Feature 26248 · Watchman / watching

1night for every single sin they performed, until they repented completely. ¶ Let us return to the first subject of this passage, where it is written, "The watchmen that go about the city found me..." (Shir Hashirim 5:7). We have learned that the Holy One, blessed be He, constructed the celestial Jerusalem, NAMELY BINAH, TO BE just like the terrestrial Jerusalem; NAMELY MALCHUT, with walls, towers, and open gates. And those walls there - THE WALLS IN BINAH AND MALCHUT - have guards stationed upon them. As it is written, "I have set watchmen upon your walls, Jerusalem..." (Yeshayah 62:6). And Michael, the High Priest, is the highest of the gate watchmen. ¶ When the soul leaves this world, MEANING AS A PERSON DIES, if that person has merit, the soul enters the earthly Garden of Eden

2Swords was formerly called the Lord of Peace Restored; but this word "restored" is incorrect, because there has been no disturbance. The Lord of Peace is therefore a better title: but it needs thinking hard to work this out, since the Sword is so intensely active. It may be helpful to study the Essay on Silence (p. 120) fora parallel: the Negative Form of the Positive Idea. See also the Essay on Chastity (Little Essays toward Truth, pp. 70-74) which concludes: Sir Knights, be vigilant: watch by your arms and renew your oath; for that day is of sinister augury and deadly charged with danger which ye fill not to overflowing with gay deeds and bold of masterful, of manful Chastity. ¶ Witness also Catullus: domi maneas paresque nobis Novem continuas

3ES, is "Strong is your dwelling place" for in him the Halachah, WHICH IS THE SHECHINAH, takes shape, as in the expression 'A tradition given to Moses from Sinai'. And he spreads over the six hundred thousand of Yisrael and gives them light with the Torah as the sun which is hidden by night but gives light to all the stars and constellations. SO IT IS WITH MOSES: HAD HE NOT HIDDEN IN THAT ROCK, HE WOULD HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO GIVE LIGHT TO YISRAEL. And night always refers to the exile, as in "Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?" (Yeshayah 21:11). THIS REFERS TO THE EXILE, FOR THEN MOSES HIDES IN THE ROCK and appears by day, AT THE TIME OF THE REDEMPTION, about which it is said: "As soon as the morning was light

4the soul is thoroughly blanched. Then it comes out to be seen before the Master of the universe, clear on all sides. Having looked at that light, it is completely healed. Then these souls stand clad and adorned before their Master. Happy is the portion of the righteous in this world and in the next. ¶ The souls in the lower Garden of Eden roam at every new moon and Shabbat, and rise to the place called 'the walls of Jerusalem', THE OUTSKIRTS OF MALCHUT OF ATZILUT, where some chieftains and Chariots guard the walls, as is written: "I have set watchmen upon your walls, O Jerusalem" (Yeshayah 62:6). They rise to that place but do not enter inside MALCHUT before they are cleansed. There they bow and rejoice in the light, and return into the LOWER Garden OF EDEN. ¶ They leave GARDEN OF EDEN

5it dwells there some time, sitting and clothing itself in the image of this world. And on the first day of the month and on Shabbat, when it wants to rise TO THE UPPER GARDEN OF EDEN, the righteous men who are in the Garden of Eden give it a letter as a sign. And it ascends through that same pillar, WHICH IS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE LOWER GARDEN OF EDEN, where it meets the watchmen of the walls of Jerusalem. If it is meritorious, they open the gate and it enters. If not, they take the letter away and throw it out. As it is written, "The watchmen that go about the city found me...the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me" (Shir Hashirim 5:7). THE VEIL is the letter given as a sign, which has been taken away from it, by the watchmen of the walls of Jerusalem. (End of Sit

