Liber 777 (revised) (pdf) - Holy Order of the Golden Dawn Canada

EXPLANATIONS OF THE ATTRIBUTIONS
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28. Aquarius is the Kerub of the Man; and his perfection is to attain
the purity of Kether (white) tinged with the purple or violet vibrations
explained above.
29. Pisces is the symbol of the Astral Plane. (See ATU XVIII.) Its
defect is glamour and illusion. It has now been brought to a mental
equilibrium signifying the adaptability of the ether to receive and
transmit all types of vibration.
MINUTUM MUNDUM
A General Note on Columns XV-XVIII, the Four Scales of Colour
You can use the four scales of colour as you choose. The only thing to
remember is the attribution, the Tetragrammaton.
The Sephiroth are given in the King’s Scale and the paths in the
Queen’s Scale* in accordance with the general law of balance. You
must never have a masculine sticking out by itself without a feminine to
equilibrate it.
The Sephiroth are definitely positve ideas. The numbers are
“Things in Themselves,” much more so that the letters of the alphabet.
The paths are merely the links between the Sephiroth.
Of course the idea of balance is carried into the Sephiroth
themselves. The number 4 is masculine in its relation with number 5,
feminine in its relation with number 3.
You cannot go wrong as long as you keep always this idea of
balance in the forefront of your mind. Whenever one thing goes on to
another thing, there must always be this opposition, and equilibrium.
You can apply this to every point that comes up in practical working. It
is always possible to refer any system of symbols to the Tree of Life
merely by Tetragrammaton, or indeed to any of the fundamental
systems of classification. It is a very useful exercise to practice this
type of analysis. Take, for example, the letter Daleth, and note all is
correspondences. For instance, you get at once the equation 4 = 7, for
the numerical of Daleth is 4, while 7 is of Venus.
* [The other way round is more usual. — T.S.]