I am currently reading this book The Search For Abraxas by Stephen Skinner & Nevill Drury and thinking, Kether sounds like that Temple of Set thing, Xeper. So in a comparison between the two while the former is Qabalah and the latter based on Egyptian mythology they are both, in conceptualization, negating of blind faith for the goal of enlightenment.
In that it differs as Xeper (meaning to become; per Aquino's inversion) is isolate and crystallizing of the self apart from an "All" whilst Kether (meaning the crown) would be reintigration and similar to Hinduism with the self disintigrating into said "All". Historically Xeper was representative of Kehpri, or the scarab beetle, indicating a god of light and order until 1975 when the high ranking military official and occultist split with/was kicked out of the Church of Satan due to ideological and libido conflicts, mashed the idea together with Set—a god of chaos, storms and foreign lands; or as Aquino claimed, the Supreme Deity who bestowed in homosapiens with a mandate in and of an inverted archetype of Xeper, or, "isolate intelligence".
Kether in the Qabalah meaning, "the crown": an asexual hermaphroditic androgyne which in certain variations of the Tree of Life sits at its top. From Kether supposedly emerges Chokmah (Mercy, Male, and Force) and Binah (finite time, Severity and Female) archetypes, or forces in the universe. Kether being an Equilibrium between the two and originator of them simultaneously. "Thus the principle of balance of opposites by a reconciling factor between Force (Chokmah) and Form (Binah), just as science sees the Universe as a balance between energy and matter," detailed Skinner and Drury in their aforementioned book.
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