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

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777 REVISED
It should be understood that the main object of this book is to enable
the student to do four things. Firstly, to analyze any idea soever in
terms of the Tree of Life. Secondly, to trace the connection between
every class of idea referring it thereto. Thirdly, to translate any unknown
symbolism into terms of any known one by its means. Fourthly, to
make a concatenation of any part of any idea with the rest by analogy
with the similar concatenation of the Sephiroth and the paths.
In this connection, observe that the numbers (of this column)
subsequent to 10 are not to be considered as real numbers. The figures
have been assigned to them arbitrarily for convenience only. Thus there
is no special sympathy between 11 and the letter Aleph which is
referred to it. For Aleph is connected chiefly with the idea of Zero and
Unity, whereas 11 is the number of Magick, and its principal
alphabetical correspondences are Beth and Teth. Further, the essential
definition of a path is determined by its position on the Tree of Life as
conductor of the influence of the Sephiroth which it connects.
One great difficulty in constructing this table is caused by the
intimate correspondency between certain Sephiroth and paths. Thus
Kether is directly reflected into Chokmah according to one mode, and
into Tiphareth according to another. Further, the creative energy on a
still lower plane is symbolized in Yesod. In respect of its unity,
moreover, it has its analogy in the 11th path.
In the case of Chokmah the difficulty is even greater. Chokmah, as
the creative energy Chiah, is of the same nature as Chesed, and even
Tiphareth as Vau shows an intimate correspondence with the final Hé of
Tetragrammaton as Chokmah with her mother. Among the paths of the
Serpent this creative energy is expressed according to various modes:
by the 11th path, the Wandering Fool, who impregnates the King's
Daughter, by the 12th path which creates Maya, the 15th which is
definitely phallic,* and even the 13th which symbolizes change through
putrefaction. Lastly, he is found in this function in the 27th path, which
* [This is a probably a reference to the attribution of Aries and the Tarot Trump the
Emperor to the 15th Path, as opposed to the later attribution of Aquarius and the Star.
— T.S.]