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- From: grimoire@byron.u.washington.edu (John Greer)
- Subject: Re: Daath
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.000452.1075@u.washington.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 00:04:52 GMT
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- In article <L6ZZVB3w165w@hrnowl.lonestar.org> taarna@hrnowl.lonestar.org (Taarna savet) writes:
- >In article (1992Dec11.075001.1@vax.somona.edu) mccalld@vax.somona.edu
- >writes:
- >>> Why is Daath, knowledge, considered the false sepheroth?
- >
- >I believe it was Josh who responded with:
- >>> In the simplest terms, because it is artificial, that is, constructed
- >>> by each qabalist.
- >
- >I felt that Josh's answer was perhaps the closest to the truth. However,
- >I think that the word "artificial" is a bit misleading. To be even more
- >precise, I feel that instead of using the word "artificial" we might try
- >to think of it as being "achieveable". Daath lies at the heart of the
- >"Path of the Priestess". This path is by no means easy and represents
- >the changeover from "mother" to "crone". To make a long story short,
- >Daath, or knowledge, is not a __false__ sepheroth, but rather a
- >__hidden__ sepheroth, one that can only be revealed after the passing of
- >numerous experiences and time.
-
-
- In another sense, "where Daath is, Kether is not; where Kether is, Daath
- is not."
-
- From this perspective Daath is indeed a false Sephirah; as Knowledge, it
- is a representation (and thus a falsification) of Kether, which is
- unknowable. (It is possible to _be_ Kether -- to enter into absolute
- Unity -- but one cannot know it, because knowing implies a duality between
- knower and known, and there can be no duality whatever in Kether.) Daath
- is constructed by every conscious being, as its conception of what Unity/
- "God"/what-have-you, and the process of crossing the Abyss becomes one of
- removing the image so the reality can manifest itself.
-
- If you happen to be emotionally attached to the image, this becomes the
- Dark Night of the Soul; if not, the path of the Camel, which may be slow
- (as desert journeys often are) but nothing worse...
-
- -- John Michael Greer
- grimoire@u.washington.edu
-
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