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Gnosis (https: //gnosticteachings.org /introductory-information/12-
what-is-gnosis.html) gives the "gnana" of God: the Gimel (3), the letter G in
the English alphabet.
The third letter of the sacred alphabet of Kabbalah
(https://gnosticteachings.org/faqs/kabbalah.html) is the letter Gimel. If
you observe its shape, you see that it is made by a letter Vav (1) and a letter
Iod (). This encloses the mystery of the sound "ggh," which is guttural,
meaning, in the throat. If you observe the Tree of Life you will see that - in
the human being - the Sephirah Da'ath is precisely located at the level of
the'throateFhisSephiralmDatath is Grosigee agreeing to our use of cookies. I understand(https: //gnosticteachings.org /introductory-
information /12-what-is-gnosis.html). Gnosis
(https: //gnosticteachings.org /introductory-
information /12-what-is-gnosis.html) is written with g.
Gnosis (https: //gnosticteachings.org/introductory-
information /12-what-is-gnosis.html) means "knowledge;"
the Sanskrit word for knowledge is "Gnana," but you might
be more familiar with the spelling “Jnana” In Hebrew, the
letter Gimel has these two (ja and ga) sounds which are
associated with many words.
The sound of gimel is located at the level of the throat.
In the lecture related with the letter Aleph, we stated that the letter lod
is the first dot, from which all the other letters are expressed. Iod is the
first dot in letter Gimel, and when you write out the word “Gimel” in
Hebrew, followed by the letter Gimel, is the letter lod.
This letter Iod - as you see in the letter Gimel - is nothing other than the
letter Vav, which is an extended, an elongated letter lod. Vav (or Zayin)
forms the straight line of the letter Gimel, which indicates that the letter
Gimel extends from the letter lod. Remember, the letter lod represents the
Sephirah Kether.
We explained in the lecture of the letter Aleph that Kether is always
represented by the letter lod. Aleph is called the holy trinity, the unity
formed by three Iods: Kether, Chokmah, and Binah. In Aleph we also find
the symbol of the extended letter lod expressed as Vav, which in the human
organism is the spinal column, because the letter Vav represents the spinal
medulla, the spinal column, which is the basis of our studies of Daath,
Gnosis (https://gnosticteachings.org /introductory-information/12-what-
osis.html).
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towards the left, and according to many Kabbalists, this lod
forms a foot. This is why the letter gimel is sometimes
represented by the running man, or a human being that has
started to walk or to run. The word in Hebrew for running is
pronounced ‘ratz. Thus, from the word ‘ratz’ comes ‘ratzon;
which in Hebrew means will, willpower. In the action of
walking, or doing, we find the action of willpower. It is very
significant that action or willpower is represented by that
foot, which is formed by the letter Iod, which also is a
representation of the phallus. The phallus is the letter lod below, because
the letter Gimel - which is generation and genesis - is telling us about the
action of the Holy Spirit, since it is the third letter, and has a numerical
value of three.
Remember that amongst the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit
is Binah, the third Sephirah in the Tree of Life. Binah is Hebrew for
“intelligence, understanding” It is pointing at the human being, which
among all the animals is the one that has the capacity for understanding
and intelligence. The intellectual animal is at the top of earthly evolution.
The letter Gimel, as the number three, is represented by the mercury of
philosophy. Mercury is the Holy Spirit, which is an emanation of the holy
tri-unity. This force always works in the central nervous system as El-
Shaddai. Remember that it is stated that the central nervous system is the
throne of God. That is why - in Christianity - those beings that are related
with the Sephirah Binah at that level are called Thrones. It is because the
throne of God is always made by the creative force of the Holy Spirit as El-
Shaddai represented in the letter Gimel.
‘This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. I understandThe creative force of the Holy Spirit is synthesized by the four elements,
or the four holy creatures that we talked about in previous lectures. Ezekiel
shows them as the bull, the lion, the eagle, and the human being, or angel.
In previous lectures, we told you that these four creatures are the
manifestation, the action, of Binah, the Holy Spirit, that works through the
elements that are also represented by the sphinx. But in this case, because
we are talking about Kabbalah
(https: //gnosticteachings.org/faqs/kabbalah.html), the four creatures in us
each have their own microcosmic representations:
¢ The eyes are represented by the lion.
¢ The ears are represented by the ox.
¢ The nose is represented by the eagle.
¢ The speech, mouth, and taste are represented by the man.
In the head we have senses that are always active thanks to the
intelligent force of the Holy Spirit, which expresses itself through gimel.
The words that I am expressing now are coming through my throat. That is
why Gnosis (https: //gnosticteachings.org /introductory-information/12-
what-is-gnosis.html) is knowledge, expressed. This is also why the human
being is the one that expresses speech through the word, through Gnosis
(https: //gnosticteachings.org /introductory-information/12-what-is-
gnosis.html) (Daath), the knowledge of God, through gimel. This is why in
Judaism there is a Hebrew word that is very popular: Haggadah, “to tell.”
In the word Haggadah the letter gimel is united to the letter daleth. This
reminds us in English of the word "God," G and D united, because indeed,
God, here in the throat, is the G. God is the Word.
This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. T understandIn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God. The same was in the
beginning with God. All things were made by him (the
Word); and without him (the Word) was not any thing
made that was made. In him (the Word) was life; and
the life (El-Shaddai) was the light of men (the Daleth).
