Gematria - Sepher Sapphires Volume 1.pdf

the 22 letters were engraved upon fifty gates of
the jubilee and were crowned with the seventy-
two letters of the holy name. These opened out
sideways in their turn and were crowned with the
22 crowns of compassion which are contained in
the ancient of days, who bestowed light upon
them, to each according to its place. Fifty
engraved letters also were crowned with 42
supernal letters of the holy name, by which
heaven and earth were created. And eight gates
were opened, which are the eight significations
of mercy ..."
VII. Ruach (Heb.): Spirit. The Egyptian root of
Ruach is Ru, the emanating mouth or womb,
thus showing that the nature of Spirit was
originally conceived of as feminine, and ascribed
to water, or blood. In later times, Ruach was
given a masculine connotation and assigned to
air as the wind or breath of creative spirit, hence
the gust or ghost that became the Holy Ghost
symbolized by the dove, the beast of the air. In
yet later phases of its symbolisms, the Ruach
came to be identified with the Reason. [Grant,
1994, p. 276.1
'M Angle of the 1" decanate of Aries.
succus lunaw et solis (Lt). juice (or sap) of the
sun and moon. Occurs in the text accompanying
a plate on page 13 of Secret Symbols. The
commentary tells us that the sap must be fixed
before it is transformed into fog or smoke. It says
also that the two fogs or smokes are the roots of
the hermetic art. "I am the sap which maintains
and makes alive everything in nature, and I come
from the above into the below. I am the dew of
heaven and the oiliness of the Earth. I am the
fiery water and the watery fire. Without me
nothing can have temporal existence and Life. I
am near all things, yes, and through all things,
yet unrecognized."
;MM something gathered, bound. Refers to the
unity of Life. With different pointing: to gather
together, accumulate.
7"2K excellent, worthy, gallant, lordly,
glorious, good, noble, principal, worthy.
Conveys the notion of superiority or pre-
eminence.
a path or narrow way. A path, a narrow
way. Given as a correspondence to Sephiroth.
Can also be read: hm (aur-Cheth), "light-
field."
0-X-2-D-7 Vav-Teth-Nun-Tzaddi-Samekh.
Letters corresponding to: Emerald-Taurus-Bull-
Vav; Diamond-Leo-Lion-Teth; Agate-Scorpio-
Eagle-Nun; Sapphire-Aquarius-man-Tzaddi;
carbuncle-fire-Samekh. These numbers reduce to
8, an alchemical number. Thus the 4 Fixed signs
and Common fiery sign.
3wt.r the sword. In Genesis 3:24: "So he [the
Lord] drove out the man [Adam] and he placed
at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and
a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep
the way [path] of the Tree of Life." see 259, 3 10,
53, 124,272, 1493 (Greek).
Ill! to irradiate, to rise (as the sun), shine, to
come out, appear. With different pointing: zerah,
rising, shining. Father of Jubab, and a king of
Edom. See Genesis 36: 17.
l'lcl row, line; course of building stones;
encompass, surround, line in script; column of
page. In the Aramaic, same pointing, it means
mountain. Suggest the path to attainment.
'NIN back, rear; west; buttock, posterior, the
reversed part. West is the direction attributed to
manifestation, completion-"west-ward the course
of empire takes its way."
P'?D~ the 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 which were of
old, men of renown." see 2 10.
to horeb In Exodus 3:1: "Now Moses
kept the flock of Jethro-his father-in-law, the
priest of Median: and he led the flock to the
backside of the desert, and came to the mountain
of God, even to Horeb." With different pointing:
1. pruning-knife; 2. hawraybah: waste, ruin;
desert land. Note Horeb (210) is masculine
and has the same meaning: dryness, drought;
heat, desolation, waste. Compare this with
Zion (156) parched ground, desert = 17%