Post by Tehiru.Chalal on Jul 30, 2008 0:46:14 GMT -6
Below is a portion of what is known as multidimensional magic, also known as Tesseract magic. It was created by Ebony, also known as Frater Ebony Anpu. Look him up! I retrieved this originally from his student Wade Long but copied this somewhat altered version from
www.rosslyn.org/Class_Room/Library/Documents/H&J/Multidimensional.rtf
I'll post with more information. Really, I'm going somewhere with this...
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Introduction
We used to call the multidimensional Magick section Tesseract Magick, after the first of the major innovations in Magick developed by Hawk & Jackal. Since then we have begun doing work in dimensions beyond the fourth.
Few people that practice Ceremonial Magick use the Pythagorean solids , and fewer still use the Hyper solids. Most people use only the plane symbols most commonly associated with Magick. The Pentagram ritual uses a plane figure to represent, invoke, or banish the “elements” and their power. So has the Pyramid also been used. The Hexagram, and sometimes the Septagram, has also been used for the technology of invoking or banishing the planets.
The hyper solid of the Tesseract is used to invoke or banish the power of the dimensions, and they relate to the four elements of the ancients.
The visualization of the hypersphere is used in the same way as the visualization of the circle or the sphere have always been used. To enclose space, differentiate between the within and the without. As a protective device.
The triangle, tetrahedron, and hypertetrahedron, are used to contain certain forces in their evocation, to contain the crystal in scrying, or in certain circumstances to hold the Cup itself.
These are the principle geometric forms that we have worked with extensively, although you may be able to extend the other Pythagorean solids to higher space.
The Tesseract Working, which is a Mystic working leading to Magical effects, is a group meditation. Usually one or more persons assist in the rituals preceding the Working. A Star Ruby, Star Sapphire, and then The Adorations, and then finally a Tesseract are done. This adjustment of the Elements, Planets, Stars, and Time is necessary to insure the safety and focus of the Group. The Tesseract could be the Tesseract Ritual or the Tesseract Working depending on circumstances
The first three workings are described elsewhere but the Tesseract Working itself is not. Each letter of the 22 letters that represent Spirit, as well as some of its correspondences and its placement among the Trumps of the Tarot, are called out. Each is related in a sort of free-form story to its correspondences. Its place in the progression of dimensions is stated, so that the unconscious mind is led to think of a very difficult thing to visualize, a Tesseract. These stories vary between workings, the most coherent of them have the most power.
In another place I may recount one that I have used more extensively, but each person may work out one or several on their own. When the coherence is grasped the kingdom is complete. The unconscious will inform the conscious when it is ready. The Tesseract will turn and fold into a Universe.
We do not attempt to empower the conscious mind so much as we seek to empower the unconscious, which contains within itself the Superconscious and the Subconscious.
Understand that some people are afraid of the deep portions of their mind. Make sure you let them leave before they learn the key to the performance.
Most of the mischief that I have seen done in this practice is caused by the warfare between these forces in an individual. Make your peace within before giving both sides this much power. Remember we evolve by moving forward rather than up from down. Each aspect whether Demonic or Angelic is devoted to this cause, personal evolution. Do not fight your demons and your angels, it’s bad for them, and rather stupid to be caught in the crossfire. You are a demon to your Angel, an Angel to your demons.
As the Tesseract is being performed by the Orator, all present concentrate their mind on the symbols being recited, and the dimensional progression building. When at the letter Tau is stated at the end, the letter that represents this Tesseract folded, the persons present shift their point of view from the Universe that they were in, to another parallel universe that they have now arrived in. This “jump” is spoken of repeatedly in the Dialogs .
There are phenomenon that we should warn you of. Time will sometimes be perceived in a different way immediately before, during, or after a Tesseract. This increases in the practice though the fear and uneasy feelings concerning it go away in time and experience, rather like fear of flying.
Precursor effects on reality are usually balanced by after-Tesseract events, and are often symmetrical with them. The effect can be sudden shifts in time or space. Driving a hundred miles in less than 20 minutes. Going through the same stop twice in the same direction on a public transit system. Losing the entire day, someone once skipped their birthday. Distortions in space. Being able to perceive beyond a closed door to the extent that you walk into it. A universe where the sky is red and has green cracks in it. Universes where there is no radio or TV on the air, and there is a smell of ozone in the air (jump again immediately!) People can change eye color, hair color, height, weight, or personality. Only those that jump with you can be counted on. Everyone around you and every social circumstance can change rather dramatically in the most highly vectored jumps.
Some say that Tesseract jumping is a better version of suicide, and should only be undertaken in the same circumstances. Some say it is habit forming and leads to permanent tourist syndrome toward any universe one finds oneself in.
