Gematria - Sepher Sapphires Volume 1.pdf

552 to complete, to finish, to make whole. As
a noun: principle, rule, community, total sum;
inclusion; generalization, statement of
implication. Compare this with the meanings of
9, the special number of Yesod. Root word of the
Collective Intelligence of Resh ('5h). see 90,
440.
?l7W '?3 waters of Judah (Isaiah 48:l). 'f3 is a
Hebrew figure of speech for semen virilis. This
has a connection with the Qabalistic doctrine that
Yesod represents the generative organs of the
Archetypal Man.
fr shovel for removing ashes. In the Vulgate
translation it is given as Forceps. The letters of
this word are the Hebrew equivalent of the
initials I.O., designating one of the founders of
the Rosicrucian order. The "shovel" purifies by
removing waste; the "forceps" helps to give birth
to the new creature via hot-house or forcing
process. see 8, 10, 1 I.
0 throne [Exodus 17: 161. The foundation
(stone) of rulership.
' 770 Sod Yod. "Secret of Yod." The Life-
force or "Living Gold," or "philosophic gold."
Also called (Chaiah) or radiant energy. It is
assimilated from food in the small intestine and
charges the blood-stream to provide strength for
the 3'* eye (Ehben) to open. It is the Secret of
Wisdom, the secret of Ab, the divine fatherhood,
and of solar radiance (Prana). This descends
from Kether as Living Light or LVX. In Yesod
this Light and Life takes form as Nephesh tJ#BJ],
the Vital Soul, common to man and to all lower
forms of being. The word secret has double
meaning-Yod specifically symbolizes the
phallus. Another secret is the ability to reason
out ideas and destroy them is an aspect of the
reproductive energy. see 2 1
I. Those who know the secret of Yod become the
extenders of the paternal Life and Light.
Therefore Yesod is called the Sphere of the
Moon, which pertains also to Gimel, the letter of
Union.
There are those who seek to be spiritual at the
expense of the body. They repudiate all that
pertains to Yesod because they misunderstand its
real significance. The mystery of the 9'h
Sephirah is a secret of Yod. Yod is the letter of
Ab, the Father, and dilates upon Chaih. Thus the
secret is has to do with the radiance of the stars,
that is with Light, which is one with Life. See
C.27.
12'~ Shem ha-Mephorash, short form. see
95 & Appendix 10.
76 thick mass, "multitude," crowd. [Psalm
4251 "There I remember as I pour out my soul:
how I used to go with the multitude, leading the
procession to the house of God, with shouts of
Joy and Thanksgiving among the festive thongs."
see 560
I. "The circumferential sign united by
contraction to the root TN, image of every
restriction and exception, forms a root whose use
is to characterize a thing which is round, closed,
fitting to contain, to cover, thence 70, a sack, a
veil, covering of any sort that which envelops,
covers, obstructs. In a figurative sense, the
multitude of men which cover the earth; ointment
with which the skin is covered and that which
closes the pours.
The Arabic word principle development spring
from the onomatopoeic root which depicts the
effect of the effort that one makes in striking.
Literally it is striking, a thing to make it yield."
[dYOlivet, 1976, p. 409.1
A town near Bethel; heap ruin [Psalm 79:1]
"0 God, the nations [Pya, 591 have invaded our
inheritance; they have defiled your Holy Temple,
they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
"This root is the analogue of the roots ;Ip and
79, whose physical expression it manifest. It is,
in general growth, material development;
accumulation. The Arabic indicates an
overwhelming burden, a fatigue; to goad."
[d'olivet, 1976, pp. 4 16-4 1 7.1
Pb Given without explanation in Sepher
Sephiroth. "Root not used in Hebrew. The
Arabic seems to indicate a thing livid, or which
renders livid; a thing inanimate, and as dead.