English Qabalah by David Cherubim

ENGLISH QABALAH

The Key of it All

By David Cherubim(Quartus Cherub).Copyright © 1996 e.v.All rights reserved.Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.In Liber AL II:55, it is written in the Voice of our Lord Hadit: "Thou shalt obtain the order &value of the English Alphabet; thou shalt find new symbols to attribute them unto." TheEnglish Alphabet has 26 letters, whereas our traditional Magical Alphabet, the HebrewAlphabet, has only twenty-two letters. The twenty-two letters of the Hebrew Alphabet arelinked with the twenty-two Paths of the Qabalistic Tree of Life and with the twenty-two Atu of Thoth (Major Arcana of Tarot). The 26 letters of the English Alphabet also pertain to thetwenty-two Paths which connect the ten Sephiroth on the Qabalistic Tree of Life, and also tothe four secret Paths of the Ageless Tree which also connect certain Sephiroth on the Tree.The order of the English Alphabet, as indicated in verse 55 of Chapter II of the Book of theLaw, pertains to the proper arrangement of the 26 letters of the English Alphabet on theQabalistic Tree of Life. Their value, as indicated in this same verse, denotes a new system of Numerology. The new symbols of this same verse denote the four secret Paths of the Tree of Life which, till this day, have remained hidden in the Sanctuary of Occult Wisdom. But theTree of Life is incomplete without the addition of the four secret Paths, and therefore we mustnow expound upon these four Mysteries to make whole that which was partial.The making visible of the four secret Paths on the Tree of Life gives birth to a new Tree toaccord with the English Alphabet, which is our Magical Alphabet for the New Aeon of Horus.This new Tree of Life, which incorporates the English Alphabet of 26 letters rather than the 22letters of the Hebrew Alphabet, gives us 36 Paths of Wisdom in all (10 Sephiroth and 26Paths). The sum of the numbers of 36 is 666, the Great Number of the Sun. Also, 36 is theMystic Number of the Sephira Hod or the sum of 8, which is the number of Thoth-Hermes-Mercury, the Logos or Word of the Gods, and the Lord of Magick, Occult Science and Tarot.The 26 Paths of the new Tree of Life give us a new Major Arcana of Tarot, a set of "newsymbols" or Trumps, which include four new Atu of Thoth, called "Knowledge, Courage, Will,and Silence" or "To Know, To Dare, To Will, and to Keep Silence." These are the four Powersof the Sphinx, which are the Occult Virtues of the initiated Magician. The four new Atu of Thoth are also linked with the four Worlds of the Qabalah (Atziluth, Briah, Yetzirah, andAssiah), the four Kerubim or Holy Living Creatures who guard the Universal Sanctuary of Wisdom, and the four Thelemic principles of Light, Life, Love and Liberty. They are also linkedwith the four Philosophical Elements of Fire, Water, Air and Earth, whereas the remainingtwenty-two Trumps of Tarot correspond with Sol, Luna, the eight Planets (Pluto, Uranus,Neptune, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and Mercury) and the Twelve Astrological Signs(Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius,and Pisces).

The four mysterious Paths, like the common twenty-two Paths of the Tree of Life, connect twoSephiroth each. Thus one Path connects the two Sephiroth called Geburah and Chokmah,another Path connects Geburah and Kether, another Path connects Chesed and Binah, andanother Path connects Chesed and Kether. From this it will be observed that a secondUnicursal Hexagram can be formed on the Tree of Life, with Da’ath in its center, whereas thefirst Unicursal Hexagram contains Tiphareth in its center. Also, a second Pentagram can beformed on the Tree of Life with the application of the four secret Paths. The four secret Pathscomplete the symbol of the Tree of Life, making it a perfect symbol of the Unity of All Things.These four Paths make perfect that which was an imperfect image of the Universe, givingbirth to a whole new Qabalistic system of classification and thinking.26, the number of letters and paths in our Thelemic Qabalah, is the sacred number of theTetragrammaton or Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh (IHVH). The Tetragrammaton corresponds with theFour Worlds of the Qabalah. Our English Qabalah contains the Mysteries of the Four Worlds.26 is also the sum of the numbers of the Four Sephiroth of the Middle Pillar: 1 (Kether) + 6(Tiphareth) + 9 (Yesod) + 10 (Malkuth) = 26. The Middle Pillar is a Phallic Symbol of theYechidah (True Self) and it is the Great Key to Initiation. Our English Qabalah contains theMysteries of Initiation. 26 is also the sum of the numbers of the four Fixed Signs of theZodiac, that is, Taurus (2), Leo (5), Scorpio (8), and Aquarius (11). These are the Kerubim,the Angels of the Elements from the point of view of Malkuth (Earth) or the Holy LivingCreatures from the point of view of Kether (Spirit). These four Holy Kerubim are magicallylinked with the four mysterious Paths on the new Tree of Life. They are the Angelic Guardiansof the Sacred Mysteries, Four-in-One and One-in-Four, that is, the Fourfold Nature of theWinged Sphinx of the Sun.26 is the magical number of the Cube of the Sun. It is written in the Book of the Law that theCube is a symbol of our Lord Hadit, the Sun. The Cube has 6 sides, 8 points or corners, and12 edges or boundary lines. The Cube contains the Great Secret of the Universe. InAlchemical terminology, it is the Stone of the Philosophers. The Cube is made of six squares;it is therefore linked with the Hexagram, the sacred symbol of the Sun. It is the Folded Crossof six squares which contains the Mystical Rose or Pentagram in its Center. The Rose isconcealed in the Cube or Folded Cross; it represents the

Secret of Secrets

or the

Arcanum Arcanorum

of our Sacred Magick. By the unfolding of the Cube of the Sun is this Great Secretrevealed; and the Cross and Rose, the Hexagram and Pentagram, become One in Eternity.Love is the law, love under will.