Theos-Talk Archives (June 2002 Message tt00119)

Ademma: "With exceptions of the questions is anybody here ably to 
show other examples of the processes of this paragraph?

Don't understand the question.

"When the active period has arrived, from within the eternal essence 
of Ain?Soph, comes forth Sephira, the active Power, called the 
Primordial Point, and the Crown, Kether. It is only through her that 
the "Un?bounded Wisdom" could give a concrete form to the abstract 
Thought.

Ademma: "What does she mean by Abstract Thought? Chaos?"

The book is chaotic, but abstract thought occurred before there was 
chaos. If U think about a chocolate eclair, that is concrete 
thought. If U think about a quadratic equation, you are thinking 
about something which is abstract, but the thought still has 
content. Of U somehow, in thought experiment, remove all content, so 
there is process but nothing else, thought becomes completely 
abstract. The idea here is that there was thought (mind or nous) 
before there was anything else, so that thought must of necessity 
have been abstract.

"Two sides of the upper triangle by which the ineffable Essence and 
the universe ?? its manifested body ?? are symbolized, the right side 
and the base are composed of unbroken lines; the third, the left 
side, is dotted. It is through the latter that emerges Sephira. 
Spreading in every direction, she finally encompasses the whole 
triangle. In this emanation the triple triad is formed. From the 
invisible Dew falling from the higher Uni?triad (thus leaving 7 
sephiroths only)

Ademma: "What evidence suggest that 7 sephiroths would be left out of 
a triple triad?

This has to do with the Kabbalah. The seven are the sephiroth of 
construction (the lower seven.) The ten sephiroth are shown 
diagrammatically as three triads surmounting a single sephira, which 
represents the material world. The uppermost three, the supernal 
triad (a term she swiped from Dionysius the Areopagite) are, she is 
saying, out of consideration here, presumably because supernal.

Ademma: "Is there any other places where hpb or any other uses the 
term Uni?triad?

No.

Ademma: "Swan ? Golden Egg ?

She liked myths, which I cannot stand. The swan lays the egg.