Posted in Sefer Yetzirah on July 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Keter
You cannot conceive the many without the one.
Plato, Dialogues, Parmenides
No God – Within most texts explaining the mysteries of the QBL you will see oblique and opaque references to something called God as if we all know what this means. The etymological beginnings the word God or a God in its true meaning refers to [...]
Posted in Sefer Yetzirah on July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“The heart in the body is like a king in battle…”
Sefer Yetzirah, Saadia version 8:4
The warrior king looks out over the field, dark clouds roll in from the east; from his chariot he considers the weapons in his hands. First the sword in his right.
“The blade of this sword I have forged has [...]
Posted in Poetry on July 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Misunderstanding Europa II…
Deeper,
deep water, currents, cold tendrils,
descend on to the coral,
and the warm rocks,
phosphorescent with intelligence,
like the thoughts of a prisoner,
the cradle of a civilisation.
Descend, in an aquasphere,
with four windows,
mirrors and a flame,
twirling on the rope,
an inverse lighthouse,
descend, rotate, perambulate.
Hidden thoughts lurk
amidst the crannies and the crook,
fleeting, grasping, they flicker and feed,
on open thoughts queueing
like [...]
Posted in Essays on July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“Semiology is a more specific version of the general structuralist approach” (McQuail, D., 2000, Mass Communication Theory 4th Edition, Sage. See page 311.) Discuss what he means by this and assess the value of Semiology for understanding how display advertising works. Use examples drawn from print media, like newspapers and magazines, to illustrate the answer. [...]