This is one reason that the people doing this kind of Magick tend to form circles. To keep a support group, train new people, and pass on the Tradition. Once you take a single step in higher space you can never be as you were, and you can never go back to the universe you came from. If you don’t care to explore in this way, and would rather be “flat”, don’t take up this form of travel. It really isn’t suited to everyone. Only the very few. And for those few there is really no option.
Usually in a few minutes, though it may sometimes take a few weeks, your new universe begins to harden and become more cohesive. You quit being able to see through walls and time-space distortions become more manageable. Hey don’t try to drive until you get used to these effects. Cars have been wrecked. But again lives have been saved as well. I remember an emergency jump when I was in a car wreck on a skyway, I must have fallen 5 or 6 stories before I felt the jump, and then instantly I was back on the roadway sliding upside down toward the opposite guard rail. I had a broken shoulder but was otherwise all right.
Don’t try to manipulate your new universe too much. Micromanagement can really screw things up. Think about it, what if you tried to consciously control your adrenals or the production of endorphins, or every other hormone or drug made in your body, it can be fun but do you really understand how every thing about how you works.
When you are God, and you are when you create a universe, let the automatic systems function normally unless there is a abiding need to interfere, then be prepared for much more than you predicted. Usually the bane of trying for too many specifics is the insanity or death of the practitioner. It is true that it’s not exactly casual, your not changing something by your magick, you are simply jumping to the place where the change naturally occurred, but none the less there is Karma. Many things depend in complex ways on other things, if you attempt conscious manipulation of this process of creation you will evoke your fate, and much depends on exactly how Deific your perspective at the time of the change.
After learning the technology either your subconscious, or your superconscious, can rip you out of one universe in your dreams, and low and behold, you wake up in a different one.
Once more I warn you, make peace between yourself, your angel, and your demon. Do not and you will find your self rather unpleasantly unstuck in time.
The Tesseract Working
In the following papers I will describe some of the uses of a particular arrangement of the cards of the Tarot and of the classical Hebrew Alphabet.
This arrangement, called the Tesseract Arrangement, is not only for use in the Mystic but a most powerful tool in the Magick as well. In these there is danger for those who have not formed a sound prerequisite practice in the elementary, planetary, and astral realms.
The letters used are not the modern, or even the medieval, Hebrew letters of the flame alphabet; but are the classical letters used between the time of David and the time of Jeremiah.
These letters may be fruitfully compared, for understanding of their progressive development, with the ancient Sianitic script which was brought out of Egypt, and these many later versions. Canaanite of the 13th Century BC, Phoenician of the 8th Century BC, and old Greek of the 8th Century BC.
I use the complete Hebrew cursive of later centuries mentioned above, from the period around 600 BC. Compare however the script from these artifacts: The Stele of Mesha, King of Moab, 835 BC, any one of a number of Hebrew ostrica from Samaria. The Sumarian Ivories, Gezer Calendar, Kilamuwa Inscription, Bar Rakab Inscription, Siloam Inscription and a large number of other ancient inscriptions, seals, fragments and papyrii.
It is hoped that a study of the above will help the Initiate to see the wisdom of my choice, and to understand the extent of the use of these glyphs in the ancient world.
In this arrangement the following dimensional progression is used, and in the precise order given; I have found any other order to be even more dangerous than this one is.
Macrocosm Space
Microcosm Point
Breadth Line
Height Square (Plane)
Depth Cube (Solid)
Time Tesseract (Hypersolid)
When the Tesseract is formed, rather than a Hypertetrahedron, each dimension of the line, square, cube, or hypercube, is represented rather than implied in the geometry, this is part of how we lead the mind to think of the almost unthinkable.
Liber AL, III, 73: “ Paste the sheets from right to left and from top to bottom; then behold!”
If arbitrarily applied to this dimensional progression the verse leaves only one dimension more to be considered. In to Out.
Let’s consider the geometry involved. It’s simple really, to extend a line to a square you will only have to know the direction to extend it that indicates the next dimension. This direction could be said to be 90 degrees from any pair of dots on the line. The perpendicular is shown explicitly by the lines of the square that is formed when it is swept a distance equal to its length. In the progression to a hypertetrahedron the next dimension is only shown implicitly, this makes it harder to visualize in four dimensions and beyond.
If you continue the process that you used to form a two dimensional figure, and go on to form a three dimensional figure, you will sweep the square in a direction perpendicular to any pair of points on its surface a distance equal to its breadth and height. The resulting cube will again explicitly indicate, in each six of its faces, the direction of the next higher dimension. The Tetrahedron is still an implicit form, in that it has so far only explicitly indicated the first line, the next two steps are abstract, in that it only implies the direction that is the third dimension, it has no faces that lie directly in that dimension.
Now it’s kind of difficult to describe how to sweep a cube in a direction perpendicular to breadth, height, and depth, and how to sweep it a distance equal to its breadth, height, and depth, but this last step can be much more easily visualized by the unconscious mind than it can by the conscious.
