By Lon Milo DuQuette
A different and funny -- and in addition useful -- method of the more and more renowned learn of Qabalah. this can be a heavily humorous ebook! conventional Qabalistic (or Cabalistic, or, certainly, Kabbalistic -- learn this e-book to determine what the variation is...we recognize you've constantly puzzled) resources are typically a section, er, dry. DuQuette spices up the Qabalah and makes it come alive, restoring the enjoyment of studying the basics of this admittedly arcane process through the use of basic, fun anecdotes and metaphors. This account, written psuedepigraphically (fictitiously attributed to a intended authority), permits DuQuette as Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford to leap to outrageous heights and, whilst useful, stand except the silliness to spotlight the golden eggs of Qabalistic knowledge nested therein. guaranteed to be a revelation to those that imagine that studying in regards to the Qabalah has to be tedious and severe, DuQuette exhibits that groovy truths may be transmitted in the course of the medium of laughter. * A Dilettante's advisor to What You Do and don't want to know to turn into a Qabalist .
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TAROT TRUMP: Do not confuse with Resh , Daleth is spelled l"'1~' (DLTh). " A door is a valve that can bar or accommodate both the entrance and exit of things. It is a tent flap, a threshold, and a gate. Walk out of the door of your house and you move from the unity of your home to the multiplicity of the world and vice versa. The most important "door" for humans is a woman's womb and/or vagina. It accommodates the entrance of the fertilizing male member, and nine months later, it is the door through which we all enter the world.
Pointing to the letterHeh Final 11 , jj ... or Yetzirah... SCENE X Location: Blueprint room. rd hurri~dly distributes memos to excited nerd angels. ) jj j jj ~ ... or Briah.. [Pointing to the letter Heh jj , 11 ~ CUT TO SCENE XI showroom. use wareho re Furnitu on: Locati ... But right here in Yodland... \BA LAH FOUR QABA LISTIC WORL DS / 95 [Pointing to the letterYod l"f' l"f ~ } Atzulith is where the male and female aspect of the Deity are still united in pure bliss. It is where the desire impulse of the Supreme Deity projects the universal qualities of rest.
I suppose inevitably there will be those who view as crude and ollensive Ben Clifford's sexual allusions to Hebrew letters and other clements of Qabalistic study. Admittedly, at first glance it does appear I hat he places an inordinate emphasis on phalluses and vaginas, wombs and sperm, and such. As he is no longer here to defend himself, I feel I must say a few words on the Rabbi's behalf. For the last two thousand years there has been a concerted effort hy those who would guide the spiritual life of Western Civilization, 10 divorce human life from nature (on one end of the scale) and from I iod on the other.