Path: ultra.sonic.net!news From: tyagi@arkaotika.abyss.com (tyaginator) Newsgroups: alt.magick,alt.satanism,alt.divination,alt.magick.tyagi Subject: JVBeall: Geometrics and #231 Date: 27 Mar 1999 02:08:40 -0800 Organization: Sonoma Interconnect,Santa Rosa,CA(us),http://www.sonic.net Lines: 71 Message-ID: <7dian8$k6k@bolt.sonic.net> Reply-To: vincent@dmv.com (J.Vincent Beall) NNTP-Posting-Host: bolt.sonic.net X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.1 (NOV) Xref: ultra.sonic.net alt.magick:139552 alt.satanism:110520 alt.divination:13430 alt.magick.tyagi:16538 [from sacredlandscape@intuition.org: vincent@dmv.com (J.Vincent Beall)] Dan Washburn wrote: > Very neat stuff, Vincent. If I find anything more in the Sepher > Yetzirah that relates to our geometric modeling I'll let you know. > Have you come across the number 231 that appears there? Any thoughts? Well actually I have thought little about it, but I have taken 231 a little further than Rabbi Kaplan by also considering 231 not only as the number of interconnections in the diagram (Sefer Yetzirah p. 111) representing the set of unique letter pairs. You see the 231 value is also the 21st triangular number, so this means that it is the count of the pairs of 21 things where any of the elements can be paired with itself in addition to being paired with the rest of the set. This is an important bonding through a single count(231) of 22 and 21. On the same theme as the four worlds, alphabet, and five part soul. The five polyhedron complexes of the fractal module contain 22 platonic solids representing the whole of the 'tree' and the Hebrew alphabet as follows: 1 dodecahedron (stellated) KETER sense 5 hexahedrons NETZACH strength 10 tetrahedrons CHOKMAH mind 5 octahedrons CHESED soul 1 icosahedron(stellated) MALKUTH within heart (Tipareth) The number values and structures are in order as the structures might be built from icosahedron to dodecahedron or vice versa. Each structure exists in its own emanated layer concentricly. We recieve in the order of Kether to Malkuth, however we pray in the order of Malkuth to Kether. The number values form a palindrome [1 5 10 5 1] and the first four or last four are the values of the Hebrew letters AHYH with consideration given to the aforementioned directions, ascending/descending. I have read Kabbalist interpretations of the 4 worlds some isolate Kether as a separate world and others Malkuth. So here we have a reasoning for considering the 21 forms apart from the 22, ordered according to the gematria of AHYH(I will be) [1, 5, 10, 5]. Of course to use this mnemonic one must translate what are traditionally the 22 channels of the diagram as 22 sets of edges of platonic solids in the fractal version of the 'tree'. So each channel becomes a set of edges, being the memory place for a letter. Well, anyway, this is how I would see 21 and 22 married in the tree and the two 231 pair relationships would implied by the above.... I really don't practice Kabbalah, but I do contemplate this model, which might be, horror of horrors a method of intellecting Kabbalah without succumbing to it, if you know what I mean. :) I have had great success with a particular meditation, but I am quite cautious about further exploration. ;) Vincent vincent@dmv.com http://home.dmv.com/~vincent/ ------------------------------------------------------- Cross-posted from the Sacred Landscape Elist (sacredlandscape@intuition.org) To subscribe to this elist via the world-wide web, go to http://www.luckymojo.com/subscribe.html EOF