Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) · 27 of 96 · tr. A.E. Waite
3. The Triangle Of Solomon-d
Matthew, and in several Hebrew copies, as follows: “The sacred word MALKUTH substituted for KETHER, which is its kabalistic correspondent, and the equipoise of GEBURAH and CHESED, repeating itself in the circles of heavens called eons by the Gnostics, provided the keystone of the whole Christian Temple in this occult versicle.
It has been retained by Protestants in their New Testament, but they have failed to discern its lofty and wonderful meaning, which would have unveiled to them all the Mysteries of the Apocalypse.
There is, however, a tradition in the Church that the manifestation of these mysteries is reserved till the last times.
MALKUTH, based upon GEBURAH and CHESED, is the Temple of Solomon having JAKIN and BOAZ for its Pillars; it is Adamite dogma, founded, for the one part on the resignation of Abel and, for the other, on the labours and self reproach of Cain; it is the equilibrium of being established on necessity and liberty, stability and motion; it is the demonstration of the universal lever sought in vain by Archimedes.
A scholar whose talents were employed in the culture of obscurity, who died without seeking to be understood, resolved this supreme equation, discovered by him in the Kabalah, and was in dread of its source transpiring if he expressed himself more clearly.
We have seen one of his disciples and admirers most indignant, perhaps in good faith, at the suggestion that his master was a Kabalist; but we can state notwithstanding, to the glory of the same learned man, that his researches have shortened appreciably our work on the occult sciences, and that the key of the transcendent Kabalah above all, indicated in the arcane versicle cited above, has been applied skillfully to an absolute reform of all sciences in the books of Hoene Wronski.
The secret virtue of the gospels is therefore contained in three words, and these three words have established three dogmas and three hierarchies.
All science reposes upon three principles, as the syllogism upon three terms.
There are also three distinct classes, or three original and natural ranks, among men, who are called to advance from the lower to the higher.
The Jews term these three series or degrees in the progress of spirits, ASSIAH, YETZIRAH and BRIAH.
The Gnostics, who were Christian Kabalists, called them HYLE, PSYCHE and GNOSIS; by the Jews the supreme circle was named ATZILUTH, and by the Gnostics PLEROMA.
In the Tetra-gram, the triad, taken at the beginning of the word, expresses the divine copulation; taken at the end, it expressed the female and maternity.
Eve has a name of three letters, but the primitive Adam is signified simply by the letter JOD, whence Jehovah should be pronounced Jeva, and this point leads us to the great and supreme mystery of Magic, embodied in the tetrad.
The Hermetic axiom that the structure of the cosmos is reflected at every scale — 'as above, so below; as within, so without' — making each level a legible map of the others.
The text asserts that science reposes on principles that repeat themselves in the circles of heavens.
A chain of divine beings or principles flowing downward from a single transcendent source (the One or the Father), each level less perfect than the one above.
The text outlines a hierarchy of spiritual realms including ASSIAH, YETZIRAH, BRIAH, and ATZILUTH.
The ten attributes or emanations through which the Ein Sof (Infinite) reveals itself and creates the universe in Kabbalistic theology.
The passage explicitly names and discusses KETHER, GEBURAH, CHESED, and MALKUTH as core structural elements of the doctrine. [quarantine-w3: sephirot x western_esoteric — see rellm data/quarantine/dossiers.jsonl]