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176 The Kabbalah ofthe Golden Dawn
Let us now notice the blessings of Jacob and Moses, and
compare them with the Signs of the Zodiac attributed to each
Tribe. We shall take them in the Zodiacal order.
Of Gad (Aries), Jacob says, "Gad, a troop shall overcome
him, but he shall overcome at the last." Moses says, "Blessed
be he that enlargerh Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth
the arm with the crown of the head, and he provideth the first
part for himself because there, in a portion of the law-giver,
was he sealed; and he came with the heads of the people, he
executed the justice of the Lord, and his judgements with
Israel." The armorial bearings of Gad are, white, a troop of
cavalry. All this coincides well with the martial and dominant
nature of Aries, the only one of the twelve signs in which the
superior planets alone bear sway, for ir is the House of Mars,
exaltation of Sun and triplicity of Sun and Jupiter. The symbolism
of the Lion is also proper to Aries on account of its
solar, fiery and martial nature.
Of Ephraim and Manasseh (Taurus and Gemini), classed
together under their father's name, Jacob says, "Joseph is a fruitful
bough, even a fruitful bough by a well, whose branches run
over the wall; the archers have surely grieved him and shot at
him, and hated him: but his bow abode in strength, and the
arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty
God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of
Israel): Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee, and
by the Almighty who shall bless thee with blessingsof Heaven
above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the
breasts and of the womb: the blessings of thy father have prevailed
above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost
bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of
Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him who was separate
from his brethren." Mosessays, "Blessedof the Lord be his land,
for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep
that coucheth beneath, and for the precious fruits brought forth
by the Sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon,
and for the chief things of the lasting hills. And for the precious
things of the earth, and the fullness thereof, and for the good
will of him that dwells in the bush: let the blessing come upon
the head of Joseph, and upon the top ofthe head of him that
wasseparate from his brethren. His glory is like the firstling of
a bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with
them hc shall push the people together to the ends of the earth,
and they are the tcn thousands ofM:masseh."