The Supernal Triad:
“Do what thou wilt shall be
the whole of the Law.”
Kether is the first Sephirot and is called the Crown on the Tree
of Life and may be seen as a whirling force of positive and negative energy, in
no way dissimilar to the Yin-Yang symbol of Daoism. Before Kether there are the three
types of negative-existence, Ain, Ain Soph and Ain Soph Aur or nothing,
limitless and limitless light. It is the limitless light that we perceive as
nothing for Ain truly is nothing and we as human beings cannot conceive of
nothing. But as nothing is something, everything is then brought into existence
in the first Sephirot from which the rest of the Tree of Life is formed. Kether
is the white Sephirot on the top of the tree and in Thelema, Nuit and Hadit are
in union within the sphere of Kether. Kether can also be compared to Paratman and is pure
consciousness or Anata in Buddhist jargon. The only way for there to be realization
of any kind, is that there is someone to observe the phenomenon, therefore in
this sphere is where we find Hadit as experiencing the absolute, through dissolation
of self as a perpetual orgasm into Ain Soph, the latter is necessarily associated with Nuit as
the Goddess of infinite space, whose other name is Naught and means nothing. Another way of looking at Kether as the source
of creation, is to think about it as the singularity that exploded and is known
today as the Big Bang, like an electric spark that explodes into consciousness. Once Kether manifests, it gives
rise to the two primordial opposites known as Chokmah and Binah.
Chokmah and
Binah:
This whirling energy of Kether eventually explodes into
existence and forms the first opposites, these are represented by Chokmah and
Binah. Chokmah is also known as Wisdom and Binah is known as Understanding,
they can be seen as the Great Father and the Great Mother, Matter and Motion or Shiva and Shakti.
In Thelema Chokmah is associated with the Beast (Therion) or Chaos and Binah is the Great
Mother, Babalon. The three Sephirot that make up the Supernal Triad are associated with the first letter of
the ineffable name and the Archetypal World of Atziluth, these Archetypes share
a close parallel to the Platonic Forms and in Plotinus’ Metaphysics we call this
world the Nous, also, these three Sephirot together are known to qabalists as
the Supernal Triad. The ineffable name may also be presented by placing the
first letter Yod in Chokmah and He in Binah, thus symbolizing the Father and the Mother. In the Tarot, their attributions are the Wands and Cups and the Knights and Queens, these suits are associated with Fire and Water along with the first two letters of the
ineffable name. Along with these cards the Twos of each suit are
placed in Chokmah and the Threes in Binah. All the Aces are in Kether and symbolize
the purest forms of the elements. A common symbol of Chokmah is a Phallus, in
contrast to Binah’s feminine symbolism which includes a cup, or chalice as suggestive of a womb. These two Sephirot represent
the Lingam and the Yoni, the creative masculine and feminine forces that drive
creation. The chalice of Binah is also associated with the Holy Grail into
which an Adept must drain every drop of his blood to complete the path of
return. Chokmah is pure masculine energy and Binah is purely feminine, as a result Chokmah
corresponds to the pillar of Mercy as its influence is strong and dynamic,
whereas the opposite is true for Binah and she is at the top of the Pillar of Severity. The colors of these two
Sephirot are Grey and Black respectively, Chokmah is the second sephirot on
the right side of the Tree of Life and Binah is the third sephirot and on the left. The
planetary attributions of these two Sephirot is Saturn for Binah, Chokmah doesn't have an attributed planet, some people would say it's Pluto, but Pluto is useless in this regard. Saturn is the ruler of Karma and is associated with death. Planetary
correspondences may serve as guides when one is putting together a ritual for
invocation or evocation and for anyone interested in invocation, I recommend Aleister
Crowley’s Book 777, which has a list of all the correspondences.
The Supernal Triad which is also called Atziluth can be thought of as a world of Ideals or Archetypes, as Archetypes they are not ideas and can only be perceived by intuition as the nature of these Forms are hidden from even the Forms themselves, which are blinded by the light and obscured to the view and understanding of all those below the Abyss. There is no floor or ceiling in such an environment and even in Binah, being in such close proximity to Kether, it is a realm where opposites aren’t experienced as being opposite. It is often stated that, we can not understand what is experienced above the Abyss, although we may contemplate it and even intellectually understand level headed explanations of what Anata means, but these are only concepts of Paratman and Anata, and Liberation. The fact that a person has to give up everything even his ego in order to get there, means that it is not and cannot practically be a permanent residence and as soon as he’s made the trip, it is time to come back down again; so much for being liberated then. Some people say that it’s upon his return into the Formative World, or rather the Ruach, that the Ordeal of his passage is truly experienced. Reintegrating into life after he's had to give up his ego and attained what Yogis and Buddhists call the final liberation, will certainly prove daunting. Buddhism and Hinduism suggests that one withdraws from society and the stress of life and that only under such conditions is this union attainable and we can certainly see their point. This is how the Supernal Triad corresponds to one’s journey along the Path of Return and it is only after crossing into this world, that the aspirant truly completes the Path of Return and unites with his beloved in the eternal ecstasy of pure consciousness .
I hope you enjoyed reading as much as I enjoyed writing it.
“Love is the law,
love under will.”
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