
The structure of our body can be divided into 3 sections - the blood which supplies the cellular tissue, the cytoplasm of those cells and finally the DNA which is housed inside the nucleus of each. This threefold division can be associated with our 3 elements as follows - Air with the Blood, Water with the Cytoplasm and Fire with the DNA.
AIR (ALEF)
Our cells are supplied with nutrition and oxygen via the blood but since the blood is predominately made up of red blood cells* I have associated this with Air. However Air (Blood) is ''Mother of the Mothers'', in that all components of respiration are dissolved into it.
The formula for respiration is:
Oxygen (air) + Sugar (energy/fire) = Water (water) + carbon dioxide (earth*)
- Air - Oxygen
- Water - Water
- Fire - Sugar
Good and Evil are strong terms and it may behoove us to simplify this to the notion of Advantage and Disadvantage, or nutrition and poison to describe the axis of the observer. The blood brings us the vital ingredients of our life, essential proteins we cannot synthesize, sugar, oxygen, hormones, etc but it also brings us a cargo of death and disease in the form of toxins, pathogenic microbes, etc.
WATER (MEM)
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THE CYTOPLASM AND ITS ''PLANETS'' |
- Saturn - cell membrane, cytoskeleton (the structural integrity)
- Jupiter - endosomes (the transport/trade system)
- Mars - lysosomes (the defence system)
- Sol - mitochondria (the powerplants)
- Venus - golgi apparatus (the ''lips and mouth'' of the nucleus)**
- Mercury - endoplasmic reticuluum (the face around the nucleus)
- Luna - nucleolus (contains the ''mark'' or ''destiny'' of DNA)
Water as an element mediates between the depths of north and south, cold and hot or expansion and contraction respectively. Simplistically we can think of the cell swelling and shrinking with supplies of nutrition, the membrane ''pulsing'' if you like.
From a more advanced perspective we can also see the positions of Mars and Jupiter on vertical paths leading from the horizontal of air, to the horizontal of water - here our astrology tells us about contraction and expansion with the planets. Mars and Jupiter as lysosomes and endosomes form the defence/surveillance system of the cell and its internal transport and external trade system. These paths then form the link between what passes through the membrane and survives in the interior of the cell and also what is exported back to the body as a whole.
Our Saturnian path leads straight from the membrane to the mitochondria, and shows how nutrients diffuse from the blood into the cell and reach the mitochondria where they allow us to complete our metabolism without which we would die. Our Luna path, associated with the nucleus, leads us from the depths of the past (our birth, and our cell-line stretching back to the origin of the first cell on Earth) to the depths of the west (the passing of a given day) and reminds us of the cell cycle whereby our cells split and divide into two ''daughter'' cells.
From a more advanced perspective we can also see the positions of Mars and Jupiter on vertical paths leading from the horizontal of air, to the horizontal of water - here our astrology tells us about contraction and expansion with the planets. Mars and Jupiter as lysosomes and endosomes form the defence/surveillance system of the cell and its internal transport and external trade system. These paths then form the link between what passes through the membrane and survives in the interior of the cell and also what is exported back to the body as a whole.
Our Saturnian path leads straight from the membrane to the mitochondria, and shows how nutrients diffuse from the blood into the cell and reach the mitochondria where they allow us to complete our metabolism without which we would die. Our Luna path, associated with the nucleus, leads us from the depths of the past (our birth, and our cell-line stretching back to the origin of the first cell on Earth) to the depths of the west (the passing of a given day) and reminds us of the cell cycle whereby our cells split and divide into two ''daughter'' cells.
Our third element Fire rules over the DNA itself which operates according to 12 basic genetic rhythms and is therefore Mother of the 12 simples/zodiac signs. As we see from our Tree of Life, the path of Fire, mediates between the paths of up and down or as I prefer in and out. The nucleus of the cell, which contains our genetic material is the very core of our being - as such there is an information flow ''out'' from the nucleus and ''into'' the nucleus.
This material is very advanced from a genetic perspective but think about it like this - our Mercurial path ''down/in'' represents the path of information flowing down to the nucleus and being *interpreted by the DNA*. This ''path'' of interpretation is very Mercurial as it seeks to break things down into parts in order to understand them so it can produce the correct answer/response. Our Venutian path which mediates between ''out/up/rise'' and ''south/expand'' represents the way in which the nucleus ''replies'' to the questions posed by the Mercurial path - if our Mercury ''in'' path is questions our Venutian ''out'' path are the answers. Science (Mercury) breaks things down in order to understand, Art (Venus) builds things up and offers them back out.
