed your world after you practiced it?

Hello all! I've been studying Qabalah generally in the hermetic vein for the past year or so, and I am in a bit of a rut regarding the point on the tree of life wherein Motion or Change, also Time and Memory, enter into the picture.

To me it seems generally like the Supernal Triad is unchanging, itself providing the conditions for manifestation further down the tree. And then, below the Abyss, you have Chesed and Geburah - from the majority of sources I have read it seems that somewhere between Binah and Geburah the possibility of Change comes into play, but I get somewhat divergent interpretations, so am curious as to what you might think.

On the one hand, it would make sense for motion to already appear in Binah, given the association with Saturn, which includes the introduction of time and memory, as well as being a kind of receptacle for the dyadic Chokmah-Kether relation to persist, already implying a kind of ongoingness or durational quality here.

It would also seem logical for Motion to be allocated to Chesed, given its association with Jupiter and the demiurge God of Creation. If this is the first personality that can think of itself as such (given that it falls beneath the abyss), it would make sense for memory to occur here.

However, you then also have Crowley who says that Chesed marks the occurrence of Matter, and it is only in Geburah that Motion occurs.

Any thoughts on this? Thanks!

I am not sure how the correspondence occurs within the original Jewish system of mysticism, but common esoteric / modern Qabalah posits Daath to be an Abyss named Knowledge inhibiting the heart from obtaining Wisdom and Understanding. Wisdom being information of an objective nature, and understanding being its comprehension.

Wisdom is only thus, and only Understood, above the abyss of what I perceive to be the fallacy of certainty. Probability in a state of fluctuation according to the % of the data processed at once, never reaching certainty because an unobjective probability which results from applying familiarity emotion (pride) to an answer provided by intuited memory retrieved off an identification of security.

The data doesn't ever quite reflect a certain probability, because there is always at least the slightest chance one is missing some crucial clue that would throw the whole of the evidence in a new light. I suspect I exist is certain because enslaved to think so telepathically, as an example of a possibility positing missing data to the question of whether I exist. If you can't prove you're not enslaved telepathically, you could just be sure due to brainwashing.

And there is the refutation of the reliability of the senses, assuming one does exist: I could be in an effective virtual reality device by some means unknown to me, or hallucinating because of some mental disorder so vividly that the senses report various falsities to me.

But if pride is necessary to feel secure, one projects false surety onto all kinds of data so that one's opinion becomes stubborn, and below the quality claimed of the categories Wisdom or Understanding.

Many, in facing the Abyss of Knowledge, lacking emotion other than pride to feel secure in, surrender all hope and accept that Wisdom and Understanding do not exist - there is only the 50/50 roll of the dice. But to me, a probability, even a guess based upon intuitive memory if causality cannot be creatively explored, is better than a surrender.

A solution to intuitive memory filling in the blank with what is usually true in that situation would be to utilize one's heart to create a causal inference inspired by all available data. Doing so requires generating something new, instead of instinctively extracting information from memory.

Everything in life is אב, which in the Qabalah is symbolically a “named container”.

‎א = name (the Aleph as the Word)

‎ב = container (the Beth as a House)

All coding languages are built on the basis of shuffling around “named containers” (key-value pairs, where the key is the name and the value is the container).

You yourself are a named container, for you are a container with a name. You are actually many containers, as your body is a container for your soul which is a container for your spirit. There are many containers comprising the etheric sheaths of your subtle bodies.

Everything you eat is a named container, for the word “orange” is the name for a citrus fruit container that contains nutrients and sustenance.

Your car? Named container. Your house? Named container named as its street address. Your dog? A named container containing joy.

You cannot name anything that is not a named container, for the very act of naming is what helps contain the idea.

This entire Uni-Verse is a Container for the Name that is the Word. The Fabric of Space-Time is often associated with the Letter Beth and the Divine Word that speaks forth Creation is often associated with the Letter Aleph.

All of Manifestation is an intertwined dance between the twin pillars that are topped by the Sephiroth of Chokmah (into which the Path of A/א emanates) and Binah (into which the Path of B/ב emanates).

‎אב (AB) is also a Divine Name of the Sphere of Chokmah, which is the Life-Force of the Light (א) that flows through the Branches (ב) of its opposite Sphere of Binah.

