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CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Literal Kabbalah
The following is taken from Wynn Westcott's Introduction to the Study of
the Kabalah, which was widely used in the Golden Dawn as a type of unofficial
knowledge lecture. Though out of print today, it still has as much
value as when it was first published. The literal Qabalah is referred to in
several places, and therefore a knowledge of its leading principles is necessary.
It is divided into three parts: GMTRIA, Gematria; NVTRIQVN,
Notariqon; and ThMVRH, Temura. I originally found this paper among
study lectures for the 4=7 grade at Whare Ra.
GEMATRIA was a mode of interpretation by which a
name or word having a certain numerical value was deemed to
have a relation with some other words having the same number;
thus certain numbers became representative of several
ideas, and were considered to be interpretative one of the
other. For example, Messiah spelled MShICh, numbered 358
and so does the phrase lEA ShILH, Shiloh shall come; and so
this passage in Genesis 49 v.IO, was considered be a prophecy
of the Messiah: note that Nachash NChSh, the Serpent of
Moses, is also 358. The letter Shin, Sh, 300, became an
emblem of divinity by corresponding with Ruach Elohim,
RUCh ALHIM, the Spirit of the Living God.
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