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Hebrew Letter Tav

Verses 169 to 176 from Psalm 119 begin with Tav:

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170 Let my prayer come before you; deliver me according to your Word.
171 My lips shall pour forth praise when you have taught me your statutes.
172 My tongue shall answer your Word; for all your commands are righteousness.
173 Let your hand help me; for I have chosen your precepts.
174 I have longed for your salvation, Oh Iod-Havah; and your Law is my delight.
175 Let my soul live and it will praise you; and let your judgments help me.
176 I have gone astray as a lost sheep; seek your servant; for I do not forget your
commandments.

Arcanum 22
From The Esoteric Course of Kabbalah by Samael Aun Weor

Arcanum Number 22
Let us now study the Twenty Second Arcanum of Kabbalah. This Arcanum is the Crown of Life.
Revelation 2:10 states:

“Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.”
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powers immediately; this is grave. People believe that the Path of Self-Realization is like playing football or
like playing tennis. People have still not learned how to be serious. Commonly, people enter into these
studies with the longing of acquiring powers within a few months. However, when they realize that they
need patience and hard work, they then desperately leave in search of another school. Thus, this is how they
waste their life away, eeing from one school to the next, from one Lodge to another, from institution to
institution until they get old and die without ever having achieved anything. Thus, this is how humanity is.
One can count those who are truly serious and truly prepared for the practical Adepthood, on the ngers of
the hands.
Beloved disciples, you need to develop each of the twenty-two major Arcana of the Tarot within
yourselves. You are Immitatus, or rather, one who others have put on the Path of the Razor's Edge. Exert
yourself to become Adeptus, one who is the product of one's own deeds, the one that conquers science by his
own, the child of one's own work.

Primeval Gnosis teaches three steps through which anyone who works in the aming forge of Vulcan has
to pass through. These steps are as follows:

1. Puri cation
2. Illumination
3. Perfection

It so happens that curious people who enter into our Gnostic studies want immediate illumination, astral
projection, clairvoyance, practical magic, etc., and when they do not achieve this, they immediately leave.
No one can achieve illumination without having been previously puri ed. Only those that have achieved
puri cation and sanctity can enter into the Hall of Illumination. There are also many students that enter into
our studies purely out of curiosity. They want to be wise immediately. Paul of Tarsus stated: "We speak
wisdom among them that are perfect," (Corinthians I, 26). Therefore, only those who achieve the third step
are perfect. Only among them can Divine Wisdom be spoken of.
In the ancient Egypt of the Pharaohs, among the occult Masons, the three steps of the path were:

1. 1. Apprentice
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3. 3. Master

Candidates remained in the degree of apprentice for seven years, and sometimes longer. Only when the
Hierophants were completely sure of the puri cation and sanctity of those candidates could they then pass
them to the second step.
The rst faculty that the candidate develops is the one related with the degree of listener, the faculty of
Clairaudience (occult hearing). Indeed, illumination begins only a er seven years of apprentice.
Nevertheless, students believe that spiritual faculties are going to be immediately developed and when they
realize that this subject matter is serious, they ee. This is the sad reality; this is why in life it is very rare to
nd someone who is prepared for the Adepthood.

The Crown of Life

The Innermost is not the Crown of Life. The Crown of Life has three profundities and these are beyond
the Innermost. The Crown of Life is our Resplendent Dragon of Wisdom, our Inner Christ.

The Three Profundities

The rst profundity is the origin of life, the second is the origin of the word, and the third is the origin of
the sexual force. These three profundities of the Resplendent Dragon of Wisdom are beyond the Innermost.
The Innermost must be searched for within the unknowable profundities of oneself.

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The Number 22
The three profundities of the Resplendent Dragon of Wisdom emanated from a mathematical point, this
is the Ain Soph, the Interior Atomic Star that has always smiled upon us. The Holy Trinity emanated from
this Inner Star; the three profundities will return, they will fuse together again with this Inner Star.
The number 22 is Kabbalistically added as follows: 2 + 2 = 4
The Holy Three emanates from the Inner Star, thus, the Holy Trinity plus its Inner Star is the Holy Four,
the mysterious Tetragrammaton, which is Iod-He-Vav-He. Now we comprehend why the twenty-second
Arcanum is the Crown of Life.
“Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.” Revelation 2: 10
Blessed by the one who incarnates the Spirit of Wisdom (Chokmah); those Buddhas who do not
renounce Nirvana can never incarnate the Cosmic Christ, who is beyond the Inner Buddha. Our Inner
Buddha has to seek the Cosmic Christ within its own unknowable profundities. The Cosmic Christ is the
Glorian, the incessant eternal breath profoundly unknowable to itself, the ray that joins us to the Abstract
Absolute Space.

