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DEDICATION 
 to 
 Dr. Gerard Encausse, President of 
 the Supreme Council of the Martinist 
 Order, whose centre is Paris, France, 
 and zvhose circumference is the World, 
 this little book is respectfully dedi- 
 cated by 
 
 The Author. 
 
FOREWORD. 
 
 Dear Friends: 
 
 It is with mingled awe, timidity 
 and appreciation that the pen of 
 my beloved teacher and friend, 
 Margaret Bloodgood Peeke, is 
 taken up where she left it at mid- 
 night, November 2, 1908, to indite 
 the foreword to this valuable posth- 
 umous work. 
 
 Born April 8, 1838, like all in 
 Aries, she has throughout her three 
 score years and ten blazed the way 
 with courage and cheer for others 
 less gifted. During years of lead- 
 ings at home and in Persia, the 
 Holyland, Egypt, Patmos, Madeira, 
 and wherever learned mystics were 
 to be encountered, she lavishly and 
 esoterically gave of the rich harvest 
 that she thus garnered to those less 
 fortunate who hungered and thirst- 
 ed for it. Yet like many famous 
 forerunners, as she stood upon the 
 
FOREWORD 
 
 threshold of the promised land she 
 was denied the personal privilege 
 of completing all the written 
 words that she had in mind. 
 
 As initiates we knoiv that her 
 progression from our sight means 
 for her life immortal, but that she 
 is with us in spirit and in truth we 
 cannot doubt, and in her beloved 
 son 9 E. C. B. Peeke, she has a 
 chosen representative zvho is car- 
 rying out the instructions given to 
 him during her last precious days 
 on earth. 
 
 Behind the production of this 
 volume on "Numbers and Letters, 
 or the Thirty-two Paths of Wis- 
 dom," there is therefore a beautiful 
 spirit of co-operation, and its ap- 
 pearance, just at this time, will 
 bring joy to her host of friends. 
 
 As "Bom of Flame" ivas her 
 entering zvedge, and "Zenia the 
 Vestal" her heart's story, this tome 
 and those to follow will accentuate 
 the living power of the Masters. 
 
 As a teacher of Hermetic phil- 
 osophy Margaret Peeke was unsur- 
 passed. Her joy was to interpret, 
 
FOREWORD 
 
 not to mystify. She was rooted 
 and grounded in Bible knowledge 
 and nothing shook her faith in its 
 teachings. In them she lived and 
 moved and had her being. "Be- 
 cause he hath set his love upon me, 
 therefore will I deliver him; I will 
 set him on high because he hath 
 known my name/' from her favor- 
 ite XCI Psalm, were to her living 
 words of daily strength and joy. 
 
 As Inspectress General in Amer- 
 ica of the Martinist Order of 
 France, she did a voluminous work. 
 She was also an ardent Behaie, a 
 member of the Rose Cross Martin- 
 ist fraternity, and the treasurer of 
 the Light of France Hermetic So- 
 ciety of France. 
 
 In her oivn dear words we give 
 "The greetings of universal peace 
 to those zvho love the law of use 
 and seek after truth and knozvl- 
 edge. To them shall all things 
 come, even powers and dominion 
 and light; for nothing that thought 
 shall grasp or the human mind con- 
 ceive is impossible. Love and light 
 are the birthright of the human 
 
 in 
 
FOREWORD 
 
 race and free to all. The echo of 
 good words once spoken vibrate in 
 space to all eternity. The portals 
 of the temples are open. Enter 
 thou in." 
 
 Lovingly, In Memoriam, 
 
 GRACE CAREW SHELDON. 
 
 No. 108 Richmond Avenue, Buf- 
 falo, N. Y '., November 23, 1908. 
 
 IV 
 
DESCRIPTION OF COVER DE- 
 SIGN. 
 
 from mather's "the key of solomon 
 
 THE KING." 
 
 (Editor's note of Figure I.) 
 The Mystical Figure of Solomon. 
 This is only given in two MSS., Lans- 
 downe, 1202- 1203. It was given in Levi 
 in his "Dogme et Rituel de la Haute 
 Magic," and by Tycho Brahe in his 
 "Calendarium Naturale Magicum," but 
 in each instance without the Hebrew 
 Words and letters, probably because 
 these were so mangled by illiterate tran- 
 scribers as to be unrecognizable. Af- 
 ter much labor and study of the Figure 
 1, I believe the words in the body of 
 the symbol to be intended for the Ten 
 Sephiroth arranged in the form of the 
 Tree of Life, with the Name of Solo- 
 mon to the right, and to the left; while 
 the surrounding characters are intended 
 for the twenty-two letters of the He- 
 brew Alphabet. I have therefor thus 
 restored them. This Figure forms in 
 each instance the frontpiece of the 
 MSS. referred to. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER I page 
 
 The Worlds I 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 The Triads and Ten Sephiroths 12 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 Numbers 20 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 Numbers — Continued 39 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 Numbers — Continued 56 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 Hebrew Letters 79 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 Letters— Continued 88 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 Letters — Continued 93 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 Letters — Continued 109 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 Second Septenary 121 
 
 CHAPTER XL 
 Second Septenary — Continued 135 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER XII. page 
 
 Third Septenary 150 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 Third Septenary — Continued 164 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 The Chart 174 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 Chart — Continued. Canals 181 
 
 CHAPTER XVI. 
 Finale 187 
 
PROLOGUE. 
 
 "In the beginning God created the 
 Heavens and the Earth." — Genesis I:i. 
 
 "In the beginning was the Word 
 (or Logos), and the Logos or Word 
 was with God, and the Word was 
 God. 
 
 The same was in the beginning with 
 God. 
 
 All things were made by him; and 
 without him was not anything made 
 that was made. 
 
 In him was life, and the life was 
 the light of men. 
 
 And the light shineth in darkness, 
 and the darkness comprehended it not. 
 
 That was the true light that lighteth 
 every man that cometh into this world. 
 
 He was in the world, and the world 
 was made by him, and the world knew 
 him not. 
 
 He came unto his own, and his own 
 received him not. 
 
 But as many as received him, to them 
 gave he power to become the sons of 
 
PROLOGUE 
 
 God, even to them that believe on his 
 name. 
 
 Which were born not of blood, nor 
 of the will of the flesh, nor of the will 
 of man, but of God. 
 
 And the Word was made flesh, and 
 dwelt among us (and we beheld his 
 glory, the glory as of the only begot- 
 ten of the Father) full of grace and 
 truth."— John 1:1—15. 
 
 The same Word is spoken of by 
 Paul, writing to the Collossians : 
 
 "For by Him were all things created 
 that are in heaven and that are in earth, 
 visible and invisible, whether they are 
 thrones, principalities, or powers : all 
 things were created by Him, and for 
 Him." 
 
 St. John writing to the different de- 
 grees of initiates of the Ancient Mys- 
 teries, says, in his first Epistle : 
 
 "That which was from the begin- 
 ning, which we have heard, which we 
 have seen with our eyes, which we 
 have looked upon, and our hands have 
 handled of the Word of Life." 
 
 And in the closing of all the prophe- 
 cies of the Old and New Testaments, 
 the same John sums them up in Reve- 
 
PROLOGUE 
 
 lation, "And His Name is called the 
 Word of God." 
 
 In this Word are all the mysteries of 
 NUMBERS. The Absolute Unity that 
 the Word represents; the three men- 
 tioned in I John 5 :J, as belonging to 
 the World of Emanation, and which are 
 in perfect agreement with the three on 
 Earth, and in each World, Their har- 
 mony is reflected from higher to lower 
 by the three, who always manifest the 
 Unity from which the Triad depends. 
 
 The beginning, spoken of in Genesis, 
 was not the beginning spoken of in 
 John, for the Word or Light had not 
 then been manifested, but dwelt in God 
 the Father and was One with Him. 
 When the command went forth, "Let 
 there be Light," it should read, "Let 
 Light be manifested." 
 
 For then was the Word manifested, 
 and this Word contains in its Light the 
 creative energy, which should after- 
 wards usher Worlds into existence. 
 This beginning, with which our Bible 
 opens, refers to a World and a time, 
 unthinkable, and unknowable, when the 
 Logos and all creative things were hid- 
 den in the bosom of Unity, 
 
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PROLOGUE 
 
 From this time, Numbers, or the Ten 
 Principles of the Sephiroth emanating 
 from Unity, began to be made known. 
 Their law of action, inherent in the na- 
 ture of being, began to take effect in 
 all that should be created. From high- 
 est Archangel to lowest human being, 
 these Principles are implanted, and ac- 
 cording to the perfection of the being 
 are they manifested in order. These 
 farthest removed from Absolute 
 Unity were less capable of receiving 
 the Light than those who dwelt in the 
 Highest" World. As David said : "God 
 made known his ways (or Laws) unto 
 Moses, His acts unto the children of 
 Israel." 
 
 "By his ways" are meant the Ten 
 Laws or the Ten Principles of the 
 Sephiroth, of which the children of 
 Israel, knew comparatively little, but 
 they saw the result of their actions in 
 the works which Moses performed, 
 which were called miracles. This is 
 the meaning of the expression: "The 
 fulfillment of the Law." 
 
 "Blessed is the man that delighteth in 
 the Law of the Lord, and in that Law 
 doethhe meditate day and night." 
 
TROLOGUE 
 
 The old Egyptians prior to the time 
 of Moses taught these Principles in 
 their worship of Osiris and Isis, whom 
 they regarded as the Rulers of both 
 Worlds : Osiris or the Sun that rules 
 by day, and Isis or the Moon that rules 
 by night, the Rulers of Light and dark- 
 ness, the visible and invisible King- 
 doms. This is why Isis is always repre- 
 sented by the crescent of the Moon 
 upon her head, into which the full 
 orbed Sun finds his place, making a per- 
 fect Unity, which represents the great 
 Principle of Bi-Unity, or the Two made 
 one. 
 
 Eckarthausen, a most learned Cabal- 
 ist of the last century, said : "The end 
 of this study of Numbers, and Letters, 
 is to regain the intimate union with the 
 original Light of Unity, whereby man 
 can recover his lost powers by under- 
 standing the Ten Numbers or Principles 
 of Being. All sciences, all knowledge, 
 can only be found by man becoming 
 united with God or Unity. Repose, 
 tranquility, and content of self is the 
 first step towards this higher wisdom. 
 We must follow the road daily, never 
 turning to the right or left. This 
 
PROLOGUE 
 
 Eternal Science consists in seven 
 things. First, of the interior of nature. 
 Second, of the relation of the Material 
 World to the Spiritual World. Third, 
 of the forces of the soul, unknown to 
 most men. Fourth, of man's relation 
 to Superior Beings. Fifth, of the in- 
 fluences of these forces upon nature, 
 and of nature's law upon man. Sixth, 
 of the separation of the soul from the 
 body during life. Seventh, of the rela- 
 tion of the living to the dead (so- 
 called). 
 
 In the opening sentence of the Old 
 Testament, we find the first indication 
 of the creation of the world, which 
 afterward we find in John's Gospel 
 (Epistle) and Revelation. Here we 
 find an unfolding of the Mysteries and 
 are directed by John to the study of 
 Numbers. 
 
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CHAPTER FIRST. 
 
 THE WORLDS. 
 
 As man lost all, by eating of the fruit 
 of the tree of knowledge in the Garden 
 of Eden, and wandered farther away 
 from his original centre in the Paradise 
 created for him, so must he retrace his 
 way by the same path, until he has 
 tasted of the fruit of the tree of wis- 
 dom, that grows in the centre of the 
 Paradise of God. 
 
 Starting from Unity, the complete 
 round of these steps must be taken be- 
 fore the soul can regain Unity. 
 
 From the highest vibrfl >n of the 
 World of Emanation, to he lowest 
 atom of the Factive Wj: ...1, there is 
 established an eternal and changeable 
 relation, due either to reflection or in- 
 timate connection. The Principles rep- 
 resented by Numbers, are the centres 
 of Reflection; and the Hebrew Letters, 
 
NUMBERS 
 
 with their relationship to each other, 
 and to Numbers, form the connecting 
 links. There are Ten Numbers and 
 Twenty-two Letters. These together 
 form the "Thirty-two Paths of Wis- 
 dom." 
 
 God sends every individual by His 
 Law of self-development to this world 
 for a purpose, but only to a few is 
 delegated a particular mission for the 
 world. Pythagoras at the end of his 
 life, if asked what had been his object, 
 would have replied : "To have mastered 
 the wisdom of Greece; to have wan- 
 dered in the Temples of Egypt for 
 twenty-two years, knocking at their 
 doors for initiation, finding at the end' 
 of that time wisdom never discovered 
 in Greece, and then returning to estab 
 lish the wonderful Samothracian Mys- 
 teries." 
 
 Instead of this we find to-day th? 5 : 
 the Samothracian Mysteries are for- 
 gotten, their Temples destroyed, Samo- 
 thrace but a name, and Pythagoras im- 
 mortal through the Eternal Law of 
 Numbers which he revealed. 
 
 At the present day this knowledge is 
 known only in fragments which have 
 
AND LETTERS 
 
 come down to us. The true science of 
 Numbers has never been changed, has 
 never failed to prove its Divine origin, 
 in its perpetual adaptation to the Laws 
 of all Worlds, Religions, Races and In- 
 dividuals. From the stars hung in 
 space, and swinging in their orbits by 
 this Law, to the Name given a new- 
 born child, we find the different mani- 
 festations of one unfailing Law. 
 
 When Pythagoras taught the music 
 of the spheres, he was speaking of the 
 Law of Numbers. Hung from a cen- 
 tral force or Sun, at distances regu- 
 lated by this Law, and according to the 
 harmony of tones and colors, these 
 enormous Worlds moved through the 
 Ages, as they have done from the be- 
 
 -ginning, "When the morning stars sang 
 together and all the Sons of God shout- 
 ed with joy." It was a lack of this 
 
 '.'knowledge on the part of Adam that 
 led to his downfall and ruin; it was the 
 wrong use of these Laws that brought 
 about the destruction of Atlantis. Hy- 
 perborea, and Lamuria no doubt owe 
 their extinction to some infraction of 
 these universal Laws. 
 To begin the study of Numbers at 
 
NUMBERS 
 
 the foundation, we must know the 
 Worlds to w r hich each belongs; the 
 centres that govern these Worlds; the 
 law of their emanation, and the inhab- 
 itants they contain. 
 
 These Worlds are not enclosed with- 
 in each other, but are distinguished 
 from each other by the law of vibra- 
 tion, by which they are connected, or 
 separated. They each have a Name, a 
 Ruler, a Law of operation, and inhab- 
 itants, who act under the Law of the 
 World they inhabit. 
 
 By the Law of Vibration, all Worlds 
 act at the same time, yet never infringe 
 upon each other. While they may blend, 
 it is according to rythmical rules, and 
 as in music and color, they produce per- 
 fect harmony. In the brilliant rainbow 
 that spans the sky, the three primal col- 
 ors, though distinct, mingle in one har- 
 monious whole, and as in music, the 
 first, third, and fifth note must have 
 their fixed places ; so, these Worlds fol- 
 low the same Law as do the three 
 primal colors after their emanation 
 from Kether or Aziluth. 
 
 The names of the Four Worlds are : 
 Aziluth, or the World of Emanation; 
 
AND LETTERS 
 
 Briah, or the World of Creation; Jet- 
 sirah, or the World of Formation; 
 Asia, or the Factive World. 
 
 Aziluth is the World of most rapid 
 vibrations, the incomprehensible, un- 
 knowable World of Light. It is the 
 World of radiation, from whose rays 
 issue all that is manifested in the Uni- 
 verse. Its vibrations penetrate all other 
 Worlds and represent the power or 
 centre of the Universe. Its ruling cen- 
 tre is Kether reflecting the Light from 
 Ain-Soph or No-Thing. 
 
 The vibrations of the World of 
 Emanation are white Light. The White 
 Light afterward becomes separated into 
 prismatic colors, as it touches lower 
 Realms of Creation, or centres. Its 
 Hebrew name by which its Ruler is 
 known and called, is "Ehieh." Its first 
 manifestation is the Adonai, who later 
 is seen in different manifestations of his 
 nature, in the other Divine Sephiroths. 
 It is only, however, in those that are 
 in direct communication with the 
 Adonai, and are centres of the different 
 Worlds that this is shown. Here we 
 find the characteristics of the Adonai 
 in the Divine World. The other 
 
NUMBERS 
 
 Sephiroths of the right and left pillars 
 of each centre form the Triads of the 
 World. The Second World is known 
 as Briah, whose Ruler is the Logos, 
 the Creator of all things. He is another 
 phase of the Adonai, and the Hebrew 
 name by which he is known and called 
 is "Elohim." The name of his centre or 
 dwelling place is called Tipheroth, or 
 Beauty. Being farther removed from 
 the Ain-Soph or Kether, the vibra- 
 tions of this World are less rapid than 
 Aziluth, and correspond to the highest 
 power of Spiritual Being. 
 
 All that assist the Logos in His Cre- 
 ation dwell in Briah; they never leave 
 it, and those who have ever worn ma- 
 terial bodies, with the exception of the 
 Divine Son, and a few chosen for a 
 particular mission, like John the Bap- 
 tist, can never enter it. Of John the 
 Baptist it was said : 
 
 "He was sent by God to bear wit- 
 ness. " 
 
 Only Messianic characters can ever 
 hope to obtain vibrations rapid enough 
 to dwell within its Light. 
 
 It is in Briah that the White Light 
 becomes separated and forms the three 
 
AND LETTERS 
 
 primary colors. These colors are rep- 
 resented in the World of Creation by 
 red, the color of the Logos, represent- 
 ing suffering. We find this in the an- 
 cient Prophet, who said: 
 
 "Who is this that cometh from Edom, 
 with dyed garments from Bozrah? 
 wherefore art thou red in thy apparel." 
 Numbers 19:2; Nahum 2:3 and Reve- 
 lation 6:4. This shows plainly that red 
 belongs to the Logos, and tinctures 
 every soul that will be given a material 
 body, with the same color, and makes it 
 a partaker of the suffering of the Di- 
 vine Son. 
 
 In the works of the best Occultists, 
 it is taught that all things were created 
 from a blood red chaos, which undoubt- 
 edly refers to the World of Creation, 
 and the color that belongs to it. 
 
 The next Divine Centre, in direct 
 communication with Adonai is Jetsirah, 
 whose Ruler is the Christ. The name 
 of the Centre, or World, is Jesod, or 
 the Foundation. The Hebrew Name by 
 which we can come into communication 
 with it is Shadai. It is plainly to be 
 seen that in all after references, to 
 Christ as the Son or descendant of 
 
NUMBERS 
 
 Jesse, it has apparent connection with 
 the name given to the Foundation 
 (Jesod) and subsequently transformed 
 into the word Jesus. 
 
 The Christ was the foundation stone 
 of the Universe and begins His active 
 work in the Ninth Sephiroth, the World 
 of Foundation. The Nine showing that 
 the Three Worlds were subjugated, and 
 would become Eternally His Kingdom. 
 
 The color of the Christ World is 
 taken from His Glory (the Son of 
 Righteousness) and is the second of the 
 three primal colors, into which the 
 white ray was divided. This gives the 
 color yellow, and shows the reason why 
 the Church of Rome selected White and 
 Yellow as the color for their standard. 
 
 The inhabitants of Jesod are souls 
 destined to go forth and dwell upon 
 Earth and be clothed with shells, or 
 bodies, and gradually to return to the 
 World of Formation from whence they 
 came. The original Archetype forever 
 remains in the Archetypal World, but 
 becomes embodied in different qualities 
 of vesture until we now find Him hav- 
 ing an Ethereal form. 
 
 The last Divine Centre is the Tenth 
 
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AND LETTERS 
 
 Sephiroth and is called Malcoth, or the 
 Kingdom, and is known as Asia, the 
 Factive or Material World. Its Ruler 
 is Jesus Christ, and the Hebrew title 
 that brings a response from it is the 
 Adonai, that we found in the first 
 Sephiroth. 
 
 Here we find a return of the Divine 
 activity, from the unmanifcsted Unity, 
 with Adonai partially revealed to Mal- 
 cuth through the Four Centres. Here 
 Jesus Christ with His Divine human 
 nature comes into this Material World, 
 to unite fallen man with his source. 
 
 While Malcuth is in direct connec- 
 tion with Jesod, as the Christ, and the 
 Tipheroth as the Logos, He here in 
 Malcuth submerges Himself in hu- 
 manity, and permits Himself to be 
 veiled in a vesture of flesh, laying aside 
 His garment of Light, and concealing 
 the Glory of His higher estates, as Cen- 
 tres of the Creative, and Formative 
 Worlds. 
 
 Asia, or the Material World, has de- 
 scended so far from the higher vibra- 
 tions of the Divine Centres, that it is 
 subject to a continual conflict between 
 good and evil, Light and Darkness. 
 
NUMBERS 
 
 There is no hope of unifying its vibra- 
 tions, unless a Mediator be found who 
 has both natures in One, hence has 
 arisen the well founded faith in a God- 
 man, as the only Saviour for the race. 
 
 It is in this Factive World that man 
 is seen entirely separated from His Di- 
 vine Feminine, while Jesus Christ in His 
 dual nature is outwardly expressed for 
 the first +irne in the Number Ten. 
 
 As Jesus Christ represented the man- 
 ifested duality, in the One and the 
 Cipher, the latter stands for the Divine 
 Feminine that exists for all humanity, 
 but has hitherto been unknown, though 
 she has been expressed in all Religions, 
 from the most ancient on record to the 
 modern Romish Church. From Isis of 
 Egypt to the Virgin Mary, blue has 
 been the chosen color of the vestment 
 that she has worn. This color gives to 
 man the hope of Immortality and is 
 used as the great canopy of heaven, of 
 which the Psalmist spoke, when he said : 
 "When I consider the Heavens the 
 work of thy hands." 
 
 And again: "Where wast thou when 
 I stretched out the Heavens as a cur- 
 tain?" 
 
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AND LETTERS 
 
 The inhabitants of this Material 
 World are the physical creatures that 
 were conceived in the Archetypal 
 World, were brought into Life in the 
 Creative World, in a germinal state; 
 were given form in the Formative 
 World, and clothed with Ethereal bod- 
 ies; and in the Factive or Material 
 World, as the Cabalist would say, "Fell 
 into shells, or physical bodies. ,, 
 
 The inhabitants of this World are all 
 in a state of Evolution, or development, 
 and according to what has been in- 
 volved in the germ, will be the perfec- 
 tion to be attained by each creature. 
 
 II 
 
NUMBERS 
 
 CHAPTER SECOND. 
 
 THE TRIADS AND TEN SEPHIROTHS. 
 
 In the study of the Four Worlds, we 
 found Ain-Soph in the World of 
 Emanation, as the Centre of the White 
 Light, inconceivable, unapproachable, 
 and absolutely independent of the Uni- 
 verse. This represented by Kether, is 
 supported by two of the Sephiroth 
 making the First Triad. As Pytha- 
 goras taught : "Every Triad is hung 
 from a Monad." 
 
 The head of the Triad is the Centre 
 of power of each World. The Four 
 Divine Centres of the Four Worlds are 
 each upheld by two pillars, viz. : 
 
 Kether, Hochmah and Binah are the 
 first Triad of the World of Emana- 
 tion. 
 
 Chesed, Peched, and Tipheroth form 
 the second Triad of the World of Cre- 
 ation. 
 
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AND LETTERS 
 
 Netzah, Hod, and Jesod form the 
 Third Triad of the World of Forma- 
 tion. 
 
 Malcuth, with Netzah and Hod (the 
 same pillars that support the Christ 
 Kingdom, or World of Formation) 
 form the Triad of the Material World. 
 
 The First, Second, and Third Seph- 
 iroth, belonging to the nature of Be- 
 ing, have their place in the World of 
 Emanation, and belong exclusively to 
 the domain of Unity. 
 
 The Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Seph- 
 iroth belong to the World of Creation. 
 
 The Seventh, Eighth and Ninth 
 Sephiroth belong to the World of For- 
 mation. 
 
 The Seventh, Eighth and Tenth 
 Sephiroth belong to the Material 
 World. It must be noticed here that 
 there is a singular departure from the 
 general Law that governs the preced- 
 ing Numbers inasmuch as in all the 
 other Triads, each Centre has its own 
 pillar for supports, but as this is where 
 Christ stepped from the invisible to the 
 visible, and became manifest, it is for 
 this reason, that the two pillars of the 
 Christ Kingdom must be identical, for 
 
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NUMBERS 
 
 the Material World, for one is a re- 
 flection of the other. As Christ is the 
 Ruler of the Formative World, and un- 
 manifested, so Jesus Christ manifested 
 in the visible, is the Ruler of the Ma- 
 terial World. Both Kingdoms are really 
 one. This is evidence of man's relation- 
 ship with his Creator and only by his 
 union with the manifested Jesus, and 
 the invisible Christ can he hope for 
 restoration to the Archetypal Being. 
 
 Returning to the Sephiroth, at the be- 
 ginning. Kether is upheld by Hochma, 
 or Wisdom; and Binah, Love or Mer- 
 cy. These are the two balancing pow- 
 ers of the Universe. 
 
 If Justice or Wisdom should pre- 
 dominate over Mercy or Love the se- 
 verity of nature's Laws, of God's 
 Eternal Law to man, would make ex- 
 istence unbearable. It is the equilib- 
 rium, perfectly adjusted and eternal, 
 that makes the Universe harmonious in 
 its activity. 
 
 The Second Triad with the Logos for 
 the Centre, and representing Beauty is, 
 strange to say, upheld by Chesed, the 
 Fourth Sephiroth, which is the Princi- 
 ple of Mercy, and Peched the Fifth 
 
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AND LETTERS 
 
 Sephiroth, the Principle of Fear. These 
 two, when perfectly balanced, become 
 the Beauty of the Sixth. The Eternal 
 Principle, or sense of Fear that is 
 found in every created thing, is over- 
 come by the knowledge that the Prin- 
 ciple of Mercy is forever acting to ob- 
 literate it. 
 
