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n11'I and establishes.<br />

3371 builder, founder. All building or creation<br />

takes place with the letter Heh (the vision of the<br />

prophet) and is accomplished by division (Zain,<br />

the Sword) from the unity of the whole. see 68.<br />

rt to feed, nourish. The substance or water of<br />

creation nourishes all things.<br />

552 to roll, roll off, roll away, remove; to roll<br />

up a scroll. The scroll is that of memory, which<br />

is rolled up upon completion of the creative<br />

process.<br />

N10 old, aged; ancestor; grandfather; elder. The<br />

race-memory is connected with these. see 189,<br />

604.<br />

;Iflf to guide or lead; to bring. In Exodus<br />

23:34: "But go now, lead the people where I told<br />

you. Behold, My angel shall go before you;<br />

nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will<br />

punish them for their sin."<br />

20 "Secret" name of the World of Briah. see<br />

Appendix 7.<br />

"The circumferential sign united to the organic<br />

sign, constitutes a root whose purpose is to<br />

depict the effect of the circumferential line<br />

opening more and more, and departing from the<br />

center: thence all ideas of extension,<br />

augmentation, growth: physical possibility."<br />

[d'olivet, 1976, p. 406.1<br />

737 Dagon. A fish-god of the Philistines. [I<br />

Samuel 5:2] "After the Philistines had captured<br />

the Ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer to<br />

Ashdod. (2) Then they carried the Ark into<br />

Dagon's Temple, and set it beside Dagon." see<br />

713.<br />

Waf prophet. In Exodus 7: 1: "Then the Lord<br />

said to Moses, 'see I have made you like God to<br />

Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your<br />

prophet." One who foretells future events, or<br />

who speaks for God.<br />

?If3n fervor [Crowley, 1977, p. 101. Not found<br />

in scripture or the Hebrew Lexicon.<br />

opus (Lt). Work. Refers of the alchemical great<br />

Work. see 124,6 1.<br />

104<br />

Magnesia (Lt). the first Matter (In Alchemy).<br />

i'l Deen. Justice, the highest name for the 5th<br />

Sephirah, Geburah. It is the square of 8, the<br />

special number of the Sephirah Hod, and of the<br />

letter Cheth, which is the channel carrying the<br />

influence from Binah down to Geburah. The<br />

wise see meaning and purpose in the reign of<br />

divine law. In human personality are surnmed up<br />

all the forces and laws of the universe. Man is<br />

the instrument through which the Life-power<br />

brings the Great Work to completion,<br />

symbolized by the pentagram, one of the<br />

geometrical correspondences to the number 5<br />

and Geburah. see 92,2 16,95,297, 850.<br />

'n Doni. a twin intelligences of Gemini. The<br />

5oth name of Shem ha-Mephorash, short form.<br />

see 95 & Appendix 10.<br />

;Ifl% a sigh, a groan, a deep breathing. The<br />

deeper meaning refers to the exercises of volition<br />

and of the practice of deep breathing, which is<br />

part of the practical technique of every Greater<br />

Adept. Superficially, emotional reactions to<br />

those who do not understand Divine Justice.<br />

;IfU Nogah. The sphere of Venus (alternate<br />

spelling. Netzach on the Tree. External splendor.<br />

see 58, 148, [K.V., p. 571<br />

?rill P7N Adam-EveIHavvah. Adam and Eve.<br />

A Qabalistic verbal symbol for all humanity.<br />

"The form of man, says the Rabbi Benjohai<br />

[Zohar 1: 191, III:144], contains all that is in<br />

heaven and earth-no form, no world could exist<br />

before the human prototype; for all things subsist<br />

by and in it: without it there would be no world,<br />

and in this sense we are to understand these<br />

words, The Eternal has founded the earth upon<br />

his Wisdom."<br />

"and this stone" (Genesis 28:22). Refers<br />

to the Stone of Bethel, which tradition identifies<br />

with the "crowning stone" now in Westminster<br />

Abbey. The letters of jm form 13 Nm, and<br />

read Nu Ben to indicate that Hu (Kether) and Ben<br />

(Tiphareth) are united in the mysterious ]X,

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