Influence maps
Visual cartography of the cross-tradition transmission lines and structural parallels documented in Hekhal's primary-text and codex layers. Every node links to its Hekhal page; every edge is a documented transmission or a named structural parallel.
(T) documented historical transmission · (S) named structural parallel The Light-Ontology Triangle
Plotinus, Pseudo-Dionysius, and the Mishkat al-Anwar
A documented transmission line from Plotinian Neoplatonism into the Christian Dionysian tradition, with a structurally parallel Islamic articulation in Ghazali. The first cross-tradition triangle Hekhal documents in full.
The Map-of-the-Interior Triangle
Heikhalot palaces, the Bahir's Sefirot, and Teresa's seven dwellings
Three traditions that independently develop architectural cartographies of the inner ascent toward the divine. The triangle whose three corners share structure without direct historical transmission across all three edges.
The Apophatic Triangle
The God beyond knowing in Dionysian gnophos, Kabbalistic Ayin, and Akbarian tanzih
Three traditions that name the divine by negation at the apex of the contemplative ascent. The triangle whose corners share a documented Neoplatonic substrate, then develop the via negativa in three distinct technical vocabularies.
The Union Triangle
The self undone at the summit in Plotinian henosis, Sufi fana, and Christian theosis
Three traditions that reach, at the height of the ascent, for a union in which the separate self is undone. The triangle whose corners share a documented Neoplatonic substrate, then divide sharply over what survives the union.
The Creative Word Triangle
The world spoken into being in the Johannine Logos, the letters of Sefer Yetzirah, and the Akbarian kun
Three traditions that read creation as an act of divine speech, and then divide over what the Word is, an incarnate person, a set of cosmic letters, or a transcendent command. The triangle rooted in the scriptural "and God said," grown into three theologies of the Word.
The Guarded Ascent
Graded heavens, angelic gatekeepers, and the credential that passes them, in Heikhalot ascent, Christian apocalyptic ascent, and the Islamic mi'raj
Three traditions narrate a traveller rising through a graded series of heavens whose gates are held by beings who must be satisfied before passage. The resemblance is close, the theologies are not, and the transmission is not documented. A triangle whose every edge is marked structural parallel, and where saying so is the contribution.
The Primal Man
A first human who is not the first human being, in the Naassene report, later Kabbalah, and Akbarian Sufism
Three traditions place at the origin of things a Man who is not a man -- an anthropic figure who is pattern rather than instance, and of whom actual human beings are images or fragments. The resemblance is real, the chronology is wide, and the transmission is not documented. Every edge here is marked structural parallel, and the reason for saying so plainly is that this is exactly the comparison that has historically been made worst.