PART II
It was necessary that I should go thus somewhat at length
into this Mystery of the Opening of the Numbers, because
without this explanation much of the meaning of the verse
must necessarily remain obscure.
Now let us consider this most Mystic Verse!
The first thing that strikes us is that it contains Seven
Words: the Second that the number of its letters is cwenty-
eight. Thus does it perfectly symbolise in its entirety the
third Symbol in the numerical evolution.
Before proceeding to a detailed analysis, and following the
Process of Creation by Time (¢.e., beginning at the first letter,
and so proceeding), let me point out a few general facts. First
as to the number of letters in each word, which converted into
figures stands thus: 4. 3. 5. 2. 5. 3.6. (Hebrew direction).
In the midst is 2, by Tarothe Central Will : and this two-
lettered word is nx. On either side of this is the pair of
figures 35—53, balanced one against the other: as though
symbolic of the great dawning life of the Mothers—n and n,
vitalised by the SON (3) as the Vice-Gerent of His Father.
These balanced figures together make 16, whereof the Key
is 7; the total number of letters in the third Symbol. Then
we have left at either end 4 and 6 = 10,* the perfection of the
* Vide Sepher Yetzirah for this division of the Holy Sephiroth into a
Hexad and a Tetrad.
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