By Kim Graae Munch
By Kim Graae Munch
A Contemplation.
All religions and esoteric traditions is a continuous description of the history of man and his development, written by the teachers of man, incarnating again and again. The same stories are told in consecutive cultures with different words but with like symbols.
Our universe is one, our reality is one, all religious symbols describe the same reality, the Grail, the Micro cosmos.
Forget your opinions, use your senses, and look for the patterns, find the underlying structure.
Most people look for the differences, and the differences is the details, so they study the details with great enthusiasm, but they never see the large picture. This is also how religious wars start, looking for the differences, instead of looking for the shared wisdom, and thereby understanding the differences too.
Look at the following symbols, see how they match, and see how the details references each other.
I have tried to keep the text short as the pictures are the central.
See also Tau and the Holy Grail - Part 1
Ideas, comments and other puzzle pieces are welcome
“Symbols of divine truth were not created for the amusement of the ignorant; they are the alpha and omega of philosophic thought.” -HPB
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Is considered sacred in Bön, buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism. Its have the form of a pyramid and some says its not natural.
Here we have the Third Logos, the Son of Man, the Holy Spirit, in the cave at the bottom. The Lion symbolizes the Second Logos, the Son of God. The First Logos, the Father, is planting the Tree of Life. At the top we have Atman, the I AM.
The Philosophers Mountain really have three moutain
peaks,
left the Holy Spirit, in the middle the Son, and to the right the
Father.
There is a mountain called Meru Peak, where the middle mountain isn't the highest, but its the most difficult to climb:
The Philosophers Mountain with Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma:
Egyptean version of the Philosophers Mountain, and connected to the Rainbow Bridge:
Here we have the Holy Spirit to the right, the Son in the middle and the Father to the left, and Sorat, the fallen man at the bottom, 666:
Painting by Emma Kunz (1892-1963), a Swiss healer and spiritualist.
The Labyrinth is a flat projection of the mountain of life we are climbing. If looking at the picture it's easy to see it raise conically from the floor. Many of the towers or pyramids around the world build on the same idea.
Here with Theseus and the Ariadne thread, the thread of life:
The Labyrint is the physical world. The Ariadne thread is the Thread of Life, the Akashic Record, the wisdom of his life, dharma, he builds while descending into the physical world. Theseus uses the Thread of Life to ascend from the depth again. The Minotaur is Karma, called Sin or Ahriman by some traditions, and the Sword is the 'I' used to fight Karma.
This is the path from the Holy Spirit through the Son to the Father, from the third logos to the first logos:
At the birth we start in Pisces and work our way up through seven periods of seven years, corresponding to the seven chakras.
The creation starts in Aries and moves down or out to Pisces, and the development moves up from Pisces toward Aries. But the development don't move linearly
in or up.The path to the top:
The Logoi and the circle:
This is the path from the Holy Spirit through the Son to the Father, from the third logos to the first logos:
In the Bible we first meet John the Evangelist as Lazarus coming out of the Earth, out of a Cave. Jesus enters the Earth through a Cave. At the cross Jesus gives the Mother on to John the Evangelist.
The Pyramid is the upside down triangel or chalice, for obvious reasons, and it describes microcosmos.
To the right a symbolism of Mount Meru, raising from the pyramid, where both Indra and the bodhisattva Maitreya is known to be at home, meaning that they have purified their grail body. The Mountain of the Alchemist shows the same pyramid. The Cree have the same symbolics around the Tipi. We see the same in Costa Rica with their cosmic house Talamanqueña. More here Crossing the River.
The story about the Egyptian Pyramids is that they are build from the top, meaning that first was the Archai created, then the archangelic hierarchy, then the angels, and so forth.
The pyramid is found in many forms, here in tower like forms, the first are Amma Dogon granarys, that also were a cultic place. Here we also have the Tower of Babel.
This is the door to the Dogon granery:
The Dome describes the eggshell around the physical world, containing the physical, etheric and astral world. The astral world is the star world, where the powers from the Zodiac are projected into the physical world through the form giving etheric world. These powers of the astral world was in the old days called Shiva or Lucifer and was under the domain of the Third Logos. Today these powers are also called the Holy Spirit.
Akshardham and the Basilica in Rome is very much alike in their layout:
Everywhere the dome is used it's an expression of the Third Logos, if it's Shiva's, Islamic, Jewish temples or Catholic churches. The dome separates man from God. The cathedrals of the Protestants penetrates the dome and enters into heaven, its in the domain of the Second Logos. We also find the dome in the economic or political sphere, like Capitol in USA with the Apotheosis of George Washington, and it is also here the mark of the Third Logos.
