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« on: January 22, 2007, 10:04:27 pm »



There is another tradition in which the letter of this card is "M." M is the 13th letter of both the English and Hebrew Alphabets. M is the only letter which, when you pronounce it, your lips remain tightly closed -- as if signifying Death - silence.

But the main idea in Key 13 is rebirth and regeneration - as the symbolism shows clearly with the pentad and setting/rising sun. Death is not final, but indicates a transformation or rebirth, i.e., resurrection.

Now let us look at the Pearl of Great Price again and see how this symbolism is correlated concerning dust, particles and inhabitants. Emphasis in italics our own.

"And it came to pass, as the voice was still speaking, Moses cast his eyes and beheld the earth, yea, even all of it; and there was not a particle of it which he did not behold, discerning it by the spirit of God. And he beheld also the inhabitants thereof, and there was not a soul which he beheld not; and he discerned them by the Spirit of God; and their numbers were great, even numberless as the sand upon the sea shore" (Moses 1:27-28).

Here, Moses sees every particle of the earth; and every human being is also compared to a particle of sand. The image of the tawny sand is very similar
image to that of the fine and tawny dust. The earth is like the head of a dandelion; when the seeds ripen, they are carried forth by the wind of the Spirit. In Kabbalah, the Spirit is often signified by the Hebrew letter # shin. This is because the phrase Ruach Elohim -the Spirit of God -- is gematrically equivalent to the letter (both have a value of 300). However, NAME of this letter (Ny#) also has a value of 350. So, we see that QeReN, SeKheL, APhaR, and ShiN (itself connoting SPIRIT), are all gematrically equivalent (350): seed; dust; light; particle of light; intelligence; spirit. Kabbalistically, the concepts of Spirit (of ELoHiM)- Intelligence (Consciousness) - Light (Power emitted from God) - Dust (Seed) are all connected.

It is also worth noting that to the Greeks and Romans, the human head was what contained the stuff of life, the seed, and in it the procreative life soul. Cerebrum is, in fact, related to cereo, cerus, etc. These words are expressive of procreation, fertility. We are at the root meaning of kerav, cornu, horn, Hirn (= "brain"), etc.

Another substance, the spermaceti, i.e., "the seed of a whale," implies the head as containing the "seed." This was found mostly in the head of the whale. Norsemen called amber (or ambergris) hvals auki "whale's seed." Auki akin to augeo meant "increase," or "seed"; wax = grow, wax forth = be born, created, are akin. This is almost certainly the origin of (bees) wax. Cf. the words cera khrov "wax" of bees with cerus - genius, cereo = creo, "I beget, engender," to which belongs the inceptive cresco = Grow with participle cretus = "born, engendered." (see R. B. Onians, The Origins of European Thought, Cambridge Univ. Pres, 1st paperback, 1988: 238). Is it not remarkable that Hugh Nibley in his paper "Figure 6 of Facsimile 2" Brown Bag Lecture, FARMS, March 15, 1995, demonstrated that the bees and bull on the Hypocephalus in the Book of Abraham represent the ultimate resurrection and begetting? In Walter Scott's Hermetica, we read that Terra, sola in se ipsa consistens, omnium est [gener[antium] receptrix. omniumque [generum] quae accepit restitutrix - Portions of the earth are taken up into the bodies of plants, beasts, and men; but the solid mass of the earth stands fast at the center of the universe [following the ancient Greek Hermetic ideas] and receives on its surface the generantia (i.e., portions of air and fire, or pneuma (spirit) from above, by which these bodies are vitalized. At the dissolution of the individual organism, the generantia which had entered into its composition return to their natural place above; and that is what is meant by saying that the "earth" renders them back. (Scott, p. 13)

So why is the number 350 considered to be so important as a summing up of all these remarkable correspondences, connecting sekhel - "intelligence, consciousness," qeren, - "horn," hence power, rulership, kingship, etc., and aphar - "dust"? Because concerning it all, we read:

bwo+ yki Myhilo)v )r;yawa

v'yare Elohim ki tov

"and God saw that it was good." (gematric value: 350)

ADDENDUM:

One correspondence I failed to mention in this piece which ought to bring
smiles of satisfaction is that of SHiN (Gm. 350). As you may know, ShiN the
letter itself has a value of 300, which is gematrically equivalent to the
phrases "RVaCH ELoHiYM," "YeTzeR," (to form) and "KaPpaR" (to cover, atone,
expiate, purge, cleanse, pardon, reconcile). Leaving these last two for your
own intellectual play, we see that QeReN, SeKheL, APhaR, and ShiN (itself
connoting SPIRIT), are all gematrically equivalent (350).

Kabbalistically, the concepts of Spirit (of ELoHiM)- Intelligence
(Consciousness) - Light (Power emitted from God) - Dust (Seed) are all
connected.






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