Frater FP - The Magician's Kabbalah.pdf - Federal Jack

at lower or higher orders of complexity and calculation. Thus, when magnifying, mathematically, an
area of the Mandelbrot set, one can find the same strange shape emerging, and within certain areas of
that shape, the shape repeats, and so forth.
This discovery reminds us of the Kabbalistic doctrine of Sephiroth existing within Sephiroth.
Indeed, Joseph ibn Sayyah went as far as to describe in detail the play of lights within the Sephiroth to
the fourth degree, as, for example, the "Tiferet which is in Gedullah which is in Binah which is in
Keter" (See Diagram 3).
Again, this finds a similarity with one eastern concept which states that "there is no
beginning, no ending, no linear progression, only an unbounded net of jewels each of which reflects
and contains the reflection of each of the others".
Thus, the repetitive plan which is spoken of in Kabbalah, and the fact that each Sephirah
"contains the other nine", is due to the fractal or recursive nature of the Kabbalistic system symbolised
by the Tree of Life, and referred to often as the Orchard of trees.
Another technological advance which resumes this idea is that of hologram images, which
are produced by projecting the interference patterns made by light waves (lasers) about an object onto
photographic plate. Shining light on the plate from the same angle then produces the image of the
object from the viewers location. As Itzhak Bentov explains, if one were to freeze such an interference
pattern, for example, the ripples in water made by a stone being dropped, then one could, analysing
the pattern, discover where the stone had broken through the water (see diagram 4). On a note of
poetic whimsy, one could perhaps visualise the Tree of Life as the wave-front of the light of God.
One may realise that all the above modern ideas are actually pre-empted and summarised in
a more ancient doctrine, which states, in the Tabula Smaragdina (Table of Emerald); "It is true
without lying, certain and most true, that which is inferior or below, is as that which is superior, or
above, and that which is superior as that which is inferior, to work and accomplish the miracles of one
thing." Patterns emerge at all levels and all scales, such as the spiral of a shell and the spiral of a fern
branch, or the shape of a galaxy and the shape of a human cell. As Louise B. Young states, "the whole
is immanent in all the parts, no matter how small". To those who work with such a self-reflexive
system, then it becomes possible to model, and experience, states that often defy description in other,
more linear systems. As Blake puts it in "Auguries of Innocence" :