Shaddai, Hebrew Shin ש (Sacred Song Blessing)
Tell
me in the reaches of time, where my heart binds. Tell the world of all
this daze, the telling of a good phase. A memory that is born to the
children of the torn, let us gift to them a blessing to be born. Let us
find a place where all of the heavens bow down to a good face. We gift
our hearts to the people every day in order to show the world how to
praise. All of our children long to feel the very kingdom of God that
shines upon the shod (shroud, where we step with prayers). Let is the
greatest of all that achieves the blessings that lie in the breeze. We
are moving our hearts to this slumber the dreaming we remember. And with
this longing we feel deep within. Our lands will be cleansed.
The
children of the world long for a better day, a place to play, where
others want to know the world, where others place a herald to favor the
kindness of men. We wanted more and more, the land of all that is tore.
And if we bow and pray, we will find our way. Remember the land of many
who sacrificed the elders who were left to their devices. We must shine
for them, for our hearts will remember our ancestors through our deeds.
Let us become this bleed. We suffer for love to show the world we can
become the favored of doves.
Each day we long to feel the
blessings upon the sacred wheel and when others are lost, we must care
enough at all cost, for our brethren are our children, our torn enemies,
who become our friends and eventually our relatives. We need a hand to
bring us to this stand, where all the children long to feel this hand,
the embrace of love upon our hearts, the place where dreams come to bare
a race. Men of all colors come to this world to share the stories in a
swirl.
Tell the waking of the call, the breaking of this ball,
the world in which we stand, all the colors that spring divine, the
sharing of which we shine. For we long to tell the world that love is
the sacred word that brings us together no matter what lies upon our
hearts today. Let us become this light, the ray, the shining forth for
all to become true blue. We wake to the calling of you. And where we are
sworn to be born, we gift our hands to make our lands.
There in
all of the stages of life, we share all at a price. And as we forgive
and learn to partake in this world, we have faith we can overcome to
bring in all the royal suns. For each child is a blessing and a scorn,
because our hearts have been torn. and through our lands we must tell
the people that the holiest of time is ahead. We are longing for this
fruition, the land of a good condition. Tell the world we wanted to
dream a good dream. Tell the world our children are crying in anger,
wanting more to be restored.
We bless and pray to make it a
better day. We bless and pray to gift our hearts a wave. We bless and
pray our children will find a good daze, for the dreaming is part of all
that is screaming. And the lives of our condition is where we send our
revolving stones, the break of our bones, where the blood spills upon
nations. And there we stand patient, in order to bring in hopes and
dreams, for Shaddai our Lard Adonai will come to gift us the sacred
blessing. WE bow to receive all that we grieve. And with this heavenly
dew, we will find you. We will kiss you upon your head to show you, we
love you.
Heaven wants more from this world, because it has taken
refuge in the lacking of man, when they could become the greatest of
stands. Mountains and rivers, we are the bands. We are the children want
to share a land. We gift our hearts to where we start. We gift our
hearts and pray that God will show us the way. El Shaddai. El Shaddai.
El Shaddai (God Almighty). We come bearing our lives.
All that is
the fruition of our hands, let it be a gift to mankind. Let our hearts
become the rivers and let our feet become the mountains. Let our
dreaming come to the fields upon the most sacred wheel, the place where
we are together once more. Let love bow on each shore. Let us learn to
adore. Let us become the rivers and the mountains. Let us stand to greet
El Shaddai (God Almighty), our Lord Adonai, Great Father of Heaven. We
gift our hearts today, for you to know we love your ways. And we wish
upon the stars that angels watch over our children once more, for their
desire a world of innocent and magic that twirls in the lights of the
cosmos. We send these gifts for you, the crowning of men.
Twin
Deer Mother sends the notes, the heart of the spokes, where all the
children choke, because the words do not flow, like angels that glow.
They need so much in this land, for people to care about them to show
them, a better way. For love is the greatest of all things. El Shaddai
(God Almighty), let us find these skies. For you have brought us here,
the land of the promise, the land of the astonished, the land of many
colors. We bind to know love flows.
Father Red Hand beats to the
heart to show there is a holy ark, the place where we sail to make our
wails. We dream upon the rainbow to shine true, because heaven on earth
we flow with you. For the mountains and rivers and valleys need our
cries to fulfill the dyes, the painting upon the clothing we wear, the
sacred prayer cloth of tears.
El Shaddai (God Almighty) we honor you.
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Shaddai, Hebrew Shin ש
Shekinah
- A Language of Light. Shin Means "tooth" and is the symbol of Divine
Peace, Power and Mastery, but also of Corruption and Falsehood. One of
the holiest letters in the Hebrew language, it appears on its own on the
mezuzah attached to the doorpost of all Jewish households as the sign
of El Shaddai, the Holy Spirit.
http://shekinah.elysiumgates.com/hebrew.htmlExodus 6:2-3. Shaddai is the name by which God was known to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The priestly blessing
May the LORD (YHWH) bless you and guard you
May the LORD make His face shed light upon you and be gracious unto you
May the LORD lift up His face unto you and give you peace
El Shaddai
Deut
12:11 Then to the place the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling
for his Name—there you are to bring everything I command you: your
burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all
the choice possessions you have vowed to the Lord.
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Shin
(also spelled Šin (šīn) or Sheen) literally means "teeth", "press", and
"sharp"; It is the twenty-first letter. "Tooth" and with the phonemic
value š "corresponds etymologically (in part, at least) to original
Semitic ṯ (th). The Encyclopaedia Judaica, 1972, records that it
originally represented a composite bow.
In Judaism
Shin also
stands for the word Shaddai, a name for God. Because of this, a kohen
(priest) forms the letter Shin with his hands as he recites the Priestly
Blessing. In the mid 1960s, actor Leonard Nimoy used a single-handed
version of this gesture to create the Vulcan hand salute for his
character, Mr. Spock, on Star Trek.
The letter Shin is often
inscribed on the case containing a mezuzah, a scroll of parchment with
Biblical text written on it. The text contained in the mezuzah is the
Shema Yisrael prayer, which calls the Israelites to love their God with
all their heart, soul and strength. The mezuzah is situated upon all the
doorframes in a home or establishment. Sometimes the whole word Shaddai
will be written.
The Shema Yisrael prayer also commands the
Israelites to write God's commandments on their hearts (Deut. 6:6); the
shape of the letter Shin mimics the structure of the human heart: the
lower, larger left ventricle (which supplies the full body) and the
smaller right ventricle (which supplies the lungs) are positioned like
the lines of the letter Shin.
A religious significance has been
applied to the fact that there are three valleys that comprise the city
of Jerusalem's geography: the Valley of Ben Hinnom, Tyropoeon Valley,
and Kidron Valley, and that these valleys converge to also form the
shape of the letter shin, and that the Temple in Jerusalem is located
where the dagesh (horizontal line) is. This is seen as a fulfillment of
passages such as Deuteronomy 16:2 that instructs Jews to celebrate the
Pasach at "the place the LORD will choose as a dwelling for his Name"
(NIV).
In the Sefer Yetzirah the letter Shin is King over Fire,
Formed Heaven in the Universe, Hot in the Year, and the Head in the
Soul.
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Shin (El Shaddai). 20 June 2014 · by Mark Wilson · in Faith. · El Shaddai
The 21st Hebrew letter is “shin” which looks a bit like our English alphabet “W”
Shin (also spelled Šin (šīn) or Sheen) literally means “teeth”, “press”, and “sharp”
Shin – Shaddai
In
Judaism Shin also stands for the word Shaddai, a primary name for God.
El Shaddai is conventionally translated as God Almighty according to
Exodus 6:2-3. Shaddai is the name by which God was known to Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob.
There are two words in Hebrew that could be the
origin of Shaddai: “shada” and “shadad” meaning to nurture and destroy
respectively.
Shin – Priestly Blessing
Because Shin also
stands for the word Shaddai, a kohen (priest) forms the letter Shin with
his hands as he recites the Priestly Blessing. Of all the Jewish hand
signs, the most famous is that of the priestly blessing, the Birchat
Kohanim.
The priestly blessing
May the LORD (YHWH) bless you and guard you
May the LORD make His face shed light upon you and be gracious unto you
May the LORD lift up His face unto you and give you peace
Shin – Houses
Jews
place a symbol Shin outside their house on the doorpost of the main
door in a Mazzuzah it stands for “El Shaddai protects the family”.
The
letter Shin is often inscribed on the case containing a mezuzah, a
scroll of parchment with Biblical text written on it. The text contained
in the mezuzah is the Shema Yisrael prayer, which calls the Israelites
to love their God with all their heart, soul and strength.
Sometimes the whole word Shaddai will be written but apparently shin means Shaddai so it’s the same meaning.
Shin – Hearts
The
Shema Yisrael prayer also commands the Israelites to write God’s
commandments on their hearts (Deut. 6:6); the shape of the letter Shin
mimics the structure of the human heart:
Judges 12:6 they said, “All
right, say ‘Shibboleth.'” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not
pronounce the word correctly, they seized him and killed him at the
fords of the Jordan. Forty-two thousand Ephraimites were killed at that
time.
Shin – Ephraim
According to Judges 12:6 the tribe of
Ephraim who did not have the sound of the letter shin in their dialect
of Hebrew. Thus they could not pronounce the sound /sh/ represented by
the Hebrew letter shin and the sound /s/ of the Hebrew letter sin.
