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

71. And “the mystery of the earthly and mortal man is after the mystery of the supernal and immortal One;” and thus was he created the image of God upon earth. In the form of the body is the Tetragrammaton found. The head is I,* the arms and shoulders are like H, the body is Y, and the legs are represented by the H final. Therefore, as the outward form of man corresponds to the Tetragrammaton, so does the animatiug soul correspond to the ten supernal Sephiroth ; and as these find their ultimate expression in the trinity of the crown, the king, and the queen, so is there a principal triple division of the soul. Thus, then, the first is the Neschamah , NShMH, which is the highest degree of being, corresponding to the crown (Kether), and representing the highest triad of the Sephiroth, called the intellectual world. The second is Ruach , KYCh, the seat of good and evil, corresponding to Tiphereth, the moral world. And the third is Nephesch, NPSh, the animal life and desires, corresponding to Yesod, and the material and sensuous world. All souls are pre-existent in the world of emanations, and are in their original state androgynous, but when they descend upon earth they become separated into male and female, and inhabit

* See Plate I., the Table of the Hebrew Alphabet, for the forms of the letters of the Tetragrammaton.

Plate VI.

PLATE ILLUSTRATING THE ANALOGY BETWEEN THE SOUL. THE LETTERS OF TETRAGRAMMATON.& THE FOUR

WORLDS .

Chi. ah. the highest Form from Mziloih gible- illimitable > i tide finable idea comprehensible' God. Therefore

Aischc/.mah The second f orm, fnmBruih, creative idea, the aspiration to the inanalogous to the Idlers I H anyoineeb connecting link - betweeroMa t roprosopiis Father and the jfiuach, the thud, Form front the Mind the Reasoning Power of Good a ndF i if thef Power and Conclusion. Therefore analo the the Archetypal World, therefore the inlan in the Soul of the GrealAb solids Tnanafogous to Macroprosopus .

the If or Id of Creedwn/hc higher governing ' effables One, in the Soul. Therefore' inBriah Coexistent, fbnsubstantuil, the/ andMzcroprosopus , the Supernal S upernal Mother.

Yelzirah, the' World of Formation that winch possesses thcKno i v ledge of Definition, Limitation, Deduction -gous to the. tetter V, Micro proso pus, Som

JSepheSch the fourth form Material World, the. cornplcJion of ctTf power in the' Soul the Passions appetites . analogous to final, The Bride iheLamb’s Wife ' who is they

Asiah, the > lizaZion ■ and things , that Inch represents ind Physicals Therefore tltes letter H r > f AT u roprosopus, of the Apocalypse' sum of cilt.

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INTRODUCTION.

different bodies ; if therefore in this mortal life the male half encounters the female half, a strong attachment springs up between them, and hence it is said that in marriage the separated halves are again conjoined ; and the hidden forms of the soul are akin to the kerubim.

72. But this foregoing triple division of the soul is only applicable to the triple form of the intellectual, moral, and material. Let us not lose sight of the great qabalistical idea, that the trinity is always completed by and finds its realization in the quaternary ; that is, IHV completed and realized in IHVH — the trinity of

Crown ; King ; Queen ;

Father ; Son ; Spirit ;

Absolute; Formation; Realization ;

completed by the quaternary of —

Absolute One

Father and
Mother

Son

Bride.

Macroprosopus. the

Father and

Microprosopus, the

Malkuth, the

Vast Countenance

Mother

Lesser Countenance

Queen and
Bride.

Atziloth

Briah

Yetzirah

Asiah.

Archetypal

Creative

Formative

Material.

And to these four the soul answers in the following four forms : — Chiah to Atziloth ; Neschamah to Briah ; Ruach to Yetzirah ; and Nephesch to Asiah. See subjoined plate illustrating the analogy between the soul, the letters of the Tetragrammaton, and the four worlds.

73. But Chiah is in the soul the archetypal form analogous to Macroprosopus. Wherefore Neschamah, Ruach, and Nephesch represent as it were by themselves the Tetragrammaton, without Chiah, which is nevertheless symbolized u in the uppermost point of the I, yod,” of the soul ; as Macroprosopus is said to be symbolized by the uppermost point of the I, yod , of IHYH. For u yod of the Ancient One is hidden and concealed.”

74. I select the following resume of the qabalistical teachings regarding the nature of the soul from Eliphaz

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