Even more challenging is to fully understand the link between the 12 basic genetic rhythms and the 12 zodiacal signs. These genetic rhythms/operations can be very clearly visually associated with the 12 zodiacal signs. I will provide a few examples of these in the notes and leave a full exposition until later on in the Blogos.
This material is very advanced from a genetic perspective but think about it like this - our Mercurial path ''down/in'' represents the path of information flowing down to the nucleus and being *interpreted by the DNA*. This ''path'' of interpretation is very Mercurial as it seeks to break things down into parts in order to understand them so it can produce the correct answer/response. Our Venutian path which mediates between ''out/up/rise'' and ''south/expand'' represents the way in which the nucleus ''replies'' to the questions posed by the Mercurial path - if our Mercury ''in'' path is questions our Venutian ''out'' path are the answers. Science (Mercury) breaks things down in order to understand, Art (Venus) builds things up and offers them back out.
Even more challenging is to fully understand the link between the 12 basic genetic rhythms and the 12 zodiacal signs. These genetic rhythms/operations can be very clearly visually associated with the 12 zodiacal signs. I will provide a few examples of these in the notes and leave a full exposition until later on in the Blogos.
- Aries - DNA replication fork***
- Taurus - DNA polymerase
- Gemini - DNA topoisomerase****
- Cancer - DNA topoisomerase II
- Leo - histone bodies
- Virgo - chromosomes
- Libra - mRNA splicing*****
- Scorpio - mRNA
- Sagitarius - tRNA - ribosome complex
- Capricorn - post-translational folding
- Aquarius - DNA repair
- Pisces - DNA recombination
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THOTH SPLICING ANKHS |
EARTH (LAND/SOIL)
Whilst water is used in the body, carbon dioxide is exported via the blood and ultimately breathing out. Carbon dioxide is subsequently used by plants to grow thus the association of this with Earth/land/soil. Therefore Earth is not one of the three elements in this sense. Earth does not appear in the Sefer Yetzirah as an element. It is not one of the Mother Letters. Earth (Aretz - land) is said to derive from Water, one assumes that as water retreats, floods, sea level decrease land is left. To me Earth in the idea of both planet and ''element'' is the concertation of all 22 celestial forces, a compound - as land on the one hand and as soil on the other - it is the central focus of the 231 gates- the ''one name'' that the 22 letters form.
All of these associations can be used with the Cellular Consciousness model discussed throughout the Blogos - if you are the animated Helix in the centre of the nucleus (your physical reach) the room surrounding you is your ''cell'' (your perceptual reach, typically delineated by the walls). Structures within the room maintain its integrity, the walls etc, various tools allow it to fulfill its function, doors, windows allow access, normally some sort of heating/lighting is provided by a room's ''mitochondria'' etc. The buildings with these rooms containing them are like tissue lining capillaries, veins, arteries etc - the streets, roads along which these tissues emerge - etc.
Deeper than this we see that we are always in the ''room of our Mind'', which never moves... our Cellular Consciousness. Therefore the '''walls'''of the ''room'' of our mind, once penetrated lead into the bloodstream of time... Enjoy your free-scaling...
SPIRIT (MIND)
All of these associations can be used with the Cellular Consciousness model discussed throughout the Blogos - if you are the animated Helix in the centre of the nucleus (your physical reach) the room surrounding you is your ''cell'' (your perceptual reach, typically delineated by the walls). Structures within the room maintain its integrity, the walls etc, various tools allow it to fulfill its function, doors, windows allow access, normally some sort of heating/lighting is provided by a room's ''mitochondria'' etc. The buildings with these rooms containing them are like tissue lining capillaries, veins, arteries etc - the streets, roads along which these tissues emerge - etc.
Deeper than this we see that we are always in the ''room of our Mind'', which never moves... our Cellular Consciousness. Therefore the '''walls'''of the ''room'' of our mind, once penetrated lead into the bloodstream of time... Enjoy your free-scaling...
*Alef is said to contain the mystery of YHVH in its structure. If you break down Alef you get one Vav and two Yods. This has a total value of 26 which is the same value as YHVH. 26 is the proton number of Iron. Iron is the essential element in the construction of haemoglobin which allows the blood to carry oxygen. ADM means Adam, but DM means ''red earth'' (i.e. rich in iron oxide) and A means Air. Thus ADM can be read as oyxgenated blood.
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Associated with Venus via Hebrew letter Pe (mouth).
*** Compare and contrast
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*****Compare and contrast.