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Been a while. Daleth came up twice in two days, Ain for card of the day. Daleth it is tonight.
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My last Daleth meditation was on the keyword "door". Doors come in all shapes and sizes. Jesus Christ stated he was the door (to eternal life).
Yet the first door we enter through is the womb leading into mortal life. What then is the meaning of door? Why is the letter Daleth situated between Binah (Understanding) and Chokmah (Wisdom) on the Kircher Tree of Life model (Kircher drastically different from the Ari ToL model)?
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The divine names to pathwork Daleth: YHVH and Yah.
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The archangel names to patchwork Daleth: Tzaphqiel and Raziel.
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Tarot draws for today...
Tarot Contemplation Ritual:
Drawn under Shaddai El Chai.
III The Empress. Venus. 14th Path of the Sepher Yetzirah. Daleth, door, 4.
Tarot Card of the Day:
Drawn under Shaddai El Chai.
XV The Devil.Capricorn. 26th Path of the Sepher Yetzirah. Ain, eye or fountain, 70.
After Fellowship of the Ring and my cup of coffee, probably hitting the sack after researching biblical references to the door, and the Book of Tokens meditation on Daleth.
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THE MEDITATION ON DALETH
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I AM the Door of Life,
The passage from the world of ideas Into the world of form.
Expressing myself, I take form in substance, But the power which worketh in that substance Is the sovereign force of mine outflowing ideas.
Consider well, O Israel,
The knowledge of me which thou hast In the sacred letters.
For with them, even as it is written, Hath the universe been created.
In ALEPH
I present myself as the source of Life Eternal, Self-dedicated to bearing the heavy burden of creation
In BETH
Thou seest me as the Primal Will, Which, fixing beforehand
The boundaries of the universe, Maketh mine own Being
The dwelling-place of all creatures.
As it is written:
Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place
In all generations.
Before the mountains were brought forth,
Or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world.”
In GIMEL
Appeareth my perfect Wisdom, Which uniteth all seeming contraries, And establisheth throughout creation The balance of warring forces.
Now, as DALETH,
I present myself as the Portal
Through which Life, Eternal and Unbounded, Entereth the realm of temporal and limited creation.
The great Door is BINAH,
And BINAH is AlMA,
The fruitful Mother of all living.
She is the “desirable one,” the “precious thing,” More to be sought after than rubies and fine gold.
She is both “Father” and “Mother,”
For her fruitfulness
Cometh from the YOD of the Supernal Wisdom.
5 She is the Thought,
Which spinneth the plan of existence, That web of manifestation
Which entangleth the minds of fools, And giveth understanding to the wise Who know the secret of its mystery.
In her is concealed the plentitude of Tetragrammaton, And hidden in that Door of Perplexity
Is the Son, who is from all and among all.
6 This is the Gateway of life and form.
Yet through it come also death and conflict,
Even as it is shown in the numbering of DALETH.
For D L Th, being 434, is also 11,
And 11 is the half, or division, of 22,
Which representeth the whole circle of creation. Therefore is the Door a cause of separation,
And of the setting of one part against another;
And for this is it written that the Lord is a “man of war,” For in this saying is D L Th, DALETH, concealed.
7 I am the knowledge of the wise,
And in me the ignorance of the foolish hath its root. From me come forth all conditions ——
The evil as well as the good.
Without the setting of metes and bounds
There is no bringing forth,
And thus there can be no creation without seeming evil.
8 Creation hath its origin in life unlimited, Yet for the sake of manifestation
Doth that life descend into the appearance
OfTimeandPlace,
And that which hath neither end nor beginning Appeareth to be born,
And to be brought at last to death.
Deluded by this appearance are those ignorant ones
In whom the light of my wisdom hath not yet dawned. From their delusion springeth a false desire,
And from that false desire is generated unrighteous action.
Yet nothing is performed save by my power, And I am the real Actor in these deluded ones,
As truly as in any sage.
From the fires of pain and suffering Kindled by their ignorance,
In my good time shall they come forth, Cleansed from the dross of illusion, Resplendent images of my golden self.
9 My creative power is the projection of myself, And produceth the semblance of another;
But know, O Israel,
That besides me there is none other. I only am the Knower and the Actor,
The one I AM,
Whether alone and unmanifest,
Or appearing in the multiplicity of created things.
10 Theprimalforceofmineideas
Dwelleth continually in ATZILUTH.
Thence it floweth forth into the three lower worlds Through the Door of Understanding.
