KETHER: four Aces

Mystical, Admirable, or Hidden Consciousness

vibrate:  Eh`He`Ye, Metatron, Ki`ot`ha`ko`desh, Ke`ter 

Appearance:

Each Ace is both basic, yet super-extraordinary at the same time.  Each Ace has both the highest and lowest qualities displayed in the imagery. 

• ·         The Ace of Discs reveals the blueprint for the tree revealed in the rings, with the center Disc is of expensive gold engraved with the occultist’s ultimate sigil.
• ·         The Ace of Wands has a very basic Club of Fire, out of which come Ten Flames O the Sepiroth, shooting out lightning bolts.
• ·         The Ace of Swords: At first glance the sword is basic at best, but a close inspection reveals that it is actually highly detailed, personal, even crowned.
• ·         The Ace of Cups: The most basic cup design ever, yet it is literally growing out of a lotus blossom, and what's beaming out of the top is called the Serpentine Wisdom, like a spotlight to Heaven.

Mysteries of Kether:

As a full understanding of Kether is unfathomable to any human; please forgive my humble attempt to expound the mystery. 

Kether: The Mystical, Admirable, or Hidden Consciousness. The most hidden of all things.  The crown is also the throne to the Aces of Thoth.  Kether is the top-most position on the sepirothic tree of life and is representative of all that is God.  

Each individual Sepirothic place should be considered four-fold in nature; with the exception of only Kether which is *forty-fold in nature. This forty-fold nature is defined by the tarot’s Minor Arcana. *forty-fold is only one method of counting Kether and does not take into consideration the other places, paths, or the court-players. 

Complete understanding of god is not possible to the human mind, except in details.  The tarot has been left for us to examine those details.

So consider, the Aces always stay grounded in metaphysics, (and in consideration of numerology).  

As a "1", the Ace represents the elemental root force of the suit, or seed-of-an-idea.  

As an "11", the Ace represents the perfected manifestation, or an ideal.   

Each Ace should be viewed as a pair of bookends to its own minor arcana suit.  

The Thoth Ace starts as a 1 (or front bookend for the individual suit of cards); then ends as an 11 (or rear-bookend to your elemental suit).

An example of Metaphysics vs. Manifestation (concerning the Aces: *{This example applies to all four suits})

·         Ace of Swords as: 1 (completely in metaphysics as the seed of an idea)

·         2 of Swords, (an aspect of metaphysics as the idea), (as an aspect of manifestation as an idea)

·         3 of Swords, (an aspect of metaphysics as a sponsored idea), (as an aspect of manifestation as an inspired idea)

·         4 of Swords, (as an aspect of manifestation)

·         5 of Swords, (as an aspect of manifestation)

·         6 of Swords, (as an aspect of manifestation)

·         7 of Swords, (as an aspect of manifestation)

·         8 of Swords, (as an aspect of manifestation)

·         9 of Swords, (as an aspect of manifestation)

·         10 of Swords, (complete manifestation)

·         Ace of Swords as: 11  (completely in metaphysics as an ideal of manifestation)

The Aces are the ghosts of the tarot pack; or cards that don’t represent any manifestation, only ideas and/or ideals, depending on your perspective.  

Both ideas and ideals will always remain grounded in metaphysics; all manifestation takes place in the realms of the minor arcana (in the numbers 2 through 10).  

Consider this:  In most card-games Aces’ can be counted as a "1" or an "11", depending on player’s choice, with the Tarot cards it’s the same way.

In a Reading:

Within an Ace every possibility, of every manifestation is actually possible.  Usually, your Querent has made the best out of a bad situation.

Doing something to perfection is the Aces badge, and they will always pop-up during successful endeavors or efforts.  Sometimes Aces are an indication of new ideas.

Aces reveal potentials and even successes in individuals, and/or situations.  The involved individuals will be revealed in court cards.

Situations and involved people will be outlined by the dominant trump, minor arcana cards, and the court.

The potentials or direction of any situation will be outlined by the minor arcana cards.

