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"De-Fractured Fairy Tales" .... or the Sacred Geometry of Genesis, "times One" ... the Advaitic miracle of the Vesica Piscis.
The Vesica Piscis is one of the most simple, elegant, and geometrically (not to mention gematrically - the mystical letter-number system of the Kabbalah) sophisticated consciousness symbols ever created ... and one of the most mysteriously global.
Known primarily in Christianity and Western esoteric traditions, the Vesica Piscis is also popular under a different name, in the Advaitic yogic-tantric traditions of India:
Vesica Piscis literally means "bladder of a fish" (a fitting name, considering the image, above .... and one strangely reminiscent of the Sanskrit term matsyodara ... "fish belly" ... which gave name to the famous guru Matsyendranath).
"In his monumental work Tantraloka, Abhinavagupta cryptically refers to the term matsyodara:
'On the level of the highest kundalini is the emissional power which is beautiful because it contains within itself the vibration; there the yogin should repose in the condition of the belly of the fish.'"
Source: The Alchemical Body : Siddha Traditions in Medieval India by David Gordon White
The following excerpt outlining the embedding of the Vesica Piscis into the Torah (Bereshith), aka the Old Testament (Genesis), along with the unified field of awareness to which it points, was published originally at Masoncode.com:
"We can consider, for example, a Vesica Piscis - one of the most important figures in sacred geometry. A vesica with a width of 26 - IHVH (the Creator), has a height of 45, which is the gematria value of the man he created ADM - Adam. The difference between God and man is 45 - 26 = 19. This is the value of the woman created as a companion for Adam, ChVH - 'Eve'. In this way the sacred vesica defines the relationship between the Creator and mankind.
God's primal act of creation is encapsulated by the first verse of Genesis. The Hebrew words here - BRAShITh BRA ALHIM ATh HShMIM VATh HARTz - have a value of 2701. Among the many interesting properties of this number is the fact that it comprises the sum of 26 squared (676) and 45 squared (2025) - hence the combination of God and Adam. This means that the 26 by 45 rectangle enclosing the vesica of creation has a diagonal of the square root of 2701.
In addition to this, the circle within which the rectangle may be precisely drawn has a circumference of 163, and by this means can symbolise that which was created: AaVLM HZH - 'This World'. It is also a fact that the area of the rectangle is equal to that of a square with a perimeter of 139: the value of - GN ALHIM - the Garden of Eden. Furthermore, the difference between 2025 and 676, gives the value of GN ALHIM when the final letters N and M are counted high - 1349. At the same time, the area of the rectangle is equal to that of a circle with a radius of 19 - ChVH - Eve.
There are unfathomable mysteries in the gematria of Genesis and this but a gleam from the crest of the tip of a very large iceberg."
Why is this important?
Because it highlights the reality that one of the best-known symbols of both Christianity and esoteric mysticism, was encoded into the original Torah, aka the Old Testament of the Bible, in a manner that inescapably illustrates the reality that the symbolism of God and Man, of Adam and Eve, and of the relationship between God and the single couple represented by Adam and Eve .... was never intended to be be understood as anything other than facets of a single, non-dual awareness-self.
And so, it came to pass that Moses-self reached the top of Mount Spine-I, where God-self invited him to enjoy the One Serving Suggestion (Knowing Self = Creating Liberation) ... divided into ten bite-sized pieces .... one each for the ten sefirot-chakras of the Tree of Life ... the One Tree in the Garden, the human Central Nervous System ... mistaken for two trees of a very different type when Adam-Eve .. cursed him-her-self with a wicked case of spectacular double-vision ("Silly First Person, there can't be duality, there can only be conception of duality ...!").
Am I making this up?
Not exactly.
There's a lot of Gematrically enticing evidence to support my hypotheses ... especially the God-self = Moses-self aspect(s).
Much of the rest, too ... but that'll have to be a topic, or set of them for another post-or-few .... or your own "random Googling" ... try keywords kabbalah gematria .... followed by whatever Biblical symbolism you'd like to know about ... Adam and Eve, snake, satan, moses, sinai, egypt, red sea, etc. etc. etc. ... and see what you get. If that doesn't yield results you like, or that you feel are comprehensive enough, you can always mix it up by adding the word Hebrew into the keywords.
And this site makes an excellent jumping-off point (if nothing else, it'll give you a ton of other useful search terms, to dig into the ultra-sophisticated user's guide for realized consciousness, that the Torah/Bible (Old Testament) actually is, originally.
And now ... back to the future-now of our God-Self/Moses-Self symbolism ....
Very simple.
When Moses-self asked God-self for God-self's name, God-self replied (and I quote) ...
AHIH AShR AHIH
I AM THAT I AM
AHIH AshR AHIH, as any Gematria student knows, or can find out in about three minutes ("Google is our friend" ...) ... adds up to:
543
... as opposed to Moses (aka MSh, unified awareness .... Mem-Shin ... Water-Fire) ... which adds up to ...
345
You see?
543
345
Like a .... mirror ..... the self of unified awareness (Water represents objective consciousness; fire represents subjective consciousness; the six-pointed star represents awareness, unified ... the Heart of the Self) .... meeting creating its creator-self creating itself ....
543
345
888
... the number of Mashiach; Messiah ... the manifested union of Water (Mem) and Fire (Shin).
... the holy whole being wholly whole, now.
Yes, you read correctly.
Non-dual Bible.
As you may have heard, much of the allegedly applicable story starts in Paradise.
