Here is a begining essay describing my picture of a metaphysical metaphors that serves as the seed for a Philosopher's Qabalah.
The Rabbinic mystics saw the Divine, the universe and themselves through the lens that they created, this mystical map called the Sefiroth in Hebrew and also called The Tree of Life. I believe it is the tree that was in the center of Gan Eden – I call it the Tree of Life and Knowledge.
The sefiroth is a macrocosmic and microcosmic holon. A holon is a conceptual model that describes all things. It is the realization that all things can be seen and described as being simultaneously both a part and a whole, a whole unit which together with other units make up a greater whole and is itself a unity made up of smaller parts, and so on. Holons are arranged holarchically i.e. as a hierarchy of holons. Holarchies encompass the totality of the universe whether one searches its upper or lower limits.
Here is my Qabalah map.
Ayn Sof= Robert Pirsig's Quality, Lao Tsu's Tao, the Territory
Keter=Intention, Silence, pre-verbal Will, the Mystery, Pirsig's Event, Pre-verbal experience. The Territory that is waiting to be explored.
Pirsig's Romantic Quality is the Left Pillar and Pirsig's Classic Quality is the Right Pillar.
Hochmah= Wisdom, insight gained through a monologue to obtain knowledge of exterior states, external empirical knowledge. Also here there is no clear revelation nor any particularization or separation of this thought. It is the beginning of thought which is pre-verbal. This is the realm of Taoist Yang and in Kabbalist term this is 'Abba': Father.
Binah= Perception, insight gained through a dialogue to obtain understanding of interior states. This is the place where thought becomes words. This is the realm of Taoist Yin, in Kabbalist terms this is 'Imma': Mother.
Hesed= is the focus on the collective, to integrate as a unit and the partness of a holon.
Din= is the focus on the individual, to assert the self and the wholeness of a holon.
Tifereth=Platonic Beautiful and the place of Harmony.
Netzach=the Dynamic forces of a holon, Pirsig's Dynamic Quality.
Hod=is the Static forces of a holon, Pirsig's Static Quality.
Yesod=Platonic Truth forged out of the alchemy of creative union.
Malkuth=is manifestation, Platonic Good, it's the conclusion, the solution, the Map, it is verbal speech and song in the context of its dwelling place, its geography, its time and its culture.
Hod and Netzach are Matter and Energy. Energy, as Einstein noted through his masterful equation, is matter in motion. Matter comes about when energy is slowed down. Hod is the slowing of energy into its static manifestation of Matter. Netzach is the speeding up of matter into its dynamic manifestation of Energy. Hod and Netzach are the complementary forces of time, particles ,waves, Matter and Energy.
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