Pathworking Pause - Astral Triad Reflections
11:18 PM
Dolores Ashcroft Nowicki's The Shining Paths relates a very clear message after Path 27, the path of The Tower. She says:
"In terms of training, we come now to an interim period. The paths between the four lower sephiroth constitute an entire level of training, and in a Mystery School would have already taken up some two or three years of a student's life. [...] it is a point where a reader would be well advised to take time off from the programme of pathworking to revise the work done so far. This is a worth while procedure, for it sifts, files, and cross indexes the information and knowledge received up to this time. This is a point of self-discipline, obviously some will do it and some will go straight on, that is the difference between a genuine student and an armchair dabbler. The end results will be very obvious to the trained eye.
"Assuming you have taken the advice and 'rested' for at least two weeks, a lunar month is even better, you should be ready to start on the next phase. By the time you have worked your way through the eight paths that form the next phase you will understand the need for that month off. Ahead of us lie some of the hardest journeys on the Tree of Life." (p.73)
So, we are taking some time off of the pathworking for a while. Ashcroft-Nowicki is not the only adept that recommends this after Path 27, the completion of the Astral Triad. We will be pretty much taking the rest of the summer off for reflection and deeper meditation upon the paths we have tread so far.
Below are some thoughts from my journal the other night, with a graphic:
Based upon a statement by Israel Regardie in A Garden of Pomegranates: "The Supernals are separated by a great gulf, the Abyss, from that which lies below them. The Supernals are ideal; the other Sephiroth are actual; the Abyss is the metaphysical gap between. In one sense they have no connection or relation with the Inferiors, the lower seven Sephiroth, reflected by them--just as space itself is independent of, and unaffected by, whether there is or is not anything manifested within its emptiness." (p.44)
In essence, Da'ath, the Abyss (Knowledge), is the eternal separator between God and Matter. The levels of separation, in terms of Creation and Death, are prevalent in the Triads. Matter, the Material World, True/Pure Form, is based solely on the Astral Realm, the Astral Triad, which is nothing but an imitation on a denser level of the Ethical Triad . . . which itself is nothing but, through the separation of the Abyss, an inverted reflection of the Godhead, the True Reality. Basically, we are nothing but the output of an imitation of an inverted reflection of the only thing that truly exists; of which, we can never have a true conception of because of the Great Divide created by the Abyss.
Malkuth is truly the ultimate manifestation of Kether; it is Kether in its densest form; it is the Truest Form . . . Pure Form. Thus, being the ultimate manifestation, a culmination of output of all Sephiroth together--just as Kether contains all of the receding Sephiroth after it--Malkuth is the only place in which all that is can be experienced. "Kether is the Malkuth of the Umanifest," as the Qabalistic axiom goes. Taking this phrase in its inversion suggests Malkuth is the Ultimate Reality, there is no other place to be to experience it All. This is it. All potential for anything that CAN be, is tapped through Malkuth--as well as through Kether--one and the same, the eternal loop, the ouroboros of existence.
So, we are taking some time off of the pathworking for a while. Ashcroft-Nowicki is not the only adept that recommends this after Path 27, the completion of the Astral Triad. We will be pretty much taking the rest of the summer off for reflection and deeper meditation upon the paths we have tread so far.
Below are some thoughts from my journal the other night, with a graphic:
Based upon a statement by Israel Regardie in A Garden of Pomegranates: "The Supernals are separated by a great gulf, the Abyss, from that which lies below them. The Supernals are ideal; the other Sephiroth are actual; the Abyss is the metaphysical gap between. In one sense they have no connection or relation with the Inferiors, the lower seven Sephiroth, reflected by them--just as space itself is independent of, and unaffected by, whether there is or is not anything manifested within its emptiness." (p.44)
In essence, Da'ath, the Abyss (Knowledge), is the eternal separator between God and Matter. The levels of separation, in terms of Creation and Death, are prevalent in the Triads. Matter, the Material World, True/Pure Form, is based solely on the Astral Realm, the Astral Triad, which is nothing but an imitation on a denser level of the Ethical Triad . . . which itself is nothing but, through the separation of the Abyss, an inverted reflection of the Godhead, the True Reality. Basically, we are nothing but the output of an imitation of an inverted reflection of the only thing that truly exists; of which, we can never have a true conception of because of the Great Divide created by the Abyss.
Malkuth is truly the ultimate manifestation of Kether; it is Kether in its densest form; it is the Truest Form . . . Pure Form. Thus, being the ultimate manifestation, a culmination of output of all Sephiroth together--just as Kether contains all of the receding Sephiroth after it--Malkuth is the only place in which all that is can be experienced. "Kether is the Malkuth of the Umanifest," as the Qabalistic axiom goes. Taking this phrase in its inversion suggests Malkuth is the Ultimate Reality, there is no other place to be to experience it All. This is it. All potential for anything that CAN be, is tapped through Malkuth--as well as through Kether--one and the same, the eternal loop, the ouroboros of existence.
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