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Qabalistic Concepts - Living the Tree
QABALISTIC
CONCEPTS
LIVING THE TREE
William G. Gray
WEISERBOOKS
Boston, MA/York Beach, ME
Contents
Introduction
ix
Part I: Qabalah Perceptions
1 Begin at the Beginning
15
3 Cross Purposes
27
4 Elemental Energies
39
5 Archangel Attributes
51
7 Creative Concepts
63
8 Continuing Creation
99
9 Pillars
and
Powers
111
10 Worlds Within and Without
131
11 Paths and Placements
145
12 Learning by Letter
165
Part II: Qabalah Practices
13 Concerning Creativity
183
14 Pathworking
199
15 Tree and Tarot
213
16 Associations and Ideas
233
17 Paths, People and Places
249
2 The Value of Nothing
3
6 Thinking of Trees
77
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vi • CONCEPTS OF QABALAH
18 Coding Consciousness
263
19 Sexual Symbology
279
20 Esoteric Excretion
295
21 Tree Thinking
307
22 Rites and Rituals
325
23 Rationale of Ritual
341
Valedictory
361
Index
367
About the Author
379
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KEEP QUESTING!
Introduction
When most people hear the mysterious
word "Qabalah" (or Cabala, or Kabbalah), they may have vague
ideas that it is something extremely abstruse and probably Jewish. If
so, they would be only partly correct. The word itself does derive
from the Hebrew root QBL, signifying to meet or embrace instruc-
tion, admit or allow a law, receive or obtain. By implication it points
to a "secret tradition" known only to a few select scholars and
imparted by them directly to carefully chosen disciples down the
ages. In early days it was entirely an oral teaching, like that of the
Druids. It did not reach a literary public until the late Middle Ages,
and remained an obscure topic of interest only to the most eclectic
students of esoterica until the nineteenth century. It did not
become freely available until this century, mostly since World War
II. Even now, although many have heard of it, relatively few could
give a good description of what it is and of what use it might be in
a modern world.
The fundamentals of Qabalah are really very simple. It is
essentially a search for "God," "ultimate identity," or however a
human life quest might be termed, by using a system of mathe-
matically relatable concepts acceptable to a consciousness activated

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