Contents
A Note on Genesis
From the Paper Written
By The
V.h. Fra. I.a. 5 = 6 A.·. A.·. Publication in Class C.
Issued by Order:
D.d.s.
7° = 4 Square
Praemonstrator
O.s.v.
6° = 5 Square
Imperator
N.s.f.
5° = 6 Square
Chancellarius
Prefatory Note
The following Essay is one of the most remarkable studies in the Hebrew Qabalah
known to me.
Its venerable author was an adept familiar with many systems of symbolism,
and able to harmonise them for himself, even as now is accomplished for all
men in the Book "777".
In the year 1899 he was graciously pleased to receive me as his pupil, and,
living in his house, I studied daily under his guidance the Holy Qabalah. Upon
his withdrawal
whether to enjoy his Earned Reward, or to perform the Work
of the Brotherhood in other lands or planets matters nothing here
he bequeathed
to me a beautiful Garden, the like of which hath rarely been seen upon Earth.
It has been my pious duty to collate and comment upon this arcane knowledge,
long treasured in my heart, watered alike by my tears and my blood, and sunned
by that all-glorious Ray that multiplieth itself into an Orb ineffable.
In this Garden no flower was fairer than this exquisite discourse; I beg my
readers to pluck it and lay it in their hearts.
It should be studied in connection with the Book "777," and with
the Sepher Sephiroth, a magical dictionary of pure {165} number which was begun
by the author of this essay, carried on by myself, and now about to be published
as soon as the MS. can be prepared.
The reader who is at all familiar with the sublime computations of the Qabalah
will find no difficulty in appreciating this Essay to the full; but all will
gain benefit from the study of the ratiocinative methods employed. These methods,
indeed, are so fine and subtile that they readily sublime into the Intuitive.
This study is truly a Royal Magistry, an easy and sure means of exalting the
consciousness from Ruach to Neschamah.
{166}
Part I
In the First Verse of the First Chapter of the First Five Books of the Holy
Law: it is written:
B'RAShITh Ba RA ALoHIM ATh HaShaMaIM VaATH HaAReTz,
or in Aramaic script
Bet-Resh-Aleph-Shin-Yod-Taw Bet-Resh-Aleph Aleph-Lamed-Heh-Yod-Memfinal Aleph-Taw
Heh-Shin-Mem-Yod-Memfinal Vau-Aleph-Taw Heh-Aleph-Resh-Tzaddifinal
Such are the Seven Words which constitute the Beginnings or Heads of One Law;
and I propose to show, by applying to the Text the Keys of the Qabalah, that
not merely the surface meaning is contained therein.
In the Beginning, created, God, the Essence of the Heavens, and the Essence,
of the Earth.
¢ Aleph-Taw = the First and Last
Alpha
and Omega
Aleph and Tau.
* "I.e.", the White Skull. "Vide"
Idra Zutra Qadisha, cap. ii. Distinguish from the skull of Microprosophus.
Contained therein also are the Divine, Magical, and Terrestrial Formulae of
the Passage of the Incomprehensible Nothingness of the Ain Soph to the Perfection
of Creation {167} expressed by the Ten Voices or Emanations of God the Vast
One
Blessed be He!
even the Holy Sephiroth.
And the Method whereby I shall work shall be the One Absolute and inerratic
Science: the Science of Number: which is that single Mystery of the Intellect
of Man whereby he becometh exalted unto the Throne of Inflexible and Unerring
Godhead.
As it is written, "Oh, how the World hath Inflexible Intellectual Rulers"
(Zoroaster).
But before I may proceed unto the Qabalistical*
*Here use in its true meaning of "the marshalling forth
by number." Qabalah, Qof-Bet-Lamed-Heh, by Tarot, "The Mystery shown
forth in balanced disposition by Command."
enumeration and analysis of the Text, a certain preamble in the fruitful fields
of that Science will become necessary. The Evolution of the Numbers is the Evolution
of the Worlds, for as it is written in the Clavicula Salomonis, "The Numbers
are Ideas; and the Ideas are the Powers, and the Powers are the Holy Elohim
of Life." That which is behind and beyond all Number and all thought (even
as the Ain Soph with its Mighty Veils depending back from Kether is behind and
beyond all Manifestation) is the Number 0. Its symbol is the very Emblem of
Infinite Space and Infinite Time.*
*"Hidden behind my Magic Veil of Shows, I am not seen
at all
Name not my Name."
Multiply by it any active and manifested number; and that number vanishes
sinks into the Ocean of Eternity. So also is the Ain Soph. From it proceed all
Things: unto It all will return, when the Age of Brahman is over and done, and
the day of Peace-Be-with-Us is declared by Thoth, {168} the Great God, and the
Material Universe sinketh into Infinity.
The first Number, then is ONE; emblem of the All-Father; the Unmanifest Mind
behind all Manifestation: the First Mind. Multiply by It any other Number
for the Multiplication of the Numbers is a Generation, as is the Multiplication
of Men and Gods
and behold! the "Resultant" is a replica of the Number
taken. So is One the All-Father, the All-begetter
generating and producing
all.