Conclusion:

The Aces are a kind of reality-sandwich, and on one hand you know it’s the best sandwich ever, but you also know that you’ll most likely never find or create that exact sandwich. 

Its ideals & ideas only, no manifestation, all such manifestation will be defined in the surrounding cards.

Remember, when an Ace shows up in a reading, it’s usually a sign that the Querent did something right (or needs to do something right).

Kether as home to the court princesses.  The princesses are for another chapter.  Though, some of us already know.

Related Concepts:

The Monad or absolute unity,
in the psychology of Pythagorean Mathematics,
Brilliant-white divine light,
God as where the soul emanates resides and returns to,
The Starry Heavens or First Whirling’s, Space.
Union with God,
Knowledge & Conversation with your Holy Guardian Angel,
Hidden Consciousness. 

Correspondences:

•         New Orleans Voudon Gnostic: 
•         Earth: Olodumare
•         Fire: Damballah La Flambeau
•         Air: Damballah Wedo
•         Water: Ayida Wedo
• ·         Hebrew: Kether
• ·         English: Crown
• ·         Consciousness of the Adept: avh or Heh Vav Aleph
• ·         God Name in Assiah: hiha  or Aleph Heh Yod Heh
• ·         The Heavens of Assiah: Araboth (plain or “blessings all good things”)
• ·         Assiah: Rashith ha-Gilgalim
• ·         Rashith ha-Gilgalim translated: Sphere of Primum Mobile
• ·         Name of the Lord: Eh`He`Ye
• ·         Archangels of Assiah: Metatron
• ·         Choir of Angels: Ki`ot`ha`ko`desh
• ·         Palace: Re`shet Ha`gal`gal`em
• ·         Force: Kether
• ·         Angel of Assiah: Chaioth ha`Qadosh or Holy Living Creatures
• ·         Revolutions of Adonai in Assiah: Aleph Daleth Nun Yod
• ·         Ten Divisions of the Body of God: Skull
• ·         Ten Earths in Seven Palaces: Aretz or dry Earth
• ·         Ten Hells in Seven Palaces: Sheol or Grave
• ·         Order of Qliphoth: Thaumiel (te`om`e`el), Twins of God, or Dual-Contending-Forces
• ·         Princes of the Qliphoth: Satan & Molech
• ·         Element: Root of Air
• ·         Planetary Association: Neptune, (Crowley said Pluto in the Book of Thoth)
• ·         Neptune’s Genethliac Value: The True Self (Zeitgeist), or Spiritual Environment
• ·         Tree of Life: 1^st Plane, Middle Pillar
• ·         Mystic Number of the Sephiroth: 1
• ·         Sepher Yetzirah: The Mystical, Admirable, or Hidden Consciousness
• ·         Tarot Attribution: The Four Aces
• ·         King’s Scale: Brilliance
• ·         Queen’s Scale: White Brilliance
• ·         Emperor’s Scale: White Brilliance
• ·         Empress’s Scale: White-Flecked Gold
• ·         Sepirothic Magickal Image: Ancient King seen in profile
• ·         Sepirothic Colors of Dr. Jellinek: Concealed Light
• ·         Selection of Egyptian Gods: Hippocrates, Amoun. Nuith (as Nuit & Hadit)
• ·         Practical Attribution of Egyptian God: Ptah
• ·         Perfected Man: The Disk of Ra as the Face
• ·         Hindu Deities: Parabrahm, Shiva, Brahma (among many)
• ·         Buddhist: Ten Fetters: Aruparga or Desire for immaterial immortality
• ·         Forty Buddhist Meditation: Indifference; S or a Sublime State = 4
• ·         Hindu or  Buddhist Result: Unity with Brahma, Atma`darshana
• ·         Hindu part of the Soul: Atma
• ·         Hindu Chakras or Prana Center: Sahasrara or above the head