 The Third Triad whose Centre is the 
 Christ of the Formative World, has on 
 its right and left the Seventh, and 
 Eighth Sephiroth, and Netzah, or Vic- 
 tory, and the Second, Hod or Honor. 
 It is through the Christ Principle work- 
 ing through the invisible World, that 
 Victory comes, and crowns with Honor 
 the Victor. Again the two balance 
 each other, according to the Victory is 
 the Honor, and this is referred to in 
 Revelation 17:14; 21:24; 7:12. 
 
 "Blessing, and Glory, and Wisdom 
 and thanksgiving, and Honor, be unto 
 our God forever and ever." 
 
 It is only when the invisible Kingdom 
 of Christ is working toward the Ma- 
 terial World, preparing it (the Ma- 
 terial World) for Jesus Christ, that the 
 Honor, and Victory are made manifest. 
 
 The Kingdom of Malcuth, governed 
 
 IS 
 
NUMBERS 
 
 by Jesus Christ, God manifested in 
 flesh, was the first and last message of 
 Jesus when He assumed the form of 
 humanity. He did not talk or insist 
 upon any faith in creeds, He did not 
 establish any churches. He announced 
 Himself in His opening sentence : 
 
 "Know ye not, that I must be about 
 my Father's business?" 
 
 He did not insist upon the worship of 
 the Father, but over and over again, He 
 reiterated the words : 
 
 "Seek ye first the Kingdom (Kether), 
 or the Father's Kingdom." 
 
 "And my Kingdom is not of this 
 World." 
 
 "Thine is the Kingdom, and the 
 Power," etc. 
 
 "It is the Father's good pleasure to 
 give you the Kingdom." 
 
 "I appoint unto you a Kingdom, as 
 my Father has appointed unto me, that 
 ye may eat and drink at my table in my 
 Kingdom'* 
 
 "For so an entrance shall be minis- 
 tered unto you abundantly, into the 
 Everlasting Kingdom of our Lord 
 Jesus Christ." 
 
 "The Kingdoms of this World are to 
 
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 become the Kingdoms of our Lord and 
 His Christ and He shall reign forever 
 and ever." 
 
 "His Kingdom is an everlasting King- 
 dom." 
 
 A careful study of these texts will 
 show that the relation of the Material 
 World to Jesus Christ is through His 
 union with the invisible Christ. 
 
 We shall find that through all ages 
 and Worlds it has been the same 
 Adonai manifesting different attributes 
 of His Divinity that has formed the 
 Centres of the different Triads. Jesus 
 Christ, in the lowest body of humilia- 
 tion, is still in direct connection with 
 the unmanifested Adonai. 
 
 When His work in the physical World 
 was completed, He took His place at the 
 right hand of Unity, and became, not 
 only the Adonai, but the Adonai plus 
 His experiences as a human being, 
 crowned with glory and honor. 
 
 The inhabitants of the different 
 Worlds are all under one Law. They 
 are governed by the vibrations of the 
 ruling centres of their Triads, and ac- 
 cording to the increase of these vibra- 
 tions do they rise to higher Worlds, 
 
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 while, as their vibrations decrease in 
 strength and rapidity are they attracted 
 to the lower Realms. Here is seen the 
 form of fallen Adam, until he became 
 a mere creature of dust. From this 
 condition of dust he must be awak- 
 ened, as it is said, by Daniel, "Many 
 that sleep in the dust shall awaken." 
 
 It was for this purpose, that Jesus 
 Christ came. In Ephesians 5:14, we 
 read: "Awake thou that sleepest, and 
 arise from the dead, and Christ shall 
 give you Light." Jesus Christ on ac- 
 count of His descent into the lower 
 Worlds, became greater than the Christ, 
 or the Logos, or even the Adonai, by 
 the fact of the sacrifice of Himself. 
 
 Leaving out the Triadic World of 
 Emanation, we have the seven Princi- 
 ples still remaining, representing the 
 Elohim, or Seven Creative Forces, that 
 were in the original counsel of Unity 
 until the Logos created the Worlds and 
 placed over each of them Elohim. As 
 the Ruler of the Earth, Yaveh-Elohim 
 was chosen for this purpose. In Gene- 
 sis 2:1, we read in the Hebrew: "Yaveh- 
 Elohim created man of the dust of the 
 earth." 
 
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 In the ist chapter of Genesis it is 
 said in the Hebrew, "The Elohim cre- 
 ated the Heavens and the Earth." 
 
 The inhabitants of the World of 
 Emanation are the Cherubim, Sera- 
 phim, Principalities, Powers, Arch- 
 angels, and some of the higher Intelli- 
 gencies. These (with the exception of 
 three or four archangels, who have been 
 sent on a mission with special messages 
 to those living on Earth, as Daniel, 
 Jacob, Abraham, and Mary) never 
 leave their World. 
 
 The Cherubim are described in the 
 visions of Isaiah, and Ezekiel, as 
 winged creatures, that go according to 
 the Will of God as breathed forth from 
 the Centre. These go in pairs joined 
 wing to wing. They are sometimes 
 called "The spirits of Heaven," and 
 were expressed by twice Five or Ten, 
 the Number of the Principles. The 
 Seraphim are described by Isaiah in his 
 vision, Isaiah 6:2: 
 
 "Each of the Seraphim had six 
 wings; with twain he covered his face, 
 with twain he covered his feet, and with 
 twain he did fly, and one cried unto the 
 
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 other, and said, Holy, Holy is the Lord 
 of Hosts." 
 
 When man was driven from the Gar- 
 den of Eden, there was placed at the 
 East of the Garden, "Cherubim and a 
 flaming sword, which turned every way 
 to keep the way of the tree of life." 
 
 These creatures were made of the ele- 
 ment of fire, and hence could dwell in 
 that intense Light that emanates from 
 the World of the Sin-Soph. 
 
 Opposed to these Seven Elohim, who 
 have their Centres in the Principles rep- 
 resented by the Numbers Four to Ten, 
 are dark, evil powers spoken of as the 
 Seven Spirits of the Abyss, or Mas- 
 kim. Parsons in his "New Light from 
 the Great Pyramid" says: 
 
 "Although they are in the depths of 
 the Earth, their voice resounds on 
 heights also; they reside at will in the 
 immensity of space, welcome neither in 
 Heaven nor in Earth. They are not sub- 
 missive to their Lord and Ruler, and 
 delight in causing earthquakes, inun- 
 dations, and tempests." 
 
 This is quoted from a Chaldean work 
 by Ragozin. 
 
 The same reflection of the Seraphim 
 
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 and Cherubim that protects the Holy 
 Place is found in the mythologies of 
 cur lower world and was known and 
 described by the Greeks as the Harpies. 
 
 The World of Emanation is also 
 called "The World of Archetypes." 
 
 In it is the mental conception of 
 everything that should henceforth be 
 created. The Triad of the World of 
 Creation includes in its upper Realm, 
 the Law given afterwards by Moses 
 when Creation had been accomplished. 
 
 The Law contains also the Ten Prin- 
 ciples which correspond with the Ten 
 Numbers or Sephiroth. 
 
 The first three Commandments of the 
 Law refer to Unity, or the World of 
 Emanation. The next Three Com- 
 mandments allude to the World of Cre- 
 ation, and reverence due to everything 
 brought forth by Creation. By the re- 
 membrance of the Seventh day, the 
 work of the Elohim is to be honored. 
 The parents that have helped the Soul 
 to reincarnate in mortal bodies have the 
 next place of reverence. 
 
 The Command, "Thou shall not kill," 
 refers to the Divine germ planted in 
 
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 every soul. This is explained by the 
 Apostles when they said : 
 
 "Every sin may be forgiven, but the 
 sin against the Holy Ghost, which will 
 never be forgiven in this World or the 
 next" 
 
 The next three Commandments have 
 reference to the Formative World, 
 where the Divine Feminine is first rec- 
 ognized as being separated from the 
 soul. The Seventh Commandment is a 
 direct law concerning the love that 
 should be given to the Divine Feminine 
 in man, and should not be given to an 
 earthly or physical love. The applica- 
 tion of all these Commandments, Num- 
 bers or Principles, are combined for 
 the Factive or Lower World. 
 
 The Tenth Commandment tells us that 
 man must stand alone in his work of 
 reintegration, he must not desire, or 
 covet, anything outside of himself. 
 With the germ of the spirit within him 
 once recognized and made conscious to 
 him he has all the Universe within him- 
 self. The Sun, Moon, and Planets are 
 all within him, and through them the 
 Elohim will continually work, if he but 
 yields himself to their influences. 
 
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 As the Hebrews, even to this day will 
 not speak aloud the word "Ya-veh," so 
 the ancient Mayas, we are told by Plon- 
 geon, refuse to count by Tens for the 
 same reason. Number Ten represented 
 to them the Spirit of the Universe, the 
 Infinite One. This they called "La 
 Hun," whose name (Lah, All; Hun, 
 One) was Unity. Their God "Ku" was 
 also too sacred to have its name pro- 
 nounced, except with the utmost rever- 
 ence, because it was to them the un- 
 created soul of the World, and was 
 never to be represen.ed under any shape 
 or likeness, like the God of the He- 
 brews. " The World of orbs then ex- 
 isted only in the mind of the Logos, but 
 was not made manifest until the Ten 
 Principles were established. 
 
 The Law of Archetypes holds to-day, 
 as is seen in the fact that every model 
 of invention must be clearly defined and 
 made perfect in the mind of the in- 
 ventor. If one bolt had been misplaced 
 or missing in the mind of the Con- 
 structor of the Brooklyn Bridge, the 
 bridge itself would have failed, because 
 this Law of mechanics would have been 
 violated. 
 
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 We read that every blade of grass, 
 before it grew, and every creature be- 
 fore it existed, was already created in 
 the Archetypal World. — Genesis 2:5. 
 
 "These are the generations of the 
 Heavens and the Earth when they were 
 created, in the days that the Lord God 
 made the Earth, and the Heavens, and 
 every plant of the field before it was 
 in the Earth, and every herb of the field 
 before it grew." The World of Forma- 
 tion with the Christ for the Centre saw 
 these heavenly bodies taking their 
 place. The inhabitants of this World 
 are different kinds of intelligences per- 
 forming God's will from above, and 
 serving man, who is below in the Fac- 
 tive World, as intermediaries. They 
 vary in their degrees of power, by their 
 distance from the World of Emanation 
 on the one hand, and their attraction 
 towards the Lower World on the other. 
 This is all regulated by the Law of Vi- 
 bration which, when it attains perfect 
 equilibrium can assist the Soul in its 
 upward march. The inhabitants of this 
 World range from the high, spiritual, 
 and celestial souls, to those earth bound 
 and held in bondage to earthly things. 
 
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 The Hebrew name by which each Prin- 
 ciple is called into action has a distinct 
 meaning. 
 
 Beginning with Kether, or Adonai, we 
 find Ehieh means I AM or, the Holiness 
 of the power of Unity. It is existence 
 with itself. 
 
 In Hochman, we find the Hebrew 
 word Yah which is the masculine Je- 
 hovah. The Hebrew word for Binah is 
 Yah-veh, which is the masculine and 
 feminine combined, thus the Pillars that 
 support Kether, or Adonai, are the 
 masculine and feminine Principles 
 which are within itself as yet unmani- 
 fested. 
 
 In the Fourth Chesed, or Mercy, we 
 find El, meaning the power of Jehovah, 
 balanced with Elhoa, the Name (Femi- 
 nine and fullness) of El. The name for 
 Peched, the Principle for Fear. 
 
 In the Logos, we have the Elohim, 
 where the Creator holds the seven 
 Principles in His hand as mentioned in 
 Rev. 1:16, where He is spoken of as 
 holding the seven stars in His right 
 hand, the stars representing the Elohim. 
 Here the Unity of Kether, or the White 
 
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 Light, is separated into the seven 
 Elohim. 
 
 In the Principle of Victory, Netzah 
 is one of the Principles that upholds 
 both the Formative and Factive World, 
 the name given is Yaveh-Tsaboth. From 
 this is derived the Hebrew Shabboth, or 
 Sabbath. 
 
 The other pillar, Hod or Honor up- 
 holds the two Worlds in the same way 
 as Netzah and is given the name 
 "Elohim-Tsabboth." Victory takes us 
 into the Holy of Holies of Yaveh, and 
 Honor, in the same way leads us to the 
 Elohim, or, through rays of the White 
 Light, to the seven temples inhabited by 
 the Elohim. This is referred to by 
 Solomon where he said: "Wisdom has 
 builded her palaces and hewn out her 
 seven pillars." 
 
 The Christ Centre of Jesod, the 
 Foundation, has a name by which if 
 the vibration is understood, we can 
 call it Shaddi, the Almighty. Shaddi 
 was the Deity to be worshipped in Fear 
 and Yahveh in Love. In Greece to-day 
 are found the ruins of Temples erected 
 to the God of Fear and of Love. 
 
 Malcuth, or the Kingdom of Jesus 
 
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 Christ, the Tenth Principle, where, 
 though few are trained to attain the 
 state of vibration by which they can 
 call Him, they will find the Name that 
 responds to this is Adonai, the same as 
 in Kether, the Crown. This is what we 
 understand by the assertion of Scrip- 
 ture : "Many are called, but few are 
 chosen." 
 
 Fewer still have the seal placed upon 
 their foreheads from among the chosen. 
 The perfection of the Sephirothic Law 
 has won the admiration of Bible stu- 
 dents, from the time of the first reve- 
 lation made to man. It is unassailable; 
 absolutely perfect, and shows the his- 
 tory of Creation, downfall, and restora- 
 tion of man. As there are Three 
 Worlds, besides the Divine, or the 
 World of Emanation, there are Three 
 Adams that correspond and belong in 
 these three Worlds. Adam Cadmon, 
 the ideal or perfected man, waiting in 
 the Archetypal World for his perfect 
 body to be made up of the prospective 
 souls that belong to it. He has never 
 left, nor will he ever leave that World, 
 but, as each soul is like a cell that be- 
 longs to some part of the body, they 
 
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 will gradually take their place there 
 and shine with perfect equality. Those 
 who belong to the feet will have honor 
 as much as those who belong to the 
 Great Head. The second Adam, known 
 as Adam Protoplastus, belongs to the 
 Formative World, as Adam Cadmon 
 had his place in the Creative World. 
 Adam Protoplastus contains in him- 
 self, both good and evil souls. When 
 the Primal Adam fell to a lower state, 
 the good and evil separated, and the 
 evil became manifest in Adam Belial, 
 who has his domain in the Factive 
 World, and there exists to-day under 
 the domination of Samael, the serpent 
 of death. When man is redeemed from 
 this, some parts of Adam Belial may 
 find a place in Adam Protoplastus. 
 
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 CHAPTER THIRD. 
 
 NUMBERS. 
 
 Figures in the Material World are so 
 blended with the Numbers they repre- 
 sent, and of which they are symbols, 
 that ordinary readers do not stop to 
 separate them in their minds. 
 
 Figures are symbols of Numbers. 
 Numbers are symbols of Eternal Prin- 
 ciples. Principles are unchanging 
 qualities that belong to Being. They 
 cannot be weakened or strengthened in 
 their true nature, but always contain 
 their primal essence. 
 
 There are Ten figures or symbols of 
 Numbers. There are Ten Numbers or 
 symbols of Eternal Principles. There 
 are Ten Principles which originally 
 were united into One. This One is 
 called UNITY, because it contains in 
 itself all that has ever been manifested. 
 
 There are Numbers of nature, Num- 
 
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 bers associated, and belonging to man, 
 and Numbers belonging to the Divine 
 World. Wherever these act according 
 to the Law of the higher, the result is 
 successful. They all represent differ- 
 ent planes of vibration, and follow the 
 same order. 
 
 The Ten Principles contained in 
 Unity are considered the Infinite foun- 
 dation of all the combination that can 
 be formed from them. 
 
 Unity contains all force and is the 
 First Cause of all things. Unity con- 
 tains Law and order, and no Number 
 could exist without it. Whenever Num- 
 bers are arranged according to the cor- 
 rect method of their progression, they 
 are said to be according to Law. Noth- 
 ing is produced by Unity, which is not 
 in some way related to it, and capable 
 of being brought back to it again. 
 Hence, everything, even in the Material 
 World, can be brought back to Unity, 
 because it came forth from it. Unity 
 existed before Numbers, because Num- 
 bers progress from it. When we speak 
 of Unity, no thought of quality enters 
 the mind, but that of the ONENESS 
 OF BEING. It is like the White Ray. 
 
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 In looking at it, we do not think of the 
 colors into which it may be divided. 
 Thus, when we speak of the mercy of 
 the Most High, or, of the Justness of 
 the Eternal, or, of the Victory of 
 Righteousness, we separate inherent 
 qualities, and they stand out before our 
 mental vision, without regard to Unity. 
 It is only when we have summed up all 
 the Principles that exist in the Ten 
 Sephiroth, that we can speak of them 
 as forming essential Being. All beyond 
 the Ten Numbers or Principles are 
 compounded of the original Numbers, 
 and different combinations of them. 
 These combinations are manifold, but 
 they can all be reduced back to the origi- 
 nal Ten, and from the original Ten to 
 Unity. 
 
 Unity itself is indivisible, and 
 Eternal; but it sometimes manifests it- 
 self by its different qualities, in such a 
 way as to appear to have divided itself. 
 Unity is absolute Activity. It acts 
 without ceasing from Ain-Soph, the 
 first Sephiroth, through all the realms 
 of being, to the lowest atom of the Ma- 
 terial World. Should it cease to act, 
 disintegration and death would result. 
 
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 Minerals would fall to pieces, because 
 the Law of Attraction would cease to 
 operate; worlds would dissolve, for the 
 same reason, and man and angels would 
 perish. It is this action of Unity within 
 itself that creates the Law of Vibration 
 which is the fundamental Principle of 
 the Universe. 
 
 The Greeks, seeing the outer form 
 continually changing, but the ceaseless 
 activity of life going on, called it by 
 the name of Proteus. To-day, this ac- 
 tivity manifests itself in youth and the 
 vigor of manhood; to-morrow, this 
 form has passed away and manifests it- 
 self, as in a flower or tree, but every- 
 where and always, it is the activity of 
 Unity, working from the centre out- 
 ward, through the Worlds to the tiniest 
 atom. 
 
 In Unity there is perfect harmony, 
 and discord can only come from com- 
 binations of Principles arranged con- 
 trary to the Law. In nature, we find 
 the Law of Harmony working through 
 the three great Kingdoms, Mineral, 
 Vegetable, and Animal. Thus the 
 Great Teacher, Pythagoras, took the tri- 
 angle, as an object lesson for his pupils 
 
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 by which they could learn the Univer- 
 sality of the Law. Asserting that 
 everything was a Triad hung from a 
 Monad, taking the horizontal line, to 
 represent the mineral world, he proved 
 the unchangeableness of the law of 
 structure by the construction and crys- 
 tallization of that kingdom. He showed 
 that the atoms were built uniformly 
 according to the Law of attraction, or 
 harmony, and held together by a mag- 
 netic force. Then passing to the left 
 line running to the apex, he made them 
 prove the Law of the Mineral Kingdom 
 carried up into the Vegetable. The 
 same process of construction, the same 
 Law of attraction, the same principle 
 of magnetism, was found in the stalk 
 of the plant, with the addition of the 
 Law of Motion, which the Mineral 
 Kingdom failed to possess. The plant 
 could not walk from place to place, but 
 it could be acted upon by the wind, and 
 feel the delight of motion, and what had 
 been the acts of the crystallization of 
 the mineral, in the plant became the 
 avenue of sentient life that should af- 
 terwards become the vertebrae in the 
 human. 
 
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 The Third line of the triangle was 
 the perfection of the Law of Activity, 
 where we find all that we found in the 
 Mineral Kingdom in its crystallization, 
 in the Vegetable Kingdom; in the cir- 
 culatory motion of fluids and air, cor- 
 responding to the blood and veins later 
 found in man. But here we find added 
 qualities beyond Mineral and Vegetable 
 in the Will that guides man's motion, 
 the intellect that teaches him to know, 
 and the organism now developed to a 
 perfect state of organic structure. 
 
 Wherever discord and destruction ap- 
 pear in nature, or in man, it is because 
 these conditions are brought about by 
 a misapplication of one or more of 
 these great Ten Principles. The remedy 
 is in knowing how to bring back to 
 Unity harmony through the action of 
 the Law. Unity has only two modes of 
 progression; the going forth of itself, 
 and the return to its Centre. The first 
 is called Infinite progression, and the 
 second definite progression. The one 
 forms straight lines ; the other acts with 
 curves. The straight lines are mascu- 
 line, and the curved lines are feminine, 
 showing that these two Principles have 
 
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always existed. They first became man- 
 ifested in motion. 
 
 These general Principles of the char- 
 acteristics of Unity and the meaning of 
 straight and curved lines so called, and 
 the Worlds to which they belong, as 
 well as the Principles themselves, must 
 all be placed firmly in the mind of the 
 student of "The Thirty-two Paths of 
 Wisdom." 
 
 Unity is never called a Number. It 
 contains in itself all Numbers. When 
 these truths concerning Unity are un- 
 derstood, we shall also find that every- 
 thing that exists, has Number, Weight, 
 and Measure. When the Ego knows 
 its own Number it will know the Path 
 it must take to regain its primal pow- 
 ers. Light and force are both inherent 
 in Unity, but force results from Light. 
 
 By the Law of Opposites, Unity con- 
 tains the possibility of all things. Its 
 intense light — darkness. The tree that 
 has absorbed the sunlight for a cen- 
 tury, after it becomes embedded in the 
 earth, goes through various processes, 
 but retains through all its stages its in- 
 herent principle of light, and gives back 
 the sunlight again, when once more 
 
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 brought into existence as fuel. It is 
 the going forth of the ray of Light 
 from Unity, constantly descending to 
 lower rays, and changing conditions by 
 new combinations, that takes from the 
 Material World all that is known as the 
 True Light. The day will come when 
 the darkness will be driven away, and 
 every creative thing find itself united to 
 the original ray of Light. It will then 
 be One with Unity. It is the power of 
 Unity that gives the spark of vitality to 
 the centre of created beings, and even 
 clothes them with bodies of light. 
 
 Unity is pure spirit, and everything 
 outside of this is but different degrees 
 of substance until we reach gross mat- 
 ter, which is the farthest removed from 
 it. Wherever we see a straight line, we 
 know it is a symbol of spirit going forth 
 from its center; wherever we see a 
 curved line, we know it is a symbol of 
 passivity, receptivity, substance, or mat- 
 ter trying to find Unity. Unity is of 
 two kinds, Absolute Unity, independ- 
 ent of all Realms, and Relative Unity, 
 which is connected with the upper 
 Realm, from which it is reflected, and 
 this in turn reflects upon the lower 
 
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 Realms. It thus has a double relation- 
 ship, the higher and the lower. Take 
 the Logos for example. It not only 
 belongs to Unity, but has come from 
 Unity with the full force of Unity act- 
 ing upon it through the Adonai. At 
 the same time in the work of Creation, 
 the Logos becomes related to all that 
 shall ever be brought forth by its 
 power. 
 
 Unity, therefore, acts in the different 
 Worlds according to the distance it is 
 removed, whether the Divine, the Hu- 
 man, or the Natural. In the highest, 
 there is only Spiritual Law; in the 
 Creative World the Spiritual Law be- 
 comes a Universal Law, while in the 
 Factive World in which we live, it acts 
 as moral and personal Law. Wherever 
 and however acting, it is always obey- 
 ing the Law of Unity. 
 
 The position for the symbols of 
 Unity, shows its divergence from the 
 Perfect and Absolute One, according to 
 its proximity or divergence from the 
 Centre. 
 
 The innermost Centre of Unity, rep- 
 resented by a dot, is the Will by whose 
 action the extent of the circumference 
 
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num¥i?rs c 
 
 is defined. From this symbol of the 
 Will there is always a possibility of go- 
 ing upward or downward, to the right 
 or to the left. This is plainly indicated in 
 the bulb of the Lily that must take two 
 directions, one towards the flower, and 
 the other towards the root. This is in- 
 herent in its nature, as the duality of 
 motion is in Absolute Unity. 
 
 The Position of the symbols of the 
 Numbers indicate certain fixed Princi- 
 ples. Wherever the Central Dot has 
 extended itself in a straight perpendicu- 
 lar line, the more perfect is the Prin- 
 ciple it indicates. Where it inclines to 
 the right or to the left, it shows that 
 the pendulum has swung from its origi- 
 nal centre, and according to its dis- 
 tance from that centre, is the increase of 
 the swing of the pendulum of desire. 
 Only when it attains the state of per- 
 fect rest and equilibrium at the centre, 
 can it ever find its state of power and 
 repose. Where it extends horizontally, 
 we know that the Unity for which it 
 stands, has fallen to its lowest plane. 
 
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 CHAPTER FOURTH. 
 
 NUMBERS — CONTINUED. 
 
 Two is the first Principle denoting 
 separation from Unity; opposition to 
 Unity, and yet, a manifestation of a 
 Principle always inherent in Unity, 
 masculine and feminine. It is symbol- 
 ized by the Number Two, which in turn 
 is symbolized by the figure Two. It 
 must be remembered that figures are 
 visible, because they belong to the Ma- 
 terial World. There are symbols of 
 Numbers, which are always invisible 
 and belong to the World called by 
 Plato "Ideos" or the World of Ideas? 
 Numbers are symbols of Eternal Prin- 
 ciples, which contain the Three times, 
 past, present, and future. Like Num- 
 bers, Principles are also invisible. The 
 student of the Cabala must keep in 
 mind the difference or distinction be- 
 tween figures, numbers, and Principles. 
 
 The Number Two is symbolized by 
 
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the figure Two, whose form tells the 
 story of its nature. 
 
