20160315

The Surfer on Acid is Like a Virgin: X Takes a Bough

"What the Alchemy of Media allows, what traditional media does not, is a dialogue with the Other that is full of give and take.  It speaks, it listens, and it speaks again.

I think it was William Blake who said
"Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.”
This is the kind of information that is coming through the alchemical media experience.  It is information that you have to believe.  You have to believe it because it has this ring of authenticity.  It is the logos.  It is The Word.  What it says is that our alienation from ourselves has kept us from building a mature model of how the Universe really works.  

Luckily, the content of the dialogue with the Other is a content that indicates that man’s horizons are infinitely bright.  As Thomas Vaughan put it, “The body is the placenta of the non-local.”  
This fact has not yet been assimilated because it runs counter to Western reductionist materialist empiricism.  This idea that the body is the placenta to the non-local is not an object of faith or dogma, it is a program for activity.  The activity that it implies is a familiarization with the uncanny.  Unfortunately for you, the uncanny has been banned from Western thinking for four hundred years.
I take this concept very seriously.  

If any of you are familiar with the literature of alchemy, alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing that has many properties, that is paradoxical, which is both mind and matter, both sound and vision, and can do anything. 
Jung correctly stated that alchemy allows a searchlight to be thrown onto these deeper levels of the psyche.  But it is not a museum of archetypes or psychic constructs as he seemed to assume.  It is a frontier of wholeness into which any person so motivated and so courageous can go.  It is a dimension of vertical gain that is real, and is present in all of our lives, and that we do not acknowledge except as an anomaly, because we have been told it is an anomaly.  We have been told that these perceptions have to be devalued.  The result of this is to so distort the psychic life of the species that only the violent rupture of alien archetypes into three dimensional space can restore our world.   The uncanny haunts time like a ghost, and it haunts human experience in the 20th century because it is a symbol of alienation.  In fact the word “alien” has come to be applied to this thing.  It is alien, it comes from extra-terrestrial satellites, it is totally non-Human.

What it is is the Self in a form in which it is most accessible to the Ego, given the Ego’s programming.  In order not to alarm us it has disguised itself as an extra-dimensional laser, but is in fact, the collectivity of the human psyche signaling a profound historical crisis."

T.M.



"This is Bowie in New York.  This is Edward Alexander at the Chelsea Hotel." 



aPOPhenia NOW

The first half of this blog was built on the discovery of something I call The Kubrick Transformer.  Most of this early work was an attempt to illustrate the journey towards "discovering" such a thing as well as an explanation of why it may be more than just an elaborate coincidence.

The second half of this blog wasn't built on anything.  It had no pre-determined focus.  The randomness of the work only gained form with the sudden revelation of something I never expected, a proper sequel to The Kubrick Transformer.

If you follow these later posts you will find that this sequel functions as a kind of attractor.  The sequel groups the dominant concepts and media I have been wrestling with, dissolves the boundaries between them, and forms a singular expression that projects a total comprehension.  It explains everything that the blog could not.

It is a fitting closure.





Start "2001: A Space Odyssey" by Stanley Kubrick at the end of the Intermission.
Start "Apocalypse Now" by Francis Ford Coppola after Laurence Fishburne dies (fades up to the PBR).
Start "Blackstar" by David Robert Jones 4 1/2 seconds after the simultaneous start of 2001 and Apocalypse (album on repeat).

"We cannot contain the Logos.  As much as we try to define her, or to control her, she will find some way to deliver the message.


It's a pity she's a whore."




"And now, an ending. Where there was once one, there are now two. 
Or were there always two?  
What is a reflection? A chance to see two? When there are chances for reflections, 
there can always be two - or more. 
Only when we are everywhere will there be just one.

It has been a pleasure speaking to you."





20160216

The Surfer on Acid is Like A Virgin 2: a.k.a. Kanye








the most beautiful straws
HAVE A FADED COLOR
under the locks







SMiLE




on an isolated farm
Watch out for
the fire that covers
THE PRAYER
of fair weather






                                                                           

20160213

The Surfer on Acid is Like a Virgin 3: No Moksha For Judah





Stuck inside the Dharma of Oxygen with the various Mantric Accompaniment Blues Again


angle WKL =  2m1
angle WLK = 2m2
WWF was an application of this formula.

