Re: Colour Correspondences in the Tree of Life

["peter_reist" <peter_reist@...>]

Dear Rawn,

Quite honestly, while I follow an essentially Hermetic path and 
philosophy, I do not agree with all aspects of any one philosophy. Be 
it Hermetic or psychological. One aspect that I do not agree with 
would be the idea of mind-body dualism. To me, the mind and body are 
essentially one and the same. So the brain is a necessary consequence 
of us having a mind, and so the mind is a necessary consequence of us 
having a brain. In some respects it reminds me of the statement for 
Mulkuth in the pattern on the trestleboard, "10. The Kingdom of 
Spirit is embodied in my flesh." Which appears to say that 
physicality is a natural consequence of the primal expression of 
spirit.

Moreover, over my years of studying and practicing all sorts of 
esoteric things, some of which where quite questionable, I came to 
the conclusion long ago that it is probably best to exhaust all 
possible physiological explinations before moving into the realm of 
metaphysical explinations. But that's just my cautious, skeptical 
nature showing through after having been burned by believing too 
fully within a rather faulty metaphysical conception of the self and 
universe.

Love and Live well,
Peter Reist