As it is written:
“By understanding hath he established the heavens.”
I am the fruitful womb
Whence all creatures have their birth.
I am the Mother of mothers. Hence it is commanded:
“Honour thy father and thy mother; That thy days may be long
Upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.”
For I, who am thy Father, am thy Mother also; And if thou honourest me, the Giver of Life, Then shalt thou triumph at the last,
Even over death.
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From The Book of Tokens by Paul Foster Case.
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Performed pathworking of Daleth, or attempted to, anyway ... Saw a golden light.
THE MEDITATION ON YOD
1 I AM the creative Hand, Which fashioneth the worlds
And establisheth the spheres,
While yet the primal FIRE
Circleth untrammeled in the womb of space.
That fashioning is not as the handiwork of man.
It is my self-utterance through the Voice of Vision.
By it I declare myself.
Yea, I utter myself as the Father of all, And from my fatherhood
Is the brotherhood of all creatures.
2 Therefore do the wise see in the letter YOD The Fatherhood of CHOKMAH,
The unbounded Wisdom which establisheth all.
That Father, AB, am I, The Source of all;
One in mine inmost being, Two in my self-utterance,
And Three in my union with my divine manifestation: Creating,
Preserving,
ransforming, Throughout endless ages.
3 From my presence do all things derive their substance, From my power all movement beginneth,
And my Wisdom is the foundation of all knowing.
Therefore is YOD the foundation of all the letters, And every letter exhibiteth YOD in its formation.
By these two-and-twenty letters Is the circle of creation described.
4 I am the fluid darkness,
Which is the ink wherewith I inscribe myself Upon the scroll of manifestation.
Verily this writing of the Book of Being Telleth no new thing.
They understand aright who say with Solomon That beneath the sun is nothing new.
Of whatsoever is,
Thou mayest say with truth, “It was.”
Hence is the vision of the prophet
Which seemeth to pierce the veil between what is And what is yet to come,
In truth a recollection of that
Which seemeth to belong to the past.
My hand holdeth the whole circle of being And for me time is not.
5 I am the link between CHESED and TIPHARETH, Combining the Waters of substance with the
Air of Life.
I measure and bound the Ruach Which hath its place
In the path of Mediating Influence, Because I am the Intelligence of Will Which carneth the Water of Mercy Into the sphere of Beauty.
6 I am Ten,
Yet from me proceedeth the Twenty,
For I am Ten Ineffable
And Ten manifested in creation. Therefore is YOD both Ten and Twenty.
And the Ten made manifest are also Seven, And these are the Elohim.
These Seven bring forth Ten again,
For the Heptad which is below the Supernal Triad Completeth itself in the Kingdom of the Bride.
For tenfold is my self-utterance,
And therefore is it written of the Lights of Emanation,
“Ten, and not eleven, ten and not nine.”
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Tarot draws for the day...
Tarot Contemplation Ritual:
Drawn under El Eloah.
IX The Hermit. Virgo. Chesed to Tiphareth. The Prophet of the Eternal, The Magus of the Voice of Power. Intelligence of Will. You, hand, 10. Law of Response.
Tarot Card of the Day:
Drawn under Adonai.
Six of Cups. Tiphareth of Briah. Sol in Scorpio. Lord of Pleasure.
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Monday 12-11-2023
Tarot draws for the Day...
Tarot Contemplation Ritual:
Drawn under Shaddai El Chai.
XVI The Tower. Mars. The Lord of the Hosts of the Mighty. The 27th Path of the Sepher Yetzirah. The Exciting Intelligence. Peh, mouth, 80.
Tarot Card of the Day:
Drawn under Adonai ha- Aretz.
Seven of Swords. Luna in Aquarius. Lord of Futility.
THE MEDITATION ON PEH
1 IAM the MOUTH whence issueth the breath of Life; I am the all-devouring one
Whereunto all things return.
2 “Beginning and End” Is my holy name,
For the MOUTH is a sign of my self-duplication, Whereby I testify to myself of myself.
3 I am the Word of Life
Which exciteth all beginnings,
The Word
Which hath its own beginning in Victory And its completion in Splendour,
And is the balance between them.
4 It is written that the word of the Lord faileth not, And how else should it be?
Of a truth I am victorious Before ever the battle is joined, And the continuance of my life
Is an effulgent Splendour throughout eternity.
5 Iam, Forms pass.
From me they go,
And again they come to me.
Their returning
Is what men call destruction.
Be not deceived thereby.
