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The Star Sponge and the Fifty Gates,
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Two Passages to Attainment.
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Copyright (c) 1975 and 1990 by Bill Heidrick
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Crowley's Star Sponge vision at Lake Pasquaney around 1916 e.v. was a very
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profound perception but a very ordinary conception. Crowley saw "Nothingness
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with twinkles" and elaborated the vision subsequently to include many
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insights.
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"... Each stage in the process was like the joy of a young eagle soaring from
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height to height in ever increasing sunlight as dawn breaks, foaming, over the
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purple hem of the garment of ocean, and, when the many coloured rays of rose
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and gold and green gathered themselves together and melted into the orbed
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glory of the sun, with a rapture that shook the soul with unimaginable
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ecstasy, that sphere of rushing light was recognized as a common-place idea,
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accepted unquestioningly and treated with drab indifference because it had so
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long been assimilated as a natural and necessary part of the order of Nature.
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At first I was shocked and disgusted to discover that a series of brilliant
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researches should culminate in a commonplace. But I soon understood that what
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I had done was to live over again the triumphant career of conquering
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humanity; that I had experienced in my own person the succession of winged
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victories that had been sealed by a treaty of peace whose clauses might be
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summed up in some such trite expression as "Beauty depends upon form".
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It would be quite impracticable to go fully into the subject of this vision
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of the Star-Sponge, if only because its ramifications are omniform. It must
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suffice to reiterate that it has been the basis of most of my work for the
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last five years, and to remind the reader that the essential form of it is
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'Nothingness with twinkles.'"
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--- From Crowley's new comment to "Liber AL", Ch. I, v. 59.
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(See also "Confessions" p. 810 and ff; "Liber Aleph" generally in many of the
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passages citing the term "Star(s)"; and many passages in "Vision and Voice".)
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This vision discovered the concept of a simple mathematical field, later
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extended to include vector and functional fields. Crowley's contact with
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Sullivan (see "Confessions", p. 922) led him to investigate mathematical
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authors. He was deeply impressed with the writings of Bertrand Russell and A.
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Eddington. Crowley's interest in the mathematics of fields and series came to
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dominate many passages of his later writings, especially the commentaries to
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"Liber AL" and "Liber LXV".
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What made the Star Sponge vision pivotal for Crowley was his state of
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readiness at the time he perceived the relation. Some studies and
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experiences, especially initiations, must occur in sequence.
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"Digamma-chi SEQUITUR DE HAC RE."
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"I believe generally, on Ground both of Theory and Experience, so little as
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I have, that a Man must first be Initiate, and established in Our Law, before
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he may use this Method. For in it is an Implication of our Secret
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Enlightenment, concerning the Universe, how its Nature is utterly Perfection."
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--- from "Liber Aleph", p. 181
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Many of those who espouse the "new" Chaos Magick fail in this regard.
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There is nothing new or revolutionary in Chaos Magick. It is the common
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practice of all students of the mysteries, and a beginning to serious work.
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Study of established systems is necessary. From Crowley's spontaneous
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(Chaotic?) vision of the Star Sponge, a trivia in itself, he went on to
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discover the ramifications of this vision in the accumulated lore of
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mathematics. Had he not done that, he would have spent much time
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"rediscovering the wheel". As it worked out, Crowley was able to apply
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elementary field theory by metaphor to teleology and, less successfully, to
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sociology.
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-oOo-
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"4. The fifty gates of Binah have been variously explained. They do not
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appear to be of any great importance; it is only their number which is
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significant. The reference is to Nun = 50 = Scorpio Atu XIII -- Death."
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--- from "Cry of 14 Aethyr", "Vision & Voice", page 82, fn 4.
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The 50 gates of Binah were not directly understood by Crowley as such, but
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he acquired the conception through time and personal experience. The
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essential idea behind the 50 gates appears in many of his writings and
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attainments; e.g., "Wakeworld" in "Knox Om Pax", and "Vision and Voice".