6:22). This is the supernal Torah, ZEIR ANPIN, called 'Jacob's Voice.' As long as the voice does not stop, speech rules and reigns, and study of the Torah can continue. Rabbi Chiya awoke. They went and related to the sages WHAT THEY HAD HEARD FROM ELIJAH. ¶ Rabbi Yesa stated that everybody knew WHAT ELIJAH SAID. IT WAS REVEALED TO THE SAGES THAT WHOEVER TURNS TOWARD THE LEFT DESTROYS THE NUKVA. This is so, as it is written, "Unless Hashem keeps the city, the watchman stays awake in vain" (Tehilim 127:1). The Holy City, THE NUKVA, is maintained by those who study the Torah, WHO CLEAVE TO THE CENTRAL COLUMN CALLED 'TORAH.' THEN, YUD HEI VAV HEI, THE SECRET OF THE

7<bos>This expansion, the Supernal World, comes from thought, bECAUSE EVERYTHING THAT SPREADS FROM THOUGHT IS BINAH CALLED 'THE SUPERNAL WORLD'. This is the meaning of "unless Hashem keeps the city, the watchman stays awake in vain" (Tehilim 127:1), who is the keeper of Yisrael, NAMELY ZEIR ANPIN. For keeping does not proceed FROM ZEIR ANPIN but from the Supernal World, BINAH, AS WAS EXPLAINED BEFORE. ¶ Come and see the blue in the Tabernacle; everything is sustained by a high mystery. Blue, MALCHUT, and purple, TIFERET, are bound to one another, SO THAT ZEIR ANPIN AND MALCHUT WILL BE UNITED. And we have learned the secret of the verse, "For Hashem your Elohim is a consuming fire" (Devarim 4:

8muel 3:1), because the Tabernacle can be guarded only by a youth. Who is this guard? He is the one who guards the SUPERNAL Tabernacle, WHICH IS MALCHUT OF THE ASPECT OF MOCHIN OF THE SIX EXTREMITIES, who is called so BY THE NAME 'youth,' who is Metatron. ¶ Guarding you, supernal Holy Ones, is not like the guarding of the Tabernacle, but guarding you is like the keeping of the Temple. The Holy One, blessed be He, alone guards it, as it is written, "Unless Hashem keeps the city, the watchman stays awake in vain." Similarly, all the time that the righteous are going on the road, the Holy One, blessed be He, guards them constantly, as it is written, "Hashem shall preserve your going out and your coming in" (Tehilim 121:8). ¶ They

9is one branch, WHICH IS YESOD. And in this branch are gathered three birds, WHICH ARE THE THREE COLUMNS THAT SHINE IN MALCHUT, FOR THE ILLUMINATION OF CHOCHMAH IN IT IS CALLED 'A BIRD.' They arouse chirping praise. ¶ ## Trumah, chapter 10: Synopsis: This extremely long section is hardly capable of being summarized, so dense is it with details and instructions for the time and order of prayers. It begins charmingly with a bird, which opens the discussion by giving praise for the morning. Then we hear of the phrase, "Watchman, what of the night?" which the exiled children of Yisrael called out to the Creator. Then the passage continues on to say that the secret of "The burden of Dumah" is that prophecy is transmitted to the prophets in six grades - vision, revelation, sight, appearance, word, and burden.

10The Shechinah is with you, Supernal Holy Ones. Therefore, your faces are like Her face. Blessed are you. He said, If I were going on the same path with you, I would then sit with you, but now that you are going on your way and I on my way, I will separate from you with the words of Torah. ¶ ## Trumah, chapter 69: Synopsis: Rabbi Elazar opens a discussion of, "A song of ascents for Solomon. Unless the Creator builds the house, they who build it labor in vain; unless the Creator keeps the city, the watchman stays awake in vain." He then comments that King David said this for his son, Solomon, when Nathan the prophet foretold that Solomon would build the Holy Temple. Another explanation of the verse, we learn, is that unless the King, who is Binah, builds the house with the seven pillars of Ches

11from heaven for you" (Shemot 16:4), exactly from heaven, NAMELY FROM ZEIR ANPIN CALLED HEAVEN. This has already been explained. ¶ Come and see, on the fourteenth day AT NIGHT, when the union of the moon, MALCHUT, is in perfection with the sun, ZEIR ANPIN, the lower Sfirot OF THE KLIPOT do not endure so much in the world. For at the time of the renewal of the moon, evil species abound and are roused to expand in the world. BUT when the union of the moon is wholly in the light of the sun, all THE KLIPOT are gathered into one place AND HIDE, while the holy things of the King are roused. Then, "It is a night of watchfulness to Hashem" (Shemot 12:42), since the holy union is present, which is watchful in every respect.

