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The General Description of the Path

tavvThis is path no. Thirty-two, joining Yesod to Malkuth. [1] Malkuth is otherness, everything we experience outside of ourselves.  We may be comfortable with otherness when surrounded  by familiar things, such as our homes and possessions.  Otherness can then become a part of the extended self.  Sometimes, through drugs, depression or fatigue, the sense of familiarity is dispelled and the otherness of the world is revealed. The masks slips, and we can see how we have invested the world with a personal meaning that no longer seems to be there .  This may be experienced as a paralysing loss of self, an experience decribed by Sartre in La Nausée. (Collin A. Low, The Hermetic Kabbalah, p. 324)

This path represents both (a) the lowest dregs of the astral plane, to which is attributed Saturn as the great astrological malefic, and (b) the universe in toto, represented by Brahma and Pan as the sum total of all existent intelligences. In the latter category is Gaea or Gé, the personification of earth. There is also the Norse Vodar, whose name indicates that he is the imperishable nature of the world, likened to the immensity of the indestructible forests, and like the Greek Pan, he is the representative of the silent, secret, and peaceful groves.56 Anderson, again, implies that Vida ris the eternal, wild, original, nature, the god of imperishable matter. Saturn, an early Italian god, is an earth deity too, he having taught the people agriculture, suppressed their savagery, and introduced them to civilization. In connection with (a), however, we have Sebek, the crododile god, signifying the grosset form of matter, and such correspondences as Assafoetida and all evil odors, and the Hindu Tamogunam, the quality of slothfulness and inertia. (Israel Regardie, Tree of Pomegrenates, p. ?)



 The Hebrew Letter Correspondence: Tav

Moshik-Hebrew-Typeface-TavThis is twenty-second letter of alphabet. This numerical value is 400. This letter means a T-shaped “cross.” When without a dôgesh it is pronounced as an “S.”55






The Tarot Trump Correspondence: XXI – The World

the---worldThe tarot card is XXI – The World, showing within a flowery wreath a female figure, who has come to be known as the Virgin of the World, giving this path added significance since it descends upon Malkuth, to which the Zohar allocates the final Héh, the Daughter, who is the refection below of the Shechinah on high. At the four corners of the cards are the four cherubic animals of the Apocalypse : the man, the eagle, the bull, and the lion.











The Egyptian Deity Correspondence #1: Maut

mautThe first Egyptian deity attribution for this path is Mau.  (Aleister Crowley, 777, p. 6; Israel Regardie, A GArden of Pomegrenates, p. 89) Mut, which meant mother in the ancient Egyptian language,[1] was an ancient Egyptian mother goddess with multiple aspects that changed over the thousands of years of the culture. Alternative spellings are Maut and Mout. She was considered a primal deity, associated with the waters from which everything was born through parthenogenesis. She also was depicted as a woman with the crowns of Egypt upon her head. The rulers of Egypt each supported her worship in their own way to emphasize their own authority and right to rule through an association with Mut.  Some of Mut’s many titles included World-Mother, Eye of Ra, Queen of the Goddesses, Lady of Heaven, Mother of the Gods, and She Who Gives Birth, But Was Herself Not Born of Any.


The hieroglyph for Mut’s name, and for mother itself, was that of a vulture, which the Egyptians believed were very maternal creatures. Indeed, since Egyptian vultures have no significant differing markings between female and male of the species, being without sexual dimorphism, the Egyptians believed they were all females, who conceived their offspring by the wind herself, another parthenogenic concept.
















The Egyptian Deity Correspondence #2: Sebek

sobekkThe second Egyptian deity attribution for this path is Sobek  (Aleister Crowley, 777, p. 6; Israel Regardie, A Garden of Pomegrenates, p. 89) (also called Sebek, Sochet, Sobk, and Sobki), and in Greek, Suchos (Σοῦχος) was an ancient Egyptian deity with a complex and fluid nature.[1] He is associated with the Nile crocodile and is either represented in its form or as a human with a crocodile head. Sobek was also associated with pharaonic power, fertility, and military prowess, but served additionally as a protective deity with apotropaic qualities, invoked particularly for protection against the dangers presented by the Nile river.






