Sepher Sapphires

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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.
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Fourth Edition, 2004.
Fifth Edition, 2005.
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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
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Section 5 Numbers 500 to 59
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Section 6 Numbers 600 to 699
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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
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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
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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
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Appendix 15 The 32 Paths of Wisdom
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Appendix 16 - A Dissertation Concerning the 32 Paths of Wisdom
Appendix 17 - Tarot Attributions
Appendix 18 The Correlation Between Sound & Color
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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
7%
sign +, and sometimes like the multiplication Adam is the 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 32ndP ath 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
Saturn. Tav that it is "the Temple of Holiness in
foreheads of those who grieve and lament over
the midst." Of everybody whether mineral,
all the detestable things that are done in it."
vegetable, animal or human this is true. It is a
Those with the Mark were spared from death.
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
Key 21 corresponds to Tav. It is a symbol of
a square for testing right angles. It was a symbol
union. Note that the extension of 6 is 21. The
the salvation from death and a signature of
man in Key 6 reaches its full expression (a
eternal life
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
p3 p.
seal and completion of the Great Work. This is and 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
palm, depth of the sea. Grasp or comprehension
article of speech, it appears often at the head of
is attributed to Kaph, and this leads one to
words, thus it was probably used as such in one
knowledge of the great sea, Binah. see 67 & Key
of the Egyptian dialects, where without doubt it
PN; 10.
represented the relation in the same manner
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' $'A11 Isaiah 28: 16: "Behold, I lay end of all the earth." And in Daniel 7:2: "Daniel
in Zion for a foundation of stone". spoke and said, 'I saw in my vision by night, and
behold, the four winds of heaven stirred up the
2 magician. With different pointing: 1. great sea." see 390, 395, 687, 745,488.
magic, sorcery; 2. to practice magic, mutter
5~
incantations, to enchant bewitch, charm. In 471h name of Shem ha-Mephorash, short
Jeremiah 27:9 this word is used in the plural. form. see 4 1 5 & Appendix 10.
Magic is a two-edge sword-the magician
practices it wisely; the sorcerer's incantations straw, stubble, chaff. Exodus 15:7: "In the
bewitch. As a verb: to pay close attention, to greatness of your majesty, you threw down those
listen; to speak softly, to use magic. see 4, 40, who opposed you. you unleashed your burning
89,44. anger; it consumed them like stubble."
5'2il~ instruction, erudition; wise person. A P P v ' 3 that they were naked, literally, that
wise, prudent skilful person. As a noun, a title of naked ones.
Yesod. Intelligent, wise in Proverbs 105: "He
who works in summer is a wise man; but he who I. Genesis 3:7: "Then the eyes of both of them
sleeps in harvest is a son that causes shame." see were opened, and they realized that they were
80, 350, 355, 979. naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and
made coverings for themselves." Please note that
m7VD Literal sense of the text of the scripture. the actual spelling is Pal'$?'3 [that naked-
The "outer garment" of the law. From t?lVB,
ones] in the Interlinear NIV Bible.
straight, plain; simple, flat, level; the plain sense. [Kohlenberger, 1987, Vol. I, p. 6.1
OifV years. With different pointing shenaim: 11. "P'Bv '2 that-void-of-light. Refer to first
two, double. Illumination results from the verse of this chapter. It is also way the same root
overcoming or balancing all the pairs of 113, containing the idea of ardor, of a vehement
opposites. See Key 2, the Uniting Intelligence.
fire, literally as well as figuratively. Formed
from the root l?N, which presents the idea of
i'lB0 sepherin. (the) books Daniel 7:10: "The
luminous corporeity, it becomes its absolute
Judgement was set, and the books were opened."