- John 1:1-4
The power of creation of the Elohim, of God, resides in the throat. That
is why this power expresses itself through any prophet, any sacred
individual, through the throat by speaking the letters of God. Such wisdom
is later inscribed or written on paper as a Gospel, as God-spells. This is
why, after that, they call scriptures “the word of God.” The Bible was
written by men, prophets, initiates, who have the power of God. Such a
power is in the throat, in that chakra, which in Hinduism is called
Vishuddha. All the sacred books written in the world are written by men
and women, whose power is God in their throat.
Within this power is Mercury, the Holy Spirit; Mercury in this sense is
the power of the word. Remember that Mercury or Hermes is related with
the mind and with the word that creates. This is why when God begins his
work, he says "Let there be light." The one who makes that light is the Holy
Spirit, because Binah (intelligence) as El-Shaddai is the lower Iod of the
letter gimel that is the action of the Holy Trinity. Thus, the creative action
of the Holy Trinity is done through the Holy Spirit as El-Shaddai; it is the
whole initiation (https: //gnosticteachings.org /faqs/initiation.html), the
whole path that we have to begin by first studying the knowledge, the
Gnosis (https: //gnosticteachings.org /introductory-information /12-what-
This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. T understandis-gnosis.html), the Sanskrit Gnana. After studying the doctrine, then we
put in activity that word or knowledge by the will, by the action of the Holy
Spirit which expresses itself through the lod.
In the letter Gimel, there is a spinal column; the letter Vav. Thus, to start
walking, you use the lower Iod; that is the beginning. That Iod is El-Shaddai,
the sexual force. This means that in order for us to walk on the path, we
have to start utilizing the lod (the sexual force).
The lod symbolizes the phallus. That is why the holy name of God—Iod
Hei Vav Hei, that is translated as Jehovah—begins with Iod. lod is the
beginning. Kether is lod. The action of the Holy Spirit is Iod. It is El-Shaddai
the foot of gimel. Such a foot is always related with the action of the sexual
energy. The lod represents not only the foot, but also the hands. When you
hear about action related with hands and feet, that is in relation with the
lod.
‘This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. I understandNow, let us visualize the four creatures of Ezekiel. The man is related
with speech, the throat. We always associate the word, speech, with
creation. Yet also the phallus, down here, is associated with creation, and it
relates to the sense of touch. Yes, the phallus as a sensitive organ is related
with the sense of touch; the most sensitive organ to the sense of touch is
the sexual organ. Yet touch, as you can sense, is also associated with the
hands and feet. All the skin is included. This is why when we go into the
sexual act we always notice that we go into it through the sense of touch.
As we observe, in the beginning, when someone is in love, the sight, the
hearing, the smell, the mouth, all the senses enter into contact, yet the last
organ that consummates that love is the sexual organ through the sense of
touch.
The power of the sense of touch is related with the Iod. You might 3
say then that the sense of touch is only related with males, but let me
remind you that Gimel can also be made by a letter Zayin and that the
letter Iod in the woman is also a phallus, one that is withdrawn by nervous
ligaments and known as the clitoris (Hebrew: 3737 ). This organ in the
woman is the most sensitive organ of the sense of touch. This organ is
withdrawn in itself in order to form the feminine yoni, the sexual feminine
organ. So we will say that the woman is Iod Hei, because the woman
symbolizes the yoni. So, in the woman you see the little dot, which is that
phallus (her clitoris), thus, lod Hei in her forms the duality. That is why the
woman is two, while the man is one, because the man only has the phallus.
From the one, which is the lod, emerges the Hei, which is the woman. That
is why we said that the number one is the man and the number two is the
woman. One plus two equals three. That three is the union of both in the
sexual act. It is the Holy Spirit, represented in the letter gimel.
From this you can see how these holy creatures of Ezekiel—the lion as
the eyes, the ox the ears, the eagle the nose, and the man as the speech, the
motitifornthe headosymbolized ir thetod thatis:comiected tothea’throat (Daath) through the Vav (the central column of the tree of life) and
finally the soul (https: //gnosticteachings.org /glossary/s/2890-soul.html),
(Tiphereth) to the earth (Malkuth) by means of the foot, the phallus formed
by the other lower lod (Yesod). This earth is the whole physical body.
The other four senses that we talked about related to the creatures of
Ezekiel, form the senses of the Iod above, the head. This is why Raphael, the
great painter, painted these holy creatures as holding Kether, the ancient of
days. This is a beautiful painting. This is “Chaioth Ha Kadosh”
From the throat emerges the word of God. Through the throat God
makes the man, as it is written in Genesis 1:3:
“And God said: Let there be light: and there was light.”
“In him (in his throne, the Vav, the medulla) was life; and the life (El-
Shaddai) was the light of men (superior manas, Tiphereth),” - John 1:4
This is how God speaks in the beginning.
Thus, with God's pronunciation of the word, with his voice, we are
performing haggadah - telling, which is the speech, the word in Daath,
activated by Tiphereth, his will, through the lower Iod in Yesod; thus,
appears the rest of the Sephiroth that form the body with limbs; the arms,
legs, etc., of the human being. These are added thanks to the letter Gimel;
since above, in the head, in the senses, is where we have these four holy
creatures,
The Trinities
In Kabbalah (https: //gnosticteachings.org /faqs/kabbalah.html), we
always tell (haggadah), we always talk about different trinities. This is
something that we have to understand. If we understand these three
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(https: //gnosticteachings.org /introductory-information /12-what-is-
gnosis.html), which is related with the letter gimel.
