While looking for something else, I came across this analysis of the Book of Job that I wrote

in the late '90s. I see I haven't posted it here before, and thought some would be interested
in this story of an Adeptus Major preparing for the Ordeal of the Abyss.

The story of Job (AYVB) is that of an adept - as can be told from the description of his
righteousness - who is being challenged by the Ordeal of the Abyss.

"The things my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat." (Job 6:7) There is the whole
of the tale!

(N.B. HShTN = 364 = Olam Briah ["Satan," or "The Adversary" in this tale is qabalistically
equivalent to "the World of Briah"].)

The text is extraordinarily clear on so many details.

His name itself enumerates to 19, which is most familiarly the vlaue of ChVH [Eve]. The 19th
Path is Teth - again confirming his place on the Tree of Life, and his relationship to the "old
Serpent."

There are dozens of 19s in the Torah, and those in Genesis can mostly be seen to show the
paradox of this man. But of all the paradoxical elements, I feel he is especially
AHVBH, ahuvah, "beloved" (Deut. 21:15).

It is YHVH who is permitting HShTN to act against him; but it is ALHYM that he loves.

Regarding him as an adept, who now feels the loss of his HGA, gives an entirely new meaning
to 6:13: "Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?"

Job is often taken as an allegory of suffering, wherein every person's questions and answers of
suffering are to be found. But he is NOT every person. He is an adept; and his suffering is of a
wholly other kind. The mystery of Job's ordeal, and its seeming alienation from that of "every
person" is that it is, in fact, virtually unrelated to theirs. The whole "why" is entirely
explained by the fact that his ordeal is the natural, necessary progress of the adept toward
the Abyss. Its relevance is then one of superconsciousness, not of reasonableness. (This is
demonstrated in the flow of the story.)

In Ch 8 he is rebuked by BLDD, Bildad = 40 = Mem, acceptance. He is rebuked for his failing to
surrender to reality.

His "strength" throughout is KCh, not GBVRH. His "wisdom" is not ChKMH. Ch 9 reads like the
words of a defeated Adeptus Major. In 9:34-35 he again seems to be one who has been (felt)
abandoned.

In 10:10: "Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?" (Shivers of
recognition.) ["Milk" = 40, like BLDD above.]

In 12:3 he says he has "understanding." But this is not BYNH. It is LBB, lebehb, that which is of
the heart.

I wonder how prominently 40 figures throughout? In 12:9, I find YD-YHVH [hand of the Lord],
26 + 14 = 40. In 12:12, "understanding" is Tebunah, referring to 6=5 [a prominent word in the
traditional 6=5 ritual]. In 12:25 is a very familiar phrase.

In 13:13 he openly accepts all phenomena that may occur ("let come on me what will"). 14:14
is the rather remarkable, "If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time
will I wait, till my change come."

In Ch 26 begins an intensive description of the cavernous emptiness of his higher life.

Ch 28 has some interesting alchemical allegories of Moon and Sun, Mars and Venus. It is rich
with symbolism of many kinds. In 28:12, the "place" of Chokmah and Binah are queried
("where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?") and, of them, it is
said: "Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living." This is
the awareness of the Adept, facing the Abyss.

This is echoed in 28:20-21, etc. In 28:23, it is Elohim [Divine Name of Binah & Geburah]
that understands the ways thereof.

"As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle; when the
Almighty was yet with me...." It was his K&C of the HGA. "The secret of God" is SVD ALVH
(=112, q.v.). "My tabernacle" is AHLY,ah'halee = 37 (= Yechidah, etc.). "Almighty" is ShDY
[whom he refers to and names and invokes quite frequently throughout this work, almost, in
places, as if it were his personal god].

His speech among his fellows ends at the end of Ch 31.

In Ch 32, Elihu's wrath is enkindled at the course of events. He is ALYHVA = 53, the sun
[ChMH], the Stone [ABN], etc. In Ch 33 he says he was made and vivified by the Ruach of El
and the Neshamah of Shaddai.

"What man," he asks, "is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water." (34:7)

I believe what we are seeing here is that the powers of reason of his three companions rolled
off him, and only the power of the sun or Stone [Elihu] could fixate his attention and capture
his ear. Elihu was much younger than the rest; he was a younger faculty within Job. Beginning
in 34:31 he delivers unto Job the crux of the wisdom for which our persevering hero is best
known. In Ch 37 his eloquent, invocatory revelation climaxes.

And in 38:1, "YHVH answered Job out of the whirlwind." Elihu, the Sun or Stone, has taken
Job up to the very edge of the tumultuous storm, and it is YHVH who then speaks profound
Wisdom. 38:9 is the passage excerpted in key Qabalistic works [The 32 Paths of Wisdom],
which speaks of the darkness of Binah as "swaddling."

In Ch 40, Job is given again the chance to speak. By his recognition of the infinitely greater
Wisdom before him, he is told to deck himself with GAVN (exaltation, majesty, etc.) and GBH
(exaltation, excellency, height), with HVD, Hod (glory, honor, majesty, beauty) and HDR
(glory, beauty, majesty, honor). (These total 80+10 and 15+209 = 90 + 224 = 314 = ShDI!!!) He
is uplifted as to abash the proud and haughty everywhere.

Beginning in 40:15 there is an instruction in kundalini. Behemoth (BHMVTh = 453 = NPSh
ChIH, Nephesh Chiah,"breath of life"), the kundalini, is established strongly in the loins; its
force is raised to the navel region (the second chakra). I think v. 17 refers to a reflexive
response of the genitals. His "columns" (the lateral channels) are of alchemical Venus (brass)
and Mars (iron). All the rest of this paragraph describes the kundalini phenomena in minute
detail if one will but look!

To confirm this, Job is then asked if he can draw forth Leviathan (lit., "coiled serpent") "with
an hook" (ChKH, not TzDY). (N.B. Here it is harder to follow the Hebrew. KJV Job 41:1 is
Hebrew Job 40:25.) "None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before
me?" (Job 41:9, KJV)

With Ch. 42, Job answers YHVH. He admits the nature of God, and that he, of himself,
"understood not" - for Understanding was beyond him yet, and "too wonderful." He repents by
his full seeing recognition of YHVH [Reality] for what He is.

The friends who represented the ineffective lower reasoning are rejected and chastised by
the Supernal presence. Job, however, who had abdicated everything, was now blessed with
double what he had taken from him ("twice as much" in 42:10 is MShNH = 395 =
NShMH, Neshamah! and HShMYM, "the heavens").

His new daughters were named Jemima ("day by day"), Kezia ("cassia"), and Kerenhappuch
("horn of antimony" - the alchemical references aren't over yet). He died at age 140 (= [among
other things] ChKMH + BYNH).