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The Gematria Notebooks of Paul Foster Case-111109
The Gematria Notebooks of Paul Foster Case-111109
Names for the number 1: see 12, 21, 37, 397, 422 or 1552, 620,
721, 559, 736, 837.
"The union of higher reality, the upper Yod, with the lower
reality, the lower Yod, by means of the connecting Vav, of Torah,
is the ultimate secret of the letter Aleph." [The Alef-Beit, Rabbi
Ginsburgh] See 214 (RVCh], 37, 111 [ALP].
Greek
"Why does the Torah begin with the letter Beth, which corresponds
to the number 2? Because our Sages teach that God created not one
world, but two. There is OVLM HZH, this world, and OVLM HBA, the
world to come. Our life must always be lived with the awareness
that the grave is not our end, but merly the second beginning."
[The Secrets of the Hebrew Words, Rabbi Blech].
The Hieroglyph for Beth has been lost, as the square letters
employed today are of comparative recent invention. Perhaps the
first idea that will be suggested to most people be all arrow-head
is sharpness. Then since every Hebrew letter stands for a kind of
consciousness, Beth must be a sign of mental acuteness, or
penetration. It represents the sort of intelligence that manifest
itself in quick perception, accurate observation, keen
discernment, sagacity, and the like. An arrowhead is a point,
denoting position. In logical 'position' means affirmation or
assertion, As when we speak of 'the proof of a position,' implying
order-is derived. Beth, then represents affirmative mental
activity, limiting its operation to a definite locality, and
exercising itself in establishing order. Hence Beth suggest
initiative, direction, control, the concentration of energy in a
particular field, and its specialization in definite forms. This
idea of concentration is inseparable from the original form of the
letter. The word 'concentrate' is derived from the greek Kentron,
an arrow point. The same Greek work also means the point around
which a circle is inscribed, which shows that it implies the very
notions of definite locality, order, that we have been
considering. The implicates of the letter name are closely related
to those connected with the hieroglyphic. Beth means "house"
suggesting inclosure, limitation, to a special field, definite
locality, and so on. As a House is the dwelling of its owner, so
is the kind of mental action related to Beth the abode of spirit,
because it centers the cosmic mind in a particular, local
expression." [The Secret Doctrine of the Tarot, in the Word, June
1916, pp. 79-80.
The number 2 stands for the non-ego, the inferior nature, the
mysterious working power of the supreme spirit. It is the
arithmetical symbol of result or effect; the moon, the reflection
of sun; of memory; of intellect (Wisdom) and of radiant energy
because it vibrates. Prakriti-the Great Womb or principal thing.
It is female in relation to Kether.
Σ2 = 3
Numbers which reduce to 3 see: 12, 21, 30, 39, 48, 57, 66, 75, 84,
93, 102, 111, 120, 138, 300.
G Gimel. Camel. The number of the third Hebrew letter, Key 2 the
High Priestess. Represents universal Memory, through the
subconscious substance aspect (Water). The uniting Intelligence,
linking the universal self in Kether and the Ego in Tiphareth, on
the Tree of Life. It is the bond between all creating beings and
like the camel, is a symbol of travel, communication and change.
The direction Below on the Cube of Space. A key to the alchemical
mystery of the First Matter-the Virgin Substance "whose purity
naught can defile" [Book of Tokens, Gimel]. see 237, 882, 13.
Gimel is a modified form of Yod. Thus the two parts of the letter
hint at a concealed numeral value of 16, since Vav is 6 and Yod is
10. Among Hebrew words having the value of 16 are: AZVB, Hyssop,
signifying purgation or purification; GBVH elevated, exalted,
High; HIA, She; and ZVB, like equal to. The Uniting Intelligence
is the most important means of purification. It links personal
consciousness to the Highest plane of being. It is the wisdom
personified in Proverbs as a woman. Its full exercise enables us
to realize the identity of the Self in man with universal being.
"The Earliest sign for the letter Gimel was probably a
conventionalized picture of a bow. As a bow is used for shooting
arrows, the first idea it suggests is propulsive force.
Furthermore, since we have learned that the letter Beth was
originally in the form of an arrowhead, it becomes evident that
Gimel, the bow, as the propulsive force behind the arrow, stands
for something that incites the objective mind, represented by
Beth, to express itself in concentrated attention... Thus, in a
sense, the bow is derived from the arrow; and this makes it an
emblem of secondary existence; evolution, and the like. Again, the
bow, like the crescent, cup, sistrum, wheatear, oval, is related
to the hieroglyphic as well as to the letter-name. Relaxed and
unstrung, the bow is an emblem of peace; tense and strung, it
signifies war." [The Secret of the Doctrine of the Tarot in the
Word, July 1916, page 161, 163].
"And why does the roof of the Daleth extend backwards a little to
the right, in the direction of Gimel? To teach us that the poor
man, Daleth, must make himself available to the Gimel, the one who
would lend him money. Nevertheless, the face of the Daleth is
turned away--teaching that charity must be given in secret." [The
Book of Letters, Rabbi Kushner]
The 4th Hebrew letter, meaning "Door". Attributed to Venus and the
desire nature; to creative imagination. Daleth is the Luminous
Intelligence, uniting Chokmah and Binah on the Tree of Life. On
the Cube of Space, the East face, source of Light.
"The character for Daleth is easily confused with that for Resh,
printed on Key 19. The difference is that the upper parts of the
letter projects slightly to the right, and the ascending line is
somewhat thicker than in Resh. Because the value of the letter is
4, it is often cited in Qabalah as the sign of the 4th Sephirah,
Mercy or Beneficence." [PFC, Practice Course].
ABA Abba. Father. A name for the number 4 and Chesed. 2*2 or the
multiplication of Chokmah by itself. This links the derivation of
the powers of Chesed from chokmah, since chokmah is called AB,
Father. It is through the path of Vav (the Hierophant, and in
italian Il Papa, the Father) that the power of Chokmah descends
into Chesed.
Heh [H]. Fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Connected with the
idea of meditation, the pentagram, the function of Binah in
creation (#67). also with vision, reason, observation which lead
to definitions.
"The Heh looks life a lobby with three walls, but with one side
completely open. This indicates that God allows man free choice.
He is free to obey or disobey God's will, but he chosses to leave
the safety of the Torah's spiritual and moral boundries, he loses
his foothold and slips, as it were, through the open space of the
Heh into the abyss...however, Heh symbolizes God's readiness to
forgive...A small opening is left in the top left leg of the Heh
symbolizing that a space always remians through which a repentant
sinner can return. [The Wisdom of the Hebrew Alphabet, Rabbi Munk]
Σ3 = 6
Names for the number 6: see 45, 52, 80, 311, 1081, 548, 666.
In all things, great and small, I see the Beauty of the divine
expression.
Fabre D'Olivet comments: "Vav, O, OU, IU. This character has two
very distinct vocal acceptations, and a third as consonant.
Following the first of these vocal acceptations, it represents the
eye of man, and becomes the symbol light; following the second, it
represents the ear, and becomes the symbol of sound, air, wind: As
a consonant it is the emblem of water and in it, as I have already
said, that image of the most profound, the most inconceivable
mystery. The image of the knot which unites, or the point which
separates nothingness and being. In its luminous vocal acceptation
Vav, it is the sign of intellectual sense, the verbal sign par
excellence.. in its ethereal verbal acceptation Vav, it is the
universal convertible sign, which makes a thing pass from one
nature to another; communicating on one side with sign of
intellectual sense, which is only itself more elevated, and on the
other, with that of material sense Ayin, which is only itself more
abased: It is finally, in its aqueous consonantal acceptation, the
link of all things, the conjunctive sign. It is in this last
acceptation that it is employed more particularly as article...
The character Vav, except its proper name VV, does not begin any
word of the Hebraic tongue, and consequently does not furnish any
root. This important observation, corroborating all that I have
said upon the nature of the Hebraic signs, proves the head of a
root to nouns to modify them, or between them for the purpose of
joining them, or in front of the verbal tense to change them.
BH. in her.
8 (2*2*2) The Ogdoad
"In thought and word and deed, I rest my life, from day to day
upon the sure foundation [Yesod] of eternal being." (Pattern on
the Trestleboard) see 775.
BBH babah. cavity, something hollowed out, the apple of the eye,
apple.
Fabre D'Olivet comments: "GI, GV, GH. The organic sign united
either to that of life, or to that of universal convertible force,
or to that of manifestation, constitutes a root which becomes the
symbol of every organization. This root which possesses the same
faculties of extension and aggrandizement that we have observed in
the root GA, contains ideas apparently opposed to envelopment and
development, according to the point of view under which one
considers the organization.
GHH That which organizes; that which gives life to the organs:
health, and metaphorically, medicine.
Fabre D'Olivet comments: HD, like the root AD, of which it is only
a modification, it is attached to all ideas of spiritual
emanation, the diffusion of a thing absolute in its nature as the
effect of sound, light, voice, echo. The Hebraic root is found in
the Arabic root [word] which is applied to every kind of sound,
murmur, noise; but by natural deviation the arabic root having
become onomatopetic and idiomatic, the [aramic] verb signifies to
demolish, cast down, overthrow by similitude of the noise made by
the thing which are demolished." [The Hebrew Tongue Restored, page
328]
BAV. In desire.
Σ4 = 10
One Greek name for 10 was Pantelia, signifying "all complete," or,
"fully accomplished." Westcott says: "Note that ten is used as a
sign of fellowship, love, peace and union, in the Masonic third
token, the union of two five points of fellowship." Ten is also
the number of complete manifestation, according to the Qabalist."
The upper point of Yod represents the Primal Will, while the rest
of the letter corresponds to the aspect of the Life-power named
Wisdom. This means that all mental activity is derived directly
from the essential Will of the One Identity, and this mental
activity, or volition, takes form as the Wisdom which is the basis
for the entire cosmic order. Furthermore, the mental activity of
the Primal Will, symbolized by the upper point of Yod, expands
into the life-force of all beings, and this life-force is fiery.
HH Letter name Heh. Woe, alas. The first Heh represents insight,
or the Life-power's own knowledge of itself. The second Heh is a
symbol of foresight, directed toward the outcome of necessary
consequences following from what insight reveals (see 514).
ADV Ovd. The English equivalent of several Hebrew names among whom
was a prophet or seer [2 Chronicles 9:29, 12:15, 13:22].
AVD ode. the fire of the magic light, firebrand, the magic power.
Aleph is the divine Life-breath (RVCh), Vav is the link which
joins into all beings, and Daleth is the door of life through
which all things are manifested (see 207, 363, 89).
"Now the name ShDI EL ChI beginneth with the number 314, then
followeth 31, and ChI is 18. This bringeth the whole to 363, and
see, this is 11 times itself and multiplied again by 3. Now 11 is
AVD (Od) and 3 is Gimel. AVD is the magic power and Gimel is the
beginning of Guph the body. Aleph is the Breath, Vav is the Link,
Daleth is the Door of Life and is Nogah also, which giveth the
Victory. In Gimel or 3 is Recollection and Union, and for the
wise the letters of AVD speak with a loud tongue. In Yesod is all
this centered and they who know the secret of Yod, become the
extenders of the paternal Life and Light. Thus is Yesod called
the Sphere of the Moon, and that same Moon pertaineth also to
Gimel, the letter of Union. Blessed are they who hear and
understand, and understanding, live as they know... Note well the
warning implied. There are many who seek to be spiritual at the
expense of the body. They repudiate all that pertains to Yesod
because they misunderstand its real significance. You may have
wondered what this section of the Text has to do with the Astral
plane... Yet the Text points straight to the one thing, and that
is, that the mystery of the 9th Sephira is a secret of Yod." [27th
Communication 1/15/48]. see 343, 80, 214, 18.
" AVD. Positive emanation of the astral fluids or currents. It is
the double, the phantom electro-magnetic, but of an electricity
and a magnetism vitalized very strongly and related to the ether
of all living beings, even of the plants, the minerals and
crystals, which appear in a colored vapor in the darkness. And is
the manifestation of the intimate will of native, the magical
force, the astral forms of the universe center, the one which
becomes concrete in the innumerable types of the world, its forms
its imprints, the simple vestments of AVD or the astral. AVD is
the negative emanation and united these two make AVR, the
universal light, or the liquid Gold of the Hermetists." [note by
Lilli Gelse, circa 1920]
IA. Oh! ROOT: all movements of the soul which spring from
admiration and astonishment (d'Olivet, page 362).
BBVA beyboah. When? The power used this moment in the Magic of
Light. Also ve-boa: the coming of.
Greek: Earth (see also 2, 29, 38, 47, 56, 65, 74, 83).
12 (3*2*2)
AVH avah. desire, longing [Book of Tokens, Vav, page 71]. With
different vowel points: to desire, wish, long for. Fabre D'Olivet:
"Action of longing ardently, desiring, inclining with passion."
[The Hebrew Tongue Restored, p. 290]
Fabre D'Olivet: "In a broad sense, the Being; the one who is: in a
particular sense, a being; the one of whom one speaks, represented
by the pronominal relations he, that one, this." [The Hebrew
Tongue Restored, p. 328]
DVB dub. A bear. The Aesch Mesch Mezareph [III, p. 24] says:
'Parzala [Iron-PRZLA, 318], whose lesser number is 12, is of the
same account as the name of that blood animal Dob, a Bear, whose
number is 12 also. And this is that mystical thing, which is
written [Daniel 7:5]: "And behold another beast, a second like
unto a bear, stood on its one side, and it had three ribs standing
out in his mouth, between his teeth; and thus they said to it
'arise, eat much flesh.'" The meaning is, that in order to
constitute the metallic kingdom, in the second place, iron is to
be taken; in whose mouth or opening (which comes to pass in an
earthen vessel) a threefold scoria is thrust out, from within its
whitish nature." see 318, 229.
GTh gat. Fabre D'Olivet: "This root is not used in Hebrew. The
arabic [word] denotes a thing which repulses the effort of the
hand which pushes it." Mathers also gives; a little book,
pamphlet, letter in [Sepher Sephiroth, p. 2].
Fabre D'Olivet comments: "The root, ChD, from which this word is
formed, and which is sometimes taken for unity, itself,
particularly in chaldaic, signifies literally: a point, a summit,
the sharpest part of a thing; the top of a pyramid. It is division
arrested, subjugated by a sort of effort as the two signs Daleth
and Cheth which compose it, indicate it. In the feminine it is
written, AChTh. [The Hebrew Tongue Restored, p. ?152?]. "The
potential sign united to that of elementary existence cheth, image
of the travail of nature, produces a root whence result all ideas
of equilibrium, equality, identity, fraternity. When the sign
Cheth characterizes principally an effort, the root ACh takes the
meaning of its analogues AG, AD, and represents a some what violet
action. It furnishes then all ideas of excitation and becomes the
name of a place where the fire is lighted, the hearth." [IBIQ, p.
291] see 273, 372, 384, 395, 400, 441, 600, 636, 740.
BHV bohu, bahu. emptiness, void, terror, chaos. The primary chaos
is the stuff thoughts are made of. The alchemist first matter is
also called a "void". Applied to the first state of the earth.
[Genesis 1:2] "And the earth was without form, and void, and
darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God
moved upon the face of the waters." Fabre D'Olivet comments: "An
abyss, a thing whose depth cannot be fathomed, physically as well
as morally (see HH). The arabic [word], as onomatopoeic root
characterizes astonishment, surprise. Arabic word *** which is
formed from it, designates that which is astonishing, surprising,
that which causes admiration." [The Hebrew Tongue Restored, p.
302] see 19, 76, 411, 1152.
GHH gayhah. healing, health. Proverbs 17:22: "A merry heart doeth
good like a medicine." Fabre D'Olivet comments: "That which
organizes; that which gives life to the organs: health, and
metaphorically, medicine." [The Hebrew Tongue Restored, p.312]
IBA yaba. "He shall come." Refers to the alchemical new man, a
product of mental analysis and synthesis. Associated with Shiloh
(345) which refers to the Messiah (358).
DVD dude. pot, kettle, boiler. From a root meaning "to boil, to
be agitated." see 137 (Latin), 155, 805.
HDH hahdah. to stretch forth the hand; to show the way; to seize,
lay hold of. Note the Daleth between the two Heh's. That self
offering is also a self-extension or self-direction. see 4, 104,
250, 41, 72, 86, 158.
GVH geyah. Body, or back. Root of GVIH substance, a body. see 24.
GIA gay. deep gorge with lofty sides; rising ground. The "Earth"
of Geburah. One of the 7 earths in the diagram of the 4 seas, so
used it means "rising ground." Also undulating ground. Fabre
D'Olivet: "Valley, gorge, depth. The Arabic [word] indicates a
place where water remains stagnant and becomes corrupt through
standing." [The Hebrew Tongue Restored, p.313] see 291, 50, 365,
105, 302, 432, 337.
DI dawy. Fabre D'Olivet comments: "The sign of natural abundance
united to that of manifestation, constitutes the true root
characteristic of this sign. This root develops all ideas of
sufficiency and of sufficient reason; of abundant cause and of
elementary divisibility. DI and DH: that which is fecund, fertile,
abundant, sufficient; that which contents, satisfies, suffices.
The Arabic [word] indicates, in general, the distribution of
things, and helps to distinguish them. The root [word] which
preserves a greater conformity with the Hebraic root DI, signifies
literally possession." [The Hebrew Tongue Restored, pp.321-322]
Σ5 = 15
HVD Hod. Splendor, Glory, the 8th Sephirah. From a Hebrew root
derived from a noun designating the female breast, thus expressing
ideas of nourishment, satisfaction of hunger (see 8, 2080). Hod
signifies prominence, eminence, importance. A consequence of
expansion from within of the essence of the 2nd sephirah Chokmah.
(Observe that on the Tree of Life, Chokmah and Hod are
diametrically opposite.) The Perfect intelligence, seat of the
personal intellect, is a focal point in which the will-force from
Geburah, the image-making power of Tiphareth and the desire-force
of Netzach are mingled (see 8, 2080). Connected with the
intellectual operations of human self-consciousness. The full
expression of the powers of Geburah (5), of which Hod is the
reflection. Theosophic extension of 5 and the powers of Heh, the
emperor. HVD may be read "Heh and Daleth," a combination of reason
(Emperor), imagination (Empress), and intuition (the Hierophant).
The desire for something different which disintegrates old forms
in its early stages (Peh, the path between Hod and Netzach). see
48, 193, 370, 550, 585, 720. "Give some thought to the Sephirah
Hod, whence this Path descends. Consider its name letter by
letter, in relation to the Keys of Rota. Then you may see that
HVD has through Rota a link with the Path through which the Mezla
descends to it from Geburah. Again, consider the gematria of HVD
and its relation to IH. Once again, H is the letter of the
Emperor and D the letter of the Empress, with V between them to
represent both AB and BN, and to intimate a conjunction also.
This should put you on the track of the deeper significance of the
31st Path. That is to say, insofar as the specific nature of the
descending influence is concerned." [39th Communication 3/8/48]
ChGD. a locust
GBHH. high.
XV (Lt). The last 2 letter of the word LVX (65). Minus the L (to
instruct). Suggests the absence of the equalibrating, directive
power symbolized by Key 11. Key 15, the Devil, represents the One
Force, as it operates apart from human knowledge (LMD). and human
direction. yet XV is composed of the numbers V (5) and X (10), the
Wheel of Fortune, the world of objective appearances and V, the
principle of consciousness.
ZVG zog. to enclose, or, like, equal to. Refers to the essential
identity of all manifestations of the One Life. Also: to pair or
match, pair of sicissors; married couple. With different vowel
points: bell, rattle.
AHI. where?
17 (prime)
GID giyd. sinew, vein, dried veins or tendon; penis. The sinew
that shrank, in the story of Jacob's wrestling with the angel.
Fabre D'Olivet comments: "GID. A nerve, a tendon; everything that
can be stretched for action. [The Hebrew Tongue Restored, p. 311]
see 67, 360, 377.
AGVZ egoz. Nut (of a fruit of a tree). Used in the Song of Solomon
6:11 " I went down to the grove of the nut trees to look at the
new growth in the valley, to see if the vines had budded or the
pomegranates were in bloom." [New International]. The Zohar says
this passage refers to Yesod. The "seed-principle" is the clue to
the inner occult meaning.
IHB yehab (noun). Lot, burden, what is given; fate (what bounds or
limits). see 358, 830, 780, 130.
Adam (Lt). Man/Humanity (as a generic proper name). see 44, 45.
18 (2*3*3)
ChI chai. life, living. see 23, 9, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63, 72, 81,
90.
AIBH aibah. hatred. Fabre D'Olivet comments: The root "AIB. Every
idea of antipathy, enmity, animadversion. It is an effect of the
movement of contraction upon the volitive center AI by the sign of
interior activity B [Beth]." [The Hebrew Tongue Restored, p. 292]
Latin/Greek
ChVH Chavah. This word is used in Genesis 3:20: "So Adam called
his wife's name Eve because she was the mother of all living.
Gaskell suggest that Eve, the wife of Adam is "A symbol of the
emotional-nature united to the mental-nature of the lower mind...
And the mind recognizes the life-principle within the soul to be
the emotion-nature, for it is the originator of former of all
qualities that subsist, that is, of all qualities that have in
them the germ of the higher life." [Dictionary of all Scriptures
and Myths, p. 254]
Latin/Greek
IVD Letter name Yod. Hand (as a formative power), creative hand.
The Qabalistic significance of IVD refers to it being a manual
operation [C.F. "Immanuel", or "God with us"], performed by the
aid of Mercury. But IVD must be rightly understood and all adepts
are careful not to unveil this secret. "Verily IVD is the seed of
all the letters, and if thou hast eyes to see, in IVD is the
secret of the covenant, and this secret is the Peh-Heh (PH), for
PH is 85, or HISVD, Ha-Yesod, the Foundation, and 85 is also MILH,
the covenant which removeth concealment form the paternal Yod."
[10th Communication 5/19/47] see 61, 80, 85.
HThAH hattah. Sinful things, sin [Amos 9:8] "Surely the eyes of
the sovereign Lord are on the sinful Kingdom. I will destroy it
from the face of the Earth-yet I will not totally destroy the
House of Jacob." variant spelling, see 418.
Σ6 = 21
21 represents the combination of the Ego (1) with the non-ego (2),
but it is a reversal of the order expressed by 12. In 12 the Ego
is the vehicle and the non-ego the active principle; in 21 is the
manifestation of the I through the me, the expression of the
universal through the personal, the realization that the whole
manifestation is the act of the Universal Ego.
"Look at the Rota and see what Key 21 says. It is really a symbol
of union, and is therefore the extension numerically of Key 6.
Ask yourselves what has become of the man in Key 6, when that
Key's full expression is represented by Key 21, and you will
perhaps learn something to your advantage. Of course 21 is a
representation of Binah, and the very number shows this because it
reduces to Binah's number, 3; and in Key 21, if you look intently,
you may see delineated in plain sight representation of the idea
expressed in Hebrew as the word AIN, which is both BTN [belly,
womb, the inmost part] and AMK [thy mother]. No, we shall not
tell you, for you can find out for yourselves, and if you do, you
should go on from there to a great many practical applications."
[32nd Communication] see 61, 67, 400, 713.
AHIH Eheyeh. "I am", Existence, Being, the Divine Name attributed
to Kether which refers to the formative power of the Primal Will.
The Name of Names. In Exodus 3:14, this word is translated "I AM."
see 1032, 620, 37.
AK ak. a word having many meanings, but all representing some
degree of restriction, such as: only, this once, but, yet, indeed,
certainly. The restriction is affirmative. It is the restriction
of the specific, as opposed to the vague, of assurance as opposed
to doubt.
Latin/Greek
BIDV bidav. with (by) his hand. Connects with an egyptian idea of
creation. Also be-Yod [BIVD]. by Yod
Latin/Greek
Latin/Greek
Hoc (Latin). This. This beloved which is found in the salt of
manifestation is "the shining one" centered in Tiphareth. Part of
an inscription found written of the alter of the vault of Brother
C.R. in the Rosicrucian Allegory (see 475, 122, 76, 106, 87).
25 (5*5)
Fabre D'Olivet comments: "KH. Che. Root analogous to the root KA,
but whose expression is spiritualize and reinforced by the
presence of the sign Heh. KH. That which is conformable to a
given model; that which coincides with a point of space or time,
which can be conceived in an abstract sense, by the adverbial
relations yes, thus, like this; that; in that very place; at that
very time; etc." [The Hebrew Tongue Restored, p. 370]
Latin/Greek
HGChI yehagah. He meditates. God thinks the world into being and
the Life-force of Chokmah in Briah is the activity of His
unbroken meditation, which continues throughout the duration of a
cosmic cycle.
27 is the 3rd cube (1 the 1st and 8 the 2nd) and suggest the
symbolism of a geometric cube. The cube is a symbolism of the
Holy of Holies and the Heavenly City mentioned in the 21st
chapter of Revelations. [True and Invisible by PFC, p???]
KI kwi. that; when, while, as, for, because; but, only, indeed;
in fact; lest; even if; although, though. see 47 [KI ThVB]. Fabre
D'Olivet comments: "KI, Chi. Manifestation of any assimilating,
compressing force. The arabic [word] signifies in a restricted
sense, a burn. KI The force expressed by the root is represented
in an abstract sense, by relations that, because, for then, when,
etc." [The Hebrew Tongue Restored, p. 372]. Godwin gives, brand,
mark burnt in, burning, burn. [Isaiah 3:24] "Instead of
fragrance, there will be a stench; instead of beauty, branding."
Arabia (Lt). "Sterility." The place in the Fama where brother CRC
became aquanited with the wise men of the temple in Damcar, and
where he struck a bargain with the arabians for a certain sum of
money. This involves further experimental work, which was begun
at Damascus.
Fabre D'Olivet comments: "Al. This root springs from the united
signs of power and extensive movement. The ideas which it
develops are those of elevation, force, power, extent. The
Hebrews and arabs have drawn from it the name of God. AL
hieroglyphically, this is the symbol of nature or adverb
relations to, toward, for, by, against, upon, beneath, etc. The
arabic [word] is employed as the universal designative relation,
the, of the, to the, etc. As verb it expresses in the modern
idiom it signifies literally, to be wearied by too much movement.
Al and ALL (intens.) In this excess of extension, it is that
which passes away, which is empty, vain; expressed by the
adverbial relation no, not, not so, nought, nothing; etc." [The
Hebrew Tongue Restored, p. 294]
HVK huwk. A Chaldee verb meaning: "to go; to bring". The No-
thing is the power which goes forth into every form of
manifestation and brings about every phenomenon. see 511.
ZHB ThVB zahab tob. "Good Gold [Genesis 2:12] Also "Fine Gold"
[2nd Chronicles 3:5]. Refers to Yesod (see 3091?). The Aesch
Mezareph [II:9] says: "Zahav tob is referred to Yesod, that is
good gold [Genesis 2:12] ("and the gold of that land is good:
aromatic resin and onyx are also there.") for this kind is called
good, after the manner of a good man... it became zahab tob,
because it is so called according to [Lamentations ?4:1?] How
shall gold be colored with redness, and ma-kethem ho-tob i.e.
good silver be changed?"
AIK ake. How? What? The no-thing is the reality which is the
subject of inquiry in all questions beginning with How? or What?
To attain this knowledge "Having emptied yourself, remain where
you are. [Loa Tze]
"They are the Holy Living Creatures seen by the prophet Ezekiel,
and that which cometh into form by their appearance is the Glory
of God which is the true substance of all things and also the
Holy Influence which descendeth through the paths of the Tree,
and ascendeth again to be swallowed up in the abyss of radiant
darkness for which AIN is the first veil... Thirty-two are the
paths and 32 is the number of KBVD, the Glory... Thus the paths
and the Glory are in truth one. Paths of Chokmah are they
called, and from this you may know them to be paths of life, for
verily, Chokmah is none other than Kachmah, and Kachmah is the
one and only power of life.
Now the stars are physical condensations of the Glory of God, or
the radiance known to us as electricity, magnetism and
gravitation. These three are names for one power, and the words
Kachmah and Mezla are other names for the same power. Man's body
is as truly a condensation on the physical plane of this power as
in the physical body of a sun. Indeed, even the chemical
elements in man's body, where they take on form as bones and the
blood and tissues, are the very same elements that take form as
flaming gases in the body of the sun. This is not philosophy,
but science. Whether as a human body, or as a solar form,
however, the physical substance is only the outer vesture of the
Divine Glory, which runs forth from AIN and flows back to AIN,
and through AIN, into the unfathomable abyss of the radiant
darkness. The real purport of the teaching is that even man's
physical body is of one substance with the Divine Glory, not
separate or separable from that Glory." [23rd Communication
12/29/43]. see 63, 73, 61, 78, 1081 (Greek), 832.
GL. That which moves with a light and undulating movement; which
manifest joy, grace, and ease in its movements. The revolution of
celestial spheres. The orbit of the planets. A wheel; a
circumstance, an occasion. That which is revealed, that which
appears, is uncovered. That which piles up by rolling: the
movement of the waves, the swell; the volume of anything
whatsoever, a heap, a pile; the circuit or contour of an object
or a place: it confines.
The measure of the perimeters of the heptagon forming the top and
bottom of the vault of brother CR.
ohel, cont. In the prologue of the Zohar [I:6]" MI, was the
beginning of the edifice, existant and not-existant, deep-buried,
unknowable by name. It was only called MI (who). It desired to
become manifest and to be called by name. It therefore clothed
itself in a refulgent and precious garment and created ALH
(these), and ALH acquired a name. The letters of the two names
intermingled, forming the complete name ALHIM (Elohim-God)." see
86.
HLA halah. to removed, cast away; case far off. [Micah 4:7] "and
I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast off
a strong nation: and the Lord shall reign over them in Mount
Zion, from hence forth, even forever. see 165.
AIKH eikaw. How? where? How and where is the power of God to be
found? In the glory of his silence. [Godwin: Hebrew title of the
book of Lamentations]
KBDI. my glory.
Latin/Greek
Aqua. water. This water is the universal substance which fill the
"deep". Here it should be remembered that Venus is fabled to have
sprung from the sea.
37 * 1 = 37 }1
37 * 2 = 74 }2
37 * 3 = 111 }3
37 * 4 = 148 }4
37 * 5 = 185 }5
37 * 6 = 222 }6
37 * 7 = 259 }7
37 * 8 = 296 }8
37 * 9 = 333 }9
IChIDH Yekhidah. I AM, The Supreme Self, the Only One, the
single, the indivisible. The cosmic SELF seated in Kether and
associated with the Hermit, "He who stands alone." Yekhidah is
the Cosmic Logos, as the Solar Logos or Christos is the Logos of
our system of planets revolving around the sun. Yekhidah is the
Supreme Head of the universal system designated by the term
Rashith Ha-Galgalim, "Head (or beginning) of the Whirlings".
Yekhidah (Hindu Ishvara) the Supreme Ruler, the One Identity, the
Self is a point of expression for a dynamic energy, a point
through which that energy passes continually. "Qabalists indicate
this realization [Of the meaning of I am, 21] by IChIDH, the
feminine form of IChD, unity . The feminine construction shows
that although the I am is one and alone, it is also conceived in
the ageless wisdom as the vehicle for AIN SVP AVR. As a vehicle,
or receptacle, it is therefore feminine." [Paul Case: True and
Invisible Rosicrucian Order (4th), p. 467] see 149 (Latin), 620,
111.
HBL abel. "to breathe," or "a fleeting breath", vapor, hot air.
The Talmud signifies "to evaporate." Denotes "transitoriness,
emptiness," and is translated "vanity"(to be in vain), in the
English version of Ecclesiastes. From it is derived the proper
name Abel, given to the second son of Adam and Eve and killed by
Cain (#160). Refers to the volatility of the Mercury principle,
and its close link with breath, or air, which the Hindus call
Prana, the Greeks Pneuma, and the Hebrews Ruach. [Job 7:16] "I
loathe it [my life]; I would not always live: let me alone, for
my days are a fleeting breath." [Ecclesiastics 11:10] "Therefore
remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh:
for childhood and youth are vanity."
AVL uwl, owl. might, physical power. from a root meaning "to
twist." Sometimes used as a noun to designate the human body as
being rolled together. [2 Kings 24:15] "And he carried away
Jehoichin to Babylon, and the King's mother, and the King's
wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those he
carried into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon." [Psalm 73:4]
"For there are no bands in their death, but their strength is
firm."
ALAH Alah. a form of an Aramaic (Chaldee) name of God, compare
with the Arabic Allah (see ALH).
Heh, Vav, Zain, Teth, Yod. The 5 letter to which are attributed
the 5 senses. H: sight, V: hearing, Z: smell, Th: taste, I:
touch. A hit that the SELF is a focus for the subtle principles
of sensation (tattvas).
DGL dagal. banner. The adytum of the One Self is the banner of
deity.
Greek/Latin
He thebeh (Gr). Ark [Exodus 2:2 in the Greek Septuagint]. The ark
in the bulrushes (Moses). The life-power is the ark which
preserves us from every danger. Both it and Noah;s ark suggest
preservation of Life, and the transition from one cycle of the
Life-power's manifestation to another. The point of "beginning,"
which is really a point of transition from relative quiescence to
a period of relative activity, is symbolized as an ark.
cordo (Latin) hinge (of a door); the point round which anything
turns, a pole; a chief circumstance, or consideration upon which
many others depend, i.e. cardinal.
LCh leakh. vigor, natural force [Deuteronomy 34:7]. " And Moses
was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not
dim, nor his natural force (vigor) abated." Lakh. As an adjective
moist, fresh, new, unused; liquid.
Latin/Greek
AChIK awchaykaw. "thy brother." [Gen 4:9, 10:11] "And the Lord
said unto Cain, where is Abel thy Brother? And he said, I know
not: am I my brother's keeper? And he said, what hast thou done?
The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
And now thou art cursed from the earth, which hath opened her
mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand." see 37, 160,
496, 519.
ALI eli. my God, my Hero. Also a proper name. Refers to the deity
name of Chesed and has the same basic meaning of strength as its
metathesis [AIL]. [Psalm 18:3].
dedit (Lt). Gave. Love and Faith gave us strength to pursue union
with the Most High. Part of a Rosicrucian saying (see 518).
42 (2*3*7)
AMA Amah. the dark, sterile Mother. Binah as the feminine power
of specializing and finitising prior to manifestation of actual
forms. "The Eternal Parent, wrapped in her ever invisible robes,
had slumbered once again for seven eternities." [Dztanzz] see 52,
67, 86, 112, 199, 265.
ALVH Eloah. (Job 19:26). A name of God from the same root as
Elohim, the particular Divine Name assigned to Binah.
Latin/Greek
canis (Lt). dog. Recall the dog in Key 18, the Moon. In the Book
of Lambspring it says: "Alexander writes from Persia that a wolf
and a dog are in the field, which, as the sages say, are
descended from the same stock, but the wolf comes from the east,
and dog from the west. They are full of jealousy, fury, rage, and
madness: One kills the other, and from them come a great poison.
But when they are restored to life, they are clearly shown to be
the great and precious medicine, the most glorious remedy upon
the earth, which refreshes and restores the sages, who render
thanks to god, and do praise him." [Hermetic Museum I, p. 284].
see 56, 79 (Latin) Case: Canis = 42 = Luna.
LIZ Lo. Hazel, almond. Alternative wood used for making the
magical wand. Name of the place where Jacob is said to have had
the dream of angels ascending and descending a ladder. Also a
verb whose primitive meaning is "to turn away, to deviate."
Latter ideas include forwardness and perversity, linking it to
the path of Gimel--the involution or descent of energy from
Kether, the cause of all limitations and "evils." see 404.
LIZ. Little Bone. A. E. Waite: "Each man who is born into the
world is provided with an imperishable bone in his present
physical body, and it is from or on this that his organization
will be built up anew at the time of the resurrection-it is like
the rib taken from the side of Adam. The bone in question will be
to the risen body that which the leaven is to the dough". [3
Books of Occult Philosophy Ch: 20 Page 68]
LBIA laibyah. Lion, Lioness. Job 4:11: "The old lion perisheth
for lack of prey, and the stout lion s whelp are scattered
abroad." [see K.D.L.C.K. p. 151] see 340, 211, 310.
Fabre D'Olivet writes: "MG. Root not used in Hebrew. The Arabic
[word] expresses the idea of a thing which is sour, acrid,
bitter, sharp; which irritates, troubles, torments. In a
restrictive sense the verb signifies to be repugnant." [The
Hebrew Tongue Restored, p. 386]
Latin/Greek
Filii (Lt). of the son. The "son" is BN, Ben, or Tiphareth. see
53.
DM dam. blood. Formed from the word Adam [ADM]. The physical
organism of Man is condensed from Blood. see 5, 55, 45. The
Location of the temple of the Wise men was at Dam-Car, in Arabia.
Dam-Car means: Blood of the Lamb. It is the initiate's own body.
The practices of initiation modify blood chemistry. Arabia
(sterility) refers to the necessary celibacy which gives the
strength for initiation. see 470, 68.
That Arabic [word] has developed in the ancient language the same
general idea; but in the modern idiom this root has received
acceptations somewhat different. [The Arabic word] expresses in
general a glutinous, sticky fluid. In particular, as noun, it is
blood; as verb; it is the action of covering with a glutinous
glaze. From the later meaning results, in the analogue [word],
that of contaminating, calumniating, covering with blame."
[Hebrew Tongue Restored p. 323-324]
ChVL khool. sand. The root of the noun is a verb spelled with
the same letters meaning, "to turn round, to twist, to whirl."
[Job 29:18]. The birth of the alchemical 1st matter is in the
sand (mineral kingdom). Alchemist call this their Phoenix-a
spiral twisting motion directly connected with sound and thought.
LHTh lahat. magic; flame, The flame of light. The art of Life.
In relation to BRIAH, Teleh and [LHT] are technical mystery-
terms, referring to the same idea that is expressed in the New
Testament mention of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the
world. Aries represent the beginning of creative activities in
Briah which result in physical names and forms. The Ram and the
Lamb are one and correspond to the Hindu Agni, Lord of Flame
(LHTh). see 7, 14, 22, 28, 66, 88. also: magic arts,
enchantments; glittering blade, glitter, flashing. as a verb
LHTh: to flame, consume, to practice magic; to hide, to cover.
Vir (Lt). a man, a husband. Same as the Hebrew ISh [AISh]. see
311.
45 (9*5)
Σ9 = 45
Among the savants who have searched for the etymology of the word
Adam, the majority went no further than its grossest exterior,
nearly all of them have seen only red cay, or simple clay,
because the word ADVM signifies red or reddish; because by ADMH,
the earth in general, has been understood; but they failed to see
that these words themselves are compounds, and that they can only
be roots of words still are compound; whereas the word ADM being
more simple cannot come for it.
Issac Myer writes: "The Great androgyne, the Adam Illa-Ah or Adam
Qadman, which includes in itself all the ideas, and all the
content of all the prototypes of the existence. This (first) Adam
is considered as the first distinctive beginning in the finite,
and therefore is the sole occupant of the Atzluthic world... in
reading the first and second chapters of Genesis, a distinction
was made by the learned of the Israelites, between the higher
Adam, i.e. the Adam Qadmon, or first paradigmic ideal man, and he
inferior (terrestrial) Adam... "The third Adam is the terrestrial
Adam, made of dust and placed in the Garden of Eden. This Adam
was also an androgyne... it had, when first created, a glorious
simulacrum or light body, and answer to the Yetziratic world...
The forth Adam was the third Adam as he was after the fall, when
he was clothed with skin, flesh, nerves, etc. This answers to the
lower Nephesh and Guph, i.e. body, united. He has the animal
power of reproduction and continuance of species, and also
answers to the Assiatic world, but in him is some of the light of
all the preceding (Adams)... together they form the great
universal man. The Qabalah names man as the purpose of creation,
and the first step in the upper Adam or celestial man." [Qabbalah
pp. 114, 401, 418]
The Zohar [I 26A, 34B] comments: "And the Lord God formed Man.
Man here refers to Israel, whom God shaped at that time both for
this world and for the future world. Further, the word Vayizer
(and he formed) implies that God brought them under the aegis of
his own name by shaping the two eyes like the letter Yod and the
nose between like the letter Vav (p. 101)... The words let us
make man may be taken to signify that God imparted to the Lower
beings who came from the side of the upper world the secret of
forming the divine name Adam , which embraces the upper and the
lower in virtue of its three letters, Aleph, Daleth and Mem
final. When these three form of the breath of life [#448]. Thus
the germ set by Jehovah Elohim in Humanity had been formed
earlier; existing already in the bosom of the Elohim, it was now
implanted in man, whose material body had been formed in another
way. Thus something entered man from another side. Only by the
endowment with Neshamah was it possible to implant in man the
rudiments of the Ego nature. These old Hebrew expressions,
Nephesh , Rauch, Neshamah are parallel with ours. Nephesh, as
regards man, we may set beside the sentient soul; Rauch we may
apply to the intellectual soul; Neshamah to the consciousness
soul." [Biblical Secrets of Creation, pp. 118-122]
HVA ABIK Hu abiyka. "He (God) thy Father." [Deut 32:6] HVA. Hu,
He, is a special title of KETHER.
HVLD. begat.
Homo (Lt). Man. It is also said Demon est Home inversus - "The
Devil is Man upside Down." see 510. Therefore God and Man are
essentially one. see 1035.
LVI Levi. Third son of Jacob and Leah; Lavie, of the tribe of
Levi [Genesis 35:23] "the sons of Leah: Reuban, Jacob's first-
born, and Simeon and Levi..." As the priestly tribe, early in the
history of Israel, the Levites became custodians of the sanctuary
and its furniture.
The Asch Mezareph [IV pp. 27-28] says: "Bedil, Tin; in natural
science, this metal is not greatly used; for as it is derived by
separation, so its matter remains separate from the universal
medicine. Amongst the planets Zedek [TzDQ = 194 = Jupiter] is
attributed to it; a white wandering planet, to which the gentiles
applied an idolatrous name, mention where of is forbidden, see
[Exodus 22:12] ("and if it be stolen from him, he shall make
restitution to the owner thereof"), and a greater extirpation is
promised [Hosea 2:17] ("For I will take away the names of Baalim
out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their
name") and [Zechariah 13:2] ("And it shall come to pass in that
day, says the Lord of Hosts, that I will cut off the names of the
idols out of the Land, and they shall no more be remembered: And
also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out
of the land.") Amongst the beast, no allegory is better applied
to this metal than that because of its crackling, it should be
called 'Chazir Mijaar, a boar out the wood [Psalm 80:14], whose
number is 545 (which is not only made 5 times from 109, but in
its lesser number shows a quinary, as twice taken is 10, the
lesser number of the word Bedil, by the two figures of 46 being
added together. But five times ten shows the fifty gates of
Binah, and the first letter of the Sephirah Netzach, which is the
Sephirotic class to which this metal is referred). In particular
transformation, its sulphurous nature alone both not profit, but
with other sulphurs, especially those of the red metals, it does
reduce thick waters, dully terrificated into Gold; so also into
Silver, it its nature by Tin. But its viscous and water nature
may be meliorated into Gold, if it be only pulverized with the
calx of Gold through all the degrees of fire, for ten days, and
by degrees thrown upon flowing Gold, in the form of the little
masses, which also I am taught is to be done with Silver. But no
man is wise unless his master is experience."
Ordo (Lt) Order. Part of the motto: "A new order of the ages" on
the Great Seal of the U.S. see 80, 94, 126, 220, 370 (Lt), 240.
ALIV elawyu. "unto", to towards, into, at, by. [Exodus 19:3] "And
Moses went unto God, and the Lord called unto him out of the
mountain, saying, thus shalt thou say to the House of Jacob, and
tell the Children of Israel."
Latin/Greek
vita (Lt). life. Desire for more Life involves the transmutation
of the rose, and the discovery of the true "Gold." In he
Rosicrucian allegory, this was the title of a Book, found in the
vault and said to have been written by Brother CR, from whence
the "relation" in the Fama was taken. see 18, 132, 106 (Lt).
ChM Khem. The Egyptians' own name for their country. Through
Egyptians influence of the Greeks, the root of our words alchemy
and chemistry.
IVBL yuwbal. stream, river; trumpet blast (from the sound coming
from a stream). Jubal, the name of the son of Lamech (traditional
founder of Free Masonry) [Genesis 4:21]
MTh Mat. The rod of Aaron. Related to the magical Wand. M: The
Hanged Man, or reversal. Th: the symbol of Fohat (Kundalini) and
its direction (strength). see 404, 43, 470, 175, 1225.
DMH dawmaw. meditated. see Genesis 1:26. see 54. [much of the
text for this entry is unreadable]
GVIL gawill. parchment. This suggest the blank page where the
"new name" is written, and the "rough ashlar" which is shaped
into the "Stone of the Wise."
Lux (Lt). Light. The source of all manifested life. "Lux, light,
is the actual substance of all material forms. The universally
diffused radiance is concentrated into suns, and their world
systems, and flames in every galaxy. It penetrates every solid
thing and overcomes the subtle... [John] Dee s analysis of LUX
into the component parts of a cross has analogues elsewhere
amongst occultist, as you probably know. I suspect that Mathers
and Westcott, or perhaps Mathers alone, developed it from the
hints in Dee s Monas [Hieroglyphic Monad]. Written L.V.X., so
that its letters are separated by periods, the letters are then
taken as Roman numerals, and their addition is 65.." [Paul Case,
op, cit. p.6] see 116, 364, 207, 73, 122 (Lt), 620, 397.
10 (Yod):Chokmah * 5 (Heh):Binah
DG GDVL dag gedul. "great fish". Jonah 1:17. When the great fish
(Scorpio) swallowed the prophet Jonah (Dove, #71). the forces of
Mars and Venus are conjoined (see 121). Note also that Ninevah,
the capital of Assyria, where Jonah was sent, is spelled NINVH,
so that it combines the letters NVN Nun, and IH. [Book of Tokens,
p.131]
IIL Ieiaiel. One of the 72 angels bearing the name of God. 58th
Shemhamphorash. see 81.
ILI Ieliel. 2nd Shemhamphorash. see 81.
Latin
AN. the signs which this root are those of power and of
individual existence. The determine together the seity, sameness,
selfsameness, or the me of the being, and limit the extent of its
circumscription.
NA. Fabre D'Olivet writes: "NA. No. Every idea of youth, newness;
every idea of freshness, grace, beauty, every idea springing from
that which is formed of a new production, of a being young and
graceful.
The Arabic [word] although molding to the same primitive root as
the Hebrew, has developed, however, ideas apparently opposed;
This is the reason. That which is new, of recent birth, is
graceful, fresh, pleasing; but it is also frail, weak, unsteady.
Now the Hebraic idiom is attached to the first idea; the Arabic
idiom has followed and developed the second. Thence the verb
[Arabic word], which indicated the state of that which is frail,
feeble, impotent; the verb [Arabic word] expresses the action of
letting go, being separated, abandoning a thing, etc. What proves
the identity of the root is that the compound very [Arabic word]
signifies literally to nurse an infant." [Hebrew Tongue Restored
p. 395]
Zion. Refers to the adytum the aspirant builds within the brain
(see 216).
52 (4*13)
ABA VAMA aba ve-ama. Father and Mother. Qabalists designate the
union of Wisdom (Aba) and Understanding (Ama).
"The central Sephirah is Beauty, called BN, the Son. Note that
this is 52, or a fourfold 13 [the number of unity and
love]."[Commentary 13th Communication 5/28/47]
"This [GN], in the ROTA, is the garden of the magician; and what
is the soil of the garden if be not identical with ABN, the
Stone? And thus do you see that the stone and the garden are
really AIMA, the mother, and behold! AIMA and BN are one in
numeration. This hath been said long ago by the companions, for
have they not written that in Binah, BINH, which herself is AIMA,
are conjoined the letters BN, and the sum of these is 14, the
ROTA number of the Father? Now, BN is, in the ROTA, 1 and 13, and
the sum of these is 14, the ROTA number of the intelligence of
Probation. For nothing can be known until it is tried, and in
union, the Holy Guardian Angel effects that union. Here men fail
to understand. COMMENT: all this hangs on the recognition of the
fact... that not the very least of any human being s personal
activities is anything but the work of what the ROTA pictures as
Key 14. Every circumstance of any man s life is a particular
dealing of God with his soul... The recognition that the Actor is
always superpersonal. For humanity of earth, the Actor is BN...
so it is the personal you that watches, yet what of reality has
that, apart from BN?" [Qabalistic Text 17th Communication
6/12/47] see 53, 124.
BKL be-kal. from all, among all, "in all things" (Gen. 24:1).
The Binah clause of The Pattern on the Trestleboard begins,
"Filled with Understanding.." Zohar says BK in BBK is the
designation of the "River of the Waters of which never fail."
"Now it is written also in Joshua, that among the spies who went
forth into the land of Canaan, was Caleb, and that for his good
report when others had sought to dissuade Joshua from advancing,
the Lord, Blessed be He, rewarded Caleb with long life.
Now Caleb signifieth dog, and well ye know that this is no name
of good repute in Israel. Yet here is a treasure of wisdom that
is part of the lore that Moses was instructed in as a youth in
Egypt. For the story of Caleb is a figure, and Caleb the dog
standeth for faithfulness, but there are deeper things than this.
For reckon the number of KLB (52) and behold it is a veil for
AIMA, for KLB is 52. Now 52 ye know has the number of BN, but it
is the number also of ABVAIMA, Abve-aima, or Father and Mother.
That is, it representeth the conjoining of Chokmah, AB, with
Binah, Aima. What then is the Path of this conjunction of Father
and Mother? It is the Path of the Luminous Intelligence which
joineth Chokmah to Binah, the Path of the letter Daleth.
Now come and see again. The word KLB hath for its first two
letters K and L, and these spell Kal, the ALL. And the last two
letters are L and B, and these spell Laib, the Heart. Now K and
L are 50, and these are the gates of Binah, and L and B are 32,
and these are the Paths of Wisdom. Thus in Caleb is concealed
the secret of the ALL, which is likewise a Secret of the Heart.
And is not the heart of Adam Quadman, Tiphareth the Son, into
which pour all the streams of Mezla from above, and from which,
for as much as Tiphareth is the Path of Separate Emanations, or
mediating influence, and same Mezla descendeth to the Paths which
are below? So Caleb is a sign of understanding, for his name as
we have said, is of like number with AIMA.
Caleb, as you have just seen in the Bible, was the son of
Jephunnah, that is IPNH. Now these four letters are worth
noticing. The first is Yod, phallic, and also symbol of both
Chokmah and Yesod. The second is the letter of Mars; the third
the letter of Scorpio, and the last related to Aries and to
vision. Remember that Caleb was a spy, and that the Text plainly
refers to the perfection of his masculine vigor. Moreover the
number of his years is given as 85, which is the number of the
letter name PH, Peh, and this is divided into two parts; 40, his
age when he served as a spy, and this is a number of Mem; and 45,
which elapsed thereafter, which is a numeral symbol of ADM, Adam.
That is, the dog became a completed man, and this involves the
use and direction of the Mars force in accordance with a reversal
of ordinary procedure, for the other spies reported unfavorably
and caused the people's hearts to melt. But Caleb at 40 stands
for the reversal, symbolized by the Hanged Man.
(N.B. There is here a double veil. For because BN and AIMA are
both 52, the conjunction of AB and BN implies the conjunction of
AB and AIMA. BN and AIMA are identical, but either AB and BN, or
AB and AIMA may be in the perfect union intimated by ABN. P.F.C.)
This, in the Rota is the garden of the Magician; and what is the
soil of that garden if it be not identical with ABN, the Stone?
And thus do you see that the Stone and the Garden are really AIMA,
the Mother, and, behold! AIMA and BN are one in numeration.
This hath been said long ago by the Companions, for have they not
written that in Binah, BINH, which herself is AIMA, are conjoined
the letters BN, designating the Son, and IH, representing the
Father? Now, BN is, in the Rota, 1 and 13, and the sum of these
is 14, the Rota number of the Intelligence of Probation. For
nothing can be known until it is tried, and in union, the Holy
Guardian Angel effecteth that union. Here men fail to
understand.”
[The 17th Communication, 1947]
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Latin/Greek.
Humana. Human.
Maia. The mother of Hermes. Also the name of Gautama, the Buddha.
Maya is likewise the "Mysterious power" of which Krishna
declares: My Maya is the great womb into which I cast the Seed:
from this is the Birth of all creatures."
"The stone is the garden, and the garden is the place of delight.
That is, ABN is GN, and GN is ODN, for the stone is the union of
the Son with the Father, and since ABN and GN are both 53, the
stone is the stone of Eden, as is the garden... the stone and the
garden are one, and as the stone is the union of Chokmah and
Tiphareth, so also is the garden that same union; and from union
cometh delight. Never is there delight in separateness. Only when
Father and Son are conjoined is there delight. (N.B. There is
here a double veil. For because BN and AIMA are both 52, the
conjunction of AB and BN implies the conjunction of AB and AIMA.
BN and AIMA are identical, but either AB and BN, or AB and AIMA
may be in the perfect union intimated by ABN. P.F.C.) Now of this
conjunction is GN the sign, because G is the Uniting
Intelligence, and N is the Imaginative Intelligence. G unites
Kether to Tiphareth, and N unites Tiphareth to Netzach. G is the
Moon. N is Mars in Scorpio. Add these in our ROTA and they make
15, which is the glyph of the Renewing Intelligence that linketh
Tiphareth to Hod... Now, N links the sphere of the Sun to the
sphere of Venus, and thus in GN you may see the whirling motion
of Kether, descending to the sphere of the Sun, and projecting
itself into the sphere of Venus. This, in the ROTA, is the Garden
of the Magician; and what is the soil of that garden if not be
identical with ABN, the stone? And thus do you see that the stone
and the garden are really AIMA, the mother, and behold! AIMA and
BN are one in numeration." [Qabalistic text-17th communication
6/12/47] see 52, 124.
Greek/Latin
Hyle (Gr). Wood. The gnostic name for the astral light. Wood is
an organic substance which absorbs personal emanations of the
astral light.
datum (Lt). given. Used in Secret symbols )page 20) at the close
of a preface to an alchemical treatise. The full phrase is "Datum
In Monte Abiegno," which identifies it as Rosicrucian (see 182).
ecclesia (Lt) . church. The church is the Stone.
panis (Lt). bread (lit. the feeding thing). The House of Bread
(Bethlehem), the sign Virgo, and the part of the body governed by
it (the small intestine), and the Stone which is said in
alchemical books to be, life bread, a product of coction-cooking
or baking. In the church (eccelesia), the Christ is held to be
represented by and mystically present in the Bread of the
communion (Panis) and is identified with the Stone.
patebo (Lt). "I will open." Part of the Motto on the vault of
C.R. "Post CXX Annos Patebo." see 200.
R.C, G., G.G, P.D. The initials of the second group of four who
were called by Brother C.R. to complete the work of founding the
Rosicrucian order. They raised the 4 to the 8, the square of the
perfect cube.
54 (2*3*3*3)
AGN aggahn. a bowl or basin; a disk. also AGN ogen, Brim, rim of
a vessel, edge; handle. In Key 14 the angel is pouring fire water
from two vessels or bowls.
DMI demiy. ceasing, still; cutting off, standing still. From the
verb DMH (see 49). In silence the personality ceases and man
becomes the "image and likeness" of God. Also DMI dahmi, quite,
rest; as an adjective, DMI, dawmi, sanguinary. This word is from
the noun DM dam (or dawn), blood. These meanings are shown in Key
13 plainly enough. see 44. demiy "rest' "and give you no rest,
until the Lord establish you and until I make Jerusalem a praise
in the earth." Also "tranquility", prosperity, in [Isaiah 38:10]
"I said, in the tranquility of my days I shall die, at the gates
of Sheol I am deprived of the rest of my years."
Greek/Latin
Ignis. Fire.
The Zohar [Prologue 8A-B, pp.34, 36] says: "The angel presiding
over Gehinnom is called Duma, and these are tens of thousands of
angels of destruction under him. He stands at its door, but those
who have carefully guarded the sign of the holy covenant he has
no power to touch... Duma returned then crest fallen to his
place. It is in regard to this that David said: Unless the Lord
had been my help, but a little would been wanting that my soul
had dwelt in Duma (silence). [Psalm 94:17]. That is, if the Lord
had not been my advocate, it wanted but little, etc. Only by
the hair breadth which is between me and the sinister power did
my soul escape from the clutches of Duma. A man should therefore
be on his guard not to let slip and incautious word like David,
since we will not be able to plead with Duma, that it was an
error [Ecclesiastes 5:5], Like David, who was vindicated by the
Holy One, blessed be His name; wherefore should God be angry at
thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands? [IBID], i.e. the
flesh of the holy covenant which the man has defiled and which,
as a punishment, is stretched in Gehinnom at the hands of Duma."
KLH Kallah. the crowned one, The bride, (of Melek, the King in
Tiphareth). Name of Malkuth. Refers to the New Jerusalem, the
holy city or manifested Kingdom (see 1006, 543, 496).
[Revelations 21:9] Also KLH to be complete, be completed, be
finished.
HKL ha-kal, ha-kol. all, everything, the All. In the Kingdom are
all the powers conjoined, and the Kingdom is the physical body of
man to which the name Guph is given. Malkuth represents the sum-
total of the influences on the Tree of Life, concentrated into
the field of manifestation called the "world"; the world of
physical man s sensory experience, the world of his mental
impressions of sensations experienced through his body. Bodily
contact with this field of sensation is the basis of all human
knowledge.
Greek/Latin
Ageleia (Gr). Title of Athena. "She who carries off the spoils,"
said by occult tradition to have been used by Pythagoreans, in
reference to the number 7. (She who drives of the Spoils.") 7 and
10 are related, because the extension of 7 is 28, which reduces
to 10. the extension of 10 is 406, which reduces to 10 (see 406).
IVM yom. day, light of day, time, season. In Genesis 1:5 gives
as God's own name for light, the (Qabalistic symbol of the
Manifest (see 69), as contrasted with darkness, to which the name
Night is given, as representing the Unmanifest. With different
vowel points, Yoom: to be warm, or bright.
Greek/Latin
"The sages have written about may waters, stones and metals, for
the purpose of deceiving you. You that desire a knowledge of our
art, relinquishing Sun, Moon, Saturn and Venus for our ore (#23
Latin) and our earth, and why so? Every thing is of the nature of
No thing." [Hermetic Museum I. p. 204]
gloria (Lt). glory. The Light of God which shines on all things
(see 74, 126, 136, 237).
AN The signs which compose the root, are those of power and of
individual existence. They determine together the seity,
sameness, selfsameness, or the me of the being, and limit the
exitent of its circumscription.
Latin/Greek
KBVD IHVH Kebode IHVH. "The Glory of IHVH." [Exodus 16:10] "And
it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of
the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness,
and, behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud."
Fabre D'Olivet suggest that Calah means the growing wise, old
men ruling within": "The word KLCh, which signifies literally, an
ancient, an old man, that is to say, a man whom age and
experience have led to perfection. Thence by extension, the idea
of a senate, of an assembly of old men, of a wise and
conservative institution." [Hebrew Tongue Restored p. 284] see
55.
This name appears in [Genesis 5:29] "And he called his name Noah,
saying He shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our
hands: because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed"
crux (Lt). cross (see 1274 Greek). Refers to the golden cross of
6 squares, belonging to the Rosicrucian order "which every
brother carries on his breast" [Secret Symbols]. see 109, 246,
66, 62, 47 (Lt). Also see the equal-armed cross of the 4
elements, the cross of Tav on the breast of Key 2.
59 (prime)
"In the Name of Adonai shall all the Nations be blessed. We begin
with this, because in the Hebrew 'Nations' is 'Goyim' and refers
to the Gentiles. The 'Nations' esoterically are the millions and
millions of cells not directly concerned with the controlling the
functions of the body, as are the more highly specialized cells
known as the 12 tribes, for the constitution of the human body is
the pattern for the proper constitution of the human society.
Just as the gross mechanics of the body furnishes the pattern for
all machines based on the laws of mechanics, while the subtler
structure of the same body provides the patterns for those
inventions which utilize the power of electricity." [Commentary
of the 20th Communication 6/23/47]. see 65, 671, 100, 739, 259.
Latin
HNH hinnay. behold! "The glory of the Heavenly son shall all men
behold." [Book of Tokens] With different vowel points: to give
pleasure or benefit, to please.
HVA ChIID Hia hayyekaw. "She is thy Life." [Proverbs 4:13] "Take
fast hold of instruction, let her not go; keep her, for she is
thy life." see 540, 12, 18.
GIHBM gihebem. Silence; according to Godwin: the seventh and
lowest hell, corresponding to the three Supernal Sephiroth. see
620.
"Yet is she also AMK, Ameka, thy Mother, and her heart swelleth
with love. For behold AMK: is it not 61, and this is BTN, the
dark womb of creation? And again, it is AIN, the Boundless, for
there are no limits to the overflowing love, springing like a
fountain of Living Waters from the heart of the Mother.
Greek/Latin
BNI beni. the sons. Temperance purifies the sons (and daughters)
of God. see 52, ?898?
NIB niyb. produce, fruit. [Malachi 1:12] "But you are profaning
it, [i.e. the Lord's name] in that you say, the table of the Lord
is polluted and its food (fruit) is contemptible." Also in
[Isaiah 87:19] "I create the fruit of the lips [i.e. speech);
peace, peace to those who are afar off and to those who are near,
says the Lord; and I will heal them."
sophia (Latin). wisdom. From Greek [Greek word]. see 781 (Gr.),
73
chalybs (Latin). steel. "Our chalybs is the true key of our art,
without which the torch would in no wise be kindled, and as the
true magi have delivered many things concerning it, so among
vulgar alchemists there is great contention as to its nature. It
is the ore of gold, the purest of all spirits; a secret,
infernal, and yet most volatile fire, the wonders of the world...
as steel is attracted to the magnet, and the magnet turns toward
the steel, so also our magnet attracts our chalybs. Thus, as
chalybs is the ore of Gold, so abounds in salt, which salt is the
menstruum in the sphere of the Moon, and can calcine gold. This
center turns toward the pole with anarchetic appetite, in which
the virtue of chalybs is exalted by degrees..." [Hermetic Museum
II, pp.. 166-167]. Case chalybs = 62 = Sophia.
"Remember now that the Glory is the Kabode-El, for God is One and
alone and there is nothing else, as saith Isaiah. Al is 31, and
KBVD is 32, so that KBVD-AL is 63. Here you may be searching
find much treasure. First, 63 is 9 times 7. Among the
Sephiroth, this is the multiplication of Victory by the power of
the Foundation. Among the letters it is the multiplication of
Zain by the power of Teth.
Nor are these in any measure different, for what is the Victory
if it be not that of the Sword of Understanding, and what is the
Foundation, if it be not a power of the Royal Serpent?
Here, indeed, may you find a rich treasure, and the text points
straight at it.
We shall not now give you more than this one hint. As students
familiar with our Rota, note well the words of the text
concerning 63 as the multiplication of Zain by Teth. Do not
forget that the path of Zain links Binah to Tiphareth, and that
ZIN is 67, as is BINH. Right disposition is rooted in
Understanding, and this is the sharp sword of discrimination, for
there is no love without understanding, and love must be
discriminating in the good and constructive sense of this word.
But note that Zain as 7 must be multiplied by Teth as 9 to make
the 63 of KBVD-AL, and though Teth is the serpent-power, the Rota
pictures that power as a red lion, tamed by a woman who
represents the feminine aspect of Chesed. Every Sephirah, you
remember, is both male and female. Female, as receiving the
descending influence. Male as projecting it to whatever paths
are below, and this feminine Chesed is pictured as being like the
Empress. For the taming of the lion and the serpent, these two
being really identical, is woman's work even as it is written in
the writings of the Sons of Hermes. If you have ears to hear,
this shall be for you a practical revelation of the Great
Arcanum." [23rd Communication] see 32, 67, 73, 833, 124, 419, 430
2. The Zohar [Prologue: 8a, pp. 33-34] adds: "'The glory of EL'
(God) signifies glory of [CHECK FOR MISSING TEXT] the bride which
is called EL, as it is written 'and EL hath indignation every
day' [Psalm 8:12]; all the days of the year it is called EL,
signifying glory on glory, splendor on splendor, and dominion on
dominion. Thus at the time when heaven enters into the canopy and
irradiates her, all those companions who joined in her adornment
have their names recorded there above, as it is written, 'and the
firmament showeth his handiwork..' the words 'his handiwork'
being an allusion to those who have entered into a covenant with
the bride."
Greek/Latin
opus (Lt). Work. Refers of the alchemical great Work. see 124,
61.
DIN Deen. Justice, the highest name for the 5th Sephirah,
Geburah. It is the square of 8, the special number of the
Sephirah Hod, and of the letter Cheth, which is the channel
carrying the influence from Binah down to Geburah. The wise see
meaning and purpose in the reign of divine law. In human
personality are summed up all the forces and laws of the
universe. Man is the instrument through which the Life-power
brings the Great Work to completion, symbolized by the pentagram,
one of the geometrical correspondences to the number 5 and
Geburah. see 92, 216, 95, 297, 850.
NVCh noah. to include, lie down, rest. The proper name Noah
(variant spelling). see 58. Also rest, quiet, resting place
[Esther 9:16]. As an adjective: pleasing, kind, easy, benign.
HVA-BN. Hu-Kether and Ben, the Son. He [is] the Son [Mark 1:11].
Greek/Latin
The number of the units of the pentagon when the length of the
sides are 13 units each.
KMH Kawmah. Cama or Kama; "to pine, or long for." This is the
name of the ?Hindu? God of love, or desire." [Inman].
HIKL haikel. temple, palace. Meeting place for the Shekinah. The
Zohar [Prologue 3B, pp. 13-14] adds: "The holy and mysterious one
?carved? in a hidden recess one point. In that he enclosed the
whole of creation as one who locks up all his treasures in a
palace, under one key, which is therefore as valuable as all that
is stored up in that palace; for it is the key which shuts and
opens. In that palace there are hidden treasures, one greater
than the other. The palace is provided with fifty mystic gates.
They are inserted in its four sides to the number of 49. The one
remaining gate is on none of its sides and it is unknown whether
it is on high or below: it is hence called the mysterious gate.
All these gates have one lock, and there is one tiny spot for the
insertion of the key, which is only marked by the impress of the
key. It is this mystery which is implied in the words in the
beginning created God. " HIKL = 65. It is "in the midst"
according to Sepher Yetzirah-the interior center (Tav). the
divine essence = ?AIV ANI?. HIKL may be read H I KL = The Yod
All. The Yod is the point of concentration. "Light and there was
Light. These words imply that there had already been Light. This
word AVR (light), contains in itself a hidden significance. The
expansive force proceeding from the hidden recesses of this
secret supernal ether opened a path and produced from itself a
mysterious point (or, rather, the ?ens? of (limitless) ?clave/
its own ether and disclosed this point), Yod." [Zohar I: 16B,
p.69]
DVMIH dumiah. silence, quietness; the 4th occult maxim (to keep
silent). Hence: trusting in silence, hoping, waiting. [Psalm
62:1] "Truly my soul trust God in silence; my salvation comes
from him."
Latin
Latin/Greek
Binah is both the dark sterile Mother, AMA and AIMA Aima, the
bright, pregnant Mother. This aspect of Reality is the matrix of
all possible specialized forms of expression. Ama represents
this aspect of Being prior to the beginning of a cycle of the
Life-power's self-manifestation. Aima is the fertile womb from
which flow forth all forms made manifest during such a cycle of
the Life-power's self-expression.
"Thus may you come to understand that the Sabbath of the Eternal
never ends. How then may man find rest, save in the heart of the
Mother? For that heart is the ever virgin Neshamah, and she is
one with the Everlasting Heavens. Dark she is, but comely, even
as Solomon saith. The source of terror to the ignorant, and
therefore Pachad dependeth with all its stern judgments from her.
Yet is she also AMK, Ameka, thy Mother, and her heart swelleth
with love. For behold AMK: is it not 61, and this is BTN, the
dark womb of creation? And again, it is AIN, the Boundless, for
there are no limits to the overflowing love, springing like a
fountain of Living Waters from the heart of the Mother.
Greek/Latin
Jesus. Latin spelling of Yeshua. In Christian esotericism this
name is applied to the Son, and we have seen that in the very
word [BINH] are to be found the letters B and N, forming Ben, the
Son.
unus. one; alone, single, sole. Refers to the unity of all life.
The actual substance of "all things" is the being of the Logos or
Word [Logos = 373, reduces to 13, which is AChD, echud, one and
AHBH ahebah, love, thus love and unity.] The established order of
all things is a unity "all things" are nature. see 215, 39.
Latin/Greek
The Chaldean character looks nothing like an eye, but its form
suggest the duality of human visions, the letter-name more
definitely. [Paul Case: Tarot Practice Course] see 358
Fabre D'Olivet comments: "This character should be considered
under the double relation of vowel and consonant. Following its
vocal acceptation, it represents the interior of the ear of man,
and becomes the symbol of confused, dull, inappreciable noises;
deep sounds without harmony. Following its consonantal
acceptation, it belongs to the guttural sound and represents the
cavity of the chest. Under both relations as grammatical sign, it
is in general, that of material sense, image of void and
nothingness as vowel, it is the sign Vav, considered in its
purely physical relations: as consonant, it is the sign of that
which is cooked, false, perverse and bad." [The Hebrew Tongue
Restored, p. 413]
ADM VChVH Adam ve-Chavah. Adam and Eve. i.e. Humanity. see 45,
19.
HSH haseh. Hush! Be silent! Hold your peace! Also: HSH (hasah),
to be silent; tongues. Compare this with the meaning of pax (35),
has to do with the control of speech. Silence: one of the 4
occult maxims. It is the soundless voice of the inner life,
expressing itself through thought. Heh reminds us that to receive
the inner tuition we must learn to keep silent. For the clearest,
intensest vision, this is essential. 2nd Heh (Malkuth-the Bride).
We shall accomplish more work and do it better if we do not say
too much about our plans and projects. Samekh hints that in
silence there is a supporting or sustain power. Desire will be
intensified. see 474, 346, 131, 815.
Paul Case, writing in Theory of Magic says: "The Hebrew word for
silence HSH, claims our attention now. Its first letter is Heh,
and so is its last. Our teachers in the Qabalah, tell us that the
first Heh is the Heh of the Mother, Aima of Binah, while the last
is the Heh of the Bride, Malkuth. The first Heh, therefore
corresponds to the creative world and to the faculty of
intuition. Thus it reminds us that to receive the interior
tuition which reveals to us the mysteries of cosmic law we must
learn to keep silent. The inner voice is not heard by those who
indulge in needless talk, furthermore, the letter Heh is the
letter of sight, and for the clearest, intensest vision, silence
is essential. The second Heh may serve to remind us of Lao-Tze
dictum the state should be governed as we cook small fish,
without much business." When we come to apply whatever magical
knowledge we may possess to the actual work of taking our part in
the administration of the kingdom, we shall accomplish more work
and do it better if we do not have too much to say about our
plans and projects. The middle letter of HSH, Samekh, hints that
in silence there is a supporting or sustaining power. That this
is true every practical occultist learns sooner or later. The
practice of silence as to what you aim at, as to what you are
doing, has two very important practical results. First of all, it
prevents other people from leaning of your plans and perhaps
setting themselves in opposition to you. Thus silence is over and
over again a time-saver and an energy-saver. Secondly, the
practice of silence serves to intensity desire-force. Your one
aim (the arrow of the archer, represented by the letter Samekh)
is something that you must keep religiously to yourself. Not even
your closest friends should know of it. This one aim is typified
in Revelation by the white stone, upon which is written a name
which no man knoweth, save him that receiveth it. The one things
you have to do in order to fulfill your destiny will be, or
perchance has been, revealed to you from within. See that you
tell no man. For in silence and secrecy the strength and potency
of that aim will be intensified until it dominates your whole
life. But if you tell your secret to other people, virtue goes
out of you and you are almost certain to incite somebody to acts
of open or veiled opposition." (pp. 166-168) [1925] see 815
KN. ken. thus, "so", just so, such, so much; honest. In Genesis
1:7: "So Elohim made the firmament and separated the water under
the expanse from the water above it. And it was so." Also in
Genesis 42:11: "We are all sons of one man. Your servants are
honest [KNIM] men, not spies." see 720.
***Fabre D'Olivet renders this verse: "And being steeped with the
spirit of his production, he intoxicated his thought (attained
ecstasy) and (in his exactation he revealed himself in the center
(most secret place) of his tabernacle." He comments: MV-HIIV
with-what-is-spirituous... The word IIV, which is the natural
order signifies simply wine, designates in the moral order, and
according to the figurative and hieroglyphic sense, a spiritual
essence, the knowledge of which has passed in all times, as
belonging to the most profound mysteries of Nature. All those who
have written of it, present the mysterious essence as a thing
whose profoundness can not be known without revelation. The
Kabbalists are accustomed to say, in speaking of this wine, that
he who drank of it would know all the secrets of the sages. I can
only offer to the read the grammatical analysis of the Hebrew
word, leaving the rest to his sagacity.
In the word here referred to, the two vowels are not only
enlightened by replaced by the sign of potential manifestation
Yod, image of intellectual duration. This sign being doubled
constitutes, among the Chaldeans, one of the proper names of the
divinity. United to the final sign Vav, it seems, if I can so
express it, to offer the very body of that which is incorporeal.
It is a spiritual essence which many peoples and particularly the
Egyptians, have considered under the emblem of light. Thus, for
example, one finds in the Coptic [word] light or torch. It is in
conceiving this essence under the form of spirit, that those same
peoples, choosing for it an emblem more within the reach of the
vulgar, have taken for its physical envelope wine, that liquor so
vaunted in all the ancient mysteries because of the spirit which
it contains and of which it was the symbol. This is the origin of
these words which, coming from the same root appears so different
in signification: AVN being and IIV wine, of which the Greek
analogous offer the same phenonenon [Greek word] being and [Greek
word], wine.
Latin/Greek
filius. Son.
tartar. a part of the alchemical salt.
71 (prime)
Matthew 12:39: "But he answered and said unto them, an evil and
adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall be no
sign given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: 40. For as
Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale s belly, so
shall the son of man be three days and three nights in the heart
of the earth." See also Matthew 16:14, Luke 11:29. INH = Virgo
(Yod) +Taurus (Vav) > Scorpio (Nun) > Aries (Heh) . see 59.
...Ionia, from which we have imbibed all that we have imbibed all
that we have which is delightful i art and brilliant in
knowledge, is attached on side to the mysteries dove of Moses, so
that of Semiramis; and loses itself on the other, in that sacred
emblem called Yoni by the Brahmans; Yng, by the Chinese Tao-teh,
over which it is necessary that I draw an impenetrable veil."
[The Hebrew Tongue Restored, p. 230-233]
The letters of the word form part of the doctrines of the Grade
of Exempt Adept. 1. The Chariot, Key 7 (Cheth): The I am does
nothing, for the I Am is the One Identity called God and God is
changeless. That One Identity is the witness of activity, but is
not itself modified or altered by the transformations that go on
around it. All change, all modification, is in the field of
energy with revolves around the I Am. The self does nothing. It
never had done anything. It is simply the witness of the panorama
of the transformations proceeding from its own mysterious power.
2. Temperance, Key 14 (Samekh): All circumstances are gifts from
the Almighty. Personality is the instrument of the One Self.
Every detail of our daily experience is a good gift from the One
Source. There can be no evil gift form the one giver of all good.
3. The Empress, Key 3 (Daleth): To know that all circumstances
are gifts from the one identity is to free subconsciousness from
every erroneous image of terror, lack, hatred; sorrow, or
mistrust. Whatever external appearances may be, they are
invariably veils of manifestation for the divine beneficence.
hope, courage, happiness and joy are fruits of the spirit, the
expression of accurate measurement of the facts of experience."
[Paul Case: True and Invisible Rosicrucian Order (4th), pp.. 418-
419.] see 178.
BKN bawkan. in, so, thus, then; in such a way; and so;
therefore. (see BN, masculine, base, pedestal; post, etc and BN,
adverb, so, thus, yes) see 52.
Greek
Kana (Gr). Cana, scene of Jesus 1st Miracle. Basically, "A reed
used for measuring," connects with Chesed as the Measuring
Intelligence. Measurement is suggested in the story of the
miracle. See "place of reeds" 155.
heh aletheia (Gr). the truth. see 9, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63, 81,
90. [John14:6] "Jesus says to him "I am the way, the truth, and
the life. No man comes to the Father, except by me."
