Every word here is his. Nothing has been paraphrased, joined or improved. Each passage was cut out of the book it belongs to by reference, and each carries that book and the paragraph it came from. Anything on this page can be found again in the source.
This is the eighth book of the Tree of Life, and the smallest, because it is the hidden sphere. Daath has no number among the ten. It stands in the gap below Chokmah and Binah and above the Ethic triangle, and the kabalists give it no divine name, no angels and no planet. He names it in only twelve paragraphs in all his books, and it has been kept small, as ruled, rather than filled out with the teaching of the Ninth Sphere, which is Alchemy’s.
What he does say is exact. “Daath, the Hebrew Sephiroth of mystery is formed by the esoteric conjunction of Shiva-Shakti, Osiris-Isis”, the Father and the Mother united in Yesod, and it keeps their secret: “which is hidden by the Mystery of Daath which holds Tantric Knowledge.” Later he names the pair “Abba, the Father who is in secret, and Ama, the Supreme Mother.” Against the kabalists who derive it from Chokmah and a feminine Binah, he answers, “This assertion is absolutely false, because the Holy Spirit is really masculine”.
The first part is the sephirah as he gives it in Tarot and Kabbalah and the Secret Doctrine of Anahuac. The second is its region, from his commentary on Pistis Sophia: “The region of Daath is absolutely sexual.” “The Sephira Daath is related with the Great Mysteries of Lingam-Yoni.” The work of the Ninth Sphere itself, the transmutation and the Maithuna, is taught in full in Alchemy, and Binah as the Holy Spirit in Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted.
· book, paragraphalso in — printed in another work too
How it was made. All fifty-two books in the library were searched for Daath by name, and for tantric knowledge, which he gives as the knowledge Daath holds. That found 15 candidates in 3 books. Nothing wider was taken in: his other words for the hidden sphere were searched for and found nothing new, and the tantras in general are the Ninth Sphere’s. Each candidate was read by two readers working apart, who agreed on 14 of them; a third reader, who did not see what either had decided, settled the one they did not. 10 paragraphs were judged printable. Where his account runs on, neighbouring paragraphs were read as one, and they make 4 passages. 4 passages are printed here.
What was left out, and why. A chapter heading; the paragraph after his account in Tarot and Kabbalah, which repeats that tantric knowledge comes of the union in Yesod and turns to the Serpent; the rest of that chapter, which is the Cubical Stone, Mercury and the Tibetan schools, and belongs to Alchemy; and two paragraphs of the Secret Doctrine of Anahuac that give the same page of Tarot and Kabbalah in a later translation. The third paragraph of that translation is printed, because it names the Father and the Mother as Abba and Ama. He gives no practice for Daath by name.
Kept small, as ruled. The editor ruled on 25 September that Daath prints small and stands on its own, neither widened into the Ninth Sphere nor folded into another book. 2 passages run over more than one paragraph, where his account crosses the break. The Pistis Sophia passage keeps the two sentences on Yesod-Mercury that sit between his words on Daath, because the chalice he describes is uncovered while the Initiate works with it.
He names the pair two ways. In Tarot and Kabbalah (1978) Daath is formed by Shiva-Shakti, Osiris-Isis; in the Secret Doctrine of Anahuac (1974) by Abba, the Father who is in secret, and Ama, the Supreme Mother. Both stand in his words, with their years.
What was done to his words. Nothing was paraphrased. The only changes are to the scanning: 3 places the scanner damaged, given in their plain reading (conjunction for con junction, Shiva-Shakti for ShivaShakti, Self-Realisation for SelfRealisation). Each change is recorded with its place in the book in the project notes.
1 passage also stands in a finished work, and each is marked where it stands. An overlap is allowed wherever it is needed to get the teaching across, but it should always be visible to the reader.
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