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urn they will place their left hand palm down on the back of the left hand that is also palm down. this is followed by three gentle shakes. this greeting is done for all fraters and sorors regardless of grade status. in a temple, sanctuary, study group, or in public this greeting may be done. below is a diagram of this greeting and a list of some of its symbology. the symbols of this greeting the tetragrammaton vibrating in the four qabalistic worlds. the bonding link and vow we each took. the love and support given and received from each of us on our solo trek. the horizontal position represents the horizon that the sun eternally emerges from. the four elements. the warmth is spirit. the three shakes referring to the three supernals and pillars. kether, chokmah, binah father, son, holy sp

queen scale color for foundation: 5. queen scale color for mercy: 120 6. queen scale color for tiphareth: 7. queen scale color for understanding: 8. queen scale color for malkuth: 9. queen scale color for splendor: 10. queen scale color for wisdom: 11. how many paths connect the ten sephiroth? 12. translation of tiphareth: 13. translation of malkuth: miscellaneous general questions 1. what is the tetragrammaton? 2. what is the pentagrammaton? 3. what is a notarikon? 4. lay out the circle spread divination and name all the positions. 5. describe the symbology of the neophyte grip, step, and grand word. 6. submit a sample of your written hebrew letters. 7. describe the neophyte grade sign. e 0= 0 neophyte grade initiation on the dais (the stage in the east of temple) these officers represent

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or other grades, a threshold before our discipline, and it shows by its imagery, the light of the hidden knowledge dawning in the darkness of creation; and you are now to begin to analyze and comprehend the nature of that light. to this end, you stand between the pillars, in the gateway where the secrets of the neophyte grade were communicated to you. prepare to enter the immeasurable region. and tetragrammaton elohim planted a garden eastward in eden, and out of the ground made tetragrammaton elohim to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also, in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and of evil. this is the tree that has two paths, and it is the tenth sephira malkuth, and it has about it seven columns, and the four splend

. form is invisible alike in darkness and in blinding light. i am the left hand kerub of the ark and the feminine power, as metatron is the right hand kerub and the masculine power, and i prepare the way to the celestial light. heg: hiereus: step back to south and north of altar respectively. hiero: takes neophyte by right hand with his left, and pointing to the altar and diagram says: hiero: and tetragrammaton placed kerubim at the east of the garden of eden and a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the path of the tree of life, for he has created nature that man being cast out of eden may not fall into the void. he has bound man with the stars as with a chain. he allures him with scattered fragments of the divine body in bird and beast and flower, and he laments over him in the

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s towards the altar. hiero (rising and facing inwards to the altar) before you is represented the symbolism of the garden of eden. at the summit are the supernal sephiroth summed up and contained in aima elohim, the mother supernal, the woman of the 12th chapter of the apocalypse clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet and upon her head the crown of 12 stars, kether. and whereas the name tetragrammaton is joined to the elohim when it is said tetragrammaton elohim planted a garden eastward in eden so this represents the power of the father joined thereto in the glory from the face of the ancient of days. and in the garden were the tree of life, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which latter is from malkuth, which is the lowest sephira between the rest of the sephiroth

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to what does the 29th path refer? hiereus: to the reflection of the sphere of pisces. hiero: honoured hegemon, to what does the 28th path allude? heg: to the reflection of the sphere of aquarius. hiero: honoured hiereus, to what does the 27th path allude? hiereus: to the reflection of the sphere of mars. hiero (knocks) all rise and face east. hiero: let us adore the lord and king of fire. hiero: tetragrammaton tzabaoth. blessed be thou, the leader of armies is thy name! amen. all salute. hiero: quits his throne and proceeds to south and knocks. all face south. hiero: stands before the tablet of fire. he makes with his scepter the invoking circle and pentagrams before it in the air. hiero: and elohim said, let us make adam in our image after our likeness, and let them have dominion. in the

armies is thy name! amen. all salute. hiero: quits his throne and proceeds to south and knocks. all face south. hiero: stands before the tablet of fire. he makes with his scepter the invoking circle and pentagrams before it in the air. hiero: and elohim said, let us make adam in our image after our likeness, and let them have dominion. in the name of elohim, mighty and ruling, and in the name of tetragrammaton tzabaoth, spirits of fire, adore your creator. hiero: takes the incense from before the tablet, and making therewith the sign leo in the air before it. hiero: in the name of michael the great archangel of fire, and in the sign of the lion, spirits of fire, adore your creator (making with incense the sign of cross) in the names and letters of the great southern quadrangle, revealed u

, revealed unto enoch by the angel ave, spirits of fire, adore your creator (holding incense on high) in the three great secret names of god, borne on the banners of the south, oip teea pedoce spirits of fire, adore your creator. in the name of edelperna, great king of the south, spirits of fire adore your creator. hiero: replaces incense and returns to place. all face east. hiero: in the name of tetragrammaton tzabaoth, i declare the temple opened in the grade of philosophus. hiero (knocks 3, 3, 1) hiereus (knocks 3, 3, 1) heg (knocks 3, 3, 1) advancement of 29th path (temple arranged for ritual of 29th path, as in diagram. the temple is darkened) hiero (knocks) honoured fraters and sorors, our frater xyz having made such progress in the paths of occult science as has enabled him to pass

each world, is then expressed in hebrew letters and makes the secret name of that world. thus, in atziluth the total is 72, and the secret name aub, in binah 63 seg, in yetzirah 45 mah and in assiah 52 ben (indicating the end tablet) in the tablet is shown the method of writing the hebrew words by the yetziratic attribution of the alphabet, whence result some curious hieroglyphic symbolism. thus, tetragrammaton will be written by virgo, aries, taurus, aries. eheieh by air, aries, virgo, aries; from yeheshuah, the qabalistic mode of spelling jesus. which is simply the tetragrammaton, with the letter shin placed therein, we obtain a very peculiar combination; virgo, aries, fire, taurus, aries; virgo born of a virgin, aries the sacrificial lamb; fire the fire of the holy spirit; taurus the ox

ccording to the number of the 8 kings. and for the infernal and averse sephiroth 11 instead of 10, according to the number of the dukes of edom. and hence were the rivers of eden desecrated, and from the mouth of the dragon rushed the infernal waters in daath. and this is leviathan, the piercing serpent, even leviathan, the crooked serpent. but between the devastated garden and the supernal eden, tetragrammaton elohim placed the letters of the name and the flaming sword, that the uppermost part of the tree of life might not be involved in the fall of adam. and thence was it necessary that the second adam should come to restore all things and that the first adam had been extended on the cross of the celestial rivers, so the son should be crucified on the cross of the infernal rivers in daat

, 28th, and 29th paths are bound thereto. the sign of the grade is given by raising the arms above the head making with the thumbs and fingers a triangle apex upwards. this represents the element of fire, to which this grade is attributed, and also the spirit which moved upon the waters of creation. the grip or token is the general grip of the first order. the grand word is a name of nine letters tetragrammaton tzabaoth, which means the lard of armies. the mystic number is 28 and from it is formed the pass word of the grade which is koch (kaph, cheth) meaning power. it should be lettered separately when given. unto this grade and unto the sephira netzach, the 7th path of the sepher yetzirah is referred. it is called the recondite intelligence and it is so called because it is the refulgent

wer of light and i give you the symbol of asch, which is the hebrew word for fire. and as having attained at length unto the highest grade of the first order, and being as it were, the connecting link with the second order, i further confer upon you the title of respect of honoured frater(soror) and i give you the further symbol of phrath or euphrates, the 4th river. hiero (knocks) in the name of tetragrammaton tzabaoth, i now proclaim that you have been duly advanced to the grade of philosophus and that you are lord (lady) of the 27th, 28th and 29th paths. hiereus: honoured frater, as a member of this important grade, you are eligible for the post of hiereus. when a vacancy occurs you are furthermore expected, as having risen so high in the order, to aid to your utmost the members of the

rself as far as possible an ornament alike to your temple and to your order. closing hiero (knocks) honoured fraters and sorors, assist me to close the temple in the grade of philosophus. honoured hegemon, see that the temple is properly guarded (done) heg (knocks) very honoured hierophant the temple is properly guarded. hiero: let us adore the lord and king of fire (knocks) all face east. hiero: tetragrammaton of hosts, mighty and terrible; the commander of the ethereal armies art thou. amen. all salute. hiero: quits his throne and goes to tablet of fire in south. all face south. hiero: let us rehearse the prayer of the salamanders or fire spirits (knocks) immortal, eternal, ineffable and uncreated father of all, borne upon the chariot of worlds, which ever roll in ceaseless motion. ruler

rit, harmony and numeral of all things. amen. hiero: making with his scepter the banishing circle and pentagram in the air in front of the tablet. hiero: depart ye in peace unto your abodes and habitations. may the blessing of elohim be upon you. be there ever peace between us and you and be ye ready to come when ye are called (knocks) hiero: returns to place. all face east. hiero: in the name of tetragrammaton tzabaoth, i declare this temple closed in the grade of philosophus. hiero (knocks 3, 3, 1) hiereus (knocks 3, 3, 1) heg (knocks 3. 3,3, format: v1.5 (prc- for mobipocket reader- pictures included) genera: wicca/ wiccan/ witchcraft extra's: pictures included (for all versions) copyright: 2001 first scanned: 2002 posted to: alt.binaries.e-book note: 1. the html, text and pdb versions

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e head of the altar, wherein you shall kindle the holy fire, and make a precious perfume every day that you pray. now for your habit, you shall have a long garment of white linen, close before and behind, which may come down quite over the feet, and gird yourself about the loins with a girdle. you shall likewise have a veil made of pure white linen on which must be wrote in a gilt lamen, the name tetragrammaton; all which things are to be consecrated and sanctified in order. but you must not go into this holy place till it be first washed and covered with a cloth new and clean, and then you may enter, but with your feet naked and bare; and when you enter therein you shall sprinkle with holy water, then make a perfume upon the altar; and then on your knees pray before the altar as we have d

nd anoint your eyes, using prayer in all these consecrations. then open the lamen and pray before the altar upon your knees; and then an invocation may be made as follows: an invocation of the good spirits. in the name of the blessed and holy trinity, i do desire ye, strong and mighty angels (here name the spirit or spirits you would have appear, that if it be the divine will of him who is called tetragrammaton, etc, the holy god, the father, that ye take upon ye some shape as best becometh your celestial nature, and appear to us visibly here in this place, and answer our demands, in as far as we shall not transgress the bounds of the divine mercy and goodness, by requesting unlawful knowledge; but that thou wilt graciously shew us what things are most profitable for us to know and do, to

which do proceed from them, let him drink only pure running water; neither is there any food or wine to be taken till the going down of the sun. let the perfume and the holy anointing oil be made as is set forth in exodus, and other holy books of the bible. it is also to be observed, that as often as he enters the circle he has upon his forehead a golden lamen, upon which must be written the name tetragrammaton, in the manner we have before mentioned. in the key of solomon the king 10 (book ii. chapter xxi) will be found other directions for invoking spirits as follows: make a small book containing the prayers for all the operations, the names of the angels in the form of litanies, their seals and characters; the which being done thou shalt consecrate the same unto god and unto the pure sp

ng prayer with great humility: 10 published by g. redway, london, 1889. 11 so as to make a species of small tabernacle around the altar. introduction xxv the prayer. adonai, elohim, el, eheieh asher eheieh, prince of princes, existence of existences, have mercy upon me, and cast thine eyes upon thy servant (n) who invoketh thee most devoutly, and supplicateth thee by thy holy and tremendous name, tetragrammaton, to be propitious and to order thine angels and spirits to come and take up their abode in this place; o ye angels and spirits of the stars, o all ye angels and elementary spirits, o all ye spirits present before the face of god, i the minister and faithful servant of the most high conjure ye, let god himself, the existence of existences, conjure ye to come and be present at this op

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e numbers are here given, it will be found that the instructions do not include all these chapters, and, on the contrary, give information concerning some of those not here specially mentioned. of abramelin the mage 117 125 it is of course evident that the number four of the familiar spirits= one for each of the four elements of which man is composed, ruled by the holy name of four letters, ihvh, tetragrammaton. 126 i.e, the evil. 127 se resout, in the ms. resoudre, like our word resolve, also may imply to reduce to its chemical constituents. these three parts of the person, which abraham calls body, soul, and spirit, are designated in the qabalah by the respective terms of nephesch, i.e, the animal part; neschamah, or the soul, that is to say, the higher aspirations, and ruach, ie, the mi

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ware that certain letters may be employed in combination with specified letters from the elemental tablets to formulate certain names contain a higher degree of potency than when an angelic name is formulated from the elemental tablet above. the tablet of union containeth (20) squares. let the z.a.m. contemplate the order in which these names are arranged in relationship to the permutation of the tetragrammaton: exarp a y hcoma c h nanta, b h bitom d w w h h y is the permutation b (refer to 4 7 grade material) 4 thou shall paint the lettering of the holy tablet of union on white ground. the individual rows are to be painted in the following color: exarp, attributed to a, is painted in yellow letters. 1st line. hcoma, attributed to c, is painted in blue letters. 2nd line. nanta, attributed

he addition of letters from the tablet of union. the attribution of the name hwhy. the name is the key to the whole of the enochian attributions of the squares to the elements: the letters are thus referred: y yod d wands h he c cups w vau a swords h (final) he b pentacles the letters of the great name attributed to the four tablets in order together: insert diagram 12 not only are the letters of tetragrammaton attributed to the tablets themselves, and to the lesser angles of the tablets, but they are so arranged that even the squares of the tablets come under the jurisidiction and governance of the letters. so far as concerns the great cross, the method for attributing to it the letters of the name is to divide each vertical and horizontal line into groups of three adjoining squares. we n

ame, this does not indicate that the squares are identical. their elemental composition differs enormously in each lesser angle, as a little later will be seen. the servient squares beneath the calvary cross may be considered as of four vertical columns of four squares each, or, looking at it from a different angle, of four horizontal ranks also of four squares each. in attributing the letters of tetragrammaton to these servient squares, the rule is that they follow the attributions of the kerubic squares. the columns (that is reading from above downwards) follow the order of the kerubic squares above, and this order is invariably followed downwards for the ranks, reading from right to left. thus, in the a lesser angle of the a tablet, the kerubic rank has attribution to the name: w h y h(

ed downwards for the ranks, reading from right to left. thus, in the a lesser angle of the a tablet, the kerubic rank has attribution to the name: w h y h(final) therefore, applying the above rule, the servient squares beneath the sephirotic cross follow: w h y h(final) h(final) 16 y h w from this example, it will be clearly indicated that each square has a double attribution to the letters of tetragrammaton, none being the same since a column and a rank differ. thus, column w rank y does not coincide in nature with column y rank w. we must now approach the reason for this complex series of references of the letters of the tetragrammaton to the squares. according to these attributions, so are certain astrological, tarot, geomantic and hebrew symbols referred to the squares. it will be r

ries of references of the letters of the tetragrammaton to the squares. according to these attributions, so are certain astrological, tarot, geomantic and hebrew symbols referred to the squares. it will be remembered that in attributing the letters of the name to the great cross, we subdivided the latter into groups or blocks of three squares each. every block was attributed to some one letter of tetragrammaton. now the signs of the zodiac are to be attributed to the great cross, and each of those twelve signs is to be referred to three squares constituting one group or block. the order of their attribution is governed by the letters of the great name already referred to the arms of the great cross. for instance, d signs (a,e, and i) are attributed to y, c signs (d, h and l) are attributed

hirotic cross have no planetary or astrological attributions. the ten squares of the sephirotic cross also stand for the ace and small cards of the suit represented by the element of the lesser angle. thus wands are attributed to the d angle, pentacles to the b angle, etc. the kerubic squares are allotted, as their name implies, to the four kerubim whose emblems follow the order of the letters of tetragrammaton: y h lion e eagle h king queen w h (final) man k bull b prince princess these last are of the suit corresponding to the element of the lesser angle as explained above, viz: wands to d and y; cups to c and h; swords to a and w; pentacles to b and h final. it was previously shown how the squares of the servient part of each lesser angle were given a double attribution to the letters

of attributing the enochian squares should be completely grasped before proceeding frther. it is imperative to understand thoroughly the basic principles of attributions before beginning the analysis of the pyramids based on each square. what follows will have little meaning if the reader has not worked out these references and attributions for himself. the following diagram shows the letters of tetragrammaton attributed to the four enochian tablets in detail. the figures refer to the order of reading the hebrew letters, but must under no circumstances be confused with the order of the angelic names on the tablets, which always read from left to right. in the 4 7 grade the admission badge for the 28th path was a pyramid. it was described as having a square base, and four sides composed o

m. hitherto, the squares of the enochian tablets have been treated as a single whole, and as being flat. in reality, however, they are represented as being pyramids like that described above. the practical magical significance of this will be shown hereafter, but for the moment we must consider the method of producing the sides of these pyramids, and their attributions. with the exception of the tetragrammaton letter, upon which everything else depends, all the other attributions appear and are included in the definition of the nature of the pyramid. each side of the pyramid is colored according to its own appropriate element, or left white for m. it by no means follows, for example, that a square from the airy angle of a will build up a completely yellow pyramid. but every key of attribu

ese rules to the great cross may be seen in the following, consisting of the three left hand squares of the linea spiritus sancti of the a tablet, showing the pyramids formed from the squares of the letters oro: diagram p: sephirotic cross: triangle no. 1: elemental emblem of tablet. triangle no. 2: emblem of m. triangle no. 3: elemental emblem of lesser angle. triangle no. 4: sephirah. letter of tetragrammaton. tarot card. coloring: no. 1, color of the element of tablet. no. 2, always white. no. 3 elemental color of lesser angle. no. 4, either white for m, or in color of sephirah. 23 kerubic squares of the lesser angles: triangle no. 1: tarot card of lesser angle. triangle no. 2: elemental emblem of tablet. triangle no. 3: kerubic symbol answering to letter of name. triangle no. 4: elemen

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sepulchrum feci 'unto the glory of the rose cross i have constructed this tomb for myself as a compendium of the universal unity' 19 "within the next circle is written: hwchy mihi omnia 'hwchy is all things to me' in the center are four figures of the \ybwrk enclosed within circles surrounded by the following four inscriptions and each distinguished by the circular altar one of the letters of the tetragrammaton: y, lion, nequaquam vacuum 'nowhere a void' h, eagle, libertas evangelii 'liberty of the gospel' w, man, dei intacta gloria 'unsullied glory of god' h, ox, legis jugum 'yoke of the law' and in the midst of all is c, the letter of m forming thus the divine name hwchy, from tetragrammaton. therefore, by god's grace having come thus far, let us kneel down together (all kneel, joining w

orrespondences upon this complete symbol of the rose and cross which i bear upon my breast. these letters have been occasionally used as the initials of the following sentences: jesus nazarenus rex judecorum, whence it symbolizes the grand word of this grade which is hwchy or the hebrew name of jesus, formed of the holy letter c, representing the \yhla jwr, placed within the center of the name 27 tetragrammaton. also, it has been interpreted as: igne natura revovatur integra; igne natura renovando integrat; igne nitrum roris invenitur; intra nobis regnum dei" chief (indicating diagram of the minutum mundum) behold the diagram minutum mundum sive fundamental coloris- the small universe or foundation of color. treasure it in thy heart, and mark it well, seeing that herein is the key of natur

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

physical training and experiences. the remaining four deal with mental training and experiences, and these form the subject of the ensuing remarks. 2. before we deal with these in detail, i think it would be helpful to consider the formula of yoga from what may be called the mathematical, or magical standpoint. this formula has been described in my text-book on magick, chapter iii, the formula of tetragrammaton. this formula covers the entire universe of magical operations. the word usually pronounced jehovah is called the ineffable name; it is alleged that when pronounced accurately its vibrations would destroy the universe; and this is indeed quite true, when we take the deeper interpretation. tetragrammaton is so called from the four letters in the word: yod, he, vau, and he. this is co

a small point in the letter) this is also a reference to the elements, fire, water, air, earth. i may go further, and say that all possible existing things are to be classed as related to one or more of these elements for convenience in certain operations. but these four letters, though in one sense they represent the eternal framework, are not, so to speak, original. for instance, when we place tetragrammaton on the tree of life, the ten sephiroth or numbers, we do not include the first sephira. yod is referred to the second, he to the third, vau to the group from 4 to 9, and he' final to the tenth. no. 1 is said to be symbolised by the top point of the yod. it is only in no. 10 that we get the manifested universe, which is thus shown as the result of the yoga of the other forces, the fi

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he human form is a non-essential accretion of this quintessence. so far the chapter has followed the sephiroth from kether to chesed, and chesed is united to the supernal triad by virtue of its phallic nature; for not only is amoun a phallic god, and jupiter the father of all, but 4 is daleth, venus, and chesed refers to water, from which venus sprang, and which is the symbol of the mother in the tetragrammaton. see chapter 0 "god the father and mother is concealed in generation. but chesed, in the lower sense, is conjoined to microprosopus. it is the true link between the greater book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 20 and lesser countenances, whereas daath is the false. compare the doctrine of the higher and lower manas in theosophy. the rest of the chapter therefor point

er, the all-father, adored by all men and by me abhorred, be thou accursed, be thou abolished, be thou annihilated, amen! book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 60 [62] commentary( kappa-digamma) the title of the chapter refers to the hindu legend. the first paragraph should be read in connection with our previous remarks upon the number 91. the number of the chapter, 26, is that of tetragrammaton, the manifest creator, jehovah. he is called the second in relation to that which is above the abyss, comprehended under the title of the first. but the vulgarians conceive of nothing beyond the creator, and therefore call him the first. he is really the fourth, being in chesed, and of course his nature is fourfold. this four is conceived of as the dyad multiplied by the dyad; false

st degree of masonry, which was conferred upon frater p. in the year 1900 of the vulgar era by don jesus de medina-sidonia in the city of mexico. baphomet is the mysterious name of the god of the templars. the eagle described in paragraph 1 is that of the templars. this masonic symbol is, however, identified by frater p. with a bird, which is master of the four elements, and therefore of the name tetragrammaton. jacobus burgundus molensis suffered martyrdom in the city of paris in the year 1314 of the vulgar era. the secrets of his order were, however, not lost, and are still being communicated to the worthy by his successors, as is intimated by the last paragraph, which implies knowledge of a secret worship, of which the grand master did not speak. the eagle may be identified, though not

with the laughter of the wind. said wind and wood "they neither of them know anything" book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 106 [110] commentary( nu) st. hubert appears to have been a saint who saw a stag of a mystical or sacred nature. the stag-beetle must not be identified with the one in chapter 16. it is a merely literary touch. the chapter is a resolution of the universe into tetragrammaton; god the macrocosm and the microcosm beetle. both imagine themselves to exist; both say "you" and "i, and discuss their relative reality. the things which really exist, the things which have no ego, and speak only in the third person, regard these as ignorant, on account of their assumption of knowledge. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 107 [111] 51 kappa-epsilon

h" and that most holy game, shemhamphorash [154] commentary( omicron-beta) there are three consecutive verses in the pentateuch, book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 151 each containing 72 letters. if these be written beneath each other, the middle verse bring reversed, i.e. as in english, and divisions are then made vertically, 72 tri-lateral names are formed, the sum of which is tetragrammaton; this is the great and mysterious divided name; by adding the terminations yod he, or aleph lamed, the names of 72 angels are formed. the hebrews say that by uttering this name the universe is destroyed. this statement means the same as that of the hindus, that the effective utterance of the name of shiva would cause him to awake, and so destroy the universe. in egyptian and gnostic

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life col. xii. this arrangement is the basis of the whole system of this book. besides the 10 numbers and the 22 letters, it is divisible into 3 columns, 4 planes, 7 planes, 7 palaces, etc. etc.8 table of correspondences table i 2 i. key scale. ii* hebrew names of numbers and letters. iii. the four worlds. lxiv. secret names of the four words. lxv. secret numbers corresponding. lxvi. spelling of tetragrammaton in the four worlds. 11 hryxy yetrizah, formative world hm mah 45 ah waw ah dwy 23 hayrb briah, creative world gs seg 63 ah waw ah dwy 31 twlyxa atziluth, archetypal world bu aub 72 yh wyw yh dwy 32 bis hycu assiah, material world b ben 52 hh ww hh dwy 31 bis. lxvii. the parts of the soul. lxviii. the demon kings. lxix* the alchemical elements. lxx. attribution of pentagram. 11 jwr r

e. ymwy the ancient of days [also name of seven inferiors] hyha rca hyha existence of existences. yqytud aqytu ancient of ancient ones. acydq aqytu holy ancient one. fwcp rwa the simple light. yrmfd hrymf concealed of the concealed acyr the head ymynp rwa the inner light wylu the most high awh he. ald acyr the head which is not. line 2. chokmah has additional titles: hmjk power of yetzirah.1 y of tetragrammaton. ba aba it has also the divine name, hwhy. line 3. binah has these additional titles: ama the dark sterile mother. amya the bright pregnant mother \yhla \yhla hwhy divine names. aysrwk throne. line 4. chesed has this additional title: hmjk majesty. line 5. geburah has these additional titles: yd justice. djp fear. line 6. tiphereth has these additional titles: ypna ryuz lesser count

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resentation of the universe 14 the following rules explain how the sides of the pyramids of which the squares are formed are attributed to the sephiroth, planets, elements and zodiacal signs.11 1. great central cross. this has 36 squares, for the decantes of the zodiac. on the left side of the pyramid, linea patris has the cardinal signs, the sign of the element itself at the top, in the order of tetragrammaton (fire, water, air, earth) going upwards. linea filii has the common signs in the same order. linea s.s. has the cherubic signs, that of the element on the left, in the same order, right to left. but the order of the decans in each sign is reverse, and thus the planets which fill the right-hand side of the pyramids go in the first two cases downwards, and in the third from left to ri

obey your creation: visit us in peace and comfort: conclude us receivers of your mysteries: for why? our lord and master is the all-one [invokes: nanta; the whole tablet of earth. the angle of e of e. the princess of the echoing hills, the rose of the palace of earth] the opening of the temple in the grade of 4 =78 give the sign of thoum-aesh-neith [knock] let us adore the lord and king of fire! tetragrammaton tzabaoth! blessed be thou! the leader of armies is thy name! amen [make the invoking pentagram of spirit acitve and pronounce these names: hyha. alga. bitom [make the invoking pentagram of fire, and pronouce \yhla. twabx hwhy [make the sign of leo with censer (or other suitable weapon] in the name of lakim, archangel of fire, spirits of fire, adore your creator [make the cross] in t

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

a. a. in the mountain of abiegnus: but frater perdurabo in the outer order or the a. a. and in the world of men upon the earth, aleister crowley of trinity college, cambridge- xxv contents (this portion of the book should be studied in connection with its parts i. and ii) 0 the magical theory of the universe. i the principles of ritual. ii the formulae of the elemental weapons. iii the formula of tetragrammaton. iv the formula of alhim: also that of alim. v the formula of i. a. o. vi the formula of the neophyte. vii the formula of the holy graal, of abrahadabra, and of certain other words; with some remarks on the magical memory. viii of equilibrium: and of the general and particular method of preparation of the furniture of the temple and the instruments of art. ix of silence and secrecy:

he masculine type of female, the amazon, who is balanced in the number eight by the feminine type of male. in the number nine we reach the last of the purely mental qualities. it identifies change with stability. pendant to this sixfold system is the number ten< the balance of the sephiroth: kether (1 "kether is in malkuth, and malkuth is in kether, but after another manner" chokmah (2) is yod of tetragrammaton, and therefore also unity. binah (3) is he of tetragrammaton, and therefore "the emperor" chesed (4) is daleth, venus the female. geburah (5) is the sephira of mars, the male. tiphereth (6) is the hexagram, harmonizing, and mediating between kether and malkuth. also it reflects kether "that which is above, is like that which is below, and that which is below, is like that which is a

is a "classification" of the universe, that there is nothing which is not comprehended therein. the article on the qabalah in vol. i, no. v of the equinox is the best which has been written on the subject. it should be deeply studied, in connection with the qabalistic diagrams in nos. ii and iii "the temple of solomon the king. such is a crude and elementary sketch of this system. the formula of tetragrammaton is the most important for the practical magician. here yod= 2, he= 3, vau= 4 to 9, he final= 10. the number two represents yod, the divine or archetypal world, and the number one is only attained by the destruction of the god and the magician in samadhi. the world of angels is under the numbers four to nine, and that of spirits under the 3 number ten<
in question, and this intelligence he will "conjure with authority" to compel the obedience of the spirit and his manifestation. to this spirit he "issues commands. it will be seen that this is a formula rather of evocation than of invocation, and for the latter the procedure, though apparently the same, should be conceived of in a different manner, which brings it under another formula, that of tetragrammaton. the essence of the force invoked is one, but the "god" represents the germ or beginning of the force, the "archangel" its development; and so on, until, with the "spirit, we have the completion and perfection of that force. 16 the formula of the cup is not so well suited for evocations, and the magical hierarchy is not involved in the same way; for the cup being passive rather than

contained, the reverberating or reciprocating formula, which may be called the formula of horus and harpocrates. the magician addresses the god with an active projection of his will, and then becomes passive while the god addresses the universe. in the fourth part he remains silent, listening, to the prayer which arises therefrom. the formula of this invocation of thoth may also be classed under tetragrammaton. the first part is fire, the eager prayer of the magician, the second water, in which the magician listens to, or catches the reflection of, the god. the third part is air, the marriage of fire and water; the god and the man have become one; while the fourth part corresponds to earth, the condensation or materialization of those three higher principles. with regard to the hebrew for

if the success were obtained almost in spite of the ceremony. in any case, they are the more mysterious parts of the ritual which have evoked the divine force. such conjurations as those of the "goetia" leave one cold, although, notably in the second conjuration, there is a crude attempt to use that formula of commemoration of which we spoke in the preceding chapter. 21 chapter iii the formula of tetragrammaton<<yod, he, vau, he, the ineffable name (jehovah) of the hebrews. the four letters refer respectively to the four "elements, fire, water, air, earth, in the order named> this formula is of most universal aspect, as all things are necessarily comprehended in it; but its use in a magical ceremony is little understood. the climax of the formula is in one sense before even the formulation

e daughter "he" is produced. she is both the twin sister and the daughter of "vau<mystery herein, far deeper, for initiates> his mission is to redeem her by making her his bride; the result of this is to set her upon the throne of her mother, and it is only she whose youthful embrace can reawaken the eld of the 22 all-father. in this complex family relationship<tetragrammaton, as ordinarily understood, ending with the appearance of the daughter, is indeed a degradation> is symbolised the whole course of the universe. it will be seen that (after all) the climax is at the end. it is the second half of the formula which symbolises the great work which we are pledged to accomplish. the first step of this is the attainment of the knowledge and conversation of

ainment of the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel, which constitutes the adept of the inner order. the re-entry of these twin spouses into the womb of the mother is that initiation described in liber 418, which gives admission to the inmost order of the a. a. of the last step we cannot speak. it will now be recognised that to devise a practical magical ceremony to correspond to tetragrammaton in this exalted sense might be difficult if not impossible. in such a ceremony the rituals of purification alone might occupy many incarnations. it will be necessary, therefore, to revert to the simpler view of tetragrammaton, remembering only that the "he" final is the throne of the spirit, of the shin of pentagrammaton. the yod will represent a swift and violent creative energy; f

g into dreaminess or reverie; that of the third, loss of concentration. a mistake in any of these points will prevent, or injure the proper formation of, the fourth. in the expression which will be used in chapter xv "enflame thyself, etc, only the first stage is specified; but if that is properly done the other stages will follow as if by necessity. so far is it written concerning the formula of tetragrammaton. 23 chapter iv. the formula of alhim, and that of alim "alhim (elohim) is the exoteric word for gods<"gods" are the forces of nature; their "names" are the laws of nature. thus they are eternal, omnipotent, omnipresent and so on; and thus their "wills" are immutable and absolute> it is the masculine plural of a feminine noun, but its nature is principally feminine<
r "wills" are immutable and absolute> it is the masculine plural of a feminine noun, but its nature is principally feminine<form, manifestation. the masculine siva, or tao, is always a concealed force> it is a perfect hieroglyph of the number 5. this should be studied in "a note on genesis (equinox i, ii. the elements are all represented, as in tetragrammaton, but there is no development from one into the others. they are, as it were, thrown together- untamed, only sympathising by virtue of their wild and stormy but elastically resistless energy. the central letter is "he- the letter of breath- and represents spirit. the first letter "aleph" is the natural letter of air, and the final "mem" is the natural letter of water. together "aleph

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operation itself turned into this form before i could so much as set to work on it! like the duchess' baby (excuse this enthusiasm; but you have aroused the british lion-serpent) note, please, that the equivalents given in 777 are not always exact. tahuti is not quite thoth, still less hermes; mercury is a very much more comprehensive idea, but not nearly so exalted: hanuman hardly at all. nor is tetragrammaton iao, though even etymology asserts the identity. in these matters you must be catholic, eclectic, even syncretic. and you must consider the nature of your work. if i wanted to evoke taphthartharath, there would be little help indeed from any but the qabalistic system; for that spirit's precise forms and numbers are not to be found in any other. the converse, however, is not so true

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ybhw) a mercurial god (whose essence is z, 8) hgwbz) substance; a body hywg a pauper; oppressed kd abundance zyz bucket, pail, vessel dk 25 to break )kd beast )wyx let there be yhy will be separated xzy thus, so; here, there hk 26 the number of the sephiroth of the middle pillar: 1+ 6+ 9+ 10. the pillar of mercy: the paths vau and kaph (cf. 48& 463) k w seeing, looking at hzwx sight, vision hwzx tetragrammaton: gyehovah h: the unutterable name: the lost word. hwhy kebad, husband of the impure lilith; to honour; heavy; liver dbk 27 wept, mourned hkb pure, clear, transparent, innocent kz a parable, enigma, riddle hdyx 28 the mystic number of netzach the god hadit (cf. 419 +ydh mire, clay +y+ union, unity dwxy power, strength xk palate kx one beloved dydy 29 is broken, crushed; he croucheth

