Gematria - Sepher Sapphires Volume 1.pdf

Caleb: ... Salma the father of Bethlehem ..." and
from who David was descended. Caleb (dog, 52)
is 52 kole, the all and 35 laib, the heart, and is
also connected with Beth and Mercury.
Bethlehem (house of bread, 490) is the birth-
place of Jesus (reality liberates) David (beloved,
14) is connected with the sun and Tiphareth, the
dwelling place of the Christ. This dwelling place
is also the city, where the Lord is.
3Tv Scorpion, Scorpio, a fixed water sign.
DW32 young lambs. A direct reference to the
fiery quality hidden in alchemical water. The
male lamb symbolizes the alchemical fire of
Aries, the Ram. Both Aries and Scorpio are ruled
by Mars.
3m green herbs, tender plants, green fodder.
Human life is also represented by the word
esayb, as in the phrase: "They of the city shall
flourish like grass (esayb) of the earth" (Psalm
72:16). In Key 13, alchemical water-the sperm of
the world is the substance man seems to multiply
in the reproduction of his species. Used in Psalm
102 as a figure of speech for the transitory,
ephemeral life of the human personality. "My
days are like a shadow that declines; and I am
withered like grass". Compare with St. German's
mention of a green branch, under N2l'BON. see
2625.
In Genesis 3:18 this word is translated "herbs":
"Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to
you; and you shall eat the herb of the field."
1. d'Olivet renders this verse: "And harsh and
rough (imperfect and disordered) productions
shall germinate abundantly for thee; and thou
shall feed upon bitter and withered fruits of
eIementary nature."
He comments: am, upon the most sharp and
wasted fruits of nature ... we know that the
primitive root tUN is applied, in general, to the
elementary principle of things, and in particular,
to fire. We also know that by reinforcing the
initial vowel N, it suffices to increase
progressively its force. Now, if the word which
is the subject of this note, is composed of the
contracted roots >N-V, of which will signify
not simply Xopzoq, dried grass, herb of thefield,
following the interpretation of the Hellenist,
weakened by Saint Jerome; but indeed, a sharp
and wasted @uctz$cation. For this is the true
meaning of the word 3ttfp." [d'olivet, 1976, p.
115.1
2. F.J. Mayers: "All that on a casual reading
sounds like punitive measures, proves, on closer
examination to be remedial and helpful, intended
to lead man to happiness and to strengthen him
with hope. The disturbance and disordering of
the Adamah results in human development
becoming a matter of anxiety and labor. But the
first thing God says is that in spite of thorns and
thistles (of the mind and soul), "Adam" shall eat
of the green herb-the grass of the field. That was
exactly the food provided by nature for the
higher animals (taking the words quite in a literal
sense); and in their limited, animal existence it
suffices for their needs; they flourish on it
happily enough ... just as he gives the cattle on a
thousand hill their 'meat in due season', so God
promises to provide for the simple material
needs of man. But it means more than that.
Adam's trouble was 'human' trouble, trouble of
the mind and spirit. Ignorance of the way to use
his higher faculties aright ... God promises to
continue to him, while his human elements are
developing, the 'instinctive' guidance by which
the lives of animals are ordered." [The Unknown
God, pp.204-2051
N2l'BON Water of Mercury, or mercurial
water, astral water, spherical water. A term
applying to alchemical Mercury and "spherical
water" (aqua spherica, 109 Latin) symbolized in
St. Germaine's Trinosophia, by a picture of the
bird of Hermes.) This water is the fiery solar
fluid which as it flows through the human
nervous system, is the actual substance which is
given shape and form. see 1 53 (miha-koaim).
The Aesch Mezareph: "This argent vive [living
silver], in the gemara tract gittin, chapter 7, vol.
69, is called espherica, i.e. spherical water,
because it flows from the mundane sphere."
[Westcott, 1997, p. 391
P3W to be full, filled, satisfied; sated, have in
excess. This substance contains all we can desire
for the satisfaction of every need. In Proverbs
27:7: "The full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to
the human soul every bitter thing is sweet." And