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In Western ceremonial forms the Stand of Stones glyph is more usually referred to as the Tree of Life, and rendered as a cosmological symbol comprising ten spheres with 22 interconnections [Paths]. In Rhythmajik, however, because its primary use is to provide a visualization focus for the beats 1 - 9 [rather than the ten spheres of the traditional Tree], its name and representation have been transmuted. The Stand of Stones has nine
foundations
.The tenth sphere on the traditional Tree represents Earth.
As we ourselves are the manifestation of Earth’s evolution towards individuality and thus embody her, it is our responsibility to return an intentionally considerate consciousness to the Great Mother throughout our Workings.
When Her heart is beating in you, and that beat is flowing through you, you
are
the Earth [or the tenth sphere of the Tree].
PRACTICE
There follow various arrangements which can be used as visualizations for the nine foundations of Rhythmajik. These arrangements are of symbols traditionally held to be qualitative analogs of these numbered quantities. Numbered, and hence named.
They can provide information to develop mnemonic devices for keeping track of beat patterns.
For example: instead of just counting [silently or aloud] 3 - 5 - 7, you could
visualize Black - Red - Green. You can also form visual composites by incorporating the geometric correspondences whereby for example, 3 is visualized as a black triangle, 5 as a red pentagram and 7 as a green seven-pointed star.
On the other hand you can build up visualizations represented by the New Moon, red by a rose, and green by a meadow
You can empower any essence [image, word or etc.]. This will result in its becoming a focus for your intention. So then, what at first were two discrete elements - that essence and your intention - will fuse into a continuum. And through that continuum your will power is thus activated on the fields of form or force.
Note: the following Stands delineate the qualities of the Foundations. The entire structure can function as a visualization focus, especially in healing and beat pattern sounding. It is also capable of implementation as a mnemonic ‘Memory Palace’* or databank of nine associative vocabularies of concepts and images. This notion of Associative Vocabularies and the technique of synthesizing visualizations
is dealt with in points 3 & 6 in the introduction to The Book of Roots. [*see:
Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances Yates]
Compendium of
Correspondences
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Skull
Traditional Color Field Visualization
Note: An alternative convention exchanges the purple and the silver
White
Black Gray
Red Purple
Gold
Blue Green
Silver
additional colors are included in The Lines
Incandescence
Mother of Pearl Blood Red
Emerald Sky Blue
Amber
Violet Rose
Citrine
Rhythmajikal Color Field Visualization
Note: To experience incandescence, simply look at the filament of a clear glass light bulb when it is lit. That is its aspect. Close your eyes and you will see its emanation.
These visualizations can also be implemented with their physical analogies. For example: the rose of 7 can be just the thorned branch or hips, or a rosebud or flower.
Traditional Geometric Visualizations Circle
Cross Triangle
Square Five Pointed
Star
Six Pointed Star
Seven Pointed Star Eight Pointed
Star
Five Pointed Star in a Square
Note: color can be synthesized into these visualizations. Draw colors from the preceding visualizations.
Example: 2 =
X
There a few possible visualisations using the colors associated with 2, each withits own unique values. You can either see a blood red or a gray cross.Rythmajikal Elemental Correspondences Airy Water
Fiery Water Airy Fire
Watery Fire
Watery Water Fiery Fire
Airy Air
Watery Air
Fiery Air
These correspondences relate to the information in The Log of Transmuted Expressions.
Traditional, Thelemic, and Rhythmijkal Tarot Attributes The Fool
Consideration
The World
World
The Universe
Universe
Truth/Substance
Last Judgment TranceAeon
The Tower Mantra
Wheel of Fortune Fortune
Life
The Sun Initiation
The Juggler The Magus
Structure
The Empress Method
High Priestess The Priestess
The Ways
Traditional Planetary Correspondence
For astrological application information see material on
The Music of The Spheres
in the section entitled
The Work of Our Hands Neptune
Saturn Uranus
Mars Jupiter
Sun
Mercury Venus
Moon
Illumination
a mixture of the Traditional and the Rhythmajikal
Semantic Correspondences
note that the contained light of 6 is in contradistinction to the limitless light of 1 contained light is, for one example, like the spark of electricity in our nervous system
also the ‘containment’ of that same light energy in a star.
The glyph on the following page combines the semantic equivalents both of the foundations 1 - 9 and the capacities of their orders of magnitude. It thus can serve as a basis for consideration of the modalities and dynamics relative to a number’s distribution either as Foundation [Stone] or Capacity [Line].
Example:
6o, Tantra, is the direct channel of the energies Contained Light [6, The Sun] and Reflected Light [9, The Moon].
Considered along its order of magnitude: 6, Union, aspects through 6o, Tantra, emanating 6oo, Transformation.
Consideration
as opposed to meditation or contemplation is the term used to express the quality of mentation desired. This follows from its Latin root ‘to observe the stars’, as it was this process, the observing of interconnectedness, which mapped the constellations.The numbers 5oo - 9oo are absent from this glyph. For magnitude considerations use the following formulation:
5oo = Power, 6oo = Transformation, 7oo = Creation, 8oo = Mantra, 9oo = Intention.
[For further information regarding these magnitudes see points 2 & 3 of the Three Implementations in the Introduction to The Nine Chambers which follows.]
Limitless Light
Note: Numbers in white boxes represent the Lines.
Numbers in gray boxes represent the Stones or Foundations.
Earth, which represents the practitioner has no number.
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