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us the qabalah is called hrtsn hmkj, chokham nesethrah, the secret wisdom; and if we take the initials of these two words j and n we form by the second kind of notariqon the word j, chen, grace. 5 similarly, from the initials and finals of the words hmymch wnl hluy ym, mi iaulah leno ha- shamayimah, who shall go up to heaven (deuteronomy xxx, 12) are forms hlym, milah, circumcision, and hwhy, the tetragrammaton, implying that god hath ordained circumcision as the way to heaven. temurah is permutation. according to certain rules, one letter is substituted for another letter preceding or following it in the alphabet, and thus from one word another word of totally different orthography may be formed. thus the alphabet is bent exactly in half, in the middle, and one half is put over the other;

agrammatic names, which are hyha, eheieh, existence; ynda, adonai, lord; and alga, agla. this last is not, properly speaking, a word, but is a notariqon of the sentence ynda \lwul rwbg hta, ateh gibor le-olahm adonai, thou art mighty for ever, o lord! a brief explanation of agla is this: a, the one first; a, the one last; g, the trinity in unity; l, the completion of the great work. but hwhy, the tetragrammaton, as we shall presently see, contains all the sephiroth with the exception of kether, and specially signifies the lesser countenance, microprosopus, the king of the qabalistic sephirothic greatest trinity, and the son in his human incarnation in the christian acceptation of the trinity. therefore, as the son reveals the father, so does hwhy reveal hyha. and ynda is the queen by whom

rammaton, as we shall presently see, contains all the sephiroth with the exception of kether, and specially signifies the lesser countenance, microprosopus, the king of the qabalistic sephirothic greatest trinity, and the son in his human incarnation in the christian acceptation of the trinity. therefore, as the son reveals the father, so does hwhy reveal hyha. and ynda is the queen by whom alone tetragrammaton can be grasped, whose exaltation into binah is found in the christian assumption of the virgin. the tetragrammaton hwhy is referred to the sephiroth thus: the uppermost point of the letter yod, y, is said to refer to kether; the letter y itself to chokmah, the father of microprosopus; the letter h, or the supernal he to binah, the supernal mother; the letter w to the next six sephir

t argues a bankruptcy of ingenuity beyond belief. in all conscience, it is easy enough to fake identities by less obviously card-sharping methods! 2. notariqon. the absurdity of this method needs little indication. the most unsophisticated can draw pity and amusement from mr mathers jew, converted by the notariqons of berashith. true, f.i.a.t. is flatus, ignis, aqua, terra; showing the creator as tetragrammaton, the synthesis of the four elements; showing the eternal fiat as the equilibrated powers of nature. but what forbits fecit ignavus animam terrae,35 or any other convenient blasphemy, such as buddha would applaud? why not take our converted jew and restore him to the ghetto with ben, ruach, ab, sheol! ihvh, thora?36 why not take the sacred 'icquj of the christian who thought it meant

eternity pardon me! to write a monograph upon the first word of those seven words. venerable sir! quoth i: that first word of our law contains but six letters. for six years did i study that word by day and by night; and at the end of that time did i not dare to utter the first letter of those six letters. thus humbling myself did i abash both the holy yogi and my venerable frater i.a. but alas! tetragrammaton! alas! adonai! the hour of my silence is past. may the hour of my silence return! amen) liber lviii 26 part i the universe as it is section i 0. the negative the infinite the circle, or the point. 1. the unity the positive the finite the line, derived from 0 by extension. the divine being. 2. the dyad the superficies, derived from 1 by reflection 11, or by revolution of the line abo

wer unto the ages, o my lord! 35= 5 7. 7= divinity, 5= power. 36. a solar number. hla. otherwise unimportant, but it is the mystic number of mercury. 37. hdyjy. the highest principle of the soul, attributed to kether. note 37= 111 3. 38. note 38 11= 418 q.v. in part ii. 39. dja hwhy, jehovah is one. 39= 13 3. this is then the affirmation of the aspiring soul. 40. a dead number of fixed law, 4 10, tetragrammaton, the lesser countenance immutable in the heaviness of malkuth. 41 \a, the mother, unfertilised as unenlightened. 42. ama, the mother, still dark. here are the 42 judges of the dead in amennti, and here is the 42-fold name of the creative god. see liber 418. 44 \d, blood. see part ii. here 4 11= the corruption of the created world. 45. hm, a secret title of yetzirah, the formative wo

hedrim and the precepts of the law. the divine 7 in its most material aspect. 72. dsj, mercy. the number of the shemhamphorasch, as if affirming god as merciful. for details of shemhamphorasch, see 777 and other classical books of reference. note especially y+ hy+ why+ hwhy= 72.42 41 67= yz, zayin in full, the first of the paths connecting tiphareth with the supernals t.s. 42 i.e, writing out the tetragrammaton as a tetrakys, or in wing form, gives 72 t.s. liber lviii 29 73. hmkj, wisdom. also lmg, gimel, the path uniting kether and tiphereth. but gimel, the priestess of the silver star, is the female hierophant, the moon; and chokmah is the logos, or male initiator. see liber 418 for more information on these points, though rather from the standpoint of part ii. 78. alzm, the influence fr

aspect of animal life; its final doom decreed by its own lust. also \ym, water. 91. 91= 7 x 13, the most spiritual form of the septenary. ma, amen, the holiest title of god; the amoun of the egyptians. it equals ynda hwhy (yhnwdhay, interlaced, the eight-lettered name, thus linking the 7 to the 8. not that ma (recknoning as final, 700= 741= ctma, the letters of the elements; and is thus a form of tetragrammaton, a form unveiled. 100. the number of q, the perfect illusion, 10 10. also [k, kaph, the wheel of fortune. the identity is that of matter, fatality, change, illusion. it seems the buddhist view of the samsara-cakkram. 106. wn, nun, a fish. the number of death. death in the tarot bears a cross-handled scythe; hence the fish as the symbol of the redeemer. icqus= jesus christ, son of go

his. for this reason the outer college of the a\a\ is crowned by this knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel. this number too is that of the ritual of neophyte. see liber xiii. 741. ctma, the four letters of the elements. ma, counting the as 700, the supreme name of the concealed one. the dogma is that the highest is but the four elements; that there is nothing beyond these, beyond tetragrammaton. this dogma is most admirably portrayed by lord dunsanay in a tale called the wanderings of shaun. 58 777. vide supra. 800. tcq, the rainbow. the promise of redemption (8) 8 as mercury, intellect, the ruach, microprosopus, the redeeming son in its most material form. 811. iaw (greek numeration. 888. jesus (greek numeration. 913. tycarb, the beginning. see a note on genesis. this lis

lish, one knows what to do. on the contrary the man who was lost rose and broke the stem of his wineglass at the regimental toast, and all knew him for one of their own* this christian teaching (not its qabalistic equivalent) is incomplete. the bride (the soul) is united, though only by marriage, with the son, who then presents her to the father and mother or holy spirit. these four then complete tetragrammaton. but the bride is never united to the father. in this scheme the soul can never do more than touch tiphareth and so receive the ray from chokmah. whereas even st. john makes his son say i and my father are one. and we all agree that in philosophy there can never be (in truth) more than one; this christian dogma says never less than four. hence its bondage to law and its most imperfe

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hac influentia& inveniuntur in ea. 160. et propterea omnis ornatus ornatuum ab ista influentia dependent. 161. ist liter, qu dependent ab hoc seniore, omnes pendent in ista barba& consociantur in ista influentia. 162. et pendent in ea ad stabiliendas literas alteras. 163. nisi enim ill liter ascenderunt in seniorem, reliqu ist liter non stabilirentur. 164. et propterea dicit moses cum opus esset: tetragrammaton, tetragrammaton bis& ita ut accentus distinguat utrumque. 165. certe enim ab influentia omnia dependent. 166. ab ista influentia ad reverentiam adiguntur superna& inferna& flectuntur coram ea. 167. beatus ille, qui ad hanc usque per tingit. idra suta, seu synodus minor. sectio vi. 75. forehead.23 496. frons cranii est frons ad visitandum (al. ad eradicandum) peccatoras. 497. et cum

ersonally, i believe in them all, and admit them to possess inconceivable though not infinite power. the buddhists admit the existence of maha-brahma, but his power and knowledge are limited; and his agelong day must end. i find evidence everywhere, even in our garbled and mutilated version of the hebrew scriptures, that jehovah s power was limited in all sorts of ways. at the fall, for instance, tetragrammaton elohim has to summon his angels hastily to guard the tree of life, lest he should be proved a liar. for had it occurred to adam to eat of that tree before their transgression was discovered, or had the serpent been aware of its properties, adam would indeed have lived and not died. so that a mere accident saved the remnants of the already besmirched reputation of the hebrew tribal f

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abalah is called chkmh nsthrh, chokhmah nesthrah "the secret wisdom; and if we take the initials of these two words ch and n, we form by the second king of notariqon the word chn, chen "gracce" similarly, from the initials and finals of the words mi iolh lnv hshmimh, mi iaulah leno ha-shamayimah "who shall go up for us to heaven (deut. xxx. 120, are formed milh, milah "circumcision" and ihvh, the tetragrammaton, implying that god hath ordained circumcision as the way to heaven. temura is permutation.4 according to certain rules, one letter is substituted for another letter preceding or following it in the alphabet, and thus from one word another word of totally different orthography may be formed. thus the alphabet is bent exactly in half, in the middle, and one half is put over the other;

tetragrammatic names, which are ahih, eheieh, existence; adni, adonai, lord; and agla. this last is not properly speaking, a word, but is a notariqon of the sentence, athh gbvr lovlm adni, steh gebor le0olahm adonai "thou art might, for ever, o lord" a brief explanation of agla is this; a, the one first; a, the one last; g, the trinity in unity; l, the completion of the great work. but ihvh, the tetragrammaton, as we shall presently see, contains all the sephiroth with the exception of kether, and specially signifies the lesser countenance, microprosopus, the king of the qabalistical sephirotic greatest trinity,and the son in his human incarnation, in the christian acceptation of the trinity. therefore, as the son reveals the father, so does ihvh, jehovah, reveal ahih, eheieh. and adni is

l presently see, contains all the sephiroth with the exception of kether, and specially signifies the lesser countenance, microprosopus, the king of the qabalistical sephirotic greatest trinity,and the son in his human incarnation, in the christian acceptation of the trinity. therefore, as the son reveals the father, so does ihvh, jehovah, reveal ahih, eheieh. and adni is the queen, by whom alone tetragrammaton 82 can be grasped, whose exaltation into binah is found in the christian assumption of the virgin. the tetragrammaton ihvh is referred to the sephiroth, thus: the upper-most point of the letter yod, i, is said to refer to kether; the letter i itself to chokmah, the father of microprosopus; the letter h, or "the supernal he" to binah, the supernal mother; the letter v to the next six

argues a bankruptcy of ingenuity beyond belief. in all conscience, it is easy enough to fake identities by less obviously card-sharping methods! 2. notariqon. the absurdity of this method needs little indication. the most unsophisticated can draw pity and amusement from mr mathers' jew, converted by the notariqons of "berashith" true, f.i.a.t. is flatus, ignis, aqua, terra; showing the creator as tetragrammaton, the synthesis of the four elements; 91 showing the eternal fiat as the equilibrated powers of nature. but what forbids fecit ignavus animan terrae, or any other convenient blasphemy, such as buddha would applaud? why not take our converted jew and restore him to the ghetto with ben, ruach, ab, sheol- ihvh, thora? why not take the sacred 'iota chi theta upsilon sigma of the christia

the ages, o my lord" 35= 5 x 7. 7= divinity, 5= power. 36. a solar number. alh. otherwise unimportant, but is the mystic number of mercury. 37. ichidh. the highest principle of the soul, attributed to kether. note 37= 111 3. 38. note 38 x 11= 418 q.v. in part ii. 39. ihvh achd, jehovah is one. 39= 13 x 3. this is then the affirmation of the aspiring soul. 40. a "dead" number of fixed law, 4 x 10, tetragrammaton, the lesser countenance immutable in the heaviness of malkuth. 41. am, the mother, unfertilised and unenlightened. 42. ama, the mother, still dark. here are the 42 judges of the dead in amennti, and here is the 42-fold name of the creative god. see liber 418. 44. dm, blood. see part ii. here 4 x 11= the corruption of the created world. 45. mh, a secret title of yetzirah, the formati

animal life; its final doom decreed by its own lust. also mim, water. 101 91. 91= 7 x 13, the most spiritual form of the septenary. amn, amen, the holiest title of god; the amoun of the egyptians. it equals ihvh adni (iahdvnhi, interlaced, the eight-lettered name, thus linking the 7 to the 8. note that amn (reckoning n as final, 700= 741= amthsh, the letters of the elements; and is thus a form of tetragrammaton, a form unveiled. 100. the number of hb:qof, the perfect illusion, 10 x 10. also hb:peh-final hb:koph, kaph, the wheel of fortune. the identity is that of matter, fatality, change, illusion. it seems the buddhist view of the samsara-cakkram. 106. nvn, nun, a fish. the number of death. death in the tarot bears a cross-handled scythe; hence the fish as the symbol of the redeemer. iota

reason the outer college of the a. a. is crowned by this "knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel" this number too is that of the ritual of neophyte. see liber xiii. 741. amthsh, the four letters of the elements. amn, counting the n final as 700, the supreme name of the concealed one. the dogma is that the highest is but the four elements; that there is nothing beyond these, beyond tetragrammaton. this dogma is most admirably portrayed by lord dunsany in a tale called "the wanderings of shaun" 106 777 "vide supra" 800. ashth, the rainbow. the promise of redemption (8- 8 as mercury, intellect, the ruach, microprosopus, the redeeming son- in its most material form. 811. iota alpha omega (greek numeration. 888. jesus (greek numeration. 913. brashith, the beginning. see "a note

hose secrets discovered by yourself that are only known to yourself and god, forms the grip, sing, token and password that assure you that the lodge is properly tiled. 8 this christian teaching (not its qabalistic equivalent) is incomplete. the bride (the soul) is united, though only be marriage, with the son, who then presents her to the father and mother or holy spirit. these four then complete tetragrammaton. but the bride is never united to the father. in this scheme the soul can never do more than touch tiphereth and so receive the ray from chokmah. whereas even st john makes his son say "i and my father are one" and we all agree that in philosophy there can never be (in truth) more than one; this christian dogma says "never less that four" hence its bondage to law and its most imperf

ractical problem in this shape "how shall i unite the 5 and the 6, microcosm and macrocosm" and these are the numbers which seemed to me to bear upon the problem. 1. is the goal, not the means. too simple to serve a magician's purpose. 2 "vide supra" 3. still too simple to work with, especially as 3= 1 so easily. but, and therefore, a great number to venerate and desire. 4. the terrible number of tetragrammaton, the great enemy. the number of the weapons of the evil magician. the dyad made law. 5. the pentagram, symbol of the squaring of the circle by virtue of alhim= 3.1415, symbol of man's will, of the evil 4 dominated by man's spirit. also pentagrammaton, jeheshua, the saviour. hence the beginning of the great work. 6. the hexagram, symbol of the macrocosm and microcosm interlaced, and

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that hath beheld it is called nemo. and know thou that every man that is called nemo hath a garden that he tendeth. and every garden that is and flourisheth hath 77 been prepared from the desert by nemo, watered with the waters that were called death. and i say unto him: to what end is the garden prepared? and he saith: first for the beauty and delight thereof; and next because it is written "and tetragrammaton elohim planted a garden eastward in eden" and lastly, because though every flower bringeth forth a maiden, yet is there one flower that shall bring forth a man-child. and his name shall be called nemo, when he beholdeth the face of my father. and he that tendeth the garden seeketh not to single out the flower that shall be nemo. he doeth naught but tend the garden. and i said: pleas

reat host of angels. their backs are turned towards me, but i can see how tremendous are their arms, which are swords and spears. they have wings upon their helmets and their heels: they are clad in complete armour, and the least of their swords is like the breaking forth of a tremendous 87 storm of lightning. the least of their spears is like a great water-spout. on their shields are the eyes of tetragrammaton, winged with flame- white, red, black, yellow and blue. on their flanks are vast squadrons of elephants, and behind them is their meteor- artillery. they that sit upon the elephants are armed with the thunderbolt of zeus. now in all that host there is no motion. yet they are not resting upon their arms, but tense and vigilant. and between them and me is the god shu, whom before i di

he outermost abyss. i am returned. bou-saada "december" 5, 1909. 10.10-11.35 p.m. in nomine babalon amen. restriction unto choronzon. the tenth aethyr is called zax. this aethyr being accurs d, and the seer forewarned, he taketh these precautions for the scribe. first let the scribe be seated in the centre of the circle in the desert sand, and let the circle be fortified by the holy names of god- tetragrammaton and shaddai el chai and ararita. and let the demon be invoked within a triangle, wherein is inscribed the name of choronzon, and about it let him write anaphaxeton- anaphaneton- primeumaton, and in the angles mi-ca-el: and at each angle the seer shall slay a pigeon, and having done this, let him retire to a secret place, where is neither sight nor hearing, and sit within his black r

ast and continuously, and so resorted to the device of quotation. the scribe had written two or three words of "tom o'bedlam" when choronzon sprang within the circle (that part of the circumference of which that was nearest to him he had been filling up with sand all this time, and leaped upon the scribe, throwing him to the earth. the conflict took place within the circle. the scribe called upon tetragrammaton, and succeeded in compelling choronzon to return into his triangle. by dint of anger and of threatening him with the magick staff did he accomplish this. he then repaired the circle. the discomfited demon now continued) all is dispersion. these are the qualities of things. 99 the tenth aethyr is the world of adjectives, and there is no substance therein (now returneth the beautiful

eth to open the door by trying many keys. and they are none of any avail. and the same voice saith "the five and the six are balanced in the word abrahadabra, and therein is the mystery disclosed. but the key unto this gate is the balance of the seven and the four; and of this thou hast not even the first letter. now there is a word of four letters that containeth in itself all the mystery of the tetragrammaton, and there is a word of seven letters which it concealeth, and that again concealeth the holy word that is the key of the abyss.19 and this thou shalt find, revolving it in thy mind. 19 these words are probably babalon, c"h"aos, taro. hide therefore thine eyes. and i will set my key in the lock, and open it. yet still let thine eyes be hidden, for thou canst not bear the glory that

t, or the purity to divine the plumes. now therefore is he blessed that is born under the sign of the arrow, and blessed is he that hath the sigil 131 of the head of the crowned lion and the body of the snake and the arrow therewith. yet do thou distinguish between the upward and the downward arrows, for the upward arrow is straitened in its flight, and it is shot by a firm hand, for jesod is jod tetragrammaton, and jod is a hand, but the downward arrow is shot by the topmost point of the jod; and that jod is the hermit, and it is the minute point that is not extended, that is nigh unto the heart of hadit. and now it is commanded thee that thou withdraw thyself from the vision, and on the morrow, at the appointed hour, shall it be given thee further, as thou goest upon thy way, meditating

ower; in him is chaos and night and pan, and upon babalon his concubine, that hath made him drunk upon the blood of the saints that she hath gathered in her golden cup, hath he begotten the virgin that now he doth deflower. and this is that which is written: malkuth shall be uplifted and set upon the throne of binah. and this is the stone of the philosophers that is set as a seal upon the tomb of tetragrammaton, and the elixir of life that is distilled from the blood of the saints, and the red powder that is the grinding-up of the bones of choronzon. terrible and wonderful is the mystery thereof, o thou titan that hast climbed into the bed of juno! surely thou art bound unto, and broken upon, the wheel; yet hast thou uncovered the nakedness of the holy one, and the queen of heaven is in tr

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ngle; not as dominating it, but as bringing it down and manifesting it unto the outer order: as though the crucified one having raised the symbol of self-sacrifice had thus touched and brought into action in matter the divine triad of light. illustration at this point. an approximation follows\ diagram 4. the altar symbol in the 0 =0 ritual "around the cross are the symbols of the four letters of tetragrammaton, the hb:shin of jeheshua being only implied and not "expressed" in the outer. and these are placed according to the winds" the door should be situated behind and to the west of the throne of the hiereus; it is called "the gate of the declarers of judgment" and its symbolic form is that of a straight and narrow doorway between two mighty pylons. the three chiefs at the east of the te

d through the ceremony of 3= 8, he was sufficiently prepared for the further advancement to the grade of 4= 7. ritual of the 4= 7 grade of philosophus "the first part" this ritual is particularly attributed to the element of fire, and refers to the planet venus, and the twenty-ninth, twenty-eighth, and twenty-seventy paths of qoph, tzaddi and p. the adoration commences by the "hierophant" saying "tetragrammaton tzebaoth! blessed be thou! the lord of the armies is thy name" to this all answer "amen" the hierophant then orders all present to adore their creator in the name of elohim, mighty and ruling, in the name of tetragrammaton tzebaoth, and in the name of the spirits of fire. then in the name of tetragrammaton tzebaoth he declares the temple open. after the adoration has taken place, th

f edom. and because in da th was the utmost rise of the great serpent of evil; therefore there is as it were another sephira, making eight heads according to the number of the eight kings; and for the infernal and averse sephiroth eleven instead of ten, according to the number of the eleven dukes of edom. the infernal waters of d ath rushed from the mouth of the dragon- and this is the leviathan. tetragrammaton elohim placed four letters of the holy name, and also the flaming sword, that the uppermost part of the tree of life might not be involved in the fall of adam" illustration on page 283 partly described "diagram 51. the fall" this is a development from diagram #33 on page 235. it is composed of a circle above, containing three smaller, slightly overlapping circles, one above two. the

s- the illuminating tower of light, and i give you the symbol of hb:shin hb:aleph (ash, which is the hebrew name for fire. having passed through this grade, the newly made philosophus earns the title of honoured frater and is eligible for the post of hiereus. the closing then takes place, the adoration of the king of fire is made, and the prayer of the salamanders is rehearsed, and in the name of tetragrammaton tzebaoth the temple is closed in the grade of 4= 7. in the space of seven months from a mere student in the mysteries, p. had risen to the grade of philosophus in the order of the golden dawn. a light had indeed been 283 winnowed from the husks of darkness, and now as an eye of silver it glided over the dark face of the waters. chaos was taking form- red, vague and immense. he had p

iah, ezekiel and st. john. the hierophant inductor now congratulates the philosophus on the progress he has made, and proclaims him master of the 24th, 25th, and 26th paths in the portal of the vault of the adepts. after which the closing of the portal takes place, the hierophant inductor saying "in and by that word paroketh i declare the portal of the vault of the adepts duly closed. unto thee o tetragrammaton be ascribed malkuth, geburah, and gedulah unto the ages. amen. so finishes the ritual of the portal of the vault of the adepts, the connecting ritual between the grades of philosophus and adeptus minor, between the first and the second order. but before we close this chapter, it will be necessary, briefly though it may be, to trace out the effect these six rituals and the mass of oc

e spirit. and we find that though these rituals enabled p. to master a language, they in many ways hindered his otherwise natural progress by helping largely to obsess his nephesh by the qliphoth- his passions and emotions being stirred up by a continuous pageant of 293 naked gods; his ruach by the phantom of dead words- by the duality of the shell and of the fruit of things; and his neschamah by tetragrammaton "i.e, he aspired chiefly to magic powers, not so that they might light him like the flame of a lamp along his road, but that they might consume, like the fire on the altar, his propitiations and sacrifices to a personal god. thus we find him, as it were, figuring before him a pentagram and saying "it is not complete without its top point" this is undoubtedly correct, but at this tim

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use of the table will become clear. let us suppose that you wish to obtain knowledge of some obscure science. in column xlv, line 12, you will find "knowledge of sciences" by now looking up line 12 in the other columns, you will find that the planet corresponding is mercury, its number eight, its lineal figures the octagon and octagram. the god who rules that planet thoth, or in hebrew symbolism tetragrammaton adonai and elohim tzabaoth, its archangel raphael, its choir of angels beni elohim, its intelligence tiriel, its spirit taphtatharath, its colours orange (for mercury is the sphere of the sephira hod, 8, yellow, purple, grey, and indigo rayed with violet; its magical weapon the wand or caduceus, its perfumes mastic and others, its sacred plants vervain and others, its jewel the opal

three verses in exodus xiv. wherein the divided name is hidden it is written "and went the angel of the elohim before the camp &c. and this angel of the elohim, mem-lamed-aleph-kophfinal aleph-lamed-heh-yod-memfinal, is the manifestations of their presence. now mem-lamed-aleph-kophfinal hath the numeration 91, which also is the number of yod-heh-vau-heh aleph-dalet-nun-yod, wherefore by gematria "tetragrammaton our lord" is the angel now if into the midst of this divided name of the elohim of the divided name. therefore is the tetragrammaton symbolic of the manifested presence of the elohim; and if the elohim be male and female, so also must be the tetragram. also is the number of aleph-mem-nunfinal (also 91) by aiq bekar 1+ 4+ 5= 10- the perfection of the sephiroth> 170 we cast the triple

flected triangle showeth forth the evolution of the four worlds and their consolidation: for 1+ 2+ 3+ 4= yod= atziluth 1+ 2+ 3+ 4+ 5= 15= yod heh= briah 1+ 2+ 3+ 4+ 5+ 6= 21= yod heh vau= yetzirah 1+ 2+ 3+ 4+ 5+ 6+ 7<<10= 28= 2+ 8= 10 assiah<<10: but herein is the fall, that there were only six numbers, so that for the seventh was 5 repeated. hence 1+ 2+ 3+ 4+ 5+ 6+ 5= 26 yod-heh-vau-heh. assiah; tetragrammaton as the elemental limitation, the jealous god- p> the number 28, the total numeration, therefore represents malkuth, the tenth sephira: assiah made manifest- the work of creation accomplished: wherefore god rested on the "seventh" day. and 28 is 7 x 4, the seven stars shining throughout the four worlds. one thing is significant, indeed. let us take the primal three and convert those

ht: power: gemel-aleph-vau-aleph-lamed, divine majesty: and aleph-chet-lamed-bet= fecundity, all symbolic of the attributes of the dual polar force and mother. moreover, 4+ 1= 5= hb:heh, mother supernal once again- and in its geometric symbol the pentagram- the star of unconquered will. add the next two letters on either side, yod-memfinal-aleph-taw and we get earth-air-water-fire, or a concealed tetragrammaton. and this also reads yod-memfinal, the great sea, aleph-taw, alpha and 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-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 al

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crucis: and especially a member of the 0= 0 grade: master of the pass-word "h" and of the grand word "m" am here: in order to formulate to myself a shroud of concealment: that i may attain unto knowledge and power, to use in the service of the eternal gods: that i may pursue safely and without interruption my magical and other pursuits: and that i may pass unseen among men, to execute the fiat of tetragrammaton. and i bind and obligate myself and do spiritually swear and affirm: that i will use this power to a good purpose only, and in the service of the gods. and i declare that in this operation i shall succeed: that the shroud shall conceal me alike from men and spirits; that it shall be under my control: ready to disperse and to re-form at my command. and i declare that all is now ready

, as a guard and shroud of utter silence and of mystery. in the name ahih and by the name ahih! in the name agla and by the name agla! in the name exarp and by the name exarp! in the name hcoma and by the name hcoma! 74 the element of spirit. 75 the names on the tablet of spirit. 76 the tablet of spirit. in the name nanta and by the name nanta! in the name bitom and by the name bitom! in the name tetragrammaton elohim and by the name tetragrammaton elohim! in the name hoor-po-krat-ist and by the name hoor-po-krat-ist! by your deep purple darkness! by my white brilliant light! i invoke ye: i conjure ye: i exorcise ye potently: i command and constrain ye: i compel ye to utter, absolute and instant obedience, and that without deception or delay_ for why? the light of godhead is my trust and i

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r diagonally, etc. of this type is the so-called "kabalah of nine chambers" of the mark masons. a further development of the numerical arts was shown by the modes of contraction and extension; thus jehovah, ihvh 26, was extended to ivd-ha-vv-ha, and so 10, 5, 6, 5 or 26 became 20, 6, 12, 6 or 44. by extension zain, z.7, became 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 or 28; or 28 was regarded as 2 and 8 or 10. the tetragrammaton, jehovah 26 was also at times regarded as 2 and 6 or 8: so el shaddai, god almighty, al shdi, 1, 30, 300, 4, 10, was 345 and then 12 and then 3, a trinity. a quaint conceit was that of the change of the spelling of the names of abraham and sara: at first abram abrm and sarai shri, became abrhm and shrh: they were 100 and 90 years old and were sterile: now h, heh, was deemed of a fer

personal characteristics, demonstrating his power and glory to a chosen people; oppressing other nations to do them service, and choosing as his special envoys and representatives men whom our civilisation would have condemned as not high enough for spiritual power, is not represented in the hebrew secret doctrine. the kabalah, indeed, is full of jehovah, ihvh, the divine four-lettered name, the tetragrammaton, but it is as the name of a group of divine conceptions, of emanations from a central spiritual light whose presence alone is postulated; from absolute god there is a series of emanations extending downward to reach jehovah, who is the divine one of binah, the supernal mother; other stages of emanation lead to the elohim, the group of holy spiritual attributes, associated with the s

oundless light, appear as a rainbow of the divinity in a first world, or highest plane above human conception, that of atziluth; by successive reflections, diminishing in brightness, a plane is reached which is conceivable by man, as of the purity of his highest spiritual vision. the grouping of the ten divine qualities, upon this plane, into a divine tetrad, is symbolised by yod heh vau heh, the tetragrammaton, the kabalistic jehovah, not the yahveh of the exoteric books, but the original of that god, whose reflections of a nation's patron is formulated in the old testament: it is "the ineffable name" never pronounced, its true sound is lost, and the jew replaces it by adonai, adni; it is unpronounceable because its real vowels are unknown; it ceased to be spoken before the vowel points w

e the peculiar forms in which they were represented in diagrams which resume all kabalistic ideas, and are emblems of these views on every subject. every deific conception can be thus demonstrated, and also the constitution of the angelic hosts, the principles of man's nature, the group of planetary bodies, the metallic elements, the zigzag flash of the lightning and the composition of the sacred tetragrammaton, the mystical jehovah, ihvh, yod, heh, vau, heh, numbering 26. see plates i, ii, iii, iv, v, and vi. this decad of deific emanations is to be conceived as first formulated on the divine first plane of atziluth, which is entirely beyond our ken; to be reproduced on the second plane of pure spirit, briah; to exist in the same decad form in the world of yetzirah, the third or formative

ried by four cherubim, the sacred animal forms, which resembled the man, lion, bull and eagle, which were related to the four quarters of the world, and to four types of humanity. the four letters yod, h, vau, h, or as we say ihvh, of the name we call jehovah, are allotted and distributed by the kabalistic doctrine among the sephiroth in a peculiar manner, forming the mysterious conception of the tetragrammaton, that awful name of divine majesty which might never be uttered by the common people, and whose true pronunciation has been for many centuries confessedly lost to the jews and has never been known to the christians (see diagram) the views of the kabalists on cosmogony are not easy to explain, but as before said the supreme boundless god, the "ain suph" was not the direct creator of

tion they were separated into sexes. the first human pair broke the first commandment, they sinned and were doomed to a complete descent into matter; the lord god made them "coats of skin" he gave them material bodies, and with these came the need of food, and the passions required to bring forth a succession of earthly bodies. yet man is still the copy of god on earth; his form is related to the tetragrammaton of jehovah ihvh, for in a diagram, yod is as the head, heh the arms, vau the body, and the final heh the lower limbs (see zohar ii. 42a. the first pair were tempted by samael, the allegorical personality of the lower tendencies, which give the craving to experience earth life and take a part in its continuous changes of force and form. they did what they knew would imperil their pur

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he light will the light descend (the left hand is the hand in which the ankh is held, the passive hand. with the right hand we project the light and the chiefs hold symbols of the projection of light which is symbolic of their wands. complete symbol of r.c. on the breast is the symbol of balance and equilibrium. it is the lamen of the rose and cross. it consists of twenty-two petals (2+ 2= 4= the tetragrammaton. seven planets, five elements, and three alchemical principles are all formed on the symbol of the perfected self, the cross. 22 paths+ 9 planets (seven ancient plus caput and cauda draconis+ 5 elements+ 3 alchemical principles= 39= 12, 1+ 2= 3, the number of the supernals. it is also a symbol of the triangle, the two con-dividing, the one reconciling. it is the reconciled one that

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primordial substance and force (centripetal and centrifugal, positive and negative, male and female, etc, etc (2) in the world of metaphysics, the spirit of the universe, or cosmic ideation, called by some the logos. this logos is the apex of the pythagorean triangle. when the triangle is complete it becomes the tetraktis, or the triangle in the square, and is the dual symbol of the four-lettered tetragrammaton in the manifested kosmos, and of its radical triple ray in the unmanifested, or its noumenon. put more metaphysically, the classification given here of cosmic ultimates, is more one of convenience than of absolute philosophical accuracy. at the commencement of a great manvantara, parabrahm manifests as mulaprakriti and then as the logos. this logos is equivalent to the "unconscious

ed definition, genesis[[genesis, is not generation, but "a coming out of the eternal into the kosmos and time "a coming from esse into exsistere" or "from be-ness into 'being- as a theosophist would say[[vol. 2, page] 25 man, the third logos. the cosmic ultimates. force succeeds mulaprakriti; but, minus force, mulaprakriti is for all practical intents and purposes non-existent* the "heavenly man (tetragrammaton) who is the protogonos, tikkoun, the firstborn from the passive deity and the first manifestation of that deity's shadow, is the universal form and idea, which engenders the manifested logos, adam kadmon, or the four-lettered symbol, in the kabala, of the universe itself, also called the second logos. the second springs from the first and develops the third triangle (see the sephiro

(catechism book iii, sec. 9) now this requires some explanation before proceeding any further. to do so especially for the benefit of our aryan hindu brethren[[footnote(s* the monads of the presentments of men of the third round, the huge ape-like forms* in the esoteric system the seven principles in man are represented by seven letters. the first two are more sacred than the four letters of the tetragrammaton* the intermediate spheres, wherein the monads, which have not reached nirvana, are said to slumber in unconscious inactivity between the manvantaras* explained elsewhere. the "three fires" pavaka, pavamana, and suchi, who had forty-five sons, who, with their three fathers and their father agni, constitute the 49 fires. pavamana (fire produced by friction) is the parent of the fire o

e know. with the child, it is the teeth that appear in the seventh month and he sheds them at seven years; at twice seven puberty begins, at three times seven all our mental and vital powers are developed, at four times seven he is in his full strength, at five times seven his passions are most developed, etc, etc. thus for the earth. it is now in its middle age, yet very little wiser for it. the tetragrammaton, the four-lettered sacred name of the deity, can be resolved on earth only by becoming septenary through the manifest triangle proceeding from the concealed tetraktis. therefore, the number seven has to be adopted on this plane. as written in the kabala "the greater holy assembly" v. 1161 "for assuredly there is no stability in those six, save (what they derive) from the seventh. fo

a, the dioscuri, the "egg-born" were the seven dhyan chohans (agnishwatta-kumara) who incarnated in the seven elect of the third race* clement of alexandria recognized the astronomical significance of chapter xxv. et seq. of exodus. according to the mosaic doctrine, he says that the seven planets help in the generation of terrestrial things. the two cherubs standing on the two sides of the sacred tetragrammaton represent the ursa major and ursa minor[[vol. 2, page] 362 the secret doctrine. on pilgrimage, and chanted prayers seven times a day, turning to the north (the mount meru, kaph, olympus, etc, etc (see palgrave, vol. ii, p. 264. abd allatif says curious things about the sabeans and their books. so does eddin ahmed ben yahya, who wrote 200 years later. while the latter maintains "that

er "the principle of best things" the word arcane "hidden" or secret, is derived from arka "to no one is the arcane shown except to the most high (codex nazareus, alluding to nature the female, and spirit, the male power. all the sun-gods were called archagetos "born from the arka" the divine virgin- mother of the heavens* because composed of ten dots arranged triangularly in four rows. it is the tetragrammaton of the western kabalists[[vol. 2, page] 464 the secret doctrine "i find, on the rosetta stone of uhlemann, the word mouth, also in seiffarth, viz, the name of the moon used as a cycle of time, hence the lunar month from the hieroglyph[[diagram] with[[diagram] and[[diagram] as determinatives given, as the coptic i o h, or i o h. the hebrew[[hebrew] may also be used as i o h, for the

rded number 7 as a compound of numbers 3 and 4, which they explained in a dual manner. on the plane of the noumenal world, the triangle was, as the first conception of the manifested deity, its image "father-mother-son; and the quaternary, the perfect number, was the noumenal, ideal root of all numbers and things on the physical plane. some students, in view of the sacredness of tetraktis and the tetragrammaton, mistake the mystic meaning of the quaternary. the latter was with the ancients only a secondary "perfection" so to speak, because it related only to the manifested planes. whereas it is the triangle, the greek delta[[diagram, which was the "vehicle of the unknown deity" a good proof of it lies with the name of the deity beginning with delta. zeus was written[[deus, by the boeotians

roth are seven. the above is not directly to our point, though it is a necessary[[vol. 2, page] 596 the secret doctrine. reminder to facilitate the comprehension of what follows. the question at issue is to show that jah-noah, or the jehovah of the hebrew bible, the alleged creator of our earth, of man and all upon it, is (a) the lowest septenary, the creative elohim- in his cosmic aspect (b) the tetragrammaton or the adam-kadmon "the heavenly man" of the four letters- in his theogonic and kabalistic aspects (c) noah- identical with the hindu sishta, the human seed, left for the peopling of the earth from a previous creation or manvantara, as expressed in the puranas, or the pre-diluvian period as rendered allegorically in the bible- in his cosmic character. but whether a quaternary (tetra

er, because it emanated from the one, the first manifested unit, or rather the three in one. yet the latter has been ever impersonal, sexless, incomprehensible, though within the possibility of the higher mental perceptions. the first manifestation of the eternal monad was never meant to stand as the symbol of another symbol, the unborn for the element-born, or the one logos for the heavenly man. tetragrammaton, or the tetractys of the greeks, is the second logos, the demiurgos. the tetrad, as thomas taylor thought (vide the "pythagorean triangle "is the animal itself of plato, who, as syrianus justly observes, was the best of the pythagoreans; it subsists at the extremity of the intelligible triad, as is most satisfactorily shown by proclus in the third book of his treatise on the theolog

intellectual world (the world of mahat) is t'agathon, nous, psyche, hyle; while that of the sensible world (of matter, which is properly what pythagoras meant by the word kosmos- is fire, air, water, and earth. the four elements are called by the name of rizomata, the roots or principles of all mixed bodies" i.e, the lower tetraktis is the root of illusion of the world of matter; and this is the tetragrammaton of the jews, and the "mysterious deity" over which the modern kabalists make such a fuss "thus number four forms the arithmetical mean between the monad and the heptad, as this contains all powers, both of the productive and produced numbers; for this of all numbers under ten, is made of a certain number; the duad doubled makes a tetrad, and the tetrad doubled or unfolded makes the

