AvshalomBinyamin wrote:Nephesh, Yetzirah, and Briah seem a simpler correspondence to me...
yes, that deffinitely is the best 'fit'.
if we're going with sephiroth, why not Malkuth, Yesod, Tiphareth?
that sounds better because it's the Middle Pillar, and looks more 'natural' to map the collective evolution in that way on the Tree (i.e. only with Sephiroth, not Worlds). I would have to think about it deeper.
and maybe both are ok, having in mind that we can consider Netzach and Hod as polar reflections of the relationship between Yesod and Tiphareth... (and Geburah & Hesed as polarized higher octaves of Tiphareth -- which of course reflect the upper polar pair, supreme Mother and Father)
some things that come to mind in 'defense' to Netzach-Tiphareth-Geburah correspondence:
Isis-7- love, devotion, collective consciousness, collective forms of god-worshiping; the essential idea for spiritual development was that of merging individual self with the whole (-as represented in the King/Emperor archetype, which is the symbol of the divine). 'I' is not divine, but 'we' make it possible for Human being to become divine...
graphic symbol: Ankh (or Venus-glyph)
Osiris -6 - oneself made perfect, awakening of solar consciousness, 'I' is already 'we' and by giving up of the self completely, accepting death, the eternal life is recognized; ressurection; pisces-symbol (Nun - tha Path that connects Netzach and Tiphareth)...
graphic symbol: Cross, and cross circled (inside a circle) as a transitional form towards the next phase -->
Horus - 5 - war, destruction of the old outgrown forms, spiritual development is now reached through
individuation - a necessary phase, because the main principle is
action and thus the
concrete..
graphic symbol: not known yet

I assume the traditional Sun-glyph (Bull's eye, the target...) is a transitional form, from 6 to 5.
also, Lamed is the Path, and many interesting ideas spring out of that correspondence...