Hieroglyph
Hieroglyphics of this Arcanum: the Crown of Life is amidst the four mysterious animals of Sexual
Alchemy. In the middle of the Crown, Truth is represented as a naked woman who has a little stick in each
hand (the Priest and the Priestess); this is Sexual Alchemy. We can incarnate the Truth only by working in
the aming forge of Vulcan

The Ark of Alliance

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other and were found in the sexual position (a man and woman copulating). The (Iod) blossoming staff of
Aaron, the (Hei) Cup or Omer containing the Manna, the Two Tablets of the Law, were within the Ark; these
elements are four, as four is the outcome of the addition of 22 (2+2=4).

The Internal Lodge

The rst duty of any Gnostic is to be sure that the Lodge is protected. During the degree of Apprentice,
the Attention is focused on the Astral Plane. Thus, the Inner Lodge must be protected; the Astral Body must
be clean from any type of animal passions and desire. In the Second Degree the Mental Lodge must be
protected. Thus, worldly thoughts must be cast out of the Temple. It is necessary to protect the Inner Lodge
very well so that doctrines, people, demons, etc. do not penetrate inside the Inner Sanctuary and thus
sabotage the Great Work.
We have witnessed (apparently very serious) students who became careless, who did not know how to
protect their Inner Lodge, and were thus invaded by people and strange doctrines. Most of the time, these
careless students continued their work in the aming forge of Vulcan, but they combined it with very
different methods and systems. Thus, the outcome of all of this was a true Tower of Babel, a barbaric
confusion whose only purpose was to bring disorder into the Inner Lodge of their Consciousness.
Therefore, it is necessary to have the Inner Lodge, the authentic School of Inner Education, in perfect
order. We are absolutely sure that only one door and only one way exist, Sex. Thus, anything that is not
through this way is just a miserable waste of time.
We are not against any religion, school, sect, order, etc. Nonetheless, we rmly know that inside our
Individual Inner Lodge we must have order, so that we avoid confusion and error.
We have accomplished this charge and feel satisfaction, since we have served humanity and ourselves.
To present a work of such magnitude, encourages us and prepares us for new services.
Humanity has never liked the Doctrine of the Gnostics.
Hence, the substantial content of this work is for a more advanced humanity, because the people of this
barbaric epoch are not capable of understanding these things.
We hope that you, friend, as a good reader, know how to nd the happiness, the joy and peace that we
want for all beings within this treasure that you now hold in your hands. If however, you despise it, it is
because you cannot nd anything that entices you within it; but do not be sel sh, think about the one who is
next to you that might need it and give the book to them.
May your Father who is in secret and may your Divine Mother Kundalini bless you.
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The Hebrew Letter Tav

Written by a Gnostic Instructor

Power and Servitude, the Mark, the Seal of God, the Seal of Truth, the Seal of Creation

“Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm: for love is strong as death;
jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of re, which have a most
vehement ame. Many waters cannot quench love; neither can the oods drown it: if a
man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be despised.” Song
of Solomon 8: 6, 7

