Gematria - Sepher Sapphires Volume 1.pdf

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." (Theory of Magic
pp. 166- 168) [I9251 see 81 5
2. 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 [P9f2, masculine
plural] men, not spies." see 720.
"This root, wherein the assimilative sign is
united to the root IN, image of all corporeal
circumspection, is related to that which enjoys a
central force energetic enough to become
palpable, to form a body, to acquire solidity: it is
in general, the base, the point upon which things
rest.
That which holds to physical reality, corporeal
kind; stability, solidity, consistency; a fixed,
constituted, naturalized thing: in a restricted
sense, a plant: in an abstract sense, it is the
adverbial relatives, yes, thus, that then, etc.
The Arabic characterizes the state of that which
is, that which exist, or passes into action in
nature. This root which, in Arabic, has usurped
the place of the primitive root ni;l, signifies
literally, it existed.
112 Action of constituting, disposing, fixing,
grounding; action of strengthening, affirming,
confirming; action of conforming, qualzjjing for
a thing, producing according to a certain mode,
designating by a name, naturalizing, etc."
[d701ivet, 1976, pp. 373-374.1
In
wine. This is word is used in Genesis 9:21:
"And he woah] drank of its [the vineyard's]
wine, and became drunken; and he was
uncovered within his tent."
1. "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.
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spirituous ... The word 1", 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 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.
I have often spoken during the course of my
notes of the root jiN [Ain], which enjoys the
universal privilege of characterizing alternately,
being and nothingness, everything and nothing ...
It is evident that this root, emerging from the
deepest abysses of nature, rises toward being or
fall toward nothingness, proportionally, as the
two mother vowels 1N, enlighten or obscure it.
From its very principle, it suffices to materialize
or to spiritualize the convertible sign ?., in order
to fix its expression upon objects genuine or
false. Thus one sees it in ilN, virtue, strength,
valor, and in p, vice, vanity, cowardice, in ji9
the generative faculty of Nature; in I?' the clay of
the earth.
In the word here referred to, the two vowels are
not only enlightened by replaced by the sign of
potential manifestation ', 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 1, it seems
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 for 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 tuine, 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