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Crowley missed the significance of the G.'. D.'. diagram of the ten
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Sephiroth in seven palaces in this conjunction. That diagram ("Equinox" Vol
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I, No. 2, "Temple of Solomon the King", p. 272, Dia. 27) shows the
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distribution of the ten Sephiroth into seven palaces, and is a representation
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of the exact moment of the opening of the fiftieth gate --- the crossing of
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the Abyss. At that moment Malkut and Yesod merge and the upper three
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Sephiroth appear as one, as Binah. Crowley was aware of this from direct
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experience, and noted seeing the Supernals as one Sephira on first crossing
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the Abyss. Unlike his experience with the "Star Sponge" vision, he apparently
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did not identify this with a pre-existing body of knowledge, the tradition of
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the Fifty Gates of Understanding. Very Probably this oversight can be blamed
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on the old Golden Dawn representations of these 7 palaces and the Beast of
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Revelations in a Christian negative view. See "Equinox" Vol. I, No. 2,
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p. 275, Dia. 33 and p. 283, Dia. 51, where the Beast is associated with the
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palaces. Most of the speculation concerning it has dealt with things like the
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seven hills of Rome, Christian heresies concerning "Satan", Antichrist and the
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like. This Beast is a relic of gnostic and prechristian mysticism of unknown
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antiquity. "Revelations" is itself a forgery, with the visions copied from
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prechristian Merkabah sources. The Beast with 10 horns and 7 heads is a
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variant of the serpent on the 32 paths of the Tree of Life and an alternative
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to the diagram of the seven palaces.
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There is a list of the Fifty Gates of Binah or Understanding in the back of
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a translation of the "Sepher Yetzirah" by Wescott, although not in all
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editions, and the original of that list is in Kircher's "Oedipus Aegyptiacus".
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Westcott took liberties with his source. He changed gate 41 and removed
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material from the description of gate 50, concerning Moses. His translations
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of the Latin are sometimes distorted by pre-conceptions. Gates 41 through 49
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also contain an original confusion of the prechristian Qabalistic angelic
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orders with the 5th century Hierarchies of Pseudo-Dionysus.
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from Westcott's "Sepher Yetzirah", 1911ev, 3rd Ed.
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"The Fifty Gates of Intelligence."
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"Attached to some editions of the Sepher
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Yetzirah is found this scheme of Kabalistic
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classification of knowledge emanating from the
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Second Sephira Binah, Understanding, and
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descending by stages through the angels,
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heavens, humanity, animal and vegetable and
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mineral kingdoms to Hyle and the chaos. The
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Kabalists said that one must enter and pass up
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through the Gates to attain to the Thirty-Two
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Paths of Wisdom; and that even Moses only passed
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through the forty-ninth Gate, and never entered
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the fiftieth. See the "Oedipus AEgyptiacus" of
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Athanasius Kircher, vol ii, p. 319."
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"First Order: Elementary."
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"1. Chaos, Hyle, the first matter.
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2. Formless, void, lifeless.
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3. The Abyss.
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4. Origin of the Elements.
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5. Earth (no seed germs).
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6. Water.
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7. Air.
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8. Fire.
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9. Differentiation of qualities.
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10. Mixture and combination."
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"Second Order: Decad of Evolution."
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"11. Minerals differentiate.
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12. Vegetable principles appear.
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13. Seeds germinate in moisture.
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14. Herbs and Trees.
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15. Fructification in vegetable life.
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16. Origin of low forms of animal life.
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17. Insects and Reptiles appear.
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18. Fishes, vertebrate life in the waters.
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19. Birds, vertebrate life in the air.
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20. Quadrupeds, vertebrate earth animals."
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"Third Order: Decad of Humanity."
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"21. Appearance of Man.
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22. Material human body.
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23. Human soul conferred.
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24. Mystery of Adam and Eve.
