Kaph

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   IN my grasp are all thingsHeld in perfect equilibrium.I bind all opposites together,Each to its complement.One by another do I mitigate,So that nowhere in the universeIs there any real want or failure.Neither is there anywhere injustice,For the semblance of itIs one of the manifold aspectsOf the delusion of separateness.

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   Forms are as vases into which I pourThe precious perfume of mine inmost essence,And where I am,There must truth and right abide.Take heed lest thou despiseThe forms thou understandest not.Every vessel of life is an aspect of me, the Most High.

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   The strife, the quarrels, the contentionsThat thou witnessest day by dayAre the play of the Light and Darkness which I am.

   All sense of effort,All semblance of exertion —Know these as illusion,And with thy mind's eyeSee me entering into all.

   Know me thus as the Conciliating Intelligence,Which rewardeth those who seek;And know, too,That whatsoever a man seeketh,He desireth me.

   Of my beneficence I give freelyTo every one that seeketh,And from me cometh the victoryWhich they win who gain to knowledge of secretthings.

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   This victory cometh during the sleep of the body,And the secret of my rewarding beneficenceIs bound up with the secret of sleepHid in the letter QOPH;For in their numerationKAPH and QOPH are bound together,And what bindeth themIs the multiplication of the Ten by itself.

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   By balancing opposites with exactitude unfailing,I bring mastery of all conditions and circumstancesTo him who seeketh faithfully to do my will.Such an one will master days, and seas, and times,Because through him my rulership of everythingShall find free outlet.

   Ever by balance do the wise attain.Even as there can be no grasp without the hand,So is there no conciliation of seeming oppositesWithout knowledge of my Will.Therefore does KAPH, the hand exerting itself tograsp,Follow YOD, the hand creative.In the order of the sacred letters.

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   And as the rewarder and conciliator,I am the Lord of Fortune.Whosoever conformeth his acts to my WillShall know me in truth as the Father of MercyWhose chariot in the heavensIs the Great Benefactor, Tsedek.