In the age of the individual, in my fantasy; you wanted to go get loaded.  another committee on the project that would have access to all team info, and that certain counter-intuitive suggestions would occur.   they forgot to put the machine on free play;  This is happening all over Fort Toke; 22 of the best street ballers are all converging on the filed where they played an All Star game. at the beginning You will never be entirely sure when we criss cross Over into blatant messaging Danny’s matrix has the hidden playground;  Ullman, Jack and Bill have an occulted playground; one they don’t talk about.  The pharaoh as Tom Sawyer, controlling a population cohesive enough to construct the Great Pyramid in complete peace and togetherness.  states of states, states that streamed live all over the county states;  a lot of gambling arose online over it.  The third highest event ever gambled upon.l in those states


Charlie Hustle.  Ziggy Stardust.   Yeah, Pete Rose became Sacred from completely misunderstanding everything that a young Donald Trump on drugs said that night.

Let’s call “angle LSK” X and with simple algebra we see

angle 1 + angle 2 = 180 -X.


ray KS bisects angle WKL and
ray LS bisects angle WLK.


#4 hitter is the Trump Card- coaches will devote majority of their energy decoding the impact of #4 playing. #9 is expected to create situations for #1.  They are the movement; We are then asked to extend rays from point K and point L to a point W such that
we See without the councils influence, baseball will be True and Good, but Beauty will be a highly subjective thing.  Our brand could care less about the True or the Good, we devote our craft to the Beautiful.  OZ.  I look at a waisted cigarette the same as a thin white line.  A rare but sometimes beautiful sometimes necessary poison.  The Age of Internet, a chat room for little leaguers;  someone hired a food truck;  staffed by someones older brothers college girlfriend.  Galifinakis, Vedder and Norton:  play the concert without ever playing an instrument.  But make Who reportedly sold weed brownies.

What was that shit we did on New Year’s? But she knew and info is available to all, this kind of game does not work.  Now that every major institution in sports has saber metrics for players, she’d lose her job.  She wanted to believe in kindness; she wanted to believe in the existence of a diet coke
only FREEMEN would enter the promised land.  Heavy spiral
the team is built around creating situations for #4 to succeed.  #9 is not expected to hit homers,
You did a lot of it.  Young players need to come through in big moments.  A little nudge is a good thing,  A little failure is a good thing.  We can strike out any batter when we need to.
The players know that they will have an exciting season, big failures, but huge success.  Is the mythology true?  Should we keep this a secret?


SHit is better than no shit;  plus I had to try it to know if it was good or not.  That was not good.  Even if you never heard those words directly, just being in that locker room, hearing the stories, the mythology.  The great teams were able to take the information given to them from Glen Gary people.  Every team had a computer provided to them from IBM and MLB.  Each team was

You didn’t tell me it was flax.  That’s like thivk kundalini.  They say if you experience it just once you go searching for it for fifteen more degrees of real poison

Ok.  Now, I’ve done that like fifteen times in my
Mmm
Mmm
Mmm



Now shit you look for that feeling for fifteen years or more.  That’s how it is.  What Donald Trump was trying to tell him, through his melting teeth and mouth what Donald Trump was convicted and sentenced for,
Days might turn my ears or more.  The monks used to walk the villages;  young people and old people who had Shakedown Village.  Third inning;  we see stilts, Big Foot, ghosts, ufo’s.  Subtle, very very subtle.


You got it?  You’re on it right now, right?  Section 3.4 #18 Teaching: #2 would find the monks;  the ones might teach them the Four Troubled Ruths;

experienced n-64 was exposing the ultimate Inside Baseball reality:  a select group of ex-players and computer nerds prophets of chosen ones would be contacted in 15 years.
The monks would send them to Egypt to enter the Mystery Schools and gram the drama of baseball.

Always have.  Here’s the problem.  The players used to have a suspicion, but they didn’t care.  True or not true, of they were ever given a tip from a Trump card before a crucial moment, they treated it as the word of God.

“First pitch fastball, right center field.  Stand up double, triple if you catch the right bounce.”

given a team of individuals that would collect the data and send up to the minute suggestions.

