postmodern Satanism

The Tree of Life is a glyph representing the organizedstructure of both microcosm and macrocosm as well as theirmultifaceted interconnectedness. It is a product of the Western occulttradition known variously as QBL, Qabala, and Kabbalah, thoughthese are mere differences of transliteration. The Tree forms the basisof an analysis of spiritual and material reality which maybe termed,for lack of a better word, integral. There are ten spheres (sephiroth)linked by twenty-two paths (atu), the conjunction of which is encodedin the cipher known as the Tarot. In addition to the ten sephiroth, anEleventh is often added within occult understandings: Daath(knowledge), which represents the Abyss, or place of crossing.When we consider the Tree, there are two possible axes ofsymmetry, depending on whether the tenth sephirah, Malkuth isincluded. Malkuth (the kingdom) represents the visible/materialworld, and when viewing the Tree, we can see its placement is insome ways out of sequence. Visually, this placement is