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Original key entry by Bill Heidrick, GTG OTO
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Extracted from EQ-I-2.AS1 by Fr. Nachash, Uraeus-Hadit Camp
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A NOTE ON GENESIS
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FROM THE PAPER WRITTEN
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BY THE
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V.H. FRA. I.A. 5 Degree = 6 Square
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A.'. A.'. Publication in Class C.
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Issued by Order:
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D.D.S. 7 Degree = 4 Square Praemonstrator
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O.S.V. 6 Degree = 5 Square Imperator
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N.S.F. 5 Degree = 6 Square Chancellarius
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A NOTE ON GENESIS
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PREFATORY NOTE
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THE following Essay is one of the most remarkable studies in the Hebrew
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Qabalah known to me.
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Its venerable author was an adept familiar with many systems of symbolism,
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and able to harmonise them for himself, even as now is accomplished for all
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men in the Book "777".
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In the year 1899 he was graciously pleased to receive me as his pupil, and,
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living in his house, I studied daily under his guidance the Holy Qabalah.
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Upon his withdrawal --- whether to enjoy his Earned Reward, or to perform the
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Work of the Brotherhood in other lands or planets matters nothing here --- he
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bequeathed to me a beautiful Garden, the like of which hath rarely been seen
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upon Earth.
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It has been my pious duty to collate and comment upon this arcane knowledge,
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long treasured in my heart, watered alike by my tears and my blood, and sunned
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by that all-glorious Ray that multiplieth itself into an Orb ineffable.
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In this Garden no flower was fairer than this exquisite discourse; I beg my
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readers to pluck it and lay it in their hearts.
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It should be studied in connection with the Book "777," and with the Sepher
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Sephiroth, a magical dictionary of pure number which was begun by the
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author of this essay, carried on by myself, and now about to be published as
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soon as the MS. can be prepared.
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The reader who is at all familiar with the sublime computations of the
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Qabalah will find no difficulty in appreciating this Essay to the full; but
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all will gain benefit from the study of the ratiocinative methods employed.
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These methods, indeed, are so fine and subtile that they readily sublime into
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the Intuitive. This study is truly a Royal Magistry, an easy and sure means
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of exalting the consciousness from Ruach to Neschamah.
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PART I
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IN the First Verse of the First Chapter of the First Five Books of the Holy
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Law: it is written: --- B'RAShITh Ba RA ALoHIM ATh HaShaMaIM VaATH HaAReTz, or
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in Aramaic script
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Bet-Resh-Aleph-Shin-Yod-Taw Bet-Resh-Aleph Aleph-Lamed-Heh-Yod-Memfinal
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Aleph-Taw Heh-Shin-Mem-Yod-Memfinal Vau-Aleph-Taw Heh-Aleph-Resh-Tzaddifinal
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Such are the Seven Words which constitute the Beginnings or Heads of One
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Law; and I propose to show, by applying to the Text the Keys of the Qabalah,
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that not merely the surface meaning is contained therein.
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In the Beginning, created, God, the Essence of the Heavens, and the
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Essence, of the Earth.
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In the Beginning. .God . .
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In Wisdom :Created:The Elohim :the Essence<<1>>:of the Heavens
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In the Head<<2>>. .The Holy Gods. .
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.
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and the Essence:of the Earth
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.
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<<1: Aleph-Taw = the First and Last --- Alpha and Omega --- Aleph and Tau.>>
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<<2: "I.e.," the White Skull. "Vide" Idra Zutra Qadisha, cap. ii.
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Distinguish from the skull of Microprosophus.>>
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Contained therein also are the Divine, Magical, and Terrestrial Formulae of
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the Passage of the Incomprehensible Nothingness of the Ain Soph to the
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Perfection of Creation expressed by the Ten Voices or Emanations of God
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the Vast One --- Blessed be He! --- even the Holy Sephiroth.
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And the Method whereby I shall work shall be the One Absolute and inerratic
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Science: the Science of Number: which is that single Mystery of the Intellect
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of Man whereby he becometh exalted unto the Throne of Inflexible and Unerring
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Godhead.
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As it is written, "Oh, how the World hath Inflexible Intellectual Rulers"
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(Zoroaster).
