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(first published in Maybe Quarterly vol. 2 issue 4, winter solstice 2005. This online magazine was sadly removed but one can still find its reflections in the Wayback Machine .) Part 4. The Book of Sand Chapter 1. Emanations and commissions: the Collège as a tree The sefirotic trees are a metaphor for different emanations of that which a kabbalist calls 'god' for lack of a better word. As in the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics , study of kabbalah is a study of that which we are able to percieve, not of the world itself but of its emanations. Revelation stands for the insight into those symbols, which probably tell as much about the examiner as about that which gets examined. The immanent ( Ayin Sof , every-thing) and the transcendent ( Ayin , no-thing) are by definition impossible to percieve. No hidden variables here, but a way of considering different reality-tunnels as in Maybe Logic ! Similarly the structure of the Collège de 'Pataphysiq...

(first published in Maybe Quarterly vol. 2 issue 4, winter solstice 2005. This online magazine was sadly removed but one can still find its reflections in the Wayback Machine .) Part 2. A Spiral Kabbal Chapter 1. As above, so below The first letter of the hebrew alefbet, Aleph , allegedly was created starting from the image of a man pointing down with one hand and up with the other. In magick it symbolizes the equality of microsphere and macrosphere, the similarity in structure between up and down, the meeting and melting point of the opposites. Eliphas Levi wrote in his magnus opus ' Transcendental Magic ' about the Aleph: "the form is proportional to the idea; the shadow is the measure of the body calculated in its relation to the luminous ray; the scabbard is as deep as the sword is long; the negation is in proportion to the contrary affirmation; production is equal to destruction in the movement which preserves life; and there is no point i...

(first published in Maybe Quarterly vol. 2 issue 4, winter solstice 2005. This online magazine was sadly removed but one can still find its reflections in the Wayback Machine .) Personification and falsehood   Get a grip on Bat Kol, I'm taking away Jacob's ladder "Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind" Alfred Jarry A 'pataphysician has an altitude in if but no attitude in life. The person , that which mosbunall confuse with the self, is considered as an imaginary solution. There are as many roles on the stage of life as there are possible answers to a poll answered by Jarry. The character of a 'pataphysician is like a glove, like a puppet in a theater .   Advertisement by Jarry for "Les Minutes de Sable Mémorial" in L'Ymagier II (January 1895) A kaballist also sees life as a theatre play. The role played is considered a mere shadow resulting from the rules of the divine li...