Binah

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Sephiroth 3 - Binah
Image:Binah Position.png
Keyword Understanding
Name of God (Atziluth) Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh Eh-Lo-He-Ee-Mm (Jehovah Elohim)
Archangel (Briyah) Tzaphkiel, Beholder of God
Order of Angels (Yetzirah) Aralim (thrones)
Tarot Cards Threes

Paths

Symbol Shabbathai (Saturn)
Colour 1 crimson
Colour 2 black
Colour 3 dark brown
Colour 4 grey flecked with pink
Animal moth
Gods Babalon, Gaia
Scent myrrh

Binah is the Third Sephiroth in the kabalistic Tree of Life.

Other names: Ama - the dark sterile mother, Aima - the bright fertile mother, Marah - the great sea (Maris - Mary), The Caverns of Silence

The Third Intelligence is called the Sanctifying intelligence, the Foundation of Primordial Wisdom; it is also called the Creator of Faith, and its roots are in Amen. It is the parent of faith, whence faith emanates.

- from the Sepher Yetzirah

Arthur Edward Waite,in his description of The High Priestess in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot,calls Binah the Shekinah of the superior world,where Malkuth is the Shekinah of the lower world.

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