 As long as Unity existed alone, its ac- 
 tivity was within itself. *In the co- 
 operation and generating power of life, 
 by active and passive, or the masculine 
 and feminine Principles. Number Two 
 came into existence. When Creation 
 was established and the Will was 
 stirred in the Centre of Unity, it was 
 from a desire to see itself manifested by 
 its works. This was the first step in the 
 Law of opposition and separation, which 
 has since been inherent in everything 
 created. This was also the beginning of 
 the darkness and was in constant con- 
 flict with the Light from which it came. 
 
 The figure Two, symbol of the in- 
 visible Number of passivity, and the 
 Principle of opposition and separation, 
 shows man, or active Principle, lying 
 prostrate and a small portion of his 
 Will connected with the curve or pas- 
 sive feminine Principle. This is one of 
 the most remarkable lessons of the fall 
 of man, though overlooked by all books. 
 The curve above the straight line is 
 sometimes called the sensual curve and 
 in the far East had place as an object 
 
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of worship, as representing passivity, 
 femininity, and motherhood. From the 
 time that man fell into the space of 
 subjugation represented by the hori- 
 zontal line, dominated by the curved 
 line above, he fell into the regions of 
 fathers and mothers, where he exists 
 to-day. Man has from that time been 
 conscious of two selves or Egos, which 
 the German Fichte called "The Me and 
 the Not-Me." 
 
 The Not-me to-day is all that man 
 knows of himself. It belongs solely to 
 the Material World and is governed by 
 the senses. The Feminine as he knows 
 it is the predominating power over him 
 and will hereafter be designated as the 
 Lower Feminine. When he catches the 
 glimpse of the real Ego, in the Divine 
 Feminine, from which he has been sep- 
 arated, then begins the struggle for Im- 
 mortality and regeneration. 
 
 Number Three, the symbol of the 
 next Principle manifested, and making 
 the perfect Triad of the upper World, 
 is the first effort to return to Unity, of 
 that which went out from it. This first 
 enclosure of space could only be ac- 
 complished after the Number Two had 
 
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 wandered in its dissatisfaction, and in- 
 stead of retracing its steps, takes its 
 nearest line direct to Unity, which 
 forms the perfect triangle. 
 
 In studying the figure Three, we find 
 a continuation of the story told in the 
 figure Two, of man's fall, and restora- 
 tion. As man was dominated and weak- 
 ened in his principle powers by the 
 Lower Feminine, so by the higher Fem- 
 inine of Divine self, he will once more 
 be lifted into power, and crowned with 
 glory and honor. The battlefield is the 
 higher man subjugated through the 
 struggle of the Ages. The senses have 
 conquered him and forced him to 
 degradation and weakness. It was at 
 this point, after finding that all the ob- 
 jects were illusory, he turned to the in- 
 visible and desired to find his higher 
 feminine nature. This comes to him as 
 a support and a comfort, to uphold him 
 in his struggles, while he is lying pros- 
 trate, as represented by the straight 
 line, supported by the curve or Higher 
 Feminine. At this point the lower Fem- 
 inine, still occupying the same position 
 it did in the figure Two, is now directly 
 opposed to it, the Higher Feminine. 
 
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 All genuine power is invisible, and 
 whatever can be seen belongs to the 
 Factive World and has no power within 
 itself. The Lower Feminine is a creat- 
 ure of the Material World, while the 
 Higher and Divine Feminine is an in- 
 habitant of the invisible World, and 
 can only be known through the con- 
 sciousness of man. 
 
 Fallen man, as represented by the 
 figure Two, may remain prostrate 
 through many lives, before he realizes 
 that he has separated from his best self, 
 or the Divine Feminine. From this 
 time his mind becomes divided between 
 the old attachments to the things of 
 sense, and the desire to know more of 
 his real Ego. 
 
 Three is the first Number that en- 
 closes space and in manifestation of 
 Father, Son and the Spirit (forming 
 the Triad) indicates the Universal Law 
 that must rule in all Worlds, where 
 from Unity, come Tri-Unity. From 
 the root or Unity of a tree, come the 
 trunk, branches, and foliage. In its 
 mute unconscious way, it proves the 
 activity of the Will, and has started the 
 root into growth. Nothing is mani- 
 
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 fested from the Unity that is not a 
 Trinity in its nature. In man, we see 
 this in his head, chest and trunk. In 
 the natural World, in the Mineral, 
 Vegetable and Animal; and in the Uni- 
 verse, we see the same manifestation 
 in the Three Worlds. 
 
 One represents Cause, Two the 
 manifestation of Cause, and Three the 
 result. 
 
 One symbolizes spirit, Two symbol- 
 izes body or matter, and Three sym- 
 bolizes the soul that is the unifying 
 power between One and Two. 
 
 Three in its progression from Unity, 
 contains Number, weight, and measure; 
 it contains production, growth and ma- 
 turity. In the human family, it repre- 
 sents the child, that is the offspring of 
 the father and the mother. 
 
 Remembering that the perpendicular 
 straight line, proceeding from the cen- 
 tral dot, represents Absolute Unity, and 
 the horizontal line, the fall of spirit 
 into matter, we see the origin of the 
 Cross, in the form in which man was 
 created with arms extended. The 
 straight upright line signifies Divine 
 Will, but crossed with the arms ex- 
 
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 tended, indicates continual opposition 
 to this Will, by man's intellect, mind, 
 and human Will. 
 
 When man has established his rela- 
 tionship with Absolute Unity, his mind 
 and intellect and Will are also subju- 
 gated to the One Will, and then only 
 can man stand for Unity in himself. 
 It is, when he has attained this Will- 
 ingness and is subject only to the 
 higher Will, that he can become con- 
 scious of his higher nature, for, only 
 by the Divine Centre can the spirit 
 come to him and act through him. 
 Wherever we find a figure made up of 
 straight lines, we know that it stands 
 for a Number that symbolizes the Di- 
 vine Principle of action. One is never 
 called a Number, because it contains in 
 itself all Numbers. Besides this we 
 have the figure Four, and seven made 
 to represent the Divine action in the 
 different Worlds. One containing all 
 numbers, as we have said, in itself, be- 
 longs to the World of Emanation, from 
 which all that exists is found to pro- 
 ceed. Four is the Relative Unity that 
 belongs to the World of Creation, the 
 World of the Logos. Seven, combin- 
 
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 ing the Four of the World of Creation, 
 with the Three belonging to the World 
 of Emanation represents the Relative 
 Unity of the World of Formation; so 
 we find Four and Seven standing be- 
 tween the Absolute unity of One, and 
 the manifested Bi-Unity of Ten, which 
 represents the Factive World, and hence 
 these are known as Divine Numbers. 
 
 The student of the Cabala, finds in 
 the Numbers Four and Seven, a rela- 
 tion to what has gone before, and the 
 World coming after, hence these are 
 called Relative Unities, but in the Ab- 
 solute Unity, it is confined to that 
 which emanates from it. In the Num- 
 ber Ten, the final Divine Number, this 
 order is reversed; and in place of 
 Unity relating to that which precedes 
 from it, we find it connected only with 
 the preceding Worlds. This teaching 
 of the early Masters once established, 
 makes a clear understanding of the 
 value of the different Unities. 
 
 Four is always the point of transi- 
 tion, from one World to another, 
 where a Ternary has been completed, it 
 opens the door to the next lower plane, 
 and this is pre-eminently its office. It 
 
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 is the greatest of the Divine Numbers, 
 and is called The Quarternary. By it 
 the Holy Name of Yahveh was ex- 
 pressed and to this day is designated by 
 Numbers One, Two, Three, and Four, 
 instead of by the Letters, Yod, He-Vau- 
 He, which is never spoken by the He- 
 brews. 
 
 When Moses was told to appear be- 
 fore Pharoah, and tell him that he must 
 let the children of Israel go free, Moses, 
 naturally timid, was afraid to carry the 
 message, and he said: 
 
 "What name shall I tell them, sent 
 me?" 
 
 And the answer came : "Tell them 
 Yahveh, The I AM, THAT I AM, sent 
 you." 
 
 Up to this time the name of Unity 
 was not known, and the nearest ap- 
 proach to it was found in Isis of Egypt. 
 This expressed the same thought "Is-Is" 
 of Eternal Being. Over the portal of 
 her temple, copied afterwards by Plato, 
 it was defined thus : "I am all that was, 
 and is, and is to be, and my veil no 
 mortal has lifted." It was the same ex- 
 pression used in the Old Testament, 
 "No man has seen my face and lived." 
 
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 It is only when man has become im- 
 mortal that he has seen God manifested 
 in Christ; or lifted the veil of life 
 Everlasting of Isis. 
 
 Pythagoras during his Twenty-two 
 years, spent in seeking the wisdom of 
 the Egyptians, found that all the names 
 of Absolute Unity were represented by 
 Four. This led to the discovery of the 
 Tetragrammatan. This was placing 
 the Numbers instead of the Letters, so 
 that the Y or Yod, and the He or femi- 
 nine Principles indwelling in the Yod, 
 and the Vau, or the Son preceding 
 from the Yod, and the He, and the final 
 He which was the Divine Feminine of 
 the Logos or the Vau, was the exact 
 meaning of the expression Yah-veh. 
 
 At the present day, the Four Letters 
 that represent Deity are to be found 
 almost in every language. We have the 
 Gott of the Germans, the Zeus of the 
 Greeks, the Jove of the Romans, the 
 Atma of the Hindos, and the God of 
 the Egyptians, who moulded and cre- 
 ated man of the dust, Ptah. Here is 
 seen the similarity of belief between the 
 Hebrews and the Romans and their ven- 
 eration for God. The former in their 
 
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 expression of Yod-He-Vau-He or Je- 
 hoveh which contained the four great 
 principles, the Father, the Spouse, the 
 son, and the Spirit. The latter it is 
 readily seen recognized God, and the 
 son, but not the Spouse or Spirit as is 
 seen by their manner of expressing the 
 Name, for in their Jove is seen the Yod, 
 and the Vau, the father and the son. 
 To the Greeks, Jove represents THE 
 WORD, as does Jehoveh to the He- 
 brew. 
 
 The magical Number Four can be 
 traced back on stone records to the 
 earliest historical period. It could not 
 be otherwise, for when the first ray 
 went forth from Unity it formed a di- 
 rect line that should ever afterwards be 
 known as North and South, while the 
 Will going forth to the right and the 
 left made the perfect point of the com- 
 pass, the East and the West, and by 
 this completed the Cross. Therefore, 
 from time immemorial it has been said : 
 "All power cometh from the North and 
 the East." 
 
 When a Ternary of a World is mani- 
 fested there would be no openings, 
 through which its inhabitants could 
 
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 pass, were it not for the Number Four, 
 or feminine principle belonging to Vau 
 represented by the straight line or lines, 
 but not outwardly manifested. It is by 
 the Four in every World, that the 
 passage is made possible from the up- 
 per and lower Worlds. 
 
 This is the Principle that begins the 
 Triad of the next world, and which, 
 when completed will again open the 
 door to the World below. 
 
 Four is called the Mirific Word, 
 meaning the Word of Power; by it all 
 things were created, and the Logos 
 spoken of by St. John is but another 
 Name for this magical Word. To 
 know this Word, and how to use it, is 
 the great object of all students of Her- 
 metic philosophy. It is not as they 
 think, something to be uttered from the 
 lips, but to be expressed in daily life. 
 It is only when a higher Ego has been 
 attained, that every act becomes magical 
 in its result. In Isaiah, the Prophet is 
 made to say: "My Word shall not re- 
 turn to me void, but shall accomplish 
 all that, whereunto it is sent." 
 
 Eliphas Levy, who is one of the 
 greatest authorities, says: "The idle 
 
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 words spoken of by Christ are each to 
 be recast again and again." 
 
 "An idle word," says the same au- 
 thor, "is any word uttered that results 
 in nothing. It need not necessarily 
 bring forth evil, but it fails to bring 
 forth anything whatever." Solomon 
 also says : "Cast thy bread upon the wa- 
 ters, for thou shalt find it after many 
 days." 
 
 Every word spoken, like that bread, 
 will return after many days, and must 
 be spoken by the same Ego, after it has 
 learned how to make it effectual. The 
 figure that indicates this Number is 
 composed entirely of straight lines, so 
 arranged as to form a cross. Some of 
 the lines are upright, some horizontal, 
 showing the different positions of Unity, 
 from the highest to the lowest. It cor- 
 responds to Number Two. in that the 
 combination of the upright and the Di- 
 vine, crosses the horizontal and pas- 
 sive, or fallen Ego. As long as a part of 
 the figure is prostrate there will be the 
 struggle and opposition of the Divine 
 with the human, until the personal will 
 is lost and merged in One great Will. 
 It is then we shall find as we do in the 
 
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 summing up of the Numbers, or Prin- 
 ciples composing the Quarternary, that 
 the horizontal has only been added to 
 the perpendicular and One Will rules 
 the Universe. 
 
 The human Ego, united to this One 
 Will, governs the Four Elements, 
 which are represented by the Earth, Air, 
 Fire, and Water. When Jesus Christ 
 walked upon the water, he called to 
 Peter to come to Him upon the same 
 element. But Peter, not having yet 
 been imbued with power from on high, 
 or the Holy Spirit, or final He, which 
 only came to the Disciples after the de- 
 parture of their Lord, failed in his at- 
 tempt. The perfected man having at- 
 tained Relative Unity, must be able to 
 subjugate the winds, the storms, the 
 fire, and the water, and even the earth 
 itself. In the eighth Psalm, this is re- 
 ferred to in the words : "Thou madest 
 him to have dominion over the works 
 of thy hand." 
 
 They have to-day in Morocco a secret 
 order which by the use of an unknown 
 word, can heal diseases and govern the 
 elements. With a sharp knife they will 
 cut their flesh, and by breathing upon 
 
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 it three times, repeating this word 
 mentally, the wounds are instantly 
 healed. 
 
 The Five is the most important fac- 
 tor in the Principles of Numbers. It 
 not only represents passivity, but occu- 
 pies the position of half of all con- 
 tained in Unity. It represents man by 
 the five pointed star, or Pentegram. 
 When he has reached this stage, he can 
 be affected by the stars above, the ele- 
 ments around, and the forces invisible 
 from the other Worlds. With his Will 
 well trained, he can do much to over- 
 come these things, but not until his 
 Will has become One with the Divine, 
 can he become the master of these 
 forces. 
 
 In the Tetragrammatan, the Yod has, 
 three letters, the He two, the Vau three, 
 and the second He two, making the 
 perfect Ten. Standing with arms ex- 
 tended, and the feet separated, the head 
 of the Pentegram is governed by the 
 planet Mercury, which rules the thought 
 forces of man. With his right hand 
 and his left, he touches the outer 
 World through his senses, and by his 
 feet, which touch the Earth, the five 
 
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 points of contact are made, without 
 which he would know nothing of the 
 outer World. 
 
 The Pentalpha represents this Pente- 
 gram with the planetary influences that 
 affect it. The only difference between 
 the Pentalpha and the Pentegram is that 
 the one is a bare symbol of man gov- 
 erned by his natural Will; and the 
 other, or Pentalpha, is the same figure 
 with the Will uncentered. 
 
 The Pentagon is the enclosure of the 
 five pointed star that represented man, 
 enclosed in a line drawn from point to 
 point, on the star, and showing his en- 
 vironments and the destiny that limits 
 him. 
 
 In these three symbols of man, the 
 first represents him in his highest 
 state of development on the natural and 
 intellectual plane, governed by a 
 trained Will; the second expresses him 
 subject to both visible and invisible in- 
 fluences of the objective World around 
 him, and the planets above; the third 
 limits him by time, space, and condi- 
 tions, beyond which he cannot rise 
 without help from a higher source. 
 
 It is when he no longer reaches forth 
 
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 with desire after objective things; when 
 the ambitions of life do not touch him, 
 when his Will is merged in the Great 
 Will, that he can hope to become an in- 
 habitant of the Realm above, and have 
 communication with beings of that 
 World. 
 
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 CHAPTER FIFTH. 
 
 NUMBERS CONTINUED. 
 
 The figure that represents the Num- 
 ber Five is made by a straight line, 
 partly horizontal, partly perpendicular, 
 joined to a curve line below. It repre- 
 sents man as having advanced a step 
 from Number Two and Three, and is 
 now supported by the Divine Femi- 
 nine, but with a part of him still suf- 
 fering from the effects of his fall. 
 When the little bit of horizontal line is 
 brought up and united to the perpen- 
 dicular straight line, man as a human 
 being will have attained consciousness 
 of the invisible World about him, and 
 of the Divine Feminine, that is now a 
 part of his conscious life, as heretofore 
 of his unconscious life. At this point 
 man has attained a dignity of self -hood 
 and is no longer governed by the vac- 
 cillation of the lower Will. Man here 
 has completed the course of degenera- 
 
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 tion and from henceforth is on the up- 
 ward path, having overcome the influ- 
 ence of the Lower Feminine by which 
 he fell. 
 
 In the Persian poem of the "Kali- 
 dasse," this is beautifully portrayed by 
 the Princess concealed in her father's 
 palace; the young Prince catches a 
 glimpse of her garments, as they flut- 
 ter against the shrubbery; he is seized 
 with a vehement desire to see the form 
 that wears these ethereal robes, and day 
 and night watches for her appearance. 
 It is only occasionally that the glimpse 
 comes, but never yet has he seen her 
 face. Forgetting all the beauties of 
 Earth, the attractions of his own harem, 
 and the pleasure of the senses, he gives 
 his days and nights in the pursuit of 
 this one object. When the culmination 
 comes, and he finds her, it may be 
 when he is old and gray-haired, it may 
 be when in middle life, but whenever it 
 comes, his happiness is complete. 
 
 The Principle for which Number Six 
 stands represents Two Worlds, the Cre- 
 ative and Formative. Man having at- 
 tained the two Ternaries, lives con- 
 sciously in the visible and invisible, but 
 
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 the visible largely predominates, and 
 the consciousness of the invisible comes 
 rarely. 
 
 The opening of man's consciousness, 
 through the successive stages of his 
 development, is that which carries him 
 from one plane to another, and intro- 
 duces him continually into newer, and 
 larger Realms, and new companion- 
 ships. In the case of the new born 
 child, we know that the child has en- 
 tered the Factive World. We know 
 also that in the beginning it has no con- 
 sciousness of its surroundings. Year 
 by year, the child's knowledge increases, 
 and its consciousness of its environ- 
 ment and companionships becomes 
 larger. From the physical Realm, to 
 the mental, the advance continues. In 
 the same way, man in his development 
 is constantly opening new centres of 
 consciousness, but when he has passed 
 from the Principle of Number Five to 
 that of Number Six. he knows no more 
 of the invisible World, than the child 
 after it was born, knew of the World 
 into which it had just entered. The 
 Principle for which Number Six 
 stands, that of Beauty, shows that man 
 
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 cannot represent the Divine Beauty, 
 until his latent powers have been 
 brought forth, and used according to 
 the Law of Numbers in both Worlds. 
 
 The symbol that stands for the Num- 
 ber Six is a figure with a perpendicular 
 line ending in the Feminine curve on 
 the right hand at the base. The Divine 
 Feminine has not only uplifted man, but 
 is still united to, and upholding him. 
 The sixth pointed star or Solomon's 
 seal represents the interlocking of the 
 higher and lower Worlds by the as- 
 piration of man for the Divine, where 
 the apex is above, and the descent of 
 the spirit by an apex pointing down. 
 Here is found the beginning of the 
 Union with the human Will with that 
 of the Divine. Here is a magnetic cur- 
 rent now passing and repassing be- 
 tween the Triads of the Two Worlds. 
 Through this magnetic current, the 
 phenomenal characters of the World 
 have been enabled to perform that 
 which was thought to be miraculous by 
 the uneducated. 
 
 Pythagoras named this close relation- 
 ship between the Two Worlds "The 
 Cabiric Chain, ,, through which the true 
 
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initiate is able at any time to call upon 
 the Beings with whom he is associated 
 in the invisible, and with the rapidity of 
 lightning can heal by touch or word, 
 regardless of space and distance. He 
 has been taught to make himself an in- 
 strument for the spiritual essence of 
 life to work through, i.ian thus be- 
 comes the conductor by which the es- 
 sence of life is received from higher 
 Realms to be distributed to lower. 
 
 The end of all true initiation is to 
 establish a conscious relation of this 
 kind. Every epic poem that has ever 
 been written, whether Scandinavian, 
 Roman, Greek, Chinese, Egyptian, and 
 especially those in our own Bible re- 
 fers to this pursuit of the lost man, to 
 find again his higher self. 
 
 When Jacob had separated from his 
 higher self, his twin, Esau, he sud- 
 denly awakened to the fact that he 
 must find him again, and with all his 
 worldly possessions, started out to 
 make his reconciliation. He selected 
 the best of his flocks and herds, and 
 sent them on before him, thinking this 
 would pacify his brother. 
 
 As Five represented man centered in 
 
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his own Will, so the Number Six sig- 
 nifying the Logos and the Beauty of 
 Harmony that he brought into the 
 World, dimly reveals man acting by the 
 magnetic Law of equilibrium. 
 
 As Christ Himself said, "I came not 
 to do my Will, but that of the Father 
 who sent me." 
 
 In the days of old, men were glad 
 to devote years to the severe training 
 of Masters in the overcoming of the 
 lower self, and were proud to be re- 
 garded worthy to be initiated into the 
 "Mysteries." Few e>~ept the Pha- 
 roahs and Rulers could afford the time 
 and money for this, and hence the 
 masses never knew of these teachings. 
 The early Pharoahs would expend the 
 wealth of a Kingdom to build a Temple 
 which should endure. These we still 
 find on the banks of the Nile. 
 
 With the Cabits of ancient Greece, 
 the same spirit was shown in striving 
 to attain this knowledge. The severe 
 and crowning test was the Three years 
 silence before initiation. From this 
 they learned the meaning of the Words 
 of Christ when He said: "For every 
 idle Word that man shall speak, he must 
 
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 give an account in the day of Judg- 
 ment." 
 
 To be an initiate at that time, or to 
 be a Cabir in Greece, was greater than 
 to be a King. As Solomon said: 
 "Greater is he who ruleth his spirit 
 than he who taketh a City." 
 
 After passing through the Two Triads 
 of the Creative and Formative World 
 man attains, and thus adds to his 
 knowledge another degree or Principle, 
 which is Number Seven. We here find 
 the figure that represents this Number 
 made up of straight lines, showing its 
 possibilities of returning to Unity. It 
 is again the Fourth Number that takes 
 us back to Unity, and becomes a point 
 of transition either to a higher or lower 
 Realm. By the process known as 
 Theosophical addition we find the sum 
 of the Numbers that have a place in 
 Seven as : One plus Two, plus Three, 
 plus Four, plus Five, plus Six, plus 
 Seven, equal Twenty-eight, which again 
 added together takes us back to Unity. 
 
 This Principle of Seven, is made up 
 of the Four of the Tetragrammatan, 
 representing perfect man, and the Triad 
 of the Divine World united. While it 
 
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 is farther removed from Absolute Unity 
 than the Number Four, it exceeds this 
 Number by having become united with 
 the World of Emanation. When John 
 speaks of this in the book of Revela- 
 tion he says : 
 
 "I saw seven golden candle sticks, and 
 in the midst of these was One like unto 
 the Son of man and he had in his right 
 hand seven stars, and he said, "The 
 mysteries of the Seven stars, and the 
 seven golden candlesticks, are the 
 things that are and shall be hereafter. 
 The seven stars are the angels of the 
 seven churches (or planets) ; and the 
 seven candlesticks, are the seven 
 churches." These are the Elohim of 
 which John speaks when he says : "The 
 City lieth Four square." 
 
 He is referring to man when he has 
 become perfected on the four sides of 
 his nature, physically, mentally, psychi- 
 cally, and spiritually, when he reaches 
 the state where he has risen beyond 
 time and space, according as he has 
 overcome the weaknesses of these sides 
 of his nature, an^ has at the same time 
 mastered the corresponding element. As 
 for example, when man has attained the 
 
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highest degree of animal and brute 
 force he is enabled to subdue the brutes 
 that would oppose him. When he has 
 attained the law of sciences, and under- 
 stands their Principles, he becomes an 
 Edison, and all the opposing forces of 
 science which he has conquered are 
 made subservient to him. When man's 
 psychical nature is equally developed 
 with his mental and physical, and astral 
 forces surrounding the earth-plane are 
 his subjects until they reach a state 
 where they merge into the spiritual 
 Realms, in which his powers are as yet 
 of no avail. This is the Realm of an- 
 cient Magi, and the work the Magicians 
 were said to do, was done by different 
 degrees of invisible powers that they 
 could call to their assistance. Man hav- 
 ing developed the physical, mental and 
 Psychical sides of his being, finds still 
 a higher Realm to be attained. This 
 results in the man St. John saw in his 
 Apocalyptic vision, whom he thought to 
 be an angel, or the Lord Himself, and 
 was on the point of falling down to 
 worship, when he was forbidden by the 
 words: "See thou do it not, I am one 
 of thy brethren." 
 
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 In this case man had attained his 
 highest development, and leaving all 
 human behind had reached angel-hood. 
 
 The figure which symbolizes the 
 Number Seven, and which in turn sym- 
 bolizes the second Relative Unity, is 
 made up of straight lines, as was the 
 figure Four, but in this case, we have 
 but two straight lines, one a long per- 
 pendicular one, and the other shorter, 
 and horizontal, joining the Unity at the 
 left side above. The horizontal is now 
 no longer upheld by the Divine Femi- 
 nine, but by the Unity formed by the 
 union of the two Egos, that are the 
 higher self united to the Divine nature, 
 and the interior soul or lower self, 
 which is still horizontal. The shorter 
 the horizontal line, the more perfect is 
 man's development. As in the Number 
 Four the Divine Feminine had become 
 the transitional power, so here in Num- 
 ber Seven it is again merged in Unity 
 and is not visible, but appears again in 
 Number Eight, Nine and Ten. 
 