I tear down only to build anew.
Verily destruction is the foundation of existence, And the tearing-down thou seest
Is but the assembling of material
For a grander structure.
6 Therefore is it written:
“Man doth not live by bread only,
But by all that proceedeth out of the PEH Of Tetragrammaton.”
Not by the part, O Israel,
But by all which proceedeth from the MOUTH
Of the Lord.
Deluded are they who say,
“Man liveth by the Mercy of the Lord.”
Know ye
That by the balance of Mercy and Severity Is the continuance of every life,
Yea, and of this whole universe.
Pathworking Peh tonight. Elohim Tzabaoth / Michael / Beni Elohim; and YHVH Tzabaoth / Haniel / Elohim as godnames, archangels and orders of angels.
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Monday 12-11-2023
Tarot draws for the Day...
Tarot Contemplation Ritual:
Drawn under Shaddai El Chai.
XVI The Tower. Mars. The Lord of the Hosts of the Mighty. The 27th Path of the Sepher Yetzirah. The Exciting Intelligence. Peh, mouth, 80.
Tarot Card of the Day:
Drawn under Adonai ha- Aretz.
Seven of Swords. Luna in Aquarius. Lord of Futility.
THE MEDITATION ON PEH
1 IAM the MOUTH whence issueth the breath of Life; I am the all-devouring one
Whereunto all things return.
2 “Beginning and End” Is my holy name,
For the MOUTH is a sign of my self-duplication, Whereby I testify to myself of myself.
3 I am the Word of Life
Which exciteth all beginnings,
The Word
Which hath its own beginning in Victory And its completion in Splendour,
And is the balance between them.
4 It is written that the word of the Lord faileth not, And how else should it be?
Of a truth I am victorious Before ever the battle is joined, And the continuance of my life
Is an effulgent Splendour throughout eternity.
5 Iam, Forms pass.
From me they go,
And again they come to me.
Their returning
Is what men call destruction.
Be not deceived thereby.
I tear down only to build anew.
Verily destruction is the foundation of existence, And the tearing-down thou seest
Is but the assembling of material
For a grander structure.
6 Therefore is it written:
“Man doth not live by bread only,
But by all that proceedeth out of the PEH Of Tetragrammaton.”
Not by the part, O Israel,
But by all which proceedeth from the MOUTH
Of the Lord.
Deluded are they who say,
“Man liveth by the Mercy of the Lord.”
Know ye
That by the balance of Mercy and Severity Is the continuance of every life,
Yea, and of this whole universe.
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Pondering this, I had the image of the wreath around the woman in Major key XXI, the world, utterance into being per Genesis and John, and a drill sergeant tearing down to build a new.
Tarot Contemplation Ritual:
Drawn under EHIEH.
I The Magician. Mercury. 12th Path of the Sepher Yetzirah, The Transparent Intelligence. The Magus of Power. To thine own self be true...
Tarot Card of the Day:
Six of Cups - Venus in Scorpio, Lord of Pleasure.
Path of Beth it is, which oddly enough means "house".
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THE MEDITATION ON BETH
1 ONE, and One only, am I in essence; Changeless, indivisible;
Concealing within my being The Ten Lights of divine emanation.
In this, mine unalterable unity, Am I supreme,
And none is equal unto me.
Yet though I myself remain unchanged
Throughout eternity,
My power doth manifest itself in ceaseless change
2 They err who speak of my changelessness in essence As if it were fixity in operation.
That which changeth not is mine own nature,
But this includeth the possibility
Of infinite diversity in ways and works.
3 For the uninstructed this is a stumbling-block Confused by words of double meaning,
They perceive not that this, mine immutable nature, Is an essence whose first ground is Life,
And not mere Being.
Thou knowest me not, O Israel,
If thou regardest me only as “He who IS.” They know me indeed who know
That I am “He who LIVETH.”
I am Life itself,
And without Mind there is no Life.
I am the essence of Mind,
And the essence of mind is Will.
Of my Will all created wills are but reflections, And the essence of that Will ——
What is it but Desire?
I am Life eternal,
And I am the eternal longing for manifestation, Because of which I bring forth the shining worlds. For this do I divide myself, becoming two.
4 Of these two, the first is the CROWN of my Primal Will. This, my superior nature, standeth above the world, Which floweth forth from mine act of knowing.
Yet even the superior nature
Is to mine inmost essence as something outside, And therefore is it to me as BETH, my House.
For I am within it,
And it is an emanation from me.
