ATDTDA map/Tree of Life/Daath/Tiphareth (hearkening back to map thread) / c(q)(k)abala stuff

[Michael Bailey]

I've had a little thought cooking about the Map of the Congo,
wider at the top, tapering at the bottom with the line of Interdikt

(will be catching up before posting again...)

was trying to work out a way to link the Map in a generic sense
with the Tree of Life...
I mean, if somebody tells you a map isn't what it purports to be,
that's almost giving permission to fiddle with the meaning and purport,
and the people who burnished the caballa were excellent fiddlers of such

Wide at top tapering toward the bottom is reminiscent of a triangle,
"how many triangles can you see in this picture" - with the Tree, there's the
triangle formed by the supernal triad, Kether, Choknah and Binah (which
among other correspondences, relates to the Sahasrara chakra (possibly
energetics of the cerebral cortex), and left & right brain lobes...

between the Supernal Triad and the lower intelligences, there is
The Abyss...and in the Abyss is "the sephira that is not a sephira",
Daath - tres misterioso - relating possibly to the Throat Chakra
also to speech

However, the geography would need to be looked at from the below
sephiroth to have Daath be the Interdikt line on the map
(not that we couldn't do that...the block of 5 Chakras in the middle of the Tree
is normally drawn directly beneath with the same width, so looking up from
Chesed and um, the one that relates to Mars...just have the taper begin later,
or draw the "head" (Supernals) as much narrower as a head is than the shoulders.

Then Daath could be stretched across the Abyss...

However, there are lots of ready made triangles in the Tree
- this page http://www.crystalinks.com/kabala.html has good pictures.
If (as some think) Mr Pynchon has interest in the Tree, then further
study might place the Interdikt elsewhere, although the accepted paths
do not seem to yield a triangle around any horizontal path...

I meantersay, the Tree when I look at it definitely has conceivable connections
between the sephiroth (or "Intelligences" which is a really neat term
for it) which
are not made -
going back to the map analogy, it's as if, yeah there just isn't a road between
those two places...
and maybe there will be sometime
or maybe there shouldn't be
or maybe there's an undocumented shortcut

anyway, a tiny bit of brain wracking is all I can afford on that, and
all I can really
do in this post is suggest some of the spaced-out notions this suggests.
Ideally one would have a cottage deep in the redwoods and some books like
_Gnostic Pynchon_ and Gershom Scholem to ramify and fortify this properly

non-fans of this sort of thing, please consider yourselves apologized to...

also, a triangle with a sideways line like halfway up is the
alchemical symbol of salt or something, isn't it?
and without the bottom part it's the Letter A (but the book of Genesis begins
with the letter B because its Gematria relates more to blessing)

therefore, this post is brought to you by the letter B