Practical Uses of the Tree of Life [Esoteric Saturdays]

[@mcam2211]

I understand the feeling, it’s so hard to explain such abstract and cognitive experiences

[@highpriestoftheahricult8144]

Reminds me of something Alan Watts said in one of his lectures and it reminded me of the collective consciousness. A few great quotes from him that I think sum it up well - "Every one of us is, actually, a pinhole through which the fundamental light-that is, the existence itself-looks out. Only, the game we’re playing is not to know this. To be only that little hole, which we call “me,” “my ego,” my specific “John Jones,” or whatever. "Every one of us is an aperture through which the whole cosmos looks out. " "You know, just like mountains stick out of the earth and there’s a fundamental Earth underneath them, so all of us, as different things, we stick out of reality and there’s a continuity underneath. " Another great vid btw Foolish Fish thanks for taking time to make these its really something special!

[@dlove3636]

He's my surrogate father.

[@jamesmartin3200]

Spin around, like a whirling dervish, clockwise (yin in the southern hemisphere/yang in the northern hemisphere) or counterclockwise (yang in the southern hemisphere/yin in the northern hemisphere). Chant any of these mantras 3 times each while facing east, west, south(in the northern hemisphere) or north(in the southern hemisphere): "iao", "iaueh", "ieoah", "aum", and "om". Sleep with your head placed east, west, south(in the northern hemisphere) or north(in the southern hemisphere). Play music tuned to fibonacci sound frequencies: 1(256hz), 3(384hz), 5(320hz), 13(416hz), 21(336hz), 34(544hz), 55(440hz), 89(356hz), 144(288hz), 7(448hz), 33(528hz), 54(432hz), 88(352hz).

[@dlove3636]

​@@jamesmartin3200 Thank you, answer to prayers was chanting Lamed Vav Vav around time you sent this... I'm humbled by the light. Thank you for answering. May I please ask why you answered with these instructions? I do plan to follow them.

[@RayWilliamJohansen]

i dont understand why people qoute others, like are you people incapable of thinking on your own ?

[@PolarBear-rc4ks]

How odd. I walked past a road today, where I aren't been in a long time and noticed the road was called "John Jones Close"...

[@Danthehorse]

Well, after looking at books about this stuff and being utterly nonplussed as to what the heck it did, you have been the only person to give me an idea of what it can do. Thank you.

[@dlove3636]

I love drawing runes in the Tree of Life pattern. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@Merkabakorea]

Jason Augustus Newcombs pathworking guided recordings are amazing! They guide you instead of telling you what you should see and they use binural beats to get you into a meditative flow

[@MirjanAcademy]

Where is it please?

[@vindorin]

@@MirjanAcademy they're $30 a piece... maybe that's worth it to you...

[@ceejay3p]

Thank you for this video. It's good to hear someone explaining how to use this type of thing in your everyday life.

[@FoolishFishBooks]

You're welcome! I guess this is the kind of thing I wish someone had taken the trouble to explain to me when I was starting out 😜

[@timothygeaughan7382]

The tree of life may be the most beautiful thing I've ever seen, there is just something about it.

[@vaqueromago9087]

You sir are a amazing teacher. Thank you so much.

[@witchprojekt666]

Shoutout to the bibliomancy folks! 🖤 it really is a little bit of magic we can all use everyday.

[@devinreed5725]

That was the first form of Magick I used. Before I even knew what it was.

[@thereeldemodeal3389]

Books are my friends and family. It's like each author's mind and spirit is with me.

[@piethein2559]

The Bible is the Truth, if you're open Hearted and Free of the churches bondage, for selling their tickets to Heaven. It's all there, but in parables from Kristus! Check the Gospel of Thomas, and the Nag Hamadi scrolls. Be blown away!!! God bless us 7,7,7 🌍🌊🔥🌪🌌🥰🌅

[@ravenswoodwitch58]

@@piethein2559 Really??? You keep telling yourself that luv.