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But before I may proceed unto the Qabalistical<<Here use in its true
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meaning of "the marshalling forth by number." Qabalah, Qof-Bet-Lamed-Heh, by
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Tarot, "The Mystery shown forth in balanced disposition by Command.">>
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enumeration and analysis of the Text, a certain preamble in the fruitful
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fields of that Science will become necessary. The Evolution of the Numbers is
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the Evolution of the Worlds, for as it is written in the Clavicula Salomonis,
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"The Numbers are Ideas; and the Ideas are the Powers, and the Powers are the
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Holy Elohim of Life." That which is behind and beyond all Number and all
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thought (even as the Ain Soph with its Mighty Veils depending back from Kether
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is behind and beyond all Manifestation) is the Number 0. Its symbol is the
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very Emblem of Infinite Space and Infinite Time. <<"Hidden behind my Magic
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Veil of Shows, I am not seen at all --- Name not my Name.">> Multiply by it
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any active and manifested number; and that number vanishes --- sinks into the
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Ocean of Eternity. So also is the Ain Soph. From it proceed all Things: unto
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It all will return, when the Age of Brahman is over and done, and the day of
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Peace-Be-with-Us is declared by Thoth, the Great God, and the Material
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Universe sinketh into Infinity.
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The first Number, then is ONE; emblem of the All-Father; the Unmanifest
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Mind behind all Manifestation: the First Mind. Multiply by It any other
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Number --- for the Multiplication of the Numbers is a Generation, as is the
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Multiplication of Men and Gods --- and behold! the "Resultant" is a replica of
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the Number taken. So is One the All-Father, the All-begetter --- generating
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and producing all.
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The next step is the division into TWO. Thus was manifested the Great Dual
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Power of Nature. As above, so below. And thus we find that the simple
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division into two is the method of multiplication of the Amoeba, the lowest,
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simplest, and most absolute form of physical life that we know.
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The Dual Power of Nature is the Great Mother of the Worlds.
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Again, to draw an analogy from the Material World, consider the Moon, our
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Mother. Behold in her the Typic representative of the Powers of the Two.
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Light and Darkness, Flux and Reflux, Ebb and Flow --- these are her manifested
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Powers in Nature --- where also she binds the "Great Waters" to her Will.
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Now in the Yetziratic Attribution is the second number, Beth ("i.e.," a
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House), an Abode, the Dwelling of the Holy One, shown to be equivalent to the
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Sphere of Kokab and his lords. And the symbolic weapon of Mercury is the
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Caduceus, whose Twin Serpents show again the Dualistic Power. ("Note." ---
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Woden, the Scandinavian Mercury, was the All-Father, as it is written in the
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Ritual of the Path of the Spirit of the Primal Fire HB:Shin. "For all
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things did the Father of All Things perfect, and delivered them over unto the
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"Second Mind; whom all Races of Men call 'First.'") Behold, then, in these
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two great Numbers 1 and 2 the Father and the Mother of the Worlds and of
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Numbers.
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Now these twain being Conjoined and manifest in ONE, produce the Number 3;
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as it is written: "For the Mind of the Father said that 'All Things should be
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cut into Three,' Whose Will<<HB:Bet, the magus of Power in Taro = Will.>>
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assenting All Things were so divided. For the Mind of the Father said "Into
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three," governing All Things by Mind. And there appeared in it the Triad,
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Virtue and Wisdom and Multiscient Truth." Thus floweth forth the form of the
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Triad.<<Ritual of the Path of the Daughter of the Firmament.>> Thus is
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formulated the Creative Trinity which is, as it were, the essential
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preliminary to Manifestation.
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This Mystic Son of the Eternal Parents, having for his number 3, is
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typified in all the sacred scripts by that number. Thus it is written of the
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manifestation of the Son of God upon the Earth, "Shiloh shall come" (the
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initial of which Mystery-Name is HB:Shin = 300). And in the Grecian tongue
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it is written: "In the beginning was the Word," &c., which is lambda omicron
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gamma omicron sigma (lambda = 30). But the best of all the Examples is
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found in the Holy Tetragram Yod-Heh-Vau-Heh. For we may regard this venerable
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name as typical of the Father and the Mother, and so divided into Vau-Heh and
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Yod-Heh.<<For it is written (Genesis v. 1, 2):
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:Bet-Resh-Aleph Aleph-Lamed-Heh-Yod-Memfinal Aleph-DaletMemfinal
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Bet-Dalet-Mem-Vau-Taw Aleph-Lamed-Heh-Yod-Memfinal Ayin-Shin-Heh Aleph-Taw-
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Vau Qof-Bet-Resh Vau-Nun-Qof-Bet-Heh Bet-Resh-Aleph-Memfinal
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"And the Elohim created Mankind: in the Likeness of the Elohim
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created they them: Male and Female created they them." Now if ADAM be in
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the similitude of the Elohim: and are male and female, then must the Elohim
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be also male and female. Now in the first of those mysterious three verses
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in Exodus xiv. wherein the divided name is hidden it is written, "and went
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the Angel of the Elohim before the Camp," &c. And this Angel of the Elohim,
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Mem-Lamed-Aleph-Kophfinal Aleph-Lamed-Heh-Yod-Memfinal, is the
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Manifestations of their presence. Now Mem-Lamed-Aleph-Kophfinal hath the
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numeration 91, which also is the number of Yod-Heh-Vau-Heh Aleph-Dalet-Nun-
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Yod, wherefore by Gematria "Tetragrammaton our Lord" is the Angel Now if
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into the midst of this divided Name of the Elohim of the Divided Name.