Once
upon a time these Ephraimites were at war with the neighboring
Gileadites. The Gileadites did have the sound /sh/ in their Hebrew
words. Both tribes were of similar appearance, so the Gileadites devised
a way to check for spies and intruders. They asked everyone they
suspected of being an enemy or enemy spy to pronounce the Hebrew word
shibolet. Those of Gilead picked the word because it has a shin at the
beginning of the word and was very difficult for the Ephraimites to say
properly.
They might have selected any Hebrew word beginning with
“sh.” Sibolet happens to mean ‘ear of com, seed head of any grain
plant, etcetera.”
An Ephraimite would say “sibolet° instead of the correct “shibolet” and thus get caught and perhaps put to the sword.
Shin – Other Usages
The Shin-Bet was an old acronym for the Israeli Department of Internal General Security.
A Shin-Shin Clash is Israeli military parlance for a battle between two tank divisions (“armour” in Hebrew is shiryon).
Sh’at
haShin (The Shin Hour) is the last possible moment for any action,
usually military. Corresponds to the English expression the eleventh
hour.
Shin – Jerusalem
A religious significance has been
applied to the fact that there are three valleys which comprise the city
of Jerusalem’s geography:
the Valley of Ben Hinnom,
Tyropoeon Valley, and
Kidron Valley
and
that these valleys converge to also form the shape of the letter shin.
That intrigues me. Perhaps God really has left a sign that this city has
His Name on it?
May the God who has caused his name to dwell – Ezra 6:12
So…
I made a very rough combination of the shin symbol and overlaid it on
top of this Wikipedia map (which I rotated around) and yes it overlays
remarkably closely!
I did a LOT more investigation into these valleys and I wrote it down in this post: Valleys of Jerusalem. Enjoy!
Shin – in the home
According to this Jewish teaching the sign of shin is made by the father over his kids as he blesses them.
Faith + Hope + Love (excerpt from)
https://achristian.wordpress.com/2014/06/20/shin/~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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This is a transcription of the audio lecture audio 22 The Hebrew Letter Shin ש (37.19 MB) , which you can download for free.
The Hebrew letter ש Shin is the twenty-first letter of the Kabbalistic alphabet.
The
numerical value of Shin is three hundred. If we make the addition of
twenty-one, it gives three. Three hundred is also equal with three
(3+0+0=3), so the hidden number in the letter ש Shin is the number
three, which relates—as we can see in the image of Shin—to the three
prongs of the letter ש Shin.
The right arm of the letter Shin is
formed by the upper part of a letter נ Nun, and the left and center arms
are formed by letters ז zain and ו Vav, which rest upon the base of the
open letter נ Nun – opened about 105 degrees. These three letters—Nun,
Zain, and Vav—form the letter Shin.
The three prongs of Shin
symbolize three flames. The letter ש is the symbol of fire. This shape
is known in many traditions by the trident of Neptune / Poseidon, and
the trishula ("three-spear") of Shiva. This is the weapon of the Gods.
Trishula of Shiva
The Elements
In order to write fire in Hebrew you write it with two letters: א Aleph and ש Shin.
In
the first lecture, we talked very extensively about the letter Aleph,
which is related with the three primary forces. Obviously, ש Shin is
also related with three primary forces, which in the first triangle in
the Tree of Life are represented by the sephiroth Kether, Chokmah, and
Binah, which in Christianity are named Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Let
us remember that in Hinduism, this Trinity or three divine
entities-which are fire-are called Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.
Indeed,
the three Sephiroth of the first triangle of the Tree of Life are
related with the central column and its three triangles. In Kabbalah,
these are related to three of the four elements, namely, air, fire, and
water, which progressively relate with all the Sephiroth in the Tree of
Life, and that at the very bottom of it, go into a mixture named
Malkuth, the ”Kingdom,” which symbolizes the element earth.
The three elements are represented in the three mother letters:
Aleph א air
Shin ש: fire
Mem מ: water
These three gather in Malkuth, the earth.
In
the spelling of the name of the letter ש Shin, we find three letters,
namely שין Shin, Iod, and final Nun, which resembles a prolonged Vav.
The letter Iod is the top flame that when prolonged descends into the
earth as a final Nun. The letter Nun in its normal shape relates to
Malkuth, the earth. Nun is ”fish” in Aramaic; it is the seed, the salt,
the sperm or ovum that swims in the water.
”Now after the death of
Moses the servant of יהוה it came to pass, that יהוה spoke unto יהשוה
Joshua the son of Nun.” – Joshua 1:1
”Ye (as Nun) are the salt of the earth.” – Matthew 5:13
So,
the seed, the sperm or ovum that swims in the water, is the letter Nun,
related with the salt of the earth; salt is a symbol of the element
earth, which contains air, fire, and water. That is why in Kabbalah we
often name only three elements-air, fire, water-because physically
speaking we are Malkuth, the earth, given that the physical body (as
Joshua) is a crystallization of the Nun, which many times we stated in
Aramaic means fish. Thus, Nun, sperm and ovum as a zygote, evolves and
becomes a physical body like the one that we have.
In many lectures, we have stated that we have three brains:
the intellectual brain
the emotional brain
the motor-instinctual-sexual brain
These correlate to the three mother letters Aleph א, Shin ש, and Mem מ.
We
are emphasizing these three mother letters because they are always
interrelated with the number three. For instance, related to the air
(Aleph) there is cold air and hot air, and also dry air and moist air.
In this region, when the air comes from the south, it is hot, but if the
air comes from the north it is cold. So, in the air the other two
elements-water and fire-are mingled.
In relation with the first
triangle of the Tree of Life, the element air relates to the center
column of the Tree of Life, whilst the fire is related with the left,
and the water with the right column. These elements are always combined
in different manners in each triangle of the Tree of Life.
So in
relation to the first triangle (Kether, Chokmah and Binah; Father, Son
and Holy Spirit), we visualize the fire, Shin, as I A O, as stated by
Diodorus Siculus when enumerating the different legislators of
antiquity:
”Amongst the Jews, Moses established that the God surnamed IAO gave him his laws.”
We
stated in other lectures that in primeval Hebrew writing they did not
have vowels. Presently, you find vowels represented by lines and dots
around the letters. In the original scriptures, the Hebrew alphabet did
not have vowels. IAO is written יהו Iod-Hei-Vav and is pronounced IAO.
Iod is pronounced “I” (ee). The letter Hei at the end of a Hebrew word
is pronounced as the sound ”ah.” The sound of the letter Vav depends
upon its position in the word: it could be ”oh, uh, or ee,” so in IAO
the letter Vav is ”oh.”
When we say יהוה Iod-Hei-Vav-Hei, which is
the Tetragrammaton, the sacred name of God, we see that the letter Hei
is repeated. That is why Diodorus Siculus said that the God of Moses was
יהו Iod-Hei-Vav, IAO, because the letter Hei is repeated again at the
end.
The Head
IAO relates to the head.
The previous lecture
was related with the letter Resh, which represents a head. The spelling
of name of the letter Resh ריש relates to the spelling of ראש rosh,
”head.” In our ראש rosh / Resh ר (head) we have the letters Aleph א
(air) and Shin ש (fire), which together spell the Hebrew word אש Esh,
”fire.” Thus, Resh ר (head) + Aleph א (air) + Shin ש (fire) = ראש
”head.”
There is a name found throughout in the Old Testament: the
name Israel. The word Israel is written with Iod Shin Resh Aleph Lamed,
ישראל Israel.
As you can see, the letter Shin in Israel is pronounced as S, not Sh: the letter Shin can be pronounced as Ssss or Shhh.
By
taking the first and last letters of the word Israel, we write with
them Lamed and Iod (לי) which in Hebrew mean ”I have.” Then, with the
rest of the letters, namely, Resh, Aleph, and Shin, of the word Israel,
we spell the word rosh, which means "head" [ראש ro'sh] So, li rosh, לי
ראש , means "I have a head". So, li rosh, "I have a head," is hidden in
the word Israel.
The letter Shin at the end of the word ראש rosh
symbolizes fire, the letter Aleph symbolizes air, and the letter Resh
symbolizes the ”head,” and Aleph and Shin together make the Hebrew word
esh, ”fire.” So we will say in other words, "I have אש esh (fire) in my
rosh (head)." These are ישר righteous fires, the archetypes in the rosh
(head), the archetypes of אל El; אל-ישר Israel.
So ראש is "I have fire in the head" because in the Resh ר (head) I have אש (fire).
Each
letter of אש represents the three primary forces. There are three
spiritual atoms in our head that are related with the three primary
forces. Kether, the Father, is situated in the magnetic root of the
nose. Chokmah, wisdom, the Son, is in the pituitary gland. And in the
pineal gland we have Binah, Shiva, the Holy Spirit. So in the head, we
have the three breaths, the three flames of that אש esh, fire, of the
letters Aleph and Shin.
The letter Shin represents the three fiery
aspects of the three primary forces, within which we find not only fire
but also air, because remember, fire is written with Aleph and Shin (esh
אש), and that is precisely the beauty of it.
Observe also that one
prong or flame of the letter Shin relates to the letter Vav, which is at
the left side of the letter Kaf (the skull) in the shape of the letter מ
Mem, which of the three mother letters symbolizes water.
The Four-armed Shin and the Tefillin
There is another shape of the letter Shin, which is formed by four prongs instead of three.