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ove, the son is the whole kosmos; below, he is mankind. the triad or triangle becomes tetraktis, the sacred pythagorean number, the perfect square, and a 6-faced cube on earth. the macroprosopus (the great face) is now microprosopus (the lesser face; or, as the kabalists have it, the "ancient of days" descending on adam kadmon whom he uses as his vehicle to manifest through, gets transformed into tetragrammaton. it is now in the "lap of maya" the great illusion, and between itself and the reality has the astral light, the great deceiver of man's limited senses, unless knowledge through paramarthasatya comes to the rescue- stanza ii- continued. 5. the seven (sons) were not yet born from the web of light. darkness alone was father-mother, svabhavat, and svabhavat was in darkness (a (a) the s

synthesis or the aggregate of universal wisdom, oeaohoo "the son of the son" contains in himself the seven creative hosts (the sephiroth, and is thus the essence of manifested wisdom "he who bathes in the light of oeaohoo will never be deceived by the veil of maya" kwan-shai-yin is identical with, and an equivalent of the sanskrit avalokiteshwara, and as such he is an androgynous deity, like the tetragrammaton and all the logoi* of antiquity. it is only by some sects in china that he is anthropomorphized and represented with female attributes* when, under his female aspect, he becomes kwan-yin, the goddess of mercy, called the "divine voice* the latter is the patron deity of thibet and of the island of puto in china, where both deities have a number of monasteries (see part ii. kwan-shai

resented as male-female. zeus is said to be the "beautiful virgin" and venus is made bearded. apollo is originally bisexual, so is brahma-vach in manu and the puranas. osiris is interchangeable with isis, and horus is of both sexes. finally st. john's vision in revelation, that of the logos, who is now connected with jesus- is hermaphrodite, for he is described as having female breasts. so is the tetragrammaton= jehovah. but there are two avalokiteshwaras in esotericism; the first and the second logos* no religious symbol can escape profanation and even derision in our days of politics and science. in southern india the writer has seen a converted native making pujah with offerings before a statue of jesus clad in woman's clothes and with a ring in his nose. when asking the meaning of the

mbolizing infinite time in space, which contains the germ and throws off periodically the efflorescence of this germ, the manifested universe; whereas, the gnostic ophis contained the same triple symbolism in its seven vowels as the one, three and seven-syllabled oeaohoo of the archaic doctrine; i.e, the one unmanifested logos, the second manifested, the triangle concreting into the quaternary or tetragrammaton, and the rays of the latter on the material plane[[vol. 1, page] 74 the secret doctrine. the kabalists- between the former, the embodiment of divine wisdom in the region of the spiritual, and the latter, evil, on the plane of matter* jesus accepted the serpent as a synonym of wisdom, and this formed part of his teaching "be ye wise as serpents" he says "in the beginning, before moth

ronomically, the seven planets; and the sun being excluded from their number shows plainly that the hindus may have known, and in fact knew of a seventh planet, without calling it uranus* but esoterically and theologically[[footnote(s "in union with the spirit and the voice" referring to the abstract thought and concrete voice, or the manifestation thereof, the effect of the cause. adam kadmon or tetragrammaton is the logos in the kabala; therefore this triad answers in the latter to the highest triangle of kether, chochmah and binah, the last a female potency and at the same time the male jehovah, as partaking of the nature of chochmah, or the male wisdom* the secret doctrine teaches that the sun is a central star and not a planet. yet the ancients knew of and worshipped seven great gods

the three descending groups. having their potential being in the higher group, they now become distinct and separate entities. these are called the "virgins of life" the "great illusion" etc, etc, and collectively the "six-pointed star" the latter is the symbol, in almost every religion, of the logos as the first emanation. it is that of vishnu in india (the chakra, or wheel, and the glyph of the tetragrammaton, the "he of the four letters" or- metaphorically "the limbs of microprosopos" in the kabala, which are ten and six respectively. the later kabalists however, especially the christian mystics, have played sad havoc with this magnificent symbol* for the "ten limbs" of the heavenly man are the ten sephiroth; but the first heavenly man is the unmanifested spirit of the universe, and oug

) by the left shoulder" then come the seven limbs (or sephiroth) on the planes of manifestation, the totality of these four planes being represented by microprosopus (the[[footnote(s* the formation of the "living soul" or man, would render the idea more clearly "a living soul" is a synonym of man in the bible. these are our seven "principles[[vol. 1, page] 240 the secret doctrine. lesser face) or tetragrammaton, the "four-lettered" mystery "the seven manifested and the three concealed limbs are the body of the deity" thus our earth, malkuth, is both the seventh and the fourth world, the former when counting from the first globe above, the latter if reckoned by the planes. it is generated by the sixth globe or sephiroth called yezod "foundation" or as said in the book of numbers "by yezod

above, the latter if reckoned by the planes. it is generated by the sixth globe or sephiroth called yezod "foundation" or as said in the book of numbers "by yezod, he (adam kadmon) fecundates the primitive heva (eve or our earth. rendered in mystic language this is the explanation why malkuth, called "the inferior mother" matrona, queen, and the kingdom of the foundation, is shown as the bride of tetragrammaton or microprosopus (the 2nd logos) the heavenly man. when free from all impurity she will become united with the spiritual logos, i.e, in the 7th race of the 7th round- after the regeneration, on the day of "sabbath" for the "seventh day" has again an occult significance undreamt of by our theologians "when matronitha, the mother, is separated and brought face to face with the king, i

elf which, according to plato, built the universe in the geometrical form of the dodecahedron; and its "first begotten" was born of chaos and primordial light (the central sun. this "first-born" however, was only the aggregate of the host of the "builders" the first constructive forces, who are called in ancient cosmogonies the ancients (born of the deep, or chaos) and the "first point" he is the tetragrammaton, so-called, at the head of the seven lower sephiroth. this was the belief of the chaldees "these chaldeans" writes philo, the jew, speaking very flippantly of the first instructors of his ancestors "were of opinion that the kosmos, among the things that exist) is a single point, either being itself god (theos) or that in it is god, comprehending the soul of all things (see his "migr

a circumlocution, indeed, a too abundant figure of jewish rhetoric, and has always been denounced by the occultists. to the jewish kabalists, and even the christian alchemists and rosicrucians, jehovah was a convenient screen, unified by the folding of its many flaps, and adopted as a substitute: one name of an individual sephiroth being as good as another name, for those who had the secret. the tetragrammaton, the ineffable, the sidereal "sum total" was invented for no other purpose than to mislead the profane and to symbolize life and generation* the real secret and unpronounceable name "the word that is no word- has to be sought in the seven names of the first seven emanations, or the "sons of the fire[[footnote(s* says the translator of avicebron's "qabbalah (mr. isaac myer, ll.b, of

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of mysteries, the sphinx at the gates of all spirituality. all conceivable ideas begin and end as light in its emotion, the ecstasy which the creation of the idea of self induces. the idea is unity by the formula of self, its necessary reality as continuity, the question of all things, all this universe visible and invisible has come out of it. as unity conceived duality, it begot trinity, begot tetragrammaton. duality being unity, is time, the complex of conception, the eternal refluctuation to the primeval reality in freedom-being trinity of dualities, is the six senses, the five facets of sex-projecting as environment for self-assimilation in denial, as a complete sexuality. being tetragrammaton of dualities is twelvefold by arrangement, the human complex, and may be called the twelve

fluences contained, do not the book of pleasure (self love) get any book for free on: www.abika.com 25 affect. when that giving up all belief, reflects only its meaning, then is there purity of vision, innocence of touch, ergo, self-love. verily, verily men are born, suffer and die through their belief. ejaculation is death. self-love is preservation and life*(1) it the "neither-neither" emanates tetragrammaton of relatives, the sexes of which are evolved through their cruciform reflection and are elusive to identity. in their xxxx they produce unity xxxxx xxxxx conception. ego generating by subdivision they embrace eternity, in their manifold ramifications is law*(2) i.e. his rainbow*(3) chapter on self-attraction omitted*(4) this is the test. the one who doubt would naturally submit hims

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ore to be sought after than rubies and fine gold. she is both "father" and "mother" for her fruitfulness. cometh from the yod of the supernal wisdom [42] d a l e t h 5 she is the thought, which spinneth the plan of existence, that web of manifestation which entangleth the minds of fools, and giveth understanding to the wise who know the secret of its mystery. in her is concealed the plentitude of tetragrammaton, and hidden in that door of perplexity is the son, who is from all and among all. 6 this is the gateway of life and form. yet through it come also death and conflict, even as it is shown in the numbering of daleth. for d l th, being 434, is also ii, and 11 is the half, or division, of 22, which represented: the whole circle of creation. therefore is the door a cause of separation, a

h chokmah, in qabalistic philosophy, and chokmah is named ab, the father. 2. a i m a is the number 52, and this is the value of the particular divine name associated with fatherhood, when the name is "written in its plentitude; that is, with the full letter-names instead of the single characters, thus: ivd hh vv hh. this also explains the meaning of the line "in her is concealed the plentitude of tetragrammaton, for tetragrammaton is the qabalistic designation of the four-lettered divine name, i h v h [47] t h e b o o k of t o k e n s "door of perplexity" refers to the letter-name daleth, signifying "door. perplexity, because to daleth qabalists attribute the pair of opposites, wisdom and folly. it is said that the son is hidden in her because the value of the noun b n, ben, son, is 52, th

ing. the phrase" i utter myself by seeing, based on the attribution of sight to heh, means that the universe is called into manifestation by the self-contemplation of spirit "a mist and a vapor. the hebrew noun ade, a d, has the numeral value 5, the same as the single letter heh, and means "fog, mist. 9 heh is called "the mother wherewith creation took place, because h is the second letter of the tetragrammaton, i h v h, and this second letter is attributed to binah, which is aima, the mother. heh conceals yod, because the letter-name heh, h h, has the value 10, the number of the letter yod. ten is concealed in four, the number of the sephirah chesed, because 4 implies the pre-existence of 1, 2 and 3 so that it may be taken as representing 1 plus 2 plus 3 plus 4, or 10. here the qabalah ag

e both add up to 418. the derivation of ch t a th is from a verb meaning" to miss the target [87] meditation on teth* i my secret wisdom is hid in number, and in the sign of the tally is concealed the building of the whole creation. number veileth the power of the elohim, for number is that thick darkness whereof it is written "and moses drew near unto the thick darkness where god was; and again "tetragrammaton said that he would dwell in the thick darkness" ye shall know that this darkness is egypt, and by the wisdom hidden in that darkness did moses lead israel forth. in the darkness which is egypt is the darkness of number, concealing the one in the cloud of the many. of that darkness the serpent is a sign, that great serpent, the royal snake of egypt [91] t h e b o o k of t o k e n s 2

on yod* yod, pronounced yode. transcribed as" i" or "y. the number 10. meaning: creative hand. the intelligence of will. 1 the letter-name yod means "hand. the ancient pictographic form of this letter was a representation of the extended forefinger, a distinctly phallic emblem. the same idea of masculinity is applied to this letter in qabalistic literature. for example, as the first letter of the tetragrammaton, i h v h, yod is calied the "paternal" letter, and is assigned to chokmah, which is named ab, the father. this idea is elaborated in the meditation, paragraphs 1 to 3. 4 "fluid darkness" or "ink" is dehyo, d i v, in hebrew. the letters of this word are the same as those of i v d, yod, and the number, 20, is of course the same. the phrase "it was" is hayah, h i h, in hebrew, having a

e n t on mem man. yesod is thus regarded as the focus of the selfperpetuating potencies of the life-power, and esoterically water is the seed-principle out of which all forms are developed. to commemorate this fourfold manifestation of life, the divine names in many languages are four-lettered. this is particularly true in hebrew, and of the divine names in that language the most important is the tetragrammaton, i h v h. each letter of this name represents one of the four aspects of life called "elements. i stands for fire; the first h for water; the v for air; and the second h for earth. since the numeral value of the character mem is 40, it represents 4 x 10, and this is an arithmetical symbol of what the text calls "the fourfold elemental division of my nature, working through the ten s

1 i am the support of all that enter into existence. upon me all depend, and i fail not. this have i declared unto thee in various ways, but listen now to my words again. 2 i sustain creation in the midst of a perpetual ebb and flow. therefore do i assume the appearance of a refiner's fire, forever purging out the dross of forms outworn. this is mine aspect of severity, and of this it is written "tetragrammaton elohim is a devouring fire" thus am i as one who testeth gold in a furnace, and this aspect of my being presenteth to the unrighteous a face of wrath. yet by the purgation of fire do i uphold and sustain thee in every moment of thy life [139] the book of tokens 3 behold, i am he who tryeth thee with many subtle tests. wise art thou if thou knowest that the subtle serpent of temptati

s pass. from me they go, and again they come to me. their returning is what men call destruction. be not deceived thereby. 1 tear down only to build anew. verily destruction is the foundation of existence, and the tearing-down thou seest is but the assembling of material for a grander structure. therefore is it written" man doth not live by bread only, but by all that proceedeth out of the peh of tetragrammaton" not by the part, o israel, but by all which proceedeth from the mouth of the lord. deluded are they who say "man liveth by the mercy of the lord" know ye that by the balance of mercy and severity is the continuance of every life, yea, and of this whole universe [156] comment on peh* p e h, pronounced pay. transcribed as" p. the number 80. meaning: mouth. the exciting intelligence

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nds(influenced by the "epistles of the brethren of purity) popular in medieval spain and provence -translations made by kabbalists moses ibn tibbon and samuel ibn motot 1054 rome splits from orthodox church, forms catholic church 1058-1111 ghazali (persian muslim scholar and mystic) 1060 r. solomon ibn gabirol said to have created a woman 1062-1110 petrus alfonsi proof of the trinity based on the tetragrammaton. 1071-1126 guilhelm ix duca d'aquitania, vii conte di poitiers troubadour c. 1075 yehuda ha-levi born. friend of abraham ibn ezra. helped amalgamate ismailite thought and muslim mysticism to jewish thought. 1075-1129 rupert of deutz. trinitarian division of history: the age of the father from the creation to the fall; of the son from the fall to the passion; and that of the holy spi

s- after 1269 sordello italian troubadour. 1270-1340 nicholas of lyra, franciscan exegete. the report that he was of jewish descent dates only from the fifteenth century. turned to rashi for biblical interpretation. 1270 thomas aquinas is sympathetic to the idea of alchemical transmution in his summa theologia. 1270-1348 abner de burgos(aka alfonso de valladolid) proof of the trinity based on the tetragrammaton. experimented with letter combinations in visions; wrote "moreh sedek: conceptions of shekinah and shi'ur komah(measure of the body).identifies metatron with the son in the trinity. hokhmah, binah, and da'at as christological trinity. 1271 mongols conquered the area around harran. they deported the populace of the city, walled up the city gates, and left it. r. baruch torgami in bar

abraham bedersi ha penini.behinat olam. 1279-1348 abner de burgos(alfonso de valladolid) spanish christian cabalist; divine names. 1280 abulafia's preaching to christians in italy. joachimist-influenced kabbalah absorbed to some degree by beguin/franciscan church of philadelphia that holds "the keys of david: a joachimist/qblhist exegesis of scripture. 1280 ramon martin: pugio fidei discusses the tetragrammaton christologically, discusses how name science and sefirotic science support the notion of the trinity, and calls the messiah by the hebrew letter yod. uses the word cabala by name and mentions his predecessor petras alphonsi. 1280? sefer ha-zohar written by moses de le n but attributed to simon ben yohai. 1280-1340 joseph ibn kaspi kabbalist "menorat kesef" equates the merkabah ladde

nativities of al-qabisi alcabitius; a small text from hebrew on geomancy; the hermetic book de stellis fixis(de stellis beibenis) of hermes and the de nativititatibus of albubather. 1291 abraham abulafia imre shefer. 3-fold unity of the sacred name 1292? abraham abulafia dies. attributed sha'are sedeq which concerns the anthropos composed of 10 sefirot. 1292 allocutio super significatione nominis tetragrammaton vilanova trinitarian proof in yhvh 1292 arnald villanova "allocutio super significatione nominis tetragrammaton. trinitarian proof in yhvh. joachim's alpha and omega as triangle and circle signifying the unity of the 3-in-1 "introductio in librum ioachim de semine scripturarum. commentary delineates a historical timeframe based on the letters of the hebrew and latin alphabets. demon

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he operation of the eternal spirit and the four elements under the divine proceedings of the letters of the name hwchy. the elements themselves in the symbol of the cross are governed by hwhy, but the letter c representing the \yhla jwr, the divine spirit, being added thereto, the name becometh hwchy or hcwhy, the latter when the letter c placed between ruling l and the other three letters of the tetragrammaton" it is apparent that the symbology is also directly connected to the round altar. see the diagram below: c q n w hwchy the second adept now purifies with the lesser banishing ritual of the hexagram. this is performed with the planetary wand of the second adept. this wand is ruled under the governance of the head of the phoenix, this being the mystical symbol of osiris. let us never

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hiroth, or emanations of god in graduated order from pure spirit to the course material world. even the shells or husks (evil spirits) are manifestations of god s power. in jewish belief, god is infinite and therefore beyond description. yahweh, according to the cabalist, is not the name of god but the phonetic pronunciation of the word god spoke at the moment of creation. yhvh, called the divine tetragrammaton or sacred four letter word, represents the elements earth, air, fire, and water. the hebrew god was a god of physical manifestation who appeared to moses in a burning bush and to the israelites as a pillar of flame by night and cloud of vapor by day. it is likely that the hebrew mystical beliefs (which later formed the cabala) developed during the time the israelites lived among the

h line three times: i have risen up waging war on the heavens, by stealth i have conquered the heavens, i sit upon the throne of all creation, as lord of heaven, and earth, and hell. i force all the angels to kneel and supplicate themselves before me. i crucify jesus upon his cross. i rape the virgin mary and make her my concubine. i mock the cabala saying, i am the yod he vau he, i am the divine tetragrammaton, i am yahweh, i am allah, i am the elohim. i mock the cabala as i sit upon the throne of all creation. proclaiming a new aeon this ritual, like the one before it, was not included in the first edition of the demonic bible. it is not intended that the practitioner of the demonic bible perform this ritual. i include it now simply for the sake of completeness. these are the words which

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terialism or "evil" some forms of wicca (q.v) do use the pentagram with two points up as a symbol, but for them it has no evil or negative connotation. the two points up represent the second of (usually) three degrees of initiations into wicca. pentagrammaton: five lettered name. yhshvh or yhvshh which is pronounced "yeh-hah-shu-ah" or "yeh-ho-vah-shah, respectively. it adds the shin (q.v) to the tetragrammaton (q.v, thus adding the spirit of god to the formula of the ultimate divinity. peristyle: the sacred enclosure of voudoun (q.v) rituals. philosophus: in the order of the astral star [o.a.s (q.v, a philosophus is the title of the sixth degree of membership, and correlates to the sephiroth of netzach (q.v. the primary principle of this grade is based on mastering the element of fire (q

e old testament meaning ground or earth. in some instances it was translated as "hell" probably for political reasons. according to donald michael kraig, there is no hell in the kabalah because he maintains that reincarnation is a part of the tradition. shin: pronounced "sheen" it is a letter of the hebrew alphabet. the letter shin "a" is used to indicate the ruach eloheem (q.v. when added to the tetragrammaton it forms the pentagrammaton, showing how we can purify ourselves by uniting and bringing the spirit of divinity within ourselves. showstone: a crystal ball or globe used for divination and scrying. the magician uses the stone as a focus to induce a trance that causes images to appear in the depths of the stone. siddhis: magickal abilities such as clairaudience (q.v, levitation (q.v

discipline known as "thought transference" called mind speech or mind reading for short. temurah: a system of the literal kabalah (q.v) which transposes letters of the hebrew alphabet, especially words of the old testament. the new words thus formed are said to be important. tephillin: small boxes containing scrolls with prayers written on them. they are worn by male jews during certain prayers. tetragrammaton: from the greek, literally "the name of the four letters" the four-letter name of divinity of the hebrew god, yhvh (q.v) in english. in hebrew "viv. it is a formula that indicates that the supreme divine is unitary in nature, having all opposites united within itself. a name which is supposed to possess vast potency in magick. thelemites: from the greek meaning "will" the followers

work for the entire universe- x- no "x" terms listed- y- yeh-chee-dah: psychic center just above the head, it is also the deepest level of the subconscious. also called "the higher self" yeheshuah: the pentagrammaton (q.v. the name given to jesus by christian kabbalists during the renaissance, who used it as the supreme word of power (q.v) in their magick and worship. they intended it replace the tetragrammaton (yhvh (q.v) of the jews. yesode: hebrew for "foundation" pronounced "yea-sohd" the ninth (9th) sephirah (q.v) on the tree of life (q.v. yetzirah: the third of the four kabalistic worlds in descending order. it means world of formation. yetzirah, sepher: hebrew for "the book of formation" considered to be the first kabalistic book. re-produced in a.e. waite's (q.v) the holy kabbalah

ion" pronounced "yea-sohd" the ninth (9th) sephirah (q.v) on the tree of life (q.v. yetzirah: the third of the four kabalistic worlds in descending order. it means world of formation. yetzirah, sepher: hebrew for "the book of formation" considered to be the first kabalistic book. re-produced in a.e. waite's (q.v) the holy kabbalah, and s.l macgregor mather's (q.v) the kabbalah unveiled. yhvh: the tetragrammaton (q.v. the ultimate, unpronounceable, supreme name for god/goddess. a code for the ultimate name of divinity, indicating that the divine being is a blending of everything physical, mental, and spiritual. also indicates that the nature of the divine being is a blending of opposites. this word has been mis-pronounced as yahweh and mis-transliterated as jehovah by ill informed people. e

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are best suited for different purposes and conditions. in all cases, however, the operation he designs is strictly related to the paths of the tree of which he is master. if he possesses the grade which corresponds to the sephirah netzach, he can work with the manifestation of the force of that aspect of the [page 12] mystical qabala page 11 godhead (distinguished by the qabalists by the name of tetragrammaton elohim) in whatever system he may select. in the egyptian system it will be the isis of nature; in the greek, aphrodite; in the nordic, freya; in the druidic, keridwen. in other words, he possesses the powers of the sphere of venus in whatever traditional system he may be using. having attained a grade in one system, he has access to the equivalent grades of all the other systems of

the atziluthic world; the queen scale, assigned to the briatic world; the emperor scale, assigned to the yetziratic world; and the empress scale, assigned to the assiatic world. 10. this fourfold classification has a far-reaching significance in all qabalistic matters, and also in western magic, which is largely based upon the qabalab. it is said to be under the presidency of the four letters of tetragrammaton, the sacred name popularly rendered as jehovah. in hebrew, which has no vowels in its alphabet, this word is spelt jhvh, or, according to the hebrew names of these letters, yod, he, vau, he. the vowels are indicated in hebrew by points inserted in and under the square letters of the script, which is written from right to left. these vowel-points were only introduced at a comparative

points inserted in and under the square letters of the script, which is written from right to left. these vowel-points were only introduced at a comparatively recent date, and the older hebrew scripts are unpointed so that the reader cannot see the pronunciation of any proper name for himself, but needs to have it communicated to him by someone who knows it. the true mystical pronunciation of the tetragrammaton is said to be one of the arcana of the mysteries. 11. to the four letters of the name are allotted any fourfold mystical classification, and by means of their correspondences we can trace all manner of relationships, and these are very important in practical occultism, as will be seen later. 12. four important fourfold divisions find a place under them, thus enabling us to see their

means. this is a poor way of expressing our ideas. it is far better to coin a new term with a precise meaning than to use an old one in a misleadihg sense, especially as, in the case of atziluth, there is an excellent term already current, the term archetypal, which exactly describes it. 16. the atziluthic world is said by the qabalists to be under the presidency of the yod of the sacred name of tetragrammaton. we may justly deduce from this that in any other fourfold system whatever is said to be also under the presidency of yod will refer to the atziluthic, or purely spiritual aspect of that force or subject. among other associations given by different authorities are the wands suit of the tarot pack and the element of fire. it will be apparent to anyone who has any knowledge of occult

ive in the astral by means of his operations. the tree and its keys are infinite in their adaptability. mystical qabala page 50 10. the four court-cards of the tarot are called in modern packs, king, queen, knight, and knave; but in the traditional packs they are, according to crowley, arranged and symbolised differently. the king, being a mounted figure, indicating the swift action of the yod of tetragrammaton; the prince of the esoteric tarot is a seated figure, corresponding to the vau of tetragrammaton; and the princess, the knave of the modern packs, correspond to the he final of the sacred name. 11. the twenty-two trumps are arranged in various ways by various authorities, of which mr. waite gives a selection, but in our system we will follow the order given by crowley for reasons al

a bearded male figure. situation on the tree: at the head of the pillar of mercy in the supernal triangle. yetziratic text: the second path is called the illuminating intelligence. it is the crown of creation, the splendour of unity, equalling it. it is exalted above every head, and is named by qabalists the second glory. titles given to chokmah: power of yetzirah. ah. abba. the supernal father. tetragrammaton. yod of tetragrammaton. god-name: jehovah. archangel: ratziel. mystical qabala page 82 order of angels: auphanim, wheels. mundane chakra: mazloth, the zodiac. spiritual experience: the vision of god face to face. virtue: devotion. vice: correspondence in microcosm: the left side of the face. symbols: the lingam. the phallus. the yod of tetragrammaton. the inner robe of glory. the st

sanctity of natural process and in plucking the flower has no regard for the fruit, for they shall be diseased of body and corrupt of estate. 11. in chokmah, then, we must see both the creative word which said "let there be light" and the lingam of siva and the phallus adored by the bacchantes. we must learn to recognise dynamic force, and revere it wherever we see it, for its god-name is jehovah tetragrammaton. we see it in the spread tail of the peacock and the iridescence of the neck of the dove; but we also hear it in the yowl of the tom-cat and smell it in the stench of the he-goat. likewise we meet it in the colonising adventurers of the most virile epochs of our history, notably those of elizabeth and victoria-both women! we see it again in the man diligent in his toil, strenuous in

giver and caller into manifestation. though [page 128] the higher and lower manifestations of dynamic force are the same in essence, they are upon different levels; priapus is not identical with jehovah. nevertheless, the root of priapus is to be found in jehovah, and the manifestation of god the father is to be found in priapus, as is indicated by the fact that the rabbis call chokmah the yod of tetragrammaton, and yod is identical with lingam in their phraseology. 16. it is curious that the sepher ye irah says of two of the sephiroth that they are exalted above every head-a contradictory statement; yet in the fact that it is made with regard to chokmah and malkuth there is illumination for us if we ponder its significance. chokmah is the supernal father, malkuth is the inferior mother, a

quilibrium. yetziratic text: the sixth path is called the mediating intelligence, because in it are multiplied the influxes of the emanations; for it causes that influence to flow into all the reservoirs of the blessings with which they themselves are united. titles given to tiphareth: zoar anpin, the lesser countenance. melekh, the king. adam. the son. the man. mystical qabala page 128 god-name: tetragrammaton aloah va daath. archangel: raphael. order of angels: malachim, kings. mundane chakra: shemesh, the sun. spiritual experience: vision of the harmony of things. mysteries of the crucifixion. virtue: devotion to the great work. vice: pride. correspondence in the microcosm: the breast. symbols: the lamen. the rosy cross. the calvary cross.the truncated pyramid. the cube. tarot cards: th

he religious and ethical ideas of sacrifice and some very valuable clues are obtained. mystical qabala page 141 68. the god-name of this sphere is aloah va daath, which associates it intimately' with the invisible sephirah that comes between it and kether. this sephirah, as we have already seen, may best be understood as apprehension, the dawning of consciousness; and we may interpret the phrase "tetragrammaton aloah va daath" as "god made manifest in the sphere of mind" 69. in the microcosm tiphareth represents the higher psychism, the mode of consciousness of the individuality, jr higher self. it is essentially the sphere of religious mysticism as distinguished from the magic and psychism of yesod; for be it remembered, the sephiroth of the central pillar of the tree represent levels of

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ast and continuously, and so resorted to the device of quotation. the scribe had written two or three words of "tom o'bedlam" when choronzon sprang within the circle (that part of the circumference of which that was nearest to him he had been filling up with sand all this time, and leaped upon the scribe, throwing him to the earth. the conflict took place within the circle. the scribe called upon tetragrammaton, and succeeded in compelling choronzon to return into his triangle. by dint of anger and of threatening him with the magick staff did he accomplish this. he then repaired the circle. the discomfited demon now continued) all is dispersion. these are the qualities of things. the tenth aethyr is the world of adjectives, and there is no substance therein (now returneth the beautiful wom

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nts while saying: spiritus dei ferebatur super aquas, et inspiravit in facian hominis spiraculum vitae. sit michael dux meus, et sabtabiel servus meus, in luce etper lucem. fiat verbum halitus meus; et imperabo spiritibus aeris hujus, et refraenabo equos solis voluntate cordis nei, et cogitatione mentis meae et nutu oculi dextri. erorciso igitur te, creatura aeris, per pentagrammaton et in nomine tetragrammaton, in quibus sunt voluntas firma et fides recta. amen. sela, fiat. qu'il en soit ainsi. 1 next we recite the prayer of the sylphs, after having traced in air their sign with the plume of an eagle. prayer of the sylphs spirit of light! spirit of wisdom! whose breath gives and takes away again the forms of all things! thou, in whose presence the life of being is a shadow which changes

ized magnet. then, while holding in the hand the pentacle of solomon, and taking by turns the sword, the wand, and the cup, we pronounce in these terms and in a loud voice the conjuration of the four. caput mortuum, impeert tibi dominus per vivum et devotum serpentem. cherub, imperet tibi dominus per adam jotchavah! aquila errans, imperet tibi dominus per alas tauri. serpens, imperet tibi dominus tetragrammaton per angelum et leonem! michael, gabriel, raphael, anael! fluat u dor per spiritum eloim. maneat terra per adam lot-chavah. fiat firmamentum per lahuvehu-zebaoth. fiat judicium per ignen in virtute michaels. 8 angel with the dead eyes, obey or flow away with this holy water. winged bull labor or return to earth; if thou art not willing that i prick thee with this sword. chained eagle

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was the word, and the word was with god and the word was god (john 1:1. the concept of the logos as the word of god, immanent and creative, derived from philo judaeus of alexandria in the first half-century of the christian era. philo fused together traditional jewish teachings from the talmud and the hellenistic philosophy of greece (influenced by hindu mysticism. the 72-syllable name became the tetragrammaton of four-syllable form. a christian kabalist of the sixteenth century developed a pentagrammaton said to increase the power of the tetragrammaton by adding the letter s to express the name of jesus. according to hindu mysticism, the universe was created through divine utterance, symbolized by a trigrammaton of three letters: a-u-m. this sacred sound prefixes and concludes reading of

the evil spirit samuel, the serpent spoken of in the book of genesis, otherwise known as the beast. the universe was incomplete, however, without the creation of man. the heavenly adam (the tenth sephiroth) created the earthly adam, each member of whose body corresponds to a part of the visible universe. the human form is said to be shaped according to the four letters that constitute the jewish tetragrammaton: yhwh. souls preexist in the world of emanations, and are all destined to inhabit human bodies, according to the kabala. like the sephiroth from which it emanates, every soul has ten potencies, consisting of a trinity of triads.spirit, soul, and elemental soul, or neptesh. each soul, before its entrance into the world, consists of male and female united into one being, but when it d

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of life. be michael my leader, and be sabtabiel my servant, in the name and by the virtue of light. be the power of the word in my breath, and i will govern the spirits of this creature of air, and by the will of my soul, i will restrain the steeds of the sun, and by the thought of my mind, and by the apple of my right eye. i exorcise thee o creature of air, by the petagrammaton, and in the name tetragrammaton, wherein are steadfast will and well-directed faith. amen. sela. so be it. water is exorcised by the laying on of hands, by breathing and by speech, and by mixing sacred salt with a little of the ash left in an incense pan. the aspergillus is made of branches of vervain, periwinkle, sage, mint, ash, and basil, tied by a thread taken from a virgin s distaff, with a handle of hazelwoo

of fine white linen, over that a priestly robe of black bombazine reaching to the ground, with the two seals of the earth drawn correctly upon virgin parchment, and affixed to the breast of his outer vestment. around his waist is tied a broad consecrated girdle, with the names ya, ya,.aie, aaie,.elibra. elchim,.sadai,.pah adonai,.tuo robore,.cinctus sum. upon the magician s shoes must be written tetragrammaton, with crosses around it; upon his head a high-crowned cap of sable silk, and in his hand a holy bible, printed or written in pure hebrew. thus attired, and standing within the charmed circle, the magician repeats the awful form of exorcism, and presently the infernal spirits make strange and frightful noises, howlings, tremblings, flashes, and most dreadful shrieks and yells before

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e believed that they led him to a fuller understanding of christianity, and certified the truth of the divinity of christ and the doctrine of the trinity. his seventy-two cabalist conclusiones are introduced as "confirming the christian religion from the foundations of hebrew wisdom* the sixth conclusion states that the three great names of god in cabalist secrets, within the quaternary name (the tetragrammaton, refer to the three persons of the trinity.4 and the seventh conclusion affirms that "no hebrew cabalist can deny that the name of iesu, if we interpret it according to cabalistic principles' for pico and the cabala the chief study was formerly j. l. blau, the christian interpretation of the cabala in the renaissance, columbia university press, 1944. but sec now the very important e

the fountain of them. it is so. so that god, considered absolutely, has nothing to do with us, but only as he communicates himself by the effects of nature, to which he is more nearly allied than nature itself; so that if he is not nature itself, certainly he is the nature of nature, and the soul of the soul of the world, if he is not the very soul itself' in this passage, he is talking about the tetragrammaton, the sacred four-lettered name of god, and of the seventy-two "semhamaphores, or light-bearing angels, who bear the sacred name. these angels all had names drawn by the hebrew doctors from the scriptures2 and by celestial arithmetical progression the numbers of the angels expanded from the four in the way which bruno describes. he could have been getting this information from no mor

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gree here which reflects into the negative real axis, that is, the imaginary i reflected to itself brings forth a negative multiplicative identity. i3 (i2)(i(-1(-1 -i we have a tri-part power of the imaginary root resulting in a non-real answer which is the negative of our original supposition. a negative value of i. i4 (i3)(i(-i)(i -i2(-1= 1 this imaginary root to the fourth degree, four worlds (tetragrammaton) manifesting in 1 (the multiplicative identity. the result is real valued. 1*1=1, 1/1=1. when contemplating the i we see that there is obvious a cyclic nature about complex numbers. i= i5= i9= i13= i17 i1+4k (k z) i2= i6= i10= i14= i18 i2+4k (k z) i3= i7= i11= i15= i19 i3+4k (k z) i4= i8= i12= i16= i20 i4+4k (k z) the proof is trivial: for n 1,2,3,4 and k z given in+4k, in+4k= in(i4

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cameas of the planets( gtables h) and the seals and sigils of the planetary powers, intelligences and demons (following agrippa of nettesheim, de occulta philosophia, vol. 2, 1533) table of saturn numbers hebrew letters seals or characters of saturn his intelligence his demon divine names in accord with the numbers of saturn numbers divine names in hebrew 3. ab. 9. hod. 15. yah. 15. hod. 45. ext. tetragrammaton. 45. agiel, intelligence of saturn. 45. zazel, demon of saturn. 112/ practical sigil magic table of jupiter numbers hebrew letters seals or characters of jupiter his demon his intelligence divine numbe e names in hebr. 1 f. 1 f. namombers of ju es in acc rd with the nu piter rs4. divinabba ew. 16. 16. 34. el ab. 36. iophiel, in telligence o jupiter emon o 36. hismael, d jupiter. con

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e 23 origin of the sephiroth 25 the ten sephiroth 27 chapter iii 36 the problem of good and evil 36 good and evil. 36 the evolution of satan. 39 the problem of free will. 42 the mystery of sex. 45 chapter iv 48 the fall of tetragrmmmaton 48 the principles of creation. 48 the experimental worlds. 49 adam qadmon. 50 the creation of eve. 52 the messianic redemption. 54 chapter v 55 the redemption of tetragrammaton 55 symbols of the messianic act 55 man the instrument of redemption. 55 the accomplishment of the messianic act. 56 the integration of the disintegrated. 57 the creation of hell. 58 the source of messianic power. 59 secret wisdom of the qabalah page 4 chapter vi 61 the source of mystic power 61 the essence of the qabalah. 61 the mysticism of modern science. 63 the laboratory of sata

universal philosophy, combining the eternal masculine and the eternal feminine, and cementing them into the eternally human. so it happens that wherever we search we find origins. thus in essenism we find qabalism. the essenes were not to divulge the secret doctrines to anyone. carefully to preserve the books belonging to their sect and the names of the angels or the mysteries connected with the tetragrammaton and the other names of god and the angels, comprised in the theosophy as well as with the cosmogony which also played so important a part among the jewish mystics and the kabbalists. 11 but long before the essenes existed lived the qabalah. aryan and chaldean esoteric doctrines percolated into it. in egypt, the mysteries of the sun god, the moon goddess, of osiris and isis, impinged

bsolute darkness to the mind. from the ain soph aur emanates ehyeh (hyha, the hi h or gi am h- abstract thought; then yhvh (hvhy, git who was, and is, and will be h- thought in time; and lastly elohim (myhla),god in nature and god in the bible, in which yhvh (jehovah or yahweh) is translated as glord h, the equivalent of secret wisdom of the qabalah page 23 the hebrew adonai, for the true name of tetragrammaton (yhvh) may not be pronounced. thus, as the ayin, ain soph, and ain sopb aur form a group of three unthinkable principles, so do ehyeh, yhvh, and elohim form a group of three intelligent principles- abstract thoughts, thought in time and thought in everything; for the whole universe arose out of the voice (the creative instrument) which expressed the ineffable thought of light in the

crown. as we have explained, this first sephirah represents gi am h as being, secret wisdom of the qabalah page 28 that is as pure existence. it is neither positive nor negative, but, and though sexless it is androgenous. though the primordial point of light, it is nevertheless the circumference of all things, the centre of which is nowhere because it is in no-thing; containing all the potency of tetragrammaton (yhvh, it is simultaneously past, present, and future. in the letter od, which corresponds to it, is enclosed the imminence of the ten sephiroth. frequently it is called the ancient of the ancients, the ancient, or the ancient of days. for instance, in the book of daniel we read: i beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as sn

imordial or heavenly adam. the remaining sephiroth are the short face. in the angelic order, kether is represented by the beasts of ezekiel, the holy living creatures of the chariot-throne, namely the four kerubim- the eagle, man, lion, and bull- which represent the four elements air (smell, water (taste, fire (sight, and earth (touch. also it includes in its mysterious nature the four letters of tetragrammaton as follows: y (lion, h (man, v (eagle, and h (bull. but as in itself kether is also the shekinah (the glory of god, in it is hidden the shin (w, which symbolizes spirit. as the ain soph is represented by the closed eye, so is kether represented by the open eye (compare the eye of shiva in hindu mythology) as long as this eye remains open the universe is maintained in being, but when

is often called gthe only begotten son h. gin the beginning was the word, and the word was with god, and the word was god h 17 here we have presented to us the logos nature of 'hokmah. its colour is yellow or red-orange, the colour of christ; it is positive and male, and its letter is v (vau= 6, which multiplied by the 50 gates of binah reveals w (shin= 300, the glory of god. the final h (heh) of tetragrammaton represents the remaining seven sephiroth. this revelation of the shin shows the triadic nature of the first three sephiroth which constitute the intellectual world, and it closely relates it to many mysteries. thus, in ydw shaddai (almighty, the name of the deity before he revealed himself as yhvh, the shin comes first; in messiah (hywm) and the exoteric jesus (ovwy) it comes second

at of the generative principle. everything shall return to its foundation, from which it has proceeded. all marrow, seed and energy are gathered in this place. 19 (10) uvklm malkuth, kingdom, or dominion. as kether is the harmony at the beginning, so is malkuth the harmony at the end; the first the head and the last the feet of adam qadmon. the divine name attached to this sephirah is adonai- the tetragrammaton. malkuth is also called the queen, shekinah, and havah- eve. it is the seat of the nephesh, the instincts, and its angel is metatron, the angel of the covenant, the letters of whose name equal in numerical value those of shaddai, namely 314. behold, i send an angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which i have prepared. beware of him, and obey h

reative cycle symbolized by two interlaced six-pointed stars or seals of solomon; the one being the great work below and the other the great work above. there are four manifestations- the no-thing, the intellectual world, the sensuous world, and the physical world; also the four elements air, fire, water, and earth, the four living beasts of the chariot throne, and the four letters in the name of tetragrammaton. in the zohar we read: the firmament is imprinted, at the four corners of a square, with four figures, of a lion, an eagle, an ox, and a man; and the face of a man is traced in all of them, so that the face of lion is of man, the face of eagle is of man, and the face of ox is of man, all being comprehended in him. 22 hence the four great qabalistic worlds together form a unit, a sin

blessed be he! made sammael and his legions, who are as it were the clouds to be used to come down upon the earth. and they are the horses: and above the cloud is the merkabah, the chariot throne, therefore it is said [isaiah xix, i: gbehold yhvh rideth upon a swift cloud and shall come into mitsraim [egypt. h and so the holy, blessed be he! rules mitsraim. 23 this world is seemingly the abode of tetragrammaton (4) assiah or the assiatic world, the world of action, also called the world of qliphoth, that is the world of shells or demons. in its ten sephiroth lives the actual material substance of the universe. it is the abode of sammael, the prince of darkness. it is subject to change, birth, death, corruption and re-birth, yet not anything in it is considered as ever totally annihilated o

blessed be he! made sammael and his legions, who are as it were the clouds to be used to come down upon the earth. and they are the horses: and above the cloud is the merkabah, the chariot throne, therefore it is said [isaiah xix, i: gbehold yhvh rideth upon a swift cloud and shall come into mitsraim [egypt. h and so the holy, blessed be he! rules mitsraim. 25 this world is seemingly the abode of tetragrammaton. such are the four worlds. in the simple sephirotic scheme the first is referred to kether 'hokmah, and binah; the second to 'hesed, pahad, and tiphereth; the third to netzah, hod, and yesod; and the fourth to malkuth. also, in genesis i, glet there be light h refers to the atziluthic world; gelohim saw the light, that it was good h refers to the briatic world; gelohim divided the l

