Qaballah and Tarot: Lesson III-da

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Qaballah and Tarot: A Basic Course in 9 Lessons, by Yael R. Dragwyla

Lesson III: The Greater TrumpsPart 4: The New Trumps

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Yael R. Dragwyla First North American rightsEmail: [email protected] 8,300 wordshttp://polaris93.livejournal.com/

Qaballah and Tarot: A Basic Course in Nine

Lessons

Lesson III: The 22 Paths of the Tree of Life and the

Greater Arcana of the Tarot

C. Notes for Paths 0-93 of the New, English-Language ASCII

and associations with the Periodic Table and Astrological

Assignments, continued

3. The Trumps

Here will be made the barest sketch of designs for the 94+ new Trumps. Note that if it is desired toadd more than 94 Trumps, the extras can be associated with real or hypothetical chemical elements aboveplutonium, as well as ASCII characters other than those from the basic character set given here (for moreon which, see Lesson IX of this course).

Upon reading the next several sections, the reader may well ask, Why in hellare you attaching all thisjunkabout the chemical elements to what is supposed to be a text on Qaballah, for ****s sake?!! But asany Alchemist worth his Salte will readily agree, there is no ready ultimate distinction between the Outerand Inner Planes of existence, the physical realm and the spiritual one.* Curiously, there are 94+ new Keysin the 16-Sephiroth English-language Qaballah, and as many elements in the Periodic Table of theChemical Elements. According to Hermetic theory, there are no coincidences in nature or elsewhere, sotherefore there must be Hermetic significance in that fact. Further, the chemical nature and behavior ofeach element is determined by the number of protons in its nucleus and Number is the basis not only ofthe physical sciences and the universe they study, but also of the Hermetic Arts and Sciences and theesoteric aspects of reality. Therefore there must surely be esoteric connections between the chemicalelements and these new Keys, for which reason I have devoted so much space to discussions of theelements in the sections below. As P. W. Atkins puts it in The Periodic Kingdom: A Journey Into the

Land of the Chemical Elements:**


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I have always been struck by the opening of Somerset Maughams The Vessel ofWrath. The author sits in his study, leafing through the Yangtse Kiang Pilot, and in hisminds eye the tide tables and navigation directions gradually take on a sense of reality.In his imagination the contours and tables give way to a richer version, as he becomesaware of trees, roofs, and finally the people who are the subjects of his tale. So I wouldlike you to accompany me on a journey of imagination through the austere navigationchart of chemistry, the periodic table of the elements. But in our minds eye we shall seeit as a country the Periodic Kingdom populated, as we shall see when we descend toits surface, by personalities. We shall fly through the landscape of the kingdom, see itsrolling hills, its mountain ranges, its gorges, and its plains. We shall land, and walkamong its broad meadows and across its hills. We shall even burrow beneath the surface,and discover that there is a hidden structure, a mechanism, that controls and governs thekingdom. For this is a rational place.

The periodic table is arguably the most important concept in chemistry, both inprinciple and in practice. It is the everyday support for students, it suggests new avenuesof research to professionals, and it provides a succinct organization of the whole ofchemistry. It is a remarkable demonstration of the fact that the chemical elements are nota random clutter of entities but instead display trends and lie together in families. Anawareness of the periodic table is essentially to anyone who wishes to disentangle the

world and see how it is built up from the fundamental building blocks of chemistry, thechemical elements. . . . [It] is a part of scientific culture.

I have presented the periodic table as a kind of travel guide to an imaginary country,of which the elements are the various regions. The kingdom has a geography: theelements lie in particular juxtaposition to one another, and they are used to producegoods, much as a prairie produces wheat and a lake produces fish. It also has a history.Indeed, it has three kinds of history: the elements were discovered much as the lands ofthe world were discovered; the kingdom was mapped, just as the world was mapped, andthe relative positions of the elements came to take on a great significance; and theelements have their own cosmic history, which can be traced back to the stars.

The Periodic Kingdom also has an administration, for the elements have propertiesgoverned by laws that control their behavior and determine the alliances they form. Thisadministration is to be found in the properties of atoms, and of the electrons and nuclei

that constitute atoms.. . . We shall fly through the landscape together, and land when it suits us. In this

way we shall discover a rich kingdom, of which our actual world is a manifestation.

--Ibid., pp. vii-viii

*Indeed, the Inner Planes may simply be the quantum-mechanical aspects of objective reality, experiencedfrom the inside and as a matter of fact, that aspect of the functioning of the central nervous systemsof higher-order organisms such as cephalopoda and vertebrates associated with consciousness and themind in general seems to be all on that very level. By extension, it is quite possible that mind isassociated with the quantum-mechanical aspects of the universe as a whole, and that while an

individual mind may be associated with a particular, individual body, that association may not benecessary for its continued existence. As Lyall Watson et al. point out, mind, soul, and spirit seem tobe aspects of afield, one which, like all fields, is infinite in extent in all dimensions, interpenetratingall other fields, including those associated with the minds, souls, and spirits of other entities. A fielddoesnt necessarily cease to exist when part or all of the physical entity with which it is associatedceases to be, and isnt confined just to that entity at any time. So perhaps we as psychospiritual entitiesare quantum-mechanical phenomena rather than mere products of cerebral functioning somethingwhich both religion and the esoteric Arts and Sciences have claimed all along, and which is nowbeginning to be supported by the latest research by such workers as Nick Herbert, Steven Penrose, et.


