Israel Regardie - The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic.pdf

VOLUME FIVE
The termination EL always gives to Angelic Forms the Wings and Symbols of
Justice. The ending YAH will make the Figures like enthroned Kings or Queens, and with
flaming glory at their feet.
FURTHER ON TELESMATIC FIGURES
The Names of all Angels and Angelic forces terminate, with few exceptions, in either
AL or YAH. The Divine Name AL belongs to CHESED and it represents a good,
powerful, and mighty force, but of somewhat milder operation than the Name YAH.
Since not only the Angels but even devils are said to draw their force and power
directly from the prolific source of the divine energies, therefore frequently to the names
of evil spirits, is AL added. The Name YAH is added to the name of an Angel or Spirit
who exercises only a good and somewhat beneficent office.
This being understood, these two terminations being rather in the nature of
incidental attributions than of essential distinction, they need not be taken too much notice
of in the construction of a telesmatic image.
In building up such an image, you can either imagine it astrally before you, or paint
the actual resemblance. Care should however be taken to pronounce the Divine Names
belonging to the world under which the telsmatic image under course of construction
would fall. Thus to ATZILUTH are allotted Deific Names. To BRIAH, Archangelic and so
on. It is also useful to employ the Sephirotic Names which are comprised in the special
world to which the Telesmatic Image is allotted.
It is well to note that the four Worlds themselves formulate the Law involved in
the building up or expression of any material thing. The world of ATZILUTH is purely
archetypal and primordial, and to it, as before said, Deific Names are applied. BRIAH is
creative and originative, and to it certain Great Gods called Archangels are allotted.
YETZIRAH is formative and Angelic Orders are allotted thereunto. ASSIAH which is the
material world consists of the great Kingdoms of the Elements, human beings, and in some
cases of the Qlippoth -- though these latter really occupy the planes below ASSIAH.
From these remarks it will be seen that a Telesmatic Image can hardly apply to
ATZILUTH; that to BRIAH it can only do so in a restricted sense. Thus a Telesmatic
Image belonging to that world would have to be represented with a kind of concealed head,
possessing a form shadowy and barely indicated. Telesmatic Images, then really belong to
YETZI RAH. Therefore it would be impossible to employ the telesmatic image of a Divine
Name in ATZILUTH, for it would not represent that in the world of ATZILUTH, but
rather its correlation in YETZIRAH. In ASSIAH you would get Elemental forms.
The sex of the figure depends upon the predominance of the masculine or the feminine
in the total of the letters together, but a jumble of the sexes should be avoided in the same
form. The Image built up should be divided into as many parts as there are letters,
commencing at the upper part and so on in order.
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