"And the mystery of the earthly and mortal man is after the mystery of the supernal and immortal One'; and thus was he created the image of God upon earth. In the form of the body is the Tetragrammaton found. The head is I, the arms and shoulders are like H, the body is V, and the legs are represented by the H final. Therefore, as the outward form of man corresponds to the Tetragrammaton, so does the animating soul correspond to the ten supernal Sephiroth; and as these find their ultimate expression in the trinity of the crown, the king, and the queen, so is there a principal triple division of the soul. Thus, then, the first is the Neschamah, NSHMH, which is the highest degree of being, corresponding to the crown (Kether), and representing the highest triad of the Sephiroth, called the intellectual world. The second is Ruach, RVCH, the seat of good and evil, corresponding to Tiphereth, the moral world. And the third is Nephesch, NPSH, the animal life and desires, corresponding to Yesod, and the material and sensuous world. All souls are pre

existent in the world of emanations, and are in their original state androgynous, but when they descend upon earth they become separated into male and female, and inhabit different bodies; if therefore in this mortal life the male half encounters the female half, a strong attachment springs up between them, and hence it is said that in marriage the separated halves are again conjoined; and the hidden forms of the soul are akin to the cherubim,

"But this foregoing triple division of the soul is only applicable to the triple form of the intellectual, moral, and material.

"Let us not, then, lose sight of the great Kabbalistical idea, that the trinity is always completed by and finds its realization in the quaternary; that is, IHV completed and realized in IHVH-the trinity of

KABBALISTIC DIAGRAM OF THE SOUL

The formation of the Soul, as analized in the Key of Mysteries and explained in the

Greater Holy Assembly.

And to these four the soul answers in the following four forms: Chiah to Atziloth; Neschamah to Briah; Ruach to Yetzirah; and Nephesch to Asiah. See subjoined table illustrating the analogy between the soul, the letters of the Tetragrammaton, and the four worlds.

"But Chiah is in the soul the archetypal form analogous to Macroprosopus. Wherefore Neschamah, Ruach, and Nephesch represent as it were by themselves the Tetragrammaton, without Chiah, which is nevertheless symbolized 'in the uppermost point of the I, yod,' of the soul; as Macroprosopus is said to be symbolized by the uppermost point of the I, yod, of IHVH. For 'yod of the Ancient One is hidden and concealed.'

"I select the following résumé of the Kabbalistical teachings regarding the nature of the soul from Eliphaz Levi's 'Clef des Mystères,' as also the accompanying table. This gives the chief heads of the ideas of Rabbi Moses Korduero and of Rabbi Yitzchaq Loria.

"The soul is a veiled light. This light is triple: ""Neschamah = the pure spirit;

"Ruach the soul or spirit;

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Nephesch = the plastic mediator.

"The veil of the soul is the shell of the image.

"The image is double because it reflects alike the good and the evil angel of the soul.

"Nephesch is immortal by renewal of itself through the destruction of forms;

"Ruach is progressive through the evolution of ideas; "Neschamah is progressive without forgetfulness and without destruction.

"There are three habitations of souls:

"The Abyss of life;

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"The superior Eden;

"The inferior Eden.

"The image Tzelem is a sphinx which propounds the enigma of life.

"The fatal image (i.e., that which succumbs to the outer) endows Nephesch with its attributes, but Ruach can substitute the image conquered by the inspirations of Neschamah.

"The body is the veil of Nephesch, Nephesch is the veil of Ruach, Ruach is the veil of the shroud of Neschamah. Light personifies itself by veiling itself, and the personification is only stable when the veil is perfect.

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"This perfection upon earth is relative to the universal soul of the earth (i.e., as the macrocosm or greater world, so the microcosm or lesser world, which is man).

"There are three atmospheres for the souls.

'The third atmosphere finishes where the planetary attraction of the other worlds commences.

"Souls perfected on this earth pass on to another station. "After traversing the planets they come to the sun; then they ascend into another universe and recommence their planetary evolution from world to world and from sun to sun. "In the suns they remember, and in the planets they forget.

"The solar lives are the days of eternal life, and the planetary lives are the nights with their dreams.

"Angels are luminous emanations personified, not by trial and veil, but by divine influence and reflex.

"The angels aspire to become men, for the perfect man, the man-God, is above every angel.

"The planetary lives are composed of ten dreams of a hundred years each, and each solar life is a thousand years; therefore is it said that a thousand years are in the sight of God as one day.

"Every week- that is, every fourteen thousand years the soul bathes itself and reposes in the jubilee dream of forgetfulness.

"On waking therefrom it has forgotten the evil and only remembers the good.""