What is the value of a dollar? Supposedly, a dollar today is worth more than a dollar tomorrow. To arrive at that conclusion, the whole of money as a singular entity would need to continue splitting in such a way to guarantee more dollars in the future, thus reducing the value of each individual dollar apropos to a larger set. If money as a totality is perpetually splitting, then it follows that the economic power of the individual dollar proportionately decreases as the supply of dollars increases¹. This split allows the continual exchange of money, and it is through the process of exchange that gives money the appearance of a state of becoming, thus allowing it the appearance² of life. Our present inquiry is on the spirit underlying that life and its function, what we shall henceforth call the egregore of money.

In Egregores: The Occult Entities That Watch Over Human Destiny, Stavish defines an egregore as an

autonomous entity composed of and influencing the thoughts of a group of people; it is also the home or conduit for a specific psychic intelligence of a nonhuman nature connecting the invisible dimensions with the material world in which we live.³

In other words, an egregore is like a bridge or a tunnel; it permits different levels of reality to enter a specific geography in the shared physical world. Following from this definition, the pathway of an egregore is a necessarily transcendental one as its linkage is between worlds. This does not specify the order of a given world⁴, but instead denotes a degree of difference between worlds that the egregore in function connects. Kabbalah is one such study of other worlds⁵, using the glyph of the Tree of Life as a roadmap to other planes of existence, beginning in the tenth sephirot of Malkuth, which we inhabit as the physical world⁶.

On the Kabbalist view, the nature of creation is one of emanation, remarkably similar to, but more robust than, Plato’s theory of Forms⁷. Roughly, the sephirot of Kether is the godhead of creation⁸, the first point of awareness against a backdrop of infinite Nothingness. The point arises from Nothingness as distinction, an awareness of its antecedent Nothingness. Kether is this reality as awareness at its least dense, the I am that I am, and its subsequent outpouring is a series of emanations that hone and refine awareness into creativity, gradually hardening in density until givi...

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