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>>> so cool that you`re into qabalah-magic
well, all three streams practice “magic”. That's one of the characteristics of Q/K/C-ab(b)ala(h) - it's an 'operative' system. It claims to be able to 'do' things.
What I trained in is magical/hermetic qabalah - which means the system that was worked on by the european hermetic tradition and it's inheritors, the late 18th and 20th century magicians.
Why the hermetics and magicians took up qabalah during a period when the jews had pretty much suppressed it is an interesting story. As is the story of how kabbalah came back into vogue. As is the story of why the different streams use different letters.
By 'stream' I mean cultural streams - that is, traditions, or patterns of cultural usage kept alive by various people or groups.
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>>> i don`t know if i got it right…energy might not be dimensional but it transcends(?) dimensions right?
Not energy, information. The tree is a flowchart of information and transformations and operations of information.
It's actually very common to see these two different things treated as if they were the same - and viscerally they often seem the same. This is a complex topic so I'm just going to touch lightly on it.
Like all mysticisms, qabalah has it's own systems of “energy training”. That is, exercises that teach the mystic how to feel “energy” and alter consciousness and experience with that feeling of energy.
This gets a little complicated. “Energy” is a kind of information, but information is not necessarily energy. However, that's kind of advanced, and only really matters when you've gotten good enough at the energy exercises that they start getting dangerous.
In any case, the idea that was critical for me, was thinking of the tree as a flowchart of information. Keep in mind, I think of this as a very advanced idea, and when I started, I thought of the tree as a flow of energy too.
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>>> what kind of impact has the magic kabbalah had on your life so far?
The magical/hermetic qabalah.
Other people here are into kabbalah - I practice qabalah.
Well, I think of it as 'effects', not impact.
The effects I value the most might seem odd. They are, a significant improvement in memory, dramatic increases in visual creativity and multitasking and what we might call 'multidimensional' thought capacity. In effect, a radical transformation in the organizational structure of my mind.
That alone is so striking and worthwhile that it makes the effort I've put into qabalah training worth every hour a thousand times over.
It's radical enough that I've compared it to learning how to read and write. If you look at two people from the outside, one literate, the other not, it's hard to see a difference. But the richness of the inner life of the literate person makes that person almost a different type of human being, compared to the illiterate.
Qabalah training is like that.
Then there's all the other stuff - a new model of mind and 'self', changes in the orientation of the person in time and space, improved self-knowledge, yada yada yada.
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