Gematria - Sepher Sapphires Volume 1.pdf

I. The full name of 9th Sephiroth is found in
Proverbs 10:26: ~$79 TO' , The
Righteous is the Foundation of the world"
In no', Yesod is the combination of Mercury
(Yod), Jupiter (Samekh), Moon (Vav) and Venus
(Daleth); and these are the metals of the
alchemists, or the interior stars. Mars impels the
upward flow of power on the Way of Return, and
this power is combined with Moon and Venus in
the work, as it begins in Malkuth and sends the
forces up through the path of Tav. In Yesod,
Mars and Saturn give place to Jupiter, and the
path of Samekh above Yesod is doubly related to
Jupiter (Jupiter rules Sagittarius, attributed to
Samekh), as you see from the letters O
(Sagittarius) and 3 (Jupiter). But the 'matter of
the work' is designated by the 23'* path of
(meaning waters) between 25th path of O and the
21" path of 3, and this water will not wet the
hand; it will not, that is, wet the Yod. For the
'hand' is Yod. see 10 & C.lO.
11. There are two stages at the end of their
process of the Great Work, the White Work and
the Red. White is for the Moon, and Red is for
the Sun. The Sphere of the Moon is Yesod, and
the Sphere of the Sun is Tiphareth. The White
Work transmutes the leaden Guph (89) into the
Purified Intelligence of Yesod, for it shows the
alchemist what is the real basis of his personal
life. see 89,406 & C. 1 1.
111. Through countless generations the One Life
perpetuates Its utterance by means of successive
generations of human bodies. That is why the
Wise say that in Yesod is the field of renewal
through procreation that is why never blasphem
the source of Life. Genesis says "be fruitful and
multiply," but there is a fruitfulness beyond that
of the flesh, and a multiplication of the power of
life having children. Thus in the word Yesod,
may you read Yod Sod - or Sod, Yod the secret
of Yod. Forms are manifest in varying degrees,
and when it is your office to bring forth subtle
forms, you fail if you miss your opportunity
through the false belief that in the bringing forth
of forms less subtle there is any essential failure.
see 363,23, 11,430 & C.27.
IV. Sephira Dtzenioutha Ch. 1 Para. 33: "Yod.. .
is masculine and refers to the path of the
Foundation." [Mathers, 1993, p. 551
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V. In Leviticus 4:7: "And the priest shall put
some of the blood upon the horns of the alter of
sweet incense before the Lord, which is the
tabernacle of the congregation; and he shall pour
all the rest of the blood of the bullock at the
foundation of the alter of the burnt offering,
which is at the door of the Tabernacle of the
congregation." see 430.
VI. The Zohar [IV: 225A, p. 2681 Comments:
"Observe that when the priest spreads his hands
at the time he blesses the people, the Shekinah
comes and hovers over him and endows him
with power [Literally, fills his hands]. When
blessing, the priest raises his right hand above
the left, so as to cause the right to prevail over
the left. All the grades over which he spreads his
hands, are thus blessed from the source of all
things, from the well called righteous [i.e. TO',
Yesod] the source of all is the future world, the
sublime source which illumines all faces, whence
are kindled all lamps. It has a counterpart in the
source and spring of the well whence all the
lower lamps and the lower lights are kindled and
radiate. So one corresponds to the other. Hence,
when the priest spreads out his hands and begins
to pronounce the blessing over the people, the
celestial benedictions flowing form the celestial
source at once kindle the lamps, and faces are
illumined, and the community of Israel is
adorned with celestial crowns, and all those
blessing from down from on high to below."
VII. Aesch Mezareph: Yesod, in natural things,
contains under itself Quicksilver; because this
metal is the foundation of the whole art of
transmutation. [Westcott, 1997, p. 381
'3% ir God of Yesod. Yesod is the Malkuth of
Briah, the world of creation. Patterns held in
Yesod are formed from the pure substance of
Briah. see 15,220.
the Jews. (Esther 6: 13). One of many
hints that the forces represented by the Tribe of
Judah (related to Leo, to Teth, and thus to Fohat)
are fundamental in human life.
7$?l union, a gathering, a meeting or assembly.
Refers to Yesod as being a Sephirah in which are
conjoined the influences of the paths above it on
the Tree. With different pointing: viade, to
appoint, to designate.