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

VOLUME FIVE
If again, we endeavour to translate this Name into symbols on a Tattwic Plane, we get
the following:
Samekh comes under FIRE
Nun comes under WATER
Daleth comes under WATER OF EARTH
Lamed comes under AIR
Peh comes under FIRE
Nun comes under WATER.
These would be synthesized thus: A silver crescent on a red triangle placed over a
yellow square. All three would be charged and enclosed within a large silver crescent.
Now, taking another example, the Telesmatic Image appertaining to the Letter
ALEPH. This on the BRIATIC Plane, would be rather masculine than feminine and would
be resumed by a spiritual figure hardly visible at all, the head-dress winged, the body
cloud-veiled and wrapped in mist, as if clouds were rolling over and obscuring the outline,
and scarcely permitting the legs and feet to be seen. It represents the Spirit of Ether. In the
YETZIRATIC World, it would be like a Warrior with winged helmet, the face angelic but
rather fierce, the body and arms mailed and bearing a child -- the legs and feet with mailed
buskins and wings attached to them.
In ASSIAH, this same letter ALEPH is terrific energy and represents, as it were,
mad force (the shape of the Letter is almost that of a Swastika). On the human plane, it
would represent a person who was a lunatic and at times given to frightful fits of mania.
Translated to the elemental plane, it would represent a form whose body fluctuated between
a man and an animal, and indeed, the ASSIATIC form would be a most evil type with a force
something like that compounded of that of a bird and that of a demon -- an altogether
horrible result.
The Letter ALEPH represents spirituality in high things, but when translated to the
plane contiguous to or below ASSIAH is usually something horrible and unbalanced,
because it is so opposed to matter that the moment it is involved therein, there is no
harmony between them. This notion is most important and permeates all forms of the
Order's magical procedures.
Radiating forces of Divine Light, otherwise called Angelic Forms, have not gender in
the grosser acceptation of the term, though they can be classed according to the masculine
and feminine sides. As, for example, in the human figure, sex is not so strongly marked in
the upper part, the head, as in the body, while yet the countenance can be distinctly classed as
of a masculine or a feminine type. So, also, on quitting the material plane, sex becomes less
marked, or rather appreciable in a different manner, though the distinction of masculine or
feminine is retained. And herein is the great error of the phallic religions -- that they have
transferred the material and gross side of sex to Divine and Angelic planes, not
understanding that it is the lower that is derived from the higher by correlation in material
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