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Today’s topic: The Kabbalistic Tree

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.

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Transform Magazine: ‘Free’ Content Management.

Transform Magazine: ‘Free’ Content Management. If this is an overview of the field, than there’s not too much there. [Scripting News]

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Free content management systems: OpenCMS

Free content management systems: OpenCMS (Java: Tomcat + Database), Zope, Midgard

Some articles on same: Data-Drive Sites with Midgard, Midgard review.

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Bloggus Ceasari: Julius Ceaser’s weblog

Bloggus Ceasari: Julius Ceaser’s weblog is neat. Basically, his campaign in Gaul, in a diary format. Link found on this dutch blog.

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Hey, I got an e-mail

Hey, I got an e-mail from Matt Rossi. I’m not worthy. Anyway, this is a good excuse to link to his site, where he expounds at great length, with extreme erudation and masterly style about various bizzare, mythological, occult, fictional and conspirative subjects. A roleplayer’s toolkit, a nearly daily free dose of what Kenneth Hite’s Suppressed Transmission offers weekly and only Pyramid subscribers.