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25. Complete Man as the Microcosm.
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26. Gift of five human faces acting exteriorly.
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27. Gift of five powers to the Soul.
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28. Adam Kadmon, the Heavenly Man.
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29. Angelic beings.
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30. Man in the image of God."
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"Fourth Order: World of Spheres."
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"31. The Moon.
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32. Mercury.
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33. Venus.
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34. Sol.
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35. Mars.
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36. Jupiter.
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37. Saturn.
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38. The Firmament.
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39. The Primum Mobile.
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40. The Empyrean Heaven."
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"Fifth Order: The Angelic World."
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"41. Ishim --- Sons of Fire.
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42. Auphanim --- Cherabim.
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43. Aralim --- Thrones.
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44. Chashmalim --- Dominions.
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45. Seraphim --- Virtues.
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46. Malakim --- Powers.
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47. Elohim --- Principalities.
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48. Beni Elohim --- Angels.
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49. Cherubim --- Archangels."
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"Sixth Order: the Archetype."
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"50. God. Ain Suph. He Whom no mortal eye hath
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seen, and Who has been known to Jesus the
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Messiah alone."
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"Note. --- The Angels of the Fifth or
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Angelic World are arranged in very different
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order by various Kabalistic Rabbis."
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from Iathanasii Kircheri "OEdipi Aegyptiaci" Tomi Secundi,
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Vol. B (separate pagination from IIA), 1653ev
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pp. 319-321. More information is found on pp. 316-318,
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the entire section VI is titled "De quinquaginta portis
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Intelligentiae". Kircher's Hebrew type setter tends
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to misspell, and the Hebrew type renders some letters
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too like to others.
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Prima Classis. Elementorum primordiae. HB:a'aVLM HZKVDVTh"
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Porta 1 & infima: Materia prima, Hyle, Chaos HB:ChVMR
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2 Vacuum & inane, id est, formarum priuatio.
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3 Appetitus naturalis, abyssus.
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4 Elementorum discretio & rudimenta.
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5 Terrenum elementum nullis adhuc seminibus infectum.
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6 Aquae elementum operiens terram.
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7 Aeris ex aquarum abysso exhalantis elementum.
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8 Ignis elementum fouens & animans.
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9 Qualitatum symbolizatio.
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10 Appentitus earundem ad commistionem."
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Classis Secunda. Mistorum Decas."
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Porta 11 Mineralium, terra discooperta, apparitio.
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12 Flores & succi ad metallorum generationem ordinati.
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13 Mare, Iacus, flumina intra alueos secreta.
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14 Herbarum, arborumque, id est, vegetatiuae naturae productio.
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15 Vires & semina singulis indita.
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16 Sensitinae naturae productio, id est,
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17 Insectorum & Reptilium,
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18 Aquarilium .
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:- vna cum proprietatibus corundem
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19 Volucrium, .
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20 Quadrupedum procreatio."
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Classis Tertia. Humanae Naturae Decas. HB:a'aVLM QThVN, id est,
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Mu-iota-kappa-rho-omicron-kappa-omicron-sigma-mu-omicron-sigma,
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Mundus minor."
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Porta 21 HB:BRYATh HADM, Hominis productio,
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22 HB:a'aBR MN ChADMH, Limus terrae damascenae materia.
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23 HB:HNShMH VNPSh, Spiraculum vitae anima, siue
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24 HB:SVD HADM VChVH, Adami & Euae mysterium.
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25 HB:HADM KLBV, Homo omnia, microcosmus.
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26 HB:ChMShH KHVTh HGShM, Quinque potentiae exteriores.
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27 HB:ChMShH KHVTh HNPSh, Quinque potentiae interiores.
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28 HB:HADM HVA ShMYM, Homo Coelum.
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29 HB:HADM HVA MLAK, Homo Angelus.
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30 HB:HADM HVA DMVTh HALHYM, Homo Dei imago & similitudo."