Sobek is, above all else, an aggressive and animalistic deity who lives up to the vicious reputation of his patron animal, the large and violent Nile crocodile. Some of his common epithets betray this nature succinctly, the most notable of which being: “he who loves robbery,” “he who eats while he also mates,” and “pointed of teeth.”[12] However, he also displays grand benevolence in more than one celebrated myth. After his association with Horus and consequent adoption into the Osirian triad of Osiris, Isis, and Horus in the Middle Kingdom, Sobek became associated with Isis as a healer of the deceased Osiris (following his violent murder by Set in the central Osiris myth).[13] In fact, though many scholars believe that the name of Sobek, Sbk, is derived from s-bAk, “to impregnate,” others postulate that it is a participial form of the verb sbq,[14] an alternative writing of sAq, “to unite,” thereby meaning Sbk could roughly translate to “he who unites (the dismembered limbs of Osiris).”[15]



Many varied copies of the book exist and many scholars feel that it was produced in large quantities as a “best-seller” in antiquity. The integral relationship between the Faiyum and Sobek is highlighted via this text, and his far reaching influence is seen in localities that are outside of the Faiyum as well; a portion of the book is copied on the Upper Egyptian (meaning southern Egyptian) Temple of Kom Ombo.[21]

Cult centers


Sobek Shedety, the patron of the Faiyum’s centrally located capital, Crocodilopolis (or Egyptian “Shedet”), was the most prominent form of the god. Extensive building programs honoring Sobek were realized in Shedet, as it was the capital of the entire Arsinoite nome and consequently the most important city in the region. It is thought that the effort to expand Sobek’s main temple was initially driven by Ptolemy II.[9] Specialized priests in the main temple at Shedet functioned solely to serve Sobek, boasting titles like “prophet of the crocodile-gods” and “one who buries of the bodies of the crocodile-gods of the Land of the Lake.”[11]

Outside the Faiyum, Kom Ombo, in southern Egypt, was the biggest cultic center of Sobek, particularly during the Ptolemaic and Roman periods. The temple at this site was called the “Per-Sobek,” meaning the “house of Sobek.”[11]

The Hindu Deity Correspondence: Brahma, Tamogunam

Brahma--Brahmā (Sanskrit: ब्रह्मा; IAST: Brahmā) is the Hindu god (deva) of creation and one of the Trimūrti, the others being Vishnu and Shiva.  In Sanskrit grammar, the noun stem brahman forms two distinct nouns; one is a neuter noun bráhman, whose nominative singular form is brahma ब्रह्म; this noun has a generalized and abstract meaning. Contrasted to the neuter noun is the masculine noun brahmán, whose nominative singular form is brahmā ब्रह्मा. This noun is used to refer to a person, and as the proper name of a deity Brahmā .  According to the Brahmā Purāņa, he is the father of Manu, and from Manu all human beings are descended. In the Rāmāyaņa and the Mahābhārata, he is often referred to as the progenitor or great grandsire of all human beings. He is not to be confused with the Supreme Cosmic Spirit in Hindu Vedānta philosophy known as Brahman, which is genderless. As per Hindu tradition, Vedas never got created by anyone. It always existed from time immemorial. [1] Brahmā’s wife is Saraswati. Saraswati is also known by names such as Sāvitri and Gāyatri, and has taken different forms throughout history. Brahmā is often identified with Prajāpati, a Vedic deity. Being the husband of Saraswati or Vaac Devi (the Goddess of Speech), Brahma is also known as “Vaagish,” meaning “Lord of Speech and Sound.”  He is clad in red clothes. Brahmā is traditionally depicted with four heads, four faces, and four arms. With each head, He continually recites one of the four Vedas. He is often depicted with a white beard (especially in North India), indicating the nearly eternal nature of his existence. Unlike most other Hindu gods, Brahmā holds no weapons. One of his hands holds a scepter. Another of his hands holds a book. Brahmā also holds a string of prayer beads called the ‘akṣamālā’ (literally “garland of eyes”), which He uses to keep track of the Universe’s time. He is also shown holding the Vedas.

There are many other stories in the Purāņas about the gradual decrease in Lord Brahmā’s importance. Followers of Hinduism believe that Humans cannot afford to lose the blessings of Brahmā and Sarasvati, without whom the populace would lack creativity, knowledge to solve mankind’s woes. There is a story of a fifth head. This head came when Shatrupa started flying away from him upwards and the head came on top of the four heads – symbolizing lust and ego. the head was decapitated by Shiva returning Brahmā to his four head avatar which gave birth to the Vedas. The fifth head stayed with Shiva hence Shiva got the name Kapali.





