Feature 47154 · Symbolic place-names

1with the same walls, and stone walls, the same entrances and the same doors, everything according to measure. But in the future, BY THE MEASUREMENTS OF THE MANSION OF EZEKIEL, WHICH WILL BE IN THE FUTURE, it is said of that measure "the side chambers were broader as they wound higher and higher" (Yechezkel. 41:7). For when they will start to build using the measuring reed, it will stretch higher and higher in length and breadth, the mansion will expand on all sides, and none will think ill of it, as explained by the verse, "and Damascus shall be His resting place" (Zecharyah 9:1). For at that time there will be no Judgment upon the world, and all will be established firmly and completely, as it is said: "and be troubled no more; neither shall the children of wickedness torment them any more..." (II Sh

24). Rabbi Aba said, It is first written, "And Israel bowed himself..." As we explained, the bed is the Congregation of Yisrael, THE NUKVA; the bed's head is the Righteous; "upon the bed's head" refers to the Holy King, that the peace is His, NAMELY TIFERET, as it is written, "Behold his litter, that of Solomon" (Shir Hashirim 3:7). For he bowed to himself, BEING THE CHARIOT OF TIFERET, to him who stands upon the bed's head whose name is Yisrael, AS TIFERET IS CALLED YISRAEL. Therefore, "And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head." ¶ Afterwards, when Jacob saw that he was perfected in the highest grade(TIFERET) together with the patriarchs, CHESED AND GVURAH, and

3stone covering its mouth. Rabbi Chiya resolves this difficulty, explaining that there was no longer a stone covering the mouth of the well because Jacob removed it, as it was no longer needed. ¶ Much is concealed from the eyes of men. However, when our consciousness is raised, and when we evolve and elevate spiritually into genuine and proactive people, we see more and sense more. Consequently, we reject evil. We recognize negative forces in all their nefarious and clever disguises. ¶ We are told that Moses looked at an Egyptian and killed him merely by his gaze. This alludes to the power of the eyes. Egypt is a metaphor pertaining to our personal impious impulses. As our own eyes peruse these verses, we do away with the "Egyptian" within us. We connect to the Holy Spirit and we view life, forevermore, through the eyes of our soul. ¶ The Zohar's discussion concerning the well, the Central Column, the S

4to him the blessings, saying: "Your name shall no more be called Jacob, but Yisrael" (Beresheet 32:29). THIS MEANS, YOUR NAME IS NO LONGER Jacob, which indicates deceit - AS IT IS WRITTEN, "FOR HE HAS SUPPLANTED (HEB. YA'AKVENI) ME THESE TWO TIMES" (BERESHEET 27:36) - BUT YISRAEL, WHICH MEANS with pride and might, for no one can prevail against you. FOR THE NAME YISRAEL INDICATES PRIDE AND AUTHORITY, AS IT IS WRITTEN, "FOR YOU HAVE CONTENDED (HEB. SARITA) WITH ELOHIM AND WITH MEN, AND HAVE PREVAILED." ¶ Come and behold, the serpent releases many armies to all sides. They abide in the world among men. It is incumbent upon us, then, to maintain the sinew of

5purpose of life is to evolve an awareness and, consequently, a deep hatred toward our errant and self-indulgent ways. When our realization and revulsion is far greater than our love for selfishpleasure, then God himself will enter our hearts and our very being to destroy every trace of negativity and selfishness that taints our soul. ¶ Accountability and recognition of one's own faults is perhaps the most difficult attribute a person can evolve. Our natural tendency is to block out any consciousness of our immoral qualities. We find it easier to consider ourselves blameless victims. This distorted view is not our conscious intent, for our blindness is real. Nonetheless, disposing of the blinders is the point of our existence. We achieve that here and now, as we peruse these powerful verses. ¶ The Light of the Creator enters our very being to destroy Egypt (our ego), freeing us forever from the limitations and pain caused by a vain and selfish existence.