opposite. The one is a tranquil action; the other, a suffering." [The Unknown God, p. 1871
turbulent passion: here, it is an harmonious
movement; there it is a blind, disordered IV. The Zohar [I.53A] says: "When Adam
movement. It the above example, the sign of sinned, God took from him the armor of the
',
manifestation has replaced the sign of the bright and holy letters with which he had been
encompassed, and then he and his wife were
mystery of nature, and it this way Moses has
afraid, perceiving that they had be stripped; so it
wished to show that this terrible mystery was
says and they know that they were naked. At first
unveiled to the eyes of the universal man, Adam.
they had been invested with those glorious
I can go no further in my explanation: the earnest
crowns which gave them protection and
reader must investigate for himself, the force and
exemption form death. When they sinned, they
the concatenation of the Hebrew expressions; I
were stripped of them, and then they know that
have furnished with all the means. The
D m , death was calling them, that they had been
Samaritan word rendered as belongs to
deprived of their exemption, and that they had
fS,
the root the image of darkness, united to the
brought death on themselves and on all the
root WB, which develops all ideas of inflation, of world." (p. 168)
Dm,
vacuity, of vanity. The word which is
V. Swedenobrg adds: "By 'knowing that they
formed from it, signifies an enormous
were naked' is signified their knowing and
excavation, and also a savage, voracious animal.
acknowledging themselves to be no longer in
[d'olivet, 1976, pp. 101- 102.1
innocence as before. They are called 'naked'
because left to their own; for they who are left to
111. F.J. Mayers: "... the word [P'l'lft, subtle, 3 161
their own, that is, to themselves, have no longer
which was applied to Nahash [358] is exactly the anything of intelligence and wisdom, or of faith,
same word as that which is translated 'naked' and consequently are 'naked' as to truth and
when applied to Adam and Aisha [306] when good, and are therefore in evil." [Arcana
their eyes, Adam and his Aisha became 'aware Coelestia, pp.92-931
that their inward light was extinct'. There were
'naked' indeed, but it was something much more VI. Nakedness is its lower aspect is "A symbol
important than nakedness of body that was in of a state of ignorance, a lack of ideas and
question, when man first entered the state of life opinions (clothes). As all external states have
in physical bodies, he would have no more idea analogous reference to internal states, this
of clothes than any other animal, for as far as his condition is emblematic of an empty state of
physical body in concerned he is an animal. It soul." In its Higher aspect: 'A symbol of purity,
was the nakedness of this 'human' qualities that that is, freedom from the limitations and
he became aware of. He had been given faculties opinions (garments) of the lower nature."
for the development of thought, reason and will, [Gaskell, 198 1, p. 523.1
yet immediately he acts on this own initiative he
discovers that he has absolutely nothing in Kpto~K rios (Gr). Ram (sign of Aries). Note that
himself to replace the omniscient wisdom of
the Greek letter Upsilon K is similar to the
Elohim, which had hitherto guided al his
sign Aries.
activities. He acted on his own 'impulse' and
found that it was 'blind' and 'without The ram or Aries, is the lamb of Gnostic
intelligence'. As a 'man' he was at the 'zero' point
Christianity. Note that the first 2 Greek letters of
of human development. He had qualities far
Ram are equilavant to K.R. (C.R.) in English.
higher than any possessed by the animal world, This gives a plain intimation that the founder of
but he had everything to learn in the use of them. the Rosicrucian order, Brother C.R., is assocated
As a man he was far more helpless than the with the lamb. see 220.
animals. 'Instinct' provided them with everything
they needed. Man, in order to be man, had to "Upsilon, closely resembling in from our letter
replace instinct by thought and reason, and he Y; and his letter is the initial of the noun huios
was a 'baby' in knowledge. An animal knows all [Y~oH],m eaning 'son.' In Gnostic Christianity,
it needs to know from the moment it is born. therefore, it was a familiar symbol of the second
Man has to learn by long and often painful Person of the Trinity, god the Son, viz., Jesus
experience; 'wisdom' is always learnt through Christ. ... readers familiar with the Pythagorean
doctrines would have been struck by the Golden Dawn usage, essence or Spirit. Symbol
correspondence for the Romans called Upsilon of God. Ate Thou.