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al. For detailed discussions concerning this issue, see, e.g., Lyall Watson, Lifetide (Bantam Books,1980), The Secret Life of Inanimate Objects (Destiny Books, 1992), The Dreams of Dragons (DestinyBooks, 1992), etc.; Nick Herbert, Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics (Doubleday, 1985);Roger Penrose, Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness (OxfordUniversity Press, 1994); etc. A more complete listing of works that might be of interest in this regardcan be found in the bibliography of the Appendices to Volume I of my textbook on the Hermetic Artsand Sciences,

New Magicks for a New Age.

**P. W. Atkins, The Periodic Kingdom: A Journey Into the Land of the Chemical Elements (New York:Basic Books/HarperCollinsPublishers, 1995.

This section is lovingly dedicated to Tom Lehrer, author of The Elements.*

*Melody by Sir Arthur Sullivan. Recorded March 1959 in Cambridge, MA; included in the albumAn

Evening ^Wasted

with Tom Lehrer. Also included in Lehrers collection, Too Many Songs by TomLehrer (New York: Pantheon Books, 1981. With not enough drawings by Ronald Searle. Pianoarrangements by Tom Lehrer and Frank Metis. Includes all the songs from the revue Tomfoolery.

The subversive songs of Tom Lehrer, the sardonic piano-wielding fugitive fromHarvard, have corrupted generations of Americans since he first began recording andperforming in the 1950s. His uniquely depraved wit has recently been forced again on anunsuspecting public via Tomfoolery, the new stage revue based on his ever-trenchantobservation of the American scene. This new songbook, with old favorites unavailablefor years as well as never-published songs, is the most comprehensive ever assembled. Itcontains the words, tunes, piano accompaniments, and guitar chords for . . . thirty-fourclassics . . . .

From the back cover

a. Period I First Plane of the Sphere of Life (Kether)

This Period and Plane are associated with the Olam Atziluth (t w l x a), the Archetypal World, thehighest levels of spirituality and consciousness, and with Chia (h yj), that part of the Self which comprisesthe Will, the first creative vehicle, whose activities include Wisdom and Discrimination.

aa. Key 33

Hydrogen 1H1,* Z=1. Electron configuration: 1. Atomic weight or mass: 1.008.** Oxidation states:

+1, -1. Column and row on the Periodic Table: 1a/K (1). Connects Sephirah to Sephirah 0. ASCIIcharacter: ! Qaballistic value: 0 10 =02. Associations: the Pythagorean Element Water (a higher octave of

Binah [Key 3] or ofMem [Key 23]; in a chemical sense, water is ashes of Hydrogen, the product of theburning of that chemical element, and as such is equivalent to the Alchemical Salte of that compound, sinceSalte is the result of the calcination or complete burning of a substance); Ain, Ain Soph, Ain Soph Aur(associations with Zero); Lobachevski, the trans-Plutonian Planet associated with Sephirah 0, and therefore


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non-Euclidean geometries of all kinds; Durga/Hera, Sephirah 2, Grace analog ofChokmah/Neptune(Who is represented by Memm, the Path connecting Sephiroth 5 and 8).

*The mass number, atomic number, number of atoms, and ionic charge of an element may be indicated by

means of four indices placed around the symbol. The positions are to be occupied thus

left upper index mass number left lower index atomic number right lower index number of atomsright upper index ionic charge

Ionic charge should be indicated by An+ rather than by A+ n.

32 2

Example: 16S2 represents a doubly ionized molecule containing two atoms of sulfur, each ofwhich has the atomic number 16 and mass number 32. The following is an example of an equation fora nuclear reaction:

26 4 29 1

12Mg + 2He = 13Al + 1H

The practice of American chemists and physicists in general has been to put the mass number atthe upper right of the symbol, which practice I will follow here as well, mostly because of thedifficulty of showing mass numbers directly above atomic numbers using ordinary word-processorssuch as WORD; but the advantage of putting it at the upper left so that the upper right is available forthe ionic charge as needed is clear. See CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 54th Edition 1973-1974 (Cleveland, OH: CRC Press, 1973), p. B-41.

**Based on the assigned relative atomic mass of 12C = 12. (12C represents the stable isotope of theelement carbon. See Key 39, below.

The Periodic Table is divided into rows and columns according to the number of electron orbitals (zones

or shells surrounding the nucleus in which electrons in which the electrons in a neutral example ofthe atom are found) and unoccupied positions in an orbital, generally the outermost orbital or orbitals,within an electrically neutral atom. E.g., An atom of sodium, atomic weight Z=11, has threeelectronic shells, two of them filled, one of them containing only one electron in a neutral sodiumatom. The first shell, when filled, contains 2 electrons, the second, 8 electrons. So a neutral sodiumatom contains 2 + 8 + 1 = 11 electrons, equal in number to the number of protons (Z) in its nucleus.The first such shell, which can contain at most 2 electrons, is referred to as the K orbital; thesecond, which contains at most 8 electrons, organized into two sub-orbitals of 2 and 6 electrons each,is called the M orbital; the third, containing at most 18 = 2 + 6 + 10 = 2 x 1 + 2 x 3+ 2 x 5 = 2 x (1+ 3 + 5), is the N, orbital, and so forth. The ith such shell can contain up to 2 x (1 + 3 + 5 + 7 +i) = 2 x i2 electrons, and the atom as a whole up to 2 x (12 + 22 + . . . + i2) electrons. If a neutral atom ofan element has all its orbitals completely filled, it is a noble gas, unable to interact chemically with anyother atom, either of its own element or any other, except under extraordinary conditions oftemperature and pressure. At any rate, the number of orbitals in an atom determines its row in thePeriodic Table, whereas the number of electrons in the outermost orbitals of a neutral atom of anelement determines its column in the Periodic Table, i.e.:


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The Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements*

*There are numerous online resources containing much more readable versions of the Periodic Table thanthis one, regularly updated with the most current knowledge we have on physical chemistry. Theinterested reader should look them up, beginning with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page.