  1. Marichi
  2. Atri
  3. Angirasa
  4. Pulaha
  5. Pulasthya
  6. Krathu
  7. Vashista
  8. Prachethasa
  9. Bhrigu
  10. Narada



The Color Correspondence: Black

000000The scared color attribution for this path is  black. (Israel Regardie, A Garden of Pomegrenates, p.  89; Aleister Crowley, 777, p. 7)

The scared color correspondence for Binah is black, (Aleister Crowley, 777, p. 7) and the reason for that, Israel Regardie tells us, is because ” it is negative and receptive of all things.” (Israel Regardie, A Garden of Pomegrenates, p. 44)  Black is the color of coal, ebony, and of outer space. It is the darkest color, the result of the absence of or complete absorption of light. It is the opposite of white and often represents darkness in contrast with light.[1] 












In the second part of the 17th century, Europe and America experienced an epidemic of fear of witchcraft. People widely believed that the devil appeared at midnight in a ceremony called a black mass or black sabbath, usually in the form of a black animal, often a goat, a dog, a wolf, a bear, a deer or a rooster, accompanied by their familiar spirits, black cats, serpents and other black creatures. This was the origin of the widespread superstition about black cats and other black animals. In Medieval Flanders, in a ceremony called Kattenstoet. black cats were thrown from the belfry of the Cloth Hall of Ypres to ward off witchcraft.[17]   Witch trials were common in both Europe and America during this period. During the notorious Salem witch trials in New England in 1692–93, one of those on trial was accused of being able turn into a “black thing with a blue cap,” and others of having familiars in the form of a black dog, a black cat and a black bird.[18] Nineteen women and men were hanged as witches.[19]




Some 19th-century French painters had a low opinion of black: “Reject black,” Paul Gauguin said, “and that mix of black and white they call gray. Nothing is black, nothing is gray.”[20] But Édouard Manet used blacks for their strength and dramatic effect. Manet’s portrait of painter Berthe Morisot was a study in black which perfectly captured her spirit of independence. The black gave the painting power and immediacy; he even changed her eyes, which were green, to black to strengthen the effect.[21] Henri Matisse quoted the French impressionist Pissarro telling him, “Manet is stronger than us all – he made light with black.”[22]

Auguste Renoir used luminous blacks, especially in his portraits. When someone told him that black was not a color, Renoir replied: “What makes you think that? Black is the queen of colors. I always detested Prussian blue. I tried to replace black with a mixure of red and blue, I tried using cobalt blue or ultramarine, but I always came back to ivory black.”[23]




In art, black regained some of the territory that it had lost during the 19th century. The Russian painter Kasimir Malevich, a member of the Suprematist movement, created the Black Square in 1915, is widely considered the first purely abstract painting. He wrote, “The painted work is no longer simply the imitation of reality, but is this very reality … It is not a demonstration of ability, but the materialization of an idea.”[24]

Black was also appreciated by Henri Matisse. “When I didn’t know what color to put down, I put down black,” he said in 1945. “Black is a force: I used black as ballast to simplify the construction … Since the impressionists it seems to have made continuous progress, taking a more and more important part in color orchestration, comparable to that of the double bass as a solo instrument.”[25]


In Christian theology, black was the color of the universe before God created light. In many religious cultures, from Mesoamerica to Oceania to India and Japan, the world was created out of a primordial darkness.[54] In the Bible the light of faith and Christianity is often contrasted with the darkness of ignorance and paganism.

In Christianity, the Devil is considered the “prince of darkness.” The term was used in John Milton‘s poem Paradise Lost, published in 1667, referring to Satan, who is viewed as the embodiment of evil. It is an English translation of the Latin phrase princeps tenebrarum, which occurs in the Acts of Pilate, written in the fourth century, in the 11th-century hymn Rhythmus de die mortis by Pietro Damiani,[55] and in a sermon by Bernard of Clairvaux[56] from the 12th century. The phrase also occurs in King Lear by William Shakespeare (c. 1606), Act III, Scene IV, l. 14: ‘The prince of darkness is a gentleman.”


  • In Islam, black, along with green, plays an important symbolic role. It is the color of the Black Standard, the banner that is said to have been carried by the soldiers of the Prophet Muhammad. It is also used as a symbol in Shi’a Islam (heralding the advent of the Mahdi), and the flag of followers of Islamism and Jihadism.


