The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

A NOTE ON GENESIS five Letters: In its Centre is the Great Letter n, Mother Supernal. Five once more; and its first and last letters are once again ox, 41, the Mother, and 5, the Maternal Essence. And its numeration is 86, whereof the Key is 14, whereof the Key is 5. Wherefore we say that this great name is 5 in its form symbolic. 5 in the Heart of its Power: the Beginning and the End thereof are 5; and 5 is it in its Venerable Essence! Turn now back unto the third Symbol; gaze at it steadily for a few moments, and see hidden in the Six- fold Seal of Creation the Five-fold Star of Unconquered Will. For this was the Divine Force which created the worlds! Power Eternal, Power Resistless, Power All-dominating, in its Absolute Supremacy—gleaming as the Great Name Elohim in the Heart of the Six-fold star! Flaming as the Purifying Fire, purging and ordering the Chaos of the Night of Time! As in the midst of the Letters of the Verse we saw the words on nnx, “Thou in Extension,” so also does the Name Elohim read x, “ Deity,” ovn, in Extension.* And the numeration of Elohim is 86, which by Gematria reads mn, again meaning “spread out, extended.” Write the letters of this Name in any Invoking Penta- gram ; and the Banishing Pentagram thereof will read 3.1415 (by Qabalah of nine Chambers), which is the Formula of the Proportion of diameter to circumference of the Circle. Thus herein do we perceive the Hidden Power of the Three extended as a Mighty Sphere to the Confines of Space! * And bx = xd, No, the Negative. + The nearest computation to four places of decimals is 3.1416 (3.14156). But 3.1415 is good enough for the benighted Hebrews.—P. In the sublime Computations of the Qabalah the Final Forms of letters have no increased numerical value. Mein is 40, whether final or not. The 183