{"collection":"Tarot","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/tarot/tob/tob06.htm","path":"tarot/tob/tob06.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/tarot/tob/tob06.htm","text":"The Kabbalistic Word and the Series of Numbers--Explanation of the Tetractys of Pythagoras--Figuration of the General Law.\nNUMBERS AND THE KABBALISTIC WORD.\nThis sequence of numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4, representing the active, the passive, the neuter, and a second active principle, corresponds in all points with the series of the letters of the sacred name, so that the latter may be thus written--\nYod--He--Vau--\n 2nd He = Yod, etc.,\nwhich demonstrates analogically that--\n| 1 | represents | Yod | \n| 2 | --- | He | \n| 3 | --- | Van | \n| 4 | --- | The 2nd He | \nWe can prove the truth of these analogies by the identity of the action of the number 4, which becomes a unity (4 = 10 = 1), and of the second He, which represents the Yod of the following sequence.\nIn comparing the two identical series we obtain the following figures--\nKabbalistic sequence\n| | Yod | | \n| he | | 2nd he | \n| | vau | | \nSequence of numbers\n| | 1 | | \n| 2 | | 3 | \n| | 4 | | \nIdentity of the two sequences\n| | 1 Yod \u05d9 | | \n| 2 he \u05d4 | | \u05d4 2nd he 4 | \n| | \u05d5 vau 3 | | \nWe can now understand why Pythagoras, initiated in Egypt into the mysteries of the sacred word Yod-he-vau-he, replaced this word in his esoteric teachings by the sequence of the 4 first numbers or tetractys.\nThis sequence of the numbers is, in all points, identical with the sequence of the letters of the sacred name, and the tetractys of Pythagoras, 1, 2, 3, 4,, equals and absolutely represents the word Yod-he-vau-he.\nThe sequence of the numbers, or the sequence of the letters, therefore, resolves itself definitely into the following data--\n1 Term positive and generator.\nThe Yod or the 1.\n1 Term negative or generant.\nThe He or the 2.\n1 Term neuter or generated proceeding from the two preceding.\nThe Vau or the 3.\n1 Term of transition individualizing itself in the following sequence.\nThe 2nd He or the 4.\nProvided with these preliminary data, which are absolutely indispensable, let us now take our pack of cards, or Tarot, and see if we cannot find the universal law in it--\nsymbolized through antiquity by the Cross.","title":"Tarot of the Bohemians: Part I. General Key to the Tarot, Giving the Absolute Key to Occult Science: Chapter IV: Analogy Between the Sacred Word and Numbers","type":"page"}