In the Mirror entitled Lo Shu #3 I have outlined the properties of the magickal triangle being employed in this system and also made it clear that the Tetractys of the Decad amounts to a form of the Lo Shu itself, so that by now these matters should be fairly self-evident. What we will be exploring in this article is how the Tetractys can be utilized to gather the collective inertia of the Sepheroth of the Tree of Life and redeposit that inertia in an enhanced and maximized way, the end result being one of both balancing and super-charging the Sepheroth while also collecting their total into the Tetractys itself. It should be noted that this methodology, at origin, is not really about the Sepheroth of the Tree of Life so much as it is about Abrahadabra itself, so that everything that occurs synchronistic to the Tree of Life is actually more of a bizarre coincidence than anything else. Abrahadabra is a stand-alone system, so that even if it did not coordinate as well as it does with the Qaballistic Tree of Life, we would still have a vested interest in mastering its properties. Since it does coordinate with the Tree of Life in such a pronounced way, we are naturally interested in facilitating that relationship and attempting to understand it as well as possible. But it should be recognized from the earliest point on that this unexpected characteristic is a great mystery that is not and never has been any kind of deliberate design intention either on the part of myself or anyone else that anyone knows about or has ever heard from at any point in history. The apparent collaboration between Abrahadabra and the Qaballistic Tree of Life is a coincidence of geometry so far as anyone knows or is capable of defining, but once we know that it does in fact exist, it amounts to the single most remarkable coincidence of its kind extant anywhere in the entire archives of magickal and mystical literature. I can openly defy anyone to produce its mathematical equal and I very much doubt this challenge would ever effectively be met. To understand why this is, you have to understand that it is not only the mathematics alone which is being synchronized in this glyph but a whole compendium of adjacent cosmologies, spanning many cultures across thousands of years of time. It is as close to being an Alchemical "universal solvent" as anything I have ever seen in print at any time.

As I have already stated in my introduction, I am actually not in the best position to determine or define everything that this synergistic relationship implies, but I do know a little something about how it can be put to immediate use and I have managed to gather together a number of compelling facts that may at least shed a proper light on this relationship overall. In the final analysis it will require the analytical skills of many others besides myself alone to unravel this mystery completely, but for the moment I think we are on solid ground to approach it on the basis of being two distinct and separate clockwork mechanisms sharing the same essential space and time coordinates. My best guess overall is that in the Tree of Life we have everything that is possible within binary energy operations, while Abrahadabra itself extends to everything that is possible within the ternary and ultimately predicts an unseen code of some kind at play in things, not entirely unlike the DNA code itself, only much bigger and operating on another mathematical foundation - one that modern physics seems mostly reluctant to concede from what little I can gather on these matters. That we may in fact be looking at the clearest demarcation possible between space and time itself is not an unrealistic speculation. Speaking in terms of Tree and Star relationships in this context is not at all hasty or unwarranted from an Alchemical perspective. I will spend a great deal of time attending to this thesis in greater detail as I proceed, but for the moment will confine myself to clarifying how the properties of the magickal triangle can be employed to assimilate this model energetically.

If we count all the Sepheroth from 1-10 and include Daath in our count, we get a chronology that reads out "one - two - three - (dash) - four - five - six - seven - eight - nine - ten" from top to bottom. It is important that we examine this as it has a very specific application to Abrahadabra as applied to the Tetractys of the Decad. If we examine how the actual numbers unfold, they will read out "1 - 2 - 3 - (–) - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10" with the parenthesis surrounding the "dash" only being used here to avoid confusion. It is important to recognize that Daath falls between 3 and 4 in linear progression and it really doesn't matter whether it is "there" or "not there" for our purposes here. It should perhaps be remembered that the Sepheroth themselves are defined as "nothing" from the earliest records we have, yet we treat them as something according to the energy consolidated in their sums. Therefore the popular debate over Daath's nothingness or somethingness is of no practical consequence to us here. For our purposes, it is decidedly "on the map" and resides between 3 and 4 in numerical succession. It has been pointed out elsewhere but is perhaps worth repeating that the property of the "dash" endows Daath with the power of "syntax" corresponding to all numerical relationships, without which numbers would ultimately be useless to us. When we add, subtract, multiply, divide or perform any operation with numbers we rely upon this property of syntax to coordinate our efforts, so in this respect Daath can be seen to amount to a technical "not-number", vital to all numerical operations. This is a context-sensitive definition and need not spill over to other contexts necessarily.

