The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE EQUINOX THE Simple LETTERS The simple letters are divided into four triplicities, having for titles the four letters of the divine tetragam my. In the divine tetragram, the 1op, as we have just said, symbolizes the productive and active principle—The HE 7 represents the passive productive principle, the crers.—The vau symbolizes the union of the two, or the lingam, and the final HE is the image of the second reproductive principle; that is to say, of the passive reproduction in the world of effects and forms. The twelve simple letters, psyoadontn and ° or », divided into threes, reproduce the notion of the primitive triangle, with the interpretation, and under the influence, of each of the letters of the tetragram. One sees that the philosophy and the religious dogma of the Qabalah are there indicated in a complete but veiled manner. Let us now investigate the allegories of Genesis. “In the beginning (10p the unity of being,) Elohim, the equilibrated forces (Jakin and Boaz), created the heaven (spirit) and the earth (matter), or in other words, good and evil, affirmation and negation.” Thus begins the Mosaic account of creation. Then, when it comes to giving a place to man, and a sanctuary to his alliance with divinity, Moses speaks of a garden, in the midst of which a single fountain branched into four rivers (the 1op and the TETRAGRAM), and then of two trees, one of life, and the other of death, planted near the river. There are placed the man and the woman, the active and the 186