This Mystery exists in reversal as BA is the container (B) that houses the contained (A) in the same way that a House (B) restrains and pacifies the Air (A) inside. AB and BA are both twin sides of this same Mystery.

The A and The B both emanate from Kether (which contains the primordial Pattern of the tip of the Seed of the Yod), and which is the Sphere that dictates the Data Structure (the Pattern) upon which the Key (A/Chokmah) and the Value (B/Binah) operate.

‎אב, AB, translates to “Father”, and all of Life is the interplay of the interwoven influences of Chokmah and Binah, of A and B, of AB, the Father, the Singular “I AM” Unity of Eternal Being at the center of the Pillar Polarities of A and B, working out ITs Divine Impulse upon the various manifestations of creation.

Hey everyone,
I've been looking for Zohar in Spanish (Obelisco Edition) in any of these formats: EPUB/MOBI/PDF all over the internet but I could not find it. I only found pdf photocopies of the first 3 issues. If anyone has all 26 issues could you send them to me?

Sorry if this kind of post is not allowed. I can remove it if the moderators ask me to do it.

Thank you so much

Raw video recording of deep trance hypnosis session, Quantum healing, Akashic records access, past lives regression and Higher Self conversation.

Subject experienced a past life in USA and then in India as a monk and healer and then back in USA teaching others. After death in last life his spiritual guide was showing him light interstellar map for travel in an instant to any place and time in creation.

"You are fulfilled, but still lost". "You were searching outside of yourself, although all was given to you." "There is no time to be selfish."

Fear of loving abundantly is creating blockages in connection with his Higher Self.

Higher Self told him how to continue with spiritual development in healing and teaching in current life. How to find a teacher and where to move to fully help others and live full life.

https://youtu.be/qDRD-nmkOww

Raw video recording of deep trance hypnosis session, spirit attachments removal, shamanic soul retrieval, Quantum healing, Akashic records access, "past" lives regression and Higher Self conversation.

• Subject discovered what is her mission in this lifetime looking at Earth from orbit
• Removing energetic cords and cables to toxic person, which was difficult to leave
• How to attract financial abundance
• How to connect with ancestors to gain strength
• Higher Self organized synchronized plan how to rescue subject from difficult low vibration life and this session was one part of this rescue action plan. Other event was planned for next day and another event in 2 days.

And much more!
https://youtu.be/v0I2cSoSItI

You sanctuary for grounding and protection - guided meditation and self hypnosis

I will guide you to go to the most beautiful place in the world: your sanctuary. There you will be able to ground yourself and receive energetical protection. Grounding and protection will dissipate any mental discomforts you may have, like anxiety, depression etc.

Practice while in comfortable position sitting or laying down with closed eyes. Use headphones, so the sound is coming to your both ears directly. This music will not work if you don’t use headphones and listen on both ears.

Do not listen to it while driving a car, operating any machinery or walking in the street.

https://youtu.be/lLYN611mO-M

There seems to be two main models of the tree of life, one has three paths connecting Malkuth with Hod, Yesod, and Netzach, while the other only has the one path connecting Malkuth with Yesod. In the second one with only one path for Malkuth, there are instead two paths connecting Da'at with four more sefirot. Why are there two different models of the tree of life, what is the history behind them, and which one is more correct?

I'm currently working the Tree of Life using Anita Kraft's "The Qabalah Workbook for Magicians" for context.

While working through some of the attributions to the individual sephira, I noticed that they separate astrological degrees from 1-30 with Binah, Chokmah and Chesed. Example: 1-10degrees of Aries is attributed to Chokmah and the Two of Wands.

Question: What is 0 degrees attributed to? Is it intentionally left out?

In astrological terms, a planet at 0 degrees would act out the pure essence of a sign - so is 0 degrees the Ace of Wands? Thus becoming attributed to Kether? Thoughts?

Not sure if this is off topic or not. If so, mods please delete.

I wrote a book about what went on working through Franz Bardon's third book Key to the True Kabbalah. The method Bardon utilized for this was the same one used by the Phoenicians, Egyptians and currently the Tibetans. It is an interesting technology.