The conscious mind is like the CRT of a computer. Presenting the results of underlying processes in a lineal manner. As we all know when we walk into a room and look around we take in information in a parallel manner, subprocesses in our unconscious mind filter the information to look first for threats, then for advantages, then finally the conscious mind “notices” something to focus on. None the less the initial process of visual interpretation is carried on without the conscious mind being aware of the entire process. It has many different processes running in parallel.
The conscious process of describing the scene in language forces it to be interpreted in a sequential manner, prioritizing what the conscious considers to be “important” first and then describing it first. This creates a lineal description of the scene that has far less information and is presented in an artificial manner. The unconscious is correct that this is not the Truth of the room. All things in it are simultaneously in existence, importance is relative to the circumstance.
The best we can do to help the conscious to understand what the unconscious already knows is to diagram the process and attribute the mnemonics implied by the association with the order and value of the Hebrew alphabet and the new symbols we attribute them to. Namely the dimensions themselves, and the process of Creation. These are expressed in a manner that works well with some of the same processes given in the Sephir Yetzirah. Each dimension is associated with one of these letters as soon as it comes into existence, as are the steps that lead to its formation.. Each point, line, and plane, that is part of this progression is taken in its turn. To Tav we attribute the outcome, a Tesseract, that represents the dimension of time. Now we have recreated the universe of breadth, height, depth and time. This is the visualization associated with the “jump”.
Ord Geometry Letter Glyph Meaning Sphere Tarot Num
0 Space Aleph Ox Air Fool 1
1 Point 1 Beth House Mercury Magician 2
2 Point 2 Gimel Camel Moon High Priestess 3
3 Line 1 Daleth Door Venus Empress 4
4 Line 2 He Window Aries Emperor 5
5 Line 3 Vau Nail Taurus Hierophant 6
6 Line 4 Zain Sword Gemini Lovers 7
7 Square 1 Cheth Fence Cancer Chariot 8
8 Square 2 Teth Serpent Leo Lust 9
9 Square 3 Yod Hand Virgo Hermit 10
10 Square 4 Kaph Palm Jupiter Wheel 20 / 500
11 Square 5 Lamed Ox Goad Libra Adjustment 30
12 Square 6 Mem Water Water Hanged Man 40 / 600
13 Cube 1 Nun Fish Scorpio Death 50 / 700
14 Cube 2 Samekh Prop Sagittarius Art 60
15 Cube 3 Ayin Eye Capricorn Devil 70
16 Cube 4 Pe Mouth Mars Tower 80 / 800
17 Cube 5 Tzaddi Fish Hook Aquarius Not the Star 90 / 900
18 Cube 6 Qoph Back of Head Pisces Moon 100
19 Cube 7 Resh Head Sun Sun 200
20 Cube 8 Shin Tooth Spirit / Fire Aeon 300
21 Tesseract Tau Ankh Saturn / Earth Universe 400
In thinking about Liber AL vel Legis, the most potent compendium of Magick, I noticed certain phrases that seemed to relate to the dimensional transitions. The letter that falls directly on the shift to the next higher dimension. Some were obvious, some from bibliomancy .
0 Macrocosm Without Circumference, is nowhere found
1 Microcosm Within everywhere the center
3 Line Breadth 78. Lift up thyself
7 Square Height name of thy house 418
13 Cube Depth Nu, my bride
21 Tesseract Time at thy Kaaba
This geometry, with the special names of the letters as spelt in full, is attributed to one of the six dimensions given above. The short portions of a particular verse from Liber Al vel Legis is intended to illuminate the specific way in which the previously mentioned words of Power are used to open the dimensions in ritual Magick or Mystic trance.
You will note that I have been open in this revelation of a system that I thought at first to be of personal utility alone. If not for the fact that others have found by experiment that it is useful, it would grace my magical diary alone.
Since the year of the Aeon 65 every Magical Name I have taken has had the numeration of 137. This is important as it gives the first three numbers of this geometry.
There were massive psychic explosions the last time I attempted to attribute the Trumps of the Tarot to the formation of a Tesseract and I wanted proofs from the hidden Masters this time.
1. That an invariable pattern, indicated somehow in the Book of the Law if possible, could result in the formation of a Tesseract in the letter Tau. In other words it had to come out even, no extra letters leftover or whatever. Mucking about with the possibilities was what had exploded so badly before. It had completely destabilized the world around me. It should include both the Macrocosm and the Microcosm, fulfilling the 2=0 equation. This was so.
2. It should contain some internal proofs that it was I that should reveal it. This was so, as indicated in the Table, it came out exactly with Tav as the letter of the formation of the Tesseract, and the first numbers to follow 0 were 1,3, and 7. The pattern was right to left, top to bottom, in to out.
There were further experiential proofs too numerous to mention. Many of these came from the actual use of the system. Still, sometimes I am surprised that others have used this practice and found it to be valuable in their Magical work.