The first trinity that we talk about is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit -
Kether, Chokmah, Binah, that we explained very broadly in the lecture
about Aleph.
The second trinity is formed through the duality of Binah, because from
the first trinity emerges the duality through Binah. So, the duality emerges
from the Holy Spirit, which is the number three of the first trinity. The
action of the Holy Spirit is represented by its will (ratzon, “willpower” in
Hebrew) through the Iod in Yesod (sex); ratz, “running” in Hebrew.
When the Holy Spirit starts its action, it divides in two. That is
represented by the letters lod and Hei of the sacred name lod Hei Vav Hei.
This duality, when in union, produces the number three in the second
trinity, which is the Vav, the Monad (from Greek Monas, Unity), the Spirit.
The duality of the Holy Spirit is father-mother. Abba and Aima. Osiris,
Isis. Joseph and Mary, Shiva-Shakti, Abraham and Sarah. Many religions
have symbols of this duality, which represents the Holy Spirit. The white
dove and Mary, Leda and the swan; the bird is always the representation of
the Holy Spirit. From the duality of Binah, the Holy Spirit emanates Gedulah
/ Chesed. The Sephirah Chesed has two names - Chesed “mercy” and
Gedulah “goodness”; Gedulah is written with the letter gimel. From
Gedulah emerges Geburah, also written with gimel.
So, behold! Gedulah forms part of the second trinity and Gedulah
unfolds into another trinity.
1, First trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
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Father, Mother and Son, which is Gedulah, our Spirit, the Monad.
3. The third trinity is originated, created by Gedulah, the Son or the
Monad, which is the trinity or trimurti that in Sanskrit we call
Atman-Buddhi-Manas.
In the Bible, this last trinity is called Abraham-Isaac-Jacob. Abraham is
Gedulah, Isaac is Geburah, and Jacob is Tiphereth. They form the Monad.
The Monad is the Spirit that has two souls: the divine soul
(https: /gnosticteachings.org /glossary/s/2890-soul.html), and the human
soul (https: //gnosticteachings.org/glossary/s/2890-soul.html),
In different lectures, we explain about this third trinity, which is our own
particular trinity in the Spirit. The trinity of the Spirit emanates from the
Holy Spirit in Daath. This trinity of the Holy Spirit in Daath emanates from
the first trinity, which is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. These
trinities are mentioned in every religion of the world, and many myths. We
have to pay attention to them, because this is the mystery of gimel, which
is the generation of the lod, the creation of the Holy Spirit into the
universe.
For instance, the trinity in the Monad among the Nordics and legends of
the round table, was called Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot. If we go into
the Edda we find Odin, Brunhilde, and Siegfried (who represents Tiphereth
in the Tree of Life); these three forces are beautifully expressed in Wagner's
opera ‘The Ring of the Nibelungen: Every religion expresses this trinity of
the Monad in different manners. This is what we have to comprehend and
understand in order to grasp the meaning of the letter lod through Gimel.
Gimel and Iod makes the sound "gaaae,’ which in Hebrew means valley.
There are many words in the Bible written with this word, which means
valley, i.e. Gehenom "gaae hinnom ("Valley of Hinnom"). This word is the
‘This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. I understandexpression of the gimel through the letter lod, above, in the throat.
The power of the Holy Spirit, in the Iod, the throat, is the power of the
word. By the power of the Holy Spirit (lod) above and in the lod below, the
letter gimel has two Iods - the one above in the head and the one below in
the sex. The Iod below in the sex relates to the other two letters of the
word ‘Gimel’; Mem and Lamed, which together form the Hebrew word
“Melah,’ meaning circumcision, to circumcise. It is very interesting to see
that in the word gimel, the two letters that form the word circumcision are
hidden at the end. All this relates to the mystery of El-Shaddai and the man.
Circumcision is physically represented by the operation that Jews,
Muslims, and other religions perform on the male. There are other groups
that circumcise women, but this is brutal and we disagree with it. The only
circumcision that we agree with is the circumcision of the spirit, which is
related with chastity (https: //gnosticteachings.org /faqs/sex/1664-what—
is-chastity.html). This is the mystery of the letter gimel.
The Camel
Gimel can also be said "Gamal" in Hebrew, which
means camel. It also means bridge in Aramaic. So what
is that bridge? What is that camel? When you use your
intuition, when you analyze with your heart, you see
that the name of gimel means camel. What is that part
of the camel that protrudes and distinguishes it from
other animals? It is the hump, naturally. Where is that hump? It is on the
Vay, the spinal column, above the spinal column, thus pointing out the
spine. When you look at the graphic of the letter gimel, you do not see a
camel shape there. But if you associate the spinal column with the camel, it
becomes more clear.
‘This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. I understandThe camel transmutes the air into water. The letter aleph is the air. The
water is the sexual matter. It is said that camels are well known for their
humps, however they do not store water in them as it is commonly
believed, though their humps do serve this purpose through other means.
Their humps are actually a reservoir of fatty tissue. When this tissue is
metabolized, it is not only a source of energy but yields through a reaction
with oxygen from the air, thus converting the fat into water. This process of
fat metabolization generates a net loss of water through respiration. This is
called in alchemy: transmutation. The power, the energy is in the spinal
column, the hump. The beginning of everything is the breath; Pranayama
(https: //gnosticteachings.org /faqs/sex/1672-what-is-pranayama.html),
which is one of the exercises that we teach in order to transmute the water
into energy by means of the air.