Latin
verbum (Lt). word. The Latin equivalent for the Greek Logos.
Verbum stands for the formative power of the Creative Idea.
rubeum (Latin). red. The color of Mars. Part of a phrase. see 406
4. (The Emperor, Heh) A Magus sees eye to eye with the Ancient of
the Ancient Ones. he has "restored the Creator to his throne."
The Magic of Light is the exercise of the Constitution
Intelligence, which frames the universe." [Paul Case, True and
invisible Rosicrucian Order, p. 292-293]
ABIKM Abikam thy (your) father. [Isaiah 51:2] A reference to
Abraham, also a link between Chokmah and AB Ab, Father. Another
name for the number 2.
IVM ThVB yom tob. a day of feast; literally: "day of good." "The
camel which bears rich merchandise of the Life-power s knowledge
of itself brings us the treasure of divine wisdom. In that wisdom
we may put our trust. So the Hierophant is shown sitting at the
gate of a sanctuary. Every day is a feast day, a day of good, for
he who partakes of this wisdom. Without wisdom there is no good;
with it all is good, and all is peace." [Gematria of the Letter-
Names].
vista (Lt). visit. Part of the phrase in Secret Symbols (p. 17)
"Visit the interior of the earth, by rectifying you shall find
the hidden stone." see 570.
DIIN diin. leader, chief, judge. The Life-power (Aleph: Ox) rules
all creatures.
GIHVN gihon. "a stream"; The name of the second river of Eden,
associated with water. Variant spelling, according to Godwin. see
77, 724.
Greek/Latin
Angus Dei (Lt). Lamb of God. This is the "Lamb" clearly indicated
by the initials which are used in the Fama to designate the
Founder (compare ISD) of the Rosicrucian order, whose initial are
KR, Kar, Lamb. In Revelations, the Lamb is the symbol of Christ.
The lamb sits on the throne at the center of the cubical city of
the new Jerusalem. The Lamb is said to be both the temple and the
lamp of the city. The city itself is a symbol of regenerated
humanity, and of a society composed of regenerated persons. see
56, 18, 134 (Latin)
ROTA-IHVH (Latin and Hebrew). The wheel (of) the Lord. Letters
inscribed on the Wheel of Fortune, key 10. see 26, 48 (Latin)
75 (3*5*5)
GBO. Hill.
KNH kahnnawh. the stock (of a plant). [Psalm 80:15] "And the
vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch
(stock) that thou madest strong for thyself." In this passage the
word (with the prefix Vav) occurs as copied here with a large
kaph, indicating its importance. Note that the vine as the plant
includes the branches. Also KNH plant, shoot; stand ruler; KNH:
to give a name, give a title; to surname, nickname; to express by
a substitute.
Latin
matrix (Lt). the womb. The whirling inner energy is the womb from
which illumination emerges.
SVDV sod. secret. "He revealeth His secret." [Amos 3:7]. Also
rendered in Jewish translation "His counsel." see 114.
pectus. breast. Note that this is the part of the human body
governed by the sign Cancer. Within this area is the sun center,
focus of the central ego in the microcosm. This word, with a
different spelling, is part of the phrase, "a seed planted in the
breast of Jesus", a motto mentioned in the Rosicrucian Fama
Fraternitatis. see 95, 310 (Latin).
77 (7*11)
GIHVN gihon. The name of the 2nd river of Eden, that which
compasses the whole land of Cush [Genesis 2:13]. see 326, 702,
142, 446, 1068, 680, 1560, 858.
Fabre D'Olivet comments: "GIHVN Gihon.. (from the) root GH. This
root is employed here in the intensive verbal from which the
augmenatative syllable VN...(p. 80) GH... The organic sign
united... to that of manifestation (Heh), constitutes a root
which becomes the symbol of every organization. This root which
possesses the same faculties of extension and aggrandizement that
we have observed in the root GA, contains ideas apparently
opposed to envelopment and development according to the point of
view under which one considers the organization. [The Hebrew
Tongue Restored, p. 311-312]
Latin
H.C. (Lt). (Mystic name of) Fas Ducit "(Divine) Law or Command
Draws (or leads) Him."
A rectangle with a:
"Now, consider the influence that flows through the Tree of Life.
It is named MZLA, Mezla, and this word is 78, the sum of the
numbers from 1 to 12. For this reason there are 78 Tarot Keys.
BOZ Boaz. "in strength," The black pillar set before Solomon's
temple on the left side. Symbolizes the negative, feminine,
polarity of the Tree of Life -the Pillar of Severity. (scriptural
spelling see 85). [1 Kings 7:21]
Latin
The robe on Key 0, The Fool, bears the sign of the alchemical
Quintessence, an 8-spoked wheel, 10 times repeated. Suggesting
that the spiritual essences of the 10 Sephiroth are part of the
vesture or veil of THAT which the Fool really it. The path of
Aleph is the very essence of Kether itself, and Kether is naught
but the concentration of AIN, En (naughtness), into the Simple
Point.
"The heart of NPSh, Nephesh, is the letter Peh, and this path
carrieth the power of Netzach into Hod. From Geburah, the Sphere
of Madim, the Holy Mezla descendeth into Tiphareth through the
path of action, the sharp goad of Lamed. Yet is this path of
Lamed of the quality of Nogah.
Then from Tiphareth the Holy Mezla descendeth into the Sphere of
Nogah through the path of change, the path of Nun. Thus from the
Sphere of Madim the channel beginneth with Nogah, then taketh on
the form of Madim to enter the Sphere of Nogah; and likewise is
the first path from Nogah a path of Madim.
Consider this well, and see how, on the Tree, the paths of Daleth
and Peh are of like nature, though opposite in appearance. Now
see further. Peh is the heart of NPSh, Nephesh, and Peh is also
one with ISVD, for the number of P is 80, and this is the number
of ISVD. Truly, P and L are one, for P is K with Yod, as you may
see by looking at the character, and K with I giveth the number
30. Thus is Lamed a goad, and if this be considered, what is the
goad but the power of Madim? And in ISVD is concealed SVDI, Sod
Yod, the secret of Yod. Now Yod itself is Kaph, and the Sod Yod
is a mystery of the hidden paternal power of Chokmah."[Qabalistic
Text - 10th Communication]
"...the alchemists say there are two stages at the end of their
process, the White Work and the Red. White for the Moon, and Red
for the Sun.
Now, the Sphere of the Moon is Yesod, and the Sphere of the Sun
is Tiphareth. The White Work transmutes the leaden Guph into the
Purified Intelligence of Yesod, for it shows the alchemist what
is the real basis of his personal life." [Commentary 11th
Communication 5.23.47] see 89, 406.
In Leviticus 4:7: "And the priest shall put some of the blood
upon the horns of the alter of sweet incense before the Lord,
which is the tabernacile of the congregation; and he shall pour
all the rest of the blood of the bullock at the foundation of the
alter of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the
Tabernacle of the congregation." see 430.
The Zohar [IV: 225A, p. 268] Comments: "Observe that when the
priest spreads his hands at the time he blesses the people, the
Shekinah comes and hovers over him and endows him with power.
[Literally, fills his hands] When blessing, the priest raises his
right hand above the left, so as to cause the right to prevail
over the left. All the grades over which he spreads his hands,
are thus blessed from the source of all things, from the well
called righteous [i.e. ISVD, Yesod] the source of all is the
future world, the sublime source which illumines all faces,
whence are kindled all lamps. It has a counterpart in the source
and spring of the well whence all the lower lamps and the lower
lights are kindled and radiate. So one corresponds to the other.
Hence, when the priest spreads out his hands and begins to
pronounce the blessing over the people, the celestial
benedictions flowing form the celestial source at once kindle the
lamps, and faces are illumined, and the community of Israel is
adorned with celestial crowns, and all those blessing from down
from on high to below."
Mrs. Atwood comments: "None better than the ancient (who profess
to have enjoyed the rational life in its most intimate spheres,
and have reaped its most real and lasting advantages), describe
the folly and fatal allurements to which they are subjected who
trust thereselves to remain passively dreaming in the region of
the phantasy, with its notion and instincts, often more false,
fleeting [text continues and is missing]
END OF YESOD
"...they who know the secret of Yod, become the extenders of the
paternal Life and Light. Thus is Yesod called the Sphere of the
Moon, and that same Moon pertaineth also to Gimel, the letter of
Union. Blessed are they who hear and understand, and
understanding, live as they know....
OI Ay. A town near Bethel; heap ruin [Psalm 79:1] "O God, the
nations [GVIM, 59] have invaded our inheritance; they have
defiled your Holy Temple, they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
Latin
novus (Latin). new. Part of the inscription "A new order of the
ages" on the Great Seal of the U.S. see 220, 46, 94, 126, 370
(Latin).
total 80
The basis of practical occultism (I.O) is self-expression or
self-utterance. Adequate self-expression requires self-
interrogation (I.A) animated by specific purpose. This work of
self-expression is to be realized through concentration, which
leads to the establishment of equilibrium through finding one's
true center (G.V.).
The number of the Moon whose magic square contains the numbers
from 1 to 81.
PA paw. here, hither. [Job 38:11] "And said, hitherto shalt thou
come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?"
The letter name Peh is sometimes spelled PA. see 85
Greek/Latin
Phoenix (Latin). The legendary bird which lived for 500 years,
was consumed by fire and was reborn from its own ashes. An
alchemical term. The Book of Lambspring says: "In India there is
a most pleasant wood, in which two birds are bound together. One
is of a snowy white; the other is red. They bite each other, and
one is slain and devoured by the other. Then both are changed
into white doves, and of the dove is born a phoenix, which has
left behind blackness and foul death, and his regained a more
glorious life. This power was given it by God himself, that it
might live eternally, and never die. It gives us wealth, it
preserves our life, and which it we may work great miracles, as
also the true philosophers do plainly inform us.: [Hermetic
Museum I, p. 280] Case: Phoenix = 81 = humidum = magia sancta.
see 59 (Latin).
noster (Lt). our. It is our refuge and strength and is best seen
in Christ, our Lord. see 166, 85 Latin.
82 (2*41)
IHVH ALHK Jehovah Elohekah. The Lord thy God [Deut. 15:4, Deut.
28:58]. see 26, 66.
Latin
Fabre D'Olivet writes: "PG Phg. That which extends afar, which
wanders, is extended, loses its strength, its heat. The Arabic
[word] has nearly the same sense. As noun, it is every kind of
crudeness, unripeness; as verb, it is the action of separating,
opening, disjoining, etc." [Hebrew Tongue Restored p. 423]
Fabre D'Olivet renders [Genesis 4:17] "And Kain knew Aisheth (his
intellectual companion, his volitive faculty): and she conceived
and brought forth (the existence of) Henoch (founder, central
energy) Then he builded a spherical enclosure (stronghold) and
he called the name of this spherical enclosure after the name of
his son Henoch." He comments: ChNVK... again I urge the reader to
give close attention to the proper names; for to them Moses
attaches great importance. The greater part of the hieroglyphic
mysteries are now in form of these names. The one referred to in
this passage, is composed to the two roots ChN and AK. The first
ChN, characterize proper, elementary existence: it is a kind of
strengthening of analogous root ChN, more used, and which
designates things in general. The second AK, contains the idea of
every compression, of every effort that the being makes upon
itself, or upon another. For the purpose of fixing itself or
another. The verb which comes from these two roots: ChNVK
signifies to fix, to found, to institute, to arrest any existence
whatsoever. It is from a composition quite similar, that the
personal pronoun ANVKI, myself, in Hebrew results; that is to say
AN or HN, the finished, corporeal being, AVK founded, Yod in me."
[Hebrew Tongue Restored p. 137-138]
Greek/Latin
[Suph [SVP] - Ain [AIN] = 85] These words represent the means
whereby Ain the No-thing, establishes Suph or limitation.
"These two paths cross Gimel above Tiphareth, but the third
reciprocal path of Peh crosses the path of Samekh below
Tiphareth. Now see a subtlety. PH, Peh, is 85, and this goes
back to 4 through 13, so that the path of PH, Peh, veils Daleth
again. Thus all the horizontal paths are feminine, even though
the path of Peh is related to Mars, and the ruling power in the
path of Teth is the Sun." [Commentary - 11th Communication
5/23/47]
"Verily, IVD is the seed of all the letters, and if thou hast
eyes to see, in IVD is the secret of the Covenant, and this
secret is the Peh-Heh (PH), for PH is 85, or HISVD, Ha-Yesod, the
Foundation, and 85 is also MILH, the Covenant which removeth
concealment from the paternal Yod.
"The fact that Peh represents the Mars force is also the clue to
the meaning of MILH, circumcision, which refers to the masculine
aspects of the Life Power s activity in reproduction." [Gematria
of the Letter-Names]
Greek/Latin
Dominus (Lt). Lord. Latin word for God as the ruler of the
universe. The Latin word used in translating IHVH and ADNI in
the Old Testament (see 26, 65). What is intimated is that what
the human mind formulates in its idea of God is Lord, is no more
than the idea of the agency where by the absolute sets up the
conditions of name and form, which are the logical necessities
for any manifestation whatever. see 518 Latin.
Other Meanings: God, Deity, Angels, judge, rular. Daniel 2:44 The
spelling God of heaven ALH ShMIA is used. see 387.
However that may be, the Hebraic name Elohim has been obviously
composed of the pronoun AL and absolute verb, HVH, to be being...
It is from the inmost root of this verb that the divine name IH
Yah, is founded, the literal meaning of which is Absolute-Life.
The verb itself, united to pronoun AL, produces ALVH (Eloah),
That-He-who-is, the plural of which Aelohim, signifies exactly
HE-they-who-are: The Being of Beings.
KVS kevos. cup, goblet, the lot of fate, whether good or bad;
also the pelican called KVS, because its throat resembles a cup
or bag. The pelican is an important alchemical symbol. In all its
meanigns this word suggest the concealment, virgin birth, and
preservation of the fire through the feminine prinicple. see 386,
300.
MVM maom. want, fault, blemish, stain, spot, defect. Godwin
gives: Mum; 72nd name of Shemhamphorash, short form, associated
with the 6th Quinance (26°-30°) of Cancer. see 101, 1525.
VDOI vedayou. (Be still) "and know" (that I am God). see 514.
Greek/Latin
primus (Lt). first (in order). Indicating the idea that the Field
must be manifest before the man appears, just as the pentagon
must be constructed before the star of 5 points, symbolizing man,
may be drawn.
Typhon (Latin). The Greek name of the Egyptian divinity Set, the
personifacation of the principle of evil. In Greek mythology
[Greek word] the father of the winds and the son of [Greek word],
with whom he was sometimes confused [Webster] As storms were
ascribed to the agency of giants, the name came to mean a
furious storm, hurricane, typhoon" [Greek Dictionary]. An
appropriate name for unbalanced force before equilibration has
evolved order into manifestation. The "age" of giants and
dinosaurs." see 2050, 70 (Greek); 23, 52 (Latin); 861 (Greek)
Latin/Greek
Animuus Dei. Life of God. Yesod is the receptacle of the vital
soul of all living creatures, including man (see 430).
ChP chaph. "pure"; innocent. In Job 33:9: "I am pure and without
sin; I am clean and free from guilt. (10) yet God has found fault
with me; he considers me his enemy." see 808.
Greek/Latin
Aqua Vita (Lt). Water of Life. "If you would make our substance
red, you must first make it white. Its three natures are summed
up in whiteness and redness. Take, therefore, our Saturn, subject
it to coction in Aqua Vitae until it turns white, becomes thick,
and is coagulated, and then again till it becomes red. Then it is
red lead, and without this lead of the sages nothing can be
effected."
Filius Dei. Son of God. The water of life is the mystical son of
God and that son (the rider in the chariot in Key 7) is also the
rose itself (see 154, 119).
Nascimur (Lt). We are born. You shall find that the son of God is
born anew through us by the aid of the triangle of Fire and the
water of Life. Part of the phrase discovered in the vault of
brother CR, see 683 Latin.
Now, Guph is the body of the Lord, for is not the name of the
Kingdom ADNI MLK, Adonai Melek? Behold, then, the Kingdom
suspended from the cross of Tav. And what said the King,
speaking through that Guph men know by the name of Yeshua? Said
He not, "I am the living water?" And behold, MIM is 90, and so
is MLK; and thus Yeshua stilled the waters (seas), for he knew
that Adonai Melek is Lord of the Waters. ADNI MLK numbereth 155,
and here is AL in fivefold expression, for AL is 31." [Qabalistic
Text - 7th Communication, 3/9/47]
"89 is its number, and as the numbers are Sephiroth, this
revealeth Hod as the instrument of Yesod. But, again, 9 is
Yesod, and 80 is the numeration of ISVD. So, also, is 8 the seed
of 9, because 1, 2, 3, 4 5, 6, 7, 8 total 36, and 9 is the sum of
3 and 6. Yet see here the Mother, 3, and the Son, 6. Now look
at Key 8, and see there before you the Mother, and her Son, the
Lion of the Tribe of Judah. For ONE is All, and thus is Hod but
another aspect of ISVD. There is but one Foundation.
"See now, Guph is KLH, Kallah, the Bride, and in her name is
shown the perfection of the Kingdom. For the Kingdom is 10, and
KLH is 55, or the sum of the numbers from 1 to 10. See again,
the Bride, KLH, is also HKL, the ALL. For in Guph is the whole
creation made manifest. Therefore is Guph, the body, the whole
[holy? P.F.C.] Temple of the Most High. And where standeth
this Temple? Verily, it standeth in the midst, or center, and in
it abideth forever Adonai Melek (ADNI MLK), our Lord and King,
Holy is His Name, Blessed be He!
Note the statement that Guph is really the Kingdom, or the Bride
who is the ALL. This is fact. Can anyone separate even the
smallest body from the whole? Through a single atom course all
the forces of the universe, and whatever body you may take for an
example, whether it be small as an electron or great as a galaxy,
this remains true. Moreover, whatever body you may elect to
consider, that body is the mathematical center of an infinite
expanse." [Qabalistic Text and Commentary - 9th Communication,
5/15/47]
"Chokmah and Kachmah being numerically one, that is, 73, and this
being also the number of the name of the letter Gimel, GML, what
lies behind this part of the text is the Qabalistic doctrine that
Chokmah is the source of Chaiah, the life-force, and since GML as
73 is identical with ChKMH and KChMH, Gimel is also the seat of
Chaiah. Thus the fact that Gimel is the first letter of the word
Guph signifies that the body of man proceeds from, or has its
root in, Chokmah, which is also the Sphere of Masloth, the
highways of the stars." [Qabalistic Text - 23rd Communication
12/29/47]
Greek/Latin
Anima Mundi (Lt). Soul of the world. Mother Nature active on the
physical plane. "For itself is the universal and sparkling flame
of the light of nature, which has the heavenly spirit in itself,
with which it was animated at first by God, who prevades all
things, and is called by Auicenna, the Soul of the World.
[Hermetic Huseum I. p. 78] A. E. Waite, describing the Mercury
symbol says: "The cescent denotes the lunar part, which is
feminine, and volatile in nature: This is the spiritus mercurii.
The medial circle has no point in the center, signifying the
immature state of Mercurial Sulphur Solis: This is the Anima
Mundi of Quicksilver. The cross at the base represents the
volatile body of the metallic substance." [Brotherhood of the
Rosy Cross, p. 460] see 55
Sum of the perimeters of the 5 Platonic solids (6, 10, 14, 22,
38).
"And what said the King, speaking through that Guph men know by
the name of Yeshua? Said He not, "I am the living water?" And
behold, MIM is 90, and so is MLK; and thus Yeshua stilled the
waters (seas), for he knew that Adonai Melek is Lord of the
Waters. ADNI MLK numbereth 155, and here is AL in fivefold
expression, for AL is 31." [7th Communication] see 155, 36, 89
"The Son is one with the Father, and the King is one with the
Seas, and the Man is the symbol of the division of the Seas. For
BN and AIMA are both 52, and MLK is like MIM, 90, while ADM is
45, the half of division of 90. These are the names of
Tiphareth. See then that MLK and ADM are really the same even in
number, for though 45 is the half of 90, 4 and 5 total 9, and 9
and 0 total 9 also. Furthermore the extension of 9 is 45. Thus
ADM and MLK are essentially one, but since MLK is 90, and this is
the number of MIM, the Seas, the King, like the Son, is one with
the Mother, for AIMA is also the root of water, and that is the
root of MIM, and besides, AIMA is named also the great Sea....in
this does the royalty of the King have its root, that he is one
with the Kingdom or Bride, and one with the Mother also. Now in
MIM, the Seas, the Rota shows you the hanged or suspended ADM,
thus is his head surrounded with the glory of the sphere of the
Sun. He is the MLK or King, and his power to rule is the
consequence of his utter dependence on what supports him - which
is the power at the center corresponding to the letter Tav.
Again both MLK and MIM are related to the letter Tzaddi by the
number 90, and what is Tzaddi in the Rota but the Mother
unveiling herself to those who succeed in meditation, as did our
Father Abraham according to the Book of Formation? [19th
Communication] see 45, 52, 434, 400.
IKIN Jakin. the firm or strong one; patron From a Semitic root
meaning "unity" and refers to the creative power of the One
Thing. The white pillar, the pillar of mercy of the Tree of Life
has the same underlying significance as "Yod Tetragrammaton". The
pillar of establishment Solomon set before the porch of the
temple, and which is the royal secret (silence) of the life-
powers reign. In Masonry: He will establish. see 740, [1 Kings
7:21]
IMM yamin. hot springs. incorrectly translated "Mules" in the
authorized version of Genesis 36:24. The union of Fire and Water.
LB-HABN liab ha-ehben. the heart of the stone, " the stoney
heart" [Ezekiel 11:19] "And I will give them one heart, and I
will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stoney
heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh."
The "stoney heart" is a symbol of the sense of separateness
pictured by the tower in Key 16. see 85, 735, 740
Greek/Latin
Arbor aurea (Lt). Golden tree [Secret Symbols, page 33]. Note
that the 6th Path is the Sphere of Sol.
MAKL maekahl. Food, meal, fare, mealtime. The Higher Self is the
food which nourishes the personality.
"The Ordinary numeration of AMN is 91, the sum of the number from
0 to 13. So taken, AMN stands for the full expression of the
concepts of unity and love (Achd, Achad and AHBH, Ahebah), each
of which is 13 in Hebrew. But sometimes a final Nun is understood
to represent the number 700. By this reckoning AMN would be the
number 741. This is also related to 13, for as 91 is 7x13, so 741
is 3x13x19. Thus the facts of 741, written as Hebrew words would
be AB (3) x AChD (13) X ChVh (19), or Father x Unity x Mother
(Eve). The occult meanings of AMN as 741 is therefore the power
of the Father, which is one power, manifested through the agency
of the Mother. Again, AMN, taken as 9 is equivalent in numeration
to the words IHVH ADNI, Jehovah Adonai, God the Lord. All these
Qabalisms serve a single purpose. They indicate that the quality
of consciousness distinguished by the word AMN, Amen, Faithful,
is fundamentally of the nature of the Primal Will, and is the
actual power whereby forms are brought into manifestation. Thus
St. Paul, trained by Rabbi Hillel, declared: 'Faith is the
substance of things hoped for.' [Paul Case: op. cit. pp. 384-385]
Greek/Latin
Sal et sol (Lt). Salt and Sun. Alchemically salt and gold The
word Sal, salt, has a qabalistic correspondence to 7 because its
value is 28, the extension of 7. An instruction of the Freres
Chevaliers read in part: "(2) What is truth?-it is the Great
Architect of the Universe. (3) What has declared it unto you?-His
works, and the work of my hands. (4) How in his works?-all his
creatures testify concerning him. (5) How do the work of you
hands?-because I have seen the likeness of his creation. (6) Who
taught you this work?-our excellent master. (7) What did he teach
you?-that in salt and sol we have all things. (8) What is the
sun?-it is the work of the philosophers." [Brotherhood of the
Rosy Cross, p. 473] see 78, 231 Greek.
trinus (Lt). triple, threefold. Related to a truth that the
essential reality is one, yet in threefold aspect.
92 (4*23)
BTz botz. whitish clay, mire, bog. This refers to the ignorant
as persons immersed in the illusions of physical existence.
1. The Tower, Key 16: No form is permanent, not does any form
separate a portion of the One Identity from the whole of that
identity. The reality manifested at any point in space is
identical with the reality existing at all points in space. The
reality existing in the present is identical with the reality
which has continued unbroken through the past and will continue
unbroken through the future... 2. The Chariot, Key 7: The One
Reality is the field of its own manifestation, the vehicle of its
own existence: and that One Reality is the directive principle in
human beings, designated by the pronoun 'I'... 3. The Empress,
Key 3: Nature is the manifestation power of the One identity. In
all nature no force opposes itself to that One. All the forces of
nature, with no exception, are instruments for expressing that
free will of that One Identity. Whatever appears to the contrary
is illusion, and the acceptance of that illusion for truth is the
delusion that binds the ignorant." [Paul Case: True and Invisible
Rosicrucian Order (4th), pp. 387-388]. The truth behind the
letters of this word is part of the doctrines of Greater Adept.
ChSDK chesed-ka. thy loving kindness [Psalm 138:2]. It shows the
difference between a wise man's reaction to the power of the 5th
Sephirah and that of the ignorant. What the ignorant fear, the
wise interpret correctly as loving kindness. Note that the
latter is Chesed, the fourth Sephirah. see 72, 216, 64, 572, 725
TzB tzab. litter, covered wagon. [Isaiah 66:20] "And they will
being all your brothers, from all the nations, to my Holy
Mountain in Jerusalem as an offering to the Lord-on horses, in
chariots and wagons, and on mules and camels,' says the Lord."
Latin/Greek
Greek/Latin
luna mater (Lt). "The moon is its mother." From the Emerald
Tablet of Hermes.
omnia ab uno (Lt). all is from one. Alchemical and Rosicrucian
term.
[John 15:9-10] "As the Father loved me, and I loved you, abide in
my love. (10) If you observe my commandments, you shall abide in
my love; as I have observed the Father's commandments, and abide
in His love." Of love among christians, in [1 Thessalonians 3:12]
"And may the Lord cause you to be full and to overflow with love
to each other, and to all even, as we also to you." And in [2
Corinthians 8:7] "But as you abound in everything-in faith, and
in word, and in knowledge, and in all earnestness, and in your
love to us, see that you abound in the free gift also." Hence,
love in general, holy love, without specifying a definite object,
e.g. as an attribute of God, in [1 John 4:7] "Beloved! we should
love each other knows God." And as a christian grace, in [Romans
12:8] "Let love be unfeigned, detest the evil; adhere to the
good."
Sit Lux (Latin). "Let there be Light [Genesis 1:3] "and the
Elohim said "Let there be Light", Thomas Vaughan: "...These
invisible central artist are lights seeded by the first light, in
that primitive emanation, or Sit Lux 'let there be light." [Work:
Anima Magica Abscondita, p. 55] see 44, 49 (Latin); 206.
94 (2*47)
The sum of the top and bottom edges of the trapezoid forming a
face of the unfinished pyramid of the Great Seal of the U.S.
ILDM Ildim. Children. From ILD, eled, child, son, young man,
boy, youth. In the words of Jesus: "Unless you become as a little
child, you shall in no wise enter the Kingdom of Heaven."
Latin/Greek
seclorum (Lt). of the ages; of the aeons. Part of the motto: "A
new order of the ages" on the Great Seal of the U.S. see 46, 80,
126, 220, 370 Latin.
sol pater (Lt). Sun Father [see Emerald Tablet]. The interior
"Sun" hidden in the microcosmic "earth" is the Ego.
alapha et omega (Latin). The first and the last, the beginning
and the end. Latin transliteration of Greek, as in [Revelation
22:13] "I am alpha and omega, the beginning and the end, the
first and the last." Part of a phrase in Secret Symbols. see 717,
34, 37 (Latin). The name of the Golden Dawn under Mathers in
Paris, London, Edindurah and the U.S.
95 (5*19)
DNIAL Daniel. A judge from God. Old Testement name, the prophet
and astrologer. Combines the words Dan, DIN with Al, AL, so that
it is a symbol of the expression of the latent powers of Chesed
through the activities of the Geburah (DIN, Justice). Also
Daniel, "The giver of mercies", angle of the 2 of Wands; 50th
Shemhamphorash, "God is Judge", the angle of confession. [Kircher
Oed. eg. V.2 pp. 266-267] 246°-250°. EREGGMO. May 8, July 19,
September 29, December 10, February 20, 4:20-4:40 PM. [Psalm
103:8] "The Lord (IHVH) is full of compassion and graciousness,
slow to anger and plenteous in mercy." To obtain the mercy of
God, and to receive consolation. Rules justice, lawyers, and all
magistrates in general. Gives inspiration to those who are
embarrassed by too many affairs and do not know exactly how to
decide. Persons born: industrious and active in affairs, loves
literature, and distinguishes himself by his eloquence.
HMIM ha-mem. the waters. Its refers to the "waters" from which
all organic life is spawned. see 90.
"Yet is Malkuth also KLH (Kallah) the Bride, and MLKH (Malkah)
the Queen... Yet more, Malkah is written with the letters of
HMLK, the King, and the King is Tiphareth, yet is Tiphareth
ThPARTh or 1081, and the seed of this is 10 which is both Malkuth
and Yod. Extended downward, Tiphareth is completed in Malkuth,
even as Tiphareth itself is the King or Royal Son, one with his
Father, and that Father is AB in Chokmah which also is the body
of Yod. Again, MLKH (Malkah) is 95 and this is the number of the
name of the letter Peh spelt in plenitude PH-HH...Thus is Malkah
truly as a Queen, also the Queen's daughter all glorious within.
Now she holdeth the mystery of union, and thus is she known to
the Sons of the Doctrine of ABNGDLH the "Great Stone," that is by
interpretation the perfect union in Chesed or Gedulah of the
Father AB with the Son BN." [26th Communication]
"95... this is the number of the name of the letter Peh spelt in
plenitude PH-HH, so that in the first of these four letters you
may see the mouth of the Eternal, and in the other three Hehs
three-fold vision of past and present and of time to come, for
are they not three Hehs? Yet see further. Their whole addition
is 15, and this is IH, Jah, the Holy name of Chokmah and HVD
(Hod), the Splendor of the Presence.
Greek/Latin
BLThIHM belawtehem. "by their secret arts" [Exodus 8:7] "And the
magicians did so with their enchantments..." see 94.
Latin
BN ADM Ben Adam. Son of Man [Psalm 8:4]. Refers to man as the
means whereby the Divine Grace becomes manifest through correct
understanding of the desire nature (see 363).
HIM HGDL ha-yahm ha-godel. the Great Sea. A name of Binah, sphere
of understanding and intuition, source of grace and mother of the
"son of man". see 52, 67.
Latin
Liber Mundi (Lt). Book of the World or Book of Life. see 314
Greek, 30, 42, 55 Latin, 106, 444, 264, 230.
OCh dach. white, clear, sunny, warm, dry. [RVCh OCh], dry wind
[Jeremiah 4:11]. Dazzling, bright, clear, glowing, brightness.
HVA ALHIM Hu Elohim. He, the Creative Powers. This indicates the
essential identity between Yekidah in Kether (He) and Neshamah in
Binah (the Creative Powers) through the path of Beth (Key 1, The
Magician). this is the "treasure" which drives the soul to unity.
ABN ADM ehben ahdom. red stone; "stone of Adam." see 53, 45.
Greek
Latin
ANI IHVH HVA Ani IHVH Hva. "I, myself, IHVH, He" (mine). Ten
letters, combining Macroprosopus, Microprosopus and
Tetragrammaton. HVA is also called ABA, the Father; and IHVH is
between them. ANI (61) and ABA (4) and to 65 or ADNI. IHVH (26),
added to ADNI (65) is 91 or AMN, amen. (see Isaiah 42:8)
Fabre D'Olivet list the root of this word as ThI, and says it is
"analogous to the root ThI, and which like it, expresses every
kind of reflection as is indicated by the folowing:: ThITh [28]
that which gushes forth, that which splashes, as mud, slime,
mire, etc. Figuratively, the earth. The Arabic [word] signifies
properly to bend, to give way, to be soft. [The Hebrew Tongue
Restored, p. 358] Godwin gives: Tit ha-yaven, Miry Clay; the 4th
Hell, corresponding to Tiphreth.
Greek
Latin
Names for the number 1: see 12, 21, 37, 397, 422 or 1552, 620,
721, 559, 736, 837.
"The union of higher reality, the upper Yod, with the lower
reality, the lower Yod, by means of the connecting Vav, of Torah,
is the ultimate secret of the letter Aleph." [The Alef-Beit, Rabbi
Ginsburgh] See 214 (RVCh], 37, 111 [ALP].
Greek
"Why does the Torah begin with the letter Beth, which corresponds
to the number 2? Because our Sages teach that God created not one
world, but two. There is OVLM HZH, this world, and OVLM HBA, the
world to come. Our life must always be lived with the awareness
that the grave is not our end, but merly the second beginning."
[The Secrets of the Hebrew Words, Rabbi Blech].
The Hieroglyph for Beth has been lost, as the square letters
employed today are of comparative recent invention. Perhaps the
first idea that will be suggested to most people be all arrow-head
is sharpness. Then since every Hebrew letter stands for a kind of
consciousness, Beth must be a sign of mental acuteness, or
penetration. It represents the sort of intelligence that manifest
itself in quick perception, accurate observation, keen
discernment, sagacity, and the like. An arrowhead is a point,
denoting position. In logical 'position' means affirmation or
assertion, As when we speak of 'the proof of a position,' implying
order-is derived. Beth, then represents affirmative mental
activity, limiting its operation to a definite locality, and
exercising itself in establishing order. Hence Beth suggest
initiative, direction, control, the concentration of energy in a
particular field, and its specialization in definite forms. This
idea of concentration is inseparable from the original form of the
letter. The word 'concentrate' is derived from the greek Kentron,
an arrow point. The same Greek work also means the point around
which a circle is inscribed, which shows that it implies the very
notions of definite locality, order, that we have been
considering. The implicates of the letter name are closely related
to those connected with the hieroglyphic. Beth means "house"
suggesting inclosure, limitation, to a special field, definite
locality, and so on. As a House is the dwelling of its owner, so
is the kind of mental action related to Beth the abode of spirit,
because it centers the cosmic mind in a particular, local
expression." [The Secret Doctrine of the Tarot, in the Word, June
1916, pp. 79-80.
The number 2 stands for the non-ego, the inferior nature, the
mysterious working power of the supreme spirit. It is the
arithmetical symbol of result or effect; the moon, the reflection
of sun; of memory; of intellect (Wisdom) and of radiant energy
because it vibrates. Prakriti-the Great Womb or principal thing.
It is female in relation to Kether.
Σ2 = 3
Numbers which reduce to 3 see: 12, 21, 30, 39, 48, 57, 66, 75, 84,
93, 102, 111, 120, 138, 300.
G Gimel. Camel. The number of the third Hebrew letter, Key 2 the
High Priestess. Represents universal Memory, through the
subconscious substance aspect (Water). The uniting Intelligence,
linking the universal self in Kether and the Ego in Tiphareth, on
the Tree of Life. It is the bond between all creating beings and
like the camel, is a symbol of travel, communication and change.
The direction Below on the Cube of Space. A key to the alchemical
mystery of the First Matter-the Virgin Substance "whose purity
naught can defile" [Book of Tokens, Gimel]. see 237, 882, 13.
Gimel is a modified form of Yod. Thus the two parts of the letter
hint at a concealed numeral value of 16, since Vav is 6 and Yod is
10. Among Hebrew words having the value of 16 are: AZVB, Hyssop,
signifying purgation or purification; GBVH elevated, exalted,
High; HIA, She; and ZVB, like equal to. The Uniting Intelligence
is the most important means of purification. It links personal
consciousness to the Highest plane of being. It is the wisdom
personified in Proverbs as a woman. Its full exercise enables us
to realize the identity of the Self in man with universal being.
"The Earliest sign for the letter Gimel was probably a
conventionalized picture of a bow. As a bow is used for shooting
arrows, the first idea it suggests is propulsive force.
Furthermore, since we have learned that the letter Beth was
originally in the form of an arrowhead, it becomes evident that
Gimel, the bow, as the propulsive force behind the arrow, stands
for something that incites the objective mind, represented by
Beth, to express itself in concentrated attention... Thus, in a
sense, the bow is derived from the arrow; and this makes it an
emblem of secondary existence; evolution, and the like. Again, the
bow, like the crescent, cup, sistrum, wheatear, oval, is related
to the hieroglyphic as well as to the letter-name. Relaxed and
unstrung, the bow is an emblem of peace; tense and strung, it
signifies war." [The Secret of the Doctrine of the Tarot in the
Word, July 1916, page 161, 163].
"And why does the roof of the Daleth extend backwards a little to
the right, in the direction of Gimel? To teach us that the poor
man, Daleth, must make himself available to the Gimel, the one who
would lend him money. Nevertheless, the face of the Daleth is
turned away--teaching that charity must be given in secret." [The
Book of Letters, Rabbi Kushner]
The 4th Hebrew letter, meaning "Door". Attributed to Venus and the
desire nature; to creative imagination. Daleth is the Luminous
Intelligence, uniting Chokmah and Binah on the Tree of Life. On
the Cube of Space, the East face, source of Light.
"The character for Daleth is easily confused with that for Resh,
printed on Key 19. The difference is that the upper parts of the
letter projects slightly to the right, and the ascending line is
somewhat thicker than in Resh. Because the value of the letter is
4, it is often cited in Qabalah as the sign of the 4th Sephirah,
Mercy or Beneficence." [PFC, Practice Course].
ABA Abba. Father. A name for the number 4 and Chesed. 2*2 or the
multiplication of Chokmah by itself. This links the derivation of
the powers of Chesed from chokmah, since chokmah is called AB,
Father. It is through the path of Vav (the Hierophant, and in
italian Il Papa, the Father) that the power of Chokmah descends
into Chesed.
Heh [H]. Fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Connected with the
idea of meditation, the pentagram, the function of Binah in
creation (#67). also with vision, reason, observation which lead
to definitions.
"The Heh looks life a lobby with three walls, but with one side
completely open. This indicates that God allows man free choice.
He is free to obey or disobey God's will, but he chosses to leave
the safety of the Torah's spiritual and moral boundries, he loses
his foothold and slips, as it were, through the open space of the
Heh into the abyss...however, Heh symbolizes God's readiness to
forgive...A small opening is left in the top left leg of the Heh
symbolizing that a space always remians through which a repentant
sinner can return. [The Wisdom of the Hebrew Alphabet, Rabbi Munk]
Σ3 = 6
Names for the number 6: see 45, 52, 80, 311, 1081, 548, 666.
In all things, great and small, I see the Beauty of the divine
expression.
Fabre D'Olivet comments: "Vav, O, OU, IU. This character has two
very distinct vocal acceptations, and a third as consonant.
Following the first of these vocal acceptations, it represents the
eye of man, and becomes the symbol light; following the second, it
represents the ear, and becomes the symbol of sound, air, wind: As
a consonant it is the emblem of water and in it, as I have already
said, that image of the most profound, the most inconceivable
mystery. The image of the knot which unites, or the point which
separates nothingness and being. In its luminous vocal acceptation
Vav, it is the sign of intellectual sense, the verbal sign par
excellence.. in its ethereal verbal acceptation Vav, it is the
universal convertible sign, which makes a thing pass from one
nature to another; communicating on one side with sign of
intellectual sense, which is only itself more elevated, and on the
other, with that of material sense Ayin, which is only itself more
abased: It is finally, in its aqueous consonantal acceptation, the
link of all things, the conjunctive sign. It is in this last
acceptation that it is employed more particularly as article...
The character Vav, except its proper name VV, does not begin any
word of the Hebraic tongue, and consequently does not furnish any
root. This important observation, corroborating all that I have
said upon the nature of the Hebraic signs, proves the head of a
root to nouns to modify them, or between them for the purpose of
joining them, or in front of the verbal tense to change them.
BH. in her.
8 (2*2*2) The Ogdoad
"In thought and word and deed, I rest my life, from day to day
upon the sure foundation [Yesod] of eternal being." (Pattern on
the Trestleboard) see 775.
BBH babah. cavity, something hollowed out, the apple of the eye,
apple.
Fabre D'Olivet comments: "GI, GV, GH. The organic sign united
either to that of life, or to that of universal convertible force,
or to that of manifestation, constitutes a root which becomes the
symbol of every organization. This root which possesses the same
faculties of extension and aggrandizement that we have observed in
the root GA, contains ideas apparently opposed to envelopment and
development, according to the point of view under which one
considers the organization.
GHH That which organizes; that which gives life to the organs:
health, and metaphorically, medicine.
Fabre D'Olivet comments: HD, like the root AD, of which it is only
a modification, it is attached to all ideas of spiritual
emanation, the diffusion of a thing absolute in its nature as the
effect of sound, light, voice, echo. The Hebraic root is found in
the Arabic root [word] which is applied to every kind of sound,
murmur, noise; but by natural deviation the arabic root having
become onomatopetic and idiomatic, the [aramic] verb signifies to
demolish, cast down, overthrow by similitude of the noise made by
the thing which are demolished." [The Hebrew Tongue Restored, page
328]
BAV. In desire.
Σ4 = 10
One Greek name for 10 was Pantelia, signifying "all complete," or,
"fully accomplished." Westcott says: "Note that ten is used as a
sign of fellowship, love, peace and union, in the Masonic third
token, the union of two five points of fellowship." Ten is also
the number of complete manifestation, according to the Qabalist."
The upper point of Yod represents the Primal Will, while the rest
of the letter corresponds to the aspect of the Life-power named
Wisdom. This means that all mental activity is derived directly
from the essential Will of the One Identity, and this mental
activity, or volition, takes form as the Wisdom which is the basis
for the entire cosmic order. Furthermore, the mental activity of
the Primal Will, symbolized by the upper point of Yod, expands
into the life-force of all beings, and this life-force is fiery.
HH Letter name Heh. Woe, alas. The first Heh represents insight,
or the Life-power's own knowledge of itself. The second Heh is a
symbol of foresight, directed toward the outcome of necessary
consequences following from what insight reveals (see 514).
ADV Ovd. The English equivalent of several Hebrew names among whom
was a prophet or seer [2 Chronicles 9:29, 12:15, 13:22].
AVD ode. the fire of the magic light, firebrand, the magic power.
Aleph is the divine Life-breath (RVCh), Vav is the link which
joins into all beings, and Daleth is the door of life through
which all things are manifested (see 207, 363, 89).
"Now the name ShDI EL ChI beginneth with the number 314, then
followeth 31, and ChI is 18. This bringeth the whole to 363, and
see, this is 11 times itself and multiplied again by 3. Now 11 is
AVD (Od) and 3 is Gimel. AVD is the magic power and Gimel is the
beginning of Guph the body. Aleph is the Breath, Vav is the Link,
Daleth is the Door of Life and is Nogah also, which giveth the
Victory. In Gimel or 3 is Recollection and Union, and for the
wise the letters of AVD speak with a loud tongue. In Yesod is all
this centered and they who know the secret of Yod, become the
extenders of the paternal Life and Light. Thus is Yesod called
the Sphere of the Moon, and that same Moon pertaineth also to
Gimel, the letter of Union. Blessed are they who hear and
understand, and understanding, live as they know... Note well the
warning implied. There are many who seek to be spiritual at the
expense of the body. They repudiate all that pertains to Yesod
because they misunderstand its real significance. You may have
wondered what this section of the Text has to do with the Astral
plane... Yet the Text points straight to the one thing, and that
is, that the mystery of the 9th Sephira is a secret of Yod." [27th
Communication 1/15/48]. see 343, 80, 214, 18.
" AVD. Positive emanation of the astral fluids or currents. It is
the double, the phantom electro-magnetic, but of an electricity
and a magnetism vitalized very strongly and related to the ether
of all living beings, even of the plants, the minerals and
crystals, which appear in a colored vapor in the darkness. And is
the manifestation of the intimate will of native, the magical
force, the astral forms of the universe center, the one which
becomes concrete in the innumerable types of the world, its forms
its imprints, the simple vestments of AVD or the astral. AVD is
the negative emanation and united these two make AVR, the
universal light, or the liquid Gold of the Hermetists." [note by
Lilli Gelse, circa 1920]
IA. Oh! ROOT: all movements of the soul which spring from
admiration and astonishment (d'Olivet, page 362).
BBVA beyboah. When? The power used this moment in the Magic of
Light. Also ve-boa: the coming of.
Greek: Earth (see also 2, 29, 38, 47, 56, 65, 74, 83).
12 (3*2*2)
AVH avah. desire, longing [Book of Tokens, Vav, page 71]. With
different vowel points: to desire, wish, long for. Fabre D'Olivet:
"Action of longing ardently, desiring, inclining with passion."
[The Hebrew Tongue Restored, p. 290]
Fabre D'Olivet: "In a broad sense, the Being; the one who is: in a
particular sense, a being; the one of whom one speaks, represented
by the pronominal relations he, that one, this." [The Hebrew
Tongue Restored, p. 328]
DVB dub. A bear. The Aesch Mesch Mezareph [III, p. 24] says:
'Parzala [Iron-PRZLA, 318], whose lesser number is 12, is of the
same account as the name of that blood animal Dob, a Bear, whose
number is 12 also. And this is that mystical thing, which is
written [Daniel 7:5]: "And behold another beast, a second like
unto a bear, stood on its one side, and it had three ribs standing
out in his mouth, between his teeth; and thus they said to it
'arise, eat much flesh.'" The meaning is, that in order to
constitute the metallic kingdom, in the second place, iron is to
be taken; in whose mouth or opening (which comes to pass in an
earthen vessel) a threefold scoria is thrust out, from within its
whitish nature." see 318, 229.
GTh gat. Fabre D'Olivet: "This root is not used in Hebrew. The
arabic [word] denotes a thing which repulses the effort of the
hand which pushes it." Mathers also gives; a little book,
pamphlet, letter in [Sepher Sephiroth, p. 2].
Fabre D'Olivet comments: "The root, ChD, from which this word is
formed, and which is sometimes taken for unity, itself,
particularly in chaldaic, signifies literally: a point, a summit,
the sharpest part of a thing; the top of a pyramid. It is division
arrested, subjugated by a sort of effort as the two signs Daleth
and Cheth which compose it, indicate it. In the feminine it is
written, AChTh. [The Hebrew Tongue Restored, p. ?152?]. "The
potential sign united to that of elementary existence cheth, image
of the travail of nature, produces a root whence result all ideas
of equilibrium, equality, identity, fraternity. When the sign
Cheth characterizes principally an effort, the root ACh takes the
meaning of its analogues AG, AD, and represents a some what violet
action. It furnishes then all ideas of excitation and becomes the
name of a place where the fire is lighted, the hearth." [IBIQ, p.
291] see 273, 372, 384, 395, 400, 441, 600, 636, 740.
BHV bohu, bahu. emptiness, void, terror, chaos. The primary chaos
is the stuff thoughts are made of. The alchemist first matter is
also called a "void". Applied to the first state of the earth.
[Genesis 1:2] "And the earth was without form, and void, and
darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God
moved upon the face of the waters." Fabre D'Olivet comments: "An
abyss, a thing whose depth cannot be fathomed, physically as well
as morally (see HH). The arabic [word], as onomatopoeic root
characterizes astonishment, surprise. Arabic word *** which is
formed from it, designates that which is astonishing, surprising,
that which causes admiration." [The Hebrew Tongue Restored, p.
302] see 19, 76, 411, 1152.
GHH gayhah. healing, health. Proverbs 17:22: "A merry heart doeth
good like a medicine." Fabre D'Olivet comments: "That which
organizes; that which gives life to the organs: health, and
metaphorically, medicine." [The Hebrew Tongue Restored, p.312]
IBA yaba. "He shall come." Refers to the alchemical new man, a
product of mental analysis and synthesis. Associated with Shiloh
(345) which refers to the Messiah (358).
DVD dude. pot, kettle, boiler. From a root meaning "to boil, to
be agitated." see 137 (Latin), 155, 805.
HDH hahdah. to stretch forth the hand; to show the way; to seize,
lay hold of. Note the Daleth between the two Heh's. That self
offering is also a self-extension or self-direction. see 4, 104,
250, 41, 72, 86, 158.
GVH geyah. Body, or back. Root of GVIH substance, a body. see 24.
GIA gay. deep gorge with lofty sides; rising ground. The "Earth"
of Geburah. One of the 7 earths in the diagram of the 4 seas, so
used it means "rising ground." Also undulating ground. Fabre
D'Olivet: "Valley, gorge, depth. The Arabic [word] indicates a
place where water remains stagnant and becomes corrupt through
standing." [The Hebrew Tongue Restored, p.313] see 291, 50, 365,
105, 302, 432, 337.
DI dawy. Fabre D'Olivet comments: "The sign of natural abundance
united to that of manifestation, constitutes the true root
characteristic of this sign. This root develops all ideas of
sufficiency and of sufficient reason; of abundant cause and of
elementary divisibility. DI and DH: that which is fecund, fertile,
abundant, sufficient; that which contents, satisfies, suffices.
The Arabic [word] indicates, in general, the distribution of
things, and helps to distinguish them. The root [word] which
preserves a greater conformity with the Hebraic root DI, signifies
literally possession." [The Hebrew Tongue Restored, pp.321-322]
Σ5 = 15
HVD Hod. Splendor, Glory, the 8th Sephirah. From a Hebrew root
derived from a noun designating the female breast, thus expressing
ideas of nourishment, satisfaction of hunger (see 8, 2080). Hod
signifies prominence, eminence, importance. A consequence of
expansion from within of the essence of the 2nd sephirah Chokmah.
(Observe that on the Tree of Life, Chokmah and Hod are
diametrically opposite.) The Perfect intelligence, seat of the
personal intellect, is a focal point in which the will-force from
Geburah, the image-making power of Tiphareth and the desire-force
of Netzach are mingled (see 8, 2080). Connected with the
intellectual operations of human self-consciousness. The full
expression of the powers of Geburah (5), of which Hod is the
reflection. Theosophic extension of 5 and the powers of Heh, the
emperor. HVD may be read "Heh and Daleth," a combination of reason
(Emperor), imagination (Empress), and intuition (the Hierophant).
The desire for something different which disintegrates old forms
in its early stages (Peh, the path between Hod and Netzach). see
48, 193, 370, 550, 585, 720. "Give some thought to the Sephirah
Hod, whence this Path descends. Consider its name letter by
letter, in relation to the Keys of Rota. Then you may see that
HVD has through Rota a link with the Path through which the Mezla
descends to it from Geburah. Again, consider the gematria of HVD
and its relation to IH. Once again, H is the letter of the
Emperor and D the letter of the Empress, with V between them to
represent both AB and BN, and to intimate a conjunction also.
This should put you on the track of the deeper significance of the
31st Path. That is to say, insofar as the specific nature of the
descending influence is concerned." [39th Communication 3/8/48]
ChGD. a locust
GBHH. high.
XV (Lt). The last 2 letter of the word LVX (65). Minus the L (to
instruct). Suggests the absence of the equalibrating, directive
power symbolized by Key 11. Key 15, the Devil, represents the One
Force, as it operates apart from human knowledge (LMD). and human
direction. yet XV is composed of the numbers V (5) and X (10), the
Wheel of Fortune, the world of objective appearances and V, the
principle of consciousness.
ZVG zog. to enclose, or, like, equal to. Refers to the essential
identity of all manifestations of the One Life. Also: to pair or
match, pair of sicissors; married couple. With different vowel
points: bell, rattle.
AHI. where?
17 (prime)
GID giyd. sinew, vein, dried veins or tendon; penis. The sinew
that shrank, in the story of Jacob's wrestling with the angel.
Fabre D'Olivet comments: "GID. A nerve, a tendon; everything that
can be stretched for action. [The Hebrew Tongue Restored, p. 311]
see 67, 360, 377.
AGVZ egoz. Nut (of a fruit of a tree). Used in the Song of Solomon
6:11 " I went down to the grove of the nut trees to look at the
new growth in the valley, to see if the vines had budded or the
pomegranates were in bloom." [New International]. The Zohar says
this passage refers to Yesod. The "seed-principle" is the clue to
the inner occult meaning.
IHB yehab (noun). Lot, burden, what is given; fate (what bounds or
limits). see 358, 830, 780, 130.
Adam (Lt). Man/Humanity (as a generic proper name). see 44, 45.
18 (2*3*3)
ChI chai. life, living. see 23, 9, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63, 72, 81,
90.
AIBH aibah. hatred. Fabre D'Olivet comments: The root "AIB. Every
idea of antipathy, enmity, animadversion. It is an effect of the
movement of contraction upon the volitive center AI by the sign of
interior activity B [Beth]." [The Hebrew Tongue Restored, p. 292]
Latin/Greek
ChVH Chavah. This word is used in Genesis 3:20: "So Adam called
his wife's name Eve because she was the mother of all living.
Gaskell suggest that Eve, the wife of Adam is "A symbol of the
emotional-nature united to the mental-nature of the lower mind...
And the mind recognizes the life-principle within the soul to be
the emotion-nature, for it is the originator of former of all
qualities that subsist, that is, of all qualities that have in
them the germ of the higher life." [Dictionary of all Scriptures
and Myths, p. 254]
Latin/Greek
IVD Letter name Yod. Hand (as a formative power), creative hand.
The Qabalistic significance of IVD refers to it being a manual
operation [C.F. "Immanuel", or "God with us"], performed by the
aid of Mercury. But IVD must be rightly understood and all adepts
are careful not to unveil this secret. "Verily IVD is the seed of
all the letters, and if thou hast eyes to see, in IVD is the
secret of the covenant, and this secret is the Peh-Heh (PH), for
PH is 85, or HISVD, Ha-Yesod, the Foundation, and 85 is also MILH,
the covenant which removeth concealment form the paternal Yod."
[10th Communication 5/19/47] see 61, 80, 85.
HThAH hattah. Sinful things, sin [Amos 9:8] "Surely the eyes of
the sovereign Lord are on the sinful Kingdom. I will destroy it
from the face of the Earth-yet I will not totally destroy the
House of Jacob." variant spelling, see 418.
Σ6 = 21
21 represents the combination of the Ego (1) with the non-ego (2),
but it is a reversal of the order expressed by 12. In 12 the Ego
is the vehicle and the non-ego the active principle; in 21 is the
manifestation of the I through the me, the expression of the
universal through the personal, the realization that the whole
manifestation is the act of the Universal Ego.
"Look at the Rota and see what Key 21 says. It is really a symbol
of union, and is therefore the extension numerically of Key 6.
Ask yourselves what has become of the man in Key 6, when that
Key's full expression is represented by Key 21, and you will
perhaps learn something to your advantage. Of course 21 is a
representation of Binah, and the very number shows this because it
reduces to Binah's number, 3; and in Key 21, if you look intently,
you may see delineated in plain sight representation of the idea
expressed in Hebrew as the word AIN, which is both BTN [belly,
womb, the inmost part] and AMK [thy mother]. No, we shall not
tell you, for you can find out for yourselves, and if you do, you
should go on from there to a great many practical applications."
[32nd Communication] see 61, 67, 400, 713.
AHIH Eheyeh. "I am", Existence, Being, the Divine Name attributed
to Kether which refers to the formative power of the Primal Will.
The Name of Names. In Exodus 3:14, this word is translated "I AM."
see 1032, 620, 37.
AK ak. a word having many meanings, but all representing some
degree of restriction, such as: only, this once, but, yet, indeed,
certainly. The restriction is affirmative. It is the restriction
of the specific, as opposed to the vague, of assurance as opposed
to doubt.
Latin/Greek
BIDV bidav. with (by) his hand. Connects with an egyptian idea of
creation. Also be-Yod [BIVD]. by Yod
Latin/Greek
Latin/Greek
Hoc (Latin). This. This beloved which is found in the salt of
manifestation is "the shining one" centered in Tiphareth. Part of
an inscription found written of the alter of the vault of Brother
C.R. in the Rosicrucian Allegory (see 475, 122, 76, 106, 87).
25 (5*5)
Fabre D'Olivet comments: "KH. Che. Root analogous to the root KA,
but whose expression is spiritualize and reinforced by the
presence of the sign Heh. KH. That which is conformable to a
given model; that which coincides with a point of space or time,
which can be conceived in an abstract sense, by the adverbial
relations yes, thus, like this; that; in that very place; at that
very time; etc." [The Hebrew Tongue Restored, p. 370]
Latin/Greek
HGChI yehagah. He meditates. God thinks the world into being and
the Life-force of Chokmah in Briah is the activity of His
unbroken meditation, which continues throughout the duration of a
cosmic cycle.
27 is the 3rd cube (1 the 1st and 8 the 2nd) and suggest the
symbolism of a geometric cube. The cube is a symbolism of the
Holy of Holies and the Heavenly City mentioned in the 21st
chapter of Revelations. [True and Invisible by PFC, p???]
KI kwi. that; when, while, as, for, because; but, only, indeed;
in fact; lest; even if; although, though. see 47 [KI ThVB]. Fabre
D'Olivet comments: "KI, Chi. Manifestation of any assimilating,
compressing force. The arabic [word] signifies in a restricted
sense, a burn. KI The force expressed by the root is represented
in an abstract sense, by relations that, because, for then, when,
etc." [The Hebrew Tongue Restored, p. 372]. Godwin gives, brand,
mark burnt in, burning, burn. [Isaiah 3:24] "Instead of
fragrance, there will be a stench; instead of beauty, branding."
Arabia (Lt). "Sterility." The place in the Fama where brother CRC
became aquanited with the wise men of the temple in Damcar, and
where he struck a bargain with the arabians for a certain sum of
money. This involves further experimental work, which was begun
at Damascus.
Fabre D'Olivet comments: "Al. This root springs from the united
signs of power and extensive movement. The ideas which it
develops are those of elevation, force, power, extent. The
Hebrews and arabs have drawn from it the name of God. AL
hieroglyphically, this is the symbol of nature or adverb
relations to, toward, for, by, against, upon, beneath, etc. The
arabic [word] is employed as the universal designative relation,
the, of the, to the, etc. As verb it expresses in the modern
idiom it signifies literally, to be wearied by too much movement.
Al and ALL (intens.) In this excess of extension, it is that
which passes away, which is empty, vain; expressed by the
adverbial relation no, not, not so, nought, nothing; etc." [The
Hebrew Tongue Restored, p. 294]
HVK huwk. A Chaldee verb meaning: "to go; to bring". The No-
thing is the power which goes forth into every form of
manifestation and brings about every phenomenon. see 511.
ZHB ThVB zahab tob. "Good Gold [Genesis 2:12] Also "Fine Gold"
[2nd Chronicles 3:5]. Refers to Yesod (see 3091?). The Aesch
Mezareph [II:9] says: "Zahav tob is referred to Yesod, that is
good gold [Genesis 2:12] ("and the gold of that land is good:
aromatic resin and onyx are also there.") for this kind is called
good, after the manner of a good man... it became zahab tob,
because it is so called according to [Lamentations ?4:1?] How
shall gold be colored with redness, and ma-kethem ho-tob i.e.
good silver be changed?"
AIK ake. How? What? The no-thing is the reality which is the
subject of inquiry in all questions beginning with How? or What?
To attain this knowledge "Having emptied yourself, remain where
you are. [Loa Tze]
"They are the Holy Living Creatures seen by the prophet Ezekiel,
and that which cometh into form by their appearance is the Glory
of God which is the true substance of all things and also the
Holy Influence which descendeth through the paths of the Tree,
and ascendeth again to be swallowed up in the abyss of radiant
darkness for which AIN is the first veil... Thirty-two are the
paths and 32 is the number of KBVD, the Glory... Thus the paths
and the Glory are in truth one. Paths of Chokmah are they
called, and from this you may know them to be paths of life, for
verily, Chokmah is none other than Kachmah, and Kachmah is the
one and only power of life.
Now the stars are physical condensations of the Glory of God, or
the radiance known to us as electricity, magnetism and
gravitation. These three are names for one power, and the words
Kachmah and Mezla are other names for the same power. Man's body
is as truly a condensation on the physical plane of this power as
in the physical body of a sun. Indeed, even the chemical
elements in man's body, where they take on form as bones and the
blood and tissues, are the very same elements that take form as
flaming gases in the body of the sun. This is not philosophy,
but science. Whether as a human body, or as a solar form,
however, the physical substance is only the outer vesture of the
Divine Glory, which runs forth from AIN and flows back to AIN,
and through AIN, into the unfathomable abyss of the radiant
darkness. The real purport of the teaching is that even man's
physical body is of one substance with the Divine Glory, not
separate or separable from that Glory." [23rd Communication
12/29/43]. see 63, 73, 61, 78, 1081 (Greek), 832.
GL. That which moves with a light and undulating movement; which
manifest joy, grace, and ease in its movements. The revolution of
celestial spheres. The orbit of the planets. A wheel; a
circumstance, an occasion. That which is revealed, that which
appears, is uncovered. That which piles up by rolling: the
movement of the waves, the swell; the volume of anything
whatsoever, a heap, a pile; the circuit or contour of an object
or a place: it confines.
The measure of the perimeters of the heptagon forming the top and
bottom of the vault of brother CR.
ohel, cont. In the prologue of the Zohar [I:6]" MI, was the
beginning of the edifice, existant and not-existant, deep-buried,
unknowable by name. It was only called MI (who). It desired to
become manifest and to be called by name. It therefore clothed
itself in a refulgent and precious garment and created ALH
(these), and ALH acquired a name. The letters of the two names
intermingled, forming the complete name ALHIM (Elohim-God)." see
86.
HLA halah. to removed, cast away; case far off. [Micah 4:7] "and
I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast off
a strong nation: and the Lord shall reign over them in Mount
Zion, from hence forth, even forever. see 165.
AIKH eikaw. How? where? How and where is the power of God to be
found? In the glory of his silence. [Godwin: Hebrew title of the
book of Lamentations]
KBDI. my glory.
Latin/Greek
Aqua. water. This water is the universal substance which fill the
"deep". Here it should be remembered that Venus is fabled to have
sprung from the sea.
37 * 1 = 37 }1
37 * 2 = 74 }2
37 * 3 = 111 }3
37 * 4 = 148 }4
37 * 5 = 185 }5
37 * 6 = 222 }6
37 * 7 = 259 }7
37 * 8 = 296 }8
37 * 9 = 333 }9
IChIDH Yekhidah. I AM, The Supreme Self, the Only One, the
single, the indivisible. The cosmic SELF seated in Kether and
associated with the Hermit, "He who stands alone." Yekhidah is
the Cosmic Logos, as the Solar Logos or Christos is the Logos of
our system of planets revolving around the sun. Yekhidah is the
Supreme Head of the universal system designated by the term
Rashith Ha-Galgalim, "Head (or beginning) of the Whirlings".
Yekhidah (Hindu Ishvara) the Supreme Ruler, the One Identity, the
Self is a point of expression for a dynamic energy, a point
through which that energy passes continually. "Qabalists indicate
this realization [Of the meaning of I am, 21] by IChIDH, the
feminine form of IChD, unity . The feminine construction shows
that although the I am is one and alone, it is also conceived in
the ageless wisdom as the vehicle for AIN SVP AVR. As a vehicle,
or receptacle, it is therefore feminine." [Paul Case: True and
Invisible Rosicrucian Order (4th), p. 467] see 149 (Latin), 620,
111.
HBL abel. "to breathe," or "a fleeting breath", vapor, hot air.
The Talmud signifies "to evaporate." Denotes "transitoriness,
emptiness," and is translated "vanity"(to be in vain), in the
English version of Ecclesiastes. From it is derived the proper
name Abel, given to the second son of Adam and Eve and killed by
Cain (#160). Refers to the volatility of the Mercury principle,
and its close link with breath, or air, which the Hindus call
Prana, the Greeks Pneuma, and the Hebrews Ruach. [Job 7:16] "I
loathe it [my life]; I would not always live: let me alone, for
my days are a fleeting breath." [Ecclesiastics 11:10] "Therefore
remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh:
for childhood and youth are vanity."
AVL uwl, owl. might, physical power. from a root meaning "to
twist." Sometimes used as a noun to designate the human body as
being rolled together. [2 Kings 24:15] "And he carried away
Jehoichin to Babylon, and the King's mother, and the King's
wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those he
carried into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon." [Psalm 73:4]
"For there are no bands in their death, but their strength is
firm."
ALAH Alah. a form of an Aramaic (Chaldee) name of God, compare
with the Arabic Allah (see ALH).
Heh, Vav, Zain, Teth, Yod. The 5 letter to which are attributed
the 5 senses. H: sight, V: hearing, Z: smell, Th: taste, I:
touch. A hit that the SELF is a focus for the subtle principles
of sensation (tattvas).
DGL dagal. banner. The adytum of the One Self is the banner of
deity.
Greek/Latin
He thebeh (Gr). Ark [Exodus 2:2 in the Greek Septuagint]. The ark
in the bulrushes (Moses). The life-power is the ark which
preserves us from every danger. Both it and Noah;s ark suggest
preservation of Life, and the transition from one cycle of the
Life-power's manifestation to another. The point of "beginning,"
which is really a point of transition from relative quiescence to
a period of relative activity, is symbolized as an ark.
cordo (Latin) hinge (of a door); the point round which anything
turns, a pole; a chief circumstance, or consideration upon which
many others depend, i.e. cardinal.
LCh leakh. vigor, natural force [Deuteronomy 34:7]. " And Moses
was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not
dim, nor his natural force (vigor) abated." Lakh. As an adjective
moist, fresh, new, unused; liquid.
Latin/Greek
AChIK awchaykaw. "thy brother." [Gen 4:9, 10:11] "And the Lord
said unto Cain, where is Abel thy Brother? And he said, I know
not: am I my brother's keeper? And he said, what hast thou done?
The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
And now thou art cursed from the earth, which hath opened her
mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand." see 37, 160,
496, 519.
ALI eli. my God, my Hero. Also a proper name. Refers to the deity
name of Chesed and has the same basic meaning of strength as its
metathesis [AIL]. [Psalm 18:3].
dedit (Lt). Gave. Love and Faith gave us strength to pursue union
with the Most High. Part of a Rosicrucian saying (see 518).
42 (2*3*7)
AMA Amah. the dark, sterile Mother. Binah as the feminine power
of specializing and finitising prior to manifestation of actual
forms. "The Eternal Parent, wrapped in her ever invisible robes,
had slumbered once again for seven eternities." [Dztanzz] see 52,
67, 86, 112, 199, 265.
ALVH Eloah. (Job 19:26). A name of God from the same root as
Elohim, the particular Divine Name assigned to Binah.
Latin/Greek
canis (Lt). dog. Recall the dog in Key 18, the Moon. In the Book
of Lambspring it says: "Alexander writes from Persia that a wolf
and a dog are in the field, which, as the sages say, are
descended from the same stock, but the wolf comes from the east,
and dog from the west. They are full of jealousy, fury, rage, and
madness: One kills the other, and from them come a great poison.
But when they are restored to life, they are clearly shown to be
the great and precious medicine, the most glorious remedy upon
the earth, which refreshes and restores the sages, who render
thanks to god, and do praise him." [Hermetic Museum I, p. 284].
see 56, 79 (Latin) Case: Canis = 42 = Luna.
LIZ Lo. Hazel, almond. Alternative wood used for making the
magical wand. Name of the place where Jacob is said to have had
the dream of angels ascending and descending a ladder. Also a
verb whose primitive meaning is "to turn away, to deviate."
Latter ideas include forwardness and perversity, linking it to
the path of Gimel--the involution or descent of energy from
Kether, the cause of all limitations and "evils." see 404.
LIZ. Little Bone. A. E. Waite: "Each man who is born into the
world is provided with an imperishable bone in his present
physical body, and it is from or on this that his organization
will be built up anew at the time of the resurrection-it is like
the rib taken from the side of Adam. The bone in question will be
to the risen body that which the leaven is to the dough". [3
Books of Occult Philosophy Ch: 20 Page 68]
LBIA laibyah. Lion, Lioness. Job 4:11: "The old lion perisheth
for lack of prey, and the stout lion s whelp are scattered
abroad." [see K.D.L.C.K. p. 151] see 340, 211, 310.
Fabre D'Olivet writes: "MG. Root not used in Hebrew. The Arabic
[word] expresses the idea of a thing which is sour, acrid,
bitter, sharp; which irritates, troubles, torments. In a
restrictive sense the verb signifies to be repugnant." [The
Hebrew Tongue Restored, p. 386]
Latin/Greek
Filii (Lt). of the son. The "son" is BN, Ben, or Tiphareth. see
53.
DM dam. blood. Formed from the word Adam [ADM]. The physical
organism of Man is condensed from Blood. see 5, 55, 45. The
Location of the temple of the Wise men was at Dam-Car, in Arabia.
Dam-Car means: Blood of the Lamb. It is the initiate's own body.
The practices of initiation modify blood chemistry. Arabia
(sterility) refers to the necessary celibacy which gives the
strength for initiation. see 470, 68.
That Arabic [word] has developed in the ancient language the same
general idea; but in the modern idiom this root has received
acceptations somewhat different. [The Arabic word] expresses in
general a glutinous, sticky fluid. In particular, as noun, it is
blood; as verb; it is the action of covering with a glutinous
glaze. From the later meaning results, in the analogue [word],
that of contaminating, calumniating, covering with blame."
[Hebrew Tongue Restored p. 323-324]
ChVL khool. sand. The root of the noun is a verb spelled with
the same letters meaning, "to turn round, to twist, to whirl."
[Job 29:18]. The birth of the alchemical 1st matter is in the
sand (mineral kingdom). Alchemist call this their Phoenix-a
spiral twisting motion directly connected with sound and thought.
LHTh lahat. magic; flame, The flame of light. The art of Life.
In relation to BRIAH, Teleh and [LHT] are technical mystery-
terms, referring to the same idea that is expressed in the New
Testament mention of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the
world. Aries represent the beginning of creative activities in
Briah which result in physical names and forms. The Ram and the
Lamb are one and correspond to the Hindu Agni, Lord of Flame
(LHTh). see 7, 14, 22, 28, 66, 88. also: magic arts,
enchantments; glittering blade, glitter, flashing. as a verb
LHTh: to flame, consume, to practice magic; to hide, to cover.
Vir (Lt). a man, a husband. Same as the Hebrew ISh [AISh]. see
311.
45 (9*5)
Σ9 = 45
Among the savants who have searched for the etymology of the word
Adam, the majority went no further than its grossest exterior,
nearly all of them have seen only red cay, or simple clay,
because the word ADVM signifies red or reddish; because by ADMH,
the earth in general, has been understood; but they failed to see
that these words themselves are compounds, and that they can only
be roots of words still are compound; whereas the word ADM being
more simple cannot come for it.
Issac Myer writes: "The Great androgyne, the Adam Illa-Ah or Adam
Qadman, which includes in itself all the ideas, and all the
content of all the prototypes of the existence. This (first) Adam
is considered as the first distinctive beginning in the finite,
and therefore is the sole occupant of the Atzluthic world... in
reading the first and second chapters of Genesis, a distinction
was made by the learned of the Israelites, between the higher
Adam, i.e. the Adam Qadmon, or first paradigmic ideal man, and he
inferior (terrestrial) Adam... "The third Adam is the terrestrial
Adam, made of dust and placed in the Garden of Eden. This Adam
was also an androgyne... it had, when first created, a glorious
simulacrum or light body, and answer to the Yetziratic world...
The forth Adam was the third Adam as he was after the fall, when
he was clothed with skin, flesh, nerves, etc. This answers to the
lower Nephesh and Guph, i.e. body, united. He has the animal
power of reproduction and continuance of species, and also
answers to the Assiatic world, but in him is some of the light of
all the preceding (Adams)... together they form the great
universal man. The Qabalah names man as the purpose of creation,
and the first step in the upper Adam or celestial man." [Qabbalah
pp. 114, 401, 418]
The Zohar [I 26A, 34B] comments: "And the Lord God formed Man.
Man here refers to Israel, whom God shaped at that time both for
this world and for the future world. Further, the word Vayizer
(and he formed) implies that God brought them under the aegis of
his own name by shaping the two eyes like the letter Yod and the
nose between like the letter Vav (p. 101)... The words let us
make man may be taken to signify that God imparted to the Lower
beings who came from the side of the upper world the secret of
forming the divine name Adam , which embraces the upper and the
lower in virtue of its three letters, Aleph, Daleth and Mem
final. When these three form of the breath of life [#448]. Thus
the germ set by Jehovah Elohim in Humanity had been formed
earlier; existing already in the bosom of the Elohim, it was now
implanted in man, whose material body had been formed in another
way. Thus something entered man from another side. Only by the
endowment with Neshamah was it possible to implant in man the
rudiments of the Ego nature. These old Hebrew expressions,
Nephesh , Rauch, Neshamah are parallel with ours. Nephesh, as
regards man, we may set beside the sentient soul; Rauch we may
apply to the intellectual soul; Neshamah to the consciousness
soul." [Biblical Secrets of Creation, pp. 118-122]
HVA ABIK Hu abiyka. "He (God) thy Father." [Deut 32:6] HVA. Hu,
He, is a special title of KETHER.
HVLD. begat.
Homo (Lt). Man. It is also said Demon est Home inversus - "The
Devil is Man upside Down." see 510. Therefore God and Man are
essentially one. see 1035.
LVI Levi. Third son of Jacob and Leah; Lavie, of the tribe of
Levi [Genesis 35:23] "the sons of Leah: Reuban, Jacob's first-
born, and Simeon and Levi..." As the priestly tribe, early in the
history of Israel, the Levites became custodians of the sanctuary
and its furniture.
The Asch Mezareph [IV pp. 27-28] says: "Bedil, Tin; in natural
science, this metal is not greatly used; for as it is derived by
separation, so its matter remains separate from the universal
medicine. Amongst the planets Zedek [TzDQ = 194 = Jupiter] is
attributed to it; a white wandering planet, to which the gentiles
applied an idolatrous name, mention where of is forbidden, see
[Exodus 22:12] ("and if it be stolen from him, he shall make
restitution to the owner thereof"), and a greater extirpation is
promised [Hosea 2:17] ("For I will take away the names of Baalim
out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their
name") and [Zechariah 13:2] ("And it shall come to pass in that
day, says the Lord of Hosts, that I will cut off the names of the
idols out of the Land, and they shall no more be remembered: And
also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out
of the land.") Amongst the beast, no allegory is better applied
to this metal than that because of its crackling, it should be
called 'Chazir Mijaar, a boar out the wood [Psalm 80:14], whose
number is 545 (which is not only made 5 times from 109, but in
its lesser number shows a quinary, as twice taken is 10, the
lesser number of the word Bedil, by the two figures of 46 being
added together. But five times ten shows the fifty gates of
Binah, and the first letter of the Sephirah Netzach, which is the
Sephirotic class to which this metal is referred). In particular
transformation, its sulphurous nature alone both not profit, but
with other sulphurs, especially those of the red metals, it does
reduce thick waters, dully terrificated into Gold; so also into
Silver, it its nature by Tin. But its viscous and water nature
may be meliorated into Gold, if it be only pulverized with the
calx of Gold through all the degrees of fire, for ten days, and
by degrees thrown upon flowing Gold, in the form of the little
masses, which also I am taught is to be done with Silver. But no
man is wise unless his master is experience."
Ordo (Lt) Order. Part of the motto: "A new order of the ages" on
the Great Seal of the U.S. see 80, 94, 126, 220, 370 (Lt), 240.
ALIV elawyu. "unto", to towards, into, at, by. [Exodus 19:3] "And
Moses went unto God, and the Lord called unto him out of the
mountain, saying, thus shalt thou say to the House of Jacob, and
tell the Children of Israel."
Latin/Greek
vita (Lt). life. Desire for more Life involves the transmutation
of the rose, and the discovery of the true "Gold." In he
Rosicrucian allegory, this was the title of a Book, found in the
vault and said to have been written by Brother CR, from whence
the "relation" in the Fama was taken. see 18, 132, 106 (Lt).
ChM Khem. The Egyptians' own name for their country. Through
Egyptians influence of the Greeks, the root of our words alchemy
and chemistry.
IVBL yuwbal. stream, river; trumpet blast (from the sound coming
from a stream). Jubal, the name of the son of Lamech (traditional
founder of Free Masonry) [Genesis 4:21]
MTh Mat. The rod of Aaron. Related to the magical Wand. M: The
Hanged Man, or reversal. Th: the symbol of Fohat (Kundalini) and
its direction (strength). see 404, 43, 470, 175, 1225.