In the financial world, the term often refers to a dramatic drop in the stock market. For example, the Wall Street Crash 1929, the stock market crash on October 29, 1929, which is the start of the Great Depression, is nicknamed Black Tuesday, and was preceded by Black Thursday, a downturn on October 24 the previous week.








The Precious Stone Correspondence: Onyx

black_onyxThe precious stone attribution for this path is onyx (Aleister Crowley, 777, p. 10). Onyx is a banded variety of chalcedony. The colors of its bands range from white to almost every color (save some shades, such as purple or blue). Commonly, specimens of onyx contain bands of black and/or white.  Onyx comes through Latin (of the same spelling), from the Greek ὄνυξ, meaning “claw” or “fingernail”. With its fleshtone color, onyx can be said to resemble a fingernail. The English word “nail” is cognate with the Greek word.[1] 



Onyx is a gemstone found in various regions of the world, particularly Brazil.[citation needed] It can also be found in Uruguay,[citation needed] Pakistan,[citation needed] Sri Lanka,[citation needed] India,[citation needed] Hawaii[citation needed] and Madagascar.[citation needed] Onyx is formed in the gas cavities of lava.[citation needed]

t has a long history of use for hardstone carving and jewellery, where it is usually cut as a cabochon or into beads. It has also been used for intaglio and hardstone cameo engraved gems, where the bands make the image contrast with the ground.[10] Some onyx is natural but much of the material in commerce is produced by the staining of agate.[11]

Onyx was used in Egypt as early as the Second Dynasty to make bowls and other pottery items.[12] Use of sardonyx appears in the art of Minoan Crete, notably from the archaeological recoveries at Knossos.[13] Onyx is also mentioned in the Bible at various points, such as in Genesis 2:12 “and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone”, and such as the priests’ garments and the foundation of the city of Heaven in Revelation.[14]

Onyx was known to the Ancient Greeks and Romans.[15] The first-century naturalist Pliny the Elder described both type of onyx and various artificial treatment techniques in his Naturalis Historia.[7]


The Sacred Plant Correspondence: Ash, Cypress & Nightshades

nightshadesConcerning the sacred plant attribution for this path, Crowley talks about “Ash, Cypress, Nightshade, yew and Hellebore.” (Aleister Crowley, 777, p. 10) Regardie talks only about Nightshade (Israel regardie, A Garden of Pomegrenates, p. 89)

The Solanaceae, or nightshades, is an economically important family of flowering plants. The family ranges from annual and perennial herbs to vines, lianas, epiphytes, shrubs and trees, and includes a number of important agricultural crops, medicinal plants, spices, weeds, and ornamentals. Many members of the family contain potent alkaloids, and some are highly toxic, but many cultures eat nightshades, in some cases as staple foods. The family belongs to the order Solanales, in the asterid group dicotyledons (Magnoliopsida).[2] The Solanaceae consists of approximately 98 genera and some 2,700 species,[3] with a great diversity of habitats, morphology and ecology.

The name Solanaceae derives from the genus Solanum, “the nightshade plant”. The etymology of the Latin word is unclear. The name may come from a perceived resemblance of certain solanaceous flowers to the sun and its rays. At least one species of Solanum is known as the “sunberry”. Alternatively, the name could originate from the Latin verb solari, meaning “to soothe”, presumably referring to the soothing pharmacological properties of some of the psychoactive species of the family.


The Solanaceae include a number of commonly collected or cultivated species. The most economically important genus of the family is Solanum, which contains the potato (Solanum tuberosum, in fact, another common name of the family is the “potato family”), the tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), and the eggplant or aubergine (Solanum melongena). Another important genus, Capsicum, produces both chili peppers and bell peppers.

The genus Physalis produces the so-called groundcherries, as well as the tomatillo (Physalis philadelphica), the Cape gooseberry and the Chinese lantern. The genus Lycium contains the boxthorns and the wolfberry Lycium barbarum. Nicotiana contains, among other species, the plant that produces tobacco. Some other important members of Solanaceae include a number of ornamental plants such as Petunia, Browallia and Lycianthes, the source of psychoactive alkaloids, Datura, Mandragora (mandrake), and Atropa belladonna (deadly nightshade). Certain species are universally known for their medicinal uses, their psychotropic effects, or for being poisonous.

With the exception of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum, Nicotianoideae) and petunia (Petunia x hybrida, Petunioideae), most of the economically important genera are contained in the subfamily Solanoideae. Finally, but not less importantly, the Solanaceae include many model organisms which are important in the investigation of fundamental biological questions at cellular, molecular, and genetic levels, such as tobacco and the petunia.

