Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

but it is the masculine type of female, the Amazon, whô' is balanced in the number Eight by the féminine type of male. In the number Nine we reach the last of the purely mental qualities. It identifies change with stability. Pendant to this sixfold System is the number Ten 1 which includes the whole of Matter as we know it by the senses. It is impossible here to explain thoroughly the complété conception; for it cannot be too clearly uriderstood that this is a classification of the Universe, that there is nothing which is not comprehended therein. The Article on the Qabalah in Vol. I, No. V of the Equinox is the best which has been written on the subject. It should be deeply studied, in connection with the Qabalistic Diagrams in Nos. II and III: “The Temple of Solomon the King”. Such is a crude and elementary sketch of this System. The formula of Tetragrammaton is the most important for the practical magician. Here Yod = 2, Hé = 3, Vau = 4 to 9, Hé final =10. The Number Two represents Yod, the Divine or Archétypal World, and the Number One is only attained by the destruction of the God and the Magician in Samadhi. The world of Angels is under the numbers Four to Nine, and that of spirits under the I. The balance of the Sephiroth: Kether (0 “Kether is in Malkuth, and Malkuth is in Kether, but after another manner.” Chokmah (2) is Yod of Tetragrammaton, and there fore also XJnity. Binah (3) is Hé of Tetragrammaton, and there fore “The Emperor.” Chesed (4) is Daleth, Venus the female. Geburah (5) is the Sephira of Mars, the Male. Tiphereth (6) is the Hexagram, harmonizing, and mediating between Kether and Malkuth. Also it reflects Kether. “That which is above, is îike that which is below, and that which is below, is like that which is above.55 Netzach (7) and Hod (8) balanced as in text. Jesod (9) see text. Malkuth (10) contains ail the numbers. 3