Éliphas Lévi, Transcendental Magic
Tiphereth
Lévi locates Beauty between Crown and Kingdom, giving it a mediating role between Creator and creation. The four sixes become rays making beauty known. The image gives the numerical term an outward, revealing function.
Also known as Tiphareth
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Principal account
InterpretationLévi locates Beauty between Crown and Kingdom, giving it a mediating role between Creator and creation.
Further detail
InterpretationThe four sixes become rays making beauty known. The image gives the numerical term an outward, revealing function.
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
Tiphereth. BeautyOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Éliphas Lévi, Transcendental Magic; active reader leaf 122
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0026-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0026-E001-P0122
- Original scan leaf
- 122
- Recorded leaf number
- 122
- Current Reader position
- 116
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Source 2
Transcendental Magic
The four SixesOpen 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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Binah
Active Intelligence in Lévi’s symbolic scale, balanced by Wisdom and associated with the four Tarot threes.
Shared source pageChesed
Mercy in Lévi’s symbolic scale: benevolent strength expressed through the benefactions of the four Tarot fours.
Shared source pageChochmah
Wisdom in Lévi’s symbolic scale, represented by four rivers and associated with the Tarot’s numbered twos.
Shared source pageGeburah
Austerity in Lévi’s symbolic scale, joining severity with goodwill and the justice represented by the Tarot fives.