The electron configuration of an electrically neutral atom refers to the numbers of electrons ineach of its outer electronic shells. E.g., silver, Z=47, has the electron configuration 2-18-18-18-1

The valance of an atom refers to the number of electrons which it can lose or gain before havingcompletely filled or completely empty outer orbital(s); this is also equivalent to the amount of

electrical charge it can acquire, since its charge is equivalent to the number of electrons it lacks or hasin excess of its electronic complement when in a neutral state.

The mass or atomic weight of an atom refers to the number of particles in its nucleus, i.e., thenumber of protons (Z) plus that of the neutrons in its nucleus. The latter can vary without changing theessential chemical properties of an atom; two atoms of the same element with differing numbers ofneutrons in their nuclei are different isotopes of the same atom. Neutrons combine a proton, an

electron, and a neutrino ( ) and weigh slightly more than a proton, so even when the number ofneutrons and protons in an atom is identical, the nucleus of that atom will weight somewhat more thantwice as much as its total complement of protons, and the atom as a whole will weigh more still,because of the neutrons in its outer shells. Atoms with too many or too few neutrons in their nuclei this qualification depending upon the particular element become unstable, tending to break downover time into two or more particles and emitting both sub-atomic particles and energy; such unstableatoms are radioactive.

I am using the arrangement described in the footnote to Section C.2, above. Other arrangements can also

be used, e.g., one which starts with Sephirah , as above, but then goes first to Sephirah0, then toSephirah 0, then to Sephirah1, then to Sephirah i =-1, then to Sephirah 2, then toKether, and soon. Or, one could begin the new system of Paths with Kether, go to Chesed (the first Sephirah notconnected toKetherby a traditional Path) and so on down to Malkuth, then to the new Sephiroth, thencome back toBinah and repeat the process, etc. Which system for establishing the new Paths is mostuseful has yet to be determined, and may depend upon individual applications and the symbolisminvolved.


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Alternate: 1H1Hiheelium. Crystal structure: .*

*For this and the other new Keys, 33-126+, these alternate elements come from The Lavender ValleyHigh School Fighting Poodles Science Club poster for The Prom . . . You Never Went To of

Saturday, April 27, 1991, 8:30 p.m. 1:30 a.m. held at the Mountaineers Building, 300 Third AvenueWest off Elliot, Seattle, WA 98101 (poster concept 1991 by Tacky Tourist Clubs of America).According to interviews with Bruce Stonewall, President of the Senior Class and head of the LavenderValley High School Science Club,

After its members had flunked several spot quizzes on the old-style elements, theLavender Valley High School Science Club intently studied the Theory of Relevance andsoon discovered those elements which really mean something to students at Our School.

Made possible by grants-in-aid from the Emirate of Whywait and the Nationally Endowed for theSciences.

The word Hydrogen derives from the Greek words hydro, meaning water, andgenes, forming.Its atomic weight (as found in nature) is 1.0080 (in terms of 1/12 th of the atomic weight of an atom ofcarbon-12); ionized Hydrogen (H1) has an atomic weight of 1.007822. Its atomic number Z = 1. Its

melting point is -259.14 C; its boiling point is -252.87 C. Its gaseous-phase density is 0.08988grams/liter; its liquid-phase density (at temperatures -253 C) is 70.8 gm/l; its solid-phase density (attemperatures -262C) is 70.6 gm/l.

On the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements, Hydrogen is located in Column 1a, which containsthe alkali-metal series whose members include, e.g., Lithium and Sodium, and Row K, whose membershave at most 2 x 1 = 2 valence electrons (and, in this case, no more than 2 electrons overall). All themembers of the alkali-metal series have only one valence electron, i.e., only one electron in their outerelectron orbitals. An atom can either give up electrons from its outer electron orbital to other atoms, or

accept electrons from other atoms if it has room for them in that orbital; which it does depends uponwhether it is, shall we say, to give than to receive or vice-versa.In the current picture of the atom, its electrons are distributed in the form of clouds of charge around

the nucleus. The densities of these clouds correspond to the likelihood that given electrons within themwill be found at various locations therein. The clouds are densest at the nucleus of the atoms, and thin outin regions farther away from the nucleus. Therefore the most likely place to find an electron is the nucleusitself. This distribution of electrons in an atom is called an atomic orbital the name orbital is chosen toconvey a less precise sense than that of orbit, since the position of any given electron in an atom can bedefined only stochastically (probabilistically or statistically), not in any absolute sense. The imprecisionlies in the interpretation of the orbital in terms of an electrons location. We cant be confident that anelectron will actually be found at a particular point in an atom; all we can do is state the probability that itwill be found there (though we can do thatwith absolute precision).

Orbitals can have a wide variety of shapes. The basic orbital of Hydrogen, which is a model for allatoms, is spherical in shape, and is called an s-orbital (here, s stands for sharp, which refers to certainlines in the spectrum of Hydrogen). Orbitals can have a wide variety of different shapes there are evenmany different kinds of spherical orbitals. If enough energy is pumped into a Hydrogen atom, the electronin its s-orbital can be puffed up into a second sort of s-orbital if the first orbital is called a 1s orbital, thesecond is called a 2s-orbital. When an electron has a 2s distribution, it is said to occupy a 2s orbital. Witheven more energy, the electron can be puffed up to occupy a 3s orbital for which there is a central cloudand two concentric cloud shells and on into higher n-s orbitals.