The book is entitled Initial Experiences with the Kabbalah. It can be found here:

https://www.amazon.com/Initial-Experiences-Kabbalah-Rordan-Phobos-ebook/dp/B09J1WBPXC

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Hi everyone. I'm just Just starting to study the Qabalah and am a bit confused about something. Am I right in understanding from the point of view of a person, the microcosm, the pillars switch sides , i.e. The Pillar of Severity -- Binah, Chesed, and Hod are on the right side of the body instead of the left. This is what is states in the book I'm reading, The Mystic Qabalah by Dion Fortune, but some charts I've seen on the net suggest otherwise.

Excerpts of pathworking on The Holy Tree Of Life (THOTL), from Gray's Language of the Gods (2009).

11 - THOTOL B

This is the primal move from Spirit towards Matter by the way of Wisdom. This is the Path whereon we must come to terms with the Inner Wisdom we were born with, and must enrich by our experiences of each incarnation.

12 - THOTOL C

This is the path linking the Superself with the way to Life through the Principle of Understanding. Here we have an inheritance from the female side of our genetics enabling us to comprehend what Life is about, not so much by learning anything, but by being able to appreciate the inherent meaning of things because of an automatic response from our Inner depths corresponding to this level of the Tree

13 - THOTOL D

This is the Golden mean path of Life which plunges past the Supernal state of pure consciousness across the Abyss and emerges into a condition of Expressive Energy symbolised as Solar power manifesting in our universe. This Path crosses the Abyss by the Gate of Eternal Life, and here we have to recognise that every soul is indeed a Star, and every event we experience in Life should help us bring our Immortal Identities closer to consciousness.

14 - THOTOL F

This Path connects the Concepts of Wisdom and Understanding together on Supernal levels of Life, so it is concerned with a stream of pure consciousness we call Judgement. This faculty of accurately assessing, estimating and adjusting with any circumstance of condition of Cosmos is almost our highest ability. Here is blended the rational and intuitive side of our natures. Combined and concentrated into a single conscious ability of Judgement, those who walk its Inner way can travel from one end of Creation to the other. This is the Path where we have to acquire that faculty.

15 - THOTOL G

This Path is an Abyss-crosser by the Gate of Birth. Here we enter extended existence between Wisdom and Mercy via the birth-process. We have to learn here that Mercy and Wisdom should be used conjointly. This is a Path of Perfection whereon we must learn how to combine Wisdom and Love in order to make closer identification with the Divine Intention which animates us.

16 - THOTOL H

This is another Abyss-crosser by the Gate of Grace. Here we have to consider the Wisdom of living in beautiful Harmony and balance with Cosmos. Avoidance of extremes and keeping close to midway courses through them is the main message of this Path. So this is the Path whereon we should acquire the elements of common-sense which will allow us a maximum of freedom in Life within a minimum of peril to it. Here we learn how to handle potencies by balancing them against each other with advantage to ourselves. This is where we are taught the value of moderation in all things.

17 - THOTOL J

This Path crosses the Abyss from Understanding to Severity by the Gate of Death. Here we must discover the necessity for death as a complementary to birth. It lies between Understanding and Severity as a function of the "Economics of Existence”. This is the Path on which we have to come to terms with ideas of parting from our physical bodies so that we may make better progress along higher lines of living. In other words we must see death as our great Cosmic chance of improving our identities.

18 - THOTOL K

This is the last Abyss-crossing Path by the Way of Obligation. Here come those who are yet bound to incarnation mostly because of some duty they have either assumed or been obliged to accept in order to further the Cosmic cause of evolution towards Ultimate Perfection. Between Understanding and Harmony comes our final payment of Karmic debts and freedom from the last bonds binding us to continued material existence.

19 - THOTOL L

This Path between Mercy and Severity is the unequivocal one of plain Justice. The "stick and carrot" method of controlling human behaviour. This is where we learn what to do or not to do in order to align ourselves with the Laws of Life. This is the Path whereon we must come to terms with our self-made karma and sort out the compensatory mechanism of its cause-and-effect action in our lives.

