Mystical Qabalah by Dion Fortune

[@timbeck6726]

Thank you. Faith!

[@cdmille55]

Good stuff

[@paultravers4181]

Was it a coincidence that the health crisis of 2020 was named 'corona' which means crown or keter? We also had the 19 for the ten sefirot. One giant kabbalistic ritual.

[@Catholic-Perennialist]

@@paultravers4181 I think you're on to something 👍 Good work

[@namae2497]

I’ve been watching a lot of your videos lately, do you have a blog or anything?

[@Catholic-Perennialist]

@@namae2497 If you scroll through my community posts you'll find a link to my blog. Just a few articles at this time.

[@namae2497]

@@Catholic-Perennialist Thank you. Keep up the good work

[@karen18077]

Hi, I am struggling with faith and whom to pray to. Can you point me in a direction? What is your faith in? Any books you can recommend? (other than this one) I am a Christian (if anything), thank you :)

[@Catholic-Perennialist]

@@karen18077 when I pray I pray to the Father. But he is not the vengeful God of the Old Testament. One of the first things I had to let go of was the literal interpretation of the scriptures. The Father of the Logos is all good, and the destiny of every person is to be reunited to Him through the Logos. The Father is not immanent in the world but is dispersed throughout creation. Every time we encounter love in another person, or we show love to others, we are encountering God in the world.

[@questioneverything55]

Are you referring to Steiner with your take on the Gospels?

[@Catholic-Perennialist]

@@questioneverything55 I've never actually read steiner on the gospels, but I've no doubt imbibed something from other contemporary authors. I think the entire NT can be understood as a hermetic/kabbalistic corpus, with Christ and his Mary's taking the central role as hermetic psychopomps.

[@damnmexican90]

i had the opposite reaction the more I "learn" about kabbalah, the more I see it as an inversion of apostolic Christianity, but, a lot of the concepts are "parallel". I don't think ive seen a case of so close but so far with respect to the Logos.

[@Catholic-Perennialist]

@@damnmexican90 There is no singular apostolic Christianity. Paul and James weren't even in communion with each other towards the end. They taught different gospels. Trinitarianism proper begins with Tertullian, a schismatic. Even Origen was once considered perfectly orthodox. There isn't anything like apostolic christianity that can be recovered as a monolithic whole. What we do have is a strange account of the savior in Matthew who says he comes to fulfill the law, and commands to do all that the scribes and pharisees command who sit in Moses' seat. Contrast this with the Jesus of John's gospel who broke the sabbath and forgave an adulteress. There are two irreconcilable pictures of Jesus because he is mediating between the mercy and severity of God as tipareth in Kabbalah.

[@damnmexican90]

@@Catholic-Perennialist thats why i choose apostolic, perhaps i should have clarified "non protestant" Christianity. That's what i meant by kabbalah being parallel but inverted to Apostolic Christianity. To me, and call me crazy, but it seems to me that Christ is found in the middle. Kabbalah and Gnosticism posit this either / or, this black and white posture, in which ultimately its all God (the Gnostics make a further distinction unlike the jews, which is that evil is a lesser God (Yaldaboth), were the jews state evil is OF Ein Sof). To clarify, Christ and God is Being, and sin is Non-Being. Yet God can use and cause evil against those that sin. the easiest way for me to explain this is to recall how God (Christ) parted the Red Sea for Moses. To the left there was raging waters, to the right, there was equally raging waters. But the way through was the "middle path" for lack of words. I should posit that this path was not one forged or fashioned by Moses, but by Christ. All Christ asked from Moses and Israel was to walk the Path before them. God parted the ocean (world / creation / chaos / formless void) for His people, and then used that same ocean to kill pharaoh. you hinted at this same notion about Christ's conversation with Moses (Jonah Chap 3 is another good one as is Job regarding evil) Additionally I understand why you would say that James and Paul are irreconciable, but i would argue that they are reconcilable imo because its an extension of that same principle, a middle path (I should preface that I reject this protestant re-framing of the Pauline Gospels and its insistence that its speaks of a completely passive "salvation"). The key imo is what Paul says consistently in most of his letters, we were made for Christ and IN Christ, made to WALK in the Good Works of the Father. just a thought though.

[@exquofonte]

One thing I don't get is hochmah-binah. As I understand it, Platonism has the limiting monad as masculine and the indefinite dyad as feminine; likewise, Hinduism has Shiva as masculine axel or directing 'lightning rod' to the feminine chaotic energy of Shakti. But in the tree of life it's the opposite? Hochmah is energy, and masculine, while binah is feminine and formal?

[@Catholic-Perennialist]

@@exquofonte It's a sexual analogy. The male provides the energetic seed, and the form emerges from the female womb/matrix. This does not hold the whole way down the tree. Netsach/venus is right hand and Hod/Mercury is left hand. Seems to be pure convention, but the logic holds imo.

[@exquofonte]

@@Catholic-Perennialist thanks, i'll chew on it. Took me a while to figure out monad/dyad but the hindu concept made it click. I'm sure this will fit in once i meditate further

[@Catholic-Perennialist]

@@exquofonte The kabbalistic "trinity" is keter, chokmah, and binah, corresponding to source, force, and form. E.A. Waite insists that the most interior mystery of kabbalism involves sexual allegory, and thus the three supernals take on their meanings. This is consistent with the indo-european tendency to see the sky, it's sun and rain, as masculine force which finds it place in the womb of mother earth, or Terra. The earthly matrix then produces the form of vegetation, and western cereal deities are almost universally female. I can't speak for far eastern systems as I haven't studied them, but Blavatsky seemed to have blended eastern and western systems into her theosophy.