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Third Knowledge Lecture:
(Zelator Degree)
THE SOUL is divided by the Qabalists into three Principal Parts:
1. NESCHAMAH The Highest Part, answering
to the Three Supernals.
2. RUACH The Middle Part, answering to the
six Sephiroth from CHESED to YESOD, inclusive.
5. NEPHESCH The lowest, answering to MALKUTH.
NESCHAMAH answers to the higher aspirations of the Soul.
RUACH answers to the mind and reasoning powers.
NEPHESCH answers to the animal instincts.
CHIAH answers to
CHOKMAH, YECHIDAH TO KETHER, while NESCHAMAH itself is referred to
BINAH.
The Sepher Yetzirah divides the Hebrew Letters into
three Classes of Three, Seven, and Twelve.
Three Mothers
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Seven Double Letters 
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Twelve Single Letters 
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The
Holy Place embraces the symbolism of the 22 Letters.
The
Table of Shew-Bread, the Single Letters.
The
Altar of Incense the Three Mothers.
Astral
Spirits are those belonging to the Astral Plane. Such are false and illusionary
forms, shells of the dead, and Ghosts and Phantoms.
Elemental
Spirits are those belonging to the nature of the Elements; some are good and
some are evil.
An
Angel is a pure and high Spirit of unmixed good in office and operation.
In the Tarot,
the ten small cards of each suit refer to the Sephiroth. The four suits refer to
the Letters of Tetragrammation thus:
Sceptres
or Wands to Yod
Cups
Heh
Swords
Vau
Pentacles
Heh (final)
The Four Suits
also refer to the Four Worlds of the Qabalists thus:
Sceptres to Atziluth
Cups
Briah
Swords
Yetzirah
Pentacles Assiah
The Honours of the Tarot Pack are,
as it were, the Vice-gerants of the Great Name, in the Qabalistic World
to which each suit is referred. They also symbolise Father, Mother, Son,
Daughter; Birth, Life, Death,
Resurrection.
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THE FLYFOT CROSS
The 17 Squares out of a square of lesser squares, refer to the Sun in the
twelve Signs of the Zodiac and the Four Elements:
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This form of the Caduceus of
Hermes is that of the Three Mother Letters placed on one another thus:
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The Caduceus has another meaning
on the Tree of Life. The upper part wings touch Chokmah and Binah:
These are the Three Supernals.
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The Seven lower Sephiroth are embraced by the twin
Serpents whose heads rest upon Chesed and Geburah.
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The meaning of Luna on the Tree of Life is
thus:
In its increase it embraces the
side of Mercy; in its decrease the side of Severity, and at the full, it
reflects the Sun of Tiphareth.
MEDITATION
Let the
Theoricus practise the Moon Breath, while saying mentally the word AUM: (Moon
breath is through the left nostril only.)
Let him meditate upon the waxing
and waning crescents, while visualising a silver crescent upon an indigo
background.
Let him now call before his mind
the Signs of the Airy Triplicity
and enclosed in these, let him
meditate upon the numbers nine and five and therewith the forms of the Pentagram
and Pentangle.
Let him now rise in imagination
above the mineral world into the world of trees and flowers and identify
himself in love and sympathy with the Powers of the Elements behind these.
Let him realise the mental world
where mind rules over matter, and let him meditate upon the ideas of appearance
and reality.