From glass@xmission.com Thu Dec 29 21:41:07 1994 Received: from nova.unix.portal.com (nova.unix.portal.com [156.151.1.101]) by jobe.shell.portal.com (8.6.9/8.6.5) with ESMTP id VAA07395 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 1994 21:41:06 -0800 Received: from hobo.online.portal.com (hobo.online.portal.com [156.151.5.5]) by nova.unix.portal.com (8.6.9/8.6.5) with ESMTP id VAA04926 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 1994 21:41:05 -0800 Received: from xmission.xmission.com (xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by hobo.online.portal.com (8.6.7/8.6.5) with ESMTP id VAA17986 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 1994 21:41:03 -0800 Received: (from glass@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id UAA28614; Thu, 29 Dec 1994 20:46:29 -0700 Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 20:46:27 -0700 (MST) From: Glass To: tyagi@cup.portal.com Subject: Romans Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: OR Thousand-kim, hello! Here is a Roman Tree of Life. It makes no claims outside itself for being *the* Tree; that's work for later. This is just the first step, a dream of forests. The work you've presented on Romanized qabalistic tools is very interesting, and should (one hopes) provide a handy reality check for all those gentlemen who seem to've materialized recently around me who think they're hot shit because they broke the code of Liber Al. So they can dream a "new Aeon." We can all do that; everybody is at every moment the Princess of the old Aeon and the New. Hebrew gemetria works because we find it sacred enough to be useful (or vice versa). Roman gemetrias work the same way. The trick is dreaming a new Tree and a new Alphabet that are *interesting* enough to satisfy our own sense that yes, here is something sacred, miraculous, and surprising. Perhaps this is a hint to this Ars magica of yours, Tyagi. At some point, the magichian must turn away from both the crafter's tools and the scientist's _Big Book of 777 Tables_ and make an aesthetic judgement as to what shape the finished (art)Work will take, the Secret from the Stone, but I'm digressing. Judgement. The Aeon. Same card. There is no one Tree. There is a forest of trees; the interesting thing to me isn't when we find a Tree or an English gemetria and stop there. It's when we keep going into the forest, planting trees and chopping them down. It's *especially* when we finally stop to look at one tree for a little while, and it becomes our Tree, our suddenly-sacred Roadmap of the Universe in which are folded all things if we only had time and cleverness to look hard enough. That's when your walk through the forest becomes a poem. That's where art and interesting judgements are. Please keep me posted. I have very little on the topic to share at the moment, but am sure something will come up. Love ya babe, Zachchary the magichchchchian ch-ch-ch-chia ps of course, when you get a Roman gemetria hammered down to seal the old Crowley age of magich, it'll be time for the bright young things to start agitating for an ASChII gemetria, hyperdimensional pathways on the Tree in all the pretty flavors of the internet, an even more true universal alphabet. Better cut the brats off at the pass (if not the kneecaps) and hint towards it yourself.