p 15 Pneumatology

Pneumatology is the study of pneuma, both in our modern sense of ‘conceptual substance’ and spirit. The swords of the tarot are the suit of air and air is also connected to pneuma. This links to the CEO’s employment of the term, for air is the element of the mind. Concepts are the stuff of the mind so pneuma as air is connected to the pneuma of conceptual substance -and hence related to a kind of idealism. But p is not simply pneuma it is the study of pneuma. It is the pneuma studying itself and hence represents a kind of self awareness.

Pneumatology is part of the circuit and lies with Luna (u) before it and Incest (h) after it. Its feeder number is Isis (i).

Other parts of the accretion are: Hebrew: Samekh, Tarot: Art, Pine tree, Gooseberry, Moths, Goldcrest, Potassium, Proline, Quadratic equations.

o 14 Death

Death is clearly an energy of cessation in some sense. It’s nature is unclear so it cannot be naively postulated as the entry to the nothing. It rather represents an epistemological impasse. As Heidegger (amongst others) noted, it also exerts a powerful force upon how we live our lives.

Death (o) is the feeder node for f (Urlkönig).

Other accretions attached are: Hebrew Nun, Tarot: Death, Spiders, Gorse, Laburnum, Lilac, Snails, Oxytocin, Glucagon, Glycine, Calcium.

n 13 Foetus

Foetus is the not yet born child suspended in the amniotic sac. This is an energy of inchoation and dependency. Foetus (n) is part of the circuit. It lies in between h (Incest) behind it and d (Artemis) in front of it.

Other connected accretions are: Hebrew: Mem, Tarot: Hanged Man, Raven, Ash tree, Green Woodpecker, Vasopressin, Aldosterone, Glutamic acid, S=d/t, D=st, T=d/s.

m 12 Ethics

Ethics is the concern of the transcendental appearance of right and wrong. As a nodal accretion Ethics is interesting. Ethics in philosophy tends to be the dominant term for the whole field of moral study. At a more societal level however ethics tends to be the code of conduct for regional areas whereas morality tends to be viewed as the more fluid personal code. In philosophy though it is morality that is often thought of as the wider code that ethics supplies the meta level to. The ethical is a transcendental appearance, this though in no way determines the content of the ethical in its particular decisions (morality). In Deleuzo-Guattarian terms ethics has a molar structure as a ‘real’ area that itself studies the determination of a second molarity: morality -in the sense of a wider code e.g. Christian morality. Likewise both of these structures have bleeding molecular edges.

The molecular edge of morality is ethics, as it is ethics that questions the correctness of the morality just engages with it in a motion that perpetually threatens to destabilize it. The molecular edge of ethics is the sceptical reflection upon the ethical itself. Because the ethics-morality dualism is often identified as a condition of the human itself, the edge of the ethical (the system that preys upon morality) is both the nihilistic threat that moves beyond the human and Nietzschean style attempts to move beyond it in a grammar not yet fully formed -for which to use the term ‘more positive’ is insufficient.

Ethics is one of the three central nodes of the hyperqabalah (along with Advent (a) and Umbra (0).

Other connected accretions are: Hebrew: Lamed, Tarot: Adjustment, Mice, Rabbits, Bramble, Rose, Meadowsweet, Maat, Manganese, Phenylanine, Momentum (physics).

l 11 Freedom

The capacity for autonomy, illusory or not, is gathered in this node. Fromm’s freedom from and freedom to are worth considering in relation. Freedom is an idea the beings of awareness may believe in metaphysically as true or and ideal that beings of awareness hold up as something to strive for in relation to -often in relation to a state power.

Freedom (l) is part of the circuit, its feeder node is Mithras (g). In the circuit it is preceded by Twilight (s) and succeeded by Eskatology (w).

Other accretions attached to it are: Hebrew: Kaph, Tarot: Fortune, Ducks, Snakes, Rowan trees, Yarrow, Pressure (physics), Growth hormone, Gastrin.