The 231 Gates of Initiation: & The 32 Paths of Wisdom Tarot

The 231 Gates of Initiation: & The 32 Paths of Wisdom Tarot

Sometime around the middle of 1998, during my work with the original Eight Temples Meditation Project, I â€œdiscoveredâ€ that both the Western Hermetic and Hebrew Tree of Life symbols held within them exactly 230 geometric shapes of a certain nature. Along with this discovery came the realization that these 230 shapes, plus the Tree as a whole, held a direct correlation to the 231 â€œGatesâ€ mentioned in the Sepher Yetzirah and throughout Kabbalistic literature. So I began drawing these â€œ231 Gatesâ€ by hand on paper... And as I drew, I explored... The following couple of years were spent in extensive exploration of all these Gates and eventually in 2002 I published â€œBook 231â€ online. At the same time, I created the â€œ32 Paths of Wisdom Tarotâ€ and wrote an article titled â€œThe 32 Paths of Wisdomâ€ which was published in the Autumn 2002 Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition. The main theme of this article was to illustrate the differences between the Western Hermetic and Hebrew versions of the Tree of Life and present the Hebrew Tree in the context of a Western Hermetic path of initiation. And then, in 2005, the â€œ32 Paths of Wisdomâ€ article and Tarot were integrated with the 231 Gates of the Hebrew Tree and I digitally published â€œThe 231 Gates of Initiationâ€ for the first time online. This present edition in paperback differs quite a bit from the 2005 digital edition. First of all, my understanding of the Tree of Life has deepened considerably since 2002, especially my understanding of how and why the planets are attributed to the Hebrew Letters. As a result, some of the planetary attributions have been corrected in this version. Secondly, I have removed 99% of the Hebrew words and substituted their English equivalents in an effort to make the Tree symbol much more accessible.
Country USA
Manufacturer CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding Paperback
EANs 9781475298901
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Manufacturer	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding	Paperback
EANs	9781475298901
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

The 231 Gates of Initiation: & The 32 Paths of Wisdom Tarot

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