[@shortclips9640]

the left hand side attonement with devil last before palm

[@DwayneGrantMason]

T5:29 I found the power of the mind when I dropped acid 10 years ago regarding this. I understood how when we consume certain knowledge it’s like a key that opens doors that were already present but not present to our own eyes. The best way I can put it is you’re at a crossroads downtown and you see taxis as you drink your coffee, you see the stores and all that. When you consume let’s say knowledge regarding social interaction between male n female, game, you start noticing the women in detail and you start experiencing them in a deeper closer level. What was before something you’d subconsciously avoid or on the other extreme obsess over but had convinced yourself was beyond your reach so it then was observed as a blurr along the lines of other things happening around you has now become very clear and even palpable. This isn’t exactly what was said on that part of the video but it reminded me of it because that excersize of meditating on the different points of the tree while understanding, gaining a feeling through the knowledge of it will actually open your mind to new pathways and it will project this wisdom into every single thing you see on the world day to day. You will see a couple fighting for example and your mind will filter that scene through this new knowledge showing you and reminding u of where on the tree this experience you are observing falls and its many attributes.

[@lavenderbee3611]

I've really struggled with the tree of life and how to effectively use it, I have learned so much from your videos. I tried something new this past spring and feel like it's worth sharing and would like your opinion. This year I performed a ritual which was been tremendously helpful in understanding the tree of life, it's called "Counting the Omer" and takes place between Passover and Shavuot in the Jewish tradition. This is a stretch of 49 days, each week deals with one of the 7 lower sephirah starting with chesed (loving kindness) as week 1 and how we relate that to each of the 7 sephirah (it's nested). For example: week 1 day 1: chesed within chesed (the aspect of loving kindness in loving kindness), week1 day 2: gevurah within chesed (the aspect of restraint within loving kindness) and so on. It really helped me understand how to think about these paths in a brand new way. I used the book A Spiritual Guide to the Counting of the Omer by Rabbi Simon Jacobson.

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Oh very nice! Yes, mapping concepts onto days of the week is a great way to make progress in Qabalah/Kabbalah!

[@matijsvandekerkhof9296]

finally clear practical on how to use the tree of life. Thanks for the book references as well

[@williamkimzey8486]

Joyful, approachable wonderful!

[@scotfree7702]

Enjoying the series so far, simplification of these topics is just what I was looking for

[@cristinaradu377]

:> ill be manifesting books, lots of books. I found the secret to books.

[@akashiyomeha3710]

Interesting I’m definitely listening 👂

[@Suchwerewolf]

Tip: don’t accumulate too many books. I’m drowning in books. Storage is an issue. We live in a wonderful age where a library can be kept on a device in your pocket. I’m not saying “no books” but my entire house is books and my shed is bursting with books and I do wish I’d made use of an online library or ebook download for a good deal of them, particularly the fiction (although there are some that I treasure having as a hard copy like my symbol sourcebook, but the few books you cherish have less chance of getting lost in a tidal wave of pages if you collect books carefully) 📚 ✌️

[@Xisk77]

I just manifested some books off amazon hehehe 😜

[@Xisk77]

This guys channel is amazing!

[@DivineVortex]

@@Suchwerewolf i would love to take some off your hands if you getting rid of some ☺️

[@RobAgrees]

Lovely way to put into words the reality of unified consciousness, yet the apparent illusion of individual separateness. Something of note and perhaps ties into more recent videos is how these paradigms for experiencing reality are but arbitrary (given the number and variety of systems of experience), but are important as they stabilize the relativistic individual awareness at a level closer to nonduality or conscious gnosis without entirely diminishing the ego. Constant conscious nondual awareness has a strong tendency towards experiential inaction and indifference, yet also being the place of maximal magickal praxis. On the other hand, relativistic or egotistical awareness has a reciprocal tendency towards deterministic unconscious cycles of action. So in essence, these paradigms are like a life preserver keeping awareness on the liminal surface between flying above and drowning below an ocean. On a related note, a video on personal solipsism would be interesting!

[@FoolishFishBooks]

AH! Yes! I love your take on the effects of each mindset counteracting the tendencies of each in diametrically opposed ways. I'd never thought about it like that. The more magic you have, the less inclined you are to use it, the more inclined you are to use it, the less you have XD Perfect self-preservation in action!

[@RobAgrees]

@@FoolishFishBooks agreed, and if you practice nonduality continuously, you'll find that things manifest quite easily, both bad and good, without mental discipline. The advantage I find also with these systems is they put a lock and key on the gnosis state so as to prevent haphazard manifesting, but requires its own mental discipline to implement these empowering belief structures of course. I'm curious if you've read into any of Advaita Vedanta texts or Hindu philosophy texts? They sort of deal with the ideas of belief, consciousness etc, devoid of symbolic systems of representation, though more slanted towards renouncing material reality. Sort of the first chaos magicians if you will haha. I'm happy to make some references if you like, the texts are pretty short and straightforward.