Now you understand why the camel and the spinal column are
associated with the letter gimel. This is why it is written in the Zohar:
Camels are the primordial serpent that was like a
camel, When the angel Samael tempted Adam to eat of
the tree of knowledge of good and evil, he was riding
on a camel-like serpent [a Gamal or a Gimel like a Vav
serpent]. We learned that whoever sees a camel in his
dream was punished by death from above but was
saved from it. It is all the same, which means that the
camel and the serpent that delivered death to the
world are the same thing.
"Camels (Gimels) are (symbols of) the primordial serpent." Why?
This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. T understandMoreover, the Zohar also talks about a flying camel. If you associate the
camel with gimel, it is easy to see that the energy of the Kundalini
(https: //gnosticteachings.org /faqs/spirituality/3100-
what-is-kundalini.html), the Holy Spirit, rises in the
Vay, the spinal column, in the spine of the gimel, the
gamal, the camel.
The Zohar also states that the angel Samael tempted
Adam. Adam is the brain and Eve is the sex. Samael governs Aries, the head,
Adam, and Scorpio, or Eve, the sexual organs, both polarities.
“When Samael tempted Adam to eat of the fruit of the
tree of good and evil, he descended from heaven riding
on this camel-like serpent at that time, all the
creatures saw his image and fled from him.”
If you imagine that literally, you would see the master or Angel Samael
riding a flying camel. But no, this is talking about the spinal column. The
angel that rides in the spinal column is Samael Aun Weor.
‘Aun’ relates to the lower Iod of the letter gimel. ‘Aun’ is sexual strength
in Hebrew. Weor means “and light" in Hebrew.
“And the life (of Aun, sexual strength) was the light (Aur
/ €or) of men (Gimel)” - John 1
“Weor’—"and the light”—rises in the Vav, the spinal column. Therefore, to
ride in a camel (a Gimel) means to be somebody who has developed all the
forces of the Kundalini
(https: //gnosticteachings.org /faqs/spirituality/3100-what-is-
kundalini.html), the Holy Spirit incarnated in the spinal column. This is why
Binah, the Holy Spirit, expresses itself through Geburah (as creator and
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Gibor (Hebrew for “the Upright Man’). Gibor is also represented in the
gimel. Elohim Gibor is “the justice of God”
Do you understand all these associations with the letter gimel? The
serpent was a gimel or a camel-like serpent, so the rabbis of the Zohar
stated,
“we learned that whosoever sees a camel in his dream
was punished by death from above, but was saved from
it. It is all the same - the camel and serpent which
delivered death unto the world are the same thing.”
The letter gimel, the camel, which is the spinal column and the serpent,
are the same thing. When the individual fornicates through the lower Iod,
he separates the letter gimel from the letter daleth. The mystery of daleth
is the mystery of the terrestrial man. The man of Malkuth is the physical
man.
When we fornicate, we separate the inner man (Gimel, Gibor, the
Upright Man) who is also called the "Seir Anpin," from the earthly man (the
fourth letter, dalet).
Elohim Gibor is a full Archangel of the Ray of Mars! He
carries the Flaming Sword at his waist, and is a terribly
Divine Male.
- Esoteric Treatise of Theurgy by Samael Aun Weor
The spiritual man (Gimel, Elohim Gibor, the Upright Man) is the heavenly
man, as Paul of Tarsus states.
This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. T understandThe first man is of the earth, earthy (Daleth): the second
man is the Lord from heaven (Gimel).
As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is
the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
And as we have borne (incarnated) the image of the earthy,
we Shall also bear (incarnate) the image of the heavenly. - 1
Corinthians 15: 47-49
The sin of Adam was to separate the two men. So now the terrestrial
man is here, physical. This is the mystery of why in the Zohar it states that
Samael brought the tempting fruit to Adam and Eve. Adam is the head, Eve
is the sex - the two lods of the letter gimel. The camel on which Samael
was flying was the spinal column of the Upright Man - Gibor, the gimel or
“gamal.” So still, he is riding in our spinal column. If you awaken that force
called Samael, it will rise in the spinal column. If we defeat the temptation,
that is, if we do not eat from the fruit, the energy will rise.
In Hebrew, the word gimel is also derives the word Gemul, which means
“to give" (Chesed-Charity). Even in English, give starts with G. This giving is
either reward (Gedulah) or punishment (Geburah). This reward, or this
punishment, is bestowed in us by our inner God (Gibor), to educate our
soul (https: //gnosticteachings.org/glossary/s/2890-soulhtml). We receive
these gifts or punishment by means of our own will when choosing
between good and evil; we make that choice through the lower "Iod" of the
letter gimel.
The root of goodness (Gedulah) rises in the spinal column. It is energy
that rises; it is the divine serpent Kundalini
(https: //gnosticteachings.org /faqs/spirituality/3100-what-is-
kundalini.html), the light of Shekinah that fills the spinal column from the
lower Iod of the letter gimel.
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downwardly forming the Kundabuffer organ. This is the opposite of that
same force.