20 - THOTOL M

This Path connects Mercy with Beauty. In combination, a firm quiet power which pervades everything and in the end overcomes all opposition or antagonism. On this Path we have to learn the real power of Patience and what can be achieved with its aid, even if we must wait one lifetime after another until eventual accomplishment of aims.

21 - THOTOL N

Another lovely Path, connecting Mercy to Victory or Achievement. The Tarot Empress links in here because this is where we have to learn how to govern our emotions, which is a major achievement in a human life.Rule of emotions mean full enjoyment of them under conscious control of their energies. "Love under Will”. This is a Path of great activity and excitement, whereon our feelings have to be exercised and controlled, like young colts becoming gradually accustomed to harness and making a good relationship with humans who feed and care for them.

22 - THOTOL P

The Path between Severity and Harmony, when Harmony can only be restored by some drastic or possibly desperate action. Maybe the sacrifice of one life for the sake of many, or the aversion of a major disaster by means of a minor one. Here it could mean the break-up of illusions in order to find Truth. The downfall of lies and deceits so that verity may come to light. A sort of safety-valve to relieve the pressures of living, or a blown fuse to protect delicate circuitry. This is the "overload cut-out" Path of Life, and the Blasted Tower makes a good Tarot symbol. Here we have to learn how to "blow off steam" safely and without wrecking our Life-structure or injuring others if possible, or at least with a minimum of damage if entirely unavoidable. We also have to learn that violence for its own sake or senseless destruction is never permissible, and nothing except restoration of seriously threatened Harmony and balance in Life ever justifies drastically energetic methods in dealing with situations. This is definitely a Path of such emergency procedures, demanding rapid action when required.

23 - THOTOL Q

Here is another tiresome yet necessary Path, between Severity and Glory or Honour. It is rightly symbolised by the Tarot Devil. He is the Spirit of Opposition met with by everyone during the course of their lives when nothing seems to go right, and Life itself seems apparently against ones best efforts and schemes. The Tarot Devil is also the Tester, whose adverse actions determine how we face up to trials and difficulties. Here we have to balance Honour against Stringency and learn how to combine them so as to steer a course through the oppositions and troubles Life throws at us, and emerge with a sense of spiritual glory. Here is where we should learn to distinguish between genuine Glory, and what human society usually substitutes for it. We should see him as Provoker and Challenger whom we shall have to outwit in our struggles against the adversities we encounter in Life.

24 - THOTOL R

This Path joins Victory to Beauty and is pleasantly personified in the Tarots by the Lovers. This is the Path where we should experience the wonders of real love between human souls, the almost unbelievable beauty and sense of an immortal achievement in conjoining Life-consciousness shared by souls of complementary polarity who find in each other what they need in themselves for the sake of progress toward Perfection. On this Path we have an opportunity to learn how Love triumphs over Death, and conquers by the power of its Beauty alone. "Amor omnia Vincit'' is a good motto here.

25 - THOTOL S

This Path is connecting Glory with Beauty, another splendid Lifeway. The Tarot symbol is the Chariot, which has so much meaning in the sense of spiritual travel throughout the whole Universe in search of Truth. Here is where we have to develop all the skills under the Sun in order to advance ourselves along the Line of Light leading to Divinity. This is the Path of technical ability in every field, scientific, mechanical, mathematical, electronic, and the crafts in general. Also of occult interests in the Hermetic way, such as ceremonial magic, Rosicrucianism, Masonry, and so forth. Scholarly and philosophic literature belongs to this Path, and so does academic humour. Whatever moves the mind to make definite journeys in pursuit of specific purposes is connected with this Path, which is for the investigator, not the dreamer.

26 - THOTOL T

This is an extremely important Path, being the middle section of the Middle Pillar conjoining Sun and Moon by the Beauty-Foundation connection. Since it is central to the Tree of Life scheme, it is well represented by the Solar Tarot Symbol. This is part of the Middle Pillar which demands an absolute and unequivocal sacrifice of all pseudo-self interests, and so unhesitating acceptance of the Supreme Self intention behind the individual being.