 The Number representing Seven, 
 combines two great Principles. We find 
 the perfect square, or perfected man, 
 and the Triangle which is now united 
 
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 with it and overshadowing it. The 
 World of Emanation is the only World 
 which has for its symbol the Triad 
 without any necessary relationship to 
 other Worlds. When the First Cause 
 manifested Himself, it was as Father, 
 Son, and Spirit. The Father represents 
 the central point from which everything 
 proceeds, the Son the going forth of 
 that portion of the Divine nature that 
 was to be the Creator of the Universe, 
 and is like a straight line from the Cen- 
 tre direct to the outer rim of the cir- 
 cumference of Immensity; while the 
 spirit or Great Breath, is that which 
 fills in all the space between the cen- 
 tral point and the circumference, and 
 is to give to lower creatures, the physi- 
 cal breath, and to the sons of God, the 
 breath of Eternal life. When this tri- 
 angle of the Divine World rests upon 
 the perfect square of the microcosm, 
 we can see the absolute safety, power, 
 and repose of man. 
 
 The Seven, next to Unity is the 
 Number most frequently used in all 
 symbology to represent perfection. Af- 
 ter the six periods of Creation the Sev- 
 enth comes in for a period of rest. 
 
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 The Seven Elohim; The Seven Stars; 
 The Seven Candlesticks; The Seven 
 prismatic colors; The Seven Tones of 
 Music; all keep before us this Number, 
 as the highest to be attained, as man 
 cannot go beyond the unfolded cube of 
 his being. When a higher state is 
 reached, then does the Messiah come. 
 From the Relative Unity we pass again 
 into another series of Three Numbers 
 leading up to the final Unity. This be- 
 gins with Seven and passes to Eight. 
 The figure is formed with two circles, 
 one above the other, separated by a 
 small horizontal line that represents the 
 Two Feminine Principles that we have 
 found before, each following their re- 
 spective Unities. A small horizontal 
 line shows man still prostrate, and the 
 cipher above, representing the Four of 
 the first Relative Unity, is the Divine 
 Feminine, while the lower cipher, rep- 
 resents the Lower Feminine by which 
 man lost his Pristine power. This 
 Number can truly be called the Princi- 
 ple of the Higher and Lower Feminine 
 in their efforts to ruin and save man. 
 It is the complete Feminine Number of 
 the entire Ten, and is sometimes called 
 
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 the double Feminine. Activity has now 
 ceased to exist in the Material World, 
 and man is related to the Eternal 
 through his intuitive, or Feminine na- 
 ture. 
 
 In the Bible it is said: "Christ came 
 to seek, and to save that which was 
 lost" 
 
 This means intuition. In the resto- 
 ration of Mary Magdalene through her 
 Divine self we see how the two na- 
 tures are merged into one. At the 
 present time, the World does not know 
 that man has a dual nature, with the ex- 
 ception of those who have studied the 
 true meaning of the Bible from the be- 
 ginning of Genesis to the end of Reve- 
 lation. It is in the child's state of de- 
 velopment, when it does not even know 
 that the day will come, when it will 
 long for a mate, or companion, to bring 
 completeness to its life. Through great 
 storms, struggles and sufferings and 
 even crucifixions, the exceptional few 
 awake to the fact, that Earth has noth- 
 ing to give that can satisfy, and in 
 turning from Material Things, a long- 
 ing is created for something that is en- 
 during. It is here that the Divine Fem- 
 
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 inine begins to approach, and while, the 
 result of this is sure, the time is un- 
 certain when, as the Bible says: "I 
 shall be satisfied when I awake in Thy 
 likeness." 
 
 The Number Eight expresses the 
 equilibrium of force, and shows the 
 power of passivity or non-resistance, 
 when applied to every day life. One 
 man like Tolstoi standing for this Prin- 
 ciple alone, and with the World against 
 him, is like a lamb in its meekness, and 
 gentleness opposed to the beasts that 
 surround it. The day is not far dis- 
 tant, when, from the self seeking army 
 of the World, one by one there will 
 step out of the ranks those who recog- 
 nize the power of non-resistance. 
 
 As the algebraic action is understood 
 in practical life, "That two negatives 
 are equal to a positive;" so we find, 
 that when the two Feminine qualities 
 are equally balanced, they acquire the 
 strength of the Active Principle. 
 
 Of all the Numbers in the Sephiroth, 
 Nine is the most remarkable, excepting 
 Unity which is no Number. It takes 
 us into the Three Ternaries, Planes, or 
 Worlds, and shows the Universality of 
 
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 the Law of the Triad in each. From 
 time immemorial it has been a question 
 with mathematicians wherein its singu- 
 lar power lay. It can be added to, sub- 
 tracted from, divided or multiplied, and 
 suddenly brings one face to face with 
 itself again. 
 
 The formation of the figure that sym- 
 bolizes the Number, is the reverse of 
 figure Six. It is a perfect circle at the 
 upper left hand top of the straight line; 
 this indicates that the Divine Feminine 
 has found her position, but has not 
 yet manifested her full power, although 
 she has reached the height of the active 
 Principle. In Egypt Rameses expressed 
 this when causing to be erected a statue 
 of Neferita; here Neferita representing 
 the Divine Feminine reaches to the 
 height of Rameses' knees, indicating 
 that though honored as no man ever 
 was before and given position, she was 
 not, however, equal in power to Rames- 
 es. In the figure Two, the Feminine 
 quality expressed her power to drag 
 man from his high estate, and force 
 him to be subservient to her. When it 
 came to the Number Six representing 
 Two Worlds, the Feminine Principle 
 
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 was at the foot of the Factive. Now as 
 Nine representing all Three Worlds, 
 The Factive, Formative, and Creative, 
 this Principle at last proves the power 
 of the intuition, where it is said: "The 
 .seed of the woman shall bruise the 
 head of the serpent." 
 
 In Five, this Principle is seen as man 
 having regained in part his primal po- 
 sition, and no longer affected by the 
 sensual curve. We have now come 
 where the Divine Feminine is placed 
 above to aid the Active, or Positive 
 Principle in crushing the head of the 
 serpent that has no longer power to de- 
 stroy. 
 
 In the Number Nine man has found 
 his satisfaction in his own uprightness, 
 and the Divine Feminine which has al- 
 ways been a part of himself more or 
 less manifested now acts in perfect 
 unison with him. He now yields im- 
 plicitly to her suggestions, for she rep- 
 resents the Divine Wisdom, which is 
 one of the pillars of the Universe. 
 
 The present cycle which began but a 
 few years ago and towards which all 
 things have tended since Creation, is 
 pre-eminently the cycle of the Divine 
 
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 Feminine, or the Fourth cycle since 
 Biblical records began, and directing 
 and taking humanity back to the state 
 of Unity, or Adam-Ive. This is the 
 cycle known as Aquarius, the Water 
 bearer, the out-pourer. While man is 
 the active cause, "The He," the Hebrew 
 Letter representing the Divine Femi- 
 nine of the World of Emanation, is the 
 spirit poured over the World. This 
 forms at the present time the magnetic 
 attraction of every soul, capable of be- 
 ing drawn toward the Divine nature, 
 and with it comes a counter current of 
 the outpouring of the lower forces. 
 Wherever there is light, the shadow is 
 correspondingly dark and the cause of 
 the spiritual power of this day is a 
 tidal wave of crimes, suicides, hurri- 
 canes, and other unusual disturbances 
 not seen since the coming of the Christ 
 at the beginning of the last cycle two 
 thousand years ago. This result could 
 never have come until the fourth cycle, 
 which corresponds to the Number Four, 
 the Divine Number of the first Relative 
 Unity. 
 
 When the first cycle, known as the 
 Taurian era, appeared, the Bible rec- 
 
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 ords began. There had been cycles be- 
 fore, and the people had long inhab- 
 ited the Earth, but they had not awak- 
 ened to any consciousness of a relation 
 to a higher Being prior to this. For 
 this reason, it was not considered of 
 sufficient value to make a record and 
 the Scriptures began as soon as man 
 recognized his relation to Unity. 
 
 This was during the reign of the 
 Pharoahs, and the pyramids stood out as 
 the record of the greatest Pharoah that 
 had ever lived. The pyramid of Cheops 
 contained within itself the "Ark of the 
 Covenant," and all that is spoken of as 
 belonging to the worship of Jehovah. 
 Until recently no one has known the 
 star that governed its construction, and 
 it is now found to be Alcyone, the cen- 
 tral sun of the Universe around which 
 our Sun and Zodiac revolves in a little 
 over two thousand years. Like looking 
 through a telescope, the observer looked 
 up that long shaft of the Pyramid and 
 found this star that was afterwards 
 proven the centre of all planetary move- 
 ments. 
 
 Apis the Bull, emblem of the full- 
 ness of physical life, was the great ob- 
 
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 ject of worship amongst the Egyptians 
 at that time. The Governing planet for 
 Taurus, being Venus, the Principle of 
 Love, gave to the world the knowledge 
 of Osiris and Isis, and.Hathor. The 
 latter represented the Lower Feminine 
 found wherever the Higher Feminine 
 can be traced. The festivals filled with 
 singing and dancing in the early spring 
 time to celebrate the fullness of life in 
 plant and tree, animal and man, were 
 at one time pure in their object, but as 
 Venus, the love of the lower Feminine 
 attracted to herself the adoration that 
 should have been given Isis, it was the 
 beginning of the downfall of Egypt. 
 Cleopatra, centuries after, knowing that 
 she could not usurp the place of Isis, 
 the spiritual love, though attempting it, 
 was content to immortalize herself en- 
 tirely on the physical plane, as one who 
 in the Lower Feminine had attracted to 
 herself, and placed under her feet, Mark 
 Anthony and Caesar. Not merely con- 
 tent in adding to the Temple Denderah, 
 she had herself carved on its walls in 
 many places so much like Isis, that with 
 the exception of the Utaeus upon her 
 head, there is no difference discernible. 
 
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 After the Taurian cycle came the 
 cycle of the Ram, or Aries, when all 
 the Pharaohs had the name of Ra or 
 Ram, and this gave the title to Rames- 
 es the Great. It was the period of 
 great knowledge and mentality, and 
 characterized by sacrifice. 
 
 Abraham at this time offered up his 
 only son, Isaac, but was saved from 
 this by the Ram that was caught in the 
 bushes wishing to be sacrificed in the 
 place of Isaac. The governing planet 
 for Aries is Mars. 
 
 This was followed at the end of two 
 thousand years, by the cycle of Pisces 
 when Christ was born. He chose for 
 his Disciples the fishermen of Galilee, 
 he paid his tribute with money taken 
 from the fish's mouth. After His res- 
 urrection he ate a piece of broiled fish, 
 and also fed the multitude that were 
 an hungered with fish, thus putting the 
 seal of his cycle on everything. This 
 is seen even to the present day in the 
 mark upon the Hake's head where the 
 imprint of his thumb and forefinger are 
 seen behind the gills. The legend tells 
 us that when Christ needed the tribute 
 
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 money he blest the Hake for bringing it 
 to Him. 
 
 The duration of a cycle is from two 
 thousand to twenty-one hundred years, 
 and represents a day of the Solar sys- 
 tem. 
 
 "One day with the Lord is as a thou- 
 sand years." "And a day and a night 
 make the measure." 
 
 If a day is two thousand years long, 
 it would take five hundred years to 
 equal that which is represented from 
 twelve at midnight until six o'clock in 
 the morning. To the ordinary observer 
 there is no difference in the world from 
 three, four or five hours before mid- 
 night from three, four or five hours 
 after. The full morning comes when 
 six hours have passed. We, living in 
 the present time, see no difference in 
 the world of to-day from that of yes- 
 terday, or of the cycle that has passed. 
 We can only discern the change in the 
 fact that a wider interest is shown in 
 the Unseen than ever before. When 
 the Messianic cycle came in there was 
 an upheaval of nature, more demonic 
 possessions, but those then living did 
 not even recognize how the visible and 
 
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 invisible Worlds were acting in unison 
 according to the Law. 
 
 As the Taurian cycle represented the 
 ruling power of the Lower Feminine, 
 or Venus during the race to destruction, 
 so the incoming cycle of the outpouring 
 of the Divine Feminine will act for the 
 purification of the Lower Feminine, as 
 was seen in Mary Magdalene. 
 
 The present cycle is governed by 
 Uranus, known as the spiritual planet. 
 This is emphasized by the fact that it is 
 the Fourth or Divine cycle, which also 
 goes back to Unity, and in this case 
 takes the chosen ones with it. 
 
 The figure representing Number Ten, 
 shows the active Principle of Unity 
 standing side by side in an equality of 
 power with the Feminine Principle, sym- 
 bolized by the cipher. The Divine Fem- 
 inine is no longer raising man from his 
 degradation, no longer filling a subordi- 
 nate position, but is manifested as fully 
 standing by his side and remaining with 
 him through his regeneration. 
 
 In Absolute Unity we find the Di- 
 vine Feminine unmanifested, and un- 
 known. In Four she is again concealed, 
 but not hidden from the Higher Intelli- 
 
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 gences. In Number Seven she is again 
 invisible, but her works are seen for she 
 has become the leavening power of the 
 World. When we reach Ten the Di- 
 vine Feminine comes in her full power 
 to do her work, as Christ came in His. 
 This is the fulfillment of His words : 
 "If I go not away the spirit will not 
 come." 
 
 And again : "Tarry ye here in Jerusa- 
 lem till the power of the spirit shall 
 come upon you." 
 
 We have here the straight line or 
 active Principle now introducing to all 
 Worlds, as a King will introduce his 
 Queen, the Divine Feminine that has 
 been with him through all Eternity and 
 with whom he would henceforth work 
 for His Father's Kingdom. He has 
 now made the complete circle back to 
 the Absolute Unity, where he is once 
 more the Adonai with the Divine Femi- 
 nine now fully manifested. 
 
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 CHAPTER SIXTH. 
 
 HEBREW LETTERS. 
 
 All Hebrew Letters contain a Num- 
 ber, a hieroglyph, a symbol, and a place. 
 To know these in their relation to each 
 other, and to Numbers, is to hold in the 
 hands the chart that will guide us un- 
 erringly across the ocean of ignorance 
 into the "Thirty-two Paths of Wis- 
 dom." 
 
 These Letters are twenty-two in num- 
 ber, and are divided into the Three 
 Mothers, Seven Doubles, and twelve 
 Singles. They are also divided into 
 groups of seven, called Septenaries. 
 
 Before proceeding to the study of the 
 Septenaries we shall take up the sub- 
 ject of the Three Mothers, which are 
 called, Aleph, Mem and Schin. The 
 Three Mothers are the foundation and 
 represent the plane of Merit, the scale 
 of demerit and the balance of the Law, 
 
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 which is the equilibrium between them. 
 They are graven by six links, by which 
 go forth the Fire, Water, and Air, 
 which are again divided into masculine 
 and feminine by which all things are 
 created. In the World, they repre- 
 sent the Three elements. In the year, 
 they represent the heat, cold and tem- 
 perate. The Three Mothers in man 
 represent, head, breast and stomach. 
 The Head was created from The Fire, 
 the stomach from the Water and the 
 Breast from the Spirit. 
 
 One of these Mothers belong to each 
 Septenary; Aleph to the first, Mem to 
 the second, and Schin to the Third. 
 Their office in each Septenary is to 
 bring forth or produce. In the higher 
 world this is done by the combination 
 of essences, and in the lower world by 
 the Law of Generation. 
 
 Aleph, being the first Letter of the 
 Alphabet, is numbered one, and repre- 
 sents Unity. It is highest activity. Its 
 hieroglyph, or pictorial representation 
 in the Tarot, is that of a Juggler, with 
 a board before him on which are placed 
 the symbols of the four elements, and 
 the four seasons. These are to be trans- 
 
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 formed by the working of his Will into 
 the Universe and all it will contain. 
 When the four elements at his com- 
 mand, are brought forth, nature with 
 all her production, intelligences of all 
 orders that inhabit the different world, 
 and the mysteries of ancient Alchemy 
 are revealed. 
 
 As there is also a reflection from the 
 higher worlds to the lower, so there is 
 a reflected power of a higher letter to 
 the lower. In Aleph we find man re- 
 flecting the power of the Creator, when 
 he stands at the head of Creation a de- 
 veloped being. He uses for his instru- 
 ments the Eternal Principles found in 
 the Ten Numbers, and the Twenty-two 
 Letters which form the canals, that 
 carry the Principles one to another, and 
 the qualities that belong to Unity. A 
 symbol of any Letter, is to be found 
 by uniting the Number of any Letter 
 with its hieroglyph. Its Number is ac- 
 cording to its place in the Alphabet, 
 and its position is according to the Let- 
 ters between which it stands. Among 
 the Letters or canals, Aleph is the first 
 of the first Septenary, as well as the 
 first of the entire Alphabet. It carries 
 
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 the power of Kether, or the Adonai, to 
 the World of wisdom. By keeping in 
 mind the illustration of a boat passing 
 from place to place, carrying its cargo, 
 we shall easily be able to place the qual- 
 ities that come into the Lower World 
 from the Higher. 
 
 In looking at the hieroglyph, we find 
 that man stands with one arm to heaven, 
 the other pointed down to earth, show- 
 ing that the Divine force from above 
 acts through him to aid him in per- 
 forming his magical works. Beneath 
 this hieroglyph we find the Sacred 
 Name of God, Yod-He-Vau-He, indi- 
 cating that the power of God in the Cre- 
 ative World must be used wherever a 
 Divine purpose is to be accomplished. 
 It seems contradictory that Aleph 
 should be called a Mother Letter when 
 it represents the greatest activity of the 
 Universe, which would naturally place 
 it upon the positive or masculine side. 
 In the Creative World there is neither 
 masculine nor feminine, but a union of 
 the Two in one, acting in perfect har- 
 mony. They have equal force and 
 power, and represent the Fatherhood 
 and Motherhood. 
 
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 The symbol of Aleph is Creative 
 Light, or Kether. The color is yellow. 
 
 Mem, the Second Mother Letter, is 
 the Thirteenth Letter of the Hebrew 
 Alphabet, and unlike Aleph which was 
 placed at the head of the Septenary, 
 Mem is placed next to the last. When 
 the philosophy of this is seen, we find 
 that the Letter itself signifies the Sea 
 of Life from whence everything comes, 
 and she must have the place of the thir- 
 teenth to represent the relative Unity 
 Four. It means a woman, giving rise 
 to formation and as the image of ex- 
 ternal and passive action; Mem is al- 
 ways feminine in her nature, the bringer 
 forth of all life. When Mem is found 
 at the end of a word, it shows that the 
 being to which she belongs can be car- 
 ried out into unknown space. This must 
 be done by repeated incarnations or 
 transitions, and can only be accom- 
 plished by passing through the doors of 
 death. 
 
 The hieroglyph of Mem, is pictured 
 as the skeleton death, and indicates that 
 death and life are only different phases 
 of the same thing. Mem could not bring 
 forth if everything remained in its own 
 
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 world. Her symbol gives us: "Trans- 
 formation." 
 
 The color of Mem is blue. 
 
 The Number Thirteen of Mem shows 
 Trinity by the side of Unity as indi- 
 cating the fulfillment of destiny. So it 
 i- found that this Second Septenary 
 Mem fa as much of a Unity as Aleph 
 was in the First with the exception, 
 that Aleph is represented hy a straight 
 line in the Xumher and gives no clue to 
 the Feminine Principles as it is con- 
 cealed within itself; while Mem is rep- 
 resented hy the Number Thirteen, one 
 and three, the latter Number always dc- 
 
 ! completion, added together gives 
 
 the Divine Number Four; and One, 
 and Four added together 
 
 equal Ten. in which the Divine Femi- 
 nine is manifested standing by the side 
 of Unity. Unity has lost none of its 
 powers, hut the Divine Feminine has 
 gained recognition. 
 
 Mem has her place in the Hebrew 
 Alphabet between the Twelfth Letter 
 and the Fourteenth ; this shows that she 
 rests upon the Mother Principle, which 
 may turn the preceding Letter from the 
 tendency to destruction, upwards to Sal- 
 
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 vation. Following the Letter Mem, is 
 the Letter Zain, that shows that the ar- 
 row of desire has started forth from 
 the Mother Influence, and will have 
 power to lead man to his highest possi- 
 ble attainments in making the round of 
 evolution. In summing up Mem as a 
 whole, she must alv/ays symbolize 
 "Transformation," through all the 
 attributes embraced in Motherhood. 
 
 We must remember, that the Mother 
 Letters show different degrees and 
 modes of bringing forth, and that Schin 
 is another degree of the same Principle. 
 As Aleph was the first Letter of the 
 Alphabet, as well as of the Mother Let- 
 ters, and represented Unity in its high- 
 est expression; and as Mem was the 
 Thirteenth Letter representing what 
 was, and is, as to Relative Unity, so 
 Schin, the Twenty-first Letter of the 
 Alphabet and the last of the Third Sep- 
 tenary, as well as the last of the Moth- 
 er Letters, carries the progress of the 
 arrow in its flight. 
 
 Schin is the finality of the Three Sep- 
 tenaries, and expresses the truth, that 
 the race was left with the protection of 
 the Divine Feminine Principle until it 
 
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 had gone through all phases of trials, 
 and proof of which it was capable. 
 
 Later, in speaking of the letters sep 
 arately, there will be qualities of Schin 
 noticed that do not belong to the Realm 
 of the Three Mothers. The hieroglyph 
 ichin 18 the foolish man made help- 
 by the gratification of his lower na- 
 ture; this is shown by the dog biting 
 his legs while he goes through the 
 world wearing a foolscap. So absorbed 
 i> he in the enjoyment of the delusion 
 of the lenses, that he pays no heed to 
 
 the dog, nor to the precipice before him, 
 
 n<»r to the crocodile waiting to devour 
 him, when he has fallen over into the 
 abyss. 
 
 The symbol i<: "Destruction." 
 
 It ifl the dashing to pieces of primeval 
 
 man, spoken of in the Bible, as being 
 
 it by the Seven Kings of 
 
 m. Man at this time lost control of 
 
 his faculties, relating and connecting 
 
 him with the invisible intelligences about 
 
 him. At this point he had nothing left 
 
 through which to obtain knowledge but 
 
 the five ordinary animal senses. The 
 
 higher senses that belonged to 
 
 Adam Protoplasms, namely, Intuition, 
 
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 or thought transference, and the power 
 to act and instantly apply, according to 
 his intuition, were lost to him. The 
 fact that this intuition came to him 
 from a Divine Power insured him 
 against any mistakes that might other- 
 wise result from spontaneous action, 
 and it was when he hesitated that he 
 was liable to be led astray. From this 
 has come the old adage : "He who hesi- 
 tates is lost." 
 
 The color of Schin is red, emblem of 
 suffering. 
 
 The Number of Schin being twenty- 
 one, shows its first Number, two, the 
 Principle not only of man from God, 
 but of the manifestation of the Lower 
 Feminine which caused his downfall. 
 Through the efforts to regain his union 
 with Unity man sought the Divine Fem- 
 inine which alone could redeem, and 
 unite him with the Unity, the last Num- 
 ber of Schin. 
 
 The combination of the Two and the 
 One, equals Three, which makes the 
 Trinity of manifestation on all planes. 
 
 The meaning of place, and object, of 
 the Three Mother Letters must always 
 be kept in the mind. 
 
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 CHAPTER SEVENTH. 
 
 LETTERS — CONTINUED. 
 
 After the study of the Three Mother 
 Letters, we come to the Seven Doubles. 
 This means that the Letters called 
 Doubles have two sounds, one strong 
 and the other weak, representing that 
 each contains the active and passive 
 Principles and are related to the plane- 
 tary conditions. Each of these Doubles 
 represent the Elohim who embodies 
 both natures in One. 
 
 The entire Hebrew Alphabet is con- 
 structed upon the relationship of the 
 Letters to the different Worlds, omit- 
 ting the World of Emanation, and are 
 grouped in Three Septenaries to corre- 
 spond to these Worlds. The names of 
 the different Elohim in their respective 
 order are : 
 
 El 
 
 Eloha 
 
 Elohim 
 
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 Yaveh-Tsabbath 
 
 Elohim-Tsabbath 
 
 Shaddai 
 
 Adonai. 
 The Three Elohim belonging to the 
 World of Emanation are the Father, 
 Son and Spirit, and are directors of the 
 Seven Elohim just mentioned. This 
 gives us Ten Elohim, one for each 
 Principle. 
 
 The Seven Elohim of the Three 
 Lower Worlds, not only govern, each a 
 Planet, but each angel has power over 
 the seven days of the week. It will be 
 noticed that the names for the angel 
 for the day always ends in El, denoting 
 their origin from the Elohim, and are 
 given as follows : 
 
 Sunday — Michael. The governing 
 planet is the Sun. 
 
 Monday — Gabriel. The governing 
 planet is the Moon. 
 
 Tuesday — Samuel. The governing 
 planet is Mars. 
 
 Wednesday — Raphael. The governing 
 planet is Mercury. 
 
 Thursday — Sachiel. The governing 
 planet is Jupiter. 
 
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 Friday— Aniel. The governing planet 
 
 is Venus. 
 
 Saturday — Cassiel. The governing 
 planet is Saturn. 
 
 In the Babylonian period of the most 
 ancient times, on the boundary stones 
 were engraved symbols, corresponding 
 to the days of the week, as follows : 
 
 Sunday — Pointed Star. 
 
 Monday — Crescent. 
 
 Tuesday — Spearhead. 
 
 Wednesday — Erect serpent, alongside 
 of bent horns. 
 
 Thursday — bent horns in pyramidal 
 shape. 
 
 Friday — wedge shaped object. 
 
 Saturday — camel's head and neck. 
 
 The names of the Double Letters are: 
 
 Beth=The mouth of man. 
 
 Gimmel=The hand in action of 
 taking. 
 
 Daleth=The Bosom. 
 
