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A Note on Genesis

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PREFATORY NOTE

The following Essay is one of the most remarkable studies in the Hebrew Qabalah known to me.

Its venerable author was an adept familiar with many systems of symbolism, and able to harmonise

them for himself, even as now is accomplished for all men in the Book "777".

In the year 1899 he was graciously pleased to receive me as his pupil, and, living in his house, I

studied daily under his guidance the Holy Qabalah. Upon his withdrawal --- whether to enjoy his

Earned Reward, or to perform the Work of the Brotherhood in other lands or planets matters

nothing here --- he bequeathed to me a beautiful Garden, the like of which hath rarely been seen

upon Earth.

It has been my pious duty to collate and comment upon this arcane knowledge, long treasured in my

heart, watered alike by my tears and my blood, and sunned by that all-glorious Ray that multiplieth

itself into an Orb ineffable.

In this Garden no flower was fairer than this exquisite discourse; I beg my readers to pluck it and

lay it in their hearts.

It should be studied in connection with the Book "777," and with the Sepher Sephiroth, a magical

dictionary of pure {165} number which was begun by the author of this essay, carried on by myself,

and now about to be published as soon as the MS. can be prepared.

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The reader who is at all familiar with the sublime computations of the Qabalah will find no

difficulty in appreciating this Essay to the full; but all will gain benefit from the study of the

ratiocinative methods employed. These methods, indeed, are so fine and subtile that they readily

sublime into the Intuitive. This study is truly a Royal Magistry, an easy and sure means of exalting

the consciousness from Ruach to Neschamah.

{166}

PART I

IN the First Verse of the First Chapter of the First Five Books of the Holy Law: it is written: ---

B'RAShITh Ba RA ALoHIM ATh HaShaMaIM VaATH HaAReTz, or in Aramaic script

Bet-Resh-Aleph-Shin-Yod-Taw Bet-Resh-Aleph Aleph-Lamed-Heh-Yod-Memfinal Aleph-Taw

Heh-Shin-Mem-Yod-Memfinal Vau-Aleph-Taw Heh-Aleph-Resh-Tzaddifinal

Such are the Seven Words which constitute the Beginnings or Heads of One Law; and I propose to

show, by applying to the Text the Keys of the Qabalah, that not merely the surface meaning is

contained therein.

In the Beginning, created, God, the Essence of the Heavens, and the Essence, of the Earth.

In the Beginning.

God

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Created {

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In Wisdom

The Elohim

the Essence ¢

of the Heavens

In the Head *

The Holy Gods

and the Essence

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of the Earth

¢ Aleph-Taw = the First and Last --- Alpha and Omega --- Aleph and Tau.

* I.e. , the White Skull. Vide Idra Zutra Qadisha, cap. ii. Distinguish from the skull of Microprosophus.

Contained therein also are the Divine, Magical, and Terrestrial Formulae of the Passage of the

Incomprehensible Nothingness of the Ain Soph to the Perfection of Creation {167} expressed by

the Ten Voices or Emanations of God the Vast One --- Blessed be He! --- even the Holy Sephiroth.

And the Method whereby I shall work shall be the One Absolute and inerratic Science: the Science

of Number: which is that single Mystery of the Intellect of Man whereby he becometh exalted unto

the Throne of Inflexible and Unerring Godhead.

As it is written, "Oh, how the World hath Inflexible Intellectual Rulers" (Zoroaster).

But before I may proceed unto the Qabalistical*

*Here use in its true meaning of "the marshalling forth by number." Qabalah, Qof-Bet-Lamed-Heh, by Tarot, "The

Mystery shown forth in balanced disposition by Command."

enumeration and analysis of the Text, a certain preamble in the fruitful fields of that Science will

become necessary. The Evolution of the Numbers is the Evolution of the Worlds, for as it is written

in the Clavicula Salomonis, "The Numbers are Ideas; and the Ideas are the Powers, and the Powers

are the Holy Elohim of Life." That which is behind and beyond all Number and all thought (even as

the Ain Soph with its Mighty Veils depending back from Kether is behind and beyond all

Manifestation) is the Number 0. Its symbol is the very Emblem of Infinite Space and Infinite

Time.*

*"Hidden behind my Magic Veil of Shows, I am not seen at all --- Name not my Name."

