One of the first things that needs to be said of this particular mirror is that it represents a kind of visual "table of contents" for a much larger body of graphs to follow that can define where and how the binary and ternary hexagrams align to the Abrahadabra grid in total. In essence, it simply sets up the question in a way that may make it possible to begin to answer it, rather than answering the question outright. Abrahadabra presents us with an assortment of stark puzzles that have no immediate solutions, but give every indication of being resolvable with a little time and dedicated effort. 

Clearly one of the starkest puzzles the Abrahadabra grid presents us with is the presence of the Tree of Life posited as a mathematical subset of itself. We can track other cosmological and anatomical subsets as well such as the Chakras and the Meridians and numerous other tree systems, etc, but the appearance of the Qabalistic Tree of Life is especially pronounced, since it is a base 10 logic, the same as the Tetractys of the Decad. Beyond this, we would not ordinarily expect the Qabalistic Tree of Life to be posited as a subset of anything at all, so the very fact that this assertion seems to be occurring here is one that causes us to stop and take special notice (well, some of us anyway). If there were no other precedent anywhere to be found for this kind of assertion, we might be justified in chalking the whole thing up to simple coincidence and leave it at that. Geometry, like numbers in general, is rife with all kinds of synchronistic curiosities.

But such a precedent does exist and it's not a trivial one by any stretch of the imagination, though it is unfortunately left to us in a state of ruin, fully half of which is nearly undecipherable for all practical intents and purposes. The exact age of the Tai Hsuan Ching is not really known at present, since even though its authorship is commonly assigned to Yang Hsiung somewhere near the end of the Han dynasty, his own accounting of how it came to be published at this time has been linked to his responsibilities as court historian, so that by his own admission he was involved in the recovery of information which was already ancient history by the time he came upon it. From a mathematical perspective, it needn't matter so much whether it does or does not predate the I Ching itself, since it is already a well known fact that the I Ching was constructed around the so-called Lo-Shu diagram, which is a magical square comprising nine "chambers", neatly corresponding to the nine principle bigrams at root to the extended 729 hexagrams they support. True to its name, the "Great Mystery" leaves us with a lot of unanswered questions as to its exact point of origin, but there are some oblique indications that it may in fact be at least as old as the more popular I Ching.

Why the I Ching might have become more popular than the Tai Hsuan Ching is not so terribly difficult to imagine. It is a daunting task keeping track of 729 ternary hexagrams on a day-to-day basis, even for a skilled mathematician, while the I Ching, with only 64 binary hexagrams to its total, would have been much easier for most people to manage, not to mention the fact that it was easily adapted as a divination oracle that could provide simple up or down answers to any question put to it, and was in all other respects well suited to the simple wants and needs of simple people with very little time for the complex esotericism of the Tai Hsuan Ching. Nevertheless, the fact remains that the binary I Ching is a mathematical subset of the ternary Tai Hsuan Ching such that of its 729 hexagrammal structures, there are always exactly 64 hexagrams that only reflect yin and yang line values, while the remaining 665 hexagrams will always contain at least one "jen" line value. These are fixed ratios that do not erode with time, just as the Qabalistic Tree of Life is a fixed geometrical ratio within the Abrahadabra grid and will always be a tenable subset of its property, whether we act upon this or not.

It turns out that there are a lot of very compelling reasons we might want to act upon these facts, or at least root out the facts enough that we can more clearly assess their worth. As anatomical standards go, the Qabalistic Tree of Life is a hapless hodgepodge of archetypal double-talk and pseudo-logical half-truths. So long as we are only looking at a compendium of personal "beliefs", then perhaps this is perfectly as it should be, but if it finally turns out to be a genuine map of higher human neurophysiology, then we are in a spot of trouble here since it is easily the most shoddy and underdeveloped map of its kind to have ever been asserted. Caked in enigmatic and elitist mumbo-jumbo, the conventional Tree of Life is pawned off on us with no particular rhyme or reason, much the same as any other religious dogma. It is neither rational, nor vibrant on any discernable level. If it turns out to be our best shot at understanding and harnessing literal star anatomy itself, we are in a world of hurt with this standard and we need to acknowledge this.

Abrahadabra presents us with a Tree of Life arrangement which can be said to be completely independent and altogether open to interpretation. From a pragmatic point of view, it really is not the same Tree as its Qaballistic counterpart, but simply shares many of the same geometrical coordinates. This is precisely what is needed to approach the Tree of Life from a fresh perspective without relying upon a lot of hand-me-down conclusions from those seeking primarily to utilize the Tree as a kind of advertising banner for their own preconceived notions of cosmogony. Abrahadabra does not specifically resolve the Tree, but rather presents us with a range of clues warranting closer investigation. It seems to be depicting a symbiotic relationship between Tree and Tetractys that most closely parallels the Binary and Ternary Hexagrams, since, among other things, the Tetractys clearly houses nine internal "chambers", the same as the Lo Shu Diagram itself. Since the traditional Tree consists of 32 paths and sepheroth, fitting the 64 binary hexagrams to the Tree in some way would seem to be our most profitable starting point. Since the ternary system accesses some things inaccessible to the binary, we will need to resolve how both systems align independently as well as interact with one another.

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