Theos-Talk Archives (January 2002 Message tt00327)

<<<And if I remember correctly I made some joke about people falling into it.
Chuck the Heretic>>

Yeah, I remember that.


<<<Not having been on the list a few years ago I did not hear about this passage about the Abyss. Can you give it again and make any comments on it which would be appropriate or clarifying?
Thanks.
Peace, Bruce>>>

Bruce, OK, but it does have sexual overtones. She wrote:

"Mr. Lilly is evidently ignorant of the meaning of the term "Kshetra." Exoterically it means simply - "field," while esoterically it represents "the great abyss" of the Kabbalists, the chaos and the plane (cteis or yoni), in which the Creative energy implants the germ of the manifested universe." (CW Vol VI, p 158)

I liked this quote so much, that I included it in my Advanced Guide to Enochian Magick some years ago. Notice how she combines "Creative" and "chaos" together long before our modern chaos theory came along. She tells us here that the Great Outer Abyss is a plane of creativity, and this is exactly how I have described it in my GV Model - the third plane downward is the Abyss itself, and the two Globes that G de Purucker shows there are the two aspects (ie upward matter into spirit, and downward spirit into matter) of Daath.

Jerry S.



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