• ·         Scandinavian God: Wotan
• ·         Greek Gods: Zeus, Icchus (Zeus is the Supreme Unity, not to be confused with the Zeus who is the son of Kronos. Iacchus is the supreme unity in man reached by ecstasy, when everything else has been winnowed away by the winnowing fan).
• ·         Roman Gods: Jupiter as the Supreme Creator
• ·         Christian Association: God (the three-in-one)
• ·         Animals (Real or Imaginary): God as a Swan (as AUMNG), or a Hawk (to Kether as poised in the Ether, beholding all things)
• ·         Swan’s Voice: AUMNG (or Amen, AUM, OM, etc.)
• ·         Hawk’s Voice: AGLA
• ·         Plants (Real or Imaginary): Banyan (an Almond in Flower: The Almond in flower is connected with Aaron’s rod that budded. The Almond is the proper wood for the wand of the White magician, but the attribution should really be to the middle pillar as a whole. The branches of the Banyan tree take fresh roots where they touch the ground and start new main stems: this is connected with the special idea of Kether implied in the Philosophy given in the Commentary on the Book of the Law. )
• ·         Precious Stone: Diamond, the Diamond is white brilliance; it is pure carbon, the foundation of all living structure. The atomic weight is 12, the number of Hua, the title of Kether (but this is a reference to the Zodiac which makes the connection with Zero, on the one hand, and 2, on the other).
• ·         Perfume: Ambergris (Ambergris has comparatively little perfume of its own, but it has a virtue of bringing out the best of any others with which it may be mixed. In the same way, Kether cannot be said to have any intrinsic qualities, but its influence brings out the highest faculties of those ideas which it illuminates).
• ·         Vegetable Drug: Elixir Vitae (Due to its omniform virtue)
• ·         Diseases: Death or Life
• ·         Mineral Drug: Aur. Pot.
• ·         Alchemical Metal: Metallic Radix
• ·         Magickal Flashing Colors: Flashing White and Deep Black
• ·         Magickal Altar: White Alter Cloth & Candle, Incense, Cup of Water, wrapped Lotus Wand held by white band, (or any/no wand), Dagger.
• ·         Magickal Eucharist: Anything Natural & Heavenly
• ·         Magickal Weapon: a Fylfot Cross, a Crown, The Lamp, or the Swastika (as a symbol of the In-breath/Out-breath of Love), *(The Crown is the meaning of Kether. It refers to the Supreme Divinity which the magician assumes in his working. The Swastika symbolize whirling energy, the initiation of all magical force—the Rashith ha-Gilgalim. There is a great deal of varied symbolism in this instrument, notably sexual; it demands a great deal of study to appreciate fully the virtue of this weapon. The Lamp is not a weapon; it is a light shining from above which illuminates the whole work).
• ·         Magickal Formulae: For Kether it will be personal and secret for each Initiate
• ·         Magickal Power: Union with God
• ·         Magickal God-Form: Ptah (pronounced: pta)
• ·         Theurgic Invoking Method: Tracing Hexagrams in Four Quarters and again in the East as the God-Form Ptah. Trace each Hexagram described below while uttering “Arareta”; trace a black point in the center while uttering “Eh`He`Ye”; Project white light with the Sign of the Enterer; give LVX signs; Proclaim “In the name of the lord Eh`He`Ye, I invoke you forces of Kether”

