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

herself unchanging, but makes all things new ... she spans the world from end to end, and orders all
things benignly."
In the Sefer HaPardes, it is noted that Chockmah is called Fear (as Geburah is also entitled
Pachad, or fear). Whereas the fear of Geburah is the fear of the "vengeful lord", the fear spoken of in
Chockmah is the mystical fear, which is that when the contemplative's thoughts reach this "high
place", a place without measure or boundary, where the mind does not have the power to grasp. The
relationship between Chockmah and Geburah demonstrates the kabbalistic concept that the Sephiroth
form "arcs" to each other, so that aspects of Chockmah can be seen in Geburah and Hod and aspects
of Binah seen through Chesed and Netzach.
As stated in the bible;
understanding."
"He says to man, behold the fear of God is Wisdom, and to depart from evil is
Which indicates, in terms of the ascent of the Tree, that Binah (Understanding) is above the
Abyss, wherein one departs from the "evil" of the seperative worlds, and that Chockmah (Wisdom) is
the last step to Kether (God).
In Hebrew, Chockmah, "wisdom", is spelt Cheth-Kaph-Mem-Heh, transliterated as ChKMH.
The letters have the following correspondences according to Levi :
Ch : Distribution Single
K : Force (Wealth, according to Papus) Double
M : Death (Water) Mother
H Religion Single
The distributive aspect of Chockmah is in its reception and transmission of the light of
Kether. Indeed, Chockmah is that process in itself, and thus recurs at all levels of the Tree. The
double letter Kaph also directly mirrors the nature of Chockmah in its attribution of "Force", and
indicates that the nature of that force is circular (in its attribution to the "Wheel" Atu of the Tarot).
Mem, subtitled "Death" in this scheme indicates that Chockmah is the first and last Sephiroth that
can be known, due to Kether having no other reference outside itself. As religion, Heh refers to the