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Therefore is the Tetragrammaton symbolic of the Manifested Presence of the
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Elohim; and if the Elohim be Male and Female, so also must be the Tetragram.
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Also is the number of Aleph-Mem-Nunfinal (also 91) by Aiq Bekar 1 + 4 + 5 =
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10 --- the Perfection of the Sephiroth.>> we cast the
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triple fire of the Holy letter HB:Shin = 300, we get the name of the
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Godhead Incarnate upon Earth, Yod-Heh-Shin-Vau-Heh. But 1 + 2 + 3 = 6,
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which is the number of HB:Vau, the third letter of the Venerable Name:
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Microprosopus and the Son of God.
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We are now, therefore, arrived at the Great Mystery of the Tetractys, and
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to go further we must resort to the Twin Sister of the Science of Number ---
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which, indeed, is but Number made Flesh: Geometry, or Absolute Symbolism.
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Even as it was spoken by the holy Pythagoras: "God geometrises."
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Let us behold the Work of His Fingers!
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{The following illustration includes a circumscribed equilateral triangle. In
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the original, the triangle and circle are composed of solid lines. The form
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given here is an approximation.}
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One Son Incomprehensible.
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. /HB:Shin .
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. /HB:Aleph HB:Mem \ .
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One Father 1.----------------------- 2. One Mother
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Incomprehensible. . . Incomprehensible.
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. .
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. . .
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Fig. I. --- THE TRINITY UNMANIFEST.
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{The following illustration includes a circumscribed equilateral triangle with
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solid rays extending to nearly the center. In the original, the triangle and
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circle are composed of solid lines. The form given here is an approximation.}
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One Son Eternal.
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One Father Eternal.1.----------------------- 2.One Mother Eternal.
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. .
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Fig. II. --- THE TRINITY IN MANIFESTATION.
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In both of these Symbols the all-including circle represents the underlying
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idea of the Number 0: the Infinite: Parabrahman: the Ain Soph. In the first
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is shown the Mystic Trinity before manifestation; as it were unlimited,
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unbound, and unbounded, inoperative because of its diffusiveness and
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dispersion. In the second figure we behold their concentration: focalisation:
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producing by their joint action the number of manifestation --- 4. In the
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worlds --- Assiah: in the Taro, the Princess --- the throne of the Spirit: in
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the Tetragram, the He final, and in symbolic language --- the Daughter: in the
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Cycle of Life (Birth, Life, Death, Resurrection), the forth; in the Keys of
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the Book Universal, the Empress, Kappa-omicron-rho-eta Kappa-omicron-sigma-mu-
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omicron-upsilon, the Virgin of the World, Venus, Aphrodite: Centrum in
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Trigonis Centri --- by whatsoever of a myriad names we call Her, still the
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same in Spirit, the same in Number and in form! And this number is herein
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formulated by the Concentration of the Three in One. 3 + 1 = 4. Now in this
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Figure II. we behold six certain Paths; and in six days did God create
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the Heavens and the Earth. And the total numeration of its numbers is the
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Perfect Number, even the Decade of the Sephiroth. (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10.)
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Thus can our Science teach us wherefore the Door<<As above, so below;
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wherefore saith the Holy Qabalah that alone amongst the Shells is Nogah, the
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Sphere of Venus, exalted unto Holiness. (Venus is the Goddess of Love.)>> of
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Venus, HB:Dalet, is the Gateway of Initiation: that one planet whose symbol
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alone embraceth the 10 Sephiroth; the Entrance to the Shrine of our Father
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C.R.C., the Tomb of Osiris; the God Revealer, coming, moreover, by the Central
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Path of HB:Samekh through the midst of the Triangle of Light. And the Lock
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which guards that Door is as the Four Gates of the Universe. And the Key is
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The Ankh, Immortal Life --- the Rose and Cross of Life; and the Symbol of
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Venus Venus.
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{The following illustration includes a circumscribed equilateral hexagram
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with solid rays extending to nearly the center. In the original, the hexagram
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and circle are composed of solid lines. The form given here is an
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approximation.}
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6. ----------+----------- 5.
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1.--------\--+--/-------- 2.
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Fig. III. --- THIRD SYMBOL.