The value of the letter Tav is 400, which is reduced to 4, the Tetragrammaton, YHVH which we already
know is the name of the living God. Tav is written with Tav and Vav, which gives us the sum of 406, and when
those numbers are added, it is reduced to 10, (the Sephirah Malkuth, the Kingdom). We already know that
Assiah or Malkuth is related with the full name of God, YHVH
The secret of the Sephirah Daath (Tantra) nourishes the Wisdom and Faith of the Heavenly Man
(Tiphereth). The Sephirah Daath, through Yesod-Sex, bonds (Meleck) Tiphereth to Malkuth (his bride)
throughout the Tree of Life. Those who practice scienti c chastity are bound to the Tree of Life by means of
the Tzalem of God that is placed in the sexual glands (Yesod) of their physical body (Sephirah Malkuth). This
Tzalem is the foundation (Yesod) of the Faith in the Living God. Thus, the Divine Essence of the Holy of
Holies abides within the fruits of the Tree of Life, and is placed in the Ninth Sphere within the Stone of
Jacob, which is the foundation of Ish-Ra-El (or the Haishim which are those igneous particles of Kether
marked with the holy impression of Ha Shem).
The impression of the Tzalem of the Ruach Elohim (Aleph) which develops true faith, is placed within
the heavenly body (Beth) of Abba, precisely in his head (Reish, Rosh) and descends into Yesod, into his seed
(Hei) of the waters of life Mem (Schamayim). This is why it is written that from the seed of Abraham comes
the Messiah, because Abraham (aleph, beth, reish, hei and mem) make the addition of 248 and by adding
2+4+8 we get 14 which is Nun (the heir to the throne); 1+4 = 5, the Pentagramaton, the Microprosopus. This is
how the terrestrial man (Daleth) in Malkuth (by means of the sexual covenant of circumcision, sexual
chastity) performs the entire work of self-realization by means of Nun and is sealed with the letter Tav.
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Matt.22:1-14
Fornicators cannot bind their soul to the fruits of the Tree of Life because they expel the Tzalem of God
from their own particular stone of Jacob. Yesod-Sex is the stone of Jacob. Here is where we nd the seed of
Abraham. This is why the following is written:

Exodus 12: 48: “And when a stranger (fornicator) shall sojourn with thee (on the Path of the
Razor’s Edge), and will keep (understand) the Passover (the exodus from the intellectual
animal state) to Iod-Havah (the human state), let every male be circumcised (be in
chastity), and then let him come near and keep it (keep the rules of chastity); and he shall
be as one that is born in the land (of Initiates, the human state): for no uncircumcised
person (a fornicating intellectual animal) shall eat thereof (from the Tree of Life).”

Sphere of Malkuth - Wheel of Samsara

So it is written: Genesis 3: 22-24: “And Iod-Havah Elohim said, Behold, the (fornicator) man
(intellectual animal) is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put
forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat (the holy thing), and live for ever.
Therefore Iod-Havah Elohim sent him forth from the Garden of Eden (the Promised Land,
the fourth dimension into Malkuth the tridimensional world), to till (purify) the ground
(Adamah) from whence he was taken.
So he drove out Adam (from the Promised Land, the fourth dimension); and he placed at
the east of the Garden of Eden (Yesod) Cherubim, and a aming (passional) sword which
(in the sexual act) turned every way (within the blood), to keep the way of the tree of life
(spinal medulla).”
Leviticus 22: 10: “There shall no stranger (fornicating intellectual animal) eat of the holy
thing (the essence of God in Yesod)! Micah 7: 20: You will perform the truth on (the stone
of) Jacob, and the mercy to (the seed of) Abraham, which you have sworn unto our fathers
from the days of old!”

