Contains the Ineffable Name. Contains the Ineffable Name. It is the AUM--to be It is En-Soph, the pronounced only mentally, Boundless, the Infinite, under penalty of death. The whose name is known to no Unrevealed Para-Brahma, the one but the initiated, and Passive-Principle; absolute could not be pronounced and unconditioned “mukta,” aloud under the penalty of which cannot enter into the death. condition of a Creator, as the latter, in order to No more than Para-Brahma can _think_, _will_, and _plan_, En-Soph create, for he is in must be bound and the same condition of conditioned (baddha); hence, non-being as the former; he in one sense, be a finite is עין non-existent so long being. “THIS (Para-Brahma) as he lies in his latent or was absorbed in the passive state within _Oulom_ non-being, imperceptible, (the boundless and termless without any distinct time); as such he is not the attribute, non-existent for Creator of the visible our senses. He was absorbed universe, neither is he the in his (to us) eternal (to _Aur_ (Light). He will himself) periodical, sleep,” become the latter when the for it was one of the period of creation shall “Nights of Brahma.” have compelled him to expand Therefore he is not the the Force within himself, _First_ but the Eternal according to the Law of Cause. He is the Soul of which he is the embodiment Souls, whom no being can and essence. comprehend in this state. But “he who studies the “Whosoever acquaints himself secret Mantras and with ה״ד the Mercaba and the comprehends the _Vâch_” (the _lahgash_ (secret speech or Spirit or hidden voice of incantation),[552] will the Mantras, the active learn the secret of manifestation of the latent secrets.” Force) will learn to understand him in his “revealed” aspect. Both “THIS” and En-Soph, in their first manifestation of Light, emerging from within Darkness, may be summarized in the Svabhâvât, the Eternal and the uncreated Self-existing Substance which produces all; while everything which is of its essence produces itself out of its own nature. _The Space Around the _The Space Around the Upper Triangle._ Upper Triangle._