>>6095771>>6095984You can't help but gravitate to the shelf with both well-known religious texts as well as apocrypha, obscurities, and otherwise occult writings. There might be clues to DIO's plan on Heaven; your "canon source information" does not include the origin of however he came up with it. What catches your eye is a not particularly long but very old-looking soft-cover titled "Sepher Yetzirah: The Book of Formation and the Thirty Two Paths of Wisdom," an original first-edition from 1887 to boot translated by a guy with triple-W initials.
Thankfully, you have a basic familiarity with various branches of occultism, due to your regular browsing of the PARANORMAL subforum, and recognize the title and it being a Kabbalah thing. Thirty-two paths of wisdom, thirty-six sinners in the Heaven plan...worth a read. DIO would take anything of interest from the religions of the world.
You spend some time reading the book, taking in each page deeply. What you get is a lot of importance placed on letters and numbers as the basis of the universe's formation. Some of it is ancient linguistics and phonetics--letters formed by different parts of the mouth, from labial to guttural. A chapter describes the Almighty's creation of "two dwellings" from "two letters," six from three, 120 from five, and so on; you recognize this as a fancy description of factorials.
Father (though he is yet a seminarian) Enrico Pucci's fixation on prime numbers is not lost on you here. The text repeats the importance of trios ("three mothers") and septets (doubles of seven for dimensions). Of course, twelves (astrology, major organs) also come in. From seven letters, ostensibly, seven worlds (and seven heavens) were made. Fuck...a chill runs down your spine as the possibility of spin-off novels' elaboration being real here too comes into your head. Let's hope (not pray, you're still pretty agnostic/a believer in "not necessarily God, but a something" like Araki) there's no 36 Kars on Mars out there.
You note the foundations are 22 letters, perhaps corresponding to the 22 major Tarot cards (and their Stand users). The translator, a 19th-century Brit into all the proper occult hermetic shit, certainly agrees. It's so easy to find patterns in numbers. Maybe too easy. Still addictive. Among the patterns bouncing and roiling in your mind you remember that the cards of the 9 Glory Gods did, in fact, have the diagram of the Tree of Life (also Kabbalah) drawn on their backs. The cynic-skeptic in you thinks it was just decorative, like NGE and Christian symbols, but the fantasist considers that even then the symbols hold importance.
The notions of doubt grow weak against the inevitable, the metaphysics that you know are very much real. Plenty of supernatural phenomena beyond Stands and the undead, including actual gods and deities.
This was surprisingly productive. You feel this will benefit your spirit, soul and mind a lot.
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Spirituality/Occult: Great Success
