Gematria - Sepher Sapphires Volume 1.pdf

whoever curses it. Qaheen, as life-death, life-
death, is the ceaseless, intermittent pulsation that
will always triumph over the female element of
resistance forged with blood. He is here, now,
present, as he was present always, although more
often than not unidentified.,.
During all this time, while "Cain"
(misinterpreted) is forever cursed by mankind's
unending fratricide, Qaheen, who cannot prevent
Hevel being killed by his own conditioning, is in
deepest mourning in the land of Nod (Nod means
sorrow.) This land is east of Eden, there where
the tree of life is. This "land of Nod" is none
other than the Land of Yod, where the N is
brought to life in N (50): $11 [Nod] instead of 7'
[Y od] .
It is not surprising that for the conditioned mind
Cain is a killer, whereas he is the very action of
IHVH." [ibid, 1992, pp. 140-141 .] see 37.
5&%1'1 Niantiel. The Sentinel of the 24th Path
(Tunnel) of Nun on the Inverse Tree of Life.
I. The 24th Tunnel is under the influence of
Scorpio and sentinelled by Niantiel whose
number is 160. (160), the 'nucleus of
impurity' mentioned in connection with the
previous tunnel. It is also the number of 7015,
'for a drink offering', which indicates the
sacrament associated with the formula of
Niantiel. But a lesser or subsidiary formula is
implied by the name )?la (160), which means 'to
restrain' or 'keep back', implying the technique of
Karezza. Other relevant concepts are Otz, 'tree',
the Tree of Life, and PF, a 'setter up', from the
Egyptian Khem, meaning 'ithyphallic'; also 98',
'he shone forth', from the Egyptian AJ which
denotes the sun in the lower hemisphere. This
idea is confirmed by the verse from 231 which
reads:
Also Asar was hidden in Amenti; and the Lords
of Time swept him with the sickle of death.
The Lords of Time are represented in the tunnel
of Niantiel by the infernal waters of Scorpio
which imply the alchemical formula of
purification via putrefaction. The 'infernal
waters' are the 'nucleus of impurity.' They
suggest the symbolism of the rainbow as the seal
of the deluge from the abyss of space.
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160 is that of a h , 'an image', and this is
depicted in the sigil of Niantiel as an image of
Death with a five-rayed crown bearing a
cross-handled scythe beside the Cross of Set. It
is an image of death because the water of
purification is the blood that negates life in
manifestation, while at the same time affirming it
in the Abyss where the blood is sucked PI',
1601 in as a 'drink offering' The five-rayed
crown is the circle or cycle of the five kalas
typical of the feminine phase of Negation: the
lunar period that eclipses 'life' in the form of
' 5 [160], which means literally 'flakes of
flesh'. The symbol of Pente, Five, and of the
Pentagram as the Seal or Star of Nuit (Not), has
been explained in The Magical Revival.
The animals prowing in the shadows of this
tunnel include the wolf and hound. This is the
hound Cerberus who guards the Abyss. He is the
'great Beast of Hell ... not of Tiphereth without,
but Tiphereth within' meaning the infernal sun in
Amenta, the phallus in anus [unnatural congress]
as distinct from the supernal sun.
Also ascribed to this 24th kala are the scorpion
and the beetle, both symbols of the Dark Sun.
The typical disease connected with Path 24 is
cancer, which links up with the beetle symbolism
which preceded that of the crab as the sign of the
midnight sun, the traverser of the backward path
in the widdershins world of the Abyss. The
god-forms appropriate are Typhon, Apep,
Khephra, the Merti Goddesses [i.e. the goddesses
of death], and Sekhet, the sun of sexual heat, the
'savage' sun in the south as opposed to the great
Cat-headed Goddess, Bast, the 'gentle' mother of
the north.
In The Book of Thoth, Atu 13 is attributed to this
ray and its title is Lord of the Gate of Death.
Necrophilia also belongs here as that aspect of
meditation on Dissolution that leads the adept to
the portal of the Ultimate Mystery of Non-Being.
The specifically sexual nature of the formula is
made apparent in the attribution to this tunnel of
the energies of Scorpio which rule the genital
chakras. In a marginal note in his personal copy
of Liber 777, Crowley wrote: 'In the New Aeon,
Scorpio is the Woman-Serpent'. This means that
the initiator of the adept is hidden in the image of
Death with a five-rayed crown [i.e. woman] the
symbolism of which has already been explained