The Working
Aleph, space macrocosmic, Nuit, all pervading air, the Fool in the Tarot and the Lord of Silence. Nothing.
[ Diagram of the Aleph in the classical alphabet.]
Beth, space microcosmic, Hadit, concentrated point of the Infinite, the Magician and the Exorcist, Tahuti who proclaims the Word of Ra, Scribe of the Gods, Mercury. Golden yellow.
Gimel, the Magicians reflection and compliment, the Priestess of the Silver Star, Asi, Goddess of all that is Known. The woman in Blue. The Moon .
[Diagram of Beth and Gimel as circles, with a dotted line between them that shows the potential of their child yet to be conceived]
Daleth , their child between them and thus the Empress of Love, Hathor, the Gate of the supernal. Green formed of their blue and gold. In a certain secret sense Nepthys, the scarlet woman. The first manifest dimension, breadth.
[Diagram as before but with the green between them of their child]
Heh to the East, the window to the Beyond, the emperor of the Spring, the red of the rising sun at equinox. Dawning of the New Year.
Vau to the west, the Hierophant of the Mysteries, the bull of heaven, the nail of the builder that unites, the red of the setting sun at Mid spring.
Zain the pillars of the Temple that are in the south, Gemini , the sword of the blackguard by the door. The phallus of the Lovers in it’s compliment .
[Diagram, showing Aleph in the center of a square formed through Zain. Daleth to the North between two circles that are colored blue and yellow representing pillars, Heh to the East, Vau to the West, Zain to the south the pillars of Gemini and the sword symbolism indicate the entrance.]
This diagram can be meditated on, I consider it to be the floor plan of a Temple.
Now that we have a two dimensional surface of breadth and height we name it with the next letter.
Cheth the chariot of the Merkaba Qabalists, the key to the rituals, 418, and the Magick Word. The house of the Moon, Cancer. The first square of the six we will fold up to a cube. The right arm of this cross.
Teth the complimentary house of the Sun, the serpent of Magick and of the headdress of Ra, Leo, The Magick itself and the Beast. The second square of the six we will fold up to a cube. The left arm of this cross.
Yod the virgin, the point of view that we change in the jump. Virgo with the shock of wheat in her hand, the greenish yellow of grain, and Isis of the Mysteries preparing to raise Osiris from the sleep of death in his seed. The Hermit. The top arm of this cross.
Kaph the wheel of the Spirit, the turning of life, the palm in the desert at the oasis of Initiation. The Purple pomp, IAO Pater, or Jupiter. Amon the God Not known. The wheel of fortune, the center most square of our cross.
Lamed the Law, the Goad of the Ox, the adjustment that we do. The balancing of things in Maat. Green. The square below the center in our cross
Mem, the water in the bottom of the well of life, the hanged man drowned in the rising tide of the womb flood of the oceans of earth. Osiris slain in the reaping of the wheat. The bottommost square of the bottom arm of our cross
[ Diagram of the cross of six squares with the letters filled in along with their color and symbols. ]
The next step is to form a cube from the 6 squares given before. Note that we are following the even number series. There is a corollary in the triangular progression but that is beyond the scope of this paper.
Nun, the first cube, the dimension depth, the fish in the depths of the salty sea, Scorpio, Nu, the bride of Hadit and his compliment. As he is Life and the giver of life, and as his Knowledge is the Knowledge of death, she is death and the giver of death her Knowledge is the knowledge of life. The rightmost cube of the mace that is the cross with one added dimension, depth.
Samekh, the second cube, Sagittarius the archer whose arrow goes between the sun and the moon, the Art that we practice, the center of the galaxy, the astral key, the prop of the stars that holds them in place. The centermost cube of the mace.
Ayin, the third cube, the Devil and the evil eye, Baphomet the head of the Templars, Capricorn the goat at the tree of life on the mountain of the sun. The leftmost cube of the mace .
Pe, the mouth that speaks the spell, the blasted house of god, the ruins of the Ancients, Man and his War. Mars. The topmost cube of the mace, the cube above the center.
Tzaddi, the fishhook with which we catch the vesicle Pisces. The Star Not, the sign Aquarius of the new Aeon of the Crowned and Conquering Child. The cube below the center in the mace.
Qoph, the back of the head, the unconscious that we empower, the mirror in which we see ourselves in the ordeal of initiation, the jackal god that insures the fairness of the test. Pisces. The bottommost cube of our mace.
Resh, the Sun before the center, Ra the King of the Gods, the center of our system and the manifest God of creation, the Head of all that is, light and enlightenment. The Golden One. The cube before the center of our mace.
Shin, the Aeon itself, the gods of this Aeon, Nuit, Hadit, Ra-Hoor-Khuit, and Hoor-paar-kraat. The spirit behind the center, and the fire of Creation. The cube behind the center of our mace.