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By producing the Paths whereby the Forces of the Three ("see" Second
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Symbol) were concentred into four, we find they read 1 + 4 = 5, 2 + 4 =
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6, 3 + 4 = 7. And thus is revealed the Second Triangle of the Hexagram of
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Creation.<<As it is written in the Path of the Child of the Sons of the
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Mighty: "And the Chaos cried aloud for the unity of Form and the Face of the
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Eternal arose. ... That Brow and those Eyes formed the upright-Fire-triangle
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of the Measureless Heavens: and their Reflection formed the inverted-Water-
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triangle of the measureless Waters. And thus was formulated One Eternal
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Hexad: and this is the Number of the Dawning Creation.">>
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Further, this Reflected Triangle showeth forth the evolution of the four
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Worlds and their Consolidation: for
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1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = Yod = Atziluth
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1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 = 15 = Yod Heh = Briah
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1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 = 21 = Yod Heh Vau = Yetzirah
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1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7<<10>> = 28 = 2 + 8 = 10 Assiah
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<<10: But herein is the Fall, that there were only six numbers, so that for
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the seventh was 5 repeated. Hence 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 5 = 26 Yod-Heh-Vau-
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Heh. Assiah; Tetragrammaton as the Elemental Limitation, the Jealous God. ---
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P.>>
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The Number 28, the total numeration, therefore represents Malkuth, the
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Tenth Sephira: Assiah made manifest --- the Work of Creation accomplished:
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wherefore God rested on the "Seventh" Day. And 28 is 7 x 4, the seven stars
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shining throughout the four Worlds.
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One thing is significant, indeed. Let us take the Primal Three and convert
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those Numbers into Colours. So we get HB:Aleph, the Father, the Yellow Ray of
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the Dawning Sun of Creation; HB:Mem, the Mother, the Blue Ray of the Great
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Primaeval Waters; HB:Shin, the Son, the Red Ray: the Ruach Elohim,<<Remember
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that the numeration of the Name Resh-Vau-Chet Aleph-Lamed-Heh-Yod-Memfinal is
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300 = HB:Shin.>> symbol of the Red Fire of God, which brooded (v.2) upon the
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Face of the Waters: or like the Red Glory that lights up the Heavens at Dawn,
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when the Golden Sun illumines the Waters above the Firmament. Now this Red
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Glory is the IGNIS DEI: which is also the AGNUS DEI, or Lamb of God that
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destroyeth (literally "burns out") the Sins of the World. As it is written in
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the Ordinary of the Mass: the Priest goeth unto the South of the Altar and
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prays: "O Agnus Dei! qui tollis -- qui tollis Peccata Mundi --- Dona Nobis
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Pacem!" And this Fire, this Lamb of God, is "Aries," Symbol of the Dawning
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Year: whose colour also is as the Red Fire, and which is the head of the Fiery
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Triplicity in the Zodiac. So also in the Grade of Neophyte in the Order of
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the Golden Dawn the Hierophant weareth a robe of flame-scarlet as symbolic of
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the Dawn.
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NOTE. --- It may be objected to this enunciation of the colours that HB:
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Yod, the Father, is Fire; that HB:Heh, the Mother, is Water; that HB:Vau, the
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Son, is Air, and Yellow instead of Red. This also is true, but it relates to
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the governance of the Elemental Kingdoms, which are in the Astral Worlds, and
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whose monads are on the descending arc of Life, whilst Man is on the Ascending;
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that scale is therefore inverted. For by the mighty sacrifice of the Man Made
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Flesh and by His Torturous Pilgrimage is evolved that Glorified Son Who is
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Greater than His Father. In Alchemy we have again the descending arc, for we
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find that the "red" powder cast upon the Water of the Metals produceth the
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Golden Sol. But it is important not to confuse. The Christians have terribly
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muddled their Trinity by making the Son the second instead of the third
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Principle; whilst with them the Holy Spirit at one Time symbolizes the Mother
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and at another the Son.
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Thus at the Annunciation and at the Baptism of the Christ the S.S.
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appeareth as a Dove, emblem of Venus and the Mother: whilst the S.S. that
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descended upon the Apostles at Pentecost was in reality the Spirit of
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the Christ, and therefore symbolised by the HB:Shin ("see" Lecture on
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Microcosmos in MSS. of R.R. et A.C.).
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In Theosophical nomenclature this latter was the M anas or Jeheshuah:
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the third Principle. / \
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A---U
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For the same reason I have drawn the triangle with the 3 uppermost
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3 instead of 3---2
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/ \ \ / .
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1---2 1
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PART II
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IT was necessary that I should go thus somewhat at length into this Mystery of
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the Opening of the Numbers, because without this explanation much of the
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meaning of the verse must necessarily remain obscure.
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Now let us consider this most Mystic Verse!