DMH dawmaw. meditated. see Genesis 1:26. see 54. [much of the
text for this entry is unreadable]
GVIL gawill. parchment. This suggest the blank page where the
"new name" is written, and the "rough ashlar" which is shaped
into the "Stone of the Wise."
Lux (Lt). Light. The source of all manifested life. "Lux, light,
is the actual substance of all material forms. The universally
diffused radiance is concentrated into suns, and their world
systems, and flames in every galaxy. It penetrates every solid
thing and overcomes the subtle... [John] Dee s analysis of LUX
into the component parts of a cross has analogues elsewhere
amongst occultist, as you probably know. I suspect that Mathers
and Westcott, or perhaps Mathers alone, developed it from the
hints in Dee s Monas [Hieroglyphic Monad]. Written L.V.X., so
that its letters are separated by periods, the letters are then
taken as Roman numerals, and their addition is 65.." [Paul Case,
op, cit. p.6] see 116, 364, 207, 73, 122 (Lt), 620, 397.
10 (Yod):Chokmah * 5 (Heh):Binah
Nun. Meaning fish. Alchemist "Would have know, also, that the
meaning of the noun Nun, taken as a proper name, is 'perpetuity,
eternity, or everlastingness'. And they would have known that the
name 'Jesus' is merely a variant of Joshua, the successor of
Moses, whose father was name Nun. The everlastingness... was
unquestionably associated by the ancient Hebrews with ...
procreative power... and it is an open secret that the mystery
veiled by the letter of both Testaments.. is a mystery summed up
in these words: generation and regeneration... Nun stands for the
zodiacal sign Scorpio, which governs generation because it rules
the reproductive function.. Scorpio, and is entitled 'death'
because of the connection between Scorpio and the 8th house of the
zodiac, termed 'the house of death'. Again, the 8th house is also
the 'house of inheritance', and in all its meanings 'inheritance'
signifies something transmitted by parents to offspring, so that
it has a direct correspondence with the verbal meaning of Nun, 'to
sprout'... That this wisdom is related to inheritance is not due
to its being passed on from mouth to ear only, but also to the
fact that is central mystery is a mystery of sex." [Paul Case:
True and Invisible Rosicrucian Order (4th), pp. 68-69] see 1219,
407 (Greek), 8. See also the parable of the loaves and fishes in
the Bible [Matthew 14:17, 15:34] and note, 581.
DG GDVL dag gedul. "great fish". Jonah 1:17. When the great fish
(Scorpio) swallowed the prophet Jonah (Dove, #71). the forces of
Mars and Venus are conjoined (see 121). Note also that Ninevah,
the capital of Assyria, where Jonah was sent, is spelled NINVH,
so that it combines the letters NVN Nun, and IH. [Book of Tokens,
p.131]
IIL Ieiaiel. One of the 72 angels bearing the name of God. 58th
Shemhamphorash. see 81.
Latin
Jeus. of Jesus. The seed of Jesus forms the root of the Christos.
Part of a saying in the Rosicrucian Fama. "A seed planted in the
breast of Jesus. see 310, 95, 66, 99 (Latin), Part of a second
saying, which includes the words "in Jesus we die", also in the
Fama. see 683 (Latin).
AN. the signs which this root are those of power and of
individual existence. The determine together the seity, sameness,
selfsameness, or the me of the being, and limit the extent of its
circumscription.
NA. Fabre D'Olivet writes: "NA. No. Every idea of youth, newness;
every idea of freshness, grace, beauty, every idea springing from
that which is formed of a new production, of a being young and
graceful.
The Arabic [word] although molding to the same primitive root as
the Hebrew, has developed, however, ideas apparently opposed;
This is the reason. That which is new, of recent birth, is
graceful, fresh, pleasing; but it is also frail, weak, unsteady.
Now the Hebraic idiom is attached to the first idea; the Arabic
idiom has followed and developed the second. Thence the verb
[Arabic word], which indicated the state of that which is frail,
feeble, impotent; the verb [Arabic word] expresses the action of
letting go, being separated, abandoning a thing, etc. What proves
the identity of the root is that the compound very [Arabic word]
signifies literally to nurse an infant." [Hebrew Tongue Restored
p. 395]
Zion. Refers to the adytum the aspirant builds within the brain
(see 216).
52 (4*13)
ABA VAMA aba ve-ama. Father and Mother. Qabalists designate the
union of Wisdom (Aba) and Understanding (Ama).
"The central Sephirah is Beauty, called BN, the Son. Note that
this is 52, or a fourfold 13 [the number of unity and
love]."[Commentary 13th Communication 5/28/47]
"This [GN], in the ROTA, is the garden of the magician; and what
is the soil of the garden if be not identical with ABN, the
Stone? And thus do you see that the stone and the garden are
really AIMA, the mother, and behold! AIMA and BN are one in
numeration. This hath been said long ago by the companions, for
have they not written that in Binah, BINH, which herself is AIMA,
are conjoined the letters BN, and the sum of these is 14, the
ROTA number of the Father? Now, BN is, in the ROTA, 1 and 13, and
the sum of these is 14, the ROTA number of the intelligence of
Probation. For nothing can be known until it is tried, and in
union, the Holy Guardian Angel effects that union. Here men fail
to understand. COMMENT: all this hangs on the recognition of the
fact... that not the very least of any human being s personal
activities is anything but the work of what the ROTA pictures as
Key 14. Every circumstance of any man s life is a particular
dealing of God with his soul... The recognition that the Actor is
always superpersonal. For humanity of earth, the Actor is BN...
so it is the personal you that watches, yet what of reality has
that, apart from BN?" [Qabalistic Text 17th Communication
6/12/47] see 53, 124.
BKL be-kal. from all, among all, "in all things" (Gen. 24:1).
The Binah clause of The Pattern on the Trestleboard begins,
"Filled with Understanding.." Zohar says BK in BBK is the
designation of the "River of the Waters of which never fail."
"Now it is written also in Joshua, that among the spies who went
forth into the land of Canaan, was Caleb, and that for his good
report when others had sought to dissuade Joshua from advancing,
the Lord, Blessed be He, rewarded Caleb with long life.
Now Caleb signifieth dog, and well ye know that this is no name
of good repute in Israel. Yet here is a treasure of wisdom that
is part of the lore that Moses was instructed in as a youth in
Egypt. For the story of Caleb is a figure, and Caleb the dog
standeth for faithfulness, but there are deeper things than this.
For reckon the number of KLB (52) and behold it is a veil for
AIMA, for KLB is 52. Now 52 ye know has the number of BN, but it
is the number also of ABVAIMA, Abve-aima, or Father and Mother.
That is, it representeth the conjoining of Chokmah, AB, with
Binah, Aima. What then is the Path of this conjunction of Father
and Mother? It is the Path of the Luminous Intelligence which
joineth Chokmah to Binah, the Path of the letter Daleth.
Now come and see again. The word KLB hath for its first two
letters K and L, and these spell Kal, the ALL. And the last two
letters are L and B, and these spell Laib, the Heart. Now K and
L are 50, and these are the gates of Binah, and L and B are 32,
and these are the Paths of Wisdom. Thus in Caleb is concealed
the secret of the ALL, which is likewise a Secret of the Heart.
And is not the heart of Adam Quadman, Tiphareth the Son, into
which pour all the streams of Mezla from above, and from which,
for as much as Tiphareth is the Path of Separate Emanations, or
mediating influence, and same Mezla descendeth to the Paths which
are below? So Caleb is a sign of understanding, for his name as
we have said, is of like number with AIMA.
Caleb, as you have just seen in the Bible, was the son of
Jephunnah, that is IPNH. Now these four letters are worth
noticing. The first is Yod, phallic, and also symbol of both
Chokmah and Yesod. The second is the letter of Mars; the third
the letter of Scorpio, and the last related to Aries and to
vision. Remember that Caleb was a spy, and that the Text plainly
refers to the perfection of his masculine vigor. Moreover the
number of his years is given as 85, which is the number of the
letter name PH, Peh, and this is divided into two parts; 40, his
age when he served as a spy, and this is a number of Mem; and 45,
which elapsed thereafter, which is a numeral symbol of ADM, Adam.
That is, the dog became a completed man, and this involves the
use and direction of the Mars force in accordance with a reversal
of ordinary procedure, for the other spies reported unfavorably
and caused the people's hearts to melt. But Caleb at 40 stands
for the reversal, symbolized by the Hanged Man.
This Caleb was not one of the Israelites, he was a Kennizite
adopted into Israel, an outsider by birth. But he received his
proper reward. The whole passage is an allegory relating to what
alchemists call the fixation of Mercury. That is, the highest
use of self-consciousness in a creative function, reversing
customary attitudes of mind and the activities they prompt, and
leading ultimately to the overthrow of error.[33rd Communication,
2/12/48]
MGVG Magog. Magog; the second son of Japeth [Genesis 10:2] "The
sons of Japeth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and
Tiras." According to Fabre D'Olivet the word means "elastic
stretching power" for extended explanation see Gog and Magog,
#70.
Latin/Greek.
Humana. Human.
Maia. The mother of Hermes. Also the name of Gautama, the Buddha.
Maya is likewise the "Mysterious power" of which Krishna
declares: My Maya is the great womb into which I cast the Seed:
from this is the Birth of all creatures."
"The stone is the garden, and the garden is the place of delight.
That is, ABN is GN, and GN is ODN, for the stone is the union of
the Son with the Father, and since ABN and GN are both 53, the
stone is the stone of Eden, as is the garden... the stone and the
garden are one, and as the stone is the union of Chokmah and
Tiphareth, so also is the garden that same union; and from union
cometh delight. Never is there delight in separateness. Only when
Father and Son are conjoined is there delight. (N.B. There is
here a double veil. For because BN and AIMA are both 52, the
conjunction of AB and BN implies the conjunction of AB and AIMA.
BN and AIMA are identical, but either AB and BN, or AB and AIMA
may be in the perfect union intimated by ABN. P.F.C.) Now of this
conjunction is GN the sign, because G is the Uniting
Intelligence, and N is the Imaginative Intelligence. G unites
Kether to Tiphareth, and N unites Tiphareth to Netzach. G is the
Moon. N is Mars in Scorpio. Add these in our ROTA and they make
15, which is the glyph of the Renewing Intelligence that linketh
Tiphareth to Hod... Now, N links the sphere of the Sun to the
sphere of Venus, and thus in GN you may see the whirling motion
of Kether, descending to the sphere of the Sun, and projecting
itself into the sphere of Venus. This, in the ROTA, is the Garden
of the Magician; and what is the soil of that garden if not be
identical with ABN, the stone? And thus do you see that the stone
and the garden are really AIMA, the mother, and behold! AIMA and
BN are one in numeration." [Qabalistic text-17th communication
6/12/47] see 52, 124.
Greek/Latin
Hyle (Gr). Wood. The gnostic name for the astral light. Wood is
an organic substance which absorbs personal emanations of the
astral light.
datum (Lt). given. Used in Secret symbols )page 20) at the close
of a preface to an alchemical treatise. The full phrase is "Datum
In Monte Abiegno," which identifies it as Rosicrucian (see 182).
ecclesia (Lt) . church. The church is the Stone.
panis (Lt). bread (lit. the feeding thing). The House of Bread
(Bethlehem), the sign Virgo, and the part of the body governed by
it (the small intestine), and the Stone which is said in
alchemical books to be, life bread, a product of coction-cooking
or baking. In the church (eccelesia), the Christ is held to be
represented by and mystically present in the Bread of the
communion (Panis) and is identified with the Stone.
patebo (Lt). "I will open." Part of the Motto on the vault of
C.R. "Post CXX Annos Patebo." see 200.
R.C, G., G.G, P.D. The initials of the second group of four who
were called by Brother C.R. to complete the work of founding the
Rosicrucian order. They raised the 4 to the 8, the square of the
perfect cube.
54 (2*3*3*3)
AGN aggahn. a bowl or basin; a disk. also AGN ogen, Brim, rim of
a vessel, edge; handle. In Key 14 the angel is pouring fire water
from two vessels or bowls.
DMI demiy. ceasing, still; cutting off, standing still. From the
verb DMH (see 49). In silence the personality ceases and man
becomes the "image and likeness" of God. Also DMI dahmi, quite,
rest; as an adjective, DMI, dawmi, sanguinary. This word is from
the noun DM dam (or dawn), blood. These meanings are shown in Key
13 plainly enough. see 44. demiy "rest' "and give you no rest,
until the Lord establish you and until I make Jerusalem a praise
in the earth." Also "tranquility", prosperity, in [Isaiah 38:10]
"I said, in the tranquility of my days I shall die, at the gates
of Sheol I am deprived of the rest of my years."
Greek/Latin
Ignis. Fire.
The Zohar [Prologue 8A-B, pp.34, 36] says: "The angel presiding
over Gehinnom is called Duma, and these are tens of thousands of
angels of destruction under him. He stands at its door, but those
who have carefully guarded the sign of the holy covenant he has
no power to touch... Duma returned then crest fallen to his
place. It is in regard to this that David said: Unless the Lord
had been my help, but a little would been wanting that my soul
had dwelt in Duma (silence). [Psalm 94:17]. That is, if the Lord
had not been my advocate, it wanted but little, etc. Only by
the hair breadth which is between me and the sinister power did
my soul escape from the clutches of Duma. A man should therefore
be on his guard not to let slip and incautious word like David,
since we will not be able to plead with Duma, that it was an
error [Ecclesiastes 5:5], Like David, who was vindicated by the
Holy One, blessed be His name; wherefore should God be angry at
thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands? [IBID], i.e. the
flesh of the holy covenant which the man has defiled and which,
as a punishment, is stretched in Gehinnom at the hands of Duma."
KLH Kallah. the crowned one, The bride, (of Melek, the King in
Tiphareth). Name of Malkuth. Refers to the New Jerusalem, the
holy city or manifested Kingdom (see 1006, 543, 496).
[Revelations 21:9] Also KLH to be complete, be completed, be
finished.
HKL ha-kal, ha-kol. all, everything, the All. In the Kingdom are
all the powers conjoined, and the Kingdom is the physical body of
man to which the name Guph is given. Malkuth represents the sum-
total of the influences on the Tree of Life, concentrated into
the field of manifestation called the "world"; the world of
physical man s sensory experience, the world of his mental
impressions of sensations experienced through his body. Bodily
contact with this field of sensation is the basis of all human
knowledge.
Greek/Latin
Ageleia (Gr). Title of Athena. "She who carries off the spoils,"
said by occult tradition to have been used by Pythagoreans, in
reference to the number 7. (She who drives of the Spoils.") 7 and
10 are related, because the extension of 7 is 28, which reduces
to 10. the extension of 10 is 406, which reduces to 10 (see 406).
IVM yom. day, light of day, time, season. In Genesis 1:5 gives
as God's own name for light, the (Qabalistic symbol of the
Manifest (see 69), as contrasted with darkness, to which the name
Night is given, as representing the Unmanifest. With different
vowel points, Yoom: to be warm, or bright.
Greek/Latin
"The sages have written about may waters, stones and metals, for
the purpose of deceiving you. You that desire a knowledge of our
art, relinquishing Sun, Moon, Saturn and Venus for our ore (#23
Latin) and our earth, and why so? Every thing is of the nature of
No thing." [Hermetic Museum I. p. 204]
gloria (Lt). glory. The Light of God which shines on all things
(see 74, 126, 136, 237).
AN The signs which compose the root, are those of power and of
individual existence. They determine together the seity,
sameness, selfsameness, or the me of the being, and limit the
exitent of its circumscription.
Latin/Greek
KBVD IHVH Kebode IHVH. "The Glory of IHVH." [Exodus 16:10] "And
it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of
the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness,
and, behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud."
Fabre D'Olivet suggest that Calah means the growing wise, old
men ruling within": "The word KLCh, which signifies literally, an
ancient, an old man, that is to say, a man whom age and
experience have led to perfection. Thence by extension, the idea
of a senate, of an assembly of old men, of a wise and
conservative institution." [Hebrew Tongue Restored p. 284] see
55.
This name appears in [Genesis 5:29] "And he called his name Noah,
saying He shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our
hands: because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed"
crux (Lt). cross (see 1274 Greek). Refers to the golden cross of
6 squares, belonging to the Rosicrucian order "which every
brother carries on his breast" [Secret Symbols]. see 109, 246,
66, 62, 47 (Lt). Also see the equal-armed cross of the 4
elements, the cross of Tav on the breast of Key 2.
59 (prime)
"In the Name of Adonai shall all the Nations be blessed. We begin
with this, because in the Hebrew 'Nations' is 'Goyim' and refers
to the Gentiles. The 'Nations' esoterically are the millions and
millions of cells not directly concerned with the controlling the
functions of the body, as are the more highly specialized cells
known as the 12 tribes, for the constitution of the human body is
the pattern for the proper constitution of the human society.
Just as the gross mechanics of the body furnishes the pattern for
all machines based on the laws of mechanics, while the subtler
structure of the same body provides the patterns for those
inventions which utilize the power of electricity." [Commentary
of the 20th Communication 6/23/47]. see 65, 671, 100, 739, 259.
Latin
HNH hinnay. behold! "The glory of the Heavenly son shall all men
behold." [Book of Tokens] With different vowel points: to give
pleasure or benefit, to please.
HVA ChIID Hia hayyekaw. "She is thy Life." [Proverbs 4:13] "Take
fast hold of instruction, let her not go; keep her, for she is
thy life." see 540, 12, 18.
GIHBM gihebem. Silence; according to Godwin: the seventh and
lowest hell, corresponding to the three Supernal Sephiroth. see
620.
"Yet is she also AMK, Ameka, thy Mother, and her heart swelleth
with love. For behold AMK: is it not 61, and this is BTN, the
dark womb of creation? And again, it is AIN, the Boundless, for
there are no limits to the overflowing love, springing like a
fountain of Living Waters from the heart of the Mother.
Greek/Latin
BNI beni. the sons. Temperance purifies the sons (and daughters)
of God. see 52, ?898?
NIB niyb. produce, fruit. [Malachi 1:12] "But you are profaning
it, [i.e. the Lord's name] in that you say, the table of the Lord
is polluted and its food (fruit) is contemptible." Also in
[Isaiah 87:19] "I create the fruit of the lips [i.e. speech);
peace, peace to those who are afar off and to those who are near,
says the Lord; and I will heal them."
sophia (Latin). wisdom. From Greek [Greek word]. see 781 (Gr.),
73
chalybs (Latin). steel. "Our chalybs is the true key of our art,
without which the torch would in no wise be kindled, and as the
true magi have delivered many things concerning it, so among
vulgar alchemists there is great contention as to its nature. It
is the ore of gold, the purest of all spirits; a secret,
infernal, and yet most volatile fire, the wonders of the world...
as steel is attracted to the magnet, and the magnet turns toward
the steel, so also our magnet attracts our chalybs. Thus, as
chalybs is the ore of Gold, so abounds in salt, which salt is the
menstruum in the sphere of the Moon, and can calcine gold. This
center turns toward the pole with anarchetic appetite, in which
the virtue of chalybs is exalted by degrees..." [Hermetic Museum
II, pp.. 166-167]. Case chalybs = 62 = Sophia.
"Remember now that the Glory is the Kabode-El, for God is One and
alone and there is nothing else, as saith Isaiah. Al is 31, and
KBVD is 32, so that KBVD-AL is 63. Here you may be searching
find much treasure. First, 63 is 9 times 7. Among the
Sephiroth, this is the multiplication of Victory by the power of
the Foundation. Among the letters it is the multiplication of
Zain by the power of Teth.
Nor are these in any measure different, for what is the Victory
if it be not that of the Sword of Understanding, and what is the
Foundation, if it be not a power of the Royal Serpent?
Here, indeed, may you find a rich treasure, and the text points
straight at it.
We shall not now give you more than this one hint. As students
familiar with our Rota, note well the words of the text
concerning 63 as the multiplication of Zain by Teth. Do not
forget that the path of Zain links Binah to Tiphareth, and that
ZIN is 67, as is BINH. Right disposition is rooted in
Understanding, and this is the sharp sword of discrimination, for
there is no love without understanding, and love must be
discriminating in the good and constructive sense of this word.
But note that Zain as 7 must be multiplied by Teth as 9 to make
the 63 of KBVD-AL, and though Teth is the serpent-power, the Rota
pictures that power as a red lion, tamed by a woman who
represents the feminine aspect of Chesed. Every Sephirah, you
remember, is both male and female. Female, as receiving the
descending influence. Male as projecting it to whatever paths
are below, and this feminine Chesed is pictured as being like the
Empress. For the taming of the lion and the serpent, these two
being really identical, is woman's work even as it is written in
the writings of the Sons of Hermes. If you have ears to hear,
this shall be for you a practical revelation of the Great
Arcanum." [23rd Communication] see 32, 67, 73, 833, 124, 419, 430
2. The Zohar [Prologue: 8a, pp. 33-34] adds: "'The glory of EL'
(God) signifies glory of [CHECK FOR MISSING TEXT] the bride which
is called EL, as it is written 'and EL hath indignation every
day' [Psalm 8:12]; all the days of the year it is called EL,
signifying glory on glory, splendor on splendor, and dominion on
dominion. Thus at the time when heaven enters into the canopy and
irradiates her, all those companions who joined in her adornment
have their names recorded there above, as it is written, 'and the
firmament showeth his handiwork..' the words 'his handiwork'
being an allusion to those who have entered into a covenant with
the bride."
Greek/Latin
opus (Lt). Work. Refers of the alchemical great Work. see 124,
61.
DIN Deen. Justice, the highest name for the 5th Sephirah,
Geburah. It is the square of 8, the special number of the
Sephirah Hod, and of the letter Cheth, which is the channel
carrying the influence from Binah down to Geburah. The wise see
meaning and purpose in the reign of divine law. In human
personality are summed up all the forces and laws of the
universe. Man is the instrument through which the Life-power
brings the Great Work to completion, symbolized by the pentagram,
one of the geometrical correspondences to the number 5 and
Geburah. see 92, 216, 95, 297, 850.
NVCh noah. to include, lie down, rest. The proper name Noah
(variant spelling). see 58. Also rest, quiet, resting place
[Esther 9:16]. As an adjective: pleasing, kind, easy, benign.
HVA-BN. Hu-Kether and Ben, the Son. He [is] the Son [Mark 1:11].
Greek/Latin
The number of the units of the pentagon when the length of the
sides are 13 units each.
KMH Kawmah. Cama or Kama; "to pine, or long for." This is the
name of the ?Hindu? God of love, or desire." [Inman].
HIKL haikel. temple, palace. Meeting place for the Shekinah. The
Zohar [Prologue 3B, pp. 13-14] adds: "The holy and mysterious one
?carved? in a hidden recess one point. In that he enclosed the
whole of creation as one who locks up all his treasures in a
palace, under one key, which is therefore as valuable as all that
is stored up in that palace; for it is the key which shuts and
opens. In that palace there are hidden treasures, one greater
than the other. The palace is provided with fifty mystic gates.
They are inserted in its four sides to the number of 49. The one
remaining gate is on none of its sides and it is unknown whether
it is on high or below: it is hence called the mysterious gate.
All these gates have one lock, and there is one tiny spot for the
insertion of the key, which is only marked by the impress of the
key. It is this mystery which is implied in the words in the
beginning created God. " HIKL = 65. It is "in the midst"
according to Sepher Yetzirah-the interior center (Tav). the
divine essence = ?AIV ANI?. HIKL may be read H I KL = The Yod
All. The Yod is the point of concentration. "Light and there was
Light. These words imply that there had already been Light. This
word AVR (light), contains in itself a hidden significance. The
expansive force proceeding from the hidden recesses of this
secret supernal ether opened a path and produced from itself a
mysterious point (or, rather, the ?ens? of (limitless) ?clave/
its own ether and disclosed this point), Yod." [Zohar I: 16B,
p.69]
DVMIH dumiah. silence, quietness; the 4th occult maxim (to keep
silent). Hence: trusting in silence, hoping, waiting. [Psalm
62:1] "Truly my soul trust God in silence; my salvation comes
from him."
Latin
Latin/Greek
Binah is both the dark sterile Mother, AMA and AIMA Aima, the
bright, pregnant Mother. This aspect of Reality is the matrix of
all possible specialized forms of expression. Ama represents
this aspect of Being prior to the beginning of a cycle of the
Life-power's self-manifestation. Aima is the fertile womb from
which flow forth all forms made manifest during such a cycle of
the Life-power's self-expression.
"Thus may you come to understand that the Sabbath of the Eternal
never ends. How then may man find rest, save in the heart of the
Mother? For that heart is the ever virgin Neshamah, and she is
one with the Everlasting Heavens. Dark she is, but comely, even
as Solomon saith. The source of terror to the ignorant, and
therefore Pachad dependeth with all its stern judgments from her.
Yet is she also AMK, Ameka, thy Mother, and her heart swelleth
with love. For behold AMK: is it not 61, and this is BTN, the
dark womb of creation? And again, it is AIN, the Boundless, for
there are no limits to the overflowing love, springing like a
fountain of Living Waters from the heart of the Mother.
Greek/Latin
Jesus. Latin spelling of Yeshua. In Christian esotericism this
name is applied to the Son, and we have seen that in the very
word [BINH] are to be found the letters B and N, forming Ben, the
Son.
unus. one; alone, single, sole. Refers to the unity of all life.
The actual substance of "all things" is the being of the Logos or
Word [Logos = 373, reduces to 13, which is AChD, echud, one and
AHBH ahebah, love, thus love and unity.] The established order of
all things is a unity "all things" are nature. see 215, 39.
Latin/Greek
The Chaldean character looks nothing like an eye, but its form
suggest the duality of human visions, the letter-name more
definitely. [Paul Case: Tarot Practice Course] see 358
Fabre D'Olivet comments: "This character should be considered
under the double relation of vowel and consonant. Following its
vocal acceptation, it represents the interior of the ear of man,
and becomes the symbol of confused, dull, inappreciable noises;
deep sounds without harmony. Following its consonantal
acceptation, it belongs to the guttural sound and represents the
cavity of the chest. Under both relations as grammatical sign, it
is in general, that of material sense, image of void and
nothingness as vowel, it is the sign Vav, considered in its
purely physical relations: as consonant, it is the sign of that
which is cooked, false, perverse and bad." [The Hebrew Tongue
Restored, p. 413]
ADM VChVH Adam ve-Chavah. Adam and Eve. i.e. Humanity. see 45,
19.
HSH haseh. Hush! Be silent! Hold your peace! Also: HSH (hasah),
to be silent; tongues. Compare this with the meaning of pax (35),
has to do with the control of speech. Silence: one of the 4
occult maxims. It is the soundless voice of the inner life,
expressing itself through thought. Heh reminds us that to receive
the inner tuition we must learn to keep silent. For the clearest,
intensest vision, this is essential. 2nd Heh (Malkuth-the Bride).
We shall accomplish more work and do it better if we do not say
too much about our plans and projects. Samekh hints that in
silence there is a supporting or sustain power. Desire will be
intensified. see 474, 346, 131, 815.
Paul Case, writing in Theory of Magic says: "The Hebrew word for
silence HSH, claims our attention now. Its first letter is Heh,
and so is its last. Our teachers in the Qabalah, tell us that the
first Heh is the Heh of the Mother, Aima of Binah, while the last
is the Heh of the Bride, Malkuth. The first Heh, therefore
corresponds to the creative world and to the faculty of
intuition. Thus it reminds us that to receive the interior
tuition which reveals to us the mysteries of cosmic law we must
learn to keep silent. The inner voice is not heard by those who
indulge in needless talk, furthermore, the letter Heh is the
letter of sight, and for the clearest, intensest vision, silence
is essential. The second Heh may serve to remind us of Lao-Tze
dictum the state should be governed as we cook small fish,
without much business." When we come to apply whatever magical
knowledge we may possess to the actual work of taking our part in
the administration of the kingdom, we shall accomplish more work
and do it better if we do not have too much to say about our
plans and projects. The middle letter of HSH, Samekh, hints that
in silence there is a supporting or sustaining power. That this
is true every practical occultist learns sooner or later. The
practice of silence as to what you aim at, as to what you are
doing, has two very important practical results. First of all, it
prevents other people from leaning of your plans and perhaps
setting themselves in opposition to you. Thus silence is over and
over again a time-saver and an energy-saver. Secondly, the
practice of silence serves to intensity desire-force. Your one
aim (the arrow of the archer, represented by the letter Samekh)
is something that you must keep religiously to yourself. Not even
your closest friends should know of it. This one aim is typified
in Revelation by the white stone, upon which is written a name
which no man knoweth, save him that receiveth it. The one things
you have to do in order to fulfill your destiny will be, or
perchance has been, revealed to you from within. See that you
tell no man. For in silence and secrecy the strength and potency
of that aim will be intensified until it dominates your whole
life. But if you tell your secret to other people, virtue goes
out of you and you are almost certain to incite somebody to acts
of open or veiled opposition." (pp. 166-168) [1925] see 815
KN. ken. thus, "so", just so, such, so much; honest. In Genesis
1:7: "So Elohim made the firmament and separated the water under
the expanse from the water above it. And it was so." Also in
Genesis 42:11: "We are all sons of one man. Your servants are
honest [KNIM] men, not spies." see 720.
***Fabre D'Olivet renders this verse: "And being steeped with the
spirit of his production, he intoxicated his thought (attained
ecstasy) and (in his exactation he revealed himself in the center
(most secret place) of his tabernacle." He comments: MV-HIIV
with-what-is-spirituous... The word IIV, which is the natural
order signifies simply wine, designates in the moral order, and
according to the figurative and hieroglyphic sense, a spiritual
essence, the knowledge of which has passed in all times, as
belonging to the most profound mysteries of Nature. All those who
have written of it, present the mysterious essence as a thing
whose profoundness can not be known without revelation. The
Kabbalists are accustomed to say, in speaking of this wine, that
he who drank of it would know all the secrets of the sages. I can
only offer to the read the grammatical analysis of the Hebrew
word, leaving the rest to his sagacity.
In the word here referred to, the two vowels are not only
enlightened by replaced by the sign of potential manifestation
Yod, image of intellectual duration. This sign being doubled
constitutes, among the Chaldeans, one of the proper names of the
divinity. United to the final sign Vav, it seems, if I can so
express it, to offer the very body of that which is incorporeal.
It is a spiritual essence which many peoples and particularly the
Egyptians, have considered under the emblem of light. Thus, for
example, one finds in the Coptic [word] light or torch. It is in
conceiving this essence under the form of spirit, that those same
peoples, choosing for it an emblem more within the reach of the
vulgar, have taken for its physical envelope wine, that liquor so
vaunted in all the ancient mysteries because of the spirit which
it contains and of which it was the symbol. This is the origin of
these words which, coming from the same root appears so different
in signification: AVN being and IIV wine, of which the Greek
analogous offer the same phenonenon [Greek word] being and [Greek
word], wine.
Latin/Greek
filius. Son.
tartar. a part of the alchemical salt.
71 (prime)
Matthew 12:39: "But he answered and said unto them, an evil and
adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall be no
sign given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: 40. For as
Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale s belly, so
shall the son of man be three days and three nights in the heart
of the earth." See also Matthew 16:14, Luke 11:29. INH = Virgo
(Yod) +Taurus (Vav) > Scorpio (Nun) > Aries (Heh) . see 59.
...Ionia, from which we have imbibed all that we have imbibed all
that we have which is delightful i art and brilliant in
knowledge, is attached on side to the mysteries dove of Moses, so
that of Semiramis; and loses itself on the other, in that sacred
emblem called Yoni by the Brahmans; Yng, by the Chinese Tao-teh,
over which it is necessary that I draw an impenetrable veil."
[The Hebrew Tongue Restored, p. 230-233]
The letters of the word form part of the doctrines of the Grade
of Exempt Adept. 1. The Chariot, Key 7 (Cheth): The I am does
nothing, for the I Am is the One Identity called God and God is
changeless. That One Identity is the witness of activity, but is
not itself modified or altered by the transformations that go on
around it. All change, all modification, is in the field of
energy with revolves around the I Am. The self does nothing. It
never had done anything. It is simply the witness of the panorama
of the transformations proceeding from its own mysterious power.
2. Temperance, Key 14 (Samekh): All circumstances are gifts from
the Almighty. Personality is the instrument of the One Self.
Every detail of our daily experience is a good gift from the One
Source. There can be no evil gift form the one giver of all good.
3. The Empress, Key 3 (Daleth): To know that all circumstances
are gifts from the one identity is to free subconsciousness from
every erroneous image of terror, lack, hatred; sorrow, or
mistrust. Whatever external appearances may be, they are
invariably veils of manifestation for the divine beneficence.
hope, courage, happiness and joy are fruits of the spirit, the
expression of accurate measurement of the facts of experience."
[Paul Case: True and Invisible Rosicrucian Order (4th), pp.. 418-
419.] see 178.
BKN bawkan. in, so, thus, then; in such a way; and so;
therefore. (see BN, masculine, base, pedestal; post, etc and BN,
adverb, so, thus, yes) see 52.
Greek
Kana (Gr). Cana, scene of Jesus 1st Miracle. Basically, "A reed
used for measuring," connects with Chesed as the Measuring
Intelligence. Measurement is suggested in the story of the
miracle. See "place of reeds" 155.
heh aletheia (Gr). the truth. see 9, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63, 81,
90. [John14:6] "Jesus says to him "I am the way, the truth, and
the life. No man comes to the Father, except by me."
Latin
verbum (Lt). word. The Latin equivalent for the Greek Logos.
Verbum stands for the formative power of the Creative Idea.
rubeum (Latin). red. The color of Mars. Part of a phrase. see 406
4. (The Emperor, Heh) A Magus sees eye to eye with the Ancient of
the Ancient Ones. he has "restored the Creator to his throne."
The Magic of Light is the exercise of the Constitution
Intelligence, which frames the universe." [Paul Case, True and
invisible Rosicrucian Order, p. 292-293]
ABIKM Abikam thy (your) father. [Isaiah 51:2] A reference to
Abraham, also a link between Chokmah and AB Ab, Father. Another
name for the number 2.
IVM ThVB yom tob. a day of feast; literally: "day of good." "The
camel which bears rich merchandise of the Life-power s knowledge
of itself brings us the treasure of divine wisdom. In that wisdom
we may put our trust. So the Hierophant is shown sitting at the
gate of a sanctuary. Every day is a feast day, a day of good, for
he who partakes of this wisdom. Without wisdom there is no good;
with it all is good, and all is peace." [Gematria of the Letter-
Names].
vista (Lt). visit. Part of the phrase in Secret Symbols (p. 17)
"Visit the interior of the earth, by rectifying you shall find
the hidden stone." see 570.
DIIN diin. leader, chief, judge. The Life-power (Aleph: Ox) rules
all creatures.
GIHVN gihon. "a stream"; The name of the second river of Eden,
associated with water. Variant spelling, according to Godwin. see
77, 724.
Greek/Latin
Angus Dei (Lt). Lamb of God. This is the "Lamb" clearly indicated
by the initials which are used in the Fama to designate the
Founder (compare ISD) of the Rosicrucian order, whose initial are
KR, Kar, Lamb. In Revelations, the Lamb is the symbol of Christ.
The lamb sits on the throne at the center of the cubical city of
the new Jerusalem. The Lamb is said to be both the temple and the
lamp of the city. The city itself is a symbol of regenerated
humanity, and of a society composed of regenerated persons. see
56, 18, 134 (Latin)
ROTA-IHVH (Latin and Hebrew). The wheel (of) the Lord. Letters
inscribed on the Wheel of Fortune, key 10. see 26, 48 (Latin)
75 (3*5*5)
GBO. Hill.
KNH kahnnawh. the stock (of a plant). [Psalm 80:15] "And the
vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch
(stock) that thou madest strong for thyself." In this passage the
word (with the prefix Vav) occurs as copied here with a large
kaph, indicating its importance. Note that the vine as the plant
includes the branches. Also KNH plant, shoot; stand ruler; KNH:
to give a name, give a title; to surname, nickname; to express by
a substitute.
Latin
matrix (Lt). the womb. The whirling inner energy is the womb from
which illumination emerges.
SVDV sod. secret. "He revealeth His secret." [Amos 3:7]. Also
rendered in Jewish translation "His counsel." see 114.
pectus. breast. Note that this is the part of the human body
governed by the sign Cancer. Within this area is the sun center,
focus of the central ego in the microcosm. This word, with a
different spelling, is part of the phrase, "a seed planted in the
breast of Jesus", a motto mentioned in the Rosicrucian Fama
Fraternitatis. see 95, 310 (Latin).
77 (7*11)
GIHVN gihon. The name of the 2nd river of Eden, that which
compasses the whole land of Cush [Genesis 2:13]. see 326, 702,
142, 446, 1068, 680, 1560, 858.
Fabre D'Olivet comments: "GIHVN Gihon.. (from the) root GH. This
root is employed here in the intensive verbal from which the
augmenatative syllable VN...(p. 80) GH... The organic sign
united... to that of manifestation (Heh), constitutes a root
which becomes the symbol of every organization. This root which
possesses the same faculties of extension and aggrandizement that
we have observed in the root GA, contains ideas apparently
opposed to envelopment and development according to the point of
view under which one considers the organization. [The Hebrew
Tongue Restored, p. 311-312]
Latin
H.C. (Lt). (Mystic name of) Fas Ducit "(Divine) Law or Command
Draws (or leads) Him."
A rectangle with a:
"Now, consider the influence that flows through the Tree of Life.
It is named MZLA, Mezla, and this word is 78, the sum of the
numbers from 1 to 12. For this reason there are 78 Tarot Keys.
BOZ Boaz. "in strength," The black pillar set before Solomon's
temple on the left side. Symbolizes the negative, feminine,
polarity of the Tree of Life -the Pillar of Severity. (scriptural
spelling see 85). [1 Kings 7:21]
Latin
The robe on Key 0, The Fool, bears the sign of the alchemical
Quintessence, an 8-spoked wheel, 10 times repeated. Suggesting
that the spiritual essences of the 10 Sephiroth are part of the
vesture or veil of THAT which the Fool really it. The path of
Aleph is the very essence of Kether itself, and Kether is naught
but the concentration of AIN, En (naughtness), into the Simple
Point.
"The heart of NPSh, Nephesh, is the letter Peh, and this path
carrieth the power of Netzach into Hod. From Geburah, the Sphere
of Madim, the Holy Mezla descendeth into Tiphareth through the
path of action, the sharp goad of Lamed. Yet is this path of
Lamed of the quality of Nogah.
Then from Tiphareth the Holy Mezla descendeth into the Sphere of
Nogah through the path of change, the path of Nun. Thus from the
Sphere of Madim the channel beginneth with Nogah, then taketh on
the form of Madim to enter the Sphere of Nogah; and likewise is
the first path from Nogah a path of Madim.
Consider this well, and see how, on the Tree, the paths of Daleth
and Peh are of like nature, though opposite in appearance. Now
see further. Peh is the heart of NPSh, Nephesh, and Peh is also
one with ISVD, for the number of P is 80, and this is the number
of ISVD. Truly, P and L are one, for P is K with Yod, as you may
see by looking at the character, and K with I giveth the number
30. Thus is Lamed a goad, and if this be considered, what is the
goad but the power of Madim? And in ISVD is concealed SVDI, Sod
Yod, the secret of Yod. Now Yod itself is Kaph, and the Sod Yod
is a mystery of the hidden paternal power of Chokmah."[Qabalistic
Text - 10th Communication]
"...the alchemists say there are two stages at the end of their
process, the White Work and the Red. White for the Moon, and Red
for the Sun.
Now, the Sphere of the Moon is Yesod, and the Sphere of the Sun
is Tiphareth. The White Work transmutes the leaden Guph into the
Purified Intelligence of Yesod, for it shows the alchemist what
is the real basis of his personal life." [Commentary 11th
Communication 5.23.47] see 89, 406.
In Leviticus 4:7: "And the priest shall put some of the blood
upon the horns of the alter of sweet incense before the Lord,
which is the tabernacile of the congregation; and he shall pour
all the rest of the blood of the bullock at the foundation of the
alter of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the
Tabernacle of the congregation." see 430.
The Zohar [IV: 225A, p. 268] Comments: "Observe that when the
priest spreads his hands at the time he blesses the people, the
Shekinah comes and hovers over him and endows him with power.
[Literally, fills his hands] When blessing, the priest raises his
right hand above the left, so as to cause the right to prevail
over the left. All the grades over which he spreads his hands,
are thus blessed from the source of all things, from the well
called righteous [i.e. ISVD, Yesod] the source of all is the
future world, the sublime source which illumines all faces,
whence are kindled all lamps. It has a counterpart in the source
and spring of the well whence all the lower lamps and the lower
lights are kindled and radiate. So one corresponds to the other.
Hence, when the priest spreads out his hands and begins to
pronounce the blessing over the people, the celestial
benedictions flowing form the celestial source at once kindle the
lamps, and faces are illumined, and the community of Israel is
adorned with celestial crowns, and all those blessing from down
from on high to below."
Mrs. Atwood comments: "None better than the ancient (who profess
to have enjoyed the rational life in its most intimate spheres,
and have reaped its most real and lasting advantages), describe
the folly and fatal allurements to which they are subjected who
trust thereselves to remain passively dreaming in the region of
the phantasy, with its notion and instincts, often more false,
fleeting [text continues and is missing]
END OF YESOD
"...they who know the secret of Yod, become the extenders of the
paternal Life and Light. Thus is Yesod called the Sphere of the
Moon, and that same Moon pertaineth also to Gimel, the letter of
Union. Blessed are they who hear and understand, and
understanding, live as they know....
OI Ay. A town near Bethel; heap ruin [Psalm 79:1] "O God, the
nations [GVIM, 59] have invaded our inheritance; they have
defiled your Holy Temple, they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
Latin
novus (Latin). new. Part of the inscription "A new order of the
ages" on the Great Seal of the U.S. see 220, 46, 94, 126, 370
(Latin).
total 80
The basis of practical occultism (I.O) is self-expression or
self-utterance. Adequate self-expression requires self-
interrogation (I.A) animated by specific purpose. This work of
self-expression is to be realized through concentration, which
leads to the establishment of equilibrium through finding one's
true center (G.V.).
The number of the Moon whose magic square contains the numbers
from 1 to 81.
PA paw. here, hither. [Job 38:11] "And said, hitherto shalt thou
come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?"
The letter name Peh is sometimes spelled PA. see 85
Greek/Latin
Phoenix (Latin). The legendary bird which lived for 500 years,
was consumed by fire and was reborn from its own ashes. An
alchemical term. The Book of Lambspring says: "In India there is
a most pleasant wood, in which two birds are bound together. One
is of a snowy white; the other is red. They bite each other, and
one is slain and devoured by the other. Then both are changed
into white doves, and of the dove is born a phoenix, which has
left behind blackness and foul death, and his regained a more
glorious life. This power was given it by God himself, that it
might live eternally, and never die. It gives us wealth, it
preserves our life, and which it we may work great miracles, as
also the true philosophers do plainly inform us.: [Hermetic
Museum I, p. 280] Case: Phoenix = 81 = humidum = magia sancta.
see 59 (Latin).
noster (Lt). our. It is our refuge and strength and is best seen
in Christ, our Lord. see 166, 85 Latin.
82 (2*41)
IHVH ALHK Jehovah Elohekah. The Lord thy God [Deut. 15:4, Deut.
28:58]. see 26, 66.
Latin
Fabre D'Olivet writes: "PG Phg. That which extends afar, which
wanders, is extended, loses its strength, its heat. The Arabic
[word] has nearly the same sense. As noun, it is every kind of
crudeness, unripeness; as verb, it is the action of separating,
opening, disjoining, etc." [Hebrew Tongue Restored p. 423]
Fabre D'Olivet renders [Genesis 4:17] "And Kain knew Aisheth (his
intellectual companion, his volitive faculty): and she conceived
and brought forth (the existence of) Henoch (founder, central
energy) Then he builded a spherical enclosure (stronghold) and
he called the name of this spherical enclosure after the name of
his son Henoch." He comments: ChNVK... again I urge the reader to
give close attention to the proper names; for to them Moses
attaches great importance. The greater part of the hieroglyphic
mysteries are now in form of these names. The one referred to in
this passage, is composed to the two roots ChN and AK. The first
ChN, characterize proper, elementary existence: it is a kind of
strengthening of analogous root ChN, more used, and which
designates things in general. The second AK, contains the idea of
every compression, of every effort that the being makes upon
itself, or upon another. For the purpose of fixing itself or
another. The verb which comes from these two roots: ChNVK
signifies to fix, to found, to institute, to arrest any existence
whatsoever. It is from a composition quite similar, that the
personal pronoun ANVKI, myself, in Hebrew results; that is to say
AN or HN, the finished, corporeal being, AVK founded, Yod in me."
[Hebrew Tongue Restored p. 137-138]
Greek/Latin
[Suph [SVP] - Ain [AIN] = 85] These words represent the means
whereby Ain the No-thing, establishes Suph or limitation.
"These two paths cross Gimel above Tiphareth, but the third
reciprocal path of Peh crosses the path of Samekh below
Tiphareth. Now see a subtlety. PH, Peh, is 85, and this goes
back to 4 through 13, so that the path of PH, Peh, veils Daleth
again. Thus all the horizontal paths are feminine, even though
the path of Peh is related to Mars, and the ruling power in the
path of Teth is the Sun." [Commentary - 11th Communication
5/23/47]
"Verily, IVD is the seed of all the letters, and if thou hast
eyes to see, in IVD is the secret of the Covenant, and this
secret is the Peh-Heh (PH), for PH is 85, or HISVD, Ha-Yesod, the
Foundation, and 85 is also MILH, the Covenant which removeth
concealment from the paternal Yod.
"The fact that Peh represents the Mars force is also the clue to
the meaning of MILH, circumcision, which refers to the masculine
aspects of the Life Power s activity in reproduction." [Gematria
of the Letter-Names]
Greek/Latin
Dominus (Lt). Lord. Latin word for God as the ruler of the
universe. The Latin word used in translating IHVH and ADNI in
the Old Testament (see 26, 65). What is intimated is that what
the human mind formulates in its idea of God is Lord, is no more
than the idea of the agency where by the absolute sets up the
conditions of name and form, which are the logical necessities
for any manifestation whatever. see 518 Latin.
Other Meanings: God, Deity, Angels, judge, rular. Daniel 2:44 The
spelling God of heaven ALH ShMIA is used. see 387.
However that may be, the Hebraic name Elohim has been obviously
composed of the pronoun AL and absolute verb, HVH, to be being...
It is from the inmost root of this verb that the divine name IH
Yah, is founded, the literal meaning of which is Absolute-Life.
The verb itself, united to pronoun AL, produces ALVH (Eloah),
That-He-who-is, the plural of which Aelohim, signifies exactly
HE-they-who-are: The Being of Beings.
KVS kevos. cup, goblet, the lot of fate, whether good or bad;
also the pelican called KVS, because its throat resembles a cup
or bag. The pelican is an important alchemical symbol. In all its
meanigns this word suggest the concealment, virgin birth, and
preservation of the fire through the feminine prinicple. see 386,
300.
MVM maom. want, fault, blemish, stain, spot, defect. Godwin
gives: Mum; 72nd name of Shemhamphorash, short form, associated
with the 6th Quinance (26°-30°) of Cancer. see 101, 1525.
VDOI vedayou. (Be still) "and know" (that I am God). see 514.
Greek/Latin
primus (Lt). first (in order). Indicating the idea that the Field
must be manifest before the man appears, just as the pentagon
must be constructed before the star of 5 points, symbolizing man,
may be drawn.
Typhon (Latin). The Greek name of the Egyptian divinity Set, the
personifacation of the principle of evil. In Greek mythology
[Greek word] the father of the winds and the son of [Greek word],
with whom he was sometimes confused [Webster] As storms were
ascribed to the agency of giants, the name came to mean a
furious storm, hurricane, typhoon" [Greek Dictionary]. An
appropriate name for unbalanced force before equilibration has
evolved order into manifestation. The "age" of giants and
dinosaurs." see 2050, 70 (Greek); 23, 52 (Latin); 861 (Greek)
Latin/Greek
Animuus Dei. Life of God. Yesod is the receptacle of the vital
soul of all living creatures, including man (see 430).
ChP chaph. "pure"; innocent. In Job 33:9: "I am pure and without
sin; I am clean and free from guilt. (10) yet God has found fault
with me; he considers me his enemy." see 808.
Greek/Latin
Aqua Vita (Lt). Water of Life. "If you would make our substance
red, you must first make it white. Its three natures are summed
up in whiteness and redness. Take, therefore, our Saturn, subject
it to coction in Aqua Vitae until it turns white, becomes thick,
and is coagulated, and then again till it becomes red. Then it is
red lead, and without this lead of the sages nothing can be
effected."
Filius Dei. Son of God. The water of life is the mystical son of
God and that son (the rider in the chariot in Key 7) is also the
rose itself (see 154, 119).
Nascimur (Lt). We are born. You shall find that the son of God is
born anew through us by the aid of the triangle of Fire and the
water of Life. Part of the phrase discovered in the vault of
brother CR, see 683 Latin.
Now, Guph is the body of the Lord, for is not the name of the
Kingdom ADNI MLK, Adonai Melek? Behold, then, the Kingdom
suspended from the cross of Tav. And what said the King,
speaking through that Guph men know by the name of Yeshua? Said
He not, "I am the living water?" And behold, MIM is 90, and so
is MLK; and thus Yeshua stilled the waters (seas), for he knew
that Adonai Melek is Lord of the Waters. ADNI MLK numbereth 155,
and here is AL in fivefold expression, for AL is 31." [Qabalistic
Text - 7th Communication, 3/9/47]
"89 is its number, and as the numbers are Sephiroth, this
revealeth Hod as the instrument of Yesod. But, again, 9 is
Yesod, and 80 is the numeration of ISVD. So, also, is 8 the seed
of 9, because 1, 2, 3, 4 5, 6, 7, 8 total 36, and 9 is the sum of
3 and 6. Yet see here the Mother, 3, and the Son, 6. Now look
at Key 8, and see there before you the Mother, and her Son, the
Lion of the Tribe of Judah. For ONE is All, and thus is Hod but
another aspect of ISVD. There is but one Foundation.
"See now, Guph is KLH, Kallah, the Bride, and in her name is
shown the perfection of the Kingdom. For the Kingdom is 10, and
KLH is 55, or the sum of the numbers from 1 to 10. See again,
the Bride, KLH, is also HKL, the ALL. For in Guph is the whole
creation made manifest. Therefore is Guph, the body, the whole
[holy? P.F.C.] Temple of the Most High. And where standeth
this Temple? Verily, it standeth in the midst, or center, and in
it abideth forever Adonai Melek (ADNI MLK), our Lord and King,
Holy is His Name, Blessed be He!
Note the statement that Guph is really the Kingdom, or the Bride
who is the ALL. This is fact. Can anyone separate even the
smallest body from the whole? Through a single atom course all
the forces of the universe, and whatever body you may take for an
example, whether it be small as an electron or great as a galaxy,
this remains true. Moreover, whatever body you may elect to
consider, that body is the mathematical center of an infinite
expanse." [Qabalistic Text and Commentary - 9th Communication,
5/15/47]
"Chokmah and Kachmah being numerically one, that is, 73, and this
being also the number of the name of the letter Gimel, GML, what
lies behind this part of the text is the Qabalistic doctrine that
Chokmah is the source of Chaiah, the life-force, and since GML as
73 is identical with ChKMH and KChMH, Gimel is also the seat of
Chaiah. Thus the fact that Gimel is the first letter of the word
Guph signifies that the body of man proceeds from, or has its
root in, Chokmah, which is also the Sphere of Masloth, the
highways of the stars." [Qabalistic Text - 23rd Communication
12/29/47]
Greek/Latin
Anima Mundi (Lt). Soul of the world. Mother Nature active on the
physical plane. "For itself is the universal and sparkling flame
of the light of nature, which has the heavenly spirit in itself,
with which it was animated at first by God, who prevades all
things, and is called by Auicenna, the Soul of the World.
[Hermetic Huseum I. p. 78] A. E. Waite, describing the Mercury
symbol says: "The cescent denotes the lunar part, which is
feminine, and volatile in nature: This is the spiritus mercurii.
The medial circle has no point in the center, signifying the
immature state of Mercurial Sulphur Solis: This is the Anima
Mundi of Quicksilver. The cross at the base represents the
volatile body of the metallic substance." [Brotherhood of the
Rosy Cross, p. 460] see 55
Sum of the perimeters of the 5 Platonic solids (6, 10, 14, 22,
38).
"And what said the King, speaking through that Guph men know by
the name of Yeshua? Said He not, "I am the living water?" And
behold, MIM is 90, and so is MLK; and thus Yeshua stilled the
waters (seas), for he knew that Adonai Melek is Lord of the
Waters. ADNI MLK numbereth 155, and here is AL in fivefold
expression, for AL is 31." [7th Communication] see 155, 36, 89
"The Son is one with the Father, and the King is one with the
Seas, and the Man is the symbol of the division of the Seas. For
BN and AIMA are both 52, and MLK is like MIM, 90, while ADM is
45, the half of division of 90. These are the names of
Tiphareth. See then that MLK and ADM are really the same even in
number, for though 45 is the half of 90, 4 and 5 total 9, and 9
and 0 total 9 also. Furthermore the extension of 9 is 45. Thus
ADM and MLK are essentially one, but since MLK is 90, and this is
the number of MIM, the Seas, the King, like the Son, is one with
the Mother, for AIMA is also the root of water, and that is the
root of MIM, and besides, AIMA is named also the great Sea....in
this does the royalty of the King have its root, that he is one
with the Kingdom or Bride, and one with the Mother also. Now in
MIM, the Seas, the Rota shows you the hanged or suspended ADM,
thus is his head surrounded with the glory of the sphere of the
Sun. He is the MLK or King, and his power to rule is the
consequence of his utter dependence on what supports him - which
is the power at the center corresponding to the letter Tav.
Again both MLK and MIM are related to the letter Tzaddi by the
number 90, and what is Tzaddi in the Rota but the Mother
unveiling herself to those who succeed in meditation, as did our
Father Abraham according to the Book of Formation? [19th
Communication] see 45, 52, 434, 400.
IKIN Jakin. the firm or strong one; patron From a Semitic root
meaning "unity" and refers to the creative power of the One
Thing. The white pillar, the pillar of mercy of the Tree of Life
has the same underlying significance as "Yod Tetragrammaton". The
pillar of establishment Solomon set before the porch of the
temple, and which is the royal secret (silence) of the life-
powers reign. In Masonry: He will establish. see 740, [1 Kings
7:21]
IMM yamin. hot springs. incorrectly translated "Mules" in the
authorized version of Genesis 36:24. The union of Fire and Water.
LB-HABN liab ha-ehben. the heart of the stone, " the stoney
heart" [Ezekiel 11:19] "And I will give them one heart, and I
will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stoney
heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh."
The "stoney heart" is a symbol of the sense of separateness
pictured by the tower in Key 16. see 85, 735, 740
Greek/Latin
Arbor aurea (Lt). Golden tree [Secret Symbols, page 33]. Note
that the 6th Path is the Sphere of Sol.
MAKL maekahl. Food, meal, fare, mealtime. The Higher Self is the
food which nourishes the personality.
"The Ordinary numeration of AMN is 91, the sum of the number from
0 to 13. So taken, AMN stands for the full expression of the
concepts of unity and love (Achd, Achad and AHBH, Ahebah), each
of which is 13 in Hebrew. But sometimes a final Nun is understood
to represent the number 700. By this reckoning AMN would be the
number 741. This is also related to 13, for as 91 is 7x13, so 741
is 3x13x19. Thus the facts of 741, written as Hebrew words would
be AB (3) x AChD (13) X ChVh (19), or Father x Unity x Mother
(Eve). The occult meanings of AMN as 741 is therefore the power
of the Father, which is one power, manifested through the agency
of the Mother. Again, AMN, taken as 9 is equivalent in numeration
to the words IHVH ADNI, Jehovah Adonai, God the Lord. All these
Qabalisms serve a single purpose. They indicate that the quality
of consciousness distinguished by the word AMN, Amen, Faithful,
is fundamentally of the nature of the Primal Will, and is the
actual power whereby forms are brought into manifestation. Thus
St. Paul, trained by Rabbi Hillel, declared: 'Faith is the
substance of things hoped for.' [Paul Case: op. cit. pp. 384-385]
Greek/Latin
Sal et sol (Lt). Salt and Sun. Alchemically salt and gold The
word Sal, salt, has a qabalistic correspondence to 7 because its
value is 28, the extension of 7. An instruction of the Freres
Chevaliers read in part: "(2) What is truth?-it is the Great
Architect of the Universe. (3) What has declared it unto you?-His
works, and the work of my hands. (4) How in his works?-all his
creatures testify concerning him. (5) How do the work of you
hands?-because I have seen the likeness of his creation. (6) Who
taught you this work?-our excellent master. (7) What did he teach
you?-that in salt and sol we have all things. (8) What is the
sun?-it is the work of the philosophers." [Brotherhood of the
Rosy Cross, p. 473] see 78, 231 Greek.
trinus (Lt). triple, threefold. Related to a truth that the
essential reality is one, yet in threefold aspect.
92 (4*23)
BTz botz. whitish clay, mire, bog. This refers to the ignorant
as persons immersed in the illusions of physical existence.
1. The Tower, Key 16: No form is permanent, not does any form
separate a portion of the One Identity from the whole of that
identity. The reality manifested at any point in space is
identical with the reality existing at all points in space. The
reality existing in the present is identical with the reality
which has continued unbroken through the past and will continue
unbroken through the future... 2. The Chariot, Key 7: The One
Reality is the field of its own manifestation, the vehicle of its
own existence: and that One Reality is the directive principle in
human beings, designated by the pronoun 'I'... 3. The Empress,
Key 3: Nature is the manifestation power of the One identity. In
all nature no force opposes itself to that One. All the forces of
nature, with no exception, are instruments for expressing that
free will of that One Identity. Whatever appears to the contrary
is illusion, and the acceptance of that illusion for truth is the
delusion that binds the ignorant." [Paul Case: True and Invisible
Rosicrucian Order (4th), pp. 387-388]. The truth behind the
letters of this word is part of the doctrines of Greater Adept.
ChSDK chesed-ka. thy loving kindness [Psalm 138:2]. It shows the
difference between a wise man's reaction to the power of the 5th
Sephirah and that of the ignorant. What the ignorant fear, the
wise interpret correctly as loving kindness. Note that the
latter is Chesed, the fourth Sephirah. see 72, 216, 64, 572, 725
TzB tzab. litter, covered wagon. [Isaiah 66:20] "And they will
being all your brothers, from all the nations, to my Holy
Mountain in Jerusalem as an offering to the Lord-on horses, in
chariots and wagons, and on mules and camels,' says the Lord."
Latin/Greek
Greek/Latin
luna mater (Lt). "The moon is its mother." From the Emerald
Tablet of Hermes.
omnia ab uno (Lt). all is from one. Alchemical and Rosicrucian
term.
[John 15:9-10] "As the Father loved me, and I loved you, abide in
my love. (10) If you observe my commandments, you shall abide in
my love; as I have observed the Father's commandments, and abide
in His love." Of love among christians, in [1 Thessalonians 3:12]
"And may the Lord cause you to be full and to overflow with love
to each other, and to all even, as we also to you." And in [2
Corinthians 8:7] "But as you abound in everything-in faith, and
in word, and in knowledge, and in all earnestness, and in your
love to us, see that you abound in the free gift also." Hence,
love in general, holy love, without specifying a definite object,
e.g. as an attribute of God, in [1 John 4:7] "Beloved! we should
love each other knows God." And as a christian grace, in [Romans
12:8] "Let love be unfeigned, detest the evil; adhere to the
good."
Sit Lux (Latin). "Let there be Light [Genesis 1:3] "and the
Elohim said "Let there be Light", Thomas Vaughan: "...These
invisible central artist are lights seeded by the first light, in
that primitive emanation, or Sit Lux 'let there be light." [Work:
Anima Magica Abscondita, p. 55] see 44, 49 (Latin); 206.
94 (2*47)
The sum of the top and bottom edges of the trapezoid forming a
face of the unfinished pyramid of the Great Seal of the U.S.
ILDM Ildim. Children. From ILD, eled, child, son, young man,
boy, youth. In the words of Jesus: "Unless you become as a little
child, you shall in no wise enter the Kingdom of Heaven."
Latin/Greek
seclorum (Lt). of the ages; of the aeons. Part of the motto: "A
new order of the ages" on the Great Seal of the U.S. see 46, 80,
126, 220, 370 Latin.
sol pater (Lt). Sun Father [see Emerald Tablet]. The interior
"Sun" hidden in the microcosmic "earth" is the Ego.
alapha et omega (Latin). The first and the last, the beginning
and the end. Latin transliteration of Greek, as in [Revelation
22:13] "I am alpha and omega, the beginning and the end, the
first and the last." Part of a phrase in Secret Symbols. see 717,
34, 37 (Latin). The name of the Golden Dawn under Mathers in
Paris, London, Edindurah and the U.S.
95 (5*19)
DNIAL Daniel. A judge from God. Old Testement name, the prophet
and astrologer. Combines the words Dan, DIN with Al, AL, so that
it is a symbol of the expression of the latent powers of Chesed
through the activities of the Geburah (DIN, Justice). Also
Daniel, "The giver of mercies", angle of the 2 of Wands; 50th
Shemhamphorash, "God is Judge", the angle of confession. [Kircher
Oed. eg. V.2 pp. 266-267] 246°-250°. EREGGMO. May 8, July 19,
September 29, December 10, February 20, 4:20-4:40 PM. [Psalm
103:8] "The Lord (IHVH) is full of compassion and graciousness,
slow to anger and plenteous in mercy." To obtain the mercy of
God, and to receive consolation. Rules justice, lawyers, and all
magistrates in general. Gives inspiration to those who are
embarrassed by too many affairs and do not know exactly how to
decide. Persons born: industrious and active in affairs, loves
literature, and distinguishes himself by his eloquence.
HMIM ha-mem. the waters. Its refers to the "waters" from which
all organic life is spawned. see 90.
"Yet is Malkuth also KLH (Kallah) the Bride, and MLKH (Malkah)
the Queen... Yet more, Malkah is written with the letters of
HMLK, the King, and the King is Tiphareth, yet is Tiphareth
ThPARTh or 1081, and the seed of this is 10 which is both Malkuth
and Yod. Extended downward, Tiphareth is completed in Malkuth,
even as Tiphareth itself is the King or Royal Son, one with his
Father, and that Father is AB in Chokmah which also is the body
of Yod. Again, MLKH (Malkah) is 95 and this is the number of the
name of the letter Peh spelt in plenitude PH-HH...Thus is Malkah
truly as a Queen, also the Queen's daughter all glorious within.
Now she holdeth the mystery of union, and thus is she known to
the Sons of the Doctrine of ABNGDLH the "Great Stone," that is by
interpretation the perfect union in Chesed or Gedulah of the
Father AB with the Son BN." [26th Communication]
"95... this is the number of the name of the letter Peh spelt in
plenitude PH-HH, so that in the first of these four letters you
may see the mouth of the Eternal, and in the other three Hehs
three-fold vision of past and present and of time to come, for
are they not three Hehs? Yet see further. Their whole addition
is 15, and this is IH, Jah, the Holy name of Chokmah and HVD
(Hod), the Splendor of the Presence.
Greek/Latin
BLThIHM belawtehem. "by their secret arts" [Exodus 8:7] "And the
magicians did so with their enchantments..." see 94.
Latin
BN ADM Ben Adam. Son of Man [Psalm 8:4]. Refers to man as the
means whereby the Divine Grace becomes manifest through correct
understanding of the desire nature (see 363).
HIM HGDL ha-yahm ha-godel. the Great Sea. A name of Binah, sphere
of understanding and intuition, source of grace and mother of the
"son of man". see 52, 67.
Latin
Liber Mundi (Lt). Book of the World or Book of Life. see 314
Greek, 30, 42, 55 Latin, 106, 444, 264, 230.
OCh dach. white, clear, sunny, warm, dry. [RVCh OCh], dry wind
[Jeremiah 4:11]. Dazzling, bright, clear, glowing, brightness.
HVA ALHIM Hu Elohim. He, the Creative Powers. This indicates the
essential identity between Yekidah in Kether (He) and Neshamah in
Binah (the Creative Powers) through the path of Beth (Key 1, The
Magician). this is the "treasure" which drives the soul to unity.
ABN ADM ehben ahdom. red stone; "stone of Adam." see 53, 45.
Greek
Latin
ANI IHVH HVA Ani IHVH Hva. "I, myself, IHVH, He" (mine). Ten
letters, combining Macroprosopus, Microprosopus and
Tetragrammaton. HVA is also called ABA, the Father; and IHVH is
between them. ANI (61) and ABA (4) and to 65 or ADNI. IHVH (26),
added to ADNI (65) is 91 or AMN, amen. (see Isaiah 42:8)
Fabre D'Olivet list the root of this word as ThI, and says it is
"analogous to the root ThI, and which like it, expresses every
kind of reflection as is indicated by the folowing:: ThITh [28]
that which gushes forth, that which splashes, as mud, slime,
mire, etc. Figuratively, the earth. The Arabic [word] signifies
properly to bend, to give way, to be soft. [The Hebrew Tongue
Restored, p. 358] Godwin gives: Tit ha-yaven, Miry Clay; the 4th
Hell, corresponding to Tiphreth.
Greek
Latin
100's
100 (10*10)
5. Paul Case says that the word is "a double reference to the
fact that what is occultly termed water is the basis of organic
development which involves the sequence of time-cycles."
[Gematria of the Letter Names]
N-N (N.N) Frater N.N. in the Rosicrucian Fama who uncovered the
brass plate and pulled out the large "nail" (Vav) which revealed
the "door" (Daleth) to the tomb of Brother C.R.
Greek/Latin
Liber Domini (Lt). The Book of the Lord. The same as the akashic
record. Also called "The Book of Consciences, recorded in the
Astral Light." It is furthermore, the "one book" of the
Rosicrucians. The Jupiter Center in the human body is each human
being's personal copy of the Liber Domini. From it may be
extracted knowledge of the inner secrets of creation. The
unwritten Qabalah.
Anima Soulis (Lt). Soul of the Sun; Soul of Gold. The truth
verified by the practicus. The foundation of all occult practice
is the truth that the animating principle of the Sun is identical
with the One Reality designated as Deus Jehova.
MIKAL Michael. Like unto God, House of God, Power of God. The
Angel associated with Tiphareth and of the Sun, of fire and of
the South. Pictured as the Holy Guardian Angel on Key 14.
Greek/Latin
forma pater (Lt). from the father. We find this Latin term in
plate 46 of The Secret Symbols, where the words are shown in
connection with a circle containing a solar symbol, and having
the additional inscription Sperma Masculls Mundi, "Masculine seed
of the world." Its number is 216, that of Lapis Philosophorum,
Philosopher's Stone, and of Sion Philosophorum, "Zion of the
Philosophers." Note that Lapis and Sion have the same numerical
values, 51. Here is a direct connection between the stone and
Zion, and Zion is the occult designation of the part of the human
brain we call adytum.
AHH ADNI IHVH Ahah Adonai Jehovah. "Ah, Lord Jehovah." [Jeremiah
32:17].
BLO Belah. Bela, a king of Edom. [Genesis 36:32] "And Bela the
son of Beor reigned in Edom..." Edom signifies unbalanced force.
Note that this word is a metathesis of BOL. Godwin says that he
is associated with Da ath. see 474, 51.
AVVZ LBN ahooz laban. The white goose. White is connected with
the Moon. see 57.
VILVN wilon, vilon. veil; the first of seven heavens of the Tree
of Life, corresponding to Yesod, the astral and to Malkuth, the
physical plane. see 752, 80, 496.
Greek/Latin
proteus (Lt). change. From Fama "Rota Mundi for that displaying
the Greatest Artifice, and proteus the most profitable." Variant
spelling (see 110).
103 (prime)
ABN HADM Ehben ha-Adam. "the Stone of Adam". The Stone of Adam
is a verbal symbol for the mystical union of the Father, Chokmah,
with the Son, Tiphareth, in Adam, the sixth Sephirah. This is
represented in Key 17 by the great star surrounded by 7 smaller
stars.
HKVKBIM ha-kokabim. the stars; (Hebrew name for Key 17). Kokab,
Mercury is the planet which directs the activity of meditation.
ABN HADM ehben ha-Adam. The stone of Adam. Verbal symbol for the
mystical union of Father (Chokmah) with the son (Tiphareth), in
Adam, represented in the 17th key by the Great Star surrounded by
7 smaller stars (see 53).
NBAIM nebawim. prophets. [Jeremiah 23:21] "I did not send these
prophets, yet they have run with their message; I did not speak
to them, yet they have prophesied."
Latin/Greek
monoceros. Unicorn.
SDM Sodom. The Biblical city which was destroyed by God because
of its perversity. Means: "burning or conflagration". Samekh
added to DM, blood. [Genesis 18:26] "And the Lord said, if I find
in Sodom fifty righteous men within the City, then I will spare
all the place for their sake." Note 50 = Nun, the "fish , which
is hooked by Tzaddi. It also represents transformation. In
alchemy, it represents fire. "Meditation burns out the old way of
thinking and doing even as the fire from heaven destroyed Sodom."
[Gematria of the Letter-names] see 44, 315, 664, 385.
ABN + lapis. This combination of the Hebrew and Latin words for
Stone occurs often in secret writings of the western tradition.
see 51, 53, 754.
Greek/Latin
Lux Mundi (Lt). Light of the World. The opening of the 3rd eye
brings illumination the radiance around the hanged man's head in
Key 12.
Art Notaris (Lt). Universal science. The art of knowing. The art
of reading the signs and characters which, says one of the
Rosicrucian manifestoes "God hath inscribed upon the mechanism of
the world, and which he repeats through the mutations of
Empires." These signs may be discerned in every kingdom of
nature. To have the Arts Notaria is to be able to read what
Rosicrucian texts call "Book M." see 430, 510.
Latin/Greek
genus homo (Lt). human species. The point of departure from homo
spiritualis (Spiritual Man). see 184.
OLV ullo. his yoke [Genesis 27:40]. refers to the yoke of Jacob
upon Esau. see 756, 120, 54, 372, 100, 680 Greek.
PLV pook. Antimony. Also color, to paint, eye-paint (stibium).
This word is the Hermetic name for the first matter. It is the
same as "permanent water" and "philosophical mercury." see page
18 if R.C. allegory. "to color, to paint (because this attainment
enables one to differentiate the white light into any color or
special rate of vibration, which may be selected)." [Gematria of
the Letter-names] see 160, 586.
Greek/Latin
verbum fiat (Lt). the word "let there be", the divine creative
word in [Genesis 1:3] "And Elohim said 'let there be light', and
there was light." Jacob Boehme writes: "As the eternal nature of
the essence of external nature renews itself, and abandons that
which it brought out of the eternal will into the outward by
verbum fiat at creation; so may man also renew that which he
makes. If he abandon the earthly, then he may renew that which he
has progenerated from the eternal; but if it be not renewed, it
remains in the source." [Six Theosophic Points I 24, p.37]
107 (prime)
The sum of Ab (3), Aima (52) and Ben (52), the names of the
Qabalistic trinity: Father (Chokmah), Mother (Binah), and Son
(Tiphareth).
MNI ADM Beni Adam. Sons of Adam; sons of man (Humanity) [Psalm
90:3]. "Thou turnest man to destruction, and says 'return ye sons
of Adam.' "Behind these words, attributed traditionally to
Moses, is the idea that really the BNI-ADM are identical with the
BNI-HALIM (148). ANVSh, Enosh, is the state of the Sons of God
when they suppose themselves to be merely the Sons of Adam, and
the return is to the original Angelic condition. Now in this is
the deepest mystery of Saturn closely related to the secret of
Mars. The Sons of Adam have forgotten that they are truly Sons
of God. For them there is no rest, and in divers ways they seek
relief from the intolerable tension that is produced by the sense
of separateness. Only a few members of the human race realize
their true status, and live accordingly. The rest are turned to
destruction until utter collapse of their supposed autonomy sends
them back. Now these deluded ones see death everywhere, are
taught survival perhaps, but do not usually really believe it.
Thus they seek vicarious immortality in posterity, and surrender
themselves to death. They who have come into the peace of the
Sabbath are free from this delusion, and know better than to
prolong the chain of birth and death. [31st Communication
2/2/48]. see 713, 1200, 1308.
Latin
Terra Sancta (Lt). Holy Land. This phrase implies the perfected
"body of Light", for only is such a body is the "holy Land"
attained. see 52 (Lt), 56 (Lt).
109 (prime)
Greek/Latin
Hera (Gr). Hera, the wife of Zeus (Jupiter). Means: Chosen One.
ABN BHN ehben Bohan. The stone of Bohan (the son of Reuben)
[Joshua 15:6]. Place-name Bohan means: The Dwarf. With different
vowel points, Bohen: thumb, big-toe.
IMIN yawmin. the right hand, the right, the south, the southern
quarter. "At the end of the days." South is the direction of the
Fire and the Sun (or heart center).
Greek/Latin
ALP letter-name Aleph Ox, bull. The activity whereby the ONE
reflects itself to itself, and so produces the number 2. The
first out-pouring of spiritual influence into the realm of
experience.
KIPA kepha. Aramaic name for Peter; the Rock [Kephas]. see 3, 12
21, 30, 39, 48, 57, 66, 75, 84, 93, 102, 120. [Rod. Lex.N.T p.
577]
LOBDH leawbedawh. "to till it" (the Garden of Eden]. From OLD
(awbad) to work, labor; to till, cultivate; to serve, worship.
KHNI IHVH Coheni IHVH. "Priest of the Lord". [Isaiah 61:6] "And
you shall be named the priest of the Lord: men shall call you the
ministers of our God. You shall eat the riches of the gentiles,
and in their glory shall you boast yourselves."
ALVH Elohah. God, deity. Written as a tetractys:
A = 1
L A = 31
V L A = 37
H V L A = 42
= 111
Greek/Latin
gloria mundi. glory of the world. The Emerald Tablet says: "So
thou hast the glory of the whole world; therefore let all
obscurity flee thee..."
E pluribus (Lt). From many, out of many. Used on the Great Seal
of the U.S. Describes the apparent multiplicity of forms of the
One Unity.
ChSIDIK Chassidkah. Thy Holy One; Thy Godly One. (Psalm 16:10).
IHVH ALHIM Jehovah Elohim. The Lord God. The special Divine Name
of Binah, the third Sephirah. This name shows she is the active
agency whereby the inciting and masculine power of Chokmah (IHVH)
is made manifest in the work of creation.[Genesis 2:4] "These are
the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were
created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the
heavens." The Zohar [I:20A, p. 84] adds: And God made the two
great lights [Genesis 1:16]. The word 'made' signifies the due
expansion and establishment of the whole. The words 'the two
great lights' shows that at first they were associated as equals,
symbolizing the full name IHVH ALHIM (Although the later part is
not revealed, but is known inferentially)." [Beginning of text
missing] of the while Torah, both of the written and of the oral,
for "Torah" stands for both, the former being symbolism of IHVH,
and the latter of ALHIM. IHVH is above, while ALHIM is below, one
indicating the higher world and the other the lower. This is the
essence of all things, and it is necessary that man should
perceive it in this world." I.R.Q. 735: "IHVH ALHIM, is the full
name of the most ancient of all, and of Microprosopus; and when
joined together they are the full name. But the other forms are
not called the full name." I.R.Q., 795: Seeing that IHVH denotes
the masculine and ALHIM the feminine." see 86. [Genesis 2:4] see
42, 52, 67, 86, 199, 265.
BINH ADM binah adam. the understanding of man. The first property
of the Life-power, that limits and compresses (Saturn) to produce
the frames or forms of all things, is an essential part of the
constitution of man. [Proverbs 30:2] see 672.
VADM AIN ve-Adam ain. "and no man." [Genesis 2:5] "When no plant
of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had
yet sprung up, the Lord God had not [yet] caused it ot rain upon
the earth, and there was no man to till the ground."
