Gematria - Sepher Sapphires Volume 1.pdf

in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of
ldumea (Edom)." The kingdom of Edom is
connected with the unbalanced force. The three
letters 0% signifjl to stamp firmly, man, to be
red. There is something mystical about red as a
color. In Genesis 25:30: "And Esau said to
Jacob, fed me, I beg you, with that same red
pottage; for I am faint : Therefore was his name
called Edom." see 61 1, 715.
I. "We therefore presume that Edom means 'the
condition is the reign of one of the edornit Kings;
but when Geburah appears, his reign is over.
ADVM = l+4+6+40 = NA = Failure. AN =
also 5 1, and means pain. Ergo, also unbalanced
force is the source alike of failure and of pain.
[Mathers, 1993, p. 1741
111. In the symbolic representation of the Fall the
heads of thk Dragon bear the names of the eight
Edomite Kings, and their horns the names of the
red one.' Furst tells us, S.V. Obed-edom [P'IN eleven dukes: 'And because in Daath was the
'lap, 2 Samuel 6:10], that the red was a utmost rise of the Great Serpent of Evil;
designation - of Mars, like lW$?, esar, amongst the therefore there is as it were another Sephira,
Phoenicians, to who the ass was sacred (lim, making eight heads according to the number of
the eight kings; and for the Infernal and Averse
the red) ... But, although "the red one" was a
Sephiroth eleven instead of ten, according to the
name of Mars, it had another meaning.. . We can
number of the eleven dukes of Edom. The
readily understand a citizen of Gath bearing the
Hebrew version of Tun? or Atun?, the red or
name of Phallic origin; but we cannot understand
setting sun symbolic of the phallic force
how an Israelite, and of the priestly tribe, could
illuminating the underworld (subconsciousness),
bear such a cognomen, except on the supposition
Amenta. The 11 Dukes of Edom refer to the
that the religion he professed involved, like that
reflections of the cosmic power-zones, including
of the Gittite, the adoration of the male organ as
Daath, in the subconsciousness of humanity.
an emblem of the Creator." [Inman, 1942, Vol. I1
[Grant, 1994, pp. 62-63, 263.1 See Esau (376).
p. 422.1
11. 513. BEHOLD! this have we learned in the
"Book of Concealed Mystery": that the Ancient
of the Ancient Ones before that he prepared His
conformations' (in the equilibrium and balance)
formed certain kings, collected certain kings, and
gave due proportion unto kings; but they only
subsisted (fbr a time) until he could expel them;
and in that hath He concealed them.
514. This is intimated in those words, Gen. 36:
3 1: 'And these are the kings which have reigned
in ADVM,* Edom.' In the land of Edom; that is,
in the place wherein all judgments exist.
IN On. an Egyptian god (Genesis 4 1 :45). City of
Heliopolis in Egypt, or Beth-Shemesh, the House
of the Sun. see 581, 1052, 120 (variant spelling),
57, 707, 70 1.
"An onomatopoetic root which depicts the
agonies of the soul, pain, sorrow, annihilate. iSN.
Every idea of pain, sorrow, trouble, calamity.
IN. The signs which this root are those of power
and of individual existence. The determine
together the seity, sameness, selfsameness, or the
me of the being, and limit the extent of its
circumscription.
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As the Sephiroth proceed each from the
preceding one in the series, it is evident that
before the counterbalancing Sephira is formed,
the force in the preceding Sephira is unbalanced;
e.g., the fourth Sephira is Gedulah or Chesed,
Mercy; and the fifth Sephira is Geburah or
IN in a broader sense, it is the sphere of moral
activity, in a restricted sense, it is the body of the
being. One says in Hebrew, 'a A as if one said
my sameness, that which constitutes the sum of
my faculties, nzy circun?scription." [d'olivet,
Pachad, Sternness; therefore, till Geburah 1976, pp. 295-296.1
appears, Gedulah is unbalanced, and this