Multiply by it any active and manifested number; and that number vanishes --- sinks into the Ocean

of Eternity. So also is the Ain Soph. From it proceed all Things: unto It all will return, when the

Age of Brahman is over and done, and the day of Peace-Be-with-Us is declared by Thoth, {168} the

Great God, and the Material Universe sinketh into Infinity.

The first Number, then is ONE; emblem of the All-Father; the Unmanifest Mind behind all

Manifestation: the First Mind. Multiply by It any other Number --- for the Multiplication of the

Numbers is a Generation, as is the Multiplication of Men and Gods --- and behold! the Resultant is

a replica of the Number taken. So is One the All-Father, the All-begetter --- generating and

producing all.

The next step is the division into TWO. Thus was manifested the Great Dual Power of Nature. As

above, so below. And thus we find that the simple division into two is the method of multiplication

of the Amoeba, the lowest, simplest, and most absolute form of physical life that we know.

The Dual Power of Nature is the Great Mother of the Worlds.

Again, to draw an analogy from the Material World, consider the Moon, our Mother. Behold in her

the Typic representative of the Powers of the Two. Light and Darkness, Flux and Reflux, Ebb and

Flow --- these are her manifested Powers in Nature --- where also she binds the Great Waters to her

Will.

Now in the Yetziratic Attribution is the second number, Beth ( i.e. , a House), an Abode, the

Dwelling of the Holy One, shown to be equivalent to the Sphere of Kokab and his lords. And the

symbolic weapon of Mercury is the Caduceus, whose Twin Serpents show again the Dualistic

Power. ( Note . --- Woden, the Scandinavian Mercury, was the All-Father, as it is written in the

Ritual of the Path of the Spirit of the Primal {169} Fire HB:Shin. "For all things did the Father of

All Things perfect, and delivered them over unto the Second Mind; whom all Races of Men call

'First .") Behold, then, in these two great Numbers 1 and 2 the Father and the Mother of the Worlds

and of Numbers.

Now these twain being Conjoined and manifest in ONE, produce the Number 3; as it is written:

"For the Mind of the Father said that 'All Things should be cut into Three,' Whose Will*

*HB:Bet, the magus of Power in Taro = Will.

assenting All Things were so divided. For the Mind of the Father said Into three , governing All

Things by Mind. And there appeared in it the Triad, Virtue and Wisdom and Multiscient Truth."

Thus floweth forth the form of the Triad.*

*Ritual of the Path of the Daughter of the Firmament.

Thus is formulated the Creative Trinity which is, as it were, the essential preliminary to

Manifestation.

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This Mystic Son of the Eternal Parents, having for his number 3, is typified in all the sacred scripts

by that number. Thus it is written of the manifestation of the Son of God upon the Earth, "Shiloh

shall come" (the initial of which Mystery-Name is HB:Shin = 300). And in the Grecian tongue it is

written: "In the beginning was the Word ," &c., which is lambda omicron gamma omicron sigma

(lambda = 30). But the best of all the Examples is found in the Holy Tetragram Yod-Heh-Vau-Heh.

For we may regard this venerable name as typical of the Father and the Mother, and so divided into

Vau-Heh and Yod-Heh.*

*<&ltFor it is written (Genesis v. 1, 2):

:Bet-Resh-Aleph Aleph-Lamed-Heh-Yod-Memfinal Aleph-DaletMemfinal Bet-Dalet-Mem-Vau-Taw Aleph-Lamed-

Heh-Yod-Memfinal Ayin-Shin-Heh Aleph-Taw-Vau Qof-Bet-Resh Vau-Nun-Qof-Bet-Heh Bet-Resh-Aleph-Memfinal

"And the Elohim created Mankind: in the Likeness of the Elohim created they them: Male and Female created they

them." Now if ADAM be in the similitude of the Elohim: and are male and female, then must the Elohim be also male

and female. Now in the first of those mysterious three verses in Exodus xiv. wherein the divided name is hidden it is

written, "and went the Angel of the Elohim before the Camp," &c. And this Angel of the Elohim, Mem-Lamed-Aleph-

