Gematria - Sepher Sapphires Volume 1.pdf

determining the rates of vibration which
constitute the forms of physical objects. see 949,
53.
fbJtft oil, fatness. the oil is identical with the
power of the heavens. With different pointing:
stout, robust, fertile, rich (soil). see 434,696,
Fatness in Psalm 109:24: "My knees are weak
through fasting; and my flesh fail of fatness."
[Spelled fbJm, from-fat, Interlinear NIV Bible]
Fertile [PqfbJtft] in Isaiah 28: 1; oil in Genesis
28:18. see 807.
P%u heavens, firmament, sky, height.
Literally, "what is heaved up." It is the superior
term of the first great pair of opposites: that
which is above. Genesis 1:l: "In the beginning
the Elohim cut part the heavens and the earth."
Ptft means name word, sign; therefore shamaim
means names and signifies the creative name or
the Word. This is the element Fire (k') with the
element Water (PD) and symbolizes the
hexagram, or the two interlace triangles. The oil
expresses the forces of the heavens. see 430,291,
45 1.
I. Paul Case: This masculine noun PW by taking
the feminine plural or R'l instead of D" makes a
distinction between the creative name and all
lesser names derived form it. The name P w is
written in the plural known to scholars as the
"plural of majesty." By such device the priestly
writers who invented written Hebrew as a secret
code were able to conceal the mysteries from all
but initiates. Solomon built his temple to this
Name. In St. John's gospel Jesus says: "I have
declared unto them thy name." This is the
doctrine that he power "which is above" is the
power of the creative Word. see 800, 895, 1499,
1356, 1775, 1856.
11. "The so-called 'heaven' in the first verse, the
name of which is Shamaim, contains a Yod
between two Mem. This sequence indicates the
cosmic movement of Sheen acting against
Mayim, the so-called waters: the two Mem (40)
between which Yod is playing against its partner
Aleph in the game of existence versus life. Yod is
all we know and all that exists, and all that we
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can think about. Its mass, its space, its time are
the mass, the space, the time, and the dwelling of
all that exists. And it plays against its very
destruction. And that which plays against it is the
so-called Spirit of God, which is the tremendous
vital energy of Sheen originated by Aleph. (The
word God is the inadequate translation of
Elohim, previously defined as a summing-up of
Aleph in action and having nothing to do with
the general idea of God, which is beyond
thought.)" [Suraes, 1992, p. 8 1 .]
;Ia?fl 125 male and female (he created them)
[Genesis 1:27]. The oil is manifested on every
plane as male and female. see 389 for Aramaic
spelling.
"7iqSfJ 723 male and female ... the root of the
first of these words is 72, which expresses that
which is apparent, eminent that which serves as
monument or as character, to preserve the
memory of things. It is the elementary root 'lN
united to the assimilative sign 2, and ruled by the
demonstrative sign 1." [d901ivet, 1976, p. 59.1
a-O letters, numbers, numberings. These
forces are represented by the 22 letters or the
Hebrew alphabet. Each letter having a numerical
value explains the Sepher Yetzirah's declaration
that by these 22 letters God created the universe.
They imply a mathematical and geometrical
creative order. Indeed knowing how to "count"
with these tools is an essential ingredient in
personal evolution.
~h
rib. Written ~?r;l in Genesis 2:22: "And
the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man,
made he a woman, and brought her unto the
man."
d'Olivet translates: And YAHWEH AElohim
restored this involution (exterior envelope)
which He had broken from (the substance of)
Adam, for (shaping the form of) Aishah (volitive
faculty, intellectual companion) and He brought
her unto Adam.
He comments: " 9"nftb of-the-involutions-of-
him ... One cannot, in a word wherein are formed
so many different images choose an idea more
petty and more material, than that which the
Hellenist have rendered by the word ~C~LEUPCC, a
rib, Saint Jerome who has said in bad Latin