Gematria - Sepher Sapphires Volume 1.pdf

Lwr (Lt). Light. The source of all manifested life.
Light, is the substance of all material forms. It
penetrates every solid thing and overcomes the
subtle. As Roman numerals it is written L.V.X.
see 116,364,207,73, 122 (Lt), 620,397.
niger (Lt). Black. the absence of Light. Color of
the Black Pillar Boaz. Also refers to the Black
Raven, an alchemical symbol of the 1st matter,
or unmanifested life. see 126, 87 (Lt), 998.
rebis (Lt). two-thing. Corinne Heline Writes: "In
this alchemical process, the Gold (Spirit) which
is God, and the base metal which is man have
been conjoined and man becomes the Living
Stone. The Keystone of the Arch in Masonic
phraseology. The androgyne consciousness is
represented by the Hermetic cypher REBIS,
meaning the two things. The alchemical double
Mercury bears the same significance. Albert Pike
employs the grand climax of Masonic initiations.
He writes: For as birth, life, exaction, suffering
in fire and death were, as it were, ascribed to the
philosopher's stone in black and gloomy colors,
and finally resurrection and life in red and other
beautiful colors, so the terrestrial stone (man's
body) may be compared with the celestial stone
(the Body of Christ)." [Occult Anatomy and the
Bible, XII, New Birth Through Regeneration, p.
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I. The five platonic solids are formed from 3
basic shapes, the triangle (pyramid, octahedron,
and icoshedron), the square (cube) and the
pentagon (dodecahedron). The triangle is a 3
sided figure, the cube 4, and the pentagon 5. The
sum of the squares on the 3 sides of a 3-4-5 right
triangle is fifty (32 + 42 + 52 = 50). Thus in the
construction of the polyhedra we find the
Egyptian triangle of Osiris (3), lsis (4) and Horus
(5).
11. Note also that 50 is the number of faces of the
5 platonic solids and the number of their points
(vertices).
111. The 50 "Gates of Understanding" attributed
to Binah.
IV. Of the 50 gates Westcott in the Aesch
Mezareph states in a foot note to Chapter 4: "The
Fifty Gates of Binah or Understanding (see also
Ch 3, para, 1) may be referred to the Decad of
Potencies acting through the Five human senses,
but the phrase has a more arcane meaning: the
Theosophical Glossary says that 50 is a blind,
and that the number is 49."
VI. The number of years Sirus A & B take to
orbit each other.
VII. The number of oarsman (Argonauts) in
Jason's Ship the Argo.
VIII. The number of the companions of
Gilgamesh.
IX. The number of heads of Cerberus (guardian
of Hades, later myth stories reduce this to three).
X. The number of eyes of Argus, the monster
sent by Hera to watch over 10.
512 KaphILarned, Jupiter (Kaph) in Libra
(Lamed).
f; f Nun. A fish, to sprout, to grow. The powers
of growth and transformation represented by
Nun and Key 13. Asscoated with the sign of
Scorpio and sexual energy and the 24th Path of
the Imaginitive Intelligence.
I. As a proper name Nun means perpetuity,
eternity, or everlastingness. Jesus is variation of
Joshua, the successor of Moses, whose father
was name Nun. Nun, as eternity, is associated
with reproductive power. Thus the power of
Jesus and Joshua is generation and regeneration.
Recall that Jesus said that unless you are born
again you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.
11. Nun is associated with Scorpio, which
governs the reproductive function. Through
Scorpio's associating with the sth house of the
zodiac is attributed to death and inheritance (see
Key 13). Inheritance implies something gained
or transmitted From parents to children, and this
is seen by the meaning to Nun, to sprout, to
grow. All this implies that the secret to
regeneration is the use of the sexual energy in a
way other than procreation. see 1219, 407
(Greek) and Matthew 14:17, 15:34 for the
parable of the loaves and fishes.
111. Rabbi Ginsburgh: "The bent over form of the
Nun, 'the bent over faithful one,' indicates a
sense of poverty and need to receive. This bent