Gematria - Sepher Sapphires Volume 1.pdf

TiN behind, after.
72 whelp. In Genesis 49:9: "Judah is a lion's
whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up:
he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an
old lion; who shall rouse him up?" Judah is
connected with Leo and with alchemical
digestion. see 30.
'112 to sojourn, dwell; to stir up strife, quarrel; to
gather together (for war); to be afraid, fear, stand
in awe. It is the holy guardian angel or higher
self which stirs up the personality. see Key 14.
;1131 10,000; myriad. This word in the plural
MX1, is used in Deuteronomy 33:17 and is
translated myriads. Refers to the tribe of
Ephraim, son of Joseph. see 33 1, 156, 61 5.
3 scattered, strew. With different pointing:
bizzer, to scatter. In Psalm 68:30: "Rebuke the
company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls,
with the calves of the people, till every one
submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou
the people that delight in war." Ephraim =
Taurus = bull. The moon is exalted in Taurus.
Moon = silver. Spearmen and warriors = Aries.
The alchemical process must be scatted
throughout the microcosm to find the treasure of
understanding. see 7.
way, path; mode, manner, procedure.
"Thou shall separate the earth from the fire, the
subtle form the gross, suavely and with great
ingenuity." [Emerald Tablet] With different
pointing: awrah:. to travel, journey, go though.
R% to lodge, accommodate, entertain a guest.
the indwelling presence with us on the path of
return. see 277, 1769.
~'5~3 Nephilites, distinguished, illustrious
nobel men. Translated "giants" in Genesis 6:4:
"There were [the] giants in the earth in those
days; and also after that, when the sons of God
came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare
children unto them, the me became mighty men
[heroes] which were of old, men of renown."
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And in Numbers 13:33: "And there we saw the
giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the
giants: and we were in our own sight as
grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight."
Note that in this passage giants is spelled
~ ~ 5 (225) ~ the ~ giants. 3 3 See 225 and 220.
359 the land where the giants (Nephilim). The
land of the Giants is the astral plane. See
Numbers 13:33 and 2 10 and 225.
I. The Zohar I (p.138): "There were sixty on the
earth, corresponding to the number above, as it is
written, "three-score mighty men are about it."
11. The Book of Concealed Mystery [IV:18,
p.1001 says: "They [i.e. the giants] were in the
earth in those days, but no in the following time,
until Joshua came. That is, they are applicable to
the path of the bride [Malkuth, 4961, which is
also called the land of Canaan, were Joshua
found the giants. For the ward ~ '5~5, occurs not
fully: except when it is used in the incident of the
spies. see 2 10.
111. "And the Nephilim (elect among men, noble
illustrious ones) were upon the earth in those
days: and also after than, sons (spiritual
emanations) of Aelohim has come in into
(mingled with) daughters (corporeal faculties) of
Adam (universal man) and they had produced
through them those same Ghoborim (might men,
those famous Hyperboreans) who were of old,
corporeal man (heros) of renown." [d'olivet,
1976, p. 329.1
"P95&73 then-the-Nephilites ... That is to say,
men distinguished from others by their power or
their strength; for the giants ... that the Hellenist
and Saint Jerome have seen here, have existed
only in their imagination, at least if these
translators have understood by this, what the
vulgar ordinarily understands, that is, men of
greater stature than others. If the Hellenists in
other instances, have copied the Samaritan
translation, had given attention to this one, they
would have see that the word by which this
translation renders ~ '5~3 is ... used alike in the
Hebrew P'l32, and which is placed precisely at
the end of the same verse, as synonymous
epithet; for this word is nearer than one imagines
to the epithet which the Yn~ppopsot bear: those
famous Hyperboreans, whose origin has so
troubled the savants.