THE EQUINOX
We will now proceed to the first word of the text as thus
decapitated, taking B’rasheth as the Title rather than as the
first Word. This latter stands x12, which hath three Letters,
symbolising thereby the Unmanifest Trinity.
Now its letters further exemplify the Trinity, for that they
are the initials of three Hebrew words, which are the Names
of the Persons thereof, viz:
wa Ben, the Son.
nm Ruach, the Spirit (here the Mother).
ax Ab, the Father.
Note how here again the Son is first for Humanity and
the Father last. These three letters, then, symbolise the three
in One Unmanifest. Yet is there in them the All-potency of
Life. For 2+ 2+ 1= 5, the Symbol of Power, Mother
Supernal, and n also is », Lamb of God and Dawn of the Life
of the Year.
Wherefore in them lieth concealed and hidden, not
alone the Divine White Brilliance of the Three Supernals
(xin, wrtp,, W732), but even also that Gleaming Glory which
partaketh of the Redness, and which cometh from the Bornless
Age, which is beyond Kether. As it is writtten in Ancient
Hindu Scripture, ‘In the beginning Desire, TANHA, arose
in It: which was the Primal Germ of Mind.” Now in the
Aryan Mythology Tanha, Desire, was the God of Love, Kama ;
whereof the symbolic tint was Pink : as it were the first pink
blush of Dawn in the Macrocosmic Sky: Herald of the Rising
Sun of the Worlds, when the Great Night of Brahma was
over and done.
The next word is the Great Name of God the Vast One:
onyx. Let us meditate upon its Mystery! Herein behold
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