Gematria - Sepher Sapphires Volume 1.pdf

accurate discrimination, which is largely an
exercise in perceptive power, a magus gains the
ability to measure al experience correctly. Thus
the illumination intelligence is largely mercurial,
or discriminative. One must watch before he can
reason. A magus takes correct measures because
he has watched, and because he has watched, he
has learned to see. Yod, The Hermit,
illumination, of which the magic of light is at
once the consequence and the expression, comes
about through subtle chemical and psychic
transformations. A magus does nothing of
himself. He is an embodiment of the will of God.
Thus nothing can withstand him. All things obey
him ... Resh, The Sun. There is no self-
importance in a magus. He has become the 'little
child'. Free from care, free from the burden of
false responsibilities, free from the limitations of
human conventions and opinions. He extracts the
nectar of wisdom from the experience of the
eternal now. Thus it is written that he has access
to the fruition of all desire whatever, at one
sweep, being one with all-seeing self.
Note that Zohir is 6 x 37. Six is the number of
beauty (Tiphareth), and represents the perfection
of the cosmic order, which 37 is the number
abel, which means a fleeting breath or spirit.
Thirty-seven is the value of the angle in a
Pythagorean triangle which expresses the
relation of the ascending hypotenuse to the base.
Thus zohir intimates that the Illuminating
Intelligence is the perfect relationship of the
personal organism of the magus to the
fundamental laws of life. A Magicians thoughts
and words are beautiful, since action and
environments are reflections of thought and
word, the Magician is continually surrounded by
beauty. This is why they are always healers and
teachers.
01~7-5~ unto the place. In Exodus 23:20:
"Behold, I send an angel before thee, to keep
thee in the way (on the path), and to bring thee
into the place with I have prepared."
mC'1 whiteness? from 3l'lC'1 W'7 resha
havurah, the white head, a title of Kether, the
place from which the light emanates or flows.
see 736
3'lU In goodly mountain. Mt. Zion, analogous
to Kether in Assiah, or human personality. In
Deuteronomy 3:25: "Let me go over and see the
good land beyond the Jordan-that goodly
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mountain and Lebanon." see 156.
VlNl I will chase. The quest for IH the father,
with which this word ends.
7l3 to kneel; to bless. an epithet of God. With
different pointing: to praise; to thank; to greet.
Reverence aids in attainment.
In 2 Chronicles 6: 13: "For Solomon have made a
bronze platform . . .[5x5x2] in the midst of the
court; and he [Solomon] went up and stood upon
it, and knelt down [713"l] upon his knees in the
presence of all the people of Israel and spread
forth his hands in prayer toward heaven."
The knee is ruled by Capricorn. In Isaiah 45:23:
"By myself I have sworn, my mouth has uttered
in all integrity a word that will not be revoked:
before me every knee will bow; by me every
tongue will swear."
men of skill, i.e. adepts of grace-
Qabalists. In Ecclesiastes 9: 1 1 : "I return and saw
under the sun that the race is not to the swi ft...
not yet favor to men of skill; but time and change
happens to them all." It takes work to develop
skill.
331 chariot, chariots; team; riders, troop; upper
millstone; branch for grafting. see Key 7,
assigned to Cheth, the intelligence of the house
of influence. The chariot is the personality and
the "branch". It is ground into the new image by
the "millstone" or Binah. With different pointing:
charioteer, driver, horseman, rider. The higher
self. With different pointing: to ride (an animal).
S'l' One who contends, adversary. see Isaiah
49:25.
711 to be mixed, mingled; to dip, soak (into
oil). Written n23m in 1 Chronicles 23:29:
"They [the Levites] were in charge of the bread
set out on the table, the flour for the grain
offerings, the unleavened wafers, the baking and
the mixing, and all measurements of quality and
size." Note that the mixing is also depicted in
older versions of Key 14, Temperance. see 702.
123 a young male camel. Recall that Gimel =
camel = subconscious memory, Moon. In Isaiah
60:6: "herds of camels will cover your land,
young camels of Midian and Ephah. And all