Manly P. Hall, The Sacred Magic of the Qabbalah

Yod and the sacred word in Hall

On the page accompanying a cross-shaped arrangement of Hebrew letters, Hall describes Yod as a primitive figure of the alphabet and as the first letter of Jehovah. He interprets the letters as flames and living forces whose combinations animate material forms. The diagram belongs to his metaphysical reading of the sacred word, in which written characters represent relationships among spiritual energies.