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Classis Quarta. Continet Coelorum Ordines, & vocantur ab Hebrais
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HB:a'aVLM HGLGLYM, id est, Mundus sphoerarum: qua sunt"
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Porta 31 HB:HGLGL HLBNH, Coelum Lunae.
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32 HB:HGLGL HKVKB, Coelum Mercurii.
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33 HB:HGLGL HNVGH, Coelum Veneris.
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34 HB:HGLGL HShMSh, Coelum Solis. (Hebrew corrected)
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35 HB:HGLGL MADYM, Coelum Martis.
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36 HB:HGLGL TzDQ, Coelum Iouis.
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37 HB:HGLGL ShBTAY, Coelum Saturni.
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38 HB:HGLGL HRQYa'a, Coelum firmamenti.
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39 HB:HGLGL GLGL RAShVN, Coelum mobile.
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40 HB:HGLGL GLGL HLGLYM, Coelum Empyreum."
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Classis Quinta. Nouem Angelorum Ordines continet, et vocatur
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HB:a'aVLM HMLAKYM, id est, Mundus Angelicus, ut sequitur"
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Porta 41 HB:ChYVTh HQVDSh, Animalia sancta, Seraphini.
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42 HB:AVPNYM, Ophanim, id est, Rotae, Cherubini.
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43 HB:ARALYM, Angeli magni fortes, Throni.
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44 HB:ChShMLYM, Haschemalim, id est, Dominationes.
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45 HB:ShRPYM, Seraphim, id est, Virtutes.
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46 HB:MLAKYM, Malachim, id est, Potestates.
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47 HB:ALHYM, Elohim, id est, Principatus.
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48 HB:BNY ALHYM, Ben Elohim, id est, Archangeli.
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49 HB:KRVBYM, Cherubin, id est, Angeli."
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Classis Sexta. HB:AYN SVP, Deus immensus.
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HB:a'aVLM a'aLYVN, Mundus supramundanus & Archetypus."
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Porta 50 Deus Optimus Maximus, quem mortalis homo non vidit, nec vllo
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mentis scrutinio penetrauit, estque quinquagesima porta, ad quam Moyses
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non pertigit."
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--- The selection concludes with an assertion that only Jesus Christ
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penetrated the fiftieth gate; evidently an interpolation by Kircher. This
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was drawn up into the text of the gate by Westcott, obscuring the original.
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No wonder Crowley did not find meaning in the fifty gates! This partly
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Christianized hotch-potch does not display a clear system. Here's a modern
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recasting:
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1. The darkness of the empty womb.
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2. The darkness of the fertile womb.
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3. The fetus grows in the darkness.
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4. The fetus moves in the darkness.
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5. Birth into the outer light.
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6. First breath.
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7. The chord is cut.
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8. First feeding.
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9. First sleep.
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10. The eyes first open.
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11. The first perception.
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12. The first dream of the outer world.
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13. The first deliberate act.
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14. The first love.
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15. The power to move by will.
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16. First pain from love.
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17. Beginnings of speech.
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18. First understood answer to speech.
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19. The power to stand and walk.
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20. The power to discriminate safety and danger.
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21. Cultural behavior begins.
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22. Control of body functions.
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23. Learning and reason.
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24. Puberty.
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25. Physical growth stops --- adulthood in society.
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26. Cultivation of the senses.
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27. Expression of the senses.
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28. Awareness of spiritual existence.
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29. The soul reaches beyond the spirit.
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30. The soul acts apart from the body spirit.
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31. The soul vitalizes the senses.
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32. The soul inspires the dreams.
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33. The soul teaches rational powers (ceremonial magick).
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34. The soul guides the emotions (Natural magick).
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35. The soul rules the body and spirit.
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36. The soul guides beyond the body.
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37. The soul blesses beyond the body.
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38. The soul endures without the body.
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39. The soul acts without the body.
