Lavanah/Moon |
Traditional Meaning: Feelings, reactions and instincts. The body and superficial
expressions of personality. Everyday affairs, change, the mother. Bio-psychic functions and feeling-instinct
response. Adaptation to experience.
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Formative Meaning: "The Whiteness" Psyche: center of experience: psychological structure
as free and bound energy. Tav, sanctuary of Aleph, forms Lavanah: a moving awareness of inner and outer life. What could
be easier to understand?
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The Undisclosed Secret Location of the Center of our Being:
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SY IV:3
Seven Doubles: Vayt, Djimel, Thalet (and) Khaf, Phay, Raysh, Thav as in the presence of Seven
extremities, six of which -- height, depth, East, West, North and South -- and
the holy sanctuary (which) directs them from the middle (or kernel) and it is the Aleph-Tav
theme of everything. Suares, SY, 1976
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All of the earliest versions of the Sepher Yetsira
place man in the center of the cosmos and Lavanah, the Moon, in
the seventh, "hidden direction" of the Holy Palace, in the center of his experience in the Cube of Space.
The Moon is inner, psychological energy and structure, defined as free/bound states of energy.
The idea that the human psyche (always represented by lunar symbolism) is the center of our experience
seems to have been met with strong resistance from both the post-Lurianic kabbalists and their western
Hermetic re-decoraters, who claim that either Jupiter or Saturn belongs in the center of our being.
The strangeness of these ideas apparently does not affect their survival, despite their
uselessness for a scientific metapsychology.
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Autiot: Lammed-Bayt-Noun-Hay: 30.2.50.5: The Lamed of AL, infinite organic movement
projected into the B/Vayt of our consciousnesses, engenders both an outer, existential life in
Noun and an inner, archetypal life in Hay. Binah, Nogah and Lavanah all carry the stamp of
the double life.
This moving (Lamed) awareness (Bayt) of outer (Noun) and inner (Hay) life is the Moon, source
and symbol of psychic energy.
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Tarot Autiot:
Justice (Lammed: controlled equilibrating movement/energy tranfer) penetrates the World (Bayt: consciousness
as container) and gives rise to a double life: Death (Noun: existential life) and Life (Emperor: archetypal life).
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Sephirot: If the Seventh is not one of the outer Six, and Malkut is not discounted as a planetary
sephirot (a later development), then it has to be one of the First Four. We can place it either Fourth
(Gedolah: Esch Memaim) or First (Keter: Rouhh Elohim Hhaim). Remember that Tav is the Sanctuary of Aleph.
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Seal: None.
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Formative: Tav, cosmic resistance, is the mirror of Aleph, infinite
compressive energy in opposition to infinite expansive energy. If Lavanah
is formed by any other letter, it loses its basis in the sanctuary of
energy.
Kawkab and Lvanah revive the whole initial theme of the cosmic sphere: the universe's
reply to the breath which animates it.
In a final abstraction this achievement reaches perfection in Lavanah, where Thav and Tav are
reunitied. There the deeply hidden energy and its arising as a result of primordial substance,
resumes the fundamental theme of the Qabala. This has given rise to a death and resurrection of a deity,
a mythological conception that reflects the idea that life perpetually dies and is re-born.
Here, to those "who search, who see, who study thoroughly, who understand, who map out, who group ideas,
who carve the way, and who erect with their hands" is shown the endogenous nature of the universe.
Suares, The Sepher Yetsira (Yetzirah), p.160
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Kawkab and Lavanah revive the whole initial theme of the cosmic sphere because they are the
only two cosmic level formatives: Raysh/200 and Tav/400. This roots them beyond space-time,
on the other side of the wall of light from the archetypal formatives.
Raysh/200, the universal container as cosmic, superconscious mind, forms Kawkab/Mercury, which brings
the message of sensous existence into consciousness as inward reflection and outward activity. All
thought is rooted in the universal Mind.
Lavanah, formed by Tav/400, situates Aleph's opposite pole and mirror reflection in the center of
our being. The Sepher Yetsira places Man in the center of creation and defines his psyche as a
structure capable of being the sanctuary of infinite energy, Aleph.
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Triad: Lavanah is the intersection point for the three axes and
two triads, the psychological triad of Saturn-Jupiter-Mars and the physical
triad of Sun-Mercury-Venus.
| 7 Doubles: Primary and Secondary Triads |
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Binomial:
The Sepher Yetsira forms Man and places him in the center of the cosmos. Lavanah, Moon and
human psyche, is a "hidden direction" in the center of the Cube through which all three
binomials -- existence, life and interpenetration/union -- pass in one-way flows through the
eye of a needle to infinity. We expererience these flows from the perspective of the I
and experience them as dual according to our orientation and resistance to energy.
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Direction: Kernel
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Contrary Quality: Even in translation, the rising and falling of
energy leaves its imprint on memsha-lah and aba-dot. Freedom and slavery express the binding
and release of unstructured energy in Tav, the psyche. Other systems would form Lavanah with
Bayt and make it above in the cube (Gra) or Ghimel and make it below (GD). Both miss the significance
of Tav forming Lavanah in the center of the cube of space.
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In Sartan Lvanah, formed by Tav, hides living energy in the furthest limit of the passive hardening, whose
resurrection depends upon man's accomplishment. SY 161
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Zodiacal Environment: Sartan/Cancer
is the zodiacal home of Lavanah/Moon.
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In Sartan Lvanah is both 'Abadot and Memshelah.
In this sign (Cancer) we have seen both the burying of cosmic energy in the undifferentiated world
and its rising in the undetermined. Here the end is in the beginnning and the beginning in the end.
Here all the transfigurations of the feminine can begin.
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It is interesting to note that Tav, the last letter of the Alphabet, forms the Moon (the whiteness) as the 7th mentioned
Planet (resting inside the individual in the spacial cube).
In Sartan Lavanah is both Abadot and Memshelah.
In this sign (Cancer) we have seen both the burying of cosmic energy in the undifferentiated world and its rising in the
undetermined. Here the end is in the beginning and beginning is in the end. Here all the transfigurations of the feminine
can begin.
In Mozenaim Lvanah is in a sign which expresses expectation: it listens (Ozen) in the Waters (Maim)
hoping to catch a revelation. But it only fails to begin moving. Lvanah brings it this organic movment. SY 171
In Dagaim Lavanah. supports the scintillating formative letter, Qof (100), of this sign, in the way that a searchlight reveals the
abundance of underwater life. It is creative.
In Betolah Lvanah is found in a sign which by reason of its functional character, resembles it unduly. It does not find the catalyst that it needs.
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