The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE EQUINOX works, and we confine ourselves to the special study of the Qabalah among the Hebrews. The Logos, or the Word, being according to the initiates of that science the complete revelation, the principles of the holy Qabalah ought to be found reunited in the signs them- selves of which the primitive alphabet is composed. Now, this is what we find in all Hebrew grammars.* There is a fundamental and universal letter which generates all the others. It is the 1op. There are two other mother letters, opposed and analogous among themselves; the ALEPH s and the MEM pn, according to others, the SCHIN w. There are seven double letters, the BETH 2, the GIMEL 3, the DALETH 7, the KAPH 9, the PE a, the RESH 9, and the TAU I. Finally, there are twelve simple letters; in all twenty-two. The unity is represented, in a relative manner, by the ALEPH; the ternary is figured either by 10D, MEM, SCHIN,or by ALEPH, MEM, SCHIN. The septenary, by BETH, GIMEL, DALETH, KAPH, PE, RESH, TAU. The duodenary, by the other letters. The duodenary is the ternary multiplied by four; and it re- enters thus into the symbolism of the septenary. Each letter represents a number: each assemblage of letters, a series of numbers. 1 This is all deliberately wrong. That Levi knew the correct attributions is evident from a MS. annotated by himself. Levi refused to reveal these attri- butions, rightly enough, as his grade was not high enough, and the time not ripe. Note the subtlety of the form of his statement. The correct attributions are in Liber 777.—O. M. 184