The
Shin with four prongs and the Shin with three prongs are written on the
Tefillin that the Kabbalists use in order to read the Bible. The
Tefillin is leather and is formed by two boxes: one box is tied to the
head and the other to the hand. The box that is tied to the head is a
small box that has inscribed the shape of these two letters, Shin with
three prongs and the Shin with four prongs.
What do these two Shins
symbolize? These Shins symbolize the unfoldment of the three primary
forces into four forces. Kabbalists state that the Shin with four prongs
is the Shin or the fire of the world to come, a world that does not
exist yet but it might come or will come.
When you read that
literally like many people do, they interpret that the Letter Shin with
four prongs represents a new state of things, a future race that will
exist, within which God will manifest. Why do they think this? Because
the four prongs represent the four letters Iod-Hei-Vav-Hei יהוה, which
spells Iod-Havah, written in English as Jehovah.
Nevertheless, it is
absurd to interpret “the world to come” in a literal manner. Instead,
we interpret “the world to come” in accordance with Daath, Gnosis,
Alchemy. Through sexual Alchemy is how it should be interpreted. Listen,
“the world to come” is that world that might come if we enter into
initiation; “the world to come” is the light of Yehidah, that becomes
light in us if we put into activity the fire of the trinity, the three
Iods of Shin that gleam in the world of Atziluth.
All of us have the
letter Shin as a fluidic fire in our cerebrospinal fluid and in the
sexual fluid represented by the missing Iod (“the hand and arm” of
Shaddai-El-Chai, the Creator) the penis or clitoris (a small elongated
erectile organ at the anterior part of the vulva, homologous with the
penis).
We have the fire of the Kabbalistic trinity in our head and
we have the fire also in “the hand and arm” (the Iod) related with
Yesod, the central column of the Tree of Life, which is represented with
the letter Vav, our spinal column. The very top of the letter Vav is a
Iod that represents the intellectual brain; the middle of the letter Vav
is the heart, which is Tiphereth, the emotional brain, and the very
bottom or foundation of Vav is Yesod, which is the sexual brain; these
three brains relate to the three flames of the letter Shin. Everybody in
the world has those three fires in their sexual organs, heart, and
head.
In order for the Shin with four prongs to gleam in our head,
we have to understand the unfoldment of the three primary forces in the
World of Creation, which is called Briah.
In Kabbalah, there are four worlds.
Atziluth: the world of Archetypes, a world of Becoming; it is related to the top triangle
Briah: the world of Creation, where forces combine to create; it is related to the second triangle
Yetzirah: the world of Formation, in which the creation is elaborated; it is related to the third triangle
Assiah: the world of Action; it is related to the sephirah Malkuth
The
world Briah relates to the Sephirah Daath. We know that Daath means
knowledge, which in Greek is Gnosis. Daath is a mysterious Sephirah
beneath the three primary forces, the three Sephiroth, the letter Shin.
The Sephirah Daath will form the fourth prong of the letter Shin of the
World of Becoming, Atziluth; in other words, when we see the letter
Shin, the fire of the three primary forces, which is the indivisible
trinity, a fire that cannot be divided because the number three is a
number that makes the unison of the primary forces. In order to divide
that fire, in order for that fire to become divisible, it has to be
transformed into four. That is precisely what happens when the three
primary forces protrude the fourth prong through Binah, which is what we
call the feminine aspect of the Holy Spirit, the Divine Mother
Kundalini.
The three primary forces of Atziluth always manifest
their creative power through Binah, the Holy Spirit, in the Sephirah
Daath. In Kabbalah, their masculine and feminine creative power is what
we call Abba אב and אימא Aima, the Father and Mother.
We must not
commit the mistake of some Kabbalists who state that Chokmah is the
Father and Binah the Mother. Chokmah is the second Sephirah, which take
activity in the world of Briah. The world of Atziluth, as you remember,
the world of the archetypes where we find the three primary forces
(Kether, Chokmah, Binah), is the world of fire. Those three primary
forces are there in potentiality. Those three primary forces are the
three forces that can create, but they can only create in Daath, in
Gnosis, in the World of Creation (Briah), which is the second world of
Kabbalah. The world of Briah, creation, is ruled by the second Sephirah,
which is Chokmah.
Regarding the three mother letters, Aleph
represents Kether, Shin represents Chokmah, and Mem represents Binah. So
when we talked about Shin, the fire, we are talking about Chokmah, the
Son, the Christ.
Above the first triangle is the Ain Soph Aur. This
light, along with the first triangle, together are Iod-Hei-Vav-Hei,
which is also represented by fire. The Ain Soph Aur is the unmanifested
universe, and in India is represented by the God Agni. That is why it is
said that all the Gods, all the universe, all creatures, have the root
in Agni, which is fire. This Agni or fire expresses itself in Atziluth
through Kether, Chokmah, Binah, yet the most beautiful atoms of that
fire always glow in Chokmah, because Chokmah represents the letter Shin,
which is fire. Chokmah rules the second triangle of the Tree of Life,
which is related with Briah, the world of creation. This is why when we
talk about creation, we have to talk about Chokmah. But we have to
understand that these tree prongs of the letter Shin represent the three
of them, namely, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Kether, Chokmah and
Binah, not only Chokmah. All three are one. But when they manifest in
creation they do it through the duality of Binah. And that is why when
we descend into Daath, which is Gnosis, the flame of three wicks of
Atziluth becomes a flame of four wicks in order to be divided. The four
can be divided; Iod-Hei-Vav-Hei can be divided as Jah-Chavah. That is
why Samael Aun Weor in his book Tarot and Kabbalah explains:
“From
the perfect union of these two [Abba אב and אימא Aima], Osiris-Isis, the
child Horus [Chokmah] is born [in Briah]. She and He [Abba אב and אימא
Aima] love each other and as a result of their love, she conceives the
Christ or Second Logos who [from Yehidah] descends into [Chaiah] her
virginal and immaculate womb by the action and grace of the Holy Spirit,
meaning by the action and grace of her spouse, [Binah] the Third
Logos.
“We have to take into account that even while she is the
spouse of the Third Logos, within the Third Logos is the Second Logos
and the First Logos, because in the end, the Logos is the undividable,
unitotal, and integral Triune.
“A lot of subtleness is needed in order to understand this, a lot of refinement, synthesism, and intuition.
“The
conversion of Trimurtis, one into another, is something that gives a
lot of work unto the students, but if you sharpen your intuition a
little bit you will understand.” - Samael Aun Weor
This can be
understood by means of the three mother letters in Atziluth, namely א
Aleph (air) representing Kether, ש Shin (fire) representing Chokmah, and
םמ Mem (water) representing Binah.
The duality of א Aleph and ש
Shin—which together spell אש esh, fire—is איש ish (male) and אשה isha
(female); these two fiery polarities manifest through Binah, םמ Mem
(water), who is אלהים יהוה Iod-Havah Elohim.
“Come and see: אשר Asher
(Binah) is (אש Ash, fire) mentioned above (in the ר Rosh-Head) and
mentioned below (in Yesod) in relation to the adornments of the bride
(the letter Mem).” - Zohar
“And (the letter ו Vav is) the rib,
which (אשר Asher) אלהים יהוה Iod-Havah Elohim (Binah) had taken from (מן
Manna – the final Nun, the sexual seed, the fish, in the Mem of) Adam,
made he a woman (אשה Ashah). – Genesis 2: 22
Thus, the letter ש Shin,
Chokmah, through אשר Asher אלהים יהוה Iod-Havah Elohim, Binah, rules
Briah, the World of Creation. This is easy to understand when we place
this symbolism in our own selves, physically speaking. We are divided in
sexes, masculine and feminine. and that division is expressed in the
sexual organs. We said א Aleph (Kether, the breath) is in the head, ש
Shin (Chokmah, the fire) is in the heart and םמ Mem (Binah, the water)
is in the genitalia. When we examine the brain of a man and woman, they
look the same; when we examine their heart, they look the same. But when
we examine their genitalia, we find then that they are different.
It is good to remember what Samael Aun Weor stated:
“During
the act of Sexual Magic, couples charge themselves with magnetism
(fire); they mutually magnetize each other. In the woman the pelvis
(Mem-water) emanates feminine currents, while her breasts (Shin-fire)
give off masculine ones. In the man the feminine current emanates from
(Aleph-air) the mouth, and the masculine one from (Mem-water) his virile
member. All of these organs must be well excited through Sexual Magic
in order to give off and receive, transmit and retrieve vital magnetic
forces (fires) that increase extraordinarily in quantity and quality.”
So
we see very clearly that in the physical body the division of these
three primary forces within our three brains express themselves through
the sexual organs; Chokmah-Briah-Creation acts through Binah (sex).
Through sex the creative power of the three primary forces expresses in
each one of us, because the three primary forces (Father, Son and Holy
Spirit) create through duality.
Thus, the three prongs of the letter
Shin can unfold into the four prongs of the letter Shin of the world of
becoming when the three fiery atoms in our head (correspondingly
located in the magnetic root of the nose, pituitary and pineal glands)
are illuminated by the risen Shechinah, the fire of Kundalini, brought
from the genitalia to the head; thus, finally יהיה expresses its power
through the throat (Daath). This is why it is stated:
“In the
beginning was the Logos (Kether), and the Logos (Chokmah) was with
Elohim (Binah), and the Logos (Binah) was Elohim. The same was in the
beginning with Elohim (Bereshith Bera Elohim). All things were made by
him (the Logoic Trinity); and without him (the Logoic Trinity) was not
any thing made that was made. In him (Yehidah, the Logoic Trinity) was
life (Chaiah); and the life (Chaiah) was the light of (שכינה Shechinah
in) men. And the light (שכינה Shechinah) shines in darkness; and the
darkness comprehended (withhold) it not.” – John 1: 1-5
Thus the triune Logoi creates through Abba and Aima Elohim, Binah in Daath, the throat.