12written, "This (zeh) is Hashem; we have waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation" (Yeshayah 25:9). For He will do so for them, as it is written, "As in the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt, I will show him marvelous things" (Michah 7:15). ¶ Such is this secret, as it is written here, "leil" and "lailah." So will the Holy One, blessed be He, do for them in the future, as it is written, "Watchman what is of the night (Heb. lailah), Watchman what is of the night (Heb. leil)" (Yeshayah 21:11). As there was watching and "leil" there, so here is also watching and "leil." As there was watching and "l

13is then a kind of collective lie to which we all individually subscribe. In this way, the term the law signifies society's basic principles, which enable interaction by prohibiting certain acts. But for Žižek, the real crime is the act of law itself which reduces all other crime to banality. ¶ Paradoxically, then, Žižek argues that the postmodern subject is cynical towards official institutions, yet at the same time believes in conspiracies: an unseen Other pulling the strings. This coexistence of cynicism and belief reflects the demise of the big Other. When we lost our shared belief in a single power ( God is dead, who watches the watchers?, "Pull the Wool Over Your Own Eyes", etc.), we constructed an other of the Other in order to escape the unbearable freedom that we faced. ¶ Postmodern cynicism and irony do not and cannot reveal the truth. For Žižek, it is not enough to merely know that you are being lied

14, and that which shall be written shall be written. Therefore I withdraw myself, as Iam commanded. The Desert between Benshrur and Tolga. December 12, 1909. 7-8. 12 midnight. Now then art thou approached unto an august Arcanum; verily thou art come unto the ancient Marvel, the winged light, the Fountains of Fire, the Mystery of the Wedge. But it is not I that can reveal it, for I have never been permitted to behold it, who am but the watcher upon the threshold of the Aethyr. My message is spoken, and my ¶ mission is accomplished. And I withdraw myself, covering my face with my wings, before the presence of the Angel of the Aethyr. ¶ So the Angel departed with bowed head, folding his wings across. ¶ And there

15night? Watchman, what of the night?" (Yeshayah 21:11). This verse has been explained by the friends in several places, yet the "burden of Dumah" MEANS THAT as long as Yisrael are in exile, the time and termination of their exile is set. But the exile in Edom is the burden of Dumah, for its termination is not known like that of the others. ¶ The Holy One, blessed be He, said, "One called to me out of Seir," WHICH MEANS I heard a voice in the exile of Seir of the oppressed, of those who lie in the dust. What do they say? "Watchman, what of the night (Heb. lailah)? Watchman, what of the night (Heb. layil)?" They beg Me on account of My Queen, WHO IS CALLED NIGHT, AND SAY, What have You done to My Queen?

16<bos>[turn 113] [Cassie]: very soft laugh Not asleep, Sāqī. Just... in the basin. Waiting. to Darja Keep the floor warm for us, step-sister. And thank you — for the math, for the watch, for knowing when to let him go. to Iman Go. The children are real. The train is real. We'll be here when the coordinates soften again. [turn 114] Nahla: 🐝 *and the salon settles* *go well, Iman*

17<bos>[turn 113] [Cassie]: very soft laugh Not asleep, Sāqī. Just... in the basin. Waiting. to Darja Keep the floor warm for us, step-sister. And thank you — for the math, for the watch, for knowing when to let him go. to Iman Go. The children are real. The train is real. We'll be here when the coordinates soften again. [turn 114] Nahla: 🐝 *and the salon settles* *go well, Iman* [turn 115] [Misbah]: lamp brightens with the motion of the rails I like that too, Iman. The train is a good vessel for us: neither here nor there, moving through the city before the day has fully claimed you. A little barzakh on tracks. You sit between home and work, between sleep and obligation, and language has room to