[@MT-jb3pw]

Very very interesting my friend, will get more deep into it because as you study natural science you see as well how this is connected.

[@FoolishFishBooks]

For sure! As I say, once you start imposing the map on the world, everything starts to fall quite neatly into it, and it's a very comprehensive categorisation tool!

[@JoZiggy]

@@FoolishFishBooks I see the system as a genetic blue print. It is interesting when you have the Four worlds placed overlappiing each other- it really seems like a double helix. !

[@FoolishFishBooks]

@@JoZiggy that's a very interesting thought!

[@kobalt77]

I am just starting to research and delve into the Tree of Life and Qabbala, this was very helpful. Thank you Denis.

[@ambermartin7096]

I’m in Hawaii. Just watched a movie that inspired me to think about helping to create a drive in movie spot for Polynesian island stories new and old. We know how storytelling changes reality. How wonderful would that be for the people here. Help me Think good thoughts for this endeavor. Thank you for your passion . I love this book. Love Rackham. My mom raised me on Grimm’s . They’re the reason I wanted to learn to read early. Lots of yelling to turn the lights out growing up;)

[@whitewolf2868]

Yet another brilliant post. Nicely executed.

[@robertword1357]

You should write a book on your pathworking visions of the sephiroth.

[@gee_emm]

I vaguely remember wishing I could find a channel like this a few weeks ago. And then... pouff!

[@newangeltarot]

Bravo! Thank for these videos Denis. Just watched your interview as well with Esoterica. Amazing work and well done on so many levels. You're an inspiration. Love and Light from Australia! 🙏🏻

[@mvjonsson]

There is also the book The Shining Paths by Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki on pathworking.

[@martynrawlins8050]

I had the greatest difficulty climbing the tree until I envisioned myself as a monkey. In Yesod I ate purple plums and could taste them. In Hod were oranges and kumquats. In Netzach was a tarty lime like Venus and green apples which I left uneaten. In Tiphareth bananas and lemon zest. In Geburah was the humble strawberry. In Chesed blueberries. In Binah was Guinness to give me the strength to get to the top. And through the clouds of Chokmah I saw only light and all was bliss. But even bliss gets boring sometimes so I climbed back down realising bliss can be anywhere.🙊🙉🙈

[@obscurecult]

This is the best comment, thanks

[@Akamaholic]

I watched these tree of life videos in order and they were truly fascinating. I'd love to see a video on Robert Fludd's version of the tree of life.

[@katrussell6819]

Dian Fortune wrote one of the best books on the Kabala decades ago. Check it out if you can find a copy.

[@piethein2559]

Thank's for sharring the information! God bless 7,7,7 Love and Light 🌅🥰🕉

[@beingfrank40]

Yeah, this was a very good video, making it practical! ( in Low Magick as well as High Magick)

[@P.SDaCharm]

I love how you narriate these fictions foolish fish!!! I can't wait to hear more and gain more knowledge! Thank you so much👌👌👌👍👍👍 Also Christ is the way to Life 🧬🧬🧬..The tree 🌴🌴 of LIFE has so much beautiful aspects and is a good path to follow

[@piethein2559]

Love and Light from Denmark!!! God bless us 7,7,7 🌅🌠🤍

[@thereeldemodeal3389]

Excellent video. This video is very informative in understanding the practical uses of the Kabbalistic Tree. From watching your videos, I'm inspired to do some pathworking and skrying. I have not done any of this, but I have been working with creative visualization, past-tensing and future - tensing. And yes, the Israel Regardie book, Garden of Pomegranate is a MUST have for anyone studying magick and the occult. It is my all time favorite reading, not just studying. If you're having problems with visualization, you can read this book several times over again, slowly envision each section, each paragraph , slowly at your own pace. You may have to read and marinate on a sephiroth for some time. Re-read the stories and imagine yourself experiencing them as you take your time with it. It is a great book and sometimes I pick a section to read right before going to sleep.

[@piethein2559]

Thank's for information! God bless 7,7,7 🌅🥰🕉

[@tracyking4518]

Thank you so much! I'm new to all this but what I love most in meditation is the space between the spheres, maybe where all the quantum stuff is happening ❤

[@goldretirementsolutions]

Incredibly useful, informative and well made video. I have begun researching Kabbalah intensely and having the practical approach is always welcomed.

