The number ten (10) is the first two‑digit integer, the base of the decimal system, and in Qabalah the number of the Sephiroth—the full emanation from Kether to Malkuth. Its name in Hebrew is Aseret (עשרת) or simply Eser (עשר), and it is written with the letters Yod (י) and Shin (ש) or, in numerical notation, as Yod (10). As the sum of 1 + 2 + 3 + 4, it forms the Pythagorean tetractys, a triangular figure held sacred as the pattern of creation and the source of all harmony.

Position on the Tree of Life

While the number ten itself corresponds directly to the tenth Sephirah, Malkuth (the Kingdom), the present table assigns it as the ordinal value of Path 20. Path 20 is the Hebrew letter Kaph (כ), whose own numerical value is 20. Here, however, the column “Numerical Value of Col. CLXXV.” follows a simple 1‑to‑22 count of the Paths: Path 11 (Aleph) is 1, Path 12 (Beth) is 2, and so on, so that Path 20 (the tenth path in the sequence) receives the value 10. Thus the number 10 appears on the Tree as the index of the path that connects Chesed (4) to Geburah (5), the path of the planet Jupiter.

Astrological and planetary correspondence

In the broader system of Liber 777, the number 10 is linked to Malkuth, whose planetary correspondence is the Earth (or, in some schemata, the sphere of the elements). But in this specific cell, no astrological attribution is given; the value 10 is purely numerical. Its appearance here echoes the Pythagorean notion that ten contains all numbers and is the perfect number, returning to unity after the cycle of digits.

Historical context

The number ten has been venerated since antiquity. The Pythagoreans swore by the tetractys, a figure of ten points arranged in four rows, representing the four elements, the four seasons, and the harmony of the cosmos. In the Hebrew Qabalah, the ten Sephiroth are the fundamental structure of the Tree of Life, and the number ten is the number of the commandments in the Torah. The Sefer Yetzirah describes the ten Sephiroth as “ten and not nine, ten and not eleven,” emphasizing their completeness. In the Sepher Sephiroth (Crowley’s compilation), the number ten is associated with Malkuth, the Bride, the Kingdom, and the material world. The present table, however, uses a different enumeration: it is a simple ordinal count of the 22 Paths, a convention found in some early Qabalistic manuscripts where the Paths are numbered from 1 to 22 rather than by their Hebrew letter values. This system appears in the 777 column derived from the “Numerical Value of Col. CLXXV.”—likely a reference to a now‑obscure source that assigned each Path a sequential number. Thus the number 10 here is not the Sephirah but the tenth Path, a reminder that the same numeral can carry different meanings depending on the schema.

In Liber 777, at this step (Path 20), the number 10 appears as the entry in the column “Numerical Value of Col. CLXXV.” It is a simple ordinal, flanked by 9 (Path 19) and 20 500 (Path 21, which combines the ordinal 20 with the Hebrew value 500). This juxtaposition shows how the table layers multiple numerical traditions—ordinal, Hebrew, and gematric—within a single row.