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The Soul ofthe Kabbalah
as the preparation of the Pathway for the Shining Light, the
Light Divine.
The evil persona of a man is in the Sphere of the Qlippoth,
and the devils are the microcosms of the Macrocosm of the
Qlippoth. This evil persona hath its parts and divisions, and of
it the part which toucheth the Malkuth of the Nephesch is its
Kether. Tremble therefore at the evil forces which be in thy
own evil persona. And as above the Kether of a man are his
Angelic and other forms, so below the Malkuth of the Evil
Persona are awful forms, dangerous even to express or think of.
SHEKINAH110
THE FEMININE FACE OF GOD
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Possiblyone of the most confusing theories within Kabbalistic teaching is
that of the Shekinah. Within the Golden Dawn's Outer Order the Shekinah,
or more simply the female aspect of the deity, is only briefly mentioned.
A number of the Order's critics have often felt that the Order was
too patriarchal. This applies, if at all, however, only to the levels up to the
Inner Order, for the rituals of the 6=5 upwards are under the guidance of
the Shekinah or Matrona as it is sometimes called, and the apparent
patriarchal aspect is then reversed.
To describe the function of the Shekinah is very difficult because
many of the mystics, who recorded seeing the Shekinah, found that it
appeared on many different levels and this is the point of confusion. The
Shekinah is very closely allied, though not identical with the soul, both
on individual and group levels. Its relationship with the soul is close and
strong, not unlike that between womb and fetus, for the Shekinah is the
aspect of God that cradles and nurtures the soul. It is also called Eden
(the Upper Eden). In the Zohar lll we are introduced to the Shekinah in
the feminine word "mihalekh," which is the voice of God heard in the
Garden of Eden "in the coolness of the day."1l2 When applied to the
tribes of Israel, the Shekinahguided them in Exodus 13:21. A reference
to this guidance is also found in Psalms (85:13) where it states that "the
Just One goes before him and shall deliver him from his steps," which also
110This word refers to something dwelling within.
111Part 1, folio 76a.