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ill very human but not onlyappendixd129human-weareattemptingto be ultra-human, i.e, divine.ifyou enter there, you must be in thought and practice like an angel, one who has passed beyond contract worship. unless while with us you can conceive and act as both a sister and a brother at once, you will become a curse to yourself and a stumbling block unto us, unless you can forget yoursex,-bythe holy tetragrammaton i beseech you to be absent. we do not ask you to be unsexed in your private life,thatis a stage necessary only in a far advanced grade, to which few may reach, but in our order this qualification is an absolute necessity or you will get no encouragement to proceed farther than the threshold.ifyou can promise this attitude, youmayattempt; beware of a first failure, it may end in your

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haturanga 75 part two: kabalistic 9. the kabalah 3110.a further glance at the kabalah 95 11. the ten sephiroth 110 12. the religion of freemasonry illuminated by the kabbalah 114 13. angels: jewish, christian and pagan 124 14. the devil, and evil spirits according to the bible and ancient hebrew rabbis 131 15. some anomalies in the biblical views of the constitution of man 139 16. the vestiges of tetragrammaton 154 17. the number four in relation with the world and man 1576themagicalmasonpartthree:divination18.thehistory of astrology169 19.dreams18120.divination and its history19221.the star lore of the bible216partfour: masonic22.freemasonry and its relation to the essenes233 23.the resemblances of freemasonry to the cult of mithra244 24.the religious and masonic symbolism of stones256par

m, especiallyas related to the rays of the sun, and their power on the earth. in1621appeared a further part of the work, calledtheosophic,cabalisticalandphysiological:it is in this portion that our frater chiefly delighted, and it is here that his vast learning in hebrew cabalistic lore and his wonderful mental ingenuity is chiefly displayed. he discourses at great length on the name jehovah, the tetragrammaton, and its relation to man's soul and body; on the divine sephiroth, and on the primal chaos, and leads the student on to the moment of creation when god saidfiat lux,and there was light.itwas upon these recondite subjects that my lectures of last winter were given to the fratres of the study group. the last great work of robert fludd was hisphilosophicmoysaica,gouda, 1638. this great

v",0 0l''i,rnj.li"n0 0\\alk'llh<.o-0 0--0 0 01-'0 0 00o"00>r>"00this diagram resumes all kabalistic ideas, and is an emblem of their views on every subject. every deific conception can be there demonstrated; the constitution of the angelic hosts, the principles of man's nature, the group of planetary bodies, the metallic elements, the zigzag flash of the lightning, and the compositionofthe sacred tetragrammaton.thekabalah91this decad of deific emanations is to be conceived as first formulated on the plane of atziluth, which is entirely beyond our ken; to be reproduced on the plane of pure spirituality briah; to exist in the same decad forminthe world of yetzirah or the formative plane; and finally to be sufficiently condensed as to be cognizable by the human intellect on thefourthplane of

vh, of the name, we call yahveh, or jehovah, are allotted and distributed among the sephiroth in a peculiar manner: so that even if to some jewish exoteric teachers 'jehovah' is the name in especial of the so-called passive principle, or female aspect of binah- and that this did at times degenerate into the worship of the groves- yet this stigma does not attach to the kabalistic conception of the tetragrammaton, that dreadful name of majesty which might never be uttered by the common people, and whose true pronunciation has been for many centuries confessedly lost to the jews. time will not permit me to extend much farther this paper on the doctrines of the kabalah; but i may say that the teaching include the following dogmas.(1)that the supreme incomprehensible one was not the direct crea

te (6)thattwo lives are taught by many rabbis, to be necessary for all to pass; and that if failure result in the second life, a third life is passed linked with a stronger soul who draws the sinner upward into purity (7) that when all the pre-existent souls have arrived at perfection, the fallen angels are also raised, and all lives are merged into the deity by the kiss of love from the mouth of tetragrammaton- and the manifested universe shall be no more. this short summary of the kabalah is necessarily very94themagical masonimperfect, omitting altogether many points of great importance, and is no doubt tinctured by my own personal views, which it is very difficult to eliminate from such an essay. but i hope i have succeeded in making you understand that the system is a serious and consi

slight-appearas a rainbow of the divine in a first world, or upon the highest plane above human. conception, that of atzeluth; by successive reflections, dimin255 ishing in brightness, a plane is reached which is conceivable by man, as of the purity of his highest spiritual vision.thegrouping of the ten divine qualities, upon this plane, into a divine tetrad, is symbolized by yod heh vau heh, the tetragrammaton, the kabalistic jehovah, or yahveh of the exoteric critics, the original of that god, whose grosser reflection as a nation's patron is formulated in the old testament.inform parallel to the theosophic doctrine, we find that the kabalah contemplates a period when pralaya existed, a period of repose and absence of manifestation, when the negative reigned supreme. from passivity there

man, and the human soul evolves the existence of god.parturit homo deum.infinite justice equilibrated by infinite goodness, and infinite goodness sustained and inspired by justice, form the ideal of the beauty which we call the splendour of god, the shekinah, the zohar, the light of the glory, the tiphereth. it is in the midst of the sun of human intelligence, that the incommunicable nameihvh,the tetragrammaton, is written; the name which is never read, but is spelledlod,he, vau, he, the jahouvahou, theie0u a, from which we form the word [ehova by replacing the four mystic hebrew letters by the fivethe ten sephirothiiivowels of our modem languages.'rhusthe sacred name, if written only in its first reflection, is the last word arising from our human intelligence, on quitting the most arduou

ghts compose a bright triangle, the three lesser lights an inferior or darker one, the two combined may be considered in a group as a six-pointed star, the hexapla, or seal of solomon, which was also a notable emblem in all the old initiations. this hexapla was a type of the number six, esteemed a. male number assigned by the kabbalists to microprosopus, the vau of the hebrew alphabet, and of the tetragrammaton, the six middle sephiroth, especially the median 6th, the tiphereth, or beauty of the deity.thepentalpha, or emblem of health, the pythagorean emblem, is the five-pointed masonic star, five is the hebrew he, a female potency according to the kabbalah, and may be either the superior he, the mother idea, or the lower he, the bride of god, the church, the kingdom, these two together co

n, with which even the christian church has threatened its members, there would be an end to all work, and all pleasure in our lives, and each would alone be concerned at every hour in staving off so great a curse, so terrible a doom.[a lecture to the adelphi lodge of the theosophical society. reprinted fromtheosophical siftings,vol. 5, no. 16 (1893, pp.3-15.]16.the vestiges of tetragrammatonthe 'tetragrammaton' is a symbol of the soul of the world, that is, the astral light, the great magical agent, the action of god in the universe. the creator and governor, the motive power, the guiding influence, the mainspring of the whole machine is typified by the cross and the square, the tetrad or quaternary. thisonegod, or power, is the resume of the members of the triad.thetriadis the synthesis

of the whole machine is typified by the cross and the square, the tetrad or quaternary. thisonegod, or power, is the resume of the members of the triad.thetriadis the synthesis of the two contending forces, the one that unites them into equilibrium; and each force is aunit,a monad. two opposing forces form the duad in equilibrium. the duad is resumed in a triad, and the triad is perfected in the tetragrammaton- yod"he-vau-he- concept of deity working in nature by the triad- by means of two opposing forces, the active and passive, male and female, volatile and fixed, positive and negative, and each a monad power, vis, or unity. trace with me the tetrad through mind, religion, symbol255 ism, alchemy and physics. let us take the two opposing forces pictured, as of old, by the upright linefor

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een, andkallah,the bride are titles of maikuth, considered as the spouse of microprosopus or zauir anpin. 12.thefour letters ofare thus referred:to abba, m to aima, to zauir anpin m to malkah.r:\zauirxallah anpin32thesorcerer and his apprentice13. the secret names of the 4 worlds are:atzlloth=aub 72briah=seg 63yetzlrah=memah 45assiah=ben 52 they are the totals of the numbers of the letters of the tetragrammaton when spelt at lengthinthe four worlds. thus: inatziloth=72(sic)10.10.5+6.10.6+10.5+4.6.10inbriah'n'=6315+13+15+20inyetzirahnm"1"1=456+13+6+20inassiah1"11"1"-mm=5210+12+10+2014. asinthe holy place the symbolism of the 22 letters was given, so in the holy of holies the symbolism of the 10 sephiroth or numbers was displayed by means of thearkand the kerubim. the ark was malkuth. the me

10.malkuth- south 18. the ten sephiroth are thus united in seven palaces. 19. in each of the 4 worlds are the ten sephiroth of that world, and each sephira has its own ten sephiroth; thus there are 400 sephiroth in total number, the number of the letter, tau, the cross, the universe, the completion of all things. and 400 is the square of the number 10 multiplied by 4, the number of the letters of tetragrammaton. 20. these are the seven angels ruling the seven planets under the seven archangels thereof: h cassiel.zl sachiel,r3zamael,oanael,raphael) gabriel.34 the sorcererand his apprentice21. the seven heavens of the planets are:hghareboth,2!.zebol,r3makon, 0sagun,raquie) shamain2.2.theintelligences of the seven planets are:2!.yophiel, cfgraphiel, 0 nakhiel,hagiel, beni seraphim, and ki267h

rumpsandthegenuineattributiontothehebrewalphabetandthepathsofyetzirah,etc.[fromtheancienta:.0:.cyphermss]learn now, 0 practicus of our ancient order the true mean255 ing ofapcl 225thirty and two are the paths of yetzirah, the ten sephiroth, the twenty and two letters. the ten sephiroth are the ten numbered cards of each suit; the four suits are the four worlds; the sixteen" cards are the fourfold tetragrammaton; the twenty and two letters are the twenty andtwo**atus or mansions of thoth. the twenty-two letters are divided into three mothers, seven doubles and twelve simples; three elements, seven planets, twelve signs. so is it also with the twenty-two atus. therein are the elements, therein are the planets, therein are the signs; for the book of thoth is the universe, and the universe is

old symbolic designs.thetheory, therefore, is that the tarot was in its origin a symbolic book, whose meaning can now only be remotely guessed at; that the original designers worked upon thethetarot cards127fourfold division of all created things, whereof well-known examples are the four beasts of ezekiel's vision, and of the apocalypse, the four cherubim, the four archangels, the four letters of tetragrammaton, and many others; to which they added the mystic virtues of numbers, and upon each page of the book they palced a symbolic design still further to elucidate it. each page on this theory would in fact form a chapter in the book, describing the good and evil influences operating from the spiritual on the material world. by the theory of divination the process of shuffling and cutting

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was also visualized by kabbalah as having a unitary, anthropomorphic form. god was, by one kabbalistic recension, adam kadmon: the first primordial or archetypal man. man shared with god both an intrinsic, uncreated divine spark and a complex, organic form. this strange equation of adam as god was supported by a kabbalistic cipher: the numerical value in hebrew of the names adam and jehovah (the tetragrammaton, yod he vav he) was both 45. thus in kabbalistic exegesis jehovah equaled adam: adam was god. with this affirmation went the as- gj the inside story on the kabbalah sertion that all humankind in highest realization was like god.28 this theology comprises of a mythology of paganism, and formed the basis of the degeneration of judaism. jewish kabbalists breached the limits of common s

ad its roots in the kabbalah. they aimed to create a sociopolitical change to bring this about. it is interesting that, besides the kabbalah, at the source of this new culture were the doctrines of ancient egypt. prof. martin writes: initiates of those early humanist associations were devotees of the great force the great architect of the cosmos which they represented under the form of the sacred tetragrammaton, yhwh.[humanists] borrowed other symbols the pyramid and the all seeing eye mainly from egyptian sources.40 it is quite interesting that humanists make use of the concept of "the great architect of the universe" a term still used by masons today. this if humanism revisited as vatican university historian malachi martin has shown, there is a close relationship between the rise of hum

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theurgy page 95 tiphareth and malkuth and the twenty-two trumps are given over to the paths. there is much debate about the exact attribution, we cover this subject in detail in our courses on the kabbalah and the tarot. the four worlds the tree of life has activity on four levels; known as the four worlds. these four worlds as seen as the four stages of the secret formula of the israelites, the tetragrammaton of yhvh. each symbolises a facet of the emanation process, in modern terms, they could be seen as initiation, transmission, fixation and manifestation or as archetypal, creative, formative and materials. they are also attributed to the four elements. atziluth. fire. yod. initiation. briah. water. he. transmission. yetzirah. air. vau. fixation. assiah. earth. he (final. manifestation

hirteen. if we accept that the vibration of the word is represented by its letters; then by investigating the number thirteen we can come to understand more about the word achad. in hebrew another word which is enumerated as thirteen is ahavah (which means love. here we have another interesting correlation- unity= love. if add them together we arrive at twenty six. twenty six is the number of the tetragrammaton or the four lettered formula which representatives the true and hidden nature of the universe. so we may conclude that the ultimate truth beyond duality is that unity and love are the same. this is just a slight indication of how the esoteric secrets of the hebrew alphabet can be decoded. gematria this process of exploring the relationship between words and numbers is known as the k

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nally, the triangle should be 2 feet distant from the magic circle and three feet across. the triangle should be place towards which quarter where the spirit evoked would belong. the base of the triangle would be near the circle, the apex would point in the quarter of the spirit. it is suggested that one observes the moon also in the operation. the names surrounding the triangle are anapheaxeton, tetragrammaton and primeumation. the athame or blade of the white hilt the white hilt knife is the magickal tool of the work of illumination of the angelic guide, the solar and luciferian blade of the divine will. the white hilted knife is used in such works such as workings of the divine will, or angelick holy guardian angel. the athame is also used in circulating and visualizing light around the

ymbols which represent the higher articulation of the self. the luciferian will which is self-immolated unto perfection. the wand should be cut, painted and decorated with the specific sigils from ones alphabet and done so in the noon tide sun, sacred to shaitan, the djinn of fire. the wand corresponds also to the phallus, the solar vessel which spills forth the elixir of the sun. the pentacle of tetragrammaton the symbol of strength and conceptual imagery of the pentacle of solomon, the magus who bound the djinn of this book. the pentacle may be worn as a method of encircling 25 the self in the mask of purity, thus remaining a symbol of the mind in unity with the will. often in evocation/invocation, spirits become points of obsessional belief which seem to speak or send impulses and desir

gus who bound the djinn of this book. the pentacle may be worn as a method of encircling 25 the self in the mask of purity, thus remaining a symbol of the mind in unity with the will. often in evocation/invocation, spirits become points of obsessional belief which seem to speak or send impulses and desires to the sorcerer which may be contrary to the purpose of the ritual. the pentacle of solomon/tetragrammaton is the sigil of the will of god (god may represent set or the divine will the isolate self. you may have the pentacle of tetragrammaton on your person, symbolic of the will of the rite. when one enters the cross-roads of spirits you are in the arena of anon, the spirits which have existed between the aethyr and the earth for timeless ages the take the flesh of our desires, therefore

on, the spirits which have existed between the aethyr and the earth for timeless ages the take the flesh of our desires, therefore posing a dangerous tight rope walk of obsession/possession. consider the strength of will as the guide in the working, thus the reason for one being in direct contact with the hga/angel-serpent and envenomed with the light of set or the adversary. the names within the tetragrammaton represent the power of will that the magicians holds in the working, thus within the pentagram which ascends towards the luciferian realm of air. tetragrammaton is the formula of the holy guardian angel or higher self/daimon (genius. 26 soluzen in the center represents the shade or spirit which is summoned to come forth in the point, the very meeting place of spirits (the triangle a

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nder the presidence of hwchy. the four elements form a cross in the pentagram and are governed by hwhy with the point uppermost. it is a fitting symbol of the microprosopic man stretched out in perfect balance and harmony before the divine. the letter c is the symbol of the "fires of life" the \yhla jwr, the divine spirit that hovered over the waters of creation. when the letter c is added to the tetragrammaton, it forms the name hwchy, hcwhy. the latter name is the formation when the letter c is placed between the three letters of the tetragrammaton and ruling l. as one can observe from the diagram of the complete pentagram, a ray representing the divine issueth forth from each angle. therefore, the true name of the pentagram is called the "flaming pentagram" or "star of great light" this

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w is that number found" second adept "by the continual multiplication of the first five numbers of the decimal scale" chief adept "post centum viginti annos patebo. thus, i have closed the vault of the adepti in the mystic mountain of abiegnus" third adept "ex deo nascimur" second adept "in yehashuah morimur" chief adept :per sanctum spiritum reviviscimus (all present give lvx signs in silencho14 tetragrammaton on the great cross thou shall know that the holy name hwhy is to be found on each of the holy tablets in the following manner: great cross thou shall read the tetragrammaton always beginning from the top of the linea dei patris and the linea dei fellique ascribing the appropriate letter to each tablet, and read in a spherical fashion (letter ascending in an upward direction) to the

d on each of the holy tablets in the following manner: great cross thou shall read the tetragrammaton always beginning from the top of the linea dei patris and the linea dei fellique ascribing the appropriate letter to each tablet, and read in a spherical fashion (letter ascending in an upward direction) to the bottom of both lines. each tablet begins on the top with the appropriate letter of the tetragrammaton, ascribed to the elemental tablet: d= y c= h a= w b= h thou shalt read the linea spiritus sancti beginning in the left, and again, commencing with the letter of the tetragrammaton appropriate to the tablet, reading from right to left. air tablet 15 tetragrammaton as applied to the kerubic ranks of each tablet (hands indicate the direction of the letters are to be read) air tablet" w

n appropriate to the tablet, reading from right to left. air tablet 15 tetragrammaton as applied to the kerubic ranks of each tablet (hands indicate the direction of the letters are to be read) air tablet" whyh (f) yh(f)wh h(f)yhw hwh(f)y" water tablet" whyh(f) yh(f)wh h(f)yhw hwh(f)y" earth tablet" wh(f)yh wh(f)yh h(f)why h(f)why" fire tablet" wh(f)yh wh(f)yh h(f)why h(f)why! do not confuse same tetragrammaton allocation with very different natures of the tablets. the elemental composition differs enormously in each lesser angle. servient squares 16 the servient squares beneath the calvary cross appear as four vertical columns of four squares each (do not count the white squares from the sephirotic cross. thou shall observe the following rule when attributing the letter of the tetragramma

anks thou shall note that the outside square is always attributed to the letter that corresponds to the element of the lesser angle. how they are read: a names read right to left in upper two quarters; in lower two quarters read c from left to right. b names read left to right in upper two quarters; in lower two quarters read a from right to left. note: each square has a double attribution to the tetragrammaton. thus for example, column w rank y does not coincide in nature with column y rank w (anymore than a of d in the tattwas is the same as d of a) signs of the zodiac attributed to the great cross thou shall take notice that the wanderers and abiders are attributed to the great cross. each of the 12 signs of the zodiac is to be referred to three squares. thou will recall that each zodia

essential spiritual noumenon of the elements. the court cards act as vice-gerants of the root forces of the elements. m a c b d a ace swords prince swords queen swords princess swords king swords c ace cups prince cups queen cups princess cups king cups b ace pentacles prince pentacles queen pentacles princess pentacles king pentacles d ace wands prince wands queen wands princess wands king wands tetragrammaton on the tablets the diagram below illustrates the letters of the tetragrammaton as they are attributed to the four watchtowers in specific detail. make certain to examine the arrows closely to better understand the order of reading the hebrew letters. thou shall not confuse the hebrew letters with the order of the angelic names on the tablets. like english, these names are always rea

e order of reading the hebrew letters. thou shall not confuse the hebrew letters with the order of the angelic names on the tablets. like english, these names are always read from left to right, for to do otherwise is to invoke evil forces and caco demons. key of attributions w h attribution of the great name to the four lesser angles 23 let the following diagrams aid thee in comprehension of the tetragrammaton on the tablets as well as their pyramidal nature. thou will remember that in the 4= 7 grade the pyramid was the admission badge of the 28th path. the pyramid, having a square base and four sides, is composed of equilateral triangles cut off, thus allowing the top to remain flat; a truncated pyramid. in the admission badge of the 28th path, the four sides were attributed to the four

the truncated pyramids in other attributed forms has been given, consideration is not acceptable to deteriorate the elemental nature of the tablets by painting them in anything other than the prescribed manner. sephirotic cross 25 triangle no. 1 elemental emblem of the tablet. triangle no. 2 emblem of m. triangle no. 3 elemental emblem of the lesser angle. triangle no. 4 sephiroth, letter of the tetragrammaton, tarot card. kerubic squares of the lesser angle triangle no. 1 tarot card of the lesser angle. triangle no. 2 elemental emblem of the tablet. triangle no. 3 kerubic symbol answering to letter of the name. triangle no. 4 elemental emblem of lesser angle. thou will note that no. 1 and no. 3 always match in color in the kerubic square. no. 2 showeth us the elemental color of the table

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this sometimes, though wrongly, was called theban, together with the english equivalents of its letters and the enochian titles. enochian title english b pe b c veh c or k g ged g d gal d f orth f a un a e graph e m tal m i gon i,y, j h na-hath h l ur l p mals p q ger q n drun n x pal x o med o r don r z ceph z u vau u,v,w s fam s t gisu,let the following diagrams aid thee in comprehension of the tetragrammaton on the tablets as well as their pyramidal nature. thou will remember that in the 4= 7 grade the pyramid was the admission badge of the 28th path. the pyramid, having a square base and four sides, is composed of equilateral triangles cut off, thus allowing the top to remain flat, a truncated pyramid. in the admission badge of the 28th path, the four sides were attributed to the four

g of the truncated pyramids in other attributed forms has been given consideration is not acceptable to deteriorate the elemental nature of the tablets by painting them in anything other than the prescribed manner. sephirotic cross triangle no. 1 elemental emblem of the tablet. triangle no. 2 emblem of m. triangle no. 3 elemental emblem of the lesser angle. triangle no. 4 sephiroth, letter of the tetragrammaton, tarot card. kerubic squares of the lesser angle triangle no. 1 tarot card of the lesser angle. triangle no. 2 elemental emblem of the tablet. triangle no. 3 kerubic symbol answering to letter of the name. triangle no. 4 elemental emblem of lesser angle. thou will note that no. 1 and no. 3 always match in color in the kerubic square. no. 2 showeth us the elemental color of the table

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in a lantern. this is, in a certain sense, placed in the appeture of the upper part of the ruach where it acts on the rays from hmkj and hnyb which govern the reason- tud. this faculty can be thrown downward into the 6 ruach, and thence, can radiate into the nephesch. it consists of seven manifestations answer to the hexagram, and it is like the soul of the microprosopus or the \yhla of the human tetragrammaton. therefore, in the head, which is the natural and chief seat, are formed the seven apertures of the head. this is the spiritual consciousness as distinct from the human consciousness. it is manifested in seven, as just stated, or in eight if tud be included. the father is the sun, hmkj. the mother is the moon, hnyb. the wind beareth it in its bosom, the ruach. its nurse is the earth

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ch lie in tcq, the bow. treasure it in thy heart and mark it well, seeing that therein is the key of nature. meditate on it and reveal it not unto the profane, for many and great are its mysteries. the colors differ according to the world or aspect of the great names they represent. there are four scales of color which correspond to the four kabbalistic worlds. they are: scales worlds tarot suits tetragrammaton elements king twlyxa wands y (yod) d (fire) queen hayrb cups h (he) c (water) prince hryxy swords w (vau) a (air) princess hycu pentacles h (he) b (earth) king scale queen scale prince scale princess scale 1. uncolored brilliance white brilliance white brilliance white rayed golden 2. pure soft blue grey blue pearl grey mother of pearl white flecked red blue and yellow 3. crimson bl

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a nanta bitom step 25 draw down the light as your arms descend. feel the light completely descend around you. vibrate "let the divine light descend" step 26 close with the qabalisic cross. 8. the rose cross note: it might help you learn the rose cross ritual by first walking through the steps without any vibration or drawing the crosses. addendum the rose cross ritual is based on the power of the tetragrammaton infused with the fires of life, the ruach elohim, through the letter c. when placed in the center it unites the masculine with feminine, the macrocosm with the microcosm, as in hwchy. when placed after the letters (chwhy) it unites the three principles of fire, water, and air with the final principal of earth. its sealing properties come from a fiery wall of c infused within the ele

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wklm. this shows the triad operating through the angle of two pentagons with a circle. it also alludes to the three alchemical principles, plus, plus the four elements in their positive and negative form, all under the presidency of the ten sephiroth. the decagram, reflected from the fifth point, is composed of two pentagrams within a circle. it alludes to the operation of the duplicated h of the tetragrammaton. it also refers to the concentration of positive and negative forces of and of the four elements under the presidency of hnyb, the convolution and revolution of forces under aimah. as a general rule, the endecagram refers to the twpylq. when it is reflected from every forth point, it represents their restriction. however, from other reflections, it indicates the twpylq operation thr

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bah-tah-ee-vah-heh) 2) water raagiosl (rah-ah-gee-oh-sel) 38 3) earth ikzhikal (e e-keh-zo d-he e-kal) 4) fire edlprnaa (eh-del-par nah-ah) figure 11, appendix a, shows how the names of the 24 seniors are determined from the arms of the great crosses. there are six seniors in each watchtower. figure 11 also shows the correspondence between the four watchtowers and the four syllables of the hebrew tetragrammaton. the names of the seniors are: air water habioro lsrahpm (hah-bee-oh-roh (less-rah-pem) aaozaif sahnov (ah-ah-oh-zodah-ee-feh (sah-ee-ee-noh-veh) htnorda lavaxrp (heh-teh-noh-rah-dah (el-ah-vahtz-ar-peh) ahaozpi slgaiol (aha-oh-zodh-pee (se1-gah-ee-oh-leh) avtotar soaiznt (ah-veh-toh-tah-rah (soh-ahee-zoden-teh) hipotga ligdisa (hee-poh-teh-gah (elee-geh-dee-sah) earth fire laidrom

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ire agla, and in the cross of jesus christ our only lord. amen. be thou blessed and consecrated in the name of the father, son, and holy ghost. asperges me, etc. benediction of the lamens (symbois. circles: o god thou god of my salvation i call upon thee by the mysteries of thy most holy name, on, st. agla, i worship and beseech thee by thy names el, elohim, elohe, zebaoth, and by thy mighty name tetragrammaton, saday, that thou wilt be seen in the power and force of these thy most holy names so written filling them with divine virtue and influence through jesus christ our lord. benediction of the pentacles: eternal god which, by thy holy wisdom, hast caused great power and virtue to lie hidden in the characters and holy writings of thy spirits and angels, and hast given unto man that with

his creature of fire and sanctify it, that it may be biessed to set forth the praise of thy holy name that no hurt the secret grimoire may be able to come unto me, through the virtue and defence of our lord jesus christ. amen. the secret grimoire invocation for sunday (sol: come, heavenly spirits who have the effulgent rays of the sun, luminous spirits who are ready to obey the power of the great tetragrammaton, come and assist me in the operation that i am making under the auspices of the grand light of day whicb the eternal creator hath formed for the use of universal nature. i invoke you for these purposes. be favourable and auspicious to what i shali ask in the name of amioram, adonai, sabaoth. the secret grimoire invocation for monday (moon) haste ye sublime and intelligent genil who

pid spirits who preside over the operation of this day. come, incomprehensible zebarel and all your legions, haste to my ass stance and be propitious to my undertakings, be kind and refuse me not your powerful aid and assistance. the secret grimoire invocation for friday (venus) come on the wings of the wind, ye happy genii who preside over the workings of the heart. come in the name of the great tetragrammaton; hear favourably the invocation that i make this day, destined to the wonder of love. be ready to lend me your assistance to succeed in what i have undertaken under the hope that you will be favourable to me. the secret grimoire invocation for saturday (sa turn) come out of your gloomy solitude ye saturnine spirits, come with your cohort, come with diligence to the place where i am

ethrack, evanher, agla, goth, joth, othie, venock, nabrat, and by al! thy holy names which are written in this book, and by the virtue of them all, that thou enable me to congregate all thy spirits, that they may give me true answers to all my demands. the secret grimoire o great and eternal virtue of the highest, which thou disposest their being come to judgment, viachem, stimilomaton, esphares, tetragrammaton, oboram, cryon, elijtion, onela, brassim, aoym, messias, soter, emanuel, sabaoth, adonay, i worship thee. i implore thee with all the strength of my mmd that by thee my present prayers, consecrations, and conjurations may be ha!!owed. in the name of the most merciful god of heaven and of earth, of the seas and of the infernais, by thine omnipotent help may i perform this work. helie

secret grimoire invocation :i i call upon thee, sachiel, castiel, and asasie, in the name of the father, and of the son, and of the holy ghost, blessed trinity, inseparable unity, i invoke and entreat thee, sachiel, castiel, and asasiel, in this hour to attend to the words and conjurations which i shall use by the holy names of god, el, elohim, elohe, eeoba, sabaoth, elion, eschiros, adonay, jay, tetragrammaton, saday; i conjure and excite you by the holy names of god, hagios, otheos, ischyros, athanatos, paracletos, agla, on, alpha and omega, ausias, tolimi, elias, irnos, aniay, horta, vegadora, antir, sibranat, amatha, baldachia, anuoram, anexpheton, via,vita, manus, fons, origo,filius and by all the other holy, glorious, great, and unspeakable, mysterious, mighty, powerful, and incompre

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h side. all being ready the invocant and his companions (if any) may enter the circle in the day and hour of mercury (the moon increasing) and commence operations by earnestly invocating the spiritvassago,as an experiment in the following manner.invocation &c.i exorcise, call upon and command the spiritvassagoby and in the name of the immense and everlasting god,jehuvah,adont1:y,elohim,agla;el,on,tetragrammaton,and by and in the name ofourlord and saviour jesus christ, the only son of the eternal andtruegod, creator of heaven and earth and all that is in themwipius,sother,emanuelprimogenitus,homonsionbones,viaveritassapientiavirtusleofmediatoragnusrexpastorprophetassacerdosathanatosparadetusalpha etomegaall by these high, great, glorious, royal and ineffable names of the omnipotent god and

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of the vedantins does nothing of the kind; nor does the ain-soph of the chaldean cabala. it is an eternal and periodical law which causes an active and creative force (the logos) to emanate from the ever-concealed and incomprehensible one principle at the beginning of every mah -manvantara, or new cycle of life. q. how about those cabalists, who, while being such, still believe in jehovah, or the tetragrammaton? a. they are at liberty to believe in what they please, as their belief or page 32 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt disbelief can hardly affect a self-evident fact. the jesuits tell us that two and two are not always four to a certainty, since it depends on the will of god to make 2 2= 5. shall we accept their sophistry for all that? q. then you are atheists? a. not that we kn

body of manas" also to the stars, and the star-like shining envelopes. a term in vedanta philosophy, having other meanings besides the occult signification just given. taraka raja-yoga (sans) one of the brahmanical yoga systems, the most philosophical, and in fact the most secret of all, as its real tenets are never given out publicly. it is a purely intellectual and spiritual school of training. tetragrammaton (gr) the deity-name in four letters, which are in their english form ihvh. it is a cabalistic term and corresponds on a more material plane to the sacred pythagorean tetraktys (see theosophical glossary) theodidaktos (gr) the "god taught" a title applied to ammonius saccas. theogony from the greek theogonia, lit, the "genesis of the gods" theosophia (gr) lit "divine wisdom or the wi

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petitionibus. then let him call the angels from the four parts of the world, that ruke the air the same day wherein he doth the work or experiment. and having implored specially all the names and spirits written in the circle, let him say, o vos omnes, adjuro atque contestor per sedem adonay, per hagios, theos, ischyros, athanatos, paracletos, alpha& omega& per h c tria nomina secreta, agla, on, tetragrammaton, qu d hodie debeatis adimplere quod cupio. these things being performed, let him read the conjuration assigned for the day wherein he maketh the experiments, as we have before spoken; but if they shall be partinacious and refractory, and will not yield themselves obedient, neither to the conjuration assigned to the day, nor to the prayers before made, then use the conjurations and e

mes following. an exorcisme of the spirits of the air. nos facti ad imaginem dei& ejus facti voluntate, per potentissimum& corroboratum nomen dei el, forte& admirabile vos exorcizamus (here he shall name the spirits he would have appear, of what order soever they be& imperamus per eum qui dixit& factum est& per omnia nomina dei& per nomen adonay, el, elohim, elohe, zebaoth, elion, escerchie, jah, tetragrammaton, sadai, dominus deus, excelsus, exorcizamus vos, atque potenter imperamus, ut appareatis statim nobis hic juxta circulum in pulchra forma, videlicet humana& sine deformitate& tortuositate aliqua. venite vos omnes tales, quia vobis imperamus, per nomen y& v quod adam audivit& locutus est& per nomen dei agla, quod loth audivit& factus salvus cum sua familia& per nomen joth, quod jacob

men schemes amathia, quod joshua vocavit& remoratus est sol cursum& per nomen alpha& omega, quod daniel nominavit& destruxit beel& draconem interferit& in nomine emmanuel, quod tres pueri, sidrach, misach& abednago, in camino ignis ardentis, cantaverunt& liberati heptameron 7 fuerunt& per nomen hagios& sedem adonay& per theos, iscytos, athanatos, paracletus& per h c tria secreta nomina, agla, on, tetragrammaton, adjuro, contestor& per h c nomina& per alia nomina domini nostri dei omnipotentis, vivi& veri, vos qui vestra culpa de coelis ejecti fuistis usque ad infernum locum, exorcizamus& viriliter imperamus, per eum qui dixit& factum est, cui omnes obediunt creatur& per illud tremendum dei judicium& per mare omnibus incertum, vitreum, quod est amte conspectum divin majestatis gradiens& pot

en let him say, beralanensis, baldachiensis, paumachi& apologi sedes, per reges potestaiesi magnanimas, ac principes pr potentes, genio liachid, ministri tartare sedes: primac, hic princeps sedis apologi nona cohorte: ego vos invoco& invocando vos conjure, atque supern majestatis munitus virtute, potenter impero, per eum qui dixit& factum est& cui obediunt omnes creatur& per hoc nomen ineffabile, tetragrammaton xnxv jehovah, in quo est plasmatum omne seculum, quo audito elementa corruunt, a r concutitur, mare retrograditur, heptameron 8 ignis extinguitur, tera tremit, omnesque exercitus coelestium, terrestrium& infernorum tremunt, turbantur& corruunt: quatenus cit& sine mora& omni occasione remota, ab universis mundi partibus veniatis& rationabiliter de omnibus qu cunque interrogavero, res