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Seal of the living God

The symbol of the letter Tav (the Cross) shows us that through the sperm and the ovum (Nun, within
which is the Tzalem of the Ancient of Days, Kether) the soul receives a mark or a seal. This seal depends on
the transformation of the sexual energy by the will (Thelema) in Malkuth (the Kingdom). If the Initiate
chisels the stone of Yesod by means of chastity, he then receives the seal of the Ancient of Days (the seal of
the living God) on his forehead. This seal is evidence of the cognizant faith developed through the self-
realization of the in nite presence of the Being by means of his Tzalem, placed within Yesod-Sex, which is
the origin of the nite presence of man.
Cognizant faith is developed through our own particular individual spiritual inheritance, which is placed
in potentiality within Yesod-Sex (the Tree of Knowledge) by the Ruach of the Elohim (that work through the
Law of the Heptaparaparshinokh, the Law of Seven). In the beginning of the initiation, on the probationary
path, our Seed, the Nun in the Ninth Sphere (Yesod-Sex) of Malkuth, links our spiritual inheritance (the
Tzalem of God) by means of the nine initiations of Lesser Mysteries. These nine Mysteries gradually reveal
the state (or condition) of the psyche (or consciousness) of the initiate in relation to his past evolution. Each
initiation sequentially reveals the psychological relationship of the involuntary existence of his
consciousness in Malkuth to each of the Nine Sephiroth within. In this way, he is capable of comprehending
the type of work he then collectively performed within the realms of Malkuth (Nature). At the end of the
Nine Initiations, the initiate consciously arrives at the Ninth Sphere, and the Monad becomes a Master of
Minor Mysteries and gains access onto the Initiations of Major Mysteries.
We then understand the necessity of developing from Malkuth the nine-fold inner constitution of the
human being in relation to the Tree of Life (the Ten Sephiroth):
The Three Solar Bodies: Astral, Mental and Causal.
The total control of the Psyche or Soul: Nephesh, Ruach and Neshamah.
The development of the Power of the Triune Spirit: Kether, Chokmah and Binah.
This is how the Ruach Elohim (through his own “Tzalem” or image that is within the Nun) passes his
generative power from generation to generation. This is done through the “Iod” (in Yesod-sex) of the lower
world, Malkuth (the physical body). Thus, this is how solar faith is developed and our physical personality is
linked to the supreme immanence of Kether, the Solar Father. Thus, Kether’s Kingdom becomes the
Kingdom within all of the Sephiroth of all the manifested worlds.
The rst seal of true faith is enclosed within Nun (the Sperm, the Seed, the Tzalem of Abba, our
Innermost in heaven, our Inner Father), within which the secret of our eternal spiritual inheritance from
Iod-Havah Elohim is placed. Kether is the Truth; this Truth is known only through Faith, and this Faith is the
seal of love of the living God’s creation in Yesod. So, Tav is the completion of completions, the culmination or
ful llment of the twenty two commandments of Kether within the Kosmic Man (his creation).
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“And ye shall know the truth (emet), and the truth shall make you
free.” - John 8: 32

The wisdom of the twenty two Arcana of the Tarot is written with the twenty two letters of the Hebrew
alphabet; this is why the Tarot begins with Tav and ends with Tav because it is the outcome of Tav, the
outcome of the Nun (sperm-ovum) on the cross or letter Tav. It is the impression of the Faith (the Rose of
Love) that blooms from the energy of Nun. It is (Tiphereth) the beauty of the Soul developed on the cross of
the perfect matrimony.
Chastity is spiritual circumcision or the elimination of the bestial spasm, the abominable orgasm of the
fornicators. It is the separation of the human soul from the bestial orgasm by means of initiation; this is
symbolized by the cutting off of the foreskin (lust) of the phallus from our animal or physical body.

Genesis 2: 17: “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Yesod - Sex), you shall not
eat of it: for in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die (you shall surely suffer the
second death in Klipoth).”

Tav is the seal of the rst covenant received by the soul of the rst man “Adam,” or rather, Tav is the seal
of the rst commandment received by the soul when it incarnates within the human body for the rst time:
Tiphereth (the human Soul) is the name of the Sixth Sephirah, the embryo of soul (Nephesh) is part of it.
This embryo receives the intellect through evolution within the kingdom of the beast (Animal Kingdom). If
the embryo of soul wants to enter into the kingdom of Adam Kadmon (the Human Kingdom) it needs to
receive the Seal of the Living God through Yesod. Otherwise, a er the embryo of soul completes its 108
returns or opportunities into the physical bodies of Intellectual Beasts, it loses all of its chances of entering
into the Kingdom of the Human Being. These failed souls then receive the mark of the beast: a mark on their
right hand (servitude), or on their foreheads (horns of the demons on their animal mind).

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The mark of the beast is the seal of servitude for the falling souls
who are slaves of the animal mind in the Kingdom of Klipoth,
where “no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or
the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom.
Let him that has (Kabbalistic) understanding count the number of
the beast: for it is the number of a man (Tiphereth); and his
number is Six hundred Sixty and Six.” Revelation 13: 17, 18.
So, the number of the beast is 666. When we add these numbers together, 6+6+6, we get 18; and by
adding 1+8 we get 9; the number nine is Yesod – Sex. In itself 18 is the Arcanum of occult enemies, those
psychological entities (bestial ego) that hinder our spiritual development because of their bestial fornication
(animal orgasm). The Tree of Good and Evil is symbolized in the duality of the Eighteenth Arcanum; within
the number 18, the Ninth Sephirah Yesod – Sex is found twice, which points out the good and evil ways of
utilizing the sexual energy of the stone of Jacob (Yesod).

