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

EXPLANATIONS OF THE ATTRIBUTIONS
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the letter is to establish a link between the ideas of fire and
air, the two active elements. There is a similar connection
between Mem and Tau. The 12th ATU shows a man hanging
from a cross, which is the meaning of Tau.
TAU a Tau or Cross symbolizes the element of Earth aas a
solidification of the four elements. There is also a phallic
meaning, whence Tau is attributed not only to Earth, but to
Saturn. Tau was originally written cruciform.
I may supplement the above remarks by saying that they make clear that
there is no such apodeictic connection between the letters as between
the numbers. The meanings are in many cases little more than
indications of certain lines on which meditation may be profitably
pursued.
COLUMN V: GOD NAMES IN ASSIAH
1. EHEIEH. The God names of the Sephiroth refer, for the most part,
by meaning to their characteristics. Thus EHEIEH, pure existence,
belongs to 1. The sound of the word represents the indrawn and
outdrawn breath.
2. YAH gives the title of the Father.
3. JEHOVAH ELOHIM gives the full name of the God, as if the
Supernals were collected in Binah.
4. The name AL is used in many senses. Its deepest sense is give by
The Book of the Law. The excuse for writing it here is that 4 represents
Jupiter, the highest possible manifestion of Deity.
5. ELOHIM GIBOR. The attribution is natural.
6. JEHOVAH ELOAH VA-DAATH. The reference is to Tiphereth as the
child of Chokmah and Binah, Daäth (their first child) having failed to
find a place on the Tree.
7-8. JEHOVAH TZABAOTH and ELOHIM TZABAOTH give respectively
the two principal names of the Demiurge expressed in multiplicity and
positive action. (Hosts.)*
* [See in this connection I.Z.Q. 740-745. — T.S.]