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EXPLANATIONS OF THE ATTRIBUTIONS
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attributed to this sphere as being the outpost of the Solar System.
Uranus is attributed to Daäth because of its explosive nature. The
Abyss is represented in Nature by the Asteroids. There is another
aspect of Uranus, the Magical Will, which is assigned to Chokmah.
There is also another of Neptune, whose astrological characteristics are
sympathetic with Neschamah and therefore with Binah. It must be
remarked that since above the Abyss a thing is only true so far as it
contains its contradictions in itself, the attributions of the planets above
the Abyss cannot be so definite as those below. Each of them can in a
way be attributed to any of the Supernals, and each may be given to any
one for contradictory reasons. It cannot be too strongly pointed out to
the practical Magician that when he comes to work with ideas above the
Abyss, the whole character of his operations is completely changed.
3. SHABATAI represents Saturn as the planet of repose, of darkness,
and perhaps as the category of Time. Note that Saturn is attributed to
Daäth in the hexagram of the planets. This is the creative Saturn, the
hidden God, and the Daäth of the apex of the upper triangle of the
hexagram is in reality a concentration of the Trinity of the Supernals.
The hexagram must not be like “the Stooping Dragon,” crowned with a
falsity.
4. TZEDEQ means righteousness; the inexorable law of Jupiter. The
connection of this with the number 4 depends on the aspect of 4 as the
square of 2, the limitation of the Dyad further fixed by self-multiplication,
the introduction of a new dimension. 4 is thus a number of
rigidity or materiality. Hence its ideal quality is inexorable righteousness.
Yet in connection with this, remember that Chesed means Mercy
and 4 is Daleth, the letter of Venus, Love. Consideration of this is very
helpful in understanding the way in which a Sephira combines widely
diverse ideas.
5-9. 5. MADIM. 6. SHEMESH. 7. NOGAH. 8. KOKAB. 9. LEVANAH.*
10. CHOLIM YESODOTH. The sphere of the elements is attributed to
Malkuth. Of course, the elements extend throughout the Sephiroth. But
* Editorial Note.—The explanatory notes on these five heavens of Assiah were never
written. The typescript merely has “Look up the actual meaning.”