27 - THOTOL V

Here are linked the Principles of Victory and Glory. Emotion and intelligence joined. On this Path there is a constant swing between the heart and head directives of our lives, where facts and feelings are often in opposition as we try to strike a balance between them. The Path is truly shown as the Wheel of Fortune Tarot Trump. Here we have to learn as much as we can about the workings of this "wheel," and how to level out the inequalities and eventually emancipate ourselves from its fascinations. This is the Path whereon we have to start sorting ourselves out along the lines of Love and Luck. This is also where human men and women must learn to live with each other both intelligently and affectionately, for that makes the best bet for success in the lottery of marriage.

28 - THOTOL W

Here we are between Victory and the Foundation. A difficult Path, because we have to learn how to handle our dreams, beliefs, ideals connected with religion from the devotional aspect, romantic aspirations, and similar ideology. This is where we must find out how to live by instincts rather than reason. The Tarot Priestess symbolises this Path very accurately since it relies on emotional and instinctive reactions more than calculated considerations and cold logic. On this Path we must discover how to be "God-guided" by means of our feelings and reflective reactions with whatever we encounter in Life. This calls for great skill in mediation and meditation. On this particular Path we are supposed to develop the art of devotion to whatever Deity we desire close contact with through intense feeling for Its image. Here we have to deal with the basics of our Life-beliefs from the point of view - "I don’t know whether it is or not, but I feel it must be, and that decides the issue for me now." Faith based on feeling.

29 - THOTOL X

This Path links Victory to the Kingdom. Its Tarot Trump is the World, because this is where we must make up our minds whether we confine our consciousness purely to mundane affairs and not bother with esoteric investigations, or start looking for Life along lines leading out of earthly environments. This Path is the first step along the enjoyment of emotions and fulfilment of feelings. It is true that many experiences here may be ephemeral, and not of profound significance, but they are necessary to Life, and are part of our Perfection-process once we know how to evaluate and employ them properly. Without them we should not be proportionate examples of humanity. We are in this world to experience it and evolve until we learn how to live otherwise and emancipate ourselves from embodiment.

30 - THOTOL Y

This Path joins Glory to the Foundation. It is essentially a magical and ceremonial Path concerned with mind and reasoning processes. A Magician is a "Transformation Image," and therefore that is the Tarot Trump here. This is where we must reckon with reason in a magical manner, and learn how to make our minds serve our wills in our search for Truth. It is also a scientific Path in the sense that metaphysics are tackled more from a logical and reasonable angle than some high-flown and far-fetched approach by fantasy alone. Those travelling this Path often have a fondness for elaborate apparatus and they favour solid symbolism of a mechanical or electronic nature. Especially if this is liable to bewilder or impress others because of its alleged importance. This is the Path where we have to employ our creative talents inventively, so as to extend and expand our minds, also to improve our skills in mind-management. Here we learn truth by inference from our errors, which is quite a normal human procedure, though inadvisable to repeat ad nauseam.

31 - THOTOL Z

This penultimate Path between Glory and the Kingdom is that of Man the Scientific Seeker. Here we know nothing while we ask for everything, and go in search of secrets to make us successful in Life. Hence the Fool Tarot symbol, which really means the "Innocent," or non-knower at the start of a Quest. Here is the Path where we have to learn how to control the natural madness in mankind by means of earthly commonsense and rationality. The Fool is an apt symbol in many ways here, for Man is truly mad in many ways. Mad for money, power, sex, fame, admiration, and a million other seeds of self-destruction. So here is the Path whereon we are supposed to convert our natural foolishness into caution, and our innocence into experience. Simplicity and sophistry have to be blended in order to produce a reasonably intelligent human being who can get by in most of the ways we are likely to enter this world.

32 - THOTOL Th

At last the final Path on the Tree connecting Luna to Earth. The Tarot symbol is the Moon, and it represents our first struggles to lift our Inner selves away from earth-levels towards the Light of Truth behind our beings. This is the Path whereon we "see in a glass darkly," by the weaker Lunar Light, rather than risk being blinded by staring at the Sun directly. It is spiritually much safer to see things by reflection instead of losing our insight altogether by unwise exposure to radiation. This Path holds both gladness and sadness along its strange byways. It is a mixed and muddy Path, with many twists and turns, none leading to Truth, but all affording clues about where to look next.

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Gray, W., 2009. Language of the Gods.