So, Tiphereth (the true Servant of God) is the sixth of the ten Sephiroth. Tiphereth begins and ends with
the letter Tav, and corresponds to the letter Vau, V, of the Tetragrammaton IHVH. It is also called Meleck or
King as well as the Son of Man (Son of Arik Anpin). It is the central Sephirah of the SIX that composes Zauir
Anpin, the Microprosopus, or Lesser Countenance, the Microcosmos, the Human Soul, the terrestrial man.
The Malkuth (physical body) of the terrestrial man has three nervous systems or three brains which are
located on the top, middle and bottom of the spinal medulla (symbolized in the letter Vav) and that are
represented in the inverted triangle of the seal of Solomon:
Tiphereth, in servitude of the Demon of Desire that squanders the res of the letter Vav (spinal medulla)
through the Sexual Center, sexual organs = 6
Tiphereth, in servitude of the Demon of Thought that squanders the res of the letter Vav (spinal
medulla) through the intellectual center, the head = 6

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medulla) through the emotional center, the heart = 6

So, 666 is the number of a Man, a Man that falls, and that Man is Tiphereth, the human soul in servitude
of sin because the superior triangle “Arick Anpin,” Adam Kadmon never falls, for he is perfect!
Synthesis: the beast 666 is the inverted triangle of the seal of Solomon, in other words, it is the soul
bottled up into the number 18 (the unbelievers, the uncircumcised, our occult animal or bestial
psychological enemies within). The mark of the beast is the sign on the forehead of Kain (the animal mind)!

“And Iod-Havah said unto him, therefore whosoever slays Kain, vengeance shall be taken
on him sevenfold. And Iod-Havah set a mark upon Kain, lest any nding him should kill
him.” - Genesis 4: 15

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that Elijah (the Solar Fire of God) had done (within the Soul of the Initiate), and withal how
he had slain all the prophets (intellectual egos of the mind) with the ( aming) sword. Then
Jezebel (the Animal Mind who calls herself a Prophetess) sent a (karmic) messenger unto
Elijah (the Initiate), saying, So let the Elohim do to me, and more also, if I (the Bestial
Mind) make not your life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.
"And when he (the Initiate) saw that (the karmic ordeals of the path were coming), he
arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-Sheba, which belongs to Judah, and le his
servant there.
"But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a
juniper tree (waiting for the ordeal of the Path): and he requested for himself that he might
die; and said, It is enough; now, Oh Iod-Havah, take away my life; for I am not better than
my (Inner) fathers.
"And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said
unto him, Arise and eat.
"And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baked on the coals, and a cruse of water at
his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.
"And the angel of Iod-Havah came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise
and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.
"And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days
(Mem) and forty nights (Mem Sophit) unto Horeb the mount of God (those who do not
know how to adapt themselves to the various social conditions of life, those who do not
know how to live among the poor, those who a er being shipwrecked in the ocean of life
reject to struggle and prefer to die; they, the weak ones, inevitably fail in the ordeal of
“Mem” water) .
"And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of Iod-Havah
came to him, and he said unto him, what are you doing here, Elijah?
"And he said, I have been very jealous for Iod-Havah Zabaoth: for the children of Israel
have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the
sword (their tongue); and I, even I only, am le ; and they seek my life, to take it away.
"And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount (of the Skull) before Iod-Havah. And,
behold, Iod-Havah passed by, and a great and strong wind (of doom) rent the mountains
(or material gained possessions of life), and brake in pieces the rocks (the material
accretions) before Iod-Havah; but Iod-Havah was not (the cause) in the (terrifying) wind
(of Karma): and a er the wind an earthquake (of adversities smashed all human values);
but Iod-Havah was not (the cause) in the earthquake (of karmic adversities of life): And
a er the earthquake a re (within the heat of persecutions, insults, criticism and
aggravation); but Iod-Havah was not (the cause) in the re (of retaliation, revenge and
hatred): and a er the (this ordeal of) re a still small voice (SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS)

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God.) John 1: 1
"And it was so, when Elijah heard it (the SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS), that he wrapped his face in his
mantle, and went out (of his physical Body), and stood (in his Astral Body) in the entering
in of the cave (the Pineal Gland). And, behold, there came a voice (the Logos, the Word of
God) unto him, and said, what are you doing here, Elijah?

