The mark of the beast is the seal of servitude for the falling souls who are slaves of the animal mind in the Kingdom of Klipoth, where “no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that has (Kabbalistic) understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man (Tiphereth); and his number is Six hundred Sixty and Six.” Revelation 13: 17, 18.
So, the number of the beast is 666. When we add these numbers together, 6+6+6, we get 18; and by adding 1+8 we get 9; the number nine is Yesod – Sex. In itself 18 is the Arcanum of occult enemies, those psychological entities (bestial ego) that hinder our spiritual development because of their bestial Fornication (animal orgasm). The Tree of Good and Evil is symbolized in the duality of the Eighteenth Arcanum; within the number 18, the Ninth Sephirah Yesod – Sex is found twice, which points out the good and evil ways of utilizing the sexual energy of the stone of Jacob (Yesod).
So, Tiphereth (the true Servant of God) is the sixth of the ten Sephiroth. Tiphereth begins and ends with the letter Tav, and corresponds to the letter Vau, V, of the Tetragrammaton IHVH. It is also called Meleck or King as well as the Son of Man (Son of Arik Anpin). It is the central Sephirah of the SIX that composes Zauir Anpin, the Microprosopus, or Lesser Countenance, the Microcosmos, the Human Soul, the terrestrial man.
The Malkuth (physical body) of the terrestrial man has three nervous systems or three brains which are located on the top, middle and bottom of the spinal medulla (symbolized in the Hebrew letter Vav) and that are represented in the inverted triangle of the seal of Solomon:
Tiphereth, in servitude of the Demon of Desire(in Hod) that squanders the fires of the letter Vav (spinal medulla) through the Sexual Center, sexual organs = 6
Tiphereth, in servitude of the Demon of Thought(in Netzach) that squanders the fires of the letter Vav (spinal medulla) through the intellectual center, the head = 6
Tiphereth, in servitude of the Demon of Evil Will(in the causal plane) that squanders the fires of the letter Vav (spinal medulla) through the emotional center, the heart = 6
So, 666 is the number of a Man, a Man that falls, and that Man is Tiphereth, the human soul in servitude to sin.
Until Psyche awakens, our Tiphereth, our Vav, is negative; it is asleep. That is why in the Book of Revelation the beast has the number 666. Those are three Vavs—three brains: mind, heart, body. All three are asleep; all three in us are dominated by animal desire. Our mind is dominated by fear, pride, envy, anger, lust, greed, gluttony, laziness. Our heart is dominated by negative emotions, by resentments, by memories, by cravings. Our body is dominated by habits, by laziness, by busy-ness. Our three brains are 666: three negative Vavs, inverted in Hell; that is why we suffer. We need to rectify that, to correct it.
The Eighteenth Arcanum is the abyss, darkness, and sexual temptations which the initiate has to fight against. The Ninth Arcanum is the Ninth Sphere, initiation into the mysteries of "The Hermit" as it is called.
The gods have judged the Great Harlot — humanity, whose number is 666. The sentence of the gods was:
To the abyss!
To the abyss!
To the abyss!
Synthesis: the beast 666 is the inverted triangle of the seal of Solomon, in other words, it is the soul bottled up into the number 18 (the unbelievers, the uncircumcised, our occult animal or bestial psychological enemies within). The mark of the beast is the sign on the forehead of Kain (the animal mind)!