When the electron is given enough energy to occupy a 2s orbital, it can instead form a cloud of anentirely different shape, a two-lobed p-orbital. There are three such 2-lobed orbitals, according to whetherthe lobes lie along an imaginaryx-,y-, orz-axis. This gives us 2px, 2py, and 2pz-orbitals, respectively. The


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electron will never be found on the imaginary plane passing through the nucleus of the atom and dividingthe two lobes of the orbital, which is called a nodal plane. An s-orbital does not have such a nodal plane,and the electron it describes may be found at the nucleus. Every p-orbital has a nodal plane of this kind,and therefore an electron that has a p-orbital will never be found at the nucleus.

When enough energy has been pumped into a Hydrogen atom, its electron can occupy a 3s-orbital orit can instead occupy any of three 3p-orbitals, which are essentially puffed-up versions of the 2p-orbitals just described, or it can take up even more complex distributions. Clearly, an electron isnt so much anactual particle as it is a cloud of charge, a cloud which takes its shape primarily from the amount of energyit contains. The pattern of possibilities for the distribution of an electron in a Hydrogen atom are structuredon the basis of evolution just described. In its lowest energy state orground state, a Hydrogen atomselectron has the spherical cloud-like distribution of a 1s-orbital. With more energy, it can puff up intoeither a bigger s-orbital a 2s-orbital or one of three p-orbitals. With even more energy, the electrondistribution can occupy either a 3s-orbital, one of three p-orbitals, or one of five 3d-orbitals, four-lobedcloud-like distributions. Even more energy allows the electron to adopt the distribution of a 4s-orbital, oneof three 4p-orbitals, one of five 4d-orbitals, or one of seven six-lobed distributions called f-orbitals.* Andso, as Father Kurt is wont to say, it goes.

*In the same way that s came from the sharp lines of the Fraunhofer spectrum, the terms p, d, and fdenote spectroscopic features called principal, diffuse, and fine.

These s, p, d, and forbitals available to an electron in a Hydrogen atom correspond respectively toCols. 1a/2a, 3a/4a/5a/6a/7a/0, and 3b/4b/5b/6b/7b/8 and the Lanthanide/Actinide groups of chemicalelements. As for the numbers associated with the orbitals, there is only one orbital available to an electronin the ground state, and four available in the first higher-energy state. There are two elements in Period 1(Row K of the Periodic Table), i.e., Hydrogen and Helium, and eight in Period 2 (Row L), from Lithium toNeon, twice the number of orbitals in Period 1. The number of columns in the s-block (which includesCols. 1a and 2a of the Periodic Table) is exactly twice the number of s-orbitals of a given rank of energy,and the number of columns in the p-block (Cols. 3a through 0) is twice the number of p-orbitals of anygiven energy rank. There are typically ten elements in each Period (Row) of the d-block (Cols. 3b-8),which is exactly twice the number of d-orbitals in any given rank. As for the f-block, which includes theLanthanides (elements 58-71) and the Actinides (elements 90 on up), there are fifteen elements in each row(rather than the fourteen which the existence of seven f-orbitals of a given rank of energy might lead us toexpect; however, the division of the electronic territory between these elements and the rest of theatomic kingdom is extremely complex due to competition among atoms for energy). In short, the numberof orbitals in an atom is determined according to the formula (2 x 1 + 2 x 3 + 2 x 5 + . . . + 2 x (2n + 1)),where the first shell of orbitals contains 2 x 1 = 2 orbitals, the second contains 2 x 1 + 2 x 3 = 8 orbitals,the third contains 2 x 1 + 2 x 3 + 2 x 5 = 18 orbitals, . . . and the nth contains 2 x 1 + 2 x 3 + . . . 2 x (2n + 1)

= 2( 1 + 3 + 5 + . . . + (2n + 1)) = 2 x (n + 2 x 0 + 2 x 1 + . . . + 2n)) = 2 x (n + 2 x (1-n)) orbitals, wheren is the Period or Row of an element in the Periodic Table. In an atom of Z-numbern, then, there are 2 x (n

+ 2 x (0-n)) orbitals available for electrons in its outermost orbital. In the case of Hydrogen, there arethus 2 x (1 + 2 x 0) = 2 such orbitals available to it.

Now, for various reasons having to do with the tendencies of atoms to take up the most stable possibleenergy-state, electrically neutral atoms with less than exactly half of their outermost orbitals occupied byelectrons easily give up the rest of the electrons in that orbital to other atoms, but acquire atoms from other

atoms with only the greatest difficulty and under unusual conditions. For electrically neutral atoms withmore than exactly half of their outermost orbitals occupied by electrons, the reverse is true; and it is aboutas easy for an electronically neutral atom with exactly half of its outermost orbitals occupied by electrons togive up one or more of those electrons (and so become positively charged) as it is for it to acquire, by hookor crook, one or more electrons from other atoms to completely fill its outer orbital. In the case ofelectronically neutral Hydrogen, exactly half of its outermost orbitals (identical in this case to the totality ofits orbitals, i.e., 2) are occupied by electrons, or rather by one electron. So it can acquire one more electronto fill out that electronic shell* about as easily as it can give up its one electron to empty it. The long andshort of this is that therefore Hydrogen is not only a member of the Alkali Metal series (Col. 1a of the


