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Mathers rearranged the seven planets to correspond unerringly with their seven Tarot picture images.
Thus a new secret order was established ... "
Hulse, Key, 1996, vol.II p.349
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See: Traditional
Tarot and Obscuring the Origins
for an analysis of the "unerring" Golden Dawn system of planetary/Hebrew letter "assignments" in relationship
to the tarot and classical cosmology. See the Seven Doubles and
the Twelve Simples for Tarot linkages based on classical geocentric
astrology and the formative symbolism of the early recensions of the Sepher Yetsira.
See Tarot Natural Order to understand the Hebrew Formative Letter and
Astrological/Elemental correspondences.
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In Chapter Five of the Sepher Yetzirah, the Twelve Simple Letters are placed on the Cube.
Each letter representing a zodiacal sign.Each sign finds itself directly opposite the letter/sign
which is opposite it in the zodical year. These are the holy influences that stream from
the stars and have their roots in the sphere of the zodiac, Chockmah (Wisdom).
Kevin Townley, Container of Creation, Archive Press, 1993
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As with the Seven Doubles, the underlying semantic structure of the interrelated matrix
of meaning / energy that the Cube represents is ignored, in an attempt to create a
seeming order in a structure otherwise not understood.
In this case, the search for a symmetry in the opposing signs of the zodiac to match the
cross-face symmetries of the top and bottom faces of cube led to an otherwise arbitrary
re-assignment of two Hebrew formative letters and zodiacal signs to the South-West and
North West Boundaries. This arrangment finds the remaining two opposed-sign pairs (the other
four being defined by the top and bottom faces) crossing the Northern and Southern faces
from front to back, in parallel.
What is missed with this inspiration is the crossing of four of the six zodical oppositions
through the vertical axis of the top and bottom faces: through the body of Adam Kadmon.
The sought-for symmetry was already there, diagonally through the central vertical axis
from East-North to West-South (Aries to Libra) and East-South through West-North (Taurus
to Scorpio), through the body of Adam Kadmon at the center of the Cube: another cross.
The Golden Dawn (Paul Foster Case) arrangment leaves the oppositions at the periphery
of the Cube, to the left and right of Adam Kadmon.
Paul Foster Case firmly established the directional correspondence of the Northwest as
Lamed and the Southwest as Nun when first drawing the Cube of Space.
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Using Stenring's translation for The Book of Formation and applying the Golden Dawn
correspondences for the Hebrew alphabet as tarot cards, Case was able to establish the direction
Northwest as Lamed and the tarot card Justice, and the direction Southwest as Nun and
the tarot card Death.
Without allowing Justice to guard the Northwest, And Death to Guard the Southwest, the message
revealed by the Cube of Space could not be elaborated as I have set out in the main narrative of this
book, for Death must be positioned in the Southwest to prematurely block any progression onto the
Southern face from the West, until the North is first explored.
Therefore, though Stenring's attributes for Northwest and Southwest
differ from all other translations of the The Book of Formation ,
they are essential in discovering the hidden meaning behind the
directional attributes for this spatial cube ...
David Allen Hulse, New Dimensions for the Cube of Space, Weiser, 2000
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"Therefore." covers a lot of ground. When the Sun/Hamah is arbitrarily moved to the Southern Face, the obvious
logic of the South-West diagonal being the first lit by the Sun (in the West) is missed and
instead of semantic interrelatedness we find a system of (hierarchical) magical initiations with mythological
justifications.
| Sepher Yetsira / Sefer Yetzirah: Zodiac
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| Carlo Suares, Sepher Yetsira, 1976, Front Cover
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The Cube of space is a mapping in internal space of the familiar 12 sign zodiac. Opposite zodiacal
signs must pass through the centers of both maps.
| Sepher Yetsira / Sefer Yetzirah: Zodiacal Oppositions in the Cube of Space
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