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

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VOLUME ONE<br />

emanations, and are in their original state androgynous, but when they descend upon<br />

earth they become separated into male and female, and inhabit different bodies; if therefore<br />

in this mortal life the male half encounters the female half, a strong attachment springs up<br />

between them, and hence it is said that in marriage the separated halves are again<br />

conjoined; and the hidden forms <strong>of</strong> the soul are akin to the Kerubim.<br />

But this foregoing triple division <strong>of</strong> the soul is only applicable to the triple form <strong>of</strong><br />

the intellectual, moral and material. Let us not lose sight <strong>of</strong> the great qabalistical idea, that<br />

the trinity is always completed by and finds its realization in the quaternary; that is, IHV completed and<br />

realized in IHVH - the trinity <strong>of</strong>.. .<br />

Crown King Queen<br />

Father Son Spirit<br />

Absolute Formation Realization<br />

This is completed by the quaternary <strong>of</strong>:<br />

Absolute One<br />

Father - Mother<br />

Son<br />

Bride<br />

Macroprosopus - Vast Countenance<br />

Father - Mother<br />

Microprosopus - Lesser Countenance<br />

Malkuth Queen - Bride<br />

Atziluth - Archetypal<br />

Briah - Creative<br />

Yetzirah - Formative<br />

Assiah - Material<br />

And to these four the soul answers in the following four forms: Chiah to Atziluth;<br />

Neschamah to Briah; Ruach to Yetzirah; and Nephesch to Assiah.<br />

But Chiah is in the soul the archetypal form analogous to Macroprosopus.<br />

Wherefore Neschamah, Ruach, and Nephesch represent as it were by themselves the<br />

Tetragrammaton, without Chiah, which is nevertheless symbolized in the uppermost point <strong>of</strong> the<br />

I, Yod, <strong>of</strong> the soul; As Macroprosopus is said to be symbolized by the uppermost point <strong>of</strong> the<br />

I, yod, <strong>of</strong> IHVH. For Yod <strong>of</strong> the Ancient One is hidden and concealed.. .<br />

I will now revert to the subject <strong>of</strong> Arikh Anpin and Zauir Anpin, the Macroprosopus<br />

and the Microprosopus, or the Vast and the Lesser Countenances. Macroprosopus is, it will<br />

be<br />

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