What you may not have heard is that Paradise is an acrostic (where each Hebrew letter, PRDS .. represents a word), pointing to the same three-in-one-in-all model of consciousness encoded in all the great sacred writings of the world.
In the Hindu/Tantric/Yogic traditions, this same model of consciousness is symbolized by AUM. (including the dot " . ", the point or bindu, indicating infinite original eternal silent awareness now), and the four levels of speech (Kashmir Shaivism) -- Paravak, Pasyanti, Madhyama and Vaikhari.
Kashmir Shaivism also has the four spheres, or anda in Sanskrit (Shakti, Maya, Prakriti, Prthivi), as the Kabbalah, the mystical/esoteric (yogic) path within Judaism has the four worlds:
Atzilut, Beriah, Yetzirah, Assiyah
Emanation, Creation, Formation, Action
... which bring us right back to Paradise.
PaRaDiSe .... Orchard ... or ... Garden ... in Hebrew.
Also, a potentially infinitely helpful mnemonic:
PaRaDiSe ... PRDS (Hebrew) ....
Peshat
Remez
Derasha
Sod
Literal
Allegorical/Intellectual (first level of metaphor)
Exposition (deeper level of metaphor)
Secret (inner intuitive understanding)
Here's an excellent overview of PRDS from respected Gnostic Christian Kabbalah author, Tau Malachi, at the Sophian Fellowship Forum.
And, no, of course ... it's not like every word of the Bible is encoded with a sophisticated schema of four perfectly interlacing and complementary levels of wisdom pointing to how consciousness actually operates.
It's like every syllable of the Bible is encoded with a sophisticated schema of four perfectly interlacing and complementary levels of wisdom pointing to how consciousness actually operates, supported by Gematria, the one-corresponding-number-for-each-letter schema, wherein the three-in-one-in-all model is formulated with a level of sophistication and elegance that causes the modern mind to drop its conceptual jaw in awe ... and realize that maybe "advanced in external technology" .... doesn't always mean "advanced".
The Hebrew Aleph-Beyt consists of:
27 letters (22 primary, 4 final)
9 representing the Archetypal
9 representing the Existential
9 representing the Cosmic/Supernal
If you're interested, check out this hypertext index of the Hebrew Aleph-Bet, offering a detailed overview of the sophistication of the letter-number symbolism, utilized to encode the entire (originally Hebrew) Torah ... aka the Old Testament of the Bible.
Just how deep and sophisticated is this letter-number symbolism of Hebraic sacred science?
Deep and sophisticated.
And I understand ..... for some rational minds ... equating deep and sophisticated with:
"In the beginning God created heaven and earth" ... is a bit of a stretch.
And rightfully so, considering that ""In the beginning God created heaven and earth" is an utter mistranslation.
The original Hebrew reads:
"Bereshyt Barah Elohim et Ha Shamaim Vay et Ha Eretz"
To begin to get how deeply and fully the original Hebrew points to the actual operation of consciousness, click on the link, above (the word Bereshyt).
And, if you want to go all the way into the rabbit hole ... and/or be catapulted right *out* of the matrix ... click here.
Excerpt:
(from "The Secret Doctrine of the Kabbalah", linked above)
"With this understanding of the basic geometric processes involved in the construction of the circle and the hexagram, we should be better able to appreciate the geometric descriptions of creation in the Zohar. At the start of the section called Bereshit, the progression from point, through line, to circle, and then to the marking of radial arc points, is described in relation to the first processes of creation:
"The Most Mysterious struck its void, and caused its point to shine. This 'beginning', then extended, and made for itself a palace for its honor and glory...
... From this point onwards, Bara Shith -- he created six."
Six.
Six directions; the cube of space defined by the field of original unified awareness.
Six days ... three points comprising the basis of a triangle pointing up ... fire ... shin; three points comprising the basis for a triangle pointing down ... water ... mem.
And the seventh ... the original, the first ... Aleph; spirit, pure creative awareness, resting in eternal repose at the center ... at the heart of it all.
The two triangles united, forming a six-pointed star .... the Star of David (DVD, Dalet Vav Dalet ... two formerly-resisting facets of consciousness, unified and harmonized by the life-force, Vav, the "copulative principle" as Kabbalistic sages would have it); the satkona in Hinduism and tantric/yogic traditions.
The union of Shiva and Shakti in Hinduism and related yogic/tantric traditions, such as Kashmir Shaivism.
The union of Yahweh (YHVH) and Elohim (ELHM) in Kabbalistic Judaism.
In Genesis, there is a perplexing line:
"Let us go down and make man in our image."
... causing the myopically monotheistic to wonder aloud: "who is God talking to?"
... which is only too easy to understand, when it's learned that Elohim is a feminine noun, with a masculine plural ending .... as in:
Not that many decades ago, a woman married to a Mr. John Smith would be known as Mrs. John Smith ... her identity subsumed in the identity of her husband.
Somehow, the relationship between male and female principles became twisted to represent woman as "less than", because of this "subsumed identity" ... whereas in ancient times, the Goddess acted, literally, as the very power of the God ... She arises from him; She is His emanation.
His Shakti; his very power; his capability.
Or, as Hebrew has it .... his Shekinah.
The true power of which all shines very clearly in any language, once it's seen that there's only One Awareness.
"Let us go down and make man in our image" ...
... "let this unified awareness magnify this light throughout the full field as awareness now" ....
It's never been about simplistic fairy tales, or pissed-off old guys in the sky.
It's all and only about this one awareness we each and all are ever-emanating as, now, really.
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