Gematria - Sepher Sapphires Volume 1.pdf

Aaron," take your staff and stretch out your hand
over the waters of Egypt-over the streams and
canals, over the ponds and the reservoirs," and
they will turn to blood. Blood will be
everywhere in Egypt, even in the wooden
buckets and stone jars."
"The roots which, by means of any sign
whatever, arise from the roots 3M or PN,
symbols of active or passive principles, are all
very difficult to determine and to grasp, on
account of the extent of meaning which they
present, and the contrary ideas which they
produce. These particularly demand close
attention. It is, at first glance, universalized
sympathy; that is to say, a homogeneous thing
formed by affinity of similar parts, and holding
to the universal organization of being.
P'7 is a broader sense, it is that which is
identical; in a more restricted sense, it is blood,
assimilative bond between soul and body,
according to the profound though of Moses ... It
is that which assimilates, which becomes
homogeneous; mingles with another thing:
thence the general idea of that which is no longer
distinguishable, which ceases to be different; that
which renounces its seity, its individuality, is
ident$ed with the whole, is calm, quiet, silent,
asleep.
The Arabic expresses in general a glutinous,
sticky fluid. In particular, as noun, it is blood; as
verb; it is the action of covering with a glutinous
glaze. From the later meaning results, in the
analogue, that of contaminating, calumniating,
covering with blame." [d'olivet, 1976, pp. 323-
324.1
Sendovigius comments: Thou hast in thy body
the anatomy of the whole world, and all thy
members answer to some celestials; let,
therefore, the searcher of the sacred science
know that the soul in man, the lesser world or
microcosm, substituting the place of its center, is
the king, and is placed in the vital spirit in the
purest blood [DY]. That governs the mind, and
the mind the body ... [New Light of Alchemy, p.
421
fljb Aries. a young ram. Aries is a fire-sign.
Refers to Christos, Brother C.R. and the brain is
under the rulership of Aries, the means whereby
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man controls the forces of flame used in magic.
The sign Aries, as the beginning of the zodiac, is
a symbol of the commencement of the creative
activities in which result ultimately in the
Life-Power's self-expression in the names and
forms of the physical world. The Ram and the
Lamb are one, and corres ond to the Hindu deity
Angi, Lord of Flame (m 4' ).
%"l. sand. The root of the noun is a verb spelled
with the same letters meaning, "to turn round, to
twist, to whirl." [Job 29:18]. The birth of the
alchemical IS' matter is in the sand (mineral
kingdom). Alchemist call this their Phoenix-a
spiral twisting motion directly connected with
sound and thought.
With different pointing: to dance, to twist,
writhe. To turn in a circle. Note the letter
sequence: fence, nail, ox-goad. Suggesting
movement within an enclosure, round a pivot
(Vav, like the point in the center of a circle),
incited by the law of action and re-action of
which the letter Lamed and Key 11 symbolizes.
As a masculine noun 5~1 means sand, on
account of the whirling pillars of sand familiar to
all desert dwellers, which are the source of tales
about Genies. Khole, is also the Hebrew name of
the Legend of the Phoenix. In Job 29: 18: "and I
shall multiply my days as the sand." The Jewish
translation is: "and I shall multiply by days as the
~hoenix."(~~37) "And like the Phoenix or
sand," is the literal translation. Sands refers to
the mineral Kingdom-first substance in the
Pythagorean triangle. 5"J7 is also the root of the
name fl5~ (58), "The land of Havilah where
there is Gold." [Genesis 2:11] Also: to wait,
hope, to fall upon, happen; to be firm, strong. see
127,395.
& magic; flame, The flame of light. The art
of Life. In relation to m, Teleh and p?]
are technical mystery-terms, referring to the
same idea that is expressed in the New
Testament mention of the Lamb slain from the
foundation of the world. Aries represent the
beginning of creative activities in Briah which
result in physical names and forms. The Ram
and the Lamb are one and correspond to the
Hindu Agni, Lord of Flame. With different
pointing: magic arts, enchantments; glittering
blade, glitter, flashing. As a verb: to flame,