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The first thing that strikes us is that it contains "Seven Words:" the
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Second that the number of its letters is "twenty-eight." Thus does it
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perfectly symbolise in its entirety the third Symbol in the numerical
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evolution.
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Before proceeding to a detailed analysis, and following the Process of
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Creation by Time ("i.e.," beginning at the first letter, and so proceeding),
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let me point out a few general facts. First as to the number of letters in
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each word, which converted into figures stands thus: 4.3.5.2.5.3.6. (Hebrew
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direction).
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In the midst is 2, by Taro the Central Will: and this two-lettered word is
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Aleph-Taw. On either side of this is the pair of figures 35- 53, balanced one
|
||
against the other: as though symbolic of the great dawning of life of the
|
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"Mothers" --- HB:Heh and HB:Heh, vitalised by the SON (3) as the Vice-Gerent
|
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of His Father.
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|
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These balanced figures together make 16, whereof the Key is 7; the total
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||
number of letters in the third Symbol. Then we have left at either end 4 and
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6 = 10,<<"Vide" Sepher Yetzirah for this division of the Holy Sephiroth into a
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Hexad and a Tetrad.>> the perfection of the Sephiroth, as if to declare
|
||
that this verse from, beginning to end thereof reflected the Voices from
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Kether even unto Malkuth: and 6 - 4 = 2 again, the Central Will, HB:Bet,
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||
Thoth, in the Heart of the Universe (as in the centre of the verse). Note,
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then, this perfect equilibrium of the verse, and remember that Mystery ---
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that equilibrium is strength.
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Let us now look at the letters themselves. Counting them, we find that
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the two central ones are Mem-Aleph, the Supernal Mother; even as the number of
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letters had the dual symbol in their midst. Now their numeration is 41,
|
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yielding by Gematria Aleph-Yod-Lamed = Force: Might: Power: Gemel-Aleph-Vau-
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Aleph-Lamed, Divine Majesty: and Aleph-Chet-Lamed-Bet = Fecundity, all
|
||
symbolic of the attributes of the Dual Polar Force and Mother. Moreover, 4 +
|
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1 = 5 = HB:Heh, Mother Supernal once again --- and in its geometric symbol the
|
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Pentagram --- the Star of Unconquered Will. Add the next two letters on
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either side,
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Yod-Memfinal-Aleph-Taw
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and we get Earth-Air-Water-Fire, or a concealed Tetragrammaton.
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And this also reads Yod-Memfinal, the Great Sea, Aleph-Taw, Alpha and
|
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Omega, or Essence. Add the next two, so that the six central letters are
|
||
obtained; and we read Heh-Yod-Memfinal-Aleph-Taw-Heh, which signifies Heh-Yod-
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Memfinal, swollen, extended, or expanded; and hence "Thou" ("i.e.," God, Ateh,
|
||
the All) "in extension." But by Metathesis of these six letters is obtained
|
||
Heh-Yod-Heh Aleph-Mem-Taw = "Truth Was," as if affirming solemnly the
|
||
presence in the Creation of the Supernal Truth.
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||
|
||
Now let us take the first and last letters of the verse and "cast into the
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midst thereof the Fire of the Sun" --- "i.e.", HB:Vau (6), "the Seal of
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Creation" --- and we have Bet-Vau-Tzaddifinal, an Egg. Where we see the whole
|
||
universe enclosed in the Cosmic Egg of Hindu and Egyptian Mythology: and the
|
||
Formulation of the Sphere of the Universe (or Magical Mirror in Man).
|
||
As it were the Egg of the Black Swan of Time, the Kala Hamsa, the
|
||
Triune M
|
||
A U, or word of Power or of Seb, the Bird of Life, whose will was
|
||
heard in the Night of Time.
|
||
|
||
The total numeric value of the verse is Dalet-Taw-Nun-Tet = 4459, of which
|
||
the Key is 22, the number of the Paths from HB:Aleph to HB:Taw ; and the Key
|
||
of 22 is 4, the Tetractys and the Threshold of the Universe.
|
||
|
||
Now to proceed to what I have termed the Time Process, the first Word of
|
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the Law then is Bet-Resh-Aleph-Shin-Yod-Taw. Now in the Hebrew Scriptures the
|
||
first word of a Book is also its Title. Thus Genesis is called by the Rabbins
|
||
"B'rasheth," or "In the Beginning," wherefore we may regard this Word as not
|
||
the first word --- albeit that is shadowed forth therein --- but as the seal
|
||
and title and Key of the whole book. Holding this in mind, let us proceed to
|
||
analyse it. The number of its letters is six, the Seal of Creation, and their
|
||
total numeric value is 2911. 2911 = 13 = Death, the Transformer<<As it is
|
||
written: "Thy youth shall be renewed as the Eagle's." Now the Eagle is
|
||
HB:Nun. For further consideration of this 13, "vide" in the Portal Ritual the
|
||
explanation of that terrible Key. "See" account of this ritual in "The
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||
Temple."
