Gematria - Sepher Sapphires Volume 1.pdf

281 (prime)
%D to be radiant, to gleam, to shine, to glow,
to bloom, to explain, to make clear, to adorn.
With different pointing: 1. to explain, to make
clear, to beautify, glorify; to go over the bough,
glean; 2. pawar: Head-ornament, diadem, turban,
headdress. Root of Tiphareth, which is the seat
of mental activities whereby ideas are clarified.
'IBN ashes.
7Yi$? nakedness; genital organs; unchastity,
loudness, obscenity, sexual intercourse. The
opposite of fruitfulness is the misuse of the same
powers that lead to liberation. see 783.
lW.3 creative utterance; decree,
commandment. Daniel 4:14: "He called [i.e.
decreed] in a loud voice: 'cut down the tree and
trim off its branches; strip off its leaves and
scatter its fruit. Let the animals flee from under it
and the birds from its branches" The Zohar
[1L3 1 B, p. 1 191 comments: "We reckon Bereshith
["in the beginning". Genesis I:]] as a maamar
(creative utterance) and six days issued from it
and are comprised in it, and bear the names of
those others." See Esther 1 : 15.
termination of the period of celibacy represented
by Arabia. Egypt represents the psychic powers
of the subconsciousness plane (Yesod),
controlled by the power of Arabia. It is the
extension of Tiphareth to Yesod through the path
of Key 15 (Samekh). see 60.
'l3P Hebrew; name given to the Israelites as
descendants of 13ft Eber, in Genesis 10:24:
"Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah
the father of Eber. Or in allusion to the
immigration of their ancestors from the other
side of the Euphrates. Referring to Joseph in
Genesis 39:14: "She called her household
servants. 'Look', she said to them, this Hebrew
has been brought to us to make sport of us! He
came in here to sleep with me, but I screamed."
7')la A colloquial term for beast, cattle. Genesis
45:17: "Pharaoh said to Joseph, 'Tell your
brothers, do this: Load your animals and return
to the land of Canaan."'
283 (prime)
7W7" 17% The ark of the Lord. Joshua 3:13:
nq. nas (Gr). all. see 506 Greek, 46 Latin, John
8:2.
282
"And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles
of the feet of the priest that bear the ark of the
Lord, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the
waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall
be cut off form the waters that come down from
above, and they shall stand upon an heap." The
a9?m Thrones. The choir of angels
ark of the Lord is the body containing the 'shutin
gold'; i.e. the desire to bring forth seed in the
associated with Binah. The angelic forces or heart, unfolding the higher self. Jordan refers to
formative forces are those particularly related to the descent of consciousness from above to
the Yetziratic world. The thrones are 12 because below; the new cycle of evolution begins with
282 reduces to 12. These are the thrones of the the sense of separation. The Quest for self-
"Breath of Lives."
consciousness, or consciousness of the self. This
a'n ml Breath of Lives. Twelve always
involved alchemical changes in the bloodstream.
see 264,407,690,261 0 (Greek).
refers to the 12 zodiacal types and thus the
Aralim correspond to the action of the finitizing,
limiting power of Binah as it expresses through
Ruach or the human spirit. It is that which
individualizes, that which effects the differences
which distinguish one human expression of the
Life-force from another. see 14, 428, 630, 140,
1 Memory, power of remembrance
memorial, remembrance, record, memento. The
power of memory is attributed to Chesed (72).
The influx of memory form Chesed descends to
Netzach through the path of Kaph. see 20, 100,
964 and Key 10.
'a'lp Arabian. In the Rosicrucian allegory,
~~531 That goes on foot. Recall that the feet are
attributed to Pisces, which is connected with the
brother C.R. is shipped across the Arabian gulf letter Qoph. The path of Qoph descends from
(sinus Arabicus) to Egypt. It refers to the Netzach, the desire nature, to Malkuth, the
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