[Diagram, the mace with each of the cubes in color with its letter]
[Diagram, the exploded mace showing the each arm in turn]
Tau, the Universe we have created, the dimension Time, and Saturn who is the reaper of all that there is. Once folded we name it, Tesseract, Tesseract, Tesseract.
www.rosslyn.org/Class_Room/Library/Documents/H&J/Multidimensional.rtf
I'll post with more information. Really, I'm going somewhere with this...
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Introduction
We used to call the multidimensional Magick section Tesseract Magick, after the first of the major innovations in Magick developed by Hawk & Jackal. Since then we have begun doing work in dimensions beyond the fourth.
Few people that practice Ceremonial Magick use the Pythagorean solids , and fewer still use the Hyper solids. Most people use only the plane symbols most commonly associated with Magick. The Pentagram ritual uses a plane figure to represent, invoke, or banish the “elements” and their power. So has the Pyramid also been used. The Hexagram, and sometimes the Septagram, has also been used for the technology of invoking or banishing the planets.
The hyper solid of the Tesseract is used to invoke or banish the power of the dimensions, and they relate to the four elements of the ancients.
The visualization of the hypersphere is used in the same way as the visualization of the circle or the sphere have always been used. To enclose space, differentiate between the within and the without. As a protective device.
The triangle, tetrahedron, and hypertetrahedron, are used to contain certain forces in their evocation, to contain the crystal in scrying, or in certain circumstances to hold the Cup itself.
These are the principle geometric forms that we have worked with extensively, although you may be able to extend the other Pythagorean solids to higher space.
The Tesseract Working, which is a Mystic working leading to Magical effects, is a group meditation. Usually one or more persons assist in the rituals preceding the Working. A Star Ruby, Star Sapphire, and then The Adorations, and then finally a Tesseract are done. This adjustment of the Elements, Planets, Stars, and Time is necessary to insure the safety and focus of the Group. The Tesseract could be the Tesseract Ritual or the Tesseract Working depending on circumstances
The first three workings are described elsewhere but the Tesseract Working itself is not. Each letter of the 22 letters that represent Spirit, as well as some of its correspondences and its placement among the Trumps of the Tarot, are called out. Each is related in a sort of free-form story to its correspondences. Its place in the progression of dimensions is stated, so that the unconscious mind is led to think of a very difficult thing to visualize, a Tesseract. These stories vary between workings, the most coherent of them have the most power.
In another place I may recount one that I have used more extensively, but each person may work out one or several on their own. When the coherence is grasped the kingdom is complete. The unconscious will inform the conscious when it is ready. The Tesseract will turn and fold into a Universe.
We do not attempt to empower the conscious mind so much as we seek to empower the unconscious, which contains within itself the Superconscious and the Subconscious.
Understand that some people are afraid of the deep portions of their mind. Make sure you let them leave before they learn the key to the performance.
Most of the mischief that I have seen done in this practice is caused by the warfare between these forces in an individual. Make your peace within before giving both sides this much power. Remember we evolve by moving forward rather than up from down. Each aspect whether Demonic or Angelic is devoted to this cause, personal evolution. Do not fight your demons and your angels, it’s bad for them, and rather stupid to be caught in the crossfire. You are a demon to your Angel, an Angel to your demons.
As the Tesseract is being performed by the Orator, all present concentrate their mind on the symbols being recited, and the dimensional progression building. When at the letter Tau is stated at the end, the letter that represents this Tesseract folded, the persons present shift their point of view from the Universe that they were in, to another parallel universe that they have now arrived in. This “jump” is spoken of repeatedly in the Dialogs .
There are phenomenon that we should warn you of. Time will sometimes be perceived in a different way immediately before, during, or after a Tesseract. This increases in the practice though the fear and uneasy feelings concerning it go away in time and experience, rather like fear of flying.
Precursor effects on reality are usually balanced by after-Tesseract events, and are often symmetrical with them. The effect can be sudden shifts in time or space. Driving a hundred miles in less than 20 minutes. Going through the same stop twice in the same direction on a public transit system. Losing the entire day, someone once skipped their birthday. Distortions in space. Being able to perceive beyond a closed door to the extent that you walk into it. A universe where the sky is red and has green cracks in it. Universes where there is no radio or TV on the air, and there is a smell of ozone in the air (jump again immediately!) People can change eye color, hair color, height, weight, or personality. Only those that jump with you can be counted on. Everyone around you and every social circumstance can change rather dramatically in the most highly vectored jumps.
Some say that Tesseract jumping is a better version of suicide, and should only be undertaken in the same circumstances. Some say it is habit forming and leads to permanent tourist syndrome toward any universe one finds oneself in.
This is one reason that the people doing this kind of Magick tend to form circles. To keep a support group, train new people, and pass on the Tradition. Once you take a single step in higher space you can never be as you were, and you can never go back to the universe you came from. If you don’t care to explore in this way, and would rather be “flat”, don’t take up this form of travel. It really isn’t suited to everyone. Only the very few. And for those few there is really no option.
