The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

THE EQUINOX Sephiroth, as if to declare that this verse from beginning to end thereof reflected the Voices from Kether even unto Malkuth: and 6 — 4=2 again, the Central Will, 2, Thoth, in the Heart of the Universe (as in the centre of the verse). Note, then, this perfect equilibrium of the verse, and remember that Mystery—that equilibrium is strength. Let us now look at the letters themselves. Counting them, we find that the two central ones are x», the Supernal Mother ; even as the number of letters had the dual symbol in their midst. Now their numeration is 41, yielding by Gema- tria »x = Force: Might: Power: 5x»x2, Divine Majesty: and abnx. = Fecundity, all symbolic of the attributes of the Dual Polar Force and Mother. Moreover, 4+ 1=5 =n, Mother Supernal once again—and in its geometric symbol the Pentagram—the Star of Unconquered Will. Add the Pahinl next two letters on either side, and we get AVA? ora concealed Tetragrammaton. And this also reads 0», the Great Sea, nx, Alpha and Omega, or Essence. Add the next two, so that the six central letters are obtained ; and we read mnxo, which signifies orn, swollen, extended, or expanded; and hence Zhou (¢.e., God, Ateh, the All) a extension. But by Metathesis of these six letters is obtained nox mn = “Truth Was,” as if affirming solemnly the presence in the Creation of the Supernal Truth. Now let us take the first and last letters of the verse and “cast into the midst thereof the Fire of the Sun "—z.e., y (6), “ the Seal of Creation ”—and we have y12,an Egg. Where we see the whole universe enclosed in the Cosmic Egg of Hindu and Egyptian Mythology : and the Formulation of the Sphere 178