One part of this service agreement was an allegiance to the game clause.   There would be them.  The key is for managers to analyze how the game improved because of your pre-programmed failure.

By this time there are five food trucks.  Two stages have been built.  The streets are being blocked off;  this is all done silently and peacefully.  There is no surge, it is simply a hashed out measure of angle 1 plus the measure of angle 2 is LESS than 180.  Why?  Because we are only adding the sum total of two of the three angles of our triangle.  In order to have a full 180 we would correctly write

angle 1 + angle 2 + angle LSK = 180.
If we reduce through algebra we find that we have m1 + m2 is LESS than 90.  In the Man in the High Castle, Tagomi buys “authentic” American antiques; Tarot Baseball
of the Trumps, not the Trumps themselves.  They are strictly transition pieces.  Pawns are more dead than alive; if they become a Monarch Queen they never know what hit them.

 he is so divorced from an authentic experience of reality that he purchases antiques imbued with authenticity.

Alan Watts, ok.  Now what do we do with our local reality?  What do we do for the new arrivals?  If we were to add all three angles we would have WKL + WLK + KWL = 180.

If we substitute what we know about angles WKL AND WLK we can correctly state
No Chakra Left Behind:  Head Start

Trauma:  ?  Is the book the last

Looking at our diagram we find that the measure of angle WKL is two times the measure of angle 1 (2m1) and the measure of WLK is two times the measure of angle 2 (2m2).  We can correctly with a little algebra find that 2m1 + 2m2 = 180 -X, or 2m1 + 2m2 is LESS than 180.

Unconditional love is the bond forged within gangs of the prison system, gangs so traumatized into dysfunctional abuse that unconditional love devolves into a symbol.

Cheating on The Shining with Flo and Eddie : 1975 deep purple 
Sparkler

wendy and danny covered by matrices; twin divided matrices no identity matrix;  not one;  danny Point W and the rays extending from points K and L have formed a new triangle WKL.  Within this triangle we have three angles

WKL
WLK
KWL


2m1 + 2m2 + KWL = 180.  KWL is unknown, so we can call it.  X has tony because wendy is at times not wendy, clearly jack is sometimes not-jack.
No vaccines, the rich die off; autism

I couldn’t call Linear Algebra elegant twenty years ago;  same with Frank Zappa.

run out of  quarters;  he kills his parents.  calls in Halloran;  kills Halloran because he didn’t bring the quarters;  he brought a quarter.

Never lose the high of playing live.
No need for it on stage.
you beyond your past;  it is tugging on you but it will all be gone;  transformed.
I owe you forty.  Flo and Eddie’s triple A sqwad.  Reality TV channel changer
From 1975:  lost footage.  Owen - allusion to Owen Meany -  perched in the bleachers.
Flo, an Eddie, and a Zappa:

lam think they did.  one hour of set up, one hour of composition and improv.

they have saber metrics for their company.  When you turn 40 you enter the Mystery Schools in Egypt;  When you turn 40 you enter the Mystery Schools in Egypt;  at that point every pass around the Sun is the coiling of the cosmic kundalini.  The Good Shit.  The Pyramid.
at that point every pass around the Sun is the coiling of the cosmic kundalini.  The Great Shit.  The Pyramid.
 Cthonic blanket. When songs were hot and sticky;  when rock was stremen’.

The Bullet : Pick Up Game

One Saturday in early August, ten days before school starts, a young kid asks his mother if he can go play baseball at Ridgeland Park.  Timmy’s mom will drive and pick us up.

match.  They hired the same umpire squad, who agreed to tend the field and set up the fences.  The teams would be managed by themselves.  $1100 was reportedly at stake.  The losing team would vote on the top three players, number three got $200, and could be from their own team.

Early morning practice and strategy.  Funding.

During this time word spreads about the rematch;  little did the boys know but that game was streamed live all over the county;  a lot of gambling arose online over it.  The third highest event gambled upon. twelve minutes;  Muslims in America would be VERY successful, would become Republicans;  A Great Republican guy in headphones, walks into someone’s house, This—the immediate, everyday, The thing about a black hole, it consumes When songs were hot and sticky;  when rock was seemin’ would be dangerous to existing Republicans.  No Welfare.
The Bullet : Pick Up Game


One Saturday in early August, ten days before school starts, a young kid asks his mother if he can go play baseball at Ridgeland Park.  Tommy’s mom will drive and pick us up.

match.  They hired the same umpire squad, who agreed to work

Age of Internet, a chat room for little leaguers;  someone hired a food truck;  staffed by someones older brothers college girlfriend.  Who reportedly sold those brownies.