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Periodic Table, those with at most one electron in their outer orbital), but also of the Halogen Gas series(Col. 7a, those with all but one of their outer orbital filled when in an electronically neutral state), whichalso includes such nasties as Chlorine and Fluorine, viciously active gases which can, under certaincircumstances, even form electronic bonds with the Noble Gases, which bond with nothing else known(and can only bond with the Halogens under extremely unusual conditions). Thus Hydrogen is the SusieRoundheels of the Periodic Table, working both sides of the electronic street, as it were rather like its Z-number, 1, which is the first prime number, indivisible by any other integer, but is also the most trivial ofthe primes, since it can divide allother integers.** And like its Qaballistic value, 0, which is not a positiveinteger (and which, when divided into an integer, gives impossible results), Hydrogen stands alone in thePeriodic Table, a proto-element which, however, possesses no neutrons and therefore is not truly anelement in its own right. Mathematically speaking, out of Zero comes everything every mathematicalentity is one of a matched pair of multilinear multiples that are identical in absolute value and opposite insign, negative and positive. Likewise, the Multiverse itself comprises Universes each of which was formedout of fluctuations in a seething stew of positive and negative virtual particles, equal in numbers, oppositein charge. Just so, all the atoms that make up our physical universe, and therefore the moleculescomprising those atoms and everything that is built up from those molecules, including ourselves, areformed out of Hydrogen, the 0th chemical element, in its electroneutral as well as its electropositive andelectronegative states.

*The Qlippothic Inner-Planes residues cast off from the functioning of living beings are called shells.This may not be a coincidence. The Inner Planes are apparently simply reality as lived on quantum-mechanical levels, the way the universe looks from a sub-atomic viewpoint, as it were. In the brain,the throne or central locus of Intelligence and Will in multicellular animal life such as the vertebrates,the cephalopoda, etc., the mechanics of the mind seem to operate at and are strongly affected by eventson the quantum-mechanical level, and it should be no different for mind at large in the universe, in itsBody.

**For an absolutely marvelous Cooks tour of the chemical universe, including a full and utterly luciddiscussion of the electronic infrastructure of the atom and the ways in which that structure determinesan atoms chemical and radiological nature, see P. W. Atkins, The Periodic Kingdom: A Journey Into

the Land of the Chemical Elements (New York: Basic Books, 1995). This is one of the most readableand enjoyable books I have ever read on any subject, including fiction, and youre a twit if you dont atleast try to give it a good once-over.

See Karel A. Velan, The Multi-Universe Cosmos: The First Complete Story of the Origin of the UniverseNew York: Plenum Press, 1992) for a detailed description of this process.

Hydrogen was prepared many years before it was recognized as a distinct substance by Cavendish in1766. It was named by Lavoisier. Hydrogen is the most abundant of all elements in the universe, and it is

thought that the heavier elements were, and still are being, built from Hydrogen and Helium by the processof thermonuclear fusion in the cores of mature Stars and supernovae. It has been estimated that Hydrogenmakes up more than 90% of all the atoms or three-quarters of the mass of the universe. It is found in Soland most other Stars, and plays an important part in the proton-proton reaction and carbon-nitrogen cyclewhich produces the energy of all Stars. Hydrogen is believed to be a major component of the PlanetJupiter; deep in that Planets interior the pressure is so great that solid molecular Hydrogen is convertedinto solid metallic Hydrogen. This transition is thought to take place at a pressure of one megabar.*Ultimately it may be possible to produce metallic Hydrogen in the laboratory, but this has not yet beenachieved.


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*One million times one million bars; a bar is the international unit of pressure, and is equal to 10 6

dyne/cm2, or 0.987 times the pressure of Earths atmosphere at sea-level (enough to raise a column ofmercury metal 760 mm). Not to be confused with barye, which is a cgs pressure-unit equal to onedyne/cm2, 1/1,000,000th of a bar.

On Earth, Hydrogen occurs chiefly in combination with oxygen as component of the water molecule,but it is also present in organic matter, such as living plants, petroleum, coal, etc. It is present as the freeelement in our atmosphere, but only at levels of less than one part per million by volume. It is the lightestof all gases, and combines with other elements, sometimes explosively, to form compounds. Greatquantities of Hydrogen are required commercially for the fixation of nitrogen from the air in the Haberammonia process and for the Hydrogenation of fats and oils. It is also used in large quantities in methanol production, hydrodealkylation, hydrocracking, and hydrodesulfurization. It is used as a rocket-fuel, forwelding, for production of hydrochloric acid, for the production of metallic ores, and for filling balloons

and dirigibles. The lifting power of one cubic foot of Hydrogen gas is about 0.076 pounds at 0 C and 760mm pressure (one atmosphere). Production of Hydrogen in the United States alone now amounts tohundreds of millions of cubic feet per day. Hydrogen is prepared by the action of steam on heated carbon,

the decomposition of certain hydrocarbons with heat, the electrolysis of water, the displacement from acidsby certain metals, or the action of sodium or potassium hydroxide on aluminum. Liquid Hydrogen isimportant in cryogenics and in the study of superconductivity, since its melting-point is only a few degreesabove absolute zero.

The ordinary isotope of Hydrogen, 1H1, is known asprotium. In 1932 Urey announced the preparation

of a stable isotope, deuterium, with an atomic weight of 2 ( 1H2), symbolized as D. Two years later, an

unstable isotope of Hydrogen, 1H3, tritium, with an atomic weight of 3, was discovered. Tritium has a half-

life of about 12.5 years. There is about one part of deuterium for ever 6,000 parts of ordinary Hydrogen.The quantity of naturally-occurring tritium is far smaller still. Tritium is readily produced in nuclearreactors, and is used in the production of the Hydrogen bomb. It is also used as a radioactive agent inmaking luminous paints, and as a tracer. The current (1974 e.v.) price of tritium, to authorized personnel,is about $2/curie; deuterium gas is readily available, without permit, at about $1/liter. Heavy water deuterium oxide (D2O) which is used as a moderator to slow down neutrons in nuclear reactors, isavailable without permit at a cost of about $.06 to $1/gm, depending upon quantity and purity.

