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In Much Wisdom Is Much Grief

On what the Tree of Life gives, and what it takes away "For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." Ecclesiastes 1:18 A moment comes to everyone who walks this path long enough, and nobody warns you about it beforehand. You are reading, the Zohar , say, or Dion Fortune's Mystical Qabalah , or the dog-eared copy of Crowley's 777 that has followed you through three apartments, and something clicks. A pattern rises out of the chaos of symbols and numbers, and for a split second the universe makes perfect, terrible sense, and then you wish it did not, though by then it is too late to choose. The Tree first became real to me on a Tuesday afternoon in late summer. It stopped being an abstract diagram and became a map of reality I could see operating everywhere, the Sephiroth no longer pretty circles with Hebrew names but living forces, currents of divine energy running through everything around me, through me, and through t...

The Tree of Life

Ten spheres, thirty-two paths, the Qabalistic Cross and the Lord's Prayer The longer one stays with Kabbalistic thought, the more one pattern keeps surfacing: the universe as a web of relationships among its parts, with the Tree of Life as the map that web produces. A medieval Hebrew manuscript and a modern Western esoteric manual draw the same figure, ten spheres arranged on three pillars and joined by paths, and both use it to describe the same thing across centuries of commentary and practice. Where the Tree came from is disputed. Some writers find its forerunners in Egyptian, Mesopotamian or Gnostic systems, though the evidence for any direct descent is thin. The doctrine of the ten sefirot as divine powers first appears in the Sefer ha-Bahir , which surfaced among the Jewish mystics of Provence in the late twelfth century, and Kabbalah spread from there through Spain and the wider Jewish world. The diagram itself came later still. The familiar drawing, with its circles, pilla...

The Secret Doctrine of the Spiritual Division

Immortality, the Divine Master, and the long-lived ones "Ako ang nag-tago sa walay pagtago, ug ako ang nagtug-an sa walay pagtug-an. Ang akong guitaguan guitug-an, guitug-an ug akong guisulti ang akong guitug-an, managkauban pa sila." Gen. Adriano dela Concepcion, Main Office, San Jose, Dinagat, December 9, 1970 Anyone who reads through the messages of the early leaders of the PBMA notices something within the first few pages: the older the message, the more teaching is packed into it. Those early texts carry an urgency that later documents often lose, as though the speakers knew the audience in front of them would not always be there to hear. Working through the preserved materials recently, I came upon a piece of doctrine that deserves careful examination, because it lies close to the center of what the Spiritual Division claimed to be. Lolo Adriano's Message of 1978 The message that opened the question came from General Adriano dela Concepcion, known in the organ...

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