The Holy Grail is also a symbol for the Third Logos, and it symbolizes the physical being into whom the Word is born, The Second Logos. The Grail history goes back to the creation story of the Scythians.
Jacob have a vision of a big ladder where angels walk up and down, and it's a symbol known everywhere. It's the Kabbalah Tree of Life and Arjunas vision of Krishna and himself describes the same.
Creation is done downward and development upward.
The Chakras and the kundalini power is the rainbow bridge or stairs to heaven, or they can be said to be the pillars that connect Earth and Heaven, that holds the Earth.
Behind the name Atlas or Hercules was the single being that hold the Earth until the rest of mankind could begin taking their part of the burden.
By the way, he is not having the old planet on his shoulder, he is bearing the new ether planet we all are working on. It's also called the new Temple, why he is also called the temple builder, he is the Templebuilder.
Irminsul was the world tree of the Saxons, with connotations to Wotan, that is the old pre-christian pantheon. Charlemagne is destroying the old worldorder, establishing the new, he is the new Templebuilder.
"The destruction of Irminsul by Charlemagne" (1882)
by Heinrich Leutemann.
The Zodiac describes the Grail too, the womb, the microcosm that develop together. It describes the clockwork that are behind what happens in this microcosmos. Here again the characteristic serpent of the Luciferic, Shiva.
Its actually quite interesting with the twelve petals in the heart chakra, as the heart was the center of the Earth development it would be a good hypothesis that there was a correspondence to the Zodiac, but I haven't looked into it. The same with the outer form of the Yantra's, there are the four main corners and then the lesser two on each side.
The twelve starsigns didn't come at one time, the oldest signs are the four Fixed signs Ox, Lion, Eagle and Man, later called Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius. Then came the Cardinal names, Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn as anthitesis to the original Fixed signs, and lastly came the Mutable signs, as synthesis to the Fixed and Cardinal signs, as their equilibrium.
The Fixed signs had to to with the development of the physical body, the Cardinal entered evolution in connection with the development of the etheric energy body and the Mutable signs entered development with the development of the astral body, with the feeling body. Also called the three deeds of Christ or Krishna.
Mans consciousnes have evolved up through time, our understandind grew and it showed through the models we used. The Kabbalah Tree of Life contains the structures that are the model for nearly all the symbols we have.
Here is shown how many of the main symbols relates to the Tree of Life:
A. In the start there was only the unity, everything was within this unity.
B.
This unity split in two, this is the normal physical experience, us against the others, in reality us against the spiritual world and thereby against ourselves. Duality is an illusion, number 2 don't exist, one does and three does, but two does not. The original one that split in two is still there,
it's the equilibrium. At the end there is only the equilibrium, and we become one again.
The Yin Yang symbol seems to show this duality, the struggle in the physical world, but it's about equilibrium, it's symmetries says equilibrium, in contras to chaos, the imaginaire line between the dark and white is the equilibrium, the golden path we should walk, dharma.
C. The Microcosmic Triangle, the Grail, the physical world.
The trinity represent the three Logoi, the Father, the Mother and the Son, Osiris, Isis and Horus, where the Son is the equilibrium of the formative powers of the physical world and the inspiration from the spiritual world. In astrology it's also called Modalities or Quadruplicities, and in Alchemy they are called Sulphur, Salt and Quicksilver. See more under the number Three.
D. Four means we are fully in the physical world.
E. The Sun is the center of our being, our soul are here, it's where mankind is at home, our shared center, and it's Love, pure Love, creative power, that was what we came here to develop.
F. It's the upper triangle, it's our spirit, it's where the higher hierarchies have their consciousness, as we have it in the soul, the Sun.
G. This is the reason behind the spiritual figure of the form of the number 8. It's like the hexagram, but not joined together.
H. Then pentagram symbolizes man awake in his soul.
I. The hexagram show all the bodies of man, the Sun, the Soul, is placed in the center. See also Esoteric History of Man and The Crucible.
J. The heptagram shows all of man, all his seven layers. To the left the outer planets, what may be outside our person, and to the right the inner planets, what we are conscious fully about.