 Caph=The hand in the action of 
 holding. 
 
 Phe=The tongue and back of the 
 mouth. 
 
 Resch=The head of man. 
 
 Tau=The heart. 
 
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 The twelve single Letters refer to the 
 signs of the Zodiac, and are: 
 He— The head=Aries. 
 Vau=Neck=Taurus. 
 Zain=rArms==Gemini. 
 Hethr=Breast=Cancer. 
 TethrrrThe heart=Leo. 
 Yod=Stomach=Virgo. 
 Lamed=Reins=Libra. 
 Nun=Generative organs=Scorpio. 
 Samek=rThighs=Saggitarius. 
 Ayin=Knees=Capricorn. 
 Tzaddi=Calvesr=:Aquarius. 
 Quoph=rFeet=Pisces. 
 
 Having learned the Letters perfectly 
 and how to form them, the student will 
 become familiar with them, as with the 
 Alphabet of his own language, and is 
 now ready to take up the study of Let- 
 ters, and Numbers as a whole. 
 
 In the study of Numbers, it is found 
 that the Ten Sephiroth have their re- 
 spective places in all Four Worlds, but 
 in the study of Letters they have no 
 place in the World of Emanation, ex- 
 cept Aleph and Beth and Gimmel which 
 have direct communication between the 
 Ain-Soph, Hochmah and Binah. 
 
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 Numbers have no age whatever, or 
 date of beginning; they have always 
 existed, as inherent properties of Be- 
 ing. The fact that Hebrew Letters 
 have a place in the World of Creation, 
 shows how carefully their secret has 
 been guarded through all ages since the 
 Beginning. The 'Thirty-two paths of 
 Wisdom" must necessarily be classified 
 into those that are living Principles, 
 and those that act as carriers of the 
 qualities, from one to another. 
 
 The first are by far the most impor- 
 tant, being reflected from the higher 
 Worlds; however, without the Letters 
 as lines of connection, or what are 
 termed canals, the qualities of these 
 Numbers, or Sephiroth could never pass 
 from their centre. Man could never 
 know how to find his way back from 
 the Factive World, where his search be- 
 gins, to the Unity from which he started. 
 
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 CHAPTER EIGHTH. 
 
 LETTERS — CONTINUED. 
 
 "The World of Emanation is the 
 movement of the Spirit, manifesting it- 
 self as spirit, without any revelation of 
 the least trace of individuality. It is 
 the interior World, by which the possi- 
 ble may become real. ,, (Papus) The 
 highest and most remote World, is that 
 known as Aziluth, or the World of 
 Emanation. It is the World of Light 
 reflecting from the Ain-Soph, the first 
 centre of Light the human mind con- 
 ceived. 
 
 The first Septenary, beginning with 
 Aleph, has its place here, and contains 
 within itself all the other Letters which 
 are formed by different combinations ( 5 
 the Letter Yod with Vau. Yod or the 
 Ain-Soph is the central creative power 
 of the Universe symbolized by a dot 
 J^ Aleph is made up of four of 
 these Yods; one at the right hand 
 
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 above, another at the left hand below: 
 two arc separated by an inverted 
 Van composed of two Yods. It is by 
 this inverted line of the Vau that the 
 relationship is established between the 
 Divine World and the Lower. The 
 Four Yods represent the Four Worlds, 
 and the Four Elements, by which all 
 nature is produced. As there is a Di- 
 vine Centre for each of the Four 
 Worlds, so there is an Adamic Centre 
 in the Three Worlds following that of 
 Emanation. Briah means the going out 
 of itself. 
 
 In Briah, the Second World, Adam 
 Cadmon is the Being representing per- 
 fect humanity and from whom in atomic 
 cells, undeveloped man has come forth 
 to attain through discipline perfect de- 
 velopment; by this he will return, when 
 perfected, and take his place in the 
 Adam Cadmon from which he came, 
 lie will no longer he the undeveloped 
 cell, but a fully developed intelligence. 
 Wherever the atom came from, there it 
 will return, equally honored whether it 
 belongs to the feet, the heart, or the 
 brain. This is where the Chaldeans de- 
 rived the idea of the zodical signs hav- 
 
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 ing a place in the different parts of the 
 body. Adam Cadmon is the Eternal 
 Messiah, I Corinthians, 15 \22, that in 
 the different parts of his nature mani- 
 fested Himself in later Worlds, but al- 
 ways remained the perfect Bi-une Being. 
 He was not only Adam Cadmon, but 
 equally the Adonai, or only Begotten 
 Son. As the Father and Mother of a 
 family send off their offspring losing 
 nothing of themselves, by so doing, so 
 the Adonai, as Adam Cadmon, took the 
 place of Father and Mother, through 
 his Bi-Une nature, and after sending 
 forth myriads of souls, lost nothing. 
 
 The World Briah, or the World of 
 Creation, differs from the Aziluth 
 World in having its substance no longer 
 pure spirit, but an intermingling of 
 spirits with ether, not as we know it, 
 but as the primordial element, from 
 which the other elements emanate. It 
 differs from it also in having for its 
 centre, not the Adonai, but the Logos, 
 who is a manifestation of the Adonai, 
 in his official nature as Creator. 
 
 Taking Adam Cadmon as a type of 
 perfect man, the Logos calls forth by 
 the Word all nature, and crowns it with 
 
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 man himself, who is to enjoy and use 
 it; as it is said in the first chapter of 
 Genesis : "He created man in his own 
 image, male and female created he 
 them." And again in the Eighth Psalm : 
 "He made man to have dominion ovc, 
 the fish of the sea, the fowl of the air, 
 &c." In this World, Adam Protoplas- 
 tus appears, combining in himself all 
 generations of men with the possibilities 
 for either good or evil. 
 
 In the Formative World, called Jet- 
 sirah, Adam Protoplastus has, as the 
 Rabbi Loriah would say: "Broken to 
 pieces or fragments." 
 
 From these fragments those who were 
 attracted to the Material World, and 
 were filled with evil desires, fell into 
 the World of shells, or the Factive 
 World, where they are struggling as 
 children of the Third Adam, or Adam 
 Belial, to free themselves from the 
 shells that encompass them. This was 
 illustrated by the Children of Israel be- 
 ing held in bondage by the Egyptians, 
 until there appeared one as their Mes- 
 siah to break their chains and lead 
 them into the Promised Land (equiva- 
 
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 lent to breaking their shells and freeing 
 them into spiritual beings). 
 
 When Adam Belial took all the evil 
 fragments that fell from Adam Proto- 
 plastus in the Formative World and 
 peopled the Factive World, or Asia, 
 with them and their descendants he 
 was in the World of ceaseless activity 
 where doing is more essential than be- 
 ing. Adam Belial, the man of shells, 
 was forced in this World to ^ombat ex- 
 ternal dangers that surrounded him by 
 his dense material body. It did not pro- 
 tect him from the invisible enemies that 
 entered his organism, through thought, 
 and the senses, but served to protect 
 him from more gross forms of danger. 
 This man is always called: "The man 
 of Sin." Another name for the man 
 of "Shells." 
 
 This Factive World is pre-eminently 
 the World of regeneration. It is the 
 point of departure from the old life to 
 the new, and it is here that man learns 
 the folly of doing, and the wisdom c 
 being. 
 
 In the First Septenary, with th< 
 Adonai as the Centre, and Aleph stand- 
 
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 ing as Trinity, we have our introduc- 
 tion to Adam Cadmon; all different 
 manifestations of the same Being. 
 
 Kether is the Light reflected from the 
 true Light of the Ain-Soph; Adonai is 
 the Life and the Light; Aleph is the 
 suggestion of the human element that 
 will be manifested. The Ain-Soph is 
 the source of Light, Life Being and the 
 fullness of creation, and yet remains 
 unknown and unknowable. One of the 
 symbols of the Ain-Soph is the central 
 dot known as the Yod. 
 
 Aleph does not remain at the centre, 
 but becomes the connecting link or ca- 
 nal as the active Principle of distribu- 
 tion. It is not an Absolute Unity, be- 
 cause it is related to the Adonai, and 
 all that follows. Therefore, it is called 
 the First Relative Unity. It is the only 
 relationship possible that can exist be- 
 tween the Septenaries, and the Ten 
 Principles. As Aleph represents the 
 perfect man, we must find expression 
 of his different organs in the different 
 Letters that follow. These have already 
 been referred to in speaking of the 
 twelve single Letters, and the signs of 
 the Zodiac, 
 
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 So, when we come to the Second Let- 
 ter, "Beth" *2 we find h y its for- 
 mation and the appearance of an open 
 mouth, that it is therefore called "the 
 mouth of man." 
 
 It is made of two horizontal lines, 
 joined on the right hand by a slight 
 perpendicular one. If we were consid- 
 ering the Letters from any other as- 
 pect than that of man, it might not be 
 called a mouth, but it would be recog- 
 nized as that into which anything could 
 enter, and anything could come forth. 
 
 This seems to give the idea, that in 
 its relation to Aleph, as the perfected 
 man it became his first mode of expres- 
 sion and followed by Gimmel, we realize 
 the power and sanctity of the spoken 
 Word. This afterwards becomes the 
 Logos, that spoke all Creation into Be- 
 ing. 
 
 In the study of the Hebrew charac- 
 ters we must keep in mind the relation 
 each one has to the preceding, as also 
 to the one succeeding. This must be 
 considered from the standpoint of the 
 interior meaning. 
 
 Like Aleph, we find Beth the canal 
 between "Ain-Soph" or the Adonai, or 
 
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 Unity, and Divine love or intelligence. 
 These two Sephiroth henceforth, have 
 a permanent place in the manifestation 
 of Divinity as Creator of the Universe. 
 In the World of Aziluth all The Great 
 Principles are held unmanifested in 
 their perfection. When the opening of 
 the doors to the Lower Worlds is es- 
 tablished, Aleph and Beth are the two 
 canals that carry the highest Eternal 
 qualities through all succeeding Princi- 
 ples. 
 
 Beth expresses through the open 
 mouth the great love and intelligence 
 which is henceforth to be one of the 
 two leading forces of the World. 
 
 When Solomon said : "Wisdom has 
 builded her palaces, she has hewn c t 
 the seven pillars," he referred to the 
 building of the Universe that should 
 rest on these two great Principles of 
 Wisdom and Love. Beth as the hiero- 
 glyph in the Tarot, is pictured as the 
 High Priestess dwelling in the inner 
 temple of man and expressing that 
 which can emanate from it. The Will 
 decides whether Beth shall utter words 
 of good or evil, but whichever are 
 spoken, they can never be gathered 
 
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 again into the mouth from which they 
 issued. This is what led the Saviour 
 to say: "For every idle word that man 
 shall speak, he must give an account in 
 the day of judgment." 
 
 Eliphas Levey says, in denning an 
 idle word, "An idle word is one that 
 brings forth no result." 
 
 It is also said in the New Testament, 
 "That when a sower goes forth to sow, 
 he must have the soil prepared or it 
 will bring forth nothing." Which un- 
 doubtedly refers to the words which is- 
 sue from men's lips, that take no root 
 and bring forth no return. 
 
 The Number of Beth being Two, in- 
 dicates also the Law of separation 
 which was possible and had taken place 
 between the Logos and His Divine 
 Feminine. The Number also gives 
 Beth a passivity in her relation to 
 Aleph. This seems contradictory, for, 
 the Priestess should be expected to rule. 
 As it is seen elsewhere there is a power 
 of non-resistance stronger than active 
 energy. Therefore Beth in her symbol 
 is found to be the t ower to bring forth 
 by being acted upon by Aleph and will 
 be known as, "Production." 
 
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 In Egypt this Letter was represented 
 by Isis crowned with the Crescent of 
 the Moon, as Aleph represented Osiris, 
 the full orbed Sun. Aleph is repre- 
 sented as standing erect with the power 
 of Will to accomplish all things. Beth 
 is represented as sitting, yet, on her 
 head is a crown of power, and across 
 her breast a badge of honor, and in her 
 hand the closed Bible. She is the power 
 of the Moon, holding the secrets of 
 nature or generation that are hidden 
 from the profane. When she has at- 
 tained the fullness of Feminine Power, 
 the Moon is no longer upon her head, 
 but under her foot, and she is crowned 
 with the Sun, because she has risen 
 above the Law of Generation. Beth 
 shows, being next to Aleph and a 
 passive Principle of which He is the 
 active, that she should be the instru- 
 ment through which the fiat of Crea- 
 tion should proceed, but instead of this, 
 it came through the united powers of 
 Vau and He, of which we shall speak 
 later. In the book of Revelation it is 
 said: 'There appeared a great wonder 
 in Heaven; a woman clothed with the 
 Sun, and the Moon under her feet and 
 
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 upon her head a crown of twelve 
 stars." 
 
 Her being clothed in the vesture of 
 the Sun, after this woman had over- 
 come the physical Laws of generation 
 and made glorious for her final initia- 
 tion, gives Gold as the color of the 
 Soul, which color is still used in initia- 
 tions of the final degree. Solomon 
 speaking in Esoteric language, said: 
 "The King's daughter is all glorious 
 within." 
 
 The Third Letter, "Gimmel" J| is 
 the throat, also represented by the 
 prehensile hand in the act of closing, 
 and related to Beth the Second Letter, 
 as the throat is related to the mouth. 
 
 We find this significant of the fact, 
 that as long as the throat encloses and 
 holds, the mouth cannot give out. The 
 throat represents the vestibule of the 
 sanctuary of man, which contains the en- 
 trance to the higher sanctuary, the heart. 
 As thoughts are generated by the mind, 
 and sentiments are born of feelings and 
 affections, they meet and have their 
 abiding place in Gimmel, which is the 
 closed throat opening between the two. 
 
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 Solomon said, "Out of the abundance 
 of the heart, the mouth speaketh." 
 
 While another has said 5 "As a man 
 thinketh so is he." 
 
 Therefore, Gimmel can well be 
 called the Perfected Man/ speaking by 
 the power of the Spirit, that utters 
 through him living words and has the 
 power of producing new ideas. The 
 Prophet Isaiah says : "My word shall 
 not return to me void, but it shall ac- 
 complish all that whereunto it is sent." 
 
 The natural man can produce noth- 
 ing by words. It is only when man has 
 learned the power of the Word itself, 
 and speaks at the point of equilibrium 
 through Gimmel, where the intellect 
 above and the heart beneath have cen- 
 tered; only then, will his word have 
 effect. 
 
 The hieroglyph of Gimmel is the 
 Tarot, again representing a woman but 
 now crowned with a circle of stars, a 
 sceptre in her left hand, where the As- 
 trological sign of Venus is seen upon 
 it, and in her right hand is an eagle, 
 that is the symbol of the soul. This in- 
 dicates that woman, like man, becomes 
 the Ruler of the World, when she has 
 
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 gained ascendancy over the Lower Na- 
 ture. Her Number being Three, shows 
 that through her comes completion. 
 Her sceptre, crowned with Venus, 
 shows that love in all stages rules the 
 World. 
 
 In the natural World, by her love the 
 woman establishes the family, in the 
 spiritual World she brings forth the 
 Divine Child, she attracts and draws 
 unto herself, conceals, and holds, all 
 who are touched or influenced by the 
 magnet of the Law of the Creator. Her 
 day is Friday and is governed by the 
 planet Venus, and the Aniel. 
 
 The symbol is, "Power or the com- 
 pleteness of strength." 
 
 Gimmel by its place preceded by Beth 
 shows that it is an active Principle 
 through which the word is spoken by 
 the mouth. It has one very singular re- 
 lation, forming an unobstructed con- 
 nection, between the Adonai of the 
 World of Emanation, and all the Di- 
 vine Centres of the Lower Worlds. In 
 the throat of man, we see this same 
 communication, between the inner man 
 and the outer World, and also between 
 the inner man and the invisible World. 
 
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 Gimmel makes a direct canal between 
 the Ain-Soph and the Adonai to the 
 Logos, and the Christ Centre, and end- 
 ing in the Factive or Jesus Christ cen- 
 tre. 
 
 The Fourth Letter, "Daleth," ^ is 
 sometimes called the door, which may 
 be closed, or which may be opened or 
 downward. It is also sometimes called 
 the womb which opens to let the child 
 pass from the World of darkness to 
 Light; in a Name it indicates the des- 
 tiny of individuals. This is indicated 
 by noting the position of the Letters be- 
 tween which it is placed. The hiero- 
 glyph of Daleth is a man in a sitting 
 posture, that shows by his attitude that 
 he has lost the upright. In the first pic- 
 ture of Daleth we see him holding the 
 earth in his left hand, in the right hand 
 the sceptre of the Three Principles of 
 natural life. The left leg is crossed 
 over the other and shows that he has 
 lost the power which he must regain. 
 In the other picture, he has the earth 
 poised upon his sceptre, the right leg 
 crossing the left, while the eagle repre- 
 sents his fully developed soul. The 
 Number of His Letter has already been 
 
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 explained as taking him back to Unity 
 by being Number Four. We see this in 
 the direct communication it has with 
 the Divine World of the Ain-Soph, by 
 carrying Light and Life to the lower 
 Worlds. No other canals fall into or 
 cross it. This Letter governs Thurs- 
 day; and the invisible vital fluid which 
 he carries from Unity to Lower Worlds 
 has been done by a propelling power of 
 a Will actually subservient to the Di- 
 vine. 
 
 The Letter is made by two lines, an 
 upper horizontal running slightly down- 
 ward to a perpendicular, and are almost 
 equal in length, showing that the ac- 
 tive and passive Principles are nearly 
 balanced. The horizontal Line being 
 more heavily shaded indicates that the 
 passive, is the stronger Principle in this 
 case, for, when the Active Principle 
 has but one office to perform, that of 
 generating or of giving forth, the 
 passive must receive, hold and bring 
 forth. 
 
 Daleth, according to the Tarot of 
 Papus, expresses a creation made by a 
 Creative Being according to a Divine 
 Law, but being placed as the Central 
 
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 Arcanum (for every Letter is an Ar- 
 canum or World of knowledge by it- 
 self) of the First Deptenary, it be- 
 comes a pivot that turns from the Ideal 
 of a Creative World, to the possibilities 
 of all the progressions of the Lower 
 World. It must also be borne in mind 
 that the Letters of the Tirst Septenary 
 refer to the Higher order of Intelli- 
 gence. 
 
 The symbol of Daleth is, "Destiny." 
 Man as we know him to-day, the 
 creature of impulse and passion, will 
 pass through door after door, into life 
 after life, until he attains a model ac- 
 cording to which he was created. This 
 model still exists in the mind of The 
 Creator. Daleth corresponds to the 
 Fourth Principle Chesed, or Mercy. 
 
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 CHAPTER NINTH. 
 
 LETTERS — CONTINUED. 
 
 The Fifth Letter of the Hebrew Al- 
 phabet is, "He" j-| 
 
 It is made of three lines, one hori- 
 zontal, and two perpendicular at either 
 end. That which distinguishes it from 
 Beth is the third line which is slightly 
 disjoined from the horizontal at the 
 top. This shows that "He" does not re- 
 ceive the full power of its Divine Femi- 
 nine nature, because it is cut off from 
 the channel or source of its being. 
 
 It represents the Eternal Feminine 
 Principle. The hieroglyph of "He," 
 carries the idea of power that all truly 
 feminine Letters represent. The pic- 
 ture in the Tarot represents a man, a 
 Ruler, and a Ruler of a Church. He is 
 designated as the Pope, who is sitting 
 with the thumb and two first fingers 
 raised in blessing and upholding in His 
 left hand the ancient Sistrum of Egypt, 
 
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 which here contains the full number of 
 the seven notes. The raising of the 
 thumb and two first fingers while repre- 
 senting Trinity, as recognized by the 
 Christian Church, goes further back 
 than Christianity and takes us into the 
 Temples of ancient Egypt where Osiris 
 is seen, carved in bas-relief initiating 
 some Pharoah into the Mysteries. As 
 the neophyte approaches, Osiris holds 
 the thumb and two fingers in the same 
 position, but so placed as to give the 
 Letter Beth, or the symbol of the Fem- 
 inine nature. Thi shows that the postu- 
 lant has, by training attained the state 
 of duality, where neither Principles pre- 
 dominate. This is beautifully expressed 
 in that ancient Egyptian hymn, which 
 was chanted at the ceremony of initia- 
 tion : 
 
 "Oh Fatherhood, Oh Motherhood, 
 Thou blessed two in one; 
 Absorb me ever more in Thee, 
 And find my soul's completeness." 
 
 On the other side of the picture, the 
 pillars of the chair on which the Pope 
 sits are raised as high as the top of His 
 
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 head, the Sistrum is broken, leaving the 
 three notes of the World of Emana- 
 tion above, and the four of man, or the 
 Lower World, beneath. This man rep- 
 resents an initiate into the higher mys- 
 teries, and the two columns Yakim and 
 Boaz, the active and passive Principle 
 that we find in every room of initia- 
 tion of secret orders. On the right 
 hand is the Law, and on the left liberty 
 to obey or disobey. He needs no books 
 to give him knowledge, for he received 
 by initiation the union that opens the 
 World of Knowledge to him, and the 
 broken Sistrum only shows that the 
 Fallen Man has regained his union with 
 the Trinity. This now protects the 
 Perfect Man who has attained the de- 
 velopment of the perfected square. 
 
 He does not rule by active power 
 alone, but his power is supplanted, and 
 completed by that of the Empress seen 
 in the picture of the Tarot, Number 
 Three; the esoteric meaning of Daleth 
 is the turning of the door, by which, in 
 the process of generation, the two 
 principles must work in harmony. 
 
 Since Absolute Unity was repre- 
 sented standing, the Emperor and the 
 
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 Pope as seen in the Tarot have been 
 represented sitting, shorn of their ab- 
 solute independence. This is the story 
 told in the first chapter of Genesis. 
 Here the Ideal Being was created by 
 the hidden active and passive Princi- 
 ples, and all that followed is but a par- 
 tial creation, because separated from 
 the Feminine Principle, as we see by 
 the form of the Letter. 
 
 The Sistrum refers to the most sa- 
 cred musical used in the worship in the 
 ancient Temples of Egypt and signifies 
 the Feminine Principle by the circle, and 
 its relation to the masculine, as shown 
 by the straight lines that cross it. This 
 instrument was devoted to the services 
 in the Temple of Hathor, and only 
 played upon by the virgins, or vestals 
 of the Temple. To those who under- 
 stand, it is the story of the seven vi- 
 brations of love from the lowest note 
 to the highest. To-day, in Egypt, we 
 find the same effect is produced by the 
 low crooning of the Dervishes, with 
 which their service begins until it in- 
 creases in such passionate ardor that 
 they are frequently overcome, made un- 
 conscious, and fall in a spiritual ecstasy. 
 
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 All religions have taught this truth by 
 music, or by vibrations of motion, such 
 as dancing. 
 
 The Deva-Dassis of the Temples of 
 India were chosen when young, and 
 devoted to this part of the religious ser- 
 vice; among the Shakers of the present 
 day we find the same manner of obtain- 
 ing ecstasy through the vibrations 
 caused by dancing. The Indian War 
 Dance is but another phase of the same 
 theory. When the Sistrum was divided 
 and the three seen independent of the 
 four, man was separated from the Ter- 
 nary of the Higher World, until he had 
 overcome that which related to his 
 physical nature, and the Objective 
 World. 
 
 The place occupied by the Fifth Let- 
 ter, He, follows immediately Daleth, 
 the door; through this door the soul en- 
 tered into a realization of the Invisible 
 World, and as we find it taught in the 
 Bible, has found Bi-Unity. Though He, 
 is a Feminine Letter in itself, its hiero- 
 glyph also shows it to have the mascu- 
 line nature, and to emphasize this still 
 more strongly, we see before it the ef- 
 fort it has made to gain the two in 
 
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 One, the hieroglyph showing the figure 
 with hands uplifted in supplication as 
 it seeks the union of the Two natures. 
 It is here that He loses the Feminine 
 Nature, and gains the activity of the 
 Masculine, thus becoming the Two in 
 One. 
 
 The first great meaning of He, is the 
 invisible breath, that sends forth the 
 Word through the mouth of Beth, from 
 the recesses of Gimmel, the throat. This 
 breath has been received through the 
 Universal breath of Emanation, and the 
 Letter in Astronomy denotes the Ram, 
 the nature of fire, of leadership, and 
 great sacrifice through suffering. Cor- 
 responding to this Letter is the Princi- 
 ple, "Peched," or Number which repre- 
 sents, "Fear," and here becomes fear- 
 less. 
 
 The symbol of He, is life, and the 
 Number in its relation to the Absolute, 
 must be deferred until we reach the 
 Number Ten. 
 
 The Sixth Letter, "Vau," ) is formed 
 by two lines, a very short hori- 
 zontal line, joining at the top a long 
 perpendicular one; the horizontal line, 
 though short, slopes showing that it 
 
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 came from a higher Realm to a Lower; 
 the perpendicular line represents Rela- 
 tive Unity. The hieroglyph for Vau, 
 represents the eye and all that relates 
 to Light, and Brilliancy, as we find in 
 Genesis a description of it, where it 
 says: "Let there be Light and there 
 was Light." 
 
 This came from the manifestation of 
 Jesus Christ, the Light of the World; 
 for, John said: "He was the Light, and 
 the Light was the Light of men." 
 
 When Paul saw Jesus, at Damascus, 
 in the glare of the noontide sun he was 
 blinded by the dazzling Light that was 
 brighter than the sun. So we see no 
 hieroglyph that could better express the 
 meaning of Vau than the blazing Sun, 
 from the centre of which the Love 
 Principle is sent forth in the form of a 
 cupid, aiming an arrow at man. In the 
 one picture the archer is blindfolded, 
 and he hits the man in the pineal gland; 
 this gland is the organ of man's high- 
 est intuitive faculties, and when he has 
 become developed so that he can see 
 with the inner eye, the arrow from the 
 sun, God hits him in his heart, and 
 
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 opens the fountain of love which is 
 above all other faculties. 
 