Alkaloids are nitrogenous organic substances produced by plants as a secondary metabolite and which have an intense physiological action on animals even at low doses. Solanaceae are known for having a diverse range of alkaloids. To humans, these alkaloids can be desirable, toxic, or both. The tropanes are the most well-known of the alkaloids found in the Solanaceae. The plants that contain these substances have been used for centuries as poisons. However, despite being recognized as poisons, many of these substances have invaluable pharmaceutical properties. The many species contain a variety of alkaloids that can be more or less active or poisonous, such as scopolamine, atropine, hyoscyamine, and nicotine. They are found in plants such as the henbane (Hyoscyamus albus), belladonna (Atropa belladonna), datura or jimson (Datura stramonium), mandrake (Mandragora autumnalis), tobacco, and others.

Even though the Solanaceae are found on all the continents except Antarctica, the greatest variety of species are found in Central America and South America. Another two centres of diversity include Australia and Africa. They occupy a great number of different ecosystems, from deserts to rainforests, and they are often found in the secondary vegetation that colonizes disturbed areas.




The Sacred Animal Correspondence: The Crocodile

american-crocodileThe sacred animal correspondence for this path is  the crocodile (Aleister Crowley, 777, p. 10) Crocodiles (subfamily Crocodylinae) or true crocodiles are large aquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia.  The word “crocodile” comes from the Ancient Greek κροκόδιλος (crocodilos), “lizard,” used in the phrase ho krokódilos tou potamoú, “the lizard of the (Nile) river”. There are several variant Greek forms of the word attested, including the later form κροκόδειλος (crocodeilos)[4] found cited in many English reference works.[5] In the Koine Greek of Roman times, crocodilos and crocodeilos would have been pronounced identically, and either or both may be the source of the Latinized form crocodīlus used by the ancient Romans. Crocodilos or crocodeilos is a compound of krokè (“pebbles”), and drilos/dreilos (“worm”), although drilos is only attested as a colloquial term for “penis”.[5] It is ascribed to Herodotus, and supposedly describes the basking habits of the Egyptian crocodile.[6]  The form crocodrillus is attested in Medieval Latin.[5] It is not clear whether this is a medieval corruption or derives from alternate Greco-Latin forms (late Greek corcodrillos and corcodrillion are attested). A (further) corrupted form cocodrille is found in Old French and was borrowed into Middle English as cocodril(le). The Modern English form crocodile was adapted directly from the Classical Latin crocodīlus in the 16th century, replacing the earlier form. The use of -y- in the scientific name Crocodylus (and forms derived from it) is a corruption introduced by Laurenti (1768).  Crocodylinae, in which all its members are considered true crocodiles, is classified as a biological subfamily. A broader sense of the term crocodile, Crocodylidae that includes Tomistoma, is not used in this article. The term crocodile here applies only to the species within the subfamily of Crocodylinae. The term is sometimes used even more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia, which includes Tomistoma, the alligators and caimans (family Alligatoridae), the gharials (family Gavialidae), and all other living and fossil Crocodylomorpha.




The Magical Weapon Attribution: The Sickle


The diversity of sickles that have been used around the globe is staggering. Between the dawn of the Iron Age and present, hundreds of region-specific variants of this basic forage-cutting tool were forged of iron, later steel. Within the industrial set-up, when the trip hammer took over from men swinging their strong arms at the anvil (between 16th and 17th century) some models of sickles were produced in up to six different sizes.[citation needed]

One noteworthy feature of sickles is that their edges have been made in two very distinct manners/patterns – smooth or serrated. While both can (albeit with a different technique) be used for cutting either green grass or mature cereals, it is the serrated sickle that still dominates the duty of harvesting grain – with other words the “reaping”. Modern kitchen knives with serrated edges, as well as grain-harvesting machines use the same design principle as prehistoric sickles.


The blades of sickle models intended primarily for the cutting of grass are sometimes “cranked”, meaning they are off-set downwards from the handle, which makes it easier to keep the blade closer to the ground. Sickles used for reaping do not benefit by this feature because cereals are usually not cut as close to the ground surface. Instead, what distinguishes this latter group is their often (though not always) serrated edges.


As a weapon


The Yetziraic title Correspondence: The Administrative Intelligence

an dits Yetziraic title “the Administrative Intelligence.” (Aleister Crowley, 777, p. 4)



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