T for Torah… T for TarotWhy do the words Torah (hebrew old testament) and Tarot (divination cards), not only sound quite similar, but include the special T letter? Are Tarot and Torah closely related? Is Tarot an exposition of Torah? Both of which are codes of psychological significance?Yes, that is most certainly what the research points to. Check out ‘Tarot and Kabbalistic Sacred Geometry’ for more on this at http://www.jwmt.org/v2n17/kupperman.htmlAs we’ll now see, the Torah, written using the 22 letter code of sacred geometry and metaphor, are commonly translated through modern hebrew into ‘bible stories’, where as a deeper significance of the letter sequences remains hidden within kabbalistic understanding.Geometry within the 22 AutiotThe following is from http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/watch-unto-prayer/HRgematria.html“According to Hayim Vital, the radiance of the Torah's divine light is reflected in the mysteries of the book ‘Zohar’ (which means radiance). But when these mysteries are shrouded in the literal meaning \[as per the scriptures of the old testament], their light is darkened. The literal meaning is darkness, but the Kabbalistic meaning, the mystery, is the zohar that shines in every line of Scripture. This devaluation of the simple literal meaning is no invention of the later Kabbalists. It is clearly stressed in certain passages of the zohar itself.”
And it’s important to note these great works of Kabbalah hold no final solution or conclusion. They are explorations into human consciousness, never to be taken as dogmatic expositions of objectively real phenomenon. What is essentially important are the 22 autiot, not the books that through the ages have attempted to make use of them.Hayim. Joseph David Azulai remarked, "Reading the Zohar is good for the soul, even if wrong and full of mistakes."One creative researcher in recent times spots an intriguing arrangement for the 22 autiot as follows. The following is taken from http://www.new-territories.com/blog/india1/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/kabbalah-sacred-geometry.pdfAccording to the Kabbalists the 22 letters are divided into 3 groups: the 3 Mother Letters, the 7 Double letters and the 12 Simple Letters.The 3 dimensions of space correspond with the 3 Mother Letters. The 1 center and 6 faces (ie the 7 Directions of Space) correspond with the 7 double Letters. The 12 Edges (ie the 12 Subdirections of Space) correspond with the 12 Simple Letters.
Through experimentation I discovered this pattern that can be formed from 22 equally sized circles on a flat plane:“The tree of life is a widespread myth or archetype in the world's mythologies … including the Tree of Knowledge (of god and evil) connecting to heaven and the underworld, and the Tree of Life connecting all forms of creation, portrayed in various religions and philosophies as the same tree.” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree\_of\_life “And the LORD God said, \[about Adam having eaten from the Tree of Knowledge] "The man has now become like one of us \[note the plurality of ‘us’] , knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever." - Genesis 3:22\\&#xNAN;Must not? Why not? Why did the plurality of the gods not want mankind to become immortal like them?\\&#xNAN;What restriction has that belief had on 3,000 years of conscious development? What ultimately is the key to unlocking our right of passage to eat from that Tree of Life and join the gods as immortals?\\&#xNAN;The very first word of the Old Testament, commonly translated as ‘In The Beginning’ (Bereyshis) is alternatively translated as ‘In the Net’. A ‘net’ being ‘an interwoven matrix’.
The 3 mother letters are seen as a set. Therefore they are placed equally apart in a triangle. It is understood that Aleph is neutral so it is placed "centrally" between the other 2 Mother Letters. The other letters are placed in accordance with their supposed make up from the Three.For example in their scheme Gemel=Aleph+Mem. Therefore I placed Gemel directly in between Aleph and Mem.If Shin is seen as yang polarity, Mem is seen as yin polarity and Aleph is seen as neutral/tao then this diagram reflects the approximate polarities of the other letters. The central letters are balanced, those on the left are yin and those on the right are yang.Circles are seen as pure transcendent geometric figures so patterns that can be formed from a set number of them on a flat plane are inherently non-arbitrary to a degree. Naturally symmetrical and/or beautiful arrangements are given special importance especially if they have other notable or unique properties.”
• What this signifies is the geometrically distributed nature of symbolism captured within the 22 autiot.
• For a more in-depth exploration, we looked at Stan Tenen’s work earlier and his discovery of the human hand gestures represented by the 22 autiot.