[UA] Pop Culture Update

[Michael Dinowitz]

It really pisses me off how a single word mistranslated from the Sefer Yetzirah by someone who cared nothing what the Jews knew (Wescott) could grow into this entire thing. I guess the concept you describe below, that of the abyss, is just post modern Kabbalah. No truth but what they made of it. (yes, I'm venting and I have every right to in this case)

> Also, Promethea continues to floor me with the flood of ideas that Alan
> Moore throws at you on a monthly basis.  Two characters are travellling the
> Tree of Life, on a visionquest to understand the nature of the power they
> wield.  At the edge of the fourth Sepiroth, Chesed, the two travellers find
> a vast abyss that marks the only route to Binah.  Because Chesed is
> Obedience, they take the plunge.
> 
> And fall.
> 
> And fall.
> 
> And fall.
> 
> And land, walk around for a while in a featureless plain, and realize that
> they're actually asleep, and only dreaming that they're walking around.
> They awake...and are still falling.
> 
> They come across a realm in ruins.  The road markers are corroded and
> featureless.  The city they come to is little more than one rock stacked
> upon another.  It is the eleventh sepiroth, the 'invisible sepiroth,' and it
> exists somewhere between the Fourth and the Third.  One character sees a
> symbol carved into an archway--it seems to be 11, for the 11th sepiroth, but
> there's some sort of horizontal line that connects the top of the two
> verticals.  Pi, a number that isn't really a number, not like the other 10,
> a number that goes on and on, without end.  They encounter two statues, one
> before the city, the beggar, and one after, the fountain.  And they may or
> may not have encountered a vision of Alestair Crowley.
> 
> So why am I telling you all this?  Because the whole book screams
> "Statosphere,' or, specifically, what a walk through the statospheres'
> realms would seem like (if, you know, the statosphere HAD realms).  The
> current issue shows the invisible world within the invisible world, the
> place of loss and potential birth.  It is so damn cool.
> 
> 
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