The next step is the division into TWO. Thus was manifested the Great Dual
Power of Nature. As above, so below. And thus we find that the simple division
into two is the method of multiplication of the Amoeba, the lowest, simplest,
and most absolute form of physical life that we know.
The Dual Power of Nature is the Great Mother of the Worlds.
Again, to draw an analogy from the Material World, consider the Moon, our Mother.
Behold in her the Typic representative of the Powers of the Two. Light and Darkness,
Flux and Reflux, Ebb and Flow
these are her manifested Powers in Nature
where also she binds the "Great Waters" to her Will.
Now in the Yetziratic Attribution is the second number, Beth ("i.e.",
a House), an Abode, the Dwelling of the Holy One, shown to be equivalent to
the Sphere of Kokab and his lords. And the symbolic weapon of Mercury is the
Caduceus, whose Twin Serpents show again the Dualistic Power. ("Note".
Woden, the Scandinavian Mercury, was the All-Father, as it is written in
the Ritual of the Path of the Spirit of the Primal {169} Fire HB:Shin. "For
all things did the Father of All Things perfect, and delivered them over unto
the "Second Mind; whom all Races of Men call 'First".") Behold,
then, in these two great Numbers 1 and 2 the Father and the Mother of the Worlds
and of Numbers.
Now these twain being Conjoined and manifest in ONE, produce the Number 3;
as it is written: "For the Mind of the Father said that 'All Things should
be cut into Three,' Whose Will*
*HB:Bet, the magus of Power in Taro = Will.
assenting All Things were so divided. For the Mind of the Father said Into
three, governing All Things by Mind. And there appeared in it the Triad,
Virtue and Wisdom and Multiscient Truth." Thus floweth forth the form of
the Triad.*
*Ritual of the Path of the Daughter of the Firmament.
Thus is formulated the Creative Trinity which is, as it were, the essential
preliminary to Manifestation.
This Mystic Son of the Eternal Parents, having for his number 3, is typified
in all the sacred scripts by that number. Thus it is written of the manifestation
of the Son of God upon the Earth, "Shiloh shall come" (the initial
of which Mystery-Name is HB:Shin = 300). And in the Grecian tongue it is written:
"In the beginning was the "Word"," &c., which is lambda
omicron gamma omicron sigma (lambda = 30). But the best of all the Examples
is found in the Holy Tetragram Yod-Heh-Vau-Heh. For we may regard this venerable
name as typical of the Father and the Mother, and so divided into Vau-Heh and
Yod-Heh.*
*
From the Paper Written
By The
V.h. Fra. I.a. 5 = 6 A.·. A.·. Publication in Class C.
Issued by Order:
D.d.s.
7° = 4 Square
Praemonstrator
O.s.v.
6° = 5 Square
Imperator
N.s.f.
5° = 6 Square
Chancellarius
Prefatory Note
The following Essay is one of the most remarkable studies in the Hebrew Qabalah
known to me.
Its venerable author was an adept familiar with many systems of symbolism,
and able to harmonise them for himself, even as now is accomplished for all
men in the Book "777".
In the year 1899 he was graciously pleased to receive me as his pupil, and,
living in his house, I studied daily under his guidance the Holy Qabalah. Upon
his withdrawal
whether to enjoy his Earned Reward, or to perform the Work
of the Brotherhood in other lands or planets matters nothing here
he bequeathed
to me a beautiful Garden, the like of which hath rarely been seen upon Earth.
It has been my pious duty to collate and comment upon this arcane knowledge,
long treasured in my heart, watered alike by my tears and my blood, and sunned
by that all-glorious Ray that multiplieth itself into an Orb ineffable.
In this Garden no flower was fairer than this exquisite discourse; I beg my
readers to pluck it and lay it in their hearts.
It should be studied in connection with the Book "777," and with
the Sepher Sephiroth, a magical dictionary of pure {165} number which was begun
by the author of this essay, carried on by myself, and now about to be published
as soon as the MS. can be prepared.
The reader who is at all familiar with the sublime computations of the Qabalah
will find no difficulty in appreciating this Essay to the full; but all will
gain benefit from the study of the ratiocinative methods employed. These methods,
indeed, are so fine and subtile that they readily sublime into the Intuitive.
This study is truly a Royal Magistry, an easy and sure means of exalting the
consciousness from Ruach to Neschamah.
{166}
Part I
In the First Verse of the First Chapter of the First Five Books of the Holy
Law: it is written:
B'RAShITh Ba RA ALoHIM ATh HaShaMaIM VaATH HaAReTz,
or in Aramaic script
Bet-Resh-Aleph-Shin-Yod-Taw Bet-Resh-Aleph Aleph-Lamed-Heh-Yod-Memfinal Aleph-Taw
Heh-Shin-Mem-Yod-Memfinal Vau-Aleph-Taw Heh-Aleph-Resh-Tzaddifinal
Such are the Seven Words which constitute the Beginnings or Heads of One Law;
and I propose to show, by applying to the Text the Keys of the Qabalah, that
not merely the surface meaning is contained therein.
