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Kabbalah & Symbolism
Mario Garza | Symbolic Studies & Kabbalah: The Tree of Life, The Sefirot, and Qliphothic Roots
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Already a member? Log inMario Garza of Symbolic Studies returns to InnerVerse for a deep dive into the componentry of the system of Kabbalah. What is the tree of life, and what are its Sefirot? Does the system have ancient roots, or is it a relatively modern contrivance? And what is the Qliphoth, the inverted tree of death, and how is it used in magical working?
ChaptersInside the full 3h 8m episode27 chapters
0:00Setting up the night's big topic
4:40Kabbalah with a grain of salt
8:41The Tree of Life as roadmap
13:24Hunting for the oldest tree diagram
22:49Kenneth Grant and the Nightside of Eden
26:49Why Daath points to the north
34:37The High Priestess hides the tree
40:46Where Buddhism and Judaism overlap
46:16The Venus glyph over the tree
59:26Souls go east then spiral north
1:09:15What Mario thinks happens after death
1:24:55Tiamat and the mother split in two
1:42:33The swastika and the northern sky
1:45:15The Typhon tradition and the cult of the mother
1:48:48The blade shaped like the Big Dipper
1:56:21The Big Dipper as the thigh of Set
2:00:23A mama bear goddess of childbirth
2:03:56Moon Knight ferries a soul to the Duat
2:07:14Twenty-two tunnels for twenty-two tarot cards
2:13:08Tunnel sigils hidden on the tarot cards
2:21:24Life as a giant live action role play
2:27:01Sephiroth and Jenova in Final Fantasy
2:33:37Sri Yantra as another map of emanations
2:37:42When seed belonged to the feminine
2:46:51Phylacteries and the soul kept outside the body
2:55:10The black cube and Saturn in Judaism
3:03:37Five as the middle of the story