Usually in a few minutes, though it may sometimes take a few weeks, your new universe begins to harden and become more cohesive. You quit being able to see through walls and time-space distortions become more manageable. Hey don’t try to drive until you get used to these effects. Cars have been wrecked. But again lives have been saved as well. I remember an emergency jump when I was in a car wreck on a skyway, I must have fallen 5 or 6 stories before I felt the jump, and then instantly I was back on the roadway sliding upside down toward the opposite guard rail. I had a broken shoulder but was otherwise all right.
Don’t try to manipulate your new universe too much. Micromanagement can really screw things up. Think about it, what if you tried to consciously control your adrenals or the production of endorphins, or every other hormone or drug made in your body, it can be fun but do you really understand how every thing about how you works.
When you are God, and you are when you create a universe, let the automatic systems function normally unless there is a abiding need to interfere, then be prepared for much more than you predicted. Usually the bane of trying for too many specifics is the insanity or death of the practitioner. It is true that it’s not exactly casual, your not changing something by your magick, you are simply jumping to the place where the change naturally occurred, but none the less there is Karma. Many things depend in complex ways on other things, if you attempt conscious manipulation of this process of creation you will evoke your fate, and much depends on exactly how Deific your perspective at the time of the change.
After learning the technology either your subconscious, or your superconscious, can rip you out of one universe in your dreams, and low and behold, you wake up in a different one.
Once more I warn you, make peace between yourself, your angel, and your demon. Do not and you will find your self rather unpleasantly unstuck in time.
The Tesseract Working
In the following papers I will describe some of the uses of a particular arrangement of the cards of the Tarot and of the classical Hebrew Alphabet.
This arrangement, called the Tesseract Arrangement, is not only for use in the Mystic but a most powerful tool in the Magick as well. In these there is danger for those who have not formed a sound prerequisite practice in the elementary, planetary, and astral realms.
The letters used are not the modern, or even the medieval, Hebrew letters of the flame alphabet; but are the classical letters used between the time of David and the time of Jeremiah.
These letters may be fruitfully compared, for understanding of their progressive development, with the ancient Sianitic script which was brought out of Egypt, and these many later versions. Canaanite of the 13th Century BC, Phoenician of the 8th Century BC, and old Greek of the 8th Century BC.
I use the complete Hebrew cursive of later centuries mentioned above, from the period around 600 BC. Compare however the script from these artifacts: The Stele of Mesha, King of Moab, 835 BC, any one of a number of Hebrew ostrica from Samaria. The Sumarian Ivories, Gezer Calendar, Kilamuwa Inscription, Bar Rakab Inscription, Siloam Inscription and a large number of other ancient inscriptions, seals, fragments and papyrii.
It is hoped that a study of the above will help the Initiate to see the wisdom of my choice, and to understand the extent of the use of these glyphs in the ancient world.
In this arrangement the following dimensional progression is used, and in the precise order given; I have found any other order to be even more dangerous than this one is.
Macrocosm Space
Microcosm Point
Breadth Line
Height Square (Plane)
Depth Cube (Solid)
Time Tesseract (Hypersolid)
When the Tesseract is formed, rather than a Hypertetrahedron, each dimension of the line, square, cube, or hypercube, is represented rather than implied in the geometry, this is part of how we lead the mind to think of the almost unthinkable.
Liber AL, III, 73: “ Paste the sheets from right to left and from top to bottom; then behold!”
If arbitrarily applied to this dimensional progression the verse leaves only one dimension more to be considered. In to Out.
Let’s consider the geometry involved. It’s simple really, to extend a line to a square you will only have to know the direction to extend it that indicates the next dimension. This direction could be said to be 90 degrees from any pair of dots on the line. The perpendicular is shown explicitly by the lines of the square that is formed when it is swept a distance equal to its length. In the progression to a hypertetrahedron the next dimension is only shown implicitly, this makes it harder to visualize in four dimensions and beyond.
If you continue the process that you used to form a two dimensional figure, and go on to form a three dimensional figure, you will sweep the square in a direction perpendicular to any pair of points on its surface a distance equal to its breadth and height. The resulting cube will again explicitly indicate, in each six of its faces, the direction of the next higher dimension. The Tetrahedron is still an implicit form, in that it has so far only explicitly indicated the first line, the next two steps are abstract, in that it only implies the direction that is the third dimension, it has no faces that lie directly in that dimension.
Now it’s kind of difficult to describe how to sweep a cube in a direction perpendicular to breadth, height, and depth, and how to sweep it a distance equal to its breadth, height, and depth, but this last step can be much more easily visualized by the unconscious mind than it can by the conscious.
The conscious mind is like the CRT of a computer. Presenting the results of underlying processes in a lineal manner. As we all know when we walk into a room and look around we take in information in a parallel manner, subprocesses in our unconscious mind filter the information to look first for threats, then for advantages, then finally the conscious mind “notices” something to focus on. None the less the initial process of visual interpretation is carried on without the conscious mind being aware of the entire process. It has many different processes running in parallel.
