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

specifically where recent advances in information technology and related systems have provided new
conceptual models and terms for utilising this highly advanced esoteric and mystical framework.
One of the prime tenets of occult belief is the law of correspondence, or "like affects like".
This states that due to the inherent unity of all things, certain items and concepts have a type of
mutual sympathy, association, or relationship. A primal application of this law is seen in the action of
the witchdoctor or sorcerer who gains an item belonging to that of the individual he wishes to
influence, be it for healing or cursing, or with or without the individuals knowledge. Other more
esoteric correspondences are seen across sets of items, for example, numbers, planets, scents and
colours. An example is that the colour green, the number seven and the emotion of love are associated
with each and the planet Venus, also viewed as the Greek Goddess of Love. A Magician attempting to
invoke the influence of this Goddess is likely to surround himself with items which resonate with her.
This occult idea has a psychological parallel in colour theory, which has demonstrated that certain
colours produce changes in our internal physical and psychological states. A biological theory of
morphic resonance has recently been postulated as detailing a non-local field which determines the
manifestation of living things, and this relies on a similar basic view of occult interconnectiveness.
Although many traditional Kabbalists abhor magical systems of correspondence, it is evident that
early Kabbalists utilised this law in apportioning letters of the Hebrew alphabet to certain aspects of
God. In a sense, the same unity of things is being demonstrated across sets of objects by the process of
digitisation becoming frequent in media communications. Thus, a sound can be reduced to a
representation of zeros and ones and signalled in any other set of items, such as colour, shapes or even
tactile signals. In the future, it may well be possible to transmit Beethoven's Fifth Symphony directly
as colours and sensations to a datasuit which the receiver wears and through which the senses are
stimulated.
The Tree as a Meta-model (Template Theory)
In many Kabbalistic aphorisms, the basic concepts often refer to the Tree of Life as a Metamodel,
that is, a system capable of comprehending other systems within itself. This is implied when
authors use such terms as "universal language", "cosmic plan" and "blue-print of manifestation".