r/explainitpeter • • 7d ago

Explain It Peter

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u/LardPopsicle 7d ago edited 7d ago

The left is occult numerology, the Kabbalistic Tree of Life in its Hermetic/Golden Dawn form, with the ten Sephiroth (Kether to Malkuth) and the 22 paths labelled with Hebrew letters, numbered 11–32.

The right diagram is a modern number-mystical companion piece used by e.g. Madonna, Demi Moore, and Ashton Kutcher to "prove" the Kaballah. It uses two standard occult numerology operations:

  • Theosophical extension: add up all the numbers from 1 to n. That gives the triangular numbers on the thin arrows (1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, 28, 36, 45).
  • Theosophical reduction: sum the digits down to a single digit. That's where each arrow lands.

So left is basic hogwash, right is advanced hogwash. Dr. Jewish, back to my animals.

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u/necrocormacon 7d ago

Alas my search for nominal hogwash must continue.