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It's a matter of "Canon Doubt and Uncertainty" (to borrow a phrase) in G:Cabal that the big glowy thing at the center of Briah is "God" "YVWH" or even the Flying Spaghetti Monster. It's definitely suggested that the Grand Masters of the Cabal are only pretending to have achieved oneness with the Godhead. G:Cabal is more about a specific system of Renaissance astrology and mystic thought based on the Decans. The Kabbalah Tree of Life is kind of just a backdoor or legacy found within the system and not the central tenet.
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03-21-2008, 07:35 PM | #23 | |
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03-22-2008, 04:59 AM | #24 | |
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The following is not an attempt to change your mind about anything, but an option for people who would like to combine the Cabal with Infinite Worlds (and/or Space) with a cosmology similar to what you have outlined. It basically hinges on the definitions of "worlds".
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03-22-2008, 05:41 PM | #27 | |
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Hell, we could have Kabbala and the Cabal (and note that these are different things) both be wrong too.
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03-22-2008, 06:28 PM | #28 | ||
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Assiah isn't but the planet earth. If you regard "the material order" as a immense space containing diverse physical worlds, sorry but that isn't Kabbalah but modern day astronomy. Both are mutually exclusive (=inconsistent). If you don't want to leave behind the current scientific world-view, then you can't handle Kabbalah nor even in a fictional way. Quote:
GURPS Cabal uses some of the flavour of Kabbalah. And using part of a historically real world doctrine as background provides the cool feeling easying and enhancing immersion and suspension of disbelief. It is the same thing as using Nazis as villains. Of course, GURPS Cabal is a very modified version of Cabbala suited for horror roleplaying, so that alone is a significant modification (or distortion). . . Sure, that isn't Kabbalah, but at least it s a bit recognizable . . . At least, it keeps formally the structure of Chain of Being . . . If you add space travels, interdimensional travel, the thing is much, even much less consistent, worsening to the point of being comparable to a computer programming bug or a geometric and ontological impossibility, a true logical mess. Because intergalactic and interdimensional travel are currently shared beliefs and goals of modern people, is no surprise Kabbalah, not being compatible nor consistent with the official Weltanschauung of today, remains discarded as a speculation devoid of any true sense or truth. At least, that is logic within the current Weltanschauung.
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03-22-2008, 06:38 PM | #30 | |
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Kabbalah disregards any knowledge method and observational procedures mediated trough machines, computers or modern technological artifacts (approximately all what is superior to TL3) going beyond the intuitive and more or less immediate perception of the human senses.
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