Quite apart from purity, under ordinary conditions Hydrogen gas is a mixture of two kinds ofmolecules, known as ortho- and para-Hydrogen, which differ from each other by the spins* of theirelectrons and nuclei. At room temperature, normal Hydrogen is about 25% thepara- form and 75% theortho- form. The ortho- form cannot be prepared in the pure state. Since the two forms differ in energy,

the physical properties also differ. The melting and boiling points ofpara-Hydrogen are about 0.1C lowerthan those of normal Hydrogen. Of current interest is a substance known aspolywateroranomalous water,which some observers believe to be a polymer** of water.

*A quantity having to do with the angular momentum of a sub-atomic particle or a molecule. The idea thatan electron actually rotates must not be taken too literally as a metaphor for quantum mechanical spin;the concept ofspin was invented to account for certain otherwise incomprehensible quantum-mechanical properties of the atom. See Tony Hey and Patrick Walters, The Quantum Universe (NewYork: Cambridge University Press, 1987), pp. 75-77.

**Polymer: a naturally occurring or artificial substance consisting of giant molecules formed by theprocess of polymerization, i.e., a process of chaining together many simple molecules to form a morecomplex molecule with different physical properties.

The data for this text on Hydrogen and those for the other elements was taken from CRC Handbook ofChemistry and Physics, 54th Edition 1973-1974 (Cleveland, OH: CRC Press, 1973), pp. B1-555.


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In The Book of Lies,* Aleister Crowley dedicates a chapter of the book to each of the numbers 0-93. Inaddition, he includes two preliminary chapters which, in full, respectively comprise ? and ! (which herefers to as the soldier and the hunchback). These two preliminary chapters together illustrate theprinciple 2 = 0, the Formula of the Aeon of Horus; they also, however, illustrate a number of principlesof modern cosmology and physics, such as the Symmetry Principle, which define the possibilities inherentin matter, including those at the sub-atomic level.

Those chapters, such as they are, are followed by another non-chapter, , which could be associated not only with the Three Zeroes ofQaballah (Ain [No-Thing], Ain Soph [No Limit], Ain Soph Aur [Limitless Light]), but also with the BigBang with which the physical universe that we know began and, on a quantum level, with Hydrogen, theproto-element which, not really an element itself, is the basic building-block for all heavier atoms:

0!

THEANTEPRIMALTRIADWHICHISNOT-GODNothing is.

Nothing becomes.Nothing is not.

THEFIRSTTRIADWHICHIS GODI AM.

I utter The Word.I hear The Word.

THEABYSSThe Word is broken up.

There is Knowledge.Knowledge is Relation.

These fragments are Creation.The broken manifests Light.

THESECONDTRIADWHICHIS GODGOD the Father and Mother is concealed in Generation.

GOD is concealed in the whirling energy of Nature.GOD is manifest in gathering: harmony: consideration:

the Mirror of the Sun and of the Heart.

THETHIRDTRIADWHICHIS GODBearing: preparing.

Wavering: flowing: flashing.Stability: begetting.

THETENTHEMANATIONThe world.**

*Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies, Revised edition (New York: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1952).

**Ibid., p. 10.


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The Qaballah of the Far East, including China, Japan, and other cultures which have inherited theesoteric Arts and Sciences of Taoism, is based upon very different principles than is that of the West,particularly with respect to the meanings of numbers. In his translation ofThe I Ching,* Richard Wilhelmsays:

. . . The original purpose of the hexagrams was to consult destiny. As divine beingsdo not give direct expression to their knowledge, a means had to be found by which theycould make themselves intelligible. Suprahuman intelligence has from the beginningmade use of three mediums of expression men, animals, and plants, in each of whichlife pulsates in a different rhythm. Chance came to be utilized as a fourth medium; thevery absence of an immediate meaning in chance permitted a deeper meaning to come toexpression in it. The oracle was the outcome of this use of chance. The Book ofChanges is founded on the plant oracle as manipulated by men with mediumistic powers.

The established language for communication with suprahuman intelligence wasbased on numbers and their symbolism. The fundamental principles of the world areheaven and earth, spirit and matter. Earth is the derived principle; therefore the numbertwo is assigned to it. Heaven is the ultimate unity; yet it includes the earth within itself,and is therefore assigned the number three. The number one could not be used, as it istoo abstract and rigid and does not include the idea of the manifold. Following out of thisconception, the uneven numbers were assigned to the world of heaven, the even numbers

to the world of earth.

--Ibid.,pp. 262-263

*The I Ching or Book of Changes, Third Edition. Richard Wilhelm, translator (into German). Translatedinto English from the German by Cary F. Baynes. Foreword by C. G. Jung. Preface to the ThirdEdition by Hellmut Wilhelm. Bollingen Series XIX. Princeton, NJ: Bollingen Foundation/PrincetonUniversity Press, 1967.

ab. Key 34

Helium 2He4, Z=2. Electron configuration: 2. Atomic weight: 4.00260. Oxidation states: 0.