This
is how the triune atomic fire that we have in the head turns into a
tetra atomic fire, the symbol of the Tefillin that is placed in the head
with the two Shin letters, the Shin with three prongs and the Shin with
four prongs; understand that these two Shin letters symbolize the
division, the unfoldment of the Logoic fire in the initiate that
transmutes the sexual force.
From the head, this triune atomic fire
descends as a fourth force through the arm and hand. Remember that arm
and hand are called יד Iod in Hebrew. Remember that יד Iod is the name
of the letter that is only a spot, a dot with which we start the writing
of יהוה Iod-Hei-Vav-Hei. Iod is the tenth letter of the Hebrew
alphabet, and corresponds to the Sephirah Malkuth.
Listen, the
extension of יד Iod (arm) along the body ends at the יד Iod (hand),
which is at the same level as the יד Iod (phallus and clitoris).
The
other box that Kabbalists wear in accordance to this tradition is on the
arm. With a long leather cord they first wrap three straps around their
bicep, which relate to the descent of the three primary forces through
the יד Iod (arm) of Iod-Havah into Daath / Briah. Then with the same
leather cord they wrap their forearm seven times, and finally, the rope
or leather cord ends around the fingers of their יד Iod hand. Remember,
יד Iod is how we say arm and hand in Hebrew. So, these seven wraps
signify the descent of the three primary forces (Kether, Chokmah, Binah)
expressed by the duality of Daath, through the seven Sephiroth below
them: Chesed, Geburah, Tiphereth, Netzach, Hod, Yesod and finally into
שבעה Shebbah, the seventh, Malkuth, the יד Iod (hand), which is at the
same level as the יד Iod (phallus and clitoris) represented by שבתאי
Shabbathai (Saturn, Binah), the middle finger. While wearing this
Tefilin, these Kabbalists read the Torah in order to receive
enlightenment.
They also form the letter Shin with their hand using
the straps of the leather with which they hold the book; they tighten
the cord to a couple of fingers of their hand, which together with their
thumb, they make the shape of the letter Shin. Namely, they tighten the
little finger with the ring finger and then the middle with the index,
thus forming the letter Shin. So everything about the Tefillin is
related with the fire. This is its symbolism. They do this by tradition,
but do they know why they do it? I do not know.
The main thing is
this: the Tefillin explains the descent of the Ray of Creation through
all the Sephiroth and finally into sex in the physical body, which is
symbolized by the hand, the letter Iod, the tenth Sephirah, Malkuth.
Tefillin explains how the fire descends into our bodies through the
different Sephiroth. As you see, the strapping around the arm, hand, and
head also means that in order to understand what is written with the
Hebrew letters, we have to have the fire of Shechinah developed. When we
have fire, we have life, and with it, light.
The Light of the Fire
“In
him [Yehidah, the Logoic Trinity] was life [Chaiah]; and the life
[Chaiah] was the light of [שכינה Shechinah in] men. - John 1:4
Nevertheless,
there are different types of fire. The fire that we are addressing here
is the fire of the fire, the astral signature of the fire that comes
from Israel, which as an acrostic symbolizes "I have a head" or "I have
fire in the head." That is one of the Kabbalistic meanings of Israel. “I
have fire in the head” and “I am going to take that fire into my lower
body” which is my Iod, my hand, in order to get through that fire, the
illumination that is needed in order to understand the path, the
commandments, the rules, the revelations that is written in the Torah.
That is the symbol of Tefillin. Nonetheless, this does not signify that
we are required to perform the Tefillin strapping in order to know
Kabbalah. Tefillin is symbolic. For instance, we have understood all of
this about Kabbalah and the letters, but we do not use the literal
practice of the Tefillin. When we understand what Tefillin symbolizes,
we then understand that what we have to do is to skillfully handle (by
hand, by Iod) the fire in order to reach enlightenment, so that we can
comprehend what is Kabbalistically written, because the Kabbalistic
letters are written with the Saturnian finger of God. The Saturnian
finger of God is the Iod, the creative power of Binah, Iod-Havah Elohim.
Let
us remember בראשית Bereshith, the first word of Genesis in the Bible,
which is אש-ברית Bĕriyth esh, the covenant of fire. It is written:
“Take
heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the (ברית bĕriyth) covenant of
יהוה your אלהים Elohim, which he made with you, and (through
fornication) make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing,
which יהוה your אלהים Elohim hath forbidden thee. For יהוה your אלהים
Elohim is a consuming (sexual אש Ash) fire, a jealous אל El, God.” -
Deuteronomy 4:23-24
“For our [creative] God is a consuming [sexual] fire.” - Hebrews 12:29
We
have to understand what that consuming fire is, because there are
different types of fire. For instance, we know that fire is needed in
the kitchen in order to cook our food. But the fire that we are talking
about here is a divine fire, which is Yehidah, the fire of the fire. The
fire of Yehidah, written in Latin letters on the top of the crucified
Christ, is INRI, which means Ignis Natura Renovatur Integra, “the fire
renews nature incessantly.” The divine fire that we are addressing here
is the fire of Pentecost that emanates from the Duality, from Abba and
Aima, which are symbolized by the four prongs of the letter Shin in the
head. Thus, if we want the coming of letter Shin with four prongs, now
that we know the meaning of it, we then must say, “let us honor our
Father and Mother” because the four prongs of the letter Shin are
Iod-Hei-Vav-Hei. That name is androgynous, and means phallus-uterus
man-woman, or in other words Jah-Havah, Father-Mother. That is why the
letter Shin with four prongs could be explained in this way: Abba Elohim
and Aima Elohim. Abba is Father and Aima is Mother.
In Kabbalah,
the name Elohim appears for the first time in the Sephirah Binah. The
sacred name of the Sephirah Binah in Atziluth is Jehovah Elohim or
Jah-Havah Elohim, the duality, the two forces that express creation in
Daath. Thus by knowing Daath is how the world to come might appear in us
if we take advantage of these fires of the duality that we call
Father-Mother in Daath.
In the first chapter of the book “The Perfect Matrimony" is written the following:
“God
as Father is wisdom. God as Mother is love. As Father, God resides
within the Eye of Wisdom. The Eye of Wisdom is located between the
eyebrows. As love, God is found within the Heart-temple. Wisdom and love
are the two basal pillars of the great White Lodge.” - Samael Aun Weor,
Kabbalistically
explained this means that in Briah, Elohim Binah as Father is wisdom,
חכמה Chokmah, and Elohim Binah as Mother is love, אהבה Ahabah.
Remember
that when we say that the Father is wisdom, we are addressing the
Sephirah Chokmah not in Atziluth, but in the world of Briah, which means
creation. In the world of Briah, Elohim Binah as Father is wisdom. In
Briah is where the power of Chokmah expresses itself through Elohim
Binah, because Briah is ruled by Chokmah.
The Father (Kether) as
creative power expresses through Binah, Shiva, the Holy Spirit. This is
why you find in Hinduism that Shiva, the Holy Spirit, is always next to
Parvati, his wife. Sometimes he is represented in one androgynous body,
half masculine and half feminine, as Shiva-Parvati.
Shiva is always
holding a trident. This is something very significant. In Hebrew, the
word Shin שין means "tooth" and "fork." The trident or Trishula is a
fork. The letter Shin is the symbol, the very head of the fork, which
spells שין Shin, so the three prongs that make the head of the Trishula
of Shiva spells Shin, fork in Hebrew. We also find the symbol of the
trident in the hands of the God Neptune / Poseidon.
Astrologically,
the pineal gland is ruled by Neptune. In the pineal gland we have the
atom of the Holy Spirit, which is Binah in Kabbalah. Binah, the Holy
Spirit, Shiva, is related with Neptune. In other words, Neptune like
Shiva has power over the waters, because the powers of the waters are
the powers of creation.
Shiva has simultaneously the power of
creation and destruction. When we say destruction, I remind you what
Deuteronomy says: "God is a devouring fire." God devours all impurities
in us when we know how to utilize the divine fire of Trishula, trident,
or שין Shin, fork.
In the pineal gland is the crown chakra, Kether.
The Gods Neptune and Shiva holding the trident or Trishula is showing us
that all the power that they have in their hands comes from their crown
chakras, which is where we find the three primary forces of שין Shin,
fire: Kether, Chokmah and Binah, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
We
have the power of the fire in the pineal gland—or better said, we have
the power of controlling the fire in the pineal gland. When that fire
descends from above, from our head, down into our physical body, it ends
in all the blood vessels. Remember that the blood, that fiery liquid,
is water, fire, and air at the same time. Let us remember that the
fluidic blood is managed in the lower organs, namely, the spleen and
liver. The impure blood goes into the heart and the heart is where we
have Shin, fire. The heart pumps that blood into the lungs, and the
lungs purify it with Aleph (oxygen). In other words, in the blood we
clearly see Aleph (air), Shin (fire) and Mem (water). That is why the
blood is the life where the three primary forces abide and that is why
the blood flows into the sexual organs in order to create.
The blood
in any animal is a vehicle of Nephesh. In Hebrew, Nephesh is the name
of the basic aspect of the soul. It is the animal soul that we all have,
and it permutes in the blood.
