im must be manifest on
consideration. Yet even He, the Vast Countenance, is hidden and
concealed; how much more, then, the AIN! From Negative to Positive,
through Potential Existence, eternally vibrates the Divine Absolute
of the Hidden Unity of processional form masked in the Eternal Abyss
of the Unknowable, the synthetical hieroglyph of an illimitable
pastless futureless Present. To the uttermost bounds of space rushes
the Voice of Ages, unheard save in the concentrated unity of the
thought-formulated Abstract, and eternally that Voice formulates a
Word which is glyphed in the vast ocean of limitless life.

801 The thirteen conformations of the beard of Macroprosopus.

802 The Trinity completed by the Quaternary.

803 Kether, the first Sephira, from which all the other Sephiroth
proceed, namely, those which are summed up in the Tetragrammaton.

_ 804 I.e._, his manifestation is triune.

805 This refers to the Triads in the Sephiroth, when the Autz Chaiim is
formed. (See Introduction.) It will be found that in this
arrangement of the ten Sephiroth there are ten Triads, viz.:

(1) Kether, Chokmah, Binah.

(2) Chesed, Geburah, Tiphereth.

(3) Netzach, Hod, Yesod.

(4) Chokmah, Chesed, Netzach.

(5) Tiphereth, Yesod, Malkuth.

(6) Binah, Geburah, Hod.

(7) Chokmah, Tiphereth, Hod.

(8) Binah, Tiphereth, Netzach.

(9) Chesed, Tiphereth, Hod.

(10) Geburah, Tiphereth, Netzach.

Wherein Kether and Malkuth are each repeated once; Chokmah, Binah,
Chesed, and Geburah, thrice; Tiphereth, six times; Netzach and Hod
each four times; and Yesod twice.

806 In many of the ancient mysteries a "feast" was part of the ceremony,
analogous to our Eucharist. Verbum sapientibus.

807 That is, the greatest triad of the Sephiroth, the Crown, King, and
Queen; which finds a parallel in the Osiris, Isis, and Horus; the
Axieros, Axiochersos, and Axiochersa of Lemnos and Samothrace, etc.

808 Described in other places as the Supernal Eden and the Inferior
Eden.

809 The Duad equated in the Monad. Compare what I have previously
remarked concerning the profile symbolism of Macroprosopus.

810 The student will observe throughout the Qabalah that great stress is
laid on the power of names, which arises from the fact that each