Owen - allusion to Owen Meany -  perched in the bleachers.

Early morning practice and strategy.

During this time word spreads about the rematch;  little did the boys know but that game and present experience was—is                it,
the entire and ultimate point for waking up
uP to a girls room and does that;  puts the headphones on and does that right in step with The Shining:  Danny is shown the Game Room; The first pitch was scheduled for 1:05.  National Anthem by the Blackhawks guy.

Owen.  That guy.  DND, Jack-Ass Edition:  magical spells;  take these five steps to the fiery potion;  score alcohol.  If you fail, you must ? We start with the diagram of a triangle SKL with angle SKL labeled 1 and angle SLK labeled 2.  What we have learned in this section is that for every triangle, all three internal angles add up to 180 exactly, in terms of absolute geometry.  Given our information, it is correct to state that the summer is a revenge for Danny.  works for quarters;  they teach him lessons;  takes care of his folks for quarters.   they take care off the game.  In the background of this  the only move, If you had ever done it, you’d have done it more than fifteen times.  Trust me when you find the nOw is temporal have all the saber metrics, but shield certain players from the Media.  Only what the coaches want them to know the filed for their Trump Cards.  Born in slavery, their leader learned the magic of the Pharaohs and led his people into the wilderness, for 40 years to ensure those born into slavery would DIE. so These soldiers dedicate their livelihood.  No phones, no computer, just baseball.  That’s literally it.  An Amish in the Outfield type reality show gimmick.  This division of gnosis on the team creates an energy.  this is the chemistry that resurrected baseball.

Rose didn’t understand a word he just heard.  All he got out of it was that special people must have special treatment for the good of the team.   So Pete Rose decided to be Special.


“Call me Charley.  Charlie Brown.  Charlie Hustle.”

20160117

Blackstar Child



I'M NOT A WHITE STAR
I'M A BLACKSTAR

Start David Bowie’s Blackstar 4.4 seconds after the end of the Intermission of
2001: A Space Odyssey.  Allow album to repeat.

 


 Burroughs took another stiff drink and shook his head. 

"But why do they leave so much of it out in the
open? I mean, not merely the really shocking things you told me about the Bugs Bunny cartoons, but putting the pyramid on the dollar bill where everybody sees it almost every day?“

"Hell," Stanley said, "look what Beethoven did when Weishaupt illuminated him. Went right home
and wrote the Fifth Symphony. You know how it begins: da-da-da-DUM. Morse code for
V—the Roman numeral for five. Right out in the open, as you say. It amuses the devil out of them to confirm their low opinion of the rest of humanity by putting things up front like that and watching how almost everybody misses it. Of course, if somebody doesn't miss something, they recruit him right away. Look at Genesis: 'lux fiat' —right on the first page. They do it all the time. The Pentagon Building. '23 Skidoo.' The lyrics of rock songs like 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds'—how obvious can you get? Melville was one of the most outrageous of the bunch; the very first sentence of Moby Dick tells you he's a disciple of Hassan i Sabbah, but you cant find a single Melville scholar who has followed up that lead in spite of Ahab being a truncated anagram of Sabbah. He even tells you, again and again, directly and indirectly, that Moby Dick and Leviathan are the same creature, and that Moby Dick is often seen at the same time in two different parts of the world, but not one reader in a million groks what he's hinting at. There's a whole chapter on whiteness and why white is really more terrifying than black; all the critics miss the point"


"Osiris is a black god" quoted Lynch. 

Robert Wilson



20151231

Dumb America Pt. 4: President Trump




Dumb Starbucks



Dumb CBGB's




Dumb America


"That airport CBGB's...it's clearly a Nathan For You type think piece.  I think it's fantastic.  A commentary on cultural appropriation in the smartphone age.  Hilariously subversive don't you think?  You can really see the dividing line in this country between those that get it and those that don't."




