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Gematria - Sepher Sapphires Volume 1.pdf

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Pv +<br />

basis or faith + body,<br />

substance, essence or life. The responsiveness of<br />

subconsciousness to suggestion is the<br />

psychological truth behind this designation,<br />

which is a title of Binah. The cosmic mother is<br />

the ground in which the suggestive power of true<br />

perception sows the seed of faith. The substance<br />

is the universal radiant energy; etzem is closely<br />

related to the word for tree and intimates that the<br />

human body is the Tree of Life, whose essence is<br />

that life. see 199,200.<br />

+ 11 A garden in Eden + of a rose;<br />

rosy. The garden is = 53 = 118 = the Stone, or<br />

union of father (%) and son (12); Eden means<br />

"time", the place where the garden of<br />

subconsciousness is cultivated, to build the<br />

stone. The rose is a symbol of spiritual<br />

aspiration; the red rose represents desire of<br />

Venus; the white rose, purified desire, or<br />

attainment. see 220, 179, 53, 124.<br />

lB71tff Given without explanation in <strong>Sepher</strong><br />

Sephiroth [Crowley, 1977, p. 421. This word<br />

does not appear in scripture.<br />

dlOlivet comments on the root 3V: "The sign of<br />

relative movement united to the organic sign,<br />

indicates a movement of the organ deprived of<br />

intelligence, a covetous movement; the same<br />

sign joined by contraction to the root 28, symbol<br />

of organic development, characterizes every kind<br />

of increase. Thence, blind desire, thoughtless,<br />

inclination; figuratively, error, degeneration;<br />

action of growing, augmenting in number,<br />

volume, duration." [d'olivet, 1976, p. 457.1<br />

If the middle letter Vav, is read as "and", we may<br />

take 'B in its root sense as follows: rPB a beak;<br />

the oriJice of anything; the prominent part, an<br />

angle; a discourse, and particularly a message."<br />

[ibid., p. 426.1 This is suggestive of error in<br />

communication.<br />

PTDm destroyed them, they destroyed<br />

them. see Deuteronomy 223.

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