Let us study how the word Nephesh נפש
is spelled: it starts with the letter Nun, which means fish, the seed;
the next letter is Peh, which means mouth, it relates the throat, to the
articulated word, to Daath, which is where we find the duality of the
letter Shin, Nephesh, thus at the end is the letter Shin, which means
that the animal soul has fire. That fire expresses itself through the
sexual organs. Through the genitalia is how we multiply ourselves as
animals. Any animal of the kingdom—irrational or rational—has Nephesh,
animal soul. We have it because we are intellectual animals. So we have
to control our animal, our donkey. We have to control the animal soul by
means of our pineal gland.
Rene Descartes regarded pineal gland as
the principal seat of the soul. In the pineal gland is the atom of the
Holy Spirit. The pineal gland is control by Neptune. In the pineal gland
is the power of Shiva’s Trishula. In the pineal gland is where the
power of the four prongs of the letter Shin abides, and which we have to
utilize in the sexual act because in the sexual act is where we see the
duality of Iod-Hei-Vav-Hei in Daath. Thus by controlling the fire of
Nephesh, the animal soul, we start developing the fire within; this is
how, if we follow the path of Chastity, we will become children of the
fire of the world to come.
The arrival of the world to come depends
upon our willpower. It does not depend on any other event outside of us.
If we want to be participants of the world to come, of the new golden
age, we have to put the fire into activity in ourselves; this is the
only way.
In order to be anointed by fire, we have to control the
fire of our animal soul, Nephesh, which is in our bones, in the marrow
of our bones, in our blood, in our flesh—that is, our physical body.
The
final descent of that fire from above into us is represented by the
letter Nun in the word Nephesh. In order to control the Nun, the fish,
we need the assistance of the Holy Spirit, because the one that controls
the fire in the Nun (Nephesh) is the Ruach Elohim, the Spirit of the
Elohim that was floating upon the face of the waters.
“And the earth
was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of the Elohim moved upon the face of the waters. And
Elohim said, Let there be light (by the activity of the Nun from the
water): and there was light.” – Genesis 1:2-3
The waters are the
sexual fluids where we have our own Nun, fish, Nephesh. The spirit that
is floating above those waters is the Ruach Elohim, the Spirit of God in
the pineal gland, which is directly related with the emanations of
Binah in Daath.
When Abba and Aima make contact in Daath—which is
Jehovah Elohim, the four prongs of the letter Shin—they give birth to
the Ruach Elohim, our Monad, our Innermost, which in the Tree of Life is
represented by the sephirah Chesed united with the sephiroth Geburah
and Tiphereth. The Ruach Elohim (א Aleph, air) flows between heaven and
earth, because, remember, Ruach means “wind” and “Spirit.” Ruach (Aleph,
air) flows in the sephirah Tiphereth, between Geburah (Shin, fire) and
Gedulah (Mem, gaseous water). The air, the Ruach, the wind, is precisely
our own particular Monad, which the Bible calls Abraham (אברהם).
Abraham is the outcome of Daath, and harnesses the humidity of the Mem
and the fire of the Shin. In Kabbalah, Abraham is related with the
sephirah Chesed and is symbolized by the water (Mem).
In the world
of Yetzirah, the air is represented by the sephirah Netzach, the water
is represented by the sephirah Yesod, and fire represented by the
sephirah Hod. Fire and water do not mingle, since the fire wants to
eliminate the water and the water wants to eliminate the fire, thus the
air comes between them and mixes them.
The three elements in the world of Atziluth are inverted in the world of Briah.
The three mother letters in the world of Atziluth:
Aleph (air) Kether
Shin (fire) Chokmah
Mem (water) Binah
The three mother letters in the world of Briah:
Aleph (air) Tiphereth
Shin (fire) Geburah
Mem (water) Gedulah (Chesed)
The
fire (Shin) in Chokmah and the water (Mem) of Binah in the first
triangle invert in the second triangle: namely, water (Mem) moves to the
right, to the sephirah Gedulah, and fire (Shin) moves to the left, the
sephirah Geburah. Yet Aleph, the air, the one that conciliates them,
that makes them friends, remains in the middle. In the world of Briah,
the sephirah Chesed is Mem, water, the sephirah Geburah is Shin, fire.
The sephirah Tiphereth is the eagle, the air.
In Briah, the three
sephiroth Gedulah, Geburah, and Tiphereth are represented in the letter
Shin, and also the three primary forces or the three prongs of the
letter Shin in Atziluth that we have to develop in Briah, the world of
creation.
We have to create the letter Shin in the world of creation
because the second triangle of the Tree of Life—Chesed, Geburah and
Tiphereth—refers to the world of creation. The letter Shin that we need
to place in our heart is something that comes from the world to come,
through initiation.
These three sephiroth of the second triangle of
the Tree of Life are represented in the book of Genesis by the three
patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Abraham: Chesed (Gedulah)
Geburah: Isaac
Tiphereth: Jacob
These three together form the letter Shin in us.
The
letter Shin represents the three primary forces that are everywhere. If
we want to self-realize—to fully manifest the Monad in ourselves, in
other words, to serve God 100%— those three primary forces have to
appear in our heart, in our chest. The second triangle represents the
chest of the imaginary man of the Tree of Life, and these three
patriarchs in the letter Shin represent our Monad.
So, let us
understand that when we refer to the letter Shin in the first triangle
of the Tree of Life, we refer to the three primary forces in our three
brains. Yet those three prongs of the letter Shin in our Monad are:
the sephirah Chesed which relates to water
the sephirah Geburah which relates to fire
the sephirah Tiphereth which relates to air
These three Sephiroth relate to the three prongs of the letter Shin in our chest, when we actualize the three fires in our Self.
The Development of the Fire
How
do you write three fires in Hebrew? Fire is written אש esh, Aleph-Shin.
In order to write אש esh as plural we add the letters Iod and Mem at
the end, אשים ashim, which reminds us of the word אישים ayshim that in
Hebrew means "men."In Hebrew man is written איש ish and woman is אשה
isha. Thus, the plural of איש ish "man" is אישים ishim “men.” In this
word we see the three mother letters Aleph, Shin, Mem. In other words,
אישים ishim refers to three men, namely Aleph (Jacob), Shin (Isaac), and
Mem (Abraham), the three patriarchs that we have to build in side of
ourselves, that we have to create inside, because at the moment we have
them only as archetypes, blueprints, not actualized or created yet.
Remember that the archetypes relate to the first letter Shin, the first
triangle, the world of Atziluth. This means that Aleph (Jacob), Shin
(Isaac), and Mem (Abraham) are elements that are latent in us, and that
could become active if we enter into initiation.
If we enter into
initiation, the one who will develop in us as fire is the Messiah from
Atziluth, the soul Yehidah. In Aramaic, Messiah is written משיחא, Mem
Shin Iod Chet Aleph. As you can see, the three mother letters, the three
primary forces, are also in the word Messiah. Between the three mother
letters are the letters Iod and Chet, which together spell חי chai,
life. So Messiah, which means "the anointed one,” is the one who anoints
us with the three elements, which are synthesized in the fire.
“He (משיחא the Messiah from Atziluth) will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.” - Matthew 3:11
Such
is the meaning of the Messiah. The Messiah is not somebody that comes
from outside. The Messiah comes from within, through the fire. You see,
for instance, Moshe (Moses) means “born from the waters”—his name has
only two letters of the three mother letters, Mem and Shin, and at the
end the letter Hei, משה Moshe. Moses as Jacob is the child of Chesed,
the water and Geburah, the fire of Neshamah in Briah. But Messiah is the
child of the fire in Yehidah; Messiah has the three forces of Atziluth;
Messiah embraces all of Yehidah and Chaiah in us in order for us to
build through him these elements that we need to build with fire.
We
should not and we must not fall into the mistake of thinking that the
Messiah comes from outside. Remember that two thousand years ago Jesus,
who is called the Messiah, came in order to show us the way. People
misunderstood his message and thought that through his personality, by
following or believing in his personality, is how we enter into the
world to come, or to become a Twice-born (“born again”). This belief is a
big mistake, because Messiah is also applied to any Avatar, to any
messenger from the world of becoming (Atziluth) who completed the great
work, who developed the fire of Yehidah within, and therefore has the
power to explain the laws and to bring the knowledge to those who need
to be born again. We know for instance that this work that we are
explaining here, made with fire, was crystallized in Moses, Mohamed,
Buddha, Krishna, Rama, Jesus, etc., and presently, in the most recent
messenger that we saw, Samael Aun Weor. So, therefore he wrote his
books with fire and delivered the knowledge for us with fire, in order
for us to repeat the work of the fire, in order to do the same work
inside with fire. Samael is the Genie of fire, the avatar of Aquarius,
the new Messiah from Yehidah, because we need to know the baptism of
fire.
The Messiah, the avatar (messenger), always brings the
knowledge of fire. Thus, we have to comprehend the knowledge of fire,
and not to think like many in this day and age, where we find many
pseudo-religions that state that in order for us to belong to the world
to come we have to belong to their sects. In this day and age, the
Christian-believing world fights against Muslims, Hindus, etc. while the
Muslims fight against Hindus and Christian, and the Hindus fight
against Muslims, etc. All of them think that in order to belong to the
world to come we have to belong to their sect and fight for them.