Kophfinal Aleph-Lamed-Heh-Yod-Memfinal, is the Manifestations of their presence. Now Mem-Lamed-Aleph-

Kophfinal hath the numeration 91, which also is the number of Yod-Heh-Vau-Heh Aleph-Dalet-Nun-Yod, wherefore

by Gematria "Tetragrammaton our Lord" is the Angel Now if into the midst of this divided Name of the Elohim of the

Divided Name. Therefore is the Tetragrammaton symbolic of the Manifested Presence of the Elohim; and if the Elohim

be Male and Female, so also must be the Tetragram. Also is the number of Aleph-Mem-Nunfinal (also 91) by Aiq

Bekar 1 + 4 + 5 = 10 --- the Perfection of the Sephiroth.

{170} we cast the triple fire of the Holy letter HB:Shin = 300, we get the name of the Godhead

Incarnate upon Earth, Yod-Heh-Shin-Vau-Heh. But 1 + 2 + 3 = 6, which is the number of HB:Vau,

the third letter of the Venerable Name: Microprosopus and the Son of God.

We are now, therefore, arrived at the Great Mystery of the Tetractys, and to go further we must

resort to the Twin Sister of the Science of Number --- which, indeed, is but Number made Flesh:

Geometry, or Absolute Symbolism. Even as it was spoken by the holy Pythagoras: "God

geometrises."

Let us behold the Work of His Fingers!

{The following illustration includes a circumscribed equilateral triangle. In the original, the triangle

and circle are composed of solid lines. The form given here is an approximation.}

One Son Incomprehensible.

. 3. .

. /HB:Shin .

. / \ .

. /HB:Aleph HB:Mem \ .

One Father 1.----------------------- 2. One Mother

Incomprehensible. . . Incomprehensible.

. .

. . .

Fig. I. --- THE TRINITY UNMANIFEST.

{171}

{The following illustration includes a circumscribed equilateral triangle with solid rays extending to

nearly the center. In the original, the triangle and circle are composed of solid lines. The form given

here is an approximation.}

One Son Eternal.

. 3. .

. /| \ .

. / | \ .

. / 4. \ .

. / / \ \ .

One Father Eternal.1.----------------------- 2.One Mother Eternal.

. .

. . .

Fig. II. --- THE TRINITY IN MANIFESTATION.

In both of these Symbols the all-including circle represents the underlying idea of the Number 0: the

Infinite: Parabrahman: the Ain Soph. In the first is shown the Mystic Trinity before manifestation;

as it were unlimited, unbound, and unbounded, inoperative because of its diffusiveness and

dispersion. In the second figure we behold their concentration: focalisation: producing by their joint

action the number of manifestation --- 4. In the worlds --- Assiah: in the Taro, the Princess --- the

throne of the Spirit: in the Tetragram, the He final, and in symbolic language --- the Daughter: in

the Cycle of Life (Birth, Life, Death, Resurrection), the forth; in the Keys of the Book Universal,

the Empress, Kappa-omicron-rho-eta Kappa-omicron-sigma-mu-omicron-upsilon, the Virgin of the

World, Venus, Aphrodite: Centrum in Trigonis Centri --- by whatsoever of a myriad names we call

Her, still the same in Spirit, the same in Number and in form! And this number is herein formulated

by the Concentration of the Three in One. 3 + 1 = 4. Now in this Figure II. we behold six certain

Paths; and in six days did {172} God create the Heavens and the Earth. And the total numeration of

its numbers is the Perfect Number, even the Decade of the Sephiroth. (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10.)

Thus can our Science teach us wherefore the Door*

*As above, so below; wherefore saith the Holy Qabalah that alone amongst the Shells is Nogah, the Sphere of Venus,

exalted unto Holiness. (Venus is the Goddess of Love.)

of Venus, HB:Dalet, is the Gateway of Initiation: that one planet whose symbol alone embraceth the

10 Sephiroth; the Entrance to the Shrine of our Father C.R.C., the Tomb of Osiris; the God

Revealer, coming, moreover, by the Central Path of HB:Samekh through the midst of the Triangle

of Light. And the Lock which guards that Door is as the Four Gates of the Universe. And the Key is

The Ankh, Immortal Life --- the Rose and Cross of Life; and the Symbol of Venus Venus.

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