Acknowledgements
I acknowledge the lessons of my teachers and colleagues of the Invisible College, particularly Frater Daleth for the Operation of Sol Soror Jasinth for love and company in the Circle of the Moon Soror Brina for reopening Eden And the participants in the Illuminated Congregation of Melchizedek, past, present and future, who seek to maintain and preserve the Greatest Work of All. Propositum Perfectio EstF.I.A.T. 5 6 Cognitatione sui secumque colloquio firmitatem petere 6 5
Chapter Fifteen Gematria
Gematria is one of the rules for interpreting the Torah, and is partially a high-level system of numerology. It is defined by Scholem as, explaining a word or group of words according to the numerical value of the letters, or of substituting other letters of the alphabet for them in accordance with a set system. All Hebrew letters are equally values and words, so for example the letter Aleph, signifying A, also means one, as well as being a word meaning ox. The table given lists the major...
Chapter Thirteen Malkuth The Kingdom of the Shells
The tenth path is called the Resplendent Intelligence because it is exalted above every head and sits upon the throne of Binah. It illuminates the splendours of all the lights, and causes an influence to emanate from the Prince of Countenances, the Angel of Kether. Sepher Yetzirah Malkuth, in Hebrew MLKVTh Mem, Lamed, Kaph, Vau, Tau , translates as Kingdom and reign, and is the name of the tenth Sephiroth of the Tree of Life. An examination of the letters that compose this word may shed light...
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 intellectual virtues which are looked upon with the eyes of the spirit and the ecstasy of faith. In most readings, Netzach is described as the seat of the emotions, partnering Hod, the seat of the Intellect. As the base of the Positive Pillar, and as the first of the Sephiroth in the Creative Process below the Veil of Paroketh, Netzach functions as Nature's Dynamo, storing and...
Chapter Twelve Yesod The Hall of Mirrors
Yesod means Foundation, and also base, ground, principle or compilation. It is the base of the third and final triad of the Tree, and connects Tiphareth to Malkuth on the Middle Pillar. It is also connected directly to Hod and Netzach. The letters of Yesod, Yod-Samekh-Vau-Daleth, total 80 by Gematria, which is the value of Peh, meaning mouth. It is also the value of KS, meaning throne, and MVLD, meaning birth, or new moon. As the Moon is the planet attributed to Yesod, it is interesting to note...
Chapter Fourteen The Klippoth
The word Klippoth is the plural of the word spelt Qoph-Lamed-Peh-Heh, meaning shell, husk, skin, peel or rind'. This indicates at once that the Klippoth are the shells or leftovers of a process, in the same way that an eggshell is related to an egg, or the peel related to a.n apple. In the cosmology of Kabbalah, these shells or envelopes were said to hold their abode beneath the world of Assiah into which Adam descended at the Fall. Much of the development of this idea was made by Issac de...
Chapter Eight Geburah The Folding of the Robe
Geburah is the fifth Sephirah of the Creative Process, and signifies in Hebrew a number of related meanings, around the theme of strength Strength, power, force, valour, courage, victory, might, God, strong, mighty, hero. Geburah is connected with the punishment of God, rigour, severity, and justice. An alternative title of this Sephirah is Pachad, meaning fear. Its most negative aspect is said to be blind fanaticism, which is often the result of a fear of that which is considered different to...
Chapter Six Binah The Angel of the Tides
A useful analogy of the creative process represented by the uppermost three Sephiroth of the Tree, the Supernal Triad, is that of water flowing from a tap. The source of the water is the Kether, whilst the pouring stream is the Chockmah aspect of the system. If one cups ones hands into a hollow and places them in the path of the water, this represents Binah, the formative aspect of the creative process. The water then forms tides and eddies, and moves within a defined area. The bubbles formed...
Chapter Four Kether The Crown of Coherent Light
As we have already noted, one of the primary doctrines of Magick is that that which is above is like unto that which is below, also stated variously as the heaven is in the earth, but after an earthly manner and that the earth is in the heaven, but after a heavenly manner, or Kabbalistically as Malkuth is in Kether, and Kether is in Malkuth, but after another manner. This doctrine of trans-resonance, as given in Kabbalah as an intimate and ultimate identity between Malkuth and Kether, can be...