Trump #23: Save Ferris

Dumb America:  The Final Joker Card of Anti-Novelty


20151120

Dumb America Pt. 3: Synchronisieren Titten




"Bless Madison Ave zur Wiederherstellung der magischen Kunst der Höhlenmenschen zu suburbia"




"Mit Informationsflut konfrontiert , haben wir keine andere Wahl, als die Mustererkennung"




"Sentimentalität , wie Pornographie, ist fragmentiert Emotion ; eine natürliche Folge einer hohen visuellen Gradienten in jeder Kultur"

Marshall McLuhan




Er saß eine kleine Weile, obwohl "kleine Weile" nichts mehr bedeutete. Dann fand nach und nach die Transformation statt. Er sah außerhalb von sich das Muster, den Abdruck seines eigenen Gehirns; er befand sich in einer Welt, die aus seinem Gehirn bestand, in der lebendige Informationen hin und her transportiert wurden wie kleine Flüsse aus leuchtendem Rot, die lebendig waren. Er konnte daher die Hand ausstrecken und seine eigenen Gedanken berühren. Der Raum war von ihrem Feuer erfüllt, und riesige Räume erstreckten sich, das Volumen seines eigenen Gehirns außerhalb von ihm.i


IPhilip  K. Dick


20151113

Dumb America Pt. 2: "Have You Ever Seen 2001....on Marshall McLuhan?"


"I blame Sirius!  I blame the Grateful Dead!"

                                                                                                                                        



"What is The Message?"




"Well, how we missed it no one knows, but Nicky Tomalin, a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago, is working on deciphering it with a team of cryptologists at a research think tank called Cypher.  Dr. Tomalin is trying to decode a message received from outer space seventy years ago, we think."  



"Come on!  That’s a good set up, I’m interested."




"I'll be honest with you.  Driving around in my car, and I'm feeling relaxed because I enjoy driving.  But, uh, ok...I'm gonna cop to it.  I'm thinking like, 'Maybe a little weed would be nice'.



*

"When you’re a sober person yr like 'shit man, I shouldn’t be thinking about weed, where’s that coming from?  I better get to a secret society get together and get straight with my program'."


Stella Blue

"But I couldn't figure it out man, I was feeling' pretty good, yet I'm still thinking about smoking weed.

And then I put it together."



*

"I know why I wanted to smoke some weed.  I know what reawakened that urge in my mind and in my heart"




"I blame Sirius!  I blame the Grateful Dead!"


All quotes from WTF Episode 654



--  When you’re a typographic-man you're like "I shouldn’t be thinking hyperdimensionally, where’s that coming from?  I better get to a Book club and get linear with my sense-ratios."  --



*Magic Eye is a series of books published by N.E. Thing Enterprises (renamed in 1996 to Magic Eye Inc.).  The books feature autostereograms (precisely, random dot autostereograms), which allow some people
 to see 3D images by focusing on 2D patterns   Wikipedia

20151110

Dumb America: Metamorphosis by Chiasmus






"I have read Finnegans Wake aloud at a time when takers of LSD said 
'that-is-just-like-L-S-D'.  
So I've begun to feel that LSD may just be
 the lazy man's form of Finnegans Wake."

Marshall McLuhan




"I have taken LSD at a time when readers of Finnegans Wake have said
 'that-is-just-like-Finnegans Wake'.  
So I've begun to feel that Finnegans Wake may just be 
the working man's form of LSD."

20151106

Watching The Detectives Part 5: The Hipster Awoke Before Dawn


The hipster subculture is one of affluent or middle class young Bohemians who reside in gentrifying neighborhoods, broadly associated with indie and alternative literature, a varied non-mainstream fashion sensibility (including vintage and thrift store-bought clothes), generally progressive political views, organic and artisanal foods, and alternative lifestyles.  The subculture typically consists of white millennials living in urban areas.  It has been described as a "mutating, trans-Atlantic melting pot of styles, tastes and behavior".