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t wisdom. many of the readers will know, of course, that the word tarot does not mean a game of cards, serving mantical purposes, but a symbolic book of initiation which contains the greatest secrets in a symbolic form. the first tablet of this book introduces the magician representing him as the master of the elements and offering the key to the first arcanum, the secret of the ineffable name of tetragrammaton, the quabbalistic yod-he-vau-he. here we will, therefore, find the gate to the magician s initiation. the reader will easily realize, how significant and how manifold the application of this tablet is. not one of the books published up to date does describe the true sense of the first tarot card so distinctly as i have done in my book. it is let it be noted born from the own practic

alize, how significant and how manifold the application of this tablet is. not one of the books published up to date does describe the true sense of the first tarot card so distinctly as i have done in my book. it is let it be noted born from the own practice and destined for the practical use of a lot of other people, and all my disciples have found it to be the best and most serviceable system *tetragrammaton literally means the four-letter word. it was a subterfuge to avoid the sin of uttering the sacred name yhvh (yahveh) or jehova as it later became when the vowels of another word were combined with the consonants of yhvh. but i would never dare to say that my book describes or deals with all the magic or mystic problems. if anyone should like to write all about this sublime wisdom, h

al fluids. above the lotus flower, creation has been symbolized by a ball, in the interior of which are represented the procreative positive and negative forces which stand for the creating act of the universe. the eternal, the infinite, the boundless, and the uncreated have been expressed symbolically by the word aum and the dark purple to black color. initiation i theory the great secret of the tetragrammaton or the quabbalistical yod-he-vau-he device: that which is above is also that which is below (hermes trismegistus) 1. about the elements everything that has been created, the macrocosm as well as the microcosm, consequently the big and the small world have been achieved by the effect of the elements. for this reason, right from the beginning of the initiation, i shall attend to these

on of these two substances in the vital matter or in the vitality. as we have learned, the fiery element produces the electrical and the water element the magnetic fluid. each of these fluids has two-pole radiations, an active and a passive one, and the mutual influences and interactions of all the radiations of the four poles resemble a tetra-polar magnet, which is identical to the secret of the tetragrammaton, the yod-he-vau-he of the quabbalists. therefore the electromagnetic fluid in the human body, in its emanation, is the animal magnetism, the od or whatever name it has been given. the right side of the human body is active-electric, provided that the individual be right-handed. the left side is passive-magnetic. as for the left-handed person, the contrary will take place. the emanat

uine athanor in which the most perfect alchemistic process, the great work or the preparation of the philosophers stone is visibly performed. herewith the chapter dealing with the body is finished. i do not assert that all has been regarded, but in any case, with respect to the elements, i mean to say, the four-pole magnet, i have treated the most important problems and revealed the secret of the tetragrammaton in view of the body. 10. the roughly material plane or the material world in this chapter i will not describe the roughly material world, the kingdoms of minerals, vegetables and animals, nor will i deal with the physical processes in nature, because everybody has already learned at school that there are such things as the north and south poles, how rain originates, how storms are b

vious that the four-pole magnet can be used here also. according to the law concerning the problems of magnetism and electricity not only in the body as mentioned in the foregoing chapter but also in the grossly materialistic world, each hermeticist exactly knows that what is above is also that which is below. each adept who knows how to employ the powers of the element or the great secret of the tetragrammaton on all planes is also capable to achieve great things in our material world, things which the outsider would regard as miracles. the adept, however, sees no miracles in them for, backed by the knowledge of the laws; he will be able to explain even the most remarkable curiosity. everything on our earth, all thriving, ripening, life and death depend on the statements made in these cha

nters. in describing the soul, the principal task will be to establish the connection of the elements with their positive and negative polarities in the soul, and give a neat idea of it. one will see that the body, as well as the soul, with their effects are alive and working, that their preservation and destruction are subject to the immutable laws of the four-pole magnet, i.e, the secret of the tetragrammaton, and governed by them. if he who is to be initiated will attentively meditate about it, he will win a clear idea not only of the bodily functions, but also of those of the soul, and come to a sound notion of the mutual interaction according to the original laws. 12. the astral plane the astral plane, often designated as the fourth dimension, has not been created out of the four elem

wisdom keep the same pace in development, the adept is enabled to grasp all the laws of the microcosm and the microcosm, not only from the point of view of wisdom, but also from the intellectual side, that is, in a bipolar way, to perceive and utilize them for his own development. in al the planes, we have already learned how to know one of the numerous laws, the first main key, the secret of the tetragrammaton or the four-pole magnet. being a universal key, it can be used to solve all problems, all laws, all kinds of truth in sort, everything, provided that the adept knows how to use it properly. as time goes on and his development unfolds and he is advancing in hermetics, he will be acquainted with many more aspects of this key, and be forced to accept it as an unchangeable law. he will

shes to approach his god only in the all-embracing love. the yogi, too, walks toward one single aspect of god. the bhakti-yogi keeps to the road of love and devotion, the raja and hatha yogi choose the path of self-control or volition, the jnana yogi will follow that of wisdom and cognition. now let us regard the idea of god from the magic standpoint, according to the four elements, the so-called tetragrammaton, the unspeakable, the supreme: the fiery principle involves the almightiness and the omnipotence, the airy principle owns the wisdom, purity and clarity, from which aspect proceeds the universal lawfulness. love and eternal life are attributed to the watery principle, and omnipresence, immortality and consequently eternity belong to the earth principle. these four aspects together r

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practices but what was pnc- tjsed legally and with the tacit if not open consent of the church, by the priests of the middle ages. the exorcist-priest entered a circle at mid- night; he was clad in a new surplice, and had a consecrated band hanging from the neck, covered with sacred characters. he wore on the head a tall pointed cap, on the front of which was written in hebrew the holy word, the tetragrammaton the ineffable name. it was writtrai with a new pen dipped in the blood of a white dove. what the exordsts most yearned after, was to release miserable spirits wkich haunt spots v^ere hidden treasures lie. the exorcist sprinkles the circle with the blood of a black lamb and a white pigeon. the priest had to adjure the evil spirits of hell acheront, magoth, asmodei, bedzebub, beual, a

rument of torture, and quite as common among the romans as it was unknown among semitic nations. it was called the' tree of infamy' it was only later that it was adopted as a christian symbol; but during the first two decades the apostles looked upon it with horror' it is certainly not the christian cross that john had in mind when speaking of the "signet of the living god" but the myatic tau the tetragrammaton, or mighty name which on the moat ancient kabalistic talismans was represented by the four hebrew letters composing the holy word. the famous lady ellenborougfa, known among the arabs of damas- cus, and in the desert, after her last marriage, as barumm medjouyi, had a talisman in her possession, presented to her by a 'druze[*hamza-ite] from mount lebanon. it was recognised by a cert

ng, the hindos formed 'asu' breath, and 'aiura' the name of god, whether it meant tbe breathing one or tbe giver of breath* it certainly meant the latter. in hebrew 'ah' and 'lah' mean life. cornelius agrippa. in hia treatise on the pre-emineace of woman* shows that "the word eve su^^ests comparison with the mystic symbols of the kabalists, the name of the woman having affinity with the ineffable tetragrammaton, the most sacred name of the divinity" ancient names were always con- sonant with the things they represented. in relation to the mysterious name of the deity in question, the hitherto inexplicable hint of the kabal- ists as to the efficacy of the letter h "which abram took away from his wife sarah" and "put into ike middle of his own najne" becomes clear. it may perhaps be argued

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; which, one in essence, was triple, in procession or parade. hence the trinity* from the trinity and the* but it is incomprehensible, obviously, without the means to comprehend it- which is christ. christ the penalty christ the sacrifice. christ the glass of the universe, in which the magic of music. 343 vivifying substratum in the mathematical four corners of the world, comes the ineffable name tetragrammaton. the archetypical idea is also called reflective intelligible informed superessential endless in resource* the reflection of god is in the archetype which is the second principle, or macrocosmos (created worlds, exhibiting either sides, or will in action. this is displayed in three divisions, or spheres called (1st) the empyr um (god (2d) the ether um (the saviour (3d) the elements

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- the qabalistic bride of microprosopus malkah analogous to silver and the moon the four orders of the elements are: 1. the spirits of the earth: gnomes 2. the spirits of the air: sylphs 3. the spirits of the water: undines 4. the spirits of the fire: salamanders these are the essential spiritual beings called upon to praise god in the 'benedicite omnia opera. the kerubim are the living powers of tetragrammaton on the material plane and the presidents of the four elements. they operate through the fixed or kerubic signs of the zodiac and are thus symbolized and attributed: kerub of air man aquarius kerub of fire lion leo kerub of earth bull taurus kerub of water eagle scorpio tetragrammaton means 'four-lettered name' and refers to the unpronounceable name of god symbolized by 'jehovah. the

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m whom he came forth, able to utter the word in all its mighty power, to command the forces latent in his own divinity. 308. all this was interwoven with the doctrine of the logos, the word of god, expounded so admirably by philo, and known to all christians from the opening words of the gospel of s. john; for the whole tradition of the divine word is derived from the mysteries of egypt. the true tetragrammaton was not the name of god in hebrew, but another and far more ancient word, which has ever been known to initiates of high degree. a christian development of this symbolism forms the device of a jewel worn by a certain high official in the scottish rite. under the old covenant the word was lost, and even when restored through the discovery of a certain secret vault, its true pronuncia

yet reached, though it was in sight. the new covenant added in the centre yet one letter more, the mystic shin, emblematical of fire and of the spirit; and so the word jehovah became jeheshua, the name of the christ. which things are an allegory, for it is only by the finding of the christ in the heart that the lost word can be rediscovered, and that very finding brings the knowledge of the true tetragrammaton- that secret of man s eternal being, which from the beginning has been written upon the cross of sacrifice and always kept hidden in the heart of the world among the secret things of god. 309. such is a brief outline of those jewish mysteries, the tradition of which was carried to rome, and thence passed down through the collegia into the mediaeval guilds, finally emerging in the ei

LEWIS JAMES SATANISM TODAY AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION FOLKLORE AND POPULAR CULTURE

schooling by blanche barton. this essay provides an insightful glimpse into how the satanist perspective is brought to bear on larger social issues. the gospel according to rino in the midst of infinite existence satan and his beloved wife lilith created the universe. he made the heat and the cold, the light and the dark, and everything that defines itself by its opposite, using the sacred law of tetragrammaton, that is 0(+1(-1. after satan and his beautiful wife lilith sired countless galaxies with infinite varieties of life, he placed stars in the heavens and created signs, symbols and numbers to represent the cycles throughout the material world. then the secrets were locked with the key of knowledge, that his ways would not be revealed to the ignorant or worthless. satan fashioned a gi

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the tables will become clear. let us suppose that you wish to obtain knowledge of some obscure science. in column xlv note 1, line 12, you will find "knowledge of sciences" by now looking up line 12 in the other columns, you will find that the planet corresponding is mercury, its number eight, its lineal figures the octagon and octagram. the god who rules that planet thoth, or in hebrew symbolism tetragrammaton adonai and elohim tzabaoth, its archangel raphael, its choir of angels beni elohim, its intelligence tiriel, its spirit taphtatharath, its colours orange (for mercury is the sphere of the sephira hod, 8) yellow, purple, grey and indigo rayed with violet; its magical weapon the wand or caduceus, its perfumes mastic and others, its sacred plants vervain and others, its jewel the opal

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the elements lxi. angels of the elements. lxii. kings of the elemental spirits. 11 lapr raphael layra ariel sj chassan paralda 23 layrbg gabriel sycrt tharsis dhylt taliahad niksa 31 lakym michael [rc seraph lara aral djin 32 bis layrwa auriel bwrk kerub ]alrwp phorlakh ghob 31 bis. lxiii. the four worlds. lxiv. secret names of the four words. lxv. secret numbers corresponding. lxvi. spelling of tetragrammaton in the four worlds. 11 hryxy yetrizah, formative world hm mah 45 ah waw ah dwy 23 hayrb briah, creative world gs seg 63 ah waw ah dwy 31 twlyxa atziluth, archetypal world bu aub 72 yh wyw yh dwy 32 bis hycu assiah, material world b ben 52 hh ww hh dwy 31 bis. lxvii. the parts of the soul. lxviii. the demon kings. lxix* the alchemical elements. lxx. attribution of pentagram. 11 jwr r

e. ymwy the ancient of days [also name of seven inferiors] hyha rca hyha existence of existences. yqytud aqytu ancient of ancient ones. acydq aqytu holy ancient one. fwcp rwa the simple light. yrmfd hrymf concealed of the concealed acyr the head ymynp rwa the inner light wylu the most high awh he. ald acyr the head which is not. line 2. chokmah has additional titles: hmjk power of yetzirah.1 y of tetragrammaton. ba aba it has also the divine name, hwhy. line 3. binah has these additional titles: ama the dark sterile mother. amya the bright pregnant mother \yhla \yhla hwhy divine names. aysrwk throne. line 4. chesed has this additional title: hmjk majesty. line 5. geburah has these additional titles: yd justice. djp fear. line 6. tiphereth has these additional titles: ypna ryuz lesser count

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quattour minores (of works of the star of the microcosm, of which there are four lesser) have already written unto thee, my son, of the paradox of liberty, how the freedom of thy will dependeth upon the bending of all thy forces to that one end. but now also learn how great is the .conomy of our magick, and this will i declare unto thee in a figure of the holy qabalah, to wit, the formula of the tetragrammaton. firstly, the effect of the operation of yod and h is not vau only, but with vau appeareth also a new h, as a by-product, and she is mysterious, being at once the flower of the three others, and their poison. now by the operation of vau upon that h is no new creation, but the daughter is set upon the throne of her mother, and by this is rekindled the fire of yod, which, consuming th

s of death. thus then for these four works, they pertain all to the natural formula of the cross and rose. i the book of wisdom or folly 107 dg de operibus stell microcosmi, quorum sunt quattuor majores (of works of the star of the microcosm, of which there are four greater) my son, behold now the virtue and mystery of the silver star! for of these four works not one leadeth to the crown, because tetragrammaton hath his root only in chokmah. so therefore the formula of the rosy cross availeth no more in the highest. now then in the pentagram are two lines that invoke spirit, though they lead not thereunto, and they are the works of h with h, and of yod with vau. of these twain the former is a work magical of the nature of music, and it draweth down the fire of the higher by seduction or be

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es for these trilateral names. the following rules explain how the sides of the pyramids of which the squares are formed are attributed to the sephiroth, planets, elements and zodiacal signs.11 1. great central cross. this has 36 squares, for the decantes of the zodiac. on the left side of the pyramid, linea patris has the cardinal signs, the sign of the element itself at the top, in the order of tetragrammaton (fire, water, air, earth) going upwards. linea filii has the common signs in the same order. linea s.s. has the cherubic signs, that of the element on the left, in the same order, right to left. but the order of the decans in each sign is reverse, and thus the planets which fill the right-hand side of the pyramids go in the first two cases downwards, and in the third from left to ri

obey your creation: visit us in peace and comfort: conclude us receivers of your mysteries: for why? our lord and master is the all- one [invokes: nanta; the whole tablet of earth. the angle of e of e. the princess of the echoing hills, the rose of the palace of earth] the opening of the temple in the grade of 4 =78 give the sign of thoum-aesh-neith [knock] let us adore the lord and king of fire! tetragrammaton tzabaoth! blessed be thou! the leader of armies is thy name! amen [make the invoking pentagram of spirit acitve and pronounce these names: hyha alga bitom [make the invoking pentagram of fire, and pronouce \yhla twabx hwhy] the forty-eight keys or calls 28 [make the sign of leo with censer (or other suitable weapon] in the name of lakim, archangel of fire, spirits of fire, adore you

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ere is a complete absence of all one fs magical apparatus. the mantra has slowed down to (at a guess) a quarter of its old pace. the rest in unison. this is because the feeling of great power, etc. etc, is the mere evidence of conflict.the thunder of the guns. now all is at peace; the power of the river, no more a torrent. the concourse of the forces has become the harmony of the forces; the word tetragrammaton is spoken and ended; the holy letter shin is descended into it. for the roaring god of sinai we have the sleeping babe of bethlehem. a fulfilment, not a destroying, of the law. 4.45. am at home again. i will lie down in the position of the hanged man, and await the coming of my lord. 6.00. arisen again to go out to diner. i was half-asleep some of the time. 6.15. dinner.hors d..uvre

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us the qabalah is called hrtsn hmkj, chokham nesethrah .the secret wisdom; and if we take the initials of these two words j and n we form by the second kind of notariqon the word j, chen .grace..5 similarly, from the initials and finals of the words hmymch wnl hloy ym, mi iaulah leno ha- shamayimah .who shall go up to heaven (deuteronomy xxx, 12) are forms hlym, milah .circumcision. and hwhy, the tetragrammaton, implying that god hath ordained circumcision as the way to heaven. temurah is permutation. according to certain rules, one letter is substituted for another letter preceding or following it in the alphabet, and thus from one word another word of totally different orthography may be formed. thus the alphabet is bent exactly in half, in the middle, and one half is put over the other;

agrammatic names, which are hyha, eheieh, existence; ynda, adonai, lord; and alga, agla. this last is not, properly speaking, a word, but is a notariqon of the sentence ynda \lwol rwbg hta, ateh gibor le-olahm adonai .thou art mighty for ever, o lord. a brief explanation of agla is this: a, the one first; a, the one last; g, the trinity in unity; l, the completion of the great work. but hwhy, the tetragrammaton, as we shall presently see, contains all the sephiroth with the exception of kether, and specially signifies the lesser countenance, microprosopus, the king of the qabalistic sephirothic greatest trinity, and the son in his human incarnation in the christian acceptation of the trinity. therefore, as the son reveals the father, so does hwhy reveal hyha. and ynda is the queen .by whom

ammaton, as we shall presently see, contains all the sephiroth with the exception of kether, and specially signifies the lesser countenance, microprosopus, the king of the qabalistic sephirothic greatest trinity, and the son in his human incarnation in the christian acceptation of the trinity. therefore, as the son reveals the father, so does hwhy reveal hyha. and ynda is the queen .by whom alone tetragrammaton can be grasped. whose exaltation into binah is found in the christian assumption of the virgin. the tetragrammaton hwhy is referred to the sephiroth thus: the uppermost point of the letter yod, y, is said to refer to kether; the letter y itself to chokmah, the father of microprosopus; the letter h, or .the supernal he. to 24 [samael is various glossed as .poison of god. or .blind go

argues a bankruptcy of ingenuity beyond belief. in all conscience, it is easy enough to fake identities by less obviously card-sharping methods! 2. notariqon. the absurdity of this method needs little indication. the most unsophisticated can draw pity and amusement from mr mathers. jew, converted by the notariqons of .berashith. true, f.i.a.t. is flatus, ignis, aqua, terra; showing the creator as tetragrammaton, the synthesis of the four elements; showing the eternal fiat as the equilibrated powers of nature. but what forbits fecit ignavus animam terrae,36 or any other convenient blasphemy, such as buddha would applaud? why not take our converted jew and restore him to the ghetto with ben, ruach, ab, sheol!.ihvh, thora?37 why not take the sacred 'icquj of the christian who thought it meant

eternity pardon me!.to write a monograph upon the first word of those seven words .venerable sir. quoth i .that first word of our law contains but six letters. for six years did i study that word by day and by night; and at the end of that time did i not dare to utter the first letter of those six letters. thus humbling myself did i abash both the holy yogi and my venerable frater i.a. but alas! tetragrammaton! alas! adonai! the hour of my silence is past. may the hour of my silence return! amen) part i the universe as it is section i 0. the negative.the infinite.the circle, or the point. 1. the unity.the positive.the finite.the line, derived from 0 by extension. the divine being. 2. the dyad.the superficies, derived from 1 by reflection 1 1, or by revolution of the line about its end. th

r unto the ages, o my lord. 35= 5 7. 7= divinity, 5= power. 36. a solar number. hla. otherwise unimportant, but it is the mystic number of mercury. 37. hdyjy. the highest principle of the soul, attributed to kether. note 37= 111 3. 38. note 38 11= 418 q.v. in part ii. 39. dja hwhy, jehovah is one. 39= 13 3. this is then the affirmation of the aspiring soul. 40. a .dead. number of fixed law, 4 10, tetragrammaton, the lesser countenance immutable in the heaviness of malkuth. 41 \a, the mother, unfertilised as unenlightened. 42. ama, the mother, still dark. here are the 42 judges of the dead in amennti, and here is the 42-fold name of the creative god. see liber 418. 44 \d, blood. see part ii. here 4 11= the corruption of the created world. 45. hm, a secret title of yetzirah, the formative wo

aspect of animal life; its final doom decreed by its own lust. also \ym, water. 91. 91= 7 x 13, the most spiritual form of the septenary. ma, amen, the holiest title of god; the amoun of the egyptians. it equals ynda hwhy (yhnwdhay, interlaced, the eight-lettered name, thus linking the 7 to the 8. not that ma (recknoning as final, 700= 741= ctma, the letters of the elements; and is thus a form of tetragrammaton, a form unveiled. 100. the number of q, the perfect illusion, 10 10. also [k, kaph, the wheel of fortune. the identity is that of matter, fatality, change, illusion. it 42 [possibly because 67= yz, zayin in full, the first of the paths connecting tiphareth with the supernals. t.s] 43 [i.e, writing out the tetragrammaton as a tetraktys, or in .wing. form, gives 72. t.s] 44 [i.e. the

el. this number too is that of the ritual of neophyte. see liber xiii. 59 [when the first number is n, the second is n2, the third n (n2+ 1/ 2 and the fourth n2 (n2+ 1/ 2. t.s] 40 liber lviii 741. ctma, the four letters of the elements. ma, counting the as 700, the supreme name of the concealed one. the dogma is that the highest is but the four elements; that there is nothing beyond these, beyond tetragrammaton. this dogma is most admirably portrayed by lord dunsanay in a tale called .the wanderings of shaun..60 777. vide supra. 800. tcq, the rainbow. the promise of redemption (8).8 as mercury, intellect, the ruach, microprosopus, the redeeming son.in its most material form. 811 (greek numeration. 888. jesus (greek numeration. 913. tycarb, the beginning. see .a note on genesis. this list*

tor must be employed. for the qabalist it is usually symbolised by the rosy cross, or by such formula as 5= 6. that they concealed a word answering this problem is also* this christian teaching (not its qabalistic equivalent) is incomplete. the bride (the soul) is united, though only by marriage, with the son, who then presents her to the father and mother or holy spirit. these four then complete tetragrammaton. but the bride is never united to the father. in this scheme the soul can never do more than touch tiphareth and so receive the ray from chokmah. whereas even st. john makes his son say .i and my father are one. and we all agree that in philosophy there can never be (in truth) more than one; this christian dogma says .never less than four. hence its bondage to law and its most imper

tical problem in this shape .how shall i unite the 5 and the 6, the microcosm and macrocosm. and these are the numbers which seemed to me to bear upon the problem. 1. is the goal not the means. too simple to serve a magician.s purpose. 2. vide supra. 3. still too simple to work with, especially as 3= 1 so easily. but, and therefore, a great number to venerate and desire. 4. the terrible weapon of tetragrammaton, the great enemy. the number of the weapons of the evil magician. the dyad made law. 5. the pentagram, symbol of the squaring of the circle by virtue of \yhla= 3.1415, symbol of man.s will, of the evil 4 dominated by man.s spirit. also pentagrammaton, jeheshua, the saviour. hence the beginning of the great work. 6. the hexagram, symbol of the macrocosm and microcosm interlaced, and

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

hac influentia& inveniuntur in ea .160. et propterea omnis ornatus ornatuum ab ista influentia dependent .161. ist liter, qu dependent ab hoc seniore, omnes pendent in ista barba& consociantur in ista influentia .162. et pendent in ea ad stabiliendas literas alteras .163. nisi enim ill liter ascenderunt in seniorem, reliqu ist liter non stabilirentur .164. et propterea dicit moses cum opus esset: tetragrammaton, tetragrammaton bis& ita ut accentus distinguat utrumque .165. certe enim ab influentia omnia dependent .166. ab ista influentia ad reverentiam adiguntur superna& inferna& flectuntur coram ea .167. beatus ille, qui ad hanc usque per tingit. idra suta, seu synodus minor. sectio vi. 75. forehead.23..496. frons cranii est frons ad visitandum (al. ad eradicandum) peccatoras .497. et cum

ersonally, i believe in them all, and admit them to possess inconceivable though not infinite power. the buddhists admit the existence of maha-brahma, but his power and knowledge are limited; and his agelong day must end. i find evidence everywhere, even in our garbled and mutilated version of the hebrew scriptures, that jehovah.s power was limited in all sorts of ways. at the fall, for instance, tetragrammaton elohim has to summon his angels hastily to guard the tree of life, lest he should be proved a liar. for had it occurred to adam to eat of that tree before their transgression was discovered, or had the serpent been aware of its properties, adam would indeed have lived and not died. so that a mere accident saved the remnants of the already besmirched reputation of the hebrew tribal f

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so heavy, and also the sigil of his scale is shown; beneath the rushing feet of his steed are waving flames and fire. he is active.generous.fierce.sudden.impetuous* note that the kings are now called knights, and the princes are now called kings. this is unfortunate, and leads to confusion; the princes may be called emperors without harm. remember only that the horsed figures refer to the yod of tetragrammaton, the charioted figures to the vau. a description of the cards of the taro 13 if ill dignified, he is evil-minded.cruel.bigoted.brutal. he rules the celestial heavens from above the twentieth degree of h to the first two decans of i: and this includes a part of the constellation hercules (hercules is always represented with a club) b of b king of the salamanders. vi the queen of the

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and female, then must the elohim be also male and female. now in the first of these mysterious three verses in exodus xiv. wherein the divided name is hidden it is written .and went the angel of the elohim before the camp &c. and this angel of the elohim \yhla ]alm, is the manifestations of their presence. now ]alm hath the number 91, which is also the number of ynda hyhw, wherefore by gematria .tetragrammaton our lord. is the angel of the elohim of the divided name. therefore is the tetragrammaton symbolic of the manifested presence of the elohim; and if the elohim be male and female, so also must be the tetragram. also is the number of ma (also 91) by aiq bekar 1+4+5= 10.the perfection of the sephiroth. a note on genesis 7 one father eternal. one son eternal. 4. 1. 2. 3. one mother eter

y of form and the face of the eternal arose. that brow and those eyes formed the b of the measureless heavens: and their reflection formed the c of the measureless waters. and thus was formulated one eternal hexad: and this is the number of the dawning creation. but herein is the fall, that there were only six numbers, so that for the seventh was 5 repeated. hence 1+2+3+4+5+6+5= 26= hwhy. assiah; tetragrammaton as the elemental limitation, the jealous god..p. a note on genesis 9 one thing is significant, indeed. let us take the primal three and convert those numbers into colours. so we get a, the father, the yellow ray of the dawning sun of creation; m, the mother, the blue ray of the great primaval waters; c, the son, the red ray: the ruach elohim* symbol of the red fire of god, which bro

ir midst. now their numeration is 41, yielding by gematria lya= force: might: power: lawag, divine majesty: and blja= fecundity, all symbolic of the attributes of the dual polar force and mother. moreover, 4+ 1= 5= h, mother supernal once again.and in its geometric symbol the pentagram.the star of unconquered will. add the next two letters on either side, and we get e t d a c\ b y, or a concealed tetragrammaton. and this also reads \y, the great sea, ta, alpha and omega, or essence. add the next two, so that the six central letters are obtained; and we read hta\yh, which signifies \yh, swollen, extended, or expanded; and hence thou (i.e, god, ateh, the all) in extension. but by metathesis of these six letters is obtained tma hyh .truth was. as if affirming solemnly the presence in the crea

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now looking up line 12 in the other columns, you will find that the planet corresponding is mercury, its number eight, its [lat .the traveller in the kingdoms of the tree (scil. of life [lat .the arrow beyond the moon (the reference being to the path of samekh on the kircher tree] svb figvra vi. 3 lineal figures the octagon and octagram, the god who rules that planet thoth, or in hebrew symbolism tetragrammaton adonai and elohim tzabaoth, its archangel raphael, its choir of angels beni elohim, its intelligence tiriel, its spirit taphthartharath,4 its colours orange (for mercury is the sphere of the sephira hod, 8, yellow, purple, grey, and indigo rayed with violet; its magical weapon the wand or caduceus, its perfumes mastic and others, its sacred plants vervain and others, its jewel the o

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the o as u) is expounded in some detail, as noted, in magick. the footnote was misprinted in the first edition, reading g c will not be gthe fifteen by fucntion h instead of gfive, h etc. c h; symonds and grant in the rkp edition realised this reading was erroneous, but assumed the error was gnot h for gnow. h the number of vau is 6, which is also the number of the sun; further, in the formula of tetragrammaton vau refers to the son, who is referred to the sephiroth from chesed to yesod but particularly to tiphareth, again referred to 6 and the sun; hence gthe sun.6.the sun. h 28 one suggested solution to this (i claim no credit for it, i read it on an internet discussion group: yod, 10, reduces to 1 by summing digits or aiq bkr( gten that is one h; aleph expands to 111 by spelling it gin

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ly adds itself to our universe, but increases the value of what we already possess. in al this .the. or .god. arranges for .countenance to behold countenance. by establishing itself as an equilibrium,10 a the one-naught conceived as l the two-naught. this l is the son-daughter horus-harpocrates just as the other l was the ritual of the mark of the beast 11 the father-mother set-isis. here then is tetragrammaton once more, but expressed in identical equations in which every term is perfect in itself as a mode of naught. sht supplies the last element; making the word of either five or six letters, according as we regard sht as one letter or two. thus the word affirms the great work accomplished: 5 =68. sht is moreover a necessary resolution of the apparent opposition of la and al; for one co

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ly revised version appeared in appendix vi of magick in theory and practice. variations in the mtp version are recorded in footnotes (c) ordo templi orientis. key entry &c. by frater t.s. for celephais press/ niwg. this e-text last revised 12.06.2004] 10 [psyche. for eros and psyche see the fable in the metamorphoses (golden ass) of apuleius, the reference in any case being to vau and he final of tetragrammaton, as chaos and babalon (see gthe vision and the voice h) represent yod and he. magick has gbellow hadit. h. t.s] 11 [the signs of n.o.x. are described in gliber v vel reguli. h the order in which they are given is left to the ingenium of the aspirant. t.s] 12 [grk, gbefore me the iunges, behind me the teletarchs, at my right the sunoches, at my left the daimons; for about me flames t

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ption in 1721. after explaining his reticence to reveal that which levi evidently felt was better left concealed, westcott sums up his interpretation of the tablet as follows "the diagram of levi, by which he explains the mystery of the tablet, shows the upper region divided into the four seasons of the year, each with three signs of the zodiac, and he has added the four-lettered sacred name, the tetragrammaton, assigning jod to aquarius, that is canopus, he to taurus, that is apis, vau to leo, that is momphta, and he final to typhon. note the cherubic parallel--man, bull, lion and eagle. the fourth form is found either as scorpion or eagle depending upon the occult good or evil intention: in the demotic zodiac, the snake replaces the scorpion "the lower region he ascribes to the twelve si

r material--have three centers, called by the greeks the upper center, the middle center, and the lower center. an apparent ambiguity will here be noted. to diagram or symbolize adequately abstract mental verities is impossible, for the diagrammatic representation of one aspect of metaphysical relationships may be an actual contradiction of some other aspect. while that which click to enlarge the tetragrammaton in the human heart. from b hme's libri apologetici. the tetragrammaton, or four-lettered name of god, is here arranged as a tetractys within the inverted human heart. beneath, the name jehovah is shown transformed into jehoshua by the interpolation of the radiant hebrew letter, shin. the drawing as a whole represents the throne of god and his hierarchies within the heart of man. in

we command you by the mysterious names elohe agla elohim adonay gibort. amen "i call upon thee, zadkiel, in the name of the father, and of the son, and of the holy ghost, blessed trinity, unspeakable unity "i invoke and intreat thee, zadkiel, in this hour to attend to the words and conjurations which i shall use this day by the holy names of god elohe el elohim elion zebaoth escerehie iah adonay tetragrammaton "i conjure thee, i exorcise thee, thou spirit zadkiel, by these holy names hagios o theos iscyros athanatos paracletus agla on alpha et omega ioth aglanbroth abiel anathiel tetragrammaton: and by all other great and glorious, holy and unspeakable, mysterious, mighty, powerful, incomprehensible names of god, that you attend unto the words of my mouth, and send unto me pabiel or other

thou earth (job. xxxvii. 6) 4th. fire (ether) he drew forth from the water. he engraved and established by it the throne of glory. he fashioned the seraphim, the ophanim, and the holy living creatures (cherubim, as his ministering angels; and with (of) these three he formed his habitation, as it reads "who made his angels spirits, his ministers a flaming fire (psalms civ. 4) click to enlarge the tetragrammaton. by arranging the four letters of the great name (i h v h, in the form of the pythagorean tetractys, the 72 powers of the great name of god are manifested. the key to the problem is as follows= i= 10= 10= h i= 5+10= 15= v h i= 6+5+10= 21= h v h i= 5+6+5+10= 26 the great name of god= 72 p. 115 5th. he selected three consonants (i, h, v) from the simple ones--a secret belonging to the

ere are twenty-two letters by which the i am (yah, the lord of hosts, almighty and eternal, designed and created by three sepharim (numbers, letters, and sounds) his universe, and formed by them all creatures and all those things that are yet to come. 10. when the patriarch abraham had comprehended the great truths, meditated upon them, and understood them perfectly, the lord of the universe (the tetragrammaton) appeared to him, called him his friend, kissed him upon the head, and made with him a covenant. first, the covenant was between the ten fingers of his hands, which is the covenant of the tongue (spiritual; second, the covenant was between the ten toes of his feet, which is the covenant of circumcision (material; and god said of him "before abraham bound the spirit of the twenty-two

activity the world is produced and the world itself, which must be the house or vehicle of that deity. could the modern scientific world but sense the true profundity of these philosophical deductions of the ancients, it would realize that those who fabricated the structure of the qabbalah possessed a knowledge of the celestial plan comparable in every respect with that of the modern savant. the tetragrammaton, or the four-lettered name of god, written thus, is pronounce jehovah. the first letter is, yod, the germ, the life, the flame, the cause, the one, and the most fundamental of the jewish phallic emblems. its numerical value is 10, and it is to be considered as the 1 containing the 10. in the qabbalah it is declared that the a yod is in reality three yods, of which the first is the b

chochmah (according to ibn gebirol, kether, from which it goes forth to impregnate binah, which is the first, he. the result of this union is tiphereth, which is the vau, whose power is 6 and which symbolizes the six members of the lesser adam. the final, he, is malchuth, the inferior mother, partaking in part of the potencies of the divine mother, the first he. by placing the four letters of the tetragrammaton in a vertical column, a figure closely resembling the human body is produced, with yod for the head, the first he for the arms and shoulders, vau for the trunk of the body, and the final he for the hips and legs. if the hebrew letters be exchanged for their english equivalents, the form is not materially changed or the analogy altered. it is also extremely significant that by insert

bstituted for other letters according to prearranged tables or certain mathematical arrangements of letters, regular or irregular. thus the alphabet may be broken into two equal parts and written in horizontal lines so that the letters of the lower row can be exchanged for those of the upper row, or vice versa. by this procedure the letters of the word kuzu may be exchanged for those of ihvh, the tetragrammaton. in another form of temurah the letters are merely rearranged, is the stone which is found in the center of the world, from which point the earth spread out on all sides. click to enlarge the vision of ezekiel. from the "bear" bible. this plate, which is from the first protestant bible published in spanish, shows the mercavah, or chariot of jehovah, which appeared to ezekiel by the

below this wreath, playing upon a harp of three strings, for the spirit must create harmony in the triple constitution of its inferior nature before it can gain for itself the solar crown of immortality. the four suits of the minor trumps are considered as analogous to the four elements, the four corners of creation, and the four worlds of qabbalism. the key to the lesser tarots is presumably the tetragrammaton, or the four-letter name of jehovah, ihvh. the four suits of the minor trumps represent also the major divisions of society: cups are the priesthood, swords the military, coins the tradesmen, and rods the farming class. from the standpoint of what court de g belin calls "political geography" cups represent the northern countries, swords the orient, coins the occident, and rods the s

