Gematria - Sepher Sapphires Volume 1.pdf

'W shaddai. almightily. A name of God
associated in Qabalah with Malkuth, and
therefore with Shekhinah, the bride. It is the
Life-power under the aspect of omnipotence. In
Job 32:s Neshamah is called the "Inspiration of
the Almighty." "But here is a spirit in man: and
the inspiration of the Almighty gives them
understanding." see 345,594.
Acacia. The sacred wood of which the
tabernacle and its furniture were made. Because
this word is equivalent to T, Shaddi, Qabalists
who wrote and edited the story of the tabernacle,
used it to intimate that the actual substance of
which the "House of God" is made, is actually
the omnipotent power or energy of the Almighty.
The "Most High God" the one reality seems to be
far distant Qn), but it is really near at hand.
Both the tabernacle and the temple of Solomon
are symbols of Man. see 683, 36, 46, 252, 154,
224,315, 731.
N3V great, mighty. Job 36:26: "Behold, God is
great, and we know him not, neither can the
number of his years be searched out." Also in
Daniel 2:6: "But if you show me the dream and
its interpretation, you shall receive from me gifts
and wealth and great honor.. . " Much, many in
Daniel 7:5: "And behold another beast, a second,
like to a bear, and is raised itself on one side, and
it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the
teeth of it: and they said to it thus: "Arise, devour
much flesh."' Very in Daniel 2:12: "Then the
king was very furious and he angrily
commanded that all the wise men of Babylon
should be destroyed."
D%)?-Y~ P*n Life for evermore. Psalm 133:3:
"It is as if the dew of Hermon were falling on
mount Zion-for there the Lord bestows his
blessing, even life forevermore." Variant spelling
see 293.
D.O.MA. (Lt). Initials of the phrase Deus
Omnipotens Magister Artis, God Almighty,
Master of the Art (of Alchemy) [Secret Symbols,
page 351. The Life-power is the actual worker in
the great art of alchemical transmutation. see 29,
45, 124, 84,61.
payoc, magos (Gr). a magician, sorcerer. One of
the wise men or seers in Persia who interpreted
dreams; any enchanter, wizard. in a bad sense,
35 1
juggler or quack. see 676, 1060 (Greek).
yapoc, gamos (Gr). marriage; wedding-feast.
John 2:l: "And on the third day there was a
marriage feast in Cana of Galilee; and the mother
of Jesus was there."
I. "Gamos, a wedding; union of the sexes; one of
the arcane rites; the union of positive and
negative forces, the blending of superior and
lower natures. Here the marriage stands of the
action of the dual magnetic force in wakening
the 'third eye', in the attainment of seership; but
at this stage of the allegory, it refers only to one
of those rare visions that come long before the
permanent state of illumination is reached."
[Pryse, 1967, p. 89.1 see 10 14, 1785.
11. "A union of two, forming a Harmony. As a
term in the Science of the Soul it means the
union of the Higher and Lasting Principle
(Spiritual Principle) which the Purified Soul
(Human Principle): that is, the 'Mystic Marriage'
into which every Soul enters at some advanced
stage of its evolution, and form which the 'SON"
(Spiritual Consciousness) is, in a Virgin Birth,
eventually Born. The Purified Soul is the Bride:
the Lasting Principle is the Husband. Souls thus
'Married' are becoming Perfect. Compare the
Myth of Psyche and Eros." [Omikron, 1942, p.
251 .]
&"a2 ice. In Job 28:18: crystal. [The English
crystal, from the Greek ~puzahho~, meaning
clear ice, ice, crystal, rock-crystal, preserves the
ancient belief that crystal was a sort of ice.] In
the magical language this ideas suggests that
man is a reflecting medium, like a crystal. Case
gives: hail, petrified. see Gomorrah below.
1&i%?l D5lp;l the little world, the microcosm.
An epithet of man. see I. Myer Qabbalah, p.1471
yetzirah. formation, formative power. The
world of formation. In man, Yetzirah is the
formative power operative in all 6 Sephiroth of
the Lesser Countenance. The 7 of Swords refers
particularly to the formative power of desire and
to the influence of desire upon the Yetziratic
plane of patterns and processes. The formative
power, is the special power man, reflecting the
creative power (Briah) of the Vast Countenance.
Darkness and evil provide the raw material from