Gematria - Sepher Sapphires Volume 1.pdf

is found in Proverbs 10:20, and Malkuth, in
Psalm 12:6." [Westcott, 1997, pp. 20,221
p30 to keep back or withhold, restrain.
Indicates the work peculiar to the 231d Path. The
same thought is expressed by the title of Key 12.
In French it is, Le Pendu, and in Italian L'apposo,
which means Literally, "The apprehended", or
"the caught". The idea of suspended, or arrested,
action - in direct contrast to the .fundamental
thought of incitement suggested by Lamed, the
letter proceeding Mem.
Pp3 delight, sweetness, grace, beauty,
loveliness, splendor. All these words are used by
mystics to describe the experience pictured by
Key 12. In Zechariah 1 1 :7: pleasure, beauty.
5~3 to fall or fall upon; to cast down, to be
prostrated; to fall out, to happen, to waste away.
This is the verb used in Ezekiel 115, where the
English says: "The spirit of the Lord fell upon
me." With different pointing: 1. to fall down, lie
entranced, to cast lots, to allot; 2. to be strong,
vigorous; 3. birth, but generally premature birth,
miscarriage.
t0'O mark, sign, omen; symptom, paragraph,
token. See Sefer Yetzirah 2:4.
~50 Rock; a crag or cliff: weight, burden, to
be heavy, scales on body of snake. This is the
special rock identified [Numbers 20:8, 10, 111 as
a water source. From a root meaning to be high,
to be lifted up, which exactly describes the
mental state of a person in samadhi, the
condition depicted by Key 12, the Hanged Man.
7'37? thine eyes. In Isaiah 30:20. Also spelled
73v (150). see also 61,90,650, 1000.
a tree, wood, firmness, a gallows. The
feminine form of w, etzah means trees or
timber, also the human spine which gives
firmness to the body. Related to Mem as the
Stable Intelligence, implying immutability,
soundness, vitality, coherence, solidity. With
different pointing: stem, stock, shaft; wood as a
material. The old alphabetical symbol for the
letter Mem was two trees, standing side by side.
Wherever there are trees, in desert countries,
there are either springs or water-courses. Thus
there is a close connection between tree, wood
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and water.
7'38 thy face; thy presence. [Ezekiel 3:8]. The
reward of the suspended mind.
~5% an image; a likeness; shadow. God's image
(Adam) or mental self-realization. This is the
macrocosm-the manifest universe-as well as the
microcosm, or man. The primary being
underlying the whole self-manifestation of the
Life-power. The essential humanity or
Primordial man. With different pointing: a shade,
shadow, an illusion, an image, a likeness (as in
the shadowing forth of anything). From the use
of this word in Genesis, where man is called the
"Zehlem of the Elohim". It is particularly
applicable to human personality. Composed of
Tzaddi (Key 17) mediation or Aquarius; Lamed
(Key ll), action, changes and adjustments in
man's world or Libra; Mem (Key 12) or Binah,
the reflecting mirror which turns God's idea of
himself outward into the world of relative
manifestation, thus seeming to reverse it. Keys
17, 1 1, 12 add to 40 or 0 (the Fool) manifesting
through 4 (the Emperor), who is a man, P'IN, a
husband, Pm and a king, 7%. "Man is God's
image of himself'
see 45, 52, 80,3 1 1, 1086.
By gematria we can see an intimate relationship
of the following words: qayam, kehseph, nawfal,
sehla, etz and tzelm. Qayam, means stable and in
this association the lunar current symbolized by
silver kehseph; which brings the descent of the
cosmic energy into form (nawfal); of the weight
of physical manifestation (sehla); of the organic
expression of the life-power, symbolized by a
tree (etz); and of the reflection of the ideas of the
universal mind in forms or images (tzelm).
Cain; a lance or spear, that which is pointed.
Name of the first murderer. Refers to the false
crown of will-power (Key 16) that is shattered
by divine illumination. In Genesis 4:l the
etymology of the name is explained as though it
were derived from the verb ;73P, qahnah, to get,
to gain, to obtain. see 37, 155,220.
In Genesis 4: 1 : "And Adam knew Eve his wife:
and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, 'I
have gotten a man for the Lord."'
In Genesis 4% "And Cain talked with Abel his
brother: and it came to pass, when they were in