The Diamond Sutra

..."So you should view this fleeting world;
A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream,
A flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream"...  Buddha

Kabbalah...(Sabbatai Zevi)...Kaaba Allah

     Kabbalah is a mystical Jewish Tradition ("Receiving").  It is recommended that Kabbalah not be studied until reaching a certain mature age (40, I believe).  Found with various spellings ("Spells", mystical combinations of letters) that you may look up, modern-day Kabbalah has been associated with celebrities like Madonna, Demi Moore, and Mick Jagger.  If appropriate, you may look up more information about it.

 The Qabalistic Tree of Life

  ...Sabbatai Zevi, known by some as "The false Messiah", was a Jewish Kabbalist circa the year 1666 (In the era of Isaac Newton) who converted from Judaism to Islam.  With an interesting approach to life and Religion he has been called "The most notorious Jewish Messiah claimant since Jesus of Nazareth" and his followers, known as the Sabbateans, still exist to this day...

"Sabbatai Zevi enthroned"

from Tikkun, Amsterdam, 1666.

     The similarity of the word "Kabbalah" to the words "Kaaba" and "Allah" is, I find, most fortuitous as it reveals an underlying unity between 2 different Religious Traditions (Judaism and Islam), especially in this day and age!  In light of this syncretism we may build further Religious unification, even going so far as to unite Religion and Science with this formula (or "Spell"):

The Big Bang

Cosmic Plasma

Stars are ORGASMIC!

,in other words,

Divine Love

Proof of Yahweh

Proof of God

Proof of Allah

The Greatest Rock Song Ever?

     "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin remains a rock masterpiece to this day.  Probably loved and known by more people than any other rock song ever, it's theme remains timeless (The Song Remains The Same).  Perhaps overplayed, yes, and even undervalued, it's greatness appears to increase (As Time Goes By)...

"And as we wind on down the road

Our shadows taller than our soul

There walks a lady we all know

who shines white light and wants to show

How everything still turns to gold

And if you listen very hard

The truth will come to you at last

When all is one and one is all

To be a rock and not to roll"

How fitting it would be then that "The Greatest Rock Song Ever" (in my opinion) could be thought to end with an allusion to the Philosopher's Stone!  "To be a rock and not to roll".  To be a rock.  A stone.  Ergo, a Philosopher's Stone.  Stone Free on the Third Stone from the Sun like Jimi Hendrix.  In this evil age of dark shadows signs of the "White Light" at the end of the tunnel abound and now are confirmed...everything still turns to gold.  "The truth will come to you at last.  When all is one and one is all".  Here is one live version of "Stairway to Heaven" for you to consider:

  

"Crystal Ball"

     ...From Philosopher's Stone to Philosopher's Rock...performed by the band Styx and the Contemporary Youth Orchestra (...stoned, I saw and heard Styx in in our "high" school gym when they were a local Chicago area band A Long Time Ago...  :) this "Crystal Ball" is an underrated Rock Gem!

The Golden Mandala

     My current favorite vision transformed by contemplation of the Philosopher's Stone is what I call "The Golden Mandala".  Many wonderful examples, shining like the Sun, can be found on...Google Images...

(Here is only one example, please see artist information below)

by William "Spektyr" Laskerski

www.spektyr.com

...The Great Mandala...

"Take your place on the Great Mandala
as it moves through your brief moment of time.
Win or lose now, you must choose now,
and if you lose you're only losing your life"
Peter, Paul and Mary

 ...We may be like specks in the Great Mandala of the Universe...

specks on a "tiny" ball of a planet we call Earth

which orbits a "tiny" average ball of a Star we call the Sun

which orbits around the center of our Milky Way Galaxy with about 200 billion other balls of Stars

(So let's have a ball!)

and our Galaxy is but 1 of about 200 billion

And now we think there may be Infinite Universes, also larger and smaller

...Mandala's may come in infinite variety...

...from the center of your heart...

  ...Transcendent...

...ever changing and yet unchanged...

and YOU are a part of The Great Mandala!

Sir Isaac Newton and the "Lapis Philosophicus"

     

     The father of modern physics and the inventor of calculus believed he found the closely guarded blueprint for the Philosopher's Stone (this according to discovermagazine.com).  It appears that his work in chemistry grew out of his work with alchemy!  His interest in mysticism is today coming more and more to light.  Doctor J. Allen Hynek writes that occasionally scientists sense the presence of the intangible, awesome domain of the unknown and that Sir Isaac Newton, one of the greatest scientists who ever lived, was one who did (quoting Newton):

     I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself, now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

  ...This "Great ocean of Truth" may now be revealed...

The Big Bang

Cosmic Plasma

Stars are ORGASMIC!

,in other words,

Divine Love

Blissful

Proof of God

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