Nevertheless, I fill my dwelling-place.
Hence it is written that the Supreme
Is distinguished from the Crown by name only.
5 In my supreme abode stand I as the Onlooker. Because of mine unwavering contemplation
The stream of manifestation continueth on its course.
Whatsoever existeth
Hath its beginning in my Will,
Continueth in my Will,
And by my Will cometh at last to its appointed end. Than this, indeed, there is no other will
In all the universe,
Yet in it do all creatures have a part.
6 From my substance all things derive their substance, And all that hath form
Is built from my four-fold elemental manifestation. Four are the subtle principles
Which the wise conceal from the uninitiate by the names: FIRE, WATER, AIR, and EARTH.
In endless variety of mixture and proportion, Directed by my Will,
These mingle together for the production of forms. They are transmutations of a single essence,
And from their mingling are brought forth all things.
Watching thus the multiplicity of existences Proceeding from my single essence,
I understand them in all their relations.
I perceive that their beginning, middle, and end
Is in truth myself.
Thus do I see that all things,
Whatsoever their appearance,
Because they spring from mine own nature
Are grounded in goodness.
7 My superior nature is reflected also
In the mind of man, created in mine image. Know me thus as the source of all true will. Know me also as the power to perceive objects
As having the appearance
Of standing outside and apart from Him who regardeth them.
That in thee which so perceiveth objects,
Which giveth the power to distinguish between them, Which revealeth them unto thee
In their relations to each other and to thyself,
And enableth thee to search out
The laws of their reciprocal action, ——
Know this to be identical with my superior nature.
Wherever this power acteth, Whether in low forms or in high,
I only am its source, And I the Knower.
Not thine, but mine, is the power of attention,
Of observation, of discovery,
Of the discerning of sequence in the operation of nature. In all this, and in the power of discrimination,
My superior nature worketh through thee.
8 Happy art thou if thou canst grasp this truth. For then, understanding that not thy weak self, But my all-knowing Mind,
Looketh out upon the world through thine eyes, Shalt thou have faith to let me see.
Then shalt thou overcome the evil of thy senses By devoting them wholly to my use.
Not thou, but I,
Shall then discern the weight and shape and texture Of the things thou touchest.
Not thine, but mine,
Shall be the knowledge of scent and savour Gained through nose and tongue.
And when I use thine ears for hearing,
They shall be attuned to sweetest harmonies, Where now they are assailed by strident discord.
So shalt thou become a partaker
In the bliss of mine experience of the universe, A joy unknown to those of unperfected soul Whose time of realization is not yet at hand.
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12-12-2023
The reason why Im posting excerpts from The Book of Tokens by Case, is due to the subject of Subjective Pathworkings per the newest edition of The Mystical Qabalah by Fortune. It doesn't automatically give you a path working, but by meditating on what Case wrote, it puts you in. the right frame of mind to have a path working that it somewhat pertinent. I intend to rally try to patchwork Beth tonight (Ehieh, Crown to YHVH ELOHIM, Understanding).
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12-123-2023
Pathworking of Beth did not take place. Went to bed with dirty thoughts, and fell asleep.
Will meditate on Beth today as today is its days snd came up in top of the second pile during TCR draw. Samekh however is more important as Art and Temperance both came up today as tarot draws:
Day of Mercury, Kokab, Elohim Tzabaoth, Michael, Beni Elohim. Orange candles, lavender incense.
Sol in Sagittarius, Luna in Capricorn.
No dream details recalled.
Tarot draws for the day....
Tarot Contemplation Ritual:
Drawn under YHVH.
XIV Temperance. Sagittarius. 25th Path of the Sepher Yetzirah. The Tentative or Probationary Intelligence. Samekh, leg or prop, 60.
Tarot Card of the Day:
Drawn under Elohim.
XIV Art. Sagittarius. 25th Path of the Sepher Yetzirah. The Tentative or Probationary Intelligence. Samekh, leg or prop, 60.
Tarot draws for today...
Tarot Contemplation Ritual:
Drawn under YHVH.
V The Hierophant. Taurus (Kerubic Earth). Magus of the Eternal Gods. Triumphant or Eternal Intelligence. Hearing/shoulders. Chokmah (Wisdom) to Chesed (Mercy).
Tarot Card of the Day:
Drawn under YHVH.
Princess of Swords. Earth of Air. Malkuth of Yetzirah. P of EXARP.
No meditations/pathworkings have taken place the last few times.
Today might be a day to implement them for the path of Vav.