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beryl emerald peridot bloodstone jade sardonyx carbuncle jasper staurotides (cross-stone) carnelian jet ruby cat's-eye lapis lazuli turquoise coral moonstone zircon you may have your witch name engraved upon the ring or pendant either on the reverse surface or around the stone itself. sometimes the zodiac birth signs are also engraved, occasionally even a cabalistic word of power such as ararita, tetragrammaton, mehafelon, ananizapta, or shemhamphorash. incidentally, a very good idea which some witches resort to is to use a poison ring as their jewel. the inner cavity of the ring itself is very well suited for concealing either written charms to be carried about the person or philter powders to be slipped warily into some unsuspecting person's drink! the metal of which the ring or pendant

station is required. some cabalistically inclined witches surround the triangle with a double circle, and between the two circles they inscribe the names and seals of the seven planetary angels and the demon kings of the four quarters of the earth, while others seek to enhance the potency of the figure by fortifying the sides of the triangle with the hebraic divine names primeumaton, anaphaxeton, tetragrammaton and placing the name of michael, leader of the heavenly host, within; but none of these things is strictly necessary. all you basically need is the triangle prepared with intention which is accomplished, as with your other magical tools, by exorcising and consecrating your materials with fire and water (using a mercurial incense) in a properly cast circle on a wednesday. then, go to

confusingly referred to as the pentacle, but on this occasion refers more to the pentacle-disc or coin represented in the suit cards of the minor tarot arcana. it is also a direct descendant from the lia fal of pre-celtic lore, but has picked up cabalistic overtones through the ages, still in tune with its earthy symbolism, however. cabalistically, it refers to the final "heh" last letter of the tetragrammaton, the supreme cabalistic word of power. in any case, it must be prepared by water and fire in hertha's name. to return to our beleagured witch group, however. having hung your talismanic pentacles about your neck, you should proceed to draw around yourself the grand magical circle. in principle this is identical with the regular variety, save for the fact that it utilizes certain inv

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t trace towards the four quarters of the earth, the sacred and venerable symbols of the holy letter tau. and between the first and the second circle which thou shalt thyself have drawn with the instrument of magical art, thou shalt make four hexagonal pentacles, and between these thou shalt write four terrible and tremendous names of god, viz: between the east and the south the supreme name ihvh, tetragrammaton; between the south and the west the essential tetragrammatic name ahih, eheieh; between the west and the north the name of power alivn, elion; and between the north and the east the great name alh, eloah; which names are of supreme importance in the list of the sephiroth, and their sovereign equivalents. furthermore, thou shalt circumscribe about these circles two squares, the angle

e made the centres of four circles, the measure or diameter of which shall be one foot. all these are to be drawn with the knife or consecrated instrument of art. and within these four circles thou must write these four names of god the most holy one, in this order: at the east, al, el; at the west, ih, yah; at the south, agla, agla; and at the north adni, adonai. between the two squares the name tetragrammaton is to be written in the same way as is shown in the plate (see figure 2) while constructing the circle, the master should recite the following psalms: psalm ii; psalm liv; psalm cxiii; psalm lxvii; psalm xlvii; psalm lxviii. or he may as well recite them before tracing the circle. the which being finished, and the fumigations being performed, as is described in the chapter on fumiga

the other divine names, whence they all draw their life and their virtue, which adam having invoked, he acquired the knowledge of all created things. i conjure ye by the indivisible name iod, which marketh and expresseth the simplicity and the unity of the nature divine, which abel having invoked, he deserved to escape from the hands of cain his brother. book one page 25 i conjure ye by the name tetragrammaton elohim, which expresseth and signifieth the grandeur of so lofty a majesty, that noah having pronounced it, saved himself, and protected himself with his whole household from the waters of the deluge. i conjure ye by the name of god el strong and wonderful, which denoteth the mercy and goodness of his majesty divine, which abraham having invoked, he was found worthy to come forth fr

mand ye that ye in no way delay, but that ye come immediately and upon the instant hither before us, without noise, deformity, or hideousness, but with all manner of gentleness and mildness. i exorcise ye anew, and powerfully conjure ye, commanding ye with strength and violence by him who spake and it was done; and by all these names: el, shaddai, elohim, elohi, tzabaoth, elim, asher eheieh, yah, tetragrammaton, shaddai, which signify god the high and almighty, the god of israel, through whom undertaking all our operations we shall prosper in all the works of our hands, seeing that the lord is now, always, and for ever with us, in our heart and in our lips; and by his holy names, and by the virtue of the sovereign god, we shall accomplish all our work. the key of solomon page 28 come ye at

the utmost vehemence and power, by that most potent and powerful name of god, el, strong and wonderful, by him who spake and it was done; and by the name iah, which moses heard, and spoke with god; and by the name agla, which joseph invoked, and was delivered out of the hands of his brethren; and by the name vau, which abraham heard, and knew god the almighty one; and by the name of four letters, tetragrammaton, which joshua named and invoked, and he was rendered worthy and found deserving to lead the army of israel into the promised land; and by the name anabona, by which god formed man and the whole universe; and by the name arpheton, and in the name arpheton, by which the angels who are destined to that end will summon the universe, in visible body and form, and will assemble (all peopl

tion. by the holy names of god written in this book, and by the other holy and ineffable names which are written in the book of life, we conjure ye to come unto us promptly and without any delay, wherefore tarry not, but appear in a beautiful and agreeable form the figure, by these holy names: adonai, tzabaoth, el, elohi, elohim, shaddai and by eheieh, yod he vau he which is the great name of god tetragrammaton written with four letters, anaphodition, and ineffable; by the god of those virtues and potencies, who dwelleth in the heavens, who rideth upon the kerubim, who moveth upon the wings of the wind, he whose power is in heaven and in earth, who spake and it was done, who commanded and the whole universe was created; and by the holy names and in the holy names, iah, iah, iah, adonai tza

r points of the carpet, thou shalt raise them so that they touch not the ground, and holding them up thus, and turning anew towards the east thou shalt say with great veneration the following prayer: prayer. agla, agla, agla, agla; o god almighty who art the life of the universe and who rulest over the four divisions of its vast form by the strength and virtue of the four letters of thy holy name tetragrammaton, yod, he, vau, he, bless in thy name this covering which i hold as thou hast blessed the mantle of elijah in the hands of elisha, so that being covered by thy wings, nothing may be able to injure me, even as it is said: he shall hide thee under his wings and beneath his feathers shall thou trust, his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. after this thou shalt fold it up, saying the

unto the end, being all the time present in the raiment of the art, and with the magic sword, during the operation. after which thou shalt repeat this prayer: prayer. adonai, elohim, el, eheieh asher eheieh, prince of princes, existence of existences, have mercy upon me, and cast thine eyes upon thy servant (n, who invokes thee most devoutedly, and supplicates thee by thy holy and tremendous name tetragrammaton to be propitious, and to order thine angels and spirits to come and take up their abode in this place; o ye angels and spirits of the stars, o all ye angels and elementary spirits, o all ye spirits present before the face of god, i the minister and faithful servant of the most high conjure ye, let god himself, the existence of existences, conjure ye to come and be present at this op

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not, through the virtue of god almighty who liveth and reigneth unto the ages of the ages. amen. then shalt thou begin to wash thyself thoroughly in the bath, saying: mertalia, musalia, dophalia, onemalia, zitanseia, goldaphaira, dedulsaira, ghevialaira, gheminaira, gegrophera, cedahi, gilthar, godieb, ezoiil, musil, grassil, tamen, pueri, godu, huznoth, astachoth, tzabaoth, adonai, agla, on, el, tetragrammaton, shema, areison, anaphaxeton, segilaton, primeumaton. all the which names thou shalt repeat twice or thrice, until thou art completely washed and clean, and when thou art perfectly pure thou shalt quit the bath, and sprinkle thyself with exorcised water, in the manner described later on, and thou shalt say: purge me, o lord, with hyssop, and i shall be clean; wash me, and i shall be

waters, he being yet but a child, grant unto me through thy great mercy and compassion that this reed may receive power and virtue to effect that which i desire through thy holy name and the names of thy holy angels. amen. this being done, thou shalt commence with this knife to flay the animal, whether it be virgin or unborn, saying: the key of solomon page 114 zohar, zio, talma, adonai, shaddai, tetragrammaton, and ye holy angels of god; be present, and grant power and virtue unto this parchment, and may it be consecrated by you, so that all things which i shall write thereon shall obtain their effect. amen. the animal being flayed, take salt, and say thus over it: god of gods, and lord of lords, who hast created all things from negative existence, deign to bless and sanctify this salt, s

stone of yesod. o gedulahel! o geburahel! o tiphereth! binahel, be thou my love! ruach chokmahel, be thou my light! be that which thou art, and that which thou willest to be, o ketheriel! ishim, assist me in the name of shaddai. cherubim, be my strength in the name of adonai. beni elohim, be ye my brethren in the name of the son, and by the virtues of tzabaoth. elohim, fight for me in the name of tetragrammaton. malachim, protect me in the name of yod he vau he. seraphim, purify my love in the name of eloah. chaschmal im, enl ighten me wi th the splendors of elohi, and of schechinah. aralim, act ye; auphanim, revolve and shine. chaioth ha-qadosch, cry aloud, speak, roar, and groan; qadosch, qadosch, qadosch, shaddai, adonai, yod chavah, eheieh asher eheih! halelu-yah! halelu-yah! halelu-ya

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ich are altogether proud and arrogant by their nature. editor s note. mystical characters of the sun and the names of the angels: shemeshiel, paimoniah, rekhodiah, and malkhiel. figure 34. the third pentacle of the sun. this serveth in addition (to the effects of the two preceding) to acquire kingdom and empire, to inflict loss, and to acquire renown and glory, especially through the name of god, tetragrammaton, which therein is twelve times contained. editor s note. the name ihvh, twelve times repeated; and a versicle somewhat similar to daniel iv. 34 "my kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and my dominion endureth from age to age" figures 32 and 33. the holy pentacles page 71 figure 35. the fourth pentacle of the sun. this serveth to enable thee to see the spirits when they appear invisib

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them and be obedient (colours- circle, hexagon, and t cross in centre outlined in black, maltese crosses black; the five exterior triangles of the hexagram where te, tra, gram, ma, ton, is written, are filled in with bright yellow; the t cross in centre is red, with the three little squares therein in black. the lower exterior triangle, where the sigil is drawn in black, is left white. the words tetragrammaton and tau are in black letters; and agla with alpha and omega in red letters) the pentagram of solomon. this is the form of pentagram of solomon, the figure whereof is to be made in sol or luna (gold or silver, and worn upon thy breast; having the seal of the spirit required upon the other side thereof. it is to preserve thee from danger, and also to command the spirits by (colours- c

ters) the pentagram of solomon. this is the form of pentagram of solomon, the figure whereof is to be made in sol or luna (gold or silver, and worn upon thy breast; having the seal of the spirit required upon the other side thereof. it is to preserve thee from danger, and also to command the spirits by (colours- circle and pentagram outlined in black. names and sigils within pentagram black also. tetragrammaton in red letters. ground of centre of pentagram, where soluzen is written, green. external angles of pentagram where abdia. ballaton, halliza, etc, are written, blue) the magic ring or disc of solomon this is the form of the magic ring, or rather disc, of solomon, the figure whereof is to be made in gold or silver. it is to be held before the face of the exorcist to preserve him from

i, being made after the image of god, endued with power from god and created according unto his will, do exorcise thee by that most mighty and powerful name of god, el, strong and wonderful; o thou spirit n. and i command thee and him who spake the word and his fiat was accomplished, and by all the names of god. also by the names adonai, el, elohim, elohi, ehyeh, asher ehyeh, zabaoth, elion, iah, tetragrammaton, shaddai, lord god most high, i do exorcise thee and do powerfully command thee, o thou spirit n, that thou dost forthwith appear unto me here before this circle in a fair human shape, without any deformity or tortuosity. and by this ineffable name, tetragrammaton iehovah, do i command thee, at the which being heard the elements are overthrown, the air is shaken, the sea runneth bac

he name alpha and omega, which daniel named, and destroyed bel, and slew the dragon; and in the name emmanuel, which the three children, shadrach, meshach and abed-nego, sang in the midst of the fiery furnace, and were delivered; and by the name hagios; and by the seal31 of adoni; and by ischyros, athanatos, paracletos; and by o theos, ictros, athanatos; and by these three secret names, agla, on, tetragrammaton, do i adjure and constrain thee. and by these names, and by all the other names of the living and true god, the lord almighty, i do exorcise and command thee, o spirit n, even by him who spake the word and it was done, and to whom all creatures are obedient; and by the dreadful judgments of god; and by the uncertain sea of glass, which is before the divine majesty, mighty and powerf

world wherever thou mayest be, to make rational answers unto my demands, and that visibly and affably, speaking with a voice intelligible unto mine understanding as aforesaid. i conjure and constrain thee, o thou spirit n, by all the names aforesaid; and in addition by these seven great names wherewith solomon the wise bound thee and thy companions in a vessel of brass, adonai, preyai or prerai, tetragrammaton, anaphaxeton or anepheneton, inessenfatoal or inessenfatall, pathtumon or pathatumon, and itemon; that thou appearest here before this circle to fulfil my will in all things that seem good unto me. and if thou be still so disobedient, and refusest still to come, i will in the power and by the power of the name of the supreme and everlasting lord god who created both thee and me and

ing. o thou great, powerful, and mighty king amaimon, who bearest rule by the power of the supreme god el over all spirits both superior and inferior of the infernal orders in the dominion of the east; i do invocate and command thee by the especial and true name of god; and by that god that thou worshippest; and by the seal of thy creation; and by the most mighty and powerful name of god, iehovah tetragrammaton who cast thee out of heaven with all other infernal spirits; and by all the most powerful and great names of god who created heaven, and earth, and hell, and all things in them contained; and by their power and virtue; and by the name primeumaton who commandeth the whole host of heaven; that thou mayest cause, enforce, and compel the spirit n. to come unto me here before this circle

i shall make unto thee. and if he come not even yet, thou shalt say as followeth: the greater curse.34 now o thou spirit n, since thou art still pernicious and disobedient, and wilt not appear unto me to answer unto such things as i would have desired of thee, or would have been satisfied in; i do in the name, and by the power and dignity of the omnipresent and immortal lord god of hosts iehovah tetragrammaton, the only creator of heaven, and earth, and hell, and all that is therein, who is the marvellous disposer of all things both visible and invisible, curse thee, and deprive thee of all thine office, joy, and place; and i do bind thee in the depths of the bottomless abyss there to remain until the day of judgment, i say into the lake of fire and brimstone which is prepared for all reb

thee! let the sun, moon, and all the stars curse thee! let the light and all the hosts of heaven curse thee into the fire unquenchable, and into the torments unspeakable. and as thy name and seal contained in this box chained and bound up, shall be choken in sulphurous stinking substances, and burned in this material fire; so in the name iehovah and by the power and dignity of these three names, tetragrammaton, anaphaxeton, and primeumaton, i do cast thee, o thou wicked and disobedient spirit n, into the lake of fire which is prepared for the damned and accursed spirits, and there to remain unto the day of doom, and never more to be remembered before the face of god, who shall come to judge the quick, and the dead, and the world, by fire. then the exorcist must put the box into the fire

power: zelez (should be zedeq- to be now present and assisting to us thy poor servants, both now and for ever. elohim geber (should be gibor- most almighty and eternal and ever living lord god: seraphim- command thy seraphim: camael, madim- to attend on us now at this time, to assist us, and to defend us from all perils and dangers. eloha- o almighty god! be present with us both now and for ever: tetragrammaton- and let thine almighty power and presence ever guard and protect us now and for ever: raphael- let thy holy angel raphael wait upon us at this present and for ever: schemes (or shemesh- to assist us in these our undertakings. lehovah- god almighty, god omnipotent, hear my prayer: sabaoth- thou great god of sabaoth: netzah (or netzach- all-seeing god: elohim- god be present with us

all wisdom and knowledge: jesal (should be iesod- instruct thy poor and most humble servant: cherubim- by thy holy cherubim: gabriel- by thy holy angel gabriel, who is the author and messenger of good tidings: levanah- direct and support us at this present and for ever. the explanation of the two triangles37 in the parchment. alpha and omega- thou, o great god, who art the beginning and the end: tetragrammaton- thou god of almighty power, be ever present with us to guard and protect us, and let thy holy spirit and presence be now and always with us: soluzen- i command thee, thou spirit of whatsoever region thou art, to come unto this circle: halliza- and appear in human shape: bellator (or ballaton- and speak unto us audibly in our mother-tongue: bellonoy (or bellony- and show, and discov

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maton sadai, the only lord god of hosts, that you forthwith appear unto me here in this crystal stone [or here before this circle] in a fair& comely human shape without hurt to me or any other creature that the great god jehovah hath created& made, and come ye peaceably, visibly and affably without delay manifesting what i desire, being conjured by the name of the eternal living true god heliorin tetragrammaton anepheneton& fulfill my commands& persist unto the end, i conjure, command& constrain you spirit n by alpha& omega& by the name primeumaton which commandeth the whole host of heaven& by all these names which moses named when he by the power of these names brought great plagues upon pharaoh& all the people of egypt; zebaoth, escerchie, oriston, elian, adonay primeumaton& by the name

ha& omega& by the name primeumaton which commandeth the whole host of heaven& by all these names which moses named when he by the power of these names brought great plagues upon pharaoh& all the people of egypt; zebaoth, escerchie, oriston, elian, adonay primeumaton& by the name schersieta mathia which joshua called upon the sun stayed its course& by the hagioss& by the seal of adonay& by agla on tetragrammaton to whom all creatures are obedient& by the dreadful judgement of the most high god& by the holy angels of heaven& by the mighty wisdom of the omnipotent god of hosts that you come from all parts of the world& make rational answers to all things that i shall ask of you& come ye peaceably& visibly& affably speaking to me with a voice intelligible& to my understanding, therefore come y

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re to make an experiment, make a seal proper to this hour, observe the day& time of the year, and all other directions as aforesaid &c. then say the conjuration following &c. the conjuration: o thou mighty& potent angel samael, who rulest the first hour of the day, i the servant of the most high god, do conjure& instruct thee in the name of the most high omnipotent& immortal god of hosts jehovah* tetragrammaton& by the name& in the name of that god that you owe obediency to& by the head of your hierarchy& by the seal of mark you are known in power by& by the 7 angels that stands before the throne of god& by the 7 planets& their seals& characters& by the angel that ruleth the sign of the 12th. house which now ascends in thy first hour, that you would be so graciously pleased to gird up your

nform& direct me in all things that shall seem good& lawful unto the creator& thee, o thou great& powerful angel samael i invocate adjure command& most powerfully call you forth from your orders& places of residence to visible appearance in& through these great& mighty incomprehensible signall& divine name of the great god who wast, is& ever shall be, adonay zebaoth, adonay amioram, hagios aglaon tetragrammaton& by& in the name primeumaton which commandeth the whole host of heaven, whose power& virtue is most effectual for the calling you forth& command you to transmit your rays perfectly to lemegeton: clavicula salomonis 14 my sight& voice to my ears, in& through this celestial stone, that i may plainly see you& perfectly hear you speak unto me, therefore move o thou mighty& blessed angel

lle-le-la-jah, amen. but before you call any of the dukes, you are to invocate the chief governing angel that governs the hour of the day or night, as followeth "o thou mighty& potent angel samael, who by the decree of the most high king of glory, ruler& governor of this first hour of the day, i, the servant of the highest, do desire& intreat you in& by these 3 great& potent names of god: agla on tetragrammaton& by the power& virtue thereof, to assist& help me in my affaires& by your power& authority to send& cause to come& appear unto me, all or any of those angels that i shall call by name that are residing under your government, to instruct, help aid and assist in all such matters or things according to their office as i shall desire or request of him or them& that they may do for me as

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names in this section are all written in the periphery of the circle of art, shown in the goetia. 2. it is uncertain what the h abbreviates. the names all refer to the sphere of saturn. 3. the copyist mistook a d in the diagram of the circle for an l, here and in the name zelez, which should be zedeq. lemegeton: clavicula salomonis 4 eloha o almighty god! be present with us both now and for ever: tetragrammaton and let thine almighty power and presence ever guard and protect us now and for ever: raphael let thy holy angel raphael wait upon us at this present and for ever: schemes to assist us in these our undertakings. s. iehovah. god almighty, god omnipotent, hear my prayer: sabaoth. thou great god of sabaoth: netzah all-seeing god: elohim. god be present with us, and let thy presence be

instruct thy poor and most humble servant: cherubim. thy holy cherubim: gabriel. by thy holy angel gabriel, who is the author and messenger of good tidings: levanah. direct and support us at this present and for ever. s. 1. the copyist again mistakes a d for an l. ars nova 5 the explanation of the two triangles in the parchment.1 alpha& omega thou, o great god, who art the beginning and the end: tetragrammaton thou god of almighty power, be ever present with us to guard and protect us, and let thy holy spirit and presence be now and always with us: tetragrammaton thou god of almighty power, be ever present with us to guard and protect us, and let thy holy spirit and presence be now and always with us: soluzen. i command thee, thou spirit, of whatsoever region thou art, to come unto this c

an shape: bellator and speak unto us audibly in our mother-tongue: bellonoy (or bellony) and show, and discover unto us all treasure that thou knowest of, or that is in thy keeping, and deliver it unto us quietly: hally fra and answer all such questions as we may demand without any defect now at this time. an explanation of solomon s triangle. anephezeton. thou great god of all the heavenly host: tetragrammaton. thou god of almighty power, be ever present with us to guard and protect us, and let thy holy spirit and presence be now and always with us: primeumaton. thou who art the first and last, let all spirits be subject unto us, and let the spirit be bound in this triangle, that disturbs this place: michael. by thy holy angel michael, until i shall discharge him. 1. the first two lines i

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r physical form. spirit, which is unmanifest and not physical, is expressed by the number three and the triangle. but spirit which has so far projected itself as to become objective and wear a material form or body, is denoted by the number four and the quadrangle or square. hence the hebrew name of deity, as known and worshipped this outer world, was the great unspeakable name of four letters or tetragrammaton, whilst the cardinal points of space are also four, m of and every manifested thing is a compound of the four basic metaphysical elements called by the ancients fire, water, air and earth. the foursidedness of the lodge, therefore, is also a reminder that the human organism is compounded of those four elements in balanced proportions" water" represents the psychic nature "air" the m

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ne intellect as an idea, which invested with form became the fabricated world, the universe of material reality. yod and he, two letters of the ineffable name of the manifested deity, represent the male and the female, the active and the passive in equilibrium, and the vav completes the trinity and the triliteral name [hebrew, the divine triangle, which with the repetition of the _he_ becomes the tetragrammaton. thus the ten sephiroth contain all the sacred numbers _three _five _seven, and _nine, and the perfect number _ten, and correspond with the tetractys of pythagoras. being is being [hebrew _ahayah asar ahayah. this is the principle, the "beginning" in the beginning was, that is to say, is, was, and will be, the word, that is to say, the reason that _speaks? a! the word is the reason

t ?e ?sseta? e ?e: and he was ?e??d?st??st ?eus, best and greatest. the parsees, retaining the old religion taught by zaradisht, say in their catechism "we believe in only one god, and do not believe in any beside him; who created the heavens, the earth the angels. our god has neither face nor form, color nor shape, nor fixed place. there is no other like him, nor can our mind comprehend him" the tetragrammaton, or _some other word covered by it, was forbidden to be pronounced. but that its pronunciation might not be lost among the levites, the high-priest uttered it in the temple once a year, on the 10th day of the month tisri, the day of the great feast of expiation. during this ceremony, the people were directed to make a great noise, that the sacred word might not be heard by any who h

enerated, was applied to the figure 4 (4. it was said that it expressed a living being, i, bearer of the triangle, the emblem of god _i.e, man bearing with himself a divine principle. four was a divine number; it referred to the deity, and many ancient nations gave god a name of four letters; as the hebrews, the egyptians amun, the persians sura, the greeks t??s, and the latins deus. this was the tetragrammaton of the hebrews, and the pythagoreans called it tetractys, and swore their most solemn oath by it. so too odin among the scandinavians??s among the greeks, phta among the egyptians, thoth among the phoenicians, and as-ur and nebo among the assyrians. the list might be indefinitely extended. the number 5 was considered as mysterious, because it was compounded of the binary, symbol of

s the feminine form means it; but _that_ pronoun is generally in the masculine form. when either, or [yod, vav, he, or aleph] terminates a word, and has no vowel either immediately preceding or following it, it is often rejected; as in [gi, for [gia, a valley. so [hua-hia, he-she, could properly be written [hu-hi; or by transposition of the letters, common with the talmudists [ih-uh, which is the tetragrammaton or ineffable name. in gen. i. 27, it is said "so the alhim created man in his image _in the image_ of alhim created he him: male and female created he them" sometimes the word was thus expressed; triangularly? and we learn that this designation of the ineffable name was, among the hebrews, a symbol of creation. the mysterious union _of god with his creatures_ was in the letter, whic

m, neither by the letter he, nor by the letter yod, though these are contained in the holy name; nor by any other letter or point in the world. but after he created this idea [this limited and existing-in-intellection nature, which the ten numerations, sephiroth or rays are, of the medium, the first man adam kadmon, he descended therein, that, by means of this idea, he might be called by the name tetragrammaton; that created things might have cognition of him, in his own likeness. when the infinite god willed to emit what were to flow forth, he contracted himself in the centre of his light, in such manner that most intense light should recede to a certain circumference, and on all sides upon itself. and this is the first contraction, and termed _tsemsum, adam kadmon, the primal or first ma

em; and then conjunction of the male and female, aba and imma _father_ and _mother, as points. he, from whom all emanated, created adam kadmon, consisting of all the worlds, so that in him should be somewhat from those above, and somewhat from those below. hence in him was nephesch [psyche _anima infima, the lowest spiritual part of man _soul, from the world asiah, which is one letter _he_ of the tetragrammaton _ruach [spiritus _anima media, the next higher spiritual part, or _spirit, from the world yezirah, which is the _vav_ of the tetragrammaton; neschamah [the highest spiritual part _mens_ or _anima superior, from the world briah, which is the other letter _he; and neschamah leneschamah, from the world atsiluth, which is the yod of the tetragrammaton. and these letters [the sephiroth]

it had no human conformation nor the system of the balance, the sephiroth being points, one below the other. the first adam [microprosopos, as distinguished from macroprosopos, the first _occult_ adam] was the beginning, wherein the ten numerations proceeded forth from potence into act. microprosopos is the second garment or interposed medium, with respect to the elder most holy, who is the name tetragrammaton; and he is called alohim; because the former is absolute commiseration; while in macroprosopos his lights have the nature of severities, with respect to the elder universal; though they are commiseration, with respect to the lights of malakoth and the three lower worlds. all the conformations of macroprosopos come from the first adam; who, to interpose a second covering, caused a si

and thus vau is beauty and harmony. the _man_ is hakemah; the _eagle, binah; the _lion, gedulah; and the _ox, geburah. and the mysterious circle is thus formed by the sohar and all the kabalists: michael and the face of the lion are on the south, and the right hand, with the letter [hebrew, yod, and water; gabriel and the face of the ox, on the north, and left hand, with the first [hebrew] of the tetragrammaton and fire; uriel and the face of the eagle, on the east and forward, with] and air; and raphael and the face of the man, on the west, and backward with the last [hebrew, and earth. in the same order, the four letters represent the four worlds. rabbi schimeon ben jochai says that the four animals of the mysterious chariot, whose wheels are netsach and hod, are gedulah, whose face is t

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nce and attract the opposite sex like nothing else can. it can compel a girl to introduce herself to a man in whom she had no previous interest. the secret of occult ribaldry is revealed in chapter 4. there you will see how to cause any young girl, however prudent she may be, to become maddened and inflamed with lust. secrets of the cabala< it is said that god created the world by pronouncing the tetragrammaton correctly and it is regarded as the ultimate magical word of power. the tetragrammaton is an essential part of the cabala, a form of mysticism that evolved from judaism. one tradition surrounding the cabala is that magic spells and rituals based upon its system possesses an extremely potent effect over all forms of matter. chapter 5 tells you exactly how to use the magical power of

inal points. the direction you choose will depend on what it is you seek. once you know your intention you should check with the list in chapter 2 to know which elemental force to invoke. now indulge in the sex act, but keep your mind at all times< on your magical intention. that s all there is to it. chapter 5 ancient secrets of the cabala it is said that god created the world by pronouncing the tetragrammaton correctly and it is regarded as the ultimate magical word of power. the tetragrammaton is an essential part of the cabala, a form of mysticism that evolved from judaism. it is the four letter name of god yod, he, vau, he and is normally pronounced jehovah or yahweh, and sometimes adonai. please do not try to understand it now, you will not be able to until you have mastered the midd

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ritual, breaking it down into several movements and sections. this then serves as the basis for the construction of several elaborate types of ceremonies. these will be altogether without meaning until and unless the students have thoroughly studied the neophyte ritual. nor will it convey much if he has neglected to master the basic principles of the qabalah, particularly the dynamics involved in tetragrammaton, the four-lettered nameand how, by the descent of the divine fire, it becomes converted into the pentagrammaton. with a display of great erudition, even the letter shin representing the divine fire becomes classified according to the three mother letters (aleph, mem, shin-air, water, and fire, each serving as the basis of a distinct type of ritual. this document is one of the intrin

s other than to indicate by examination that the appropriate meditations had been performed and certain items of qabalistic knowledge necessary to the magical routine committed to memory <51> before proceeding further in the analysis of the grades, there is one rather fine prose passage in the zelator grade which must be given here- a passage of beauty, high eloquence, and lofty significance "and tetragrammaton 30 the golden dawn placed kerubim at the east of the garden of eden and a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the path of the tree of life, for he has created nature that man being cast out of eden may not fall into the void. he has bound man with the stars as with a chain. he allures him with scattered fragments of the divine body in bird and beast and flower. and he lamen

that of theoricus. it is referred to the ninth sephirah on the tree of life, yesod, the foundation, and to it are attributed the sphere of the operation of luna and the element air. here the candidate is conducted to the stations of the four kerubim, the angelic choir of yesod. the kerubim are defined in that ritual as the presidents of the elemental forces, the vivified powers of the letters of tetragrammaton operating in the elements. over each of these rules some one of the four letters of the mirific word and the kerubim. it is always through the power and authority and symbol of the kerub that the elemental spirits and their rulers are invoked. in this ritual, as in all the others, important practical formulae of ceremonial magic are concealed. at this juncture, of the ceremony, with

er of will. when emplyed in certain magical ceremonies with the point upwarhs, its nature is transformed into an instrument similar to the wand. the elemental weavons of the wand, cup, dagger, and pentacle are symbolical representations of the forces employed for the manifestation of the inner self, the elements required for the incamation of the divine. they are attributed to the four letters of tetragrammaton all of these are worth making, and by creating them and continually employing them intelligently in the ways shown by the various rituals, the student will find a new power developing within him, a new centre of life building itself up from within. one last word of caution. let me warn the student against attempting difficult and complex ceremonies before he has mastered the more si

roprosopus. malkah-analogous to silver and the moon. the four orders of the elementals are: 1. the spirits of the earth gnomes 2. the spirits of the air sylphs 3. the spirits of the water undines 4. the spirits of the fire salamanders second knowledge lecture 6 1 these are the essential spiritual beings called upon to praise god in the 'benedicite omnia opera' the kerubim are the living powers of tetragrammaton on the material plane and the presidents of the four elements. they operate through the fixed or kerubic signs of the zodiac and are thus symbolised and attributed- kerub of air-man-aquarius zv.5 kerub of fire-lion-leo q kerub of earth-bull-taurus w kerub of water-eagle-scorpio tll or. tetragrammaton means four-lettered name and refers to the <121> unpronounceable name of god symbol

longing to the astral plane. such are false and illusionary forms, shells of the dead, and ghosts and phantoms. elemental spirits are those belonging to the nature of the elements; some are good and some are evil. an angel is a pure and high spirit of unmixed good in office and operation. in the tarot, the ten small cards of each suit refer to the sephiroth. the four suits refer to the letters of tetragrammaton thus- sceptres or wands to ,yod cups heh swords vau pentacles heh (final) the four suits also refer to the four worlds of the qabalists thus- sceptres to atziluth cups briah swords yetzirah pentacles assiah 68 the golden dawn: volume i book one the honours of the tarot pack are, as it were, the vice-gerants of the great name, in the qabalistic world to which each suit is referred. t

en horns, and eden was desolated-and the folds of the dragon enclosed malkuth and linked it to the kingdom of the shells. and the heads of the dragon rose into the seven lower sephiroth, even up to daath at the feet of aima elohirn. thus were the four rivers of eden desecrated and the dragon mouth gave forth the infernal waters in daath-and this is leviathan, the piercing and crooked serpent. but tetragrammaton elohim placed the four letters yhvh of the name and the flaming sword of the ten sephiroth between the devastated garden and the supernal eden, that this should not be involved in the fall of adam. and it became necessary that a second adam should arise to <151> restore the system, and thus, as adam had been spread on the cross of the four rivers, so the second adam should be crucif

the limitless light) these are the veils of the negative existence depending from kether. ark anpin 1'33n f rln-macroprosopus or the vast countenance is a title of kether, and another of its titles is the ancient of days, aatik yomn p tf*'n u kether or the vast countenance emanates first as abba, the supernal father, and aima the supernal mother. abba n33n the supenal father is referred to yod of tetragrammaton, and aima nd9n the supernal mother is referred to heh. elohim *i l?nis a name given to these two persons united. as elohim they become the parents of the son zauir <155> anpin p3m lyint, also called microprosopus or the lesser countenance. abba is referred to yod and the sephira chokmah. aima is referred to heh and the sephirah binah. zaulr anpin is referred to the six sephiroth-che

erred to the four worlds and the four suits of the tarot thus- yod atziluth wands heh briah cups vau yetzirah swords heh (f) assiah pentacles in each of the four worlds are the ten sephiroth of that world, and each sephirah has its own ten sephiroth, making 400 sephiroth in all- the number of the letter tau, the cross, the universe, the completion of all things. 78 the golden dawn: volume i <154> tetragrammaton on the tree the tarot is thus referred to the tree of life: the four aces are placed on the throne of kether- the <156> remaining small cards of the suit desired on the respective sephiroth, 2 on chokmah, 3 on binah, etc. the 22 trumps are then fifrh knowledge lecture 79 arranged on the paths between them, according to the letters to which they correspond. the king and queen of the

e he indeed uniteth the paths, but comprehendeth not the sephiroth. nevertheless, he is also the celestial serpent of wisdom. but the serpent of the temptation is the serpent of the tree of knowledge of good and of evil, and not that of the tree of life. here is a method of writing hebrew words by the yetsiratic attribution of the alphabet, whence results some curious hieroglyphic symbolism. thus tetragrammaton will be written by virgo, aries, taurus, aries. eheieh,by air, aries, virgo, aries. from yeheshua, the qabalistic mode of spelling jesus, which is simply the tetragrammaton with the letter shin placed therein, we obtain a very peculiar combination-virgo, aries, fire, taurus, aries. virgo born of a virgin, aries the sacrificial lamb, fire the fire of the holy spirit, taurus the ox of

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r: pleasure, marriage, fertility, happiness, parties, etc. fire: power, dominion, authority, prestige, etc. ether: all matters spiritual, howsoever they are interpreted. the symbols for these five elements may be of several kinds, though for the purpose of this interpretation, i have conveniently selected the tattvic system of the east, as follows- earth: prithivi, a yellow square. heh (final) of tetragrammaton. air: vayu, a blue circle. vav of tetragrammaton. water: apas, a silver crescent. heh of tetragrammaton. fire: tejas, a red triangle. yod of tetragrammaton. ether (spirit: akasa, a black egg. shin of pentagrammaton. this immediately provides an artistic schema for the creation of talismans. a fire talisman could be constructed out of bright red-coloured papers, similar to the japane

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thed into the face of man the breath of life. be michael my leader, and sabtabiel my servant, in and by the light. may my breath become a word, and i will rule the spirits of this creature of air; i will curb the steeds of the sun by the will of my heart, by the thought of my mind, and by the apple of the right eye. therefore i do exorcise thee, creature of air, by pentagrammaton, and in the name tetragrammaton, wherein are firm will and true faith. amen. sela: fiat. so be it. the prayer of the sylphs must be recited next, after tracing their sign in the air with the quill of an eagle. prayer of the sylphs spirit of light, spirit of wisdom, whose breath gives and takes away the form of all things; thou before whom the life of every being is; a shadow which transforms and a vapour which pas

e. then, holding the pantacle of solomon in one hand and taking up successively the sword, rod and cup, the conjuration of the four should be recited with a loud voice, after the following manner: caput mortuum, the lord command thee by the living and votive serpent! cherub, the lord command thee by adam jotchabah! wandering eagle, the lord command thee by the wings of the bull! serpent, the lord tetragrammaton command thee by the angel and the lion! michael, gabriel, raphael, and anael! flow moisture, by the spirit of eloim. earth, be established by adam jotchabah. spread, firmament, by jahubehu, zebaoth. fulfil, judgment, by fire in the virtue of michael. angel of the blind eyes, obey, or pass away with this holy water! work, winged bull, or revert to the earth, unless thou wilt that i s

ablish me upon the cubic stone of yesod! o gedulael! o geburael! o tiphereth! binael, be ye my love! ruach hochmael, be thou my light! be that which thou are and thou shalt be, o ketheriel! ishim, assist me in the name of shaddai! cherubim, be my strength in the name of adonai! beni-elohim, be my brethren in the name of the son, and by the powers of zebaoth! eloim, do battle for me in the name of tetragrammaton! melachim, protect me in the name of yod he vau he! seraphim, cleanse my love in the name of elvoh! hashmalim, enlighten me with the splendours of eloi and shekinah! aralim, act! ophanim, revolve and shine! haioth ha kadosh, cry, speak, roar, bellow! kadosh, kadosh, kadosh, shaddai, adonai, jotchabah, eiazereie! hallelu-jah, hallelu-jah, hallelu-jah. amen. it should be remembered, a