Column/Row on the Periodic Table: 0/K. Connects Sephirah to Sephirah i = -1. ASCII character: Qaballistic value: 110 = 12 (prime trivial; for 1 divides all). Planets: Pluto, Hades (associations with

Kether, Key Number 1); Mercury (association with ); Sol ; Sol, Helios, Baldur the Beautiful, JesusChrist, Ra, other Solar Gods; Aleph, 11th Key of the traditional Qaballah and 1st letter of the Hebrewalphabet, hence Air, Uranus, Liberty;

Alternate: 2He4, Helmsium. Crystal structure: . An inert gas. Associations:, Bob of the

SubGenii,*

*In some respects, Bob could be said to be associated with every single *****ing Key of any Qaballahever invented at least according to fanatic SubGenii, anyway.

Helium (from the Greek word helios, meaning the Sun) is the first true element, possessing neutronsas well as electrons and protons. One of the so-called Noble Gases, Heliums place on the Periodic Table


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of the Chemical Elements is in Column 0 (the Noble Gases, those which do not react with themselves orother chemical elements except under the most extraordinary conditions, generally those found in thelaboratory) and Period 1 (Row K), the latter of which it shares only with Hydrogen. Like the other NobleGases, neutral Heliums outermost electronic orbital is completely filled with electrons. In order tomaintain their lowest energy states, the elements of Col. 0 of the Periodic Table hold on to all the electronsin their outermost orbitals with a fantastic tenacity, one only broken at extremely high temperatures andpressures if then. Like its Z-number, 2, the first non-trivial prime and the only even one, in manyimportant respects Helium is unique among the elements. It is the first normal atom (i.e., one withneutrons in its nucleus), the first of the Noble Gases, and its behavior under conditions of extreme cold andlow pressure is like nothing else in the universe. And like its Qaballistic value, 1, though a basic building-block of other, more complex material, because it is the first and lightest of the true elements, it is made upof no others.

The atomic weight of Helium, 4.00260, reflects the fact that its nucleus comprises two neutrons in

addition to its two protons.* Its melting point is less than 272.2C (at 26 atmospheres); its boiling pint is268.934 C. Its density is 0.178 gm/1 (0 C, 1 atm.); its liquid density is 7.62 lb/cu. Ft. at its boiling-point. Generally its valence (electrical charge or degree of ionization) is 0 (exceptions have been created inthe laboratory at egregiously extraordinary pressures and temperatures, under which circumstances it willsometimes bond electronically or covalently with various halogens, such as the viciously active Fluorine).

*A neutron is an electrically neutral elementary particle of atomic mass number 1. It is believed to be aconstituent particle of all nuclei of mass number greater than 1 (i.e., of all elements exclusive of

Hydrogen). It is unstable with respect to -decay, with a half-life of about 12 minutes when not partof one or another atom. It produces no detectable primary ionization in its passage through matter;instead, it interacts with matter predominantly via collisions and, to a lesser extent, magnetically. Itsrest mass is equal to 1.00894 atomic mass units; its spin quantum number is ; and its magneticmoment is equal to 1.9125 nuclear Bohrmagnetrons. According to one model of sub-atomic reality,a neutron is composed of one electron, one proton, and one neutrino. An electron possesses one unit ofnegative electrical charge ((4.80294 .00008) x 10-10 absolute electrostatic units), a mass that is 1/1837

that of a Hydrogen nucleus (proton), and a diameter of about 10 -12 cm (cathode rays and -rays areelectrons). A proton has a positive charge equivalent in absolute value to that of the electron and amass approximately 1,837 times as great, and forms the nucleus of the Hydrogen atom (two heavierisotopes of Hydrogen, deuterium and tritium, respectively possess one and two neutrons in addition totheir sole proton; tritium is radiologically unstable because of the extra mass). A neutrino is anelectrically neutral particle of very small (approaching zero) rest mass and spin quantum number (when the spin is oriented parallel to the linear momentum, the particle is the antineutrino; when thespin is oriented antiparallel to the linear momentum, the particle is the neutrino, postulated by Ernst

Pauli in explaining the -decay process. Whenever a - particle or positron (anti-electron, with themass of an electron and a positive electrical charge) is created as a result of radioactive decay, sorespectively is an antineutrino or a neutrino. The two particles and the parent nucleus share betweenthem the available energy and momentum. Neutrinos and antineutrinos can penetrate amounts ofmatter measured in light years without appreciable attenuation. Neutrinos were detected first byReines and Cowan using antineutrinos from fission reactors and large scintillation detectors. (Atomic

weight is the relative weight of the atom as compared to 12C 12. For a pure isotope of an element,the atomic weight, rounded off to the nearest integer, gives the total number of nucleons [neutrons andprotons] making up the atomic nucleus. When these weights are expressed in grams they are calledgram atomic weights. The atomic mass unit or amu is equal to 1/12th the mass of the carbon atom ofmass number 12, and is equal to (1.660531 .000011) x 10-24 g (cgs units) = (1.660531 .000011) x 10-27

(SI units) = 931.4812 .0052 MeV.)

Evidence of the existence of Helium was first obtained by Janssen during the solar eclipse of 1868 e.v.when he detected a new line in the solar spectrum. Lockyear and Frankland suggested the nameHelium for


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the new element. In 1895 e.v., Ramsay discovered Helium in Uranium mineral clevite, and it wasindependently discovered in clevite by the Swedish chemists Cleve and Langlet about the same time. In

1907 e.v., Rutherford and Royds demonstrated that -particles are Helium nuclei (comprising two protonsand two neutrons).