My tarot draws today are...
Tarot Contemplation Ritual:
Drawn under YHVH.
XIV Temperance. Sagittarius. Combining seemingly unlike opposites, moderation. Yesod to Tiphareth, Foundation of Beauty.
Tarot Card of the Day:
Drawn under Shaddai El Chai.
XV The Devil. Capricorn. Something must happen, for good or for evil. Hod to Tiphareth, the Splendour of Beauty.
I will meditate on these today at some point, between studies.
Not going to start it now but tomorrow.
This journal will be on Gematria in both Hebrew and Greek systems, and commentary on Qabalah/Tree of Life.
I may also post imgur pics on my Book of Trees.
Hopefully this will help students of all paths in some way now or in the future.
To be clear, I won't plagiarize Bill Heidrick, and will post a link at the start of this journal to his gematria page.
Hope it will help myself and others.
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Let's start with basic Qabalah, and Tree of Life concepts.
Qabalah
Meaning of QBL = "to receive"
There are four levels of Qabalah from open to secret. There is the Practical Qabalah, the Dogmatic Qabalah, the Literal Qabalah, and the Unwritten Qabalah. This is from Macgregor Mathers, per Dion Fortune in the book The Mystical Qabalah.
Hall states that Moses communed with the face of God, the Greater Countenance, Metatron three times on Mount Sinai. Each time he was there for forty days and forty nights.
This we could conclude in Gematria the importance of the numbers 3, 40, and 120.
Tree of Life Biblical references.
To come later.
Parts of the Qabalistic Soul.
To come later.
The Hebrew /Greek Alphabets.
Aleph 1 Ox
Beth 2 House
Gimel 3 Camel
Daleth 4 Door
Heh 5 Window
Vav 6 Nail, Hook
Zayin 7 Sword
Cheth 8 Fence, Enclosure
Teth 9 Serpent
Yod 10 Hand
Kaph 20 Fist
Lamed 30 Ox Goad, Instruction
Mem 40 Water
Nun 50 Fish
Samech 60 Prop, Leg
Ayin 70 Eye, Fountain
Peh 80 Mouth
Tzaddi 90 Fishhook
Qoph 100 Back of Head
Resh 200 Face, Head
Shin 300 Tooth
Tav 400 Seal, Mark, Cross
These do not include finals.
Greek alphabet to come later.
Sephira = An individually sphere on the Tree of Life.
Sepheroth = The whole of the spheres on the Tree of Life.
Sepher Yetzirah= "Book of Formation".
Zohar = "Book of Splendour".
The tree of Life is a collection of ten spheres, from top to bottom per the Lightning Flash are:
Kether, the Crown
Chokmah, Stars, First Whirlings, Wisdom
Binah, Saturn, Understanding
Cheesed or Gedulah, Jupiter, Mercy
Geburah, Mars, Fear or Power or Severity
Tiphareth, Sol, Beauty
Netzach, Venus, Victory
Hod, Mercury, Glory or Splendour
Yesod, Luna, Foundation
Malkuth, Cosmic Elements, the Kingdom
Sorry all, lost sight of the objective and got lost in pathworking the cards drawn for the day.
Will pich through it, get it straight, repost the summary of what was written before the sidetracking, and move through with this. Will even try to get Greek gematria as well as Hebrew.
I may start the Gematria by the value of the letters themselves and other associations, such as Gimel, which has the initial value three, but AB, which means Father also has a value combined (Aleph 1, Beth 2) of three and move it forward by the gematria values of the tree of life, godnames, archangel names, etc. Then will get into biblical associations and move it through from there, backfilling gematria comparisons of the associated numbers.
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Lets restart on the gematria of one: Aleph's value.
One is the Multiplicative Identity, or perhaps can also be an Absolute Value, as anything multiplied by one is the initial number.
111 is a significant value in Qabalah or QBL.
The values of Aleph and Kether (the first sephira) are 111/831 (PehLamedAleph) - the second value being final value of Peh - and 117/837 (PehVavLamedAleph) - Ox; Kether's value is 620 (KaphTavResh).
Since there are no other letters than Aleph, the initial value remains Aleph - ox - 1. As well as Kether, the first sephira.
Beth - house -2.
Beth spelled out is TavYodBeth or 412.
The second sephira is Chokmah, HehMemKaphCheth, 73.
Two is the first Prime number.
As a prefix: in, within, among; with, by, at; upon; into, towards; in the manner, according to; in regard to.
