Gematria - Sepher Sapphires Volume 1.pdf

lover;fi.iendship, love; every kind of flower and
particularly the mandragora and the violet."
[d'olivet, 1976, p. 320.1
NW Given, without explanation in Sepher
Sephiroth. This word is not found in scripture or
the Hebrew Lexicon and may be a notariqon.
[Crowley, 1977, p. I]
to desire, want or need; to consent; be
willing. With different pointing: ebeh. reed,
papyrus.
'I3 to bind or collect; tie, knot, bundle. With
different pointing: ehged. bunch, bundle, tie,
knot; union.
3% to love; love relationship, to be fond of,
beloved. With different pointing: ehab, lust or
desire.
Nt Notariqon for Zauir Anpin (478). the Lesser
Countenance, or Microprosopus, a designation
for Tiphareth.
entrance, threshold. Cheth (Cancer) is the
Humanity into incarnation. see Ezekiel 85.
N37 heba. bring.
M to be anxious, the proper name Doeg.
7-3 Mercury (2) in Taurus ('I).
11. The Ennead
111. Nine is the number of the Foundation
[Yesod, 801, that is tlie basis of the Invisible, of
its conjunction with our physical world. Every
number which can be numerically reduced to 9 is
linked to the 3 ways of initiation: Nine is 3+3+3,
way of rigor (Fire), way of balance (Air), and
way of Mercifulness (Water).
IV. Perfection or finish in the sense of 9 months
of gestation for a human. Representing the
ongoing cycle as the last number of a the series
and therefore completion.
V. "In thought and word and deed, I rest my lifie,
from day to day upon the sure Foundation
[Yesod] of eternal being." [9"' Saying of the
Pattern on the Trestleboard] see 775.
t? Teth. Teth is the 9"' Hebrew letter, associated
with Leo, with the Intelligence of the Secret of
All Spiritual Activities, with the direction North-
Above on the Cube of Space, and with
alchemical digestion (41 9).
1. Teth means snake or serpent (see Appendix
14) and is a symbol of immortality and eterniqi.
The form of the Teth is a coiled serpent and is a
symbol of the Great Magical Agent. The motion
of the Great Magical Agent is serpentine. It is
wavy, undulating, and like a spiral.
11. Rabbi Ginsburgh: The form of Teth is
"inverted," thus symbolizing hidden, inverted
good-as expressed in the Zohar, "its good is
hidden within it." The form of the lener Teth
symbolizes the union of the groom and the bridle
consummating with conception. The secret of th~e
Teth (numerically equivalent to nine, the nine
months of pregnancy) is the power of the mother
to carry her inner, concealed good--the fetus-
through the period of pregnancy. [The Alef-Beit]
111. "This character, as consonant, belongs to the
dental sound. As symbolic image it represen1:s
the shelter of man; the roof that he raises to
protect him; his shield. As grammatical sign it is
that of resistance and protection. It serves as link
between '1 and 8, and partakes of their
properties, but in an inferior degree." [d701ivet,
1976, p. 356.1
IV. "Tayt, as archetype of the primeval female
energy, draws its life from Hhayt and t)uilds it
gradually into structures." [Suraes, 1992, p. 63.1
V. Teth, meaning a 'serpent', is the number nine.
In the later Osirian Cults the serpent was equated
with solar-phallic energy in the form of the
lion-serpent which generated the spermatozoon.
In the Draconian Tradition, however, Teth is the
serpent symbolic of the female who periodically
sloughs her old body as does tlie snake its skin.
Hence, nine is the number of rejuvenation an'd
renewal. [Grant, 1994, p. 20.1
to kindle, to heat. see 8 (W).