Gematria - Sepher Sapphires Volume 1.pdf

over form is the most fundamental (simple)
"vessel" form amongst the letters of the alef-beit.
In the form of the letter Teth, we envision a
vessel filled by (pregnant with) "introverted"
light, whereas Nun is a vessel alone." [The Alef-
Beit,]
IV. Waite: "If you, my son, wish to prepare this
precious Stone, you need not put yourself to any
great expense.. you must diligently observe what
I do, and remember the worlds of Aristotle
(Meteror iii and iv) who says: "Study Nature,
and careful peruse the book concerning
Generation and Corruption [attributed to Key 13
and Nun]." [Waite, 1974, Vo. I, p. 1 3 1 ] see 470.
VI. "This character as consonant, belongs to the
nasal sound; as symbolic image it represents the
son of man, every produced and particular being.
As grammatical sign, it is that of individual and
produced existence. When it is placed at the end
of words it becomes the argumentative sign final
1, and gives to the being every extension of
which it is individually susceptible. The hebraist
grammarians in placing this character among the
heemanthes, had certainly observed that it
expressed, at the beginning of words, passive
action, folded within itself, and when it appears
at the end, unfoldment and augmentation ..."
[d'olivet, 1976, pp. 394-395.1
mw red earth, soil, ground, land, territory.
Corresponds to Terra Adamica (86) in Genesis
2:7.
?l'Tl' The complete divine name of
Binah formed the essence of the man [PIIW-
m, 45 I], from the dust %p Aphar (350) of the
ground [;trtN] Adamah. Adamah is the earth of
Chesed, one of the 7 earths in the diagram of the
4 seas. see 291, 14,365, 105,432,337
P'IN-3 ha-adam. Metathesis of Adam. Generic
humanity. The Adam. Translated sometimes in
Genesis 2 as "The Man" and sometimes by the
proper noun Adam. What is indicated is that the
Man and the "Ground " are identical in essence.
[Genesis 2:25] see 6 10.
P' the sea; ocean; lake; large basin, reservoir,
large river, west, western quarter. One of the
many titles of Binah when the Mother is
considered to be the great reservoir of substance
from which forms are specialized. The "sea" is
the radiant darkness of limitless light, the ocean
of root-matter (Sanskrit: Mulaprakriti). The
Mother (Binah) is the sea wherein swims the fish
(Nun), and the fish and the sea are one. The fish
and the son are also one. [Book of Tokens] see
52.
5w-3 The spirit of Saturn.
P3-?I the abundance.
To ferment.
5172 '13 great fish. Jonah 1 : 17. When the great
fish (Scorpio) swallowed the prophet Jonah
(Dove, 71). The forces of Mars and Venus are
conjoined. Note also that Ninevah, the capital of
Assyria, where Jonah was sent, is spelled n3'3,
so that it combines the letters pi Nun, and IT.
[Book of Tokens, p. 13 I] see 12 1.
'93 pains and sorrows, throes of birth;
suffering, damage, injury. For which the great
fish is an emblem. All pain and sorrows are the
portals through which man passes to the heart of
the Great Mother. see 52f7, 40. [Book of
Tokens]
Pt?N to close, to contract, to shut up. Indicates
the limiting activity of the specializing process.
see 86, 158,4, 14, 41, 72, 104.
75 to thee. "To thee, 0 Israel, is the opening
and shutting of the Gates." [Book of Tokens]
b what? which? After many questions the
realization of one's immorality is attained. With
different pointing: where? and how? Refers to
the Gates of Understanding and to the square of
the Pythagorean triangle (236). Who?; whoever,
someone, anyone. In the prologue to the Zohar,
b is discussed in relation to the initial process of
creation and is linked to the no-thing. "% ... is the
living water, transmitting life." see 85, 64.
b water. Singular form of the word usually
rendered Mem. occurs only as a component
of proper names in the Bible. Used also as a
euphemism for semen virile, the actual substance
which is secreted by organs under the rulership
of Scorpio. see 64.