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Chapter Six; Binah, The Angel of the Tides
A useful analogy of the creative process represented by the uppermost three Sephiroth of the
Tree, the Supernal Triad, is that of water flowing from a tap. The source of the water is the Kether,
whilst the pouring stream is the Chockmah aspect of the system. If one cups ones hands into a hollow
and places them in the path of the water, this represents Binah, the formative aspect of the creative
process. The water then forms tides and eddies, and moves within a defined area. The bubbles formed
in this process, turbulent, chaotic and transient are the Da'ath, the non-sephiroth formed of the
interaction between Chockmah and Binah. The water fills the well of the hands, then bursts forth
between the gap of the wrists, the "Abyss", and into the sink or bath (manifestation). Thus Binah
shapes, and is, in a sense, manifestation, and contains the influx of Chockmah and Kether, before
transmitting the influence into manifest existence.
Although the Supernal Triad can be seen as a historic cosmological model, detailing the birth
of the universe, it is important also to recall that the Tree is an immanent model of the current, ongoing
process of manifestation, and hence Binah is shaping reality always now, as the source of
Archetypes.
Binah is the indivisible template of all things, and hence is the source of all forms, of which
names are a symbolic key, and thus it is no surprise that the Sephirah is accorded many titles,
amongst them the ultimate Mother, the primal ocean of birth, the Queen of Heaven, the bitter sea, and
the city of Pyramids.
Binah is spelt in Hebrew Beth-Yod-Nun-Heh (BYNH), and is translated as "understanding".
The word begins with Beth, which is taken to be the "archetype of all containers", appropriate to the
position of Binah as head of the passive pillar of form. The letters of Binah signify the process as
follows :
Beth : The Universal Will is Contained
Yod : and creates the principles of existence
Nun : passing through the fifty Gates of Understanding
Heh : into manifestation
The numbers of Binah are :