Finis
I got the last files of my Qaballah and Tarot course uploaded to Scribd.com. I've also uploaded all the files from my New Magicks for a New Age to Scribd.com. Many files in both need work, but they're all there, and readers can clearly see what's needed, if anything is, and what's intended. Can I fall apart now, please? I am sooo tired -- this is something that has taken literally a quarter of a century to do, the writing, the editing, the uploading, all driven by an indescribable urgency. I want rest, I want peace, and now it's in sight.
Qaballah is really all about justice, about the balance of the world and all in it. The legend of the 36 Just Men, the Tzeddikim, illustrates that: God ordained that at all times there would be 36 Just Men and their 36 Just Wives in the world, their total number the same as the components of the Shemhamphorasch, and that as long as their compliment was complete, the world would endure. These are the great saints of history, not necessarily of any one religion or from any one culture -- they are also called The Righteous, and Oskar Schindler, the Chzeckoslovakian businessman who managed to save 1,500 Jews from death at the hands of the Nazis, who was a Christian and, apparently, not a very devout one, has been entered into history on the rolls of the Righteous. But Jews or not, regardless of the culture into which they were born and in which they grew up, there must be 36 male and 36 female Righteous alive in the world at all times, or the world will encounter absolute disaster, one from which it may never recover.
The presence of the 72 Just is more sorely needed than ever today. But the world still turns on its groaning axis, which implies they are still out there. Perhaps the work I've done, now made available on Scribd.com, will be useful to them, somehow, some way, whether they themselves realize that they are among the Just or not (in fact, there's a Catch-22 there: if you think you are one of the Just, you couldn't possibly be; the Just are humble, concentrating on doing what is right rather than admiring themselves.
Others may find this work useful, too. It could be useful to cultural anthropologists, historians, and those in related fields. May it be so.
Nota bene: The Legend of the Just is of course a metaphor. However, metaphors qua metaphors are not therefore invalid, without value, or untrue. When they represent truly universally important things, they have inestimable value. As teaching aids, they are invaluable -- consider, for example, Terry Pratchett's "lies-to-children," which are in fact highly useful pedagogical aids that, used wisely, serve better than straight-out technically literal facts do when it comes to education of the young or the lay public in general. And justice isn't just an abstract idea. It manifests on all levels of being. I would say that the unfolding disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that began last April with the Deepwater Horizon explosion and leak is glaringly evident proof that in our world, injustice has become so thoroughgoing that it has finally manifested in the most grossly physical way, which implies that the corruption which caused it that must have begun on the Plane of Spirit has become so horrendous that our world is in danger of collapse, not just humanly, but biologically and ecologically. May the Just be out there!
Qaballah is really all about justice, about the balance of the world and all in it. The legend of the 36 Just Men, the Tzeddikim, illustrates that: God ordained that at all times there would be 36 Just Men and their 36 Just Wives in the world, their total number the same as the components of the Shemhamphorasch, and that as long as their compliment was complete, the world would endure. These are the great saints of history, not necessarily of any one religion or from any one culture -- they are also called The Righteous, and Oskar Schindler, the Chzeckoslovakian businessman who managed to save 1,500 Jews from death at the hands of the Nazis, who was a Christian and, apparently, not a very devout one, has been entered into history on the rolls of the Righteous. But Jews or not, regardless of the culture into which they were born and in which they grew up, there must be 36 male and 36 female Righteous alive in the world at all times, or the world will encounter absolute disaster, one from which it may never recover.
The presence of the 72 Just is more sorely needed than ever today. But the world still turns on its groaning axis, which implies they are still out there. Perhaps the work I've done, now made available on Scribd.com, will be useful to them, somehow, some way, whether they themselves realize that they are among the Just or not (in fact, there's a Catch-22 there: if you think you are one of the Just, you couldn't possibly be; the Just are humble, concentrating on doing what is right rather than admiring themselves.
Others may find this work useful, too. It could be useful to cultural anthropologists, historians, and those in related fields. May it be so.
Nota bene: The Legend of the Just is of course a metaphor. However, metaphors qua metaphors are not therefore invalid, without value, or untrue. When they represent truly universally important things, they have inestimable value. As teaching aids, they are invaluable -- consider, for example, Terry Pratchett's "lies-to-children," which are in fact highly useful pedagogical aids that, used wisely, serve better than straight-out technically literal facts do when it comes to education of the young or the lay public in general. And justice isn't just an abstract idea. It manifests on all levels of being. I would say that the unfolding disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that began last April with the Deepwater Horizon explosion and leak is glaringly evident proof that in our world, injustice has become so thoroughgoing that it has finally manifested in the most grossly physical way, which implies that the corruption which caused it that must have begun on the Plane of Spirit has become so horrendous that our world is in danger of collapse, not just humanly, but biologically and ecologically. May the Just be out there!