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                                   Qabalah

                      Sepher Yetzirah (6th 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. (cont.)

                                 Section Six.
   Third Division, He let the letter HB:Qof predominate in Sleep {K.T. assigns
Laughing}, crowned it, combined one with the other, and formed by them: Pisces
in the world, the month Adar in the year, and the milt of the human body, male
and female.
   He made them as a conflict, drew them up like a wall; and set one against
the other as in warfare.  {This last point is explained by the observation
that these twelve letters symbolize processes in human behavior that can
interfere with each other.  Some further points must now be made regarding the
assignments of qualities and body parts to these twelve simple letters. In the
Golden Dawn Tradition, many things are subordinated to the Astrological
symbolism.  This was true in the case of the Double letters, where one of
several natural methods of assignment in the "Yetzirah" was passed over to
provide a better match between the Double Letters and the planets to work with
Tarot Trumps.  The other methods do not work as well with the G.'. D.'. Tarot-
Astrological system, and they are therefore excluded from "Liber 777".  This
should not make the student think that the primary method used there excludes
the several systems proposed here.  It is best to begin with a simple system.
The serious student then must examine the other systems to determine the
information contained in each of them.  In the case of these Twelve Simple
Letters, this is even more the case.  The Golden Dawn -- "Liber 777" system
has shifted the twelve qualities of the simple letters to make them match the
usual qualities of the Astrological signs.  The "Yetzirah" has set up an
entirely new parallel system through these qualities which deserves its own
study.  The same is true of the body organs mentioned here.  In the Golden
Dawn system, these associations are omitted entirely.  The usual associations
to the Zodiac signs are assumed in place of these associations in the
"Yetzirah" to body organs.  It is suggested that these associations have a
particular meaning of their own, and that the serious student will in time
find it useful to study that system.  By all means, begin with the simpler
approach given in "Liber 777" and in the various works derived from the Order
of the Golden Dawn.  When comfortable with that approach, consider these other
systems.  It is the work of the advanced student of the mysteries to make
these apparently diverse systems function well together -- even if the war of
the simple letters is the only manner in which it may be done.
   Always remember that the ideas presented in the "Yetzirah" are like words
in their effect.  The object is to first learn the simple uses of these ideas,
and then to discover the uses of these ideas that are like circumlocutions,
figures of speech and allegories.  By that means, one can obtain the
conversation of the Angels.}

                                Chapter Six.

                                 Section One.
   These are the three mothers or the first elements Aleph, Mem,
and Shin, from which emanated three progenitors: primitive air, water
and fire, and from which emanated as their offspring three progenitors and
their offspring, namely: the seven planets and their hosts, and the twelve
oblique points.  {The production of the double and single letters from the
mother letters is like the interaction of the mother letters in the six rings:
Example; Beth is like Aleph combined with Shin, HB:Gemel = HB:Aleph + HB:Mem,
HB:Dalet = HB:Shin + HB:Mem, HB:Koph = HB:Bet + HB:Lamed, HB:Peh = HB:Bet +
HB:Dalet, HB:Resh = HB:Dalet + HB:Gemel, HB:Taw = HB:Aleph + HB:Shin + HB:Mem
= HB:Bet + HB:Gemel + HB:Dalet = HB:Koph + HB:Peh + HB:Resh, HB:Heh =
HB:Aleph + HB:Koph, HB:Vau = HB:Aleph + HB:Peh, HB:Zain = HB:Aleph + HB:Resh,
HB:Chet = HB:Aleph + HB:Taw, HB:Tet = HB:Shin + HB:Koph, HB:Yod = HB:Shin +
HB:Peh, HB:Lamed = HB:Shin + HB:Resh, HB:Nun + HB:Shin + HB:Taw,
HB:Samekh = HB:Mem + HB:Koph, HB:Ayin = HB:Mem + HB:Peh, HB:Tzaddi = HB:Mem +
HB:Resh, HB:Qof = HB:Mem + HB:Taw -- this is obtained from the symbolic meaning of the letters and the dictionary meanings of the words they can be
made to form. It is not simply related to the sounds of the letters or to
their number values, although a complex relationship does exist through
gematria.  This theoretical example of the interrelationship of the letters is
taken from "Brief Meanings of the Hebrew Letters" by Bill Heidrick, copyright
1974 e.v.

                                 Section Two.
   To confirm this there are faithful witnesses; the world, year and man, the
twelve, the Equipoise {Fire, Water and Air in balance}, the heptade {seven-
fold nature of things}, which He regulates like the Dragon, {Tali or the
constellation Draco with its head and tail now taken in the simplified modern
Astrology as the nodes of the Moon} sphere {the Hebrew word here is Galgal.
It has the meaning of "machinery like turning wheels which drives the
universe} and the heart {besides all this argument, it feels right}.

                                Section Three.
   The first elements Aleph, Mem and Shin are air, water and fire; the fire is
above, the water below, and a breath of air establishes the balance among
them.  For an illustration may serve, that the fire carries the water, is the
phonetic character of HB:Mem which is mute and HB:Shin is hissing like fire,
there is HB:Aleph among them, a breath of air which places them in
equilibrium.

                                Section Four.
   Dragon {Tali} is in the world like a king upon his throne, the sphere is in
the year like a king in the empire, and the heart is in the human body like a
king in war.  {Thus the three mother letters are like Draco, the seven double
letters are like the regular motions of the planets and the twelve single
letters are like the easily upset functions of the body.)

                     (Chapter six continues next issue).