Saturday, March 26, 2011

3D Board Game Double Qabalah

Earlier today, I was sitting in my basement playing with a board game that I own called Abalone.  The game consists of a hexagonal board with circular holes, in the way that a piece of circle graph paper would look, with six circles surrounding one.  There are also 28 spherical pieces, 14 black and 14 white.  I don't actually know how to play,  so I was just playing around with the pieces.  By doing this, I thought up a 3 dimensional way of thinking of the qabalah, doubled.

I divided the black and white pieces into two groups of ten pieces, with four remainders in each.  These ten  pieces are of course representing the ten sephirot.  i called the black ones the "sephirot of Boaz" and the white ones the "sephirot of Jachin".  with each i constructed a 3D tree of life, consisting of for layers.  with the left over pieces, I created the three veils and the two pillars.  these were surrounding the "trees" or rather "intertwined pyramids".  I'll start with the first layer/

For Jachin,  the first (bottom) layer was a hexagon of the non-middle-pillar sephirot (NMPs) surrounding keter.  this represented the fact that the sapherot originated from keter.  For Boaz,  it was the bottom two NMPs (netzach and hod) in the front, and the bottom MP in the back.  This represents the fact the the middle pillar is balance between the other two pillars, as with all of Boaz's Sepherot.

The second layer for boaz consisted of all the MPs,minus keter.  this is self-explanatory.  for boas, it was the second-to-bottom sephirot (hesed and givurah)  in the front and the second to last MP (yesod) in the back.  this is a continuation.

For the third level,  because Jachin was completed,   there were only the top two NMPs (Chochmah and Binah)  and the second-to-top sephira, Tiferet. 


For level one, there was only Boaz's keter.    so from the sides, it looked like this: 
Jachins keter is hidden.  Boaz's severity is hiding Jachin, But jachins mercy is shining through.  from the front, Boaz's MP is hidden, but from the back,  all is hidden but the MP! Everything is a matter of perspective.  

Also while I was playing with the pieces, they formed the geomantic figure ammissio.  that can't be good. 

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