Joseph D. Dismore

I am undertaking to defining the varying Levels of Consciousness with their particular Level or Aspect of the Soul. This Article will be quite lengthy but I have determined to Source the Information and Sources as I have found them relevant, and to describe in as clear a way as possible the varying Levels and Constituent Aspects of the Interconnection of Mind and Soul.

A Qabalistic point of view in the Constituent Makeup of Mans Mental and Spiritual Makeup. This view is based upon the formula of Tetragrammaton, or the attributing of various letters of the Four-Fold Name YHVH to various parts of Man.

The First Sephirah, Kether - The Crown, is not included generally in this particular method; or when it is, is simply called God, or the Goal of Life to which Man aspires for Union.

The Letter "Y" or "Yod" in Hebrew is given to the Sephirah Chokmah, and is called the Father. In the Indian Systems, this would correspond to ATMA, The Self. The Mother is Binah, The Celestial Shekinah, and the First "H" Heh" her letter. The Causal Sheath would be the Yoga equivalent. Next is the Son, who is Tiphareth, but in reality the Hexagonal Aggregate of Six Sephiroth having its basis in Tiphareth. The Letter of the Son is "V" "Vav" the general conception corresponding to Sukshmopadhi, or the Subtle Body. Now malkuth, The Kingdom is called the Unredeemed Virgin, and is Nephesh, The Animal Soul of Man, or the Sthulopadhi. She is the Final "H" "Heh".

The Son is the Augoeides, the Self Glittering One, The Spiritual Soul of man. He is also according to another system, the Holy Guardian Angel; and the object of this particular classification is the Unredeemed Virgin, Nephesh must marry the Celestial Bridegroom, the Son of the All-Father, who is in Tiphareth. This process is called the Attainement of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. It is the Alchemical Marriage, the Mystical Nupitals of the Heavenly Bride and Groom. This Union makes the Virgin a Pregnant Mother (AIMA who is Binah), and with her the Father eventually Unites Himself and both, thereby, become absorbed into the Highest Sephirah of kether - The Crown. This apparent obscurity can be clarified considerably. The Final "Heh" "H" is the Nephesh or Subconscious. Normally one's Conscious Mind, the "Vav" or "V" or Son, is in dire conflict with the Subconscious Self, and confusion and disruption of One's total Consciousness is the result. One's first object must be to reconcile the Conscious Ego with the Subconscious Mind, and set the factor of Equilibrium between the two. (This idea is splendidly elaborated by C.G. Jung in his Commentary to R. Wilhelm's "The Secret of The Golden Flower"). When this usual source of conflict has disappeared (or as the Symbolism says, when the Vav 'V" and He'h "H" finally have Married) one is in a position to obtain Understanding, which is Love, Wisdom can arise. Wisdom is Yod "Y" the Father, Chokmah. With the Union in Oneself of Wisdom and Understanding, the Purpose of Life may be Divined, and the Goal envisioned at the end thereof, and the steps leading to the consummation of Divine Union may be instituted without Danger, Fear, or the Ordinary Conflicts of the Personality.

Section II. Here is the Second Section of Notes on Mind and Soul.

There is another classification, a little more Philosophical, which is preferred by many. It is essentially derived from the Commentary of the Ten Sephiroth, written in Hebrew by Rabbi Azariel Ben Menaham. His classification made of Man having six different Aspects. It must not crudely be supposed that Rabbi Azariel implied that these six divisions of Man could be cut up separately and any one of them put aside. The Six divisions are only Aspects of One Entity, whose Nature is Consciousness. Man as a Whole, Comprising his various Functions and Powers and Sephiroth, is an Integral Unity.

Rabbi Azariel characterized the Supernal Triad of Sephiroth, The Immortal Man, so called. Kether is the Monad, the Unextended and Indivisible Centre of Spiritual Force and Consciousness - The Yechidah - The Yechidah is described as the True Divine Self. The Purest Form of Consciousness. The Yechidah is translated as = The "Only One", the "Unique One", or the "Real Self", which is the undying Spiritual Pilgrim who Incarnates time to time "To take his pleasures among the Living." It is the quintessential Point of Consciousness making Man identical with every Spark of Divinity, and at the same time, different with reference to his Individual Point of View. Some call it Khabs, or The Star, of which it is written:

"Worship therefore the Khabs and Behold My Light Shed Over You."
Aleister Crowley
The Book of the Law
Liber AL vel Legis
Chap. 1.

In Aleister Crolwy's System, the Khabs is equivalent of the Yechidah. The Yechidah is the Atma of the Hindus, The Universal Oversoul of Self in the Heart of Every Being, the Eternal Source of Life, Light, Love and Liberty.

To Kether, in this particular set of correspondences is attributed the Planet Neptune, which is Vice-Regent, so to speak, of Nuit, the Personification of Infinite Space. He is thus remote, alone, lost in dreams, reveries, aspirations and idlenesses - brooding Cosmic things, here, to, is attributed the Highest of the Chakras, the Sahasrara - which in the Enlightened Sage is likened to a Beautiful Lotus of One Thousand and One Petals.
A Garden of Pomegranates
Skrying on The Tree of Life
Israel Regardie Chap. 5, pg. 95-98

Donald Michael Kraig in "Modern Magick" Second Edition, Lesson Four, pg. 155, describes the Yechidah as our True Self, our link to the Divine, our Transcendent Ego. It relates to what Freud called the "SuperEgo."

In an Essay called "Problems on the Path of Return" by Stavish, pg. 2, it states of the Yechidah of Kether:

"A Higher Conscious or Subconscious (Kether) which is the Transpersonal or genuinely untainted Spiritual aspect of our Awareness."

The Id, to use the Freudian term, is the most Central Core of Man, the Deepest Level of his Unconscious, being represented on the Tree of Life by the uppermost Sphere of the Middle Pillar.

The Magickal correspondence of the Psychologic Id, or Es as Dr. George Groddeck called it, is the Yechidah - a word meaning the Monad, the Self, the Paternal Ens of Light. (Ens - "The One") It is the "Essence of Mind which is Intrinsically Pure," to adopt a definition of an Eastern Religious Text. It is also the Buddha Nature. The realization of which is that alone which differentiates the Enlightened Man, the Sage, from him who is ignorant and unenlightened. Just as in Physics, where the Electrical Particle or a System of Radiations - or Waves, so the Yechidah may be considered from two distinct points of view. It is the Innermost Kernal of the Self, the Deepest Core of Consciousness itself, Unconscious to our ordinary Awareness - while on the other hand it is the Life Flow Itself, the Current of Libido, which is the Sum Total of our Vitality and our Life.

Since the translation of Eastern Texts has been made available many Psychologists have pounced on several Chinese terms for inclusion within the technical nomenclature of their systems. One such term selected by Jung to have reference to a concept such as explained above in connection with the Yechidah, is Tao - A Chinese term for "Way." It refers to the One Absolute Reality which is said to have brought forth "Ten Thousand Things." It is the Union of Yin (Female Energy) and Yang (Male Energy).

It must be stated that the Qabalistic Tradition posits a Universal Stream of Life, described in terms of Light, beyond as it were the Monad. That is to say, the Yechidah, so far from being an ultimate division in itself, is but one particular Point or Section of the Universal Life or the Collective Unconscious, and it owes its separate existence to that Pulsating Stream behind it.

Researched and Written
By: Joseph D. Dismore [H.P. Helel]