The conscious process of describing the scene in language forces it to be interpreted in a sequential manner, prioritizing what the conscious considers to be “important” first and then describing it first. This creates a lineal description of the scene that has far less information and is presented in an artificial manner. The unconscious is correct that this is not the Truth of the room. All things in it are simultaneously in existence, importance is relative to the circumstance.
The best we can do to help the conscious to understand what the unconscious already knows is to diagram the process and attribute the mnemonics implied by the association with the order and value of the Hebrew alphabet and the new symbols we attribute them to. Namely the dimensions themselves, and the process of Creation. These are expressed in a manner that works well with some of the same processes given in the Sephir Yetzirah. Each dimension is associated with one of these letters as soon as it comes into existence, as are the steps that lead to its formation.. Each point, line, and plane, that is part of this progression is taken in its turn. To Tav we attribute the outcome, a Tesseract, that represents the dimension of time. Now we have recreated the universe of breadth, height, depth and time. This is the visualization associated with the “jump”.
Ord Geometry Letter Glyph Meaning Sphere Tarot Num
0 Space Aleph Ox Air Fool 1
1 Point 1 Beth House Mercury Magician 2
2 Point 2 Gimel Camel Moon High Priestess 3
3 Line 1 Daleth Door Venus Empress 4
4 Line 2 He Window Aries Emperor 5
5 Line 3 Vau Nail Taurus Hierophant 6
6 Line 4 Zain Sword Gemini Lovers 7
7 Square 1 Cheth Fence Cancer Chariot 8
8 Square 2 Teth Serpent Leo Lust 9
9 Square 3 Yod Hand Virgo Hermit 10
10 Square 4 Kaph Palm Jupiter Wheel 20 / 500
11 Square 5 Lamed Ox Goad Libra Adjustment 30
12 Square 6 Mem Water Water Hanged Man 40 / 600
13 Cube 1 Nun Fish Scorpio Death 50 / 700
14 Cube 2 Samekh Prop Sagittarius Art 60
15 Cube 3 Ayin Eye Capricorn Devil 70
16 Cube 4 Pe Mouth Mars Tower 80 / 800
17 Cube 5 Tzaddi Fish Hook Aquarius Not the Star 90 / 900
18 Cube 6 Qoph Back of Head Pisces Moon 100
19 Cube 7 Resh Head Sun Sun 200
20 Cube 8 Shin Tooth Spirit / Fire Aeon 300
21 Tesseract Tau Ankh Saturn / Earth Universe 400
In thinking about Liber AL vel Legis, the most potent compendium of Magick, I noticed certain phrases that seemed to relate to the dimensional transitions. The letter that falls directly on the shift to the next higher dimension. Some were obvious, some from bibliomancy .
0 Macrocosm Without Circumference, is nowhere found
1 Microcosm Within everywhere the center
3 Line Breadth 78. Lift up thyself
7 Square Height name of thy house 418
13 Cube Depth Nu, my bride
21 Tesseract Time at thy Kaaba
This geometry, with the special names of the letters as spelt in full, is attributed to one of the six dimensions given above. The short portions of a particular verse from Liber Al vel Legis is intended to illuminate the specific way in which the previously mentioned words of Power are used to open the dimensions in ritual Magick or Mystic trance.
You will note that I have been open in this revelation of a system that I thought at first to be of personal utility alone. If not for the fact that others have found by experiment that it is useful, it would grace my magical diary alone.
Since the year of the Aeon 65 every Magical Name I have taken has had the numeration of 137. This is important as it gives the first three numbers of this geometry.
There were massive psychic explosions the last time I attempted to attribute the Trumps of the Tarot to the formation of a Tesseract and I wanted proofs from the hidden Masters this time.
1. That an invariable pattern, indicated somehow in the Book of the Law if possible, could result in the formation of a Tesseract in the letter Tau. In other words it had to come out even, no extra letters leftover or whatever. Mucking about with the possibilities was what had exploded so badly before. It had completely destabilized the world around me. It should include both the Macrocosm and the Microcosm, fulfilling the 2=0 equation. This was so.
2. It should contain some internal proofs that it was I that should reveal it. This was so, as indicated in the Table, it came out exactly with Tav as the letter of the formation of the Tesseract, and the first numbers to follow 0 were 1,3, and 7. The pattern was right to left, top to bottom, in to out.
There were further experiential proofs too numerous to mention. Many of these came from the actual use of the system. Still, sometimes I am surprised that others have used this practice and found it to be valuable in their Magical work.
The Working
Aleph, space macrocosmic, Nuit, all pervading air, the Fool in the Tarot and the Lord of Silence. Nothing.
[ Diagram of the Aleph in the classical alphabet.]