Latin/Greek
Greek/Latin
GLH SVDV galah sodo. he reveals his secret [Amos 3:7]. Written
of God's revelation of his purposes to prophets (see 38, 76).
legis jugum (Lt). yoke of the law. The second motto found in the
vault of C.R. in the Rosicrucian allegory. It was written around
a circle enclosing the figure of an ox. "Esoterically, this means
the yoke of the law, and refers to the law of Moses, expounded in
the Old Testament. But note that it is connected with the sign
Taurus, and that a yoke is placed on the neck, ruled by that
sign. We know today that the Sanskrit noun yoga and the Latin
Jugum are from the same ancient root. The esoteric meaning of
this motto has to do with the law of yoga, and particularly what
the functions of a center located in the neck or throat,
suggested, the Rosicrucian allegory by Cyprus (#870), the story
of C.R.'s journey, and by Galia Narbonensi (#137) in another
place. In one sense, this motto is a reference to Jesus
declaration that not one jot or title of the law shall pass away
until all be fulfilled. In a deeper sense it is an intimation
that the Mosaic law, which was a law of sacrifice, is itself a
symbol of those preparatory processes of yoga, in which the
seeker for enlightenment loosens the bonds of material form and
appearance, represented by Taurus, the earthy fixed sign
symbolized by the figure of an Ox. There is no actual sacrifice,
for what is given up is a delusion. yet there is the semblance of
death, as we learn from the Fama, for Brother P.A.L. [#111] dies
at Cyprus, and Brother dies at Gallia Narbonensi. Yoga effect a
transmutation (death) of the Life-force (P.A.L. or A.) in the
throat-center, and the processes whereby this is accomplished are
the preliminary stages of Yoga and of the alchemical great work.
They are processes which kill out the sense of separateness, and
thus awaken the realization of union (jugum)." [Paul Case: True
and Invisible Rosicrucian Order (4th), p. 207-208] see 137
(Latin)
115 (5*23)
IOLH yawleh. went up [Genesis 2:6]. "A mist went up." (ALH to go
up, ascend). see 512.
ChVM HIVM chum ha-yom. the heat of the day. ChM Khem is the root
of "alchemy" and "chemistry"; IVM, yom or "day" means the
manifest. see 48, 56.
IVNIM. doves.
OILAH. Primordial.
Latin
Lux occulta (Lt). Hidden Light. A name for Kether. see 364, 49,
67.
lapis solis (Lt). stone of the sun. "I have called it by varuous
naes, but the simplets is perhaps that of 'hyle' (438, Greek), or
first principle or all things. It is also menominated the one
stone of the philosophers, composed of hostile elemements, the
stone of the sun, the sont ofthe metals... by these and may other
names it is called, yet it is only One." [Hermetic Meseum I., p.
186]
117 (9*13)
QBIH qiubeyah. Cube. (QVBIA, Kebeyah: die, dice, see 119, 147).
KHN GDVL Kohen Gadol. High Priest. The Hebrew for Hierophant.
(Serpent Power page 148). 118 rays of 360 is AGRI. see 106, 136,
128.
Latin/Greek
lapis magnus Lt). great stone; i.e. the stone of the wise, or
philosopher's stone. see 51 (Latin), 52 (Hebrew).
119 (7*17)
Greek/Latin
in cruce rosea (Lt). in the rosy cross [Secret Symbols page 35].
All brothers in the rosy cross form the fraternity of spirit. see
224, 88.
verbum vita (Lt). living word [Secret Symbols page 31]. The son,
Tiphareth, is the Living Word, or the Logos.
spiritus (Lt). spirit. The son is also the spirit (RVCh) Ruach,
the human spirit links Neshamah (the Soul of God, seat in Binah)
to Nefesh (the Animal Soul, attributed to Yesod). see 132, 175,
214, 496, 243, 60, 64 Latin, 113.
The number of years which elapsed from the "death" of C.R. until
his sepulcher was opened. The perfected consciousness of an
illuminated man [Genesis 6:3].
MSK mawsak. mix drink. "The Lord there is a cup, and the wine is
red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but
the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them
out, and drink them.: Paul Case: "Water is invariably the basis
of the work. This mixture (MSK) is the extension of 15 [or 120],
that is of IH, Jah. 15 is also the value of AID, which means
'steam, vapor', and also 'fate'. 15 is also the number of ABIB,
(more commonly simply AB = Father) the month of the Exodus and
the Passover, corresponding to the sign Leo, where Sol has his
abode. 15 again, is the extension of 5, which also has a word
meaning vapor, AD. Thus the sequence 5-15-120 suggest
Kabbalistically the gradual condensation of vapor into water,
which is the support and basis of all material manifestation.
Observe also that 120 is 30+40+50 = LMN =NML, to eat off, to cut
off; and that 30-40-50 is a Pythagorean triangle with each of its
units divided into 10 parts, or a cube with each edge in 10
parts." [Paul Case on D.D. Bryant, IX]. see 15, 5. Rosenroth in
[K.D.L.C.K. p.544] gives velum, ?operimgniom?.
OMDV emdu. Stand ye [Jeremiah 6:16]. "Thus saith the Lord, stand
ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the
good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your
souls. But they said, we will not walk therein." see 3, 12, 21,
30, 39, 48, 57, 66, 75, 84, 93, 102, 111, 138, 140, 260.
***keal, cont. From the root OL, that which is high, eminent,
superior. Paul Case adds the meaning of master: "Referring to the
Mastery which comes only as the result of putting things to the
test of experimental verification." [Gematria of the Letter-
names]
Latin
Non Omn Ibus (Lt). Not for All. Motto of the gate of the inner
wall in an illustration of Khunrath's Amphitheatrum Chemicum
(1609). The inner wall summarizes the alchemical operations; the
motto intimates that entrance into the central mystery is not for
everyone. In the same illustration appears the word ABN enclosed
in a radiant triangle, and borne by a dragon which is on the top
of a mountain. The mountain is in the middle or center of an
enclosure, surrounded by the 7-sided wall in whose corners are
written: dissolution, purification, Azoth pondus, solution,
multiplication, fermentation, projection. Another wall surrounds
this inner wall in the form of a 7 pointed star, composed of 14
equal lines, its gate is flanked by 2 triangular pyramids, or
obelisks. Over one is the sun and this obelisk is named Faith.
Over the other is the mon, and this figure is name Taciturnity,
or Silence. Between the pillars, in the gate is a figure bearing
the caduceus of Hermes or Mercury, standing behind a table on
which is written "good works." Below is the motto: "The ignorant
deride what the wise extol and admire." Thus there is in the
diagram the same association between a 7-sided figure and a stone
which occurs in the Fama. [true and Invisible page 177-178]. see
53.
122
MIIA MIIA maia maiya. the glassy sea. A term used in alchemy;
suggests the city of pure gold, like clear glass in Revelations
18:21. Implies the illuminated consciousness-when receptivity to
the intuitional level of Binah becomes as a "glassy sea" [Binah
is the "Great Sea"]
Latin
lux interna (Lt). inner light. Refers to Kether. see 620, 397,
49, 73 Latin.
AHH IHVH ALHIM Ehah IHVH Elohim. "Oh, IHVH, Elohim." a name of
God, implying Kether, Chokmah and Binah. 3, 4, and 5 letters.
"The Stone is the Garden, and the Garden is the place of delight.
That is, ABN is GN, and GN is ODN, for the Stone is the union of
the son with the Father, and since ABN and GN are both 53, the
Stone is the Stone of Eden, as is the Garden. Now, Eden
signifieth delight, or pleasure, and its number, being 124, is a
fourfold 31. That is, AL multiplied by 4; and since 4 is Daleth,
this is the development of the power in Chesed to which AL
referreth. And thus is it seen that the power of Daleth, which
is the power of Nogah, is what multiplieth the strength of Chesed
into delight. For again we say, the stone and the Garden are
one, and as the Stone is the union of Chokmah and Tiphareth, so
also is the Garden the same union; and from union cometh delight.
Never is there delight in separateness. Only when Father and
Son are conjoined is there delight.
Latin
"Now the alchemists say the Magnum Opus is "woman's work," and
even our English speech uses the words "travail" and "labor" for
birth. Many, coming this far, have strayed into the error that
the Work has to do with genetics. It is not be eugenics that the
"beyond man" comes. It is by a second birth within the heart.
The force that is used is, indeed, the Scorpio power; but in each
human personality, whether its outer form be male or female, the
new birth must take place, for flesh and blood cannot inherit the
Kingdom, nor can it be transmitted by genetic processes to
posterity. Thus never will the race evolve into the Fifth
Kingdom, or superhumanity. Every person must transmute his own
lead into gold. Evolution is a genetic process. The Magnum Opus
goes beyond this, as you may see for yourselves, if you look up
Magnum Opus in the Magical Language....
The Great Work transmutes the Microcosm into the Macrocosm. The
Microcosm is illusory. It does not exist. Cosmic consciousness
is truly Nirvana, or extinction. Thus the Great Work brings us
to the place of God at the Center, that is, Tiphareth - in heart,
not in head, as we told you before.
But here you must remember that the Sons of the Doctrine are
never to be so much suspected as when they write, most openly, as
one of them says. So remember also, that they said also that
some of them had children to whom they could not pass on their
mysteries. Evidently "vowed virginity" is not simply celibacy,
or else priests and nuns would also be adepts, and they are not.
What we want you to see and understand is, that if the Scorpio
force is used for generation it cannot be used for the Great
Work. Used it may be, in several ways; but whatever the special
regimen, it always excludes physical procreation. In Tibet this
is well-known, as it is in the Western School. The objective is
the new birth as one of the Sons of the Doctrine. Meditation is
the process. It is the physiological demonstration of a
seed-idea, and the names ADM, BN, MLK are the statement of that
idea.
Become the true ADM, and you become the Son who is King, and all
that the Father hath is yours. The illusion of the Microcosm is
transmuted into the reality of the Macrocosm. One of the many
becomes the All." [Qabalistic Text - 13th Communication]
Greek/Latin
"It is written that the 32nd Path is ShKL NOBD (Saykel Naobed,
Intelligence of Service or Serving), and that it is so called
because it governs the motion of the 7 planets and concurs
therein to Tav, the letter of this Path, to which the wise
declare that the Temple of the Midst pertaineth, and that this
Path is also that of Shabbathai or rest. Now the secret of this
Path is in its name, NOBD, which signifieth Serving, and
answereth to the number 126. Now this is the number of ALMNH
(Almanah), or Widow, and it is said by the Sons of the Doctrine
to refer to Malkuth in her separation from Tiphareth. Thus doth
the Path of Tav end in Malkuth, but its first letter is the
beginning and end of Tiphareth, and its last letter is Vav, by
which the wise understand Tiphareth also. For the Temple of
Holiness in the Midst is in the heart of the six, and there also
is the place of rest, or Shabbathai. For it was said of old that
from Shabbathai came forth the other planets, and unto Shabbathai
they all returned...
See now in NOBD that the first letter pertaineth to Madim, and to
the perpetuation of life by generation. And that the second
letter is the Fountain of Renewal in which Shabbathai ruleth and
Madim hath its chief power. Then cometh the letter Beth, and the
word endeth with the letter Daleth, so that you may read it thus:
Perpetual Generation, the Fountain of Renewal In Daleth, for
Beth and Daleth together may be read "in Daleth."...
Let us look first at the number 126: When the Text was written,
the later development of...Magical Language, was unknown; but by
the time we announced ourselves enigmatically in the Fama, it was
well developed, and one of our reasons for describing the vault
as we did, was that its boundaries in feet, as given in the Fama,
total 126. For there are 7 lines of 5 feet at the top, 7 of 5
feet at the bottom, and 7 vertical lines of 8 feet, and this
totals 126 feet. Note that 21 lines establish these boundaries,
and 126 is a six-fold 21. It is then AHIH multiplied by Vav, the
letter of Tiphareth to which the vault is assigned. The
reference to NOBD and ALMNH may seem obscure at first; the riddle
solves itself with a little meditation.
But the Widow, is she not also the Bride, and one with the Mother
as well? In Mizraim was she known as Isis, and her son was
Khoor, whom the Greeks called Horus, and verily he is that same
BN who is Tiphareth, and his mother Isis is Binah, for our father
Mosha [Moses] did learn wisdom in the temples of Mizraim, and he
hath transmitted his wisdom to the assemblies which came after
him. Thus it is written "out of Egypt have I called my son," and
verily that son is Ben or Tiphareth. And the mystery of
Widowhood which separates the Bride from the Son, is a mystery of
Motherhood also, for the Bride and the Mother truly are one...
Now in the Widow is seen the power of the name in Chesed, for the
word beginneth AL, then cometh the hidden Manna, for the next two
letters, Mem and Nun, are they not Manna? Then at the end cometh
the letter Heh, which signifieth sight, and is also the special
letter in Tetragrammaton pertaining both to the Mother and the
Bride. Now the Mother is the sphere of Shabbathai, or Rest, and
the letter of Tav is Shabbathai itself, and from this Path of Tav
on the Tree dependeth Malkuth the Bride, who is the Resplendent
Intelligence, and behold her glory comes from Shabbathai, which
from the Midst governs and administers all." [36th Communication]
OBD ADMH obade adahmah. (and Cain became) a tiller (or slave) of
the earth [Genesis 4:2]. As a verb OBD means: to work, to till,
cultivate, to serve, to worship. As a noun, OBD Ehbed: worshiper,
subject, servant, slave. see 50, 76, 160 (Cain).
A 1
D A 5
N D A 55
I N D A 65
total: 126
Latin/Greek
Novus ordo (Lt). New Order. Commemorated on the Great Seal of the
U.S. has to do with man's altered conception of the physical
plane as being the kingdom (Malkuth) of Heaven (Kether). see 224,
370.
"Now this mineral water, and the microcosm, are one; and the
mineral water is the microcosm in one stage of its development.
But be on your guard against a too facile, or too restricted an
interpretation here. The Aqua mineralis is the seed of the world
in all senses. It is that which is the Intact Virgin, or the
Untouchable Glory of God, as one of the four mottoes in the Fama
puts it." [36th Communication] see 74 (Latin)
"...as you can see from Rota, the power of the Intact Virgin, who
is also Sophia, or Wisdom, is in Rota represented by the woman in
Justice, and she is both the Bride and the Queen, and thus she is
also AIMA, MAIH, ISIS, EVE, and all the rest of the host of Anima
figures, including the Window and Venus. The microcosm is indeed
the chemical stone, rough, and requiring treatment by art before
it is purified and perfected. Yet it is in essence ever pure,
and nothing can diminish that essential purity. This
notwithstanding, in the field of relative phenomena, the work
veiled in the figurative language of the Hermetic sciences must
go on. Its outcome makes evident the truth that the mineral
waters and the chemical stone are the microcosm. That is the
true Adam who is Ben the Son. Hence the substitute word of our
Masonic Brethren really signifies what is the Son, and he who
knows the answer to this experimentally, not merely by hearsay,
finds the Alchemical Stone, the Sumum Bonum, and the place of
rest that is Shabbathai in the Midst. Man himself is the Abode
of Peace, the place of refuge, the Sanctuary, and the time draws
near when here in America they who are true Sons of the Widow
will realize in truth the New Order, which is commemorated on the
Seal of the United States." [36th Communication]
the total number of Sarah's years: "And the Life of Sarah was 120
and 7 years." [Genesis 23:1].
TzVH IHVH tzevah IHVH. the Lord commanded [Psalm 133:3]. This
occurs in the psalm celebrating brotherly unity, familiar to
Freemasons. the deeper occult meaning has to do with the precious
ointment, ShMN HThVB (the precious oil) flowing down Aaron's
Head, and Qabalist interpret this as being a reference to the
Holy influence through the paths of the Tree of Life. That
influence is HKBVD, the glory (also named MZLA, Mezla). TzVH
means: to command or constitute, may be read Tz VH, Tzaddi and
Heh. Its meaning: to command, to constitute, is allied to the
special mode of consciousness represented by Heh and the sign
Aries, the Constituting Intelligence. see 32, 78, 10.
Latin
sapientia vera (Lt). true wisdom. Observe that the first of these
2 words is the number 86, relating it to ALHIM. see 381 (3*127:
"I will instruct thee" Psalm 32:8)
128 (2*2*2*2*2*2*2) 27
Latin/Greek
Greek/Latin
SINI Sinai. Mountain where Moses received Laws (i.e. the decrees)
[Exodus 19:2]. "After they set out from Rephidim, they entered
the desert of Sinai, and Israel camped there in the desert in
front of the mountain." Godwin comments: From the correspondence
of "ladder and 'Sinai , we learn that the Ladder to heaven i.e.
Jacob s island-is provided by the law given on Sinai." [Godwin s
Cabalistic Encyclopedia, pp. 247-248]
OMD immekah. With thee [Psalm 36:9]. In the passage cited, the
Psalmist says, "with thee is the fountain of Life," and though he
uses another noun for "fountain," the idea expressed is related
to the word OIN, which means "well, spring, fountain,' as well as
eye, outer appearance." see 780, 358, 830, 17.
Greek/Latin
CR, GV, TA, IO, RC, B, GG, PD (Lt). Initials of the 8 persons who
founded the Rosicrucian Order.
Primum mobile (Lt). First motion. The Latin for Rashith ha-
Galgalim, "The Beginning of the Whirlings," attributed to Kether.
see 50, 80.
Sperma solis (Lt). Seed of the sun (or gold). "The hermetic
arcanum is this: communicate the male sperma solis to the female
matrix of the moon, or in other words thrn the light inward and
draw out the inward half-circle. The artist who does so kindles
an independent fire or light and transmutes Moon into Sun-i.e.
Silver into Gold. The true meaning of this emerges in one case."
A.E. Waite: Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross, pp. 463-464] Paul
Case: 130 = OIN = primum mobile. see 60, 64.
131 (prime)
Latin
Koma (Kapa, Omicron, Mu, Alpha) "has long hair". Omicron says
that this word "suggest the ideas of joy and richness: fullness
of generative power: or productiveness from an underlying or
preceding condition. "Hair", together with its variants "wool"
and "horn" is a widely used symbol, indicating super-vitality or,
at times, divine intelligence: e.g. the radiant coiffure of the
sun gods. A synonym for koma is khlo phorei: the word khlo (or
phlo ) is used by St. Paul ('it was made clear to me things of
[my] khole) [1 Corinthians 1:2] with reference to his own super
developed psychic powers." [Letters from Paulos, pp. 256-257]
132 (3*4*11)
QBL qibbel. to receive, accept, take. The feminine noun from the
verb QBLH, Qabalah.
OBDVN Abdon. Abdon, "servant" (of On, the Sun-god); the fifth
judge of Israel, in [Judges 12:13-15] "After him [Elon the
Zebulunite], Abdon son of Hillel from Pirathon, led Israel. He
had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys.
he lead Israel eight years. Then Abdon son of Hillel died, and
was buried at Pirathon in Ephraim, the hill country of the
Amalekites." see 782.
Latin
GPV gephen. the vine. A mystical term, used by Jesus ("I am the
vine, and you are the grapes"). Also the vine from which comes
the "Blood of the Grape." see 260.
[IM HMLCh yam ha-melakh]. the salt sea. Refers to the Dead Sea.
Latin
8 lines of 5 cubits = 40
4 lines of 3 cubits = 12 (52 external boundaries)
1 Axis of 3 cubits = 3
2 Axis of 5 cubits = 10 (13 coordinates)
4 x sqr_root[34] = 23.3240
4 x sqr_root[59] = 30.7244
2 x sqr_root[50] = 14.1422
_______
68.1906
65.0000
_______
133.1906 or 134
Greek/Latin
The force that is used is, indeed, the Scorpio power; but in each
human personality, whether its outer form be male or female, the
new birth must take place, for flesh and blood cannot inherit the
Kingdom, nor can it be transmitted by genetic processes to
posterity. Thus never will the race evolve into the Fifth
Kingdom, or superhumanity. Every person must transmute his own
lead into gold. Evolution is a genetic process. The Magnum Opus
goes beyond this, as you may see for yourselves, if you look up
Magnum Opus in the Magical Language.
The Great Work transmutes the Microcosm into the Macrocosm. The
Microcosm is illusory. It does not exist. Cosmic consciousness
is truly Nirvana, or extinction. Thus the Great Work brings us
to the place of God at the Center, that is, Tiphareth - in heart,
not in head, as we told you before.
But here you must remember that the Sons of the Doctrine are
never to be so much suspected as when they write, most openly, as
one of them says. So remember also, that they said also that
some of them had children to whom they could not pass on their
mysteries. Evidently "vowed virginity" is not simply celibacy,
or else priests and nuns would also be adepts, and they are not.
What we want you to see and understand is, that if the Scorpio
force is used for generation it cannot be used for the Great
Work. Used it may be, in several ways; but whatever the special
regimen, it always excludes physical procreation. In Tibet this
is well-known, as it is in the Western School. The objective is
the new birth as one of the Sons of the Doctrine. Meditation is
the process. It is the physiological demonstration of a seed-
idea, and the names ADM, BN, MLK are the statement of that idea.
Become the true ADM, and you become the Son who is King, and all
that the Father hath is yours. The illusion of the Microcosm is
transmuted into the reality of the Macrocosm. One of the many
becomes the All." [13th Communication]
135 (5*27)
ADM MLK Adam Melek. King of Adam or Adam the King. The One Ego,
or the Stone, the Higher Self. To attain this is to become one
with the stone.
Greek/Latin
Ex Deo Nascimur (Lt). "from God we are born." This phrase is part
of an inscription which was found in the vault of brother C.R
(see 683, 25, 22, 88 Latin).
ignis vivens (Lt). living fire. "The sages call it the living
fire, because God has endowed it with his own divine, and
vitalizing power." [Hermetic Museum I, p.199]
136 (8*17)
AVDH IHVH BKL-LBI. Psalm 9:2: "I will give thanks unto
Tetragrammaton with all my heart."
QLV qoloh. His voice [Deut 4:36]. Also: call, cry, thunder.
KPVL. double.
MPIV. out of his mouth [Numbers 30:3]. "from his mouth" [Job
22:22] "I pray thee, instruction form his mouth." see 906.
Greek/Latin
Corvus niger (Lt). the Black Raven. An alchemical term which THE
SECRET SYMBOLS OF THE ROSICRUCIANS (page 11) calls the "door of
the art." The Black Raven is the first stage of the matter of the
Great Work. It is called the "door of the art" because it is the
point of entrance through which the power of the Divine Soul
enters into the field of manifestation. One clue is the black
color, attributed to Binah, and Binah, as the point through which
the powers of the supernal triad descend into the 7 Sephiroth of
manifestation is the "door of art." Furthermore, In Binah the
triad of the supernals is completed, so that Binah is the point
at which the triune nature of the Life-power becomes manifest.
Behind the veils of appearance is hid the glory of God. We read
that the "habitation of God is thick darkness." Black is also the
color of Saturn of which Binah is the sphere. Binah is also the
Sephirah to which Neshamah, the divine soul is assigned, as is
also grace. [Saturn is the lowest and first chakra, to which Tav
and the holy city are attributed]. see 273, 272.
GDONI Gideoni. warlike. From GDO "to cut off, hew down."
Greek/Latin
Bene Radix Davidis (Lt). The Good Root of David [Secret symbols
page 35]. Part of the Latin motto, "From east to west and
everywhere the good root of David reigns victorious." see 113,
24, 50.
Greek/Latin
Aurum Potabile (Lt). Fluid Gold. The radiant fludic solar energy
which "informs all bodies" through innumerable "drops" or Yods.
audi ignis vocem (lt). "I hear the voice of fire." From Thomas
Vaughan. see 54, 51, 33.
139 (prime)
MThITh HIVN metit ha-yawon. "Out of the Miry Clay." [Psalm 40:3].
see 605.
[Ezekiel 28:13] "you have been in Eden, the Garden of God; you
were decked with every precious stone, the Sardius, the Topaz and
the Emerald, the Beryl, the Onyx and the Jasper, the Sapphire and
Pearls; and you have filled your treasures with Gold and your
chest with precious stones; you had all these things from the day
you were created." [Ezekiel 31:8,9] "the Cedars in the garden of
God could not surpass it; the Fir tree in the garden of God like
to it in its beauty. I made it beautiful by the multitude of its
branches; so that all the trees of Eden that were in the Garden
of God envied it."
Greek/Latin
OINI aeneiy. "mine eye". [Psalm 32:8] "I will instruct thee and
teach thee in the way which thou shalt go; I will give counsel,
mine eye being upon thee." (or, "I will guide thee with mine
eye") see 130, 1379, 1749, 433.
NTz netz. flower; "hawk" [Job 39:26] "Doth the hawk fly by thy
wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?' The south is the
direction of Resh, i.e. the Sun on the Cube of Space. "Horus, the
son of Isis and Osiris, is the God celebrated the Chaldean
Oracles when they say 'the God is he having the head of a hawk;
he energizes a spiral force..." Horus is a solar deity." [Paul
Case: True and Invisible Rosicrucian Order (3rd), p.17] see 950
Fabre D'Olivet writes of this root: "NTz. That which reaches its
term, end, extreme point: that which is raised as high and
spreads as fast as it can be, according to its nature. The Arabic
[word] does not differ from the Hebrew in the radical sense. In a
restricted sense one understands by the verb [Arabic word], the
action of giving a theme, furnishing authority, confirming,
demonstrating by text, a argument, etc. NTz. The end of every
germination, the flower, and action of blossoming; the term of
all organic effort, the feather and the action of flying; the end
of all desire; splendor, and the action of being resplendent,
glimmering, shining." [The Hebrew Tongue Restored, p.493]
Latin
Ordo seclorum (Lt). Order of the ages. World Order. The last 2
words on the reverse of the Great Seal of the united States.
Their numeral identity with coelum et terra hints at a deeper
meaning for the mottos: "A new order of the ages" is really "A
new Heaven and Earth;" a new conception of the meaning of the
words "Heaven" and "Earth."
141 (3*47)
Latin
BOINI be-anay. "in the eyes" (of IHVH). [Genesis 6:8]. "But Noah
found grace in the eyes of the Lord."
Latin
Sinus Arabicus (Lt). The Arabian Gulf. From the Fama, the Latin
for the Arabian Gulf. It is a symbol of what our Brother and
Father must cross to come to Egypt. Arabia means "sterile" and
refers to the purification and sublimation of the Mars-Force
during a period of temporary celibacy, before the insight into
the secrets of nature (Egypt-the subconscious realm) is realized.
ABN MIM ehben mayim. The stone of water. see 135. In the
[Hermetic Museum I, p.69] The title page of the tract The Sophic
Hydrolith has the subtitle Water Stone of the Wise, "That is,
chymical work, in which the way is shown, the matter named, and
the process described; namely, the method of obtaining the
universal tincture." see 53, 90.
Greek/Latin
Greek/Latin
HQM Hadem. "God who erected the universe." Short form of HQMIH,
(160). The 16th name of the Shemhamphorash. 4th quinance of
Libra; angel of the 3 of Swords. see 705.
Latin
Summon Bonium (Lt). highest good "Above all things you must let
it be your first object to (dis)solve this substance (or first
entity) which the sages have also called the highest natural
good. Then it must be purged of its watery and earthy nature (for
at first it appears an earthy, heavy, thick, slimy and misty
body), and all that is thick, nebulous, opaque, and dark in it
must be removed, that thus, by a final sublimation, the heart and
inner soul contained it may be separated and reduced to a
precious essence." [Hermetic Museum I, p.80]
filius Dei roseae. Son of God + Rosy. Christ, (BN) the son, and
also the rose at the center of the cross. see 88, 57 (Latin).
146 (2*73)
BBA QMA Baba qamah. the First Gate [K.D.L.C.K. p.184]. The
primary activity which begins the creative process is the
establishment of the field of apparent limitation. The entrance
of the No-Thing into the Something is through the fixation of a
field in which to manifest itself. Relates to the meanings of Key
1.
DMDVNI ChKH dimdoni chakah. "The setting of the Sun." A hint that
the "beginning" of a cycle is also the "end" of another. "End and
beginning are one." Qabalist knew, long before Copernicus, that
the Earth was a globe, and that sunrise and sunset are only
appearances.
ZHB MVPZ zahab muphaz. Pure Gold The Aesch Mezareph [II:6] says
"Paz (87), and Zahab Muphaz are referred to Tiphareth, [1 Kings
21:4, 19:11] and [Daniel 10:5]. For so tiphareth and Malkuth are
compounded in the Golden throne [1 Kings 10:18] and [Daniel
10:5]. For so Tiphareth and Malkuth are compounded in the Golden
Throne 1 Kings 10:18]; also when it is called a vessel of gold
[Job 28:17]; a crown of Gold, [Psalm 21:3], bases of gold
[Canticles 5:15]." see 14, 133.
IHVH ADNI AHIH AGLA IHVH Adonai, Eheyeh, Agla. four names in
the ritual of the Lesser Pentagram as ordinarily written.
148 (4*37)
BNI ALHIM Beniy Elohim. Sons of God, Sons of the Elohim. The
angelic choir or order of angels associated with Hod, in Assiah,
the material world. The same choir is attributed also to Hod in
Briah, the creative world.
"See, then, in the cube, BN, MLK and ADM conjoined, as they are
in the names of Tiphareth, and the essence of these three is 7
also. For they add to 187. Thus the secret of Tiphareth is 7,
or Netzach...The Victory begins with Nun, continues with Tzaddi,
and ends with Cheth. See here the power, the method, and the
result. The power of Scorpio, raised by the meditation which
unveils Truth, brings about the consciousness that personality is
the vehicle, or Chariot, which is also the lodge, and the house,
temple, or palace of influence. [13th Communication]
NTzCh. to be.
AHIH IH IHVH ALHIM Eheyeh Yah Jehovah Elohim a Divine Name which
combines the names of God ascribed to Kether, Chokmah and Binah.
Thus it stands for the Supernal Triad of Sephiroth, and by its
correspondence to NTzCh, intimates that in some sense the 7th
Sephirah is a synthesis of the powers of the Supernal Triad. "The
four divine names whose total value is 148 refer to Kether
(AHIH), Chokmah (IH) and Binah (IHVH ALHIM), so that the number
148 is a numerical symbol of the divine powers concentrated in
the Primal Will, Wisdom, and Understanding. The concentration of
these forces is what produces the eternal victory (NTzCh) of the
Life-power. The victory is occultly related to the fact that in
reality the Life-power does nothing and so is always withdrawn
from activity. This is the most difficult doctrines, for it seems
to contradict the teaching that the Life-power [text ends]
ALHA OLIA Eloha Elyah, Elahhah Illayah. The Most High God.
(Daniel 3:26). Aramaic. Eloha is 37, the number of IChIDH,
Yekhidah, the Supreme Self. Elyah adds to 111, the number of the
letter-name Aleph. Here is a suggestion that the 7th Sephirah
partakes of the combined powers of Kether, focussed in Yekhidah,
and of the path of Aleph, which links Kether to Chokmah.
Latin
ALIM ChIIM Elim Chiim. the Living Gods [Deuteronomy 5:26]. see
154.
Latin
Greek
The number of days the waters prevailed over the land during the
Biblical flood.
ADM OLH adam e-lo-oh. the heavenly man. Of which God is said to
have used it as a chariot (MVKBH) Mercavah to descend [Zohar] the
divine idea of man is the vehicle whereby God enters into the
apparently separated forms of creation [John 1]. see 151, 267,
373.
OL-HADM ahl ha-adam. "the man". [Genesis 2:16] "And the Lord God
commanded the man, saying, of every tree of the garden thou
mayest freely eat" (but not of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good
and Evil). OL is here translated "the", but has the usual meaning
height, upper part, above. This seems to imply that Adam here is
the supernal Adam, of archetypal humanity, before the "fall" from
above.
The Arabic [word] although holding to the same root as the Hebrew
QN, is however far from preserving of developing so great a
number of ideas. Nearly all those which were intellectual have
become lost. The verb [Arabic word] which partakes most of the
radical sense, signifies literally to forage the iron, to strike
it while it is hot; to solder metals, to unite them by means of
the forge [Arabic word] is a blacksmith.
KLMVDIM dahlmundim. "as they that are taught" [Isaiah 50:4] "the
Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should
know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary: he
awakeneth morning by morning, he awakeneth mine ear to hear as
the learned."
Greek/Latin
Salvator Mundi (Lt). Savior of the world [Secret Symbols page 7].
occultum lapidem (Lt). hidden stone [Secret Symbols page 17]. see
570, 57, 164, 94.
ADM OLAH adam e-lo-oh. the heavenly man. variant spelling (see
150).
ChN ChN LH khane khane lah. "grace, grace unto it" [Zechariah
4:7] "Who are thou, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel; thou
shalt become a plain, and he shall bring forth the headstone
thereof with shoutings, crying, grace, grace unto it." Thomas
Troward: "These considerations bring out into a very clear light
one meaning of Daniel's prophecy of 'the stone' cut out without
hands, which grew until it filled the whole earth. It is the same
'stone' of which Jesus spoke, and is bound by the inevitable
sequence of evolution to become the chief corner-stone; that is,
the angular or five-pointed stone in which all four sides of the
pyramid find their completion. It is the headstone capping the
whole, of which it is written that it shall be brought forth with
shoutings of 'grace, grace unto it.'" [Bible Mystery and Bible
meaning, p.141] see 58.
IHVH ALHIM IHVH AChD IHVH Elohim IHVH Ehad. "The Lord
(Tetragrammaton) of the Gods, the Lord (Tetragrammaton) is one."
[Deuteronomy 6:4] see 410, 951.
Greek/Latin
Martha (Gr). Sister of Mary [Luke 10:38-42]. "(38) Now while they
were on thier way, it occurred that Jesus entered a certain
village, and a woman named Martha received and welcomed Him into
her house. (39) And she had a sister named Mary, who seated
herself at the Lord's feet and was listening to His teaching.
(40) But Martha (overoccupied and too busy) was distracted about
much serving; and she came up to Him and said, Lord, is it
nothing to You that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell
her then to help me-to lend a hand and do her part along with me.
(41) But the Lord replied to her by saying, Martha, Martha, you
are anxious and troubled about many things; (42) There is need of
(but a few things, or) only one. Mary has chosen the good
portion-that which is to advantage-which shall not be taken away
from her." Martha represents devoted service, which is apparently
slower, but which leads to the same goal.
Greek/Latin
BTzLAL Bezaleel. the skilled workman who made the greater part
of the fittings of the Mosaic tabernacle. Son of Uri (217).
Letter by letter: Beth, the planet Mercury, Tzaddi, Aquarius,
Lamed, Libra, Aleph, the Life-Breath Rauch. [The Zohar termed it
Betzel El, "in the very shadow of God."]. Bezaleel typifies the
alchemical operation-the building of the tabernacle of the
regenerated personality. This is accomplished by control of the
vibrations of atmospheric air through sounds and words, and the
chanting of divine names and sentences (words of power). see 217
[Exodus 31:2,3]: He was filled with the spirit of God, (Rauch
Elohim) in Wisdom (Chokmah) and in Understanding (Tebunah), [the
Special Intelligence], and in Knowledge (Da'ath), and in all
manner of workmanship (Melakah).
ANI IHVH ALHIK Ani IHVH Elohekah. "I am the Lord thy God".
[Isaiah 41:13, 43:3].
IHVH ALHIVV IHVH IHVH Elohinoo IHVH. Jehovah, our God Jehovah
[Deuteronomy 6:4]. "Hear O Israel: the Lord [IHVH] our God is one
Lord-the only Lord." (Amplified). "Hear O Israel! the Lord is our
God, the Lord is one! (New American Standard).
OVLM HBA olahm ha-bah. the world to come, future world. According
to some, means the same as Gan Eden, the Garden of Eden. It is
called "the world to come" in relation to the idea that man in
his dream of separation must consider his restoration to the
paradisiacal state as an event which is in the future, or "to
come." The world to come is the New Heaven and Earth. see 52,
124, 177, 714.
CHMH AIN LI himaw ayin li. "fury is not in me." [Isaiah 27:4]
"Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against
me and thorns against me in battle? I would go through the, I
would burn them together." According to Thomas Troward, "If we
once realize the great truth stated in [Psalm 18:26] and [2
Samuel 22:27], that the divine universal spirit always becomes to
us exactly the correlative of our own principle of action and
that it does so naturally be the law of subjective mind, the it
must become clear that it can have no vindictive power in it, or
as the Bible expresses it, "fury is not in me.'". [Bible Mystery
and Bible meaning, p. 236] [Psalm 18:26] "With the pure you will
show yourself pure; and with the crooked you show yourself
shrewd." [2 Samuel 22:37] is identical except it uses the word
"unsavory" for "shrewd". Paul Case says this phrase = 154 = ALHIM
ChIIM ("Living God"). see above, [Ezekiel 18:29-32] "Yet says the
house of Israel, the way of the Lord is not equal. O house of
Israel, are not my wats equal? Are not your ways unequal? (30)
therefore I will Judge you, O house of Israel, everyone according
to his ways, says the Lord God. Repent, and turn yourself from
all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. (31)
Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby you have
transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why
will you die, O house of Israel? (32) For I have no pleasure in
the death of him who dies, says the Lord God: so turn yourself,
and live."
Latin/Greek
Vicarius filii Dei. Vicar of the son of God. Jesus is the earthly
representative of the Solar Logos. [This numeration is by Latin
Cabala simplix, see 666, for traditional numeration; 666 is
another "solar" number]. see also 326 for esoteric meaning of the
name "Jesus".
155 (5*31)
ADNI MLK Adonai Melek. Lord King, The Divine Name attributed to
Malkuth. see 90, 65, 671, 496.
"Now, Guph is the body of the Lord, for is not the name of the
Kingdom ADNI MLK, Adonai Melek?...And behold, MIM is 90, and so
is MLK; and thus Yeshua stilled the waters (seas), for he knew
that Adonai Melek is Lord of the Waters. ADNI MLK numbereth 155,
and here is AL in fivefold expression, for AL is 31." Comment:
"AL in five-fold expression relates to man, and his body with its
five senses, thus also to the pentagram, which in magic is
directly connected with Malkuth." [7th Communication] see 31,
386, 90, 89.
"...Guph, the body, the whole holy Temple of the Most High...
standeth in the midst, or center, and in it abideth forever
Adonai Melek (ADNI MLK), our Lord and King, Holy is His Name,
Blessed be He!" [9th Communication]
"In Malkuth is the power of our Lord and King ADNI MLK... Now the
number of ADNI MLK is 155, and to this number correspondeth also
DVDNAMN, the faithful friend, for our Lord King is verily that
friend... Comment: To what is said about ADNI MLK, we may add
that its number among the founders of our Order had special
alchemical significance, because in their Latin gematria it was
the number of LIBERTAS EVANGELII, the Liberty of the Gospels, a
motto mentioned in the Fama, and also the number of ARCANUM
ARCANORUM, the Secret of Secrets." [26th Communication]
TzCh VADVM tzakah ve-adom "(my beloved is) white and ruddy."
[Cant. 5:11]. An alchemical allusion to the white and red stages
of the great work. see 715, 1706 (Greek).
DQNA dakana. the beard [Mathers]. [S.D. 2:1] "The beard of truth.
(That is, now followeth a description of the beard of
Macroprosopus, and its 13 parts, which are made fully described
in the Idrarabba)." Mathers: "The beard is the influx which
descends from the first sephira through all the others.
Macroprosopus is of course, as I have fully explained in the
introduction, the first sephira, Kether, or the crown: also
called the Ancient One." [Kabbalah Unveiled, p.66] see 78.
Greek/Latin
ABN AChD VLA ABN ehben echad ve-lo ehben. "One stone and no
stone". Alchemical description (reference) of the first matter.
ADM OLAI Adam Eelo-o. "High Man". The celestial or ideal man.
The Life-power's perfect image of itself. see 150, 151, 161,
1496.
NOVL Nahul. enclosed; shut up. See the [Song of Solomon 4:12],
where this adjective is combined with the word GN, Garden and GL,
spring, water-source. GN refers to Binah, the mother, and to
Malkuth, the Bride. The garden is the same as ODN KBVD, the Eden
of Glory.
ODN KBVD Eden Kabode. Eden of Glory. Applied to the 16th Path of
Vav.
OIN IHVH Ayin IHVH. the Eye of Jehovah. Refers to the 3rd eye
which it is the purpose of alchemy to rouse to full activity. see
Zion and Job 28:2. "copper is molten out of the stone." The
Hebrew word of copper is closely related to the word for serpent
see 409. In the Macrocosm, the eye of IHVH is said to be in every
place. It is the all-seeing eye of Rosicrucian and Freemasonry,
the eye of Shiva, the transformer, the eye of Horus, the son of
the Egyptian Holy Family. see 422, 150. In Qabalah, the eye of
Arik Anpin, the vast countenance. To is refers the New Testament
saying: "If thine eye be single, they whole body shall be full of
light." "OIN IHVH = TzIVN, so that whenever it is found it
represents "the eye of Tetragrammaton" which "is upon them that
fear him" [Psalm 33:18]. Here it is to be noted that the
preposition AL, translated 'upon' in the authorized version means
also near, with, or in, so that the passage just quoted might be
translated 'the eye of Tetragrammaton is in his fearers.'
Moreover, OIN is also spring, fountain, well = [?π ?], used in
LXX [Septuagint] to translate OIN thus the 'fountain of
Tetragrammaton' = the source of eternal life mentioned by Jesus
when he spoke to the woman of Samaria." [Troward on Psalms: Psalm
129, 169]
Latin
"I have sought; I have found; I have often purified; and I have
joined together; I have matured it: then the golden tincture has
followed, which is called the center of nature (hence so many
opinions, so may books, so may parables). It is the remedy, I
openly declare it, for all metals, and for all sick persons. The
solution of the god." [Hermetic Museum I, p.55] Case: centrum
naturae = 156 = VOP = OIVN = OIN IHVH.
DMDVMI ChMH dimdoomi chammah. the setting of the sun. A hint that
the end of one cycle is also the beginning of another.
Latin/Greek
matrix corpus. mold of the body, or womb of the body [Secret
Symbols page 27]. Refers to the first path as the womb of forms,
containing the archetypal molds or patterns of all forms of
embodied existence. Related to the Ace of Cups.
Latin
Boaz = BOZ = 79
Jakin = IKIN = 90 79+90 = 169 = 13x13
Greek/Latin
Aner (Gr). Man. refers to Adam and to Christ. see 229 Greek, 45.
ANKI ALHI ABIK Anoki Elohey Abikah. I (am), God of the Father
[Exodus 3:6].
8. [Psalm 66:10] "For you, O God, has proved us: you have tried
us, as silver is tried."
9. [Daniel 2:32] "This images head was of fine gold, his breast
and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass."
5. the Zohar [I:54A] comments: "Cain was the nest (qina) of the
evil habitations which came into the world from the evil side."
(P.172)
Deus Lux Solis (Lt). God, light of the Sun. From the "Chemical
Marriage of Christian Rosenkreutz." Here is a very definite
statement of the occult doctrine that radiant energy, or light,
is one with the Life-power.
161 (7*23)
Latin/Greek
via, vita, veritas (Lt). Way, Life, Truth [Secret Symbols, page
52]. Part of a diagram. see 676, 167, 174.
162 (2*9*9)
QVL IHVH Qole Jehovah. The Voice of God [Psalm 29:3, Deuteronomy
15:5]. In the passage in Deuteronomy, the children of Israel are
cautioned to "Harken carefully" to the voice. It is the voice of
the Hierophant in Key 5, and 5 is the reduction of Key 14. Every
seeker for truth hears that still, small voice. Not all of them
know what they hear; but their successes depend of careful
listening. see 186, 800, 120, 600.
Latin/Greek
"The secret wisdom of Israel says that the fifteenth path bears
the name MOMID (constituting) because it constitutes the
substance of creation in pure darkness. A hint of similar import
is in the gospel of St. John: 'That which hath been made was life
in him (the Logos), and the life was the light of men. And the
light shineth in the darkness, and the darkness overcome it not.'
The same L.V.X. appears in bible symbology under the figure of
the lamb, borrowed form the Hindu symbol of Agni, God of Fire.
The lamb refer's to the mystery of the cosmic sacrifice. In one
sense the wise have always regarded creation as the self-
sacrifice of the Life-power." [Paul Case: True and Invisible
Rosicrucian Order (4th), p. 443]
Latin
Latin
DM-ONB dam aynahb, dam enab. blood of the grape. The mystical
wine of initiation. [Deuteronomy 32:14] "Butter of ?kine? [curd],
and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of
Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou
didst drink the pure blood of the grape." see 44, 260, 133.
PNI IHVH paynehi IHVH. "the face of the Lord". [Psalm 34:16]
"The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off
the remembrance of them from the earth." The verse is credited to
Peh.
OIN IHVH ayinei IHVH. "the eyes of the Lord". [Psalm 34:15] "The
eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open
unto their dry." This verse is credited to the letter Ayin. Not
that "eye" is plural. see 156. So the eyes of the Lord and the
face of the Lord, are equivalent.
OVTz otz. Uz, the native land of Job. [Job 1:1] "There was a man
in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect
and upright, and one that feared god, and eschewed evil." see
976.
Greek/Latin
"Basil Valentine says that Azoth and fire alone are needed in the
work of wisdom, and according to Arnold [of Villanova] water is
Azoth, which water is argentum vivum. In his figurative language
Eliphas Levi calls it the efficient and final principle of the
great work. Here is one aspect of the universal medicine in the
light of the Rosy Cross." [A.E. Waite: Brotherhood of the Rosy
Cross, p. XXII]
gradus ad sapientiam (Lt). the stair to wisdom. see 64, 97, 638.
167 (prime)
OIN HLB ayin ha-laib. the inner eye [Hebrew lexicon]. Literally
"eye of the heart."
Latin
Latin/Greek
Lithon. Stone.
170 (2*5*17)
MLQ mawlahq. to wring off, pinch off; to nip, nip off the neck
of a bird, wring. [Leviticus 1:15] "And the priest shall bring it
unto the altar, and wring off his head, and burn it on the altar;
and the blood thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the
altar." Metathesis of MQL wand (Mercury). Suggest the dedication
of the "head", seat of Mercury to sacrifice impurities in the
subconsciousness (blood and altar). Note that Lamed (directing-
power, goad) comes before Qoph (sleep, Pisces, organization of
body-cells). also: [Leviticus 5:8]
ONN yawnawn. cloud. [Exodus 13:21]. "And the Lord went before
them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them the way; and by
night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and
night." also ONN to brings clouds, cover with clouds; ONN to use
enchantments; to practice magic. [Isaiah 2:6] "Therefore thou
hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be
re[;emosjed from the east, and are soothsayers [Magicians] like
the Philistines and thy please themselves [i.e. practice magic]
in the children of strangers." see 380, 617.
IPIO Japhia. "the bright one, the beautiful one". [Joshua 10:3]
Amorite king of Lachish ("the invincible") conquered and slain by
Joshua. Typifies the external shows of materialism, and is ruler
of the kingdom which believes material wealth and power to be
invincible. see 370, 935, 56, 321, 170, 216.
SPL shphel. bowl, dish, cup. The cup is the magical instrument
symbolizing the purifying qualities of "water" or mental
substance. [Judges 5:38] Conceiving a sign of the Lord to Gideon
that Israel would be saved: "And that is what happened. Gideon
rose early the next day; he squeezed the fleece and wrung out the
dew-a bowlful of water."
Latin
[The prefix Lamed means "to" and the numerical value of Jacob
[IOQB] in this text is 182. I am assuming this is a mistake by
Mathers. electronic ed.]
Latin
ANKI IHVH ALHIK Anoki IHVH Eloheka. I am the Lord thy God. "I am
the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land
of slavery." These words are the preface to the ten commandments.
see 653.
LPIDIM. torches.
Latin
lapis fugitivus (Lt). The flying stone. This is the sperm or seed
(Yod) of the alchemical metals, the first matter. [Thomas
Vaughan] see 51, 254 (Latin).
Latin
Latin
ZOQ zawahq. to cry out for help, to cry, cry out, call. To
return to the garden one must invoke the highest.
KSP ChI Kehseph chai. Living silver; quick sliver. The Aesch
Mezareph [7, p.38] says: "And as the name of AL El, doth
insinuate the nature of silver, because both belong to the class
of Chesed, (But here to that Chesed, which is inferior viz.
Yesod). So the name of ALChI Elchai, is the same as it were,
cheseph chai KSPChI, i.e. quicksilver." see 570, 949.
Latin
Latin
Latin
ZOQH zeyawqawh. outcry, clamor, From ZOQ "to cry, cry out", the
old blood cells holding negative patterns are disturbed in the
microcosmic "field" (Cheth).
MNA MNA mene, mene. numbered, numbered [Daniel 5:25] "And this
is the writing that was written (on the wall), mene, mene, tekel,
upharsin" [5:26] "this is the interpretation of the thing: mene;
God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it."
Greek
Latin
ABN AChD VAIN ABN ehben echud ve-ain ehben. One stone and no
stone (see 53, 156).
The Book of Concealed Mystery says "the balance hangs in the MQVM
([place]-a place on which something stands or exist, a location)
which is AIN (not)." Note that by this is hinted that MQVM = AIN.
see 61. This is the same as what St. Peter is reported as saying
in the Cleminine Homilies: "The place of God is that-which-is-
not." AIN is the unmanifest point or the center. [see Isaac Myer,
The Qabalah, p.118] Itself is a needle. Jesus said that is was
easier for a rich man [i.e. materialistically inclined) man to
enter the kingdom of heaven than for a camel (Gimel) to pass
through the eye of a needle. The "back of the head" is like to
AIN [see Book of Tokens]. The practice of habitual imagery
through concentration to bring about body responsiveness to
higher frequencies of light is hindered by the inertia of the
"monkey" mind, which will not be still, but persistence brings
results.
Greek/Latin
Frater Crucis Roseae (Lt). Brother of the Rosy Cross. The "cross"
is the 4 elements of personality (Fire-desire, Water-intellect,
Air-emotion, and Earth-physical body). The "rose" is purified
desire. One who has equilibrated the elements of his own nature
is said to be Rosi-crucian (Rose-cross) brother, he is turn helps
to bring about the brotherhood of all mankind.
187 (11*17)
ChII HOVLM HBA chaii ha-ohlam habah. vita mundi ventural. the
Life-breath of the world. [K.D.L.C.K. p.342]. "For Chokmah is
also called 'the Life-breath of the world" because it is the life
of the Sphere of Binah, which is called the soul (or breath) of
the world." 2 x 7 x 187 = 2618 = ? επ σ ε ? ?(heh
epignosistou theou)? "the exact knowledge of God" [Colossians
1:10].
"Add 52, 45 and 90. 187. Their sum reduces to 7, but the
extension of 7 is the perfect number, 28, and this takes you back
through 10 [Malkuth] to 1 [Kether]. ...Man (ADM) is the Son (BN),
and because he is the Son, he is the King (MLK). He stands at
the Center, and this is the point of absolute rest. Man's
kingship is hereditary: only because he is Son is he King. He
is the core of all, and, as you, H., should know, the core is
truly the heart. ...Now, a cube shows the number 4 on every face,
and the angles formed by its diagonals and sides are angles of 45
degrees, that is, ADM, while the angles at its corners are 90
degrees, that is, MLK. But because the interior corner-to-corner
diagonals are root 3 lines, each of these has the same basic
value as the side of an equilateral triangle, and these four
lines inside a cube are therefore analogous to such lines on the
Tree as Daleth. Now multiply the square root of 3 by 4 (1.732 x
4 = 6.928). This is 7 in whole numbers, and this hides BN, Ben,
for BN is 52, which reduces to 7.
See, then, in the cube, BN, MLK and ADM conjoined, as they are in
the names of Tiphareth, and the essence of these three is 7 also.
For they add to 187. ...if the Scorpio force is used for
generation it cannot be used for the Great Work. Used it may be,
in several ways; but whatever the special regimen, it always
excludes physical procreation. In Tibet this is well-known, as
it is in the Western School. The objective is the new birth as
one of the Sons of the Doctrine. Meditation is the process. It
is the physiological demonstration of a seed-idea, and the names
ADM, BN, MLK are the statement of that idea.
Become the true ADM, and you become the Son who is King, and all
that the Father hath is yours. The illusion of the Microcosm is
transmuted into the reality of the Macrocosm. One of the many
becomes the All." [13th Communication] see 67.
KNON Canaan. flat, low. The son of Ham (HM, warmth, heat) and
original name of Palestine, home-land of Israel. May be related
to CIN, Cain (smith, artificer, appointed spear). see 58, 160,
840, 993.
QTz qetz, qaytz. the end, the time of redemption, messianic age.
[Daniel 8:17] "So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I
was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me [Gabriel],
understand, O Son of Man: for at the time of the end shall be the
vision. see 660, 1000, 305.
Latin
BThN HSVS beten ha-soos. the horse's belly or womb. The horse's
"dung" is the serpent fire working in darkness; the belly refers
to physical embodiment. in alchemy it suggest the Virgo area,
where the Christ-child is born. see 711, 383.
Latin
Greek/Latin
MQNH. a flock.
Greek/Latin
Kore (Gr). Virgin. Relates to Virgo and to the heart, the core of
anything. To be of pure heart is essential to know the highest
truth. see 998, 1006 (Greek).
196 (4*7*7) [14*14]
QMVN qamon. Camon, the city where Jair was buried. Linked with
Mars and Sun. see 221.
197 (prime)
Greek/Latin
200's
200 (5*5*8)
KNPIM kanafim. wings [Malachi 4:12]: "But unto you that fear my
name shall the sun of righteousness rise, with healing in his
wings." Note the direct reference to the Sun.
ONLIM enawlem. calves. [Matthew 4:2] the newly "reborn". see 713.
ONP awnaph. branch, bough. Connected with the Tree and body. see
589.
Latin
Latin
Il Papa (Lt). the father, the pope (the old Key 5 name).
BAR beer, bayar. well, spring; pit. A title of Malkuth. Also: BAR
to make plain, distinct, to explain, elucidate. Aleph is now
placed in the middle-it is the eternal mediator who explains the
true meaning of creation in darkness. see 575.
ABR ahbhar, ehbar. Lead. The metal attributed to Saturn, the 32nd
path, to dominion and slavery. The alchemist had much to say
about transmuting this "base metal" into gold. Relates to the
physical plane of manifestation. In Rabbinical Hebrew ABR is a
limb, part, organ; and ABR is "to be strong, hard". Hence "Pillar
of fruitfulness" [is] related to ISVD, the sacred foundation. See
[K.D.L.C.K. p.22]: ABR, penna, ala: it membrum, et quidem
genitale. (""limb, wing: that is, a member, indeed the genital
[or reproductive organ]". Referring to the Zohar, prologue [3B,
p.14] "What was hitherto sealed up and unproductive in the word
bara has by a transposition of letters become serviceable, there
has emerged a pillar of fruitfulness: for BRA has been
transformed into ABR (organ), which is the sacred foundation on
which the world rests."
DR dar. pearl.
HR har. mountain.
VIHVH MSINI BA Jehovah mi Sinas baw. and the God from Sinai.
The 2nd decanate of Aries is ruled by the Sun and has the
qualities: exacted, enthusiastic, loyal. The influence of the
demon suggest conscious imbalance, resulting in negative aspects
of these qualities. In the Tarot minor arcana this decanate is
assigned to the 3 of Wands. It represents the operation of Binah,
sphere of Saturn, in Atziluth, the archetypal world of ideas.
When ill-dignified, as here this can indicate conceit, arrogance
and insolence. The remedy is to be receptive to power form higher
levels, while at the same time being able to apply that power to
various subconscious or personality planes, in a saintly manner.
206 (2*103)
POL IHVH popal IHVH. The work of IHVH. [Isaiah 5:10] Has to do
with the manifestation of spirit through the word.
HBR habar. to divide, to cut apart, divide out; that which cuts;
to pronounce, enunciate. Root of a noun which designates an
astrologer, one who divides the heavens. The basic idea is that
of the subdivision of space, and it is allied in meaning to what
is suggested by GDL and SVP.
"For Chaiah is none other than AVR. Now see, AVR is the number
207, and this is 9 times 23. Now 23 is the number of ChIH,
Chaiah, and 9 is the number of Yesod; furthermore Chaiah is in
Chokmah and is thus to be understood as the power of AB the
Father. Thus may you know that Life and Light are one; that
Light is always pure and always Holy, and that the extension of
Light is its multiplication through forms." [27th Communication]
see 363, 23, 73, 80
2. Fabre D'Olivet comments: "I cannot repeat too often that all
words of the Hebrew tongue are formed in such a way as to contain
with in themselves the reason for their formation. Let us
consider the word AVR Light: it is derived directly from the word
AVR fire. The only difference between them is, that in the word
which designates fire, it is the universal convertible sign Vav
which forms the link between the sign of power Aleph, and that of
movement proper: whereas in the second, it is the intelligible
sign Vav. Let us proceed further. If, from the words AVR and AVR
[different vowel points on Vav], one takes away the median sign
Vav or Vav there will remain in the elementary root AR, composed
of power and movement, which in all known tongues signifies by
turns, earth, water, air, fire, ether, light, according to the
sing joined there unto... together they are the symbol of the
elementary principle whatever it may be, and of all which
pertains to that element or to nature in general.
Hieorglyphically AR was represented by the straight line, and ASh
by the circular line. Ar, conceived as elementary principle,
indicated direct movement, rectilinear; ASh relative movement,
curvilinear, gyration. AR that which belongs to the elementary
principle, that which is strong, vigorous, productive. The Arabic
[word] offers the same sense as the Hebrew. It is ardor, impulse
in general: in a restricted sense, amorous ardor; action of
giving oneself to this ardor; union of the sexes. AR or IAR-that
which flows, that which is fludic: a river. The Chaldaic AR or
AIR signifies Air. AVR-fire heat; action of burning. AVR light;
action of enlightening, instructing, life, joy, felicity, grace,
etc.." [The Hebrew Tongue Restored, pp. 298-299, 32-33]
3. F.J. Mayers adds: "We have here [in Genesis 1:3] the first
desire or purpose which God ever gave expression to. It was for
'light'... the Hebrew word for 'said', 'amour' [AMR]... holds
quite wide meanings. It is very closely related to the word for
'light' 'aor' [AVR]. Both words start form the same root: 'AR' or
'ER' [AR], which we have already explained as signifying the
'primal element' of all things. The sign of 'light',
'intelligence', 'action' (O) [V] is inserted in the [text
missing]
ITzChQ Isaac. He laughs, one that mocks. The proper name Isaac,
son of Abraham. see 418. [K.D.L.C.K. page 266]
RVB rub, roob. Multitude. All these ideas are implicit in the
promise of the angel to Hagar, through her son, Ishmael. [Coptic-
see 828]
RZA rawzawa. "the secret" [Daniel 2:27] "The secret which the
king hath asked can neither wise men, enchanters, magicians, nor
astrologers declare unto the king but there is a God in heaven,
ALH BShMIA (#389) that revealeth-secrets GLH RZIN (#305)." see
694 [In the Aramaic Aleph affixed to a word is the definite
article "the", RZ is the Hebrew]
Latin
Inhabitans aeternitatem (Lt). Abiding eternally, or dwelling in
eternity (see 450).
209 (11*19)
Of the 2nd two letters Fabre D'Olivet comments: "AR. This root...
[is] very important... The signs which constitute the one in
question here, are those of power and of movement proper.
Together they are the symbol of the elementary principle,
whatever it may be, and of all which pertains to that element or
to nature in general. Hieroglyphically AR was represented by the
straight line, and ASh by the circular line. AR, conceived as
elementary priciple, indicated direct movement, rectilinear; ASh
relative movement, curvilinear, gyratory. AR. That which belongs
to the elementary priciple, that which is strong, vigorous,
productive." [The Hebrew Tongue Restored, p.299]
NPLIM nephium. the giants. [Genesis 6:4] "There were [the] giants
in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of
God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children
unto them, the me became mighty men which were of old, men of
renown." [Numbers 13:33] "And there we saw the giants, the sons
of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight
as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight." The Book of
Concealed Mystery [IV:18, p.100] says: "They [i.e. the giants]
were in the earth in those days, but no in the following time,
until Joshua came. That is, they are applicable to the path of
the bride [Malkuth, #496], which is also called the land of
Canaan, were Joshua found the giants. For the ward NPLIM, occurs
not fully: except when it is used in the incident of the spies.
see 210.
TzDIP. Righteous.
RChB rawhab. proud. [Job 9:13] "If God will not withdraw his
anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him."
ChRB horeb. Horeb, the mountain on which the law was given to
Moses, also called Sinai. Means: "He is high, or firm"; also:
"dry and burnt up" [Inman] [Exodus 17:6] "Behold, I will stand
before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and you shalt smite the
rock, and there shall come water, out of it; that the people may
drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel."
Metathesis of RChB. Note that Ch (receptivity, will) is placed
before Resh (face, head).
DBVR Dibbur, cont. Note that the great voice, DBVR, is related to
ShMOVN Simeon (II, #466), whose name signifies "the one that is
heard". Traditionally Simeon was the name of the first pope, and
'the pope' is another name for Key 5. DBVR as distinguished from
AMIRH Amirah... simple speech, wherein is required no especial
lifting up the voice; 'Debur" is public speaking, wherein is
indeed necessary (considerable) elevation of voice and (loud)
proclamation of words." [IRQ:352] see 256.
213 (3*71)
[text missing]
Latin
succus lunaw et solis (Lt). juice (or sap) of the sun and moon.
Occurs in the text accompanying a plate on page 13 of Secret
Symbols. The commentary tells us that the sap must be fixed
before it is transformed into fog or smoke. It says also that the
two fogs or smokes are the roots of the hermetic art. "I am the
sap which maintains and makes alive everything in nature, and I
come from the above into the below. I am the dew of heaven and
the oiliness of the Earth. I am the fiery water and the watery
fire. Without me nothing can have temporal existence and Life. I
am near all things, yes, and through all things, yet
unrecognized."
215 (5*43)
ChRBH Horebaw, Hawraybah. "to horeb" [Exodus 3:1] "Now Moses kept
the flock of Jethro-his father-in-law, the priest of Median: and
he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the
mountain of God, even to Horeb." see 542. Also ChRBH pruning-
knife. see 210. Also: ChRBH (hawraybah) waste, ruin; desert land.
note ChRB Horeb (210) is masculine and has the same meaning:
dryness, drought; heat, desolation, waste. Compare this with
TzIVN Zion (#156) parched ground, desert = TzIVN monument; land-
mark, signpost [from TzIH to burn, to glow, to glitter] In
Genesis 7:22 this word is translated "dry land" ("All in whose
nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the day land,
died.")
In Genesis 1:10 the word IBShH is used ("And God called the dry
land earth.") It also is feminine. Genesis 7:22 is the account of
the flood; so the word must really mean "desert land" instead of
"dry land" (in Genesis 8:14: "Was the earth dry", the word for
dry is IBShH). Godwin gives. Parched land (charabhah); one of the
seven earths, corresponding to Geburah.
Greek/Latin
hise (Gr). One. Refers to the unity of all life. see 13, 67.
216 (6*6*6) [3*3*3 + 4*4*4 + 5*5*5]
Arieh [ARIH]. lion, name of the sign Leo. Associated with Key 8,
strength. The same power is the source of all our strength.
Standard of the tribe of Judah. Symbol of the whole range of the
Life-power's activity below the human level.
King of Eglon (the calf-like, one who gambols). The name of this
king is derived from the Hebrew noun which means "word" (DBR
word, saying, statement; report, news, thing, matter, affair;
occurrence, event; order, command; cause, case, something,
anything.) Debir is a symbol of worldly wisdom based on outward
show and appearance. He rules a kingdom described as "calf-like"
in reference to the same notion of immature conduct symbolized
elsewhere by he golden calf. The kingdom of Eglon is a symbol of
the puerility which characterizes the conduct of those whose only
standards of action conform to worldly, materialistic wisdom.
Joshua, who overcame these kings, is the realization that the
nature of the one reality is eternally on the side of liberation.
The five kings, on the contrary, represent the psychological
basis of very tyranny. The killing of the kings and their armies
is really transmutation. see 159 Eglion and 259 Adonai Tzedek,
King of Jerusalem. see 358.
ChVRB horeb. [Exodus 33:6], another name for Sinai, the mountain
where the Law was given to Moses. see 210 (short form).
Latin
VIRA va-yarae. and saw [Genesis 1:4]. "And God was the Light,
that it was good."
According to F.J. Mayers: "As a man may look in upon himself and
consider the capabilities and qualities of his own mental powers,
so we are told, did God look in upon himself and 'considered
carefully'-(that is the meaning of the Hebrew word which our
English version translates by 'saw ') 'the intelligence' he had
willed into being. He saw that it was 'good'-suited to carry out
his purposes and powerful for the task." [The Unknown God, p.30]
QVL OBDV qol ahbaydo. "voice of his servant". [Isaiah 50:10] "Who
is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his
servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? Let him
trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God." see 640,
82.
AVIRA auira. ether [K.D.L.C.K. p.55] "The wise say that the
letter Yod in IHVH Tetragrammaton implies the word AVR aur,
light, from which is this letter Yod which the wise designate
immeasurable is called AVR light. see 217.
The Aesch Mezareph [VIII, p.43] says: "Jarach, the moon or Luna
in the history of natural things is called the 'medicine for the
white', because she hath received a whitening splendor from the
sun, which by a like shining illuminates and converts to her own
nature all the earth, that is the impure metals. And the place of
[Isaiah 30:36], 'the moon shall be as the sun', may be mystically
understood of this, because the work being finished, she hath a
solar splendor: but in this state, the place of [Canticles 6:10]
belong to her,- 'fair as the moon'. By the same name the matter
of the work is called; of consistence; and like to the full moon
in the last state of fluidity and purity. For the words Jarach,
the moon, and razia, secrets, also rabui, a multitude, have by
gematria the same numbers, because in this matter are found the
secrets of multiplication."
Moses employs first, the word OTzBVN, after having added the
extensive syllable VN, wishing in indicate the general obstacles
which shall be opposed hence to the unfoldment of that will of
intellectual man, and which shall multiply its conceptions,
forcing them to become divided and subdivided ad infinitum. He
then makes use of the simple word OTzB, to depict the pain, the
torment the agony which shall accompany the least creations. This
hieroglyphic writer would have it understood, that the volitive
faculty shall no more cause intellectual conceptions to pass from
power into action, without intermediary; but that it shall
experience, on the contrary, deviations without number and
obstacles of all sorts, which resistance it shall be able to
overcome only by dint of labor and of time.
In the first place, it is not true that Moses made the being of
beings say, that he will multiply the sorrows and the conceptions
as the Hellenist translate it, [Greek word]; but that he will
multiply the number of the obstacles and the conceptions, as
Saint Jerome adhered to the Chaldaic targum as more comfortable
with the Hebrew: OTzRIK VORVAIK.
Now, I ask, in the second place, who the being of beings could
have said to the corporeal woman that we would multiply the
number of her conceptions of her pregnancies, as one understands
it, since it would in such a manner shorten her life? Would he
not rather have said that he would diminishes the number, by
rendering them more and more painful and laborious? But the
Hebraic text is as clear as the day. There is strong evidence
that the Hellenist only abandoned it to follow the Samaritan
version, because they plainly saw that it exposed the spiritual
meaning, as indeed it does. For, which it is in accordance with
reason and experience, to think that the volitive conceptions
increase in proportion to the obstacles which are opposed to
their realization and which force them to be divided, it is
absurd and contradictory to affirm it of the pregnancies of
physical woman which are necessarily diminished with the pains,
maladies and suffering which accompany and follow them." [The
Hebrew Tongue Restored, p.111-113]
Thomas Troward writes: "The first thing we are told about man is
that he is made in the image and likeness of god, the spirit of
life; therefore capable of manifesting a similar quality of life.
But we must note that words 'image' and 'likeness'. The do not
impart identity but resemblance. An 'image' implies an original
to which it conforms, and so does 'likeness'. [Bible Mystery and
Bible meaning, p.270] Paul Case: "in our image (218) = IRCh, the
moon and BRIAH, the creative world, which is the second world,
reflecting Atziluth.
219 (3*73)
220 (4*5*11)
LQTz le-kates. "at the end", or "at the limit" LQTz HIMIN, le-
quaetz haiamein, "at the end of the days." In the Hebrew
dictionary this phrase is rendered "the messianic age." LQTz, in
the Massoretic text of the Hebrew edition it is translated "till
the end be." QL in the Hebrew dictionary has the meaning "the
end, the time of redemption, messianic age." [Daniel 12:13] "But
go thy way till the end be: for thou shall rest, and stand in thy
lot at the end of the days." see 335.
Latin
Christus, Deus et Home (Lt). Christ God and Man [Secret Symbols,
page 36]. A clear indication as to what the Fama means when it
speaks of C.R. as the foundation of the order.
Novus Ordo Seclorum (Lt). New Order of the Ages. or, New order of
the Aeons. One of the 2 mottos on the reverse of the Great Seal
of the U.S.
ignis philosophorum (Lt). fire of the philosophers. "This is the
fire of the sages which they describe in such obscure terms, as
to have been the indirect cause of beguiling may innocent persons
to their ruin; so even that they have perished in poverty because
they know not this fire of the Philosophers. It is the most
precious fire that God has created in the earth and has a
thousand virtues-nay, it is so precious that men have averred
that the divine power itself works effectually in it." [Hermetic
Museum I, pp. 198-199]
221 (13*17)
total: 17 x 13 = 221
D***MNQAL Menaqel "God who seconds and aids all things." 66th
Shemhamphorash; angel of the 10 of Swords (Malkuth of Yetzirah).
326-330. "TEPISATRAS. May 24, August 4, October 15, December 26,
March 8. 9:40-10:00 PM. [Psalm 38:21] "Forsake me not, O Lord: O
my God, be not far from me." Serves to appease the anger of God,
and to heal epilepsy. Rules vegetation and aquatic animals,
influences through sleep and dreams. Person born: combines all
the good qualities of body and soul. He will conciliate the
friendship and the benevolence of all good persons by his
amiability and the sweetness of his character. According to
Godwin, Menaqel is the angle of the 6th quinance (26-30) of
Gemini, and angel by night of the 10 of Swords. Davidson says:
"Manakel (Menakel, Menaqel) -according to Ambelain, La Kabbale
Pratique, an angel with dominion over aquatic animals."
[Davidson: Dictionary of Angels, p.183]
RAVIH raviah. I will chase. The quest for IH the father, with
which this word ends.
KBR kavar. to make heavy; to make many, multiply. [Job 35:16] "So
Job opens his mouth with empty talk; without knowledge he
multiplies words."
HIH BRA hiyah beraw. to be, to create. The inner meaning is "the
essential characteristic of being is creativeness."
KBD ABN VNThL HChVL kobed ehben vaynoter hachol. "A stone is
heavy, and the land weighty", (but a fool's wrath is heaver than
them both") [Proverbs 27:3] see 873.
DRK derek. way, path, mode, course, manner of life. This Hebrew
noun, like its Greek equivalent (heh hodos), is used occasionally
as a metaphor for worship, or religion. see 314, 1024.
Latin
Latin
Ego dominus faciens omnia haec (Lt). "I Lord (IHVH) do all these
things." Here is a direct connection with the idea of the
exciting intelligence, and with PH, the mouth, as the uttering
Logos which fashions everything in the manifested universe.
227 (prime)
OTz ChIIM Etz Chiim. Tree of Life, Tree of the Living Ones. "For
remember, that this is the Tree of the Living One, OTz ChIIM, Etz
Chaiim, or 160 and 68, that is, 228, and the seed of 228 is 3, or
Gimel. But Gimel is also Chokmah, and thus this is secret of
life, and its expression through embodied form. On the Tree,
Gimel is related to the Moon, so that Yesod, as the Sphere of the
Moon, is the Sphere of Gimel, and this also is shown by the
descent of the influence from Kether to Tiphareth through the
path of Gimel, and its continuation downward through the path of
Samekh, and from Yesod to Malkuth through the path of Tav." [11th
Communication]. see 406, 160, 68, 223.
KRVB Kerub. Ruler of Earth; one of the Kerubim. The Cherubim are
an order of angels ("the strong ones") assigned to Yesod of
Assiah. see 278.
BNI OLIVN beni Elyon. "sons of the most high." [Psalm 82:6] "I
have said, ye are Gods, and all of you are children of the Most
High. see 878.
QVL IHVH ALHIK kolihvh Elohekah. "The voice of the Lord your
God." [Deuteronomy 15:5] "Only if you carefully listen to the
voice of the Lord your God, to observe to do all these
commandments which I command you this day." (The Lord shall
greatly bless you).
ALHI IOQB elohay Yahqob. God of Jacob. Note that Jacob received
both the blessing of his father, Isaac, instead of Esau; and the
blessing of the angle that he wrestled (BRVK = blessed = 228).
Greek
Ho Aner (Gr). The Man. Refers to Christ, or the Messiah, the re-
born savior (see 744, 159 Greek).
229 (prime)
230 (2*5*23)
IRK yahrek. the thigh (euphemism for phallus). see 710, 260.
Greek/Latin
numerical cont.
ALP IVD NVN En, Ain. First Veil of the Absolute spelled in full.
The "Essence of Glory" is really the No-thing, the rootless root
of all manifestation. see 61.
LAVR la-aur. the light [Genesis 1:5]. "and God called the light
day."
Resh + IChIDH Resh + Yekhidah. The solar face (the Ego) + the I
Am (the Self). see 200, 37.
Latin
oculus, trygono, gloria (Lt). eye, triangle, glory. Pictured on
the reverse of the Great Seal of the U.S. The No-thing finds
expression as appearance (the eye), as the three supernals (the
triangle), and as the radiant energy which is the substance of
all things and, at the same time, the gravitation of weight which
holds together the world of name and form (the glory). see 81,
100, 56.
238 (2*7*17)
R + GLH Resh + Gawlaw. The head of man plus the word meaning "to
lay bare, to denude, to strip of concealment; to open a book."
Enlightenment opens the head of man to an influx of radiant
energy from the heart, connected with Resh.
RChL Rachal. Wife of Jacob and mother of joseph and Benjamin. The
Standard Bible Dictionary (pp.759-760) states that "In the
patriarchal narrative 'Rachel' undoubtably has a tribal as well
as personal significance, for about her are grouped five northern
tribes-Ephraim, and Manasseh (= Joseph), Benjamin, Dan and
Naphtals." These correspond respectively, in alchemy to Taurus
and congelation, Aquarius and dissolution, Sagittarius and
incineration, Scorpio and putrefaction and Virgo and
distillation. see 331, 395, 162, 54, 570. Inman says Rachel means
"a nursing mother". This is appropriate, for she is associated
with a cycle of 7 and with processes that nurture the soul
towards illumination. Jacob means "supplanter". see 182.
239 (prime)
BRZL Barzel. Iron, metal of Mars. The Aesch Mezareph [III, pp.
23-24] says: "Barzel, iron; in the natural science, this metal is
the middle line, reaching from one extreme to the other. This is
that male and bride-groom, without whom the virgin is not
impregnated. This is that sol, sun or gold of the wise men,
without whom, the moon will be always in darkness. He that know
his rays, works in the day, others grope in the night... and this
is that mystic thing, which is written [Daniel 7:5] 'And behold
another beast, a second like unto a bear, stood on its one side,
and it had three ribs standing out in his mouth, between his
teeth; and thus they said unto it: arise, eat much flesh.' The
meaning is, that in order to costitute the metallic kingdom, in
the second place, iron is to be taken; in whose mouth or opening
(which comes to pass in an earthen vessel) a threefold scoria is
thrust out, from within its whitish nature." Westcott adds: "in
is from BR, bright, and NZL, to melt, hence cast iron." [ibid].
Recall that Peh (80) = Yesod, the foundation of the Tree of Life.
see 80, 85. Note that 60, the myriads of spirits commanded by
Azrael = Samekh, prop, support and BChN, bawchan, "tried by
fire". see 60.
240 (3*5*16)
OL-PNI awl-penay. "on the face of" [Genesis 1:2] "And the spirit
of God [Elohim] moved upon the face of the waters." Also: on the
surface of, in the presence of, in the life-time of. The waters
are those of Binah, the great mother.
NGOI BNI ADM negahoi beni adam. plagues of the sons of adam.
[K.D.L.C.K. p.563] Refers to the succuba, or night demons, who
seduce men with lascivious acts under female form, and excite
them to nocturnal pollution, i.e. impure thoughts. This a result
of not following the precepts of God. NGO means stroke.
