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The forty concentric circles shown in the large circular cut in the preceding chapter are here arranged as
four trees, each consisting of ten circles. These trees disclose the organization of the hierarchies controlling
the destinies of all creation. The trees are the same in each of the four world but the powers vested in the
globes express themselves differently through the substances of each world, resulting in endless
differentiation.

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we find Sephira [Kether], the first androgyne, at the apex of the upper triangle, emitting
Hachama [Chochmah], or Wisdom, a masculine and active potency--also called Jah, יה--
and Binah, בינה, or Intelligence, a female and passive potency, also represented by the
name Jehovah יהוה. These three form the first trinity or 'face' of the Sephiroth. This triad
emanated Hesed, הסד, or Mercy, a masculine active potency, also called El, from which
emanated Geburah גבורה, or justice, also called Eloha, a feminine passive potency; from
the union of these two was produced Tiphereth תראפּט, Beauty, Clemency, the Spiritual
Sun, known by the divine name Elohim; and the second triad, 'face,' or 'head,' was
formed. These emanating, in their turn, the masculine potency Netzah, נצה, Firmness, or
Jehovah Sabaoth, who issued the feminine passive potency Hod,הוד, Splendor, or Elohim
Sabaoth; the two produced Jesod, יסוד, Foundation, who is the mighty living one El-Chai,
thus yielding the third trinity or 'head.' The tenth Sephiroth is rather a duad, and is
represented on the diagrams as the lowest circle. It is Malchuth or Kingdom, מלכות, and
Shekinah, שכינה, also called Adonai, and Cherubim among the angelic hosts. The first
'Head' is called the Intellectual world; the second 'Head' is the Sensuous, or the world of
Perception, and the third is the material or Physical world." (See Isis Unveiled.)

Among the later Qabbalists there is also a division of the Sephirothic Tree into five parts,
in which the distribution of the globes is according to the following order:

(1) Macroprosophus, or the Great Face, is the term applied to Kether as the first and
most exalted of the Sephiroth and includes the nine potencies or Sephiroth issuing from
Kether.

(2) Abba, the Great Father, is the term generally applied to Chochmah--Universal
Wisdom--the first emanation of Kether, but, according to Ibn Gebirol, Chochmah
represents the Son, the Logos or the Word born from the union of Kether and Binah.

(3) Aima, the Great Mother, is the name by which Binah, or the third Sephira, is
generally known. This is the Holy Ghost, from whose body the generations issue forth.
Being the third person of the Creative Triad, it corresponds to Jehovah, the Demiurgus.

(4) Microprosophus, or the Lesser Face, is composed of the six Sephiroth--Chesed,
Geburah, Tiphereth, Netsah, Hod, and Jesod. The Microprosophus is commonly called
the Lesser Adam, or Zauir Anpin, whereas the Macroprosophus, or Superior Adam, is
Arikh Anpin. The Lesser Face is properly symbolized by the six-pointed star or interlaced
triangles of Zion and also by the six faces of the cube. It represents the directions north,
east, south, west, up, and down, and also the first six days of Creation. In his list of the
parts of the Microprosophus, MacGregor-Mathers includes Binah as the first and superior
part of the Lesser Adam, thus making his constitution septenary. If Microprosophus be