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

epresenting the supreme potentiality inherent in the singularity of Kether but now manifesting as a
swirling force.
Yod is also seen as the seed or germ, which fits with the title of Chockmah, AB, meaning
"father". as Yod means "hand" or "finger", we can see in the glyph the symbol of action, direction,
movement (and inherently, will).
Papus describes Yod as the "unity-principle", and Kabbalah postulates that this principle is
the source of all letters, and all worlds. For example, the letter Aleph is seen as being composed as
four Yods, with appropriate explanation.
The "Kabbala Denudata" refers to the manipulation of Yod in a variety of ways, mainly in
conjunction with the permutations of the divine name YHVH, but specifically states that "Yod
irradiateth two", which is of course the numeration of Chockmah.
Yod has the value of ten, which is 10, and hence represents as a glyph in Chockmah the two
proceeding stages of 1 (Kether) and 0 (the Ain). Further, it shows Chockmah as a source of the ten
gates, and as a singularity in itself (1+0=1, which refers to the formula of 2=1, rather than that of 2=0
which Kether represents).
A final note can be made that the "grey hermit" of the Tarot can be associated with
Chockmah as the personification of "Wisdom" or Moses, who spoke with God directly, and that card
has the Yod attributed to it. The link will be further looked at in the chapter on Chesed. Crowley also
tells of this in his fairy tale, "The Wake World", where he says that the Hermit has "belonged to the
First House from the very beginning".
CHKMH totals to 73, the value of MBVKH, meaning "Chaos", and demonstrates the stage of
Chockmah in the cosmogenesis. The first swirlings, like the turbulent patterns in wind, water, wood
and rock, are "chaotic", but yet can be replicated by simple formula. The workings of Chockmah
reveal a "stochastic" process, that is to say, an apparently chaotic process built on some unseen pattern
and guided towards some determined goal.
The value 73 reduces to 7+3=10, again repeating the value of Yod, and the connection
between Kether and Malkuth.
The cards to which the letters Cheth, Kaph, Mem and Heh are attributed are as follows :