The triangle pointing down is the symbol for the Holy Grail, and the triangle pointing up is the spiritual vorld, the Hostie is the new universe that are born out of the grail, the soul. The triangle is also shown in the Lingga Yoni. The Hexagram is a symbol for the Second Logos, it contains everything in the creation. The triangle pointing down is the physical world, the Holy Spirit, the triangle pointing up is the spiritual world, the Father, and the center is the Son, the Second Logos.
And with the four group souls of humanity.
From Soma and European Alchemy, see the many details refering the different symbols:
The Pentagram is a symbol for the Third Logos:
Some interesting versions of Kabbalah relating to other symbolic representations.
This is a more sophisticated form of the grail.
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Earth as a projection from a Tetrahedron. This tetrahedron is formed by the microcosmic powers, where each corner corresponds to these powers, and their strength decrease the longer from the corner, but are changed with time as humanity develops.
The four are the four group souls of man, where the eagle corresponds to Ahriman/Yin, the ox to Lucifer/Yang and the Lion to Christ/Tao. The so called Lucifer incarnation was in China, Fu Xi, very appropriate.
Alchemically we have Sulphur and the Sun with center in Japan, Salt and Moon with center in Honduras, and Mercury and the Star with center in Kaukasus. The Sun in Japan is also quite appropriate. The alchemical Star in connection with Christ is also appropriate.
This is a basic structure of the Earth, it's not the tectonic plates as such, tectonic plates are smaller and float around within this structure.
The astral negative from where the holographic projection
of Earth comes.
The Fano plane is an interesting construct that have many interesting mathematical symmetries and transformations that give new symmetries, see The Fano Plane and Wikipedia if interested in math. Here like the Kabbalah Tree of Life.
Especially interesting is the summing of trigrams, two endpoints give the middle point. Thesis and antithesis gives the synthesis.
A variation:
Duality in the Fano plane, each point corresponds to a line and vice versa, see Wikipedia:
The lower part is the Grail.
The Tetractys corresponds to the Kabbalah Tree of Life, but it's relation to the Pyramids is also clear.
Is a very complicated description of the Grail, working intensely with triangles and pyramids. The animated picture is pedagogical eyecandy, it's not a true representation.
Much more pictures in the See Appendix.
At the place of the Lingga Yoni they also had this, the universe on the back of a turtle. The development seems like going very slow :-) , but it's actually not the case, it goes extremely fast. The third picture is a Sri Yantra Pyramid on the back of a Turtle. The Turtle is the physical and spiritual foundation, Atma, that everything else build on. In Hindu mythology the turtle is called Kurma. The earliest account of Kurma is found in the Shatapatha Brahmana (Yajur veda), where he is a form of Prajapati-Brahma and helps with the samudra manthan (churning of cosmic ocean). In the Epics and the Puranas, the legend expands and evolves into many versions, with Kurma becoming an avatar of Vishnu. He appears in the form of a tortoise or turtle to support the foundation for the cosmos and the cosmic churning stick (Mount Mandara). In South America it's Quetzalcoatl who are symbolized with the turtle.
Here we have a combination of Yantra, the Tree and the Bird Phoenix. The last picture is the three masters, Hiram Abiff, King Solomon and King Hiram.
Then I said to him, "What are these two olive trees on the right and the left of the lampstand?" And a second time I answered and said to him, "What are these two branches of the olive trees, which are beside the two golden pipes from which the golden oil is poured out?" He said to me, "Do you not know what these are?" I said, "No, my lord." Then he said, "These are the two anointed ones who stand by the Lord of the whole earth."
From Deliverance of the Yamala-arjuna Trees
Nalakūvara and Maṇigrīva were great devotees of Lord Śiva, but because of material opulence they became so extravagant and senseless that one day they were enjoying with naked girls in a lake and shamelessly walking here and there. Suddenly Nārada Muni passed by, but they were so maddened by their wealth and false prestige that even though they saw Nārada Muni present, they remained naked and were not even ashamed....
Lord Kṛṣṇa, by the desire of His devotee, uprooted these yamala-arjuna trees, and when Nalakūvara and Maṇigrīva were thus delivered by Kṛṣṇa after one hundred years of the devas, their old consciousness revived, and they offered Kṛṣṇa prayers suitable to be offered by demigods....
"Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King Parīkṣit, because the two sons of Kuvera had been elevated to the association of Lord Śiva, of which they were very much proud, they were allowed to wander in a garden attached to Kailāsa Hill, on the bank of the Mandākinī River. Taking advantage of this, they used to drink a kind of liquor called Vāruṇī. Accompanied by women singing after them, they would wander in that garden of flowers, their eyes always rolling in intoxication.
