NUMBER: 2

CENTRAL IDEAS: Expansion, otherness, primal Father, polarity

KEYWORDS: Wellspring, creative life force.

ELEMENT: Root of Fire

HEAVENS (ASSIAH): The Zodiac.

SEPHER YETZIRAH: The Illuminating Intelligence - the crown of creation, the splendor of the Supreme Unity, to which it is most in proximity. It is exalted above every head, and is distinguished as the Second Splendor.

SOME SYMBOLS: Phallus, straight line

BEINGS:

Hebrew Divine Name:YHVH
Archangel: Ratziel
Angelic Choir: Auphanim "The Wheels"
Archdemon: Beelzebub
Demonic order: Ghogiel (Hinderers)

Greek Divine Name: Ieeooua
Archon (Briah): Kleophoros

COLORS

Golden Dawn.....................................Aurum Solis
Atziluth:Brilliance.................................. Brilliance
Briah: White Brilliance...................... White Brilliance
Yetzirah: White Brilliance............... Shimmering White
Assiah:White, Flecked Gold .........White Flecked Gold

HUMAN BODY: Left shoulder and arm

SCARED IMAGES:

Most traditions ascribe a bearded man, possibly enthroned.

TAROT: The Twos

ANIMAL: Man

PLANT: Amaranth

PERFUMES/INCENSE: Musk

MAGICKAL WEAPONS AND REMARKS: Lingham, inner robe of glory

WESTERN MAGICKAL POWERS: Vision of God, face to face

DEIFIC CORRESPONDENCES BY PANTHEON:

Christian: God, the father

Egyptian: Amun, Nuith (as zodiac)

Greek: Athena, Uranus

Roman: Janus

Scandinavian: Odin

Hindu: Shiva, Vishnu

Haitian Voodoo: Maraca

Afro-Cuban Santeria: Obatala