Latin
Rota Taro Orat Tora Ator (Lt). The Wheel of Tarot speaks the Law
of Ator (Nature).
241 (prime)
RM Rawm Ram. Also a family name in [Job 32:2] "But Elihu son of
Barakel the Buzite, of the family of Ram became very angry with
Job for justifying himself rather than God."
AL GBVR El-gibbor. the mighty God [Isaiah 9:6]. "...and his name
shall be called wonderful (111), counselor, the Mighty God, the
everlasting father, the prince of peace (896). see 216, 211,
1492, 31, 2279.
IHVH IRAH Jehovah Jireh. God (IHVH) will see [Genesis 22:14].
The name Abraham gave to the place where he was delivered from
sacrificing his son, Isaac, by the substitution of the Ram. ("And
it is said to this day 'in the mount of IHVH it shall be
proved'".) Also Adonai Jireh. see 255, 449.
Latin
Latin
ADM QDMVN Adom Qadom. the archetypal or archetypal man. see 45,
200, 101.
Latin
HRIAL Hariel. Angel of the 3rd quinance of Libra and angel by day
of the 3 of swords. Associated with Psalm 94:22 [Godwon] Hariel
is also known as Harael and Behemial, and is an angel with
dominion over tame beast. Hariel is invoked against impieties. He
rules science and the arts and is of the Order of Cherubim."
[Davidson: Dictionary of Angels, p.135]
Latin
Frater Rosae et Aurae Crucis (Lt). Brother of the Golden and Rosy
Cross [Secret Symbols]. A plate showing the golden cross of the
order, with the explanatory text written on the cross: "That is
the Golden Rosy Cross, of fine gold, which every brother carries
on his breast." see 62, 47, 58, 109 Latin.
247 (13*19)
ALHI HOVLMIM Elohey ha-olawmim. The Living God of the world, or,
of the ages. OVLM olahm has among its meanings "something-hidden,
time immemorial, eternity". see 146.
Latin
ChMR khemer. red wine. Also khammawr: ass driver. The ass is a
symbol of the alchemical first matter.
Latin/Greek
Greek/Latin
AVR GDVL aur gawdol. "a great light". [Isaiah 9:2] "The people
that walked in darkness have seen a great light."
DRK IHVH derek IHVH. "the way of the Lord". [Isaiah 40:3] "The
voice of the one calling in the desert: 'prepare the way for the
Lord; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God.'"
see 224, 26; 1344 (Greek).
Latin
RIIAL Reiiel, Reyayel. Godwin adds that this is the angel of the
5th quinance (21°-25°) of Sagittarius, as well as angel by day of
the 10 of wands. This represents the operation of Malkuth, the
material world of action in Atziluth, the archetypal world of
ideas. Davidson says that this is an angel of the Order of
Dominations. [Davidson: Dictionary of Angels, p.245]
Latin
Deus nobiscum, pax profunda. God with us, peace profound. "The
password of the grade [I N R I ] is formulated with the response
thereto, and these are Deus nobiscum, pax profunda. It is the old
Rosicrucian salutation: "peace profound, my breathern: Immanuel
[78], God is with us.'" [A.E. Waite: Brotherhood of the Rosy
Cross, p. 430]
NBR Naberius. The 24th spirit of Goetia, demon by day of the 3rd
decanate of Scorpio. Powers: Makes men cunning in arts and
sciences, especially rhetoric; restores lost dignities and honors
[Godwin].
3 x 36 = 108
2 x 45 = 90
1 x 35 = 35
1 x 20 = 20
total: 253
Triangles BOC, AOD and ADC are similar. They are Egyptian
triangles, or cross sections of the great pyramid. Their base
angels are 51½ , approx 51 25' 42".
IMA RBA yammah rabah. Great Sea [Daniel 7:2]. This expression is
"upon the Great sea," and IMA, is prefixed by Lamed, which would
be 284. see also 99.
***ALHI ITzChQ Elohay Yizaq. "God of Isaac". see 208, 294, 228.
[Exodus 3:6] "Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the
God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses
hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God." The God of
Isaac ["He laughs"] is the God of laughter, also of preservation
(Isaac saved from sacrifice). Isaac, moreover, is especially the
son. Note that the God of Isaac, the ?son? was merciful to both
Isaac and Abraham. [RChIM = 254 = merciful]
255 (5*51)
MRIH Moriah. seen of Yah [Genesis 22:2 and 2 Chron. 3:1]. The
name of a hill in Palestine, the site of Solomon's Temple. The
"Land of Moriah" is the place Abraham was directed to take his
son, Isaac, for the sacrifice (see 471).
NHR Nahar. a stream, river; to flow. The river with four heads
which went out of Eden. [Genesis 2:10] "And a river went out of
Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and
became into four heads." Also used figuratively to denote
prosperity. As a verb: to flow, to stream, to shine, beam, to
sparkle, to be cheerful. see 1826.
"And the Nephilim (elect among men, noble illustrious ones) were
upon the earth in those days: and also after that sons (spiritual
emanations) of Aelohim had come into (mingled with) daughter
(corporeal faculties) of Adam (universal man) and they had
produced through them those same Ghiborim (mighty men, those
famous hyperboreans) who were of old, corporeal Adamah [#50]
The word GBVR, here refered to, constitutes the fourth name that
Moses gives to man: the second, that this hiergraphic writer,
makes this superior man descend, by the union of divine
emanations with natural forms, that is to say, in other terms,
spiritual faculties joined to physical faculties.
The element from which he must draw his passive nature substance,
is named after him, Adamah. Soon the divine spirit is united to
his elementary spirit; he passes from power into action. The
being of beings individualizes him by detaching from him his
efficient volitive faculty and makes him thus, free, susceptible
of realizing his own conception. The intellectual man, AISh,
exists [#311].
HRV haram. "parched by the sun"; also "a noble or fat man"
[Inman]. A city in Chaldea, center of the worship of the moon-god
Sin; temporary home of Abram. [Genesis 12:4] "So Abram departed,
as the Lord had spoken to him; and Lot went with him: and Abram
was 75 years old when he departed out of Haran." see 905.
Latin
Centrum mindi, granum fundi (Lt). Center of the World, see of the
foundation. This is a free translation of the personal motto of
the author of "The Golden Age Restored, an alchemical treatise
included in Secret Symbols, page 20.
Sub umbra alarum tuarum IHVH (Lt). Under the shadow of the wings,
Tetragrammanton. In some versions of the Fama, the closing motto
is so written, with the Hebrew for Tetragrammanton, instead of
Iehova. When Iehova is used the motto adds to 284.
BNI TzDQ beni tzedek. The sons of the righteous. see 194, 52, 62.
Those who control and direct the secret "fire".
*** Amariah *** [beginning of text missing] see 15, 26, 83.
According to Inman, Amariah means "Jah decrees" from AMR Amar, to
say, command, a word, a lamb, a hymn or promise (with different
points). [Ancient Faiths Embodied in Ancient Names, p.176-179]
see 27 (Latin). Mackey calls this woard Amar-Jah, and translates
it as "god spake". He says it is a significant word in the high
degrees of the ancient and accepted rite. [Encoyclopaedia of
Free-Masnory, p.61]
257 (prime)
MQL LBNH mahqel laybanah. the white wand. [note: MQL means wand;
rod, stick; staff, walking stick. LBN is the adjective meaning
white, but Paul Case wrote the feminine word for brightness,
LBNH. This word also means moon and brick (and in the masculine,
birch). see 87. This seems to suggest a union of masculine and
feminine powers. The "white head" is Kether, ultimate aim of the
"wand".
NVRA noura. fire; fiery. [Daniel 3:6, 7:9] "And who so falleth
not down and worships shall the same hour be cast into the midst
of a burning, fiery furnace."; "I beheld till the thrones were
cast down, and the ancient of days did sit, whose garment was
white as snow, and the hair of the head like the pure wool: this
throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire."
see 850 (Greek).
Latin
Greek
*SR sar. rebellious, sad, sullen, heavy. The testing and trial of
the higher Self (Samekh) reacting on the personality, to bring
about regeneration (Resh). Godwin gives: ill-humored. Mathers:
"declined" [Sepher Sephiroth, p.31]
HGBRIM ha-gabborim. the mighty men. [From GBR, Aramaic for man,
male; warrior; phallus; rooster.] Also, the men of renown.
[Genesis 6:4] "The Nephilim (giants) were on the earth in those
days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came unto the
daughters of men and bore children to them these became the
mighty men which were of old the men of renown." Note that these
'mighty ones" were the offspring of the "sons of God", or
illuminated ones. The Higher self created them.
Greek/Latin
ADM + ChVH + QIN + HBL Adam + Chavah + Cain + Habel. The first
father (humanity) + the first mother (nature) + the false crown
of will-power (Cain) + "a fleeting breath" (volatility of
Mercury). see 1471, 45, 19, 160, 37.
Latin
Vince in Hoc, Deo duce, comite ferro (Lt). "I conquer in the
(sign), with God my guide, my sword my companion." Motto engraved
on reverse of pommel of magic sword [Eliphas Levi]. "I conquer in
this sign" refers to the cruciform shape of the sword. Designates
the letter Tav, the vibration of Saturn, and the crystallizing,
specializing power of human activity. This is the secret of
magical victories. "Deo Duce." We do so as conscious instruments
of the Life-power. "Comite Ferro", the sword is our companion,
our agency, our aid. It is the equliberated use of the Mars force
to overcome all errors. see 236, 93. [Vav or IHVH symbolizes the
magical sword. To wield it is to make use o the potencies of
sound-vibration, which is the basic power in all production of
forms.]
262 (2*131)
OIN BOIN ayin be-ayin. eye to eye. The Zohar says this means
the perception of those who "see" God when they are filled with
the Spirit of Wisdom. [I.R.Q. p.645] says: "Also it is written
[Numbers 14:14] "'By whom thou, O Tetragrammaton! art seen eye to
eye: and then the opening of the eyes is toward good.' This
occurs in a discussion of the eyes of Microprosopus, i.e.
Tiphareth. And in [Isaiah 52:8] 'Listen! your watchmen lift up
their voices together they shout for joy, when the Lord returns
to Zion, they will see it eye to eye [i.e. with their own eyes]."
see 2500 (Greek)
Greek
RO and ROO (intens.) That which is bent, bowed down; that which
is brought together to be made compact; that which becomes
fragile, brittle; that which breaks and is reduced to powder:
physical and moral evil; misery, malignancy, misfortune, vice,
perversity, disorder.
KVKB MIOQB kokab mi-yaqob. "A star out of Jacob". [Numbers 24:17]
"I shall come a star out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out
of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all
the children of Sheth." Jacob means "to supplant", the star
suggest the hexagram, symbolic of Tiphareth; Sheth means
"replaced, compensation". see 182, 620, 700, 494.
Greek/Latin
3. A. Jukes writes: "The dove and the raven are sent forth,
figuring (for they are birds of heaven, and the heaven is the
understanding) certain powers or emotion of the understanding,
both pure and impure. In the action of these is shown the working
of the good and evil which to the last remains with us. The
raven, finding its food in carrion, figures these inclinations
with feed on dead things." [Types of Genesis, p.120]
BOR baw'ar consume, kindle. The power of Beth (Key 1) through the
agency of Ayin (Key 15) resulting in Resh (Key 19). Mathers:
injure; brutish.
Greek/Latin
ABN MASV HBVNIM ehben masu ha-bonaim. the stone which the
builders refused [Psalm 118:22]. (Masu is from MAS: to despise,
reject, refuse.) A reference to the philosopher's stone. The
principle of human equality, founded upon the presence of the
mystical Christos with the temple of every personality. The
syllables of the "substitute" of the lost word is concealed in
these 3 words. see 108, 142 Latin.
AVR GNVZ aur genoz. the Hidden Light. Transmitted from generation
to generation through the mystery schools (see 203).
ChVRM ABIV Khurum Abiv, or Hiram Abiff. the name of the central
figure in the legend of Freemasonry. One of the three original
Master Masons. see 254. Haram was the son of a widow who was of
the tribe of Naphtali (Virgo). see 80. In the Egyptian mysteries
Khoor or Horus, the Hawk-headed God, was the probable derivation
of the name Hiram. Note that Horus, Hiram, Krishna, Christ and
C.R. all have the sound (KHR). see 19, 640, 465, 1378, 833
(Greek).
Greek
heh kleis (Gr). the key. Literally "A thing to close the door
with" from the outside (as well as what opens the door, i.e.
Daleth-creative imagination, to the inside). "The key to the
house of David... mentioned in Isaiah 22:22 and also alluded to
in Revelation 3:7." [Paul Case: True and Invisible Rosicrucian
Order (4th), p.92] see 954, 528.
274 (2*137)
275 (5*5*11)
SIHRA Sihra. the Moon. Chesed is the sphere of the cosmic moon,
wherein the waters of memory are gathered. see 87.
ARIThVN Ariton. Demon king of water and the west. Water indicates
receptivity; the west is the direction of manifestation. Note
also by adding Heh to ARI, the first three letters of this word,
we obtain ARIH lion (#216). The final three letters, ThVN = 65,
the value of HS, hush, keep silence. The lion is the animal
nature; silence is one way to conserve energy for constructive
work. Demon suggest subconscious imbalance, resulting in negative
aspects of these qualities. In the Tarot minor arcana this
decanate is assigned to the 5 of Wands. This represents the
operation of Geburah, sphere of volition or Mars, in Atziluth,
the archetypal world of ideas. When ill-aspected, as here, this
can indicate cruelty, violence, lust and prodigality. The remedy
is to learn to identify personal will with the one will manifest
in the cosmic order, and so free oneself from the delusion of
separateness. see 926.
BOVR Beor. Beor; the father of Bela, the first king of Edom.
[Genesis 36:32] "Bela, son of Beor became king of Edom. His city
was named Dinhabah." According to Inman: "possibly a variant of
Peor. Gesenius translates it 'torch', and furst, 'a shepherd'. A
torch, a piece of pine wood, or other straight thing, burning at
the end, was an euphemism. Hogarth, in his curious engraving
'before' and 'after' has symbolized the same idea by a sky-
rocket. It is, of course, well known to all, that Cupid (or
desire) bears a torch as an emblem with the flame burning
upwards; at death, or at funeral ceremonies, the torch hands
down, extinguished, or effete." [Ancient Faiths Embodied in
Ancient Names, p.346]
ARBOH arbaah. four; variant spelling. see 273. [Job 42:16] "After
this Job lived 142 years, and saw his son's and his son's sons,
four sons of generations."
TORA Tora. the law. The Kingdom is seen to be the result of the
Life-power's perfect memory of the orderly sequence of its
self-expression.
ROTA Rota. the wheel which indicates that the basic law of the
manifest, Malkuth, is the law of rotation. see 48.
PR raph. terror.
Greek
ARVN IHVH aeron IHVH. "The ark of the Lord" [Joshua 3:13] "And
it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the
priest that bear the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth,
shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan
shall be cut off form the waters that come down from above, and
they shall stand upon an heap." The ark of the Lord is the body
containing the 'shut-in gold'; i.e. the desire to bring forth
seed in the heart, unfolding the higher self. Jordan refers to
the descent of consciousness from above to below; the new cycle
of evolution begins with the sense of separation. The Quest for
self-consciousness, or consciousness of the self. see 264. this
involved alchemical changes in the bloodstream. see 407, 690,
2610 (Greek).
RGLIM ragalim. That goes on foot. Recall that the feet are
attributed to Pisces, which is connected with the letter Qoph.
The path of Qoph descends from Netzach, the desire nature, to
Malkuth, the physical body. Qoph is attributed to the function of
sleep and is the Corporeal Intelligence. "The kingdom of spirit
is embodied in my flesh" though desire. see 100.
Greek
ε Theos (Gr). God [John 1:1]. see 703 Greek, 740, 592, 785,
373.
α haglos, hagios (Gr). Holy one; saint, sacred, holy. A
reference to Christ. see 703, 720. Also means: devoted to the
Gods, pious, pure. Also worthy of respect, reverence, veneration;
of God in [Revelation 4:8] "And the four living ones, having each
of them six wings apiece, round about and within are full of
eyes; and they have no rest day and night, saying 'Holy, holy,
Lord God the omnipotent! The one who was, and the one who is, and
the one who is coming." Also in [Revelations 6:10] "And they
cried with a loud voice, saying 'how long, O sovereign Lord! The
holy one and true. Dost thou not judge and take vengeance for our
blood from those who dwell on the earth?" see 592, 524 (Greek).
These three word are simply different ways of saying the same
thing. Thus that to which number 220 is amicable or friendly, is
God Himself. This word has a number of shades of means: A)
distinguished for good and eminent qualities and character-of
persons and things; B) in a physical sense, good as opposed to
bad; C) in a moral sense, good, well-disposed, upright-of
persons, things, actions; D) good things, right virtue, good in
respect of operation, doing good; E) good, in respect to the
feelings excited, i.e. glad, joyful, happy. Also in [Matthew
12:35] "The good man out of his good treasure produces good
things; and the evil man out of his bad treasure produces evil
things." see 2357.
Latin
Sub umbra alarum tuarum Iehova (Lt). Under the shadow of thy
wings, Jehovah (see 255).
285 (5*57)
AVPR Ophir. "Fine Gold." The place where Solomon got his gold for
the temple. Variant selling. It is AVR, with the letter of Mars.
see 291, 1210, 207, 297, 302.
ZOIR zoar. little, small. The city into which Lot escaped at the
destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah [Genesis 19:23]. "The sun was
risen upon the earth when Lot entered Zoar." The passage which
refers to Lot's escape specifically mentions fire and brimstone
[A name for alchemical sulfur], while Lot's wife is turned in a
pillar of salt. see 693, 78, 104, 315, 354. One of the 5 cities
in the vale of Siddim, also called Bela. see 354.
ROH AChD ro-eh echad. one shepherd [Ezekiel 34:23]. "And I will
set up one shepherd over them, and the shepherd shall feed them,
even my servant David." see 270, 744.
BRA ALHIM bawrah Elohim. "God [Elohim] created" [Genesis 1:1] "In
the beginning the Elohim created the heavens and the earth."
OMVD ONN Amud awnan. "A pillar of cloud". [Exodus 13:21] "And the
Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them
the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to
go by day and night." [Numbers 12:5] "And the Lord came in the
pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and
called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth." [The Beth
prefixed to OMVD is omitted. With the Beth, "in", the value is
292] see 2528, 2580 (Greek); 421, 120, 170.
AGRVP agaruph "with the first". (Beth left out). The first-fruits
of evolution are human souls, raised to the consciousness of the
5th kingdom.
RTz (ratz). piece. Connected with silver and the Moon in [Psalm
68:30] "Rebuke the wild beasts (oppressors) of the marshes, the
multitude of the wild bulls, the idols of the gentiles which are
covered with silver [i.e. pieces of silver]; scatter the people
who delight in war." see 1100.
291 (3*97)
APIR Ophir []. The place where Solomon got much of his gold [1
Kings 10:11]. Intimates that the field of concentration in which
growth takes place is the alchemical gold, or transmuting agency.
In the alchemical treatise, Aesch Mezareph, Ophir is referred to
Malkuth, because Ophir is the name of a land or Earth derived
from a Hebrew noun signifying ashes (Ayper, APR-also: dry and
loose earth; soil, dust, powder, debris). see 287, 297, 311.
Tarot Keys which represent the element earth: Key 21, The World
"Joyous freedom" (Saturn) "the palace of holiness in the midst"-
making the element of earth visible is the greatest secret of
magic; Key 5, The Hierophant (Taurus) Liberation - the inner
mystery of alchemical earth is sound vibration; Key 9 The Hermit
(Virgo)-Mercury; Key 15 The Devil (Capricorn) -Mars exalted- the
ass - first matter - "the great magical agent". In the Christian
nativity, these are esoteric signs of liberation: the virgin
(Virgo) sits in a stable between an ox (Taurus) and an ass
(Capricorn), holding the Christ-child. The combined activities of
these three results in the manifestation of the liberation power
of that which was, is and will be. When vision is at the center
we can direct the fiery mars-force and integrate it in the
element earth - a great secret. All the hierophant's instruction
has to do with the integration of invisible spiritual energy into
visible physical forms. The invisible, magical earth is really
the living conscious energy which is shaped metaphysically by our
acts of creative imagination (Moon in Taurus). The great work, as
so far as it has to do with the magical earth, is really a sort
of remembering, or recollection [knowledge of the laws of nature
is always derived from the akashic record, the scroll of the high
priestess-the moon]... Five centers are specially concerned with
the magical earth. The manifestation of the life-power through
them is what enables us to control the forms which are assumed by
the invisible earth here in the visible world of the physical
plane. They are Saturn (Key 21), Mars (Key 16), Venus (Key 3) The
Moon (Key 2), and Mercury (Key 1). Since the total of the numbers
of these keys is 43, which reduces to 7, we know that the forces
represented by these keys are related to the symbolism of Tthe
Chariot (Key 7). Note that 7 itself is related to Saturn through
the connection of this number with the idea of rest and the 7th
day of the week, which is Saturn's day, the Sabbath. Cheth means
a fence or hedge, thus intimating the limiting power of Saturn.
ZRO DVD zera David. seed (posterity) of David. Notice that DVD
is 14, and is equivalent to ZHB, Zahab, Gold. Here is an
alchemical hint.
ALIK IHVH ADNI OINI [Psalm 141:8] "But my eyes are fixed on you,
O Sovereign Lord; in you I take refuge-do not give me over to
death." Judge Troward says [Troward on Psalms, p.19] "The keynote
of this is personal confidence in God as the reciprocating
personality." Paul Case comments: "What establishes this
reciprocity is shown in the phrase ALIK IHVH ADNI OINI "mine eyes
are unto thee, O God the Lord = 292 = KH-AMR IHVH = "thus saith
Tetragrammaton", for when our mental gaze is fixed on
Tetragrammaton Adonai, he sets a watch on our lips, and prevents
the inclination of our hearts to evil. The wicked fall into their
own nets. They are not punished by God, but they themselves set
up the negative conditions which overwhelm them. He who knows
therefore calmly leaves them to there own devices, and seeks only
to be preserved from falling into their errors."
BTzR betzer. gold (in dust). precious ore; support. [Job 22:24]
"Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as
the stones of the brooks." also: BTzR bawtzor, to fortify,
entrench; to cut off grapes, gather. Aesch Mezareph [II:2] says:
"Batzar, gold, referred to Chokmah, as though laid up in
strongholds. [Job 22:24, 25; 30:19]" [Job 36:19] "Will he not
esteem thy rights? No, not gold, nor all the forces or strength."
TzBR tzawbahr. to heap, pile up, accumulate. [Psalm 39:6] "Surely
every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in
vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather
them." Metathesis of BTzR; here Tzaddi (meditation) precedes
(Beth) concentration. also: TzBR tzober, heap, pile; and TzBR
tzawbahr, prickly pear; cactus.
ThVB VRO tobe va-rah. good and evil [Genesis 2:17]. "The Tree of
Knowledge of Good and Evil." see 479.
294 (2*3*7*7)
ALHI ABRHM Elohi Abraham. the God of Abraham. [Exodus 3:6]. Note
that Abraham in the Bible is directly connected with Melchizedek.
see 248, 254, 228, 854, 782, 1199, 1342.
Greek
Greek
GEMATRIA{PRIVATE }
300's
***The Zohar IV5B, pp. 109-110] states: "It is written: 'Who has
measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked out the
heavens with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in
a measure; and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in
a balance?" [Isaiah 40:12] ... heavens symbolizes 'beauty'
(Tiphareth) and 'dust' refers to 'power' (Geburah). 'Mountain
refers to [text stops]
ALP LMD HI IVD MM Aleph Lamed Heh Yod Mem. Elohim, ALHIM spelled
in full; i.e. the creative powers of God. see 86.
IHVH TzDIQ IBMN IHVH tzaddik yibeman. The Lord tests the
righteous. [Psalm 11:5] "The Lord tests the righteous and the
wicked, and the one who loves violence His soul hates." The Zohar
[II:140A, p.48] Has this comment: For what reason? Said Rabbi
Simeon: "Because when God finds delight in the righteous, he
brings upon them suffering, as it is written: "Yet it pleased the
Lord to crush him by disease" [Isaiah 53:10] ...God finds delight
in the soul, but not in the body, as the soul resembles the
supernal soul, whereas the body is not worthy to be allied to the
supernal essences, although the image of the body is part of the
supernal symbolism. Observe that when God takes delight in the
soul of a man, he afflicts the body in order that the soul may
gain freedom. For so long as the soul is together with the body,
it cannot exercise its full powers, but only when the body is
broken and crushed again, 'He trieth the righteous,' so as to
make them firm like 'a tilled stone,' the 'costly corner-stone'
mentioned by the prophet [Isaiah 28:16]."
301 (7*43)
ASh the Hebraic genius confounds this root with the root AM, and
considers in it all which is of the basis and foundation of
things; that which is hidden in its principle; that which is
absolute, strong, unalterable, as the appearance of fire. The
Arabic [word] designates that which moves with agility,
vehemence. This idea ensues necessarily from that attached to the
mobility of fire, ASh." [The Hebrew Tongue Restored, p.299]
Greek
Kranion (Gr). Skull [Luke 23:33]. "To that place called 'skull,'
there they crucified him."
KChN LAL OLIVN cohen layel Elion. priest of the most high God
(Genesis 14:18). Refers to Melchi-zedek. see 320, 126.
QRB qerahb. battle, war. All these meaning of QRB refer to the
physical plane and the microcosm.
2. Gaskel suggest that east and the sunrise is "an emblem of the
direction in which the self appears in the soul. The source of
life, and the light of knowledge is the self (sun) rising in the
mind... from the east, or along the celestial path of the self,
to which the rising of the sun in the heavens is comparable, was
the divine ego or spark sent forth of the spirit in the Buddhic
vestores which clothed it with the full powers of the soul." He
also says that dawn daybreak and dayspring, is "a symbol of the
commencement of manifestation-the period of the self forthgoing.
To establish the planes of nature. This is typified in the
approach of the sunrise when the sun (the Self) appears."
[Dictionary of All Scriptures and Myths, pp.201, 239]
BQR baqar. cattle, herd, oxen. Also cattle driver. Note that
Aleph is the "Ox". see 1052, 1265.
ZH HDRK LKV BN zeh ha-derek leku bo. This is the way, walk ye
into". [Isaiah 30:21] "And thine ears shall hear a word behind
thee saying, this is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the
right hand, and when ye turn to the left." see 241; 3384, 1061,
2323 (Greek).
DShA deshea. "grass". [Genesis 1:11] "And God [Elohim] said, let
the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the
fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in
itself, upon the earth: and it was so." Note that this word is a
combination of DSh or "green", suggesting Venus and Aleph, the
letter of spirit. The "earth" is the physical body; the grass
represents the shoots of the neophyte or new plant, which is the
regenerated consciousness. Also: green herbage, tender herb. DShA
dawshaw. to sprout, grow grass, grow green with grass.
AVR TzCh Aor tzach. dazzling white light. [Note that TzCh means
dazzling, bright, clear; glowing, brightness] the light from on
high, or Kether, reveals all secrets of formation.
VRVCh ALHIM ve-Ruach Elohim. "and the Holy Spirit" [Genesis 1:2]
"And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon
the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the
waters." see 214, 86.
TzVRI tzuri. "my rock" [Psalm 18:2] "The Lord is my rock, and my
fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will
trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high
tower." [ALI, my God, accompanies this. see 347]
OIR IHVH eyir IHVH. "city of IHVH". [Isaiah 60:14] "The sons also
of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all
they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of
they feet, and they shall call thee, the city of the Lord, the
Zion of the Holy one of Israel."
Greek
ISh yesh, ish. is, are, essence, being. "Loin that day shall the
light that is bind fast every hideous shape of darkness." [Book
of Tokens]
rom [ROM]. Thunder. Refers to the fiery nature of Shin (see 360).
OMR omar. to sprout. Root of OMRH, Gomorrah. see 315, 50, 106,
700; 78.
OMR omer. the [dry] measure of manna [MN, 90] for each of the
Israelites in the wilderness [Exodus 16:32] "And Moses said, this
is the thing which the Lord commandeth, fill an omer of it to be
kept for your generations; that they may see the bread where with
I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from
the land of Egypt. also: sheaf; OMR (awmahr) to heap up.
ShBCh shebakh. to praise, to laud. [Daniel 4:34] "At the end that
time, I Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes towards heaven, and my
sanity was restored. Then I praised the most high; I honored and
glorified him who lives forever. his dominions is an eternal
dominion; his kingdom endures from generation to generation."
ShI shyee. gift, present. [Isaiah 18:7] "At that time the present
shall be brought to the Lord of Hosts form a people dishonored
and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to
the place of he name of the Lord of hosts, the Mount Zion." In
plural in [Psalm 68:29] "Out of your temple at Jerusalem shall
kings bring presents to you."
Latin
RPAL Raphael. "God the Healer", the Archangel of Hod, Air, East,
and of Mercury. The name designates the Life-power as the active
principle of intellect, whereby things are brought to fulfillment
and perfection. Also the Angel of Chokmah in Briah, the world of
creation.
The divine rod that was delivered into his hand, as we read:
'With the rod of God in my [Moses] hand' [Exodus 17:9] which is
the same rod which was created in the twilight on the eve of the
Sabbath and on which there was engraved the divine name in sacred
letters. Rod in [Psalm 23:4] "Yea, though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou are
with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." Other meanings:
lance, spear; reed, pen. see Moses (345), 1308, 1311, 1000.
ZHB AVPIR zahab ophir. Gold of Ophir (see 418). [Job 22:24]
"Then shall thou lay up gold as dust, and the Gold of Ophir as
the stones of the brooks." Qabalistic alchemist say this
particular kind of gold refers to the path of Malkuth and
Tiphareth [Aesch Mezareph p.15] . Note the word ZHB does not
occur in this quotation but is inferred from the word BTzR
Bawtzer, in the preceding line meaning "precious ore, support").
see 14, 291, 1244 (4*311).
LK IVM AP-LK LILH leka yom aph-leka laiylah. "The day is thine,
the night is also thine [Psalm 74:16." Also translated: "Day and
night are both thine." This, too, is truth about Now. IVM, day
(56) = AVR (light, 207) = ThVB, good (17) and LILH, light (75) =
ChShK, darkness (328) = RO, evil (270). Evil is raw material of
good; darkness = a higher vibration. This is the secret of the
stone. Both are his, and LILH (night) precedes IVM (day).
ShVAH shawh. crashing, loud noise. [Job 30:14] "They came upon me
as a wide breaking of waters; amidst a loud noise they rolled
themselves along." Hence storm, tempest. [Proverbs 1:27] "When
you fear comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as a
tempest (whirlwind); when distress and anguish come upon you."
Also: "desolation, wasting, destruction in [Proverbs 3:25] "Do
not be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the
wicked, when it comes." And in [Psalm 63:9] "But those that seek
my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the
earth."
Greek/Latin
3. Anna Kingford writes: "God's ideas, like God, are real beings,
divine personages, that is, Gods. Put forth by, and in a sense
divided from God, in order to accomplish God's purposes, these
become messengers of God, that is, angels." [The Perfect Way,
p.213]
Hu cohen le-El Elyown [HVA KHN LAL OLIVN]. He was priest of the
most high God (said of Melchizedek) [Genesis 14:18]. The
reference is to the mystical high priest, Melchizedek. see 294,
4824 (Greek).
Latin
Greek
2. Gaskell says the serpent more subtle than any beast of the
field is "a symbol of the desire-mind, which is more penetrative
and captivating to the ego than any of the lower desires
(beasts)." [Dictionary of All Scripture and Myth, p.676]
3. The Zohar [I:28B] Comments: "And the serpent was more subtle
than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made; i.e.
they are more subtle for evil than all the gentiles, and they are
the offspring of the original serpent that beguiled Eve. The
mixed multitude are the impurity which the serpent injected into
Eve. From this impurity came forth Cain, who killed Abel... From
Cain was descended Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, as it is
written, 'And the sons of the Kenite the father in law of Moses
[Judges 1:16], and according to tradition he was called Kenite
because he originated from Cain. Moses, in order to screen the
reproach of this father-in-law, sought to convert the 'mixed
multitude' (the descendants of Cain), although God warned him,
saying, 'They are of an evil stock; beware of them'. Through them
Moses was banished from his proper place and was not privileged
to enter the land of Israel." [pp.108-109]
IBShH Yabashah. Godwin gives: Dry land, one of the 7 earths [i.e.
Qlippotic Mansions], corresponding to Netzach. Rosenroth in
[K.D.L.C.K. p.375] gives: arida, and says that it is Malkuth when
because of its sins, none of the supernal influences is able to
flow down the paths.
318 (2*3*53)
[1 Kings 18:27] "And when it was noon, Elijah mocked them and
said 'cry with a loud voice; for he is a God [i.e. Baal]; perhaps
he is meditating [talking] or he is busy or he is on a journey,
or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened." [Job 9:27] "If I
say, will forget my complaint, I will leave of my heaviness, and
comfort myself." [Psalm 102:1] "Hear my prayer O Lord, and let my
cry [i.e. complaint) come to you."
SRThN Sartain. the Crab, the sign Cancer. Associated with Cheth,
the enclosed field and with Prakriti, the mysterious power of the
finitizing principle. As the crab protects and isolates himself
by growing a shell, so may the adept protect and isolate himself
from the illusions of his environment by learning the technique
of magical speech. By this means he may even build for himself an
indestructible body, which will resist every hostile external
influence. Only one who is wholly unselfish may exercise powers
of a Master of the Temple.
ShITh shait. An oar. Suggest that by which one drives and steers
a boat through water. Has to do with artistic adaptation and
control of the Water element associated with the 18th path
through the sign Cancer. The adept learns the secret of adapting
the astral fluid by specific employment of sound-vibrations
related to mental images, as will tend to materialize these
images as physical conditions.
DRK HMLK derek ha-Melek. "The Kings Highway;" "The Way of the
King". The driver of the chariot is Key 7 is a King. Note the
stream behind the chariot. This is the Highway. see 224, 74.
ZRO IOBDNV zero yabadenu. "a seed shall serve him". [Psalm 22:30]
"A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a
generation." Nun is the "seed". Translated "posterity he-will-
serve-them" in the Interlinear Bible. see 50, 106, 700, 277.
Greek/Latin
NOR na'ar. child, infant, boy. Refers to the boy shown in Key
20, Judgement, who represents the awakened Ego-consciousness
turning inward and eastward to Yekhidah in Kether. Refers also
to Metatron and Enoch. see 314, 37, 620.
In [Exodus 2:6] "And when she had opened it [i.e. the ark], she
saw the child, and behold, the babe was weeping. And she had
compassion on him, and said, this is one of the Hebrew's
children." Also "boy", said of Samuel in [1 Samuel 1:24] "And
when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with a tree
your old bullock and an Ephah of flour and a skin of wine, and
brought him to the house of the lord in Shiloh; and the boy was
very young."
ADMH NKR ademah. nekawr. "strange land". [Psalm 137:4] "How can
we sing the songs of the Lord while in a strange land?" variant
spelling. see 815, 270, 50.
VHVA KHN LAN LAL OLIVN ve-hua kohen le-el Elyon. "And he [was] a
priest by the most high God." [Genesis 14:18] :And Melchizedek
King of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and we was the priest
of the most high God." see 294.
MIOR miyawar. "out of the wood" [Psalm 80:18] "The boar out of
the wood does waste it, and the wild beast of the field does
devour it." Refers to the vine plucked out of Egypt and planted
[Psalm 80:8] The "vine" is the Christos; "Egypt" is the astral
realm.
OBRIM Ibrim. Hebrews. With the prefix Heh in [Exodus 7:16] "And
thou shall say unto him, the Lord God of the Hebrews hath sent me
unto thee, saying, let my people go, that they may serve me in
the wilderness: and behold, hitherto thou would not hear." see
882
*** [beginning of text missing] ... sitting place, and two lions
standing by the stays." (This is a description of the king's
throne of ivory. the "king" is Tiphareth, as also the 6 steps
indicate). see 1081. Also: ascent; press; gangway; secret;
preserved fruit. The secret place of the king is for the ripened
fruit who ascend the path of return. Also: KBSh kawbahsh. to
tread down, to subdue; to pave a road. The suppression is the
animal nature, symbolized by the Lions; their strength is
preserved to build the road to liberation; [KBSh kibbesh. to
conquer, subjugate; to make even, press down to preserve, pickle;
to suppress, withhold; to dress (a millstone); KBSh kubbash. to
be conquered, be subdued, to be pressed in, be set.
KShB kesheb. lamb. [Genesis 30:32] (Plural). "I will pass through
all thy flock today, removing from thence all the spotted and
speckled cattle, and all the born lambs among the sheep, and the
spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my
hire."
AVRNVS Uranus.
"The first two digits of [326, the number of this word] add to 5,
and the last two to 8 [the proportions of each side of the vault
of C.R.]. Taken together, the first two make 32, the number of
paths of the Tree of Life, and the length of the perimeter of one
of the 'keystones' in our diagram of the heptagons and
heptagrams. The also two digits of 326, make 26, IHVH, Jehovah,
which is also a qabalistic summary of the Tree of Life." [Paul
Case: True and Invisible Rosicrucian Order (4th), p.202] see
1480, 2368 (Greek).
BTzL KNPIK IHVH betzel kanaphika IHVH. sub umbra alararum tuarum,
IHVH. "under the shadow of thy wings, Jehovah. BTzL = in the
shadow; TzLB = to hang, crucify, impale. also: cross.
This word appears in [Psalm 2:8] "Ask of me, and I shall give you
the heathen for your inheritance and the uttermost parts of the
earth for your dominion." Also in [Ecclesiastes 2:10] "And
whatsoever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I withheld
not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labor;
and this was my portion of my labor." In [Job 31:30] "Neither
have I allowed my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul."
And in [Hosea 4:12] "My people ask counsel of there own
imagination, and their staff declares to them the directions
[like a blind man who is guided by his staff]; for the spirit of
whoredom has caused them to astray, so they have turned form
their God." To ask, interrogate in [Ezra 5:10] "We also asked
them their names, that we might inform you and that we might
write the names of the men who were their leaders." see 332.
ShBThK shibetkah. thy rod [Psalm 23:4]. "Thy rod and thy staff
they comfort me." The magic of self-conscious intellect. see 311,
1217.
IHVH OZVZ VGBVR Jehovah ezuz ve-gibbor. The Lord, strong and
mighty [Psalm 24:8]. see 127.
OZRNV ezireno. our help (is in the name IHVH) [Psalm 124:8].
Which is said to be "in the name IHVH, who made heaven and
earth."
VIHI BQR va-yehi boqer. and it was morning (one day) [Genesis
1:5].
VKBShH KBSh ve-kebeyshah. (and fill the earth) "and subdue it"
[Genesis 1:28]. Kabbash [KBSh]. to tread down, to subdue, bring
into bondage, to press, force, violate, to preserve, pickle, to
store, hide, to detain, suppress; to pave a road. Also, with
different vowel points: Lamb. see 322.
HChShK ha-koshek. "the darkness". [Genesis 1:4] "And God saw the
light, that it was good, and God divided the light from the
darkness." In [Isaiah 45:7] "I form the light and create
darkness..." this darkness is connected with HRO, "the evil"-the
implications of Genesis 1:4, first clause. see 328, 270.
Greek
heh elpis (Gr). the hope. Later usage: expectation of either good
or evil, hope or fear (Latin spes). [Acts 27:20] "And neither sun
nor stars appearing for several days, and no small tempest
pressing on us, all remaining hope of our being saved was taken
away". [Romans 4:5] "And this hope is not put to shame, because
the love of God has been diffused in our hearts, through the holy
spirit which has been given to us." see 1183 (Greek), 2368.
HR SINI Har Sinai. Mount Sinai. Recall that Sinai was the place
where Moses (345) received the law. see 130, 376.
IMI ROH imi raw'ah. dies mali; evil days. [Note ROH = misfortune,
misery, distress; evil, wickedness; injury; harm, wrong. Also ROH
friend, companions, attendant.]
MLK MLKI HMLKIM melek malayekl ha-malekim. The king above. The
(Kether), above the kings Chokmah and Binah; the king [or] the
seven interior [lower sephiroth], which involve the entire decade
[of the tree]. "The Chaldeans and the kings thus represent the 32
paths of wisdom (see 32), ignorance brings the "evil days" but
knowledge of the paths beings one into contact with the
"companions", or Masters of Compassion.
336 (3*7*16)
PRVIM Parvaim. A region where gold was mined. The Aesch Mezareph,
or purifying fire, an alchemical treatise says that "zahab
parvajim is referred to Hod... From its likeness to the blood of
young bullocks, for this kind is red at the left hand." [II:8]
Westcott adds: "Paravahim, appears to be the name of a place: but
also LDM le-dam, the blood means for the blood of Heh the PRV
bullock: left-hand means "of the sephirotic place." [2 Chronicles
3:6] "And he [Solomon] garnished the house [temple] with precious
stones for beauty: and the gold was of Parvaim."
ShAVL Saul. Saul. "Asked of God." The first king of Israel; the
apostle Paul. Also Hill of Supernals," A City of Edom; "The place
of asking." the place of Saul. see 701.
ZHB ShChVTh Zahab Shakhut. Fine and drawn gold [2 Chon. 9:15].
Translated "Beaten gold." ShChVTh means sharpened, slaughtered;
hammered, beaten.
ShM means "name" in [Genesis 11:4] "And they said 'come, let us
build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top may reach to the
heaven; and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be
scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." see 366.
The Zohar refers to this in [II:231A, p.339]: "This world did not
come into being until God took a certain stone, which is called
the 'foundation stone', and cast it into the abyss so that it
held fast there, and from it the world was planted. This is the
central point of the universe and on this point stands the holy
of holies. This is the stone referred to in the verse, 'who laid
the corner-stone thereof' [Job 38:6], 'the stone of testing, the
precious corner stone' [Isaiah 28:16] and 'the stone that the
builders despise became the head of the corner.' [Psalm 118:22].
This stone is compounded of Fire, Water, and Air, and rest on the
abyss." (that is) so Aleph, Mem and Shin, the three mothers. Note
that the stone is set in the center.
BARTz CM be-eretz Ham. "in the land of Ham". [Psalm 105:27] "They
showed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham." Ham
(heat, warmth, #48) is connected with the concentration of
energy, setting up whirling motion which generates heat at the
beginning of a cycle of manifestation. see 936, 291.
ShMA shema. the name. In the name of the Lord offenses are
pardoned, and liberation comes.
PRH ADVMH pharah adamah. a red cow. [Note that PRH means to bear,
fruit, be fruitful]. This may also be read "fruitful ground". see
50.
ARTz ADVM eretz Edom. "land of Edom". [Isaiah 34:6] "The sword of
the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and
with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of
Rams: for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great
slaughter of the land of Idumea (Edom):. Edom means "red" and is
connected with blood as a vehicle of consciousness; lamb and ram
are associated with Aries, goat with Capricorn, both influence by
Mars; the "sword" is that of Justice, or equilibrium (kidneys =
Lamed, connected with the path linking Geburah and Tiphareth);
BTzRh Bozrah (fortress, #297) was the capital of Edom, which also
connotes unbalanced force. see 344, 51, 45.
IHVH MLK OVLM VOD IHVH melek olahm va-ed. The Lord is king for
ever and ever". [Psalm 10:16] "The Lord is king for ever and
ever: the heathen have perished from his land." The Zohar [I:34A,
p.127] comments: "There are two worlds, an upper world and a
lower world, the lower being on the pattern of the upper. There
is a higher king and a lower king. It is written: "The Lord
reigns, the Lord has reigned, the Lord will reign for evermore'.
i.e. 'The Lord reigns' above, 'the Lord has reigned' in the
middle, 'the Lord will reign' below. Rabbi Aha said: "The Lord
refers to the supernal wisdom; beauty of Israel; 'The Lord will
reign' signifies the ark of the covenant. At another time David
reversed the order and said, "The Lord is king forever and ever'
[Psalm 10:16] i.e. 'The Lord is king', below 'forever', in the
middle, 'and ever'. above for there is the reunion and the
perfection of all. God is 'king' above, and 'will reign' below."
see 26, 90, 146, 74.
ShVIL Shevil. path, way. [Psalm 77:19] "Your path led through the
sea, your way through the mighty waters, though your footprints
were not seen."
343 (7*7*7)
V-IAMR ALHIM ve-yomer Elohim. And God said [Genesis 1:2]. Refers
to the creative word or powers, which brought forth the universe
from the unmanifest. see 414, 86.
ARVN ALHIM ervon Elohim. The ark of the Elohim (God). [1 Samuel
3:3] "And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the Lord,
where the ark of God was..." see 257, 86.
In [Genesis 17:1] "And when Abram was nine-nine years old, the
Lord appeared to Abram, the said to him, "I am the almighty God;
walk before me, and be faultless.'" And in [Exodus 6:3] "And I
appeared to Abraham, unto Isaac and to Jacob, by the name of God
Almighty, but by name IHVH I was not known to them."
Beryls are found under the heavenly Taurus. Connected with the
hexagonal crystal, Venus, the "eye-stone" and are a symbol of
undying youth. They are also linked with Sardonyz, Leo, the Tribe
of Judah of the Ephod (breastplate) of the high priest. The angel
of Beryl is Anael, linked to Venus. see 409, 1210, 5, 403, 1207.
ShKKH shekaka. "He was appeased". [Esther 7:10] "Then was the
king's wrath pacified (i.e. appeased)" "Wrath pacified" or
"Wrath appeased." Shekaka is the name which includes all names,
in consequence of which that holy blessed one maketh his wrath to
pass away. And caused Microprosopus to be at peace, and taketh
away all those extraneous (matters) from the midst." [I.R.Q. 387]
Because shekake = ha-Shem, the name.
ShVLTh shalot. dominator. i.e. both "the name" and Shiloh (king
messiah). Rosenroth gives dominator in [K.D.L.C.K. p.707] and
says Tiphareth is thus called, when it is considered under the
idea of Yesod; i.e. as ruler of the vital soul.
ASh LHTh esch lahot. "The flaming fire." [Psalm 104.4] "Who
makes his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire." Could be
also rendered "the consuming fire." (Lahat=Magical fire) see 44.
BShGM be-shagam. "in that also"; "as also". [Genesis 6:3] "My
spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is
flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years."
Referred to Da'ath and to Moses [Zohar 1:38A]. see 474.
Rawtzone also means "grace" [Lesser Holy Assembly 102, 108, 110,
111] "If this RTzVN grace, be revealed, all those judgements are
enlightened and are diverted from their concealed rigor." "And
when this head, which is concealed in the head of the ancient
one, which is not known, extendeth a certain frontal formation,
which is formed for brilliance, then flasheth forth the lighting
of his brain." "And is produceth and designeth (a certain effect)
in this light (otherwise in this opening), in this forehead,
whereon is inscribed a certain light, which is called RTzVN,
grace." "And this grace is extended backward into the head, even
unto that place where it can remain in the beard, and it is
called the supernal, ChSD Chesed, Mercy."
ALI TzVRI eli Tzuri. "my God, my rock" [Psalm 18:3] "the Lord is
my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock
(strength); in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my
salvation, and my high tower." [in the first line "the Lord
(IHVH) is my rock, SLOI is used]. Note that in Key 7 the
Charioteer stands in a rock or cubic stone with a canopy
overhead. see 306, 41.
LOVLM OQB le-olahm ayqeb. "to the end of the age (world)" [Psalm
114:112] "I have inclined my heart to perform thy statues alway,
even unto the end." Hebrew translation is: forever at every step.
see the many meanings of OQB, 172, 2678 (Greek).
BKL-HARTz bekol ha-ertz. "in all the world". The world is the
physical plane. see 291.
349
Israel (Gr). "He shall rule as God", Greek spelling. see 703.
350 (2*5*5*7)
OPR aphar. dust. Out of the dust of the ground was the essence
of man (Adam) created by Jehovah-Elohim. One spelling of Ophir.
see 297, 45, 50, 451, 1881, 422. Also: dry and loose earth soil,
powder; ashes; OPR young mule, youth. roe. see 795.
VIRA ALHIM KI ThVB va-ya-re Elohim ki tov "And God saw that it
was good." [Geneses 1:11]. [Godwin]
HRTzVN ha ratzone. the Will, the good pleasure. The 20th Path of
Yod. "The 20th path is called the intelligence of Will. It forms
all patterns, and to know this intelligence is to know all the
reality of the primordial wisdom. Rawtzone [RTzVN], "Will," by
its four letters represent radiant energy or fire (R); air (Tz);
earth (V); and water (N). The occult significance of the word
relates to the idea of a synthesis of the 4 elements, which
synthesis is none other than the One Reality, the Ancient of Days
represented by the Hermit, and customarily designated by the
Divine Name Jehovah. What men feel in their very bodies as the
power called "will" is the surge of the light-force through blood
stream and nerve and tissue. see 346, 701, 1001.
ANSh Enash. man. Chaldee for man and a title of Tiphareth. This
relates once again to the personality complex of man-- the six
subdivisions of Ruach--as the instrument of dominion over the
formative Yetziratic forces. see 357.
ARTz NVD Ertz Nod. "The land of Nod", where Cain found his wife.
[Genesis 4:16] "And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord,
and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. see 570, 443,
20, 60, 1161.
TzVRNV tzurenu. our rock [Deuteronomy 32:31]. see 336, 296, 301,
352.
AVR MOLH Aor maalah. "The exalted light." A title of Kether. Aur
(AVR) means fire and Aor (AVR) means light.
ARK APIM ereck aphyim. "long of nose"; i.e. merciful. ARK refers
to Kether. see notes #221; 912, 1392.
LHBDIL BIN HIVM VBIN HLILH le-habaydil bin ha-yom vu-bayn ha-
lawyela. "to divide between the day and between the night."
[Genesis 1:14] "And God [Elohim] said, let there be lights in the
firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let
them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and for years."
see 666, 777.
Greek
Plasma. Thing formed [Romans 9:20] "O Man, who are thou, replying
against God? Shall the thing formed say to its maker, 'why didst
thou make me thus?'" Also means: anything molded or modeled in
clay or wax, an image, That which is imitated, a forgery.
353 (prime)
ZHB VLBNH VMR zahab ve-lebawnah ve-mor. Gold and Frankincense and
Myrrh. Gifts of the three magi to the infant Christ-child. see
240, 246, 347.
354 (2*3*59)
OZRA KHNA Ezra kohena. Ezra the priest. [Ezra 7:11] "Now this is
the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra
the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the
commandments of the Lord, and of his statutes to Israel." Ezra
means: "aid, help". see 278, 76. Help is in the "ark" of the
Lord.
[Genesis 5:3] "And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years [ShNH],
and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called
his name Seth." This verse is rendered by Fabre D'Olivet: "And
Adam existed three tens and one hundred cycles (of temporal
ontological mutation); and he produced according to his
assimilating action, in his reflected shadow, and emanated being,
and he called his name Sheth (basis and foundation of all
things)."
MONH ALHI QDM meonawh Elohei qedem. "The eternal God is thy
refuge (dwelling place). [Deuteronomy 33:27] "The eternal God is
thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall
thrust out his enemy from before thee; and shall say, destroy
them. see 915.
356 (4*89)
OVPR opher. a young mule, hart, stag [Canticles 4:5] "Thy two
breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among
the lilies." (spelled OPRIM here). "Oofer... one of its meanings
[is] the raw material into which Aleph (ALP) introduces the
organic motion of Lamed. The fawn is a very young life, mobile as
dust" [Suarez: The Song of Songs, p.95] Lilies suggest Mercury.
The word appears in [Genesis 4:26] "Seth also had a son, and he
named him Enosh."
Thus constituted, the word ANVSh produces its feminine NShH: but
here the hieroglyphic meaning is discovered. I have already
remarked that Moses or his instructors, wishing to draw form the
intellectual principle AISh, the volitive facility AShH, makes
the sign of manifestation disappear. Now, in order to deduce the
physical faculties of the corporeal being ANVSh they suppress the
initial sign of power Aleph, and that of light Vav, and put the
word NSh thus restricted, in the masculine plural NShIM, a number
which, as we have learned by the Grammar is confounded with the
dual feminine.
[Daniel 10:6] "His body also was like the beryl, and his face as
the appearance of lighting, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and
his arms and his feet like in color to polished brass, and the
voice of his words like the voice of a multitude."
[Daniel 9:21] "Yea, while I was speaking in prayer, even the man
Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being
caused to fly swiftly, touched me at about the time of the
evening oblation."
ASh AKLH esh akoelaw. "a consuming fire". [Deuteronomy 4:24] "For
the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God." HVA
connect "consuming fire" with a "a jealous God." see 12, 182,
301; 1333 (Greek).
KShN khoshen. Breastplate of the High Priest. [It was set with
12 stones, corresponding to the Tribes of Israel. It was an
oracle of great power-the 12 stones had the mysterious power of
lighting up with divine glory, these jewels were connected with
the signs of the zodiac and inner centers of man's constitution.
According to the Rosicrucian's these gems symbolized 12 great
qualities and virtues: illumination, love, wisdom, truth,
justice, peace, equilibrium, humility, faith, strength, joy and
victory. (Manly Hall). It is significant that they were worn over
the heart or sun center.] see 1008.
1. "It include Cheth, the field which is the number 8 [also ∞],
signifying Mercury and the stone; Nun the fish (50); and 300,
Fire or RVCh ALHIM. 358 is also the number of GShNH, shame; of
IBAShILH, Shiloh shall come, and of MShICh, messiach, or messiah.
thus the serpent who tempted Eve in the fable and brought 'shame'
into her consciousness is occultly related to the promised
messiah, 'the anointed' = Christ. Therefore did Moses raise in
the wilderness a serpent of brass on a Tau. It is to be noted
also that the serpent is directly connected with brass or copper
for NChSh as the proper name of the town means 'brass-mine'. Now,
brass is Venus, and the serpent power certainly beguiled Eve, in
the story, through Venus. This clue persist throughout all occult
writings. Compare the story of C.R. whose brother P.A.L. = ALP,
Aleph [111, 220], 'ox' died at Cyprus = µ R , Greek for
copper, or magician. It is the name of an Ammonite mentioned in
[1 Samuel 11:1,2 and 12:12] who demanded of the men of Jabesh-
Gilead ('dry-rocky region') that they should allow him to put out
their right eyes. There is a great deal of highly important
material to be found by careful study of all these references to
copper, and of the Kabalistic identity of NChSh and MShICh."
[Paul Case on D.D. Bryant's The Art of Alchemy, VI] see 870
(Greek).
3. "... the number 358 includes Nachash, the serpent, which came
to be personified during the middle ages as the ridiculous
monster pictured by Key 15. The same number also represents the
messiah. There is no escape from the implication, which becomes
the more emphatic when one remembers that the brazen serpent of
Moses, lifted on a T-cross was understood by the early Christians
to be a foreshadowing of the crucifixion of Jesus." [Paul Case:
True and Invisible Rosicrucian Order (4th), p.339-340]
4. This word appears in [Genesis 3:1] "Now the serpent was more
subtle than all the wild beast that the Lord God had made. And
the serpent said to the woman, 'truly has God said that you shall
not eat of any tree of the Garden.'" Fabre D'Olivet translates:
"now eager covetousness (self-conceit, envy, concupiscence) was a
general ruling passion (blind principle) in the whole life of
nature which had made IHVH... etc"
"358 is also the number of yaba Shiloh 'peace shall come'. Out of
the fury and bondage of the great work which has time (Saturn)
for its primary condition, shall come peace and rest. Observe in
this connection that in the corners of Keys 21 are the symbols of
the four fixed signs of the zodiac, indicating time." [Paul Case:
True and Invisible Rosicrucian Order (4th), p.279-280] see 713.
ShIN Letter name Shin. flame, tooth, fang. see 300, 814.
KVKBI BQR Kokebay boqer. "The Morning Stars". [Job 38:7] (Who
laid the corner-stone of) "when the morning stars sang together,
and all the sons of God shouted for Joy?"
[Psalm 8:1] "O Lord our God, glorious is thy name in all the
earth, whose majesty is rehearsed above the heavens."
Greek/Latin
BAR MIM ChIIM beer mem Chaim. "A well of living waters". [Song of
Songs 4:15] "A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and
streams from Lebanon." Lebanon is the 'white mountain". see 138,
53, 130.
IH ShMV Yah shemo (cont). also: "his name Yah"[Psalm 68:4] "Sing
unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him who rides upon the
heavens by his name Jah, and rejoice before him." see 363.
Greek
AL QNA + QP ahl qanah + Qoph. "A jealous God" plus the letter-
name Qoph, "back of the head". Note that in the quotation in
[Deuteronomy 4:24] "For the Lord thy God is a devouring flame
(consuming fire), a jealous God," HVA precedes this expression
and connects it to the Hebrew for devouring fire. Note also that
Qoph is connected with the function of sleep and body-cell
organization, with Pisces and alchemical multiplication. see 259,
180, 182.
363 (3*11*11)
Never have the Sons of the Wise forgotten this, nor have they
ever blasphemed the source of Life. Yet have they known full
well that not be generation only is the command "be fruitful and
multiply" to be fulfilled. There is a fruitfulness beyond that
of the flesh, and a multiplication of the power of life beyond
the bringing forth of sons and daughters of the flesh. Thus in
the word Yesod, may you read Yod, Sod - or Sod, Yod the secret of
Yod. Now what is Yod? As a letter it betokeneth Creative Power,
for it is the Hand. But the wise know it also as the channel for
the transmission of Life, and Life is Chaiah, seated in Chokmah,
to which Yod specially pertains. For Chaiah is none other than
AVR. Now see, AVR is the number 207, and this is 9 times 23.
Now 23 is the number of ChIH, Chaiah, and 9 is the number of
Yesod; furthermore Chaiah is in Chokmah and is thus to be
understood as the power of AB the Father. Thus may you know that
Life and Light are one; that Light is always pure and always
Holy, and that the extension of Light is its multiplication
through forms. But forms are manifest in varying degrees, and
when it is thine office to bring forth subtle forms, thou fails
if thou miss thine opportunity through the false belief that in
the bringing forth of forms less subtle there is any essential
failure. Failure is the missing of one's highest possibility.
But what may be failure for thee, may well be supreme attainment
for thy Brother. For wherever Life is multiplied the giver of
increase is Shaddai El Chai, and nothing that He effecteth hath
in it any loss or evil. Evil are man's judgments, but Life
Itself remaineth forever good.
Now the name ShDI (314) AL (31) ChI (18) begins with the number
314, then followeth 31, and ChI is 18. This bringeth the whole
to 363, and see, this is 11*11*3. Now 11 is AVD (Od, see Franz
Bardon definition of Od) and 3 is Gimel. AVD is the magic power
and Gimel is the beginning of Guph the body. Aleph is the
Breath, Vav is the Link, Daleth is the Door of Life and is Nogah
also, which giveth the Victory. In Gimel or 3 is Recollection
and Union, and for the wise the letters of AVD speak with a loud
tongue. In Yesod is all this centered and they who know the
secret of Yod, become the extenders of the paternal Life and
Light. Thus is Yesod called the Sphere of the Moon, and that
same Moon pertains also to Gimel, the letter of Union. Blessed
are they who hear and understand, and understanding, live as they
know.
ZRO ALHIM zera Elohim. "a godly seed", seed of God or offspring
of God. [Malachi 2:15] "And did not he make one [covenant]? Yet
had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he
might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and
let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth."
Literally, seed of God, or offspring of God. This connects with
the attribution of Yesod to the reproductive organs of the Grand
Man. Brother C.R. is described in the Fama as "A seed planted in
the breast of Jesus." Note that the New Testament says the "seed"
is the 'word". see 220, 430, 923, 277, 86; 878 (Greek).
BIH ShMV Be-Yah shemo. By (or in) His name, Yah [Psalm 68:4].
The American translation gives: whose name is Yah. Applied to the
rider of the heavens, described in verse 5 by the word (B)ORBVTh,
which, in addition to meaning sky or heaven, also means desert-
plain, wilderness, literally the vast expanse of the sky. But in
verse 33 of the same Psalm he is called the rider in the heavens
again: LRKB BShMI ShMI-QDM, "Who rides upon the heavens, the
heavens of ancient days," (i.e. primordial heavens). QDM is the
word for ancient days, or the primordial heavens. It also means:
east, front (as the opposite of back).
BN AISh Ben-Ish. Son of Man. The scripture says Adam was formed
from the 'dust of the ground", and careless superficial reading
of the letter of this text and others like it, has led to an
erroneous conception that man is a creature essentially different
from his creator. To correct this, Qabalist add ADM and AISh the
noun BN, Ben, son, in order to bring out the idea that the
essential man is 'begotten, not made'. Humanity is of the same
essence as divinity. 'Man" and "God' are members of the same
genus. As an old Rosicrucian aphorism puts it: 'Man is the son of
God, and there is no God but man." [TL 26:3] see 97.
ARTz HChIIM Ertz ha-Chaiim. "Land of the Living" [Psalm 142:5] "I
cried unto thee, O Lord: I said, thou art my refuge and my
portion in the Land of the Living". In this quotation it is "in"
(Beth) the land of the living. Relates to Hidden Light and "his
anointed"-in this, says Case, is the whole secret. "If we choose
the Lord himself...the result must be that we should be in the
'Land of the Living, i.e. of those who live perpetually and live
fully, because they live from the innermost and universal Life-
principle, which is pure spirit. This is complete freedom and
brings our soul out of prison 'the truth shall make you free'
this truth is stated in the sacred name. Therefore as the natural
result of the liberation from limitation we praise the name of
the Lord." [Troward on Psalm].
The Zohar [I:66A, pp.216-217] adds: "The esoteric doctrine is
that in the same way as the soul has to be clothed in a bodily
garment in order to exist in this world, so is she given an
ethereal supernal garment where with to exist in the other world,
and to be enabled to gaze at the effulgence of life radiating
from that 'land of the living'. Hence it is that Moses was not
able to draw near to the place of God and to fix his gaze on what
was to be seen there until he was first enveloped in another
garment, as we read: 'And Moses entered into the midst of the
cloud, and went up unto the mount' [Exodus 24:18], that is, he
enveloped himself in the cloud, as in a garment, and then he
'drew near into the thick darkness where God was' [Exodus 20:18],
and 'was in the mount forty days and forty nights' [Exodus
24:18], and was able to see what he did see. In similar fashion
the souls of the righteous in the other world clothe themselves
in garments belonging to that world, so that they can endure to
gaze on the light which is diffused in that 'land of the living'.
This is what Hezekiah meant when he said 'God, God in the land of
the living' [Isaiah 38:11]. He was afraid that he would be found
unworthy to gaze on that light because he had allowed the life-
giving stream to cease with him, through not begetting children.
[Isaiah 38:11] "I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord,
in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the
inhabitants of the world."
RVCh ALHIM ADNI Ruach Elohim Adonai. The Spirit (or life) of the
Creative Powers of the Lord. A divine name of God. see 300, 65,
216, 86.
AMRV ChKMIM Amru Hachamim. "The wise men have spoken it."
[Vaughan: Magica Adamica, page 87].
IHVH IGMR BODI IHVH Igaymer baedi. "The Lord will accomplish
that which concerns me [Psalm 138:8]. IGNR means (Hebrew
Lexicon): to end, finish, complete, accomplish, to conclude,
decide, resolve. BOD means: through, about, for, in behalf of,
for the sake of. Literally: Tetragammaton will perfect what is
around me, viz. perfection of environmental conditions. see 86,
253, 26.
BOD means: through, about, for, in behalf of, for the sake of.
Literally, "Tetragrammaton will perfect what is around me", viz.
perfection of environmental conditions-Paul Case]. see 86, 253,
26. "If we do not oppose (Verse 8) God's working he can perfect
it in us. It is the self-manifestation of the of the divine in
us, as us and through us, and is therefore the supreme evolution;
and we therefor we must never fear its failure to work forwards,
to perpetual advance, if we recognize and follow its principles"
(Philippians 1:6 " Being confident of this very thing, that he
which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day
of Jesus Christ.") [Torward on Psalms, p.184]
Greek/Latin
Sardin, Sardis (Lt). One of the most ancient and famous cities of
Asia Minor; identified with on of the 7 alchemical "churches,"
corresponding to Venus and the throat center, or laryngeal
plexus, one of the Keys to inner hearing.
366 (2*3*61)
*** [beginning of text missing] ... time they used to sow wheat
and reap thorns and thistles. But when Noah ("rest, #58) came, he
taught them the arts of husbandry, and devised for them the
necessary implement." [Zohar I, pp.187-188] Noah is the sacred
covenant below, corresponding to that above, and hence is called
"man of the ground". The "vineyard" is the place where "fruit" is
cultivated. see 1255, 58.
ORVMIM erumin. "naked" [Genesis 2:25] "And they were both naked,
the man and his wife, and were not ashamed before each other."
see Key 6, The alchemical male (Adam) or self-consciousness, and
female (Eve) or subconsciousness must be completely open to he
influence of the angel (Superconsciousness). This word ends in
MIM, water. The first two letters seem to be from ORH, to be
naked, be bare [from HORH, to make naked, uncover, to pour out;
to have sexual contact; to mix liquids. Water is certainly
prominent in these meanings.] see 90.
TzVOR tzoer. small, little; servant boy; shepherd boy. The birth
of the higher self is likened to the boy in Key 19, Key 20-it is
the servant of the personality, until the personality allows it
to be its guide and shepherd.
Greek
anemos (Gr). A wind. Refers to the Life-breath, or spirit. see
720 Greek, 214, 90 Latin.
367 (prime)
ShBLVL shabelul. snail (so called from its flowing away). [Psalm
58:9] "As a snail that melts (into a slime), let every one of
them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may
not see the sun." see 332, ShBL.
369 (9*41)
DRK OVLM derek olahm. the way everlasting. [Psalm 139:24] "And
see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way
everlasting." The Psalmist's figure of speech for the divine
order. OVLM is the Hebrew for what the Latin expresses by
seclorum and DRK corresponds to ordo in Latin. see 1746 (Greek).
Paul Case: DRK OVLM, the way everlasting = ShLM Salem, used in
Genesis 14:18 in relation to Melchizedek ["And Melchizedek, king
of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of
the most high God."]. In Rabbinical Hebrew 370, the number of
Salem is also the umber of OQR meaning: 1. stem, root; principle;
and also used as a designation for God [see below]. Salem is a
variant of Shalom, peace, which is made, the way everlasting is
thus seen to refer to the never-ending unfoldment of the infinite
possibilities of the life-power. God's self-manifestation can
have no end, because no matter how many are the expressions of
the powers of the infinite, there is always the infinite to draw
upon for new manifestations. Therefore it is written: "Behold, I
make all things new." The Salem is not a final manifestation. It
is the peace which comes when one is unified with the central
principle which maintains us in balance and joy, and goes on
forever, continually manifesting new wonders of actuality
developed from what went on before." [Troward on Psalms, pp.188-
189]
PRTz pharez. "a bringing forth". Son of Tamer, "Date Palm". The
fruit of the symbol of masculinity, pictured in Key 2, the High
Priestess.
Dr. G.F. Herbert Smith writes... 'Opal differs from the rest of
the principal gemstones in being not a crystalline body but a
solidified jelly, and it depends for its attractiveness upon the
characteristic play of color known, in consequence, as
opalescence which arises from a peculiarity in the structure.
Opal is mainly silica (SiO2) in composition, but it contains in
addition an amount of water, thereby differing slightly in
refractivity from the original substance. The structure not being
quite homogeneous, each crack has the same action upon light as a
soap-film and gives rise to precisely similar phenomena: The
thinner and more uniform the cracks, the greater the splendor of
the chromatic display, the particular tint depending upon the
direction in which the stone is viewed. The cracks in certain
Opals are not filled up, and therefore contain air'...
Qabalistically, Opals and diamonds are set down as particularly
harmonious stones which, in combination, have a fortunate and
positive-negative influence. Astrologically the diamond is
attached to the zodiacal signs Aries, Leo and Libra, and the Opal
to Leo, Libra, and Aquarius, and astrology is absolutely the
special guide to talismanic construction." [IBID, pp. 287, 289-
293, 295]
Greek
Oikos (Gr). House (1 Peter 2:5). Greek equivalent for Beth, the
name of the letter corresponding to Mercury, whose influence is
at work in the 8th Sephirah. A symbol of the New Order on the
Great Seal of the U.S. is pictured as a piece of Egyptian
masonry, an unfinished pyramid, of 13 courses. In Rosicrucian
symbolism, this house is the vault of the adepts or burial-place
of the founder of the order Brother C.R.C. see 126.
OShB esayb. green herbs, tender plants, green fodder. Human life
is also represented by the word esayb, as in the phrase: "They of
the city shall flourish like grass (esayb) of the earth." (Psalm
72:16). In Key 13, alchemical water-the sperm of the world is the
substance man seems to multiply in the reproduction of his
species. Used in Psalm 102 as a figure of speech for the
transitory, ephemeral life of the human personality. ("My days
are like a shadow that declines; and I am withered like grass".)
Compare with St. German's mention of a green branch, under
ASPIRKA. see 2625.
The Aesch Mezareph [VII, p.39] says: "This argent vive [living
silver], in the gemara tract gittin, chapter 7, vol. 69, is
called espherica, i.e. spherical water, because it flows from the
mundane sphere."
IHVH ShMV IHVH shemo. Yaweh is his name. [Godwin]. see 26, 340.
373 (prime)
ShKM AChD shekem echad. With one shoulder, i.e. of one mind.
"With one consent". In [Zephaniah 3:9] "For then I will restore
to the people a pure speech, that they may call upon the name of
the Lord to serve him with one consent." see 360, 365.
Greek
GIR PChM VThITh geyir pachem ve-tiyt. chalk, charcoal, and clay.
Three elements of the lower man, used to "raise" him to a master
builder, in a Freemasonry ritual. see 935; 213, 128, 28.
ShVO sheawh. cry for help. [Psalm 5:2] "Listen to the voice of my
cry, my king and my God; for unto you will I pray."
Latin
GID HNShH giyd ha-nawsheh. the sinew that shrank [Genesis 32:32].
Cited by Rosenroth in [K.D.L.C.K. p.235], who connects GID with
Shekhinah. see 360.
BShLVM be-shalom. "in peace". safety, safe, sound. see 938, 376,
370.
ShBVO shabauh. seven days, week; seven years, heptad of the feast
of weeks; Pentecost [ChG HShBVOVCh] Paul Case gives: juramentum,
"oath". [K.D.L.C.K. p.695] The reference links this "oath" to
other septenaries. see 383.
Seven days, one week in [Daniel 9:27] "and he shall confirm the
covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he
shall cause the sacrifice and the obligation to cease, and for
the over spreading of abominations he shall make it desolate,
even unit the consummation, and that determined shall be poured
upon the desolate." Also in [Deuteronomy 16:9] "Seven weeks shall
you number to you: begin to number the seven weeks from such time
as you begin to put the sickle to the corn." Also a week of
years, seven years, in [Daniel 9:24] "Seventy sevens' are decreed
for your people and our holy city to finish transgressions, to
put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in
everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to
anoint the most holy."
Greek
ShVOH shavayaw. a cry for help. [Jeremiah 8:19] "Behold the voice
of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that
dwell in a far country. Is not the Lord in Zion? Is not her king
in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven
images, and with strange vanities?" [Lamentations 3:56] "Thou has
heard my voice: hide not thine ear at by breathing, at my cry."
Latin
Greek
The Zohar [II: 199A, p.256] says: "' After God created the moon
[i.e. the shekinah] he had her constantly before his eyes'
[Deuteronomy 11:12] In regard to this it is also written: "Then
did he see it, and declare it (vayesaphah); he established it,
yea, and searched it out." [Job 28:27]. 'He saw it' means that
through his providence the sun is reflected in it. The term
vayesaphah we may translate, 'he made it like sapphire'. He
established it 'so that it should fall properly into twelve
division [or tribes], and be further distributed among seventy
kingdoms [of the world-Genesis 10], supported by seven celestial
pillars, that it might be perfectly illuminated. 'An searched it
out': to guard it with an eternal and never ending vigilance. And
then he gave a warning to man, as we read further: 'and unto man
he said: behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom: and to
depart from evil is understanding' [IBID, 28:28], since wisdom is
the means to attain to the fear of the holy one, and
understanding is the power by which to separate and keep away the
refuse, and thus attain to a knowledge of and an insigt into the
glory of the most high king."
Greek
δ heh rabdos. the rod (of the stem of Jesse). see 377, 1210
(Greek).
[From Paul Case's notebook, From Day to Day, March 12, 1916]
"Jesus is IShVO Jehovah is IHVH. Thus Jesus and Jehovah, in
Hebrew are identical in respect to the first and third letters,
but different in respect to the 2nd and 4th. A Shin takes the
place of the first Heh, and a Ayin of the second Heh. Now Shin
corresponds to the Perpetual Intelligence, knowledge of
perpetuity, changeless consciousness of the real nature of the
Ego, and it is the liberating consciousness of personal
immorality, that this recognition is the dominant characteristic
of Jesus teaching and personal consciousness. In the Tarot Shin
corresponds to Judgement, a picture of resurrection with which
the name of Jesus is inseparably identified. Thus the
substitution of Shin for Heh in Jesus name is the substitution of
Liberation for rulership. Jehovah is the ruler (For Heh is the
Emperor) and his self-consciousness is that of the Constituting
Intelligence. Jesus is the liberator, and his self-consciousness
centers upon the idea of releasing men from bondage and death.
The final letter of Jesus name is Ayin. In the Kabalah this is
Renovating Intelligence, the knowledge that preserves and renews
the personal existence. This letters is associated with the
Devil, because the first step towards liberation is to recognize
what evil really is, so that we can attribute to it absolutely no
power to determine the course of our lives. The story of Jesus
temptation is a clue to this Jesus did not teach because he had
to overcome the Devil. And his way of doing so was the command:
'Get thee behind me Satan! Thou shall not tempt the Lord thy
God.' When we realize that God is the principle of our lives, all
evil is recognized as subordinate and without power. To fear the
devil is to worship him. Therefore the Lord's prayer asks God not
to lead us into temptation instead of pensioning him to allow us
to be tempted by Satan. Jesus, according to Cabalistic
attributions of the letters, is consciousness of the Divine Will
(Intelligence of Will) reflected in the realization that human
personality is essentially immortal (Perpetual Intelligence, "My
word shall not pass away."), and these two modes of consciousness
are combined in the knowledge or Wisdom destined to Triumph over
all error and failure (Vav, Triumphant and Eternal Intelligence)
which is the true catholic church, having for its foundation
Jesus' personal triumph over the Devil, and of the subordination
of matter to thought, which is destined to make all things new
(Renovating Intelligence). If we know the will of God (Yod) if
we, by daily meditation, become habitually conscious of personal
immorality (Shin); if we rely upon the ever-victorious and
eternal wisdom within for guidance (Vav), if we fear no evil, and
see no evil, and are conscious of our power to make all things
new (Ayin), we have in us the mind which was in Christ Jesus.
The sum of the two names is 412. Articulated, this is 400, 10, 2
or Tav, Yod, Beth; Administrative Intelligence, Intelligence of
Will, Intelligence of Transparency; the World, the Hermit, the
Magician. By analogy 412 is the number of the Holy Ghost; since
it proceeds from 26 (the Father) and the Son (386). Now the
Hebrew word for Spirit is Rauch, spelled RVCh, so that its
numerical value is the sum of 200, 6 and 8. or 214. Note that 214
is 412 reversed. The same figures, then that enter into the
number produced by the addition of the names of the father and
son, which by analogy as the product of the numerical equivalent
of the names of father and son, should be a number corresponding
to spirit, are found in the number of the word, Rauch. The
reduction is 7, the number of Zain, and the Holy Ghost is
therefore seen to be the Disposing Intelligence, represented in
Tarot by the Lovers. Now the sum of the reductions of three names
is 8+8+7 or 23. Articulated, this is 20, 3 or Kaph and Gimel
(Intelligence of Conciliation and Uniting Intelligence): Wheel
and High Priestess. The Trinity, then is that which expresses
itself in the Wisdom that reconciles all opposites, and the
wisdom that unites man and God. The reduction of 23 is 5 or Heh:
Constituting Intelligence or the Emperor. The Emperor, then is
the symbol of trinity, regarding as the supreme wisdom
constituting all the conditions of existence.