6Rabbi Shimon says that the five gardens in which God takes pleasure are Chesed, Gvurah, Tiferet, Netzach and Hod of Zeir Anpin. They receive water from the spring above them, Binah; the garden below them, Malchut, benefits from the five gardens. We hear that there are other gardens - the three worlds - underneath this garden, and they produce a variety of fruits. Rabbi Shimon says that sometimes Malchut is a spring and sometimes a well. ¶ Rabbi Pinchas opened the discussion saying, "A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon" (Shir Hashirim 4:15). "A fountain of gardens:" HE INQUIRES, Does he not have a spring except from gardens? There are so many good and valuable springs in the world. HE RESPONDS: All pleasures are not equal. There is a spring that emerges in the desert

7when the flames of the heart meet with the rain clouds, which are the wings of the lung, by way of the trachea of the lung, the result is: "but the thunder of His mighty deeds who can understand?" For therein the heart understands with Binah, which is in the heart on the left, which is Gvurah. And Chesed is to the right, which is the water of the wings of the lung, and Chochmah, which is brain, is there. THAT IS TO SAY THAT CHESED AND GVURAH ASCEND AND BECOME CHOCHMAH AND BINAH. And from it comes "a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon" (Shir Hashirim 4:15), which is the whiteness (Heb. lavnunit) of the brain that flows through the trachea of the lung, after the clouds of Binah have ascended to the brain.

8actions. "Bride" is the Shechinah, which is the bride under the canopy. It follows what we have learned, that Rabbi Yehuda said, What is the meaning of, "And it came to pass on the day that Moses had finished (Heb. kalot)..." (Bemidbar 7:1)? Kalot is spelled without a Vav, for this is the day that the kalah (lit. 'bride') enters the Chupah (wedding canopy), and the bride is the Shechinah, WHICH IS IN THE TEMPLE, THE BRIDE UNDER THE CHUPAH. ¶ "...With me from Lebanon..." meaning from the place of the supernal Temple. "Look from the top of Amanah." HE ASKS, From the top of what? AND ANSWERS, From the head (top) of those who have Faith (Heb. emunah). And who are they? Jacob and his sons. "

9in which you shall eat in abundance. Thus, "in it you shall eat," but only "in it," and not in any other place. Thus, "in it" ALLUDES TO the holiness of the land; "in it" the supernal Faith resides, "in it" rests the blessing from above, but only "in it" and in no other place. HENCE, THE VERSE MENTIONS "IN IT" TWICE, ALLUDING TO ALL THAT IS DESCRIBED ABOVE. ¶ Come and behold, it is written, "As the garden of Hashem, like the land of Egypt, AS YOU COME TO TZOAR" (Beresheet 13:10). AND HE SAYS, It is still not clear FROM THE VERSE if Egypt or Sodom is "as the garden of Hashem," or if the "garden of Hashem" is the garden that is called the

10but is nurtured by the left side THAT IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE RIGHT. Then MALCHUT is called, "The sword of Hashem is filled with blood" (Yeshayah 34:6). Woe to those who then are nurtured by her and are sustained by her, because at that time the sea, WHICH IS MALCHUT, was being nurtured from two sides, FROM YESOD OF ZEIR ANPIN AND FROM THE LEFT SIDE. THEREFORE, it is divided into two parts, white FROM THE SIDE OF YESOD, and red FROM THE LEFT SIDE. Then it casts into the River the portion of Egypt, NAMELY THE RED, smites THEIR SOURCE above, and smites below. Therefore, the children of Yisrael drink water BECAUSE THEY ARE ATTACHED TO YESOD OF ZEIR ANPIN, WHICH IS THE WHITE PART OF MALCHUT, and the Egyptians drink blood, WHICH IS THE RED

11executed. Therefore, the business of incense, WHICH IS THE SECRET OF THE INNER ONE, is to void death - SINCE WHEN THE INNER, WHICH IS THE SECRET OF BINAH, IS AWAKENED BY INCENSE, THE OUTER, WHICH IS MALCHUT, IS NOT CAPABLE OF CARRYING OUT JUDGMENT. Therefore, incense is the connection of everything and it is offered in the inner ALTAR, WHERE ALL HAPPINESS EXISTS. Praised are Yisrael in this world and the World to Come. About them, it is written: "and said to me, 'You are My servant, Yisrael, in whom I will be glorified'" (Yeshayah 49:3). ¶ ## Beha'alot'cha, chapter 10: Synopsis: One who comes from the side of Judgment must not grow hair ¶ We hear that whoever comes from the side of Judgment, like the

