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

THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN SYSTEM OF MAGIC
themselves up to such vices in earth-life. Their prince is SMAL, Samael, the angel of
poison and of death. His wife is the harlot, or woman of whoredom AShTh ZNVNIM,
Isheth Zenunim; and united they are called the Beast, CHIVA, Chioa. Thus the infernal
trinity is completed, which is, so to speak, the averse and caricature of the supernal
Creative One. Samael is considered to be identical with Satan.
The name of the Deity, which we call Jehovah, is in Hebrew a name of four letters,
I H V H; and the true pronunciation of it is known to very few..."
TETRAGRAMMATON
This is a Latin word meaning "the four lettered name." This name is a Hebrew name
for the traditional God of the Old Testament, Jehovah. In Hebrew, the consonants of the
latter name are YHVH - thus Tetragrammaton.
Qabalistically, each letter of Tetragrammaton was attributed to one of the four major
primitive elements of the ancients. Y equals Fire. H equals Water. Vau equals Air, and the
last H or final Heh equals Earth. So that the Tetragrammaton, or the name of Jehovah
represents the four basic elements of life. The Biblical Jehovah was the God who flamed in
the fire of the holy ground Moses stood on, thundered in the storms around Mount Horeb
and Sinai, drowned the Egyptians and their chariots, and opened up the land with
earthquakes to destroy the enemies of Israel. Thus he is depicted as an angry and violent
God - which is what the four elements of life are. They can be gentle and easy going, but
never lose sight of the fact that they are also violent, dangerous and overwhelming. This is
Tetragrammaton.
The Letters of the Name are attributed in various ways to the Tree of Life, always
carrying with them the attributions of the basic elements. Even when Y, often called the
Father, is sometimes attributed to Kether, the fire of creation is referred to. When H, the M
other, is attributed to Chokmah and Binah, we are considering the fine ethereal waters of the
creative levels, the substance in which and from which all the worlds were created. V is
sometimes referred to Tiphareth, the Son of Yod and Heh of Tetragrammaton, and is the
all-encompassing Air - not the Air that we ordinarily breathe oxygen, nitrogen, carbon
dioxide, etc. . .but the vital airs; the pranas without which there is no life.
The final H or Heh is the unredeemed Daughter, the Earth, which is acted upon
and formed and influenced by the other three elements of letters of Tetragrammaton. She is
the unredeemed Daughter until she becomes receptive to the higher influences -
consciously and deliberately - and then she becomes transformed into the Bride of
Microprosopus or Vau of Tiphareth who brings harmony and beauty to the heavy enduring
burdensome qualities of Earth.
All of these together with a host of similar manifold associations and symbols are
subsumed under the heading of Tetragrammaton.
Even Tetragrammaton, the testy senior of the Bible, the ever-angry and punitive
Jehovah, needs to be transformed and redeemed by the descent of the holy spirit
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