Gematria - Sepher Sapphires Volume 1.pdf

if it degenerated again still further, and if it
received the sign of material sense, it becomes
the symbol of absolute material life in ?I")?."
[dYOlivet, 1976, p. 288.1
ahqeeta. aletheia (Gr). truth. "Not forgetting."
Suggest perfect memory. The magician opposes
reality to appearance, fact to fancy, order to
disorder. "You shall know the truth and the truth
shall make you free." For that which is at once
liberation and preservation is the understanding
and living of truth.
yevea. genea (Gr). Birth, race, descent; a
generation, offspring, age, period, time, nation.
dictum (Lt). a saying; a prediction, a prophecy;
an order, a command. The Perfect Law is at
once a prophecy and a command.
domus (Lt). abode, dwelling, home, house. The
Divine Justice is our true abiding place.
salus (Lt). health, well-being, prosperity,
deliverance, preservation.
sal aqua (Lt). salt water (Secret Symbols, page
30). Sal Aqua is called also Matrix Corpus,
matrix of the body. The correspondence is to
Geburah as the Sphere of Mars. see 674, 82, 156.
solve (Lt). dissolve. The first of two alchemical
admonitions. The other is coagula, coagulate.
Dissolution comes first. We must remember that
the use of creative imagination is concerned with
the breaking down of old forms and habits as
well as the building up of new ones. You cannot
become the New Creature and remain as you are.
There is a relation between the highest functions
of Geburah and alchemical dissolution.
sperma (Lt). seed. The whole alchemical work
has to do with the "seed of metals." The "metals"
are the inner centers of the body, the stars or
chakras. The power which works through them is
the "seed". The Mars energy can bring the 7
psychic centers (metals) into conscious activity.
Human beings are sometimes called "metals" by
the alchemists. On the same page of THE Secret
Symbols where we find sal aqua, we read
"Semen Spiriti Sancti," and, in the Latin of the
Rosicrucians, semen and sperma are
interchangeable terms (ex semen spiriti sancti).
see 50 (Lt), 146,Z 10, 199 (Lt).
Virgo (Lt). A Virgin. Name of the zodiacal sign
Virgo, symbolized in Tarot by Key 9, the
Hermit, and by the letter Yod. see 10, 20, 5 15
(Greek).
Paragon. Webster: to compare; to parallel; a
mold or pattern. "The true philosophers iire far of
another mind, esteeming little the making of
[physical] Gold, which is but a paragon, for
besides that they have a thousand better things ..."
[R.C. Allegory, p. 71.
Gradus (Lt). Step, grade. Implies a level of
consciousness, Part of a Latin Phrase. see 166.
Anima media (Lt). middle spirit. "...figured by
the Tree of Knowledge ... the only medicine to
repair the decays of the natural man ..." [Thomas
Vaughan].
Aavaq (Danae). Literally "dry earth." See the
myth the union of Zeus (Air) and Danae (dry
earth). Zeus transformed himself into ii shower
of gold, and Danae gave birth to Pereus.
The number of the units of the pentagon when
the length of the sides are 13 units each.
'im Adonai. Lord. Divine Name for Malkuth,
attributed to the element earth [=I. The
Haikal, or temple, is for human personality the
physical body, and that body is formed from the
earth, or physical manifestation of the
Life-power's spiritual energy taking form as the
"matter" constituting man's body in his physical
environment. All activities of man are carried on
within the being and body of Adonai. See 671.
P'm Mandrake. In Genesis 30:14: "And
Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and
found Mandrakes in the field, and brought them
unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah,
give me, I pray thee, of thy son's Mandrakes."
I. Waite: "As I pondered in my mind the marvels
of the Most High, and the duty of fervent love to
our neighbors, which he laid upon us; I
remembered the wheat of harvest, when Reuben
[259] the son of Leah, found Dudaim in the field,
which Leah gave to Rachel for the love of the
Patriarch Jacob." [Waite, 1974, vol. 1, p. 571