Gematria - Sepher Sapphires Volume 1.pdf

N3r? Ion miry clay. In Daniel 2:43: "And
whereas thou saw iron mixed with miry clay,
they shall mingle themselves with the seed of
men: but they shall not cleave one to another,
even as iron is not mixed with clay." Iron has to
do with Mars; clay has to do witkthe instability
of physical existence.
HlW ether [K.D.L.C.K.
in IHVH Tetragrammaton
light. see 2 17.
p.551. The letter Yod
implies the word aur,
D ~ T Yon The benignity of time (or
Microprosopus). In IRQ para. 871: "But the
benighty of Microprosopus is called Chesed
Olahm the benighty of time." [Mathers, 1993, p.
2 191 Microprosopus is Tiphareth, the central Ego
of humanity.
I'll' the moon. With different pointing: yehrech,
month, a lunar month. see 87.
moon hath a white color, but it accepts which the
light from the sun. And six Sephiroth are called
the moons' [Sohar, Jethro 34, c. 1391. This
Levunah means Frankincense, and the root is
135, meaning white Zalah is 'consumed by fire!
lrach also means 'scent' and 'smelling' as well as
moon and thence 'month".
111. Inman: (Genesis. 38:9), i.e., 'that which
makes a circuit, or walks majestically;' she is
also called ;1335, ~RSN~KI, 'the pale shiner,'
to distinguish her from the burning sun. [Ancient
Faiths, Vol. 2, pp. 324-3251
N'I31 multitude; increase, plenty; extension of
scope, amplification; plural (grammar).
W!l arcana.
f'I3%)? pain. In Genesis 3: 18: "To the woman he
said, I will greatly increase your pains in
I. Aesch Mezareph: "Jarach, the moon or Luna in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to
the history of natural things is called the children ...."
'Medicine for the White', because she hath
received a Whitening Splendor from the Sun, 1. "And harsh and rough (imperfect and
which by a like shining illuminates and converts disordered) productions shall germinate
to her own Nature all the Earth, that is the abundantly for thee; and thou shalt feed upon the
impure metals. bitter and withered fruits of elementary nature."
And the place of Isaiah 30:36, 'the moon shall be
as the Sun', may be mystically understood of
this, because the work being finished, she hath a
solar Splendor: but in this State, the place of
Canticles 6: 10 belong to her,- 'fair as the moon'.
By the same Name the Matter of the Work is
called: and so indeed it is like to the crescent
Moon, in the First State of Consistence; and like
to the Full Moon in the last state of Fluidity and
Purity. For the words Jarach, the Moon, and
Razia, secrets, also Rabui, a multitude, have by
gematria the same numbers, because in this
matter are found the secrets of Multiplication."
[Westcott, 1997, p. 431
He comments: f13&y7 the-woeful-naturalhindrances
... The word a%v employed twice in
this verse merits a plarticular attention. It
springs from the two contracted roots 33-YP.
The first Xft is the same one which forms the
name of that mysterious substance whose usage
was forbidden to intellectual man. It is not
difficult to recognize in it, sentient, corporeal
substance, and in general the emblem of that
which is physical, in opposition to that which is
spiritual. The second >$? contains the idea of that
which is raised as hindrance, swells with wrath,
arrests, prevents a thing opposes with effort, etc.
11. Westcott: "Rosenroth adds here: 'She is the Moses employs first, the word 113~7, after
Shekinah and whether in decrease or at the full, having added the extensive syllable fl, wishing
she is a mystery to the student. This increase and
decrease are suggested by the name. lrach is
referred to the waning moon, and the name
m2? Lebanah [87], to the full moon, when it
in indicate the general obstacles which shall be
opposed hence to the unfoldment of that will of
intellectual man, and which shall multiply its
conceptions, forcing them to become divided and
resembles pure incense, as in Exodus 30:34. subdi;ided ad infinitunz. He then makes use of
Levunah zakan, 121 n3'135, and also the full the simple word 3Xy, to depict the pain, the