851 At first sight this seems a contradiction, but on careful examination the difficulty disappears. A triangle is a fit expression of the number 3. It has three angles, it has three sides; but there is the whole figure itself also, which is the synthesis of the sides and the angles. So there are the three angles and the whole figure itself which contains them, and thus completes the Trinity by the Quaternary: in the Tetragrammaton, IHV, and H final, which forms the synthesis. 852 Thus rigidly following out the rule of the symbolism before given, that Chokmah and Binah are contained in Kether. In this is the key of all religions. 853 BCHKMTHA, Be-Chokmatha; CHKMTHA is the emphatic Chaldee form of CHKMA, which is Chaldee for Hebrew CHKMH. 854 That is, the locks which have their origin in the influence of the Great Mother are interwoven mutually with those which originate from Chokmah. 855 Meaning, let him supplicate Macroprosopus, developed in the forms of Chokmah and Binah, which are summed up in Aima the Great Mother, to incline Microprosopus to be favorable. This is identical with the Catholic custom of invoking the intercession of the Virgin with her Son; for Mary = Mare = Sea;and the great Sea is Binah. 856 The word translated “forehead” is MTZCH, Metzach; now if a metathesis be formed of this word by placing the last letter between the first and second letters, we get MCHTZ, “he shall smite.” Hence the first form symbolizes Mercy, and the second Severity. 857 And therefore is the divine name of Tzabaoth, or hosts, attributed both to Netzach and to Hod, the seventh and eighth Sephiroth. 858 And 20 is H, He, in the four worlds, for H = 5, which multiplied by 4 = 20. 859 The simple meaning of this and the preceding section is, that the eyes can only see when the upper eyelashes are separated from the lower ones by the lids being raised. 860 Moses, in this passage of Deuteronomy. 861 That is, MRSHITH, instead of MRASHITH. 862 That is, irrevocably, so that the word would cease to bear the same meaning were A not there. In other words, were A a radical letter of it. 863 The first, RASHVN, Rashon, where this word, derived from the same root as RASHITH, is spelt with A. 864 The Hebrew idiom for having mercy always refers to the nose, as “to defer anger” is in Hebrew “to lengthen the nose,” etc. 865 The three divisions of the Brain of Microprosopus. 866 See Introduction concerning the names of the parts of the Soul. _ 867 I.e._, the various degrees of the whiteness. 868 Answering to the number of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, which together with the ten Sephiroth form the thirty-two paths of wisdom of the “Sepher Yetzirah.” 869 See “Book of Concealed Mystery,” chap. ii. §§ 31, 40, etc.