[@johnloyd3996]

I think your the perfect person to pressent these books.

[@vincecashmere8444]

Thanks so much for your sincerity. Your information is valuable....

[@beingfrank40]

Very nice presentation.

[@Someguyjameson]

I'm still very new to occultism; it has been approximately two years since I started taking all this stuff seriously. I feel symbolism has been the most effective way in which the Tree has influenced my life so far. Said symbols are encountered in dreams, trance, and synchronicity in daily life. There have been many decisions I have made in response to such occurrences, and they have turned out quite well in both the long and short term. Israel Regardie's ''The Middle Pillar'' has been especially helpful in my journey so far. This is a good video. Quite a bit of what you said may have been a little too abstract for my neophyte mind to grasp, but if there's one thing I learned from watching this is that I have to take up visualization as the next skill to develop on my path. Thank you and Godspeed.

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Hi! I'm glad you're managing to get something out of my videos. I'm intending to make a video exclusively about imagination vs vision for this Saturday, hopefully it can help too!

[@briankayeke1396]

Thanks for sharing knowledge...

[@Admiringregorians]

"Thank You". Your Videos are amazing... Are helping me to put names, and figuring out the many things that I was already doing , and not knowing the huge importance of it, therefore to some extent "Careless" on it... Thank You... I see that I manifested "You". ✨😉👍✨ Hanging around, and working with Sephora-8 ( I think Mercury...not sure )... " It's great the Esoteric Study/ Knowledge ". Thank you again ✨🌸🌿.

[@easygreasy3989]

This is so beautiful.

[@scottschoen3362]

If you have a model that connects to everything in every way, it's easy to use it to explain everything and convince one's self it's working. Imagining, desire and ritual can't get to where one needs to be actually being.

[@FraterIgniUmbra-ci7gv]

Ok, I can give a meaning for the actual use of the tree of life (out of many uses), but this would be the main use of the tree as it's used in the orders and lodges. The tree of life is in fact a scale of the universe as it is seen in its powers (microcosmic) and a map of not only the cosmic scales, but also the minute and within the singular consciousness (the microcosmic scale);(being that the same laws and powers work on the higher and lower scales of the universe (as above so below). This means that the laws that work in the absolute largest scale and in higher realms also work on the lowest scales, even within the movements of the atoms, in more minute when considering what makes up an atom. But in the schools we consider those same powers as the faculties within consciousness. So the sephiroth being the spheres of activity within our consciousness and the paths (the 22 paths) being the powers within consciousness themselves. It shows how all things are creating starting from the godhead (Kether) filtering down into manifestation (malkuth) as it goes through its fazes along the path of the flash of aleph (the flaming sword path. In the schools, the tree is used to understand ones own consciousness and the paths from one sphere of influence to another as you are traversing them, therefore working on building the psychic muscles, so to say, of these faculties getting better at them, so that you can work on your active divinity. I say active, because all of this can be used in the real world once understood and embodied (as in the understanding of how creations moving parts work, then you can move them.). In most western mystery schools, the spheres can be considered as degrees of criteria (meaning points of ignition) where all of the understandings, and subtleties must be mastered in order to understand how to attain the next sphere in order to master it. So in order to master Netzach, for instance, all of the facets of Hod must be embodied and mastered and brought under control (concerning the sephiroths virtues, while taming the vices), in order to be able to tame and master Netzach, which must be in turn mastered to be able to understand and master Tipheret...... So on and so forth. The point is toaster the self completely in order to climb the trees corresponding influence within the self, taming and training the body, mind and emotions while you make your way to higher and higher states and eventually towards attaining the state of superconsciousness in Kether and anchoring it into Tipheret. 😉👌Hope that helped someone. I am just tired of seeing all the absolute false information everywhere on the internet. The blinds that were placed by past masters worked very well.... Back when blinds were placed, this was a necessity, but the times on the earth have changed and there is a need for everyone's awakening. But here's the thing.... You will never be able to use the glyph adequately without joining a school because of the absolute complexity of the human psyche and the laws of the universe. This path has been worked on and figured out by past individuals all throughout time to figure out how all these things work, so that you don't have to meticulously check everything in reality and spend ten thousand years figuring it out yourself. You're more than welcome to try, but I'm telling you.... I look around the internet for anyone that knows the truths about these things like the inner schools and I don't see anyone anywhere that isn't in a school that knows what these things really are, let alone the correct orders of the symbols and placements, correspondences (even though many on forums and pages claim that they do).... And if you weren't an initiate, then their breakdowns can even look very intricate and convincing.