Greek
[Joshua 24:19] "Joshu said to the people, 'You are not able to
serve the Lord. He is a holy god; He is a jealous God [HVA AL-
QNVA]. He will not forgive our rebellion and your sins. Note that
jealous in this passage is spelled QNVA.
Greek
TzVR ChSIV BV Tzur hawsawiyu bo. "The rock in which they took
refuge" [Deuteronomy 32:37] "And he [the Lord] shall say, where
are their gods, the rock in whom they trusted?" Only inner peace
is the true rock in which to seek refuge. see 296.
Greek
ShMN shemen. oil, fatness. the oil is identical with the power
of the heavens. Also: stout, robust, fertile, rich (soil). see
434, 696,
ZKR VNQBH zakar ve-nequbah. male and female [Genesis 1:27]. The
oil is manifested on every plane as male and female. "male and
female he created them. see 389 for Aramaic spelling.
Now what is the meaning of the root OH? Is it not that which is
attributed to all curving, all circumferential form, to all
exterior superficies of things...?
NShMA neshama. soul (variant spelling). see 395. The soul, when
liberated form the bondage of materialism sees God face to face
and ascend to the crown.
392 (7*7*8)
ShBIOI shebiyiy. "the seventh". [Genesis 2:3] "And on the 7th day
Elohim finished his works which he had made; and he rested on the
seventh day from all his works which he and made."
OMNVAL + IMSVP Immanuel + yawm soph. "God with us", one of the
epithets of Jesus Christ plus the boundless sea, a name of
Malkuth, when the paternal light of Chokmah illuminates it. It
denotes what is "below". see 196, 197.
394 (2*197)
HShMIM ha shamaim. the heavens [Genesis 1:1 and Psalm 19:1]. The
archetypal plane of causes (Atziluth), the causal Intelligence of
Kether (see 430). The power of the abstract mind is the power of
the divine soul, Neshamah. The "order of nature" is the only
kingdom of heaven. The fire that overthrows our houses of
delusions and separateness is, the flash of inspiration coming
down into our personal lives from the divine soul (see 786). The
lighting flash of inspiration may be compared to the paths of the
letters Cheth and Mem descending from the "heavens" of Binah.
Through the path of Cheth the holy influence is reflected in the
sphere of Mars and then, through the path of Mem it energizes the
sphere of Mercury. Intuition is the operation, at the personal
level, of the Causal Intelligence which established the cosmic
order. see Keys 7, 12 #390, 859, 955, 796, 1356, 1499.
ABIR IOQB Abir Jacob. Mighty one of Jacob. [Genesis 49:24] "But
his bow remained steady, his strong arms stayed, limber, because
of the hand ofthe Mighty One Jacob, because of the hand Shepherd,
the Rock of Israel." [Isaiah 60:16] And thou shall know that I
the Lord an thy savior and thy redeemer, the mighty one of
Jacob." Rosenroth in [K.D.L.C.K. p.13] gives: robustus Jacob and
says it is connected with OD, time [#74] and cites [Job 39:29].
ShVPTh shopet. judge. The judge of the law is Manasseh, bring the
heavenly breath into the "oil" through "Isaiah".
ShMNH shemonah. eight (8). Connects with ha-shamaim, the heavens
(all the stars in Key 17, Aquarius have 8 rays); through the
notion of beginning, connects with esoteric doctrine of the
octave. The divine influence which flows down to the conscious
mind is effected by a vibratory correlation related to the octave
of music. see Mezla (78).
Fabre D'Olivet comments: ShMNH eight. This word springs from the
double root ShVM and MVN. By the first ShVM, is understood the
action of placing, of putting one thing upon another; by the
second MVN that of specifying, of distinguishing by forms. It is
therefore, the accumulation of forms that should be understood by
this number. This signification is made obvious by that of the
verb ShMVN, which means literally, to fatten, to make larger."
[The Hebrew Tongue Restored, pp.153-154] For other numerals see
13, 400, 636, 273, 348, 600, 372, 770, 570, 441.
Of the root ShVM he adds: "Action of... arranging one upon the
other, in layers, as an onion." Of the root MVN he says: "image,
representation, figure... MN this root, composed of the sign of
exterior and passive actions, united by contraction to the root
A?V?, symbol of the sphere of activity and of the circumscriptive
extent of being, characterizes all specification, all
classification by exterior forms; all figuration, determination,
definition, qualification.
The Arabic [word] has not followed the same development as the
Hebrew, although they have come from an identical root in the two
idioms, as is proved by the usage of this root as designative
relation represented by of, from etc. As noun the Arabic root
[Arabic word] designates a thing emanated from another, a gift;
as verb, to give, to distribute, that which is weakened to
reinforce, impoverished to enrich, etc.
AVR PNIMI Aur Peneemee. Inner Light. A title of Kether and the
number 1 (see 736, 207, 198, 364, 602, 620). At the first
principle, mercury, of the first matter (white light or
brilliance). Sattva, the "illumination materia." From PhNOMI,
inner, interior, inside; hidden, concealed.
AMVNH AMVN + OTzM emunah amen + etzem. basis or faith plus body,
substance, essence or life. The responsiveness of
subconsciousness to suggestion is the psychological truth behind
this designation, which is a title of Binah. The cosmic mother is
the ground in which the suggestive power of true perception sows
the seed of faith. The substance is the universal radiant energy;
etzem is closely related to the word for tree and intimates that
the human body is the Tree of Life, whose essence is that life.
see 199, 200.
Fabre D'Olivet comments on the root ShG which form the first two
letters: "The sign of relative movement united to the organic
sign, indicates a movement of the organ deprived of intelligence,
a covetous movement; the same sign joined by contraction to the
root AG, symbol of organic development, characterizes every kind
of increase. Thence, ShG, blind desire, thoughtless, inclination;
figuratively, error, degeneration; action of growing, augmenting
in number, volume, duration." [The Hebrew Tongue Restored, p.457]
"He [Adam] is the MLK or King, and his power to rule is the
consequence of his utter dependence [Key 12] on what supports him
- which is the power at the center corresponding to the letter
Tav.
"Now the body is Tav also, or the point at the lower end of the
32nd path, as you may see on the Tree, since it is only by a
convention that the Sephiroth, which are really points, are
represented as circles. Thus the bottom point is not only the
lowermost end of path 32, but likewise the completion of paths 29
and 31. 29 is the path of the Corporeal Intelligence, 31 is the
path of fire and of Ruach Elohim. Tav is the path of Saturn and
of Earth. Could anything be plainer? This is the embodiment or
integration of the fire of spirit through the finitizing power of
Saturn. Moreover, it is written of the letter Tav that it is
"the Temple of Holiness in the midst." Of everybody whether
mineral, vegetable, animal or human may this be said. It is a
center or focus for all the powers of Heaven and Earth." [24th
Communication]
HGGI ISD BTzIVN ABN Hinnay, yawsae be-Zion, ehben. Behold, I lay
in Zion for a foundation of stone [Isaiah 28:16].
ShOL shoal. handful; the hollow of the hand, the palm, depth of
the sea. Grasp or comprehension is attributed to Kaph, and this
leads one to knowledge of the great sea, Binah. see Key 10, #67.
2. F.J. Mayers adds: "... the word [ORVM, "subtle, #316] which
was applied to Nahash [358] is exactly the same word as that
which is translated 'naked' when applied to Adam and Aisha [306]
when their eyes, Adam and his Aisha became 'aware that their
inward light was extinct'. There were 'naked' indeed, but it was
something much more important than nakedness of body that was in
question, when man first entered the state of life in physical
bodies, he would have no more idea of clothes than any other
animal, for as far as his physical body in concerned he is an
animal. It was the nakedness of this 'human' qualities that he
became aware of. He had been given faculties for the development
of thought, reason and will, yet immediately he acts on this own
initiative he discovers that he has absolutely nothing in himself
to replace the omniscient wisdom of Elohim, which had hitherto
guided al his activities. He acted on his own 'impulse' and found
that it was 'blind' and 'without intelligence'. As a 'man' he was
at the 'zero' point of human development. He had qualities far
higher than any possessed by the animal world, but he had
everything to learn in the use of them. As a man he was far more
helpless than the animals. 'Instinct' provided them with
everything they needed. Man, in order to be man, had to replace
instinct by thought and reason, and he was a 'baby' in knowledge.
An animal knows all it needs to know from the moment it is born.
Man has to learn by long and often painful experience; 'wisdom'
is always learnt through suffering." [The Unknown God, p.187]
3. The Zohar [I.53A] says: "When Adam sinned, God took from him
the armor of the bright and holy letters with which he had been
encompassed, and then he and his wife were afraid, perceiving
that they had be stripped; so it says and they know that they
were naked. At first they had been invested with those glorious
crowns which gave them protection and exemption form death. When
they sinned, they were stripped of them, and then they know that
death was calling them, that they had been deprived of their
exemption, and that they had brought death on themselves and on
all the world." (p.168)
Greek
Greek
"And see here that in Tav, ThV, the powers of Saturn and Venus
are combined. Yet Vav is also the special letter of Tiphareth.
Now do you see why the Stone of the Wise changes lead into gold?
That is, Saturn into Sun? Not Saturn into Mercury, as many
fools imagine. Thus the alchemists say there are two stages at
the end of their process, the White Work and the Red. White for
the Moon, and Red for the Sun.
Now, the Sphere of the Moon is Yesod, and the Sphere of the Sun
is Tiphareth. The White Work transmutes the leaden Guph into the
Purified Intelligence of Yesod, for it shows the alchemist what
is the real basis of his personal life. Then the final stage of
the work takes him through his true support up into Tiphareth,
where the Red Work is completed in the making of the transmuting
Stone, ABN.
Sol in action is red, and red is the color of Mars. Thus the
completion of the Great Work is in the heart, not in the head.
Mercury aids, and, in a sense, Mercury is one name for the Prima
Materia, but the Work is the work of the Sun and Moon, and its
objectives are to do with Yesod and Tiphareth.
All come from One, and go back into One, as the Rosicrucian
phrase says, over and over again. But be warned. Do not be
satisfied with words, nor hoard them, magpie-fashion. We are
giving you this to use. Make sure of our meaning, and then test.
There is no other way to arrive at certitude." [11th
Communication]
[Exodus 2:3,5]: "And when she could no longer hide him [Moses],
she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime
and pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid in on the
stones by the riverbank..." And the daughter of the Pharaoh came
down to wash herself at the rivers; and her maidens walked along
by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the stones,
she sent her maidens to fetch it." Inman says it is also the name
given to the ark in which Noah sailed, signifying "a chest", "a
ship" and "a sarcophagus". From it Thebes is supposed to have
taken its name. The root, he says, seems to be ThBH, tabah, "to
be bellied, or hollow out."
ShMN ThVB shemen tob. "the precious oil". [Psalm 133:2] (Unity)
"It is like the precious ointment (oil) upon the head, that ran
down upon the bread even Aaron's beard: that went down to the
skirts of his garments." [Note: Aaron means "lofty" and suggest
Kether, the crown; Jordan (above) means 'descending" or "that
which flows down". see 256, 264.
Greek
ShChQ shaykike. laughter, joy. [Psalm 126:2] "Then was our mouth
filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they
among the heathen, the Lord has done great things for them."
Also: ShChQ sawchaq. to laugh, be merry; to moke at, scorn. [Job
39:22] "He mocks at fear, and is not affrighted neither turns he
back from the sword"; ShChQ sicheq. to make merry; jest, play; to
mock, beride.
ZATh zoth. this. The Zohar [Prologue, 10A, p.43]: "Who is this
that comes up (olah) out of the wilderness? [Sepher Sephiroth,
III:6]. The words MI (who, 50) and zoth ZVTh (this) denote the
separate holiness of the two worlds joined in firm bond and
union; and this union is said to be 'olah' (a burnt offering),
and so holy of holies. For MI mi is holy of holies, and zoth
through its union with this becomes a burnt offering (olah) which
is holy of holies."
ThTh Teth. Serpent. Letter name Teth. The ancient form of the
letter Teth was a crude picture of a tally, in the form of a
circle (suggesting the serpent holding its tail in its mouth)
enclosing a cross, which was the original form of the letter Tav.
This is a mathematical symbol of IHVH because every circle equals
22 and every cross 4. The cross, as Tav is a symbol of the Tree
of Life, and the Circle is a symbol of the "Power of the
Letters." see 380, 358, 1502, 400, 419.
AChTh echath. She. the feminine form of the word for "One"
(AChD, 73). The Life-breath, as the divine darkness represented
by en, the no-thing, seems to be more feminine that masculine.
VABN HShHM ve-ehben ha-soham. "And the onyx stone" [Genesis 2:12]
This stone is linked to Leo, connect with ThTh Teth, with Venus
and the "nail" (Vav, Key 5). see 345.
After this explanation one can feel that the word ARRTh, does not
signify the mount of malediction or of terror, as has been
believed without examination; but indeed that of the reflected
course of light; which is very different. Besides, it is well to
know that the Samaritan translator, the most ancient interpreter
of Moses, has not rendered the word ARRTh, by a simple a proper
name of the mount, but Chaladic and Samaritan words SDNA, axis,
wheel, orbit; and RVB or RIB, effluence, emanation: so that it
offers a translation quite exact of the sense that I have given
to the word ARRTh: that is to say, instead of signifying simply
the reflected course of light, it signifies the orbit of luminous
effluence." [The Hebrew Tongue Restored, p.226-227]
411 (3*137)
AIN + OPR ain + apar. no-thing plus dust. The no-thing is the
primal darkness, the latent state of the supernal triad before
manifestation, or living mind. Out of the dust (i.e. particles of
solar radiance) of the ground (physical plane) was the essence of
humanity (Adam) created by IHVH-Elohim. see 350, 61.
"Binah dependeth from Beth, and thus is the name BITh completed
by a letter of Shabbathai, for truly among men is the Mother the
completion of the house, and so is it also in the deeper things
of Ruach Elohim. The Path of Beth is truly the path of the
Beginning, for in the Path of Aleph, nothing beginneth, nor is
there any true beginning even in Chokmah; for what is Chokmah but
the mirror of Kether, which hath neither beginning nor end? Thus
is Aleph also the token of Ruach which is likewise without
beginning or end. But in BITh see Beth the initial of BRAShITh
and of Baruch, which is Blessing. Then in BITh comes Yod as the
second letter, and this stands for the Paternal Wisdom which is
before all beginning. Finally cometh Tav, the letter of Saturn,
which completes the tale of 22 Tokens. And thus read, if you
have eyes to see, that in any beginning, the completion is
already present. For the ONE knoweth naught of time as men
reckon it, and for AL Shaddai, the beginning of any outpouring is
one with its completion. Thus may you come to understand that the
Sabbath of the Eternal never ends." see 713, 52, 61, 400. [32nd
Communication]
RIM OLIVN Rom Eleyon. Height most high, supernal height. A title
of Kether. see 620.
P-D, B, R-K, G-G, I-O, I-A, G-V. The Hebrew values of the names
of the seven fratres who were associated with C.R. in
establishing the order. The Latin letters and values are: G.V. =
9, I.A. = 11, I.O. = 80, G.G. = 6, R.K. = 220, B = 2, P.D. = 84,
total is 412. [If one adds the units column, the total is 22. If
one adds the figures in the tens column, but does not carry over
the 2 from the units column, the total is 19. And the hundreds
column, the total without carrying over is 2.] These seven
fratres are the "house" of the order. They execute the desires of
the founder. They typify precisely the relationship which is
designated in Psalm 1:33 as being like SMN HThVB, the precious
ointment.
413 (7*59)
*** [beginning of text missing] and for the breastplate [of the
high priest]. This is a description of the collection of gifts
which the children of Israel made under Moses, for the
tabernacle. The meaning of the Greek word onyx is "nail", and
this connect it with Venus and Taurus-or intuition. see 345, 403,
408.
414 (2*9*23)
AIN SVP AVR Ain Suph Aur. Limitless Light. The radiant darkness.
Background of the Tree of Life. Three veils of the absolute.
Prior to manifestation, the undifferentiated radiant energy
whence all things proceed may be conceived as a limitless ocean
of light.
AZVTh Azoth. Azoth. Alchemical term for the first matter and the
Quintessence. A and Z (Latin), Omega (Greek), and Tav (Hebrew).
Initial and final in 3 languages.
ANI IHVH ALHI ABRHM ABIK Ani Jehovah Elohi Abraham Abika. I am
the God of Abraham thy father [Genesis 28:13]. The Limitless
Light is the Creative God, the only God. "God is light, and in
him there is no darkness."
QDIShA qadisha. holy. From MVLA QDIShA (mezla qadisha), the holy
influence, from Kether [I.Z.Q: 673] "What is to be understood by
KCh IHVH, kach Tetragrammaton, the power of Tetragrammaton? This
is MZLA ADIShA, mezla qadisha, the holy influence, called, even
the concealed with all concealments. And from the influence that
strength and the light depend." see 493, 54, 620.
QRNINV qahrayninu. "our horn" [Psalm 89:17] "For thou are the
glory of their strength: and in thy favor our horn shall be
exalted." [Note QRN (350) = horn, figuratively, strength, might
power. also: glory, pride, grandeur; corner point, peak; ray;
principal; capital; damage done by an animals horn]. Suggest
spiritual aspiration. see 1594 (Greek).
QDVShV qaydosho. "his holy one" [Isaiah 49:7] "Thus says the
Lord, the redeemer of Israel, and his holy one, to him whom man
despises, to him whom the nation abhorrers, to a servant of
rulers, kings shall see and arise, princes shall also worship,
because of the Lord that is faithful, and the Holy one of Israel,
and he shall choose thee." see 991, 578.
ROH TzAN ro-eh tzoan. "a shepherd of flocks". [Genesis 4:2] "And
she [Eve, 19] again, bare his brother Abel (#37). and Abel was a
keeper of sheep, but Cain (#160) was a tiller of the ground."
Note that Abel means "a fleeting breath".
417 (3*139)
The car is also a cube, made of stone, that is, ABN, the verbal
symbol of the union Chokmah and Tiphareth; that is, of 2 and 6,
which is shown again in IHVH. But 2 and 6 add to 8, and this is
the value of Cheth. Yet the name ChITh adds to 418, and the
reduction of this is 13, leading finally to 4, or Daleth. On
this we have given you much. Daleth is the path of union of AB
and AIMA. Without that union, Binah is AMA, dark and sterile;
but after that union she is AIMA, and brings forth BN, the Son."
[13th Communication] see 148, 187, 1081, 67, 134 (Latin).
Now the alchemists say the Magnum Opus is "woman's work," and
even our English speech uses the words "travail" and "labor" for
birth. Many, coming this far, have strayed into the error that
the Work has to do with genetics. It is not be eugenics that the
"beyond man" comes. It is by a second birth within the heart.
Greek
"When we come to ThITh, the number of its name is 419, and this
adds to 5. Yet 5 is also Daleth with the paternal Yod, as you
may see in the character for Heh. Doors first, then windows, was
the actual architectural development; and the sequence of the
letters was originally determined by this fact. Moreover, 419
may be read as 400 and 19, and in this reading, 400 is Tav, and
19 is ChVH, the Mother, or Aima. And Teth is the link between
Chesed and Geburah, just as Daleth is the link between Chokmah
and Binah." [11th Communication]. see 9, 409, 1502, 434, 85.
Saturn, Mars and Jupiter among the Interior Stars are those we
share with the sub-human kingdoms. They have their place and
purpose, but in human life they must be directed by the upper
triad of Venus, or imagination, Moon, or memory, and Mercury, or
discrimination. In the Rota this is hinted at in many ways, but
particularly by the white wand having two similar ends, so too
the woman's taming a live lion. Here is a clue to the basis of
many forms of magical working. Nothing which tells you to kill
or atrophy the lower triad is true magic. These are the sources
of all potency, and to deny them or flee them is to confess
oneself unfit for the magical path in any of its forms. So take
the conditions taken by the world-process aeons before your birth
as Saturn. You cannot change their basic nature, nor do you need
to attempt this impossible task.
What you can do is transmute them, or bring them across into the
field of enlightened understanding. This in no wise changes the
basic nature of the powers embodied in your surroundings. It is
the alchemist who is the real subject of the Great Work, and even
he does not change his basic nature. How can he since that basic
nature is the changeless one? Yet a similitude may help you
grasp this: In a single seed lie all the potencies of growth and
flower and fruit. These potencies are unfolded as the plant
grows, but they were there all the time. So in what has been
called man's animal nature are potencies few dream of, and fewer
still unfold; because their presence, not being apparent, must be
divined by Mercurial insight and Venusian imagination, and thus
follows the actual work of which Key 8 is only one among
thousands of glyphs." [19th communication]. see 434, 400, 90.
H-AYIN SVP AVR Ha-Ayin Soph Aur,. "The Limitless Light". See 414
Greek
Greek
Total length of the visible paths on the Tree of Life when the
Aleph line is 15 units long.
ShBOIM shebeyim "seventy" [Numbers 11:25] "and the Lord came down
in a cloud, a spoke unto him, and took of the spirit that was
upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to
pass that, when the sprit rested upon them, they prophesied and
did not cease." Also [Genesis 4:24] "For if Cain is to be avenged
sevenfold, then lamech seventy and seven fold."
TVB-AThH teob attawh. "thou art good" [Psalm 119:68] "Thou art
good, and does good; teach me thy statutes."
AVTh HIA aoth hia. the feminine sign. Literal symbol of she; thus
"sign she". [K.D.L.C.K. p.66] "And shekinah is called AVTh HIA
the feminine sign." Shekinah is the divine presence assigned to
Binah. see 67, 419.
The 20 pillars (of the court of the tabernacle) thereof and their
30 sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their
fillets shall be of silver. (11) And likewise for the north side
in length their shall be hangings of 100 cubits long and 20
pillars and their sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and
their fillets in silver..." Rosenroth in [K.D.L.C.K. p.420]
refers to this phrase in a long discussion of IH, Jah, and says
that they join the mystery of Jah.
424 (8*53)
GVR ARIH goor (or gur) arieh. a whelp of a lion, lion's whelp.
[Genesis 49:9] "Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son,
thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as
an old lion; who shall rouse him up?" Judah is connected with Leo
and with alchemically digestion. see 30.
HGZITh ha-gawzith. the hewn stones. [Isaiah 9:10] "The bricks are
fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the Sycamores
are cut down, but we will change them into Cedars." (This text
omits the Heh). see 87, 53, 1175.
Greek
ChSD OLAH DAL chesed awlayiah day-el + RVCh (Ruach). The supernal
mercy of God plus life-breath, spirt, imagination. A reference to
Chesed or Mercy, the 4th Sephirah and sphere of Jupiter, which is
assigned to the masters of compassion, or chasidim. they have
learned to control and direct the creativity of the universal
mind-stuff, attributed to imagination, seated in Tiphareth, the
central Ego [recall that 427 reduces to 4, which is the value of
Daleth, or creative imagination]. see 213, 214; 72, 1081.
428 (4*107)
SPR MIM Sepher Mem. Book of Moses. The Rosicrucian "Book M.",
also called ars notaria, the "art of signatures". To read which
the lux mundi or "light of the world" is necessary. The
illuminati are recipients, through intuition, of the perfect
understanding of the meaning of the cosmic order, and can read
the "One, only book" from which all secrets are to be learned.
see 104, 990.
ThHV VBHV tohu va-bohu. without form and void [Genesis 1:2]. A
description of earth, or "That which is below" in the Biblical
creation allegory. The mental image suggested is that of a vast
abyss of fluid darkness. see 390, 291. The Surangama Sutra
states: "The intrinsic nature of space is the real earth-
essence." The Lord of Logos is the formative power. [Isaiah
45:7]. Applies particularly to Eretz [ARTz]. see 291, 271, 451.
The Hebraic words ThHV VBHV belong to those words which the sages
create in learned tongues and which the vulgar do not comprehend.
Let us now examine their figurative and hieroglyphic sense.
We know that the sign Heh is that of life. We have seen that this
sign being doubled, formed the essentially living root HH which,
by the insertion of the luminous sign, became the verb HVH, to
be-being. But let us imagine now that, wish to express, not an
existence in action, but only in power, we restrict the verbal
root in the sole sign of life and extinguish the luminous sign
Vav to bring it back to the convertible Vav; we shall have only a
compressed root where in the being will be latent and as it were,
in germ. This root HV, composed of the sign of life, and of that
which, as we know, is the link between nothingness and being,
expresses marvelously will that incomprehensible state of a thing
when it exists no more, and when it is, nevertheless, in power of
existing. It is found in the Arabic [word] in which it depicts a
desire, a tendency, a vague, indeterminate existence. It is
sometimes an unfathomable depth, sometimes a sort of physical
death [Arabic word]; sometimes an ethereal space [Arabic word],
etc.
Moses, after the example of the Egyptian priest, taking this root
and making it rule by the sign of mutual reciprocity Tav, formed
the word ThHV by means of which he expressed a contingent and
potential existence contained in another potential existence,
BHV; for here he inflect the same root by the mediative article
Beth.
Thus there is no need of conceiving the earth invisible,
decomposed, vague, void, formless, which is absurd or
contradictory; but only as existing still in power, in another
seed-producing power, which must be developed in order that it
may be developed." [The Hebrew Tongue Restored, p.29-31]
ThL tael. Mound, heap, a hill, lock, curl. The hill of vision
which "declares" the everlasting truth of the soul's nature. see
830.
Greek/Latin
Lux Mundi (Lt). The radiance round the head of the Hanged Man.
Ars Notaria (Lt). To have the Ars Notaria is to be able to read
in what the Rosicrucian texts call "Book M." In Hebrew this would
be "Sepher Mem," or and the numeration of this is 430, equivalent
to Mesaperiym, the verb "declare," used in the 19th Psalm, which
says: "The heavens declare the glory of God."
ThBL taybale, tebel. The world, the inhabited world. Moist earth
[Psalm 24:1]. One the 7 earths in the diagram of the 4 seas;
attributed to Earth of Yesod. see 291, 50, 365, 105, 302, 337.
ThBL is the equivalent of the title of Key 21. Note the number of
Tav (The World, Key 21) is 400, and that it is the 32nd path on
the Tree of Life (400+32). According to Godwin, corresponding
(with Chesed) to Yesod and Malkuth.
AShH ALMNH aisha alemanah. A widow woman [1 Kings 17:9 and 10].
The word of the Lord commands Elijah to dwell at Zidon where a
widow woman, will sustain him. When he got thee she was gathering
sticks ..,"and he called to her, and said. fetch me, I pray thee,
a little water in a vessel, that I man drink." The bread and oil
she had little of lasted them for many days. see 126, 306.
BLO BN BOVR Bela ben Beor. Bela, son of Beor. The first King of
Edom, associated with Da'ath. See [Genesis 36:32], 1082.
Greek
katabole (Heh) [Gr]. Conception. In the Greek text of Hebrew
11:11 the complete expression for "conception" is "A laying down
of seed." The Greek dictionary gives: A laying down; a
foundation, a beginning, a paying down, a periodical attack of
illness, a fit.
[Matthew 13:35] "So that the word spoken by the prophet might be
verified, saynig "I will open my mouth in parables, I will openly
declare thngs having been hid from the beginning [foundaton,
conception] of the world."
DLTh Letter name Daleth. door (the leaf of the door, not the
opening or doorway); page. see 601. Corresponding to the path of
the Luminous Intelligence.
Now. In Daleth are the letters of Venus, Libra and Saturn; that
is, nothing but the powers of Venus and Saturn. Daleth itself is
Venus, but her path ends in the Sphere of Saturn, from which the
path of Lamed receives an influx through the paths of Cheth and
Geburah. In the Rota, Empress, Strength, Justice and the World
are but various aspects and manifestations of Daleth, as you can,
and so is the Star, where the ruling power is Saturn. Again,
BINH is 67, and the seed of 67 is also 4, or Daleth.
...mark well also the close relation between Saturn and Venus.
Here are the keys to practical knowledge of utmost importance.
All this is on the Middle Pillar, and if you do but consider the
Sephiroth thereon, and their meanings, you should have little
difficulty." [11th Communication] see 419, 85, 120, 228, 406,
400.
It is not the goad of Lamed what the ignorant call the Devil?
And here in the Rota the Devil is the sign Capricorn ruled by
Saturn. Where then does he show the power of Venus? Your old
Puritan theologians would have had no trouble with this question,
for to them, all that the ancient world attributed to Venus was
the Devil himself! But the wise are never Puritans, so we must
look closer. The number gives the clue. 15 reduces to 6, the
number of the Lovers, and the title of Key 6 surely refers to
things in the domain of Venus. Moreover the number 6 is the
extension of 3, and in Rota 3 is Venus herself. See how the
numbers and ideas are so related that, with all their intricacy,
you have only to follow the clues, step by step, to come to the
main conclusion, reinforced from many points of view, that there
is a hidden deep connection between Venus and Saturn.
Now leave these clues for a while and turn to another field.
What in your physical vehicle is the Saturn center, and what is
its function? Is it not clearly related to Venus? Indeed among
the Interior Stars, the Venus center is to the two above it, as
is the Saturn center to those of Mars and Jupiter. The Sun
center is midway between these two triads, one in the trunk, the
other in the head. So in Alchemy the object is to transmute
Saturn into Sol. "But to do this" says one, "you must take Venus
and make her into coins." All through the Alchemical writing you
find this expressed in one way or another. You must begin with
Venus, and what is she but the Lady of Love, whether that love be
celestial or profane, for where love is in any guise there is our
Isis.
AISh MLChMH ish milkamah. Man of War [Exodus 15:3]. The letter-
name for Daleth is concealed in this saying "The Lord is a man of
war." A reference to Tetragrammaton. The Book of Tokens says of
Daleth: "This is the gateway of life and form. Yet through it
come also death and comfort, even as is shown in the numbering of
Daleth. For DLTh being 434, is also 11, and 11 is the half, or
division of 22, which represents the whole circle of creation.
Therefore is the door a cause of separation, and of the setting
of one part against another; and for this it is written that the
Lord is a "man of war". see 832.
ATh ABIK eth abika. "The essence of thy father." The masculine
essence (Chaiah) proceeding from Chokmah, in the path of Daleth
to Binah. This intimation is that the active principle in the
path of the Luminous Intelligence (Daleth) is actually the
masculine "essence" of light. In Tarot, the same thing is
suggested, for the Empress (Key 3) is by implication the wife of
the Emperor, and her pregancy is the consequence of the operation
within her of his active power. The ten commandments enjoins us
to honor "thy father" and mother [Deuteronomy 5:16] see 914, 23,
73.
ThL HShMIM tal ha-shamaim. dew of heaven [Genesis 27:28]. Refers
to light-the universally diffused radiance, which takes form as
electro-magnetic energy. It is granular in structure, falls upon
the earth in drops and weight of its fall may be measured. see
390, 983, 541.
Greek
DRKIK IHVH HVD IONI derawkeikaw IHVH hodieniy. show me the ways,
O Lord. [Psalm 25:4] "Show me thy ways, O Lord: teach me thy
paths." see 915, 224.
436 (4*109)
SPR MIM + BDA Sepher Mem + bawdawh. book M plus to form, fashion,
to produce something new. To read "Book M" the lux mundi or
"light of the world" is necessary. The illuminati are recipients,
through intuition, of the perfect understanding of the meaning of
the cosmic order, and can read the "one, only book" from which
all secrets are to be learned. The archetypal phase of the
creative process is imagination, inventing a new form of self-
expression in the plane of original ideas. see 430, 7.
HNNI ISD BTzIVN ABN + HKBVD hinnay yesad be-Tzion ehben + ha-
kobode. "Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone" plus the
glory. Zion is the holy of holies the stone is the consciousness
of union with the source. "The glory" is the mass of potential
working power concentrated at the center. It is the rolled-up
scroll or seed idea of the High Priestess, concentrated in the
primal will at the beginning of a cycle of the life-power's self-
expression. see 400, 37.
IDO ShChVM yado schom. Gates of the shadow of death; the 5th
hell, corresponding to Geburah, and to the Moslem sakar [Mem =
600, see 998].
Greek
"It is that one thing which is not dug up from mines, or from the
caverns of the earth, like gold, silver, sulpher, salt, etc. But
is found in the form which God originally imparted to it. It is
formed and manifested by an excessive thickening of air; as soon
as it leaves its body, it is clearly seen, but it vanishes
without a trace as soon as it touches the earth, and, as it is
never seen again, it must therefore be caught while it is still
in the air, as I told you once before. I have called it by
various names, but the simplest is perhaps that of 'Hyle' or
first principle of all things." [Hermetic Museum I, p.186]
439 (prime)
LRIAR Lariar. Day demon of the 2nd decanate of Leo. This decanate
is governed by Jupiter, indicating unkindness, intolerance and
boorishness, qualities the opposite of which animate the Chasidim
(Jupiter) through the Heart (Sun). which Leo represents.
AILTh doe. [Proverbs 5:19] "A loving doe, a graceful deer- may
her breast satisfy you always, may you ever by captivated by her
love." Rosenroth and Mathers give cerva as the Latin for this
word.
442 (2*13*17)
IAIR + ARK yaweer + ereck. "he gives light" plus length, delay,
postponement. Illumination comes after the delay caused by the
evolutionary process. The real meaning of earth is known. see
221.
Greek
GLITh Goliath. Captivity, bondage. The name of the giant who was
slain by David [DVD,14] Has deep occult meaning. [1 Samuel 17:4]
"And there went out a champion out of the camp of the
Philistines, named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits
and a span." Related to the "dweller of the threshold." See
Steiner: Knowledge of Higher Worlds, 123 (Greek).
D.D. Bryant related the 5 stones David killed Goliath with to the
five interior senses, "all uniting to form one perception [see
#24, note].... so the five stones merge into one stone that does
the work of killing the Giant, the dark body looming up so vast
and filling the entire [alchemical] vase of art."
Greek
TzV LTzV TzV LTzV tzaw ka-tzaw tzaw la-tzaw, "precept upon
precept, precept upon precept..." [Isaiah 28:10, 13] The
reference is to those to whom are taught knowledge and made to
understand doctrine-the strong who have ears to hear: "here a
little and there a little" see 484, 928 ("line upon line, line
upon line".)
ShKV OD shoken ad. who abides forever. [Isaiah 57:18] "For thus
says the high and lofty one who inhabits eternity (abides
forever), whose name is holy, whose abode revive the heart of
those who are in pain." see 370.
Greek
ThLI + AL theli + ow. the dragon plus desire, will, appetite. The
dragon is the circling, spiraling force in the manifest; the
motive power in the life power's self-manifestation is its desire
to actualize its own possibilities. see 440, 7.
Greek
PRI OTz peree etz. the fruit of the tree. [Genesis 1:29] "And
God said, behold, I have given you... every tree, in the which is
the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat."
The manifestation of the Tora is the result of the reactions
among the 10 Sephiroth. Refers to the ripening of the powers of
the Tree of Life. see 671, 290, 160, 1260.
PShO pahsah, pawshaw. sin, transgression trespass; guilt of
transgression punishment. "Missing the Mark." The tower of
personality (Peh) is put before the liberty of spiritual
realization (Shin). This is the essence of all transgression-the
attempt to determine the action of the divine sprit (Shin) by
imposing on it forms built up by "personal will" (Peh). see 100,
1217.
RTzVN BAIN GBVL ratzone be-gebil. unlimited good will, Good will
without limit. Mental state of a saint, a perfect man.
Greek
ThHVM tehom. the abyss of the waters, great deep [Genesis 1:2].
By this Gematria the "great deep," or dark abyss of primal water,
is Qabalistically identified with the idea of the universal
essence of the human race. Darkness and evil provide the raw
material which is then formed into light, and then made into
good. It is also the which precedes the manifestation of
individualized man, yet it is also one with man's essential
nature. see eth ha-adam, 430, 691, 1011, 681; 1273 (Greek).
ATh HADM eth ha-adam. essence of man [Genesis 1:27]. "So God
created man, in his image" (i.e. essence of man). The "great
deep" or dark abyss of primal water, is the essence of the human
race. see 401, 45, 1011.
IHVH OShH KL IHVH oseh kole. IHVH who makes all.
Greek
α α cantharos. a wine cup. 1. In classical antiquity, a
large drinking cup, having two handles rising above the brim. 2.
a fountain or basin in the courtyard before ancient churches,
where persons could wash before entering the church. The human
body is the cup holding the wine (blood) in which consciousness
resides. The laver of purification outside the Hebrew tabernacle
was a symbol of the inner purity which must manifest before the
dawning of the "light". see 901.
The root form which the word NPSh comes, is without doubt
materal, for there is no word possible, in any tongue possible,
whose elements are not material. As I have said in my Grammer it
is the noun which is the basis of speech. Everytime that man
wishes to express an intellectual and moral thought, he is
obligated to make use of a physical instrument, and to take from
elementary nature, material objects which he spiritualizes, and
it were, in making them pass, by means of metaphor or
hieroglyphic, from one region into another.
Three distinct roots compose this important word and are worthy
of closest attention. the first NP presents the idea of an
inspiration, an infusion, a movement operated from without,
within: it is literally an inspiring breath. The second PH, which
is only the reaction of the first, is attached to the idea of
expansion, of effusion, of movement operated from within,
without: it is literally the mouth, the expiring breath, the
voice, the speech, etc. The third finally ASh, characterizes the
principiant, principle, of which I have already spoken... it is
fire, and that which is igneous, ardent, impassioned, etc.
The Hebrew text, the Samaritan version, the Chaldaic targum, and
event the Syrian and Arabic, employ the same word; only, they
give, following their genius, different significations of the
verb which is formed of it. Among the Hebrews, NPVSh signifies to
live and breath; among the Chaldeans, to grow, to multiply, to
fill space; the Samaritan verb... expresses, to dilate, to
develop, to manifest; the Syraic... to give life, to heal; the
Arabic... to expand, to evaporate, etc." [The Hebrew Tongue
Restored, pp. 51-53]
2. Gaskel suggest that the breath of life is "a symbol of the
spiritual essence - the divine spark, atma-buddhi, which is
immortal... [in Genesis 2:7]. And into this lower mind, or astro-
mental body, was projected the divine spark, and thence the man
(manasic being) became a creature capable of responsible,
independent existence." [Dictionary of all Scriptures and Myths
p.126]
[Job 40:6] "Then answered the Lord unto Jacob out the whirlwind,
and said (14) 'then will I also confess unto thee that thine own
right-hand can save thee.' This verse states that man may become
his own savior, affording a key to the allegory which follows
(15) "Behold now Behemoth, which I made with thee." Behemoth is
no doubt an intensive plural form, and means 'a colossal beast'.
Behemoth symbolizes the beast in man, the vital energy or solar
force manifesting ungoverned in the lower or animal nature of
man. 'He eats grass as an ox'. Grass here signifies the flesh or
carnal nature ('all flesh is grass' - Isaiah 40:6]. The ox is an
unsexed animal, hence 'he eats grass as an ox' is equivalent to
saying that Behemoth (the vital energy) can, or was intended to,
consume the carnal nature of man by manifesting unsexed; for
regeneration as opposed to ungoverned sex expression or
generation. (16) "Lo now, his strength in his loins.' Loins in
Hebrew as in Greek is used as a euphemism for the organs of
generation. 'and his force is in the navel of his belly.' The
shining vital energy which is the manifestation of life... is
sleeping like a serpent, having three and a half coils. The first
stirring or uncoiling of this force prior to its passage through
and energizing of the ganglia of the sympathetic system manifest
in the abdomen in the region of the navel. In chapter 32:18, 19;
8 of the book of Job, the initiate Euhu ascribes this stirring of
the vital energy of solar force when speaking under divine
inspiration, 'The spirit of my belly constants me, behold, my
belly is as wine which has no vent; it is ready to burst like new
bottles. I will speak, that I may be refreshed, but there is a
sprit in man: and the inspiration of the almighty gives them
understanding.' (18) 'His bones are pipes of copper; his bones
are like tubes of iron.' The bones of behemoth are the network of
nerves which are the channels of the solar force. Prior to
initiation these nerves are in the atrophied or, relatively
speaking, hardened state here typified as copper and iron. In
Sanskrit writing these channels are similarly termed pipes or
tubes (nadis). The Uttara Gita states that these nadis 'are like
pipes, are hollow and in the space there exist a certain
substance, like oil, in which the divine energy reflects."
ZVLThI zeulawthi. "beside me" [Isaiah 45:5] "I am the Lord, and
their is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee,
thought thou has not known me." see 87, 234, 600, 834.
Greek
ZThIM olives.
RVCh IHVH DBR-BI ruach IHVH diber-biy. The spirit of the Lord.
spoke by me. [2 Samuel 23:2] "The spirit of the Lord spoke by me,
and his word was in my tongue." see 1436.
BARTz-OVTz be-eretz- utz. in the land Uz. [Job 1:1] "There was a
man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was
perfect and upright, and one that feared god, and eschewed evil."
Job means "the greatly afflicted one." see 19, 976.
Greek
Total area of the sides of the vault of C.R. and sum of the areas
of its ceiling and floor. (280+182).
NThIB nawthb. A path, road, way [Job 18:10; Psalm 78:50]. This
noun includes, the idea of action, or method. The ruling
principle is the beginning of a methodical process, the initial
point whence proceeds a line, or course of conduct, behavior or
performance. see 467.
The Zohar [135B] says: "The 'well' is none other but the
Shekinah; 'the living one' is an allusion to the righteous one
who lives in the 2 worlds, that is, who lives above, in the
higher world, and who also lives in the lower world, which exist
and is illuminated through him, just as the moon is only
illuminated when she looks at the sun. Thus the well of existence
literally emanates from the 'living one' whom it sees, and when
it looks at him it is filled with living waters." The identity of
numeration between this 'well' which the Zohar explains as
representing the sum total of existence, emanating from the
righteous one, or the supreme unity, and 'the commandments of
Jehovah' points to un underlying identity of meaning. This is
fairly obvious, for it is one of the fundamentals of the Qabalah
that he universe is commanded into manifestation through the word
of God. Thus it follows that whatever is manifested is the
visible presentation of the divine intention. Observe that the
well of existence is also the well of vision, and that the
Psalmist assert that the commandments of Jehovah enlighten the
eyes. So, too, the Fama conceals its central mystery in the
symbolism of this vault, a symbolism addressed to the eyes. And
elsewhere, defining the qualifications of a true Rosicrucian, the
Confessio declares: 'Truly, to whom it is permitted to behold,
read, and thence forth teach himself those great characters which
the Lord God hath inscribed upon the world's mechanism, and which
he repeats through the mutation of empires, such an one is
already ours, though yet unknown to himself.' Remember, too that
this number 462 is that which represents the total area of the
vault, which the Fama describes as a compendium of the universe.
[True and Invisible page 151-152].
They who are called to this must open the Temple in all
solemnity, and be wholly dedicated to the highest. You have been
called, but the tests, before you may be chosen, are not easy,
nor may ever the least of them be ignored. [20th Communication].
see 124, 4, 474, 61, 220.
ARCh TzDIQIM erech tzadiquim. The path of the just. A term used
to describe the middle pillar of the Tree of Life. This is the
way of attainment to the higher consciousness and it is achieved
by being in harmony with the divine will or Justice. see 85, 95,
89, 73, 120, 406.
"Above Yesod is the path of Samekh, descending from MLK, the seat
of RVCh; and above the King who is also BN, the son, extends
upwards the path of union which descends from the crown. Thus
from Kether to Malkuth descends one unbroken path, though it hath
three parts, Gimel, Samekh and Tav. For this is ARCh TzDIQIM
(Erech Tzadiqim, the path of the just), and the path of the just
is the Middle Pillar of the Tree.
"....Thus all the horizontal paths are feminine, even though the
path of Peh is related to Mars, and the ruling power in the path
of Teth is the Sun. Now, in the Rota, Samekh is sometimes
represented as Diana, so that there is in this path a lunar
influence. SMK is 120, and this reduces to 3, that is, Gimel.
But the paths of Samekh and Gimel are vertical, or masculine, so
that in the three crossings male and female powers are conjoined
at the point of crossing. This is the clue to the secret.
Venus and Moon at the upper point. Sun and Moon at the point
where Teth crosses Gimel, and Mars and Jupiter at the crossing of
Samekh and Peh. Note these carefully, and mark well also the
close relation between Saturn and Venus. Here are the keys to
practical knowledge of utmost importance. All this is on the
Middle Pillar, and if you do but consider the Sephiroth thereon,
and their meanings, you should have little difficulty. [11th
Communication]
"On the Tree the quickest way from Malkuth to Kether, is up the
middle pillar. In our Order, at the first step upward, attention
is focused, not too obtrusively perhaps, on Da'ath; and Da'ath is
for Qabalists the union of AB and AIMA, pictured in the Rota by
the Empress. The "straight and narrow path" is up the middle
pillar. See what it comprises: first Saturn, and in Malkuth
Guph, then in Yesod Mars. This you may not see at first, but
ISVD being 80 is equivalent to Peh, P, and P is the letter of
Mars. Thus Yesod and the reciprocal Path of the Active or
Exciting Intelligence are two aspects of the same thing. This
reciprocal Path crosses the Path of Samekh, and note well of
Samekh, that this letter being the Tent-peg or prop, has the same
basic meaning as Yesod the Foundation. Furthermore, the old form
of the letter Samekh shows plainly what it signifies, and in the
flame alphabet, this same letter is like the Magician's girdle, a
serpent with its tail in its mouth, symbol of eternity. But more
than this, a symbol of the serpent power feeding on itself and
increasing in potency by being magically directed. This, in all
forms of magic, involves the change from temporal to eternal
expression, and this is so subtle that we shall omit further
elucidation now.
Greek
The 31st Path of Fire, and a Path of the Ruach Elohim, for Fire
and Spirit are one, and this is a Path of the letter Sheen, which
is the 3rd of the 3 Mothers. ThMIDI is it called, because it is
the perfection of the handiwork of the Eternal. This may you see
in the name itself, for the first two letters, Tav and Mem, spell
Thum, which is perfection; the second two spell ID, which is the
name for hand; and the last is the letter which represents Kether
and Chokmah, for the Fire of Spirit is the root of fire which
appertaineth unto Chokmah, and this is that Consuming Fire which
is God Himself. It is the Fire of Mind which divides itself into
the semblance of duality, and in its descent into manifestation
brings forth bodies. Being Eternal, it is also Superior, and
thus it is written that it regulates the motions of Shamash and
Lebanah, the Sun and the Moon. The Sun is Tiphareth, and the
Moon is Yesod, on the Tree, among the Sephiroth. Thus may you
know that the 31st Path has to do with the regulation of the
powers of Ruach and Nephesh.
They among the Sons of the Doctrine who hide their meaning behind
the veils of the work of Hermes, say that theirs is a work of the
Sun and Moon, performed by the aid of Mercury. See then, that on
the Tree, this is the Path which hath the Kingdom of the body at
its lower extremity, and the Sphere of Mercury at its upper, for
the work of the 31st Path is that of the woman who is the Moon,
and the man who is the Sun, and from this work cometh forth the
child which is the new creature. For this is a work of
embodiment, and not without its proper body may the Perpetual
Intelligence by made manifest. Yet is that body one of flesh and
blood, but different from those which come forth from the womb of
ordinary birth. It is a body incorruptible, though the seed of
it is sown in corruption. Yet it is truly a Perpetual body,
transmuted from the ordinary body that comes through the gate of
birth. But without the aid of Mercury, this transmutation may
not be effected, for this body taketh one out of the flux and
re-flux of birth and death, and truly is it a work of art wherein
the powers of Sun and Moon, or Ruach and Nephesh, are conjoined
in full perfection. Not by inheritance is this accomplished, but
by the working of a power descending through the Paths on the
side of Binah, and as may be seen on the Tree, all the Paths on
the side of Binah have their beginning in the Path of Beth, which
is that of Mercury or Kokab. For every man there shall come a
time to begin his work of release from the delusion of separate
personality, and from the shackles of times, seasons and places.
But this cometh not in the lesser wheelings of nature, and hath
always its beginning in an influx from above.
Yet for long shall it seem to him to whom this influx hath
descended, that he is of his own will and purpose seeking
release, but truly this is not so. The fire consumes what it
will, the Breath of Spirit blows where it listeth, nor is there
any law discernible by man to govern its operation. Its work is
without beginning or end, never does it fail in anything small or
great, yet is there in it no trace of what man meaneth by plan,
or law, or design. Freely it works, and thus it is written of
the Sephiroth that they are "belimah," which signifies "something
not to be expressed, and something altogether free from bonds or
encirclement of any kind." Waste not they strength in trying to
comprehend this. Know if thou mayest, but grasp it thou can not.
[43rd Communication] see 814.
...this 31st Path has to do with the alchemical Sun and Moon as
they are at work in the hidden laboratory, and the secret
vessels. And even this application has many ramifications. It
applies to the work of these who conduct the experiment alone,
but it also applies to those who undertake the joint operation
though there were of course few who are in a position to do this
latter, because it requires rigorous training, and unusual
circumstances, in these days at least. Do not expect us to give
you formulas for any of these operations. The Text contains the
principle behind all variations of practice, and if you combine
it, and this admittedly very brief comment, with study of the
Key, you will each learn what you require, though it may be that
for each of you the instruction you receive from within, in
response to the stimulus afforded by the words of the Text and
the symbolism of the Key, will differ from what either of the
others receive, and may turn out to be, nay, almost certainly
will turn out to be incommunicable, so that you cannot share your
knowledge with one another at the level of verbal expression.
360 = Sheen
160 = Ayin
_____
420 > 6 = Tiphareth & Vav, the Hierophant
6 = The Lovers
15 = The Devil
20 = Judgment
_____
41 > 5 = Heh, the Emperor
Beth = 417
Greek
Greek
AISh ChMSIM aish haymasim. the violent man. The same "consuming
fire" when misdirected, becomes anger, rather than learned
meditation. see 315.
Greek
poimaemasin (Gr). Things which have been made [Romans 1:20]. see
510
470 (2*5*47)
***NOShH ADM nahesey adam. "Let us make man" (in our image, after
our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the
sea...) [Genesis 1:26]. The Zohar [I.p.4] says: the expression
[text ends]
NKTh nakath. "precious things" [2 Kings 20:13] The reins and the
reproductive organs, both governed by Mars (the adrenals over the
kidneys) are indeed "precious things", for with them does the
great work succeed. [NKChH is the spelling, also in Isaiah 39:2].
The Zohar [I:65A, p.213] says: "The upward striving thought is...
illumined by a light undisclosed and unknowable even to that
thought. That unknowable light of thought impinges on the light
of the detached fragment which radiates from the unknowable and
undisclosed, so that they are fused into one light, from which
are formed nine palaces (hekaloth). Theses palaces are neither
lights nor spirits nor souls, neither is there anyone who can
grasp them. The longing of the nine illminations which are all
centered in the thought - the latter being indeed counted as one
of them - is to purse these palaces at the time when they are
stationed in the thought, though they are not (even then) grasped
or known, nor are they attained by the highest effort of the mind
or the thought. All the mysteries of faith are contained in those
palaces, and all those lights which proceed form the mystic
supreme thought are called en-soph (limitless)."
Greek
Greek
"When the fall had occurred and the Sephira Malkuth had been cut
off from the Tree by the folds of the dragon, there was added
unto the Tree Daath, the Knowledge, as the 11th Sephira, to
preserve intact the ten-ness of the Sephiroth. Showing how by
that very eating of the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good
and Evil should come the Saving of Mankind, for Daath is the
priceless gift of Knowledge and Intellect whereby comes
Salvation. Wherefore also is 11 the Key Number of the Great
Savior's Name (IHShVH = 326 = 11) [1972, page 184]. - Allan
Bennett
"... Yet another hint is found in the fact that Da'ath is the
point of the exact center of the Path of Gimel. This path
correspond to the High Priestess in the Tarot... The knowledge of
the Qabalist is midway between the pillars of light and darkness,
between which sits the High Priestess. Nothing could be planer to
those with eyes to see!" See meditation of Daleth and notes, Book
of Tokens.
ZH-HIVM OShH IHVH zeh-tayom yasha IHVH. "This is the day which
the Lord has made." [Psalm 118:24]
475 (5*5*19)
Latin
hoc universi compendium unis mihi sepuchrum feci (Lt). "I have
made this sepulcher as a single compendium of the universe."
Inscription engraved on a circular altar, covered with a plate of
Brass (copper), found in the tomb of vault of brother C.R. in the
Rosicrucian allegory (Fama). "Here is a direct statement that the
symbolism of the vault is cosmic-both macrocosmic and
microcosmic. It links the vault with the other great sepulcher,
the pyramid, which is also a single compendium of the universe,
and with Solomon's temple, and Noah's ark. The inscription is on
a circular altar, for the circle is the fundamental symbol of
cosmic perfection." [PFC, True and Invisible (4th), page 201].
see 87, 122, 76, 150 Latin, 106, 37, 23, 24.
476 (4*7*17){PRIVATE }
*** [beginning of text missing] here fused into the bestial and
divine serpents of life [Nightside of Eden, pp.193-195] This
reflects unbalanced discrimination. see 1126. The letters of this
name suggest the perverted power of meditation (Tzaddi)
alternating between action (Lamed) and influencing will-force
(Yod) for personal ends, reversing mental substance (Mem) and
creating (Yod) the degeneration of solar force at odds with its
purpose (Resh) by the psychic voces of disunity (Vav), frozen in
a cycle of reproductive error (Nun).
Of the root TzL which this word begins Fabre D'Olivet writes:
"This root, composed of the final sign united to the directive
sign, characterizes a thing whose effect is spread afar. This
thing expresses... either noise, or shadow passing though air and
void; or void itself containing darkness thence TzL every noise
that is striking, clear, piercing like brass; every shadow
carried, projected a great distance into space; every obscure
depth, whose bottom is unknown: metaphorically, a screaming
voice; any kind of object extending overhead and making a shade
as a canopy, dias, covering, roof, veil; every deep, obscure
place, a cavern. The Arabic [word] has evidently the same radical
sense as the Hebrew TzL, but this root, beside its primitive
sense, having also an onomatopoetic sense, has received
developments much more extended. According to the first sense,
the verb [Arabic word] characterizes the state of that which
grows dark being corrupted, of that which imitates the darkness
of shadow, which lengthens, gains, as a shadow, etc. According
the second sense, it is a prolonged sound, a cry which invokes
succor, a prayer, etc. [Arabic word] expresses that which is
prolonged indefinely, wanders, disappears, etc." [The Hebrew
Tongue Restored, pp. 434-435]
477 (9*53)
ZRO TzDVQ zero zadok. the seek of Zadok. [Ezekiel 43:19] "And
thou shall give to the priest the Levites that be of the seed of
Zadok... a young bullock for a sin offering." Zadok means
"righteous", and was one of the two chief priest in the Davidic
sanctuary in Jerusalem (abode of peace). The "seed" is Yod,
assigned to Kether and Chokmah, in the divine name IHVH. The
"bullock" is Taurus, represented by Key 5, the Hierophant or
intuition. When Vav is "sacrificed" Zadok becomes TzDQ Tzedek or
Jupiter, the sphere of Chesed. Here we see the influx of the
"seed", represented by the path of Uranus (super-consciousness)
into Chokmah and thence through the path of Taurus to Chesed. The
Chasidim or the merciful ones are possessors of the path of
Tzaddi, because of the occult connection between Jupiter and
Moon, and they give "efficacious councils."
***VIChL NCh AISh HADMH vayachel Noah aish ha-adamah. And began
Noah, man of the ground (and planted a vineyard). [Genesis 9:20]
The Zohar [Prologue 6B] says Deuteronomy 33:1: which calls Moses
"man of God" AISh HALHIM implies that he was the husband (AISh),
as it were, of the divine glory, leading it [text ends]
Latin
Greek
LThHV VHBL le-tohu ve-hebel for naught and in vain. [Isaiah 49:4]
"Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength
for naught and in vain: yet surely my judgement is with the Lord,
and my work with my God." What man proposes (Ayin, Key 15), God
disposes (Key 6 and Beth, Key 1). Beth + Ayin = OB. see 72.
QV LQV QV LQV qav la-qav qav la-qav. line upon line, line upon
line or line by line, line by line. [Isaiah 28:10, 13] "To whom
shall one teach knowledge [DOTh]?.. For it is precept by precept,
precept by precept, line by line, line by line." see 474.
Resurrection is a step-by-step process.
AVR ZRO aur zerao. light is seed. The Zohar [IV 167A, B p.77]
Comments: "...there is first light, then water, then is a
firmament formed in the midst of the waters. Similar is the
formation of man at his birth. First he is 'seed' which is light;
because it carries light to all the organs of the body. That
'seed' which is light sheds itself abroad and becomes 'water',
which in its moisture penetrates to all parts of the body; in
which body, when it has taken shape, the diffusion of water is
solidified and is called 'firmament'" see 718, "a light sown to
the righteous", note, 207, 277.
485 (5*97)
HThLIM haethulim. mockers. [Job 17:2] "Are there not mockers with
me? And does not mine eye continue in their provocation?" also:
mockeries. see 435.
Greek
IHVH BChKPH IMD ARTz IHVH be-kachfeh yamad eretz. "IHVH in the
power of his mouth (fertilizes, founds?) the earth." A name of
God.
OVITh ovuioth. a King of Edom. Suggest unbalanced force in the
automatic pattern-world (Subconsciousness as Yesod), through
wrongly directed desire (Daleth). Also: Avith, a City of Edom;
city of King Hadad (Godwin).
Greek
MThChIL. beginner.
SLTh soleth. fine meal, flour. [Ezekiel 16:13] "Thus was thou
decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen,
and silk, and broidered work; thou did eat fine flour, and honey
and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou did prosper
into a kingdom." The passage refers to Jerusalem, the "abode of
peace". It is the vision of the perfected man, who has become the
Christ-child.
491 (prime)
ATh IHVH ALHIK Eth Jehovah Elohekah. the Lord, thy Lord.
494 (2*13*19)
DRK KVKB MIOQB dawrahk kokab mi-yahayqob. there shall step forth
a star out of Jacob. [Numbers 24:17] "I shall see him, but not
now: I shall behold him, not nigh: there shall come a star out of
Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite
the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth." see
17, 8, 224, 48, 182, 541. The commentary on this is [Matthew 2:2]
"star in the east: saying where is he that is born king of the
Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to
worship him." see 1430 (Greek).
DMVTh ADM daymuth adam. the likeness of a man. see 450. Rosenroth
in [K.D.L.C.K. p.251 ] gives: similtudo hominis, who says that it
is Malkuth, because in it Tetragrammaton is perfected.
31 = 496. Mystic number of the 31st Path of Shin. 496 is the 3rd
perfect number (32 Paths L6, page 6).
"In Malkuth is the power of our Lord and King ADNI MLK. Yet is
Malkuth also KLH (Kallah) the Bride, and MLKH (Malkah) the Queen.
So the Guph which is the embodied Kingdom is the King himself,
also the Queen who is his Bride. Now the number of ADNI MLK is
155, and to this number corresponds also DVDNAMN, the faithful
friend, for our Lord King is verily that friend. But here you
must understand a mystery, for the Kingdom, King, Substance, that
is Guph, Queen and Bride are all but ONE, and the ONE is ALL, for
is not KLH to be read as HKL (Hakal) the ALL?
Malkah is written with the letters of HMLK, the King, and the
King is Tiphareth, yet is Tiphareth ThPARTh or 1081, and the seed
of this is 10 which is both Malkuth and Yod...
ABN BITh-AL Ehben Beth-el. The stone of God's House. This is the
stone described in the story of Jacob's dream (Genesis 28:11,
19]. Tradition identifies it with the stone in the British
coronation chair, now in Westminster abbey. Beth-el is the "house
of the Lord". Consciousness of the Lord's house is awareness of
the indwelling presence in physical forms. see 443. [Note: Jacob
named the place of his dream HHVABITh-AL which may be surmised as
being "He, the house of El". It is translated "that" in the
Jewish translation. Yet HVA is a name of God (Kether). see 460]
KR OVR kar or. Lamb skin. A Mason's apron is lambskin. see 220.
Greek/Latin
AISh BN ADM MLK Ish Ben-Adam Melek. Man, Son of MAN, King. The
Divine Soul, Neshamah, and Ruach, are not two, but ONE, Man, Son
of MAN, King and this is the royal Presence we call "The Dweller
in the Heart." This perfect law has two fundamental precepts:
1. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with
all thy mind, and with all thy strength; 2. Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself. As thy SELF, as the ONE EGO dwelling
"among" us because that ONE EGO dwells also "within" us.
Greek
James Pryse connects Pergamos with the liver, the seat of second
sight (mantiken) according to Plato: "this is also the witness
Antipas 'who has indeed been slain by those who have lost even
the psychic function of the liver, as well as the intuition of
the intellectual nature. Anti-pa-s is simply mantis disguised by
having its initial M converted into PA and anagrammatically
transposed. [To solve the puzzle, it is only necessary to combine
the letters π and A, forming IAI, which when inverted makes a
passable M-and incidently shows why 'eminent scholars' have fail
to fine a satisfactory Greek derivation for the word or any
historical record of the supposed 'Martyr'." [Apocalypse
Unsealed, pp. 101-102]. Recall that ChSD Chesed, the sphere of
Jupiter, is the cosmic Moon or memory, and that Kaph, the Hebrew
letter of Jupiter is assigned to the liver, as well as to the
solar plexus, center of psychic activity. see 1029 (Greek), 20,
100, 72, 194, 555 (Greek); 980, 798, 1105, 570, 1096, 151
(Greek).
500's{PRIVATE }
500 (4*5*5*5)
Greek
AShR eyshar. "to be guided." Note the root idea of the word LMD
Lamed, which means "ox-goad". (LMD, ox-goad, to teach). see Book
of Tokens. Pronounced ishsheyr, this word means: loan, guide, to
be lead, to walk straight; to set right, strengthen, to confirm,
verify; to be made happy, to praise.
AK ak. but, only, surely, indeed, again, once more [Kaph = 500].
see 21. [Exodus 10:17] "Now forgive my sin once more and pray to
the Lord your God to take this deadly plague away from me."
Greek
BK be-kaw in thee, with thee. (Kaph = 500) [Genesis 48:20] " And
he [Jacob] blessed them that day and said, In your [in thee] name
will Israel pronounce the blessing: May God make you like Ephraim
and Manasseh: so he put Ephraim ahead of Manasseh." see 22, 182,
541. Ephraim (331) corresponds to Taurus and alchemical fixation;
Manasseh (395) corresponds to Aquarius and alchemical
dissolution.
3. The Zohar [I:28A, 48B] comments: "The words 'and the Lord God
built the side', can also be applied to Moses, insofar as he is
built from the side of Chesed (kindness). 'And Moses both were
combined. This time bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh. This
is said of the shekinah, the betrothed maiden, by the central
column, as though to say, 'I know that this is bone of my bone
and flesh of my flesh; so this of a surety shall be called woman,
from the supernal realm, which is mother, for she was taken from
the realm of the father, which is Yod.' And as with the central
column, so with Moses below. At that time every Israelite will
find his twin soul... (p.108). And the Lord God built (vayiven)
the side which he had taken from the man, etc. Said Rabbi Simeon:
'It is written, 'God understands the way thereof and he knows the
place thereof' [Job 28:23]. This verse may be taken in may ways.
One is that the word 'understood' (hevin) has the same sense as
vayiven in the second chapter of Genesis. Hence the 'side' here
is the oral law, which forms a 'way' as it is written 'who makes
a way in the sea' [Isaiah 43:16] Similarly, 'place' here can be
interpreted as written law, which is a source of knowledge the
double name 'Lord God' is used to show that it was competed in
all details. Hence it is called both Chokmah (wisdom) and Binah
(understanding). 'The side' (zela) is the unclear mirror, as it
is written 'they rejoiced at my halting (be-zal'l) and gathered
together' [Psalm 35:15]. 'Which he took from the man': because
the oral law issued from the written Torah, into a woman: to be
linked with the flame of the left side, because the Torah was
given from the side of Geburah. Further, Ishah (woman) may be
analyzed into ASh-H (Fire of Heh), signifying the union of the
two." (pp.153-154).
MQVR MIM ChIIM mahqohr mem chaiim. source (or fountain) of the
waters of life. Referring to the name Pau, POV, ("brightness",
156) as the city of the alchemical king, Tiphareth, the Aesch
Mezareph says: "Nor will you err, if you shall attribute to it
another special name, for it may be called mekor mayim chaiim,
that is, a fountain of living water. For, from this water the
king is enlivened, that he may give life to all metals and living
things." [VII, p.40]
"It was in the wilderness of Shur that the Lord showed a certain
tree to Moses that made the bitter waters of a well sweet. At the
same well in the wilderness of Shur, according to Genesis 16:7
the Angel of the Lord found Hagar (HGR, fugitive) the Egyptian
wife of Abraham." see 245, 208, 441. [Case on D.D. Bryant].
ShVR Shor. ox, bull; In later Hebrew Taurus. This agrees with
the Talmudic assertion that the standard of Ephiraim was a
Bullock (331). There is a correlation between this sign and the
sense of hearing.
BAVR-PNI MLK ChIIM be-aor penne melek chaiim. "in the light of
the King's countenance is life" [Proverbs 16:15]. The king is
Tiphareth, the light is Kether. The verse concludes: "and his
favor is as a cloud of the latter rain." The "rain" is the solar
radiance, falling in drops, or Yods.
"... the next path, that of Vav joins wisdom to mercy. For when
creatures begin to exist, mercy becomes active. This is the
passage of wisdom, Chokmah, into the self-impartation of the
divine spirit though the self-contemplation of his or its
limitless possibilities as an eternal spirit of life." [32 Paths]
ShRVG serug. the 'son of Rev' in [Genesis 11:22] "When Serug has
lived 30 years, he became the father of Nahor. (23) And after he
became the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years, and had other
sons and daughters." Fabre D'Olivet writes of the root ShR of
which this word is formed: "That of government, liberal, ready,
indulgent, productive within; powerful, strong, redoubtable,
dominating without, which extends its empire by directing it
according to just, luminous laws modelled upon the immutable lamb
of order and universal harmony." [The Hebrew Tongue Restored,
p.464]
510 (2*5*51)
AB VAM BN VBTh ab ve-am ben ve-bath. Father and Mother, Son and
Daughter. The Father is Chokmah (2), the Mother is Binah (3),
the Son is Tiphareth (6); the Daughter is Malkuth (10). Note
that the number 510 reduces to six, which is assigned to
Tiphareth, the Sphere of the Sun.
"... The Qabalah says that Chesed, mercy is... usually translated
as 'measuring, arresting or receiving.' One English translator
renders the doctrine concerning the path as follows: 'The 4th
path is called the Arresting or Receiving Intelligence, because
it arises like a boundary to receive the emanation of the higher
intelligences which are sent down to it. Here from all spiritual
virtues emanate by way of subtlety, which itself emanates from
the supreme crown.' The emphasis here is one the receptivity of
Chesed, a grade allocated to Chesed would therefore be
distinguished by this quality of receptivity. The spiritual power
exercises by an Exempt Adept are received from above... The
agency whereby he broadcast them is called DQVTh, dakkooth,
literally 'smallness, thinness, fineness." This agency we are
told, itself emanates from the supreme crown, that is from
Kether... The Exempt Adept uses this subtle emanation somewhat as
a speaker in a broadcasting station uses the electric current...
in this connection it is noteworthy that the noun DQVTh,
dakkooth, has the numeral value of 510, which is also the value
of the Hebrew letter name RISH, Resh, correspond in astrology to
the sun, and in Tarot to Key 19. Dakkooth, subtlety, is a
technical name for a force used in practical occultism, and that
force is actually a form of solar radiation. The word is from the
root DQ, dakh, 'fine, slender, lean.' The same word means
'dust',= in modern Hebrew it signifies 'minute. infinitesimal'.
Try to get a mental picture from these hints. Temember that the
thing we are discussing is an actual reality. Metaphysically it
is the radiant energy of Kether, represented in Key 0, the Fool,
the White sun. But this is not merely metaphysical. It is a real
force, properly designated by a Hebrew term signifying 'dust'
because it is the fine-grained cosmic 'dust' which eventually
takes form in all things. The work of Greater Adept is concerned
with his control of the subtle something which is substance and
energy at one and the same time." [Paul Case: True and Invisible
Rosicrucian Order (4th), p.399-401] see 104, 178, 528.
Greek/Latin
Kronos (Gr). The god Cronus (Saturnus in Latin). Kronos was the
son of Uranos, and of Gaia (Earth). He was the Husband of Rhea,
and father of Zeus. His age was the Golden age.
Poihmata. Things which have been made [Romans 1:20]. The things
which have been made reveal the invisibles.
511 (7*73)
*** [beginning of text missing] RIShA resha. the head. Note this
word contains the word AShR, the tribe of Israel connected with
alchemical sublimation. see 501, 820. It may also be read Ash =
Fire (301) + Resh (Sun) + Yod, Virgo or the solar fire expressed
through alchemical distillation (#570).
AIK ayek. how?, how is that. The no thing is the reality which is
the secret of inquiry in all question beginning with "how" or
"what". see 31. [Kaph = 500]
HVK huk. to go, the no-thing is the power which goes forth into
every form of manifestation and brings about every phenomenon.
see 31.
HNNI ISD BTzIVN ABN BChN hinni yissad be-zion ahben ehben bokhan.
"Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone"
[Isaiah 28:16]. One of the great key-texts of ageless wisdom. see
BTzIVN (#158). The foundation stone ABN is laid "in Zion",
because the basis of all the prophet had in mind is man's
intimate communion with the inner teacher, who is the Hierophant
of Key 5, and the Angel of Key 6. see 53, 156.
IVTzR AVR yotzer aur. "I form the light" [Isaiah 45:7] I FORM the
light, indicates the world of formation. The light is formed from
preexistent darkness. "and evening and the morning were the first
day"; "in the beginning God created... [i.e. cut apart. see
disposing]... and darkness was upon the face of the deep." "And
God said, 'Let there be light". [Genesis 1:2,3,5] The FORMATIVE
power is the WORD. the same passage in Isaiah also says "I create
evil".
ASh ZRH aysh zawrah. strange fire [Leviticus 10:1]. "And they
put in them (their fire pans) fire, and they put upon it incense,
and they offered before Tetragrammaton strange fire." This is the
consecrated fire of formation, Shin, which is specialized in the
nerve currents as the serpent power, or kundalini.
PLGI ShMN palegay shamen. rivers of oil [Job 29:6]. "And the
rock poured out rivers of oil." see 67, 466, 497.
IDK yadawk. thy hand. [Psalm 138:7] "Though I walk in the midst
of trouble, thou will revive me: thou shall stretch forth thy
hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall
save me." Yod is assigned to Chokmah, IH, Yah, the father. From
which emanate the path of Heh, the Emperor, the Constituting
Intelligence. see 750 (Greek).
AChD RASh achad rosh. "one principle, one head. God the father is
the head of the one creative principle. see 2945, 425, 926, 440,
1052, 1065.
Greek
Greek/Latin
oi K HTOI hoi kletoi. the elect. [Romans 1:6,7] "Among whom you
are also the elect (invited) ones of Jesus Christ; to all who are
in Rome, the beloved of God called (elected) saints; favor and
peace to you from God our father, and the Lord Jesus Christ."
[Matthew 20:16] "For many are called (elected), but few chosen";
[Romans 8:28] "And we know that all things work together for good
to those who love God, to those being invited (elected) according
to a purpose." see 438 (Greek), 540.
Greek
KRSh Koresh. Cyrus, king of Persia. [Ezra 1:2] "Thou saith Cyrus
King of Persia, the Lord God of heaven has given me all the
kingdoms of the earth; and he has charged me to build him a house
at Jerusalem, which is in Judah." Jerusalem means "abode of
peace; Judah means "praised, celebrated" and is connected with
the sun and with Leo and alchemical digestion. see 586, 30; 790
(Greek).
DMOVTh dimayoth tears. [Psalm 80:5] "Thou feeds them with the
bread of tears, and gives them tears to drink in great measure."
note DM = blood. see 44, 78.
521 (prime)
ZMH ZMH OZA RChMH OZIH zammah zammah ozzah rachamah ozai.
Thought, thought, the power of the womb of the strength of Yah
(see 2467).
AThH OMDI attawh immawdiy. thou are with me. [Psalm 23:4] "Yea,
though I walk though the valley of the shadow of death, I will
fear no evil: for thou are with me; thy rod and thy staff they
comfort me."
QLTh receptacle under the millstone (to receive flour dust); QLTh
women's work-basket.
VThONH and she dealt harshly, then she mistreated her. [Genesis
16:6] "Your servant is in your hands," Abram said."Do with her
whatever you think best." Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she
fled from her."
532 (4*7*19)
The path of Gimel is the link between God and Man, centered
through the pituitary body, behind the root of the nose. The work
of the 13th Path is closely related to alchemical sublimation,
the completion of which is the philosopher's stone. The magus
performs the Great Work by divesting the serpent-power (astral
light) of all appearances of manyiness. One passes from Tiphareth
(Sun) through the path of Gimel (the Moon). The Magus has full
comprehension of the principles of cyclic motion, exemplified in
astrology, and knows how to apply them. He has a transmutation of
consciousness as well as a command of physical forces which
enable him to alter the structure of atoms. He aim at some
realization of beauty. He knows that he does nothing of himself,
and his word that is an expression of true will vitalizes him to
overflowing with an abundance of power. is one rule of actions is
that of Jesus: "As I hear (Vav), I judge."
LChM ThMID lekhem tawmid. perpetual bread. The whew bread, never
absent from its table in the temple and the tabernacle. there
were always 12 loaves, which represented the 12 tribes, and thus
the 12 zodiacal influences (signs). Mezla MZLA, influence, which
represents the active power flowing through all 32 paths of
Wisdom, is the numerically 78, which is also the value of LChM,
Lechem, bread. The "influence" is the real support of human
existence, our true staff of life.
Greek
Alpha (Gr). The Greek spelling of the name of the first letter of
the alphabet. Transliteration of the Hebrew Aleph, the Ox. see
111.
3-4-5 triangle
The area is 6, the perimeter 12. The angle of base and hypotenuse
is 37 = HBL (transitory breath); the angle of hypotenuse and
perpendicular is 53 = ABN = stone; the angle of perpendicular and
horizontal is 90 = MIM = water = Tzaddi = fishhook. Note that the
constant relation between perpendicular and base is expressed by
90 = Tzaddi, which, according to the Zohar consists of Nun
surmounted by Yod, representing together the male and female
principles. 90 is also the value of IKIN Jakin ("firm one"), of
SVD HVVG the mystery of sex, a technical name of Qabalah, of MIM,
water, etc. The Tarot Keys are Key 12, (MIM), and Key 17
(Tzaddi).
Greek
HLK traveler, flowing. see 55. The divine traveler is Aleph, the
spirit or eternal fool, who passes through one cycle of
evolution, and apparently departs, to begin another. see 111.
Greek
LMON ShMV he-maon shemo. for his name's sake. [Psalm 23:3] "He
restores my soul: he leads me in the paths of righteousness for
his name's sake." see 349, 885.
*** [beginning of text missing] "... sees under the sun, Resh.
NKR is from a verbal root meaning to distinguish differences. By
Tarot Keys: 13, 10, 19. That is the appearance of endless
mutation, the turning wheel of change, the appearance of
limitation (wall in Key 19). But when the wheel becomes the
fairy-ring (under foot, viz. understood) then the land is no
longer strange. The commentary on this is in [Proverbs 3:19] "By
wisdom the Lord laid the earth's foundations, by his knowledge
the deeps were divided, and the clouds let drop the dew." [Paul
Case Notes]: "The 'strange land' is the field of appearances
produced by the serpent power, which is pictured in Key 8 as the
lion. When we are 'in' that land we are deceived by the
appearances of separateness. Thus NKR, strange = RO, which is
created [Isaiah 45:7]. It is the darkness. Yet NKR ADMH, strange
land = 319 = life for evermore ChIIM OL-OVLM, the blessing of
Psalm 133. The clue is in NKR, 'strange', form a verbal root
meaning to differentiate, to make distinctions. If we are in the
state of consciousness where we are preoccupied with the
differentiated appearances of multiplicity, we do to perceive
that the world of Assiah, the world of making or construction, is
really the song of Tetragrammaton, i.e. the harmonious concord of
all the manifestations of the life-power. The song seems to be a
discord, and the discord is evil or RO. Note, too, that ADMH
'land' is a metathesis of Adam HADM = 50 = the letter Nun, and
also the gates of Binah, the mother, which are always represented
by 50. Furthermore, the word for blood is probably a contraction
of Adam, and certainly is derived form the root ADM, to be red.