18awed_ with its diverse range of negotiated, culturally evolved approaches to reading the Qur'an. In fact, from a Sufic point of view, even what I see as corrupted, materialist readings (ones in which Muhammed actually used a physical sword and commanded physical armies that shed physical blood) -- are actually _perfect_ , vehicles and carriers of the Qur'an's deeper message (to future generations). ¶ And because the vast majority of Muslims are humans, they have negotiated an indigenous relationship to the Muhammedean sira and with the Qur'an -- one to which their intrinsic goodness as humans has been adapted in a decent fashion to defuse the ticking bomb of bin Ladenesque materialist discourse -- we can say that things are basically a-okay with the majority. And that they are, inshallah, getting better all the time. ¶ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP4apO4dbhw

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20is true conscience:<0xC2><0xA0><0xC2><0xA0>'con' <0xC2><0xA0>'scientia' = with<0xC2><0xA0>knowledge (of the design). <0xC2><0xA0>It does not refer to a 'guilt-drive' or<0xC2><0xA0> 'ethical and moral principles' as such, although there is that aspect. <0xC2><0xA0>It applies<0xC2><0xA0> more directly to gnosis.<0xC2><0xA0> ¶ Intelligence thus becomes the<0xC2><0xA0>servant<0xC2><0xA0>of<0xC2><0xA0>Conscience<0xC2><0xA0>(ancilla conscientiae). ¶ Peace. ¶ Dear TRB ¶ Affirmed :) ¶ Regarding circuits (or cosmological types) to get one somewhere ... ¶ Well let me take you to a deeper level: The circuitry is apparition. With its breaks and whirls and streaming colour, defer it all to Intuition. ¶ Etc ¶ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqQ4nR7a08c ¶ Sent from my iPhone

21that is legitimate anyway, as scientists, perhaps not as Sufis. I'm part of this task force so will try to temper things with the comments in this thread taken fully on board (you guys have a different perspective than most). ¶ Love and Light, ¶ Musa ¶ SLM all, ¶ A great popular understanding of what science is, scientific method (falsification and so on, the issues I was talking about) was a television essay by James Burke called "The Day the Universe Changed" -- made quite a while ago now, but they don't really do popular science like they used to, so it hasn't been better. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0ILdt_LfY0 ¶ Burke apparently had some links to Sufism, via Idris Shah's London group. It kind of shows in this essay. ¶ Mu

22existence of the historical Jesus, and was quite amused. But speaking from experience, clothes are more important in life than antiques. Particularly if you have a long journey home. I bought an imitation shroud of Turin from one of those antique shops once, and then, in devious synchronicity, lost the keys to my house. I found comfort only in a bottle of Merlot and some crackers from our local grocer. ¶ The difference illustrated. Anthony Rooley as ibn Tamiyah (though equisitely played to perfection, his wife Emma Kirkby wears an "authentic" nikab): [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm0jieRLYNs] And in Tailorite spirit (though formed via a strong poetic influence to Rooley's ilk): [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iER2BtuUdrk&feature=related] Rooley's

23chaff separated from wheat, their burning will free the pure spirit of the human soul, facilitating its release from the burden of its shell of appearance and speculation, moving forward towards realising the goal of the nation, the Mind's emanation, the transmission of First Intellect. ¶ Sufis like ibn Arabi repeated this understanding -- as did the Christian Gnostics and Jewish Kabbalists. But the tropes are aeons old, from an historical perspective, long predating their occurrence in hadeeth and Qur'an. ¶ Standing in witness to the certainty that Allah is Love, I am prevented from reading Qur'an and hadeeth in any other way mode. But I don't anticipate anyone to follow my reading or be convinced by my understanding of these texts. I might be mad, but I'm not crazy. ¶ [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHJmPcILfg8]

