Gematria - Sepher Sapphires Volume 1.pdf

in his hand. His office is to sow discords. If the
Exorcist have not a care, he will slay both him
and his fellows. He governs 30 Legions of
Spirits." [Mathers, 1995, p. 601
BY33 mighty men. In Genesis 6:4: "The
Nephilim [Bqh3, see 2101 were on the earth in
those days-and also afterward-when the sons of
God went to the daughters of men and had
children by them. They were the heroes of old,
men of renown." see 8 152 10, 770.
I. "And the Nephilites (distinguished, illustrious,
noble men) were in-the-earth by-the-days thoses:
and also after-that-so (happened) that they-were-
comem, the sons (spiritual offspring) of of-HIM-
the-Gods, near-the-daughters (corporeal
faculties) of-Adam (collective man) and-that-
they-had-beggotend-through-them those-very
Ghiborites (mighty men, lords) who were of-old-
old, corporeal men of-renown." [d'olivet, 1976,
p. 179.1
II. He comments: "And the Nephilim (elect
among men, noble illustrious ones) were upon
the earth in those days: and also after that sons
(spiritual emanations) of Aelohim had come into
(mingled with) daughter (corporeal faculties) of
Adam (universal man) and they had produced
through them those same Ghiborim (mighty
men, those famous hyperboreans) who were of
old, corporeal men (heros) of renown." [ibid., p.
329.1
111. "B'l3h7, the Ghiborites.. .. This important
word is composed of two roots which usage has
contracted, 113-31. the first 33, develops
literally the idea of a thing placed or happening
above another, as a boss, an eminence, a
protuberance. Figuratively, it is an increase of
glory, strength, honor. The second 113, contains
the idea of distinction, of splendor, of
purification. it must not be confused with the
root word Nil3 to create. The latter is
composed of the signs of interior action 1, and
the elementary root %: the one now under
consideration, unites to the same generative sign
3, the modified root 114 which, applied
particularly tofire, develops all ideas attached to
that element. It is from this that the following
words are derived. 13, wheat, nil to elect, to
choose, to distinguish; ma, that which is white
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and pure; Tin3 that which is selected, put aside,
preferred, etc.
Observe that vowel which constitutes this root,
undergoing the degradation forms the verb
llfta, to injlame, to fill with burning adore; to
make passionate, Jirrious, etc.
From this etymological knowledge, that the word
By33 signifies very distinguished, very
remarkable, very noble men. The first root 13,
meaning very, and rendered by the ancient
Greeks by unsp above. The second root 111, has
been preserved in the plural Bopsot, Boreans:
meaning, the illustrious, the powerful, the strong,
in short, the Barons: for the Celtic word baron,
is the analogue of the Hebrew 11732, written
with the extensive final 11; the Greek word
Ynsppopsot, is no other than the high, arch-
barons. And thus, confusing constantly the name
of a caste with the name of a people, as they
have done with regard to the Chaldeans, these
same savants have been greatly troubled to find
the fixed abode of the hyperborean nation.
The word 7713, here referred to, constitutes the
fourth name that Moses gives to man: the
second, that this hiergraphic writer, makes this
superior man descend, by the union of divine
emanations with natural forms, that is to say, in
other terms, spiritual faculties joined to physical
faculties.
The element from which he must draw his
passive nature substance, is named after him,
Adamah. Soon the divine spirit is united to his
elementary spirit; he passes from power into
action. The being of beings individualizes him
by detaching from him his efficient volitive
faculty and makes him thus, free, susceptible of
realizing his own conception. The intellectual
man, pH, exists.
The covetous passion, universal incentive of
elementary nature, inevitably attacks thenceforth
this volitive faculty, now isolated and free.
Aisha, [306] seduced and believing to take forth
this possession of his active nature principle,
gives way to the natural principle. Intellectual
man is corrupted. His volitive faculty is changed
into elementary existence, Hetvah [Eve, 191.
Universal man, Adam, is decomposed and
divided. His unity, passed first to number three