Glimpses of the Left..

Hephiroth
I. Kether Prirnurn Mobile
2. Chockrnah
:I. Binah Saturn
4. Chesed Jupiter
.Ii . Geburah Mars
h. Tiphereth Sol
7. Netzach Venus
K.
9.
10. Malkuth
Useless to say, this became the main attribution of the ten and
was later re-taken by Golden Dawn and many other western LH.LF.L·�"U
l)rders.
We must also contextualize his writings in the climate of the era. The
Church and the traditional philosphical circles were condemning
any kind of and even if in the fifteenth in Italy we
ilre not at be encountered in the Counter-
Reformation Europe few decades system as the one
that Pico wanted to develop were ",trnn.al
I Ie was trying, through to establish a
mystico-magical system based on the elevation of man beyond his limits,
and any Pico was to be a but
in the more meaning of the term. His yearning for unity with God
reminds of the ascetic attitude of Taoist and Zen a kind of
trascendence and of what lies beyond.
He was the first to theorize a Man as a Magus, able to use
Qabalah to one's , beyond religion and any He
claimed the right of man to be free to think, shape, love his own universe,
and even to it the means No that he received
no sympathy from the Church. Even more heretical was the inclusion in his
system of the of the " Est Deus In Nobis" (Latin: God Is In
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