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Each Hebrew letter as a path on the Tree of Life — aleph to tau, in the canonical order.
Aleph the ox and silent breath: the first Hebrew letter-path, its value of one, its element Air, and its GRA place between Wisdom and Understanding.
The Hebrew letter Beth is the house, a double letter of Mercury; on the Tree of Life its GRA path runs down the middle pillar from the Crown to Beauty.
Gimel, the camel and third Hebrew letter — a double letter of the Moon running from Wisdom to Mercy on the Tree of Life, and how to sit with its draw.
Daleth, the fourth Hebrew letter, is the door — a Venus double set between Understanding and Severity on the Tree of Life, and how to sit with its draw.
The Hebrew letter Heh, the window and fifth letter: its shape, the number five, the Aries sign, the GRA path from Keter to Chokhmah, and sitting with a draw.
Vav, the nail and sixth Hebrew letter: how it fastens the Crown to Binah on the Tree of Life, its number six, Taurus sign, and contemplating the path when drawn.
Zayin, the seventh Hebrew letter, is a sword: the path from Wisdom to Beauty, where clean discernment is what lets separated things grow back together.
A fence encloses ground where things can grow. Cheth, the eighth Hebrew letter, runs from Understanding to Beauty — a boundary that both shelters and can confine.
Teth, the ninth Hebrew letter and the serpent path on the Tree of Life: its coiled form, the number nine, the sign of Leo, and how it winds mercy toward the heart.
The smallest Hebrew letter is a hand: Yod, the Tree of Life path numbered ten that draws severity toward the heart and tests generosity in the particulars.
Kaph, the Hebrew double letter of the open palm: value 20, Jupiter, and its GRA path down the pillar of mercy from Chesed to Netzach.
The Hebrew letter Lamed: the ox-goad of learning, a gematria of 30, a simple letter of Libra, and its measured path from Beauty to Victory on the Tree of Life.
Why the mother-letter Mem means water: the Hebrew letter-path numbered forty, hung between Mercy and Severity, and the strength that yields to prevail.
Nun, the fish, gematria 50: one of the twelve simple letters under Scorpio, tracing a path from Beauty down into the hidden depths of Splendor on the Tree of Life.
The Hebrew letter Samekh: the prop or support, a gematria of 60, one of the twelve simples under Sagittarius, and its path between Victory and Foundation on the Tree.
Meet Ayin, the eye: sixteenth Hebrew letter, value seventy, a simple letter of Capricorn, tracing the Tree's path from Splendor down to Foundation.
Speech that can bless or wound: Peh, the Hebrew letter of the mouth (value 80), its Mars correspondence, and its GRA path from Gevurah to Hod.
Tzaddi, the fish-hook path of Hebrew צ: its Aquarius sign, gematria 90, and the GRA descent from Netzach to Malkuth, read as the patience of waiting.
The back-of-the-head letter Qoph (ק) drops from Hod to Malkuth in the GRA Tree — a path about trusting instinct, sleep and the body when the mind's clear light runs out.
The Hebrew letter Resh: the head, the Sun, a gematria of 200, one of the seven doubles, and its daily dawn path between Beauty and Foundation on the Tree.
Shin, the Hebrew mother-letter of fire on the Tree of Life: its tooth and its flame, the number three hundred, and the GRA path between Victory and Splendor.
Tau, the alphabet's final letter and its largest gematria: the mark of Saturn, a double letter whose path seals inner work into the lived world at the Kingdom.