NUMBER: 3

CENTRAL IDEAS: Constriction, primal Mother, the Sea, form and vessel or womb from which springs all life.

KEYWORDS: Constriction, containment

ELEMENT: Root of Water

HEAVENS (ASSIAH): Saturn.

SEPHER YETZIRAH: The Sanctifying Intelligence - The Foundation of Primordial Wisdom, termed the Creation of Faith. It is the mother of Faith, which indeed emanates therefrom.

SOME SYMBOLS: Cup, female sex organs

BEINGS:

Hebrew:

Hebrew Divine Name:YHVH ELOHIM
Archangel: Tzaphkiel
Angelic Choir: Aralim "The Thrones"
Archdemon: Lucifuge
Demonic order: Satariel ("Concealers")

Greek:

Divine Name: TURANA (supernal aspect) or IALDABAOTH (planetary aspect)
Archon (Briah): MENESTHEUS
Power: ASCHERIAS
Intelligence: ASCHIA
Spirit: ABETHES

COLORS

Golden Dawn.....................................Aurum Solis
Atziluth: crimson..................................Dove grey
Briah: blackish red..................................Indigo
Yetzirah: dark brown .........................Soft red brown.
Assiah: gray flecked pink.............Grey with fulvous shades

HUMAN BODY: Right side of face (some give: heart)

SCARED IMAGES:

Most traditions ascribe a matronly woman, possibly enthroned.

TAROT: The Threes, the Queens

ANIMAL: Woman

PLANT: Cypress, Poppy (some say lilly)

PERFUMES/INCENSE: Myrrh, civet

METALS/MINERALS: Lead/sapphire, pearl

MAGICKAL WEAPONS AND REMARKS: Cup, Yoni, outer robe of concealment

DEIFIC CORRESPONDENCES BY PANTHEON:

(see Gods associated with Saturn on the Western Heptarchy site)