|
||
|
||
Also, 13 is the numeration of Aleph-Chet-Dalet = Unity, as also is the
|
||
Great Name of God, Aleph-Lamed, by Aiq Bekar or Temurah.>> --- the distinct
|
||
formulation of the Three in One, uniting once more to produce the 4.
|
||
|
||
Now Beth primarily signifieth a House or Abode, and in Taro it
|
||
is Mercury, the Magus --- the Vox Dei --- and Thoth, the Recorder.
|
||
Coalesce these two ideas and we get HB:Bet.
|
||
|
||
"This is the Magical History."
|
||
|
||
HB:Resh signifieth the Head or Beginning of Time and
|
||
Things; and by Taro it is glory, Life, Light, Sun.
|
||
Thus read:
|
||
"Of the Dawning of Life and Light."
|
||
|
||
HB:Aleph is by shape the Svastika, symbolically Aleph, the Ox, as
|
||
though showing the fearful force of the Spiritual "Whirling
|
||
Motions" upon the Material Plane, as a terrible and destructive
|
||
Power. This is also shown by the Foolish Man, as the Material
|
||
Tarotic emblem of that which in its proper and higher
|
||
manifestation is the Spiritual Ether. Therefore we read:
|
||
|
||
"Begun are the Whirling Motions."
|
||
|
||
HB:Shin signifieth mighty in flame, whereof it is also the
|
||
Hieroglyph. It is that Ruach Elohim brooding upon the Face of the
|
||
Waters. So read:
|
||
|
||
"Formulated is the Primal Fire."
|
||
|
||
HB:Yod is the Hand,<<The Hand of God, always the Symbol of His
|
||
Power.>> symbolising Power in Action, and its Taro
|
||
Key is the Hermit and the Voice of Light, the Prophet of the Gods.
|
||
Thus:
|
||
|
||
"Proclaimed is the Reign of the Gods of Light."
|
||
|
||
HB:Taw is the last letter of the Alphabet, the "finis", the Omega,
|
||
the Universe, Saturn, the outermost Planet, and it is also
|
||
Taw-Resh-Ayin-Aleph, Throa, the Gate of the Universe; and by
|
||
Qabalah of nine Chambers it is HB:Dalet, the Gateway of Initiation.
|
||
Hence:
|
||
|
||
"At the Threshold of the Universe."
|
||
|
||
So the Whole Word reads:
|
||
|
||
HB:Bet This is the Magical History
|
||
HB:Resh Of the Dawning of the Light.
|
||
HB:Aleph Begun are the Whirling Motions;
|
||
HB:Shin Formulated is the Primal Fire;
|
||
HB:Yod Proclaimed is the Reign of the Gods of Light
|
||
HB:Taw At the Threshold of the Infinite Worlds!
|
||
|
||
Now compare this with the Particular Exordium (G.'. D.'. MSS. Z3):
|
||
|
||
.At the ending of the NIGHT
|
||
:At the Limits of the LIGHT
|
||
HB:Bet :Thoth stood before the Unborn Ones of Time
|
||
.Then was formulated the Universe.
|
||
.Then came forth the Gods thereof,
|
||
HB:Resh .The AEons of the Bornless Beyond.
|
||
HB:Aleph <<Remember in the description of the "Caduceus" ("see" p. 269)
|
||
the Air Symbol vibrating between them. [Also HB:Yod, Virgo, is a
|
||
Mercurial sign, and Thoth is Mercury, though on a Higher Plane. The
|
||
Hermit, with his Lamp and Wand, is Hermes, who guides the souls of
|
||
the dead, in the Greek Ritual of 0 Degree = 0 Square. --- P.]>> Then
|
||
was the Voice Vibrated.
|
||
HB:Shin <<The Name Shin-Memfinal, the Spirit of God, second Deity-Name in the
|
||
Law, the Trigrammaton, or Threefold Name, by which the Universe came
|
||
forth.>> Then was the Name declared.
|
||
.At the Threshold of Entrance,
|
||
HB:Taw .Betwixt the Universe and the Infinite,
|
||
.In the Sign of the Enterer: Stood Thoth
|
||
HB:Yod .As before Him the AEons were proclaimed.
|
||
|
||
The positions of the last two letters of the Word have been relatively
|
||
changed, so as to render the meaning more harmoniously.
|
||
|
||
We will now proceed to the first word of the text as thus decapitated,
|
||
taking B'rasheth as the Title rather than as the first Word. This latter
|
||
stands Bet-Resh-Aleph, which hath three Letters, symbolising thereby the
|
||
Unmanifest Trinity.
