11 aleph (ox)

Aleph is the path transforming Kether's raw outpouring of energy to its perfect manifestation in Chokmah. It is related to the Element of Air, and is sometimes described as a life-breath corresponding to e.g. the life-breath in Genesis. In pathworking, Aleph leads the magician from the wise and perfect balance of opposites in Chokmah into their origin from a stage of unity with divine energy as such. The tarot trump connected to the path, the Fool, is numbered zero. Being the path constituting the Pillar of Mercy, Aleph signals a starting point of complete openness, a readyness to embrace all dimensions of life the way they are coexisting harmoniously in Chokmah. It is an extremely fertile condition of divine humour or madness, balancing on the knife-edge between pure and embedded being and perfect consciousness. Like a silent moment at dawn.

Meaning of Letter: Ox		Type of Letter: Maternal. Stage of Unfoldment: Wholeness		Value: 1
Place	Between Kether and Chokmah at the top of the Pillar of Mercy. The first path into the Supernal Triangle. Opposite to the path of Beth.
"32 Paths of Wisdom"	"The Eleventh Path is the Scintilating Intelligence, because it is the essence of that curtain which is placed close to the order of the disposition, and this has a special dignity given to it that it may be able to stand before the Face of the Cause of Causes."
Tarot Trump	0. The Fool. The Spirit of Aether. The holy spirit.
Virtue / Vice: Original, fearless/Impractical.			Astrology: Element of Air. Uranus.
The four worlds	Atziluth	Briah	Yetzirah	Assiah
Meanings of Trump	Wholeness	Expressive	Stimulating	Energetic
Colours	Bright pale yellow	Sky blue	Blue emerald green	Emerald, flecked gold
Tarot affirmation 1:	"There are unlimited possibilities and opportunities before me. I know I am protected, accepted, and secure, as I venture out into the unknown."
Tarot affirmation 2	"I am the Fool, fresh and fearless".
Magical symbols	Dagger. Fan. Stick.
Body	Left eye. Left ear. Pituitary. Hearing. Balance. Seeing. Optical defects. Ear disorders.
Mythology	Horus the Child / Heru-p-khart / Harpocrates (finger in his mouth) = the Child God / God of Silence / God of Beginnings / God of the Sun at its Dawning ­ on this path he is the son of Isis/Osiris yet to be born! (Kether's Godname: Eheieh=I will be).
Other symbols	Clown. Jester. Fool. Melissa. Hyssop. Eyebright. Daisy. Spruce. Tiger. Sylph. E Natural.

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