Is Kaballah calling the Moon a Planet?

[realpaladin]

Next to all other flaws (Pluto not really being a planet, there are more moons than THE moon and the fact it is all hogwash), I read here nothing stating that the moon is NOT a planet:

http://www.factsbehindfaith.com/default.aspx?intContentID=2

Anyone know why?

[maddog]

Does anything there say the SUN is not a planet?

[realpaladin]

Good one!

I was stunned by the Moon, so I did not even look further.

[Wowbagger]

I dunno... maybe they're just using the word "planet" generically, meaning something more like "astronomical body", or something.

[realpaladin]

I dunno... maybe they're just using the word "planet" generically, meaning something more like "astronomical body", or something.

Wouldn't "thingy" then not be a better word?

[Towlie]

The ancient meaning of planet was any of the seven visible objects that moved against the background of stars. They were the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. The diagram on that page adds the Earth, Neptune, Uranus, and with dotted lines, Pluto.

http://www.factsbehindfaith.com/images/content_gallery//Treenames_for_web_flat.gif

Anyway, why are you reading that stuff? Don't you realize you could go blind?

[Lord Emsworth]

In antiquity the sun and the moon were planets. Now you add to that the assertion that Pluto, Neptune and Uranus have only been 'rediscovered' in more or less recent times while the ancients had the knowledge of their existence all along of course ...

[realpaladin]

I read it because I clicked on a link in an unrelated discussion on UFO's...

But thanks.

The ancients... they might have "known" a lot, but damn were they messy accountants...

[Dancing David]

Um, certain planets do not belong on the tree of life, IE those not visible to the ancients.

The cool thing you will notice is that Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are on the other side of the sun.

Um, it is a symbolic representaion, not reality, and yes the sun and moon were considered planets.

the sun is at the center of the symbols, but i don't think that is intentional.

[Towlie]

You guys are missing the real point of that diagram. The object is to follow the interconnecting lines and land on each planet exactly once, without retracing any lines.

[geni]

What counts as a planet has varried over time and included the sun and the moon. It has also included the first few astroids discovered with the result that ceres has been:

A planet
An Asteroid
A dwarf planet

[Beerina]

Wouldn't "thingy" then not be a better word?


How about "wanderer (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/planet)"?


:rolleyes:

[realpaladin]

You guys are missing the real point of that diagram. The object is to follow the interconnecting lines and land on each planet exactly once, without retracing any lines.

Ow.... I thought tracing the lines would make a smiling elephant appear :)

[realpaladin]

How about "wanderer (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/planet)"?


:rolleyes:

Too much connotation with a tyre commercial I see every day...

"Cause I'm a wanderer, I can tread anywhere, I take the rough way out, cause I'm a wanderer..."

See! You made me have that song in my head again and I hate it. :P

[Geezer]

Too much connotation with a tyre commercial I see every day...

"Cause I'm a wanderer, I can tread anywhere, I take the rough way out, cause I'm a wanderer..."

See! You made me have that song in my head again and I hate it. :P

But that's easy to avoid...just use some old language word..like greek..oh wait
d'oh!

[Dancing David]

BTW we are doomed for looking at the tree, god will expel us from the garden...ooops too late

;)

[Nick227]

Next to all other flaws (Pluto not really being a planet, there are more moons than THE moon and the fact it is all hogwash), I read here nothing stating that the moon is NOT a planet:

http://www.factsbehindfaith.com/default.aspx?intContentID=2

Anyone know why?

I was involved with Kaballah quite a few years, and this site didn't look too accurate to me. From the 30 secs or so I looked at it I could see quite a few errors, though Kaballah has developed many different strains over the centuries, so it's not easy to definitively state very much about it.

The moon is assigned as a planet according to the belief that it influences the human psyche and also helps to form it in the first place, as with the other "planets."

These 7 "planets" are also related to the 7 Hebrew double letters, the 6 sides and centre of the Cube of Space, 7 of the 22 Tarot trumps, and more. The influence of these "planets" is believed to have the potential to correct flaws in the personality through "straightening it out" energetically, as in Judges 5:20 "the stars in their courses fought with Sisera." Sisera was a bad guy.

Nick