5 Mt. System of Individuated Gnosis

WATERSTAR SEASON NOTES
As Utilized by the 5 Mt System of Miryai
In the Living Gods, Let the hallowed Light of Transcendant Truth be praised. Let the Sweet Mystery of Miryai awaken in the heart of hearts.

INTRODUCTION

The Winter Session is designed to extract useful principles and practices from the Middle Eastern culture, especially the Mandaean tradition. Moving away from death and decay and into Life is the focus.
Sucess during this five fortnite season can be measured in an increased ability to be cleaner, more orderly, more open and honest. Communication skills and listening skills should increase. Ones world should be harmonious, more clean, and vulnerable objects and people should be lubricated, well oiled or presrved. Tendency to hide, evade or cheat on others should diminish. Long term, multi year measurements of sucess should be seen as an achievment of moral purity, functioning relationships and well ordered institutions and harmonious group gatherings and dialogue and a robust educational system. Marital bliss, based on honest keeping of vows, should increase. The symbol of this is honest clean state is the mikveh, onsen, the tub, soap and water, etc.

SEASONAL OVERVIEW

ABSTRACT: The value of the Water Path is to assist in outlook, giving the ability to perceive and frame the world in an alternate more vivifying fashion. overarching theme of the Season: Enclothement of the higher soul in lower vessels as envisioned by Issac Luria. Reconnecting to one's Nishimta "soul" and interacting with others on that same "Neshamic" level.

GOAL: The specific goal is absolute ritual purity and Messianic Oneness.
PROBLEM: The defilement of the deeper consciousness by death debri.
REASON: The reason being the propensity of darkness and death impinging on our purity.
HISTORY: The historic rise of purity rituals and ritual defilement over the ages, indirectly as a result of an inferior concept of germs, viruses and disease.
REMEDY: The proposed solution is purgation and separation from darkness on the subconscious level, inasmuch as modern society is relatively clean on a physical level comparred to ancient cultures..

METHODOLOGY: The approach offered

RYTHYMN: The 73 day practice schedule - 5 & 15 day periods:
APPROACH: Farm Collective/Family/Isolated individual
EXAMPLES: The purity rites of Yohon, Zazai, etc.
RECORDS: The writings that are helpful are Mandaean Book of John, Qulasta, Ginza Rba, 1001 Questions, Scroll of Abulafia, Zohar, Bahir, etc.
WEEDING: The recognition and avoidance of pitfalls found in history and texts
PROCEDURE: The specific plan per fortnight, consisting in periodic immersions and study.

CONCLUSION: The concluding evaluation of progress made

INSIGHTS: Notes for future attempts should be kept for the following year.
PARADOX: The enigmas of this facet and formula of transcendance, i.e. tendency to develop OCD.
WARNINGS: Avoiding self delusion, over identification with Mandaeans or Jews or any ethic group.

ENDING: The closure of the period, giving away merit, owning change, fort

night fast, reset/reboot. Panja fasts and celebrations.

*Firstfruits Temple Calendar: 26th of 1st Month - Barley/Flax; 15th of 3rd Month - Wheat/Fig; 15th of 5th Month - Grape; 22nd of 6th Month - Oil

*Firstfruits Miryai Mt Calendar: Jun 1 - Barley/Flax; Jul 1 - Wheat; Sept 15 - Grape; Oct 15 - Oil
* This fortnight overlaps with the 1st one about every 5th year (combine two Bon Fortnights into one when this occurs) 368.882 days long, 3.6398 more, thus every 4.05242046 years

Contrasts of various Paths and Seasonal Focus

Mandaean& Kabbala-like Teachings & Seasonal Schedule

This season highlights the Mandaean and Qabbalistic traditions. It focuses on the Luriac Kabbalah idea of Enclothement of higher souls in lower vessels, in the shattering and restoration of the divine sparks, and in the Mandaean focus of separation from defilement. (This season observes fasts at the end of each quarter moon, every seventh day, and during dark moons)

Tikkun ha-Olam, the repair and restoration of the world
each encounter provides the individual a unique opportunity to raise the sparks in those people, things and events

According to the Hasidim, in the course of a lifetime an individual encounters sparks both within his/her own soul and the world that only he/she can redeem. Each individual is responsible, through ethical, spiritual, aesthetic and intellective acts, for redeeming these sparks of divineenergy and contributing to the Tikkunof his/her own soul and the world.

