Gematria - Sepher Sapphires Volume 1.pdf

will, to wit, some new stars which have appeared
in Serpentarius and Cygus, the which powerful
signs of a great council show forth how for all
things which human ingenuity discovers, God
calls upon his hidden knowledge."
Serpentarius or Ophiuchus is a constellation
associated with the 1' decanate of Scorpio due to
its position on the elliptic. It is shown as a man
wrestling with a serpent, symbolizing the part of
the Great Work which has to do with the
transmutation of the forces of reproduction
associated with the letter Nun (50). Cygnus is
associated with the forces of Ayin (70).
Ipsissumus (Lt). He who is most himself. I my
very self. The Rosicrucian Grade of
consciousness corresponding to Kether and
Yekhidah m, the One Self. It represents the
highest possible realization of the meaning of I
AM. In this connection note that is the
feminine form of m, Unity. Although the I
AM is One and Alone, it is the vehicle or
receptacle for Ain Soph Aur SIN 710 I%, the
Boundless Limitless Light, and as a receptacle,
by definition it is feminine. see 7,620, 1 1 1.
Apt$. Ariehl. Ariel, "Lion of God"; a poetic
name for Jerusalem. Septuagint Translation of
5~ (242) in Isaiah 29:l: "Woe to you Ariel,
Ariel, the city were David settled! Add year to
year and let your cycle of festivals go on." see
242, 586, 216.
a~ptpetol. akribeia (Gr). exactness, strictness,
extreme accuracy. Refers to instructed in all the
exactness the precise discipline and observance
of the traditional law. see Acts 22:3.
ouqpa. oikehma (Gr). a dwelling, house or
building. In the New Testament, a prison. written
ouqpam in Acts 12:7: "And behold, an angel of
the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the
building; and striking Peter on the side, he
awoke him, saying, 'arise quickly'. and his chains
fell from his hands." see 1672.
The number of days the waters prevailed over
the land during the Biblical flood.
35~ PPt the heavenly man. Of which God is
said to have used it as a chariot fl33W)
Mercavah to descend [Zohar] the divine idea of
man is the vehicle whereby God enters into the
apparently separated forms of creation [John 11.
see 151,267,373.
DD*C~P the man. In Genesis 2: 16: "And the
Lord God commanded the man, saying, of every
tree of the garden thou may freely eat" (but not
of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil).
5~ is here translated "the", but has the usual
meaning height, upper part, above. This seems to
imply that Adam here is the supernal Adam, of
archetypal humanity, before the "fall" from
above.
W ~ &N Y Most High God.
332n 7 k King of the south. See Daniel 1 1 :5.
7Jy thine eyes [Deuteronomy 19: 13, 15:9].
Refers expressly to the divine beneficence,
which prospers all human undertaking. see The
Greater Holy Assembly (para. 652).
7nP3 to scrape away.
Ton3 in clay.
PIP Mars (Peh) in Capricorn (Ayin).
stable, enduring, lasting; path of Mem
variant spelling. see 160, 710.
f3
cell, chamber; nest, bird in a nest; bird
offering, the couple of sacrificial birds. In
Leviticus 12:s "...She shall bring ... two young
pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the
other for a sin offering ..." The "chamber" refers
to the "upper room" or brain center where
contact with the "eye" of God is made. The
sacrifice of birds suggest that intellect, an airy
quality, must be stilled for this to happen. see
800.
I. In Job 29:18: "I thought, 'I will die in my own
nest ('13, i.e. house), my day as numerous as the
grains of sand." Plural 0'23 in Genesis 6:14: "So
make yourself an ark of Cypress wood; make
rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out."
11. "This has two sources whose expression are
blended in one. By the first, it is derived from the