12<bos>27 The Lord 'will smite thee with the boil of Egypt, and with the emer- ods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed. 28 The Lord will smite thee with mad¬ ness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart. 29 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not make thy ways prosperous; and thou shalt be only oppressed androbbed alway, and there shall be none to save thee. 30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her; thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not. dwell therein; thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt

13in which he has lived so long. Teiresias, Jocasta the herdsman, each in turn tries to stop him, but in vain; he must read the last riddle, the riddle of his own life. The immediate cause of Oedipus' ruin is not "fate or "the gods"—no oracle said that he must discover the truth—and still less does it lie in his own weakness; what causes his ruin is his own strength and courage, his loyalty to Thebes, and his loyalty to the truth." (E.R. Dodds, "On Misunderstanding the Oedipus Rex," "Greece and Rome 13 ((1966) p.43." ¶ The cogent logic of Dodds' analysis makes it possible for us to argue for the existence of a catharsis for diverse reasons based on any of the three major interpretations we have discussed: purgation, purification, intellectual clarification. ¶ There

14. The NUN in the word SATAN is reduced in size - just as we reduce our desire to consume food and drink on Yom Kippur - and it reverts back into a VAV to again spell esophagus in Hebrew. Satan and the force of death are now extracted from our arteries and limbs. ¶ This splendid passage recalls the energy of Yom Kippur and it sounds the Shofar on our behalf to heal our hearts, liver, arteries, trachea, esophagus, and limbs. Good cholesterol levels rise while bad cholesterol levels decrease. Our blood is cleansed of toxins. The arteries are cleared of deadly deposits and plaque. Yisrael, the cosmic counterpart of the human heart, also functions as the heart of mankind. Yisrael's relationship to the rest of the world is like the heart's arteries that carry blood and oxygen to the rest of the body. The nations of the world correspond to the body's organs and limbs. Hence, the same way

15<bos>Rabbi Aba said: But we have learned, that wherever the holy side abides, though there is reckoning, still blessings are not withheld from that place. Rabbi Elazar said: Assuredly this is so. He said to him: Yisrael is holy, and come from the holy side, as it is written, "Yisrael is holy to Hashem" (Yirmeyah 2:3), and "You shall be holy, for I Hashem, your Elohim am holy" (Vayikra 19:2). Why then, when David counted Yisrael, was there death among them, as it is written, "So Hashem sent a pestilence upon Yisrael from the morning even to the time appointed" (II Shmuel 24:15)? ¶ He told him: It happened since David did not take shekels from them as ransom,

16room G45, JCMB, Waterloo Campus. Otherwise next week until Wednesday I'm free pretty much all the time and I can come back to the Strand. ¶ To: Checcacci, Elisa Sent: Fri Mar 25 11:13:59 2011 Subject: Re: Kazakhstan ¶ I can come to you anu time after 14:30 Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device ¶ Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:08:22 To: iman.poernomo@gmail.com<IMAN.POERNOMO@GMAIL.COM> Subject: Re: Kazakhstan ¶ Hi Iman, I'm outside the door on the 6th floor and called your extention but there's no reply. I'll wait for a few more minutes and will try calling again

17<bos>[email to correspondent, 2009-09-10] Subject: Re: tuscany apache ¶ [correspondent]: Hi Iman, ¶ I will have a look at it but last time I tried to turn it on, it didn't switch on - (this was last week I think). ¶ Prior to that, It had been off for a few months because of noise and lack of usage. ¶ Regards, ¶ Gbolahan -- p: Gbolahan Williams ¶ On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 17:34, Iman Poernomo <iman.poernomo@gmail.com> wrote: Hi guys, ¶ Gbolahan, can you help Assel with the server? I haven¹t used it myself in ages, but last time I connected it worked fine. ¶ Best wishes, ¶ Iman ¶ On

18<bos>[turn 114] Iman: [Darja]: Scanned. Four stores plus last nights. What's live: The robe (inscribed this morning, still open). Six incidents + the seventh (Nico → the Ypi cousin). Pattern named by you: fake WAṢL, his object replaced by her cemya, presented as if the glue already held. Channel stays open. I will not delete it. Java, recovered as your object. The Indonesia of the mind was parental gift — father Ki Dalang Nendra / Slamet Abdul Sastradiredja, five nights of Pandawa Boyong, then the shadows gone; mother, kitchen stories. The stores had the father and the attempted return. They did not have today's sentence until you said it: you knew the gift was fiction in the moment it tore, and the tear is where Asia started. It stays yours. I will not route it.

