Month: June 2001

Netscape 6.1 Beta 1 – Nice installer, nice skin, works with Hebrew, some niggly cut & paste problems, but in general, very nice. You too can download it from here.
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G.K. Chesterton’s material has apparently gone in and out of public domain recently, due to fluctuating coptright laws. However, this online version of his novel The Man Who Was Thursday appears to be still online. This is the book Dave Langford wished he had written, which is as good a recomendation as I need.

Woah! That site I just linked to earlier is pretty nutty, mixing Mormonism, Kaballah, Von Daniken, sigils (well, symbols)…

Here’s another nice site about the Tree of Life, with a clickable map and exhaustive(?) list of associations for each sephira.

Today’s topic: The Kabbalistic Tree of Life as a decorative element in Roleplaying Games. The association is suggested both by Kenneth Hite’s many references to it in his conspiracy column in Steve Jackson Games’ Pyramid online magazine, and by the nine spheres that figure in the game “Mage: The Ascension”.
Specific links are a page about the ten sephiroth and a detailed article about The Order of Hermes in Mage, which matches the spheres to the sephiroth.

Personally, I think that “Netzach” (“Eternity”) should belong with “Time”, not “Life”, both because of its name and also because its other associations fit The Cult of Ecstasy, the Mage tradition most associated with that Sphere. But since the article only deals with the Hermetic mages, he misses that.