Well,
listen: we the Gnostics know that all the divine igneous principles of
the knowledge are written within the holy books of every religion, and
are incarnated within any avatar who is or was the founder of these
religions. Given that fanatics always misinterpret and corrupt the
doctrine, humanity always periodically needs the incarnation of a solar
being from the heights in order to come and teach us again the same laws
according, of course, to the culture and knowledge that we have at that
moment. This is what we have to understand.
It is sad to say, but
the ego of humanity corrupted the doctrine of Krishna, Jesus, Mohamed,
Moses, Zoroaster, etc. The same ego is in you now, reading this lecture,
thus, now, regrettably, even in modern Gnosticism the same problem is
happening, namely, different groups have emerged, and each group claims
that in order to become a new born of the world to come we have to
belong to their sect, we have to belong to their group. This is very
sad, since it repeats the same mistakes of millions of others; for two
thousand years many Christians, millions of believers in Christianity
have thought that because they are Catholics they already belong to the
world to come, as well as millions of Protestants that are divided in
many sects, Jehovah Witness, Mormons; they firmly believe that if we
belong to their sects we will belong to the world to come. We must not
fall into the same mistake of thinking that way about the Gnostic
Movement, of the doctrine of Samael Aun Weor.
We have to build the
world to come inside. Liberation is not achieved by belonging to a
group. Membership in a group does not mean we are going to create the
world to come within. This is accomplished by working with the fire, and
that fire is within, not without.
The Messiah is precisely the outcome of the work that we have to do with the fire, by understanding the fire.
Understanding
that the fire is in our head. Li Rosh, which is Israel, because Israel,
Li Rosh, “I have a head,” is divided in many parts, and parts of that
fire are bottled up in our ego, and the fire is corrupted, poisoned.
Let
me read for you the scripture of Buddha where he explains how the fire,
the divine fire of God, is corrupted because our way of transforming
the fire. The fire is everywhere: fire is in the air, fire is in the
water, fire is in the earth, and in the water. You know, thanks to that,
we have electricity, because electricity is fire that is the strength
of the water, the fire of the water. So pay attention, do not sleep.
Buddha said:
The Blessed One dwelt together with the thousand priests. And there the Blessed One addressed the priests: [and said]
"All things, O priests, are on fire. And what, O priests, are all these things which are on fire?
“The
eye, O priests, is on fire; forms are on fire; eye-Consciousness is on
fire; impressions received by the eye are on fire; and whatever
sensation, pleasant, unpleasant, or indifferent, originates in
dependence on impressions received by the eye, that also is on fire.
“And with what are these on fire?
“With
the fire of passion, say I, with the fire of hatred, with the fire of
infatuation; with birth, old age, death, sorrow, lamentation, misery,
grief, and despair are they on fire.
“The ear is on fire; sounds are
on fire; ... the nose is on fire; odours are on fire; ... the tongue is
on fire; tastes are on fire; ... the body is on fire; things tangible
are on fire; ... the mind is on fire; ideas are on fire; ...
mind-Consciousness is on fire; impressions received by the mind are on
fire; and whatever sensation, pleasant, unpleasant, or indifferent,
originates in dependence on impressions received by the mind, that also
is on fire.
“And with what are these on fire?
“With the fire of
passion, say I, with the fire of hatred, with the fire of infatuation;
with birth, old age, death, sorrow, lamentation, misery, grief, and
despair are they on fire.
“Perceiving this, O priests, the learned
and noble disciple conceives an aversion for the eye, conceives an
aversion for forms, conceives an aversion for eye-Consciousness,
conceives an aversion for the impressions received by the eye; and
whatever sensation, pleasant, unpleasant, or indifferent, originates in
dependence on impressions received by the eye, for that also he
conceives an aversion. Conceives an aversion for the ear, conceives an
aversion for sounds, ... conceives an aversion for the nose, conceives
an aversion for odours, ... conceives an aversion for the tongue,
conceives an aversion for tastes, ... conceives an aversion for the
body, conceives an aversion for things tangible, ... conceives an
aversion for the mind, conceives an aversion for ideas, conceives an
aversion for mind-Consciousness, conceives an aversion for the
impressions received by the mind; and whatever sensation, pleasant,
unpleasant, or indifferent, originates in dependence on impressions
received by the mind, for this also he conceives an aversion. And in
conceiving this aversion, he becomes divested of passion, and by the
absence of passion he becomes free, and when he is free he becomes aware
that he is free; and he knows that rebirth is exhausted, that he, has
lived the holy life, that he has done what it behooved him to do, and
that he is no more for this world."
“Now while this exposition was
being delivered, the minds of the thousand priests became free from
attachment and delivered from the depravities. "
This is from the Mahavagga.
So
the fire that we are talking about, as you see, relates to all of those
impressions, elements that we have in the mind, that we have in the
body, because we are surrounded by fire. But unfortunately, we transform
the fire of God in the wrong way.
Samael Aun Weor synthesized all of those fires as two:
the fire that polarizes negatively because it is corrupted by desire; called Kundabuffer
the fire that is liberated from desire, and thereby recovers its natural state; called Kundalini
When we transform the fire in the wrong way, it is developed as a tail from the coccyx downwards, and is called Kundabuffer.
In
the end, matter is fire. To comprehend this better, let me remind you
that the physical body is called an “organism” because is formed by
organs. Every organ is formed by cells, and every cell by molecules, and
every molecule by atoms. When we disintegrate the atom, we liberate
fire. So, we are condensed fire, condensed energy. In the end, we have
to become children of the fire, of the Holy Ghost, Chaiah, and of the
world to come, Yehidah.
This reminds me what Master Jesus said to those Kabbalists two thousand years ago:
“Then
said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my
word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and
the truth shall make you free.
“They answered him: We are Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: How is it that you say, You shall be made free?
“Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, whosoever committed sin is the servant of sin.” - John 8: 31-34
“We
are Abraham's seed.” The former statement means Kabbalistically that
these Kabbalists supposedly are transmuting their seed; since, they
literally know that Abraham is the Ruach Elohim that was hovering upon
the face of the waters. So by they Kabbalistically stating “We are
Abraham's seed”, they meant, “we are sublimating the seed, we are
creating the patriarchs within,” thus, “we are Abraham's seed.” But they
are only uttering “We are Abraham's seed” just because they know it,
intellectually, just because according to the flesh they are Abraham's
seed; likewise this happens in India with Brahmins; they also call
themselves Brahma’s seed, because they follow the tradition. But when we
investigate their life to see if they are really transmuting the Nun,
the fish, we discover that they are fornicators. So these Kabbalists in
John 8 were intellectual Kabbalists: they knew a lot of Kabbalah, but
were not practicing it, yet they were saying to Jesus: “We are Abraham's
seed," just as in this day and age, also the Arabs are stating: “We are
Abraham's seed” yet, according to the flesh.
Jesus said:
“I know
that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word
hath no place in you. I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and
ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
“They answered and said unto him: “Abraham is our father.”
“Jesus said unto them: “If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.” - John 8: 37-39
What
is to do the works of Abraham? Abraham is the Ruach Elohim that was
hovering or floating in the beginning upon the face of the waters and
said: “Let there be light, and there was light!” This is what we—as
Abraham, the Ruach Elohim—have to do. Are we doing that? The works of
Abraham are the works of the light, of the fire that Abraham, the Ruach
Elohim brings in to our body! Are we doing that Alchemy in ourselves? If
we are doing the works of Abraham, well, we are then beginning to be
children of the promise. The promise is through Isaac, which is the
second patriarch, and not to Ishmael, which is reproduction through the
flesh. We find children of Ishmael everywhere, children through the
orgasm, but Isaac, the second patriarch, is a child of the promise,
through Chastity. Isaac gives the inheritance, the promise to Jacob,
which is the third patriarch. But none of those Kabbalists were doing
that. They were just studying the Kabbalah and not practicing the
mystery of Daath.
Therefore Master Jesus said,
“But now ye seek to
kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God:
this did not Abraham. Ye do the deeds of your father.
“Then said
they to him: “We are not born of fornication; we have one Father, even
God. Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, you would love me:
for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but
he sent me. Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot
hear my word. You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your
father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not
in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he
speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” - John 8:
40-44
“He [the devil] was a murderer from בראשית Beresheet the
beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in
him.” To be a murderer from the beginning means to be a fornicator, it
means to kill Binah, not to follow אש ברית, the covenant of fire, Binah
in Beresheet.
What is a lie? The letter Shin in Kabbalah represents
the truth. If you want to lie very well, you have to base your lie on a
truth. So when we fornicated, we based our fornication in the beautiful
fire of Shin, and we inverted that fire in the lunar way, developing the
Kundabuffer, developing the tail of Satan, developing our own
particular devil, the ego within, the lust, which is a lie. A lie is the
opposite of the truth. That is why it says "The devil is the father of
the lie." And what Jesus said, "You are children of the Devil, he is
your father." If we investigate, for instance, our present life and past
lives, it is true: we are children of the Devil.
The Devil is also
represented with the fork in his hand. The Devil has also the trident,
the fork in his hand. That ego is transforming the fire of Father, Son,
and Holy Spirit, Kether, Chokmah, and Binah, in the wrong way in order
to fortify himself. That is why the ego is crystallization of the fire
in the wrong way. In order to destroy that ego that we have within, what
do we have to do? We have to activate the devouring fire of God, which
is the Holy Spirit, so that fire will create the three patriarchs.
The Matriarchs
The three patriarchs with their four matriarchs have to be born within us. What are these four matriarchs?
