Gematria - Sepher Sapphires Volume 1.pdf

in connection with the feminine number, five.
In the African pantheon, the goddess of the
rainbow, Aidowedo, pertains to this current.
Here, however, the bow is not manifest but latent
in the depth of the abyss. The opposite and
fructive formula is where the rainbow appears in
its full splendor in the heaven of Nu. But here, in
the hell of Hecate all is dark, and the serpent
Dangbe - the Black Snake - leaves in its wake a
trail of slime that indicates the presence of the
Necheshtheron, the Brazen Serpents, that haunt
the tunnel of Niantiel.
Since the Mysteries of Death concern the 24th
kala it is necessary to understand the kind of
magic practiced by the Atlanteans of the Black
Temple. It is well known to occultists that at the
moment of sexual orgasm the Adept is able to
launch a creative thought-construct which
penetrates the astral envelope of his psyche and
reifies in matter at a time appointed by the
magician. A similar mechanism operates at the
moment of death. When the soul quits its earthly
vehicle, the Adept of the Death Cult can direct it
to any given location. A black magician could be
this means capture the soul of individual and
make it subservient to his will. This is the
method of creating zombies. But the original
Atlantean version of this sorcery involved
elements of sexual magick. A consecrated
priestess was slain in a special manner and the
Adept copulated with her shade to produce a
zombie on the astral plane. This was also, if
required, incarnated via a living woman through
the natural process of birth. The zombie
produced in this way was not a soulless
mechanism - as in the case of a zombie produced
by Haitian Voodoo - but a highly intelligent
though automatic entity combining the vividness
and plasticity of astral consciousness with the
magical qualities of the Adept himself. It was
literally a child of the dead, yet equipped with
magical powers and with all the faculties of
humanity except that of the Will. Bertiaux
correctly observes: 'Voudou and witchcraft' came
'from the same mystical parent, i.e. the old
religions of Atlantis'.
This highly complex 24th kala comports
therefore various kinds of sexual magick. For the
sake of convenience the elements involved are
all related to the backward path of the Sun in
Amenta; to the formula of Scorpio (purification
via putrefaction); or to the necromantic and
necrophiliac sorcery associated with the Mystere
du Zombeeisme and the Cult of the Dead; and to
the retention of the sun-seed in the practice of
Karezza. It is therefore not surprising that to the
path, of which Niantiel's cell is the tunnel are
attributed lamiae, stryges, and witches. [Grant,
1994, p. 2 19-225.1
V?2% 16'~ Shem ha-Mephorash. "God who
erects the universe." Against traitors and for the
deliverance from those who seek to oppress us.
Governs: crowned heads, great captains. Gives
victory. Negative influence: treachery.
Angel of the 2"* decanate and 4"' quinance of
Libra, attributed to the 3 of swords. see
Appendix 10.
Interiora Terrae (Lt). Interior of the Earth. Part
of the alchemical phrase in Secret Symbols (page
17). The interior of the earth "is the inner, Life of
Man. When one follows the alchemical
admonition, and visits this region, he enters into
the state of consciousness the Yogis call
Samadhi. In Sanskrit this word has affinities with
the ideas of burial and self-immolation. The
practices whereby it is attained are all directed
toward arresting, or suspending, the flow of
mental images. They are also aimed at
abstracting attention from sensory perceptions.
Deus Lux Solis (Lt). God, light of the Sun. From
the "Chemical Marriage of Christian
Rosenkreutz." Here is a very definite statement
of the occult doctrine that radiant energy, or
light, is one with the Life-power.
;IN?'$? PW the heavenly man; lit. the
'primordial' or 'exalted' man.
f i 5~ ~ the Congregation of the Eternal.
~NJB Peniel. "The Face of God." Name of the
"angel" Jehovah (m), the dark antagonist who
wrestled with Jacob in Genesis 32 (variant
spelling). The Zohar identifies the antagonist as
Samael. In the Qabalah generally, Peniel is a
Friday angel, resident of the third heaven, and
curer of human stupidity. In Genesis, Peniel is a
place-the hollowed place where God revealed
himself to Jacob face to face. see 171 and
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