The End is the Beginning is the End...

**Well in the Sefer Yetzira, the ten holy sefirot are describedin terms of five polarities. Kaplan suggests identifying the extremes of various polarities withpairs of sefirot. As said before the six spatialdirections are linked to the central six sefirot (witha few discrepencies between the masters), which leaves the other four to the polarities of Good and Evil,Past and Future. First time I attempted this exerciseI really struggled with Good and Evil between Ketherand Malkuth. I finally settled on Malkuth as Good and Evil, and Kether as neither. That's when I realisedthat was what I thought was meant by Good and Evil. Kether has no attributes of its own, its the potentialfor all the others, and this makes it good. In Malkuth however, we find the extremes of bothattributes, all the attributes in both their good andevil relative impermanent imperfect forms. It mightbe better to think of it as:Absolute - Keter - Good Relative/Conditioned - Malkuth - Evil


I thought Kaplan used past and future for Kehter and Malkuth.....its been a while...
but um there are 7 directions...... forward backward..left right up down and within.....

7 days. of creation...7 stages of alchemy (visita interiora terrae rectificando invenies occultum lapidem)..7 spheres before the supernal triangle....etc.....

Now kaplan also discusses Oroboros..does he not....
the end is the beginning is the end.....

he states 2 polar opposites...lets say kether and malkuth.....lets call them past(kether) future(malkuth).....now if these were 2 imaginary points...polar opposites..that stretch out for infinity in opposite dirtections...kaplan states they reach a point of infinity...and eventually come back upon them selves...and meet..(this is modern maths.....pardon my ignorance I'm just saying what kaplan said).....thus the end is the beginning is the end......Indeed some forms of kabbalah teach that kether is closer to malkuth than it is to chockmah.......

This fits in nicely with many ideas such a hindu and buddhist thought that states the end is indeed the beginning.....we can also see this in western esoteric thought....the divine trinity of creation destruction and redemtion.....which is the same as the Rosicrucian trinity of

"Ex Deo nascimur.

In Jesu Morimur

Per Spiritum Sanctum reviviscimus."

We are born in God...we die in Christ and are reborn in the Holy SPirit.......

creation destruction redemption is again much like the kabbalist (and many others) idea of a return to a better state.....the end is the beginning is the end....

this also fits in with 1 modern alternative to the standard big bang idea that states such as I have said above....creation....destruction...creation...an endless cycle....

No one had raised this point...so I thought I would....so creation destruction redemption is again much like the kabbalist (and many others) idea of a return to a better state.....the end is the beginning is the end....

this also fits in with 1 modern alternative to the standard big bang idea that states such as I have said above....creation....destruction...creation...an endless cycle....
No one had raised this point...so I thought I would....

> so creation destruction redemption is again much like the kabbalist (and> many others) idea of a return to a better state.....the end is the beginning> is the end....I'm not sure what you mean here. > this also fits in with 1 modern alternative to the standard big bang idea> that states such as I have said> above....creation....destruction...creation...an endless cycle....> > No one had raised this point...so I thought I would....Kabbalah has a rather straight forward creation myth, from A to T or O or Z or whatever. It might be interesting to study it through the eyes of a cyclic universe though.J

Well....here are some thoughts....

Many people like to see the tree as Linear.....as you say from A to T or O to Z or whatever.....I think this is wrong....
Clearly if we look at Phi or the image of Oroboros we see that things are not linear...indeed some modern seekers states time is a spiral and this explains why "distant past" is closer to the present than the future.....and thus this is why it is "easy" to contact the distant past in meditation/magic etc (sadly you really need to see the diagram to conceive of this fully...probably).....many kabbalaists also assert that the tree is not linear....

How does this relate to kabbalah?.....well the tree can be seen in many ways....the standard linear model familiar to us......the Lurianic "modern" tree and the "hermetic tree" are but one way to picture the tree....as you probably know.....I even have a diagram of the tree as a 5 pointed star at home.....but anyway...in Judaic kabbalah the tree has been shown as 1 big circle with concentric circles within it......so we have one big circle with lesser circles within it.....

Now on another post someone mentioned the fractal nature of the tree......so the tree is not 2d.....frankly is a sphere 2 dimensional? no...the plan is 2d(due to the limitation of the printed page)....but in reality the tree is not flat.....so what if we picture the tree as one sphere......one coherant sphere ....then like a fractal within the sphere we have the standard lurianic or hermetic trees......much like a fractal...zooming in for greater detail...and then of course each of the 10 within the original 1 can be zoomed in upon.....

Now what does this have to do with the beginning is the end is the beginning? Well a sphere and a circle have no end........and no beginning...they just are.....much like the earth is not flat.......its a sphere...if it had an end we'd fall off (forgetting gravity etc for a second)........

Now in Christian Kabbalah at least (I know this isnt valid for all forms) the tree is seen as an imperfect tree

The imperfect tree: the "kircher" tree...

the blanced pre fall tree is the "Gra" tree :

the tree after the falll.....originally malkuth was where daath was (ending our YHVH quaterinty of kether chockmah and binah...flame oil lamp...illumined)thus the "great work" is to make malkuth go back to where it originally was.....daath....

The fall can be shown diagrammatically with the flower of life

but essentially thats what I meant by creation destruction redemption.....

eden...(creation) perfect state.........the fall (where we are now..some would argue we are still falling)....redemptiona climg back out of the fall back to eden.......thus the end is the beginning is the end...

from womb to tomb to womb....