A ray of Light, shot from the Deity, is the cause and principle of all that exists. It is at once Father and Mother of All, in the sublimest sense. It penetrates everything; and without it nothing can exist an instant. From this double FORCE, designated by the two parts of the word I. H. U. H. emanated the FIRST-BORN of God, the Universal FORM, in which are contained all beings; the Persian and Platonic Archetype of things, united with the Infinite by the primitive ray of Light. This First-Born is the Creative Agent, Conservator, and animating Principle of the Universe. It is THE LIGHT OF LIGHT. It possesses the three Primitive Forces of the Divinity, LIGHT, SPIRIT, and LIFE Φώς, Πνευμά, and Ζωη. As it has received what it gives, Light and Life, it is equally considered as the generative and conceptive Principle, the Primitive Man, ADAM KADMON. As such, it has revealed itself in ten emanations or _Sephiroth_, which are not ten different beings, nor even beings at all; but sources of life, vessels of Omnipotence, and types of Creation. They are _Sovereignty_ or _Will, Wisdom, Intelligence, Benignity, Severity, Beauty, Victory, Glory, Permanency_, and _Empire_. These are attributes of God; and this idea, that God reveals Himself by His attributes, and that the human mind cannot perceive or discern God Himself, in his works, but only his mode of manifesting Himself, is a profound Truth. We know of the Invisible only what the Visible reveals. _Wisdom_ was called NOUS and LOGOS [and Νου̃ς Λογος], INTELLECT or the WORD. _Intelligence_, source of the oil of anointing, responds to the Holy Ghost of the Christian Faith. _Beauty_ is represented by green and yellow. _Victory_ is YAHOVAH-TSABAOTH, the column on the right hand, the column _Jachin: Glory_ is the column _Boaz_, on the left hand. And thus our symbols appear again in the Kabalah. And again the LIGHT, the object of our labors, appears as the creative power of Deity. The circle, also, was the special symbol of the first Sephirah, Kether, or the Crown.