It should already be apparent where this is leading but let us be sure to leave no doubt. When we count out the numbers of the Tetractys, we want to be sure to include the (dash) in all our counts which is vitally important along several fronts. One of the most important issues is that it allows us to close our Triangle which starts from 1 and closes via the – (dash), falling back to 4 and continuing on to 10. This also has the peculiar consequence of uniting Daath and Crown together in the "Highest Crown" defined by Abrahadabra, thereby effectively eliminating the so-called "Great Divide" represented by Daath within the confines of the Qaballistic Tree of Life. It still exists in the Tree of Life but since the Tree is a subset of Abrahadabra, this division of cosm can be seen to both exist and not exist so far as the Tetractys is concerned. It is no issue to us within the Tetractys itself...there is no harrowing "crossing of the abyss" for us to concern ourselves with since the Tetractys has effectively dismantled its destructive qualities by absorbing its total back into Apex. The ramifications of this are profound in the extreme and serves to completely redefine everything we thought we knew about Daath prior to this point. Our obsession with Daath and the so-called inevitability of having to confront it head-on through some sort of mandatory "ego-death" is revealed to be a conceptual attachment and a popular fable bearing no actual relation to physical reality at all. No such confrontation is required to deal with Daath correctly by this standard and, in fact, this kind of confrontation affords us no demonstrable benefits of any kind, aside from being a catchy spook-tale. There exist any number of profound differences that occur when you switch from treating the Tree of Life metaphorically to treating it anatomically, so that the dispelling of this "crossing of the abyss" fable is just one of them. At the same time, it has to be reasserted that within the Tree of Life itself, there exists no logical mechanism for achieving this "dismantling" of Daath at all! This is something that only appears within Abrahadabra, and only via this special way of constructing it.

In order to get the full benefit of the magickal triangle, we want to always be sure to run our sweeps in two directions. The most recommendable convention is to begin by counting our numbers counter-clockwise, complete the cycle to 10, return to 1 and run a full sweep in the opposite (or clockwise) direction, closing this entire action with a counter-clockwise circle & triangle operation which centers and grounds our actions. This meditation always runs in pairs, so when we start a pair from a counter-clockwise rotation, we complete it with a clockwise sweep and then close with a counter-clockwise center-and-ground operation. Having done this, we can then proceed to a second sweep that starts from a clockwise rotation of numbers 1-10, balanced with its reflected counter-clockwise opposite and closed with a clockwise center-and-ground operation. Finally, it is advisable to integrate a "final closing" action at the end, which is simply a repetition of the clockwise center-and-ground action. You should be able to feel the energy consolidate and settle down a bit with the addition of the final close, so I cannot assert strongly enough how important it is to include this.

Let me make this as plain as can be made in print: We begin our operation by pooling all our energy at "Unity" (or number 10), much like one collects "chi" at a central point before proceeding to activate or channel it in some direction. Thus collected, we launch our first action, counting in a counter-clockwise direction: 1 - 2 - 3 - (–) - 4 - 5  - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10, returning to 1 for the clockwise sweep 1 - 2 - 3 - (–) - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10, returning again to 1 for the counter-clockwise circle A - V - M - N, then the counter-clockwise triangle, A - H - V - H -- A - TH - H to reach the end of our first completed action. The second action follows the first in an exact opposite direction and the third and final action simply repeats the circle and triangle sweep in a "final closing" action. One is free to implement the final close as many times as may seem beneficial to do so and you can include it at the end of the first counter-clockwise sweep if you like, repeated again at the end of the clockwise sweep. It is no odds and creates no special conflicts that I have ever been able to detect.

At risk to overloading people with too many images, the following animation should ultimately clarify exactly how the numbers proceed. Once the Numbers Method is clearly ingrained, adaptation to letters or words or anything else of a chronological nature is perfectly self-evident. What is not being demonstrated here is our closing actions, which will occur at the the conclusion of each full sweep and repeat once for the final closing at the end...

And that's it...that's all there really is to performing this essential meditation practice. It can either be performed internally or can be performed reflectively using some focal tool as a beacon, whether a plain crystal of some kind or a talisman or a thangka or whatever happens to suit your needs in the moment. It needn't be regarded as some sort of passive meditation practice at all, and in fact this "limp" approach is not at all recommended here. This is a highly athletic meditation practice and should be allowed as much latitude as possible in this respect. You should be generating as much force and fire as you possibly can...seeking to break the tool itself if this were possible, taking care to emphasize coordination and rhythm with every line you lay down. Your mind should be allowed to remain alert to reflect upon every little nuance that transpires throughout the course of operations, scanning in as many directions as possible, blocking nothing out and silencing nothing. This meditation practice achieves stillness through impeccable motion and is not some placid feel-good meditation designed to relieve the stresses of day-to-day survival. It may in fact increase these stresses a thousand-fold at times (often referred to as a "healing crisis") and also teach you new ways of equilibrating them. You are free to work it as slowly or as quickly as you like as ever suits your needs. You can synchronize it with breath or not as you prefer.

There is a word to be said regarding the principle of Simplicity itself, since some will almost certainly want to complain that this methodology is simply "too simple" to afford us any realistic possibility of success. To begin with, it has to be remembered that the TwinStar meditation is a "Core Meditation" practice that condenses an extremely complex mathematical enginery down to its barest functional grand total, just as the Lo Shu stands at helm, not only to the 64 binary hexagrams, but the 729 ternary hexagrams as well. Moreover, we should should take our cue from Nature itself in this matter which typically builds from the very simple, advancing fractally towards the infinitely complex. It also needs to be pointed out that simply having access to a kind of master-key equation such as this does not immediately amount to having mastered its greater applications. That requires real work, and a lot of it to put the matter bluntly. We have to be ready and willing to weigh everything into that work at every pass or our efforts will simply be wasted in the end. So having a simple axiom of some kind is a great boon to us so long as we recognize it for what it is and do not mistake it for the greater body of knowledge it finally represents. By in large, it is just this kind of "simplicity" we are looking for when we set about to capture universal principles of any kind, since we know already that the more encumbered a solution may be, the less likely it is to achieve any kind of legitimate universality.

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