Gematria - Sepher Sapphires Volume 1.pdf

dedit (Lt). Gave. Love and Faith gave us strength
"The World, Earth of Malkuth. "One of the
Seven Earths (corresponding with Tebhel, to
to pursue union with the Most High. Part of a Yesod and Malkuth); our own earth." [Godwin,
Rosicrucian saying. see 5 18. 1999. p. 499.1
M the dark, sterile Mother. Binah as the
feminine power of specializing and finitizing
prior to manifestation of actual forms. "The
Eternal Parent, wrapped in her ever invisible
robes, had slumbered once again for seven
eternities." [Dztanzz] see 52, 67, 86, 112, 199,
265.
tm53 terror, horror, calamity. With different
pointing: Bilhah; Rachel's handmaiden; mother
of Dan [54] and Naphtali [570]. Genesis 29:29:
"Laban gave his servant girl Bilhah to his
daughter Rachel as her maidservant."
7% What glides swiftly, what is transient. A
noun for life, it refers to the personal life of man,
considered as being fleeting, ephemeral. Kheled
is also a special qabalistic name for the "earth" of
Malkuth. There is a very definite relationship
between Binah, the Mother, and Malkuth, the
Bride. In this connection Kheled refers to the
world of man, including his terrestrial
environment, as being essentially transitory, as
undergoing continual change.
?lm As a verb to cease. to desist, to come to an
end. As a noun khedel, cessation, this world; the
place of rest. the abode of dead, a yawning gulf.
As an adjective it means forbearing, lacking;
ceasing, transient. Translated "frail" in Psalm
39:4 In tlie Jewish translation of tlie Massoretic it
is translated "short-lived." Compare this with the
meaning of Wl (67). h - m , "how short-
lived" is the actual wording in the Hebrew text.
see 45.
7I'lh (Job 19:26). A name of God from the 115 19'" Shem ha-Mephorash, short form. see 57
same root as Elohim, the particular Divine Name
assigned to Binah.
& Appendix 10.
'53 failure, destruction; no, not, without. Since
Binah finitizes, the third Sephirah is the seat of
j7l 43'd Shem ha-Mephorash, short forni. see 42
& Appendix 10.
the restrictive power by means of which chaos (Lt). a yawning gulf. In Latin it is
separation is brought about. Hence is Binah also associated with the idea of boundless space and
the Sphere of Saturn.
darkness. It designates the confused, formless,
primitive mass out of which the universe was
2 dismay, terror, confusion, shock; sudden
haste. All these words apply to Binah as the
dark, sterile, "terrible" mother. Without balance
form the masculine principle, her energy turns
upon itself. Inman says the name is derived from
32, Bel and "Be1 creates", or Bel moves
around us." [Inman, 1942, VI p. 368.1
made. It is the Great Abyss of Darkness; and
because the idea of that darkness is related to
Binah, the third Sephirah is colored black in our
symbolic scale. Note that cliaos is the primitive
state of nature. see 67.
"The endless eternity and unsearchable Primuln
Mobile [I301 are represented by the trinity,
which produces the Fiat [34] and produces nature
in the mode of Prima Materia [I 121, otherwise
chaos." [Waite, 1993, p. 221.
liber (Lt). a book, a rescript, a decree. All these
ideas refer to nature, which is the "o~ie, only
book" mentioned by Rosicrucians. In Tarot, the
Book of Nature is the scroll of the High
Priestess.
luna (Lt). the moon, silver in alchemy.
Connected with the High Priestess, who is the
dark and terrible mother, Hekate, Goddess of the
underworld, which is the abode of the dead. The
world is 577, khedel. In later alchemical and
heraldic use, Luna denotes the metal silver. see
160, 146, 40.