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Masculine / Feminine Letters

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    I'm trying to work through Liber LVIII, and Crowley makes several references to Hebrew letters as being feminine or masculine. How is this determined? For example, the letter 'He' is called feminine several times. This letter represents a window, which allows light to light to pass through it. Is it simply this passive/receptive nature of the window that makes it feminine, or is there more to it?

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    "":1sdjgfe2]I'm trying to work through Liber LVIII, and Crowley makes several references to Hebrew letters as being feminine or masculine. How is this determined? For example, the letter 'He' is called feminine several times. This letter represents a window, which allows light to light to pass through it. Is it simply this passive/receptive nature of the window that makes it feminine, or is there more to it?"

    Gender is a complex issue in Qabalah, especially because it is so elastic. That is, there are different ways of looking at things depending on context, and they give different results.

    Heh is feminine - perhaps the MOST feminine of all letters - because it is both the Mother and the Daughter in Tetragrammaton.

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