Text: The first Hebrew letter, like the Greek Alpha (A), signifies the Primal One, the Great Original whence all phenomena proceed. Letters, according to all Kabbalists, are not looked upon as arbitrary characters artificially invented, but as thought-pictures, symbolically expressive of mental states, too profound to be stated in words. Each letter, then can stand alone in a distinctive value, like a figure, and we know that in Hebrew there are no figures apart from letters, each letter having its definite numerical value. As Aleph literally means an ox it has often been astrologically associated with the sign Taurus, the Bull. A has stood in Hebrew as the first letter of one of the names applied to Deity, AHIH signifying I AM, or underived Being, the source and permanent support of all manifest existence. All Kabbalists declare that God is partly concealed and partly revealed. The letter A denotes revelation and also signifies, strength, unity and concord.

See Also: FORCE-RADIAL, MALE, POSITIVE PROPULSIVE

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