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ON THE OPERATION AND RULE OF THE TREE OF LIFE IN THE CELESTICAL HEAVENS PROJECTED AS IF IN A SOLID SPHERE

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Subject: ON THE OPERATION AND RULE OF THE TREE OF LIFE IN THE CELESTICAL HEAVENS PROJECTED AS IF IN A SOLID SPHERE

     When the Tree of Life is considered not as being a plane but as a solid
     figure, and when it is projected in the Sphere, the North Pole of the Sphere
     will coincide with Kether, and the South Pole with Malkuth.

     As we have before sufficiently learned the Ten Sephiroth are repeated not
     alone in each whole figure, but also in the parts thereof, so that every
     material thing created, will have its own Sephiroth and Paths.

     Now as the North Pole corresponds with Kether, and the South Pole corresponds
     with Malkuth, the central Pillar of the Sephirotic Tree will form the
     invisible Axis of the Sphere, the Central point coinciding with Tiphareth.
     This latter Sephirah together with that of Yesod will be completely hidden
     from view, so that Tiphareth will be the exact centre of the Sphere.

     Also the Sephiroth Chokmah, Binah, Chesed, Geburah, Netzach and Hod will be
     duplicated. As also the Paths, Aleph, Beth, Gimel, Vau, Cheth, Caph, Mem,
     Qoph, and Shin, and so many of the others will be even quadrupled. But
     although Tiphareth and Yesod will be concealed, there will be four especial
     points on the sphere where the influence of each will be indicated.

     As projected in the before-described Celestial Sphere, Kether will govern a
     Radius of 100

     around the North Pole, thus embracing the whole body of the Constellation
     Draco.

     Chokmah will be on the 60° North Latitude; embracing a radius of 10°, the
     right foot of

     Hercules, the left arm, hand, and part of head of Bootes. Also on the other
     side of the

     Heavens, a radius of 100 including the head and shoulders of Cephus, and the
     head of

     Lacerta.

     Binah, has a similar radius and is posited on the same parallel of Latitudes,
     and includes the pole Star of the Earth, the head of Camelopardelus, the tip
     of the tail of Draco; also Lyra and left knee of Hercules in the opposite
     side of the Heavens.

     Chesed with a similar radius, and posited in the 30° of North Latitude, will
     include part of Coma Berenices, of Bootes, and of Virgo, and parts of
     Andromeda and of Pegasus.

     And so with the other, Sephiroth of the outer Pillars, each being 30° distant
     from the line of the Sephiroth above and below it, and having a radius of
     10°.

     The central line of the Two Pillars of Mercy and Severity will respectively
     traverse that of Mercy the 15° of Virgo and 150 of Pisces; that of Severity
     the 15° of Gemini and the 150 of Sagittarius. The four Yesod points will be
     on the line of the 60° of South Latitude, and at similar Zodiacal points.
     From which circumstances the path of Influence or nature of the Sun will be
     along the line of the Ecliptic, coinciding with Tiphareth, and that of the
     Moon will be on the 60° of South Latitude answering to the Yesod points on
     that line.

                  THE LAW OF THE CONVOLUTED REVOLUTION OF THE FORCES

                   SYMBOLISED BY THE FOUR ACES ROUND THE NORTH POLE

     In the Book "T," it is written: "Also the Dragon (i.e. Draco, the
     constellation at the Northern pole of the Heavens) surroundeth the Pole
     Kether of the Celestial Heavens." It is further laid down that the Four Aces,
     (symbolised by the Knaves), rule the Celestial Heavens from the Northern Pole
     of the Zodiac unto the 45th Degree of Latitude North of the Ecliptic, and
     from the Thrones of the Four Aces which rule in Kether.

     And again it is stated that:

     The Throne of the Ace of Cups is the head of Draco.

     The Throne of the Ace of Swords is fore part of body.

     The Throne of the Ace of Pentacles is the hind part of body.

     The Throne of the Ace of Wands is the tail of Draco.

     Regard thou then the form of this Constellation of the Dragon. It is
     convoluted in the four places answering unto the rule of the Aces.

     Head, First convolution is the Ace of Cups.

     Second convolution is the Ace of Swords.

     Third convolution is the Ace of Pentacles.

     Fourth convolution is the Ace of Wands.

     This convoluted course will represent the Law of the Aces.

     Now in the Four Faces of YHVH, Fire and Water be contrary, and also Earth and
     Air be contrary. The throne of the Element will attract and seize, as it
     were, the Force of that element, so that herein be the Forces of Antipathy
     and of Sympathy, or what are known chemically as attraction and repulsion.

     Recall also the allotment of the Triplicities:

     Aries, Leo, Sagittarius is Fire, Wands of the Tarot.

     Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces is Water, Cups of the Tarot.

     Gemini, Libra, Aquarius is Air, Swords of the Tarot.

     Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn is Earth, Pentacles of the Tarot.

     Now the order of the Knaves, and consequently of the Thrones, is formed from
     right to

     left:

     Yod

     Knave of Wands is Leo and Fire.

     Heh

     Knave of Cups is Scorpio and Water.

     Vau

     Knave of Swords is Aquarius and Air.

     Heh (final)

     Knave of Pentacles is Taurus and Earth.

     The order of the Aces is formed from left to right, though their motion is
     from right to left:

     Yod

     Ace of Wands.

     Heh

     Ace of Cups.

     Vau

     Ace of Swords.

     Heh (final)

     Ace of Pentacles.

