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THE HEBREW TRIAD.

The Qabbalists used the letter ש, Shin, to signify the trinity of the first three Sephiroth. The central circle
slightly above the other two is the first Sephira--Kether, the White Head, the Crown. The other two circles
represent Chochmah, the Father, and Binah, the Mother. From the union of the Divine Father and the
Divine Mother are produced the worlds and the generations of living things. The three flame-like points of
the letter ש have long been used to conceal this Creative Triad of the Qabbalists.

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trees, each hearing the reflections of the ten Sephirothic globes. The 40 spheres of
creation out of AIN SOPH are divided into four great world chains, as follows:

A 1 to A 10, Atziluth, the Boundless World of Divine Names.

B 1 to B 10, Briah, the Archangelic World of Creations.

C 1 to C 10, Yetzirah, the Hierarchal World of Formations.

D 1 to D 10, Assiah, the Elemental World of Substances.

Each of these worlds has ten powers, or spheres--a parent globe and nine others which
conic out of it as emanations, each globe born out of the one preceding. On the plane of
Atziluth (A 1 to A 10), the highest and most divine of all the created worlds, the
unmanifested AIN SOPH established His first point or dot in the Divine Sea--the three
spheres of X. This dot--A 1--contains all creation within it, but in this first divine and
uncontaminated state the dot, or first manifested. God, was not considered as a
personality by the Qabbalists but rather as a divine establishment or foundation. It was
called the First Crown and from it issued the other circles of the Atziluthic World: A 2, A
3, A 4, A 5, A 6, A 7, A 8, A 9, and A 10. In the three lower worlds these circles are
intelligences, planers, and elements, but in this first divine world they are called the Rings
of the Sacred Names.

The first ten great circles (or globes) of light which were manifested out of AIN SOPH
and the ten names of God assigned to them by the Qabbalists are as follows:

From AIN SOPH came A 1, the First Crown, and the name of the first power of God was
Eheieh, which means I Am [That I Am].

From A 1 came A 2, the first Wisdom, and the name of the second power of God was
Jehovah, which means Essence of Being.