The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

1.6 xs te o The next word is nx, which we have seen to be the Central word: and its signification is the Alpha and Omega—From Beginning unto End: Essence: and its Key is 5. Five again are the letters of the word o»nwn,* which next follows; and in this word ony, the Heavens, we perceive w,t the Ruach Elohim, brooding upon the Face of the Waters, co» (Maim), even as it is afterwards set forth in Verse 2. In the next word, nx, we find that the Conjunctive 1 makes of the Key number of the Essence of the Earth 11 instead of 5: symbolising how the World should fall unto the Kingdom of the Shells, and how it should be redeemed by the Son of Man. Ancient Hebrew Method of obtaining all numbers above 400 and below 1000, respectively8 and n, was to make up the number with the proper letters. Thus 500 would have been written pn, not 4, and 800 nn, and soon. [Yet in some few Arcana the Finals are counted as such. This mystery, however, pertaineth to a Grade even more exalted than our beloved and erudite Brother had attained at the period of this Essay.—P.] * Whose Key number is 17 : by Taro—Hope; whose title is Daughter of the Firmament, dweller between the Waters. + The initial 7 is but the article “the.” ¢ For 11 is the Number of the Qliphoth; but when the Fall had occurred and the Sephira Malkuth had been cut off from the Tree by the folds of the Dragon there was added unto the Tree ny, the Knowledge, as the 11th 184