Within the waters of the Mandākinī Ganges, which were crowded with gardens of lotus flowers, the two sons of Kuvera would enjoy young girls, just like two male elephants enjoying in the water with female elephants."
"Thereafter, in that very place where the two arjuna trees had fallen, two great, perfect personalities, who appeared like fire personified, came out of the two trees. The effulgence of their beauty illuminating all directions, with bowed heads they offered obeisances to Kṛṣṇa, and with hands folded they spoke the following words."
"O supreme form, we are always servants of Your servants, especially of Nārada Muni. Now give us permission to leave for our home. It is by the grace and mercy of Nārada Muni that we have been able to see You face to face."
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: The great saint Nārada Muni is very merciful. By his curse, he showed the greatest favor to both of you, who were mad after material opulence and who had thus become blind. Although you fell from the higher planet Svargaloka and became trees, you were most favored by him. I knew of all these incidents from the very beginning."
"O Nalakūvara and Maṇigrīva, now you may both return home. Since you desire to be always absorbed in My devotional service, your desire to develop love and affection for Me will be fulfilled, and now you will never fall from that platform."
Mu in various forms:
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Chu Slip and silk script |
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From Theseus:
Theseus was a legendary king of Athens, son of Aegeus (or of Poseidon). Theseus was a founder-hero, like Perseus, Cadmus or Heracles (Atlas), all of whom battled and overcame foes that were identified with an archaic religious and social order. As Heracles was the Dorian hero, Theseus was the Ionian founding hero, considered by Athenians as their own great reformer. His name comes from the same root as θεσμoς, "thesmos", Greek for institution. In The Frogs Aristophanes credited him with inventing many everyday Athenian traditions. He may have originated in, or been based upon, an historical person or persons.
These founding heroes started new cultures and ended old outworn cultures, he is who I call the Temple Builder.
Before coming to Crete Theseus handles six Chthonic demons at six gates to the underworld and the Marathonian Bull, corresponding to the seven chakras. After that he was send to Crete together with six men and seven women as sacrifices to the Minotaur, but his objective is to slay the Minotaur.
Ariadne was the Mistress of the Labyrinth, and she falls in love with him, she spins a thread he should use in the labyrinth to find his way out again, and she gave him a sword to kill the Minotaur.
The Labyrinth is the physical world, the Creation. The Ariadne thread is the Thread of Life, the Akashic Record, the wisdom of his life, dharma, he builds while descending into the physical world. Theseus uses the Thread of Life to ascend from the depth of creation again. The Minotaur is Karma, called Sin or Ahriman by some traditions, and the Sword is the 'I' used to fight Karma.
The string of fate is a concrete experience for many that can see clairvoyantly, as a string with markings of old
From Wikipedia:
Their number became fixed at three: Clotho (spinner), Lachesis (allotter) and Atropos (unturnable). They controlled the mother thread of life of every mortal from birth to death. They were independent, at the helm of necessity, directed fate, and watched that the fate assigned to every being by eternal laws might take its course without obstruction.
There have been many ways to view them:
From Wikipedia:
In Norse mythology the Norns are female beings who rule the destiny of gods and men, twining the thread of life. They set up the laws and decided on the lives of the children of men. Their names were Urðr (that which became or happened) related with Wyrd, weird (fate), Verðandi (that which is happening) and Skuld (that which should become, debt, guilt).
The Norns clothes themselves in swan plumage and visited the Earth from time to time.
From "Myths of the Norsemen"
As soon as the Golden Age [dreamtime] was ended, and sin began to steal even into the heavenly homes of Asgard, the Norns made their appearance under the great ash Yggdrasil, and took up their abode near the Urdar fountain. ...
These three sisters, whose names were Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld, were personifications of the past, present, and future. Their principal occupations were to weave the web of fate; to sprinkle daily the sacred tree with water from the Urdar fountain, and to put fresh clay around its roots, that it might remain fresh and ever green.
Thence come the maids
Who much do know;
Three from the hall
Beneath the tree;
One they named Was,
And Being next,
The third Shall be.
~The Voluspa (Henderson's tr.)
Some authorities further state that the Norns kept watch over the golden apples which hung on the branches of the tree of life, experience, and knowledge, allowing none but Idun to pick the fruit, which was that with which the gods renewed their youth.