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Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with
the sword (their tongue); and I, even I only, am le ; and they seek my life, to take it away.
And Iod-Havah said unto him, Go, Return on your (initiatic) path to the wilderness (of life)
Damascus." - 1 Kings: 19: 1-15

On the other hand, the number of those who receive the Seal of the Living God on their foreheads is
144,000. By adding the numbers 1+4+4+000 = we get 9 again, this is the number of Adam (the true human
being in Yesod).
The Power of Faith is the Seal of Love of the Living God placed in Nun within Yesod, the Ninth Sephirah.
The number nine is related with the foundation of Faith; so Faith is based on chastity, because Faith is solar
creative energy that develops as Soul or consciousness; it grows through the initiation. Yesod, the Sephirah
number nine is the root number of creation. In Kabbalah, the number nine signi cantly stands out as no
other number does. Nine is the number of Adam (Aleph (1) + Daleth (4) + Mem (40) = 1440 = 9). So, Adam
symbolizes the true human being, and humanity in general, that (a er having triumphed in the ordeals of
Water, Air, Earth and Fire) needs to receive the Tzalem of God, a humanity that needs to receive the seal of
the living God by means of chastity.

Revelation 7: 4: “And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were
sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand (144000 = 9) of all the tribes of the children
of Israel (children of the Stone of Jacob – Yesod -Sex, Ninth Sephirah).”
“And ye shall know the truth (emet), and the truth shall make you free.” - John 8: 32

The three letters that spell the Hebrew word “Emet” (Truth) are Aleph, Mem and Tav.
Aleph corresponds to the Ruach Elohim that hovers over (Schamayim), the waters of Mem, fountains of
Divine Wisdom (in Yesod). The wise re of the sexual waters of life must ow within the soul in order to
receive our spiritual treasure (spiritual inheritance) and thus store it in every (ta) cell (every particle of Ish-
Ra-El) of the house or temple of God (the Christi ed body of Adam Kadmon) when the culmination of the
self-realization of the being (symbolized on the letter Tav) is done. When Ish-Ra-El (all the igneous particles
of the Being “Hashim”) are integrated in one whole, the initiate receives his degree of objective reasoning,
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Arcanum perceives uncreated Darkness. Thus, the
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Ain Soph places its absolute dark-essence of its abstract unknowable Seity in concealment and seals it with
the darkness of the no-being, the Ain.

“Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.” -
Revelation 2: 10

Luke 23: 26-49

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was cast into prison (Karma), whom they had desired; but he (the bestial mind) delivered
Jesus (the Son of Man) to their (bestial) will.
And as they led him away (carrying this heavy Karma), they laid hold upon one Simon, a
Cyrenean, coming out of the country and on him (this terrestrial man) they laid the
(sexual) cross, that he might bear it a er Jesus (the Son of Man).
And there followed him a great company of people (initiates), and of women (from
Malkuth), which also bewailed and lamented him.
But Jesus (the Son of Man) turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for
me (the Son of Man), but weep for yourselves (your souls), and for your children (souls).
For, behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, blessed are (the women who
transmute the sexual force of Shaddai El Chai) the barren, and the wombs that never bear
and the paps which never gave suck.
Then shall they (the fornicators) begin to say to the mountains (of their subjective
knowledge), Fall on us; and to the hills (of Dogmas), Cover us.
For if they do these things in a green tree (the Bodhisattva), what shall be done in the dry
(the fornicator)?
And there were also two other, malefactors (Adam and Eve, Od and Ob, Pingala and Ida),
led with him (throughout the spinal medulla) to be put to death.
And when they (Pingala and Ida) were come to the place, which is called Calvary (the
brain), there they (the initiates) cruci ed him (Chokmah, the Fire that rose through
Sushumna), and the malefactors, one on the right hand (Pingala, Adam), and the other on
the le (Ida, Eve).”