|
||
|
||
Now its letters further exemplify the Trinity, for that they are the
|
||
initials of three Hebrew words, which are the Names of the Persons thereof,
|
||
viz:
|
||
Bet-Nunfinal Ben, the Son.
|
||
Resh-Vau-Chet Ruach, the Spirit (here the Mother).
|
||
Aleph-Bet Ab, the Father.
|
||
|
||
Note how here again the Son is first for Humanity and the Father last.
|
||
These three letters, then, symbolise the three in One Unmanifest. Yet is
|
||
there in them the All-potency of Life. For 2 + 2 + 1 = 5, the Symbol of
|
||
Power, Mother Supernal, and HB:Heh also is Aries, Lamb of God and Dawn of the
|
||
Life of the Year.
|
||
|
||
Wherefore in them lieth concealed and hidden, not alone the Divine White
|
||
Brilliance of the Three Supernals (Heh-Vau-Aleph, Vau-Qof-Dalet-Vau-Shin, Bet-
|
||
Resh-Vau-Kophfinal), but even also that Gleaming Glory which partaketh of the
|
||
Redness, and which cometh from the Bornless Age, which is beyond Kether. As
|
||
it is written in Ancient Hindu Scripture, "In the beginning Desire, TANHA,
|
||
arose in It: which was the Primal Germ of Mind." Now in the Aryan Mythology
|
||
Tanha, Desire, was the God of Love, Kama; whereof the symbolic tint was Pink:
|
||
as it were the first pink blush of Dawn in the Macrocosmic Sky: Herald of the
|
||
Rising Sun of the Worlds, when the Great Night of Brahma was over and done.
|
||
|
||
The next word in the Great Name of God the Vast One: Aleph-Lamed-Heh-Yod-
|
||
Mem final. Let us meditate upon its Mystery! Herein behold five
|
||
Letters: In its Centre is the Great Letter HB:Heh, Mother Supernal. Five once
|
||
more; and its first and last letters are once again Aleph-Memfinal, 41, the
|
||
Mother, and 5, the Maternal Essence. And its numeration is 86, whereof the
|
||
Key is 14, whereof the Key is 5. Wherefore we say that this great name is 5
|
||
in its form symbolic. 5 in the Heart of its Power: the Beginning and the End
|
||
thereof are 5; and 5 is it in its Venerable Essence!
|
||
|
||
Turn now back unto the third Symbol; gaze at it steadily for a few moments,
|
||
and see hidden in the Six-fold Seal of Creation the Five-fold Star of
|
||
Unconquered Will.
|
||
|
||
For this was the Divine Force which created the worlds! Power Eternal,
|
||
Power Resistless, Power All-dominating, in its Absolute Supremacy --- gleaming
|
||
as the Great Name Elohim in the Heart of the Six- fold star! Flaming as the
|
||
Purifying Fire, purging and ordering the Chaos of the Night of Time!
|
||
|
||
As in the midst of the Letters of the Verse we saw the words Aleph-Taw-Heh-
|
||
Heh Yod-Memfinal, "Thou in Extension," so also does the Name Elohim read
|
||
Aleph-Lamed, "Deity," Heh-Yod-Memfinal, in Extension.<<And Aleph-Lamed =
|
||
Lamed-Aleph, No, the Negative.>>
|
||
|
||
And the numeration of Elohim is 86, which by Gematria reads Peh-Aleph-Heh,
|
||
again meaning "spread out, extended."
|
||
|
||
Write the letters of this Name in any Invoking Pentagram; and the Banishing
|
||
Pentagram thereof will read 3.1415 (by Qabalah of nine Chambers), which is the
|
||
Formula of the Proportion of diameter to circumference of the Circle.<<The
|
||
nearest computation to four places of decimals is 3.1416 (3.14156 {SIC. s.b.
|
||
3.1415926... --- WEH}). But 3.1415 is good enough for the benighted Hebrews.
|
||
--- P.
|
||
|
||
In the sublime Computations of the Qabalah the Final Forms of letters have
|
||
no increased numerical value. Mem is 40, whether final or not. The Ancient
|
||
Hebrew Method of obtaining all numbers above 400 and below 1000, respectively
|
||
HB:Aleph and HB:Taw {SIC s.b. HB:Taw and HB:Aleph --- WEH}, was to make up
|
||
the number with the proper letters. Thus 500 would have been written Taw-Qof,
|
||
not HB:Kophfinal, and 800 Taw-Taw, and so on. [Yet in some few Arcana the
|
||
Finals are counted as such. This mystery, however, pertaineth to a Grade even
|
||
more exalted than our beloved and erudite Brother had attained at the period
|
||
of this Essay {WEH paraphrase: Bennett didn't know, and Crowley either doesn't
|
||
know or won't say.}. --- P.]>> Thus herein do we perceive the Hidden Power of
|
||
the Three extended as a Mighty Sphere to the Confines of Space!
