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Sepher Sapphires Sepher Sapphires: A Treatise on Gematria 'The Magical Language of the Mysteries Volume 2 Forward by Chic and Tabatha Cicero Written by Wade Coleman Edited by Darcy Kiintz Published by Fraternity of the Hidden Light 2008 Sepher Sapphires: A Treatise on Gematria by Wade Coleman. Copyright 43 2001 - 2004 by Wade Coleman. All rights reserved. The author has asserted his moral rights. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from Fraternity of the Hidden Light except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. First Edition, 200 1. Second Edition, 2002. Third Edition, 2003. Fourth Edition, 2004. Fifth Edition, 2005. Sixth Edition, 2006. First Renaissance Astrology Press Edition, 2006 Fraternity of the Hidden Light Edition, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-98 18977-1-4 Acknowledgements I would like to thank Kenneth Grant for his permission to quote liberal sections of his book Nighfsjde of Eden. His work on the Tunnels of Set are one of a kind. I would like to thank Ordo Templi Orientis for permission to quote from the Sepher Sephiroth by Aleister Crowley which was the seed that formed this book. Material in True and Invisible Rosicrucian Order by Paul Foster Case is quoted by permission of Red Wheel / Weiser Publishing. Table of Contents Section 4 - Numbers 400 to 499 Section 5 - Numbers 500 to 59 Section 6 - Numbers 600 to 699 Section 7 - Numbers 700 to 799 Section 8 - Numbers 800 to 899 Section 9 - Numbers 900 to 999 Section 10 - Numbers 1,000+ The Appendices Appendix 1 - Gematria Tables Appendix 2 - The Nature of Numbers Appendix 3 - Theosophic Extensions Appendix 4 - Roots of Numbers Appendix 5 - Prime Numbers From 1 to 5,000 Appendix 6 - Perfect Numbers Appendix 7 - The Divine Proportion Appendix 8 - Introduction to Magic Squares Appendix 9 - Gematria of in the Four Worlds Appendix 10 - The Gematria of the Shem ha-Mephorash Appendix 1 1 - Gematria of the Goetia Demons Appendix 12 - Gematria of the Sentinels of the Tunnels of Set Appendix 13 - Names Attributed to the Sephiroth Appendix 14 - The 32 Paths of Wisdom Attributions Appendix 15 - The 32 Paths of Wisdom Appendix 16 - A Dissertation Concerning the 32 Paths of Wisdom Appendix 17 - Tarot Attributions Appendix 18 - The Correlation Between Sound & Color Biography Section 4 of a authority and ruler ship, extending boundless influence throughout to the Cosmos. This innermost point is in itself No-Thing, Numbers 400-499 because it is beyond physical form. The innermost point is the fullness of being. The holy temple stands in the center, and is everywhere, as well as in the center of your own being. At this point, when the Great Work is accomplished, and the Father and the Son are in perfect union and the New Kingdom is established. 11. Number of cubits of the porch of Solomon's temple and Holy of Holies. The Kingdom [Malkuth] is linked with Yesod by the path of Tav. Tav is the Temple in the midst, n Tav. signature, mark. The actual mark is a as it is written in Sepher Yetzirah. The letter Tav cross having four equal arms. Last letter of the the special sign of the Lord and of His Holy Hebrew alphabet. In ancient Hebrew it was Temple. See 9, 89,430. written as a cross of equal arms, similar to a plus sign +, and sometimes like the multiplication Adam is the 7% or King, and his power to rule symbol x. The letter Tav as a cross appears on is the consequence of his utter dependence (Key the breast of the High Priestess in Key 2. The 12) on what supports him - which is the power at secret of the stone of the wise is also the secret of the center corresponding to the letter Tav. the cross which is the end (Tav). This fulfillment or completion is symbolically represented by the The body is also Tav, or the point at the lower 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Note also the end of the 32nd Path on the Tree of Life. In direction attributed to Tav is center, "the place of Malkuth three paths finds its completion. They holiness in the midst." are 29th Path of the Corporeal Intelligence see 1271 (Greek). (Qoph), the 3 1" Path of Shin (Fire and the Ruach Elohim) and the 32ndPath of Tav (Saturn and of In Ezekiel 9:4 Go throughout the city of Earth). This is the embodiment or integration of Jerusalem and put a mark (Tav, in) of the the fire of spirit through the finitizing power