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# Re: Qabalah Theory Question

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- Subject: Re: [BardonPraxis] Qabalah Theory Question
- From: "Rawn Clark" <rawnclark@...>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 11:23:34 -0800
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    Dear M,

    >> My Question is: If The Pillar of Severity is Water, and Binah and Hod
    correspond to Water, why would Geburah be Fire? And vice versa for the
    other pillar. She casually mentions that water is reflected from Binah,
    through Chesed into Hod, but doesn't explain why. <<

    To my mind, this is a very good example of how the Western Qabbalah
    needs to create very complex rationalizations in order to make its
    interpretation of Jewish Kabbalah correspond with the ancient Jewish
    texts such as the Sepher Yetzirah, Bahir and Zohar. Unfortunately, from
    the perspective of Jewish Kabbalah it doesn't make any sense.

    In order to make the Hermetic conception of the Elements fit into their
    conception of the Jewish Tree of Life, Western Qabbalists invented the
    theory of the "crossover of influences". According to this theory, the
    Elemental attributions of the Sephirot crossover between the Supernal
    Triad (Kether, Chokmah & Binah) and the triad of Tiphareth (Chesed,
    Geburah & Tiphareth), thus passing the Water of Binah to Chesed and the
    Fire of Chokmah to Geburah. In many ways, this reflects the western
    concept that "power" is an exclusively masculine (Fire) attribute and
    that "compassion" is an exclusively feminine attribute. According to
    this theory, the Elemental correspondences do another crossover between
    the Tiphareth triad and the Yesod triad (Netzach, Hod & Tiphareth).

    My best to you,
    :) Rawn Clark
    13 Nov 2003
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