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From Wikipedia:
In Snorri Sturluson's interpretation of the Völuspá, Urðr (Wyrd), Verðandi and Skuld, the three most important of the Norns, come out from a hall standing at the Well of Urðr or Well of Fate. They draw water from the well and take sand that lies around it, which they pour over Yggdrasill so that its branches will not rot.
These three Norns are described as powerful maiden giantesses (Jotuns) whose arrival from Jötunheimr ended the golden age of the gods.
Here's two things that are especially interesting, the Norns keep Yggdrasill alive, the Tree of Life, they keep our microcosmos alive. The other thing are that they ended the Golden Age of the gods, meaning that they ended what the Australian Aboriginals calls Dreamtime, what the Indians calls Kali Yuga and connects to the death of Krishna, and the old testament connects to the Tower of Babel.
Through an oracle Serapis described himself to the King of Cyprus:
''A god I am such as I show to thee,
The Starry Heavens are my head, my trunk the sea,
Earth forms my feet, mine ears the air supplies,
The Sun's far-darting, brilliant rays, mine eyes."
Serapis was called Theon Heptagrammaton, or the god with the name of seven letters, like Abraxas and Mithras, corresponding to the seven Logoi, the seven planets. Occasionally Serapis is depicted with a crown or seven rays, representing the seven Logoi.
See the picture with the serpent around Serapis, it's comparable to the Grail with the snake, Krishna and Shiva. The lion face is also the symbol of Christ.
Tefnut is a daughter of the solar god Ra-Atum. Married to her brother, Shu, she is mother of Nut, the sky and Geb, the earth. Tefnut's grandchildren were Osiris, (Wesir) Isis, (Aset) Set, Nephthys, (Nebthet) and in some versions, Horus the Elder (Heru Wer). She was also a great grandmother of Horus the Younger (Heru-sa-Aset). Alongside her father, brother, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchild, she is a member of the Ennead of Heliopolis. Wiki.
The Eye goddess acts as mother, sibling, consort, and daughter of the sun god. She is his partner in the creative cycle in which he begets the renewed form of himself that is born at dawn. The Eye's violent aspect defends Ra against the agents of disorder that threaten his rule. This dangerous aspect of the Eye goddess is often represented by a lioness or by the uraeus, or cobra, a symbol of protection and royal authority.
The Eye of Ra is similar to the Eye of Horus, which belongs to a different god, Horus, but represents many of the same concepts. The disastrous effects when the Eye goddess rampages out of control and the efforts of the gods to return her to a benign state are a prominent motif in Egyptian mythology. [Reminds of various partners to Shiva.] Wiki.
From Purusha Myth
In the Rig-Veda,
Purusha is described as a primeval giant, that is sacrificed by the gods and from whose body the world and the varnas (castes) are built. He is described as having a thousand heads and a thousand feet. He emanated Viraj, the female creative principle, from which he is reborn in turn before the world was made out of his parts.
In the sacrifice of Purusha, the Vedic chants were first created. Heaven and earth were made and the horses and cows were born.
the Brahmins were made from Purusha's mouth.
the Kshatriyas from Purusha's arms.
the Vaishyas from Purusha’s thighs.
the Shudras from Purusha’s feet.
This all were created only from ¼ of Purusha. The remaining ¾ of Purusha was the immortality of the heaven.
The physical, above was the etheric, astral and soul world.
From Prajapati Myth
Prajapati in Hindu mythology is the primordial lord of creatures, and is mentioned in Vedic, epic and Puranic literature. In Vedic legends he is described in various ways as the creator of the world, and the creator of heaven and earth, day and night and death. He did not know why he was born, was alone and wept. His tears formed the ocean, heaven and earth.
From Hiranyagarbha Myth and Andam
Hiranyagarbha, 'Golden egg' or 'golden womb'. This egg was floating in the cosmic ocean. From this egg came Brahma. Brahma made man and woman. The other name of Brahma is Narayana, the one who arose from the water.In the Rig-Veda Hiranyagarbha "is said to have arisen in the beginning, the one lord of all beings, who upholds heaven and earth, who gives life and breath, whose command even the gods obey, who is the god over all gods [Adam Kadmon,] and the one animating principle of their being.
What characterizes the Grail is life and death, sin and karma.
Everybody has alien influences embedded in his soul. It seems as if they are part of the personality, especially those collected in childhood. In order to live one’s own life and one’s own fate, one has to get rid of them. It's called Karma!