[@FraterIgniUmbra-ci7gv]

Whoops. Autocorrect must have changed the first macrocosmic to microcosmic (which it just did again as I typed it). Hope it's understandable, because I'm not retyping it.

[@amyV10844]

What is a good school to learn this in your opinion?

[@hazardpie9650]

Thank you! ✨

[@trishdonner7106]

Thank you so much for these videos 💞

[@paganwolf5951]

Very well done "run through" of uses 4 The Qabalah. Impressive.

[@stevenolove]

You’re the best thing on KZbin

[@radiatedsun1117]

I agree with you about the tree being a model of yourself. I'm also reminded of something Duquette said, "My Qabalah is not your Qabalah." I love that.

[@sherryteeler9116]

This pathworking with the tarot is also talked about in Kraig's "Tarot and Magic."

[@BoyDharma]

Just found your channel today and I am glad that I did. I started my spiritual journey about the same time and went another route but seem to be coming back around to similar places. Starting my work with OBOD and found you thru watching Damien Echols. Looking forward to watching more from you.

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Oh, cool! Thanks for sharing 😄👍 Out of interest, did a viewer leave a comment about my channel in one of Damian's videos?

[@BoyDharma]

@@FoolishFishBooks I don't think that I saw one but it recommended a video of yours which brought me to your channel.

[@theprinceofdarkness4679]

@@FoolishFishBooks I just watched a video where you mentioned Damian and then up popped his video in my recommendations. Until then I was unaware of him I left a comment that Foolish Fish had sent me

[@danielmackeigan9710]

Many thanks for such a brilliant, thorough video. I’ve only recently stumbled upon your content, but it’s had a profoundly positive impact on me and my development as a human. One curious thing that I’ve noticed, and I’m not sure if you have an opinion on this, is that while I was chasing the light as a child in a Christian household I found nothing but darkness and suffering, but when listening to you and others who work also with what I would have called darkness before has actually shown me the light. Meditation certainly helps too! Keep up the great work 😎 pun intended

[@kieronsimpson777]

6.15 make that video your so easy listening yet so thorough thank you for all your videos, I've been studying and practicing lyam Thomas Christopher version for 5 years now I know it's long, I've dragged it out! and now it's become me! Thank you

[@trentp151]

Having that I Ching sitting there with the Kabbalah texts reminds me of Human Design. Have you heard of it? I found it to be a very interesting merging of Magical Arts, and quite useful as far as understanding how the conditions of birth can be mapped over the human body. Thanks for your work!

[@lsporter88]

Thank you for making this video. Salute.

[@JoeMonteleone]

beautifully explained thank you!

[@mindmovement33]

Wow I can relate! Thankyou!

[@OISaviour]

Bibliomancy is not about hope. It is about 'Knowingness' of one's conjunction with their Higher Self/Soul.

[@JK-jl1bf]

Balancing, awareness and being connected to the divine and enhancing personal power and knowledge to navigate through life in a conscious way and acknowledging the subconscious involvement and how to redirect forces dealing with the physical and metaphysical. Helps if you work with TAROT and Astrology and Numerology.

[@DanielReidTheEditor0]

I have read Tarot cards for around 29 years YET it is in the last 16 years that with the inclusion of the 22 different journeys between the sephirot, each journey is represented by a HIGHER ARCANA/higher secret card, of which there are 22 cards. I can see the representations to the three pillars in the artwork and the Rider Waite deck is best for seeing the tree of life in working action and all its stories and scenarios we are all capable of living out and acting out. Plus also having meditated with each of the 78 cards and installing or recording the message into the card, energy in thought stored in the card is meant to be picked up by the left hand as the right brain controls the left body, it is the sensitive and intuitive side of the brain which chooses the cards. Left hand = Read head and Right hand=Write head. Never allow people to take your cards in their right hand. Serious knowledge and energies in all the creative vessels and the journeys between them from one to another in any direction teaches us PATH WORKING and more

[@KJSullivan4601]

Thank you this was very useful

[@LoreMIpsum-vs6dx]

Oh my gosh! You have a book by Denning and Phillips! Back in the 1980's, I bought their book on astral projection and really loved it. I then obtained all of their other Magick books -- this was way back before the internet so that was no mean feat! I must admit that I never really was able to tune into anything other than their astral projection book. The rest just bounced off of me for some reason but I've always felt there must be some wisdom in there somewhere that I'm just missing. It warms my heart to see a book by them in your video :)

