We hear a lot of talk in magick and alchemy circles about Macrocosm and Microcosm, but not a lot of specifics that would give us something really tangible to chew on. We are told that Macrocosm equates to all things "heavenly" and Microcosm to all things "earthly"...that Macrocosm = Hexagrams (6's) and Microcosm = Pentagrams (5's) and so on. If we didn't know any better we might conclude that the high art of Magick was actually just a specialized branch of jewelry-making for all the actual substance we can extrapolate from most of this kind of language. And when the matter eventually turns to Abrahadabra, there we are again, confronted with the same old useless rhetoric. We cannot realistically hope to make much of a dent in either historical or popular discussions of this sort since they are mostly closed-loop half-logics that were never really very much open to exploration to begin with. What we can do is start all over and rebuild this whole discussion from scratch, since there is a kernel of common sense in all of this that we should like to preserve if possible without having to sacrifice all other analytical skills in the bargain.

 

My attitude is that life in this world is much too brief and much too valuable to spend inordinate amounts of time belaboring the obvious. There are all kinds of little insights to be derived from the usual ascension-descension, creation-destruction, invocation-evocation kinds of talk commonly associated to Macrocosm and Microcosm, so my feeling is that  we should take from this what we need and move on, since none of it answers any of the especially difficult questions we are faced with. From where I sit, none of it ever will. My mission right here at this time is not to correct the perceptions of the past so much as it is to push the limits of all present understanding as far as possible into the future. In order to achieve this I am going to embark upon a redefinition of Macrocosm and Microcosm thus far left largely unattended, though the clues have been lying right before our eyes for untold centuries. Throughout this entire discussion I am going to be periodically returning to an underscoring theme that is frankly so vast that I can barely keep a lid on it myself, but all indications are that it needs to be scrutinized and will have to be squarely resolved in the end.

 

Nearly everything I have uncovered pertaining to Abrahadabra to date begins from a central observation and a tentative conclusion that follows on its heels. This is my "core assumption" and some may find reason to dispute it but I have found all accessible arguments to the contrary to be weak and insubstantial in the end. As defined in my introduction, that core assumption states that the so-called Qaballistic Tree of Life is a mathematical subset of Abrahadabra itself. Once we conclude that this does, in fact, appear to be the case, it throws the entire language of Macrocosm and Microcosm to a much higher court than it has ever engaged before, though the whole discussion appears to have at least started and stopped at various key points in history. Moreover, we seem to be confronted with the idea that there are two very dynamic and very distinct categories of "cosm" at play in universe itself, one seemingly built upon a binary mathematics and the other built upon a ternary. It is interesting to me that the Chinese sages resolved long ago that the prevailing number of the Yin should be 2, while the prevailing number of the Yang should be 3, because what Abrahadabra seems to be inferring exactly concurs with this conclusion with the additional suggestion of two infinitely complex mathematical engines standing behind these numerical values...such that they are not simple numbers, but entire systems of number in fact.

 

The methodology of analyzing universal energy "flux" values in layered molecular block structures is the most ingenious metaphysical strategy ever devised by human beings since it appears to be the same exact technique employed by nature itself, but what is curious in this is that the two mathematical systems have not been historically viewed side by side as they ought to have been from the outset. This is a huge omission that may very well be pointing the way we must go if we are to gain a proper picture of ourselves in right relation to elemental continuum on its own terms and according to its own proper combined total. From the very first structures we can construct according to this method we have profound interactivity to be observed between the Nine-Elemental Universe and the Four-Elemental Universe as indicated in the binary and ternary bigrams, yet to all appearances the significance of this symbiotic dynamism has been somehow lost in the shuffle and all the emphasis placed upon the Four-Elemental Universe alone. It is highly possible that the conscious juggling of these two great systems together was simply more than anyone was practically able to cope with historically but this is an issue we must confront if we are going to gain a correct view of how universe itself actually operates.

 

Perhaps the most apparent reason it may have been difficult to hold onto this synergistic standard has to do with the third "principle" or "flux value" itself, which from early on was identified as being synonymous with intelligence and directly corresponding to the element of "spirit". In the binary system, this third (Jen) variable is actually still ever-present but it remains in the background and acts as a silent directing/coordinating agent between the Yin and the Yang. In the ternary system, it comes forward and stands on equal footing with the Yin and the Yang and is therefore as pragmatically "physical" as anything else. But this changes "things" in a rather dramatic way since the simple inclusion of a third line value suddenly pushes the combined total of Hexagrams from a more containable 64 to a rather nebulous 729 Hexagrams that are inherently much more difficult either to grasp or else predict at the level of their behavior. While this may be a perfectly reasonable excuse, we are left at the end of the day with a rather gaping hole in understanding that will have to be patched if we are ever going to unite that entirety in any kind of controlled or practical way.

 

So the premise I am operating on throughout this whole thesis is that Macrocosm and Microcosm are inherently linked to these two great and underscoring mathematical "natures". Whether we should be thinking in terms of Space and Time, Finite and Infinite or something altogether Other is still not entirely clear to me since aspects of all of the above can be identified at one place or the next. The fact that Abrahadabra is linking directly through "Ain Soph Aur" (the Boundless Light) adds another wrinkle into the mix since this amounts to a precedent not very much considered as a structural possibility in the past. Obviously the entire language of Macrocosm and Microcosm can be confined to purely relativistic measurements if we so choose, and indeed, we appear to have been opting for that choice with a vengeance for thousands of years already, but I have arrived at the conclusion that this intellectual nearsightedness lies right at the heart of so many things we have subsequently failed to resolve that we can very likely not afford to ignore the writing on the wall much longer. Abrahadabra not only implicates this particular definition of Macrocosm and Microcosm, but also offers up a number of vital clues as to how these two grand convergences of cosm may come to work in perfect tangent with each other, thus "united" in very methodical ways and not the metaphorical ways more commonly asserted. I will be examining this in route and putting forward the kinds of things I have discovered about this so far.

 

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