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# Re: book 231 paths/gates

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- Subject: Re: book 231 paths/gates
- From: "metaphysics0000" <crispinp@...>
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:59:42 -0000
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    This is very interesting, are these gates approached in Key to the
    True Kaballah? At what point does one begin this work?
    Regards,
    M

    > this is really a mis-use of the term, Kabbalistically speaking. In the
    > ancient texts, the term "Path" is used for the Letters AND the Sephirot
    > (e.g., the 32 Paths of Wisdom) and is not an indication of a connection
    > between the Sephirot. So, the individual Sephirot are each "Paths" as
    > are each of the individual Letters.
    >
    > To illustrate a simple Gate (which looks like a 'path'), let's look at
    > the first Gate in the Sequence of Initiation: Yesod > Tav > Malkuth.
    > This Gate is composed of three "Paths": #1 - Yesod, #2 - Tav, #3 -
    > Malkuth. It is "worked" or traveled, by first attaining Yesod, and then
    > the 'path' of Tav is pursued "down" into Malkuth. This integrates the
    > Yesod level of one's consciousness, into the Malkuth level, via the
    > journey of Tav. The Gate is then traversed in the opposite direction,
    > upwards and officially ends back in Yesod, thus integrating the Malkuth
    > level of one's consciousness into the Yesod level, via the reverse
    > journey of Tav.
    >
    > When working a Gate, one always begins with the highest Sephirot and
    > travels first to the lowest Sephirot. In the example of Gate #4
    > (8.10.9.8), which is composed of five "Paths", one begins in the highest
    > Sephirot of Hod (8) and travels first to the lowest Sephirot in the
    > Gate, Malkuth (10). Then one makes their way from Malkuth to Yesod and
    > then from Yesod back to Hod, completing the form. And then, one works
    > the Gate in the reverse direction by traveling from Hod to Yesod, then
    > to Malkuth and ending once again in Hod.
    >
    > So, a Gate is composed of *at least* three "Paths" and represents the
    > integration of the various levels of consciousness symbolized by the
    > "Paths". A "Path" on the other hand, represents just a single discrete
    > level of consciousness and not an integration of levels.
    >
    > My best to you,
    > :) Rawn Clark
    > 14 Sept 2003
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