Frater FP - The Magician's Kabbalah.pdf - Federal Jack

Kaph, as previously described, is the hand of God transmitting the vital spark to Man, and
the hand of Man receiving the divine influx (as painted on the ceiling of the Sistene Chapel by
Michelangelo, for example). Its Tarot glyph is that of the Wheel, which is the prime symbol of
Synchronicity, Kether being the pivot and Malkuth being the hub. Of course, the number of the card
is 10, referring to the number of Malkuth, the number of Sephiroth contained within Kether, and
reducing to 1, the unity of Kether itself.
Spelt in full, Kaph is Kaph-Peh, the Wheel and the Blasted Tower, each of which can be seen
as a process of evolution. On the one hand, progressive and cyclic, on the other hand, sudden and
decisive. In terms of Kether we see in these cards the doctrine of Unity in Diversity (the spindle and
spokes of the wheel) implicit in Kether, and the doctrine of the breaking of the shells in Lurianic
Kabbalah (the tower or "blasted house" being matter struck by the lightning flash of creation).
Tau in Chockmah
Tau is attributed to the Universe card, and we can see that the Universal creation implicit in
Kether as potential is first given expansion in the Sephirah Chockmah. As symbolic of Manifestation,
the Universe card depicts Chockmah as the first manifestation of Unity, the first visibility of Kether in
the "first swirlings" of the Primum Mobile, the Zodiac. Indeed the "Golden Dawn" Tarot card depicts
the spheres of the zodiac arranged around the central figure of the Atu (see later chapter for further
explanations of the creative process of Chockmah as depicted by the Zodiac).
Spelt in full, Tau is Tau-Vau, the Universe and the Hierophant. This affirms the Hierophant
as symbolic of God's Wisdom (the translation of Chockmah being "wisdom") and as the Interface
between God (Kether) and the rest of Creation (Binah to Malkuth). This idea is mirrored in that the
attribution of YHVH to the Sephiroth links Kether to Chockmah as the upper and lower parts of the
Yod, Binah as Heh, the central Sephiroth to Vau (centred on Tiphareth, the Son) and Malkuth being
the final Heh (the "daughter" that must be redeemed to Binah, the "mother").
Thus, on the progression up the Tree, Malkuth (the Universe) must be raised to Binah
(Transcendent Understanding) which is the state of the Magister Templi in the Initiatory System
(attributed to Binah), who tends his "garden" (the Sephiroth below the Abyss).