In the Beginning, created, God, the Essence of the Heavens, and the Essence,
of the Earth.
¢ Aleph-Taw = the First and Last
Alpha
and Omega
Aleph and Tau.
* "I.e.", the White Skull. "Vide"
Idra Zutra Qadisha, cap. ii. Distinguish from the skull of Microprosophus.
Contained therein also are the Divine, Magical, and Terrestrial Formulae of
the Passage of the Incomprehensible Nothingness of the Ain Soph to the Perfection
of Creation {167} expressed by the Ten Voices or Emanations of God the Vast
One
Blessed be He!
even the Holy Sephiroth.
And the Method whereby I shall work shall be the One Absolute and inerratic
Science: the Science of Number: which is that single Mystery of the Intellect
of Man whereby he becometh exalted unto the Throne of Inflexible and Unerring
Godhead.
As it is written, "Oh, how the World hath Inflexible Intellectual Rulers"
(Zoroaster).
But before I may proceed unto the Qabalistical*
*Here use in its true meaning of "the marshalling forth
by number." Qabalah, Qof-Bet-Lamed-Heh, by Tarot, "The Mystery shown
forth in balanced disposition by Command."
enumeration and analysis of the Text, a certain preamble in the fruitful fields
of that Science will become necessary. The Evolution of the Numbers is the Evolution
of the Worlds, for as it is written in the Clavicula Salomonis, "The Numbers
are Ideas; and the Ideas are the Powers, and the Powers are the Holy Elohim
of Life." That which is behind and beyond all Number and all thought (even
as the Ain Soph with its Mighty Veils depending back from Kether is behind and
beyond all Manifestation) is the Number 0. Its symbol is the very Emblem of
Infinite Space and Infinite Time.*
*"Hidden behind my Magic Veil of Shows, I am not seen
at all
Name not my Name."
Multiply by it any active and manifested number; and that number vanishes
sinks into the Ocean of Eternity. So also is the Ain Soph. From it proceed all
Things: unto It all will return, when the Age of Brahman is over and done, and
the day of Peace-Be-with-Us is declared by Thoth, {168} the Great God, and the
Material Universe sinketh into Infinity.
The first Number, then is ONE; emblem of the All-Father; the Unmanifest Mind
behind all Manifestation: the First Mind. Multiply by It any other Number
for the Multiplication of the Numbers is a Generation, as is the Multiplication
of Men and Gods
and behold! the "Resultant" is a replica of the Number
taken. So is One the All-Father, the All-begetter
generating and producing
all.
The next step is the division into TWO. Thus was manifested the Great Dual
Power of Nature. As above, so below. And thus we find that the simple division
into two is the method of multiplication of the Amoeba, the lowest, simplest,
and most absolute form of physical life that we know.
The Dual Power of Nature is the Great Mother of the Worlds.
Again, to draw an analogy from the Material World, consider the Moon, our Mother.
Behold in her the Typic representative of the Powers of the Two. Light and Darkness,
Flux and Reflux, Ebb and Flow
these are her manifested Powers in Nature
where also she binds the "Great Waters" to her Will.
Now in the Yetziratic Attribution is the second number, Beth ("i.e.",
a House), an Abode, the Dwelling of the Holy One, shown to be equivalent to
the Sphere of Kokab and his lords. And the symbolic weapon of Mercury is the
Caduceus, whose Twin Serpents show again the Dualistic Power. ("Note".
Woden, the Scandinavian Mercury, was the All-Father, as it is written in
the Ritual of the Path of the Spirit of the Primal {169} Fire HB:Shin. "For
all things did the Father of All Things perfect, and delivered them over unto
the "Second Mind; whom all Races of Men call 'First".") Behold,
then, in these two great Numbers 1 and 2 the Father and the Mother of the Worlds
and of Numbers.
Now these twain being Conjoined and manifest in ONE, produce the Number 3;
as it is written: "For the Mind of the Father said that 'All Things should
be cut into Three,' Whose Will*
*HB:Bet, the magus of Power in Taro = Will.
assenting All Things were so divided. For the Mind of the Father said Into
three, governing All Things by Mind. And there appeared in it the Triad,
Virtue and Wisdom and Multiscient Truth." Thus floweth forth the form of
the Triad.*
*Ritual of the Path of the Daughter of the Firmament.
Thus is formulated the Creative Trinity which is, as it were, the essential
preliminary to Manifestation.
This Mystic Son of the Eternal Parents, having for his number 3, is typified
in all the sacred scripts by that number. Thus it is written of the manifestation
of the Son of God upon the Earth, "Shiloh shall come" (the initial
of which Mystery-Name is HB:Shin = 300). And in the Grecian tongue it is written:
"In the beginning was the "Word"," &c., which is lambda
omicron gamma omicron sigma (lambda = 30). But the best of all the Examples
is found in the Holy Tetragram Yod-Heh-Vau-Heh. For we may regard this venerable
name as typical of the Father and the Mother, and so divided into Vau-Heh and
Yod-Heh.*
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