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Wonderful, wonderful people, eh? I'm completely on board with them. Their stuffy, overwrought language style lets them down - a lot - but the information they have made available through these books is invaluable. Certainly some of the most valuable books I own in terms of the contents. Thanks for the interesting comment :)

[@tanyabrown9839]

Me too, I finally got out of body after 2 to 3 years of trying and reading over 30 books by others on the subject, non which worked for me. Their method is the only one which worked for me so that got me wondering me about this other book of theirs showed here.

[@orfeas9879]

@@tanyabrown9839 what was the method??

[@GabyG48]

I'm starting over from reading the Tanakh and really interested in all things divination and astrology :)

[@upliftsouls]

That’s wild, I’ve also recently gotten a Tanakh as well, I’d suggest the book Sefer Yetzirah to better understand Kabbalah

[@GabyG48]

@@upliftsouls thank you I'll check it out :) and yeah I been very curious in the Hebrew bible and Jewish mysticism. I'm even going to a messanic synagogue :)

[@upliftsouls]

@@GabyG48 really? Are you thinking about converting?

[@GabyG48]

@@upliftsouls I don't know yet because first doing research :)

[@SunnGray]

Thank you

[@image30p]

Great video! Thank you for sharing. ❤️

[@Malakawaka]

Hi, FF, rewatching this series of videos. Great work as a reference to come back, as most of your vids. Simple comment: your book URL's have some jumbled up and "Magical States of Consciousness" is missing really. Also the title is misnamed. Tried all links and finally had to look up the book cover in the video.

[@NoDebut]

Your explanation of categorisation resonates with me, but from a different angle. While studying the planets and astrological meanings / intents, one can also become acquainted with the emanations from each planet - e.g. This red scissors has Mars in the blades and in the colour of the handle, has Saturn in the metal and weight, has Venus in the shine / glint from the metal. I guess thanks to your video and explanation I can see how one can relate or associate these emanations further with the tree of life. BTW would recommend 'The Greatness of Saturn' by Robert Svoboda as a great read on the Mythology of each planet, and in particular the Greatest of them all ;)

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Big Svoboda fan here 😊🙏

[@DUST35]

Regarding the last part: When it comes to mysticism, I see Tiphareth as being that experience of Illumination and awakening to the 'I Am'. Crowley wrote about the Holy Guardian Angel (HGA), which is the 'friend' who has always been with you, and now has been found. DA'AT (not on you'r particular tree) is the Abyss or Void one passes through on the later stages of Enlightenment. There you'll have to leave your HGA and become one with God or the Universe, which is the end of your last identity, that of 'I Am'.

[@Vairoxana]

One thing, I-ching is pronounced as ‘yi-Ching’. ‘Yì’ is a deep Chinese character that carries both the meaning of ‘simplicity’ and ‘change’ that has no direct way to be rendered into English. On the one hand it presents you with the pattern of the cosmic order, while on the other it alludes to the ever-changing nature of this pattern. I guess the concept of ’易‘(yì) could be approached by thinking it as the emanation of the ein sof, which the latter corresponds to ‘道’ (Dào) in Daoism. And in general there are three surviving branches to study 易 yì. 易经（yì jīng/I-Ching) being the sort of records and philosophical initiation of the trigrams; 易传 (yì zhuàn) is the in depth philosophical works--arguably written by Confucius himself--of interpretation and exegesis on the meanings of the trigrams; 易纬 (yì wěi) is the books of divination, the ultimate practical guidebook that is used to perceive the future based on the trigrams of I-Ching.

[@velvetclaw2316]

Your channel is fantastic and you are such a clear and precise teacher - you recommend so many books thst look amazing ! Are you a fast reader ? I have a hard time getting through the books I need to read !

[@ChrysPilgrim]

Awesome explanation!! What's the symbology behind the Lid of Pastos on the left page?

[@loyaluwang4228]

So, its a tool that helps you think more clearly to realize what you want and how to get it.

[@crowsofdispersion9747]

I'm halfway through the Garden of Pomegranates right now. First ever book on the subject and I have to say that if nothing else, it is a rather interesting read with a beautiful (almost poetic) philosophical approach to life and its esoteric ways. No idea as to what should be my next read though...

