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MMTU

To: alt.magick
From: "Asiya" 
Subject: Re: MMTU
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 01:38:26 -0700

"Casey Sheldon"  wrote in message
news:m2Pu8.11660$L1.976114@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
>
> I've always equated my "dark nights" to the Apophis part of the IAO.
I see
> my life going throught the IAO cycle all the time.

Yeah, me too.

> It helps me make sense of
> things, and keeps me from getting melodramatic when I hit peaks or
valleys.

That idea helps when it's affecting only my magickal work. When it
flows into multiple areas of my life, I usually need to be reminded
that ultimately it's no big deal. Knowing about these things in
advance sometimes doesn't help. But I'm working on it.  :)

>     So if I may, do you ascribe to the theory that as one progresses
they
> move from sefirah to sefirah, in a reverse lightning flash? I'm
really
> unsure as to this theory, and I've never felt like I was "in Yesod"
or "in
> Malkut." I can see working with a particular path or sefirah, but
not as a
> method of measuring attainment. Whatcha think?

I think climbing the Tree in that sense is a false idea too.

I have been "stuck" before in various Sephiroth for short periods of
time. Almost to the point of it becoming Qlipothic, until I recognized
it and regained balance. But I naturally jump around, not going from
Sephira to Sephira consecutively. As a measure of "attainment", it's
akin to the Fool's Journey in Tarot. It's a neatly arranged
philosophical theory, that's about the nicest thing to say about it.
It doesn't mesh well with the practical, real world, where things can
get a bit messy. We don't all face the same situations, see and feel
the same things, "attain" the same things, in the same order.

I'm guessing that this idea came about through the Golden Dawn. The
Tree of Life *is* a convenient model to base a hierarchy on. But I
think it's foolish to assume that we all spiritually evolve by
deliberately climbing the Tree.

Asiya
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