Gematria - Sepher Sapphires Volume 1.pdf

in Kain [160], Habel [37] and Sheth [700] goes
to number six through Kain, and to number nine
through Sheth. The corporeal faculties succeed to
elementary existence. Corporeal man, AEnosh,
[357] appears upon the cosmogonic scene.
In the meantime, the divine emanations are
united to the corporeties born of the dissolution
of Adam, and corporeal man gives place directly
to superior man, Ghibor, [211], hero, demi-god.
Very soon this Ghibor, this superior man,
abandons himself to evil, and his inevitable
downfall brings about the repose of Nature.
Thus, in the profound thought of Moses, these
four-hieroglyphic names succeed one another:
Adam P'M, universal man, m, intellectual
man, MIN, corporeal man, $I22 superior man.
And these four names so different in form and in
signification, employed by Moses with an art
more than human, have been rendered by the
same word as synonyms!" [d'olivet, 1976, pp.
181-183.1
2. The Zohar [I.25B] comments: "The Gibborim
(mighty ones) are those whom it is written: 'they
are the might ones. ..men of name' [Genesis 6:4].
They come from the side of those who said
'come, let us build a city and make to us a name'
[Genesis 11;4]. These men erect synagogues and
colleges, and place in them scrolls of the law
with rich ornaments, but they do it not for the
sake of God, but only to make themselves a
name, and in consequence the powers of evil
prevail over Israel, (who should be humble like
the dust of the earth) according to the verse: 'And
the waters prevailed very much upon the earth'
[Genesis 7: 191." (pp.99- 100)
1T parched by the sun; a noble or fat man
[Inman]. A city in Chaldea, center of the worship
of the moon-god Sin; temporary home of Abram.
In Genesis 12:4: "So Abram departed, as the
Lord had spoken to him; and Lot went with him:
and Abram was 75 years old when he departed
out of Haran." see 905.
='Ul burdensome, with difficulty [Crowley,
1977, p. 301. d'Olivet writes of the first 3 letters:
PB. Action of enveloping, seizing by a
contractile movement, exercising upon
something a compressive force; heating,
rendering obscure. In a restrictive sense, a wall,
303
because it encloses; a girdle, because it
envelops; in general, every curved roundfigure;
simulacrum of the sun, etc." [d'olivet, 1976, p.
352.1
Centrum mindi, granumfundi (Lt). Center of the
World, see of the foundation. This is a free
translation of the personal motto of the author of
"The Golden Age Restored, an alchemical
treatise included in Secret Symbols, page 20.
Sapiente et doctrinae Jilis (Lt). Wise men and
sons of the doctrine [Secret Symbols, page 2 I].
Sub umbra alarum tuarum IHVH (Lt). Under the
shadow of the wings, Tetragrammaton. In some
versions of the Fama, the closing motto is so
written, with the Hebrew for Tetragrammaton,
instead of Iehova. When Iehova is used the
motto adds to 284.
Verba secretorum hermetis (Lt). The words of
the Hermetic secrets, or more freely, the
Hermetic secret discourse. Title of page 17 in
Secret Symbols. The rest of the text on that page
is a German translation of The Emerald Tablet
illustrated by a diagram having round its
circumference the words "Visita interiora terra,
rectificando invenies occultum lapidem." see
570.
TI fire (Aramaic and Chaldee form). Nun is
Scorpio, governing the organs of sex. Vav is
Taurus, and rules the neck, ears, and throat. It is
the polarity and complementary opposite of
Scorpio. Resh is the sun, ruling Leo and
governing the heart, back and spinal cord. It is
exalted in Aries, ruled by Mars and governing
the Head and Brain. These are all important parts
in the Great Work of Alchemy. see 301,662.
Aaron. "Lofty". Elder brother of Moses. In
the Bible he is the mouthpiece of Moses and like
Hermes he has a rod which buds and becomes a
serpent and swallows up the serpent-rods of the
opposing priests. He stands between the living
and the dead with a censer, and thus stays a
plague. Ancient Faiths [Volume 1, pp. 176-1791
links Aaron with aur or light and hur.
see 262,206,22 1,642,906,89 1,952 (Greek).
Tidings; a saying speech; proclamation;