"Rabbi's of old called students of Kabbalah aged 40 and under "hipsters" because, intellectually speaking, they stood only as tall as the Rabbi's hips"


20140303

Watching the Detectives Part 4: Coal Slaw, or Fire Walk With Meme

After a moment Emmanuel said, "Then I can do nothing regarding the universe without consulting you."
     "And you can do nothing regarding the universe that is contrary to what I say," Zina said, "as you yourself decided, in the beginning, when you created me.  You made me alive;  I am a living being that thinks.  I am the plan of the universe, its blueprint.  That is the way you intended it and that is the way it is."
     "Hence the slate you gave me," he said.
     "Look at me," Zina said.
     He looked at her--and saw a young woman, wearing a crown, and sitting on a throne.  "Malkuth," he said.  "The lowest of the ten sefiroth."
     "And you are the Eternal Infininite En Sof," Malkuth said.  "The first and highest of the sefiroth of the Tree of Life."


Philip K. Dick




The Greater Adept's mundane consciousness is portrayed by the yellow of Atziluth. This symbolizes that the person is living through the Individuality instead of being ruled by the Personality. 


Freud wrote, mystified, "The unconscious is not aware of its own mortality," and Aleister Crowley, more perceptively wrote, "The unconscious is aware of its immortality."

Robert Anton Wilson

It should never be forgotten for a single moment that the central and essential work of the Magician is the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. 

Aleister Crowley

Cohle describes the possibility of other dimensions existing, and he says that’s what eternity is.  He says that if somehow you existed outside of time, you’d be able to see the whole of our dimension as one superstructure with matter superimposed at every position it had ever occupied.  He says that the nature of the universe is your consciousness, and it just keeps cycling along the same point in that superstructure: when you die, you’re reborn into yourself again, and you just keep living the same life over and over.  He also explains that from a higher mathematical vantage point, our dimension would seem less dimensional.  It would look flattened, almost.

Nic Pizzolatto




The kabbalists insisted that the Ein Sof and the sefirot formed a unity “like a flame joined to a coal.” 


I plan on writing an epic poem about this gorgeous pie.
Gordon Cole



I see dead people.
Cole Sear


It's like, in this universe, we process time linearly.  Forward. But outside of our space-time, from what would be a fourth-dimensional perspective, time wouldn't exist. And from that vantage, could we attain it, we'd see our space-time look flattened, like a seamless sculpture.
Rustin Cohle




C:\>(MYTH)>RELIGION>(POLITICS)>
SCIENCE>(SCHIZOPRENIA)>MAGI

The Zohar rarely describes the entire sefirotic system.  It even avoids the term sefirot and instead speaks of lights, levels, links, roots, garments of the King, crowns of the King, and dozens of other images for the individual sefirot.  The reader must interpret the symbolism and identify the corresponding sefirah.

As noted above, the term sefirot originally meant numbers or numerical potencies, but in medieval kabbalah the sefirot became stages of God’s being, aspects of divine personality.  Their pattern and rhythm inform all the worlds of creation.  Prior to the emanation of the sefirot, God is unmanifest, referred to as Ein Sof, Infinite, God as Infinity cannot be described or comprehended.  A fourteenth century kabbalist writes “Ein Sof… is not hinted at in the Torah, the Prophets, the Writings, or the words of our Rabbis, may their memory be a blessing, but the Masters of Service (the kabbalists) have received a little hint of It.”

Critics charged that the theory of Ein Sof and the sefirot was dualistic, that by positing and describing ten aspects of Divinity, Kabbalah verged on polytheism.  The kabbalists insisted that the Ein Sof and the sefirot formed a unity “like a flame joined to a coal.”  “It is they, and they are It” (Zohar 3:70a).   “They are Its name, and It is they” (3:11b).  From the human perspective, the sefirot appear to have a multiple and independent existence.  Ultimately, though, all of them are one; the true reality is the Infinite.  Nevertheless, the mythological character of the system cannot be denied; it is a prominent feature of the Zohar.

The sefirot are often pictured in the form of Primordial Adam or a cosmic tree growing downward from its roots above.  As the kabbalists were quick to point out, these images should not be taken literally; they are organic symbols of a spiritual reality beyond normal comprehension.