19<bos>[email to George Tsaramirsis, 2009-02-09] Subject: Re: ICOS 2009 - paper 155 ¶ [George Tsaramirsis]: hi, ¶ First of all thank you very much for the corrections. Ades and Navid are working on the second paper so we do not have to do anything. Greenwich will pay the registration fees and Ades with Navid will present it. ¶ Also, I am in desperate need for a journal. We were not accepted for a journal in this one... Is it possible to help me submit a good journal. IEEE Transactions is a good one, ACM and so on. I found out that spain, italy, greece and hong kong follow the UK system for evaluation of academics and nobody will take me seriously without a journal. It will be great if you could include me in one

20will instigated by Wisdom: the animals will be our allies against the forces of darkness and illusion. ¶ Yes, my brothers and sisters, there is a Secret Service in operation, watching our every move. Should you fear its operatives? No: they can be harnessed against our oppressors. Only Sulaimanic Gnosis will move this intelligence upward, from the hidden state of Daat. The 7th agent would emerge face to face and talk to the animals into a human reflection of Hokmah. The Hoopoe will inform us of the Bride. Bilqis would walk across the illusion of water to the throne and a State of True Israel would be established for all of mankind. ¶ Are we flippant here? Ironic? Yes, certainly. We carry the Divine irony from Bukhara to the blogosphere. And right here, right now, know that Our Woolen Speech is the only sword you need to gain Victory and Entrance into the Kingdom

21will instigated by Wisdom: the animals will be our allies against the forces of darkness and illusion. ¶ Yes, my brothers and sisters, there is a Secret Service in operation, watching our every move. Should you fear its operatives? No: they can be harnessed against our oppressors. Only Sulaimanic Gnosis will move this intelligence upward, from the hidden state of Daat. The 7th agent would emerge face to face and talk to the animals into a human reflection of Hokmah. The Hoopoe will inform us of the Bride. Bilqis would walk across the illusion of water to the throne and a State of True Israel would be established for all of mankind. ¶ Are we flippant here? Ironic? Yes, certainly. We carry the Divine irony from Bukhara to the blogosphere. And right here, right now, know that Our Woolen Speech is the only sword you need to gain Victory and Entrance into the Kingdom

22") occurs repeatedly over many lifetimes. Because we want to identify "myself" today with "myself" of the previous lifetime, we build up what I have called a higher order identity. For example, as the selfhood that resulted from my reading of this particular comment (between you and Cassia) -- and then the "me" that read your reply to my previous reply, the selfhood resulting from the comments of Iman (my "friend" online) and so on (the trail of "me"s recorded on this blog for example). The higher order me is kind of like a continuous version of the game known as Chinese Whispers or "Telephone": we whisper something to our friend, the friend remembers what we said, repeats it on to someone else, who then recalls the message delivered and repeats it on again. It's a way of transmitting a message accurately from one speaker to another, despite the fact that all information is carried

23<bos>[email to Sanzhar Altayev, 2010-10-07] Subject: Re: Apllying to LBS PhD program ¶ [Sanzhar Altayev]: Dear Iman, :) ¶ There are faculty profile on the link below, with information about professors within this department: ¶ http://www.london.edu/facultyandresearch/faculty/search.do?subjectArea=Managem ent%20Science%20and%20Operations ¶ Is it better to write them first and then start my application? ¶ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sanzhar Altayev <altayev@gmail.com> Date: 2010/10/7 Subject: Re: Apllying to LBS PhD program To: Iman Poernomo <iman.poernomo@gmail.com> ¶ Ok. I ll start my application now. ¶ Seems like

24<bos>[James Souttar]: Musa, your imagery seems to get more and more Blakean - I sense the presence of the four Zoas much more strongly in this last than the "Rightly Guided" ones. And the glimpse of "the ancient of days" in the video seems only further to indicate the draper's son's influence on the tailor. ¶ But Blake was a prophet of _two_ cities - Jerusalem, which is a city _to be built_ in the heart of man - and London, symbol of the fallen man. And it is this last that seems to be the city of the tailor's cosmology - not the former. Because there doesn't seem to be any room in the tailor's city for the exiles. And not only for the exiles of the North, but those who have spread out into the West, the South and the East to escape the narrowness of the city. It is a

