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ARVN, KEW Pirated & Webbed by Lodge Solve & Coagula

Flights of Furniture Or What's Going On With that Moving Tent! By Frater ARVN, KEW
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law."

The Oasis Degrees, commencing with the First Degree and concluding with the Third, contain some of the most profound and yet deeply hidden mysteries of the Holy Qabbalah. The use and manipulation of Temple Furniture, while at first virtually trivial or formal, is in reality a secret key to understanding the forces of the initiations. Let us now posit that the three primary artifacts within the Oasis, the Tent, the Altar, and the Well, are emblematic of the Three Unique letters that comprise the Tetragrammaton. We now assert that the proper ascription of letters to these pieces of furniture is as follows: I = The Altar (The Candle's Flame) H = The Well (The Water and Draught Therein) V = The Tent (By its movement, suggestive of Wind) The final "H" may be seen as the Candidate himself or, perhaps more properly, as the ante-room of the Temple wherein the Ceremony of Minerval is to be held. Considering the temple of each degree in turn, a permutation of the Tetragrammaton is derived: First: The Tent = V The Alter = I The Well = H ------------------------------Name: VIHH (read left to right, not right to left) VIHH = Sagittarius, The Path of Samekh Second: The Altar = I The Tent = V The Well = H ------------------------------Name: IVHH (read left to right, not right to left) IVHH = Gemini, The Path of Zain Third: The Altar = I The Well = H The Tent = V ------------------------------Name: IHVH (read left to right, not right to left) IHVH = Aries, The Path of Heh [Note: Use of Pre-Liber AL Conventions needed in MOE.]

These paths, it is noted, all converge on or emanate from Tiphareth. It may also be noted that Samekh is linked via Gematria with the word "ON" thus linking the degrees of Minerval and First. "Zain" means "A Sword" which weapon is presented to the Candidate in the Second Degree. Aries, being the sign of the Ram, alludes to the Lambskin or Apron of the Master Magician. Yet the Formula of the Tetragrammaton is present in two other obvious places in the scheme of the Oasis Degrees. First, there is the attribution of an element to each Degree: Minerval = Earth = Heh (final) First = Water = Heh Second = Air = Vau Third = Fire = Yud ---------------------------------------------Name: HHVI (red left to right, not right to left) HHVI = Virgo, The Path of Yud Next, using the traditional order given by Levi in his opus Transcendental Magic, we may order the elemental prayers thus: Air = Vau Water = Heh Fire = Yud Earth = Heh (final) --------------------------------------------------Name: VHIH (read left to right, not right to left) VHIH = Libra, The Path of Lamed Again it should be noted that these two paths find one of their terminals in Tiphareth. Likewise, considering the nature of the Master Magician Ceremony, the completion of the Invocation of the forces of Virgo, the forces of the Hermit as it were is fitting. (Also note the weapon of this path and the weapon placed in the hand of the initiate.) Given that the Magician is told that "Equilibrium is the Basis of the Work," what better force to invoke in the middle of that Ceremony than the powers of Libra, the Balances? Considering the letter formed from these considerations, we have a seemingly jumbled mess of Qabbalistic nonsense: S, Z, H, I, L = ????? But when we take the sum of the values of these letters' Hebrew equivalents, we are surprised to find: 60 + 7 + 5 + 10 + 30 = 112 112 = 2 x 56 112 = 2 x 2 x 28 112 = 2 x 2 x 2 x 14 112 = 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 7 Now, 112 = YHVH ALHIM, the Lord of the Elements as the Lord Most High. 56 = NU, hence NUIT, the Star Goddess. 28 = 4 x 7 or the Sphere of the Elements Interlocked with the Sphere of the Planets or Microcosm + Macrocosm. 14 = "ZHB" which is the Hebrew word for "Gold"-- an allusion to Tiphareth. 7 = The Number of Planets known to the Ancients, the Hebrew word for Desire, Power, Wealth. Taking the sum of the prime factors of 112, we derive: 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 7 = 15 The sum of the first fifteen Natural Numbers is 120, hence ON. This is also IH, the Monogram of the Eternal, the origin of IHVH. "Love is the law, love under will."

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