The verses of the Torah were first publicly numbered (as we find them today) by Robert Estienne (Robert Stephanus) in 1571, but the move was not without criticism at the time from traditionalists. The original manuscripts did not contain the chapter and verse divisions in a numbered form. Hebrew … [Read more...]
Ezekiel’s “living creatures”…
The biblical text that is most associated with the Divine Chariot is Ezekiel; who gives an account of a vision where there were wheels inside of other wheels, and a living creature of four faces; that of an ox and a lion and an eagle and a man. The vision is actually a calculation to indicate that … [Read more...]
Conformations of the Tree of Life
The Seven Palaces were hidden under the cipher of the Tree of Life and finding them required a student that was curious enough to ask themselves "I wonder what the original conformations of this diagram looked like?" The first picture to be published of the Tree of life that wasn’t just a series … [Read more...]
Liber Arcanorum, Part I
Tarot Correspondences to the Seven Palaces. Liber Arcanorum τών ATU τού TAHUTI QUAS VIDIT ASAR IN AMENNTI sub figurâ CCXXXI [231] was first published in 1909 by Aleister Crowley. It is a Class A paper and students of the mysteries have found it to be one of the more accessible and understandable … [Read more...]