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40. The soul grows without the body.
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41. Consciousness of the world is a flame.
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42. Guardianship of the world.
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43. Guardianship of souls.
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44. Guardianship of the Watchers.
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45. Sovereignty --- power to represent the highest.
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46. The power to destroy by greatness.
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47. The power to preserve by greatness.
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48. The power to build in greatness.
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49. The greatness beyond light.
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50. Eternal being.
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The examples of the fifty gates presented above demonstrate one of two
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principal forms of the gates of Understanding. These first two examples
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are representative of the higher of the two forms and can be related to the
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Tree of Life diagram. According to Krakovshy's "Kabbalah: The Light of
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Redemption", pp. 155 to 157, gates 1 through 10 are the ten Sephiroth of a
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tree growing within the conjoined Malkut-Yesod-Tipheret of a greater tree.
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Thus gate 1 is Malkut within Malkut-Yesod-Tipheret. Gate 2 is Yesod within
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Malkut-Yesod-Tipheret. This continues with gate 10 being Keter within
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Malkut-Yesod-Tipheret of the greater.
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Gates 11 through 20 are a tree of ten growing within Hod of a greater
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tree.
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Gates 21 through 30 are a tree of ten growing within Netzach of a
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greater tree; e.g. gate 24 is Netzach of a lesser tree that grows within
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the Netzach of the greater tree.
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Gates 31 through 40 are a lesser tree growing within the Geburah of a
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greater.
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Gates 41 through 50 are a lesser tree growing within Chesed of a greater
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--- yet the fiftieth gate touches a bond with Binah of the greater tree.
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Through Binah the fiftieth gate is distantly united with Chokmah of the
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greater tree. Chokmah of the greater reaches to Keter of the greater.
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Keter of the greater touches Ain Soph Aur and becomes eternal by that
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touch.
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The second and lower of the two forms of the fifty gates of understanding
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has a structure curiously like certain of Crowley's methods. Each of the
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lower seven Sephiroth holds a truncated tree of seven. These lesser trees
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are cut short by the fear that dwells in the mortal spirit of human kind.
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This spirit knows that it is but a spark before a greater fire; yet it
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fears to draw the greater lest it vanish without a trace. The lesser
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spirit has no need to fear dissolution, for the greater fire takes its
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essence from the changing sparks that shine within its flame. This lesser
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spark is akin to Crowley's idea of Hadit while the greater fire is akin to
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Nuit. The difference here is an emphasis on "fear of encounter" rather
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than on desire for union.
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Here is an example of the second form of the fifty gates of Binah. It
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is said to be lower only from the greater being a perspective natural to
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one above the Abyss and the lower to that of one who is striving to cross
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the Abyss.
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1. Malkut within MALKUT. Lifeless matter.
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2. Yesod within MALKUT. Matter differentiates into substances. Elements.
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3. Hod within MALKUT. Molecules are formed.
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4. Netzach within MALKUT. Organic substances appear.
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5. Tipheret within MALKUT. Primitive life appears.
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6. Geburah within MALKUT. Primitive life Reproduces in kind.
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7. Chesed within MALKUT. Evolution of species begins.
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8. Malkut within YESOD. Creatures interact.
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9. Yesod within YESOD. Creatures become aware of the living and the
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lifeless.
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10. Hod within YESOD. Creatures evolve defenses and weapons.
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11. Netzach within YESOD. Creatures become social.
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12. Tipheret within YESOD. Creatures take harmless pleasure with one another.
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13. Geburah within YESOD. Creatures begin to care for one another.
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14. Chesed within YESOD. Food and other needs are shared.
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15. Malkut within HOD. Objects are used as tools
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16. Yesod within HOD. Objects are honored.
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17. Hod within HOD. Tools are made.
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18. Netzach within HOD. Tools and shelters are improved.
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19. Tipheret within HOD. Tool making is taught.
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20. Geburah within HOD. Trade begins.