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Pingala and Ida), re proceeds out of their mouth, and devour their enemies:
and if any man (through fornication) will hurt them, he must in this manner be
killed.
These (Adam and Eve, Od and Ob, Pingala and Ida) have power to shut heaven,
that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over (the sexual)
waters (of Yesod) to turn them to blood (af ictions), and to smite the earth
(Malkuth, the physical body) with all (type of Karmic) plagues, as o en as they
will. And when they (through the Prophets) shall have nished their testimony
(about the light and chastity), the beast (666, the Ego, Satan within everybody)
that ascends out of the bottomless pit (Klipoth) shall make war against them (in
Yesod - Sex), and shall overcome them (by means of the bestial orgasm), and kill
them (and this is how this humanity will shut the door on their own salvation).
And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is
called Sodom and Egypt (Matzarim), where also our Lord was cruci ed. And
they of the people and kindred and tongues and nations (who enjoy sexual
degeneration) shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not
suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves (for resurrection is not for lthy
beasts). And they (the Fornicators) that dwell upon the earth shall (with their
lthy lust) rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gi s one to
another; because these two prophets (Pingala and Ida, Od and Ob, Adam and
Eve) tormented them that dwelt on the earth (with prophesies based on
Kamaduro and Karmasaya). And a er three days and an half the Spirit of life (or
Holy Spirit) from God (in Yesod) entered into them (by means of Sexual
Alchemy), and they (Pingala and Ida, Od and Ob, Adam and Eve within those
who practiced Sexual Alchemy) stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon
them (who dwell in Klipoth) which saw them. And they heard a great voice from
heaven (the Logos) saying unto them, Come up hither (to Calvary, the Head).
And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud (made of the mist of water and re
of chastity); and their (lustful) enemies beheld them. And the same hour was
there a great earthquake (in Malkuth – Assiah, the Physical Body), and the tenth
part of the city fell (when the wheel of Samsara, a er 108 lives, rotates and the
fornicating souls fall by devolution into Klipoth), and in the earthquake were (by
the sword “Zayin” of the angels, warriors of heaven) slain of men seven
thousand: and the remnants were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of
heaven (by following the Path of Chastity).

Then said Jesus (the Savior, incarnated within them), Father, forgive (and remove from)
them (the Kamaduro); for they know not what they do (and by means of Daath they now
know about Kamaduro and Karmasaya). And they (the hypocritical ignoramuses) parted
his raiment (wisdom), and cast lots.
And the (fanatical) people stood beholding. And the (ignoramus) rulers also with them
derided him, saying, He (Chokmah, Vishnu, Avalokiteshvara) saved others (initiates in the
past); let him save himself (from Kamaduro), if he be Christ, the chosen of God.
And the soldiers (of Karma) also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar
(the bitterness of Karma), and saying, if thou be the king of the Jews (a Meleck of Ish-Ra-
El), save thyself (from Kamaduro).
And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew
(as if stating: I rise in the spinal column of any Greek, Latin or Hebrew, etc., who follows
the Path of Chastity), THIS (Solar Fire) IS THE KING OF THE JEWS (the Christi ed Ones
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And one of the malefactors (Ida, Eve, Ob, the lunar serpent that fell in Eden) which were
hanged railed on him, saying, if thou be (Nachash the Brazen Serpent, the Son of Man,
the) Christ, save thyself and us.
But the other (serpent, Pingala, Adam, the solar serpent) answering rebuked him, saying,
Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?
And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our (fornicating) deeds (of the
past): but this man (Chokmah) hath done nothing amiss.
And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me (Pingala, Adam, the Brain) when thou come
(resurrected) into thy kingdom (Malkuth).
And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shall thou be (with a higher
Objective Reasoning) with me in paradise (the fourth dimension).
And it was about the sixth hour (the hour of the lovers Adam and Eve), and there was
darkness over all the earth (Malkuth) until the ninth hour (the hour of Yesod, in which God
makes light by means of Tantra).
And the sun (of understanding) was darkened (by another degree of Objective Reasoning),
and the veil (ignorance) of the temple (To Soma Heliakon) was rent in the midst (to show
the light of the Ain Soph Aur in another degree).
And when Jesus (Ieshua the Son of Nun) had cried with a loud voice (and sealed the Great
Work within another initiate), he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and
having said thus, he gave up the ghost (and the Initiate’s Kamaduro was paid).
Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glori ed God, saying, Certainly this was a
(Tzadik, a) righteous man.
And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done
(through the initiation), smote their breasts, and returned (to the path of the Razor’s Edge).
And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee (the Brain), stood
afar off, beholding these (Kabbalistic and Alchemistic) things.”

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“And the light shines in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.” - John 1:5

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