Remember
that in the Bible, Abraham had Sarah as his wife, Isaac had Rebecca,
and Jacob had two wives (we know that the patriarchs had also
concubines, but here we are talking about wives). The two sisters Leah
and Rachel were the two wives of Jacob. It is Kabbalistically stated
that Leah was the wife of Israel, and Rachel the wife of Jacob, because
Jacob is Israel, Israel is Jacob. Leah represents all those superior
parts that belong to Israel that are hidden, and Jacob’s three
manifested parts, namely, Rachel who had only two sons, Joseph and
Benjamin. This is Kabbalistically speaking. All of these figures are
symbolic, not literal.
The four matriarchs are related with the three
patriarchs. The three patriarchs are Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the
three prongs of the letter Shin. The other prong of the letter Shin of
the world to come represents the four matriarchs, the four wives of the
three patriarchs. So the two Shins together make seven prongs, which is
the Menorah, the seven lights that are represented in us in the seven
chakras of every single solar body that we have to create with fire. If
we make the addition of the names, of the Hebrew letters of the three
patriarchs, we make the addition of thirteen letters, and when we make
the addition of the names of the four matriarchs in Hebrew letters, we
make the addition of thirteen as well. The number thirteen relates to
the sephirah Kether, the father of all the lights, and thirteen relate
to the letter Mem: thirteen feminine and thirteen masculine. By making
the addition of both, we have twenty-six, which is exactly the number of
the name of Iod-Hei-Vav-Hei; these letters make the addition of
twenty-six. Iod-Hei-Vav-Hei יהוה, the sacred name of God, is equal to
twenty-six by making the addition of the value of the letters. So, in
other words, through the three patriarchs and the four matriarchs we are
working with Iod-Hei-Vav-Hei in ourselves. But for this work to be done
we have to respect sex.
The Menorah is three flames plus four flames: the two shins, together.
Shaddai
Shaddai שדי is another word with Shin because now we are enveloping this lecture with fire.
The
word Shaddai שדי begins with Shin, which is in Tiphereth. Through Jacob
the three fires from the three patriarchs came down to earth, the
sephirah Malkuth, this is why Jacob is called the Zeir Anpin זֵיר אנפִן,
the man in the image of God.
The second letter of Shaddai is
Daleth, the letter of Adam placed in Eden. Daleth is the letter that
comprises all the twenty-two letters of the alphabet, all the
archetypes.
The third letter of Shaddai שדי is Iod, which relates to Malkuth.
So
we write the word Shaddai שדי with three letters Shin-Daleth-Iod שדי.
Shin ש is in Tiphereth, Daleth ד is in Yesod, and Iod י in Malkuth.
Shaddai שדי: Shin (Tiphereth) is our human soul, Daleth is our sex, Iod
is our physical body.
Shaddai שדי is also an acrostic, which means
Shomer Daltot Israel, “guardian of the doors of Israel.” Remember that
Israel begins with Iod, Daleth means door. Shomer, guardian, but also we
can say Shin, the fire, is the door into Israel, which is Tiphereth;
Shaddai is represented only by the letter Shin, which is precisely
placed, in accordance to the Bible, at the very entrance of the house.
Many Kabbalists have the letter Shin at their doors, they have also the
word Shaddai at the entrance, they touch it when entering in the house
and they touch it when they leave the house. Shaddai שדי is placed on
one of the pillars of the door of the house. Shaddai שדי represented by
the letter Shin is the truth. All of this means that if we want to enter
into the mysteries of Daath, we have to do it through Shin, for the
Shin (fire) is the guardian of the door. And who is that guardian? It is
Lucifer. Remember that when Adam and Eve committed sin, Jehovah Elohim
placed a Cherubim or a Cherub with a flaming sword brandish to one side
to the other, protecting the entrance into the Garden of Eden. Eden in
Hebrew means “bliss.” The Garden of Eden is sex, the sexual force.
Daleth is the door where that Shin is there as a flaming sword.
Speaking
about the sword, Kabbalistically it is written that the tip of the
sword is Iod of Iod-Hei-Vav-Hei, the body of the sword is Vav of
Iod-Hei-Vav-Hei and the two edges of the sword are the two Heis of
Iod-Hei-Vav-Hei. So, when we enter into the mysteries of the fire, the
first thing that we receive is a flaming sword, the sword that is in the
hands of Lucifer, the Cherub, who is preventing the fornicators from
entering into Eden. Nevertheless, if we transmute the libido, if we work
with the devouring fire of the Holy Spirit and create the three
patriarchs within, we then receive the flaming sword. That is why in the
Pentagram we find that the sword is the symbol of fire. The symbol of
the Pentagram, the Tetragrammaton is hidden within the sword, as you
see. The four lettered name of God is Iod-Hei-Vav-Hei, the sword. The
sheath where you put the sword is Malkuth, your spinal column,
represented by Adonai, which is the holy name of God in Malkuth, because
that sword belongs to Adonai; it does not belong to the ego.
When
we talk about you receiving the sword, we mean your Being, the Monad,
your Inner Being; “you” is the Spirit, not you, the ego. Imagine the ego
receiving the powers of God! That is why many Gnostics are transmuting,
doing the practices here in the physical world: they want to see the
sword with their ego, but they do not understand that the sword belongs
to the Innermost, to Abraham. He is the one who fought against Sodom and
Gomorrah, all the depravities that we have within, with the sword in
his hand. All those parts are inside. The ego has also a sword, but that
it is a sword of cold air, which is related with fornication.
The
sheath where we put the sword is Adonai אדני because that Aleph א that
represents the three primary forces of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
and the next letters of Adonai Daleth-Nun-Iod form the word justice:
דני Din, דן Dan. Remember tribe of Dan, it is written:
“Dan
[justice] shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that
bites the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. I have
waited for thy salvation, יהוה.”
So, the sword of justice is a sword
of fire that we put in the sheath when we become a warrior of the fire.
Then you understand the meaning of the name Samson, Shemshoun, which is
written Shin-Mem-Shin-Vav-Nun שמשון. In English we call him Samson. So
Samson has two letters Shin, one Mem, one Vav and final Nun at the end.
The meaning of שמשון Samson is שמש Shemesh און Aun. Shemesh is the Sun
that always shines above on this planet Earth. שמש Shemesh has two
letters Shin, it is pure fire, but in the middle of the two letters Shin
שמש Shemesh is Mem. And then און Aun. Yet, Samson is written שמשון
Shamshoun: the letter Aleph is hidden in the name. Aleph is the Spirit,
the wind, related to Kether.
Nobody knew the secret of of the
strength of Samson. When we write his name and separate the name in two
pieces, we form the word sun, שמש shemesh, and then, in order to explain
the second word or the other letters we have to write the letter Aleph,
Aun און, which is the name of Samael Aun Weor as well. Aun און means
virility, the virility of the fires of the Sun. That virility was hidden
on the head of Samson. Remember that the letter Aleph relates to the
head, Kether. Nobody knew about the secret of Samson because he was a
Nazirite who let his hair grow; the hair is a symbol of the fire, the אש
esh of Chokmah. Only those who knew Kabbalah knew that the secret of
the power of Samson was the letter Aleph, the wind, in his head. His
power was that he was chaste, and therefore his hair grew showing his
power, means his Chastity. Nevertheless, we know the story: Delilah
(Lilith, in other words fornication) finished his Aun און, virility or
Chastity. It is very significant that in the name Delilah is the Daleth,
D-Lilith, Delilah דלילה D’lilah – who fornicated with him. Through
fornication, he lost his hair and his sight in the head—everything is in
the head; thus, he became blind because of fornication. That is the
story of all of us.
The strength of Samson was not physical
strength, but the inner strength of the fire, and that is why we said in
his name only the letter Aleph is hidden, because you see Shin (fire),
Mem (water), but the letter Aleph (air) is hidden, because at that time
the knowledge was hidden. But when the Messiah comes, everything is
clear because his name shows the three mother letter Mem, Shin and
Aleph, in Aramaic, Messiah משיחא
Through the Messiah, “the anointed
by the Lord, everything is made clear. How do we get this anointment? We
get it through the forces of שמן shemen, which is another word that we
have to analyze. Shin-Mem-Nun, שמן Shemen—we need to be anointed with
שמן Shemen.
“Then Samuel took the horn of Shemen, and anointed him in
the midst of his brethren: and the Ruach of יהוה came upon David from
that day forward.” - 1 Samael 16
In order to be anointed we need
consecrated oil; in Hebrew שמן shemen, Shin-Mem-Nun could also be read
“semen,” which is the oil for the anointing. We have שמן shemen, “oil,”
in our semen. In Alchemy, semen is either masculine or feminine, thus,
for us, Gnostics , semen is feminine and masculine at the same time. So
we need to be anointed with שמן shemen, “oil,” from our semen,
sublimated in the very sexual act. This is how Shamshoun will come into
activity within us. Indeed, we are now that defeated Samson, so we have
to enter again into the mysteries in order to regain our spiritual
sight, and not to transform everything that we do with the fire of
passion, as the Buddha explained. We have to do it by devouring the ego
with fire.
Remember that שכינה Shechinah is the Divine Mother, that
as fire develops in the spinal column; she is that sword of justice that
we can apply to the ego in order to destroy it. So in that way the
three patriarchs, the four matriarchs, the two aspects of God masculine
and feminine will be born within us, and we will become Masters of the
day. But we have to burn the ego because the ego has to be destroyed.
The ego in Alchemy is a crystallization of the arsenic sulfur, a filthy
fire that we transformed in the wrong way.