 Vau stands for the Adonai, the 
 Eternal Sun, who at this upper Sep- 
 tenary governs, like Osiris, the Upper 
 and Lower Worlds, Spirit and Matter. 
 It is the Logos, whose centre is in the 
 Creative World, having been sent forth 
 by the Adonai. The Adonai in His 
 individuality never leaves the Supreme 
 World, but manifests this individuality 
 in His different capacities as the Word 
 or Logos, the Christ and the Jesus 
 Christ. 
 
 The World in which the Vau has its 
 place is the World of Ideals, with Be- 
 ings unmanifested. It follows the He, 
 and precedes the Zain. 
 
 The symbol of Vau is, "Love." It is 
 seen as the source of life. 
 
 In the hieroglyph are also three peo- 
 ple, a youth standing with folded arms 
 where two roads meet, and on either 
 side of him a woman. The one on his 
 right hand is crowned with Gold, the 
 one on the left is crowned with a vine, 
 signifying dissipation. The spirit of 
 Justice stands with a bow and arrow 
 ready to punish the tendency to vice, 
 
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 while pure love attracts the youth to 
 the Higher Feminine. He does not at 
 first see the difference between lust and 
 love, but when once realized, the Lower 
 Feminine has lost her Power. 
 
 The Vau was represented in Egypt 
 as the offspring of Osiris and Isis, ani 
 on the walls of Her most sacred Tem- 
 ples at Philae, its carvings are still to 
 be seen. In the religion of our time, we 
 call it the Father, the Son, and the 
 Spirit; but in the time of Egypt's glory, 
 when she was the centre of philosophy, 
 it was called Osiris, Isis, and Horis. 
 This was during the first, or Taurian 
 cycle where Apis representing the Bull 
 was the object of worship. In the his- 
 torical rooms at New York City, in the 
 National Museum of London, and the 
 great museum of Ghizeh at Cairo, are 
 proofs of the respect paid to this ani- 
 mal. In India, even at the present time, 
 we find the Sacred Cow the object of 
 veneration. 
 
 We have now reached the last of the 
 First Septenary, the "Letter Zain" ] 
 
 No series can progress beyond seven, 
 and each Septenary begins and closes 
 with a Number that can be taken back 
 
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 to Unity. This is also true of the mid- 
 dle Letter. The perfect law of Num- 
 bers and Letters is never broken, if 
 continued in a progressive series ac- 
 cording to this Law. 
 
 The hieroglyph represents an arrow, 
 but the figure in the picture is that of a 
 Conqueror, surrounded by four columns, 
 which support a starry decked canopy. 
 The pillars represent the elements that 
 have come forth from the primeval 
 ether and this in turn has come from 
 the Hyle of the World of the Ain- 
 Soph ; these elements are for man to 
 conquer, and the four animals seen in 
 the hieroglyph are also those seen in 
 Ezekiel's vision, the lion, the eagle, the 
 bull and the lamb. They are symbols 
 also of the Quarternary and of U~z 
 Four Worlds. 
 
 These also represent the red blood 
 from the heart of the lion, the gluten 
 from the white eagle, which is the high- 
 est development of physical, the heart 
 and the brains, while the Bull repre- 
 sents physical life in its fullest possi- 
 bilities, the lamb represents the spirit of 
 sacrifice and is willing to give all for 
 man's salvation. 
 
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 The Letter Zain makes a transition 
 from the First Septenary to the next. 
 The Conqueror is seen with two 
 Sphinxes, one white and the other 
 black, harnessed to his chariot. This 
 represents the darkness out of which 
 man emerges and the purity he has at- 
 tained through initiation. In the order, 
 known as the "Fraternity of the Treas- 
 ury of Light," we find the perpetua- 
 tion of this high initiation. It is a 
 brotherhood scattered over the world, 
 where each member, by his illumination, 
 is in communication with the rest, by 
 thought transference. The Letter Zain, 
 more than any other, shows the preser- 
 vation of the Divine in the human and 
 corresponds with Vau of the Quarter- 
 nary. 
 
 In this Letter is seen the beginning of 
 motion directed by a Will, as the ar- 
 row can be sent to all the Lower 
 Worlds, and by reflex action comes back 
 to the place from whence it started. 
 
 This is direct motion, and through it 
 the World was created. No motion can 
 be made in one element which does not 
 effect the element below, and indirectly 
 the one above. A vibration sent through 
 
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 the air by a stone which falls into the 
 water has left an endless effect on the 
 air; in the water it reaches the farthest 
 limit of that element, and when it 
 sinks into the earth at the bottom of the 
 water it leaves not only a vibration, but 
 an impress. The arrow, in the case of 
 Zain, is sent from the Creative World, 
 by the central Will of the Universe; it 
 continues direct motion until it reaches 
 the next World below. 
 The symbol of Zain is, "Victory." 
 This is emblazoned in the letters 
 V. C, engraved on the Conqueror's 
 shield upon the front of the chariot, as 
 also the winged globe of Egypt. The 
 Letter is formed much like the figure 
 Seven. 
 
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 CHAPTER TENTH. 
 
 SECOND SEPTENARY. 
 
 We have now followed the Letter 
 Zain into the next World, Formation, to 
 which belongs the Second Septenary. 
 
 The Relative Unity which is the be- 
 ginning of this Septenary, is the Letter, 
 "Heth" j-| 
 
 This Letter like "He," in the First 
 Septenary, is made by two upright lines, 
 connected by a horizontal line above. 
 To the ordinary observer, it cannot be 
 distinguished from He in its formation; 
 but to the close observer the three lines 
 in Heth are closely connected, and there 
 is no opening between the perpendicular 
 at the left and the horizontal above. 
 Even Hebrew writers fail to make this 
 distinction between these Letters. Heth 
 shows the vital current passing uninter- 
 ruptedly through it, while in He a part 
 of it was cut off from its source. 
 Strange as it may seem, Heth as a Let- 
 
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 ter is stronger than He. He, occupies its 
 place in the First Septenary where it 
 is purely a Passive Principle in connec- 
 tion with Aleph and the Adonai, while 
 Heth occupies the place of leader of 
 the next Septenary. 
 
 Each Septenary begins with a positive 
 Letter, though it may be passive in its 
 nature, it is always active in its opera- 
 tion. The Adonai had the unity in Him- 
 self with the Feminine Principle un- 
 manifested, but was positive in His 
 operations. 
 
 In The Second Septenary Heth, pas- 
 sive in Her Nature, is the seventh in 
 Principle which has become, not only 
 active, but the leader of a series of 
 progressions because she has attained 
 the Bi-Une state. The nearer this is 
 attained by man or woman, the greater 
 their power to rule others. Heth has 
 her centre of power in the World of 
 Formation and is limited. Aleph, as 
 the beginning of all Letters and all the 
 Septenaries, has unlimited power. 
 
 The pictorial hieroglyph of Heth rep- 
 resents a woman, holding in her hands 
 the scales of Justice, by which she 
 
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 weighs and judges all things brought 
 before her. 
 
 The meaning of Heth is a field of 
 vast possibilities, and is spoken of in 
 Genesis, second chapter, where, "Yav- 
 veh-Elohim made man of the dust of 
 the ground," or in other words, he cov- 
 ered with a vesture the ideal that had 
 been created by the Logos. Man would 
 never have needed this material cover- 
 ing, if he had continued to live in the 
 Realm of Light. 
 
 Looking upon the animal World, 
 man's Will was stirred by his desire to 
 descend into this Lower World and 
 here he found himself unprotected. 
 
 In Egypt, from whence Moses no 
 doubt borrowed his ideas of Creation, 
 the God Ptah was the God of form, who 
 moulded the bodies of Fallen Man. The 
 field of Heth denotes something requir- 
 ing great labor and the union of all the 
 powers above with man's own efforts, 
 and will. 
 
 The Feminine Nature that receives, 
 holds, and brings forth, is symbolized 
 by the earth as a field, and Heth as a 
 mother and Creator. The work to be 
 done by Heth must be done in the 
 
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 World of Formation, where forms are 
 substantial, but neither material nor 
 spiritual. 
 
 In Genesis, 2:19, "Out of the ground 
 the Lord brought forth every beast of 
 the field, and every fowl of the air." 
 
 This is a continuation of the account 
 in the first chapter of Genesis, where it 
 is said: "He made man in his own 
 image, male and female." 
 
 The Number of the Letter Heth, be- 
 ing eight, signifies the union of two 
 Worlds and they correspond to t e 
 union of the Formative World with the 
 Factive, or the Factive World with tne 
 Creative, and also corresponds with the 
 union of two natures, the Lower with 
 the Higher Feminine. Its great idea, 
 it is seen, is a balancing power. This 
 Letter also shows something to be at- 
 tained by labor, while the former "He" 
 denotes absolute existence, without any 
 effort whatever. Astronomically it sym- 
 bolizes Libra. 
 
 The symbol is : "Equilibrium." 
 
 We now come to the Ninth Letter, 
 "Teth" £ 
 
 It is formed by a Vau, united at its 
 base with a horizontal straight line 
 
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 which ascends at the right, turns back 
 towards the Vau, and ends with a Yod. 
 Yod does not unite with Vau, because its 
 work of Absolute Unity is being done 
 by the Vau. In this Letter three 
 Worlds are represented as acting with 
 it. It signifies protection from above 
 to that which is below, and it is this 
 Number and Letter that unites the First 
 Septenary with the Third. Its meaning 
 is given as a roof, a shelter, or protec- 
 tion, and it will protect all the inmates 
 who are initiates of the Light of Wis- 
 dom. 
 
 The hieroglyph of Heth, pictured in 
 the Tarot, represents an old man hold- 
 ing aloft in his right hand a lantern. He 
 is protected by a mantle and hood and 
 is the culmination of light to the young 
 man we saw starting forth with the two 
 feminines one on either side. He had 
 the power to choose betwen vice and 
 virtue, in the sixth Arcanum. The ar- 
 row which was then shot from the 
 height over the head of this young man 
 has now become the staff upon which 
 he leans, it first enlightens his intelli- 
 gence, by the revival of intuition and 
 then his affection, until it becomes a 
 
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 Light to his path. Solomon described 
 this young man in many parts of 
 Proverbs. When he has attained the 
 fullness of time allotted to him, he 
 holds aloft the lamp, that attracts all 
 those who behold him. In the twenty- 
 third Psalm it is said: 'Thy rod and 
 thy staff, they comfort me." 
 
 Every true master has a staff, a rod, 
 and a lamp. An initiate who has 
 gained his staff and his lamp, has be- 
 come a Master or an Adept. When 
 Moses struck the rock in the wilderness, 
 he struck it with the rod (this was his 
 visible means of producing the miracu- 
 lous result), but the staff that gave him 
 the power to perform this miracle was 
 invisible. The staff is always invisible. 
 It is the indwelling Word, which is 
 only seen in its results. The rod may 
 be that which Christ used to annoint 
 the eyes of the blind man, to heal the 
 sick, and to feed the multitude; indeed, 
 whatever is seen by others and thought 
 by them to be the power that does the 
 work, is only a manifestation of an in- 
 ward force that they do not know. The 
 difference between the rod and the staff 
 is, that the one is the means used to 
 
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 accomplish, and the other is the power 
 gained to use those means. The lamp 
 is the Light of Wisdom, by which the 
 Word can always be spoken with un- 
 erring results. To gain the rod and 
 the staff, and the lamp, three Worlds 
 must be called upon to act in unison 
 with man's power. In the first, we 
 have the power that can only be at- 
 tained by prayer; in the second, we 
 have those who have united themselves 
 with the Master by concentration of 
 purpose, and steadfastness of pursuit. 
 I the Third World, we have the nat- 
 ural forces to which man belongs. In 
 the case of true healing, we see this 
 more plainly than in anything else. The 
 natural force, or magnetic force or 
 breath which the spirit made use of as 
 a medium, is the connecting force be- 
 tween the Factive and Formative 
 Worlds. Beyond this, if it is indeed 
 true healing, it reaches into the World 
 of Creation by the "Cabiric chain" to 
 which the initiate has been joined. 
 When we can reach the Creative World 
 the cure is instantaneous. This is the 
 result of a life long effort and prac 
 tice. 
 
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 The symbol of this sign is, "Wisdom." 
 
 In Astrology, Heth is related to the 
 sign of Leo. This is the red lion 
 spoken of in Hermetic language as 
 united with the gluten of the white 
 eagle. The lion's functions are in the 
 heart, and when the equilibrium is estab- 
 lished between the intellectual forces of 
 the brain, represented by the gluten of 
 the white eagle, and the love forces of 
 the heart, man has become an Adept. 
 
 We now come to the Number of 
 Numbers, "Ten," the Hebrew Letter be- 
 ing, "Yod" 1 
 
 This Letter is formed like a dot or 
 period. It is the completion and full 
 expression of all Numbers. From this 
 central dot radiates to an endless cir- 
 cumference the power of this Unity, and 
 from this is taken the first Letter of 
 the Tetragrammatan, and of the all 
 powerful Word, Yahveh. 
 
 The pictorial hieroglyph represents 
 the wheel of destiny with a sphinx di- 
 recting it; while the wheel turns up- 
 ward and what the world calls "Good" 
 predominates. When it reaches the do- 
 minion of the sphinx at its extreme up- 
 ward movement, it begins to turn down- 
 
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 ward, and indicates darkness, which the 
 ordinary man calls evil. This originated 
 with the old Egyptian myths of Osiris 
 going into the lower Worlds when the 
 day was done and night began to reign. 
 
 This Letter Yod, has attained the 
 equilibrium of the Two Forces, as is 
 seen in the Number Ten, where the 
 Active Unity stands side by side with 
 the Passive, or Divine Feminine Prin- 
 ciple. Yod, therefore, as represented by 
 this Principle, shows that a higher wis- 
 dom than is seen by the Lower World, 
 is constantly judging of the progress of 
 the wheel and meting out the justice 
 that shall be tried by the downward 
 movement, and at the same time where 
 the reward shall come after the trial. 
 
 "Just is the wheel. ,, 
 
 This is the Eternal Principle of life. 
 Not until the wheel has touched the 
 earth in its downward tendency, can it 
 begin to go upward with renewed force 
 from the power it has gained by desire. 
 This is what the world calls, "The 
 wheel of Fate." 
 
 This is guided by what seems to be a 
 blind force apparently having no rela- 
 tions to that which has been in the 
 
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 body. The Master of Nazareth, who 
 knew all Laws and Principles in each 
 World has said, "Whatsoever a man 
 soweth that shall he also reap, and 
 whatsoever ye have done to others, must 
 be done to you again." 
 
 But also according to the Law of 
 what the Rosicrucians call, "Multipli- 
 cation, thirty, sixty and an hundred 
 fold." 
 
 No seed ever planted ever producer 
 merely one of its kind. From one ker- 
 nel of corn, there will be at least from 
 four to a thousand kernels brought 
 forth. In the book of Revelation, we 
 are told that John saw the dead, small 
 and great receiving, for the deeds done 
 in the body, their rewards. As the Fac- 
 tive World is the only World of bodily 
 or physical conditions, it must be in 
 this World that the seed is sown for 
 good or evil, and must be reaped where 
 it is sown. As this little life of three 
 score and ten is too short to reap the 
 good or evil, that any soul has done in 
 the body, we must again come to earth 
 to reap here what was sown. It is 
 when we have learned to do nothing 
 but good, that we cease to need the dis- 
 
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cipline of earth. This is why the doc- 
 trine of reincarnation, is the only one 
 that can show the justice of the su- 
 preme Power, and this teaches man 
 that he is not in the hands of an arbi- 
 trary despot, but that he is making his 
 own life for good or evil, for all future 
 ages. 
 
 The scales of justice, which we find 
 the constant symbol of Unity, enable 
 us to look at every human being as one 
 who is receiving the fruits of that 
 which he has sown in the past, though 
 he may not remember it. He will see 
 all his lives and all his deeds when he 
 enters the invisible world as a great 
 panorama moving before him. They are 
 all written in his consciousness as well 
 as on the light that belongs to his per- 
 sonality and can no more be erased than 
 a star can be removed from the firma- 
 ment. This is why the testimony of 
 drowning men always reveals at the mo- 
 ment of unconsciousness at the point of 
 drowning, every event of their lives, 
 both good and evil, some of which have 
 long been forgotten. This is what is 
 referred to in the Biblical passage, 
 where it is mentioned that when the 
 
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book of life is opened, every man's 
 acts, will be found recorded there. 
 
 The sphinx in the hieroglyph, in her 
 watchfulness over the field has the qual- 
 ity of all four things of existence. It 
 has the courage, and heart of the lion, 
 the wisdom of a serpent, the strength 
 of the Bull, and the face of the human 
 being, looking forward to know the 
 mystery of life. It also has the wings 
 that give it the quality of the bird, and 
 which enable it to mount into Realms 
 beyond that of ordinary mortals. This 
 face looks calmly forth through the 
 vista of the ages to the attainment of 
 perfection. The symbol of the sphinx 
 has been found among the ancient ruins 
 of Yucatan as a relic of the Mayas, 
 where Dr. Le Plangeon, himself, found 
 a small model of the sphinx of Egypt 
 buried many feet under ground. 
 
 The Yod, represents potential mani- 
 festation, an endless spiritual duration. 
 It is only limited by the circumference 
 of immensity, which radiates from the 
 centre of the Letter. Belonging as it 
 does to the Formative World, it is 
 known to the inhabitants of that World 
 as working in equilibrium with the Di- 
 
vine Feminine that makes it a complete 
 union. 
 
 Its symbol is, "Eternity." 
 
 In the parable of the Ten Virgins, 
 five of whom were wise, and five were 
 foolish, we find the perfect Number 
 Ten, divided in the Lower Feminine 
 Principle represented by the foolish vir- 
 gins, who had no oil in their lamps, and 
 no preparation for the light or wisdom 
 they would need. Five were wise, hav- 
 ing prepared themselves by the oil in 
 their lamps for the day of trial or reck- 
 oning which should surely come. 
 
 In the parable of the talents, to one 
 was given five, to another two, and to 
 another one. When the account to 
 their Lord for the talents was made, and 
 the one who had been given five brought 
 another five, the Master said: "Well 
 done, thou good and faithful servant; 
 because thou hast been faithful over a 
 few things, I will make thee ruler over 
 many things, enter thou into the joy of 
 thy Lord." 
 
 The doubling of the five talents made 
 a completion of the Ten Principles, and 
 at this point, he had been made a com- 
 plete master of his life, and could 
 
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 choose as in the hieroglyph in Vau, 
 whether he should follow the virgin 
 crowned with Gold, or the one crowned 
 with the emblem of dissipation. The 
 one who hid his talents had it taken 
 from him because he had made no use 
 of it and on account of his laxness had 
 to commence again. The one with the 
 two talents received a proportionate re- 
 ward. He could not have handled the 
 reward given the one with the five tal- 
 ents, but when his own had been dou- 
 bled, he had learned the steps whereby 
 they had been won. He knew they be- 
 longed to him, because they were the 
 outgrowth of his original talents. This 
 proves that souls do not come into this 
 world equally endowed, but receive 
 their reward according to the talent 
 given. The one with the five talents 
 made ten, and the one with two talents 
 showed he was an ordinary mortal, but 
 on the road where by faithfulness to 
 himself, he would receive five talents, 
 and so gain his final reward through 
 the use of them. 
 
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CHAPTER ELEVENTH. 
 
 SECOND SEPTENARY — CONTINUED. 
 
 In the Creative World, the Divine 
 Feminine was concealed, except as indi- 
 cated by the Number Four; but in the 
 Second Septenary or the Formative 
 World, it stands forth with equal power 
 as co-worker with that of the Activ: 
 Principle of Unity. In the secrets of 
 its results we find all due to the Will 
 to formulate and execute. Von Hek- 
 moth, one of the great Occultists of the 
 Seventeenth century, said, "The Will is 
 a substance, more subtle than ether, 
 finer than electricity and can only be 
 controlled by the psychic (or soul 
 power)." 
 
 The failure of men in life, is because 
 they do not understand the power of 
 this substance known as Will. It is di- 
 vided into the Divine Will; the Uni- 
 versal Will running through nature; 
 and the Human Will which is but an 
 
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atom of the Great Will. It is in its na- 
 ture universal, but affected by the dif- 
 ferent planes on which it acts. Inter- 
 planetary, interstellar, and penetrating 
 all substances. It can equally act 
 through the World of Emanation, of 
 Creation, of Formation, and of the Ma- 
 terial or Factive World. The Will 
 cannot be controlled by thought; it is 
 inherent in the nature of Unity and 
 belongs to the Yod. Consciousness is 
 spontaneous and cannot be controlled, 
 but it lacks the power of the Will to 
 perform. Consciousness can act inde- 
 pendent of the Will, but the Will cannot 
 act independent of the conscience, 
 though generally both work in unison. 
 The Will cannot be acted upon by the 
 intellect alone which is a mental quality, 
 nor by the affections alone, nor even by 
 both united. It is the Ego alone that 
 can force the Will into the pursuit of 
 any given purpose. 
 
 When Disraeli, or Lord Beaconsfield, 
 as a young Jewish boy, walked the 
 streets of London, he conceived the idea 
 that he would die Prime Minister to 
 Queen Victoria. From that day all the 
 powers of his ego, intellectual and emo- 
 
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tional gathered themselves and worked 
 unceasingly to that end. Whatever 
 might prove to be an obstacle to his 
 future, or hurtful, he avoided on the 
 one hand, and thought on the other all 
 that would be advantageous, not only 
 towards gaining this end, but towards 
 being able to represent with dignity the 
 office he desired. 
 
 In dying Disraeli said, "Anyone can 
 be what he wills to be." 
 
 Yod, is the storehouse of this Will 
 from which it is sent to all lesser 
 Worlds, and to every living creature; 
 even the herb, before it has reached the 
 lowest form of animal motion, shows 
 by the direction of its germ, this Will 
 that sends upward the stalk, and down- 
 ward the root. 
 
 In Genesis 1 :2, we are told that the 
 World was "Formless and clothed in 
 darkness." 
 
 Upon this was sent the Will of the 
 Yod, as an outer force starting into vi- 
 bration, that which should afterward be 
 more clearly spoken into existence by 
 the Logos. The description of Crea- 
 tion here given, is that of a picture in 
 the mind of an artist before he has 
 
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placed a finger to the canvas. The Yod, 
 dwelling at the centre of Emanation 
 sends forth the Sun to abide in the 
 same manner in the centre of the Cre- 
 ative World, as the Logos or Word. 
 He is to be the artist who will bring 
 forth the design which we have just de- 
 scribed, and make of it a living reality. 
 By his vibration there is a continuation 
 of the motion spoken of as starting 
 from Aleph and first manifested in the 
 Letter Zain. In the Word Yo-He, Vau 
 He, we find Yod as the father, He as 
 the Mother, and from these two the 
 Vau was brought forth. 
 The symbol of Yod, is "Completion" 
 The Eleventh Letter, "Caph" ^ 1S 
 formed like Gimmel, but the arms are 
 longer and give a stronger grasp in de- 
 noting strength. With this Letter rep- 
 resented by Unities in opposition, de- 
 generation begins its work. It is here 
 that the Lower Feminine asserts Her- 
 self as the equal of man, and after- 
 wards tramples him under foot. The 
 Two Unities added correspond to the 
 Number Two, as well as the Number 
 Eleven, and as mentioned in Two, is 
 the first manifestation of the Divine 
 
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 Nature. Even in the Creative World 
 the combat began, and will continue. 
 
 The Arcanum of this Letter expresses 
 strength and vitality, and shows a wom- 
 an without any effort closing the jaws 
 of a lion. She wears a crown upon her 
 head, shaped like the figure eight, placed 
 in a horizontal position. It must never 
 be forgotten that all illustrations of 
 strength (with the exception of Aleph) 
 are given in the form of a woman. In 
 this picture is seen the life of the true 
 adept, crowned with a circle of astral 
 light, which is under the control of the 
 human Realm and has the possibility 
 of becoming one with the Divine Will, 
 and therefore, accomplishes miraculous 
 results without effort. 
 
 In Astronomy it denotes Mars, the 
 Elohim of concentrated activity, and 
 opposition and aggression. It also gov- 
 erns Tuesday. 
 
 "The symbol is, "Separation." 
 
 This Number, in the Temples of in- 
 itiation, is seen in the two columns 
 through which the initiate is called to 
 pass. They are not only of opposing 
 colors, but are opposite each other and 
 are traced back as far as Solomon's 
 
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 Temple. The pillars of Hercules which 
 are the land marks of separation, be- 
 tween the Continents of Africa and Eu- 
 rope at Gibraltar were made the symbol 
 of the sign of Gemini, the head of the 
 air triplicity. Here is the man with two 
 natures, opposing each other, separated 
 from each other, and yet belonging to 
 each other. In Egypt, every Temple has 
 for its entrance a broad doorway with 
 a pilon tower on either side. It was 
 this Principle represented by the sym- 
 bol of "Separation," which was the aim 
 of every Pharoah to attain, who started 
 on the study of the Principles of Num- 
 bers and Letters. 
 
 Sampson showed his knowledge of 
 this Principle by having his hands di- 
 rected to the central pillars of the tem- 
 ple, so that by putting his arms around 
 them he could pull down the entire 
 building. This is an illustration of the 
 fact that, anyone by living an entirely 
 animal existence can destroy the bal- 
 ance or equilibrium that supports the 
 universe, namely Wisdom and Love. 
 
