CHAPTER III 
The Formula of Tetragrammaton. 1 
This formula is of most universal aspect, as ail things are 
necessarily comprehended in it$ but its use in a magical ceremony 
is little understood. 
The climax of the formula is in one sense before even the 
formulation of the Yod. For the Yod is the most divine aspect 
of the Force —the remaining letters are but a solidification of the 
same thing. It must be understood that we are here speaking of 
the whole ceremony considered as a unity, not merely of that 
formula in which Yod is the God invoked, Hé the Archangel, 
and so on. In order to understand the ceremony under this 
formula, we must take a more extended view of the functions of 
the four weapons than we hâve hitherto done. 
The formation of the Yod is the formulation of the first créative 
force, of that father who is called “self-begotten,?, and unto 
whom it is said: <cThou hast formulated thy Father, and made 
fertile thy Mother”. The adding of the Hé to the Yod is the 
marriage of that Father to the great co-equal Mother, who is a 
reflection of Nuit as He is of Hadit. Their union brings forth 
the son Vau who is the heir. Finally the daughter Hé is produced. 
She is both the twin sister and the daughter of Vau.2 
His mission is to redeem her by making her his bride -, the 
resuit of this is to set her upon the throne of her mother, and it 
is only she whose youthful embrace can reawaken the eld of the 
1. mm ; Yod, Hé, Yau, Hé, the Ineffable Name (Jéhovah) of the 
Hebrews. The four letters refer respectively to the four “éléments”, Fire, 
Water, Air, Earth, in the order named. 
2. There is a further mystery herein, far deeper, for initiâtes. 
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