the 'letter of Pythagoras" who is said to have
taught that it represented by its two horns the I. "M. The potential sign united to that of
different paths of virtue and vice, the right sympathy and of reciprocity, constitutes a root
branch leading to the former and the left to the which develops the relations of things to
latter. Thus this letter was the symbol of the way themselves, their mutual tie, their sameness or
of life, and here we may remind ourselves that selfsameness relative to the universal soul, their
God the son, or Jesus Christ, who is also very substance. This root differs form the root IN
represented by the letter Upsilon, is reported to
in what the former designates as the active
have said: "I am the way.:" Finally, alchemist
existence of being, I, and what the latter
also used the letter to designate their great secret.
designates as the passive or relative existence,
One text says: "This heavenly dew and its power thee. IN is the subject; FN is the object. M that
contained in everything. It is treated by the world
which serves as character, type, symbol, sign,
with contempt and reject by it. As it grows, it
mark, etc." [d'olivet, 1976, p.300.1
becomes divided into two branches, white and
red, both springing from one root "Y".
11. "Et: If you are now thinking that you have
understood the given elements of the problem,
The text from which this is quoted [Secret
you are on the wrong track. You have only the
Symbols] shows the Pythagorean Y, or Upsilon,
idea of it, and the idea is not the thing. The
with the alchemical symbol for Sulphur above
problem, reduced to its essential equation, is:
the left-hand branch of the letter, and the symbol
pulsation of life and cosmic resistance." [Suraes,
for Mercury above the other branch." [Case,
1992, p. 79.1
1985, pp. 39-40.]
111. "ATh, means 'the,' 'the very substance of.'
otvo~o. inos (Gr). Wine (symbol of Life).
Qabalistically it signifies 'the beginning and the
end,' and is like the term "Alpha and Omega"
Paul Case: "William Jennings Bryan and certain
used in the Apocalypse. For as Alpha and
theosophists to the contrary notwithstanding, the
New Testament meaning of this word is Omega are respectively the first and last letters
fermented wine, and not unfermented grape- of the Greek alphabet, so are Aleph and Tau of
juice. All doubt as to this is removed by the the Hebrew. The "two extreme paths" are the
passage in Ephesians 5:18, 'be not drunk with crown, Kether, and the kingdom , Malkuth, the
wine.' In the Greek original, the word is precisely first and tenth Sephiroth, the highest and the
the same as the one cited in recording the miracle lowest, Macroprosopus, and the queen. If the
of changing water into wine. reader turn to the introduction, to the Table
showing the Sephiroth arranged in three pillars,
0505. oksos (Gr). Vinegar (symbol of death).The he will see that Malkuth is, as it were, the
vinegar given to Jesus on a "reed" while on the antithesis of Kether; and hence it is said that
cross. see 8. "Malkuth is Kether after another manner." And
this recalls the precept of Hermes in the
KOKKOC,. kokkos (Gr). a kernel, grain, seed. Smaragdine Tablet: ' That which is below is like
Spelled KOKKOV in Matthew 17:20:"And He that which is above, and that which is above is
[Jesus] says to them [the disciples], 'on account like that which is below." [Mathers, 1993, p. 961
of your little faith, [you were not able to cast out
the demon], for indeed I say to you, if you have ilk&? tranquil, quiet, at ease. In Isaiah 33:20:
faith, as a grain of mustard, you might say to this "Look upon Zion, the city of our Solemnities;
mountain, remove there from here, and it would your eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation,
remove; and nothing would be impossible to a tabernacle that shall not be shaken to and fro;
you." see 460 (Greek), 1746,2220,2276. whose pegs shall never be removed, neither shall
any of its cords be broken." At ease in Isaiah
32:9, Zechariah 1: 15 and in Job 125: "He that is
401 (prime) ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised
in the thought of him that is at ease."
ilN Word used to indicate a direct object; in
BHWf princes. Genesis 17:20. On the magical plane the divinatory power
manifests in the irrational, thus the greatest
Nn and.
masters of Manick traffic constantly with the
i
energies of the lthk ala. The irrational element
O'7'llH Amprodias. Sentenial of the 1 lthp ath
appears so strongly in magicians using this kala
of Aleph on the inverse Tree of Life. that their work has often not been taken seriously
or has been altogether overlooked. H. P.
