The Kabbalah Unveiled. S. L. Macgregor Mathers

XXXVIII. CONCERNING THE SEVEN LAST PORTIONS OF THE BEARD OF MICROPROSOPUS.

       CHAPTER XXXIX. CONCERNING THE BODY OF MICROPROSOPUS IN GENERAL, UNDER THE CONDITION OF AN ANDROGYN.

       CHAPTER XL. CONCERNING THE FEMININE PORTION OF MICROPROSOPUS; AND CONCERNING THE REMAINING PARTS OF THE BODY OF EACH.

       CHAPTER XLI. CONCERNING THE SEPARATE MEMBERS OF EACH PERSONIFICATION, AND ESPECIALLY CONCERNING THE ARMS OF MICROPROSOPUS.

       CHAPTER XLII. CONCERNING THE SEPARATION OF THE MASCULINE AND THE FEMININE, AND CONCERNING THEIR CONJUNCTION.

       CHAPTER XLIII. CONCERNING THE JUDGMENTS.

       CHAPTER XLIV. FURTHER REMARKS CONCERNING THE SUPERNAL MAN.

       CHAPTER XLV. CONCLUSION.

       HADRA ZVTA QDIShA (HA IDRA ZUTA QADISHA) OR THE LESSER HOLY ASSEMBLY.

       CHAPTER I. WHICH CONTAINETH THE INTRODUCTION.

       CHAPTER II CONCERNING THE SKULL OF THE ANCIENT ONE, AND CONCERNING HIS BRAIN; AND CONCERNING THE THREE HEADS, AND THE HAIR, AND THE DISCRIMINATORY PATHS.

       CHAPTER III. CONCERNING THE FOREHEAD OF THE MOST HOLY ANCIENT ONE.

       CHAPTER IV. CONCERNING THE EYES OF THE MOST HOLY ANCIENT ONE.

       CHAPTER V. CONCERNING THE NOSE OF THE MOST HOLY ANCIENT ONE.

       CHAPTER VI. CONCERNING THE BEARD OF THE MOST HOLY ANCIENT ONE.

       CHAPTER VII. CONCERNING THE BRAIN AND THE WISDOM IN GENERAL.

       CHAPTER VIII. CONCERNING THE FATHER AND THE MOTHER IN SPECIAL.

       CHAPTER IX. CONCERNING MICROPROSOPUS AND HIS BRIDE IN GENERAL.

       CHAPTER X. CONCERNING MICROPROSOPUS IN ESPECIAL, WITH CERTAIN DIGRESSIONS; AND CONCERNING THE EDOMITE KINGS.

       CHAPTER XI. CONCERNING THE BRAIN OF MICROPROSOPUS AND ITS CONNECTIONS.

       CHAPTER XII. CONCERNING THE HAIR OF MICROPROSOPUS.

       CHAPTER XIII. CONCERNING THE FOREHEAD OF MICROPROSOPUS.

       CHAPTER XIV. CONCERNING THE EYES OF MICROPROSOPUS.

       CHAPTER XV. CONCERNING THE NOSE OF MICROPROSOPUS.

       CHAPTER XVI. CONCERNING THE EARS OF MICROPROSOPUS.

       CHAPTER XVII. CONCERNING THE COUNTENANCE OF MICROPROSOPUS.

       CHAPTER XVIII. CONCERNING THE BEARD OF MICROPROSOPUS.

       CHAPTER XIX. CONCERNING THE LIPS AND MOUTH OF MICROPROSOPUS.

       CHAPTER XX. CONCERNING THE BODY OF MICROPROSOPUS.

       CHAPTER XXI. CONCERNING THE BRIDE OF MICROPROSOPUS.

       CHAPTER XXII. CONCERNING THE REMAINING MEMBERS OF MICROPROSOPUS.

      INTRODUCTION.

       Table of Contents

      I. THE first questions which the non-qabalistical reader will probably ask are: What is the Qabalah? Who was its author? What are its sub-divisions? What are its general teachings? And why is a translation of it required at the present time?

      2. I will answer the last question first. At the present time a powerful wave of occult thought is spreading through society; thinking men are beginning to awake to the fact that "there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in their philosophy;" and, last but not least, it is now felt that the Bible, which has been probably more misconstrued than any other book ever written, contains numberless obscure and mysterious passages which are utterly unintelligible without some key wherewith to unlock their meaning. THAT KEY IS GIVEN IN THE QABALAH. Therefore this work should be of interest to every biblical and theological student. Let every Christian ask himself this question: "How can I think to understand the Old Testament if I be ignorant of the construction put upon it by that nation whose sacred book it formed; and if I know not the meaning of the Old Testament, how can I expect to understand the New?" Were the real and sublime philosophy of the Bible better known, there would be fewer fanatics and sectarians. And who can calculate the vastness of the harm done to impressionable and excitable persons by the bigoted enthusiasts who ever and anon come forward as teachers of the people? How many suicides are the result of religious mania and depression! What farragos of sacrilegious nonsense have not been promulgated as the true meanings of the books of the Prophets and the Apocalypse! Given a translation of the sacred Hebrew Book, in many instances incorrect, as the foundation, an inflamed and an ill-balanced mind as the worker thereon, what sort of edifice can be expected as the result? I say fearlessly to the fanatics and bigots of the present day: You have cast down the Sublime and Infinite One from His throne, and in His stead have placed the demon of unbalanced force; you have substituted a deity of disorder and of jealousy for a God of order and of love; you have perverted the teachings of the crucified One. Therefore at this present time an English translation of the Qabalah is almost a necessity, for the Zohar has never before been translated into the language of this country, nor, as far as I am aware, into any modern European vernacular.

      3. The Qabalah may be defined as being the esoteric Jewish doctrine. It is called in Hebrew QBLH, Qabalah, which is derived from the root QBL, Qibel, meaning "to receive." This appellation refers to the custom of handing down the esoteric knowledge by oral transmission, and is nearly allied to "tradition."

      4. As in the present work a great number of Hebrew or Chaldee words have to be used in the text, and the number of scholars in the Shemitic languages is limited, I have thought it more advisable to