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which is the eternal and ever-springing root of the law. Of this great truth Eliphas Levi
also writes declaring that none can gain entrance to the secret House of Wisdom unless
he wear the voluminous cape of Apollonius of Tyana and carry in his hand the lamp of
Hermes. The cape signifies the qualities of self-possession and self-reliance which must
envelope the seeker as a cloak of strength, while the ever-burning lamp of the sage
represents the illumined mind and perfectly balanced intellect without which the mystery
of the ages can never be solved.

The Sephirothic Tree is sometimes depicted as a human body, thus more definitely
establishing the true identity of the first, or Heavenly, Man--Adam Kadmon--the Idea of
the Universe. The ten divine globes (Sephiroth) are then considered as analogous to the
ten sacred members and organs of the Protogonos, according to the following
arrangement. Kether is the crown of the Prototypic Head and perhaps refers to the pineal
gland; Chochmah and Binah are the right and left hemispheres respectively of the Great
Brain; Chesed and Geburah (Pechad) are the right and left arms respectively, signifying
the active creative members of the Grand Man; Tiphereth is the heart, or, according to
some, the entire viscera; Netsah and Hod are the right and left legs respectively, or the
supports of the world; Jesod is the generative system, or the foundation of form; and
Malchuth represents the two feet, or the base of being. Occasionally Jesod is considered
as the male and Malchuth as the female generative power. The Grand Man thus
conceived is the gigantic image of Nebuchadnezzar's dream, with head of gold, arms and
chest of silver, body of brass, legs of iron, and feet of clay. The mediæval Qabbalists also
assigned one of the Ten Commandments and a tenth part of the Lord's Prayer in
sequential order to each of the ten Sephiroth.

Concerning the emanations from Kether which establish themselves as three triads of
Creative Powers--termed in the Sepher ha Zohar three heads each with three faces--H. P.
Blavatsky writes: "This [Kether] was the first Sephiroth, containing in herself the other
nine תוריפּס Sephiroth, or intelligences. In their totality and unity they represent the
archetypal man, Adam Kadmon, the πρωτγονος, who in his individuality or unity is yet
dual, or bisexual, the Greek Didumos, for he is the prototype of all humanity. Thus we
obtain three trinities, each contained in a 'head.' In the first head, or face (the three-faced
Hindu Trimurti),

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THE FOUR SEPHIROTHIC TREES.