VLVL2(8) 116 Kaballah and Motorcycles

[Glenn Scheper]

> Chesed appears in the configuration of the sefirot along the right axis,
> directly beneath chochmah, and corresponds in the tzelem Elokim to the
> "right arm.''
> 
> Chesed is associated in the soul with the desire to embrace all of
> Creation and bestow upon it goodness. As the expansive force which
> impels the soul to connect with outer reality, chesed inspires,

Everything's about me, right?
So if I am the axis mundi, world tree,
not just facing it, then my right side
is its right side. Now my anecdote:

When I was young, before my psychosis,
I spent very many days and night at a
"cardtable" which was my student desk,
located at an easterly window out of
which I watched many a sunrise on my
right side, speculating that I too,
someday, might have a life, not this
tadpole existence big on self-denial.

Now, I sit at a computer table, still
facing north, but on a westerly wall.
The sun baked the room all afternoons
this past summer while I programmed
for a buck or two: a real sweat shop.

So I had been struck by the sunrise,
sunset versus lifecycle similarity.

Any now you mention the right hand
Chesed, expansive, versus Geburah,
Judgement, a contrast mapping well
on my youthful expansive psychosis
versus discursive redaction of it.

BTW, I sent two great related links to the VN list:

http://www.thesatirist.com/books/anxiety_of_influence.html
_Bloom's Anxiety of Influence by Dan Geddes_

http://www.brysons.net/academic/fictionofanabsolute.html
_Wallace Stevens_

A grep to check spelling of Geburah hit a random neat page:
http://www.a-m-h-r.org/aa/the_third_covenant.html

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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