Questions and Answers
Audience:
Can you explain the three straps on the biceps and the seven stripes on
the forearm (I did ….not catch the last one about the hand)?.
Instructor:
The straps symbolize the way in which you learn how to crystallize the
fire of God in your physical body. The three straps on the biceps relate
to the three primary forces of the letter Shin which descend from the
head. When we know Alchemy, when we know how to crystallize that fire
into the duality, then we form the letter Shin with four prongs, which
are always in the head, related with Briah, the world of creation. That
happens when we start honoring Father and Mother, Jah and Havah. Then
the fire descends from Heaven into our body, when we learn how to
control the fire of Nephesh with the pineal gland. Thus, when that fire
descends in us, the three straps on the biceps represent these three
primary forces, Kether, Chokmah, Binah, descending in us; that is why is
in the arm. Did you see the arm? It comes to the right arm, which
relates to the sephirah Chesed. It could come also to the left arm,
which is Geburah, because together Chesed and Geburah are אש esh, fire.
But that fire has to descend to the seven sephiroth: from Chesed to
Malkuth you find seven sephiroth. That is represented by the seven turns
on the forearm, and finally reaching Malkuth, which is the hand, the
Iod. When you tighten the two fingers, middle and index, and the baby
and the annular finger, then you make the letter Shin with your hand.
That is the Iod, that is the hand, in your body, which also symbolizes
the phallus, the sexual organ. This is how you activate the fire. This
is it called the Tefillin. You can see the exterior aspect of Tefillin
on the internet, but the interior aspect is something that you have to
do with the fire. You have to descend the flame from your head down
through your arm in order to execute the will of God, in order to
understand the Word of God, which is fire.
As we said, God is a
devouring fire, and that fire is in each of us always; it is always
descending in us, all the time. Unfortunately, we transform that fire in
a wrong manner every day, as the scripture of Buddha explains.
Everything is in the fire; we have to learn how to transform the wrong
transformations or impression of the fire in the right manner. This is a
long work that is called precisely the great work of the fire, thus we
become children of the fire. This is how we are baptized with fire.
We
have to keep the fire in us. We have to know how to work with Shaddai.
In the beginning, we start working with Shaddai, which is the holy name
of God in Yesod, which is the guardian of the door; and we have to
defeat the three guardians of the threshold represented by the three
prongs or the flames of Shin. These are three aspects of the Being that,
as a mirror, show us the wrong transformation of the fire, and we have
to defeat them by fighting against those wrong transformations until the
three guardians become clean parts of the Being. But we have to defeat
them, because they are showing us all that we have. All of this is
precisely symbolized in all the work that we saw in the phylacteries or
Tefillin, the hidden wisdom of the fire.
Audience: What is the difference when one spills the semen willingly or in a dream?
Instructor:
Well, there is something equal there, that you lost it. The difference,
we will say, when you are on the path, is that in a dream you did it
unconsciously; when you awaken, then you realize that you had a
nocturnal pollution, a wet dream, and that you lost energy; in this case
you are not severely punished by your Inner Being, which is within you,
since he understands and comprehends that you were not completely
aware, cognizant of that activity. Now, when you are aware or when you
do it willingly, then you lose degrees. When you willingly do it in the
physical plane, when you willingly physically fornicate and you do not
do any effort in order to stop the ejaculation of the Shemen (oil)
within that semen, then indeed the fire is lost completely, or sometimes
one is punished by losing many degrees of fire; the degrees of
initiation are fire. We have thirty-three vertebrae; each vertebra is a
flame that we have to win by fighting against the ego by working with
the devouring fire of the Holy Spirit. So every time that we win a
virtue, we win light, which is fire, by comprehending a wrong
transformation of the fire, which is an ego, which is fire, but
passional fire, egotistical fire.
“Temptation is fire; the triumph over temptation is light.”
When
we liberate the fire within and transform it, that the flame goes up in
another vertebra. So we have to raise the flame thirty-three times to
the top of the head in order for the tongue of flame of the Holy Spirit,
the tongue of flame of Pentecost to float, to hover on top of the head
as a triumph of the divine fire.
But when we lose the fire in a wet
dream or willingly in the physical plane, the semen—which is the habitat
of that fire—is lost, then the flame descends one, two or three
vertebrae in accordance to the magnitude of the fault.
The Holy
Spirit can retain the fire in our spine if we spilled the semen
unwillingly. The wet dream could be the outcome of an ordeal placed unto
us that we did not pass, so the Holy Spirit could retain that fire in
the spinal column. If we make super efforts in order to retain it, and
not to spill the habitat of the fire, which is the semen, then, of
course, we do not lose anything. So, it is better to fight in the
moment, physically speaking.
But when we are dreaming we have no
will over the ego. Our ego is doing something wrong there in the astral
plane and we have no control on that part of the ego. But because he is
connected to our body, to our soul, to our Consciousness, then we suffer
the consequences. That is why we have to meditate. Pollution stops when
we annihilate the passional fire that creates them, which is our lust.
Audience: On a baby, that part of the head is soft and then hardens. That has any effect when we enter into initiation?
Instructor:
The soft part of the head of the newborn babies hardens when we grow
up. In the beginning it is soft because all the fires of the Monad are
in contact with the soul. If you see, with the hardening of that part of
the head means the connection is little by little being lose with the
developing of the bone there. Even though, there are procedures in order
to keep receiving that help from the Monad and not to be so rock-headed
or hard-headed like we are.
Audience: The question is about if later in life the skull softens ...
Instructor:
Remember that in the bone is Nephesh. That animal soul permutes, in the
bone, blood and flesh, this is why we have to fight against the flesh
in us.
Something very significant comes into my mind right now in
relation with Mayans. You know that the Mayans, if you see some of the
pictures in different archeological sites you see they have odd shaped
foreheads. The forehead is cone shaped, the outcome of a custom; they
knew that the pineal and pituitary glands were separated. By putting
some plates of wood to the babies, they were flattening their heads in
order to bring the pineal gland closer to the pituitary gland in order
to have more powerful clairvoyance. They did that in order to unite
those glands, which relate to the crown chakra, to that part that you
are talking about, through which we receive help, direct help from the
three primary forces, the divine fire of the Monad.
Remember that
the fire of Nephesh is controlled with the trident. Neptune controls the
fish—you see, even the word Neptune begins with N, the letter Nun,
“fish.” The letter Nun - which is fish in Aramaic - of the ocean is
controlled with the trident of Neptune. The trident holds the three
primary forces, so we control this Nun, this fish, this Nephesh נפש by
transmuting it. That Nephesh must be purified, so that later on, through
initiation, if we achieve the necessary degree of purification that we
need, then another superior soul that is also related with fire will
come to us, which is the superior Shin in the Nun of ימה Yamah, the נשמה
Neshamah. ש Shin-Fire is in Neshamah; ש Shin-Fire is in Nephesh and the
one that conciliates the two, namely the Neshamah above and Nephesh
below, is the God within, which is Chesed, the Ruach Elohim אלוהים רוח;
remember Him.
Audience: You mentioned that the devil has his fork, at the end of his tail has a spade. That spade mean anything in the end?
Instructor:
The spade of the tail of the devil is the Kundabuffer. That spade like a
flame is the product of the passional fire; it ends like a single
flame; because the power of the devil is in the fire. You see, the power
of God is in the fire, the power of devil is in the fire. The only
difference is that we have to know what type of fire we are talking
about. The power of God is a devouring fire, above, that we liberate
through initiation in order to purify the soul. That devouring fire
creates the internal bodies which in this case are represented by the
three lower Sephiroth, other three flames also because Shin here is Hod,
Aleph is Netzach and Mem is Yesod, the three mother letters again. That
is why the three elements Shin, Mem and Aleph are always represented in
Kabbalah in different ways. We have to know how to read the Bible in
order to understand these flames.
Remember if we do not work with
the fire, then in the eighth circle and ninth circle of Dante, in Hell,
the devouring fire of God will annihilate the ego; thus, we will become
failures. So the fire will devour us whether we go into initiation or as
failures. The fire will always burn the ego. That will be explained in
the next lecture with the seal of God which is the letter Tav.
We
would approach You two, O (Ye) primeval ones in the house of this Thy
holy Fire, O Ahura Mazda, Thou most bounteous Spirit! Who brings
pollutions to this (Thy flame) him wilt Thou cover with pollutions (in
his turn). But as the most friendly do Thou give us zeal, O Fire of the
Lord! and approach us, and with the loving blessing of the most
friendly, with the praise of the most adored. Yea, may’st thou approach
to aid us in this our greatest (undertaking) among the efforts of our
zeal. The Fire of Ahura Mazda art thou verily; yea, the most bounteous
one of His Spirit, wherefore Thine is the most potent of all names (for
grace), O Fire of the Lord! And therefore we would approach Thee, (O
Ahura!) with the help of Thy Good Mind (which Thou dost implant within
us), with Thy (good) Righteousness, and with the actions and the words
inculcated by Thy good wisdom! We therefore bow before Thee, and we
direct our prayers to Thee with confessions of our guilt, O Ahura Mazda!
with all the good thoughts (which Thou dost inspire), with all the
words well said, and the deeds well done, with these would we approach
Thee. And to Thy most beauteous body do we make our deep
acknowledgments, O Ahura Mazda! to those stars (which are Thy body); and
to that one, the highest of the high, [such as the sun was called]! -
The Zend Avesta
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"Shaddai" the Lamb of God.
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