Good and evil is a matter of choice between chastity
(https: /gnosticteachings.org /faqs/sex/1664-what-is-chastity.html) and
fornication (https: //gnosticteachings.org /faqs/sex /1666-what-is-
fornication.html). If we choose chastity
(https: //gnosticteachings.org /faqs/sex/1664-what-is-chastity.html), the
energy will rise in the spinal column, forming the letter gimel. Otherwise it
will grow downwards and make the tail of Satan, the Kundabuffer organ. All
of us have this organ in the internal planes, in our protoplasmic bodies. It is
very long, but we can cut it. We can terminate it by working with the
Kundalini (https: ///gnosticteachings.org/faqs/spirituality/3100-what-is-
kundalini.html),
Raatz is Hebrew for running, related to the lod that resembles a leg in
the letter gimel, which expresses the will (Hebrew ratzon) of the Holy
Spirit, the inner wealthy man who bestows his wealth upon the physical
man, Malkuth. So here we enter into the mystery of gimel, which Kabbalah
(https: //gnosticteachings.org/faqs/kabbalah.html) states is "a wealthy man
that bestows his riches to the poor man.”
We like to imagine that some millionaire will come to us and bestow his
millions upon us, but it is not like that, so let us understand in which way
we should be poor by reading the gospel of Matthew:
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom
of heaven. Matthew 5: 3
So, we must be (Daleth) poor in spirit in order to receive the wealth of
(Gimel) heaven.
This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. T understandHere in this physical world we are what the bible calls "Abel", which in
Hebrew is "Habel." Abel is the soul
(https: //gnosticteachings.org/glossary/s/2890-soul.html). The man, the
true soul (https: //gnosticteachings.org/glossary/s/2890-soul.html),
expresses itself through its speech, the word of God. This is why the eyes
are the lion, the ears are the ox, the nose is the eagle, and the speech is the
man, Abel that was created by the power of the word. Abel, the soul
(https: //gnosticteachings.org/glossary/s/2890-soul.html) here on Earth is
poor, so we need to use the powers of the Innermost, which are bestowed
by Gimel, the real man, Gibor, the Upright Man, above.
When we talk about the Monad, he is Gedulah / Chesed, the real man
within each one of us, and Geburah (Gibor, the Upright Man) made into the
image of God. Thus, when we work and do what we have to do with the
word, with the throat, with Gnosis
(https: //gnosticteachings.org /introductory-information /12-what-is-
gnosis.html), with Gimel, with God here in the throat - by using our own
particular will through the sexual organs - then, Abel starts working in the
seven levels of the being. The Being has seven bodies.
1, Malkuth, the physical body
2. Yesod, the vital body
. Hod, the astral body
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. Netzach, the mental body
5. Tipereth, the causal body
6. Geburah, the body of the consciousness
(https: //gnosticteachings.org /faqs/psychology/1720-what-is-
consciousness.html)
7. Gedulah, the Spirit
This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. T understandThe Spirit has to develop Abel, the soul
(https: //gnosticteachings.org /glossary/s/2890-soul.html). How does the
Spirit do this, acknowledging that Cain killed Abel, the soul
(https: /gnosticteachings.org/glossary/s/2890-soul.html)? There is a book
in the bible called Ecclesiastes, written by Solomon, the King. It is a
beautiful book. It begins with Abel. It says "Habel Habelim." Habel is
singular, and Habelim is plural, so Habel is one and Habelim is two. He says
this twice in the beginning of the book. In English, the translation is "vanity
of vanities." Everything is Abel, everything is vanity. We have seven Abels.
The book of Ecclesiastes teaches us how to develop the seven levels of the
soul (https: //gnosticteachings.org/glossary/s/2890-soul.html) in relation
with the spirit.
“Everything is vanity,” which is the soul
(https: //gnosticteachings.org/glossary/s/2890-soul.html) (Abel), and the
spirit (Ruach). This is the mystery of the letter three, gimel. This is the
mystery of the soul (https: //gnosticteachings.org/glossary/s/2890-
soul.html). In Kabbalah (https: //gnosticteachings.org /faqs/kabbalah.html),
the soul (https: //gnosticteachings.org /glossary/s/2890-soul.html) is
divided into three parts:
1, Neshamah
2. Ruach
3. Nefesh
This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. T understandNeshamah, the Spiritual Soul
(https://gnosticteachings.org /glossary/s/2890-soulhtml)
Neshamah, the spiritual soul
(https: //gnosticteachings.org/glossary/s/2890-soul.html), is represented
by Abraham and Isaac (Gedulah and Geburah), the two higher parts of the
Monad, Hermes the Spirit of the mercury, the Spirit of the Word. This is the
Maha-Atman, Great Soul (https: //gnosticteachings.org /glossary/s/2890-
soul.html): Atman-Buddhi (Sanskrit), the Spirit and Divine Spiritual Soul
(https: //gnosticteachings.org /glossary/s/2890-soul.html).
‘This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. T understandRuach, the Thinking Soul
(https: //gnosticteachings.org /glossary/s/2890-soul.html)
Ruach is the thinking soul
(https: //gnosticteachings.org/glossary/s/2890-soul.html) that expresses
itself through the Manas, the superior mind, which is Tiphereth, Thoth, the
soul (https: //gnosticteachings.org/glossary/s/2890-soulhtml) of the
mercury, the soul (https: //gnosticteachings.org/glossary/s/2890-
soul.html) of the word. We have to develop the seven levels of Abel, the
thinking soul (https://gnosticteachings.org/glossary/s/2890-soul.html) in
order to reach the level of man (Tiphereth) and acquire the power of
Neshamah (Gedulah and Geburah) the spiritual soul
(https: //gnosticteachings.org/glossary/s/2890-soul.html) which is the
wealth in heaven.