Partzufim are understood to be partial personalities of the deity. The five major divine personas are constellated as follows: (1) Attika Kaddisha (The Holy Ancient One) or Arikh Anpin (The Long-suffering One); (2) Abba (The Father); (3) Imma (The Mother); (4) Zeir Anpin (the Impatient One) or Ben (The

Sanford L. Drob (2012): Kabbalah, Jungian Psychology, and theChallenge of Contemporary Atheism, Psychological Perspectives: A Quarterly Journalof Jungian Thought, 55:2, 142-162. This version: www.newkabbalah.comperspectives and interpretations and comes to understand the deep interdependence of all things and points of view, and when one works towards an as yet unrealized meaning and value in one’s life and world. Such encounters, such a God, in my view, is certainly a fitting object of contemplation and spiritual awe. It is also, I might add, a God that accords with the principles and process of psychological change, and with a science and philosophy that does not rigidly (and idolatrously) adhere to certain theories and methods. It is a God that has the potential to unite scientist and mystic, atheist and theist, psychotherapist and theologian.According the Chabad Chasidic Rabbi Aaron Ha Levi, “...the essence of [the divine] intention is...that all realities and their levels be revealed in actuality, each detail in itself...as separated essences, and that they nevertheless be unified and joined in their value” (Elior, 1987, p. 157).”

Ohr Ein Sof

Preparatory stages in the Ohr Ein Sof ("God's Infinite Light") before the beginning of the creative process. The Ohr Ein Sof is a paradoxical form of divine self-revelation. These are above any world/limitation. Kabbalah considered the functional question whether the Ein Sof represents God's divine essence or God as First Cause. Chabad intellectual Hasidic thought explores Atzmut (divine essence) in the purpose of Creation. Ten stages of God’s Infinite Light in Kabbalistic terminology before the beginning of Creation:[6]

    Atzmut ("God's Absolute simple Essence" above the limitations of infinitude/finitude, able to be expressed in the divine "desire" for finite mitzvot[7])[8]
    Yachid ("The Single One")[9]
    Echad ("The One")[10]
    Sha'ashuim Atzmi'im ("The Delights of Self")[11]
    Aliyat Haratzon ("The 'ascent' of God’s will" to create the world)[12]
    Ana Emloch (The Primordial 'Thought' of “I Shall Rule”, God’s Primordial Will to be 'King')[13]
    Ein Sof ("No End" - classic term for the Unknowable God in Kabbalah, God as Infinite lifesource continuously sustaining all Creation into Existence, above Being/Non-Being, reciprocally Becoming through the totality of Creation by the divine souls of Man[14])[15]
    Kadmon ("Primordial One")[16]
    Avir Kadmon ("Primordial Atmosphere")[17]
    Adam Kadma'ah Stima'ah ("Concealed Primordial Man", God's will for Creation before the Tzimtzum)[18]

    Abba ("Father") General partzuf of Chokhmah (Wisdom)[40]
    Imma ("Mother") General partzuf of Binah (Understanding)
    Abba Ila'ah ("Higher Father") Upper secondary partzuf of Chokhmah[41]
    Imma Ila'ah ("Higher Mother") Upper secondary partzuf of Binah[42]
    Yisrael Sabba ("Israel the Elder") Lower secondary partzuf of Chokhmah
    Tevunah ("Comprehension") Lower secondary partzuf of Binah[43]
    Zeir Anpin ("Short Countenance"-"Ben" Son) General partzuf of Emotions
    Nukvah D'Ze'ir Anpin ("Female of Zeir Anpin"-"Bat" Daughter) General parzuf of Malkhut (Kingdom)
    Leah (First wife of Biblical Jacob) Upper secondary partzuf of Malkhut
    Rachel (Second wife of Biblical Jacob) Lower secondary partzuf of Malkhut[44]

    Atzmus Ohr Ein Sof before the Tzimtzum ("The Essence of the Infinite Light before the Contraction")
    The Tzimtzum ("The Contraction")
    The Reshimu ("The Impression")
    The Kav ("Line of Light")
    Ratzon Kadum ("Original Desire")
    Adam Kadmon ("Original Man")
    Atzilut ("World of Emanation") The Masach ("The Curtain")
    Beriah ("World of Creation")
    Yetzirah ("World of Formation")
    Assiah ("World of Action"