Qabalah and the Law of One.

[Aion]

Aion, I have a question for you! Anyone is welcome to answer and add on to this as well. Have you done any pathworking on the Tree of Life? Do you know anything about this area of work? I recently came across a very good book on magical states of consciousness, pathworking on the Tree of Life. But I was hesitant to get it because, to me, this would be 6th chakra work, and it would be best to do it with a group, of which I am not apart of any.

I skimmed through the book and it was guided meditations up to a certain point, and there were optical patterns. The book is by Dennings and Philips, Magical States of Consciousness.

Anyway, I'm interested to see what others know, their experiences and insight. Thank you all

I've found this is a good 'in a nutshell' article that explains some of the ideas inherent in pathworking/sphereworking.

http://www.jwmt.org/v1n3/32paths.html

For me I have leaned towards the Golden Dawn tradition which uses Lurianic Kabbalah and basically the grades of the order correspond with the Spheres of the Sephiroth. The paths that lead between the Sephiroth must be traversed as you make your way up the order of spheres, each corresponding with different levels of consciousness and the layers of the self.

So a Neophyte is working on the sphere of Malkuth. A Zelator is working on the sphere of Yesod, and so on and so forth.

This is different from a lot of other systems which I have found are not as comprehensive of each sphere and are more similar to westernized 'chakra' meditation (and maybe actually part of the source of the westernized chakra system and its concepts). Even the page I linked to is more in this vein. However, that isn't to say it isn't without its merits.

It's true that a group is preferable but there are things you can accomplish on your own to start, such as a more meditation based approach.