The Tree of Life is normally shown to have 10 Sephiroth with 22 interconnecting paths. Interestingly, something I learned from Aryeh Kaplan's book on the Sepher Yetzirah - a 13 node tree would have 30 interconnecting paths. I constructed this tree by considering the three veils of nothing: ain, ain soph, and ain soph aur, as pseudo-sephirah, above the 10 numbered nodes. This allows us to incorporate the Thirty Enochian aethers in such a way that they show us how to climb spiritually beyond the singular nature of Kether. It is certain that this map misrepresents the territory in a sense - these are spaces that cannot truly be reified - and yet there is an elegance to this tree which shows us 10 planes, 13 nodes, and 30 paths.
The High Priestess, sitting on path 13, might know something of how this maps leads us to contemplations that this map cannot possibly contain. Inscrutability and mystery are her nature.
Consider this, then, to be a paradox.
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