Veils of Negative Existence
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Part of the Tree of Life series
WIthin the mystical system of the Qabalah, the three Veils of Negative Existence are called:
- Ain ("Light")
- Ain Soph ("Without Limit"), and
- Ain Soph Aur ("Limitless Light")
Within, or beyond, these Veils is everything that is not. In a sense, they represent pre-existance, the state of all things before they make their initial manifestation in Kether, the first Sepheroth, or sphere of existance. In 777, Crowley quotes Samuel Mathers:
- There are three qabalistical veils of the negative existence, and in themselves they formulate the hidden ideas of the Sephiroth not yet called into being, and they are concentrated in Kether, which in this sense is the Malkuth of the hidden ideas of the Sephiroth. ... [T]he limitless ocean of negative light does not proceed from a centre, for it is centreless, but it concentrates a centre, which is the number one of the Sephiroth, Kether, the Crown, the First Sephera; which therefore may be said to be the Malkuth or the number ten of the hidden Sephiroth. Thus "Kether is in Malkuth and Malkuth is in Kether."
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