I. THE 1 lth path or kala is attributed to the
Blavatsky antics cast such doubt upon the
element Air and its negative aspect is the demon
authenticity of her work that few in her time
or shadow known as Amprodias whose number
were able to estimate her at her true worth. The
is 401. 401 is the number of Azoth which
I lth path is that of the Fool who dances on the
signifies the 'sum and of all conceived as One'. In
brink of the abyss, as depicted in tarot trumps
its negative phase this essence is conceived as
ascribed to this path.
None and is the Void from which manifestation
proceeds. The nature of this void is also 401 as Eleven is the number ascribed to the power-zone
m,
the Hebrew word meaning 'out of; its root is (Daath) within the abyss. The color attributed to
the Egyptian Ut, whence uterus, the gate of Daath is Lavender, or Pure Violet, which typifies
outrance. It is out of the womb of the Ain, via the color beyond space that vibrates in unison
Kether. that manifestation issues. with the kala activated by the evocation of
Amprodias. It is the color of the Madman; he
The sigil of Amprodias exhibits a gaping mouth that is without the range of normal intelligence.
typical of the uterus which utters the Word. This The negation of reason that typifies his state of
Word is the Hidden Light, the symbol of which consciousness is consonant with the positive side
is the whirling cross or swastika. It is identical of this path which is ascribed to that part of the
with the letter A or Aleph, the letter attributed to soul known as the Ruach, or Reason. More cor-
the 1 lth path. In the magical grimoire 231, the rectly, the ruach is the breath of spirit, the
following verse pertains to this kala: whirling seed that impregnates the virgin of
space and brings to birth innumerable worlds.
A, the heart of IAO, dwelleth in ecstasy in the
secret place of the thunders. Between Asar and Eleven, being the 'general number of Ma ick, or
Asi he abideth in joy. Energy tending to change', the 1 I' path
represents particularly the path of reversal and
The thunderbolt, or doije, is the lightning-borne the point of turning back from the hither to the
weapon of the Hidden Light that streaks other side of the Tree.
downward from the void, reifLing as it does so
earth or matter. The number 401 is also that of The disease typical of the 11t h path is the 'flux',
the word 'M which means 'cursing'. It is the which in magical terms is expressed as
primal curse of the Fire of the Spirit imprisoned unbalanced or 'untimely' discharges of lunar
in bodily form, described in the Holy Books as energy. It is therefore the hla of the Black
'the Wrong of the Beginning', the beginning Moon-Blood. It warns of a leakage of vital fluid
which, on overflowing, forms a residue of
being considered as Kether, through which flash
the lightnings of the Ain or Eye of the Void. unbalanced magical energy. This breeds
phantoms that appear in the form of sylphs;
The inmost significance of this path is summed elementals associated with air or aethyr. Like the
up in the magical power of the 1l thk ala which is fairies and sprites of childrens' tales they are
that of divination. This depends upon the divine depicted as diaphanous and beguiling creatures.
or supra-mundane aspect of spirit that rays into The title of the tarot trump ascribed to the
the womb and fecundates the virgin earth with eleventh kala is the 'Spirit of Aethyr'. On the
Light (intelligence) from beyond the ultimate hither side of the Tree this spirit is more
Pylon (Kether). Divinatory power is the intuitive resplendently beautiful and luminous than words
aspect of intelligence and as such its course is as can describe, but its reverse or reflex is as
unpredictable as the forked lightning which described above; so also are the bubbles blown
cleaves the womb of space and manifests as the by the Fool of the Tarot in his mad career on the
thunderbolt. edge of the pit. [Grant, 1994, pp. 154- 161 .]