Qabalah

Nintzel, Hans. Alchemy and Qabalah. Hermetic J, no. 12 (Summer 1981) 5-11. 

Bonner, John. Qabalah, a primer. Skoob Books, 1994. 270p. ISBN 1871438578 "Orders of Angels, Magickal grades and virtues, planets and plants, the rich symbolism of the Tarot, elements chemical and alchemical, the characters of the Hebrew alphabet all play a part in the tradition of the Tree of Life"... 

Fuller, J.F.C. The secret wisdom of the Qabalah a study in Jewish mystical thought. rhttp //www.hermetics.org/pdf/ Qabalah,pdfl. 

Contents Light on the Egyptian revival essence of the practical Qabalah more light on the Tarot trumps The Sun, the Devil, and the Redeemer The Mystery of Babylon and the Beast Further Light on the Tree of Life The Law of Thelema (will) The Tradition of the Golden Age... 

Over the years, this book has come to be regarded as the seminal work on the Tarot on the Tarots intimate connection with Qabalah, Astrology, Alchemy the other Hermetic Sciences... 

This book presents material which is not ordinarily available even to the serious students of esotericism. It ranges over the entire field of occult study. There is information about the mysteries, astrology, alchemy, the chakras and attwas, the Qabalah and many other branches of the ancient wisdom... 

LaDage, Alta J. Occult psychology a comparison of Jungian psycholofy and the modern Qabalah. Llewellyn Publns. 

Before commencing the direct application of the practices in this book, would-be practitioners need to be versed in the philosophy and metaphysics of the holy Qabalah. Most Western esoteric schools use the Qabalah, as Dion Fortune put it, because of its purity and common-sense. Alchemy is, in fact, the practical aspect of the Qabalah (as distinct from the theoretical aspects), the means by which Qabalistic teachings are actually attained. 

The exponents of Alchemy identified the Qabalah as the sole key to their Hermetic Art by various pictorial devices. They often portrayed a pair of crossed keys over a tree growing inside the alchemical vessel, thereby signifying that, unless the Tree of Life was seeded and grew within practitioners, and the Qabalah was understood and actualized by the alchemist, the rest was in error and therefore, useless. Another symbol used to depict this was a fullgrown tree with a gold crown around its trunk just above the roots. The position of the crown on the tree coincides with... 

Symbolism is the language of the subconscious mind, used in dream and vision. We have access to the entire store of symbols held in the collective unconscious. In Qabalah, this is attributed to the astral realm of Yetzirah on Jacob s Ladder, and to the Sephira of Yesod on the simple Tree. It is called the treasure house of images. As conscious beings, we... 

In Qabalah, the signs of the zodiac represent the twelve spiritual types of perfected humanity, symbolized by the twelve tribes of the Spiritual Israel and by the twelve foundations of the celestial city, Jerusalem Above, the Mother of us all. The zodiacal signs also relate to the twelve stages of the Great Work. These alchemical stages and their tarot attributions are ... 

My root teacher once said, In Qabalah, God is the only authority, all else is advice. We do not escape the consequences of our actions because some authority—living, dead, or fictitious—tells us to do something. I was only obeying orders is not recognized as a mitigating circumstance in the universe s Court of Appeals ... 

Melchizadek. Since then, these four archangels have been seen as the protectors of those who approach the Divine through the Qabalah. 

This heretofore closely-guarded secret of esoteric practice—the exteriorization—is also one of the meanings of the Rosicrucian (Christian-Qabalah) pledge to perform all practical work in a place concealed and apart from the gaze of the outer and uninitiated world. This means that the alchemical procedure is undertaken within the inner bodies, as well, of course, as in those objective Temples of Ingathering in the Worlds Above. 

Dion Fortune, The Mystical Qabalah (York Beach, ME Samuel Weiser, 1984), p. 289. 

Within the Nuptial Chamber of the secret temple of Yod resides an image of the Black Isis. She is the veiled or concealed one, the Co-Emergent Mother of the Alchemical Qabalah. 

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