The Kabbalah Unveiled — S. L. MacGregor Mathers (from Knorr von Rosenroth's Latin) (1887)
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62. The name of the Deity, which we call Jehovah, is in Hebrew a name of four letters, IHVH ; and the true pronunciation of it is known to very few. I myself know some score of difierent mystical pronunciations of it. The true pronunciation is a most secret arcanum, and is a secret of secrets. “ He who can rightly pronounce it, causeth heaven and earth to tremble, for it is the name which rusheth through the universe.” Therefore when a devout Jew comes upon it in reading the Scripture, he either does not attempt to pronounce it, but instead makes a short pause, or else he substitutes for it the name Adonai , ADNI, Lord. The radical meaning of the word is “to be,” and it is thus, like AHIH, Elieieh , a glyph of existence. It is capable of twelve transposi-
PLATE IY.
Table showing the relations of the Sephiroth with the Four
Worlds,
<&c.
Atziloth.
Briah.
Yetzirah.
Asiah.
Ten
Divine Names.
Ten
Archangels.
Ten Orders of
Planets, &c..
Ten Orders of
Demons.
— — S
Ten Arch-devils.
Letters of
The Tetragrammaton.
Symbolical Deific Forms.
The Four Worlds.
1. Kether.
2. Chokhmah.
3. Binah.
4. Chesed.
5. Geburah.
6. Tiphereth.
7. Netzaeh.
8. Hod.
9. Yesod.
10. Malkuth.
Eheieh.
Jehovah.
Jehovah Elohim.
El.
Elohim Gibor.
Eloah Vadaath.
Jehovah Tzabaoth.
Elohim Tzabaoth.
Shaddai, El Cliai.
Adonai Melekh.
Methratton.
Chaioth Ha-Qadesh.
Primum Mobile.
Ratziel.
Anphanim.
Zodiac.
Tzaphqiel.
Aralim.
Saturn.
Tzadqiel.
Chashmalim.
Jupiter.
Khamael.
Seraphim.
Mars.
Mikhael.
Malachim.
! Sun.
Haniel.
Elohim.
' Venus.
Raphael.
Beni Elohim.
| Mercury.
Gabriel.
Kerubim.
Moon.
Methratton.
Ishim.
( Elements.
Thamiel.
Satan and Moloch.
Ghaigidel.
Beelzebub.
I, Yod.
Satariel.
Lucifuge.
H, The Supernal Hej4
Gamchicoth.
Ashtaroth. /
Galab.
Asmodeus.
Tagaririm.
Belphegor.
) V, Vau.
Harab- S erapel.
Baal.
Samael.
Adrammelech.
Gamaliel.'
Lilith. ✓
Nahemoth.
Nahema.
H. The Inferior He.
Macroprosopus, or the Vast Countenance.
The Father. }
Atziloth.
Archetypal.
The Mother Supernal. j
Briah.
Creative.
Microprosopus, or the Lesser Countenance.
Yetzirah.
Formative.
The Bride of Microprosopus.
Asiah.
Material.
Atziloth.
Briah.
Yetzirah.
/ \ / \
Ten
Sephiroth.
Ten
Divine Names.
Ten
Archangels.
Ten Orders of
Angels.
I.
Kether.
Eheieh.
Methratton.
Chaioth Ha-Qadesh.
2.
Chokhmah.
Jehovah.
B-atziel.
Auphanim.
3-
Binah.
Jehovah Elohim.
Tzaphqiel.
Aralim.
4-
Chesed.
El.
Tzadqiel.
Chashmalim.
5-
Geburah.
Elohim Gibor.
Khamael.
Seraphim.
6.
Tiphereth.
Eloah Vadaath.
Mikhael.
Malachim.
7-
Netzacli.
Jehovah Tzabaoth.
Haniel.
Elohim.
8.
Hod.
Elohim Tzabaoth.
Raphael.
Beni Elohim.
9-
Yesod.
Shaddai, El Cliai.
Gabriel.
Kerubim.
10.
Malkuth.
Adonai Melekh.
Methratton.
Ishim.
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INTRODUCTION.
3* tions, which all convey the meaning of “ to be ” ; it is the only word that will bear so many transpositions without its meaning being altered. They are called the “ twelve banners of the mighty name,” and are said by some to rule the twelve signs of the Zodiac. These are the twelve banners : — IHYH, IHHY, IVHH, HYHI, HVIH, HHIY, YHHI, YIHH, VHIH, HIHY, HIYH, HHYI. There are three other tetragrammatic names, which are AHIH, J Eheieh, existence ; AUNT, Aclonai , Lord ; and Agla, AGLA. This last is not, properly speaking, a word, but is a notariqon of the sentence, AThH GBVB, LOVLM ADNI, Ateh Gebor Lc-Olahm Adonai : “ Thou are mighty for ever, 0 Lord ! ” A brief explanation of Agla is this : A, the one first ; A, the one last ; G, the Trinity in Unity ; L, the completion of the great work.
63. The first thing we notice is that both AHIH and IHYH convey the idea of existence ; this is their first analogy. The second is, that in each the letter H comes second and fourth ; and the third is that by Gematria AHIH equals IHY without the H (which, as we shall see presently, is the symbol of Malkuth, the tenth Sephira). But now, if they be written one above the others, thus, within the arms of a cross,
AH
IH
IH
YH
they read downwards as well as across , AHIH, IHYH.