|
||
|
||
{The following illustration includes a circumscribed equilateral pentagram.
|
||
In the original, the pentagram and circle are composed of solid lines. The
|
||
form given here is an approximation.}
|
||
|
||
|
||
1.HB:Aleph .
|
||
. . .
|
||
. / .
|
||
. \ .
|
||
. / .
|
||
1.HB:Yod .-----------------\---------. 5.HB:Heh .
|
||
\ / / .
|
||
. \ \/ .
|
||
. \ / .
|
||
. / \ / \ .
|
||
. / \ .
|
||
. / / \ \ .
|
||
. / \ .
|
||
/ \
|
||
3.HB:Lamed . . . 4.HB:Memfinal .
|
||
. . .
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
The next word is Aleph-Taw, which we have seen to be the Central word: and
|
||
its signification is the Alpha and Omega --- From Beginning unto End: Essence:
|
||
and its Key is 5.
|
||
|
||
Five again are the letters of the word Heh-Shin-Mem-Yod-Memfinal,<<Whose
|
||
Key number is 17: by Taro---Hope; whose title is Daughter of the Firmament,
|
||
dweller between the Waters.>> which next follows; and in this word Shin-Mem-
|
||
Yod-Memfinal, the Heavens, we perceive HB:Shin <<The initial HB:Heh is but
|
||
the article "the.">> the Ruach Elohim, brooding upon the Face of the Waters,
|
||
Mem-Yod-Memfinal (Maim), even as it is afterwards set forth in Verse 2.
|
||
|
||
In the next word, Vau-Aleph-Taw, we find that the Conjunctive HB:Vau makes
|
||
of the Key number of the Essence of the Earth 11 instead of 5: symbolising how
|
||
the World should fall unto the Kingdom of the Shells, and how it should be
|
||
redeemed by the Son of Man.<<For 11 is the Number of the Qliphoth; but when
|
||
the Fall had occurred and the Sephira Malkuth had been cut off from the Tree
|
||
by the folds of the Dragon there was added unto the Tree Dalet-Ayin-Taw, the
|
||
Knowledge, as the 11th Sephira, to preserve intact the "Ten"-ness of the
|
||
Sephiroth. Showing how by that very eating of the Fruit of the Tree of
|
||
Knowledge of Good and of Evil should come the Saving of Mankind; for Daath is
|
||
the Priceless Gift of Knowledge and Intellect whereby cometh Salvation.
|
||
Wherefore also is 11 the Key Number of the Great Saviour's Name (Yod-Heh-Shin-
|
||
Vau-Heh = 29 = 11), and this is also in the Taro the Wheel of the Great Law,
|
||
HB:Koph, the Lord of the Forces of Life.>>
|
||
|
||
And finally the word Heh-Aleph-Resh-Tzaddifinal, Ha Aretz, the Earth, hath
|
||
four Letters showing its Elemental Constitution, and its Key is 17 --- also
|
||
Hope --- Hope in the Earth as there is Hope in Heaven. And the last letter of
|
||
the verse is HB:Tzaddifinal (the letter of Hope), by Qabalah of Nine Chambers
|
||
that number which contains in itself all the properties of Protean Matters:
|
||
howsoever you may multiply it the Key of its Numbers is ever 9. Fitting
|
||
Symbol of ever-changing matter which ever in its essence is One --- one and
|
||
alone!
|
||
|
||
Thus with the first appearance of the number of Matter does the first verse
|
||
of B'rasheth close: formulating in itself the Beginning and the End of the
|
||
Great Creation.
|
||
|
||
"The Characters of Heaven with Thy Finger hast thou traced: But none can
|
||
read them save he hath been taught in Thy School."
|
||
|
||
Wherefore closing do I name the Mighty Words:
|
||
|
||
{Illustration at this point. Bounded above by this text in an arc: "SIT
|
||
BENEDICTVS DOMINVS DEVS NOSTER". Within the arc, and bounded by a horizontal
|
||
but unmarked lower limit: To left, an equal armed cross with intersection
|
||
circumscribed by a ring. To center, a Chi-Rho with Alpha to the left below
|
||
and Omega to the right below. To right an Ankh. Following below the outer
|
||
arc of letters, passing from the cross to the Ankh above the Chi-Rho and
|
||
paralleling the outer arc: "QVINOBIS DEDIT SIGNA"}
|
||
|
||
|
||
-oOo-
|
||
|
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