This Tooth is called Ethics. It is the horizontal central path of the Qabalah. Ethics and Freedom cross each other. The Qabalah exists at the level of the human; this crossover is clearly highly pertinent to the human essence. This is why in the hyperqabalah the paths (which have now become nodes) do not share the names of the qabalistic paths, for they are not the same energy; similar and yet entirely their own thing. Determining, trying to understand what these forces are and hence the paths of the Hyperqabalah is all part of the challenging work ahead. In the Hyperqabalah, node Xiset (path Ethics) is the central node of the whole structure. As mentioned elsewhere, this does hint at the notion that can be taken from both Pirsig and Levinas: Ethics is first philosophy, not an optional later branch. The Buddhist harmony of compassion and the naked state could also be seen as a correlate of this.

The metaphyics of reincarnation is one of the most repeated themes. It seems the closest notion to an actual description of what may be going on -though we of course accept this is still totally speculative metaphyics. Again the question reappears about the different end games. What if escaping the wheel, so to speak, were possible and yet it was only one option possible that we call a spiritual end game. If there is no over arching God with a kind of teleology then this may be the case. Someone who lives a good satisfying life and dies peacefully would not have built up the concentration supposedly required to escape the bardo into the clear light.