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                                   Qabalah

                     "Sepher Yetzirah" (4th Installment)

[Adapted to conform to the Golden Dawn correspondences in 1976 e.v. with
parenthetic notes by Bill Heidrick from the Kalisch and Stenring translations.
This rendering of the "S.Y." is made in the public domain as a way of paying
dues of another kind.  The notes are in curly brackets: {}, and are not part
of the original text.  The "Sepher Yetzirah" is the ultimate basis of the
Golden Dawn system of correspondences embodied in Crowley's "Liber 777".]



                                Chapter Five.

                                 Section One.
   The twelve simple letters HB:Heh, Vau, Zain, Chet, Tet, Yod, Lamed, Nun,
Samekh, Ayin, Tzaddi & Qof symbolize, as it were, the organs of sight,
hearing, smell, speech, digestion or swallowing, touch or coition, work,
walking, anger, mirth, thinking or meditation, sleep* {The Golden Dawn changed
these qualities around quite a bit in disregard of a relatively uniform
version in the manuscripts of the SEPHER YETZIRAH.  In the following sections,
the Golden Dawn term will be given first and then a version from the Kalisch
translation: e.g. "Golden Dawn term (Kalisch term)".}

                                 Section Two.
   The twelve simple consonants HB:Heh, Vau, Zain, Chet, Tet, Yod, Lamed, Nun,
Samekh, Ayin, Tzaddi & Qof symbolize also twelve oblique points {The Order of
the Golden Dawn says, in order: North East, HB:Heh ; South East, HB:Vau ; East
Above, HB:Zain ; East Below, HB:Chet ; North Above, HB:Tet ; North Below,
HB:Yod ; North West, HB:Lamed ; South West, HB:Nun ; West Above, HB:Samekh ;
West Below, HB:Ayin ; South Above, HB:Tzaddi ; and South Below, HB:Qof.  The
Kalish translation gives in the same order for the letters: East Height, North
East, East Depth, South Height, South East, South Depth, West Height, South
West, West Depth, North Height, North West, North Depth.}.  They grew wider
and wider to all eternity, and these are the boundaries of the world.  {In the
Golden Dawn theory, as developed by Paul Foster Case, the posthumous founder
of B.O.T.A., these 12 directions are the locations of the twelve edges of the
"Cube of Space" which has for faces the first six double letters.  Some
Qabalistic studies attempt to define a diamond shape in three dimensions.  In
any event, this section is possibly the origin of the Masonic Temple of
Solomon, which fills the universe through its duplication -- like three-
dimensional tiles fitting together.)

                                Section Three.
   The twelve simple letters HB:Heh, Vau, Zain, Chet, Tet, Yod, Lamed, Nun,
Samekh, Ayin, Tzaddi & Qof fundamentally, having been designed, established,
combined, weighed and exchanged by Him, He performed by them: twelve
constellations in the world, twelve months in the year, and twelve organs in
the human body, male and female.

                       (Chapter Five to be continued.)