Here we have an allusion to the earthy, or carnal consciousness.
While we are in this, we cannot sing the song of Tetragrammaton,
that is, make our own personal 'makings' in unison with the song
of Tetragrammaton... When we forget Zion, because we are 'in a
strange land' we are in Babylon, i.e. confusion. Then all our
constructions are faulty, and we cannot sing the song of
Reality... But except Tetragrammaton build the house, they labor
in vain that build it [Psalm 127:1]. The builder is
Tetragrammaton, and all our building is clumsy unless our hands
are consciously working as instruments of Tetragrammaton, and
unless or conception of the material world is that it is truly
the song of Tetragrammaton." [Troward on Psalms, pp.178-192]
537 (3*179)
BTh QVL Bath Kol. Daughter of the Voice; (inner voice). Mackey
writes: "The Jews say that the Holy spirit spoke to the
Israelites in the days of the tabernacle through the urim and
thummim, and under the first temple of the prophets, and under
the second by the bath kol, an inferior divine intimation to the
oracular voice proceeding from the mercy-seat, as a daughter is
supposed to be inferior to the Mother." [Encyclopedia of
Freemasonry, p.953]
Greek
HVA ChIIK hia hayekaw. she is thy life. [Proverbs 4:13] "Take
fast hold of instruction, let her not go; keep her, for she is
thy life." see 12, 18.
Greek
Hoi eklektoi (Gr). the elite, the chosen. see Colossians 3:12,
220, 518.
IHVH ALH VDOTh IHVH Eloah ve'da'ath. "That which was, is and will
be, strength and knowledge". Divine name of Tiphareth, the 6th
Sephirah. Dion Fortune writes; "The God-name of this sphere is
Aloah va Daath, which associates it intimately with the invisible
sephirah that comes between it and Kether. This sephirah... may
best be understood as apprehension, the dawning of consciousness;
and we may interpret the phrase 'Tetragrammaton Aloah va Daath'
as 'God made manifest in the sphere of mind'... it is here that
the initiated adept functions when in the higher consciousness.
and it is by... an understanding of the significance of the name
of Aloah va Daath that he opens up the higher consciousness."
[the Mystical Qabalah, pp.206-207]. see 1080, 26, 36, 474. For
other divine names of the sephiroth see: 37, 166, 26, 86, 31,
297, 525, 585, 363, 155.
ShMGR Shamgar. The 4th judge of Israel, who smote 600 Philistines
and delivered Israel. [Judges 3:31] "After Emud came Shamgar son
of Anath, who struck 600 Philistines with an ox-goad. He too
saved Israel." see Anath, #520.
544 (17*32)
RIShA DLA Risha Dela. The Head Which is Not; a title of Kether.
Greek
ShBTh BRZL shebet barayze. a rod of Iron. [Psalm 2:9] "thou shall
break them with a rod of Iron; thou shall dash them I pieces like
a potter's vessel." see 1230 (Greek).
ShIR GDVL shiry gawdo. great song. [Light on the Path II:8] "You
can stand upright now, firm as a rock amid the turmoil obeying
the warrior who is thyself and thy king. Unconcerned in the
battle save to do his bidding, having no longer any care as to
the result of the battle; for one thing only is important, that
the warrior shall win, and you know he is incapable of defeat;
standing thus, cool and awakened, use the hearing you have
acquired by pain and by the destruction of pain. Only fragments
of the great song come to your ears while yet you are but man.
but if you listen to is, remember it faithful, so that none which
has reached you is lost, and endeavor to learn form it the
meaning of the mystery which surrounds you. In time you will need
no teacher. For as the individual has voice, so has that in which
the individual exist. Life itself has speech and is never silent.
and its utterance is not, as you that are deaf may suppose, a
cry: it is a song. Learn from it that you are part of the
harmony; learn from it to obey the laws of the harmony." Note the
correspondence between dragon and shir (510), the serpent of
vibration in Key 10, the Wheel. "The straight, or true sense of
sacred texts in their allegorical meaning, and the secret of that
meaning is the secret of mentally controlled vibration." shir
means song, enchantment, mantra yoga. see 510, 386.
Greek
Satana (Gr). Satin [Matthew 4:10]. see 1042 Greek, 364, 69 Latin.
554 (2*277)
NQDH PShVTh Nequdah Peshut. the Simple Point, the small point. A
title of Kether and the number One. see 620, 747.
KThM AVPZ ketem ah-Uphaz. fine gold of Uphaz. [Daniel 10:5] "Then
I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold, a certain man
clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of
Uphaz." This refers to Tiphareth. See the angel in Key 14. Uphaz
is related to the word Mophaz, "pure" [1 Kings 10:18] and to
Ophir, the land were fine gold was obtained. Gold is assigned to
Tiphareth.
Greek
ShIR HGDVL shiyir ha-gawdol. the great song. [Light on the Path
II:8] "Only fragments of the great song come to your ears while
yet you are but man. But if you listen to it, remember it
faithful, so that none which has reached you is lost, and
endeavor to learn from it the meaning of the mystery which
surrounds you. In time you will need no teacher. For as the
individual has no voice, so has that in which the individual
exist. Life itself has speech and is never silent. And its
utterance is not, as you that are deaf may suppose, a cry: it is
a song. Learn form it that you are part of the Harmony; learn
from it to obey the laws of the harmony." see 553.
559 (13*43)
Greek
560 (5*7*16)
Greek
33 = 561
IHVH ShMK LOVLM IHVH shamay kaw le-olahm. Tetragrammaton thy name
endures forever" [Psalm 135:13] "Thy name, O Lord, endures
forever; and thy memorial, O Lord, throughout all generations."
[Troward on Psalm, p.175] "The realization of the spirit from the
innermost to the outermost (Sol to Saturn), and consequently 'the
return'-the recognition of this in the eternal worship. This is
the significance of this Psalm." see 146, 340.
IHVH ALHIK IHVH Elohekaw. The Lord thy God. [Deuteronomy 15:4]
"Save when there shall be no poor among you; of the Lord shall
greatly bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God gives for
an inheritance to posses it." see 82, 26. [Kaph = 500]
563 (prime)
VIHI HADM LNPSh ChIH vayehi ha-adam le-nefesh chaiah. And man
became a living soul [Genesis 2:7]. Explained in the Greater Holy
Assembly (Zohar) as a reference to the physical Body of Man.
[I.R.Q. 941]: "And Adam was formed into a living soul, so that it
(the physical nefesh form) might be attached to himself
(otherwise, so that it might be developed in him), and that he
might form himself into similar conformations; and that he might
project himself in that Neshamah from path into path, even unto
the end and completion of all the paths. That is into
conformations similar to those of the supernal man." see 1124.
Latin
Legis Jugum (Lt). The yoke of the law. the eagle, Scorpio;
element Water. Numerical value 113.
KI BIH IHVH TzVR OVLMIM ki be-Yah IHVH tzur olahmim. "For in Yah
Tetragrammaton, rock everlasting." [Isaiah 26:4] "Trust ye in the
Lord forever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength."
[This is the last phrase of Isaiah 26:4. TzVR is translated
"strength" in the authorized version.] see 26, 196, 146.
ShLITh BRVCh shalliati ba-rauch. who has power over the spirit.
[Ecclesiastes 8:8] "There is no man that has power over the
spirit to retain the spirit; neither has he power in the day of
death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall
wickedness deliver those that are given to it." see 214.
ASVK awsook. vessel, flask, cup, pot for holding anointing oil.
Refers to Yesod as the receptacle of influences flowing down from
above. see 87. [Kaph = 500]
OShR asar, essar. the number ten; wealth. The 10th Sephirah, the
Kingdom of Earth.
VIThO IHVH ALHIM GN BODN MQDM and the Lord God planted a garden
in Eden eastward. [Genesis] The divine seed is planted in the
physical body (the garden) to bring delight (Eden) and
enlightenment (eastward) this is accomplished through alchemical
distillation. see 53, 124.
Greek/Latin
hoi huioi (Gr). the sons [Matthew 13:38]. "The field is the
world; the Good seed are the sons of the Kingdom..."
BRAShIKM heads over you, set them over you. [Deuteronomy 1:13]
"Choose some wise, understanding and respected men from each of
your tribes, and I will set them over you."
574 (2*7*41)
QVL VRVCh DBVR qol ve-ruach ve-dabur. voice and breath (spirit)
and word. Variant spelling [Sepher Yetzirah 1:8] "Voice, spirit
and word: this is the spirit of the holy one. His beginning has
no beginning and his end has no ending." see 568.
MQL ShQD mawel shawqed. "A rod of an almond tree" [Jeremiah 1:11]
"Moreover, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 'Jeremiah,
what sees thou? And I said, "I see a rod of an almond tree.'"
Note that the wood of the almond was used to make the magical
wand, connected with Mercury, or attention and concentration.
[ShQD = to wake, be watchful; to watch, keep watch, keep guard;
to be studious, be zealous, be industrious; ShQD diligence,
sedulity]. see 404, 170.
*** [beginning of text missing] ... 113, 155, 136. These are the
four numbered mottos on the round altar in the vault of C.R. they
are definitely related to the four elements. [In ancient
Babylonian pantheon there were two divine principles: Apsu, the
primeval sweet-water ocean; the male. Tiamat. The primeval salt-
water ocean; the female. Tiamat was formerly though of as a
dragon, but, in the Babylonian myth she and Apsu became the
mother and father of the Gods. So Vivekananda also referred to
Kundalini, the serpent, as the mother. The deep is Binah, the
mother or Aima; and the fire of Yod is concealed in her.] see
496.
575 (5*5*23)
VIAMR ALHIM IHI AVR vayomer Elohim yehi aur. "And the Elohim
said, 'Let there be light.'"
SVR MRO sur meraw. depart from evil. [Psalms 37:27] "Depart from
evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.". [Job 28:28] "and
unto man he said, behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom,
and to depart form evil is understanding". The word "fear" can be
rendered more accurately, "reverence". understanding is BINH. see
643, 917, 1953 (Greek).
Greek
Greek
OThIQ ahthiq. old, ancient, antique. [Daniel 7:9, 13] "I beheld
till the thrones were cast down, and the ancient of days did sit,
whose raiment was as white as snow, and the hair of his head like
pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as
burning fire." (13) "In my vision at night I looked, and there
before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of
heaven. He approaced the Ancient of Days and was led into his
presence." Refers to Kether. see 620, 647, 696. Also OThIQ
eminent, choice.
OShIR yawshir. rich, rich man. The man who has sublimated the
Mars-force. Note that the goat is a symbol of Capricorn, in which
Mars is exalted.
James Pryse: "Here the main action of the drama is resumed: the
chorus, which is the seventh and last, is a paean of victory
following the attainment by the conqueror of the spiritual
rebirth. The chorus is chanted by all the powers of the
microcosmic universe, the enthroned Logos being the chorus
leader. The word hallelujah, which is not found elsewhere in the
New Testament, is here chanted four times." [Apostolic Gnosis,
p.198]
581 (7*83)
DRK HBShN Derek ha-Bashan. The way of Bashan. see 352, 291.
AChD OShR achad awsawr. eleven. Connected with the 11th path of
wisdom, Aleph, the Fiery Intelligence, and with Lamed, depicted
in Justice, the 11th Tarot Key. In [Genesis 37:9] "Then he
[Joseph] has another dream, and he told it to his brothers.
"Listen, he said, "I had another dream, and this time the sun and
moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.'" Also in [Exodus
26:8] Concerning the tabernacle: "All eleven curtains are to be
the same size-30 cubits and four cubits wide."
Greek
The total length of the 16 invisible paths when the Aleph line
equals 15 (length of line between Kether and Chokmah).
"The Middle Pillar is the greatest secret of the Tree, and its
central point, Tiphareth, is the heart of the secret. Note that
Tiphareth, being 1081 (ThPARTh), is both 10 and 1, or both Kether
and Malkuth. Thus 1, 6 and 10 are all essentially the same. But
ISVD is 80. However, consider this: IVD, SMK, VV, DLTh. Now
add.
586 gives you the Mother again (19, of ChVH), also Malkuth (10)
and Kether (1), so that the whole idea is of the manifestation of
Unity in the Kingdom; and the center, which is the Son, is also
ADM and MLK." [13th Communication]
"Yesod called the Sphere of the Moon, and that same Moon
pertaineth also to Gimel, the letter of Union. Blessed are they
who hear and understand, and understanding, live as they know.
...intelligence assigned to Yesod is TAHOOR, which means pure.
The Text hints also that man, of all living creatures, enjoys a
special privilege, that of multiplying the astral radiance by
subtle means which transcend physical generation. The Text
however points out that repudiation of physical generation
betokens a basic error that is enough to thwart any effort at
direction of the astral power to finer and higher uses. This is
an error of which true Qabalists have never been guilty. They
have never condemned the normal functions of life, nor have they
ever considered them to be essentially unclean. What they, and
their oriental Brothers, have taught and practiced, is
sublimation - not repudiation. So as you think and meditate on
the Text, let your point of departure be this: the astral is not
evil, nor is it to be feared. It is the plane which is actually
the basis of our physical existence, and that basis is Light and
Life. Take this for your clue and you will never be confused by
any pseudo occult parading of dread terrors of the astral. You
might as well as scared of your own breathing!" [27th
Communication]
TzLOTh tzaleotha. ribs. [Genesis 2:21] "so the Lord God caused
the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he
took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh."
*** 2. F.J. Mayers adds: "What was done to the 'rib' was exactly
what was done to the 'dry bones' in the valley of Ezekiel's
dream-(and those 'dry-bones', by the way, we were told, were 'the
whole house of Israel'-in other words, they were quite symbolic
'bones'.) The point is that, just as the bones of the dream were
given human forms and life again, so that rib was built up into
complete human form and given life. The form given to it was
however, not a ... [text ends]
591 (3*197)
"Now consider the order of the paths. The eleven, Aleph, brings
wisdom into activity." [32 Paths] "I am the Scintillating
Intelligence, veiling with the fire of Spirit, the causes
superior from the causes inferior." [Meditations on the 32 Paths
of Wisdom].
Greek
AMN AVR + AVPIR amen aor opir. amen our light plus "fine gold" or
"red" (meaning sulphur). Amen means to be firm, faithful, to
support. Ophir is a place where gold was brought to Solomon.
"Gold is the sun of illumination. Note that Sulphur is connected
with Peh and Gold with Resh. see 297, 298.
Greek
Vav precedes the Mem in MLAK in the Hebrew of [2 Kings 1:3]: "But
the angel of the Lord said unto Elijah the Tishbite, arise, go up
to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them,
is it not because there is not a God in Israel, they ye go to
enquire of Baalzebub the God of Ekron?"
Greek
600 (3*5*5*8)
Final Mem.
QShR qahshar. to bind, to tie, to bind with cords (as the hanged
man), to plot, conspire.
Fabre D'Olivet comments: ShSh six. The root ShV contains all
ideas of equality, of equilibrium, of fitness, or proportion in
things. United to the sign of relative duration Shin in order to
form the name of this number, it becomes the symbol of every
proportional and relative measure. It is quite well known that
the number six is applied to particular, to the measure of the
circle, and in general, to all proportional measure. One finds in
the feminine, ShShTh, and the Chaldaic read ShTh: which is not
unlike the name of the number two [#400]; furthermore, between
these there exist great analogies, since six is to three, what
two is to one; and since we have seen that three [#636]
represented a sort of unity. [The Hebrew Tongue Restored, p.153]
For other numerals see 13, 400, 636, 273, 348, 372, 395, 770,
570, 441.
Greek
James Pryse points out that The primary meaning of the world is
'good order', and it is applied to anything having definite form
or arrangement, from an ornament, or a fashion in dress, to the
whole manifested universe. Chaos, or rather the primary matter it
contains (hyle, unwrought material) becomes, though the formative
power of the Logos, the Kosmos or objective universe, each
department of which is also a Kosmos or world in itself; hence
the word applies to the suns and planets in space, to this earth,
to humanity in general, and to individual man. [The Magical
Message According to Ionnes, p.75]
In [Joshua 18:14] And the border [of the tribe of Benjamin] was
drawn and compassed, and turned about to the west side...
DM dam. blood. Formed form the second two letter of ADM, Adam. It
is from blood that the substance used in the great work is
derived. [Mem = 600] see 44.
DRK MTzRIM derek mitzraim. The way of Egypt. [Jeremiah 2:18] And
now what has thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters
of Sihor? Or what has thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink
the waters of the river? see 224, 380. [Shihor or Sihor is the
Nile).
MZRIO ZRO mezerio zerao. yielding seed. [Genesis 1:11] And God
[Elohim] said, let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing
plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it,
according ot their various kinds."
ADM Adam. Man (see 45). [Mem = 600] The Zohar [I:34B. p.130]
says: ...the words 'let us make man' [in our image, after our
likeness-Genesis 1:26] may be taken to signify that God imparted
to the lower beings who came from the side of the upper world the
secret of forming the divine name 'Adam', which embraces the
upper and the lower in virtue of its three letters, Aleph,
Daleth, and Mem final. Paul Case: emphasis on Mem final suggest
ADM here = 605 = GBRTh, enclosure, wall, or mistress, sovereign
lady.
ShShH six. [Genesis 30:20] Then Leah said, 'God has presented me
with a precious gift. This time my husband will treat me with
honor, because I have born him six sons.' So she named him
Zebulum. This is the number of the hexagram, the cross of six
squares and Tiphareth. see 600.
Greek
VThRA. and she saw. [Genesis 3:6] [Gutman Locks: The Spice of
Torah, p.254]
ChM Ham. warmth, heat; Noah's son. [Genesis 9:18] And the sons
of Noah, that went forth of the Ark, were Shem and Ham, and
Japheth: and Ham is the father of Cannan. see 48. [Mem = 600]
Written ChThR-NA I pray you dig, dig now!. in [Ezekiel 8:8] (7)
"Then he brought me to the entrance ot the court. I looked, and I
saw a hole in the wall. (8) He said to me, 'son of man, now dig
into the wall.' So I dug into the wall and saw a doorway there."
609 (3*7*29)
VARBTh and the windows. [Genesis 7:11] [Gutman Locks: The Spice
of Torah, p.254]
OMK immekah. with thee. [Psalm 36:9] For with thee is the
fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light. [Kaph = 500]
see 130.
IM yam. the sea; one of the titles of Binah, the great reservoir
of substance from which forms are specialized, i.e. the radiant
darkness of limitless light. [Mem = 600] see 50.
ThVRH Torah. Law. The Zohar [IV:166B, p.74] comments: The Torah
is a light which kindles that lamp (i.e. the mishnah] from the
side of primordial light, which is of the right hand, because the
Torah was given form the right hand [Deuteronomy 33:2], although
the left was included in it to attain perfect harmony. this light
is included in the 207 [AVR = light = 207 = AIN SVP, the
boundless) worlds which are concealed in the region of light, and
is spread throughout all of them. These worlds are under the
hidden supernal throne. There are 310 [ISh = 310 = MThRVNH
matrona) of them: 207 belong to the right hand and 103 [ABNIM,
stones = 103 = HVA HALHIM, He is God] to the left hand. These are
the worlds which are always prepared by the holy one for the
righteous, and from them spread treasures of precious things,
which are stored away for the delight of the righteous in the
world to come.
Greek
MShH RBINV moshe rabbinu. Moses, our Rabbi. Moses is Mem = Water,
Shin = Fire, Heh = vision or 345 = tranquility, inner peace = the
name, i.e. IHVH. Rabbi means master, lord, teacher. The name of
the Lord is the teacher which brings inner peace. see 345.
614 (2*307)
ADM MLK Adam Melek. King Adam. This the One Ego or Higher Self,
also called the Stone, seated in Tiphareth, to attain union with
King Adam is to become the Stone. see 45, 90, 570, 135, 1081, 53.
The ordinary human falls far short of the true purpose of
incarnation. That purpose is to provide an adequate personal
vehicle through which the Central Ego, or Adam the King may
express itself. [Great Work #52, p.2]
IVM yom. day, the manifest. also IVM to be warm or bright. [Mem =
600] see 56.
AChRITh ahaerith. The end (of space, time); future; latter end;
result; posterity. [Isaiah 46:10] Declaring the end from the
beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet
done, saying, my counsel shall stand, and I will do all my
pleasure. see 743.
ShORIM shawrim. gates, doors. The gates are the various points
of entrance whereby the Limitless Light projects Itself into
manifestation. Kether includes the potency of all these gates
(whether 50, (Binah) or 231) and thus its action in Yetzirah
denotes the beginning of the formative process and the totality
of its expression through the other aspects depicted by the rest
of the suit of Swords. see 231, 1180.
OShIRM. Pluto.
RShOIM rawshawim. wicked men [Psalm 1:1 and 4]. see 12, 21, 37,
157, 1032, 501.
AISh ShDH ish saweh. a man of the field , i.e. one living in the
open country. [Genesis 25:27] And the boys grew: and Esau was a
cunning [skillful] hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a
plain man, dwelling in tents. see 309, 376, 182.
Greek
OShRVN the tenth portion [Mathers]. [Exodus 29:40] "And with the
one [sacrificial] lamb a tenth deal of flour..." This word is
spelled with the Vav omitted in this passage. The number 10
refers to Malkuth, the physical plane where the Lamb of God, the
Christos or Higher Self in Tiphareth is sacrificed or slain by
the Qlipphotic forces.
BRKVTh. benedictions.
Greek
35 = 630
TzPNThI Tzaphanathi. "I have laid up" (Psalm 119:11). The word
is from a root, Tzaphan TzPN, to hide, conceal, to preserve,
treasure up, keep in store. The fiery Mars force as it functions
in Yetzirah is the basis for the patterns which serve as a
storehouse for wisdom. It is also the basis of the patterns which
express as the cosmic order of nature. These patterns conceal the
true nature of the force they express. see 44, 661, 1335.
ShMO BQVL OBDV shomed be-kol abeddo. That obeys the voice of his
servant. [Isaiah 50:10] "Who is among you that fears the Lord,
that obeys the voice of his servant, that walks in darkness, and
has no light? Let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay
upon his God." His servant = ChSID Chassid or saint; one of the
Hassidim rules Gemini: and suggest that purification of the Mars-
force must be a self-conscious activity.
631 (prime)
[Daniel 2:41] "And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay,
that shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall
not cleave to one another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
The meaning is posterity. see 277, 357, 2681 (Greek).
Greek
Greek
ZKR VNQBH BRAM zakar ve-neqebah berawm. He created them male and
female. [Genesis 5:2] "Male and female he created them; at the
time they were created, he blessed them and called them humanity
[ADM]." see 390, 45.
634 (2*317)
[In Great Work lesson 39, page 2 Paul Cases says these to
entries, (garden enclosed is my sister, and copper is molten out
of stone) are equivalent. However, the Interlinear Bible have
these phrases off by a value of 6 (Vav).]
635 (5*127)
ve-abiv ish-Tzori [VABV AISh TzRI]. and his father was a man of
Tyre (Rock) [1 Kings 7:14]. Refers to the parentage of Hiram
Abiff, hero of freemasonry. Hiram's father is further described
as being ChRSh NChShTh khoresh nekhosheth, a worker in brass.
Brass is the symbolic metal of Venus, creative imagination, so he
who is a "worker in brass" is one who excels in creative
imagination. (note that there is a correspondence between TzR,
rock, and ABN, stone which is 53, key number of 636). see 1266,
611, 133, 1596.
TzDIQ AThH IHVH Tzaddi Attah IHVH. Just (Righteous) are you, God
(Tetragrammaton). see 406, 204, 26.
Greek
SRThN + NOR sahraytawn + na'ar. crab plus boy. The adept protects
and isolates himself from the illusions of his environment by
using magical speech (sound vibration correlated with imagery).
By this means he builds as indestructible body of light. The boy
is the result-the awakened Ego-consciousness turning inward and
eastward to Yekhidah in Kether. see 319, 320.
OThIQIN Atiqin. Ancient Ones [Daniel 7:9 to 22]. "I beheld till
the thrones were cast down, and the Anceint of Days did sit,
whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like
the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his
wheels as burning fire." In Daniel the singular is used. It
refers to the Ancient of Days. see 510, 250, 90, 53, 200, 1290.
PNIK pahnehkah. thy face; thy presence (see 160).
Greek
*** cont. "...For the spouse is called the heaven, and the member
of the treaty is the firmament, like as, therefore, the last two
paths in the whole name IHVI, are designated by the letters Vav
and Yod, so likewise these in this portion of the square are
designated by the letters Yod and Heh. The Husband has dominion
over the wife, since it is not written Vav but Yod, which is the
symbol of the member of the treaty, and herein denotes the actual
combination with the female: life as it is written [Proverbs
10:25] 'And the just man is the foundation of the world'. But
this saying he illustrates his meaning; because by the letter Yod
is understood the fundamental member by which the world is
reserved in existence."
Latin
Emmanuel (Gr). "God with us." One of the titles of Jesus. see
644, 1768, 800, 656, 1480, 1408, 1844, 888.
645 (3*5*43)
IH IHVH ADM Yah IHVH Adam. the father, the creative word and
making or humanity. [IRQ:778] "Rabbi Eliezar arose, and commenced
and said, Psalm 108:5 "I called upon Yah in my distress; Yah
heard me at lodge. Tetragrammaton is on my side, I will not fear,
what can man do unto Me? Tetragrammaton takes my part with them
that help me, and I shall see my desire upon mine enemies. It is
better to trust in Tetragrammaton than to put any confidence in
man [Adam]. It is better to trust in Tetragrammaton than to put
any confidence in princes."
647 (prime)
VThAMR and she said. [Genesis 3:2] [Gutman Locks: The Spice of
Torah, p.262]
648 (8*9*9)
OTz ChIIM ThAVH BAH etz chaiim tauah bah. Desire fulfilled is a
Tree of Life. [Proverbs 13:12] "Hope deferred makes the heart
sick: but when desire comes, it is a Tree of Life." see 160, 68.
Greek
[All of the above examples are from Bond and Lea: A preliminary
Investigation of the Cabala, p.78]
649 (11*59)
IMM yamin. hot springs [Genesis 36:24] [Mem = 600] see 90.
HALHIM ha-Elohim. The Creative Powers (of God) [Mem = 600] see
91.
Greek
Greek
ANKI IHVH ALHIK anokiy IHVH Eloheka. I am the Lord your God.
[Exodus 20:2] "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of
Egypt, out of the land of slavery." These words are the preface
to the ten commandments. [Kaph = 500] see 173.
654 (2*3*109)
ShHM IQR Soham Yaqar. the precious onyx [Job 28:16]. see 80, 85,
549, 226, 876, 345.
HQDVSh BRVK HVA ha-Qadosh Barukh Hu. The Holy One, blessed be He
[Godwin]. Referred to in [Isaiah 10:17] "And the light of Israel
shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall
burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day." see 1135,
12, 228, 207, 541, 44.
KI-QRVB ALIK HDBR MAD kei-qarob alika ha-dabar medde. But the
word is very nigh unto thee. [Deuteronomy 30:14] "But the word is
very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart that thou
mayest do it." see 1633, 978, 308, 206, 61.
656 (16*41)
ThNVR thanoor. Furnace. The symbol for the human body. Origin of
the alchemical term Athanor, defined as "a self-feeding,
digesting furnace, wherein the fire burns at an even heat." Its
fire is the fire of life, and this is the fire which the Zealator
or alchemist's assistant, keeps burning. see 662, 85 (Latin).
Also ThNVR an oven (Aramaic ThNVRA, Septuagint ).
Leviticus 2:4] "... an oblation of a meat offering, baked in an
oven..." Observe that NVR (Aramaic for fire) + Tav (Saturn).
Greek
BN ADM Ben Adam. son of man. [Psalm 8:4] "What is man that you
are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?" Refers
to man as the means whereby the divine grace becomes manifest
through correct understanding of the desire nature. [Mem = 600]
see 97, 747, 1307, 2198 (Greek).
ShBTh SVPR shebet sopher. the pen of the writer (i.e. scribe).
[Judges 5:14] "And Barak's works are known in Malek; after you
marched Benjamin with affection for you; out of Machir came forth
a seer, and out of Zebulun those who write with the pen of a
scribe." Zebulun is attributed to Cancer, associated with Cheth
and speech; ShBTh also means rod, scepter, tribe, race. see 311,
95.
VBRKThIK and I will bless you. [Genesis 26:25] [Gutman Locks: The
Spice of Torah, p.264]
Greek
α heh naus. the ship. "The church was called a ship, since
the temple was designed as an image of the universe." [Canon,
p.73] see 651.
ShGG VMShGH segeg ve-masayggeh. the erring and the seducer. [Job
12:16] "With him is strength, and wisdom; the deceived and the
deceiver are his" (the Lord's). see 306, 311.
OTh QTz ayth qaytz. The time of the end. Note: QTz in the Hebrew
lexicon is given as meaning "the time of redemption, the
Messianic age."
Greek
ChLLH IDV NChSh BRCh kellah yado nachash beruach. his hand has
formed the crooked serpent [Job 26:13]. in the Jewish translation
it is "the hand has pierce the crooked serpent." This is in
direct correspondence with the letter-name ThITh, Teth. see 418,
358, 20. Yod, the creative hand forms this energy in various ways
and pierces its lower expressions, to be used in the birth of new
ones. see 1885.
ThVRH HADM torah ha-adam. the law of Adam (Humanity), the manner
of Humanity, the coming generations of men. [2 Samuel 7:19] "And
this was yet a small thing in the sight, O Lord God; but thou has
spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come. And
is this the manner of man, O Lord God? This is the authorized
version translation. In the American translators render it "the
coming generations of men" to make it agree with the context. It
has to do with the law of humanity which is the secret of works,
and which give the foresight suggested by the Bible passage.
KI-LQCh AThV ALHIM ki-lawqah otho Elohim. for Elohim took him, .
[Genesis 5:24] "And Enoch walked with the Elohim, and we was not,
for Elohim took him." see 84, 1831.
IShThVLVSh Ishtolosh. Day demon of the 3rd decanate of Pisces.
The name of the demon suggest the powers of personal will (Yod)
which burns and transforms personality (Shin) by diverting the
serpent power (Teth) through psychic receptivity (Vav), resulting
in misguided action (Lamed), falsely linked (Vav) to the Holy
Spirit (Shin). This decanate ruled by Mars and has the qualities:
vigilant, cordial, suave. The influence of the demon suggest
conscious imbalance, resulting in negative aspect of these
qualities. The 3rd decanate is also attributed to the 10 of Cups
in the Tarot Minor Arcana. This corresponds to influence between
experience in the world and creative thoughts and images. When
negatively aspected, as here, this can indicate danger from
psychism; probability of being injured mentally through unwise
attempts at meditation, in spiritual questions; otherwise the
danger of self-undoing from psychism; prodigality; possibility of
being influenced by others though the desire nature; tendency to
drug habits and drunkenness; disgust resulting form over-
indulgence; exist in pleasure. The remedy is to overthrow errors
in conscious thinking, purify and transmute the physical body to
serve as a instrument for the expression of spiritual powers.
662 (2*331)
Latin
Length of the Staff that the Fool carries. Gimel + Samekh + Tav =
463.
HKVKBIM ha-kokabim. the stars. [Genesis 1:16] "And God made two
great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser
light to rule the night: He made the stars also." God is Elohim,
the 7 Creative Powers, corresponding to the 7 interior "stars" in
the microcosm. [Mem = 600] see 103. [Judges 5:20] "They fought
from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
see 1777 (Greek), 48.
*** [beginning of text missing] cont. The Zohar [I:18B, 19A] also
comments: "Fruit tree bearing fruit. One degree above another,
these combining male and female. just as 'fruit tree' produced
the most of 'trees bearing fruit', so the latter in true produced
'cherubim and pillars'. 'Pillars' are those that go up in the
smoke of the sacrifices and derive their strength there from, and
hence are called 'pillars of smoke', and all of them exist
permanently for the 'service of man', whereas the 'grass' has no
permanence being destined to be consumed as food, as it is
written: 'Behold now Behemoth, which I made with thee; he eats
grass like an ox' [Job 40:15]. The words 'fruit tree bearing
fruit' indicate the form of male and female in combination
(p.79)... The four letters of the Tetragrammaton... are engraved
on the throne, and the throne is decorated with them, one to the
right, one to the left, one in front, and one behind,
corresponding to the four quarters of the world. The throne when
it ascends is stamped with these four likenesses. These four
supernal names bear along the throne, and the throne is comprised
in them, and collects a harvest of longing desires. When it has
collected these desires, it descends with its burden like a tree
laden with branches on all sides and full of fruit. As soon as it
descends these four likenesses come forth in their several shapes
emitting bright flashes which scatter seed over the world. Hence
it is written, 'herb yielding seed', because these scatter seed
over the world. But of the issuing forth of the likeness of man
which comprises all the other likenesses [of the Cherubim] it is
written, '"Fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, the seed of
which is in it one the earth.' It produces no seed save for
propagation. The term 'in it' should be noticed. It teaches us
that man may not emit his seed idly. This is hinted in the word
'verdure' which can be shaped or engraved in any manner at all.
Such things show themselves but to vanish: they have not acquired
form and likeness, and have no permanency; they exist only for a
moment and then are consumed in the fire which devours fire, and
are continually renewed or devoured." (pp.80-81)
666 (2*9*37) [15*15 + 21*21]
The total of the numbers in the magic square of the sun, and the
value of the magic line of the sun. A solar number representing
man as a center of solar activity and referring specifically to
Tiphareth.
SThRV sithru. His secret place, his covering. [Psalm 18:11] "He
made darkness his secret [i.e. hiding] place; his pavilion round
about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies." The
material world veils spiritual truth. see 994.
HShLK OL-IHVH IHBK VHVA IKL KLK]. Cast your burden upon Jehovah
and He will sustain you (Psalm 55:22). This phrase is numerically
666. see 1554.
ARVN HQDSh Ayron ha-qodesh. The Holy Ark (on which the tables of
the law were written). see 257
OShH ARTz "he has made the earth" [Jeremiah 51:15, 10:12]. "He
has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by
his wisdom, and has stretched out the heaven by his
understanding." see 702, 652, 1476.
Greek/Latin
φ Heh phren (Gr). Lower Mind. Probably from ***** "to rein
in, to curb". In plural, the midriff or the muscle which parts
the heart and lungs from the lower viscera. In Homer, both in
singular and plural the heart, mind, understanding, reason. Thus
its relates to Tiphareth, the seat of the Ego-sense, derived from
Kether. see 538, 597 (Greek); 1105 (Greek); 200, 1081, 53, 640.
Vicarius Filii Dei (Lt). Vicar of the Son of God. Note that
Filii, son, is the number 43.
D.C.; L.X.; V.I. (Lt). Sum of the only 6 numerical letters the
Romans used.
ShMN LMAVR shemen le-mawaur. "oil for lighting." The lamps are
the interior starts or chakras. The oil is the nerve force, a
modification of Kundalini (which is the esoteric "coiled fiery
power" or astral light). The oil is made to energize the lamps by
means of exercise in which counting is essential, because they
include rhythmic breathing, rhythmic intonation of divine names,
etc. see 412, 390, 207.
HVA GLA OMIQThA Hua galah omikatha. He reveals the depths (the
unfathomable things). For those who know the secret of the
lighting of the oil. see 38.
ShM IHVH AQRA Shem IHVH ehqayarah. I will proclaim (publish) the
name of Tetragrammaton. [Deuteronomy 32:3] "Because I will
publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God."
The name lights up all areas of darkness and ignorance symbolized
by Gehenna. see 345, 26, 340.
OM im. with, together with, by, close to, near. In [Daniel 2:43]
"And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the
people will be a mixture and will not remain united, and more
than iron mixes with clay." Fabre D'Olivet comments: "OM Hum.
Matter universalized by its faculties: tendency of its parts one
toward another; the force which makes them gravitate toward the
general mass, which brings them to aggregation, accumulation,
conjunction; the force whose unknown case is expressed, by the
relation with, toward, among, at. OM every idea of union,
junction, conjunction, nearness: a bond, a people, a corporation.
The Arabic [word] presents in general the same sense as the
Hebrew. As a verb, it is the action of generalizing, of making
common. By [Arabic word] is understood a painful condition, a
sorrow, an uneasiness, etc." [The Hebrew Tongue Restored, p.418]
[Mem = 600] see 110.
ALP DLTh NVN IVD Adonai. spelt in full. Divine name of Malkuth.
see 65, 55, 95.
ARTh MTzRIM Ertez Mizaim. Land of Egypt. This confirms what has
been said of Malkuth and its relations to "Egypt". [Deuteronomy
15:15] "And thou shalt remember that thou was a bondman in the
land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee."
BKL-HR QDShI be-kawl-har qahdeshi. In all my holy mountain.
[Isaiah 65:25] "The Wolf and Lamb will feed together, and the
lion and will eat straw like an ox, but dust will be the
serpent's food. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy
mountain." see 3804 (Greek).
ThARO Taro. The "wheel" of Tarot, which speaks the law of Hathor
(mother nature) in this Latin phrase: Rota Taro Orat Tora Ator.
see 48 (Latin).
Greek
IHVH ALHIM Jehovah Elohim. the special Divine Name of Binah, the
third Sephirah. see 112
DBR-IHVH AMTh Dahbar IHVH emeth. Word of God is truth. see 52.
Greek
Greek/Latin
*** 725*** LILH HCHShK VIQRA and he called the darkness night.
[This is my best approximation of this entry.]
Greek
Latin
ThRDP you shall follow, purse. [Genesis 16:20] [Gutman Locks: The
Spice of Torah, p.269]
685 (5*137)
ANI ALHI KL BShR. I am the Lord, the God of all mankind (flesh)
[Jeremiah 32:27] see 61, 26, 46, 50, 502.
ZRO HQDSh zerao ha-dodesh. the holy seed. [Ezra 9:2] "for they
have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons:
so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of
those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers has been
chief in this trespass." see 681, 277, 404.
687 (3*229)
ASh ShMIM esh shawmayim. Fire of heaven. An old name for Key 16.
The heavens are Fire (Shin) plus water (MIM). see 395, 300, 90,
301, 98.
Greek
Greek
*** [beginning of text missing] the six faces of the cube is 21,
a die is also related by number symbolism to the divine name,
Eheyeh... 8, as well as 7 and 12, is definitely associated with
dice, because exactly 8 points, or corners, are requited to
establish the dimensions of a cube... The Greek word kubos, which
means both 'cube' and 'die', gives a total of 692 = 6 + 9 + 2 =
17 = 1 + 7 = 8... the dimensions of a die... Present all the
numbers especially sacred in this symbolism of the Hebrew cultus.
It has 6 sides, corresponding to the hexagram... the four sides
of each face correspond to the 4 sides of the breast plate, and
to the 4 letters of the divine names AHIH Eheyeh, 'existence',
ADNI, Adonai, Lord, and IHVH, the ineffable Tetragrammaton. Its
12 edges refer to the 12 tribes of Israel, and correspond to the
12 jewels of the breastplate... The dimension of a cube are
established by 8 points, connected by 12 lines, which form 6
superficies, and the sum of 8, 12, and 6 is 26, the sum of the
values of the letters in the Tetragrammaton, IHVH... Krishna says
'among things which deceive, I am the dice', for the semblance of
luck, the appearance of chance, the manifold superstitions that
arise from the illusion of manyness presented to our senses by
the universe-these are the sources of the deceptions that hold
every man in bondage until, by the right use of his God-given
intellect, he penetrates behind the multipliciyt of things to the
one who is ther source." [The Symbolism of Dice]. Spelled ε
(gambling, sleight, artifice) in [Ephesians 4:14] "That we
henceforth be no more chidren, tossed to and fro, and carried
about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and
cunnng craftness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive." Note that
he cube is a symbol of light and truth. see 436 (Greek), 1543,
1547, 1554, 1587, 2331.
***α ατ akratos. unmixed, unpolluted. Spoken of the wine of
God's wrath, as strong and intoxicating in [Revelations 14:10]
(9) "And another, a third angel follwed them, saying with a loud
voice 'if any one worship the beast and his image, and receive a
mark on his forehead, or on his hand, (10) Even he shall drink
693 (7*9*11)
***also of gold, iron and brass; also of gold, iron, copper and
antimony, which are gathered together after fulmination by
vinegar, out of the lixiuium which are changed into a red oil,
with mout hydragyrum, do tinge silver. For from [Proverbs 21:20]
('There is treasure to be desire, and oil in the dwelling of the
wise; but a foolish man spends it up'), We know there is a
treasure to be desired and also an oil to be found in the
dwelling of a man of wisdom."
694 (2*347)
MTzPVN ZChK IAThH matzaphon zhub yathan. Gold cometh from the
North [Job 37:22]. Enlightenment has its origin in the hidden
sources of power which terrify the ignorant.
VIQRA ALHIM LAVR IVM vayekera Elohim la-aur yom. And God called
the light Day [Genesis 1:5]. Day is manifest. All manifestation
is the phenomenal expression of the powers of light. see 740,
2775 (Greek).
700 (5*5*5*7)
Final Nun. Meaning fish. Alchemist "Would have know, also, that
the meaning of the noun Nun, taken as a proper name, is
'perpetuity, eternity, or everlastingness'. And they would have
known that the name 'Jesus' is merely a variant of Joshua, the
successor of Moses, whose father was name Nun. The
everlastingness... was unquestionably associated by the ancient
Hebrews with ... procreative power... and it is an open secret
that the mystery veiled by the letter of both Testaments.. is a
mystery summed up in these words: generation and regeneration...
Nun stands for the zodiacal sign Scorpio, which governs generation
because it rules the reproductive function.. Scorpio, and is
entitled 'death' because of the connection between Scorpio and the
8th house of the zodiac, termed 'the house of death'. Again, the
8th house is also the 'house of inheritance', and in all its
meanings 'inheritance' signifies something transmitted by parents
to offspring, so that it has a direct correspondence with the
verbal meaning of Nun, 'to sprout'... That this wisdom is related
to inheritance is not due to its being passed on from mouth to ear
only, but also to the fact that is central mystery is a mystery of
sex." [Paul Case: True and Invisible Rosicrucian Order (4th), pp.
68-69] see 1219, 407 (Greek), 8. See also the parable of the
loaves and fishes in the Bible [Matthew 14:17, 15:34] and note,
581.
"The Kapporeth concealed what was in the ark and the paroketh hid
the ark itself; hence both words indicate occultation, secrecy and
mystery. The four 'metals' represented forces of occultation,
because their combined activity results in ordinary human
conscousness. Thus they are forces which hide the sacred mystery
from the eyes of the profane. Yet the same forces are employed by
initiates to open the higher vision which enables man to
comprehend the true meaning of the same mystery, which is the
mystery of his own true nature." [Paul Case: True and Invisible
Rosicrucian Order (4th), p.64]
But not only does the word ShTh express at once, the foundation of
things, and the element which inclines to it, but it also serves
in Hebrew, to designate the number two, in its feminine
acceptation, and in Chaldaic, the number six... That the name of
Sheth, or Seth, presents itself, as those of Kain and of Habel,
under two acceptations wholly opposed. We have seen in treating of
the latter two, that if Kain was the emblem of force and power, he
was also that of rage and usurpation; we have seen that if one
considered Habel as the emblem of thought and the universal soul,
he was also regarded as that of nothingness and of absolute void:
now, Sheth is the object of a contrast no less striking. The
Hebrews, it is true, have represented him as the type of a chosen
family; the historian Josephus has attributed to him the erection
of those famous columns, upon which was carved the history of
mankind and the principles of universal morals; certain oriental
peoples and particularly those who make profession of Sabaeanism,
have revered him as prophet; indeed many of the Gnostics called
themselves Sethians: but is known, on the other hand, that the
Egyptian confusing him with Typhon, called his the violent, the
destructor, and gave him the odious surnames of Bubon and of Smou:
it is also known that the Arabs considering him as the genius of
evil, called him Shathan, by adding to his primitive name ShTh the
augmentative final VN. This terrible name, given to the infernal
adversary, Satan, in passing into the Hebraic tongue with the
poems of Job, has brought there all the unfavorable ideas which
the Arabs and the Egyptians attached to the name Seth, Sath or
Soth, without harming, nevertheless, the posterity of this same
Sheth, whom the Hebrews have continued to regard as the one from
whom men, in general, and their patriarch, in particular, drew
their origin." [The Hebrew Tongue Restored, pp.146-147]
Greek
αατ akroatems. a hearer. One who hears but does not regard.
Written αατ?α? in [Romans 2:13] (12) "Therefore, as many as
sinned without law, will perish also without law; and as many as
sinned under law, will be judged by law; (13) For not the hearers
of law are just before God, but the doers of law will be
justified." Also in [James ??:23] "But become doers of the word,
and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. (23) For if anyone be
a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he resembles a man viewing
his natural face in a mirror... but he who looks intently into
that which is the perfect law of freedom, and continues it, not
becoming a forgetful hearer, but a doer of its work, this man will
be blessed in his deed."
701 (prime)
"Now comes the path of Yod, which carries the influence of Mercy
into Beauty, concentrated in a complete realization of the cosmic
purpose indicated by the name of the path, Intelligence of Will.
In the Tarot the Hermit, far form being a conventional type of
priest, illustrates the masculine expression of beneficence
Chesed, through Yod, the letter of the father. This will be clear
upon examination of the ninth key of the Tarot." [32 Paths] "I am
the Intelligence of Will, knowing the way, the truth and the
light." [Meditations on the Paths of Wisdom]
OZRNV BShM IHVH etzerenu be-shem IHVH. our help is in the name of
Tetragrammaton. [Psalm 124:8] "Our help is in the name of the
Lord, who made heaven and earth." Troward on Psalms: "We get God
on our side by putting ourselves on the side of God; i.e., we work
from the principle of interior (=divine) power, realizing that the
primary action takes place on the interior plane... 'Our help is
in the name of the Lord.' How can a name help? 'The name of the
Lord 's a strong tower: the righteous runs into it and is safe'.
[Proverbs 18:10] The answer is that this name is IHVH. see 2607,
1101 (Greek).
Greek
*** 506 α Saul. "Asked of God". 1. The first king of Israel.
2. The Jewish name of the apostle Paul during his early period of
persecution of the Christians and before his conversion by "seeing
the light", see 901 (Greek), 337, 781 (Greek).
αδ Hulos Dabid. Son of David, i.e. Jesus. see 680, 21
(Greek),
702 (2*27*13)
Ceased in [Joshua 5;12] "And the manna ceased on the morrow after
they had eaten of the grain of the land; neither had the children
of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the produce of the
land of Canaan that year." To rest in [Exodus 31:17] "It [the
Sabbath] is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever;
for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth and the seas and
all that are therein, and on the seventh day he ceased from work
and rested." [Exodus 21:19] "If he rises again and walks in the
street with his staff, then the one who struck him shall be
acquitted, except that he shall pay for the loss of his time and
the physician's fee."
VIThPRV va-yathpheru. and they sewed. [Genesis 3:7] "Then the eyes
of both of them [Adam and Eve] were opened, and they realized they
were naked, so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings
for themselves."
ABN eben. stone. Upon which the Empress sits. see 53.
GN gan. garden (see 53). Both ABN and GN are emphasized by the
symbols of Key 3, ABN by the great stone on which the Empress
sits, and to by the garden which is the scene of the picture. Both
are symbols of the Great Work, and of the power which is
controlled and transmuted in alchemy. This is the power of Yesod,
the reproductive energy. It is shaped, moreover, by acts of
creative imagination. see 124, 45, 53.
VATh HARTz veath ha-eretz. and the earth. [Genesis 1:1] "In the
beginning the Elohim cut apart the heavens and the earth." see
401, 291. The physical place is to be made into the garden.
Greek
Ho agois Israel, cont. This term does not appear in the New
Testament, but occurs several times in the Old Testament, as in
[Psalm 89:18] "For the Lord is our defense; and the holy one of
Israel is our king". [Isaiah 41:14] "Fear not, thy worm Jacob, and
ye men of Israel; I will help thee, says the Lord, and thy
redeemer, the holy one of Israel." [Isaiah 48:17] "Thus says the
Lord, thy redeemer, the holy one of Israel; I am the Lord thy God
which teaches thee to profit, which leads thee by the way which
thou should go." [Isaiah 54:5] "For thy maker is thine husband;
the Lord of Hosts is his name; and thy redeemer the Holy One of
Israel; the God of the whole earth shall he be called."
be-ehben [BABN] with (or in) a stone. [Exodus 21:18] "If men
quarrel and one hits other with a stone or with his fist, and he
does not die but is confined to bed" (the one who struck the blow
must pay the injured man ans see that he is completely healed).
[Nun = 700] see 55, 53. The stone is the union of Ab the father
and BN Ben the son, it represents regenerated personality.
Fabre D'Olivet says of this root: "HN hen. The sign of life united
to that of individual and produced existence, constitutes a root
which characterizes existence and things in general; an object, a
place; the present time; that which falls beneath the senses, that
which is conceived as real and actually existing.
HQM Haqem. The 16th name, short form of the Shemhamphorash, also
written HQMIH. see 160. Associated with the 4th quinance of Libra,
and angel of the 3 of Swords (Binah of Yetzirah). The name means
"God who erected the universe". [Mem = 600] see 145.
ThL AVRTh ThLK tal aroth talleka. "thy dew as the dew of lights."
[Isaiah 26:19] Thy dead shall live, my dead bodies shall arise-
awake and sing, ye that dwell in he dust-for thy dew as the dew of
light, and the earth shall bring to light the shades." see 39.
The Greater Holy Assembly [??? 44-47, p.116] says, concerning the
dew or moisture of the brain of the ancient one, Macroprosopus:
(44) and form that skull a dew distills upon him which is
external, and fills his head daily. (45) And from that dew which
flows down from his head, that (namely) which is external, the
dead are raised up in the world to come. (46) concerning which it
is written [1 Canticles 5:2] 'My head is filled with dew'. It is
not written; it is full with dew'; but NMLA nimla [121] 'it is
filled'. (47) and it is written [Isaiah 26:19] "The dew of the
lights is thy dew'. Of the lights-that is, from the brightness of
the Ancient One. (48) And by that dew are nourished the holy
supernal ones. (49) And this is that manna which is prepared for
the just in the world to come."
AVN On. On, the city of the "Sun" or Heliopolis in Egypt. Variant
spelling [Nun = 700](see 57, 51, 701.
DGN sawgawn. corn, grain. [Genesis 27:28] "Therefore God give thee
of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of
corn and wine." [Nun = 700] see 57.
HBN hawben. comprehend. also: HBN ebony; HBN the son. [Nun = 700]
708 (4*177)
BNI ALHIM Beniy Elohim. Sons of God, Sons of the Elohim. The
angelic choir associated with Hod in Assiah (the physical plane)
and Briah (the creative plane). [Mem = 600] see 148.
"The path of Ayin is perhaps the most obscure of all. The Renewing
Intelligence completes the dynamic expression of Beauty by uniting
it to Splendor on the side of the Pillar of Severity. The Key to
the mystery of this path is the word limitation, and it is the
Renewing Intelligence because it is the source of human
consciousness of limitation, incompleteness, lack of bondage. Our
sense of bondage, after all, is the reception of our intuitive
knowledge of the freedom of that which is the essential self of
very man. When we consider the small extent of our personal
achievements the essential perfection of the One Self seems to be
unattainable ideal. Millions of peoples personify this ideal as an
externalized deity. Its opposite, to which hey attributed
limitation of all kinds they personify as a hostile and malignant
agency, the devil. The sense of bondage, however, is what drives
man to seek freedom and thus it leads at last to the splendor
which is the consequence of the strict justice of Geburah, and the
outcome of the dynamic impulse towards beauty which pervades
creation, while at the same time this splendor is the reflection
of beauty." [32 Paths]
Greek
IRK yarak. the thigh, but used as a euphemism for the phallus. In
the Apocalypse (19:16), the Greek noun µ mhros (418) has the
same esoteric meaning. This is linked closely to Qabalistic ideas
which are associated with the 7th Path having to do with the
activity of the generative and reproductive powers of the One
Life. The forces at work in those parts of the human body which
are the seat of man's strongest desires are the ones which must be
controlled in order to win the victory of which the reward is
liberation. The Hebrew lexicon gives: thigh, lion, side, flank;
base; leg of a letter. [Kaph = 500] see 230.
ADM OLH Adam elah. celestial Adam. The heavenly man is the secret
pattern upon which the wisdom of the microcosm is inscribed. [Mem
= 600] see 151, 156, 150.
Greek
Σ ε ei hulos ei. "if you be the son." [Matthew 4;3] part
of the temptation of Jesus by the devil: "Then the tempter
approaching him, said: "if you be a son of God, command that these
stones become loaves [i.e. bread]."
Thuras (Gr). Door [John 10:1,2]. "He who comes in by the door is
the shepherd of the sheep."
711 (9*79)
BThN beten. belly, stomach, womb, the inmost part. see 61.
AIN Ain. Nothing, No-thing. First veil of the absolute. (see 61).
Fabre D'Olivet says of the two roots form which the word is
derived: "ZA za. every idea of movement and of direction; noise,
the terror which results therefrom: a dart; a luminous ray; an
arrow, a flash. The Arabic [word] indicates, as onomatopoetic root
that state of being shaken in the air, the noise made by the
things shaken...'
The Arabic [word] has all the acceptations of the Hebraic root. It
is, in general, everything which covers or which surrounds
another; it is, in particular, a protecting shade, a darkness, as
much physically as morally; a tomb. As a verb, this word expresses
the action of enveloping with darkness, making night, obscuring
the mind, rendering foolish, covering with a veil, enclosing with
walls, etc. In the ancient idiom [Arabic Word] has a signified a
demon, a devil, a dragon; [Arabic Word] a shield; [Arabic Word]
bewilderment of mind; [Arabic Word] an embryo enveloped in the
womb on its mother; [Arabic Word] a cuirass, and every kind of
armor; etc. In the modern idiom, this word is restricted to
signify an enclosure, a garden.
712 (8*89)
Thus to know God must man be still, yet is the stillness but the
veil for the abiding Presence of the Living God. Now see: The
number of Shabbathai is 713, and this is the Holy name AL
multiplied by ChIH, Chaiah, which is the Life-force of all beings
welling out from God Himself, for in Chokmah is Chaiah centered,
and this same Chaiah is the power of AB the Father. Its number
being 23 when AL, which is 31, is multiplied by it, a product
thereof is ShBThAI, or rest.
What the Text means in its quaint mode of expression, is that the
rest is not cessation, but the complete expression of Chesed
through the operation of the Divine Life Force Chaiah. That is
the essence of all the numeral references.
Rest being one with the perfect work of creation, know that all
unrest is but in completion, and truly it is by the way of return
that completion cometh to the Sons of Adam, so that they become
the Sons of the Elohim; and behold, these be the BNI HALHIM, Beni
Ha Elohim, and if thou recognized their name with the full value
of the letter Mem, it is 713. These are they who have followed a
path of return back to their Father's Palace in the Midst. Never
have they been other than the Sons of God, but in the whirling
forth is this forgotten, to be brought once more into mind when
the work of the Chariot is consummated.
"For see, the active Tribes are 11, not 12, for the Sons of Aaron
are Levites, separate from the rest. Now 7 is the number of the
Sabbath and of rest, and 17 is TVB, which signifies "goodness,"
and 7 multiplied by 11 and this by 17 [1309] is the secret number
of Shabbathai. Yet is Teshubah also, and more plainly a sign of
the same thing." [The letter names of Sheen, Beth, Tav, Aleph,
Yod, the full spelling of Sabbathai add to 1309]
...special emphasis was placed on the Tribes and signs, and you
will, if you think it through, see that all this has to do with a
method which converts Sons of Adam into Sons of the Elohim, and
makes them truly Angels in Heaven, for where is Heaven but here,
and what is an Angel but a herald of the Divine Self. Thus the
BNI-HALHIM belong to Hod, the Sphere of Mercury, and all magical
practice is intended to make the Magician truly an Angel." [31st
Communication]
OGLIM egalim. calves. [Malachi 4:2] "But unto you that fear
[revere] my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing
in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves in the
stall." A full-grown calf has developed intuition (Taurus, the
Bull, Vav) and has the superconsciousness of the "ox", which is
Aleph. the stall is Cheth, the fence or field of personality. The
"sun" is the higher self in Tiphareth. Mem = 600, see 153.
Greek
DIN Deen. Justice, the highest name for the 5th Sephirah, Geburah
(see 64).
LChM VIIN lekhem va-yahyin.. bread and wine. [Genesis 14:18] "And
Melchizedek King of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was
the priest of the Most High God." The bread symbolizes the Life-
power as substance. The wine is the same as the "blood of the
grape"; and is the animating energy. [Mem = 600] see 154.
OVLM HBA olahm ha-bah. the world to come, future world. According
to some, means the same as GN ODN Gan Eden, the Garden of Eden. It
is called 'the world to come" in relation to the idea that man in
his dream of separation must consider his restoration to the
paradisiacal state as in the future, or "to come". "The world to
come" is the "new heaven and earth" [Mem = 600] see 154.
ShAR RVCh sheawr ruach. the residue of the spirit. [Malachi 2:15]
"And did he not make one [covenant]? Yet had he the residue of the
spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed.
Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal
treacherously against the wife of his youth. the word translated
is 'exuberance of spirit" [ShAR = remnant, in the Hebrew
dictionary.]
TzCh VARVM tzach ve-awdom. white and ruddy. [Canticles 5:10] "My
beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand." [Mem
= 600] see 155, 98.
ADM OLAI adam Eelo-o. high man; the celestial or ideal man; the
heavenly Adam. The life-power's perfect image of itself. [Mem =
600] see 156.
VShTh vasheti. Vashti, the queen. [Esther 1:9] "Also Vashti the
Queen made a feat for the women in the royal house which belonged
to king Ahasuerus." "The Queen" is one of the titles of Malkuth,
i.e. Malkah.
AVRH AThKM BVD AL oreh ethekem be-yao-el. I will teach by the hand
of God. or I will teach you concerning the hand of God (Jewish
version). [Job 27:11] "I will teach you by the hand of God: that
which is with the almighty will I not conceal." Yod is the
creative "hand"-it is the fire of spirit behind mental images. see
47, 461, 212.
In another passage, the Zohar [IV: 166B, p.75] comments: "It was
this light that the holy one sowed in the Garden of Eden, and
through the agency of the righteous, who is the gardener of the
garden, where it grew, multiplied, and brought forth fruit which
has nourished the world, as it is written: "A light sown to the
righteous' [Psalm 97:11] Thus all the world are nourished to
repletion by that gardener who is called 'righteous'. Only when
Israel is in exile does this light cease. In that time one might
think 'the waters fall form the sea, and the flood decays and
dries up' [Job 14:11], so how can the world be sustained at all?
Therefore it says that 'a light is sown' [AVR ZRO "a light is
sown", may be read "light is a seed"]. That is to say, continually
sown. Now from the time when the stream was cut off from the
garden, the gardener has ceased to visit it; but the light sows
itself, bringing fruit of itself, like a garden which brings forth
without being sown." see 484.
719 (prime)
Greek
ShKL ShLM Saykel Shalom. the Perfect Intelligence, the 8th Path
of Wisdom. Shalom means "whole, uninjured, full, complete. The
meaning "full" refers to completeness in number, measure and
weight. Thus the name of the 8th path indicates a kind of
consciousness which brings forms to completion through applying
the principles of mathematics to accurate measurement. What per-
forms these functions is the human intellect, personified by Thoth
in Egypt, by Nebo in Chaldea, by Hermes among the Greeks, and by
Mercury in the Roman pantheon. Related to what, in our time
concept is the future view of the Life-power's activities. Sphere
of Mercury. The self-conscious process of forming plans to
transform desires into realities, as in Key 1, The Magician. see
1431. Every advance toward a greater perfection is but the
utilization, the unveiling of this primordial treasure. Gedulah,
or Chesed, is the Life-power's unfailing beneficence. The root of
all future blessings is the Life-powers loving provision for our
every need, through our clear patterns.
KN ken. thus, so, just so, such, so much; honest. In [Genesis 1:7]
"So Elohim made the ferment and separated the water under the
expanse form the water above it. And it was so." Also in [Genesis
42:11] "We are all sons of one man. Your servants are honest
[KNIM] men, not spies."
The Arabic [word] has not differed form the Hebraic root in its
primitive origin; but its development have been different. The
intellectual root HVH to be-being, almost entirely lost is Arabic,
has been replaced by the physical root KN; so that in the Arabic
idiom the word [Arabic word], which should designate only
material, corporeal existence, substance in general, signifies
being. This substitution of one root for another has had very
grave consequences, and has derived more than anything else to
estrange Arabic from Hebrew.
Greek
σπ sporos. seed; spore. [Luke 8:11] "Now the parable is this:
the seed is the word of God." In the New testament sporos and
sperma are equivalent and are interchangeable. see 426, 790, 796,
451 (Greek), 50, 64 (Latin), 1728.
µτ α heh meter alethes. the true mother; i.e. Binah.
AGB + IIN agab + yayin. by, through, by means of plus wine; i.e.
delight. the spirit within blood intoxifies; then "the kingdom of
spirit is embodied in my flesh." see 720, 6.
Greek
RASh DBRK all of your words. [Psalm 119:160] "All your words are
true; all your righteous laws are eternal." Resh section of the
Psalm. In the Hebrew text it is written with a small Resh, thus
RASh-DBBK, indicating the importance of "the beginning, the head."
see 1168, 501, 226.
AVR MVPLA + ZRO ALHIM aor mopeleh + zerao Elohim. Hidden light
plus a godly seed. The first point is the seed of this hidden
light, or Kether, the "illumination material." see 363, 364.
728 (8*91)
MH-ShHIH + IHVH IGMR BORI mah shehaiah + IHVH igemer beadi. The
thing that has been plus the Lord will accomplish that which
concerns me. That which has been is that which shall be in
eternity, for the performance of the great work. see 365.
731 (17*43)
Total length of the visible paths when the Aleph line is 26 units
long.
[Judges 7:22] "And the three hundred blow the trumpets, and the
Lord set every man's sword against his fellow, all thoughout the
host: and the host fled to beth-shittah in Zererath, and to the
border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath." Inman writes: "It is
generally said that this word means 'house of the Acacia', ShThH,
Shitah, and that it represents a locality where Acacia trees were
common. It, however, the word represent a shrine, house or temple,
it is probably derived from ShTh, shat, plural shathim, which
signifies 'columns' or 'pillars,' in which case the meaning is
'the temple of the pillars'. [Ancient Faiths Embodied in Ancient
Names, pp. 363-364] both explanations suggest the FM lodge.
LBN laban. white, whiteness; white of the eye, silver coin. White
is the symbol of purity and innocence in Masonic symbolism, and on
the great seal of the U.S. [Genesis 30:35] "And he removed that
day the he goats that were ring-straked and spotted, and every one
that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and
gave them into the hand of his sons." Spelled ?VIThLBNV? "and made
white", in [Daniel 12:10] "Many shall be purified and made white,
and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the
wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understood." [Nun =
700] see 82.
QL ADM kol Adam. the voice of Adam. [Daniel 8:16] "And I heard a
man's voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said,
Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision." [Metathesis of
QDMAL kamael, spirit of Venus]. [Mem = 600] see 175, 130, 45.
ShMSh VMGN shemesh vu-mawgen. sun and shield. [Psalm 84:11] "For
the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and
glory: no good thing will he uphold from then that walk
uprightly." see 1589, 640, 93.
IKIN Jakin. the pillar of Mercy, the white pillar. On the Tree of
life, the pillar of the sephiroth whose numbers 2, 4, and 7 add to
13, the number of unity and love. The magic of light or theurgy
(God-working) depends on recognition of the One-ness of all, and
is based on knowledge that it is essentially love. see 90.
LB-HABN liab ha-ehben. the heart of the stone, the stoney heart.
[Ezekiel 11:19] "And I will give them one heart, and I will put a
new spirit withing you; and I will take the stony heart out of
their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh." The "stoney
heart" is a symbol of the sense of separateness pictured by the
tower in Key 16. [Nun = 700] see 90.
MN men. a portion, as in [Psalm 68:23] (22) "the Lord says 'I will
bring you from Bashan; I will bring you from the depths of the
sea, (23) That you may plunge your feet in the blood of you foes,
while the tongues of you dogs have their portion."
The Arabic [word] has not followed the same developments as the
Hebrew, although they have come from an identical root in the two
idioms, as is proved by the usage of this root as designative
relation represented by of, from, etc. As noun the Arabic root
[Arabic word] designates a thing emanated from another, a gift; as
verb, it characterizes the state of that which is benign,
beneficial; action of that which is deprived in order to give, to
distribute; that which is weakened to reinforce, impoverished to
enrich, etc.
Greek
Aitheros Melos (Gr). Music of the Spheres. The great secret of the
practical occultist is the secret of sympathetic vibration,
whereby impulses of what might be called a certain pitch induce
the activity of cosmic forces far beyond the range of the limited
powers of the physical man. The magic circle symbolizes all these
ideas.
επ πασ ε ho epi pasi Theos. The god over all. Deity creates
using the pairs of opposites; Kether emanates Chokmah (Jachin) and
Binah (Boaz). see 284 (Greek)
Greek
Greek
BN ADM Ben Adam. son of man. [Psalm 8:4] "What is man that you are
mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?" Refers to
man as the means whereby the divine grace becomes manifest through
correct understanding of the desire nature. [Nun = 700] see 97,
657, 1307, 2198 (Greek).
AMVN is also the day demon of the 1st decanate of Gemini, ruled by
Mercury. It suggest self-conscious imbalance of spiritual energy
(Aleph) resulting in mental inertia (Mem), psychic receptivity
(Vav) and cycles of reproductive error (Nun). In the Tarot minor
arcana it corresponds to the 8 of Swords, which is the operation
of Hod, sphere of Mercury in Yetzirah, the formative world. It can
indicate as here, wasted force, ill-directed action, crises in
affairs, malice; ill-natured, too much concern with personalities,
pettiness and over-carefulness in details.
[Zohar: Prologue 6B] says this name implies that he was "The
husband, as it were of the divine glory, leading it where so he
would on earth. A privilege no other man has ever employed." see
311.
748 (4*11*17)
AISh ThM Iysh toom. a perfect man. see 311, 440, 1351, 1000.
ABN + Lapis. This combination of the Hebrew and Latin words for
Stone occurs often in secret writings of the western tradition.
[Nun = 700] see 104.
755 (5*151)
Greek
3. Mackey adds that the word Cephas, the Greek rendering of this
word (Κηφας, 729) is used in the degree of royal master, and
there alludes to the stone of foundation. [Encyclopedia of
Freemasonry, p.154] see 2521.
756 (4*7*27)
KI ShPO IMIM IINQV ki shefa yammim yinaqu. For they will suck
the abundance of the seas [Deuteronomy 33:19]. Said of Zebulun,
attributed to the Old Testament passage relating to the Path of
Cheth. The field (Cheth) of speech where the distinction between
appearance and essence is made for the habitation ("Zebulun") of
deity. see 95, 100, 44. "Seas" are mental substances; "Sand" is
spiral, twisting motion directly connected with sound and with
thought; root of Havilah, the land were there is "gold", i.e.
Tiphareth.
NVN Letter name Nun. fish, to grow or multiply. see 106, 50,
700.
Greek
The sum of Ab (3), Aima (52) and Ben (52), the names of the
Qabalistic trinity: Father (Chokmah), Mother (Binah), and Son
(Tiphareth). (see 107).
The Zohar [II:186B, 187B, 188A] has these comments: "... while
the holy soul is still within man's body, it is incumbent of him
to multiply the image of the king in the world. There is herein
an esoteric thought involved, namely that just as the celestial
stream flows on forever without ceasing, so must man see that his
own river and spring shall not cease in this world... (p.212)
"And raise up seed for thy brother', as that seed is needed for
the purpose of putting things right by growing into human shape
and form then and thus preventing the stock form being severed
from its root. And when all has been put right, then those
concerning receive praise in the other world, as the holy one is
pleased with them (p.216). Now of all the sins which defile a
man, that which defiles him the most, both in this world and in
the world to come, is the sin of spilling one' seed (semen). A
man guilty of this sin will not enter within the heavenly
curtain, and will not behold the presence of the ancient of
days." (p.217).
758 (2*379)
Note that NChSh are the letters for "serpent", and ShRv spells 6
(Sheth), the number of Tiphareth, to which Vav, the "nail" is
attributed. It also spells Seth, whose name means: replacement,
or compensation. This is the reward of those who master the
serpent-power; they become united with the son in the Sephirah
call Beauty. see 358, 700, 6, 12, 1171, 1266. "That is, the word
[Nekosheth] is a formula for the vault." [Paul Case: True and
Invisible Rosicrucian Order (4th), p.187].
VThGShN and they came near. [Genesis 33:6] [Gutman Locks: The
Spice of Torah, p.284]
KNPIM kanawphim. wings. [Malachi 4:12] "But unto you that fear
(revere) my name shall the sun of righteousness rise, with
healing in his wings." A direct reference to the sun. [Mem = 600]
see 200, 1005 (Greek).
Greek
IRATh ADNI HIA ChKMH yereath Adonai heia Chokmah. "The fear of
the Lord that is wisdom." [Job 28:28] "And unto man he said,
behold, the fear [reverence] of the Lord, that is wisdom
[Chokmah]; and to depart from evil is understanding [Binah].
Reverence prepares the way to the sanctifying or "departing form
evil."
766 (2*383)
ThBL VIShBI BH. The world and they that dwell therein [Psalm
24:1]. This pair of numerical correspondences intimates that the
mystical meaning of ZQNIM has to do, not only with states of
being prior to manifestation, but also with the idea that
whatever exists, including the world and its inhabitants, is
actually a projection of the essence designated by the "name"
IHVH. see 3638 (Greek)
Fabre D'Olivet comments on the root HM, from whence this word is
derived: "universalized life: the vital power of the universe.
Onomatopoetic and idiomatic root, which indicates every kind of
tumultuous noise, commotion, fracas. the Arabic [word]
characterizes, in general, that which is heavy, painful
agonizing. It is literally a burden, care perplexity. As verb
[Arabic word] expresses the action of being disturbed, of
interfering, of bustling about to do a thing. [The Hebrew Tongue
Restored, p. 331]
VMZRQThIV. and its basins. [Exodus 27:3] [Gutman Locks: The Spice
of Torah, p.286]
770 (2*5*7*11)
These savants had before then, the Latin word nobilis, which
comes from the same root as the Hebrew NPLIM, and presents the
same characters with the sole difference of the b, which, as in
numerous derivative words, has taken the place of p, or of ph.
They have not seen that the Latin word nobilis, have passed from
Asia into Europe, was the real translation of the word NPLIM; and
that consequently, in the Nephilites of Moses must be seen, not
giants, nor men of colossal stature, but Great Ones; illustrious,
distinguished men, Nobles, in fact.
... the articles PLA or PLH, and they will see among others,
NPLAIM marvelous, wonderful things; NPLAVTh, unheard-of exploits,
astonishing things, miracles; NPLATh, a profound mystery, etc.
[The Hebrew Tongue Restored, p. 179-180]
ThShO teshah. the number "nine" (9); in [Genesis 5:5] "And all
the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and
he died." Fabre D'Olivet renders this verse: "And all the days
(luminous periods) during which Adam (universal man) existed,
were nine hundred cycles and three tens (on ontological
mutation), and he produced Aenosh literally, lime cement, draws
with it all ideas of cementations, consolidation, restoration,
conservation, etc. The verb ShVO, which comes from it, expresses
the action of cementing, plastering, closing carefully. Therefore
the name of the number, being visibly composed of this root ShO,
governed by the sign of reciprocity Tav, should be understood as
cementation, as mutual consolidation. It maintains with number
three [636], a very intimate relation, containing like it, ideas
of preservation and salvation." [The Hebrew Tongue Restored,
p.154] For other numerals, see 13, 400, 636, 273, 348, 600, 372,
395, 570, 441.
771 (3*257)
AChTh TVCh ALHIM ChIIM Achath Ruach Elohim Chayyim. One is the
Spirit of the Living God.
Greek
39 = 780.
AISh MKABVTh Ish makoboth. A man of sorrow. [Isaiah 53:3] "He is
despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted
with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was
despised, and we esteemed him not." Interpreted by the Christian
tradition as a reference to Christ. [The Hebrew translation is "a
man of pains", for KABVTh is the feminine plural of KAB "pains"].
ShPTh shawfath.. to set, place, to put the pot over the fire; to
ordain, establish. By placing spirit (Shin) as the one reality
over matter, one becomes illuminated (Peh) and thereby establishes
dominion (Tav).
VMLAV ATh HARTz vu-melayau eth ha-eretz. And fill the earth.
[Genesis 1:28] "And God blessed them [humanity], and God said unto
them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish [fill] the earth,
and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and
over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves
upon the earth." see 1974 (Greek).
SPLIM shphalim. cups. The suit of cups in the Tarot minor arcana
corresponds to Briah, the world of creation, and to the first Heh
of IHVH. Psychologically, the cups are symbols of the powers of
imagination. The universal subconscious substance is directed and
given pattern through mental imagery, and the whole suit of cups
is receptive to universal principles initiate in Atziluth. [Mem =
600] see 220.
Greek
Greek
ALHI ABRHM ALHI ITzChQ VALHI IOQB Elohi Abraham Elohi Itzchaq ve-
Elohi Yaaqob. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob.
ASh MN HShMIM esh min ha-shamaim. Fire from heaven (2 Kings 1:10).
An ancient title of the letter Peh (Key 16). Refers to lighting.
The holy influence is of the same nature as lighting-the
electrical constitution of matter. see 78, 899, 395, 503.
ATV HRQIO eth ha-raqia. the firmament. the expanse. [Genesis 1:7]
"So God made the expanse and separtated the water under the
expanse from the water above it. And it was so. " It could be that
ATh here means "essence", thus linking it with the fiery water of
Mezla, manifest as lighting. The essence of the firmament can be
seen as mind working on the archetypal plane or Atziluth of the
Qabalist. see 410. Where the prefix Lamed is used instead of Heh
and without ATh. see 1821 (Greek), 380, 1451 (Greek).
2. F.J. Mayers adds: "The Hebrew word is 'rakia'. The root of the
word is 'rak' [RQ] which means anything which expands, extends,
dilates, etc. In Arabic, the root denotes something volatile,
which spreads out like the scent of a flower, or an odor. the
meaning of this ancient root is still preserved in our expression:
'to reek of', and in the Scotch word 'reek', 'smoke'. 'Rak' is
allied to the word 'R-Ch' (Rauch-spirit or breath) [214], but is
rather harder and more materialistic. (It has the heard 'k'
instead of the soft Ch]. The word 'rakia' denotes something
'stretching out', an 'expanse'. It is spiritual in it nature (and
therefore in verse 8 is called 'heaven'), but it linked both with
the spiritual and the material. It is said to be in the midst of
the waters and to 'divide the waters from the waters'. We can,
perhaps, best arrive at some understanding of the real nature and
purpose of this 'firmament' if we remember that the constitution
of 'man' is in close correspondence with the constitution of the
cosmos, and in ourselves we may find the clue we need... now, it
there anything within ourselves-any portion of our being, which
seems, to correspond with what is told us of the firmament? Is
there anything which holds a midway position between our physical
being and our spiritual being- which is a link between the two-
and which is acted upon and has activities in both.' The writer
believes that there is just such a plane of being in that fixed,
permanent center of our human consciousness which we call the
'Ego', the 'I', which lives, feels, thinks and initiates all our
activities." [The Unknown God, pp.35-36]
*** [beginning of text missing] because all the upper waters are
collected in it, and it then transmits them to these hayyoth, and
so they draw from there. It is written: 'A garden shut up is my
sister, by bride, a spring shut up, a fountain sealed' (Song of
Solomon 4:12). This firmament is called a 'garden shut up',
because the whole is enclosed and embraced in it. It is called 'a
spring shut up', because the supernal steam as it courses enters
it but cannot issue, the water being congealed. For the north wind
blows on them, and so they become congealed and cannot issue,
being made into ice; nor would they ever issue were it not for a
wind from the south which breaks up the ice. The appearance is
this highest firmament is like that of the ice which collects all
the waters. Similarly it collects waters and separates the upper
from the lower waters." (pp.122-123).
