The Kabbalah Unveiled — S. L. MacGregor Mathers (from Knorr von Rosenroth's Latin) (1887)

64. Now, if we examine the matter qabalistically we shall find the reason of these analogies. Lor Eheieh , AHIH, is the Vast Countenance, the Ancient One, Macroprosopus, Kether, the first Sephira, the Crown of the Qabalistical Sephirotic greatest Trinity (which consists of the Crown, King, and Queen ; or Macroprosopus, Microprosopus and the Bride), and the Father in the Christian acceptation of the Trinity.

65. But IHYH, the Tetragrammaton, as we shall

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presently see, contains all the Sephiroth with the exception of Kether, and specially signifies the Lesser Countenance, Microprosopus, the King of the qabalistical Sephirotic greatest Trinity, and the Son in His human incarnation, in the Christian acceptation of the Trinity .

Therefore, as the Son reveals the Father, so does
IHVH, Jehovah , reveal AHIH, JEheieh.

66. And ADNI is the Queen, “ by whom alone Tetragrammaton can be grasped,” whose exaltation into Binah is found in the Christian assumption of the Virgin.

67. The Tetragrammaton IHVH is referred to the Sephiroth, thus : the uppermost point of the letter Yod, I, is said to refer to Kether ; the letter I itself to Chokmcch , the father of Microprosopus ; the letter H, or “ the •supernal Hef to Binah, the supernal Mother ; the letter V to the next six Sephiroth, which are called the six members of Microprosopus (and six is the numerical value of V, the Hebrew Van) ; lastly, the letter H, the u inferior lief to Malkuth, the tenth Sephira, the bride of Microprosopus.

68. Now, there are four secret names referred to the four worlds of Atziloth, Briah, Yetzirah, and Asiah ; and again, the Tetragrammaton is said to go forth written in a certain manner in each of these four worlds. The secret name of Atziloth is Aub , OB ; that of Briah is Seg, SGr ; that of Yetzirah is Mali , MH ; and that of Asiah is Benf BN. The subjoined Table will show the mode of writing the name in each of the four worlds.

69. These names operate together with the Sephiroth through the “231 gates,” as the various combinations of the alphabet are called ; but it would take too much space to go fully into the subject here.

70. Closely associated with the subject of the letters of* the Tetragrammaton is that of the four kerubim, to which I have already referred in describing the first Sephira.

* BN, Ben , means “ Son.’?

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Now it must not be forgotten that these forms in Ezekiel’s vision support the throne of the Deity, whereon the Heavenly Man is seated — the Adam Qadmon, the sepliirotic image ; and that between the throne and the living creatures is the firmament. Here then we have the four worlds — Atziloth, the deific form ; Briah, the throne ; Yetzirah, the firmament ; Asiah, the kerubim. Therefore the kerubim represent the powers of the letters of the Tetragrammaton on the material plane; and the four represent the operation of the four letters in each of the four worlds. Thus, then, the kerubim are the living forms of the letters, symbolized in the Zodiac by Taurus, Leo, Aquarius, and Scorpio, as I have before remarked.