Éliphas Lévi, Transcendental Magic
Binah
Lévi names Binah active intelligence and explains it through equilibrium with Wisdom. The four threes become proofs of intelligence, setting its activity within the Tarot’s numbered suits.
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Principal account
InterpretationLévi names Binah active intelligence and explains it through equilibrium with Wisdom.
Further detail
InterpretationThe four threes become proofs of intelligence, setting its activity within the Tarot’s numbered suits.
Context & interpretation
This entry follows Lévi’s argument in Waite’s English translation. The selected evidence concerns the definition and its Tarot correspondence in this particular text. The correspondences are attributed to this occult synthesis rather than presented as a universal account of every earlier tradition.
Original passages
Source 1
Transcendental Magic
Binah. Active intelligenceOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Éliphas Lévi, Transcendental Magic; active reader leaf 122
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- Edition
- IMJ-0026-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0026-E001-P0122
- Original scan leaf
- 122
- Recorded leaf number
- 122
- Current Reader position
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Source 2
Transcendental Magic
The four ThreesOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Éliphas Lévi, Transcendental Magic; active reader leaf 127
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0026-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0026-E001-P0127
- Original scan leaf
- 127
- Recorded leaf number
- 127
- Current Reader position
- 121
- Reader verification
- Source-preserving update confirmed
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Chesed
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Shared source pageHod
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