o   In the East trace an Eastern Form of the Hexagram (2 upward triangles, tracing from the top down to the right on both)…

o   In the South trace a Southern Form of the Hexagram (Normal Hexagram starting from the top down right, then the bottom up left)…

o   In the West trace a Western Form of the Hexagram (Triangles stacked to form a diamond starting from the top down right, then the bottom up left)…

o   In the North trace a Northern Form of the Hexagram (Triangles tip to tip, top upside down, bottom right side up; trace from the bottom triangle down right, then from the top triangle up left)….

o   Then again In the East trace a Southern Form of the Hexagram to finalize (Normal Hexagram starting from the top down right, then the bottom up left)…

• ·         Grade Password: Silence
• ·         Grade of the Order: 10°=18 Ipsissimus
• ·         Masonic Lodge Officer: Past Master
• ·         Spiritual Experience: Union with God
• ·         In Taoism: Shang Ti (also the Tao)
• ·         I Ching: Tao The
• ·         Symbols: Crown, The Point or the Fylfot Cross
• ·         Astrological Reference: All Aspects of the Starry Heavens
• ·         Earth Location: North Pole
• ·         Geomancy: The Point
• ·         Heavenly Hexagram: Jupiter
• ·         Transcendental Morality as a Virtue: Accomplishment of the Great Work or Pyrrho-Zoroastrianusm
• ·         In Coptic: Sou or 6
• ·         In English: St
• ·         In Greek: 31
• ·         Ace’s Numeric Value in a Card Game: 1 or 11
• ·         Prime Number 11:  The General Number of Magick, Energy Tending to Change
• ·         Angel in Birah: Yehuel
• ·         Angels in Birah, Choirs: Seraphim
• ·         Palaces of Birah: Hekel Qadosh Qadeshim or the Palace of the Holy of the Holies
• ·         Revolution of the Aleph Heh Yod Heh: Aleph Heh Yod Heh
• ·         42-fold Revolving-Name of the Palaces of Yetzirah: Aleph Kaph
• ·         Revolution of the YodHeVavHeh in Yetzirah:  YodHeVavHeh (in 777), HehYodVavHe (aquarian-progressed)
• ·         Saint or Adept of the Hebrews: Messias`filius David
• ·         Angelic Function in the World of Yetzirah: Above it stood the Seraphim: Six Wings
• ·         Spirit of the Living God: Achath Rauch Elohim Chayyim
• ·         Egyptian 10 Plagues: Death of the First Born
• ·         Egyptian Part of the Soul: Kha or Yekh
• ·         Part of the Soul: Yechidah or the Self
• ·         Elements & Quarters in Sepher Yetzirah: Daleth Vav He ` Aleph Lamed He Yod Samek ` He Yod Yod Samek
• ·         Seven Hells of the Arabs: Hawiyah
• ·         Hawiyah’s Inhabitants: Hypocrites
• ·         Seven Heavens of the Arabs: Dar al`Jalai or the House of Glory made of Pearls
• ·         The Naples Arrangement: Kether: The Point: Positive yet Indefinable
• ·         The Vital Triad as One of the Three Gods of IAO: The Messenger

·         Common titles of Kether:

·         twcp hdqn The Small Point.

·         lz tt The Profuse Giver.

·         hnwcar hdqn The Primordial Point.

·         hdwwh acyr The White Head.

·         ma Amen.

·         alpwm rwa The Hidden Light.

·         alp The Hidden Wonder.

·         hlom wr Inscrutable Height.

·         pna yra Long of Nose.

·         ypa yra Long of Face.

·         ymwy The Ancient of Days. [Also name of seven inferiors!]

·         hyha rca hyha Existence of Existences.

·         yqytod aqyto Ancient of Ancient Ones.

·         acydq aqyto Holy Ancient One.

·         wcp rwa The Simple Light.

·         yrmd hrym Concealed of the Concealed

·         acyr The Head

·         ymynp rwa The Inner Light

·         wylo The Most High

·         awh He.

·         ald acyr The Head which is Not.

The Root Force of Earth:  

Earth Mantra: Nan-ta a-ge-la mor-de-al hec-te-gal a-do-nai ha-a-retz u-re-el por-lak ke-ruv e-retz

The Root Force of Fire:                

Fire Mantra: O-ep te-a-a pe-do-ke e-lo-hem yod he vav he tsev-a-ot me-ka-el ar-el sar-af esh

The Root Force of Air:       

Air Mantra: Eks-ar-pe e-he-ye o-ro e-bah a-oz-pe yod-he-vav-he sha-di-el-ki re-fa-el ka-san a-re-el ru-ak

The Root Force of Water:

Water Mantra: He-ko-ma – a-ge-la – m-pe-he – ar-sal – ga-e-ol el e-lo-hem tsev-a-ot gav-re-el ta-li-a-had tar-ses ma-yem

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