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KÊN / Keeping Still, Mountain |
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SUN / The Gentle, Wind |
The Chinese character KU represents a bowl or cup full of worms, symbolizing what has been spoiled through mans abuse of freedom. The worms are our karma, and it can be transformed to wisdom through mans work, be purified. This is the initiation, three days of preparation, spiritual death, and three days for resurrection.
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The Judgment Work on what has been Spoiled Has supreme success. It furthers one to cross the great water. Before the starting point, three days. After the starting point, three days. Wilhelm |
This describes the Grail.
From GŬ
Everybody has alien influences embedded in his soul. Many are hidden; one does not even know they exist. It seems as if they are part of the personality. Especially those one collected in childhood.
In order to live one’s own life and one’s own fate, one has to get rid of them. The more one succeeds, the more happiness, strength and health will come back.
Every influence makes a distance between one’s mind and God, or however one calls the inner essential being. Really reaching God is very difficult – except when one does reach Him, and then it turns out to be the easiest thing in the world. You wonder why you did not know it was – it is because the distance is made of thinking, but to reach Him is made of being.
Gematrically seen, 18 can be seen as the sum of 10 and 8. They describe the interior of the Grail.
Man are striving to get up, and are in accordance with the heavenly powers.
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Above CH’IEN / The Creative, Heaven. |
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Below TUI / The Joyous, Lake, Man. |
Treading. Treading upon the tail of the tiger.
It does not bite the man. Success.
For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.
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Above K’AN / The Abysmal, Water |
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Below K’UN / The Receptive, Earth |
We should keep together, unite around the Temple Builder(s), who have sublimity, constancy, and perseverance, and we should aspire for that too. The weaker joins gradually, and others are to late.
Holding Together brings good fortune.
Inquire of the oracle once again
Whether you possess sublimity, constancy, and
perseverance;
Then there is no blame.
Those who are uncertain gradually join.
Whoever comes too late
Meets with misfortune.
The number 18 symbolizes Life, Life and Death, the Eartly Experience, the Grail, the Cup of Life.
The
stem and an upside down cup.
In Kabbalah, Chai is the lowest (closest to the physical plane) emanation of God, Microcosmos, the Grail.
Two common Jewish names used since Talmudic times, are based on this symbol,
Chaya feminine, Chayim masculine. The Jewish toast (on alcoholic beverages such as wine) is l'chaim, 'to life'.
The word is made up of two letters of the Hebrew alphabet - Chet (ח, 8) and Yod (י, 10), forming the word "chai", meaning "alive", or "living". The most common spelling in Latin script is "Chai", but the word is occasionally also spelled "Hai".
There have been various mystical numerological speculations about the fact that, according to the system of gematria, the letters of chai add up to 18. For this reason, 18 is a spiritual number in Judaism, and many Jews give gifts of money in multiples of 18 as a result.
Jews often give gifts and donations in multiples of 18, which is called "giving chai". Mailings from Jewish charities usually suggest the amounts to give in multiples of chai (18, 36, 54, dollars, etc.) rather than the usual multiples of 25.
Other words giving the number 18: Ohavi – my beloved, Aivah – a type of hatred and Cheit – sin.
Chai is connected to God, where chei is connected to man.
This difference is manifest very clearly in the Book of Melakhim II (4:30), where the Shunamite woman says to the prophet Elisha after the death of her son, "Chai Hashem ve-chei nafshekha im e'ezvekha" – "By God's life and the life of you soul, I am not leaving you." Even in the same verse, the word chai is used in reference to the Almighty, whereas chei appears in connection with a human being's life. Here.
Ecclesiastes 7.20
For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not
Luke 13.8
And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?
From Life and Sin - 18
The primary significance of the Number 18 is Life - but there is none that lives and sinneth not, so we find the concepts of Life and Sin/Death inextricably intertwined. This is typical of the alphanumneric structure of Scripture - the Numbers form Numerical Categories that subsume polar concepts - the positive and negative aspects of a singular cardinal impulse.
Alive, Living Chi |
Sin, Sinner Chata |
Adam, Man (Ord) Adam |
My Beloved [Pro 8.21] Ahavi |
My Beloved [Song 7.13] Dodi |
Rinse, Wash |
Tsaddi (Ord) |
Fishhook Dugah |
Enmity, Hatred Eyob |
There are four cartouche roundels to the North, South, East and West of the Chalice. A sacred object produced
firom one solid piece of crystalline Alabaster potentially of Middle Eastern origin and Romanesque in design.