‘This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. I understandNefesh, the Animal Soul (https: //gnosticteachings.org /glossary/s/2890-
soul.html)
Nefesh is the power of the lower Iod of gimel,; it is related to brute
mercury, the body of the word. All of this hermetic knowledge is related
with the power of the Holy Spirit in the mind, throat and sex. In us the
creative power of the Holy Spirit is in Nefesh, the cynocephalus (the dog-
headed ape) the brute mercury in the sexual organs.
For this reason Mercury is called Hermes
Trismesgistus, one in essence, but three in aspect.
(Because in the number 3, Gimel) In this trinity:
(Nefesh-Brute Mercury, Ruach-the Soul
(https: /gnosticteachings.org/glossary/s/2890-
soul.html) of the Mercury and Neshamah-the Spiritual
Mercury fecundated by Sulfur) is hidden the wisdom
(Chokmah) of the whole world.
Now you understand why the real man, the true human being, has to
develop the seven bodies of the being from Malkuth through Gedulah.
This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. T understandThe Master Samael Aun Weor explained in synthesis the power of gimel
and the word. The bible states:
“There was a man sent from God, whose name was
John.” - John 1:6
Samael stated this man is called | EO U AMS, which are the seven
vowels, the seven chakras that develop in the spinal column. 1EOUAMS
must be developed; seven-fold by seven-fold.
The number seven is holy, sacred. It represents the seven levels of the
consciousness (https: //gnosticteachings.org /faqs/psychology/1720-what-
is-consciousness.html), the seven chakras, the seven bodies, and the seven
dimensions.
When we as souls work in this path, what we are doing is preparing the
way of the Lord, which is our Monad. It is written in the Gospel of Mark
that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, sent his messenger to tell the truth. “To
tell” is haggadah, the expression of gimel. John the Baptist was a prophet
whose physical body (daleth) was united to gimel. God was expressed
through his throat and was teaching Gnosis
(https: /gnosticteachings.org /introductory-information /12-what-is-
gnosis.html). This is why it is written that John baptized in the wilderness,
and preached the gospel of repentance.
John’s baptism is related to the lower Iod of gimel, where we find the
creative living water. Yet, in order to synthesize how he was teaching such
a baptism, the verse is coded beautifully. When people read those verses
literally, they imagine John the Baptist as a beggar, naked, wearing a camel's
skin. Nevertheless, if we know Kabbalah
(https: //gnosticteachings.org /faqs/kabbalah.html), we know that the
Master John the Baptist, who existed two thousand years ago in the holy
land, svas.a.Master, afthe, Major. Mysteries, dde-had.his. temple.at theshoresof the river Jordan. He wore his white tunic like any master. But in the
gospel of Mark, in order to simplify what he was teaching, is written the
following:
And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a
girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts
and wild honey. - Mark 1:6
The camel's hair reflects the light of the sun, and gimel is the camel. This
does not mean he was literally wearing a camel's skin in the wilderness his
whole life. He is a Master. Any master who is a bodhisattva, who follows the
direct path, wears the camel's skin. It is a symbol, meaning that he is
working with his spinal column. All this is a symbol of gimel, the two Iods
above and below, or the two gardens of Eden: the upper garden and the
lower garden. This is why it is stated that he had a girdle of skins above his
loins. This means chastity (https: //gnosticteachings.org /faqs/sex/1664-
what-is-chastity.html).
He also ate locusts. In previous lectures we expressed what locusts
symbolized - they are related with Kabbalah
(https: //gnosticteachings.org /faqs/kabbalah.html),
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concerning locusts. We learned that fish and locusts
do not require slaughter, but it is their gathering that
makes it permissible to eat them. Such are the sages of
Kabbalah
(https: /gnosticteachings.org/faqs/kabbalah html),
They do not need slaughtering BY THE ANGEL OF
DESTRUCTION {Apollyon} but it says of them, "and
expired, and was gathered to his people" (Genesis
49:33). Just as the fish of the sea live in the sea, so do
the Kabbalah
(https: /gnosticteachings.org/faqs/kabbalah html)
students and the sages of Daath live in the sea, and if
they are separated from Daath they immediately die...
- Zohar
When we teach these mysteries, we are feeding you locusts. To eat
locusts means to get this Kabbalistic knowledge inside of you. It does not
mean that John the Baptist was in the wilderness starving and eating
locusts. Understand, this is the mystery of Kabbalah
(https: //gnosticteachings.org /faqs/kabbalah.html),
Honey is the outcome of transmutation. The bee transmutes the solar
light within the pollen and makes honey. This is the food of every Master of
the White Lodge. They eat honey and locusts.
At that time, John the Baptist was receiving Kabbalah
(https: //gnosticteachings.org /faqs/kabbalah.html); Kabbel means "receive."
Locusts come from nowhere and invade the earth, and the earth receives
them, Jnfermation,fremabovefromithe.God- Mercurysfromithe powenolthe word, from the hermetic things, the cryptic things of Kabbalah
(https: //gnosticteachings.org/faqs/kabbalah.html) - this is what John the
Baptist was teaching.
He was feeding people with locusts. But not everyone likes to eat locusts.
