The 231 Gates "The Great Master-Key to the theoretical and practical Kabbalah"

The 22 HOUSES And The 231 GATES?

What does this mean?

Such is the Jewish wisdom of the Kabbalah, explained cryptically in the biblical Sepher Yetzirah (or Book of Creation).

Since there are 22 Letters in the Hebrew Alphabet there can only be a maximum of 231 lines that connect these dots or houses in a wheel or circular array. They are thus known as Gates and have deep meaning as in how they connect to one another.

22 Foundation letters: God placed them in a circle like a wall with 231 gates. The Circle oscillates back and forth.

The Sepher Yetzirah, refers to the lines connecting each pair of Hebrew letters as gates. Rabbinic tradition teaches that systematic meditation upon the various combinations will open the mind to the mysteries of God. In the context of the Wheel, we can see that such mediation will lead to insight into the meaning of each letter, hence the meaning of each Spoke, and from there, we will gain insight into the meaning of the Word of God, and so come to know a little more of God himself, who is the greatest mystery of all.

God created the vacated space, a sphere. God placed the 22 Hebrew letters on the circumference of the sphere. God made all the possible two-letter combinations by connecting the letters with straight lines across the sphere he created a complex geometric matrix called the 231 gate. Through the 22 Hebrew letters(energy forms or energy agents), God created the soul of all creation and everything else that was ever to be created.

Every "gate" in the circle is formed by letters of alphabet and stands as a combination of 2 consonants (2 letter Heb. roots) Through these "gates" the creative power goes out into the universe which is sealed on all 6 sides with the permutation of YHVH(God) each permutation of YHVH is a configuration of the Sacred Circle, with various configurations possible within each permutation. The combination of the letters are used to both create words and to create the universe. Combination is one series of operations.

In the Kabbalistic work Sepher Yetzirah, the 231 Gates of Creation are outlined.

Gates

Working a gate

A Gate is the sequential travel from Sephirot to Sephirot which includes the Sephirot AND the 'paths' that connect them. In modern lingo, we use the term 'path' to indicate the connections between the Sephirot, but this is really a misuse of the term, Kabbalistically speaking. In the ancient texts, the term "Path" is used for the Letters AND the Sephirot (e.g., the 32 Paths of Wisdom) and is not an indication of a connection between the Sephirot. So, the individual Sephirot are each "Paths" as are each of the individual Letters.

The first step in working any Gate is to raise your conscious awareness to the "highest" (or first in the sequence noted) Sephirah of that particular Gate. So, first you must raise your awareness to the "highest" Sephirah of the Gate. Then, you must establish a connection with the next Sephirah in the Gate's sequence. One way to do this is to project the image of the corresponding Tarot arcana (except with the "Hidden Paths"... ) and cause it to become a path which connects the two Sephirot. Then, you (i.e., your conscious awareness) traverses the projected image/pathway into the "lower" Sephirah.

Once you have arrived, you create a similar pathway to the next Sephirah in the Gate's sequence, and so on until you reach the place where you started. Then you reverse your footsteps until you again return to your starting point.

Working the Gates is about the focused and intentional movement of your conscious awareness. This integrates the levels of self-awareness involved in that particular Gate.

When working a Gate, one always begins with the highest Sephirot and travels first to the lowest Sephirot. The example of Gate #4 (8.10.9.8), which is composed of six "Paths", one begins in the highest Sephirot of Hod (8) and travels first to the lowest Sephirot in the Gate, Malkuth (10). Then one makes their way from Malkuth to Yesod and then from Yesod back to Hod, completing the form. And then, one works the Gate in the reverse direction by traveling from Hod to Yesod, then to Malkuth and ending once again in Hod.

So, a Gate is composed of at least three "Paths" and represents the integration of the various levels of consciousness symbolized by the "Paths". A "Path" on the other hand, represents just a single discrete level of consciousness and not an integration of levels.

Each Gate is a simple geometric form. There are 38 lines (i.e., two Sephirot and one path, like Gate #1), 68 triangles (three Sephirot and three paths), 74 quadrangles (four Sephirot and four paths), 41 pentan-gles (five Sephirot and five paths) and 9 hexangles (six Sephirot and six paths). The final Gate, #231, is the whole Tree and represents the final integration of the completely self-realized Self.

Gates

51 Temporal Gates

78 Eternal Gates of Binah and Chokmah

102 Eternal Gates of the Kethric Brilliance

Lie group and 231 gate

The 231 gate looks like a lie group meaning that lie groups are probably based off the 231 gates this shows that higher dimensions(which are encoded in multidimensional polygons) are encoded in the 231 gates. This also links to how multidimensional polygons encode lie groups/Tetrahedron grids/Tree of life's/Tetractys and multidimensional polygons are made out of Xenplexian/Hebrew letters.

64 tetrahedron grid

The Sum of all divisors of 231:

1+3+7+11+21+33+77+231=384

There are 384 lines that make up the i ching and they can be used to construct the 64 tetrahedron grid

Xen particle/infinite tetrahedron grid

Xen particle=328=3:28=84

384=3/84=28

Number 231

Number 231 and the number 21 connection

1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13+14+15+16+17+18+19+20+21=231

3×7×11=231

3×7=21

3+7+11=21

21=777

Number 7 connection

21=777

777=7:77=7:14=72(Tetragrammaton/Tetractys(God))

231/7=33

7 is related/connected to the 7 tetractys and the 7 tetrahedral tetractys which is related to 84(which is related to the xen particle and the 64 tetrahedron grid) and 168 which are related to the E8×E8 (superstring/xen particle)

The number 7 is the hexagonal yod in the tetractys

Maths 

231 is a:

triangular number

hexagonal number

octahedral number

centered octahedral number

the number of integer partitions of 16

Sources:
Xen qabbalah wiki