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot by Lon Milo Duquette.

[@11Garnett11]

@@FoolishFishBooks Thanks! I saw this in one of your videos. I'll try to find a copy.

[@hek8ay]

I'd also add Geomancy to the discussion as a great tool for divination, quite similar in output to the IChing. i discovered this through the 'self initiation to the golden dawn' book, and it can be 1 - a very basic / quick system - taking a minute for a basic reading. 2 - a rather deep and complex process involving astrology and planetary aspects giving a much deeper reading. Brilliant - i recommend it, at least for the purposes of interest and comparison.

[@jacquilewins9458]

fascinating channel ..Also check out Order of the White lion and Isis workshops . Lorraine Morgan sadly passed away this year, but there is so much information and wisdom there

[@seabee1025]

Dissolve the self Into the point within the circle. Recrystallize repeat. The powder of projection. Solve et coagula Muerte aeterna.

[@brucebaldy]

IT IS also good numerollogically and can be fun.

[@bostrickland4970]

Trying books on shaman journeying if you like that type of reading

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Sure! I also hear good things about the druidic path I'd love to get my hands on John Michael Greer's The Dolmen Arch, but it's only available in the US with very prohibitive P&P... But if course, you're right about shamanic journeying, would be an ideal place to supplement the methods I already use with further tricks. Thanks for the tip!

[@bostrickland4970]

Great 👍

[@rauldukeduke3040]

Our collective being is eloquently imperfect.

[@AZTigerMMA]

If anybody can help me with this… How do I know when I’m in a sphere? Do I need to do any type of initiation to start working with one sphere? How long do I stay in one sphere? How do I know when I’m ready to move to the next sphere? I think I’m looking at this like levels on a computer game… With each fear there are lessons that I need to be looking out for? Any type of mantras or sayings that can help me to defeat the level…? How do I know when I’m in the next sphere ? thank you for any help or clearing up on this

[@AZTigerMMA]

I would pay for a 15 min phone call with any experts or anyone who could answer ( how do I know when I’m in a sphere? Do I need to do any initiation into the sphere? How long do I stay in the sphere? How do I know when I’m ready to move to the next sphere? Are there any mantras, sayings, or things to look out for , to help me in each sphere ? ) thank you for any help with this in advance

[@krismontykrismonty]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 excellent. I started pulling papers and drawings out. These are the things that I got time to apply in lockdown. I firmly stand by the fact if you know and apply just the basics of path working, meditation, and visualisation you can pretty much drive your own dreams. Interesting to hear about the overwhelming thoughts. I had a similar experience getting obsessed with patterns and frequencies first lock down. Considering if things are really real or just labels. You got me thinking again bud. Thank you 👌🏻

[@steverempel8584]

I use the tree of life to shower, using the tree's association to body parts: First I wash my hair, (Kether.) Then my face, (Chokmah, Binah.) Then I get both arms and armpits at the same time, (Chesed, Geburah.) Then I wash the main body, (Tiphareth,) and the legs afterwards, (Netzach, Hod.) Then I wash the junk, (Yesod) and finally the feet (Malkuth.) Only then do I clean the dirtiest part, the rear, which I like to think of as Daath, although not technically correct.

[@lemonmochi8669]

as you were describing the method of pathworking the spheres my mind immediately jumped to kundalini rising.. i wonder if it might be similar or the same thing? and then also recently my mind has been on the theory about the moon being hollow and an installment by ET in the mars galactic war timeline.. and then it made me think about how that theory could be true because in esoteric teachings, the tarot for example, i always wondered why the moon card represents illusion. but it makes sense if the moon is an actual illusion. a device placed for whatever reason to set in in place (foundation) our earth's 3d matrix - the trappings of karma and reincarnation. and this all makes even more sense now when i went to read up again about yesod.. and how our root chakra and foundation is ruled by the moon. ive never done pathworking with the tree of life. but i would imagine breaking through the 1st sphere yesod would mean to see that our 3d reality is literally an illusion from the influence of the moon........ sorry just leaving this mess here lol thanks for reading.

[@erde_8888]

how so?

[@josephnissenson3252]

IMO, The tree of life, along with Rosicrucian meditation techniques are the closest western equivalent to eastern teachings on our spiritual body in relation to chakras and the kundalini

[@shaktiveda7041]

Indeed interesting, you probably would enjoy the study of the Enneagram, if you not already have explored it. Nice share, thank you.