We have to know how to eat locusts, that is, how to transform in the
spine the food into energy like the camel through transmutation. This is
why John said:
I (like a camel) indeed baptize you with water unto
repentance: but he (Gibor) that cometh after me is
mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear:
he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost (Binah), and
with fire. - Matthew 3: 11
This relates to the letter ‘Shin; the fire in the spinal column,
There is a scripture where we learn about the rich man - the wealthy
man of chapter ten of the gospel of Mark, where everything that we
explained here is very clear - when you know how to read it. It says:
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one running, (the Iod that forms the bottom of the
letter of gimel means "raatz" or running. So, somebody
coming towards him running means someone who has
Gnosis (https: /gnosticteachings.org/introductory-
information /12-what-is-gnosis.html), coming to him)
and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what
shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? (good is
goodness, Gedulah)
And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good?
there is none good but one, that is, God.
This is pointing directly to the letter gimel, which is Gedulah. There is no
one who is good but your inner God, or Gedulah. There is something good
within you, so, why do you call me good when good is there within your
grasp? This is what Jesus was asking him. Why are you running after me
when there is something inside of you that you must run to? We must run
to the Gedulah, our goodness.
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adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false
witness, Defraud not, Honor thy father and mother.
And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these
have I observed from my youth.
Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto
him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell
whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou
shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the
cross, and follow me.
And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved:
for he had great possessions. (This rich man who came
running after him was a symbol of gimel)
And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his
disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter
into the kingdom of God! (The riches that the letter
gimel teaches us about are also the riches of the
churches or chakras of the spinal column)
And the disciples were astonished at his words. But
Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children,
how hard is it for them that trust in riches (that are
attached to riches) to enter into the kingdom of God!
This is why Master Jesus said:
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moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break
through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures
in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt,
and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For
where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. —
Matthew 6: 19-21
This is why people in this day and age are really suffering, because
thieves are everywhere.
Yet, if you make your wealth inside, there are no thieves in heaven. The
treasures in heaven pertain to the work that you do in your soul
(https: //gnosticteachings.org/glossary/s/2890-soul.html). When you die,
you take such a wealth inside your soul
(https: //gnosticteachings.org/glossary/s/2890-soul.html). Yet, if you are
attached to material things, understand you take nothing of it with you
when you die. This does not mean that you have to be economically poor -
you must take care of yourself. But do not be attached to the treasures in
the earth. Earthly riches come to us and they also leave.
Master Jesus continues:
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a
needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom
of God.
The letter gimel is the camel. It is easier for a camel - when you work
with the mysteries of gimel - if you develop the seven levels of your soul
(https: /gnosticteachings.org /glossary/s/2890-soul.html) related with
gimel - if you work with the Holy Spirit, which is related with gimel - only
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of heaven. This is because all that power that you are
using to penetrate into the superior dimensions of
nature is in the spinal column.
And they were astonished out of
measure, saying among themselves,
Who then can be saved?
And Jesus looking upon them saith, With
men it is impossible, but not with God:
for with God all things are possible.
Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo,
we have left all, and have followed thee.
And Jesus answered and said, Verily I
say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or
brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or
children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, but he
shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses,
and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children,
and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come
eternal life.
But many that are first shall be last; and the last first. -
Mark 10: 17-31
The spinal column is the ladder that Jakob saw in his dreams. One of the
mysteries of the letter gimel is Jacob holding the heel of Esau. That heel of
Esau is the sexual power in the earth. Jacob holds with his hand - the
symhol.ofJodondis brothers heelnltis also-saidithat.the lodis.thefootofEsau, meaning that Jacob - or Tiphereth, the power of the soul
(https: //gnosticteachings.org/glossary/s/2890-soul.html) - develops with
the power of sex which is in the heels of Esau. The heels are related with
the foot - the power of the physical body. If you take that power from
Malkuth - from the heels of Esau - then you will develop your inner soul
(https: //gnosticteachings.org/glossary/s/2890-soul.html). The power of
Esau is called Nefesh.
When this power starts developing, transforming that animal soul
(https: /gnosticteachings.org /glossary/s/2890-soul.html) called Nefesh
into a human, then the Ruach - the thinking soul
(https: //gnosticteachings.org/glossary/s/2890-soul.html) - will express
through your mouth. Neshamah - the spiritual soul
(https: //gnosticteachings.org/glossary/s/2890-soul.html) - is the one who
will receive (Kabbalah (https://gnosticteachings.org /faqs/kabbalah.html)).
The Neshamah receives the power and wisdom of God. Ruach expresses
this through the throat. But the power is given by Nefesh, which is the
sexual power of the lower Iod of the letter gimel that relates to the blood,
the skin, and the flesh.
If we transmute this power, this power is then called Ruach-Chokmah-
El, which relates to the Sephirah Chokmah.
All of us have to become John - 1E O UAMS - by covering ourselves
with the skin of the camel in order to reflect the light of the sun, and we
must eat the honey and locusts. Now you see why this process is
symbolized by the three wise men.
The Three Wisemen
The three wise men came from the east riding camels. They also had
horses in that age, right? But the three wise men did not ride on horses -
theiedineeaelrriding' their own tantelolrotherwords~ieathscame ndinghis own spinal column, his own gimel. Only those
that work with the gimel - the camel - and ride on
top of the spinal column are the ones that see the
birth of Christ.
Everything is hidden in gimel, and there are
many levels to comprehend it. Now we see why
Samael was riding a flying camel, why John the
Baptist was covering himself with the camel's skin,
and why the three wise men came riding on a
camel.