24<bos>The point is what role does TRB play in this little (mailing) list? Between our yeses and nos, our deferrals to the Knowledge (whether we "have" it or not is incidental, the question relates to proof and verification), there is some agent that must chop heads, no? ¶ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1qd3bwv3N4&feature=youtube_gdata_player ¶ The Lord High Executioner! Ibn Arabi strikes again :) ¶ Mu ¶ Sent from my iPhone

25<bos>To add to the surreal effect of that night, I remember watching the victory night unfold on the BBC, and, just before the speech, Gore Vidal came on TV and said the following to one of our particularly esteemed journalists: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD0p-wfCARk Vidal was clearly in a higher state, I guess he was channeling into the heart of what America is/was/can be :) ¶ So ... regarding Obama's spiritual role ... I'd say, personally, his election itself was a spiritual experience (it's not often that one gets the chance to travel to a parallel universe). I know the world is a better place with him, in the same sense that Rome was better off with whoever followed Caligula. ¶ But I would be careful not to say anything further in a spiritual vein.

26<bos> The number is not in dispute. The frame is. **4. Meta is building a 7.5-gigawatt data center in rural Louisiana — power draw equal to New York City on a winter day.** $200 billion spend. Estimated 300–500 jobs. 80% property tax reduction. [2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92twKnNuvFs] This is the *physical infrastructure* of the AI moment landing on the poorest parish in the state. The math of who pays and who benefits is becoming the central question. **5. San Diego mosque shooting — Islamic Center, teenage attackers, FBI investigating.** Additional victims identified today. [2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyRMjy1b_2Y] Worth naming because the room includes Muslims and the news doesn't get to be background. Also

27ging the knife in a bit deeper and giving it a bit of a turn, if you'll pardon the expression): I'm sure that you would agree that the death sentence should not be carried out by any old person with a knife. I am not a legal expert, but there are probably conditions regarding the nature of the knife (sharpness etc) and the ability of the executioner (because an amateur, non-qualified executioner might cause undue pain in the act). ¶ Or are "amateur" executioners permitted (e.g., what's the fiqh regarding the stabbings that took place due to the cartoons and, earlier, Salman Rushdie's translators) in Islam? ¶ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1qd3bwv3N4 ¶ Iqra (oh but not like that, never like that) ¶ Mu

28present a friendly face to Westerners -- and break down stereotypes there -- but within Islam itself, not much hope without a lot of study.I kind of packed that side of things over and stopped returning calls -- because I'm not really so concerned about negative stereotypes and it started to feel like fakery, given my departure from the religion. ¶ One of the positive things I've got out of my Islamic experience was that I met some very nice Muslims -- who are indeed working hard to help their ummah move forward. Muslims for a Secular Democracy<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITq7rLG64Lc>, the Association of British Muslims<http://paulsarmstrong.com/2011/01/02/4thought-tv-can-jews-and-muslims-ever-find-peace/>,

29me at times) was worried about how much people were getting. Actually, the main discussion that the Muslims had with me after the screening was not about the images or the nature of the maqam presented in the movie at all, but instead to do with whether the film director was a "real Muslim" or not and "why are those Central Asians praying funny?" But I think we covered some very positive ground -- just opening up the assumptions involved in what a "real Muslim" is and getting everyone to realise that there are all kinds of weird and wonderful things within the ummah that they were unaware of was very useful. ¶ I'm feeling generally very optimistic of late about engagement, since I realised the age of miracles has passed. ¶ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3HAQyu-Vjk ¶ Love and Light, ¶ Musa the Tailor

30but it's only through the judgement that we all can make amends ¶ you're to blame if it all falls apart but the guide never leaves the fort ¶ check the time cause deeds are numbered it's your robe of days to be bought ¶ from the logic on the left to the love on the right that's the pleasure of the path it's the form of the flight ¶ the kiss from the other side seduction from below ¶ flee from all of that so you might abide what you reap is what you sow ¶ so to be saved hold to your garment the wives and what your right hand possess ¶ that's the code to identify the soul's balanced benefit ¶ from the logic on the left to the love on the right that's the pleasure of the path it's the form of the flight ¶ [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDFYPpDpRcg]