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16 The Kabbalah ofthe Golden Dawn
necessary to vocalize the separate letters for invocation in the manner
YOD HEH VAU HEH.
The ultimate aim of the Jewish mystic, or the Golden Dawn magician
for that matter, was to attain to union with the source of all creation,
the Lord of the Universe, or God. One of the ways to achieve this lay in
the correct invocation of one of the God's names. Even in lesser magical
or spiritual workings, the invocations of divine and angelic names was of
crucial importance. For this reason the aspiring magician gave a great
deal of study to the many arcane teachings involving the name of God.
One such teaching was the SchemHamphoresch document.
"Schem-hamphoresch" is sometimes termed "The Complete Name,"
meaning that it includes all other names, each of which, by itself, is purported
to express some one particular aspect or another of the Divine
universal principle, namely, God.
The following paper is an abridged version written by Mathers for
Golden Dawn members:
This refers to the 72 Names derived from the Four Letters of
the name of YHVH. Four is the number of letters of ADNI
which is its representative and Key.14 The latter name is
bounded with the former and united thereto, thus IAHDVN­
HY, forming a name of 8 letters. Eight multiplied by 3 (the
number of the Supernal Triad) yields the 24 Thrones of Wisdom,
the 24 Thrones of the Elders of the Apocalypse, each of
whom wears on his head a Golden Crown of 3 rays, each ray of
which is a name, each name an Absolute Idea and Ruling
Power of the Great Name YHVH-TETRAGRAMMATON.
And the number of the 24 of the Thrones multiplied by the
3 raysof the Crowns = 72, the Name of God of 72 letters, which
is thus mystically shown in the name YHVH as under; or as the
Book of Revelation says: "When the living creatures (the 4
Kerubi, the letters of the Name) give glory, etc., to Him, the
four and twenty Elders fall down before him, and cast their
Crowns before the Throne, etc. (that is,the Crowns which each
bear 3 of the 72 names)."
And these 72 names are written on the leaves of the Tree of
Life, which were for the healing of the nations. These are also
14 Mathers is referring to the fact that each of the 72 angelic names fonned is related to a specific biblical
verse which has the name YHVH in it, from Psalms. A Hebrew Bible is necessary for this
process, but its verse numbers do differ from those given in rhe English Authorized Versions.