 The Golden Hathor has been vividly 
 pictured by one of our modern writers, 
 as entrancing all who heard her from 
 
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 her position on the centre of the Pilon 
 Tower. As the temple was approached, 
 these massive towers of masonry rising 
 seventy feet from the earth, had no 
 roof, no relationship. They were merely 
 the entrance to the vestibule of the tem- 
 ple, but when the temple itself was en- 
 tered, these towers were united by a 
 stone bridge, designating the union of 
 the two in one, or Bi-Unity. Who- 
 ever could stand upon the centre of 
 this bridge had developed both natur ; 
 and held the world by their magnetic 
 charm. Hathor was the Mary Magda- 
 lene of the Egyptian Religion and when 
 she sang to her people, from the centre 
 of this bridge, none could resist her. 
 Men left their families, all relationships 
 of earth were forgotten, as they 
 swarmed in masses from every part of 
 the Kingdom to reach her. If they 
 were premature, they were sure to meet 
 death. The whole is one of the finest 
 descriptions ever given, of a soul, who 
 has united the Higher Feminine with 
 the Lower, the Higher Ego with the 
 Lower, the human with the Divine. To- 
 day the result is the same where one can 
 speak the Word from this innermost 
 
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 centre of their being. They can attract 
 and hold and influence, and heal, and 
 none can tell the secret of their pow- 
 ers. 
 
 We find this Law of Separation in 
 the Yod, and it is the beginning of 
 man's degeneration. Here he was sep- 
 arated from all he loved. In the study 
 of Letters from this time we need ex- 
 pect nothing but struggles and suffer- 
 ings to regain his former powers. 
 
 We have now reached the Twelfth 
 Letter, "Lamed" ^ 
 
 This is formed like our figure Five, 
 and denotes the arm or that which may 
 be extended in an expansive movement. 
 Lamed is applied to all ideas of con- 
 ception, extention, and power derived 
 from elevation. This is seen by the 
 fact that the Number, in being reduced 
 to its simplest expression denotes Trin- 
 ity, which points to the Three Worlds, 
 and particularly to the Divine World, 
 which can only be attained after man 
 has succeeded in his struggles. 
 
 The expansion denoted by Lamed is 
 that which follows the involution of 
 the Divine Spirit that is in man by the 
 Divine Law of Evolution; this is the 
 
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 continuation of the motion in Yod, and 
 the turning in the wheel of destiny 
 through successive revolutions, has en- 
 abled man to reach the state where 
 spirit is enclosed in matter, at first 
 ethereal, then fleshly, and finally in 
 shells. The law of expansion now be- 
 gins to work, the power of Divine work- 
 ing begins to throw off layer after layer 
 of encrustations or vestures, until man 
 stands as spiritual being clothed in a 
 garment of Light. As described in the 
 Nostic books he is now upright, and has 
 fulfilled the idea contained in Yod that 
 he should be a Bi-Une nature. 
 
 The picture in the hieroglyph shows a 
 man suspended from his left leg on a 
 gibbet placed between two trees, each 
 having six branches that had been cut 
 off, making twelve in all. This shows 
 that he has been cut off from the twelve 
 branches of the tree of life, and has 
 reached Lamed which completes his 
 downfall. The man's hands are tied 
 behind his back, he is helpless, and the 
 position of his hands form a reverse 
 triangle of which his head is the point. 
 His body sways with the wind and the 
 crossing of his right leg over the left 
 
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 forms a cross. This is the same young 
 man, who in the world of Emanation 
 was pictured as Aleph, the juggler. In 
 Vau he was placed in a position of 
 temptation between vice and virtue, and 
 now through successive steps, having 
 passed the Yod, we find him caught in 
 the position of helpless destruction. His 
 plunge, after his separation from Yod, 
 is the result now pictured in Lamed; it 
 is the first action of a personal Will pre- 
 sumptuously followed even to ruin; but 
 by discipline, bringing forth from this 
 Yod a new spiritual life. 
 
 The symbol of Lamed is, "Uncer- 
 tainty." 
 
 - Will and desire are the acting forces. 
 "Back of Will stands desire." 
 
 Whatever the talent to be used, 
 whether in the arts or sciences, or in : 
 the gift of healing, everything is super- 
 ficial until done from this centre of 
 equilibriated forces. A few characters 
 mentioned in history, even while upon 
 earth attained this power, and the num- 
 ber is constantly being increased. 
 Moses attained it by forty years of soli- 
 tude in the mountains, until the bush 
 was aflame with light and yet was not 
 
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 consumed He knew that his interiors 
 had been opened to the highest degree, 
 but at the time did not know the means 
 by which it had been accomplished. Ten 
 years had been given by him to the 
 study of each of the Four Worlds and 
 at the end of that time he had mastered 
 all the Principles of the Ten Sephiroths. 
 Goethe understood this when he said : 
 "A talent can be perfected in solitude; 
 character only in the World." 
 
 The forty years in the mountain, was 
 .! Moses* school of learning, his going into 
 the glamour of Pharoah's court, showed 
 the development of his character. 
 
 "Enoch walked and talked with God 
 >and was not for God took him." 
 
 It has only been a matter of recent 
 L date, that the book of Enoch has been 
 u found and placed in the hands of the 
 .student. It deals with subjects barely 
 i hinted at in the Bible, such as angels, 
 I visions of the invisible World, and the 
 : anal judgment. Melchizadek was the 
 founder of the order of Melchizadek 
 | (the Prophet and forerunner of 
 Christ). Indeed, by some Cabalists he 
 is considered as being one of the mani- 
 festations of Vau, the Son. He had 
 
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 this high spiritual development, which 
 can never be attained while man is in- 
 terested in the Factive World with his 
 attention fixed on the things around 
 him. It is only the concentration of 
 the mind on a single purpose that will 
 bring this result. 
 
 We have now reached the Thirteenth 
 Letter, "Mem" Q the middle Moth- 
 er Letter, which has its place in 
 the Hebrew Alphabet as the productive 
 force of the Formative World. It is 
 made with a Vau, to the left of which 
 a Beth almost united. 
 
 Mem represents the substance and the 
 moulding Principle of that which is re- 
 ceived from the Active Principle. While 
 the first Letter Aleph was the first Let- 
 ter of the First Ternary, the first Sep- 
 tenary, and the entire Hebrew Alpha- 
 bet, Mem is the Sixth Letter of the 
 Second Septenary, and we see here the 
 progression of Creation as taught by 
 the Hebrew Letters. In this case the 
 Mother Letter protects, transforms, and 
 moulds, and is a receptive as well as a 
 Creative power. It is after Mem has 
 begun to take the step downward, that 
 this Mother Letter is needed to trans- 
 
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 form man from the physical to the 
 spiritual being for which he is de- 
 signed. 
 
 We have already spoken of Mem, as 
 one of the Three Mother Letters, but 
 we must enlarge upon it as one of the 
 most important to be found in all de- 
 partments of life, next to the straight 
 line of Absolute Unity. The sum of 
 the two Numbers, one, and three making 
 four, represents the great Tetragram- 
 matan, by which all the relations and 
 magical workings of the Yod, and the 
 He, the Vau and his He are accom- 
 plished. 
 
 As in the first Septenary, the He 
 which was Number five, represented the 
 first Feminine made manifest in the 
 Tetragrammatan, so in the second Sep- 
 tenary it is still more plainly manifested, 
 by Yod having doubled its power, 
 though He is yet a part of the Tetra- 
 grammatan. 
 
 The scale in the descending Septen- 
 ary places Relative Unity at the begin- 
 ning of each Septenary, an octave be- 
 low that of the one preceding. 
 
 The fourteenth Letter, is "Nun" J 
 
 This is formed with a Vau, a lower 
 
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 arm extended on the left. It repre- 
 sents the Pentegram, or the most per- 
 fect representation of man acting from 
 the centre of his own will. The Num- 
 ber One and Four, added together, give 
 us the intellectual man and trained will, 
 with power over his senses, hence the 
 passions and the elements are at his 
 mercy. Being a man to whom was 
 given the five talents, he becomes after- 
 wards the man who by doubling them 
 made them the perfect Ten and re- 
 ceives the perfect man's reward. This 
 is the place where man finds himself 
 perfectly satisfied with his physical 
 and mental development. 
 
 The hieroglyph shows a woman with 
 wings; it designates the fruit brought 
 forth by Mem, the mother Letter, and 
 the pouring out of the fluid, wine, that 
 is the result of ripeness and growth. 
 The genius of this woman is called the 
 genius of the Sun and pours the es- 
 sence of life from one vessel to an- 
 other without the loss of the least atom. 
 We learn from this, that the life force, 
 from the dual forces of Unity returns 
 to its life source without diminution, 
 We also know that as the distance in- 
 
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 creases between the Creative World on 
 the one side and the most remote world 
 of creatures on the other, it is the qual- 
 ity of the essence that is diminished, 
 while the quantity always remains the 
 same. 
 
 Man's hope of Eternal Life is by ab- 
 sorbing this essence in his interior be- 
 ing, and letting it radiate to the body 
 or shell, which has become hardened. 
 
 The symbol of Nun is, "Developed 
 man." 
 
 Man is still in the Formative World, 
 preparing to be sent to the Factive 
 World, of fathers and mothers and cor- 
 poreal bodies, and to ceaseless activity, 
 that fascinate without satisfying. 
 
 The place of Nun in the Septenary, is 
 the last one of the Second Septenary 
 and denotes the lowest form in the 
 Formative World which man has 
 reached in his atomic or ethereal body. 
 The astronomical significance relates 
 man to Scorpio. 
 
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 CHAPTER TWELFTH. 
 
 THIRD SEPTENARY. 
 
 We have now reached the Third Sep- 
 tenary of the Hebrew Alphabet. 
 
 This belongs to the Factive World. 
 We must expect, in entering this World, 
 to find the activity of the Material 
 body, and the human mind, the predomi- 
 nating elements. All realization of the 
 spiritual relationship to the higher and 
 Invisible Worlds vanishes, when the 
 Ego is born on this plane, though the 
 spiritual connection still exists. Words- 
 worth in his ode to Immortality has 
 most beautifully expressed this blind- 
 ness of the soul, and forgetfulness of all 
 that previously belonged to it. 
 
 "The soul that rises with us our life's 
 star, 
 
 Has had elsewhere its setting and Com- 
 eth from afar. 
 
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 Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in 
 
 utter nakedness, 
 But trailing clouds of glory do we come 
 
 from God, who is our home. 
 Shades of the prison house begin to 
 
 close around the growing boy." 
 
 The full power of vibratory force, 
 which started from its highest centre, 
 has now become the coarser element of 
 motion to correspond with the gross 
 body of man. The physical would be 
 destroyed by this higher vibration. 
 
 This Septenary, begins with the Let- 
 ter, "Samek" J£) 
 
 This Letter is formed as a serpent 
 with its tail in its mouth, thus making 
 a circle. This circle is the motion 
 started in Zain, and brought back upon 
 itself. In Zain this motion was direct, 
 going from the one Will, and was cre- 
 ated, but swerved from its course by 
 the separation of man's Will from the 
 Creative, until it attained a circular mo- 
 tion, when it became the motion of for- 
 mation; Samek is Feminine in its na- 
 ture. 
 
 The form of this Letter partakes of 
 the form of the Letter Mem, except that 
 
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 in Mem the Vau is separated from man, 
 who is represented by the horizontal 
 line, and the Yod to which it belongs. 
 This Letter denotes limitation. Man 
 cannot go beyond his environment, he- 
 redity, or innate Ego. Destiny is repre- 
 sented by the circle, the ego by the 
 centre of the circle, and the seed is 
 what emanates from the centre in ac- 
 tion. 
 
 The hieroglyph is the devil symboliz- 
 ing the astral forces that can only be 
 revealed through this symbol. By the 
 side of Satan, we find much that we 
 have seen in the preceding hieroglyphs. 
 Here, however, everything is reversed. 
 With the very first hieroglyph, the Jug- 
 gler combines, by the laws of spirit, 
 that which would afterwards bring 
 forth Creation. He raises his left arm 
 toward the Creator, while his right arm 
 points downward towards the Universe. 
 He holds the magic wand, and the 
 demon holds the lighted torch. One 
 leads into the light, and the other to 
 the darkness of destruction. Here the 
 vivifying forces of the Creative World 
 has become deadly and destructive. The 
 devil or Samek stands upon a cube sur- 
 
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 mounting a sphere, to indicate the do- 
 minion of matter over spirit. 
 
 Fab d' Olvet says: "In the Letter 
 Samek is found the spirit of evil." 
 
 Among the ancients, the same idea is 
 seen where Atlas stands upon a tor- 
 toise and holds the World upon his 
 shoulders. 
 
 In Astronomy this represents Saggi- 
 tarius, the archer. He rides on the four 
 feet of animal passion, which carries 
 him through this Factive World until 
 awakened to the possibilities of a higher 
 state of existence. Then the power of 
 inspiration comes upon him, the gift of 
 prophecy is developed, and the life of 
 the Centaur becomes transformed into 
 that of the true man. 
 
 Vibration is the spirit of motion. Mo- 
 tion can be seen; vibration cannot be 
 seen, but can be felt. According to the 
 power of the motion will be the rapid- 
 ity of the vibration emanating. 
 
 In the Second Septenary, we find the 
 interior motion of Aleph expressing it- 
 self as expansion and manifestation. 
 Up to a certain point this expansion in- 
 creases until it reaches Samek. 
 
 The symbol of Samek is, "Motion." 
 
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 This motion was started from the 
 evil of desire, and only through change 
 of desire can it meet itself, and become 
 a symbol of Eternity. 
 
 The number of this Letter is fifteen, 
 which equals Six, the Two Ternaries 
 of the preceding worlds. 
 
 The sixteenth Letter is, "Ayin" t£ 
 formed of two Vaus united by a hori- 
 zontal line at the bottom where the lkae 
 slants. It is prostrate man in the 
 process of elevation by Jesus Christ. Its 
 number is six plus one which equals 
 seven, making it a Divine Number. At 
 this stage of man's existence he has 
 reached the degree, where amid all the 
 disasters and sufferings of human life, 
 a Divine power is reaching down to 
 help him if he is but conscious of the 
 perils below him and the powers that are 
 above. 
 
 The hieroglyph shows a tower struck 
 by lightning, from which Adam and Eve 
 in their primitive state are first brought 
 to view; the safety and protection of 
 the tower, which has before guarded 
 them, has been taken from them, and 
 they are falling to the ground to begin 
 the labor of reconstruction. This is the 
 
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 great point where man's downward ca- 
 reer has reached its climax; from this 
 he can only emerge by severe and per- 
 sistent labor, this is the lesson that 
 clothes him with a material body, and 
 enables him to combat the forces of the 
 Material World. It cannot protect him 
 from the enemies within. 
 
 Those Letters concerning man in the 
 Formative World, without his body, 
 deal with astral conditions; those deal- 
 ing with man in his body, refer to his 
 material conditions and the World of 
 Elements. Therefore, we are informed 
 of an astral world, astral body, and 
 astral Light. These differ in their man- 
 ifestations. When the human being 
 drops the shell, the material body goes 
 to the World of Elements from which 
 it came; the astral body or soul returns 
 to the astral world, and takes its place 
 there. 
 
 In this astral world there are dis- 
 tinctive beings who have not reached the 
 plane of intelligence or consciousness, 
 awaiting an opportunity to incarnate 
 and join the endless procession of souls 
 in the march of development towards 
 perfection. In this astral world also 
 
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 there are those who have been incar- 
 nated before, but must return again and 
 again into a physical body. In this 
 astral World, there are also those, who 
 have completed their rounds of devel- 
 opment and need never come into a 
 body again, unless sent on a mission to 
 earth. The Psalmist in the nineteenth 
 Psalm alludes to this in the words : 
 "Lord, thou hast been our dwelling 
 place in all generations." 
 
 The word generation can mean but 
 one thing, which is to be born into a 
 body, as regeneration, means to be 
 born out of a body. David also said: 
 "Thou turnest man to destruction (or 
 to the Material World) and sayest, re- 
 turn ye, children of men, for a thou- 
 sand years in thy sight (or the spiritual 
 world) is but as a day." 
 
 The astral world has as many planes 
 of inhabitants as there have ever been 
 men upon the earth (grades of menj, 
 with the addition of the spiritual or 
 celestial plane belonging to the angels. 
 
 The motion of the astral current has 
 nothing to do with that spoken of in 
 Aleph, which was a direct motion of 
 light from the centre of the World of 
 
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 Emanation; while the astral light has 
 a rotary motion. It bears the same re- 
 lation to the true light as moonlight to 
 sunlight. Every soul that enters the 
 world to be clothed with a body, comes 
 through these opposing forces of astral 
 light, while every soul going from this 
 light, on leaving this body passes 
 through these currents which change 
 from circular to vertical. These cur- 
 rents are sometimes called "The her- 
 metic dragon, or the dragon of the 
 threshold" that guards the entrance to 
 the higher world. In China to-day, the 
 worship of the dragon predominates, 
 and wherever the emblem is seen, the 
 dragon is found to be reaching with 
 one of its forepaws after a globe float- 
 ing in the air in a vain attempt to seize 
 it. This globe represents the human 
 soul. In Egypt, the symbol of the globe, 
 the winged soul, is the same idea differ- 
 ently expressed. 
 
 As Ayin, is the Letter expressing 
 man's complete fall into matter, yet 
 symbolized by a Divine Number, it in- 
 dicates that this is the place of meeting 
 of the destructive downward Principles, 
 with redeeming or helpful, from above. 
 
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 This is the struggle mentioned in Gene- 
 sis where the Cherubim with the flaming 
 sword, drove man from his spiritual 
 home in the Formative World. 
 
 From this time, life was a continual 
 struggle of outward activity, without 
 satisfaction. 
 
 In Astronomy this corresponds to 
 Capricorn, the goat. 
 
 The symbol of Ayin is, "Destruction." 
 
 We now come to the Seventeenth Let- 
 ter of the Hebrew Alphabet, "Phe" 
 
 Its formation is the same as Beth ex- 
 cept that the Yod comes forth from the 
 mouth. Beth signifies the mouth, with 
 the possibility of speech' issuing from 
 it; Phe is that speech; it is the spoken 
 word. 
 
 The hieroglyph represents the young 
 girl, who was the image of eternal 
 youth. In the fourteenth arcanum she 
 is pouring the elixir of life from one 
 vase to another without losing a drop, 
 now seen in the seventeenth arcanum, 
 Phe, pouring the water upon the ground. 
 She is crowned with seven stars, one of 
 which is very large and directly over 
 the centre of her head. By the ordi- 
 
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 nary process of addition, Phe becomes 
 Number Eight, the union of the Two 
 Worlds, and what is more important it 
 represents the full octave at the com- 
 pletion of seven. In music, when it 
 comes to the sounding again of first 
 note (the eighth) we find the exact 
 sound of the first, reproduced in a 
 higher pitch and greater vibration. If 
 Unity expresses love, it would be either 
 natural or mother, and the chord or 
 octave would represent these same qual- 
 ities carried to a higher state. It must 
 be remembered that the Number Eight 
 combines the two feminine qualities in 
 one. 
 
 In the Letter Phe, the first ray of 
 hope comes to man, in the picture in 
 the Tarot, as a butterfly hovering over 
 the young girl which gives us the sym- 
 bol, "Immortality." 
 
 In Astronomy, it relates to Mercury 
 with the winged feet, indicative of the 
 rapidity of thought. It is also the em- 
 blem of prayer or speech, the former 
 uniting man with His Creator, the lat- 
 ter with his fellow man. Phe repre- 
 sents the tongue or back of the throat. 
 
 We have now reached the eighteenth 
 
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 Letter, "Tzaddi" ^ formed differ- 
 ently from Ayin, in that one Vau has 
 almost become a Yod to assist in the 
 uplifting of the horizontal line to which 
 it is attached. It is through this that 
 the Divine Feminine or Holy Spirit per- 
 forms its office of inbreathing upon the 
 soul of man, while the Vau unites its 
 activity with this breath to bring forth 
 a new creature. 
 
 The Number of the Letter shows that 
 the combination of Unity with Number 
 Eight has brought about completion or 
 Number Nine, which indicates the Three 
 Ternaries. This always denotes com- 
 pletion. 
 
 The hieroglyph shows us that the in- 
 volution of spirit is not complete, there 
 is no more light that can reach the Ma- 
 terial World except by reflection. Spirit 
 can descend no lower than the field 
 which represents the earth, and its de- 
 scent is seen by the drops of blood that 
 fall on the earth from above. Spirit 
 finds upon this plane upon which 
 it has fallen, everything working against 
 it. The wild animals of the earth, 
 poisonous vapors, opposing circum- 
 stances; these are all enemies which 
 
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 militate against us at its lowest point 
 of descent. Worse than these are the 
 inner foes of animal desires. 
 
 The symbol of Phe is, "Chaos," and 
 in Astronomy corresponds to Aquarius. 
 
 The Nineteenth Letter of the Hebrew 
 Alphabet is, "Quoph" p], formed with 
 a slight resemblance to He, except 
 that the perpendicular line is more ex- 
 tended below; the Yod is turned aside 
 at the right hand as if the power of the 
 world was being attracted toward mat- 
 ter. There are four numbers that rep- 
 resent life in different degrees. He, rep- 
 resenting Universal life; Teth, natural 
 life; Caph, assimilated life; and Quoph, 
 material existence, by which forms are 
 developed. 
 
 The hieroglyph indicates two children 
 enclosed in a walled place which repre- 
 sents the Material World. This shows 
 the positive and negative fluids, or 
 forces of the Universe. The Sun now 
 begins to shine in direct rays upon 
 them; this reveals to us the turning up- 
 ward of the arrow, which has been un- 
 til now, descending deeper and deeper 
 into matter. It is the point of transi- 
 tion, where the first stage of initiation 
 
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 begins. As a little child opens its eyes 
 upon this new world, but is not yet con- 
 scious of being an inhabitant, so the 
 spirit first awakens in its materialized 
 body to its place of origin, which 
 arouses in it the desire to return. 
 
 Apollinius of Tynna says: "Until the 
 Ego becomes conscious of the two dis- 
 tinct currents acting within it, and can 
 thoroughly distinguish between them, it 
 is not yet ready for initiation into a 
 higher degree." 
 
 This is what he calls, "The first hour 
 of initiation." 
 
 The Number of the Letter, Nineteen, 
 represents Unity, and the Three Worlds 
 in their completion, added together 
 make Number Ten, which indicates the 
 completion of all things called by the 
 Brahmins, "The inbreathing of the 
 Worlds." 
 
 This is expressed in their saying, 
 "Braham breathes out and the Worlds 
 are born; Braham inbreathes and 
 Worlds are destroyed." 
 
 Quoph represents the inbreathing. 
 
 The meaning of the word is a sharp 
 weapon to defend man, and to aid him. 
 Paul, the great initiate, carries out this 
 
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 same figure, when he speaks of "The 
 sword of the spirit, which is the Word 
 of God." 
 
 The symbol for Quoph, showing the 
 union of two opposing forces, active 
 and passive, is "Limitation." 
 
 The astronomical symbol is Gemini, 
 the twins, which is the same as the last 
 Letter of the first Septenary. We could 
 almost say the two Letters had the same 
 signs and the functions of both are sim- 
 ilar. Both represent the arrow, the for- 
 mer as it starts out, the latter when it 
 has turned in its flight, changing direc- 
 tion for the defense of man. In Zain, 
 when the arrow went forth, man had 
 not yet been created, but now the in- 
 volution of spirit into matter has been 
 effected and he has his defense in his 
 power. 
 
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 CHAPTER THIRTEENTH. 
 
 THIRD SEPTENARY CONTINUED. 
 
 We have now reached the twentieth 
 Letter, "Resell" *), formed by a 
 horizontal and perpendicular line like 
 Daleth, with the exception of the hori- 
 zontal line, which has now begun to 
 manifest more strength and force. The 
 perpendicular line of Unity joins it at 
 the right hand, and upholds it. Resch 
 is spoken of as the head of man and 
 stands for his independence. Every- 
 thing that possesses in itself original 
 movement, whether good or bad, is ex- 
 pressed by Resch. The hieroglyph, is 
 an angel with wings of fire, blowing a 
 trumpet that is decorated with a cross, 
 which represents the last judgment, or 
 the completion of the mystery of spirits 
 enfolding, and man's unfolding. Be- 
 low it, a grave opens from which man, 
 woman, and child come forth. Here is 
 
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 again seen the fatherhood and mother- 
 hood and sonhood of the ancient Egyp- 
 tians which were fully understood be- 
 fore Moses lived and the Bible was 
 written. Resch represents by its Num- 
 ber Twenty, separation from the Divine 
 World and nature. Figure Two is the 
 first manifestation of the Feminine or 
 Passive Principle. The cipher or cir- 
 cle, which we first saw in Number Ten 
 or Daleth, there represented the Divine 
 Feminine by the side of Unity, equal in 
 power. In Resch, we now see this cipher 
 still representing the Divine, standing 
 side by side with Number Two, the first 
 manifestation of the Lower Feminine. 
 They both represent in Number and fig- 
 ure, that which has been since the Cre- 
 ation, separated from the Unity to 
 which each belonged. Having now ac- 
 complished their mission in the Three 
 Worlds, we find they have reached their 
 ultimate in Resch. 
 
 The Three beings called forth at the 
 blowing of the trumpet, as seen in the 
 hieroglyph, represent the entire human 
 race of the Three Worlds : Creative, 
 Formative and Factive. They also rep- 
 resent the concentration of the race into 
 
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 the family, the father, the mother, and 
 the child. 
 
 The Symbol of Resell is, "Redemp- 
 tion." 
 
 Astronomically, Resch is represented 
 by Saturn, the planet of darkness, and 
 all that opposes satisfaction through 
 human desires. This planet governs 
 Saturday. The twenty-first Letter in 
 the Hebrew Alphabet is, "Schin" J^ # 
 
 This is formed by three Vaus, still 
 connected by a horizontal straight line, 
 and is one of the three Letters that has 
 a hissing sound like that of a serpent. 
 It is also the last one of the three 
 Mother Letters. Zain, Samek, and 
 Schin all represent motion in its differ- 
 ent degrees of advancement. In Zain 
 of the First Septenary, it went forward 
 in a direct path; on reaching Samek it 
 took a circular course returning to it- 
 self. With Schin it turned from the 
 circular into a vertical or spiral move- 
 ment. 
 