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om, for none of the two must lag behind in development. if knowledge and wisdom keep the same pace in development, the adept is enabled to grasp all the laws of the microcosm and the macrocosm, not only from the point of wisdom, but also from the intellectual side; that is to say in a bipolar way, namely to perceive and utilize them for his own development. the first main key is the secret of the tetragrammaton called yod-he-vau-he or the fourpole magnet. being a universal key, it can be used to solve all problems, all laws, all kinds of truth, in short, everything, provided the adept knows how to use it properly. as time goes on and his development unfolds and he is advancing in hermetics, he will be acquainted with many an aspect more of this key, and be forced to accept it as an unchang

to approach his god only in the all-em-bracing love. the yogi, too, walks towards one single aspect of god. the bhakti yogi keeps to the road of love and devotion; the raja and hatha yogi choose the path of self-control or volition; the jnana yogi will follow that of wisdom and cognition. let us regard the idea of god, now, from the magic standpoint, according to the four elements, the so-called tetragrammaton, the unspeakable, the supreme: the fiery principle involves the almightiness and the omnipotence, the airy original principle owns the wisdom, purity, and clearness, from the aspect of which proceeds the universal lawfulness. love and eternal life are attributed to the watery principle, and omnipresence, immortality, and consequently eternity belong to the earthy principle. thee fou

aslan's chosen (his elect) are transferred to a more refined state of being and experience the curious sensation of finding their new world larger on the inside the further in one went. the grail references in the crystal tablet regarding the order of the trapezoid are helpful reading along these lines. i question at this point in the aeon whether the "four pillars of the universe, the regimen of tetragrammaton" are really all that significant beyond a primitive belief that each elevated thing must have supports somewhere along the line. granted, a roo is likely to fall without walls and other lumbers, but the blue which indicates binah in trump vii had not yet attained the sophistication of today's waters. it all may be academic, but my own concept of what makes a master of the temple is

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gance, of beauty and artistic seership. cell 4 being the aat of the 5th and 16th letter of the sacred alphabet in this cell we encounter the formulae of the vessel, and the significance of the number 4 which in the case of this aat signifies the hand, eye, phallus and mouth. followed by the formulaes of understanding for the symbolism and cultivation of the vessel. this vessel is reflected in the tetragrammaton of the four sacred letters of the name of god. this discussion will remain hinted towards in favour of a short exposition of the components of the vessel, or rather the kind of fuels necessary to effectuate the occult arte in the hand of the divine artist. firstly the elements are represented through this four-fold exposition, when properly adjusted it construct the fifth from the m

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i-el, as are summoned in the lesser rite of the pentagram. these are the four guardian angels. the other three are traditionally chosen from remi-el, sari-el, ana-el, ragu-el, razi-el and metatron. metatron according to rabbinical texts he is really the greatest angel of all. in christian texts he is variously called prince of the divine face, angel of the covenant, king of angels, and the lesser tetragrammaton (yhvh, and is charged with the sustenance of the world. in the talmud and targum he is the direct link between humankind and god. he appears in the yakult hadash, where the two egyptian magicians jannes and jambre manage to gain unqualified admission to heaven and refuse to leave. micha-el and gabri-el are sent to expel them but are defeated. after metatron defeats the magicians he

are common throughout the traditions of spiritist sorcery, such as the marriage of the voodoo practitioner to their master, or of the tantric shakti to her god; conjuration emperor lucifer, master of the revolted spirits, i entreat thee to favour me in the adjuration which i address to thy mighty minister, lucifuge rofocale, being desirous to make a pact with him. i beg thee also by the power of tetragrammaton o prince beelzebuth, to protect me in this undertaking. o, count astorat, be propitious to me, and grant that this night the great lucifuge may appear unto me under a human form, free from evil smell, and that he may accord me in virtue of the pact which i propose to enter into, all the desires i make. o grand lucifuge, i pray thee now to quit thy dwelling, wheresoever it be, and ha

ir and comely form, without harm to any creature, but giving reasonable answers to my requests, and performing my desire in all things: if he appear not at this point, say as follows: thou art still pernicious, willing not to appear and informing me upon that which i desire to know, now therefore, in the name and by the power and dignity of the omnipotent and immortal lord, god of hosts, jehovah, tetragrammaton, i do hereby curse and deprive thee of all thine office, power, and place. i bind thee in the deepest depths of the bottomless pit, there to remain until the day of judgement. may all the company of heaven curse thee, may the sun, the moon, and the stars, the light of the hosts of heaven, curse thee into fire unquenchable, into torments unspeakable, and even as thy name and seal are

nt. may all the company of heaven curse thee, may the sun, the moon, and the stars, the light of the hosts of heaven, curse thee into fire unquenchable, into torments unspeakable, and even as thy name and seal are bound up in this box, to be choked with sulphrous and stinking substances, and to burn in this material fire so, in the name of jehovah, and by the power and dignity of the three names, tetragrammaton, anexhexeton, primematum, may all these drive thee, oh thou disobedient spirit [n] into the lake of fire, prepared for the damned and accursed spirits, remembered no more by that god, who shall come to judge the quick and the dead. set the box in the flame. thereupon he will speedily appear. when he comes, quench the fire, and make sweet perfumes. shew him the pentacle on your vestm

cope of thy great promises, when thou didst say to us: seek and ye shall find; knock, and the door shall be opened unto you. do now then compel the spirit [n] here before this circle, in a fair and comely shape, to return whence he came and without hurt to me. and that if he do not obey then command him by the most holy and glorious names, adonai, el, elohim, elohe, zebaoth, elion, eschence, jah, tetragrammaton, and sadai, which will most certainly cause him to depart in great fear and trembling. so be it. amen (sixteenth-century ms. biblioteque nationale, paris) the gesture of the enterer stolen from the secret vaults of the o.t.o, authorship attributed to aleister crowley. the shells are the qulippoth, and the forces of darkness generally. in training to use this ritual, the student may

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s the balance- and allow real maturity to develop. satanism- an examination of satanic black magic side 21 af 21 file//c:\windows\skrivebord\nyt%20til%20bibilotek\ona\various\satanism_an_examin. 20-04-03 a collection of sacred-magick.com< the esoteric librchshem ha-mephoresch the 72 fold name this refers to the seventy two names of the expounded name yhvh. four is the number of the letters of the tetragrammaton. four is also the number of the letters of the name adni which is its representative and key. the latter name is bound with the former and united thereto, thus iahdvnhy forming a name of 8 letters. 8 x 3, the number of the supernal triad, yields the 24 thrones of the elders of the apocalypse, each of whom wears on his head a golden crown of three rays, each ray of which is a name, e

adni which is its representative and key. the latter name is bound with the former and united thereto, thus iahdvnhy forming a name of 8 letters. 8 x 3, the number of the supernal triad, yields the 24 thrones of the elders of the apocalypse, each of whom wears on his head a golden crown of three rays, each ray of which is a name, each name an absolute idea and ruling power of the great name yhvh tetragrammaton. the number 24 of the thrones multiplied by the 3 rays of the crown which equals 72, the name of god of 72 letters, which is thus mystically shown in the name yhvh, as under (or as the book of revelation says: when the living creatures (the four kerubim the letters of the name) give glory to him, etc. the four and twenty elders fall down before him and cast their crowns before the t

of 3 signs, headed by the watery sign cancer, is under the presidency of h the letter of water. the third division of 3 signs headed by 2 the airy sign libra is under the presidency of vau, the letter of air. and the 4th division of 3 signs headed by the earthy sign capricorn is under the presidency of heh final, the letter of earth. but it should be remembered that the most powerful rule of y of tetragrammaton is over the fiery triplicity; that of h over the watery triplicity; that of vau over the airy triplicity; and that of h final over the earthy triplicity. in the 22nd chapter of the apocalypse of st. john it is said that the tree of life which bare twelve manner of fruits and yielded her fruit every month, and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. and there shal

gon, so is every shepherd an abomination to the egyptians, who yet are friendly with the ox symbol, the kerubic ruler of earth, and therefore is it symbolically said by the children of israel that their business has been about cattle and not about sheep. names and meanings of the 72 verses 1st angel name: vahuaih sign: leo planet: saturn degree: 0 5 meaning: god the exalter psalm 3:4: and thou, 0 tetragrammaton, art a shield about me, my glory and he who lifteth up my head. 5 2nd angel name: yelauiel sign: leo planet: saturn degree: 5 10 meaning: strength psalm 22:20: and thou, 0 tetragrammaton, be not far off, 0 my strength, to help me make haste. 3rd angel name: satiel sign: leo planet: jupiter degree: 10 15 meaning: refuge, fortress, confidence psalm 9 1:2: i will say unto tetragrammato

d thou, 0 tetragrammaton, be not far off, 0 my strength, to help me make haste. 3rd angel name: satiel sign: leo planet: jupiter degree: 10 15 meaning: refuge, fortress, confidence psalm 9 1:2: i will say unto tetragrammaton, my refuge and fortress, my god, i will be confident in him. 4th angel name: nghelamiah sign: leo planet: jupiter degree: 15 20 meaning: concealed, saving psalm 6:5: return 0 tetragrammaton, deliver my soul, 6 save me because of thy mercy. 5th angel name: mahasiah sign: leo planet: mars degree: 20 25 meaning: seeking safety from trouble. psalm 34:5: 1 sought tetragrammaton, and he answered me and out of all my fears he delivered me. names and meanings of the 72 verses 7- 8 6th angel name: lelahel sign: leo planet: mars degree: 25 30 meaning: praiseworthy, declaring. ps

soul, 6 save me because of thy mercy. 5th angel name: mahasiah sign: leo planet: mars degree: 20 25 meaning: seeking safety from trouble. psalm 34:5: 1 sought tetragrammaton, and he answered me and out of all my fears he delivered me. names and meanings of the 72 verses 7- 8 6th angel name: lelahel sign: leo planet: mars degree: 25 30 meaning: praiseworthy, declaring. psalm 9:12: sing psalms unto tetragrammaton who inhabiteth, shew forth among the nations his deeds. 7th angel name: akaiah sign: virgo planet: sun degree: 0-5 meaning: long suffering psalm: 103:8: merciful and gracious is tetragrammaton, long 7 suffering and plentiful of mercy. 8th angel name: kehethel sign: virgo planet: sun degree: 5 10 meaning: adorable. psalm 95:6: come ye, we will bow down and bend before tetragrammaton

suffering psalm: 103:8: merciful and gracious is tetragrammaton, long 7 suffering and plentiful of mercy. 8th angel name: kehethel sign: virgo planet: sun degree: 5 10 meaning: adorable. psalm 95:6: come ye, we will bow down and bend before tetragrammaton who hath made us. 9th angel name: hazeyael sign: virgo planet: venus degree: 10 15 meaning: merciful psalm 25:6: remember thy tender mercies, 0 tetragrammaton, and thy mercies, for from of old they were. 10th angel name: eldiah sign: virgo planet: venus degree: 15 20 meaning: profitable psalm 33:22: there shall be thy mercy, 0 tetragrammaton, upon us, as we have hoped in thee. 11th angel 8 name: leviah sign: virgo planet: mercury degree: 20 25 meaning: meet to be exalted. psalm 18:47: liveth tetragrammaton, and blessed by my rock, and the

le psalm 33:22: there shall be thy mercy, 0 tetragrammaton, upon us, as we have hoped in thee. 11th angel 8 name: leviah sign: virgo planet: mercury degree: 20 25 meaning: meet to be exalted. psalm 18:47: liveth tetragrammaton, and blessed by my rock, and there shall arise the god of my salvation. 12th angel name: hihaiah sign: virgo planet: mercury degree: 25 30 meaning: refuge psalm 10:1: why 0 tetragrammaton, wilt thou stand afar, why wilt thou hide thyself at times of trouble. 13th angel name: lezalel sign: libra planet: moon degree: 0 5 meaning: rejoicing over all things. psalm 98:4 shout ye to tetragrammaton, all the earth, break ye forth, and shout for joy, and sing psalms. 14th angel name: mebahael 9 sign: libra planet: moon degree: 5 10 maaning: guardian and preserver. psalm 9:10:

grammaton, wilt thou stand afar, why wilt thou hide thyself at times of trouble. 13th angel name: lezalel sign: libra planet: moon degree: 0 5 meaning: rejoicing over all things. psalm 98:4 shout ye to tetragrammaton, all the earth, break ye forth, and shout for joy, and sing psalms. 14th angel name: mebahael 9 sign: libra planet: moon degree: 5 10 maaning: guardian and preserver. psalm 9:10: and tetragrammaton shall be a high place for the oppressed, a high place for seasons in distress. 15th angel name: harayel sign: libra planet: saturn degree: 10 15 meaning: aid. psalm 94:22: and tetragrammaton is become unto me a refuge, and my god is the aid of my hope. 16th angel name: hoqamiah sign: libra planet: saturn degree: 15 20 meaning: raise up, praying day and night. psalm 88:2: 0 tetragram

and tetragrammaton is become unto me a refuge, and my god is the aid of my hope. 16th angel name: hoqamiah sign: libra planet: saturn degree: 15 20 meaning: raise up, praying day and night. psalm 88:2: 0 tetragrammaton, god of my salvation in the day i have cried, and in the night before thee. 17th angel name: laviah sign: libra 10 planet: jupiter degree: 20 25 meaning: is wonderful psalm 8:1: 0 tetragrammaton, our lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth. 18th angel name: keliel sign: libra planet: jupiter degree: 25 30 meaning: worthy to be invoked. just to me. psalm 25:24: judge me accordingly to thy righteousness, tetragrammaton, my god, and let them rejoice over me. 19th angel name: livoih sign: scorpio planet: mars degree: 0-5 meaning: hastening to hear. psalm 40:2: expectin

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in 1 kings vi. 23 and exodus xxv. 18, and indeed genesis iii. 24. bible dictionaries generally give the word as cherubim, but in hebrew the initial letter is always k and not ch. 26. three. in the first edition i overlooked this word three; and putting and for as, made four classes of serving beings. 27. this is verse 4 of psalm civ. 28. here follow the permutations of the name ihv, which is the tetragrammaton--jehovah, without the second or final heh: ihv is a trigrammaton, and is more suitable to the third or yetziratic plane. hvi is the imperative form of the verb to be, meaning be thou; hiv is the infinitive; and vih is future. in ihv note that yod corresponds to the father; heh to binah, the supernal mother; and vau to the microprosopus--son. 29. note the subdivision of the decad int

esica, arteriae" the intestines, bladder, and arteries; rittangelius gives the same. pistorius gives "colon, coagulum (spleen) et ventriculus" colon--the large intestine, coagulum and stomach. the chief difficulty is with the hebrew word mss, which is allied to two different roots, one meaning private, concealed, hidden; and the other meaning liquefied. 48. the elohim--divine powers--not ihvh the tetragrammaton. chapter 6 this chapter is a resum of the preceding five; it calls the universe and mankind to witness to the truth of the scheme of distribution of the powers of the numbers among created forms, and concludes with the narration that this philosophy was revealed by the divine to abraham, who received and faithfully accepted it, as a form of wisdom under a covenant. 49. the dragon, t

he two lower openings of the body. 53. god. in this case the name is al, el. 54. this last paragraph is generally considered to be less ancient than the remainder of the treatise, and by another author. 55. the lord most high. oliu adun. adun or adon, or adonai, adni, are commonly translated lord; eliun, oliun, is the more usual form of "the most high one" 56. him. rittangelius gives "credidit in tetragrammaton" but this word is shin shor taurus oin oqereb scorpio tau thaumim gemini qoph qesheth sagittarius samech sartan cancer gimel gedi capricorn aleph aryeh leo daleth dali aquarius beth bethuleh virgo daleth dagim pisces not in the hebrew. 57. tongue. the verbal covenant. 58. speech. the hebrew has "upon his tongue" 59. the hebrew version of rabbi judah ha levi concludes with the phrase

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8 the same identification appears to be 12 for a translation of the full text, which is still unpublished, see a.m. kropp, ausgewahlte koptische zaubertexte, 3 vols (bruxelles 1930/31) 2.238-239. 13 w. vycichl, the coptic encyclopedia, 6 vols, ed. a.s. atiya (new york 1991) 6.1503. 14 i.e, pgm iii.1-124; iv.179-181, 204, 208; iv.1331-1389; iv.3255-3274. while iav stood for the shorter form of the tetragrammaton (see e.g. d.g. martinez, in his commentary on p. mich. xvi.757 [a greek love charm from egypt, american studies in papyrology 30 (atlanta, georgia, 1991] 79f, it was easily connected with iv, the sound of a braying ass, thus signifying seth; see, for example, r. merkelbach, abrasax iii, abh. rhein.-westf. ak, pap. coloniensia xvii.3 (opladen 1992) 44, 19f, 214 (gg. for a picture of

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ikened to the ancient stone of foundation, which, according to the same authority cited above, was supposed"'to have been. placed at one time within the foundations of the temple of solomon, and afterwards, during the building of the second temple, transported to the holy of holies. it was in the form of a perfect cube, and had inscribed upon its upper face, within a delta or triangle, the sacred tetragrammaton, or ineffable name of god -13- in a "scurrilous book of the middle ages. the life of jesus" there waa another account of the stone''at that time there was in the temple the ineffable name of god, inscribed upon the stone of foundation" this scandalous book proceeded to state that our saviour "cunningly obtained a knowledge of the tetragrammaton from the stone of foundation, and by i

d on this type of square. the talismanic magic square has a series of numbers in the ceils "the enumeration of all of whose columns, vertically, horizontally, and diagonally, will give the same sum" the following nine digits14 so arranged as to add up to 15 in any direction were regarded as sacred, because 15 is the numerical value of the hebrew word for god, jah, which is one of the forms of the tetragrammaton: 4 9 2 3 5 7 8 1 1 6 the predominately dark blue rectangle which occupies most of the middle tier of the mural, the upper side of which passes through the exact middle of the small bisected sphere, represents the altar. the yellow rectangle set at an angle into the lower and middle tiers so that one corner touches the bottom of the mural is a second representation of the altar. they

ed. for the purposes of occult dominion minds must therefore be rendered passive and negative in order that control can be achieved. minds consciously working to a definite end are a power, and power can oppose power for good or for evil. the scheme for world dominion might be doomed by the recognition of this principle alone, but, as it is unfortunately unrecognized, it remains unchallenged" the tetragrammaton a striking feature of the mural is the white half-crescent in its upper right quadrant. the inner curve of the crescent. closest to the bisected black, paleblue and yellow sphere. is equidistant at all points from the exact center of the bisected figure. therefore, if the curve of the crescent is continued fullcircle, the figure which results is a hidden point within a circle, the s

there are 72 geometrical figures (and shadings) in the mural. the two crescent shapes and the four long triangles. white, yellow, blue and black. which are located in the two upper tiers of the mural, are each counted as one figure. the number 72 denoted from the earliest days the divine name of 72 words. this number is derived from a permutation of the values assigned to the four letters of the tetragrammaton (jhvh: jehovah, the ineffable, unpronounceable name of god. this name, in its multitude of forms, can be used to work miracles or magic, so say the cabalists. it was derived from exodus xiv, verses 19, 20 and 21, which each consist of 72 letters "now, if these three verses be written at length one above another, the first from right to left, the second from left to right, and the th

as a symbol of god. his explanation is that which is generally accepted. it is, however, erroneous. a full commentary on the meaning of this all-important symbol appears in part ii of this study. the sephiroth earlier, reference was made to the sephiroth, and to the three pillars of which it is composed in the form called the tree of life. the verses of exodus which contain the 72 letters of the tetragrammaton are also believed by the cabalists to contain the pillars of the sephiroth, or emanations (the cabala, by bernhard pick, chicago, 1913, p. 91. the reader will notice in the upper left corner of the mural an arc which curves down to the left from the tip end of the caduceus line and forms the third side of a white geometrical figure which is unique in the mural. the lower end of this

ee at once that it is a triangle (pyramid) with the apex (capstone) cut off (see part ii of this study) if the two converging lines of the sides of the triangle are extended past the sides of the mural into the empty space beyond the wall, they meet to form the apex of the triangle (capstone of the pyramid. and what have we learned is the overall meaning of the mural? it is that it represents the tetragrammaton which is symbolized by the eye in the triangle. thus we see that the meditation room symbolically represents a full triangle (pyramid) with an invisible apex (capstone) which contains the all-seeing eye of the mural. conclusion the ultramundane symbolism and atmosphere of the meditation room of the united nations may bemuse the unwary and the lukewarm in faith; their delusion need n

olutionary. c. a. l. totten attributed a scriptural meaning to the use of the number 13 in the seal: 13 stripes in the shield, 13 stars in the crest, 13 letters in e pluribus unum, 13 arrows, 13 olive branch leaves, 13 olive berries; and, on the reverse side, 13 courses of stones in the pyramid and 13 letters in annuit coeplis.18 he noted that the number 13 occurs twice in one of the forms of the tetragrammaton: jehovah: jhvh: j(10) h(5) v(6) h(5: 26: 2 x i3.19 another source2" claimed that the seal is a symbol of the rosicrucians and that the clouds represent the "white roses" of the order. the federation of british israelites adopted the reverse side as its own emblem.21 one of the dies of the face of the seal shows the dexter wing of the eagle with 32 feathers and the sinister (left) wi

he was "the great deity of amenti or hades [hell" rawlinson described osiris' role as the judge of the dead "it was the universal belief that, immediately after death, the soul descended into the lower world and was conducted to the hall of truth, where it was judged in the presence of osiris and the forty-two demons, the 'lords of truth' and judges of the dead."54 (one of the divine names of the tetragrammaton consisted of 42 letters) osiris was called "the master of the gods" the name of osiris was expressed, most simply, by two hieroglyphs, one of which was the human eye (the left eye, as used on the reverse side of the great seal "sometimes, however, the human eye is replaced by a simple circle" osiris was most -33- commonly represented "in a mummied form, to mark his presidency over t

ew."58 now, if the picture of the reverse side of the great seal is examined, it will be found that fourteen rays of light issue from the triangle containing the eye of osiris. this combination of symbols simply cannot be attributed to a chance arrangement. only one writer. an occultist. has realized the startling fact that the number of stones in the pyramid totals 72, the 72 arrangements of the tetragrammaton, the cabalistic name of jehovah.59 the stones are counted as follows (from the top 13th level down to the base: 3; 4; 4(3 plus 2 1/2's; 4; 5; 5(4 plus 2 1/2's; 5; 6; 6(5 plus 2 1/2's; 7(6 plus 2 1/2's; 7; 8; 8(7 plus 2 1/2's. total: 72. the meaning of the tetragrammaton was explained at length in part i. the pagan origin of the two mottos on the reverse seal has already been atteste

universe" the two lower corners of the window each show the holy scriptures, an open book and a candle, signifying the light from god's law "thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path" why was this particular quotation chosen? the terms "word" and "light" have especially significant meanings in the occult lexicon. in the ancient mysteries of egypt the word "is said to have been the tetragrammaton (see source 9, part i, p. 889 "the connection of material light with. mental illumination was prominently exhibited in all the ancient systems of religion and esoteric mysteries. among the egyptians. the symbol of moral illumination. was also the symbol of osiris [ibid, pp. 469-470) these root-symbols are met with over and over again in all of the temples and designs used by the dev

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and then thrown backwards over the shoulder into a stream running eastwards. the fever then would shrink to nothing, the patient was told. the magical word abracadabra comes from worship of the gnostic god, abraxas. it literally means: the dead body, or corpse, of abraxas. witches often use the triangle as a protective symbol. they foolishly believe it can be used as a talisman, especially if the tetragrammaton, the hebrew letters for god, are inserted inside the triangle. the masons do the same thing essentially in the masters jewel of the 4th degree. the triangle is inscribed on the ring given holders of the 14th degree also. the geometrical god is a woman a closely kept secret of higher level masons and other illuminists is that, in addition to their worship of the devil by other names

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of mysteries, the sphinx at the gates of all spirituality. all conceivable ideas begin and end as light in its emotion, the ecstasy which the creation of the idea of self induces. the idea is unity by the formula of self, its necessary reality as continuity, the question of all things, all this universe visible and invisible has come out of it. as unity conceived duality, it begot trinity, begot tetragrammaton. duality being unity, is time, the complex of conception, the eternal refluctuation to the primeval reality in freedom-being trinity of dualities, is the six senses, the five facets of sex-projecting as environment for self-assimilation in denial, as a complete sexuality. being tetragrammaton of dualities is twelvefold by arrangement, the human complex, and may be called the twelve

of mysteries, the sphinx at the gates of all spirituality. all conceivable ideas begin and end as light in its emotion, the ecstasy which the creation of the idea of self induces. the idea is unity by the formula of self, its necessary reality as continuity, the question of all things, all this universe visible and invisible has come out of it. as unity conceived duality, it begot trinity, begot tetragrammaton. duality being unity, is time, the complex of conception, the eternal refluctuation to the primeval reality in freedom-being trinity of dualities, is the six senses, the five facets of sex-projecting as environment for self-assimilation in denial, as a complete sexuality. being tetragrammaton of dualities is twelvefold by arrangement, the human complex, and may be called the twelve

ation, is identity without form, is no thought as such; law and external influences contained, do not affect. when that giving up all belief, reflects only its meaning, then is there purity of vision, innocence of touch, ergo, self-love. verily, verily men are born, suffer and die through their belief. ejaculation is death. self-love is preservation and life. 14: it the "neither-neither" emanates tetragrammaton of relatives, the sexes of which are evolved through their cruciform reflection and are elusive to identity. in their xxxx they produce unity xxxxx xxxxx conception. ego generating by subdivision they embrace eternity, in their manifold ramifications is law. 15: i.e. his rainbow. 16: chapter on self-attraction omitted. 17: this is the test. the one who doubt would naturally submit h

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as been formed, it is given life by the kabbalist placing under its t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 72 mysterious creatures t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mysterious creatures 73 the golem of prague (1920) was directed by paul wegener (getty images) tongue a piece of paper with the tetragrammaton (the four-letter name of god) written on it. according to certain traditions, the creation of a golem is one of the advanced stages of development for serious practitioners of kabbalah and alchemy. instructions for fashioning a golem according to the talmudic tradition was set down sometime in the tenth century by rabbi eliezar rokeach in the book of formation, and in his modern ada

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milar, and thus to the unity. the iao formula hence signifies the unity of an act broken into its motion. inri is taken as an anagram of various phrases, but the most usual is "jesus of nazareth, king of the jews. however, by kabbalah, this phrase embodies the mystery of tiphareth in its analysis as yod, nun, resh and yod. i virgo isis n scorpio apophis r sun osiris i virgo isis thus, as with the tetragrammaton of yhvh, the formula repeats a key letter to indicate that events cycle through growth, death, rebirth and growth again. tiphareth might be the top of one mountain, but is also the beginning of another climb altogether. chapter ten; netzach, the rose in the lamplight the sepher yetzirah deems netzach "the hidden intelligence, for it pours forth a brilliant splendour onto all intelle

ds. the main use for gematria appears to be in devising a system of mnemonic reminders of kabbalistic doctrine, such as utilised by eleazar of worms. thus, the numeration of the word avavah "love" being equal to that of achad "unity (both being thirteen) recalls to the kabbalist that love of god is unity with god. as the two words then total together to twenty-six, which is the value of yhvh, the tetragrammaton, then this indicates further that god is "composed" of unity and love. indeed, it is with particular reference to the names of god to which gematria is pointed, as the names are considered in themselves, incomprehensible. although some kabbalists denied the use of gematria as relevant, other workers such as abulafia dealt with gematria so deeply that their works need "decoding" rath

ortune; avh (desire, longing; vv (the letter vau, meaning pin, hook, fastening; hva (he himself; number of hanged man tarot card 13: bhv (emptiness, chaos; abdh (destruction, abyss; dvg (fisher; vhb (pool; achd (one, unity; ahbh (love; 9+3+1=111 base 3; number of death tarot card another method of gematria is to square each value, thus agd, meaning "to bind together, becomes 12+32+42=26=yhvh, the tetragrammaton binding the four elements. this particular method, as some of the others, result in large numbers. perhaps one of the safest rules to apply to gematria work was given by nahmanides, who said "no-one may calculate a gematria in order to deduce from it something that occurs to him. that is, avoid the temptation to produce gematria to shore up one's own rocky beliefs. if an equation do

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ely. 14. although the figure traced is the same as the banishing earth pentagram, in the lbrp it should be referred to as the lesser banishing pentagram. this is because it is traced in all four directions, alluding to the four quarters (sub-elements) of malkuth: air of malkuth, water of malkuth, fire of malkuth, and earth of malkuth. 15. yhvh is transliterated english for m7, which is called the tetragrammaton or "four-lettered name" it is considered the ineffable name of god. each letter of the name is also attributed to one of the four worlds of the qabalah: yod= atziluth, heh= briah, vav= yetzirah, and heh final= assiah. 16. keep the hand or dagger extended as you turn from the east to the south, west, north, and back around again to the east, drawing the appropriate pentagrams as you

are several variations of lines 11 and 12 given in many books; their differences are very slight. the version given here is consistent with that described in regardie's the golden dawn. another version states "for around me shines the pentagram and within me shines the sixrayed star" the total number of points formed by the four pentagrams (4 x 5, and the single hexagram (6) is 26, the number of tetragrammaton and of the middle pillar. another version is "for about mejames the pentagram, and in the column shines the six-rayed star" this latter version, adapted by crowley, is the one that we prefer. it can be found in regardie's the tree of lsfe with the word stands substituted for the word shines. the column here alludes to the middle pillar, and is a reference to the magician who stands

econd word in the compound name yhvh elohim was considered by jews as a reminder that the holy name yhvh is never spoken but rather vocalized as "elohirn) while this the middle pillar exercise 83 argument may be true for devout jews, it is not valid for practicing magicians in the tradition of the golden dawn. there are several examples of hebrew mystics vocalizing the various permutations of the tetragrammaton for specific ritual work with the sephroth. this points to the differences between orthodox jewish practice and the esoteric practice of western hermetic magicians. 8. for the same reason indicated in the above endnote, the divine name here should be pronounced "yod heh vav heh el-oh-ah ve-dah-ath" 9. the "ch in chai should be pronounced like the scottish word "loch" 10. another com

hm, amen (lay-oh-lahm, ah-men "forever, unto the ages. the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram stand and face east.2 perform the qabalistic cross as described above. still facing east, use a dagger or the index finger of the right hand to trace a large lesser banishing pentagram. thrust the dagger tip or index finger through the center of the pentagram and vibrate "yhvh (yode-heh-vav-heh-the tetragrammaton [see glossary (keep the right arm extended throughout, never let it drop. the pentagrams should be visualized in a flaming blue or white light) turn to the south and trace the same pentagram there. charge the figure as before, intoning "adonai (ah-doh-nye-"lord. turn to the west and trace the pentagram. charge it with "eheieh (eh-hey-yay-"i am. turn to the north and draw the pentagr

ord's prayer (matthew 6:9-13) is obviously based upon qabalistic principles, showing that jesus of nazareth, who was called rabbi by his followers, knew his qabalah. this is because the lord's prayer is itself based on the hebrew "prayer of david" from the old testament, found in the first book of chronicles 29:l "the prayer of david at the foundation of the temple" reads as follows: unto thee, 0 tetragrammaton, are the greatness and the power and the beauty and the victo y and the glo y, for unto thee is everything in the heavens and the earth. unto thee, 0 tetragrammaton, is the kingdom. ths single verse mentions the names of several sephiroth, including: chesed, geburah, tiphareth, netzach, hod, and malkuth. the lord's prayer from the new testament states: for thine is the kingdom and t

ith arms and legs outspread. the shape of the five-pointed star seems to be one of nature's favorite geometric designs-it can be found in flowers, fruit, and crystalline forms. in magic the pentagram represents the four elements of fire, water, air, and earth-plus one other. in addition, the number five is attributed to the pentagrammaton or "five-lettered name" this is a natural extension of the tetragrammaton, the holy and hidden "four-lettered name" of god signified by the letters yhvh (717. in the pentagrammaton the letter slun is placed in the center of yhvh, resulting in the name of yeheshuah-yhshvh (71iu7. this is the name of jesus in hebrew, but more importantly to magicians, it is the four elements of fire, water, air, and earth, with the addition of the fifth element of spirit. t

ular is used throughout the lbrp. however, in this instance it would be better to refer to the pentagram used in this ritual as the lesser banishing pentagram to avoid confusion.23 all of the divine hebrew names intoned in the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram are composed of four letters. and the specific names used are attributed to the four sub-elements of malkuth. the name of yhvh, the tetragrammaton, is vibrated after the pentagram is drawn in the east, the direction attributed to elemental air. tradition tells us that yhvh is a symbol for the highest, most divine name of god. therefore it is appropriate that this name is vibrated in the east, the place of the dawning of the light. yhvh is our sunrise, our source of life. the east symbolizes elemental air which has further corr

a, correspond to the five elements of fire, water, air, earth, and spirit. tejas: sanskrit word meaning "sharp" the tattva associated with the element of fire. its symbol is a red triangle. telesmatic: from the greek word telesrnata meaning "talismans" usually refers to a created or visualized image of a deity or angel, particularly images that have been built using hebrew letter correspondences. tetragrammaton: a greek word meaning "four-lettered name" refers to the highest divine hebrew name of god, yhvh (717. glossary 263 thaumaturgy: greek word meaning "miracle-working" magic used to create changes in the material world. theurgy: greek word meaning "god-working" magic used for personal growth, spiritual evolution, and for becoming closer to the divine. theurgist "god-worker" a ceremoni

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may learn. wisdom and love, in tenser glow! beauty and strength, increase and burn be brothers to the law of life! things as they are. their nature know! act! nor for faith nor folly turn! the hour is nigh when man and wife, knowing, shall worship face to face, beget and bear the royal race *gargoyles, vol. iii, pp. 85, 86. this is the divine union of the active y with the passive hwh formulating tetragrammaton, and of the c descending upon the hwhy formulating christ* it is the old story of devaki or of mary, in which the aspirant falling into an ecstatic state, is visited by the divine essence; in the one case under the form of mahadeva, in the other under that of the holy spirit; and losing consciousness of all worldliness, in a boundless bliss the divine child is conceived *similarly w

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ined the four powers of the sphinx. s: which are? file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c4.html (3 of 19 [12/28/2001 2:03:21 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. c: knowledge, will, courage and silence. s: in the latin language, these are? c: scire, velle, audere, tacere. s: their initials are identical with those of what sentence? c: sub umbra alarum tetragrammaton, or tahuti, the master of magic. s: have you completed your travels with the sun? c: i have fulfilled seventy years. s: the sun is setting. do you pledge your might as a magician that you will steadily persevere through the ceremony of devotion to the degree of a master magician? c: i do. s: this. didst. thou. well (pause) do you likewise pledge yourself, under the penalty of your o