PORTRAYING THE DEVELOPMENT OF EGO CONSCIOUSNESS

The colours for Malkuth on the Qabalistic Tree given by Gareth Knight in A Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism and Dion Fortune's Mystical Qabalah are:

Assiah: black rayed yellow

Yetzirah: citrine, olive, russet & black, flecked gold

Briah: citrine, olive, russet & black

Atziluth: yellow

Of the four worlds we will look at Atziluth as the highest world and Assiah as the lowest. Thus the development of the ego would be from Assiah to Atziluth. In the Assiatic world the colours of Malkuth are black-rayed yellow. When a baby is born it comes into the physical world in an egoless state. The child's mundane consciousness is a blank slate on which the impressions of life will be written. This is symbolized by the black colour. Also black is the colour of Binah in Briah. The child's first impressions of the world are through its mother (before and after birth). The yellow rays are the Spirit which maintains and supports both mundane consciousness and the physical body. As the child starts to mature it comes into contact with the Yetziratic World. This is its own inner world and the desires and needs can be identified. Then an effort can be made to fulfil them. The citrine is a Yesodic colour and shows that the child needs to be nurtured and to develop its imaginative and intuitive faculties. The infant then starts to explore its feelings. The breast feels good and so does sucking on it. Being left alone is painful.

How many parents have had sleepless nights due to babies discovering this fact? This is symbolized by the olive colour which portrays Netzach (instincts, feelings and emotions) coming into consciousness.

As the child grows it starts to learn mobility and verbal communication. After a few years the child becomes a pupil at a school and the years of education begin. Russet is the colour applicable to this phase of consciousness and it symbolizes the Sephirah Hod (communication and intellect). The fourth colour of Malkuth in Yetzirah is black which in this world represents Binah the All Mother. This suggests that good mothering (whichever parent does it) is crucial in the balanced development of the child, especially on all the inner levels of being.



The circle of Yetziratic consciousness starts again at puberty, represented by the citrine of Yesod which starts the full flowering of the adolescent's Netzach with the onset of sexual feelings symbolized by the olive colour. Late adolescent and early adult intellectual maturation is again represented by the russet of Hod. And the Yetziratic wheel spins on. This cycle can occupy the whole of a person's life. How many elderly people have we met who still show this juvenile psychological make-up of Malkuth in Yetzirah? Some people even regress back to infantile psychology through senility. Thus for a lot of people the upper worlds exist only in their unconsciousness.

Before I discuss the Briatic level of ego consciousness, I would like to illustrate the common way that Western Qabalists draw Malkuth in Briah:

The first symbol that struck me was the quartered circle: a sign of unification and balance. The black quarter is at the bottom. On the left is the russet quarter at the gate of the 31st path leading to Hod. The citrine is at the gate of the 32nd path and the olive quarter relates to the Sephiroth at the end of these paths. I think and feel that the energies of these paths flow freely and with full consciousness into the mundane consciousness of Malkuth. Thus the person who can achieve this level of consciousness would be extremely aware of him/herself.

Before the Briatic level of consciousness is opened, the person must go through a crisis. Our Western mythologies support this fact: Christ crucified; Odin hanging on Yggdrasil; the Mad Merlin of the Vita Merlini; and the wounded Fisher King. For a lot of 20th century people, the mid-life crisis can be the impetus to find themselves. For men, it should be the start of raising into consciousness of the Anima (their unconscious female Self). For women, it is the acceptance of loss of fertility due to menopause and thus the integrating of the Bearded Woman who is an aspect of Binah. The black is this crisis and it is at the bottom of our diagram showing that Briatic consciousness is achieved by passing through the Dark Night of the Soul. In the lower worlds I likened the black to Binah; here it is the awakened Shekinah (and it doesn't matter what sex the person is) preparing to meet the Divine Bridegroom.

The spiritual crisis when successfully resolved stops the cyclical pattern of Yetzirah. The inner tides are subdued and brought into balance. Thus the symbol of the quartered circle: this shows that the elements are in harmonious conjunction within the consciousness and are working at optimum levels in the Ego as represented by Malkuth. This is the level of the Lesser Adept. The Greater Adept's mundane consciousness is portrayed by the yellow of Atziluth. This symbolizes that the person is living through the Individuality instead of being ruled by the Personality. The person is consciously living according to Divine Will or, to express it another way, this person is living his/her Dharma.