> Chokmah is associated with the Will itself. Of itself it is purely
> potential; it has no purpose, no direction, and no manifestation. It simply
> IS. The word "chokmah" itself means "wisdom" and is paired with the word
> "binah", meaning "understanding". Wisdom is not passive, but active.
> Wisdom arises from right action whereas understanding arises from clear
> perception.
>
> The feeling that one might best associate with Chokmah is the male orgasm, a
> mindless paroxysm rushing forth in all directions, filled with creative
> potential but having no form in which to manifest that creativity. Until
> shaped and directed by the formative receptivity of Binah, the divine power
> of Chokmah can do nothing,
>
> The virtue of Chokmah is described variously as devotion, good, or
> completion of the Great Work. Its vice is evil, when one admits of any vice
> to this sephiroth at all. Chokmah represents all possibilities, including
> all those possibilities for good as well as all possibilities for evil. We
> may argue that "good" and "evil" are irrelevant value judgments in
> non-dualistic consciousness, but as is inevitable when discussing
> consciousness in the Supernals, the words we use fall far short as adequate
> descriptors. That which is "good" in Chokmah is that which encounters form
> and proceeds into manifestation. That which is "evil" is that which fails
> to encounter form and dissipates itself uselessly. The Qlippoth associated
> with Chokmah are the Hinderers and have the primary quality of
> arbitrariness. This expresses the disorganization and the ultimate futility
> of undirected energy.
>
> The lesson we can come away with in the contemplation of the virtue and vice
> of Chokmah is that our efforts cannot be purely arbitrary. There must be an
> unswerving plan, direction, and goal for work to be accomplished. The
> physical definition of "work" is "force acting upon an object to cause
> displacement." There are three operative words in this definition, which
> correspond to the Supernals themselves. "Cause" relates to Kether. It is
> the Prime Cause, the FIAT LUX. "Force" relates to Chokmah, which is the
> energy that proceeds from the Cause. "Displacement" relates to Binah, which
> directs the energy of Chokmah into specific movement.
>
> Crowley comments on the nature of magical consciousness in Chokmah in
> "Confessions"
>
> "In The Vision and the Voice, the attainment of the grade of Master of the
> Temple was symbolized by the adept pouring every drop of his blood, that is
> his whole individual life, into the Cup of the Scarlet Woman, who represents
> Universal Impersonal Life. There remains therefore (to pursue the imagery)
> of the adept "nothing but a little pile of dust". In a subsequent vision the
> Grade of Magus is foreshadowed; and the figure is that this dust is burnt
> into "a white ash", which ash is preserved in an Urn. It is difficult to
> convey the appropriateness of this symbolism, but the general idea is that
> the earthly or receptive part of the Master is destroyed. That which remains
> has passed through fire; and is therefore, in a sense, of the nature of
> fire. The Urn is engraved with a word or symbol expressive of the nature of
> the being whose ash is therein. The Magus is thus, of course, not a person
> in any ordinary sense; he represents a certain nature or idea. To put it
> otherwise, we may say, the Magus is a word."

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