A • B • C • D • E • F • G • H • I • J • K • L • M N • O • P • Q • R • S • T • U • V • W • X • Y • Z Hebrew: Aleph • Beit • Geemel • Dalet • Hay • Vahv • Zaiyin • Chait • Tait Yoad • Kaf • Lahmed • Mame • Nune • Sahmek • Aiyin • Pay Tzahday • Qoaf • Raysh • S(h)een • Tahv Aleph Spelling: aleph lahmed pay Aleph is unknowable, for it is newly formed, ancient and transcends completion in every encounter, in sublime reflection of its source. By ‘unknowable’ I mean to imply something that exists outside the bounds of standard human conception, due in part to a constant re-arrival and re-departure into itself. A trancendent pulsation of unity/distinction/unity. It is also unknowable because its meaning and appearance are at once new in each encounter, and relative to the angle of approach. It arrives and departs at an ever-increasing speed, novel in each gesture or action. Creative, uncreated, existing but without formal existence, the aleph is a great mystery which can be witnessed but not conceptualized. All of the Hebrew aleph-beit is contained and sourced in aleph. Tahv is its opposite, unified with(in) it, and the mirror of aleph. The first letter in Hebrew is the ‘perfect’ or ‘pure’ quality of Air — and is understood as the ‘balance’ between Fire and Water. It is the first of the ‘Three Mothers’ — aleph, mame and sheen (A, M, and S/Sh). The diagonal line represents the dynamic balance between Fire and Air or Breath and Intelligence. In the order aleph/mame/sheen it indicates the masculine quality of expressivity and heat on the outside — like the Sun. In the order aleph/sheen/mame it indicates the receptive or attractive qualities of the female, where the heat is hidden within — like the Earth. A diagonal line ‘mediates’ between upper and lower dimensions. It is commonly interpreted that the shape of aleph denotes a diagonal stroke mediating between the heavenly and terrestrial universes. Aleph is often concieved as ‘two yoads’, an upper and lower, connected by this stroke — indicating God and humanity. In Hebrew, aleph is (usually) nearly or completely silent, and represents the unknown and unknowable, since in Hebrew it’s sound is more akin to breath than in English where the letter takes on definite aural character. Aleph, being first, necessarily contains, unifies, and generates the entire aleph-beit, all the members of which can be seen as uniquely ‘divided from’ or ‘reflected from’ aleph. It is unity (achad — aleph chait dalet), and unification, from which all distinction actively proceeds. It is also Father or Originator (ab or av — aleph beit). o:O:o aleph beit — Father, source, orignator. Also the word denoting the ‘alphabet’ in Hebrew. aleph chait — Brother, near relative, friend. aleph dalet vahv nune-sophit — Lord (as in God), or a human king, lord or master. aleph chait vahv tahv — Sister, near relative, friend. aleph vahv reish — Light, or daylight aleph yoad nune-sophit — Not, nothing, nothingness, there is not, without.. aleph nune kaf yoad — ‘I Am’. aleph mame — Mother. aleph mame nune-sophit — To be firm, to support. aleph s(h)een — Fire, lightning. o:O:o Family: Archetypal: A seed or primieval force from which the existential and supernal are actualized. Existing outside of space and time. The first 9 letters. Archetypal: Aleph Existential: Yoad Supernal: Qoaf Position: The first letter. First of the ‘three mothers’ (aleph mame s(h)een) Common associations: Primary Significations: ‘The first one’ or ‘source’. Father, king, prince or chief, The Ox (as one who simultaneously ‘divides’ and ‘re-unites’). A supernal pulsation, new and unique yet alike with itself in each moment. Secondary Significations: The ever-more-transcending quality of the expressive emanations of the unityBeing. Body: The chest or torso — where the ‘breath’ lives. Power: Breath. Planet: N/A — the firstGarden. Alternately, the atmosphere between Heaven and Earth. Archetype/ Tribe: The Messiah. Element: Air Path on the Tree of Life: Traditional: Geburah / Chesed Hermetic: Keter / Chokma Aleph A • B • C • D • E • F • G • H • I • J • K • L • M N • O • P • Q • R • S • T • U • V • W • X • Y • Z Hebrew: Aleph • Beit • Geemel • Dalet • Hay • Vahv • Zaiyin • Chait • Tait Yoad • Kaf • Lahmed • Mame • Nune • Sahmek • Aiyin • Pay Tzahday • Qoaf • Raysh • S(h)een • Tahv