Kabbalah
Lamed-Bet 三十二径
Ten sephirot, twenty-two paths — uneven doors are the teaching
On the Tree of Life, not every station opens the same number of ways: Malkuth has three doors, Tiferet eight. Where you stand determines how you can move — and that is the teaching.
The structure of this instrument
The Tree is drawn by tradition
Where the hexagrams arrange themselves by rule, the Tree of Life is drawn by tradition: ten sephirot, joined by twenty-two paths that carry the Hebrew letters. It is the one instrument whose map is irregular — and that irregularity is itself the teaching.
Uneven doors, by doctrine
Not every sephira has the same number of ways out. Malkuth, the kingdom at the foot of the Tree, opens onto three paths; Tiferet, its heart, onto eight. How many doors you have depends entirely on where you stand — and that is the first thing the cast tells you.
A draw in three stages
First, position: a sephira is drawn, or fixed from your question. Second, a letter — one of the twenty-two. If its path borders your sephira, the door opens and you walk to the sephira across it. If it does not, the reading is a closed door — a still cast — and the letter steps aside into the margin as hidden counsel.
Third, a world: one of the four — Atziluth, Beriah, Yetzirah, Assiah — which sets the depth at which the whole is read: spirit, intellect, feeling, or action.
Two arrangements
Which letter belongs to which path is not settled across schools. The instrument uses the Gra/Ari arrangement by default and lets you switch to the Golden Dawn; where the two differ is noted, never hidden.
The register is hitbonenut
The reading speaks in the key of hitbonenut — contemplative attention — and not of the oracle. It offers a place to look, not a fate to accept.