We have described how evil, really activity, emanated out of God in the form of Tetragrammaton. This being so, according to Qabalistic philosophy, out of evil must good, or God, evolve; for “as above so beneath” and “as beneath so above” are the laws of Qabalistic inversion. Just as the Serpent of Kronos devoured its tail, so must evil, in the form of the Satanic Serpent, devour itself This magical operation of activity eating up activity is the central principle in the Messianic act, which we will examine more fully in the next chapter. Here we will restrict ourselves to a few introductory remarks.