of foreheads of those who grieve and lament over Saturn. Tav that it is "the Temple of Holiness in all the detestable things that are done in it." the midst." Of everybody whether mineral, Those with the Mark were spared from death. vegetable, animal or human this is true. It is a center or focus for all the powers of Heaven and Tav corresponds to the Egyptian Tau. It was a Earth." See 24,476. device to measure the depth of the Nile, and also a square for testing right angles. It was a symbol Key 21 corresponds to Tav. It is a symbol of the salvation from death and a signature of union. Note that the extension of 6 is 21. The eternal life man in Key 6 reaches its full expression (a hermaphrodite) in Key 2 1. The number 2 1 is a Representing a signature, this letter implies representation of Binah, because 2 1 reduces to 3. security, pledge and guarantee. A signature In Key 21 you see delineated a representation of makes a document valid. Thus the letter is the the idea expressed in the word T8, which is both seal and completion of the Great Work. This is p3 and p.This is a great secret with many experience which validates our assumption of the practical applications." See C.32, 67, 71 3, 61. Unity of Being. And this is symbolized by the point where the two lines cross, the abode of the I. The letter Tav is the seal of the cosmic One Life. administration because it combines the imaginative powers of subconsciousness, Daleth, Tav represents the point of control at the Center with the liberating power of change, Nun." or heart. The heart is here defined as: midst, [Simple Stories From the Heart, Rabbi Kardia] inmost core. The heart of your personal existence is to enter the Palace of the Kingdom. There the 11. "This character as consonant, belongs to the One Self is enthroned. There is the central point sibilant sound. The ancient Egyptians in consecrating it to Thoth, whose name they gave The books are those inner books of life which are it, regarded it as the symbol of the universal opened during the process of illumination. see mind. As grammatical sign in the Hebraic 904, 704. tongue, it is that of sympathy and reciprocity; joining, to the abundance of the character 11, to PV sack. Sackcloth, bag, sack. Refers to the the force of resistance and protection of the heart, or blood-sack. see 444. character t?, the idea of perfection and necessity ?J?lL' shoal. handful; the hollow of the hand, the of which it is the emblem. Although not an article of speech, it appears often at the head of palm, depth of the sea. Grasp or comprehension words, thus it was probably used as such in one is attributed to Kaph, and this leads one to of the Egyptian dialects, where without doubt it knowledge of the great sea, Binah. see 67 & Key represented the relation PN;in the same manner 10. that the character B represented the relation NB, OW1 neshaim. wives. A reference to the path of BP or 'B. [d'olivet, 1976, pp. 465-466.1 Tav, which connects the king (Tiphareth) to the bride (Malkuth). Genesis 6:2: "That the sons of 111. "Tav (400): Tav is the cosmic resistance to God saw the daughters of men that they were the life-breath which animates it. Without this fair; and they took them wives all of which they resistance of Tav (400), life could not come into chose." see 713 and Mark 12:25. existence. This resistance to life is that which enables life to produce its prodigiously varied heavens, heaven. In Daniel 4: 1 1 : "The tree manifest forms." [Suraes, 1992, p. 66.1 grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the 1% F33 110' '$A11 Isaiah 28: 16: "Behold, I lay end of all the earth." And in Daniel 7:2: "Daniel in Zion for a foundation of stone". spoke and said, 'I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven stirred up the 2 magician. With different pointing: 1. great sea." see 390, 395, 687, 745,488. magic, sorcery; 2. to practice magic, mutter incantations, to enchant bewitch, charm. In 5~ 471h name of Shem ha-Mephorash, short Jeremiah 27:9 this word is used in the plural. form. see 4 1 5 & Appendix 10. Magic is a two-edge sword-the magician practices it wisely; the sorcerer's incantations straw, stubble, chaff. Exodus 15:7: "In the bewitch. As a verb: to pay close attention, to greatness of your majesty, you threw down those listen; to speak softly, to use magic. see 4, 40, who opposed you.
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