Except for Hydrogen, Helium is the most abundant element in the universe. It has been detectedspectroscopically in great abundance, especially in the hotter Stars, and it is an important component in

both the proton-proton reaction and the carbon cycle, which give rise to the energy of the Sun and otherStars. The fusion of Hydrogen into Helium provides the energy of the Hydrogen Bomb.The Helium content of Earths atmosphere is about 1 part in 200,000. Though present in various

radioactive minerals as a decay product, the bulk of the Wests supply of Helium is obtained from wells inTexas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. The only Helium plant in the West outside of the U.S. (at least up until1973 e.v.) is located near Swift River, Saskatchewan, Canada. The cost of Helium feel from $2,500/cu. Ft.in 1915 e.v. to 1.5 cent/cu. Ft. in 1940 e.v. The U.S. Bureau of Mines has set the price of Grade A Heliumat $35/1000 cu. Ft. (1973).

Helium has the lowest melting-point of any element, and is widely used in cryogenic research since itsboiling-point is close to absolute zero. Its use in the study of superconductivity is vital. Using liquidHelium, Kurti et al. have succeeded in obtaining temperatures of a few microdegrees Kelvin by means of

the adiabatic demagnetization of copper nuclei, starting from about 0.10K.Five isotopes of Helium are known. Liquid Helium (He4) exists in two forms: He4 I and He4 II, with a

sharp transition point at 2.174K (3.83 cm Hg). He4

I (above this temperature) is a normal liquid, but He

4

II(below it) is unlike any other known substance. It expands on cooling; its conductivity for heat isenormous; and neither its heat-conduction nor viscosity obey normal rules. It has other peculiar properties,as well.

Helium is the only liquid that cannot be solidified by lowering the temperature. It remains liquid downto absolute zero at ordinary pressures, but it can be readily solidified by increasing the pressure. Solid He3

and He4 are unusual in that both can be readily changed in volume by more than 30% by application ofpressure.

The specific heat of Helium gas is unusually high. The density of Helium vapor at the normal boiling-point is also very high, the vapor expanding greatly when heated to room temperature. Containers filled

with Helium gas at 5-10 K should be treated as though they contained liquid Helium because of the largeincrease in pressure that comes about as a result of warming the gas to room temperature.

While normally Helium has 0 valence, apparently it does possess a tendency, albeit a weak one, tocombine with certain other elements. Means of preparing Helium difluoride are being studied, and speciessuch as HeNe and the molecular ions He 2+ and He2++ have been investigated. Helium is widely used as aninert gas shield for arc-welding; as a protective gas for growing Silicon and Germanium crystals and in the production of Titanium and Zirconium; as a cooling medium for nuclear reactors; and as a gas forsupersonic wind-tunnels. A mixture of 80% Helium and 20% Oxygen is used as an artificial atmospherefor divers and others working under pressure. Helium is extensively used for filling balloons since it is amuch safer gas for this purpose than is Hydrogen (which catch fire and burn explosively, as witness thecatastrophe ofThe Hindenberg). While its density is almost twice that of Hydrogen, it has about 98% thelifting-power of the latter; at sea-level, 1,000 cubic feet of Helium lifts 68.5 pounds. One of the recentuses for Helium has been for pressuring liquid-fuel rockets. A Saturn booster, such as the one used on theApollo Lunar missions, requires about 13 million cubic feet of Helium for a firing, plus more forcheckouts.

1

THE SABBATH OF THE GOAT

O! the heart of N.O.X. the Night of Pan.

: Duality: Energy: Death.Death: Begetting: the supporters of 0!

To beget is to die: to die is to beget.


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Cast the Seed into the Field of Night.Life and Death are two names of A.

Kill thyself.Neither of these alone is enough.*

*Aleister Crowley, op. cit.,p. 12.

Reference

Asteroid Symbol Path Connecting

Pallas Chokmah- GeburahJuno Chesed- Geburah

Vesta Binah- NetzachCeres Yesod-KetherEros Netzach-GeburahSappho Netzach-KetherHidalgo Yesod-GeburahToro Geburah-KetherPandora Hod-i = -1Psyche Netzach-ChokmahUrania Binah-0 (Zero)Chiron Binah- (Null Set)Amor Netzach-0Diana Yesod-i = -1Icarus Hod-BinahLilith Geburah-i = -1

New Paths Transcendent

al Path ~ to

traditional

Path

connecting

Description

-0 58 Grace analog of Neptune/Chokmah = Durga/Hera 2- i = -1 3-8 Analog of Path connecting S. 3/8

-0 7-8-1-2-1-2-3 Chiron-4-5-6 6-8


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-9 8-9-10 8-100- i = -1 3-50-0 ~ 5-7 5-70-1 ~ 5-4 4-50-2 ~ 5-2 2-5i = -1-0 3-7i = -1-1 3-4i = -1-2 2-3 Grace analog of Venus/Netzach = Norton 0i = -1-1 1-3 Power analog of Mercury/Hod = Beth bi = -1-2i = -1-3i = -1-4i = -1-5i = -1-6i = -1-7i = -1-8

i = -1-9i = -1-100-1 4-7 Grace analog of Jupiter/Kaph k, Path connecting Sephiroth 4 and 70-2 2-70-1 1-70-20-30-40-50-6 6-70-70-8

0-90-10 7-10 Grace analog of Aquarius/Tzaddi x, Path connecting Sephiroth 7and 10

1-2 2-4 Grace analog of Taurus/Vavw, Path connecting Sephiroth 2 and 41-11-21-31-41-51-61-71-8

1-9 4-91-10 4-102-1 1-22-22-32-42-52-6 2-6


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