The Romanesque period is from 1000 CE to the start of the 13th Century and the first Gothic age. This coincides with the rise of the Knights Templar.
During the Christian Mass a Chalice is 'elevated' (lifted) at the point in the service where the wine becomes the Blood of Christ; therefore in the case the Templar Chalice the main cartouche to the South reveals the largest of the four Templar Crosses to the Priest reminding the cup bearer that the contents are representative of the Blood of Christ which as part of the mystery of the Holy Trinity is in fact, in deed and in worship the One True God.
Therefore the main cross, though enclosed in a circle is not surrounded by any other markings and is thus representative of the 'living' God having dominion over the entire world. Consider that at this time the official view is that the world is flat and circular. It is also a commission to the bearer to take the Gospel of Christ out into the world.
The other three aspects of the Templar Chalice depict Templar Crosses to the North, East and West within a banded cartouche redolent of the rays of the sun.
On each aspect, there are 18 individual geometric triangles which form the rays in a circle around the Cross....
... In the context of the Chalice a three sided geometric shape representative of the suns rays and amounting to the total of 18 represents the Hebrew word 'Chai'.
Temptation is an interesting thing. It could bring ruin, or it might bring something life giving.
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CH’IEN / The Creative, Heaven |
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SUN / The Gentle, Wind |
From Wilhelms
This hexagram indicates a situation in which the principle of darkness, after having been eliminated, furtively and unexpectedly obtrudes again from within and below. Of its own accord the female principle comes to meet the male. It is an unfavorable and dangerous situation, and we must understand and promptly prevent the possible consequences.
The hexagram is linked with the fifth month [June–July], because at the summer solstice the principle of darkness gradually becomes ascendant again.
The inferior man rises only because the superior man does not regard him as dangerous and so lends him power. If he were resisted from the first, he could never gain influence.
From Gou
Temptation is an interesting thing. It could bring ruin, or it might bring something life giving.
Everyone needs challenges, to awaken the senses, in order to feel fully alive. And who knows what may manifest from it?
What 44 represents is that which is powerfully attractive to the ego. It can be a person, an event or something you have unwittingly put into train, which takes off out of control and far beyond your plan.
When we build a structure around us to protect us from 'wrong' and 'bad', we can build a solid life. But what we lose then, is our vulnerability to be freely influenced. That means we also lose our creativity and our receptivity to life's impulses.
Gou is dangerous and seductive, but it brings the birth of the heir.
Genesis 4.1:
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. And she again bare his brother Abel.
Genesis 4.10:
And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
From Birth and Blood - 44
The word translated as "bare" - (Teled) - is an anagram of the name of the Fourth Letter (Dalet). Genesis 4 is deeply integrated with this letter - it contains the first occurrence of the Dalet KeyWord Dawm (Blood) and of the great Spoke 4 theme, Birth. Even the literal meaning of Dalet (Door) first occurs in Genesis 4.
Birth/Child Yeled |
Father + Mother Av + Am |
Blood [Lev 17.11] |
and bare (gave birth) (Ord) [Gen 4.1] U'Teled |
In my heart B'Lavi |
One God [Mal 2.10] El Echad |
Praise (Ord) Tahilah |
The Lord Lives! YHVH Chai! |
This hexagram denotes a time in nature when heaven seems to be on earth.
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K´UN / The Receptive, Earth |
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CH´IEN / The Creative, Heaven |
From Peace
The Receptive, which moves downward, stands above; the Creative, which moves upward, is below. Hence their influences meet and are in harmony, so that all living things bloom and prosper. This hexagram belongs to the first month (February–March), at which time the forces of nature prepare the new spring.
This hexagram denotes a time in nature when heaven seems to be on earth. Heaven has placed itself beneath the earth, and so their powers unite in deep harmony. Then peace and blessing descend upon all living things.
When the spirit of heaven rules in man, his animal nature also comes under its influence and takes its appropriate place. The individual lines enter the hexagram from below and leave it again at the top. Here the small, weak, and evil elements are about to take their departure, while the great, strong, and good elements are moving up. This brings good fortune and success.
Tai is about imploring for favors and blessings and receiving abundance and prosperity. If you ask the gods for blessings, you will receive them, because you open your mind to see them. Some people find things in places where many others went before and found nothing. Happiness is the result of a state of mind, and going to Mount Tai is to find that.
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