ATD | Kabbalah & Divine Light (HUGE SPOILER - only read if you finished!)

[Bryan Snyder]

Yeah - this stood out right away:

>From Jabir ibn Hayyan.


0) Balinas mentions the engraving on the table in the hand of Hermes, which
says:
1) Truth! Certainty! That in which there is no doubt!
2) That which is above is from that which is below, and that which is below
is from that which is above, working the miracles of one.
3) As all things were from one.
4) Its father is the Sun and its mother the Moon.
5) The Earth carried it in her belly, and the Wind nourished it in her
belly,
7) as Earth which shall become Fire.
7a) Feed the Earth from that which is subtle, with the greatest power.
8) It ascends from the earth to the heaven and becomes ruler over that which
is above and that which is below.
14) And I have already explained the meaning of the whole of this in two of
these books of mine.
[Holmyard 1923: 562.]

The references to the sky between GR, AtD and from what I hear M&D too are
pretty ...um... what's the word... CLEAR.  Lol

Obviously the Sun and Moon too in GR (if I remember correctly)

Thx,
B

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           Bryan Snyder:
           Admittedly I did not understand the "as above, so below"
           when it is mentioned (I think twice in AtD??) and I have
           to dive into M & D (but am really looking forward to it).


The phrase "as above, so below" is from an alchemical text called the  
"Emerald Tablet of Hermes:"

http://www.alchemywebsite.com/emerald.html

http://www.alchemywebsite.com/emertabl.html

There is an important parallel between the Chums and the Hindu Vimana  
which is related to the concept of "As above, so below," which we  
will introduce now and discuss further later:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushpaka_Vimana

http://www.mystae.com/restricted/streams/scripts/vimana.html