Gematria - Sepher Sapphires Volume 1.pdf

Dei is 18, which corresponds to TI (Chai, life),
Gloria is 56 or 6 less than Sophia (Wisdom). 18
and 56 add to 74, the value of %5 (Lamed), but
as you can see from Tarot, the power of the
Intact Virgin, who is also Sophia, or Wisdom, is
in Tarot represented by the woman in Justice,
and she is both the Bride and the Queen, and
thus she is also M a , vm, ISIS, EVE, and all
the rest of the host of Anima figures, including
the Widow and Venus. See 36,56, 126, 136 (Lt)
matrix (Lt). matrix, foundation. see 64, 82, 156
mortem (Lt). Death. The mysteries have to do
with the overcoming of death. Part of a phrase in
Secret Symbols. see 7 17
Yl2. Hill.
75
55- Brightness, morning star; Lucifer [Isaiah
14:12].
3%' Howling, wailing, lamentation [Jephaniah
1:10].
x33 a Cluster; the Pleiades; the 7 stars [Job
9:9; 38:31, Amos 5:8]. Exoterically, the
Pleiades. Esoterically, the 7 interior stars
pictured on Key 17.
f 2 Priest; one who is a conscious mediator for
divinity. see Genesis 14: 18 and 657, 1667, 2879,
886
35'5 a twist, a spiral turn (away from the
light); Night [Genesis 1 :5]. Figuratively it means
adversity. see 3, 12, 21, 30, 39, 48, 57, 66, 84,
56, 79.
I. "35'5, Night ... The formation of the word of
demands particular attention. Refer to Radical
Vocabulary, root ~5, 15 and 55. It is the
amalgamation of these three roots that forms the
word in question. The words naught and knot,
holding to the same root as the word night,
portray very felicitously the figurative and
hieroglyphic sense attached to the Hebrew word
35'5 ... (p. 35).
M5 This root is a symbol of the line prolonged
to infinity, of movement without term, of action
whose duration is limitless: thence, the opposed
ideas of being and nothingness, which it uses in
developing the greater part of it compounds ... (p.
377) 15 or '5 Every idea of liaison, cohesion,
tendency of objects toward each other. The
universal bond. The abstract line which is
conceived going from one point to another and
which is represented by the relations, oh ij' oh
that! would to God that! ... (p. 379)
55 The sign of extensive movement being
opposed to itself, composes a root which gives
the idea of circular movement: in the same
manner as one sees in natural philosophy, this
movement springs from two opposed forces, one
drawing to the center, and the other drawing
away from it. [d'olivet, 1976, p. 382.1
11. "A symbol of potential being, or of the cycle
of life in the underworld-the planes of the
quaternary, where in the Higher Self (sun) is
unapparent to the lower consciousness."
[Gaskell, 1981, p. 535.1
111. The Zohar (I:16B, 17A) says: "And the
darkness he called night, he summoned to issue
from the side of darkness a kind of female moon
which rules over the night and is called night,
and is associated with Adonai, the Lord of all the
earth ... the left flamed forth with its full power,
producing at all points a kind of reflection, and
from this fiery flame came forth the female
moon-like essence. This flaming was dark
because it was from darkness.. 'Night' is 'the
Lord of all the earth' from the side of the left,
from darkness. It was because the desire of
darkness was to merge itself in the right, and it
was not strong enough, that night spread from it.
When night began to spread, and before it was
complete, darkness went and merged itself in the
right, and the night was left defective. Just as it is
the desire of darkness to merge itself in light, so
it is the desire of night to merge itself in day.
Darkness abated its light, and therefore it
produces a grade which was defective and not
radiant. Darkness does not radiate save when it is
merged in light. So night which issued form it is
not light save when it is merged in day." (pp.70-
71)