The spinal column is the throne of the spirit. If you do not have the
spinal column enflamed, you are not a King. In Hebrew, Melek is King;
Malkah is Queen. When uniting them, we have Malkuth, the physical body.
It is in Malkuth where the Holy Spirit makes the throne for our own
particular Monad.
When we begin the development of the real man inside, we are black.
When we start working in ourselves, we are still in the kingdom of death
because we have ego (https: //gnosticteachings.org /faqs/psychology/1761-
what-is-ego.html). As long as we have ego
(https: //gnosticteachings.org /faqs/psychology/1761-what-is-ego.html),
we are black - in darkness. As we work with the psychological death, the
annihilation of the ego
(https: //gnosticteachings.org/faqs/psychology/1761-what-is-ego.html),
the animals within, we become as John, one with Gimel, the camel, the
second wise man. And if we transform that camel into a lion, that is better —
it is the third wise man, but this is more advanced.
The third king appears inside of us - not outside. In the process of
christification, we form the yellow king, when all the bodies are made of
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gold. Every gift that we carry in the spinal column is an offering to God.
The last gift was gold — to transmute the lead into gold. In order to
transmute the lead into gold, we must first work with myrrh, and after
myrrh you must work with incense. These are all symbols of the
transmutation, or the smoke that rises from the earth as a sacrifice to our
own particular individual God.
Do not think that the people who wrote the gospels did so just to
entertain our minds. Every symbol has a meaning. The three wise men are
the representations of Abraham-Isaac-Jacob. The process that is written in
Genesis, that is written about these three wise men, ends with the
development of the inner Christ that is delivered by Moses, who is the
speech. Moses was born in the sexual waters of the Nile.
The three wise men - Abraham-Isaac-Jacob -
must be born inside of us. They are archetypes that
must be fully developed within our Monad, our
Atman-Buddhi-Manas. Only then are we prepared to
go to the manger of Bethlehem. This is how the rich
man leaves his house (Nirvana) - out of beth, which
is the house, through the letter daleth, in order to go
and worship Adonai, the Lord, which is Christ.
This is why the three wise men are represented
with crowns, because all of their power resides in Kether, which is why they
are called Malachim, related with the world of Tiphereth.
In the sexual act, the two Iods (the lingam and the clitoris of the yoni) are
magnetically in contact with Yesod (vital body); thus, by means of the
sexual act, king and queen through the act of will (not desire) form Malkuth
(the kingdom, the earth); this how the soul
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act - directly affects our physical reality. The whole mystery of the letter
Gimel is the Holy Spirit - the number three.
This number three expresses in many different ways and we have said
that it is the power of the holy Triamatzikamno — the law of three. It
expresses in steps through the letter Gimel, the camel.
Questions and Answers
Audience: Is lamed in gimel the letter with which we write Elohim?
Instructor: Yes, lamed is the letter with which we write Elohim. But the
Lamed at the end of the word ‘Gimel’ is found together with the letter
Mem. Mem and lamed together form the word “milah” which means
circumcision. The circumcision here is related to the Holy Spirit. In other
words, circumcision means chastity
(https: //gnosticteachings.org /faqs/sex/1664-what-is-chastity.html). To
cut the flesh - the animal flesh (nefesh) - in order to stop behaving like
animals. This is the mystery of circumcision, to transmute the sexual
energy as the camel does it with the air.
Audience: Where did circumcision originate?
Instructor: Circumcision is the act of cutting off the flesh of the phallus.
This is explained according to other masters who said that in the epoch in
which Moses came to the Earth, the vice of masturbation was very popular
among those tribes that were living in the wilderness. So, in order to stop
them from doing so, they instituted the circumcision and also created a
pact in order to teach the value of the sexual energy. This implies many
mysteries, but it is related with the letter lod. We have to use the phallus in
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have circumcision and still continue to masturbate. But masturbation was
the reason why it was instituted at that time.
Audience: What does Elohim Gibor mean?
Instructor: When you study the Tree of Life, you study four worlds. The
first world is the world of the archetypes (Atziluth). In this world, each of
the ten Sephiroth has its own secret meaning. So when you reach Geburah,
which is below Binah, there you find that the sacred name of God is Elohim
Gibor, which is the positive ray of Mars.
When you pronounce the conjuration of the seven you say, “by Samael
Sabaoth,’ which is the Logos in the world of creation (Briah). And “in the
name of Elohim Gibor’ By this you are meaning that Samael Sabaoth is
channeling the force of Atziluth, which is Elohim Gibor — justice of God -
the Upright Man of God, related with the Sephirah Geburah. From this
comes the meaning of Gibur and many other sacred names. In Geburah,
Elohim Gibor represents the positive ray of Mars. Thus, you bring the ray of
Elohim Gibor through Samael Sabaoth - and say “get thee hence,
Andramalek.” Andramalek is the negative aspect of Samael (Mars).
Andramalek is in Klipoth. He is a king below, which represents in us the
Mystic Pride of the World of Malkuth - Hanassmussen. Of course,
Andramalek is a real demon, somewhere in hell.
Andrameleck, the wealthy and pompous black
magician of China, states that the human being is an
angel; therefore, he does not need to suffer. He always
advises his friends to enter into the aristocracy, to
dress like princes and to collect a lot of money. -
Revolution of Beelzebub by Samael Aun Weor
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