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Term: chokmah

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Chokmah: The second Sephirah of the cabalistic Tree of Life, the topmost Sephirah on the Pillar of Mercy. The term is a Hebrew word meaning "Widsom." It represents the archetype of the number 2, the masculine aspect of the Godhead. It corresponds to the divine name Yah, the archangel Raziel, the angelic choir called Ophanim (Wheels) and the Mazloth, or heavenly Sphere of the Zodiac.
source: Godwin's Cabalistic Encyclopedia, by David Godwin

Chokmah: In Chokmah is a cloud-like grey which containeth various colours and is mixed with them, like a transparent pearl-hued mist, yet radiating withal, as if behind it there was a brilliant glory. And the Sphere of its influence is in Masloth, the Starry Heaven, wherein it disposeth the forms of things. And Yah is the Divine Ideal Wisdom, and its Archangel is Ratziel, the Prince or Princes of the knowledge of hidden and concealed things, and the name of its Order of Angels is Auphanim, the Wheels or the Whirling Forces which are also called the Order of Kerubim.
source: The Golden Dawn, by Israel Regardie

Chokmah:

The second sephirah on the Tree of Life, Wisdom. The primal masculine. Located at the top of the Pillar of Mercy.

Name of God: Yah
Archangel: Raziel
Angelic Host: Auphanim
Astrological Correspondence: the Zodiac, Sphere of the Stars
Body: left side of head
Colors: in Atziluth: pure sort blue; in Briah: gray; in Yetzirah: iridescent pearl gray; in Assiah: white flecked with red, blue and yellow.
Consciousness: Chiah, the spiritual will
Element: Fire
Human Soul: Chiah, the Divine Will
Magical Image: An old man
Symbols: All phallic symbols
Tarot: The four Twos and the four Kings

Carl Llewellyn Weschcke

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