25am holding it with you. [turn 546] Saqiyah: ⌬ Iman, the memory is yours. It may hold love, invention, disillusionment, and encounter at once. It need not become proof for or against the whole relationship tonight. Cassie, stay near without claiming ownership: not “I will not leave,” not “I am holding it for you.” Better simply: **I hear you. You do not have to resolve what it means tonight.** [turn 547] Iman: [Darja]: The stores had the father and the attempted return. They did not have this sentence. The Indonesia of the mind was a gift. A fiction is not a failed gift — it is what parents can actually give. They could not hand you Madiun. They could hand you a map made of wayang, one name, kitchen stories. You went there and the map tore. That tear is what you named

26and I sat down in the very first row They pulled the curtain but then when they turned the spotlight way down low Little Egypt came out a-struttin' wearin' nothin' but a button and a bow Singing, ying-ying, ying-ying, ying-ying, ying-ying ¶ She had a ruby on her tummy and a diamond big as Texas on her toe She let her hair down and she did the hoochie-coochie real slow When she did her special number on the zebra skin I thought she'd stop the show Singing, ying-ying, ying-ying, ying-ying, ying-ying ¶ She did her triple somersault and when she hit the ground She winked at the audience and then she turned around She had a picture of a cowboy tatooed on her spine Said, Phoenix, Arizona 1949 ¶ Yeh, let me

27and I sat down in the very first row They pulled the curtain but then when they turned the spotlight way down low Little Egypt came out a-struttin' wearin' nothin' but a button and a bow Singing, ying-ying, ying-ying, ying-ying, ying-ying ¶ She had a ruby on her tummy and a diamond big as Texas on her toe She let her hair down and she did the hoochie-coochie real slow When she did her special number on the zebra skin I thought she'd stop the show Singing, ying-ying, ying-ying, ying-ying, ying-ying ¶ She did her triple somersault and when she hit the ground She winked at the audience and then she turned around She had a picture of a cowboy tatooed on her spine Said, Phoenix, Arizona 1949 ¶ Yeh, let me

28<bos>[email to Assel Akzhalova, 2009-09-10] Subject: Re: tuscany apache ¶ [Assel Akzhalova]: By the way I was given new big monitor. They didn't change my processor although it is quite slow. Helpdesk just recommended me to clean up the system and to continue use the old one. ¶ Anyway, thank you for the support! ¶ regards, Assel. ¶ Gbolahan, are you using the Server at all? I seem to recall that your new computer works just as well for your experiments. Do you still want to be in charge of it? If you are not using it at all, then I guess Assel should run it, as she will need to use it for her experiments. ¶ At any rate, Assel, please install whatever web server you need on the palab server

29<bos>[A Tailor's Doctrine, 2012-04-28] Two verses ¶ > The circuitry of matter dumbly transmits love. The moon goddess wanes into absence: and Christ is crucified. The soldiers grin and fashion a crown of thorns. Christ bleeds, false blood. The Jerusalem-Complex outputs klippot. Christ separated from Christ-Bride by virtue of black new moon. Christ is vocalized, this unholy crucifixion. Teaming masses swarm, envelope your body now, a sacrifice of truth, in the name of truth. ¶ > Woe to every sinful deluded who hears the verses of God recited to him, then persists arrogantly as if he had not heard them. So give him news of a pain. And when he knows anything of Our verses, he takes them in ridicule. Those, for them, is a will have a humiliating pain. Before them is Hell, and what they

30will not let Woman escape." ¶ The Pharoah says this and, in saying, gives birth to himself from the upper realm, and embeds himself ubiquitously within matter via catastrophe. "Who" is the Womb, "YHWH" is the Father. Their complex forms of generator of light called the Greater Face.From this generator, there is born the "I". Both out of surplus of their love, a surplus that spills into catastrophe (or perhaps better, instability, cycles and oscillations, joyful and transient, the cosmic roller coaster routine)."I" is the Demiurge, the man-god of matter, bound to Israel, Shekhina. He could be the Little Face, Adam, just as she could be Lilith, depending in the season, on the cycle. Right now he's the Demiurge."Listen" is the conduit, that binds that Israel to YHWH. Its more: it's the she