Beth, space microcosmic, Hadit, concentrated point of the Infinite, the Magician and the Exorcist, Tahuti who proclaims the Word of Ra, Scribe of the Gods, Mercury. Golden yellow.
Gimel, the Magicians reflection and compliment, the Priestess of the Silver Star, Asi, Goddess of all that is Known. The woman in Blue. The Moon .
[Diagram of Beth and Gimel as circles, with a dotted line between them that shows the potential of their child yet to be conceived]
Daleth , their child between them and thus the Empress of Love, Hathor, the Gate of the supernal. Green formed of their blue and gold. In a certain secret sense Nepthys, the scarlet woman. The first manifest dimension, breadth.
[Diagram as before but with the green between them of their child]
Heh to the East, the window to the Beyond, the emperor of the Spring, the red of the rising sun at equinox. Dawning of the New Year.
Vau to the west, the Hierophant of the Mysteries, the bull of heaven, the nail of the builder that unites, the red of the setting sun at Mid spring.
Zain the pillars of the Temple that are in the south, Gemini , the sword of the blackguard by the door. The phallus of the Lovers in it’s compliment .
[Diagram, showing Aleph in the center of a square formed through Zain. Daleth to the North between two circles that are colored blue and yellow representing pillars, Heh to the East, Vau to the West, Zain to the south the pillars of Gemini and the sword symbolism indicate the entrance.]
This diagram can be meditated on, I consider it to be the floor plan of a Temple.
Now that we have a two dimensional surface of breadth and height we name it with the next letter.
Cheth the chariot of the Merkaba Qabalists, the key to the rituals, 418, and the Magick Word. The house of the Moon, Cancer. The first square of the six we will fold up to a cube. The right arm of this cross.
Teth the complimentary house of the Sun, the serpent of Magick and of the headdress of Ra, Leo, The Magick itself and the Beast. The second square of the six we will fold up to a cube. The left arm of this cross.
Yod the virgin, the point of view that we change in the jump. Virgo with the shock of wheat in her hand, the greenish yellow of grain, and Isis of the Mysteries preparing to raise Osiris from the sleep of death in his seed. The Hermit. The top arm of this cross.
Kaph the wheel of the Spirit, the turning of life, the palm in the desert at the oasis of Initiation. The Purple pomp, IAO Pater, or Jupiter. Amon the God Not known. The wheel of fortune, the center most square of our cross.
Lamed the Law, the Goad of the Ox, the adjustment that we do. The balancing of things in Maat. Green. The square below the center in our cross
Mem, the water in the bottom of the well of life, the hanged man drowned in the rising tide of the womb flood of the oceans of earth. Osiris slain in the reaping of the wheat. The bottommost square of the bottom arm of our cross
[ Diagram of the cross of six squares with the letters filled in along with their color and symbols. ]
The next step is to form a cube from the 6 squares given before. Note that we are following the even number series. There is a corollary in the triangular progression but that is beyond the scope of this paper.
Nun, the first cube, the dimension depth, the fish in the depths of the salty sea, Scorpio, Nu, the bride of Hadit and his compliment. As he is Life and the giver of life, and as his Knowledge is the Knowledge of death, she is death and the giver of death her Knowledge is the knowledge of life. The rightmost cube of the mace that is the cross with one added dimension, depth.
Samekh, the second cube, Sagittarius the archer whose arrow goes between the sun and the moon, the Art that we practice, the center of the galaxy, the astral key, the prop of the stars that holds them in place. The centermost cube of the mace.
Ayin, the third cube, the Devil and the evil eye, Baphomet the head of the Templars, Capricorn the goat at the tree of life on the mountain of the sun. The leftmost cube of the mace .
Pe, the mouth that speaks the spell, the blasted house of god, the ruins of the Ancients, Man and his War. Mars. The topmost cube of the mace, the cube above the center.
Tzaddi, the fishhook with which we catch the vesicle Pisces. The Star Not, the sign Aquarius of the new Aeon of the Crowned and Conquering Child. The cube below the center in the mace.
Qoph, the back of the head, the unconscious that we empower, the mirror in which we see ourselves in the ordeal of initiation, the jackal god that insures the fairness of the test. Pisces. The bottommost cube of our mace.
Resh, the Sun before the center, Ra the King of the Gods, the center of our system and the manifest God of creation, the Head of all that is, light and enlightenment. The Golden One. The cube before the center of our mace.
Shin, the Aeon itself, the gods of this Aeon, Nuit, Hadit, Ra-Hoor-Khuit, and Hoor-paar-kraat. The spirit behind the center, and the fire of Creation. The cube behind the center of our mace.
[Diagram, the mace with each of the cubes in color with its letter]
[Diagram, the exploded mace showing the each arm in turn]
Tau, the Universe we have created, the dimension Time, and Saturn who is the reaper of all that there is. Once folded we name it, Tesseract, Tesseract, Tesseract.