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21. Chesed within HOD. Things not needed are kept for the future.
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22. Malkut within NETZACH. Objects are admired.
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23. Yesod within NETZACH. Objects are decorated.
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24. Hod within NETZACH. Decoration represents nature.
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25. Netzach within NETZACH. Nature is influenced by decoration.
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26. Tipheret within NETZACH. Artists are honored.
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27. Geburah within NETZACH. Design departs from nature.
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28. Chesed within NETZACH. Collections of symbols appear.
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29. Malkut within TIPHERET. Nations appear.
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30. Yesod within TIPHERET. Nations react with nations.
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31. Hod within TIPHERET. Trade between nations begins.
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32. Netzach within TIPHERET. Nations share knowledge.
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33. Tipheret within TIPHERET. Nations honor nations.
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34. Geburah within TIPHERET. International ritual is formalized by practice.
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35. Chesed within TIPHERET. Commonwealth of humanity is recognized.
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36. Malkut within GEBURAH. History is invented.
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37. Yesod within GEBURAH. Moral myth appears.
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38. Hod within GEBURAH. Progress is invented.
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39. Netzach within GEBURAH. Evolution is honored.
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40. Tipheret within GEBURAH. Commonwealth of beings is recognized.
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41. Geburah within GEBURAH. Obligations to nonhuman nature are recognized.
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42. Chesed within GEBURAH. Abstraction is held superior to the material.
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43. Malkut within CHESED. Religion and state begin to separate.
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44. Yesod within CHESED. Utopias are imagined.
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45. Hod within CHESED. Religion becomes Philosophy.
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46. Netzach within CHESED. Tolerance of differences in philosophy appears.
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47. Tipheret within CHESED. Existentialism, Positivism & Teleologism coalesce.
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48. Geburah within CHESED. Personal identity with abstraction is the goal.
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49. Chesed within CHESED. Enlightenment becomes the goal.
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50. Binah. Enlightenment is attained.
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The fifty gates of understanding can also be used in ritual meditation.
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The second approach to interpreting the fifty gates (below the Abyss) forms
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a structure for a negative confession like that found in the "Egyptian Book
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of the Dead". In this, seven statements of purity are made for each of the
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seven lower Sephiroth. These are not to be memorized, but are made up on
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the spot by the ritualist each time. Each statement corresponds to a
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Sephira within each of the seven Sephiroth according to the pattern shown
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just above. Seven times seven is forty-nine statements in all. Each
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statement must take the form of a denial of fault, corresponding to the
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combination of the Sephiroth. The depth and soul-searching quality of the
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forth-nine truths determines success or failure. When the ritualist can
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say all forty-nine of these statements truthfully, the fiftieth gate will
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open into the Supernals though Binah. It is not necessary for the
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statements to be accurate in regard to one's everyday life. This procedure
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gradually formulates a higher self from of the normal personality. The
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form of the statements should begin with "I have not ..." and conclude with
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a denial of fault; e.g. "I have not cheated anyone." "I have not lied to
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anyone." and so on. This practice is given at greater length in my booklet
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"Magick and Qabalah #1", pp. 24-27.
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--- TSG
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Note to the Electronic Edition. In the above article, Hebrew Letters have
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been represented by English letters. For each group of consecutive words
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in Hebrew, the prefix "HB:" identifies. The following substitutions are
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then used:
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A = Aleph ------- not correct for pronunciation.
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B = Bet
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G = Gemel
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D = Dalet
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H = Heh
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V = Vau
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Z = Zain
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Ch = Chet ------- not correct for pronunciation.
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T = Tet
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Y = Yod
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K = Koph
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L = Lamed
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M = Mem
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N = Nun
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S = Samekh
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a'a = Ayin
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P = Peh
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Tz = Tzaddi
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Q = Qof
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R = Resh
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Sh = Shin
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Th = Taw -------- not correct for pronunciation.
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