Gematria - Sepher Sapphires Volume 1.pdf

' 3 young shoot, sapling. With different
YDO~ to mourn. Genesis 23:2: Abraham went to
mourn for Sarah.. .
pointing: suction, absorption, sucking. The
growth of the soul is as a young shoot, absorbing
Amor Meus Crucifx (Lt). My crucified Love;
its building material form life.
Love crucified me [Secret Symbols page 52 as
part of a diagram]. see 676, 167.
34~223 duplicity, deception. As a proper name,
the field where Abraham's cave was. Carries the
Zesus Christus (Lt). Jesus Christ.
same idea of substitution as "brick for stone." see
890.
lapis fugitivus (Lt). The flying stone. This is the
sperm or seed (Yod) of the alchemical metals,
the first matter. [Thomas Vaughan] see 51, 254
(Lt).
"She [machpelah, nature] lives in gardens, sleeps
in the double cave of Abraham, in the field of
Hebron, and her palace is in the depths of the red
sea, and in transparent caverns" [Waite, 1974,
Poraios de rejectis (Lt). "Brought from among vol. 1, p. 581
the rejected ones." Relates to Theoricus Grade
and to Yesod.
85'83 a falling, slipping, defeat; a quantity of
seed required for a field. The seeds of "bricks"
175
I. Constant summation of the lines of a magic
square of Venus.
should be replaced by that of "stone".
vv pressure, trouble, constraint, oppression.
The result of imbalance.
8 3 Phantom, shadow-image, likeness,
replica. The Zohar says: "At the time of
accomplishment of the union below, the Holy
one, blessed be he, sends a phantom or shadow
image, like the likeness of a man. It is designed
in the divine image [P~x, Tzelem] ... and in that
Tzelem the child of man is created ... in this
Tzelem he develops, as he grows, and it is with
this Tzelem, again, that he departs from this
life."
13~5 33353 brick for stone [Genesis 1 1 :3].
In the story of the Tower of Babel, the word
m35, bricks, is spelled exactly the same as the
word for moon. This refers to the functions of
~WT Kadmael. The Spirit of Venus. The
"shadow-image" of God is perfected in man by
being receptive to his true desires and perfecting
them through mental imagery. see 90, 85, 169,
49, 1225.
D% 5~ the voice of Adam. Metathesis of
5~77. Here the "voice" of intuition in man is
linked to his powers of linkage through creative
imagination. In Daniel 8:16: "And I heard a
man's voice between the banks of Ulai, which
called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to
understand the vision." see 28, 7, 70, 700, 735.
'I$?lD''I and they met. see Genesis 32:2.
the automatic consciousness in Yesod, and in
contrast to 138, stone, a verbal symbol of the Pm'af, after their kind, according to their
union of the Ego in Tiphareth with Chokmah. kinds. In Genesis 1 :2 1 : So God created the great
"Brick for stone" means the substitution of the creaturesof the sea and every living and moving
irrational desires of the animal nature for the thing with which the water teems, according to
impulses from above. The result is what is their kinds.. .
pictured in Key 16 and the disaster related in the
Biblical allegory. see 87.
ma 1'2' Jakin-Boaz. The two pillars, which
were set up in front of Solomon's temple. A
symbol of the balancing of the pairs of opposites,
or polarities. see 90,85, 169, 825.
244
85~5 on High. In Exodus 25:20: "And the
cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high,
covering the mercy seat."
fJJ?7l the cloud (Shekinah). see Exodus 13:22 &
Deuteronomy 5 :22.
consummaturn est (Lt). It is finished. The