 Motion, it is seen is of three kinds, 
 direct, circular and vertical, active, 
 passive and destructive or obstructive. 
 The Fall of Jericho mentioned in the 
 Bible, is simply an illustration of the 
 
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 destructive force of the motion or vi- 
 bration that produced it. The motion 
 that destroyed the Continent of Hyper- 
 boria situated at the North Pole was 
 at first direct and Creative, but divert- 
 ing in its course to the circular, which 
 caused its destruction. The motion that 
 also caused the destruction of Lamuria, 
 situated at the Southern extremity of 
 the earth was circular, and changed to 
 the vertical, which motion is found in 
 the current of the Indian Ocean to- 
 day, and differs from that of any other 
 Ocean. 
 
 Atlantis, known as the White Conti- 
 nent, was lost through the Creative 
 Forces that misapplied the power of 
 the breath in the unition of the direct, 
 circular and vertical motion. These 
 forces getting \ nd control brought 
 with it through the combination of 
 these three motions, destruction. 
 The motion in Schin, is that of de- 
 ' struction of all Material things, but of 
 ! the redemption of the true man, who 
 has hitherto been bound on the wheel. 
 Without the Letter Schin coming to 
 the Factive World, there would have 
 been no possibility of its expansion in 
 
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 man's life. He would have continued 
 to have been bound by the rim of des- 
 tiny through all future ages, at his low- 
 est state of development, had not all 
 three Divine Factors, different manifes- 
 tations of the Logos and Adonai with 
 Christ of the Formative World, taken 
 hold of the prostrate man and aided 
 him in regaining his former glory. 
 Each are doing the work of the Adonai 
 of the Emanative World. 
 
 Schin is the continuation of the ar- 
 row of motion to its finality. As a 
 spiral has no limitation of motion, so 
 when man touches the upward path, his 
 future possibilities are inconceivable. 
 
 It was because man at this point be- 
 came helpless, that he required a great- 
 er than human power to awaken him. 
 It needed a manifestation combining 
 both natures, the human and Divine. 
 The Christ of the Formative World, 
 the Logos of the Creative World, 
 worked entirely with unseen forces, and 
 produced invisible results, but neither 
 of these ever did, nor ever can do the 
 work of Jesus Christ of the Factive 
 World, The Only Begotten of the 
 Father. He of His own Will said to 
 
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 the Father : "Lo, I come to do thy Will, 
 
 \ Oh Lord." 
 
 He thus limited himself to bodily 
 conditions, shutting himself from the 
 World of Light to which he belonged, 
 submitting to the sufferings of the 
 physical body, and sacrificing His own 
 [personality to enter the Factive World. 
 
 !:The intelligencies of all Worlds ob- 
 served and adored Him. He has been 
 and always will be the central figure of 
 history, and while for a time He knew 
 but little of the work He was to per- 
 form, He caught occasional glimpses of 
 His mission. 
 
 "Know ye not that I must be about 
 my Father's business," said He, when 
 twelve years of age, he was found dis- 
 coursing with the Rabbis of the Tem- 
 ple. From this time, the veil dropped 
 over His eyes again, and like those 
 about Him he was only a carpenter's 
 son from Nazareth. In that wonderful 
 Nostic book, Pistosophia, we are told 
 that He, before leaving the higher 
 World to be incarnated, went to one 
 of the Realms of Light and selected 
 one, whom he sent to Earth, saying: 
 "Thou must go before me to the Earth, 
 
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 and there, by the purity of Thy life 
 untouched by the world, be prepare* 
 to become my mother." 
 
 These were the words of Jesus t> 
 Mary. He continued, saying: 
 
 "Thou mother must also be a Hoi 
 Woman, and live apart from the Worl 
 so that the power of this spirit may 
 overshadow thee, and prepare thee t 
 give birth to me when I come." 
 
 Passing to another and lower, He se- 
 lected twelve, who should be His Apo: 
 ties on earth. From the fact that I 
 selected them from different places ar 
 groups, indicates that they had different 
 talents, were chosen for a different 
 work, and were from different domains 
 in the invisible world. In one place 
 he chose a tax gatherer, and in another 
 a fisherman, saying to them, "Follow 
 Me." 
 
 They arose and followed him. How 
 did he know where to find these souls 
 whom he had sent down to be his dis- 
 ciples? Did he have a memory that 
 flashed upon him for an instant telling 
 him who they were as soon as he met 
 them, or was he unconsciously at- 
 tracted by that mysterious law of mag- 
 
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 netism, by which one soul knows when 
 it meets another that belongs to it? 
 
 The Schin henceforth takes its place 
 between the first He and the Vau, it 
 stands pre-eminently for Jesus and 
 The Name. 
 
 Yah-veh was thenceforth changed 
 into Jehoshua. The Name Isa is also 
 found in ancient tablets as the Name „ 
 representing another phase of his char- 
 acter. From this name comes that of 
 the Goddess of Light, the Egyptian 
 Isis. We find that Samel was the one 
 source of evil and isolation to the Fac- 
 tive World, but to overcome this, we 
 have the Yod, the Samek, the Schin, 
 and the Adonai. 
 
 The Number of Schin, Twenty-one, 
 represents the Lower Feminine re- 
 deemed, and united with Unity, and 
 by the addition of the two and 
 the one, represents a perfect Trinity 
 with man, nature, and the Creat- 
 ive powers. Schin is the last Let- 
 ter of the Third Septenary, and car- 
 ries all the vibrations of the Mother 
 Letters back to Aleph. The hieroglyph 
 represents man in his fallen state; it 
 shows a foolish man stumbling through 
 
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 the world filled with vanity and pride, 
 unconscious of the dogs that are biting 
 him behind, or the crocodile waiting 
 to devour him, when he has fallen 
 through the gratification of his senses. 
 This same crocodile has been seen in 
 a previous hieroglyph and represents 
 man, in his brief lifetime on earth, 
 while enclosed in a body. It is known 
 as the Letter of Duration, which is its 
 symbol. 
 
 We have now completed the Three 
 Septenaries, but we find the single Let- 
 ter, "Tau" f^ , remains, and is 
 formed like the He of the first Sep- 
 tenary, except that the He is not per- 
 fectly united with the horizontal line. 
 While there were Three x.LOther Let- 
 ters, one for each Septenary, there are 
 four Divine Principles represented by, 
 
 First, Adonai of the World of Eman- 
 ation. 
 
 Second, That of the Logos or Cre- 
 ative World. 
 
 Third, Belonging to the Christ or 
 Formative World. 
 
 Fourth, That of Jesus Christ belong- 
 ing to the Factive World. 
 
 These four, added to the Three 
 
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 Mother Letters make the perfect seven 
 of the Feminine power. 
 
 Tau, is the twenty-second Letter, and 
 by uniting the two Feminine Numbers 
 that form it, we arrive at the Tetra- 
 grammatan, or Unity with the World 
 of Adonai. The complete circle is here 
 made by this final Letter, which repre- 
 sents all suffering, and gives rise to the 
 cross. It has the same meaning as a 
 Letter as did Daleth, but it adds to the 
 quality that of perfection of the Femi- 
 nine nature. The former represents 
 the possibilities, while Tau is the fruit 
 of completion. 
 
 The hieroglyph represents a nude fe- 
 male figure, placed in the centre of an 
 ellipse with legs crossed, like the 
 hanged man of Lamed, and in each cor- 
 ner of the picture, we find the man, 
 the lion, the bull and the eagle. 
 
 This Letter represents a resume of 
 all the work that has been done through 
 the three Septenaries. 
 
 The symbol is, "Salvation." 
 
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 CHAPTER FOURTEENTH. 
 
 THE CHART. 
 
 We have now made a study of the 
 Ten Numbers, or Principles forming 
 the Sephiroth. We have also made a 
 study of the Twenty-two Letters, or 
 lines of connection between these Prin- 
 ciples. It is now the student's work to 
 combine these according to the chart. 
 This chart is found in part in Meyers 
 Cabala, and completed in the Cabala of 
 Papus, from whom permission has 
 been received to use it as formulated by 
 him. We find the Ten Principles 
 placed in Ternaries, representing the 
 Three different Worlds. In the Twenty- 
 two Letters, forming what will here- 
 after be designated as canals, they are 
 found to be divided into Three Sep- 
 tenaries, each belonging to the Three 
 Worlds below that of Emanation. 
 
 It must be remembered that the 
 
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 Three Ternaries and the Three Sep- 
 tenaries form a united whole. 
 
 The Principles which have a Divine 
 Centre, are to be found placed perpen- 
 dicularly to the Ain-Soph, and are: 
 The Logos or sixth Sephiroth; The 
 Christ or ninth Sephiroth; Jesus Christ 
 the tenth Sephiroth. 
 
 These are so directly connected with 
 Ain-Soph, that Gimmel carries the Di- 
 vine essence uncontaminated by other 
 Principles to these centres of the dif- 
 ferent Worlds. 
 
 Each of the ten Principles have a 
 name, or title, showing their peculiar 
 attributes to Deity. Thus: The Ain- 
 Soph, or Kether, the Crown, signifying 
 Ehieh, or the united powers of all the 
 Principles contained in Unity. It repre- 
 sents Infinite perfection capable of send- 
 ing forth different qualities according 
 to the demands made upon it by the 
 Creative Law. It can only be communi- 
 cated with, through the Divine Centres 
 which are in direct connection with it. 
 
 In the World of Emanation, Cabalists 
 recognize five personalities as abiding 
 Eternally; Unity Itself, its two Princi- 
 ples of Eternal father and mother, 
 
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 fourth the Eternal Son, and Fifth the 
 Eternal Spirit. While these never leave 
 the World of Emanation they are to 
 be found in every created intelligence. 
 By the spirit, He is made the second 
 He, of the Tetragrammatan, which is 
 the Spouse of the Vau. This was seen 
 descending upon Christ at his baptism 
 by John, and remained with Him until 
 His crucifixion, when He said : "My 
 God, why has thou forsaken me?" 
 meaning that the Spouse at that point 
 left Him, and He felt alone with His 
 own humanity. 
 
 He also said : "Tarry ye in Jerusa- 
 lem until the power of the Spirit (or 
 He) rest upon you." 
 
 We have now entered upon the fourth 
 cycle which is distinctively the cycle of 
 the Divine Feminine, which for two 
 thousand years to come, will be poured 
 out upon the earth. In the two ac- 
 counts of the Creation given in the 
 Bible, one by Moses, and the other by 
 John, the former refers to the different 
 stages of Creative power, the latter be- 
 gan with the work of the Logos, who 
 created that which Moses spoke of as 
 the Archetype in the World of Eman- 
 
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 ation. In Genesis God said: "Let there 
 be Light." (manifested.) 
 
 In John we have already given the 
 meaning of coming into this manifes- 
 tation. As there are Three Worlds, so 
 there are three degrees of humanity in- 
 habiting a material body on this earth. 
 They are known as the called, the 
 chosen, and the sealed. There is an 
 honor attached to the latter class, that 
 the former cannot receive, unless it has 
 heard the call and responded. This is 
 largely decided by the place when the 
 call went forth from Adam Proto- 
 plastus. 
 
 This is referred to in Job where the 
 Almighty said to him, "Where wast 
 thou when I laid the foundation of the 
 Earth?" which was equivalent to say- 
 ing, "What was thy place in Adam Pro- 
 toplastus?" 
 
 While perfected man does not remain 
 in the Kingdom of the Factive World, 
 we find that as he begins his ascent, 
 there is an influx of a new power at 
 every step, through coming in touch 
 with the different canals. Thus Paul 
 says: "I live, but not I, but the Christ 
 that dwelleth in me," 
 
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 Here the interiors are opened, and 
 the hierachies of the superior World 
 become manifested, but the love of all 
 is centered in the Divine human babe 
 born in Bethlehem. 
 
 A French Master has recently writ- 
 ten a scientific work on this subject 
 illustrating how prayer can be heard 
 at the same instant from a million 
 hearts. Each molecule of Jesus Christ 
 can be present when called upon, and 
 the man who calls shall have obtained 
 illumination. 
 
 The fortunate beings on this earth, 
 whose names have come down to us 
 through the ages, are those who have 
 changed the molecular body into the 
 atomic body by devotion to one pur- 
 pose. To accomplish this, they had to 
 flee from the world or be taken from 
 it. Christ said: "If any man love 
 father or mother, wife or children, 
 more than me, he is not worthy of me." 
 
 Enoch had this glorified body, being 
 Himself one of the Elohim. He could 
 pass through space at will, and like 
 Moses and Elias, never died, but was 
 translated. Certain characters are eas- 
 ily traced throughout their different in- 
 
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 carnations, by the persistence of a single 
 trait. We find this in the case of Alex- 
 ander, Caesar and Napoleon, all having 
 love for Conquest. Among women, we 
 find in Helen of Troy, the foreshadow- 
 ing of the Cleopatra of Egypt and 
 Elizabeth of England. This is also seen 
 in Deborah reincarnated in Joan d'Arc. 
 
 The famous Rabbi Loriah, showed 
 from many passages of the Bible, that 
 not only the individual, but the nation 
 must come again to fulfill some pre- 
 cept that they had left undone, or for 
 some sin they had committed for which 
 they must atone. When he speaks of 
 the bondage of the children of Israel 
 for four hundred years under the 
 Pharoahs, he said it could be proven 
 from the Hebrew records that these 
 were the direct descendants of those 
 who had attempted to build the tower 
 of Babel of brick and the Pharoahs 
 were the instruments used to chastize 
 them. 
 
 This is also referred to in the Bible 
 where it says, "The sins of the father 
 shall be visited unto the children, even 
 unto the third and four generation." 
 
 All human beings have come from 
 
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 two roots of Adam Protoplastus, the 
 root of Cain and the root of Abel. 
 When the descendants or reincarnations 
 of these roots meet, the same feeling 
 of hatred and murder appears in the 
 one, while that of love for humanity 
 appears in the other. In Saul of Tar- 
 sus, going forth to slay Christians, we 
 find the same characteristics that were 
 foreshadowed in David, and both of 
 them in the latter part of their lives 
 gave themselves up to the work of hu- 
 manity and were men after God's own 
 heart. 
 
 No one can predict the time that may 
 elapse between two incarnations, nor 
 how many there must be to perfect the 
 character. Man cannot bring to this 
 life his memory of what he was, 
 neither can he take from this life the 
 mere material memory that belongs 
 here; the vibrations of the two worlds 
 are opposed to each other. This world 
 dealing in time and space; the other, 
 dealing with the world of no time and 
 no space. 
 
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 CHAPTER FIFTEENTH. 
 
 CHART — CONTINUED. 
 CANALS. 
 
 Having now fixed in mind that there 
 are but Ten Numbers in the Universe, 
 and Twenty-two Letters that are used 
 as means of communication between 
 these Numbers, we will proceed to traca 
 the canals and see the practical working 
 of this study. 
 
 From Unity, containing in itself all 
 the Principles that will be manifested, 
 we find the Law of Laws, in the Three- 
 fold expression of the canals. 
 
 Aleph, Beth and Gimmel are the three 
 canals through which pass the essence 
 heretofore unknown, from Unity to the 
 Lower Worlds. Aleph, carries the 
 Principle of Unity, and what it con- 
 tains to the second Sephiroth, Hochma, 
 or Wisdom representing the active 
 Principle, while Beth performs the 
 
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 same functions, but represents the 
 Feminine Principle carrying the essence 
 to the third Sephiroth, or Love, which 
 is called Binah. These two we have 
 already mentioned as the pillars of the 
 Universe. Gimmel carries from Unity 
 the Divine essence it has received di- 
 rect to the centre of the Three Worlds. 
 From Hochma to Binah runs the fourth 
 canal Daleth, that carries with it Wis- 
 dom and love, and here unites and 
 passes through Gimmel with the Divine 
 essence. Daleth is the door that 
 swings between Love and Wisdom. 
 These canals, Aleph, Beth and Daleth, 
 enclose the World of Emanation, leav- 
 ing through Gimmel the sole connection 
 with the Divine World. 
 
 It is very interesting to note how in- 
 tricate these canals become, as they em- 
 brace Principles of the Three Worlds. 
 When they brought forth from Unity, 
 Love and Wisdom, these qualities were 
 to be distributed through all humanity. 
 
 In passing from Hochman, we find 
 the canal He, carrying Wisdom to the 
 Centre of the Creative World, the 
 home of the Logos, which is Tipheroth, 
 the culmination of Beauty, for here the 
 
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 Logos distributes this to the Lower 
 World. This seems irregular, for the 
 sixth canal seems to be the most direct 
 connection between Hochman and the 
 next pillar, Chesed, or Mercy, but no 
 pillar or side Principle could carry the 
 Wisdom. It needed a central point of 
 distribution which in this case is the 
 Centre of the Creative World. From 
 the Hebrew Word used, we know this 
 is a masculine quality, and is balanced 
 by Peched, or Fear, which is the Prin- 
 ciple of the Feminine quality as seen 
 by the name Elhoa. The sixth canal is 
 Vau, which adds to Mercy Divine Wis- 
 dom, which was pre-eminently the work 
 of Vau while upon earth, and even in 
 the Divine World. 
 
 The seventh canal, Zain, carries with 
 it Love or Binah, to the centre of the 
 Creative World and represents the ac- 
 tive Principle of Love. The eighth ca- 
 nal Heth combines the Love of Binah, 
 with the Fear of Peched, and forms the 
 Principle of the Fifth Sephiroth. 
 
 Teth, the ninth canal, forms the 
 boundary of the Creative World, and 
 combines the two elements of Fear and 
 Mercy. The tenth canal, Yod, com- 
 
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 municates directly with Chesed and the 
 Logos, and carries Mercy from Chesed, 
 the fourth Sephiroth. Lamed, the 
 twelfth canal, combines Fear of the 
 fifth Sephiroth with the Logos. Caph 
 connects the Fourtu Sephiroth, Chesed, 
 which is the Principle combining Wis- 
 dom with Mercy, with Netzath, the sev- 
 enth Sephiroth, or Victory. 
 
 If this first Principle had remained 
 unbroken when it left the World of 
 Emanation, Mercy would be lacking. 
 
 The thirteenth canal or Mem, con- 
 nects Peched directly with Hod or 
 Honor, the eighth Sephiroth, and com- 
 bines the Fear that belongs to mother- 
 hood with the Honor that belongs to 
 Love. 
 
 Nun, the fourteenth canal, connects 
 with Tipheroth and Netzah, the sev- 
 enth Sephiroth, and combines Victory 
 and growth, the result of Mem's pro- 
 duction. Ayin the sixteenth canal also 
 connects Tipheroth with Hod or Honor 
 and combines the element of destruc- 
 tion with these Principles, and through 
 it comes Beauty and Honor, the eighth 
 Sephiroth. 
 
 The fifteenth canal or Samek is the 
 
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 boundary between the Formative and 
 Factive World. Samek expresses the 
 element of circular motion from Hod, 
 for it flows into the one uninterrupted 
 canal of Gimmel. Here begins the first 
 suggestion of the serpent of evil. 
 
 Phe, the seventeenth canal, con- 
 nects Netzah with the direct canal of 
 Gimmel, combining the hope of immor- 
 tality, which equalizes the evil brought 
 in by Samek. The eighteenth canal, 
 Tzaddi, connects Netzah with Jesod, 
 combining the element of completion 
 with Victory, which is the result of 
 complete development of man. Resch, 
 the twentieth canal, carries the bless- 
 ings of redemption to Jesod which is 
 the ninth Sephiroth. This with Quoph, 
 the nineteenth canal, carries redemption 
 and Victory by the power of limita- 
 tion represented by Quoph to Malcuth. 
 Quoph and Schin are the two canals 
 that connect the pillars, Hod and Net- 
 zah with Malcuth or the Kingdom of 
 Jesus Christ. 
 
 Schin, the twenty-first canal, connects 
 Hod with Malcuth, and combines the 
 element of duration, while Tau, the 
 twenty-second canal, connects Jesod 
 
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 with Malcuth, and carries the blessing 
 of Salvation from the Ninth Sephiroth 
 to the Tenth. From the time that Gim- 
 mel flowed from the World of Emana- 
 tion to the Three Divine Centres, it has 
 been a river of Life into which 
 has flowed the tributaries which had 
 their source in a different Princi- 
 ple or Sephiroth. These, while in- 
 creasing the volume of Gimmel, have 
 brought into it different qualities, that 
 at various points have deteriorated 
 its purity, or rather deteriorated from 
 its purity, so that, instead of car- 
 rying a stream of Light from the 
 source of Light the Ain-Soph, at the 
 second and third Sephiroth, it is added 
 to by Wisdom and Love, and so in- 
 creased at successive stages until emp- 
 tying its contents into Jesod or the 
 Foundation of the Christ World. From 
 here it is no more known as Gimmel, 
 but virtually there is a continuation of 
 this canal in Tau, that connects Jesod 
 with Malcuth, who receives all the con- 
 tents of Gimmel and its tributaries that 
 have flowed through Tau. 
 
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 SIXTEENTH CHAPTER. 
 
 FINALE. 
 
 Between the World of Emanation and 
 that of Creation was given a Law to 
 the Archetypes which was afterwards 
 revealed to Moses, and by him to the 
 Material World. When the World of 
 Creation was spoken into existence by 
 the Logos, the World of orbs (by 
 which is meant the sun, moon and 
 stars) swung into their places. This 
 was the Law we have spoken of as 
 given to the Archetypes, thence to 
 Moses in the Material World by which 
 the Adamic Race could by obedience 
 to this Law, return to Unity. Unity 
 is expressed by so many different names, 
 that the student will be assisted by 
 placing these in mind. The Ain-Soph 
 or unknowable Unity, The Adonai or 
 Absolute Unity, the Logos or Mani- 
 fested Unity, described by John, the 
 Christ or Formative Unity, Jesus Christ 
 
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NUMBERS 
 
 or Adam Cadmon the Factive Unity. 
 Aleph is the symbol of Unity, the Yod 
 or Unity of fatherhood. 
 
 St. Martin said: "In studying Num- 
 bers it is absolutely necessary to have 
 a key, and you cannot know whether 
 the key is correct until you have tried 
 it for yourself, and fitted it into the 
 lock. When Pythagoras discovered the 
 hypotheneuse, he was so elated that he 
 sacrificed an hundred oxen." 
 
 St. Martin also said: "That in fit- 
 ting the key to all the doors, that were 
 before him, he found in the golden 
 verses of Pythagoras, that to swear by 
 the Sacred Quarternian was the great- 
 est oath that could be taken. I opened 
 his Commentator, Hierocles, and found 
 that Pythagoras having learned in 
 Egypt the NAME OF NAMES, called 
 it Tetractus, the Quarternian, which 
 signified "Fountain of nature ever flow- 
 ing." I find that Number Four might 
 well be applied to everything coming 
 from this source. It was after four 
 times one thousand years that the Re- 
 deemer came to earth. There are four 
 Evangelists. There are twenty -two epis- 
 tles of the Apostles including Revela- 
 
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 tion. Two plus two is four. There are 
 twenty-two books of the Prophets in 
 the Old Testament." From this it is 
 easy to form a theory, that the twenty- 
 two Epistles correspond to the twenty- 
 two Letters of the Hebrew Alphabet, 
 and at the same time the twenty-two 
 prophetical books in the Old Testament 
 indicate the attempt of each Prophet to 
 follow out a single Letter in its devel- 
 opment. This can be easily seen in the 
 key note that is struck so differently in 
 Jeremiah, Isaiah, Malachi, &c, &c. 
 
 In regarding the Divine Feminine as 
 represented by the full orbed cipher, it 
 is most interesting to observe, that 
 where the cipher is broken, or has be- 
 come imperfect, it is always an indica- 
 tion that it is waiting to bring up the 
 Lower Feminine to add to its perfec- 
 tion. In the figure two, we find where 
 the Lower Feminine attracted man to 
 his fall, as shown by the partial cipher 
 over prostrate man. At the same time 
 in the figure three where the Divine 
 Feminine comes to man's rescue, the 
 same partial circle is seen, but man is 
 between the two halves of the cipher 
 (which if united would form the 
 
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 whole). In the figure Five we have 
 the Higher Feminine dimly foreshad- 
 owed in the partial circle that is up- 
 holding man, having succeeded in sub- 
 jugating the lower Feminine at this 
 time, so she does not appear. In fol- 
 lowing this to the Number six and 
 nine we find the upright man in touch 
 with the Divine Feminine, but varying 
 in its position, until reaching Number 
 Ten, where the Lower Feminine has 
 been redeemed with fallen man and 
 merged into the completeness of the 
 Divine Feminine, and in Number Ten, 
 she has reached equality with, and is 
 seen side by side with perfected man. 
 This is where the Mary Magdalene has 
 become the saint through her great love 
 nature which is taken from the human 
 and given to the Divine. 
 
 "Moreover by them is thy servant 
 warned: and in keeping of them there 
 is great reward." — Psa. 19:11. 
 
 It is with reverence and sincere grat- 
 itude that I mention those in foreign 
 lands who have aided me by their wis- 
 dom, and encouraged me to pursue this 
 study, which is man's only hope of be- 
 ing united to his original source. 
 
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 Of these are, the Marquis St. Yves 
 d'Alveydre, who stands unique as hav- 
 ing received his training in the Brah- 
 minical schools of India. Dr. Gerard 
 Encause, President of the Supreme 
 Council of the Martinist Order, a vol- 
 uminous writer, and a learned Oc- 
 cultist on Hermetic lines. He has 
 granted authority to use his chart, 
 which will prove of invaluable help to 
 faithful students. 
 
 Dr. Paul Sedir, an honored pupil of 
 Dr. Encause, and having the title of 
 Dr. of the Cabala. 
 
 Besides these living authorities, the 
 following works have been of great 
 assistance: Meyes Cabala; Councillor 
 Von Ecertshausen; Abbe Loriah; Eli- 
 phas Levy, and many others. 
 
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