Creating the Universe, Alchemy, Yog-Sothoth

[wolven7]

I decided that this needed its own entry, as it was getting a bit long. Today, as I was re-reading my notes on A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe, i realised something about the Dyad-- or the embodiment of dualist nature-- as Schneider references it: In the study of sacred gemoteric symbolism, The Dyad is the awakening to Self and Otherness, in that, with the number Two (1+1) we have a counterpoint against which to define what we are not. The existential question being essentially reduced to "I am I, but what the hell is THAT thing?!" It is often represented by this image: the Vesica Piscis. In this, we begin, to count, and so Duality is also called "The Gate." It is the point at which we are made aware not just of otherness, but of the potentiality of Several Others.

But Duality is also known as "illusion," the mirage of separateness, in the face of wholeness. By enumerating the parts, we become ignorant of or blinded to the fact that they are all still components of a whole, existing within the universe. Though the Recognition and reassimilation of this fact-- that of Unity within and through diversity and/or multiplicity-- we come to the key to understanding and using all other forms and combination of number, or information. When we fully understand how the pieces interact and correspond to the whole, then we can recombine and manipulate those pieces, however we see fit.

What I realised, today, was that in the anime and manga Fullmetal Alchemist, the representation of what is refered to as "The Truth" is a set of rectangular doors, covered in the Kabbalistic Sephiroth ("Numbers"), which open up into a Gate, in which we find this: An Eye, in the shape of the Vesica Piscis. When in this gate, you are disolved into the all of reality, and you are shown the connections between everything that exists. This is the dissolution of illusion, through the gate of separation, the doors to which are designed and Numbered. When you enter the Gate, you Understand the Truth.

I made the following points in my last Dragon*Con presentation, but I would love to sit down with the creator of FMA, and just... talk. The amount of detail, the proper use of alchemical symbolism (Mustang's glove anyone? [12.27pm: The overlapping triangles signify the unity of the elements, but the upward-pointing or "Fire" point is paramount, with another upward pointing triangle on top of it; this then rests on the foundation of a Slamander. All of this is then encircled and crowned with a flame. This slchemical circle says "I Make Fire."]), the layering and interweaving of several different occult systems, it all speaks to a vast amount of research and study into thee fields, and a concerted effort to find their areas of intersection, and not only present them, but expound upon them.

And I respect the hell out of that.

Good night.

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[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

In the study of sacred gemoteric symbolism, The Dyad is the awakening to Self and Otherness, in that, with the number Two (1+1) we have a counterpoint against which to define what we are not.

Also, '11', in certain weirdo forms of Qabalah (Kenneth Grant, etc.), is the first step outside the system that is reality, a new beginning in something totally different, and the number of magic and the concept of the parallel universe.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Indeed: Also a Gate Number :)