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128 The Kabbalah ofthe Golden Dawn
forth out of Eden (namely the Supernal Triad) to water the
Garden (the rest of the Sephirorh) and from thence it was
divided into four heads in Daath, whence it is said; "In Daath
the depths are broken up and the clouds drop down dew."
The first head is Pishon which flows into Geburah "where
there is gold," it is the River of Fire. The second head is
Gihon, the River of Waters, flowing into Chesed. The third is
Hiddekel, the River of Air flowing into Tiphareth. And the
fourth river which receiveth the virtue of the other three is
Euphrates which floweth down upon Malkuth the Earth. This
river going forth out of Eden is the River of the Apocalypse, of
the Waters of Life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the
Throne of God and the Lamb, on either side of which was the
Tree of Life bearing 12 manner of fruit. And thus do the Rivers
of Eden form a Cross, and on that Cross the great Adam the
Son who was to rule Nations with a rod of iron is extended
from Tiphareth and his arms are stretched out to Gedulah and
Geburah. And in Malkuth is Eve, the completion of All, the
Mother of All, and above the Universe she supporteth with
her hands the Eternal Pillars of the Sephiroth."
The Golden Dawn approach, from this description, is a combination
of the traditional Judaic and the Christian. The Zohar 123 tells us that
God planted Man, as Israel, in the Lower Garden of Eden, 124from which
man was formed from the Middle column, along with Eve, as two distinct
entities from the single source that would never be separated, the branches
of the Tree being the purity and guardians ofYHVH's teaching. Only
when the teaching is accepted by mankind (as Israel) will the knowledge
and benefits of the fruits of knowledge, being born in Malkuth at the base
of the Tree of Life, benefit everyone, as from this fruit all will eat, from
the one Tree.
As shown by the diagram on page 126, Metatron (or Enoch) came
down from the Supernal Eden to the Lower Eden to protect it from the
Qlippoth who were trying to climb to the source of Light. The problem
was that the vessels of the Sephiroth were formed from Chaos or Tohou
and were imperfect, and could not hold the light emanating from above.
l2J Part I. folio 25a-26b, was the basts of this Mathers explanation of the Garden of Eden before the
Fall.
124 The Garden is the Shekmah on earth while Eden is the Supernal Mother, two levels of the Shekinah
in one fonn.