787 (prime)
*** TzN tzen. thorn. In plural TzNIM in [Proverbs 22:5] "In the
paths of the wicked lie thorns and snares, but he who guards his
soul stays far form them. [Nun = 700] see 140. [beginning of
text missing] Produces thorn and thistle, and the hereditary God-
seed produces grape and fig. The two growths in the same
individual strive for the mastery, and from the deep contrast
between them emerges the perfected life of the child of God.
[Problems, p.81]
NShMTh the breath of. [Genesis 2:7] [Gutman Locks: The Spice of
Torah, p.289]
Greek
Greek
MShNThV out of his sleep. [Genesis 28:16] [Gutman Locks: The Spice
of Torah, p.290]
AMAIMVN Amaimon. Demon king of the north and south. In the Goetia,
the demon king of the east. [Nun = 700] see 148.
Final Peh. Mouth (as an organ of speech). Value of the letter Peh
is its final form. The letter of Mars pictured in Key 16 as the
lighting-struck tower. Connects Netzach (Venus) and Hod (Mercury)
as the path of the Exciting Intelligence on the Tree of Life. In
the human body designates the Mars center or alchemical "metal",
which stimulates the reproductive organs. In the Yoga doctrine,
this center, called by the Hindus Svadistthana chakra, is the seat
of the apas tattva, the tattva of Water. see 80, 85, 899.
ShK soke. abode, dwelling, booth, pavilion. The first two letters
of ShKL, intelligence. [Kaph = 500] see 320. Also: thorn. see 320.
OPRTh ZHB LV aferoth zawhab lo. It has dust of gold [Job 28:6].
The opening verses where this is found, are invested with great
occult significance. One of the clues to the hidden meaning is the
word ARTz, Eretz, Earth. [ARTz MMNH ITzA-LHM]. "earth, out of it
cometh breath?..." is the part alluded to. see 291, 78, 14.
QN qen. cell, chamber, room, nest in [Job 29:18] "I thought, 'I
will die in my own nest (QNI, i.e. house), my day as numerous as
the grains of sand." Plural QNIM in [Genesis 6:14] "So make
yourself an ark of Cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with
pitch inside and out." m=7 see 150.
Greek
Kurios (Gr). Lord. One of the titles of Jesus. Used throughout the
Septuagint translation of the Old Testament for IHVH. In the New
Testament [Mark 13:36 and elsewhere] it is also frequently used in
the same way. see 644, 1768, 656, 1480, 1408, 1844.
Greek
Alpha and Omega (Gr). The first and last letters of the Greek
alphabet. They express the ideas of basis and completion,
necessary for the Great Work in which all students of occultism
seek to participate. A name for Christ [Rev. 1:8]. see 1480, 9,
324, 419, 1, 900.
Peristera (Gr). The dove. The dove is the symbol of the Holy
Spirit, or Ruach. Also a symbol of spiritual Israel. see 71, 214.
802 (2*401)
1. Gaskell suggest that this ark is "a symbol of the casual body
as a means for the preservation of the individuality and the
qualities of the soul, while lower conditions are swept away...
the divine command is given the individuality (Noah) to form a
causal-body, and in the higher mental vehicle several compartments
for different functions are to be made. And it is to be limited in
this nature within and without. 'Pitch' is a symbol of limitation
which provides for the distinguishment of truth... The 'ark' does
in a measure correspond with the 'cross', in that they both
indicate the junction between the higher and lower natures."
[Dictionary of All Scriptures and Myths, pp.65-66] see 407, where
this word is spelled ThBH and 37 (Greek); 432.
Besides, this word AVB, whose vast meaning could not be exactly
rendered by any of those that I know, and which the wisest
Egyptians alone were in a position to comprehend, given over to
vulgar Hebrew and following the proneness of their own gross
ideas, was finally restricted and corrupted to the point of
signifying literally the belly; a leather bottle; and
figuratively, a magic spirit, a sort of demon to which the Jews
attributed the oracles of their sibyls. But there exist in the
Hebraic idiom as well as in the neighboring idioms form the same
source, a mass of expressions, which starting from the same
radical principle, show all its importance.
HQShTV the bow. [Genesis 9:14] [Gutman Locks: The Spice of Torah,
p.9:14]
TzIVN Zion. Zion, the holy of holies. [Psalm 110:2] "The Lord
shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the
midst of thine enemies." [Psalm 50:2] "Out of Zion, the perfection
of beauty, God has shined." [Nun = 700] see 156, 105.
SMN ZITh shemen zayith. olive oil. [Exodus 27:20] "and you shall
command the children of Israel, that they bring you pure olive oil
beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always." see 390.
808 (8*101)
"He removed the high places, smashed the sacred stones and cut
down the Asherah poles. [2 Kings 18:4] He broke into pieces the
bronze serpent Moses had made. For unto that time the Israelites
had been burning incense to it. (It was called Nehushtan). see
ChP Chaph. pure, innocent. In [Job 33:9] "I am pure and without
sin; I am clean and free from guilt. (10) Yet God has found fault
with me; he considers me his enemy." [Peh = 800] see 88.
BH BRAM beh bawreahm. He created them with Heh (H). [Mem = 600]
see 250.
The Zohar [I:25A] says: "It is in this way that God created worlds
and destroyed them, viz. those who do not keep the precepts of
this law; not that he destroys his own works, as some fancy. For
why indeed, should he destroy his sons, of whom it is written:
behibar'am (when they were created) in this passage, which may be
analyzed into behe'beraam, 'He created them by means of Heh.'
(symbolizing the attributed of mercy)?"
ThAKL ALK HGN OTz MLK you are free to eat from any tree of the
garden. [Genesis 2:16]
3. The Zohar [I:35B] says: "Of all the trees of the garden thou
shall surely eat. This means that he was permitted to eat them
all together, for, as we see, Abraham ate, Isaac and Jacob ate,
and all the prophets ate and remained alive. This tree, however,
was a tree of death, in so far that he who ate by itself was bound
to die, since he took poison. Hence it says, in the day that thou
eats thereof thou shall surely die, because thereby he would be
separating the shoots." (p.133)
4. Gaskel adds that the bow in the cloud is "a symbol of the
higher mind as the bridge between the higher nature and the
lower... between the divine nature and the soul there is to be a
channel, or bridge, for purposes of conscious intercommunication,
which is to extend from the cloud (truth, wisdom) downwards; and
this is the constitute the connection between the personality
(earth) and me, the individuality, or the lower nature and the
higher." [Dictionary of All Scriptures and Myths, p.123]
Greek
Greek
HChShK VBIN HAVR BIN ALHIM VIBDL. The Elohim seperated the light
from the darkness.
2. The Zohar [I:160] says: "And God divided: he put away strife,
so that the whole was in perfect order" (p.70); and in [32A,
p.121] "As for the words, 'And God divided the light from the
darkness', this means that he prevented dissention between them.'
Said Rabbi Isaac: 'Up to this point the male principle was
represented by light and the female by darkness; subsequently they
were joined together and made one'... Rabbi Simeon said: 'the
world is created and established on the basis of a covenant, as it
is written, 'if not for my covenant with the day and night, I had
not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth'. [Jeremiah
33:35]. This covenant is the Zaddik (righteous one), the
foundation of the world [i.e. Yesod], and therefore the world is
established on the covenant of day and night together, as stated
in our text, the "ordinances of heaven' being those which flow and
issue forth from the celestial Eden'. Also in [46A p.142-143] "The
expression, 'God saw the light that it was good' means really 'God
decided that the light should be only good', that is, that it
should never be an instrument of wrath (cf. 'that it was good in
the eyes of the Lord to bless Israel', Number 24:1); and this is
proved by the end of the verse, 'and God divided the light from
the darkness.' For although he afterwards united light and
darkness, yet this light continued to emanate from the supernal
radiance, and through that radiance to bring gladness to all. This
also is the right hand through which the most deeply graven
letters [IHV of the sacred name] are crowned... The treasuring up
of the primal light is referred to in the verse, 'how great is thy
goodness which thou has laid up for them that fear thee, which
thou has wrought for them that trust in thee' [Psalm 31;20]."
3. F.J. Mayers writes: "As a man may look in upon himself and
consider the capabilities and qualities of his own mental prowess,
so we are told, did God look upon himself... saw that it was
'good' suited to carry out his purpose and powerful for the task.
So he set it in opposition to the 'darkness', separated it
absolutely from the darkness as a 'being of light' to shine into
the darkness. Thus the divine intelligence becomes, within chaos,
a separative, selective, ordering force. It draw forth from the
'deep' all he needs (and as he requires it) for the 'realization
of his every purpose'. Thus universal 'intelligence' was the first
manifestation of deity." [The Unknown God, p.30]
VIAMR ALHIM IHI AVR VIHI VIHI AVR and Elohim said let there be
light.
AVR, light... It is derived directly form the word AVR fire. The
only difference between them is, that in the word which designate
fire, it is the universal convertible sign Vav which forms the
link between the sign of power Aleph, and that of movement proper
Resh: whereas in the second, it is the intelligible sign Vav. Let
us proceed further. If, from the words AVR and AVR, one takes away
the median sign Vav or Vav there will remain the elementary root
AR, composed of power and movements, which is all known tongues
signifies by turns, Earth, Water, Air, fire, Ether, Light,
according to the sign joined thereunto. see also, radical vocab.
root AR.
ABN APL ehben ophel. the concealed (hidden) stone. stone of thick
darkness. [Job 28:3] "He sets an end to darkness, and searchs out
all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadows of death."
[Nun = 700] see 164.
VChShK ve-kheshek. and darkness. [Genesis 1:2] "And the earth was
without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the
deep. And the spirit of God [Elohim] moved upon the face of the
waters." The processes of transformation take place gradually and
in relative "darkness" until the light dawns. [Kaph = 500] see
1389.
815 (5*163)
Greek
OLIVN oliun, elyon. the Most High; the Supreme, title of Kether.
(see 166).
VBQShThI and with the bow. [Genesis 48:22] [Gutman Locks: The
Spice of Torah, p.293]
NThShThNI suffer me, allow me. [Gutman Locks: The Spice of Torah,
p.293]
820 (4*5*41)
40 = 820
VRDIM veradim. roses. 260.
MISN Nisan. Nisah, the first month of the Jewish calendar [or
seventh, if counting from the new year]. Corresponding to March-
April and is similar to the time period ruled by Aries in the
zodiac, and thus to alchemical calcination. see 7,8. [Nehemiah
2:1] "And it came to pass in the month of Nisan... that... I took
up the wine and gave it to the king." Also mentioned in [Esther
3:7] called ChRSh HABIK, "month or ears" in the Pentateuch. see 5.
[Nun = 700] see 170.
821 (prime)
ShBLTh MIM waterflood. [Psalm 69:15] "Let not the water flood
overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the
pit shut her mouth upon me." see 732, 90.
823 (prime)
Greek
IHVH AISh MLChMH IHVH ShMV IHVH Ish Milchamah IHVH Shemo. The
Lord is a man of war; IHVH is His Name (Exodus 15:3).
Now these creatures are the elemental powers, and these are the
powers of the four letters of Tetragrammaton. They are the Holy
Living Creatures seen by the prophet Ezekiel, and that which
comes into form by their appearance is the Glory of God which is
the true substance of all things and also the Holy Influence
which descends through the paths of the Tree, and ascends again
to be swallowed up in the abyss of radiant darkness for which AIN
is the first veil." [23rd Communication] see 78, 61, 32, 73, 31,
63, 620.
ThTh ZL Tayth Zal. the Profuse Giver. Kether and the number 1.
see 736, 397, 620.
ALVP aluph. chief, duke (as the dukes of Edom, #51); head of a
family or tribe; friend, intimate companion; tame, docile; a
champion in a game; guide. [Peh = 800] see 117. [Genesis 36:15]
"These were dukes of the sons of Esau: the son of Eliphaz the
first born son of Esau; Duke Teman, Duke Omar, Duke Zepo, Duke
Kenza.
Fabre D'Olivet says "HKRBIM, that self same Cherubim... the root
RK, which contains the idea of all multiplication, of all
infinite number.. It is used to the plural and governed by the
assimilative sign Beth." [The Hebrew Tongue Restored, p.120]
KNON Canaan. Canaan, the son of Ham and the original name of the
Land of Palestine. Also: flat, low (see 190, 54, 160).
In the Canon [p.302] we read: "But not only was the whole earth
conceived as an illustration of the canon law, but every country
was seemingly made to conform to the same hypothetical standard-
Palestine for instance, being regarded by the Jews and Christians
as the canonical land, while a similar idea guided the Greeks in
assigning a mystical significance to the various regions and
cities of their country. The word Canaan, applies to the holy
land seems to have some connection with the word canon. In Greek
α is derived from α α or α , a reed, and meant a
measuring rod or carpenter's rule. The Hebrew word for a reed is
QNH (kanah), and is presumably of a kindred origin. Numerically
QNH is equivalent to 155, and this number denotes its purport as
a symbol.. and the land of Canaan, or Palestine, measures form
Dan to Beersheba about 155 miles. The Hebrew name KNON yields
840, a number... discussed in the name microcosmos.
TzVR ILBK Tzoor yelawdekah. Rock that begat thee. see 360.
Greek
AMΩ amo. The Latin word for (1) Love, in Greek characters. "A"
corresponds to the tetrahedron, or Fire, M to the Octahedron, or
Water and Ω to the cube and Air, suggesting the 3 mother letters
of the Hebrew alphabet. see 341. "The inclusion of the M restores
the more perfect form of the mystery [ στ , #1178] of the
Alpha [beginning] and Omega [end]." M here means middle. [Bond
and Lea: A Preliminary Investigation of the Cabala, p.83]
TzVR ILDK + AB tzur ye lawdekaw + ab. the rock that begat thee
plus father. "The rock" is a title of God; it is identical with
the life-force in Chokmah. see 840, 3, 296.
BAR ALIM bar elim. well of the Gods. In Isaiah 15:6 it speaks of
desolate waters and 'no green thing"-the waters of consciousness
are fruitful when the green of creative imagination becomes the
"well of the Gods"; reflecting the divine will. see 284.
Greek
[Daniel 3:6, 7:9] "Whoever does not fall down and worship will
immediately be thrown into a blazing furnace"; as I looked,
thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of Days took his seat.
His clothing was as white as snow; The hair of his head was white
like wool. His throne was flaming with fire, and its wheels were
all ablaze."
Greek
Greek
AMO (Gr). The Beginning Alpha, the Middle Mu, and the End Omega.
see 671.
ThMLA HARTz ChMM thimawlea ha-aretz hawmam. the earth was filled
with violence. [Genesis 6:11] "The earth also was corrupt before
God, and the earth was filled with violence." These events took
place before the great flood and Noah's ark. see 861.
856 (8*107)
VThThN and she gave. [Genesis 3:6] [Gutman Locks: The Spice of
Torah, p.297]
Ateh Gibor le-Olam Adonai [AThH GBVR LOVLM ADNI]. Thou art mighty
forever, O Lord; "Thine is the power of the aeons, O Lord." In
magical manuscripts, we find often the "name" [AGLA], Agla as a
Notariqon (shorthand) for the above. see 65, 76, 406, 1445, 1418,
211, 176.
BTzLM ALHIM BRA AThV be-tzelem Elohim bara othu. In the image of
God created he them.
4. Carlo Suares comments: "We see that the letter Peh appears in
'dust' 'breathes', 'nostrils' and that Shin appears in 'breath'.
the result of the operation is Adam becoming a living nephesh.
Peh stands for all the undeveloped strata of energy. It is given
life in Adam by Shin, the cosmic metabolism... The truth is that
this genesis, this creation of a complete Adam, has not yet taken
place-although it may now be in process of becoming. We can begin
to understand this allegory when-rather than imagining it as a
mere myth of our remote past-we see that potentially, the
complete Adam can come into being within us now. Adam is seeking
birth, but we stifle it every day in its womb." [The Cipher of
Genesis, p.105]
*** Gihon. The second river in the Garden of Eden is the Gihon;
it winds through the entire land of Chush." see 77, 446, 142,
680; 1560, 623, 1514 (Greek).
Greek
859 (prime)
Greek
φατ phatne (Gr). manger, cave or grotto. The place where the
infant Jesus was born. [Luke 2:7, 12, 16] "And she brought forth
her first-born son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and
laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the
inn." (12) "And this shall be a sign unto you; ye shall find the
babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger." (16) "And
they came with haste, and found Mary and Joseph, and the babe
lying in a manger." These two words, "It is finished" and
"manger", refer to the alchemical death and initiation into the
mysteries, and to the place of the birth of the Christ-child. The
cave is also the alchemical laboratory, where the Virgin's Milk
is extracted and utilized.
The Arabic [word] has preserved of the radical sense only the
idea of a thing reduced to powder, which is taken as medicine.
The Syriac [word] characterizes every kind of consummation, or
reducing to powder by fire." [The Hebrew Tongue Restored, p.411]
Greek
choiroi. swine. part of the parable of the prodigal son in
[Luke 15:16] "And he would fain have filled his belly with the
husks that the swine did not eat: and no man gave unto him." see
940.
Greek
ShMSh VIRCh shemesh ve-yerach. Sun and Moon; two important parts
of the great work of regeneration. They correspond to the solar
and lunar currents and their centers at the heart and pituitary
in the microcosm. see 640. Given by Mathers in [Sepher Sephiroth,
p.64]. [Deuteronomy 4:19] "And when you look up to the sky and
see the sun, the moon and the stars-all the heavenly array-do not
be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the
Lord you God has apportioned to all the nations under heavens."
Greek
*** veil of the absolute [Peh = 800] see 146. [Ecclesiastes 3:11]
"He has made everything beautiful in his time: also he has set
the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work
that God makes from the beginning to the end."
ALHI ABIK ALHI ABRHM ALHI ITzChQ VALHI IOVQB Elohay abikaw Elohay
Abraham Elohay yitzoq ve-Elohay Jacob. The God of thy father, the
God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Spelled
ABThIKM (aebothekem) in [Exodus 3:15] "And God said more over
unto Moses, thus shall thou say unto the children of Israel, the
Lord God of our fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and
the God of Jacob, has sent me unto you: this im my name forever,
and this im my memorial unto all generations." see 1301, 248,
208, 182.
Greek
He phatene (Gr). the manger [Luke 2:7, 12, 16]. There may be an
obscure connection between this and the part of the physical body
ruled by cancer, which contains the stomach. Cancer also governs
the breast from which infants are fed. see 859 Greek.
868 (4*7*31)
ChSP khasahf. clay. [Daniel 2:33] "His legs of iron, his feet
part of iron and part of clay." Part of the image revealed in the
king's dream. Also: ChSP revelation, laying bare and ChSP to lay
bare, reveal, draw water. see 148.
[Paul Case: AIN = BThN = central point = Aleph, the first letter
of AIN] from the moment of conception until it is fully
developed; so the spirit remains in the grade until a man is
created in the world to whom he assigns it. Alternatively, God
'forms the spirit of man' within him, to wit, in his body
literally. For when a man is created and God assigns him his
soul, and he emerges into the light of day, the spirit within him
finds no body in which to expand, and remains cramped in one
corner, as it were; but with the growth and expansion of the body
the spirit also grows and expands; and in response to growing it
continues to receive from on high, in ever greater abundance,
vigor and energy, which in its turn it infuses into the body.
Further, the statement that the holy one 'forms the spirit of man
within him', indicates that the spirit needs sustenance in the
same way as the body, and as the body goes on developing, so is
the spirit granted increased strength and energy. Observe that
when Joseph [multiplier, 156] was lost Jacob [supplanter, 182]
was deprived of that increase of spirit through the departure of
the shekinah. From him, but afterwards, 'the spirit of Jacob
their father received' [Genesis 45:17], that is, it regained its
former increase and growth." see 4993 (Greek).
Greek
AVR HKVKBIM Aur ha-Kokabim. Light of the Stars, Astral Light; The
Great Magical Agent see 300.
Greek
Cypros (Gr). Cyprus, the island in the Fama, where brother P.A.L.
is said to have "died". To say P.A.L. dies, however, does not
mean that this impulse is extinguished, in occult literature and
especially in alchemical writings, death means transmutation (Key
13). What is meant here is that the superconscious impulse is
transmuted int the special activity of the certain center,
indicated by the name Cyprus. Cyprus is the most easterly island
of the Mediterranean sea. Its name is the Greek root of the
English noun copper, because Cyprus is where the copper mines
which supplied the ancient world. Copper is the metal... of
Venus, and Cyprus was the fabled birthplace of Aphrodite... In
Hebrew Venus is Ashtoreth (1370)... sum of the values of the
Hebrew words for Wisdom, Strength and Beauty. Venus is associated
with the direction east, the place of dawn the womb of light and
associated with the beginning spiritual illumination... The Venus
center is a nerve-plexus in man's throat. It is the most easterly
island because it is nearest to the original source of power. It
is the link between the 4 lower centers in the body, and the 2
higher center in the head. Through the Venus center, an alchemist
would say, the sun rises to be joined to the Moon hence there can
be no beginning of true development until Brother P.A.L., who
represent the metaphysical power of spiritualism, "dies at
Cyprus", which means that the superconscious impulse received
through the sun center is changed into the awakened functioning
of the Venus center [Aleph=bull=throat=Venus]. Observe that the
state of consciousness produced by the awakening of this center
is predominantly emotional. The desire nature is stirred into
intense activity. Little or no progress in practical occultism is
made by persons having no stronger motive that intellectual
curiosity. The feelings must participate. The inner door, must
open, toward the heart, rather than toward the head. This,
remember, at the beginning of the work, Later, the same door must
swing the other way, to let the force from the heart center rise
through the throat to enter and energize the brain. But at first
there must be deep and genuine emotion if there is to be any
effective action. This is the Great practical lesson of the part
of the Fama. [True and Invisible, page 110-113] see 87 (Latin),
111 (P.A.L), 434, 4; 358 (note).
VNThThIV and I will make him. [Genesis 17:20] [Gutman Locks: The
Spice of Torah, p.299]
Greek
ADM RO Adam Roa. evil man (see 315). "The violent man... follows
only force in all his methods-not the Law of Growth by the
planting of the seed. Consequently, he sees only from the
standpoint of his isolated personality and produces a
corresponding activity in the universal divine, which therefore
creates powers of a similar sort as ruling this man's life, i.e.
destructive powers, and so evil haunts him to his overthrow,
unless he reverses his attitude towards the divine. He makes a
God of the limited, and therefore antagonistic, instead of the
infinite and unified. The apparent curses in this Psalm are only
a statement of the inevitable consequence of fighting against the
infinite..." [Troward on Psalms, pp.190-191]
OVP oof. to cover with wings, to fly, fly away; to flicker. Also
OVP fowl, bird, winged creature. [Peh = 800] see 156.
IVSP Joseph. Multiplier, addition. [Genesis 49:26] "The blessing
of your father have prevailed abode the blessing of my
progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they
shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of
him that was separate from his brethren." Yesod as the
generative power of Tiphareth is one meaning; it is the dwelling
place of the "multiplier". The separated brethren are multiplied
into unity. Note: The correspondence of IVSP and to OVP, both
representing the positive aspects of the North, just as MLKVTh
ORPL and ShQVTz ShMM are terms relating to the negative aspects.
see 156.
ORVM orem. subtle. [Genesis 3:1] "Now the serpent was more
subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.
And he said unto the woman, yea have God said, ye shall not eat
of every tree of the Garden? [Mem = 600] see 316.
VThMLA HARTz ChMS va-thimmawlea ha-aretz hamas. and the earth was
filled with violence. [Genesis 6:11] "The earth also was corrupt
before God, and the earth was fill with violence." see 2552, 291.
Greek
IBRIM Ibrim. Hebrews. With prefix Heh in [Exodus 7:16] "And thou
shall say unto him, the Lord God of the Hebrews has sent me unto
you, saying, let my people go, that they may serve me in the
wilderness: and, behold, hither to thou would not hear." [Mem =
600] see 322.
OShVTh IHVH ALHIM aesoth IHVH Elohim. "IHVH Elohim made. [Genesis
2:4] These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth
when they were created, in the day that the Lord God [IHVH
Elohim] made the earth and the heavens." see 86, 26.
MShH + AHIH AShR AHIH Moshe + eheieh asher eheieh. Moses plus "I
am that I am." MShH is water (Mem), Fire (Shin) and vision (Heh).
He was the great initiate who preceded Jesus, and is linked here
with the I AM as the source of his illumination. AShR is also the
tribe of Israel connected with alchemical sublimation under the
sign Libra, suggesting that equilibrium brings illumination from
above, into the head-and heart. see 345, 501, 21, 543, 1648
(Greek).
Greek
σ Iesous (Gr). Jesus. From the beginning the church has set
apart 8, as the Dominical number, or number of the Lord,
referring to Jesus as :One with the Father," who, as IHVH (26) is
also 8. see 971, 1844, 1988, 1480, 2368, 644, 1768, 800, 656,
1408, 496, 1776, 688, 326.
victorious Lord.
His anointed Cyrus, cont. [Isaiah 45:1] "Thus says the Lord to
his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue
nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open
before him the two leaved gates, and the gates shall not be
shut."
Greek
Topan + Timel (Gr). The All plus Honor (or reverence). see 370,
131, 388 Greek.
Greek
AIOTzH OLIK OINI + AMVTh yaeotzah awlayka eyini + amuth. "I will
guide you with mine eye plus mothers. The mother letters
represent the three fundamentals, or elements of Air, Water and
Fire, out of which the earth, or physical universe is formed.
894 (2*3*149)
Greek
Latin
ShRSh + BN ADM soresh + ben adam. root, stock plus son of man.
The root, or fundamental reality from which spring all forms of
growth and development is the Life-power, expressed through the
Mars force. Man becomes the son when he understands the means
whereby the divine grace becomes manifest, through correct
apprehension of the desire nature. see 800, 97.
NPShChI + BHR IHVH IRAH Nephesh chai + behar IHVH yirayeh. breath
of life plus in the mount of Tetragrammaton it shall be provided.
The breath of life is the vital soul, or field of subconscious
mental activity. The mount is the adytum, or Mercury center in
the brain, where self-consciousness is attained, by obeying the
law. see 448, 449.
Greek
Greek
NR ALHIM nare Elohim. lamp of God. [ Samuel 3:3] "The lamp of God
has not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of
the Lord, where the ark of God was." [Mem = 600] see 336.
900{PRIVATE }
900 (30*30)
Greek
Saulos (Gr). Saul, name of the apostle, who before his conversion,
persecuted Christians [Acts 9:1]. "And Saul, yet breathing out
threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went
unto the High Priest." D.D. Bryant says that both this Saul and
the Saul of the Old Testament who fought the Philistines is Sol,
the Sun, and that the two stories bear many points of resemblance
to each other and mystically interpreted, will be found to be the
same story in a different setting. Dr. Case comments: More likely
[than that Paul is but a paraphrase of the Greek Apollo, God of
the Sun] that "Paul" has the exoteric sense of "littleness" in
contrast to the greatness implied in the kingly name Saul; and the
esoteric sense of Mikros, small, implied in Paul's evident
realization of the truth that man is a microcosm. [Case of D.D.
Bryant]. see 331, 340 Greek, 337, 781.
902 (2*11*41)
903 (3*7*43)
904 (8*113)
905 (5*181)
906 (2*3*151)
907 (prime)
908 (4*227)
909 (9*101)
VIRA ALHIM KI ThVB va-ya-re Elohim ki tov. "And God saw that it
was good."
911 (prime)
AShIM Ishim. "The fiery ones," the flames. The choir of angles
associated with Malkuth. see 351.
Greek
912 (16*57)
AHRVN Aaron. lofty; name of Moses' brother and spokesman. see 262.
913 (11*83)
914 (2*457)
ATh ABIK Eth Abika. "The essence of thy Father." (see 434).
916 (4*229)
917 (7*131)
918 (2*9*51)
919 (prime)
920 (8*5*23)
921 (3*307)
922 (2*461)
923 (13*71)
924 (3*4*7*11)
VIBRA ALHIM ATh HADM BTzLMV vay-yi-vera Elohim eth ha-adham be-
tzalmu. "So God created man in his own image."
925 (5*5*37)
927 (9*103)
928 (29*32)
929 (prime)
931 (7*7*19)
932 (4*233)
OTz HDOTh ThVB VRO Etz ha-Daath Tov Va-Ra. Tree of the Knowledge
of Good and Evil.
933 (3*311)
934 (2*467)
936 (8*9*13)
Kekruptai (Gr). (is) Hid. The verb in the sentence: "Your life is
hid with Christ in God." [Colossians 3:3]. From the same root as
the English noun "crypt." In Rosicrucian symbolism it is connected
with the vault or sepulcher or brother C.R. The vault, like the
ark, is a symbol of man the Microcosm. There, as in Noah;s ark,
were hidden all things needful for complete revival of the
Rosicruciam wisdom.
937 (prime)
IVBB BN ZRCh Yobab ben Zerah. Hobab, son of Zerah; a King of Edom
associated with Chesed.
938 (2*7*67)
939 (3*313)
ChBRH ZRCh BQR AVR Chevrah Zerach Boqer Aur. "Society of the
Shining Light of Dawn"; official Hebrew name of the Hermetic Order
of the Golden Dawn.
940 (4*5*47)
941 (prime)
942 (2*3*157)
943 (23*41)
944 (16*59)
945 (5*7*27)
946 (2*11*43)
947 (prime)
948 (3*4*79)
949 (13*73)
*** HRPV VROV + ShMVAL hareppu urayou + Samuel. be still and know
plus God has heard. Recollection come from quieting the outer
sense. Then we are receptive to the presence of God, who has heard
our call before we have made it. see 377, 573 .
951 (3*317){PRIVATE }
TzDQ ILIN BH tzedeq yahin ban. Justice abides in her. see 301.
952 (7*8*17)
953 (prime)
954 (2*477)
956 (4*239)
958 (2*479)
Greek/Latin
959 (7*137)
960 (3*5*64)
961 (31*31)
962 (2*13*37)
AISh hALHIM Ish ha-Elohim. Man of God; Husband of God (Glory). see
402.
OIN IOQB ayin Jacob. the fountain (eye) of Jacob (see 312).
963 (9*107)
964 (4*241)
966 (2*3*7*23)
967 (prime)
968 (8*11*11)
969 (3*17*19)
971 (prime)
972 (4*3*3*3*3*3)
973 (7*139)
ATh IHVH ALHIK Eth Jehovah Elohekah. the Lord, thy Lord. see 493.
974 (2*487)
KL OShB ZRO ZRO kal esev zorea zara. Every herb bearing seed.
977 (prime)
978 (2*3*163)
979 (11*89)
980 (4*5*7*7)
982 (2*491)
983 (prime)
984 (3*8*41)
985 (5*197)
986 (2*17*29)
987 (3*7*47)
988 (4*13*19)
989 (32*43)
44 = 990
MSPRIM mesaperiym. declare, are telling. see 430.
991 (prime)
992 (31*32)
993 (3*331)
994 (2*7*71)
996 (3*4*83)
RTzVN ratzon. delight, favor, will. name of the 20th path (see
346).
OThIQA QDIShA Atiqa Qadisha. The Most Holy Ancient One, a title of
Kether.
997 (prime)
998 (2*499)
Kore Kosmou (Gr). "Virgin or the World." This last is the title of
one of the Greco-Egyptian occult books ascribed to Hermes, and
refers to Isis-Sophia, the Virgin Bride who reveals the book's
instruction.
Nympe (Gr). Bride. Refers to Malkuth, the "Holy City." Also the
world-dancer in Key 21 (Tav). see 476, 406, 55.
999 (27*37)
1000
ThM Tome. Inmost point, center. Formed of Mem (Key 12) and Tav
(Key 21) whose numbers are mirror images of each other. Their
paths are united at the interior center of the cube of space. (Mem
= 600, see 600, 440).
HRTzVN ha ratzone. Will, good pleasure. The 20th Path of Yod (see
351).
1002
1003
1004
PRI OTz ZRO ZRO Peri etz zorea zora. The fruit of a tree yielding
seed.
1006
Greek
1008
1009
1011
ATh HADM eth ha-adam. essence of man. Genesis 1:27 (see 451).
ThHVM Tehom. the abyss of the waters, great deep Genesis 1:2
(451).
1014
1116
1018
1026
(V)IShLCh ATh HORB. And he sent forth the raven [Genesis 8:7]. see
1032.
1031
Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani [ALChI ALChI LMA ShBQThNI]. "My GOD<
MY God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
1032
VISLCh ATh HORB va-yeshalach eth ha-oreb. And he sent forth the
Raven [Genesis 8:7]. see 1026, 157, 21, 12.
1034
ZKR VNQBH BRA AThM zakhar u-neqevah bara otham. male and female
created he them.
1035
ALChI ALChI LMH ShBQThNI Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani. "My God, my
God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (see 1026).
1039
1042
1044
1045
1048
1052
1056
HDM HVA HNPSh Ha-dam hu ha-nefesh. Blood is the life (see 496).
1057
1059
1061 (prime)
1062
SMN HThVB shem ha-tobe. precious oil (or ointment). see 412.
1063
1064
1066
IVD SMK VV DLTh Yesod. Basis, Foundation, spelt in full. see 507.
1067
1073
1075
Σ46 = 1081
1082
1085
1091 (prime)
1092
1094
1096
1098
1101
1102
1104
VThTzA HARTz DShA va-totze ha-aretz deshe. and the earth brought
forth grass.
1107
1109 (prime)
1110
1116
1117 (prime)
1118
ShMO IShRAL IHVH ALHINV IHVH AChD Shema Israel IHVH Elohenu IHVH
Echadh. "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord' (Deut.
6:4).
MNA MNA ThQL VPRSIN mena mena tekel ppharsin. numbered, numbered,
weighted and divisions; the handwriting on the wall (alternate
spelling).
1120
1121
1124
VIHI HADM LNPSh ChIH vayehi ha-Adam le-nefesh chaiah. And man
became a living soul [Genesis 2:7]. see 564
1125
1126
MNH MNH ThQL VPRSIN mene mene tekel upharsin. "Numbered, numbered,
weighted and divisions"; the handwriting on the wall.
1128
1134
1135
VIAMR ALHIM IHI AVR vayomer Elohim yehi aur. "And the Elohim
said, 'Let there be light.'" see 575.
HQDVSh BRVK HVA ha-Qodosh Barukh Hu. The Holy One, blessed be he.
1141
1145
1146
1156
1161
ARTz NVD Eretz Nod. The land of Nod. Old Testement place name. see
351.
1165
1166
1175
1176
1182
1186
1188
1192
1196
1198
1199
1206
1207
1210
1217
ShKL BITh HQDVSh Sekhel Beth ha-Shepha. Intelligence of the House
of Influence. The title of the 18th Path of Cheth. Connects Binah,
the great sea with the source of volition in Geburah. Represents
the field (fence) or personality and is related to the quality of
water. It is the channel of the abundant overflow of the fiery
activity of the Life-power, taking form as objects, both "thing"
and "creatures". The possession of this path is to overcome the
illusive power of these limitations by learning how to use them.
The perception of reality wakes consciousness into the stage where
no good and perfect gift is withheld. Those who make themselves
receptive to the One Will manifest Will-power. This state of being
is called the alchemical Philosopher's Stone. It is found in the
Holy of Holies, the Adytum of the inner temple of
superconsciousness. The field of mastery, is that of speech, both
thought and vibratory combinations of sound vibrations. see 450,
100, 867, 414.
1219
Ichthys (Gr). Fish. The Greek equivalent for the Hebrew letter-
name Nun (NVN). The great symbol of the early Christian. "...by
drawing the fish on the ground, where it could be instantly
erased, members of the early Christian secret society tested
strangers and made themselves know to each other... the initials
of the Greek sentence meaning "Jesus Christ, son of God, Savior,
spell the Greek noun Ichthys, fish. [True and Invisible, page 67].
see 106, 700. Alchemists "might have known that the numeration of
Icathys by Greek Gematria is 1219, and that 1219 is also 23 (the
number of ChIH, Chaiah, the name for Life-force) multiplied by 53
(the number of ABN, the Hebrew known meaning: stone), used by more
than one alchemist to designate the philosopher's stone, which
stone was also the Elixir of immortality."
1221
ThVRH HADM Torah ha-Adam. the law of Adam (Humanity) (see 661)..
1223
1225
1226
1231
1223
1239
1240
1242
1256
ASh HShMIM Esh ha-shamaim. Fire of Heaven (Key 16) (see 696).
1260
PRI OTz Periy etz. the Fruit of the Tree (see 450).
1266
KI-OMK MQVR ChIIM BAVRK NRH-AVR. For with thee is the fountain of
life (and) through thy light do we see light [Psalm 36:9].
1271
Stauros (Gr). Cross. Latin Crux. Relates to the letter Tav as the
cross (Saturn) at the center of the cube. Some say Stauros is
derived form its standing erect with its arms horizontal. Three
forms of the cross are 1) the Tau cross, shaped like the capital
letter T; 2) the cross formed from an opened out cube, called the
cubical cross; and 3" the St. Andrew's cross, formed like a
capital X. The X is the early from of the Hebrew letter Tav as
shown of the 9th century B.C. inscription of Debon. see 406, 713,
126, 291, 400, 58 Latin.
Heh Gnosis (Gr). the wisdom; i.e. chokmah, The secret wisdom is
the Qabalah (Reception). The Gnosis is in very truth, based on
knowledge of the true meaning of the Staurus. or cross,
represented in the Hebrew alphabet by the letter Tav... the
[Rosicrucian] manifestoes [Fama + Confessio] were announcing the
work of the order of the rose-cross, inasmuch as the Greek word
for "rose" is Rhodon, and its number, 294, is the number also of
ekklesia, or "church." Rose-cross, therefore, would mean to the
initiated, "Church of the Gnosis." [Paul Case: True and Invisible,
page 42]. see 294, 137, 1378, 73.
ALHIM ChIIM Elohim Khayim. Elohim of Lives, Living God (see 154).
1278
1280
1290
1298
1299
1311
AISh ThM Aish Toom. A perfect man. (Mem = 600), see 311, 440, 751,
1000.
1303
1304
HVA IROH AVThM Hu yire-eh otawm. He shall feed them (see 744).
1305
1306
1313
1316
1317
1320
1336
1337
1346
MTzPVN ZHB IHThH. Gold cometh from the north (see 696).
1348
1349
1351
1352
1355
1358
1359
The total of the 6 Hebrew words in Psalm 118:22. "The stone the
builders rejected is become the chief corner-stone." ABN (53) MASV
(107) HBVNIM (420) HIThH (420) LRASh (531) PNH (135) see 151, 273.
1360
1364
1370
1378
Σ52 = 1378
13*106, 25*53.
1386
Eteleiosa (Gr). I have finished [John 17:4]. see 1984, 859 Greek.
1400
1408 (8*176)
Sotehr (Gr). Savior. One of the titles of Jesus. see 644, 1756,
1480, 656, 1844, 1988, 888.
1431
ASh MTzRP Esh metzareph. A refiner's fire [Malachi 3:2]. see 711,
301.
Hego emi ampelos heh alehthineh (Gr). I am the true vine [John
15:1]. In some old alchemical diagrams, a vine grows from a
crevice of the cubical stone, or else a fine full of grapes twines
round the cube. see 133, 260, 53, 44.
1445
1455
Enoch (Gr). Enoch, the Patriarch. Means: Initiated. see 84, 564.
1480 (8*185)
Greek
Ho Pandoxeus (Gr). The host. Used in Luke 10:35 (though not with
the same spelling as in the Greek original. The original
designates the host of the inn mentioned in the parable of the
Good Samaritan. The host of the inn is a symbol of the sheltering
and projecting power which offers its aid and comfort to all who
are travellers on the way of return.
Greek
Phos (Gr). Light. Written with letters which are variant of the
Hebrew Peh, Ayin and Shin. The mouth or utterer Phi), the seer
(Omega, literally, "Great O" or "Great Eye") and the devourer
(Shin, tooth, or Epsilon, associated with Fire). "Knowledge of
Light," in the Chaldean Oracles, is a technical term of the
Mysteries. see 851, 801 Greek, 441, 207.
1552
1554 (14*111)
Pan dorhema teleion (Gr). Every perfect gift [James 1:17]. The
context says every such gift "is from above, and cometh down from
the father of lights, with whom there is no variableness, neither
shadow of turning.: The total summation of the Magic square
refers, therefore, to the influx of spiritual powers into
Tiphareth, from the Sephiroth above; and indicates clearly to what
man should turn for supply for every need. see 666.
1577
1708
1755
1768 (8*221)
Ho Kurios hemon (Gr). Our Lord. One of the titles of Jesus. see
644, 800, 656, 1480, 1408, 1844, 1988, 888.
1766
1784
AIN SVP AVR Ain Soph Aur. The Limitless Light. The 3rd veil of the
absolute [Nun = 700, Peh = 800, see 414, 61, 146, 17, 84].
1813
1836
1844
1988
2112
Hepta pneumation (Gr). Seven Spirits. The "Seven Spirits" of God
referred to in Revelation 4:5. These are also the creative powers
called Elohim (Genesis 1:1). The are connected with the 7 inner
Holy planets, with the "7 churches" in Asia or OShIH, the
physical plane, with the seven mystical seals of the Book of the
Lamb, relating to the seven angels and the seven days of the
week.
2236
2311
To phur to alonion (Gr). The aeonian or everlasting fire [Matthew
25:41]. see 1571, 23, 11.
2368
Greek
Hiama Iesus, heh agape, heh alethes gnosis (Gr). Blood of Jesus,
love, the true Gnosis.
To Haima Yesou, heh eksousia theou (Gr). The blood of Jesus, the
power of God.
heh ekklesia he pasa heh soteria Israel (Gr). The whole church,
the salvation of Israel.
Heh ekklesia heh pasa, ho petros eksapuros (Gr). the whole
church, the metacubic stone.
Heh thela sophia, halas Kubomorphon (Gr). The divine wisdom, the
salt cube.
heh petra heh kubike, heh zosa polis (Gr). The cubic stone, the
living city.
Ho kubos, heh morphe huiou (Gr). the cube, the form of the Son.
Hlios, adonai, aggelos tes hemeras (Gr). the sun, adonai (Lord),
messenger of the day.
Ho theos tes ges, pneuma tes ges (Gr). the God of the earth,
spirit of the earth.
Teleios lithos, ho oikos epi ten petran, perfect stone, the house
upon the rock.
2583
2809 (53*53)
2960
3321
Greek
3394
5000
7731
16,854
144,000
148,877
Changelessness
The unknown
Infinite
Unfathomable
Ellipse
Superconsciousness
360/0 = undefined
The number between the set of all negative numbers and the
set of positive numbers (additive identity).
Nonentity
Names for the no thing: See 61, 85, 146, 207, 414.
1 BEGINNING{PRIVATE }
I am a center of expression of the Primal Will-to-good which
eternally creates and sustains the universe.
Names for the number 1: see 12, 21, 37, 397, 422, 1552, 620, 721,
559, 736, 837.
Initiative:
Will:
Selection:
The act of choosing, or picking out among several. A
carefully chosen collection. A process that favors or brings
about the survival and perpetuation of one kind of organism.
Unity
Singleness
Individuality
Attention
Intention:
One-pointedness
Concentration:
Self-consciousness
Singularity:
One:
A mathematical point
Astrologically
360/1 = 360
Two, itself, implies harmony and balance, as does the order of the
constellations. Two also intimates union of opposite forces, and
as we have seen in IH.
In Pythagorean:
duplicate
duplication (noun)
repetition (noun)
Wisdom (noun)
polarity (noun)
antithesis (noun)
succession (noun)
sequence (noun)
continuation (noun)
diffusion (noun)
separation (noun)
radiation (noun)
subordination (noun)
dependence (noun)
Subconsciousness (adj)
Interlinking
Neural network
SubC is Inductive:
commerce
change
interchange
correlation
A causal, complementary, parallel or reciprocal relationship.
A structural, functional or qualitative correspondence
between comparable entities. Simultaneous increase of
decrease of in value of 2 numerically valued random
variables.
correspondence
Reflection
Associate
Association
360/2 = 180
a. objectivity. awareness.
When the subject faces the object, one cannot be altered without
the other also being changed. No one can transform themselves
without changing the universe.
In Geometry a Line:
a source of information
a military formation
In Pythagorean:
The Medator, The first odd number. Wisdom, The number of perfect
harmony. The law of the triangle.
Multiplication:
Elaboration
fecundity
forming:
Generation
growth
Organization
organize
productive
produce
Propagation
fecundity:
Generation
anticipate:
contrive:
expect:
invention.
invent:
Plan
Purpose
360/3 = 120
The Triangle
In Pythrgean:
4 extended is 10.
ORDER
A condition of logical or coherent arrangement among the
individual elements of a group. A condition of standard or
prescribed arrangement among component parts, such that
proper functioning or appearance is achieved. Systematic
arrangement or design. A sequential arrangement in space and
time. An established sequence or procedure. An
authoritative indication to be obeyed:COMMAND. A command
issued by a superior military officer. An organization of
people united by some common fraternal bond or social aim.
Degree of importance of quality:RANK. A taxonomical category
of plants and animals ranking above family and below the
class. Math: An indicated number of successive
differentiations to be performed. To give a command or
instruction to.
System
Regulation
Dominance
Adam was given dominion over every beast on earth. Adam named the
beasts.
0 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10
The "theosophical extension" of 4, or sum of the numbers from 0 to
4, is 10. and the digits of 10 reduce to 1 by addition. Thus the
Emperor is essentially 1, or the Magician, but the extension of
his power is 10, or the Wheel of Fortune.
1 + 3 = 4
The Emperor is the union or sum of the Magician and the Empress.
This is one reason for identifying the Emperor with the Magician.
4 = 2 + 2; 4 = 2 * 2.
360/4 = 90
The cross within the circle stands essentially for the focusing of
universal energies through a particular bi-polar form. The circle
represents the lens, and the cross drawn through it the means to
focalize with extreme accuracy the image projected. The cross
within the circle is a symbol of concrete incarnation, a symbol of
solidity, of actual material form. The negative aspect of the
square inertial resting of its base, it may refer to the
imprisonment of spirit by matter.
The word "crisis" comes from the Greek word "crino", "to decide".
De-cesion, in turn, literally means "cutting away". Any "crisis
of decision" involves the choosing among alternatives, leaving
some, and embracing others. But more deeply and fundamentally, it
is between two basic inner qualities. The two inner qualities are
courage and fear.
5 MEDIATION{PRIVATE }
I recognize the manifestation of the undeviating Justice in all
circumstances in my life.
Names for the number 5: The Pentalpha see 64, 92, 216, 1200.
In Pythagorean:
Also 4 is the cross and 1 is the Christ. Only as the lower self
is subjated to the ZHigher does the ego rise.
Mediation:
Man is the mediator between the animal nature and the divine.
Adaptation:
The state of being adjusted to a specific use or situation.
Behavior change of an individual or group in adjustment to
new or modified cultural surroundings.
re-establishing a friendship,
settling or resolving a dispute
bringing oneself to accept.
2. The downward pointing star identifies the fifth limb with the
sex organ, through which biological generation is expressed.
Purely material, intellectual or selfish desires
(regression). The power of "life" coupled with some degree
of individualization seeks only its own self-perpetuation and
aggrandizement.
I am 5, we are 6.
5 is the agency through which the power of reason (4) coupled with
the listening to the inner voice (5) yield the harmonious balance
symbolized by the lovers (6).
6 RECIPROCATION{PRIVATE }
In all things, great and small, I see the Beauty of the divine
expression.
Names for the number 6: see 45, 52, 80, 311, 1081, 548, 666.
In Pythagorean:
1 + 2 + 3 = 6
1 * 2 * 3 = 6
Interchange
Correlation
To arrange in order.
Cooperation
Correspondence
Harmony
Equilibration
equilibrium
Physics: The condition of a system in which the resultant of
all acting forces is zero and the sum of all torques about
any axis is zero. Emotional or mental balance:POISE.
Symmetry
Beauty
1 + 5 = 6
2 + 4 = 6
In Pathogrean:
2 * 2 = 4
2 * 3 = 6
2 * 5 = 10
4 * 2 = 8
3 * 3 = 9
Also
Mastery
Poise
Rest
Peace
Safety
Secure from danger, harm, or evil. Free from danger or
injury:UNHURT. Free from risk. Affording protection. A
repository for protecting stored items.
Security
Art
Victory
In Pythagorean:
Rhythm
Alteration
Pulsation
Evolute
Culture
Except 0, 8 is the only figure that can be written over and over
again without lifting pen from paper. Thus it is a sign of endless
activity. This relates 8 to the serpent, because snakes shed their
skins, and the ancients, observing this, supposed that these
animals renewed their whole organisms also. So, from time
immemorial. the serpent has been a symbol of immortality and
eternity.
360/8 = 45
In Pythagorean
CONCLUSION
End
bringing to actuality:EFFECT.
carrying out.
measuring up to:SATISFY.
to bring to an end:COMPLETE.
0 is a symbol for the One Force. 1 stands for the POINT wherein
that One Force concentrates itself. At the Central Point within
itself, the One Force becomes active. This, consequently, is the
Point where motion begins.
In Pythagorean:
111
Greek
Trifolium. Trefoil.
THE MAGICIAN
1
Concentration, attention, a limiting of the field of activity.
Geometrically symbolized as a point.
412
2
Doubling or duplication. Subordination. Geometrically, the number
2 is the line, the extension of the of the point.
Gimel (3)
73
Greek
Charitas. Charity
3
1 + 2 = 3: the union of the ideas of individuality (1) and
repetition (2). The Magician's union with the High Priestess
where by the cold virginity of Diana is transformed into the rich
fertility of Venus. The activity resulting from the harmonious
union of the forces symbolized by these two is shown by K.3.
The repetition of the unit (1) through the agency of the duad (2)
is reproduction, and reproduction is manifested as renewal,
generation, growth, fertility, development, and fecundity. Hence,
3 is the number of production, formation, organization,
propagation, elaboration.
(4) Daleth
434
Greek
Heh (5)
Ade [AD]. fog, vapor, mist. Genesis 2:6, "But a mist went up from
the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground."
Gab [GB]. upper surface, rim (of wheel); vault (of arch).
Da [DA]. is (a pronoun).
10
Letter name Heh [HH] Woe, alas. The first Heh represents
insight, or the Life-power's own knowledge of itself. The second
Heh is a symbol of foresight, directed toward the outcome of
necessary consequences following from what insight reveals.
Vav (6)
Greek
Abba. Father.
12
Cheth (7)
Cheth (8)
Za [ZA]. Notariqon for Zauir Anpin (478), name for Tiphareth, and
the Central Ego.
(9) Teth
[BAV]. In desire.
Ha-Ayin Soph Aur, [H-AYIN SVPh AVR], "The Limitless Light". See
414
(10) Yod
Letter name Heh [HH]. Woe, alas. The first Heh represents
insight, or the Life-power's own knowledge of itself. The second
Heh is a symbol of foresight, directed toward the outcome of
necessary consequences following from what insight reveals.
Kaph [K]
(20) Kaph
Letter name Yod [IVD]. Hand (as a frmative power), creative hand.
Greek/Latin
Justitia. Justice.
Signatura. Signatures.
Trygano. Triangle.
practicus. One who practices.
(30) Lamed
Greek/Latin
Axiomata. Axioms.
Concordia. Concord.
(40) Mem
Greek/Latin
Tzaddi [Tz]
Melek [MLK] "King", one of the names for Tiphareth. As a verb, "to
administer, to reign, to rule, to counsel." As a noun, "king,
ruler, prince." It refers to Tiphareth as the seat of the Higher
Ego or Christos which has dominion over all things. The essential
Spirit of Man is the dominant power in creation.
Mahn, manna [MN] To apportion; who? What?/ chord. A root appearing
in the word man, moon, month. It is the Sanskrit name for a
measure of weight. It refers to man, the measurer, and is directly
connected with the 6 of Cups as the seat of the distinguishing,
discriminating faculty of the Ego.
(50) Nun
Nun [N]
Mi, may [MI]. water (in name); what? which? (see 64).
(60) Samekh
saykel damyoniy [ShKL DMIVNI], (350 +120). The 24th path is the
Imaginative Intelligence.
Greek/Latin
Forces are being brought to bear which will enable all humanity to
exorcise the Devil by adding L to XV, and making V central, as in
the word LVX.
(70) Ayn
Latin/Greek
Filius. Son.
(80) Peh
[Suph [SVP] - Ain [AIN] = 85] These words represent the means
whereby Ain the No-thing, establishes Suph or limitation.
Greek/Latin
Dominus, Lord. Latin word for God as the ruler of the universe.
(90) Tzaddi
Letter Name Mem [MIM] waters. (mute, dark mirror). Alchemical
water, microcosmically, is the cosmic fire specialized in the
nerve currents and chemistry of the blood. It is purified by the
image-making faculty of the Ego expressing through human
personality.
Melek [MLK]. King. One of the names for Tiphareth. As a verb, "to
administer, to reign, to rule, to counsel." As a noun, "king,
ruler, prince." It refers to Tiphareth as the seat of the Higher
Ego or Christos which has dominion over all things. The essential
Spirit of Man is the dominant power in creation.
Greek/Latin
Greek/Latin
"The Great Work is nothing but the operation of the Sun and Moon
performed by the aid of Mercury."
(100) Qoph
Greek/Latin
Justitia. Justice.
Signatura. Signatures.
Trygano. Triangle.
Ehben echud/ ve-ain ehben [ABN AChD VAIN ABN]. One stone and no
stone (see 156).
Greek/Latin
(200) Resh
Kanawfim [KNPIM]. wings. Malachi 4:12 "But unto you that fear my
name shall the Sun of righteousness rise, with healing in his
wings." Note the direct reference to the Sun.
ab ve-am ben ve-bath [AB VAM BN VBTh]. Father and Mother, Son and
Daughter. The Father is Chokmah, the Mother is Binah, the Son is
Tiphareth; the Daughter is Malkuth. Note that the number 510
reduces to six, which is assigned to Tiphareth, the Sphere of the
Sun.
Greek/Latin
(300) Shin
Greek/Latin
Arthrikon. The uttered Word.
(400) Tav
Greek
AD - stream. Gen.2:6
11
12
13
17
18
19
20
21
Œ‚
22
23
24
25
IHI - he, (they) will be. Gen.1:3
AChIV - brother of him. Gen.4:2
VIBA - and they came - Gen. 7:15
26
28
30
KI - that Gen.1:4
for - Gen.3:5
L - to the. Gen.1:5
HIHI - he will be. Gen.1:29
IHIH - He appeared. Gen.2:5
KI - for. Gen.2:5
KI - really. Gen.3:1
KI - because. Gen.3:10
since. Gen.3:19
when. Gen4:12
KAHD - like one of. Gen.3:22
31
33
35
36
37
LĠ
38
39
40
42
Lƒ‹
HGDL - the great. Gen.1:16 (corrected by Heb. Ed. See 45)
L…„†
43
GM - also. Gen.3:6
VHBL - but Abel. Gen.4:4
GDVL - More. Gen.4:13
44
45
HVDL - the great. Gen.1:16 fix this one See 42 (Heb. Ed.)
ADM - Man, Adam, Gen.1:26
MAD - very. Gem.1:31
great. Gen. 7:18
HM - they. Gen.3:7
MH - what. Gen.4:10
46
47
48
Lƒ‡‹
ChM - Ham. Gen.5:32 ** (Corrected by Heb. Ed.)
M‰
50
51
52
54
ND - wandering. Gen.4:12
AMChH - I will wipe away. Gen.6:7
VChM - and Ham. Gen. 7:13
55
56
57
58
60
61
62
67
68
70
KN - so. Gen.1:7
IDVN - he will contend. Gen.6:3
VIChMV - and they were wiped out. Gen.7:23
VIMChV - and they were wiped out. Gen.17:23 (Corrected by Heb.Ed.)
‡‰N‹‡
72
73
74
ID - to. Gen.6:7????????????????????????
OD - A’ad - to. Gen.6:7 (Corrected By Heb. Ed.)
…”
MIDK - from your hand. Gen.4:11
75
76
77
78
79
†…”
80
81
ANKI - I. Gen.3:10
VLADM - and to Adam. Gen.3:17
VLMH - and why. Gen.4:5
IVGB - flute. Gen.4:21
VLHM - And for them. Gen. 6:21
AP - in deed. Gen.3:1
82
83
84
IDO- Knowing
ChNVK - Enoch**. (this is the son born to Cain and his wife, not
the Enoch that walked with God.) This is also the name
of the city built by Cain, which he named after his son.
Gen.4:17
ChNVK - Chanuk - Enoch. Gen. 5:22
85
86
88
89
L‡ƒN†‡
90
92
93
94
95
L‚‹‡‰N
VIGVO - and he perished. Gen 7:21
96
98
100
101
LK‚’
LA IDVN - he will not contend.Gen. 6:3
TzVH - He commanded. Gen. 6:22
BTzDH - Inside of her. Gen. 6:16
102
103
104
105
106
107
‡†‡˜
Note: TzVH root, command, take charge - see 101 (Heb. Ed.)
108
“´N´‰
QCh - Take. Gen. 6:21
109
112
114
115
116
118
120
121
122
123
125
TzLH - Zillah. Gen.4:19 **
(Strong: 06741 Pronunc: tsil-law' - Lamach’s Wife - Heb. Ed.)
130
131
132
133
135
136
141
142
144
145
146
148
150
153
156
157
160
161
161
162
163
164
165
166
168
169
170
172
180
181
184
186
187
190
195
196
200
201
203
204
205
206
M‹…”‡NL‡
207
208
209
210
211
213
214
215
216
217
†ƒš‰ƒ
218
219
221
ARK - Arek or Ark. Gen. 6:15 (Corrected by Heb. Ed.)
Jra
223
224
225
226
227
228
229
230
231
238
239
242
243
244
245
246
249
250
251
252
255
257
259
260
264
270
RO - evil. Gen.3:22
271
272
273
275
277
279
280
281
282
283
286
290
291
292
293
BARTz - On earth. Gen.1:22
295
296
297
299
300
302
304
305
306
309
310
312
314
314
316
317
318
320
322
324
”‹šˆN
328
330
331
333
KseH - and the darkness. Gen.1:4
HsBkv - and subdue her. Gen.1:28
334
336
337
LAVR - to the light. Gen.1:5
338
340
ShM - name of. Gen.3:20
SPR - account of. Gen.5:1
342
343
VITzA MLPNI IHVH - so he went out from the presence
of Yawhweh. Gen.4:16
ShGM - indeed. Gen.6:3
345
346
347
348
350
351
353
355
356
357
360
363
365
366
368
369
372
375
376
377
ShBOH - Seven Gen. 7:2
379
380
383
386
388
390
391
392
394
395
395
398
ChShIM - the number 50, the width of the width of the Arc.
Gen.6:15
400
401
402
404
VXCNM
405
ShNIMH - both of them. Gen.2:25
406
407
š…š…
409
410
411
413
414
VDRDR - and thistle. Gen.3:18
415
416
417
BIVK VBIN HAShH - between you and between the woman. Gen.3:15
418
ChITh - animal of. Gen.3:1
420
421
424
425
426
427
428
430
431
432
438
441
443
444
446
447
450
451
452
453
454
LChIVTh - to keep alive. Gen. 7:3
456
457
458
460
464
471
472
474
476
478
479
ThGOV - you must touch. Gen.3:3
BZOTh - by sweat of. Gen.3:19
481
482
487
488
490
494
495
ŒL†œN
496
497
501
502
503
504
505
506
507
508
510
513
514
517
519
521
523
525
528
532
535
536
538
540
541
545
546
546
547
548
551
552
555
561
570
573
578
590
598
600
601
606
607
609
610
611
VThHR - and she concieved. Gen.4:1
VThHR - and she became pregnent. Gen. 4:17
612
613
615
616
618
622
630
645
647
649
650
651
AMRThI - my words. Gen.4:23
661
663
667
668
670
676
680
686
700
701
702
705
707
708
ƒ‡›œ
709
BAShThV - To his wife (to wife of him). Gen.2:24
710
711
712
IShBTh - he rested. Gen.2:2
713
719
728
738
750
763
770
775
776
746
750
758
775
777
780
784
MThVShLCh - Methuselah. Gen. 5:22
798
800
802
806
807
808
810
814
820
822
825
œ‹›” †N
831
840
842
846
855
856
857
NThNH LI MN HOTz VAKL - She gave to from the Tree, and I ate.
Gen.3:12
858
860
876
884
895
896
905
910
912
913
930
950
962
963
œ‚ Œ‡’‰ ŒL†œ‹‡
969
970
996
VINChM IHVH KI ATh HADM - and he was grieved that he made man.
Gen.6:6.
1010
ATh HALHIM HThHLK NCh - Noah walked with God. Gen. 6:9
1018
1027
1036
1037
LShMR DRL OTz HChIIM - to guard the way of the tree of life.
Gen.3:24
1110
1152
1212
1226
1358
1454
1547
1557
1831
KI OPR AThH VAL OPR ThShVB - for dust you are and to dust you
shall return.
A
Adept
Ageless Wisdom
Ain Suph Aur [AIN SVP AVR] "Limitless Light", LVX in Latin.
Also called the "Radiant Darkness." Background of the Tree of
Life. The source of everything.
Ain
Alchemy (Arabic)
Brain Sand
Buddhi
Caduceus
The 2 serpents rest their heads upon Gedulah and Geburah which
their equilibrium maintained by the 19th path of Teth. The
serpents represent what is called the fixed blood of the red
lion. Basil Valentine explains the secret this way: "...
Dissolve and nourish the Red Lion with the blood of the Green
One, since the fixed blood of the Red Lion is made from the
volatile blood of the Green One, which makes them both the
same nature." i.e. Solve means volatilization of the fixed.
Coagula means fixation of the volatile.
Conceive
"When the fall had occurred and the Sephira Malkuth had
been cut off from the Tree by the folds of the dragon,
there was added unto the Tree Daath, the Knowledge, as
the 11th Sephira, to preserve intact the ten-ness of the
Sephiroth. Showing how by that very eating of the Fruit
of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil should come the
Saving of Mankind, for Daath is the priceless gift of
Knowledge and Intellect whereby comes Salvation.
Wherefore also is 11 the Key Number of the Great Savior's
Name (IHShVH = 326 = 11) [1972, page 184].
East: Coming from the roots meaning "it shines"; with the
general connotation of "shinning" East is the direction of the
breaking day, the direction on the right hand of one facing
north, and specifically the location on the horizon marking
the center of the solar disk as it rises on the Spring
Equinox. The direction on the Cube of Space associated with
daleth and key 3, The Empress. It represents that which is to
come and the result of the continuous interaction of the
Selfconscious activity of the Magician (Above) and the
Subconscious potential of the High Priestess (Below).
Fire
Ha-kal [HKL], "the All". Thus in the Kingdom are all the
powers conjoined, and the Kingdom is the physical body of man
to which the name Guph, is given [55].
Mem [MIM]. "water." Associated with Key 12, The Hanged Man.
Menstrum
Peh [P] "mouth." Letter associated with Key 16, The Tower.
Qoph [Q]. "back of the head." Associated with Key 18, The
Moon.
Receptular
Rayi
Red Lion: The Red Lion is the astral light in its physical
manifestation after these have been modified by what Tarot
represents by Key 1, the Magician, who symbolizes Mercury.
ROTA. the wheel which indicates that the basic law of the
manifest, Malkuth, is the law of rotation.
S
Samadhi (Sanskrit)
Sulphur
Vav, the 3rd letter of the name denotes the link, or affinity
between the first 2 letters. The bond of union between
essence and substance is motion or active forces. The sphere
of this activity is the Formative World, Yetzirah. the
corresponding element is fire, the universal radiant energy
that is the root of all forces. This fire is what we have to
tame in practical occultism.
The final Heh is held to be the synthesis of the other 3
letters, to which stands in relation similar to that existing
between a grain of wheat and the ear of which the grain is a
part. that is to say, all the potentialities of the other 3
letters are concentrated in the final heh. And because all
these potentialities are involved in the divine essence
represented by Yod, we are told that the final Heh is a Yod in
germ. It corresponds to the outermost of the 4 worlds.
Assiah, the plane of physical phenomena. Every physical
condition is a synthesis of divine essence, universal
substance and active force. Each phenomenon is a seed, whence
a whole crop of new phenomena may be developed. The
possibilities of the Archetypal World are made known by the
actualities of the material plane, and the simplest thing has
limitless capacity for unfoldment. Hence the most important
fact about the material world is its exhaustless fecundity and
reproductive power.
Trinity of consciousness
Kether = superconsciousness
Chokmah = self-consciousness
Binah = subconsciousness
Tropism:
thyroid gland
thymus
The letter Vav stands for the WORD, or LOGOS, the Builder of
the universe, identified in the New Testament with the SON,
who is also the Mediator.
Venus: Second planet from the Sun, roughly equal to the Earth
in size and mass and composition. The planet is covered with a
thick, reflective atmosphere of mostly carbon dioxide. Venus
day is 243 earth days with an extremely high surface
temperatures and high levels of volcanic activity. Observed
from the Earth, Venus like the Moon has phases and is, at its
brightest, more brilliant than any of the fixed stars. It has
been observed and named from early times as both the Morning
Star (Lucifer) and the Evening Star (Hesperus). Mythology,
Venus was an Italian goddess of blooms, garden and beauty,
early adopted by the Romans. As the mother of Aeneas she was
worshipped by them as Venus Genetrix. Venus is also identified
with the Greek goddess, Aphrodite, with whom she shares many
attributions, including dominion over vegetation and plant
growth, representing love and beauty, both earthly and
spiritual, Good luck (Venus Felix) and a goddess of war and
victory (Venus Victrix). In heraldry, Venus is assigned the
color green, as she is in Tarot; alchemy, Venus is copper and
attributed the Sphere of Netzach on the Tree. Venus is also
assigned to the Empress, the pair of opposites Wisdom and
Folly, the 14th path of the Luminous Intelligence. Venus
represents an integrative power, and is the ruler of the
formative and image making power of Subconsciousness.
Veritas, "Truth."
Water and Earth are fixed Elements; both are depicted by triangles
standing on their points (descending). Fire and Air are volatile;
they are represented by upward-pointing triangles.
FIRE
Bardon
The fiery principle are hear and expansion. The orgin of light is
to be sought in fire. Expansion is identical with extension.
Electrical fluid.
JUNIS
PFC
10. It is the cause of the three principles, and of all that can
be named.
15. This fire is what raises the "dead" (in the esoteric sense),
as pictured in Key 20.
Bardon
PFC
Tiphareth, the Sphere of the Sun, and Yesod, the Sphere of the
Moon, are the only Sephiroth corresponding to the element of air.
1. K.1, The pineal gland, the brain center connected with the
vibrations of Mercury and Uranus;
JUNIS
The Element Air is gaseous and volatile. Air is denser than Fire,
out of which it is precipitated, is the medium between Fire and
Water. It is also the "carrier of the seed" and signifies in a
broader sense wisdom, clarity, cleanliness, intellect, reason, the
ability to communicate, and the expansion of being.
The element Air is said to be the agency through which the power
of the solar rays or our sun are carried to earth.
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Junis
The Element Water is the liquid state. Water is the result of the
coagulation of Fire and Air. Steam condenses and turns into water.
Water is magnetic and is called "universal menstruum," also
"mother of the things." It is either condensed air or liquid
earth; its character is cold and contractive. In a broader sense,
it signifies the passive, the absorbing, the penetrating, life,
feelings, love of nature and of the great family. It acts as a
mediator between Air and Earth.
PFC
Water is the substance aspect of the First Matter, having its root
or source in what is represented on the Tree of Life as Binah, to
which Sephirah the principle Salt is also attributed. This
substance aspect appears also in the fourth Sephirah. Hence, in
THE PATTERN ON THE TRESTLEBOARD, we associate Limitless Substance
with Chesed.
In the 8th Sephirah, the First Matter presents itself under the
form of alchemical Copper, or Venus. Yet Hod is also the Sphere of
Mercury, and the actual, physical metal Mercury is the only fluid,
or watery, metal. These details require careful consideration, for
they are clues to the right understanding of the whole mystery of
alchemy.
Alchemical water, then, is the cosmic fire, specialized in the
nerve currents and chemistry of the blood stream. The purification
of this water must be the first work of the alchemist. He must
choose true foods, and regulate his habits of eating. He must
control his sex-life, and see that kidney elimination is what it
should be. He must learn, little by little, to rebuild his body,
sacrificing everything which clouds or obscures its transparency
to the light of the Life-power. And, finally, he must impose a
pattern of the New Image on its cells through the agency of his
subconsciousness.
Franz Bardon
PFC
The flowing robe and the color blue represents Water. Water is
the primordial substance, known to the Hindus as "Prakriti" or
mental energy (root matter) is symbolized by Water and the Virgin.
The wavy lines of the robe represent vibration. This is one of
the most important words in occultism.
Mem
The letter Mem means "waters" or "seas", and refers to Root Matter
as do the crescent and upper garment (see key 2).
The universal subC is also your personal subC. Its creative powers
are those which you direct by means of suggestion.
Angel
BARDON
The action of the 3 elements has been limited with the result of
space, measure, weight and time having been born. (Proton,
electron and neutron combine together to form matter). The
resiprocal action of the 3 elements together with that of the
earth, thus has become a tetrapolar so that the earthy principle
may be labelled as a 4-pole magnet. The fluid in the polarity of
the earthy element is electro-magnatic.
PFC
The following Tarot Keys are specially concerned with the magical
earth:
JUNIS
Tohu va-Bohu [TvHV VBHV]. without form and void [Genesis 1:2]. A
description of earth, or "That which is below" in the Bibical
creation allegory. The mental image suggested is that of a vast
abyss of fluid darkness. see 390, 291. The Surangama Sutra states:
"The intrinsic nature of space is the real earth-essence."
Akasha
BARDON
The akasha is the ultimate, the supreme, the most powerful thing,
something unconceivable, the ultimate cause of all things existing
and created. Akasha is sapceless and timeless. It is the non-
created, the incomprehensible, the indifinable. It is the fifth
power, the orginal power. Everything created is kept in balance
by it. It is the orgin and the purity of all thoughts and
intentions, it is the causal world wherein the whole creation is
subsisting on, beginning from the highest spheres dowh to the
lowest ones. It is the quintessence of the alchemists, it is all
in all.
JUNTIS
Figure 8 shows the three most important yoga nadis. The nadis
(from the root nad, motion) are subtle channels through which flow
the vital energies. The coarser channels are the nerves, veins,
and arteries, which are also known to Western medicine, while the
subtler, through which the prana energy flows, have no equivalent
counterparts here, just like the meridians of Chinese medicine.
The nadis with the energy centers (cakras) in the central channel,
represented in Figure 8, are considered the most important nadis.
They are called ida, pingala, and susumna. Here now follows a
synoptical table of the principal nadis.
Mercury:
The principle of life, or the vital power, the spirit (in the
sense of "spirit of life"), the waters of life, further, the
volatile, the etheric. In the Indian tradition, Mercury is also
called prana. Mercury is considered anonymous and not conscious.
It represents the feminine or passive principle.
Sulfur:
The solid, the body, the vehicle, matter in the sense proper.
From the modern viewpoint, we can also call Salt the physical
units; Mercury corresponds to undulation, while Sulfur represents
the quantum of light. A likewise acceptable analogy would depict
the correspondence between proton (Sulfur), electron (Mercury),
and neutron (Salt).
1. The tiny building blocks of the atoms, which form matter, the
Salt Principle.
COHOBATION
Lesson 15 page 5
D
DIGESTION
The flask should have a rather long neck and the matter shouldn't
fill more than a third of its volumne. It is very important that
the temperature be constant during the whole digestion: as the
cooling down of eggs kils a brood, likewise a momentary cooling
down blocks the cohobation resulting from the digestion.
DISTILLATION
1. ordinary distillation
2. rectification
3. fractional distillation
4. vacuum distillation
5. steam distillation
6. philosophic distillation
IMBIBITION
MACERATION
Menstrua
In Alchemy, Menstrua are the liquids which have the power to
dissolve or extract the elements of various materials. In
general, the Mercury proper to a realm is an excellent menstruum
for that realm. Very often, the word ALKAHEST designates a
menstruum with limited power: sometimes it acts only on one of the
principles of Sulfur or Mercury, or in other cases it acts on only
one part of its realm. For example, there is an ALKAHEST which is
semi-metallic and satisfactory in the mineral realm but not in the
metallic realm.
Labora Orare
Work Pray
Menstrua
universal menstrua
specific menstrua [fixed and volitile]
Philosphers Mercury
Philosophic Mercury
Menstrua extracted from human urine
the Archeus of Water
The force that is used is, indeed, the Scorpio power; but in each
human personality, whether its outer form be male or female, the
new birth must take place, for flesh and blood cannot inherit the
Kingdom, nor can it be transmitted by genetic processes to
posterity. Thus never will the race evolve into the Fifth
Kingdom, or superhumanity. Every person must transmute his own
lead into gold. Evolution is a genetic process. The Magnum Opus
goes beyond this, as you may see for yourselves, if you look up
Magnum Opus in the Magical Language.
The Great Work transmutes the Microcosm into the Macrocosm. The
Microcosm is illusory. It does not exist. Cosmic consciousness
is truly Nirvana, or extinction. Thus the Great Work brings us
to the place of God at the Center, that is, Tiphareth - in heart,
not in head, as we told you before.
But here you must remember that the Sons of the Doctrine are never
to be so much suspected as when they write, most openly, as one of
them says. So remember also, that they said also that some of
them had children to whom they could not pass on their mysteries.
Evidently "vowed virginity" is not simply celibacy, or else
priests and nuns would also be adepts, and they are not.
What we want you to see and understand is, that if the Scorpio
force is used for generation it cannot be used for the Great Work.
Used it may be, in several ways; but whatever the special
regimen, it always excludes physical procreation. In Tibet this
is well-known, as it is in the Western School. The objective is
the new birth as one of the Sons of the Doctrine. Meditation is
the process. It is the physiological demonstration of a seed-
idea, and the names ADM, BN, MLK are the statement of that idea.
Become the true ADM, and you become the Son who is King, and all
that the Father hath is yours. The illusion of the Microcosm is
transmuted into the reality of the Macrocosm. One of the many
becomes the All." [13th Communcation, May 28, 1947]
So now you have definitely located on the Tree six of the Interior
Stars, Mercury, that is the Mercury of the Sages is the 7th and
highest, and this is Kether itself. So descending from it are the
Paths of the Magician and the Fool. The first is Mercury, and so
is the Fool in reality, for the Fool is the higher aspect of what
the Magician typifies. Just as in astrology Uranus is the octave
of Mercury. On the middle pillar than, is the Path from the Bride
to the Crown, and here, if you have ears to hear is the hidden
knowledge. [20th Communcation 6/23/47].
Red Lion
Saturn, Mars and Jupiter among the Interior Stars are those we
share with the sub-human kingdoms. They have their place and
purpose, but in human life they must be directed by the upper
triad of Venus, or imagination, Moon, or memory, and Mercury, or
discrimination. In the Rota this is hinted at in many ways, but
particularly by the white wand having two similar ends, so too the
woman's taming a live lion. Here is a clue to the basis of many
forms of magical working. Nothing which tells you to kill or
atrophy the lower triad is true magic. These are the sources of
all potency, and to deny them or flee them is to confess oneself
unfit for the magical path in any of its forms. So take the
conditions taken by the world-process eons before your birth as
Saturn. You cannot change their basic nature, nor do you need to
attempt this impossible task.
What you can do is transmute them, or bring them across into the
field of enlightened understanding. This in no wise changes the
basic nature of the powers embodied in your surroundings. It is
the alchemist who is the real subject of the Great Work, and even
he does not change his basic nature. How can he since that basic
nature is the changeless one? Yet a similitude may help you grasp
this: In a single seed lie all the potencies of growth and flower
and fruit. These potencies are unfolded as the plant grows, but
they were there all the time. So in what has been called man's
animal nature are potencies few dream of, and fewer still unfold;
because their presence, not being apparent, must be divined by
Mercurial insight and Venusian imagination, and thus follows the
actual work of which Key 8 is only one among thousands of glyphs."
[19th communcation 6/18/47].
Solve et coagula (Latin).
Sperma solis (Lt). Seed of the sun (or gold). see 60, 64.
Sun Center is that which admits the cosmic fire into the house of
personality. - GW L12.
Virgin's Milk.