5.1 - Kabbalah and the Tree of Life

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• 00:00:00

  Welcome to lecture five on the philosophy of the CCRU, part one, which is on Kabbalah and the Numogram. This lecture is by far the most complex, occult, and infamous. So the following two parts will be on the CCRU's work in relation to the Kabbalah and Kabbalism and the Numogram, and the combination of these into…

• 00:03:57

  So the mythos flips general notions of right and wrong, good and bad, on their head. With that said, any notion of moralism with respect to non-linear time is already thwarted, as we no longer have the generally accepted idea of causation as a way to determine what caused the right, what caused the wrong, what's…

• 00:07:26

  The most important text with regard to the CCRU and Kabbalah is Nick Land's Kabbalah 101, as far as I'm concerned, which can be found in Collapse Volume 1. Alongside this, there's various posts and comments on the CCRU-run and affiliated blog Hyperstition, which will make up for any gaps in knowledge here, and there…

• 00:10:50

  Wherein a numerical value is assigned to a word or phrase based on its letters. Within this system a single word or phrase can yield multiple values based on the geometric system used. Land also makes it clear in Kabbalah 101 that Kabbalah and in a certain sense geometria are historical accidents which arose alongside…

• 00:14:18

  E equals 5, T equals 100, I equals 9, and C equals 3, which means the entire digit sum added all the letters up of the word cybernetic in Jewish gematria is 647. We can then take that number and cross-reference it with words which also add up to the same number within that same geometric system. For instance, within…

• 00:16:48

  What I'm going to explain here is the difference between the numerology of the traditional Kabbalist Tree of Life and the numerology of the CCRU's Numogram, which is considered by many to be a bastardisation of the Tree of Life and even is named by the CCRU at certain points as a degenerate form of the Tree of Life…

• 00:20:56

  The Hebrew word for hand is Yod. Yod is the tenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet and the fundamental letter of the alphabet. Yod represents the number ten in our system of counting. Furthermore, we can see that the holy number four itself conceals the number ten. So we have one plus two plus three plus four equals…

• 00:26:20

  seem to have bedeviled all succeeding occult traditions the CCRU here are alluding to the striated reality the tree of life as opposed to the fluidity and smoothness of the numerological system of the numeral what the CCRU is stating here is as i've stated the numbers of the tree of life don't have any inherent…