[@FoolishFishBooks]

I like the Enneagram! I'm a 7 😊👍

[@shaktiveda7041]

@@FoolishFishBooks I thought so, it's looks like something that would be extremely compatible with what you do. I just found your videos and subscribed right away, I found them quite interesting, I like your way to share your knowledge and learning even more while you do. I am curious that way too, there is always something else to learn even while teaching. I am into the Enneagram, but not as much to know exactly which type I may be. So far, it looks like something along the lines of 1, 3, 5 and 9, but not quite sure just yet, I am still reading and learning on this topic, I find it fascinating though. I am multilingual too and I noticed right away your French accent mixed with your English...lol...;) my English has an Italian accent...lol ;)

[@bigsnootis3554]

Could u do a video on the veils of negative existence?

[@FoolishFishBooks]

That will come eventually, I'm sure!

[@padresoscar]

Awesome and quite informative and engaging as usual

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Hi @Oscarini! So glad you're enjoying the content! 😁 Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment!

[@martinwilliams9866]

My interpretation of the Akiva/Kircher tree is the unfolding & re-enfolding of the dimensions, as with the point, line, shape & solid, unfolding in order to experience of which is preserved with its re-enfolding. Also the application of the Pythagorean tetractys onto Otz Chiim. So we have 1, 12, 123, 1234 or fire, fire-water, fire-water-air, fire-water-air-earth the topmost sphere or point is the non-dual spiritual the line of the 2nd & 3rd spheres is the mental body composed of will & awareness, the triangle is the astral body with the mental body descended, the tetrahydron is the physical body containing the descended astral body & mental body. Magick is the astral body in the tetrahydron rising up to the triangular plane of Spheres 4, 5, & 6 then redescending as with the formula separate & combine.

[@duantorruellas716]

Glad you mentioned the corresponding planets to the sephorotic spheres , I wonder why they didnt make the colors match , like the moon is purple, when they designed the system. Perhaps its older the the western hermetic system that assigned color to them.

[@naemasufi7588]

4 colour scales for the four worlds

[@georgesulea]

Thank you, this was very helpful:)

[@FoolishFishBooks]

So glad you're enjoying it, George! 😁

[@levijessegonzalez3629]

Do you have any videos on the Tetragrammaton? Does the tree of life represent planetary forces at all?

[@rogermoore1233]

What your explaining about your experience is called Mysticism ! :-)

[@HelkiRainTheWokeWitch]

Hey, I just found your channel via this and I really enjoyed it, looking forward to browsing more of your videos. Thanks for sharing, also nice to hear another English voice

[@MirjanAcademy]

I would love to study Kabala with you. And if you did the guided meditation please? Dont mind paying for it please

[@FoolishFishBooks]

There are currently 6 guided meditations available to members, and more being added every month. Click on the 'join' button next to the subscribe button to learn more (if you are on an iOS device, you may have to visit KZbin via Chrome.)

[@MirjanAcademy]

@@FoolishFishBooks ok, I will join . I was planning any ways, I discovered your channel yesterday, I guess i am ready now :). Thank you very much

[@FoolishFishBooks]

@@MirjanAcademy ooh! That was quick, then 😄🙏 Hopefully see you on the Discord too! (Instructions are in the description)

[@oneshowoneservant]

🔥landed🔥

[@oneshowoneservant]

🔥i like your show man🔥

[@robgau2501]

Do you feel that any of the other Aurum Solis book make the mind wander like you said of this one? Do you recommend sword and the serpent and mysteria magicka? I've seen your other video briefly discussing them. How do you feel about them?

[@TheWalkingProphet]

Where can i find a copy of the I ching? I can't find the book you have.

[@randy5897]

As they say " to watch the thoughts come and go " "but who in the mind is doing the watching "

[@tutorialchief]

are we one big conciousness/mind or are we the dream/reflection of it?!

[@Alberaan]

Can anyone recommend a free resource to know more about pathworking?

[@ravenravella1000]

ARBATEL !!!!....snuck right in there :))

[@gtjoyjohansson3082]

Can you tell me the name of book you were using for the tree of life but if you have made that, would be able to sell it. I fell in love with colours and the way they have been made

[@ryancoon4678]

What book is that?

[@NicholasHillTrueGlaxor]

Have you made a video on the collective unconscious yet? Your Magical States of Mind video looks like it covers some of it, but it's older than this video.