Gematria - Sepher Sapphires Volume 1.pdf

efracted into a Tunnel sentinelled by Kurgasiax
whose number is 3 15 which is that of W, 'to
stand', 'stand out', 'stand up'. It is derived from
the Egyptian As, which indicates the 'secreting
part of the body'; also ash, 'emission', and asut,
'the testicles'.
The sigil of Kurgasiax shows a horned (or
crescented) sphere containing an equal armed
cross mounted on a pole terminating in three
caudiform appendages. The cross within the
circle is the Mark of Set which denotes the place
of the crossing indicated by the northern pole or
axis, i.e. Daath, the Gateway of the Abyss. The
triple tail suggests three modes of entry via the
backward or caudal tunnels that connect Daath
hindwardly with the power-zones of Pluto,
Jupiter, and Venus. These modes are glossed by
the number 315 which is also that of m y ,
'Gomorrah', a secret formula of Pluto; XL", 'the
phallus'; and v, meaning 'her precious thing'
(i.e. vulva), for Pluto, Jupiter, and Venus
respectively. The horned circle containing the
equal armed cross is the horned barb of Set
(spermatozoon) generated by the formula 3 15.
This is born out by the title of the Tarot key of
this Path 21, viz: The Lord of the Forces of Life,
which, translated in terms of the Tunnel of
Kurgasiax becomes The Lady of the Forces of
Death; she who sends the incubus and the
nightmare.
In the verse of 231 relevant to this kala, Jupiter
appears as the Father whose reflection is the
Mother:
Now then the Father of an issued as a
mighty Wheel; the Sphinx, and the
dog-headed god, and Typhon, were
bound on his circumference.
The Wheel is the sphere containing the Mark of
the Beast which is a revolving chakra that
activates the forces of the Sphinx [Male-female
potencies], the dog-headed god [Pluto], and
Typhon [The Mother], repeating the formula
above described. In the Tarot, the wheel becomes
the Wheel of the Goddess Fortuna who
determines the fluctuation of earthly life.
The magical siddhi associated with this kala is
Ascendancy, political or otherwise. Hence the
ascription to this Ray of the Scepter as its typical
magical weapon.
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It is noteworthy that Crowley regarded the
formula of Gomorrah, which is the key formula
of the Tunnel of Kurgasiax, as the feminine
version of the formula of Sodom that obtains on
the other side of the Tree at this level. [Grant,
1994, p. 21 1-212.1
oryapoG. agamos (Gr). Unmarried. Directly
connected with the Pythagorean notions of the
number 7. May be considered also in connection
with the Rosicrucian allegory, which is explicit
in its declaration that the founders of the order
were "vowed virgins," though some of the later
members were not celibate. see 3 14 (Greek).
Plv subtle. In Genesis 3: 1 : "Now the serpent
was more subtle than any beast of the field which
the Lord God had made. And he said unto the
woman, yea have God said, ye shall not eat of
every tree of the Garden? see 3 15.
I. "Now Nahash (egoism, envy, covetousness,
concupiscence) was an insidious passion (blind
principle) in all elementary life which
YAWHEW AElohim had made: and it said (this
passion Nahash) unto Aisha (volitive faculty of
Adam), Why, hath AElohim declared, ye shall
not feed upon all the substance of the organic
enclosure?" [d'olivet, 1976, p. 3 17.1
He comments: Plv, the-blind-and-generalpassion
.... What proves that the Samartain
translator has not understood the word, orem, is
that he has completely missed the meaning of it.
He renders it by ... keen, cunning, subtle, and
makes it agree thus, with the strange idea that he
appears to have really had, that signified a
serpent. The word PlV was nevertheless easy,
very easy to explain; but how it could be said
that a serpent is a passion, a vehemence, a
blindness, and so to speak, an universal impulse
in productive nature? That is, however, what is
found in the root or ??ft. This root is
primitive W which Moses causes to govern here
by the sign of material sense $; a sign almost
always taken in the bad sense. The final sign P,
which he adds to it, indicates that the idea is
generalized and should be taken in the broadest
sense.