Gematria - Sepher Sapphires Volume 1.pdf

1170 circle, ring, circumference.
'110 a council, assembly; secret; to plaster
[Crowley, 1977, p. 101. In Psalm 25:14: "The
secret of the Lord is in those who revere him,
and he shows forth his covenant to them."
ayveta. hagneia (Gr). purity, chastity.
firius (Lt). Son.
tartar (Lt). a part of the alchemical salt.
vinum (Lt). Vinum.
71 (prime)
I. A number of Binah. The image of nothingness
and silence which is a fulfillment of the
aspiration. [Crowley, 1977, p. xxv].
?Ill' yonah. a dove, a pigeon. Used figuratively
as a metaphor for sexual warmth, a marked
characteristic of doves. One of the birds sacred to
Venus (and is closely connected with Saturn).
Refers to the reproductive functions of Venus,
and creative imagination. see 70, 400, 406, 601,
378,486, 700,801 Greek.
1. Matthew 12:39: "But he answered and said
unto them, an evil and adulterous generation
seeks after a sign; and there shall be no sign
given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas"
11. 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.
?Iflq = Virgo (Yod) +Taurus (Vav) + Scorpio
(Nun) + Aries (Heh) . see 59.
111. This is a symbol of Jonah, who was
swallowed by the great fish (Nun, Key 13).
Jonah is a symbol of Israel in the Bible. It was
also form that the Holy Spirit took at Jesus
baptism by John. Also spelled ?If', so that
contains 3 of the 4 letters used in the spelling of
?lW with Nun.
IV. Cited by d'Olivet in Genesis 8:8: "Then he
sent forth a dove from the ark, to see if the
waters had abated from, the face of the ground."
He renders the verse: "And he sent forth Ionah
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(plastic forces of nature, brooding dove) from
him, to see if the waters were lightened from off
the face of the adamic."
V. He comments: 331V Ionah .... Here again is an
emblem famous in ancient cosmogonies;
emblem, that the Greek and Latin interpreters
have again presented under the least of its
characteristics; under that of a dove. It is indeed
true that the Hebrew word 327' yonah, signifies
a dove, but it is in the same manner that the word
1ft ereb [272], signifies a raven; that is to say,
that the names of these two birds have been
given them, in a restricted sense, in consequence
of the physical or moral analogues which have
been imagined between the primitive
signification attached to the words Ereb and
Yonah and the apparent qualities of the raven
and the dove. The darkness of Ereb, its sadness,
the avidity with which it is believed that it
devours the beings which fall into its pale, could
they be better characterized than by a dark and
voracious bird such as the raven? The whiteness
of the dove on the contrary, its gentleness, its
inclination to love, did not these qualities suggest
it as an emblem of the generative faculty, the
plastic force of Nature? It is well know that the
dove was the symbol.. . Aphrodite, and of all the
allegorical personages to whom the ancients
attributed the generative faculty, represented by
this bird.. .
It is evident that the name of lonia, that famous
country claimed equally be Europe and Asia,
comes from the same source as the word 321'.
The Chaladic and Hebrew ii', 'fi', or 'Nfi',
always designate Greece, or that which belongs
to her: these are the Greek analogues Iovta,
lovt~oq. For, if we examining Greece
concerning Iovt~oq, we find all ideas of
softness, sweetness and amorous languor, which
we attach to that of the dove. The Greek root Iov
or lov, contains the ideas of cultivated, fertile
land; of productive soil; of existing being in
general; of the violet flower consecrated to Juno,
etc.
In the Hebrew root ii' we find in general the idea
of a thing indeterminate, soft, sweet, easy to
receive all forms, and in particular, a clayey,
ductile. In the hieroglyphic sense, and if we
examine the signs of which this root is
composed, we shall find in ii', the mysterious