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80 The Kabbalah ofthe Golden Dawn
this section is missing, though Taylor remembers it being taught in the
early 1930s at Whare Ra. Attached to this were also translations of portions
of Franck's work on the Kabbalah and that of Ginsburg and jellinek.
These were done in the Golden Dawn proper, and not the Stella Matutina,
according to Taylor. I have taken the liberty of expanding the skeletonic
framework of these notes, that were given out in lecture form, and
combining it with other Golden Dawn lectures to form the basis of this
section of the book.
To call these papers unofficial may be misleading, as there were a
number of very valuable documents that Mathers translated and that
were circulated among Golden Dawn Adepti which could be termed
unofficial, yet still were studied widely. Regardie, I feel, was the one who
perpetrated this mistaken type of thinking about Golden Dawn papers.
What one Temple deemed official another Temple did not, hence the
apparent confusion over the status of certain documents. I have in my
possession a number of notes made by Mathers on the Tarot that were
classed as official by Whare Ra tutors and students alike, yet were never
shown nor published in collections of Golden Dawn material. These
notes were not classed as Knowledge Lectures but "side lectures," and are
not to be confused with the Flying Rolls.
In certain of the Golden Dawn papers there are some very subtle
theories which can only have come from the Partsufim concept, though
they have never been acknowledged openly as such. For example, within
the Golden Dawn Tarot scheme, all the Court Cards are based on the
Partsufim theory. A failure to understand the Parrsufim theory will prevent
the gaining of understanding, not merely of the Court Cards and
their formation, as used within the Order, but also of many Kabbalistic
concepts.
One of the things that has often amazed me about this Partsufim
section is that it is largely ignored by students of the Kabbalah in favor of
the Sephirotic system despite being of equal importance. In fact, it is an
additional dimensional and crucial concept of Kabbalistic study. It is for
this reason we are going to devote a great deal of space to it.
In order to understand the concept of creation, before, during and
after the Fall of Man, the heavens were mapped out in the form of a
face or countenance of Man, which was said to reflect God's image.
Each part of this face has a certain significance and is applied to Kab-