     This, then will be the order of their movement. Let us first suppose the Aces
     on the following stations:

     Station 2

     Ace of Wands.

     Station 1

     Ace of Cups.

     Station 12

     Ace of Swords.

     Station 11

     Ace of Pentacles.

     Now the Station 2 is the Throne of the Ace of Wands, while the movement of
     the Aces is steadily from right to left in the direction of the numbering of
     the stations. In the ordinary course the Ace of Wands would pass to Station
     3; the Ace of Cups to Station 2; the Ace of Swords to Station 1; the Ace of
     Pentacles to Station 12.

     But the Station 2, being the Throne of the Ace of Wands, attracts and arrests
     the move ment of that Force so that instead of passing into Station 3, it
     remains on Station 2 until the other Aces have passed over it in turn.

     Ace of Wands remains on Station 2.

     Ace of Cups passes also on to Station 2,

     Ace of Swords passes on to Station 1,

     Ace of Pentacles passes on to Station 12.

     Ace of Cups passes to Station 3,

     Ace of Wands remains at Station 2,

     Ace of Swords passes also onto Station 2,

     Ace of Pentacles passes also on to Station 1.

     Ace of Cups passes on to Station 4,

     Ace of Swords passes on to Station 3,

     Ace of Wands remains at Station 2,

     Ace of Pentacles passes also on to Station 2.

     Ace of Cups passes to Station 5,

     Ace of Swords passes to Station 4,

     Ace of Pentacles passes on to Station 3,

     Ace of Wands still remains on Station 2.

     But Station 5 is the Throne of the Ace of Cups. Therefore it attracts and
     arrests that Force, in the same manner that the Throne of the Ace of Wands
     acted previously in attracting and arresting the Ace of Wands, the result of
     which has been to make that Force which previously was leading become the
     last of the Four.

     Ace of Cups remains on Station 5,

     Ace of Swords passes also on to Station 5,

     Ace of Pentacles passes also on to Station 4,

     Ace of Wands, now at last passes into Station 3.

     For it has now become the last of the Four, and the Ace of Cups has commenced
     to act through its Throne. The Ace of Pentacles, moving to Station 4, would
     create a hiatus in the movement of the Aces, if the Ace of Wands did not move
     forward to Station 3. Also there is the attraction of the motion of those
     Aces in front of it. Wherefore all these Forces combining, at length cause it
     to move forward.

     The movement then continues, thus:

     The Ace of Swords passes on to Station 6,

     The Ace of Cups remains on Station 5,

     The Ace of Pentacles passes also on to Station 5,

     The Ace of Wands passes also on to Station 4.

     The Ace of Swords passes on to Station 7,

     The Ace of Pentacles passes on to Station 6,

     The Ace of Cups still remains on Station 5,

     The Ace of Wands passes also on to Station 5.

     The Ace of Swords passes on to Station 8, its Throne,

     The Ace of Pentacles passes on to Station 7,

     The Ace of Wands passes on to Station 6,

     The Ace of Cups still remains on Station 5.

     The Ace of Swords remains on Station 8,

     The Ace of Pentacles passes also on to Station 8,

     The Ace of Wands passes on to Station 7,

     The Ace of Cups now at length passes on to Station 6, and so on.

     The movement of the Aces will be very similar to the convolutions of Draco
     thus:

     The Course of the Aces:

     This will imply a much more sustained exercise of force through the Thrones
     than elsewhere. So that the generic effect of the Thrones will be that of the
     seasons, while the other stations will give the variations thereof in
     accordance with their natures and with the order of the movement of the aces
     in them.


                             Order of Movement of Elements


     And as Kether acted directly upon Tiphareth which is, as it were, the centre
     and focus of the Sephiroth when projected in a sphere, so do the Aces act
     upon the Sun as the centre and focus of the Solar System. So that the Sun,
     according to his position with regard to the Equinox and the Earth's surface
     will translate the effect of the seasons, he being the translator of the
     force of heat thereto, whether the then position of the Equinoctial points
     coincide with what we call 00 Aries, and 00 Libra (reckoning from Regulus) or
     not. So that his effect North of the Equator shall produce when just leaving
     the Equinoctial point, the effect of Aries, whether he be with that
     constellation actually in the heavens or not.

     Conversely also, for the South of the Equator (as in the country of
     Australia) his quitting the Equinoctial point southward will translate the
     same effect of Aries.

     But this rule shall not for one moment affirm that Aries and Libra are
     identical in nature. Nor that the Zodiac proper is inoperative. Nor that the
     nature of the Sun is not modified by the constellation in which he is. But
     only that the direct effect of the physical impact of his rays falling upon a
     certain portion of the Earth's surface, will be in proportion to the duration
     of their action, in the excitement they produce in the terrestrial forces.

     And now as the Forces symbolized by these Aces, pass in succession over these
     stations, so will they awake certain terrestrial action according unto the
     sign of the division of the Zodiac above which they pass in the domain of the
     Knaves and according unto the nature thereof. Nevertheless, the force roused
     by the Ace when on its Throne will be of longer duration than at other
     points.

     And hence it is that the Signs of the Zodiac be divided into Fixed or
     Kerubic, Moveable or changing, and Common or fluctuating, according unto the
     nature of the power which can be awakened therein. And again, these will be
     varied according unto their Elements, for the Elements have a various
     classification.


     NOTE
     
                                          By
     
                                 G.H. FRATER S.R.M.D.
     

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