11: “The essence of all that is sinful, harmful and imperfect”

September 11th, American Airlines Flight 11 … Of the number 11, William Wynn Westcott writes, “This seems to have been the type of a number with an evil reputation among all peoples. The Kabalists contrasted it with the perfection of the Decad, and just as the Sephirotic number is the form of all good things, so eleven is the essence of all that is sinful, harmful and imperfect” . Thus, we can understand the repeated incorporation of the number 11 into the ritual. As “the essence of all that is sinful, harmful and imperfect,” 11 was the number of choice with which to initiate the ritual and declare its true nature.