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Breakpoints
From the meta magick perspective, the mainstream Tree of Life is like a show sword, with three built-in breaking points such that it will...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Dec 5, 20242 min read
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The Abrahadabra Key
The Abrahadabra Key unlocks a wide range of magickal capacities. Most people are aware that the gematria of the word "Abrahadabra" is...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Dec 5, 20242 min read
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The Tower and the Hierophant
The Hierophant is the partner of the Tower, in the Athbash System, which folds the Hebrew Alphabet in half. Also interestingly, if you...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Dec 5, 20241 min read
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The Key
The three horizontals plus the central pillar form a structure that we can compare to the Hierophant's scepter - a triple cross. This is...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Dec 5, 20241 min read
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Popes
The Pope of the Pierpont Morgan Visconti is a bridge between eternity and society - a calendar priest, fundamentally, since the 'pontifex...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Dec 5, 20241 min read
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Learning is a form of theatre.
In antiquity, learning was married to theatre. The process of becoming schooled involved a dramatized series of events of learning that...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Dec 5, 20242 min read
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The Week of the Hierophant
It's Friday, and the time of the Hierophant is here. The Hierophant is an initiator - which means that the Hierophant is empowered to...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Dec 5, 20242 min read
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The Klein Bottle
The final piece of the moebial puzzle - and why it relates to the lovers card, is the Klein Bottle. It needs to be understood that this...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Nov 29, 20242 min read
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The Moebius Loop
According to the view of this author, paradox is the indication of consistency on a higher dimension of analysis, and plain contradiction...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Nov 29, 20242 min read
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The Lovers and the Devil
The way that the Lovers and the Devil operate as "athbash" partners is admirably illustrated in the Rider-Waite Smith deck, in which the...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Nov 28, 20242 min read
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The Chiasm
The Lovers in the Thoth deck has one extremely unusual and insightful feature that sets it apart from portrayals of this card in other...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Nov 28, 20242 min read
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Eden
The Lovers signals that relationships with an other - as equal - are paramount. Here we see that the other is an end in themselves, and...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Nov 28, 20241 min read
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The Week of the Lovers.
It's Fri day, and the time of the Lovers is here. The Lovers has layers - to some it is the tale of Adam and Eve - to others it speaks of...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Nov 28, 20241 min read
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Metamagick Merkabah
Here is a recipe for forming a metamagick merkabah out of the 32 paths of the tree of life. In the schematic for the Tetrahedron ring,...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Nov 21, 20242 min read
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Temperance & the Chariot
The polarity that exists between the Chariot and Temperance sets these two paths apart as uniquely consequential in the overall schema of...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Nov 21, 20242 min read
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Barque, up on the Bardo.
Enter the Bardo of Light Upon the Chariot of prayer Remember the word of guidance that maps the domains of the Work of the soul. OM MA NI...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Nov 21, 20241 min read
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Finish Awake.
IO Pallas Athene!

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Nov 21, 20242 min read
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Abrahadabra!
The Path of the Chariot is linked to the Magic Word, Abrahadabra, for several reasons, not the least of which being that the Hebrew...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Nov 21, 20241 min read
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Week of the Chariot
It's Friday, and the time of the Chariot has arrived. The Axle, the Wheel, the Animal - these three come together and call forth a...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Nov 21, 20241 min read
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Patterns of Character
Character is normally understood as being a consistency with principles and values that hold together, and people of character are viewed as fair, consistent, and trustworthy. One of the reasons that math is compelling to the human mind is that it is trustworthy. Math, essentially has character. That is its strength.

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Nov 14, 20242 min read
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