Love your post! Also got me thinking...(this is waay of Kabalistic thinking,
but I wonder if snow white and the seven dwarves was an allegory for what
you mention..the subterranean toiling of the gnomes,seven planets, seven
humours,,seven alchemical processes...snow white is...um..who would snow
white be? The refined being?)

2009/6/13 Suzanne Thackston <ridetbred@...>

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>
> In The *Virgin of the World (mead)* it is stated," But first thou must tear
> off from thee this old cloak which thou wearest, this cloak of
> ignorance,origin of every evil, chain of corruption, tangle of darkness,
> living death, sensation's corpse, the tomb that thou draggest along with
> thee, the robber in thine own house who through the things he loveth,
> hateth
> thee, and through the things he hateth bears thee malice."<<<
>
> wow! that's some strong imagery.
> this got me thinking about the prayer of the gnomes, the subterranean
> toilers watching and working unremittingly, seeking and hoping for a
> glimpes of glory.
> maybe the 'king invisible' who furrows the abysses to fill them with
> omnipotence is another way of discussing the hard Work of refinement,
> having to dig trenches in our psyches so that there is a receptacle
> for Light.
> hey! kinda tzim-tzum-y!
>
> >>Although it appears we are a slave to Malchut it also seems that it is
> where
> we must remain at the end of the Great Work. (vices cleansed, virtues
> remain?) <<
>
> in my worldview we 'get' to remain<G>. once we've got the vices
> cleansed, we achieve the Garden!
>
> >>If we are to follow the idea that Malchut represents Earth then we
> can understand the meaning found in *Chymica vannus, "*The rays of the
> heavenly bodies are concentrated in no Element with such virtue and power
> as
> in Earth, precisely because Earth is the true and solid receptacle of the
> celestial virtues and the center of their spheres."
>
> Could these ideas further illustrate the idea of sovereignity in the sphere
> of Malchut? The discarding of our "shrouds" and the gaining of our
> "adornments"? Just a rambling thought....<<
>
> this is just gorgeous, and has sparked such an interesting train of
> musings.
> thank you!
> :) khairete
> suz
>
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