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ist in the bud, not yet unfolded. even something as insubstantial as an idea has its coming into being, where it passes from possibility to reality. the square is associated with the four winds, the four corners of the earth, the four elements, the four rivers, the four beasts, the four archangels, the four evan- gelists, the four seasons, the four magical instruments, and the four letters of the tetragrammaton-the unspeakable name of god. in the triangle each point has direct communication with the other two. the triangle is a perfect unity. however, in the square each point touches only two other points through reciprocating rays, and is isolated from the third point. to gain any apprehension of the third point, it must rely on the mediation of the other two, which color and distort the

o earth. plato's understanding is important for two reasons. first, it explains the con- nection between three and four, the triangle and the square. second, it shows why the three elements fire, air, and water are separate and different from the element earth. this same understanding of the elements is expressed in a different form in the letters of the hebrew name for god, ihvh, which is called tetragrammaton. this name has both three and four letters (because two of the letters are the same: it is the nature of religions, with their inherent mystical bent, to overlook the fourth emanation of the unmanifest. considered as three, god is an ideal without concrete existence in the mundane world. but considered as four god becomes a practical reality. little wonder that the fourfold division

m the storms of chaos, and the crawling things upon it. the magus will readily see that the first chapter of genesis is not a fairy tale, not an abstraction, but is the actual way life came into being out of the oceans at the dawn of time. yet the origin of life is not the truth hidden in the words, but is only a reflection of that truth. it is interesting to consider why the fourth letter of the tetragrammaton is a sec- ond he, and not a different letter as one might expect. this is because as each level of the trinity actualizes itself, it reverses its polarity in order to maintain an overall bal- ance. this is analogous to what happens when electrical charges reverse themselves. the negative becomes the positive and the positive becomes the negative. yod is the impulse to action. vau is

ons is often thought of as circular motion. if it were circular it would look like this: yod however, the actual motion of the seasons and all other cycles is spiral since each element is separated by time from the one it replaces. the summer of one year appears the same as the summer of the previous year, but it is completely new, and built on the summer that preceded it. the four letters of the tetragrammaton can be represented by a standing wave, which is exactly balanced by a second wave. the trough of one wave and the oppo- site crest of the other wave form a cycle with the four letters in the name of god: the wave model is two-dimensional. in three dimensions the cycle of becom- ing would be shown by the double helix, which is two spirals progressing in oppo- site directions of rotat

n (a solid formed of twelve interlocking pentagons) may be built around the self. magically this is an impregnable shell built upon five reflected (or ten) and six reflected (or twelve. these are two most powerful complex numbers upon which the tarot, kabbalah, zodiac, and other systems are based. pythagoras reputedly held the dodecahedron to be the most potent and perfect shape in the world. the tetragrammaton is expanded by the addition of the hebrew letter shin, which is in the shape of a lamp with three flames and magically signifies spirit: ra.the two common forms of the pentagrammaton are yod-he-shin-vau-he (pro- nounced "yeheshuah) and yod-he-vau-shin-he (pronounced "yehovashah. magically, the first name is given to the left human hand and the second to the right hand. when the magu

mes, which differs in minor respects from the list used in most modern magic, is as follows: 1. kether-eheieh 2. chokmah-yah 3. binah-ihvh (vocalized as "elohim) 4. chesed-el 5. geburah-elohim gibor 6. tiphareth-ihvh (vocalized as "adonai) 7. netzach-ihvh tzabaoth (vocalized "adonai tzabaoth) 8. hod-elohirn tzabaoth 9. yesod-shaddai (or el chai) 10. mallruth-adonai malekh (or adonai ha-aretz) the tetragrammaton (ihvh, called by kabbalists "the distinctive excellent name" to distinguish it from all lesser names of god, occurs for both binah and tiphareth. in the case of binah, it is pronounced "elohim" and in the case of tiphareth, it is pronounced the more common "adonai" two separate names are given for yesod: shaddai (almighty) and el chai (living god. the first form appears in the zohar

has power over the signs of the zodiac: they are the chil- dren of the human race. the zodiac does not rule human beings. humans rule the stars. but humanity is asleep and first must be awakened before it can resume its rightful seat on the throne of heaven. there are twelve words of power that call forth and command the forces of the zodiac. these words have been derived from the permutations of tetragrammaton, the fourfold name of god. the forms of the name may be grouped under the ele- ments in order of the increasing violence done to their natural arrangement of letters: fire: i-h-v-fi water: h-v-a-i a: v--1 earth: a -1-h-v i-h-a-v h-v-1-13 v-a-h-i a-i-v-h i-v-a-h h-a-i-v v-i-h-i3 a-h-v-i the permutations of the tetragrammaton display a distinct pattern, which is revealed numerically:

of the kabbalah unveiled (kabbala denudata) by christian knorr von rosenroth, a work first published in latin at sulzbach between the years 1677-84, mathers presents this flawed sequence. it is not certain where he came by it, but the most likely source would seem to be the magus by francis barrett, a work published in london in 1801. barrett, in his turn, repro- duced his order of the banners of tetragrammaton from the 1651 english transla- tion of the three books of occult philosophy, written by the great german renaissance magician, henry cornelius agrippa. the same erroneous ordering also occurs in the original latin edition of agrippa's work, first published in its complete form at cologne in 1533. agrippa, a careful scholar, was probably not responsible for creating the error himself

radition for their ordering of the banners, but that agrippa copied a faulty list, and did not understand the banners well enough to correct it. on the other hand, agrippa may have deliberately scrambled the sequence of the banners to avoid their profanation by the ignorant. notice that when the banners are grouped according to cardinal, mutable, and fixed motion, any letter column spells out the tetragrammaton in its elemental order if you begin with yod, read down, then jump to the top of the column: cardinal mutable fixed i-h-v-i3 i-h-a-v i-v-iti-h h-v-&i h-v-i-a h-fi-i-v v-fi-i-h v-fi- v-i-h-fi a-i-h-v a-i-v-h a-h-v-i these banners may be assigned to the elemental triangles of the zodiac in a sunwise direction. those that start with the hebrew letter yod are placed clockwise on the thr

beginning with libra (v&h, then gemini (v&i, and finally aquarius (viha. the banners that start with the second he (indicated by the dot) are placed clockwise on the three earth signs, beginning with capricorn (i hv, then virgo(&vh, and finally taurus (ikv1. those who possess a copy of the first edition of this work (the new magus, llewellyn, 1988) will notice that the ordering of the banners of tetragrammaton has been altered. in the first edition, the author made the error of placing the ban- ners on each elemental trine counterclockwise, in the order cardinal, fixed, muta- ble. this seemed reasonable at the time, but recent application of the banners to the tetragram (see page 146) has demonstrated in a graphic way the need to apply the three banners of each element to the zodiac in a

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in consciousness directly toward god as high as consciousness was able to rise. the divine names mentioned by mathers are the names of god assigned to the sephir t h. tohe d ivine name used by the golden dawn in malkuth is adonai ha-aretz (lord of earth, those in yesod are shaddai and el chai (almighty and the mighty living one, and those in tiphareth are eloah vedaath and ihvh (god manifest and tetragrammaton. tetragrammaton was vocalized by means of its individual hebrew letters as yod- heh-vav-heh, or sometimes as yahweh. these names would be vibrated on the breath in a ritual way, and simultaneously visualized to float in hebrew letters of glowing white fire upon the corresponding sephirah of the tree. by vibrating a name upon the breath, the traveler aspired in his consciousness towa

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i (south, eheieh (west, agla (north. it is no accident that all four names have four hebrew letters. four is the number of physical manifestation, and applies to the four quarters of the world. because of this fourfold symmetry i find it best to express each of these names with four sounds, when they are employed together to stand for the four directions and four elements. ihvh, also known as the tetragrammaton, is written all in capital letters because the name is too powerful and too universal to be spoken as a single word. its letters should always be voiced individually by vibrating the names of the letters, rather than their sounds. the ancient jewish pronunciation of this supreme name of god is unknown. in the fourth century before christ its use was suppressed by the priests of the

f the name for their own uses. sometimes it is pronounced yahweh, but this pronunciation should not be used in ritual magic. ihvh is linked in the golden dawn system with the east and the element air, because the east is the first quarter and ihvh is the primary name that created the world. adonai means "lord" it is the name of god that jews customarily substitute for ihvh when they encounter the tetragrammaton while reading the pentateuch in order to express the name aloud or in their own thoughts, rather than leave a gap in the text (the average jew does not pronounce ihvh by sounding its individual letters-this is an esoteric practice of kabbalists. the golden dawn linked this name with the south and the element fire, because fire is the element of will and adonai is a name of command

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eastern title, this work contains a great deal of practical advice on matters of western ceremonial magic. it should be studied together with this author's book, concenwation. shah, idries. the secr o. 277 fall the words of power employed in magic since the dawn of time, none is more mysterious and profound than the ineffable name of god with four hebrew letters, ihvh (717'1, called by the greeks tetragrammaton. by uttering it, god created the world and breathed life into the first man. moses called upon its authority to bring down the ten plagues on egypt. solomon used it to compel the spirits of the earth to build the first temple at jerusalem, then turned it upon them and sealed them beneath the sea in a prison of brass. prophets and exorcists used its fabled might to restore the dead t

so revered was the name by the ancient jewish priests that they forbade anyone to speak it. after the fall of herod's temple to the romans in a.d. 70, its true pronunciation was lost to the general jewish population, but esoteric sects and solitary magicians continued to rely upon its potency as the foundation of all their works. in the middle ages, ba'alai shem, or masters of the name, employed tetragrammaton to heal the sick and banish evil spirits. one such ba'al shem was the great jewish magician rabbi loew of prague, who breathed life into lifeless clay by means of the power of the ihvh and with it created the dreaded golem. during the renaissance, xiv tetragrammaton johannes reuchlin and other christian kabbalists transformed tetragrammaton into the esoteric fivefold name of jesus a

corded observations and speculations about the name. the nineteenth- century french magician gerard encausse, better known by his pen name papus, devoted most of his influential work, the tarot of the bohemians, to unraveling its secrets. his countryman alphonse louis constant, who wrote under the name eliphas levi, spent entire chapters of his popular books on magic wrestling with the meaning of tetragrammaton. the speculations of these and many other occult writers have been collected together for the first time in appendix b. it is fascinating to compare the words of levi with those of papus; of s.l. macgregor mathers, the leader of the golden dawn, with those of aleister crowley, his former student and the self-proclaimed great beast of the apocalypse; of helena p. blavatsky, the leade

leader of the golden dawn, with those of aleister crowley, his former student and the self-proclaimed great beast of the apocalypse; of helena p. blavatsky, the leader of the theosophists, with paul foster case, the founder of builders of the adytum; of p.d. ouspensky, the disillusioned former pupil of the mystic gurdjieff, with frater achad, a rebellious student of crowley. even in modern times, tetragrammaton continues to exert a powerful fascination over magicians working in the western tradition of ceremonial magic. contemporary kabbalists and occultists discover in the arrangement of the four letters of the ineffable name the essential pattern of the entire universe. the many magical correspondences of its hebrew letters with the elements, the tarot, the magical instruments, the compa

ultists discover in the arrangement of the four letters of the ineffable name the essential pattern of the entire universe. the many magical correspondences of its hebrew letters with the elements, the tarot, the magical instruments, the compass points, the winds, the sephiroth of the kabbalah, the planets and the signs of the zodiac, are examined in detail in chapter 111, where the vital role of tetragrammaton at the very heart of the western magical tradition is established beyond dispute. yet this book gives more than just the fascinating ancient history and modern magical use of the name. it examines the symbolic relationship of the letters from a numerical and a graphic perspective. the significance of the dual threefold and fourfold composition of the name, which is so vital to its t

d modern magical use of the name. it examines the symbolic relationship of the letters from a numerical and a graphic perspective. the significance of the dual threefold and fourfold composition of the name, which is so vital to its true understanding, is treated in depth. from this analysis, a bridge is constructed linking the four elements, the seven planets, and the twelve signs of the zodiac. tetragrammaton is shown to be the primeval binary code that forms the basis for the genetic pattern of dna and the language of modern computers and digital storage systems. it is also the foundation for two ancient methods of divination-the sixty-four hexagrams of the i ching of china and the sixteen geomantic figures of medieval europe. introduction xv presented here is a totally original techniq

e. these angels will be of extreme interest to kabbalists and enochian magicians alike. not only are they of great practical value in ritual magic, but they support the theory of an underlying connection between dee's hieroglyphic monad, his enochian diaries, and the biblical book of revelation. in addition to all this, methods are provided for vibrating upon the breath the twenty-four banners of tetragrammaton; for using a new technique called the commanding voice to implant instructions directly into the subconscious of others, bypassing their conscious control; for creating a set of powerful banner rings and ritually charging them with the wings of the winds; for resurrecting the lost ancient hebrew divination by urim and thummim; and for assuming the god-form of the warrior christ of r

nt instructions directly into the subconscious of others, bypassing their conscious control; for creating a set of powerful banner rings and ritually charging them with the wings of the winds; for resurrecting the lost ancient hebrew divination by urim and thummim; and for assuming the god-form of the warrior christ of revelation to command the enochian and banner angels. the complex structure of tetragrammaton and its various permutations is expressed by two very important symbolic forms: the throne of god, described by st. john in revelation 4; and the cosmic clock, which appears throughout the enochian diaries of john dee, but particularly in the third and fourteenth enochian keys. as i will demonstrate in this work, it is possible to prove that the throne and the cosmic clock are at ro

ve that the throne and the cosmic clock are at root the same syrnbol, both designed to express the structure and parts of ihvh. the throne of god and the cosmic clock illustrate the strong link that exists between the vision of st. john, dee's hieroglyphic monad, and the enochian diaries, and unlock many of the secrets in these works. because the throne and clock are so important in understanding tetragrammaton, i have examined the system of enochian magic in considerable detail in chapter xvi. xvi tetragrammaton appendix a contains the corrected english text of all eighteen enochian keys and the key of the thirty aethers, with an accompanying analysis of the symbolism in the keys. this study shows the angels of the keys to possess the same apocalyptic nature as those described by st. john

yze my sources independently, and where i disagree with the golden dawn, i have not hesitated to make changes in the occult correspondences. these departures from the golden dawn system have been pointed out to avoid confusion. much of the work i am doing is completely new, and i sometimes make mistakes myself. in my book the new magus? where i presented the correct order of the twelve banners of tetragrammaton for the first time, i applied each elemental trine of banners to its corresponding elemental trine of signs counterclockwise around the zodiac, in the order cardinal, fixed, mutable, because this is the usual order of the signs and i saw no reason to depart from it. however, in developing the invoking and banishing sigils of the banners presented in the present work, i became aware

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

on pureza de coraz n y en la flama de la serpiente te llamamos. orad y meditad intensamente. la divina madre ense a a sus hijos. esta oraci n se debe hacer combinando la meditaci n con el sue o. entonces como en visi n de sue os surge la iluminaci n. llega la divina madre al devoto para instruirle en los grandes misterios. 26 arcanum 4 aum. the arcanum four of the tarot is the holy and mysterious tetragrammaton, the sacred name of the eternal one that has four letters: iod, he, vau, he. iod is the man, he is the woman, vau is the phallus, he is the uterus. yet, we can also state: iod is the man, he is the woman, vau is the fire, he is the water. the profound study of the four letters of the eternal one takes us inevitably to the ninth sphere (sex. we must lift our serpent through the medul

y is the ens seminis, the azoth is the mysterious ray of kundalini. the mercury of secret philosophy must be fecundated by sulfur (fire) so that the salt can become regenerated. only like this can we write the book of azoth, write it upon a rod if what you want is initiation. the clue of our liberation is found in the lingam-yoni. arcano iv aum. el arcano cuatro del tarot es el santo y misterioso tetragrammaton. el nombre sagrado del eterno tiene cuatro letras: iod, he, vau, he. iod es el hombre, he la mujer, vau es el phalo, he es el tero. en otra forma decimos: iod es el hombre; he es la mujer; vau, el fuego; he, el agua. el profundo estudio de las cuatro letras del eterno nos llevan inevitablemente a la novena esfera (el sexo. debemos levantar nuestra serpiente por el canal medular hast

on: supplication: spiritus dei ferebatur super aquas, et inspiravit in faciem hominis spiraculum vitae. sit michael dux meus, et sabtabiel servus meus, in luce et per lucem. fiat verbum halitus meus, et imperabo spiritibus aeris hujus, et refrenabo equos solis voluntate cordis mei, et cogitatione mentis mei et nutu oculi dextri. exorciso igitur te, creatura aeris, per penta-grammat n et in n mine tetragrammaton, in quibus sunt voluntas firma et fides recta. amen. sela f at. blow towards the four cardinal points of the earth. pronounce the letter h many times as if imitating a very deep sigh. then slumber while meditating on the genii michael and sabtabiel. this way you will become in contact with the sylphs. practica con los silfos aire: sentado en un c modo sill n o acostados boca arriba

egaria: plegaria: spiritus dei ferebatur super aquas, et inspiravit in faciem hominis spiraculum vitae. sit michael dux meus, et sabtabiel servus meus, in luce et per lucem. fiat verbum halitus meus, et imperabo spiritibus aeris hujus, et refrenabo equos solis voluntate cordis mei, et cogitatione mentis mei et nutu oculi dextri. exorciso igitur te, creatura aeris, per penta-grammat n et in n mine tetragrammaton, in quibus sunt voluntas firma et fides recta. amen. sela f at. soplad en direcci n de los cuatro puntos cardinales de la tierra. pronunciad la letra h muchas veces como un suspiro muy hondo. adormeceos meditando en los genios michael y sabtabiel. entonces os pondr is en contacto con los silfos. 32 practice with the undines water: before a cup of water, get into the state of slumber

e elementals of water are commanded with a cup filled with water and the elementals of the earth with a sword or with a brand new knife. the special kingdom of the gnomes resides in the region of the north; the one of the salamanders in the south. the one of the sylphs in the east and the one of the undines in the west. these four elemental hierarchies form a cross. behold the holy and mysterious tetragrammaton. con el arcano cuatro del tarot el ser echa sobre sus hombros la cruz de la iniciaci n. terminaremos esta c tedra diciendo que a los elementales del fuego se les ordena con el tridente de hierro o con una varilla de hierro. a los elementales del aire se les ordena con una pluma de guila o de cualquier ave. a los elementales del agua se les ordena con una copa llena de agua. a los de

una pluma de guila o de cualquier ave. a los elementales del agua se les ordena con una copa llena de agua. a los de la tierra con una espada o con un cuchillo nuevo. el reino especial de los gnomos habita en la regi n del norte. el de las salamandras al sur. el de los silfos al oriente y el de las ondinas al occidente. estas cuatro jerarqu as elementales forman cruz. he ah el santo y misterioso tetragrammaton. 35 arcanum 5 beloved brethren of my soul, today we are going to study the fifth arcanum of the tarot. this arcanum is the flaming pentagram, the blazing star, the sign of divine omnipotence. this is the ineffable symbol of the verb made flesh, the terrifying star of the magi. when the pentagram elevates its two inferior rays towards the sky it represents satan. when the pentagram b

matem tico, ste es el ain soph, la estrella at mica interior que siempre nos ha sonre do; la santa trinidad eman de sta estrella interior, las tres profundidades se regresar n y fusionar n con sta estrella interior. 142 the number 22 is kabbalistically added as follows: 2+ 2= 4 the holy three emanates from the inner star, thus, the holy trinity plus its inner star is the holy four, the mysterious tetragrammaton, which is iod-he-vav-he. now we comprehend why the twenty-second arcanum is the crown of life. be thou faithful unto death, and i will give thee a crown of life -revelation 2: 10 blessed by the one who incarnates the spirit of wisdom (chokmah; those buddhas who do not renounce nirvana can never incarnate the cosmic christ, who is beyond the inner buddha. our inner buddha has to seek

f the crown, truth is represented as a naked woman who has a little stick in each hand (the priest and the priestess; this is sexual alchemy. we can incarnate the truth only by working in the flaming forge of vulcan el n mero veintid s se adiciona kabal sti-camente as: 2 m s 2 igual: 4. el santo tres emana de la estrella interior, el tres m s su estrella interior es el santo cuatro, el misterioso tetragrammaton, el iod he vau he. ahora compren-deremos porque el arcano veintid s es la corona de la vida "se fiel hasta la muerte y yo te dar la corona de la vida. apocalipsis 2:10 bienaventurado aqu l que encarna al esp ritu de sabidur a. los buddhas que no renuncian al nirvana jam s podr n encarnar al cristo c smico. este est mucho m s all del buddha interior. este tiene que buscarlo dentro de

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k, spirit and matter. the tau cross in qabalah is the special seal or sign of redemption, the spirit crucified to matter and transforming it. four symbolizes the unity of the higher and lower worlds, integration and equilibrium. it finds expression in the four elements, the four directions, and the four seasons. in qabalah it is a very sacred number because the most holy name of god, ihvh, or the tetragrammaton is composed of four letters. on the tree it corresponds to chesed, or jupiter, the mundane chakra. four is the number of justice and reciprocity, echoed in the expression "a square deal" it represents structure and foundation of creative existence, as well as order, affirmation, and happiness by attainment. 5. five implies action, force, and power. it is represented by the planet ma

is demonstrated by some of the words we have examined here. even though saturn limits, it must be remembered that binah is the powerful creative force on the tree that brings all things into formation. in godwin's cabalistic encyclopedia (an excellent gematria resource book that is a must for the serious student of kameas, the word mah also means the secret name of the world of formation; and the tetragrammaton ihvh when spelled out, yod-ha-vav-ha (which also equals forty-five, is said to be the spelling of the divine name in yetzirah, or the world of formation. if all the letters are connected in a sigil, it looks like figure 5-k. since it thus creates an enclosed geometric form, one could then color it and even make a flashing color tablet, as we did with the example of graphiel in chapt

nergies are sufficiently compatible. for example, the spirit of jupiter, hismael, which is generally correctly given in most books on magical squares, can be combined with yophiel to produce figure 6-e. their names both have a numerical value of 136, the theosophic extension of the kamea. another very valuable affirmation that also has the numeric equivalent of 136 is "i will give thanks unto the tetragrammaton with all my heart" from psalm 9: 2 (see figure 6-f for hebrew spelling. this could be made into a sigil, or it could also be an effective inscription written around the edge of the talisman. figure 6-e: yhpial-yophial hsml-hismeal figure 6-f: traditional kamea in hebrew 84. western mandalas of transformation. another powerful motto with the value of 136, taken from latin rather than

ars, reduces to thirteen (85=8+5=13. this letter, when spelled out (ph) means mouth and points to the power inherent in words. more information about this relationship can be had from case's interpretation of the tarot and the hebrew letters (see bibliography. in both kameas the numbers in any two cells that are equidistant from the center always add up to twenty-six, which is the number of ihvh, tetragrammaton. there are twelve sets of these pairs and they represent the positive and negative aspects of the signs of the zodiac, balanced by the unifying point at the center. this is reflected in the phrase "together in unity" which equals sixty-five, the magic sum of the square of mars. the first principle number relating to mars is five, which is geburah on the tree of life. this is the spe

night" is. 21: 11) 111: msvh: a veil, or face covering (ex. 34: 33. 666: theosophic number of the magic planetary line 666: the square of the first 7 prime numbers *666: alhikm, elohikam: your god 666: asthhr, isthar, the goddess ishtar (aramaic) 666: ihi marth, yehi meoroth: let there be luminaries 666: svrth, sorath: spirit of the sun 666: shm ihshvh: the name of jesus 666: shmsh ihvh, shemash tetragrammaton: sun of jehovah 666: ho seraphas: greek for serapis, egyptian god 666: euporia: greek for material wealth, gold 666: the heart or soul in greek 666: the number of the beast in rev. 13: 18 (a certain wisdom is needed here; with a little ingenuity anyone can calculate the number of the beast) 666: thsrv: you shall turn aside (g. g. locks) the kamea of netzach/venus chapter 9 the mysti

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igures, to each of which are allotted certain letters; there are several modes even of this arrangement, and there is a mystical mode of allotting the sephiroth to this figure, but this is a rosicrucian secret. 28. this method is used in a superficial manner in mark master masonry. a further development of the numerical kabalah consists of arithmetical processes of extension and contraction; thus tetragrammaton is considered as y 10, h 5, v 6, h 5, or 26, but also may be spelled in full yvd 20, ha 6, vv 12, ha 6, or 44. again, the kabalists extended a number by series. zain z or 7 becomes 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 5 and 6 and 7, numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott or 28. after another manner they contracted, as 28 was equal to 2 and 8 or 10. again, tetr

n, and bacchus. among the muses, urania. they also called it feminine, effective of virility, and an exciter of bacchic fury. in harmony, it was said to form by the quadruple numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott ratio, the symphony dis-diapason. they called it justice, as the first evenly even number. as a type of deity, we all know of the famous hebrew title tetragrammaton or unpronounceable name we call jehovah ihvh. this name was used by the qabalistic rabbis to hide their secret tenets of the divine essence of the creator god. almost all the peoples of antiquity possessed a name for deity consisting of four letters, and many of them considered 4 to be a divine number, thus- in hebrew we find also ihih called eheie; and ahih called aheie. assyrian a

agic squares by the indians of surat. to the number 4 belong the several forms of the cross, maltese, greek, passional, st. andrew s and the fylfot cross the swastika. hermetic philosophy teaches how to view the last as composed from a magic square of 5, giving 25 squares, of which the fylfot takes 17, referring to the sun, signs and elements. there is a quaint hebrew association between the name tetragrammaton, ihvh, the god name, and man formed in his image for if yod, heh, vav, heh be drawn one over the other, the yod will look numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott like the head above, the heh will look like the two arms, the vav will be upright body, and the final heh will show two legs. it is stated in some ancient persian works that 4 bright stars

orpio, were as the equinoctial points, and regulus, the heart of leo, and fomalhaut, the eye of the southern fish, were near the solstitial points. this was 5003 years ago. the pack of common playing cards has 4 suits; of diamonds, hearts, clubs and spades. the old tarot or tarocchi cards had 4 suits, wands, cups, swords and pentacles. occult science relates these to the yod, heh, vav, heh of the tetragrammaton. the tarot pack has also 4 court cards, cavalier, king, queen and violet or knave. also called knight, king, queen and princess by some mystics. 59. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott chapter nine the pentad, five, 5. rom the nicomachean extracts, we derive our knowledge of the pythagorean doctrine of the number five. it is an eminently spheri

al triangle enclosing ten yods. thus the upper is the monad, the second line the dyad, the third the triad, and the fourth the quaternary or tetrad thus representing the four forms of point, line, superficies and solid. a similar form is given by hebrew kabalists to form 72, the deity number, by placing in a triangle four yods, three hehs, two vavs and one heh final, being the letters ihvh of the tetragrammaton; or they may be put conversely. note that ten is used as a sign of fellowship, love, peace and union, in the masonic third token, the union of two five points of fellowship. in the bible, we notice 10 commandments, 10 instruments to which jewish psalms were sung, 10 strings in the psaltery, and that the holy ghost descended ten days after the ascension. tucer, rabanus and raymond lu

al are identical with names of deities, as tammuz, ab, elul, bul. groups of twelve gods are to be noticed in the religions of many of the ancient nations, as the chaldeans, etruscans, mamertines, romans etc. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott in scandinavia, the great odin had 12 names- personified attributes. the kabalists esteem the 12 permutations of the tetragrammaton and are as follows: table of 111222 permutatiiions of iiihvh 12 permutations of tetragrammaton letter arrangements with full spelling ihvh yod, heh, vav, heh vhih vav, heh, yod, heh hihv heh, yod, heh, vav hvhi heh,vav,heh,yod ihhv yod, heh, heh, vav ivhh yod, vav, heh, heh hvih heh, vav, yod, heh vihh vav, yod, heh, heh hhvi heh, heh, vav, yod hhiv heh, heh, yod, vav hivh heh, yod

eports gives the christian allusions to the zodiac. 107. in an ordinary pack of playing cards there are 12 court cards, but in the tarot pack there are also 4 cavaliers. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the kabalists greatly esteemed the 12-lettered name of god, hih-hvvh-vihih, meaning fuit, est, erit, or- he was, is, will be. less esoteric was the triple tetragrammaton, ihvh thrice written. all fratres of the rosicrucian society of england will also be familiar with ab ben v ruch h qdsh, ab-benve- ruach-ha-kodesh; meaning father, son and holy spirit. the rosicrucian society had a scheme of distributing 12 shades of color among the zodiacal signs, but this is a secret matter. many erroneous schemes have been published. the 12 signs of the zodiac ar

rance to solomon s temple. 80. the number of yesod, foundation, 9th sephirah. the venerable rabbi hillel had 80 points. 81. according to the book of rites of chao kung, b.c. 1112, an emperor of china should have 3 concubines of the first rank, 9 of the second, 27 of the third and 81 of the fourth rank. 90. ikin, jachin, the right-hand pillar of solomon s temple. 91. 91 is the number of amn and of tetragrammaton adonai (ihvh, adni. 96. according to vitruvius, the natural height of a typical adult man is 96 digits, which equaled 24 palms, or six feet. 99. the mahometans have 99 names attributed to god. 100. this is the number of mdvn, which means strife, and it is the beginning of 100 lawsuits. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the jerusalem talmud, b

WOLFSON ELLIOT ALEF MEM TAU KABBALISTIC MUSINGS ON TIME TRUTH AND DEATH

: the negation of corporeality entails that god is not limited, and not a body or a force in a body, and included in the negation is that [god] is not constricted by place or time, but rather it was, it is, and it shall be [hayah howeh we-yihyeh. 117 all corporeality is to be removed from the divine; consequently, god cannot be bound spatially or temporally in terms of the exegetical gloss on the tetragrammaton wellattested in medieval rabbinic literature: god is the being who was, is, and will be.118 to say that god is all three tenses in tandem is equivalent, therefore, to saying that god is beyond temporal ascription. as hayyim vital, one of the most prominent sixteenth-century kabbalists and a disciple of both cordovero and luria, wrote: the great name, which is the tetragram, yhwh, is

temporal qualities cannot be attributed to him. from this standpoint, the question regarding why the world was created at a particular moment is erroneous, since prior to the creation there is no before or after and thus no response would be adequate.133 the traditional understanding of god encompassing past, present, and future concomitantly, which, as noted above, is linked exegetically to the tetragrammaton, does not challenge the philosophical claim that time cannot be assigned to god, for to say that god was (hayah, is (howeh, and will be (yihyeh) does not imply a past that is no more, a present that is short-lived, or a future that has not yet come to pass. in the continuation of the above passage, ergas cites in support of his view nahmanides interpretation of r. isaac s remark tha

cordovero s own language, that has no boundary and no end, the time of limitless delimitation, delimited in the delimited limitlessness of the ten emanations, the world of unity (olam ha-yihud, alma de-yihuda).146 the time of the immeasurable is measured, more specifically, by the lower seven gradations comprising the attributes of day and night, tif eret and malkhut, the last two letters of the tetragrammaton (waw-he, which existed in thought that is, hokhmah, the second sefirah represented by the first letter of the name (yod) prior to their emanation.147 time, in its timeless becoming, is expressed most fundamentally in the alternating pattern of night and day, contracting darkness and expanding radiance, gendered respectively as the feminine and masculine aspects of the divine androgy

remonial conduct (hanhagah) of the jews below and the supernal providence (ha-hanhagah ha-elyonah) determined by the emanations above. temporal changes are thus related to the variations of the emanations (shinnuyei ha-sefirot) revealed by torah, which, in the mind of kabbalists, is indistinguishable from the divine essence encoded in the twenty-two letters of the hebrew alphabet comprised in the tetragrammaton.151 in light of these passages, i think it better, contra scholem, to distinguish two vectors of time according to kabbalistic teaching, one that applies to the physical universe, the world of discriminate beings (olam ha-nifradim, olam ha-perud, alma di- 80 chapter two peruda, and the other to the unfolding of the enfolded light of the divine pleroma, the world of integration (olam

of the lower seven aspects of atiq and below. therefore [the word lo] is vocalized orally with a waw, and it is written with an alef, in thought and not in speech.199 the long-standing assumption on the part of kabbalists that time depicts the dynamic recounting of the divine potencies is expressed here through the symbolic correlation of the three tenses of time, the threefold repetition of the tetragrammaton, and the three books by means of which the world was created an idea based on the numerical equivalence of sefer, book, and shem, name, that is, both words equal 340, and also on the opening paragraph of sefer yesirah, where it is stated that god created the world by means of three books.200 the triadic temporal structure is associated as well with the rabbinic idiom oryan telita ah

is assigned to keter, uppermost of the ten emanations, is described as atop being, al hawayah. the term hawayah may have a twofold signification in this context: first, as a generic noun that denotes the composite of being as such, that is, the being that comprises all beings, and second, as a proper name assigned to that which can have no proper name, the (in)effable name, shem ha-meforash, the tetragrammaton (yhwh consists of the same letters as hwyh, though in this case, as in numerous others, ascribed to tif eret. this interpretation is confirmed by the continuation whence we learn that keter is the breath-of-the-heart, hevel de-libba, 92 chapter two which governs the voice of the tetragrammaton, qol yhwh, a symbolic reference to tif eret. ehyeh is, moreover, the supernal cause that e

rlier, the gender transformation of this process is brought into sharper relief. shekhinah assumes the posture of the moment (et) when she receives from and is thereby incorporated into the male. the transposition is alluded to in the claim that the word zo t, the feminine demonstrative pronoun, is the yod that is inscribed in the divine name. the reference obviously is to the first letter of the tetragrammaton, which is yod, more specifically in this context to the yod that is the letter/sign of circumcision; through that letter, shekhinah is attached to the name. to appreciate the full import of this claim, it is necessary to recall that zoharic homilists, like other kabbalists of their time, linked shekhinah, which is called atarah, with the corona of the phallus, ateret berit. as i hav

of letters. the letters, therefore, can be construed collectively as the veil that veils what is not to be (un)seen. ricchi formulates the absence in radical terms (echoing earlier sources such as the fourteenth-century anonymous ma arekhet ha-elohut) by stating that no word or letter in the torah scroll and none of the divine names refer to the substance of ein sof.264 the distinctiveness of the tetragrammaton, designated alternatively as shem ha-meyuhad, unique name, or shem ha-meforash, explicit name, is that the light of ein-sof shines in it more than in any other name, yet even with respect to this name the light shines therein only to the extent that it is occluded. in the place of withdrawal, the erasure is erased and the name inscripted. time is precisely the measure of this narrat

divinity and hence is called world [olam] on account of the concealment [ha-he elem, for it conceals the divinity and hides it.277 linear circularity (a)temporal poetics 109 one can speak properly of the coming-into-being of time with the emanation of the sefirot, a temporal unfolding/enfolding of spiritual entities that cannot be situated in corporeal space, a process encoded semiotically in the tetragrammaton, which conveys the compresence of what was, what is, and what shall be.278 the attribution of time to the divine is related more specifically in habad philosophy, including the passage of dov baer just cited, to the quality of governance, and therefore it is ascribed to malkhut, the last of the sefirotic emanations, the point of liminality situated between the world of unity and the

he ingathering of the exiles and after the fulfillment of the entire torah, it is written, who among us can go up to the heavens [mi ya aleh lanu ha-shamaymah (deut 30:12, the first letters [spell] milah, and it is above the aspect of torah, for with respect to the torah it says it is not in heaven (ibid, as it is humbled below. circumcision is above the linear circularity (a)temporal poetics 113 tetragrammaton, and thus [milah] is [alluded to] in the first letters, whereas the name yhwh is [alluded to] in the final letters,295 and it is from the aspect of and gradation of the heavens, above the aspect of torah, which is humbled below the aspect of these heavens. regarding this the rabbis, blessed be their memory, said, great is circumcision [gedolah milah] for thirteen covenants were decr

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huit. 6. the word in the mouth is 93: aiwaz is the lord of the fortress or house of god, which is the abbey of thelema. 7. aiwaz is spelt ayin, the eye, i.e. that of shiva or horus, the meatus penis and the anus; yod, the phallus, spermatozoon; and hand, vau, the fertility of the testes and uterus as well as the nail of the mentula, being taurus the cow isis and the bull apis or shiva, the son in tetragrammaton, the redeemer by rep roduction, the mithraic bull of resurrection and initiation in the strength of the body. and lastly zain is the sword of the phallus, and gemini the double se xual nature, the murder-lust between the incestuous twins cain and abel, horus and set or harpocrates, osiris and typhon, etc. and gemini is the airy pulse th at gives a basis for the voice of the messenge

fact i have been practically obliged to keep to my bed& alostrael will take the divination concerning the working. how shall we proceed? li. fire of fire: this seems to mean that a new current may be expected. this new current turned up on the morning of dec. 16 die jovis, in the shape of a letter from the printer of the equinox iii. the oracle also means that we need to formulate the yod of our tetragrammaton; which rests with frater genesthai. he is at present the 'pure fool& must acquire the sacred lance. die veneris: dec. 24. i have been revising the comment on "liber legis" with the aid of alostrael, iacchaion& jane wolfe. this applies only to chapter i; chapter ii i have revised with iacchaion only& chapter iii i have read through alone. i cannot express myself adequately about my s

WORKING CEPHALOEDIUM VERSION 2

huit. 6. the word in the mouth is 93: aiwaz is the lord of the fortress or house of god, which is the abbey of thelema. 7. aiwaz is spelt ayin, the eye, i.e. that of shiva or horus, the meatus penis and the anus; yod, the phallus, spermatozoon; and hand, vau, the fertility of the testes and uterus as well as the nail of the mentula, being taurus the cow isis and the bull apis or shiva, the son in tetragrammaton, the redeemer by reproduction, the mithraic bull of resurrection and initiation in the strength of the body. and lastly zain is the sword of the phallus, and gemini the double sexual nature, the murder-lust between the incestuous twins cain and abel, horus and set or harpocrates, osiris and typhon, etc. and gemini is the airy pulse that gives a basis for the voice of the messenger

fact i have been practically obliged to keep to my bed& alostrael will take the divination concerning the working. how shall we proceed? li. fire of fire: this seems to mean that a new current may be expected. this new current turned up on the morning of dec. 16 die jovis, in the shape of a letter from the printer of the equinox iii. the oracle also means that we need to formulate the yod of our tetragrammaton; which rests with frater genesthai. he is at present the 'pure fool& must acquire the sacred lance. die veneris: dec. 24. i have been revising the comment on "liber legis" with the aid of alostrael, iacchaion& jane wolfe. this applies only to chapter i; chapter ii i have revised with iacchaion only& chapter iii i have read through alone. i cannot express myself adequately about my s

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n the silence of the abyss of the night of the great one, before creation, and before time. and lastly, the judgement of the universe through fire, when the end of the ages shall be. therefore it is that the numbering of the angels followeth this order of: shin is fire. tau is earth. mem is water. aleph is air. the above is the correct order and not the order of the attribution of the elements to tetragrammaton" the order of the elements to the four-lettered tetragrammaton is: yod is fire, heh is water, vau is air, and heh is earth. we also find in "the concourse of the forces" the following "wow thou shalt observe in the book of the concourse of the forces that unto each of the 4 tablets of the elements is there a sign annexed; i.e, unto the tablet of air a symbol of a t having four yods

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h its correspondences upon this complete symbol of the rose and cross which i bear upon my breast. these letters have been occasionally used as the initials of the following sentences: jesus nazarenus rex judecorum, whence it symbolizes the grand word which is yeheshua or the hebrew name of jesus, formed of the holy letters shin, representing the ruach elohim, placed within the centre of the name tetragrammaton. also it has been interpreted as: igne natura renvatur integra; igne natura renovando integrat; igne nitrum roris invenitur; intra nobis regnum from a personal viewpoint, the first of these interpretations seems to be the most powerful and within order concepts. whatever one has to say about christ, all will agree that his name evokes a powerful current or force that fills us with t

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