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Summary

Description

Typographic Cabalistic diagram numbered 1–10, with labels including Crown, Spirit, Water, Air, Celestial Fire or Light, Astral Light and Holy Temple. It forms part of the article Cabalism. The Sepher Jetzera or Book of Creation, signed Zeus, in The Spiritual Scientist, vol. IV, no. 17, 29 June 1876, printed p. 194. The article signature does not establish a separate designer of the diagram.

The diagram and its labels match the illustration within the continued article on H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 1, page 162. This is part of the article, not an independently captioned engraving or a separate scrapbook clipping.

Source

The scanned issue made freely available by the International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals (IAPSOP):

• Complete issue PDF, 12 pages, printed p. 194 = PDF page 2.
• Periodical catalogue.

The retained PDF has 5148812 bytes, SHA-256 6a1d3ccd87401e6990d6d9d3a1b9e9693eb344789dd737d61527a1ece2e1e2bf. The digitizing institution and physical-copy shelfmark have not been established. This is a different digital file from the 14-page issue already hosted by Teopedia; it has more legible diagram lettering, although its native pixel dimensions are smaller. A separate physical copy has not been established.

Thank you to IAPSOP and its contributors for preserving this historical issue and making it freely available.

File and processing

PNG, 545 × 494 pixels, grayscale. The original embedded JPX image stream on PDF page 2 was extracted unchanged and decoded at its native 1426 × 2116 pixels. The diagram was cropped at (230, 1167)–(775, 1661), right and bottom bounds exclusive. The entire diagram, all its numbers and labels and the marks present within it are retained; adjacent prose is excluded.

The diagram is upright and level. No rotation, perspective correction, resampling, enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied. The output pixels exactly match the decoded source region. This remains a grayscale scan; the natural colour of the paper has not been recovered or artificially added. Original embedded JPX stream: 368560 bytes, SHA-256 3e578dd632a973f49030e592c96aa1b7248be48c78204a130aac7fb62f4c1532.

Rights

Public-domain historical diagram published in Boston in 1876, based on the publication date of the original issue linked above. No modern Creative Commons licence is attributed to the scan provider. The source and the limits of known provenance are stated above.