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394.Before executing a criminal, a quantity of frankincense in a cup of wine was given to him to stupefy him and render him insensible to pain. The compassionate ladies of Jerusalem generally provided this draught at their own cost. This custom was in obedience to Prov. xxxi. 6, “Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.”395.Lev. xxiv. 14.396.Josh. vii. 19, 20, 25397.Deut. xvii. 7.398.Deut. xxi. 23.399.This supposes a man sorrowful, because he is obliged to punish his own son.400.I.e., the Divine Presence. The luminous cloud of glory in the Holy of Holies.401.The words in the original, “Baal Aob,” are supposed by some to denote a ventriloquist from “Aob,” meaning a “bottle” or “stomach.” “Aob” seems, however, much more likely to be allied to the Coptic word for “a serpent” or “Python.” Acts xvi. 16.402.Matt. xxvi. 65.403.The image of Molech was made of brass. It was hollow within and heated with fire outside. It stood in the valley of Hinnom without the walls of Jerusalem. Kimchi says the image of Molech contained seven chapels. These chapels are supposed by some to represent the seven planets. In the first chapel flowers were offered; in the second, turtle doves or young pigeons; in the third, lambs; in the fourth, rams; in the fifth, calves; in the sixth, oxen; “but whosoever offered his son, they opened to him the seventh chapel.” The face of Molech was like the face of a calf, and the image stretched forth its hands “as a man who opens his hands to receive something of his neighbor.” “They kindled the image with fire, and the priests took the babe and put it into the hands of Molech, and the babe gave up the ghost.” They called it Tophet; because they made a noise with drums (“tophim”), that the father might not hear the screams of his child and have pity upon him. And they called it Hinnom, because the child roared (“menahem”) in his anguish. Others say it was called Hinnom, because the priests used to say, “May it profit thee—may it be sweet to thee.”404.Cutting off is generally supposed to have extended to the family as well as the guilty person. It seems to have included the future as well as the present life.405.Deut. xxi. 18.406.Deut. xxi. 20.407.Prov. xxiii. 20.408.Deut. xxi. 19, 20.409.I.e., they are saved from crime by immediately depriving them of life. This summary mode of procedure was called “the rebel's beating.” It was a kind of lynch law inflicted by the people at once. John viii. 59.410.As the former class of intending criminals could at once be killed, so this latter class must be guilty of the act, and they are then judged for it.411.Isa. xxx. 20.412.Isa. lx. 21.413.Literally, outside.414.Exod. xv. 26.415.I.e., to meditate with the intention to mutter JEHOVAH over a wound.416.2 Chron. xxxiii. 13.417.Gen. vi. 3.418.Gen. xi. 8.419.Gen. xiii. 13.420.Ps. i. 5.421.Num. xiv. 37.422.Num. xiv. 35.423.Ps. l. 5.424.Num. xvi. 33.425.1 Sam. ii. 6.426.Deut. xxix. 28.427.Deut. xiii. 13.428.Deut. xiii. 15.429.Deut. xiii. 16.430.Deut. xiii. 17.431.Deut. xxiv. 7.432.Deut. xvii. 8.433.Deut. xvii. 10.434.Deut. xvii. 12.435.Now called Yebna.436.Deut. xvii. 13.437.Deut. xviii. 19.438.Literally, strange worship. It chiefly means the worship of the stars and other heavenly bodies.439.Jer. xxxiv. 5.440.Or sugar-cane.441.For executions.442.For races.443.Where harangues were delivered involving life and death.444.Nor graves.445.Deut. vii. 26.446.Hadrian's mixture was balls of clay saturated with wine and taken on military expeditions. When the soldiers wished to drink, they soaked them in water so that it had a taste of wine, and the mud settled at the bottom of the vessel.447.The heart torn out of the animal when alive to be offered in idolatrous worship.448.A village where calves were offered in idolatry. Consequently the rennet was forbidden, and the cheese made from their rennet was also forbidden.449.Sol. Song, i. 2. The question is, whether the friendship sprang from the wine or not, and his conclusion is that as the savor is connected with the oil, so is the friendship with the wine, and so is the cheese connected with idolatry.450.I.e., for legal defilement.451.The locusts might be mixed in the basket with wine or liquor, which would cause legal defilement.452.The Salt Sea generally means in the Talmud the Dead Sea. It is now called by the Arabs “Bahr-Lût,” i.e., the Sea of Lot.453.Deut. xiii. 17.454.The modern Akka (Acre).455.Deut. vii. 25.456.Deut. vii. 26.457.Lest the lettuce might derive profit from the shade of the idolatrous grove.458.These stones must be arranged as two on the ground, and one over them, and not more than four ells distant from the image, to fulfil the conditions of being an idolatrous offering. If the stones did not fulfil these conditions, an Israelite might use them for building purposes.459.If the idol be disregarded in time of peace, the heathen have ceased to esteem it as a god, and Israelites might use it for some purpose. But if the heathen neglected it during the confusion of war, there was no proof that they would not worship it at another time.460.I.e., triumphal arches with statues upon them.461.Because the idolater might have made an idolatrous libation from both flasks.462.Exod. xxi. 29.463.Deut. xxi. 4.464.Num. vi. 18.465.This refers to the killing or slaughtering of cattle and fowls for profane or domestic purposes. They were called profane to distinguish them from the holy sacrifices.466.Num. xxxi. 23.467.The men of the great synagogue were the “Scribes” who flourished from the return out of Babylon till the Græco-Syrian persecution, 220 b.c. Their object was to preserve the sacred text with scrupulous minuteness, and make a “fence” for the law. They added numberless directions for the better observance of the old precepts. The Scribes were succeeded by the “learners,” the “repeaters,” and the “master builders,” who continued from 220 b.c. till 220 a.d. In their time fall the Maccabæan revolution, the birth of Christ, the overthrow of the Temple by Titus, the rebellion of Barchochba, the complete destruction of Jerusalem, and the dispersion of the Jews.468.Supposed by some to be the Sameas and Pollio of Josephus. Though others try to identify Sameas with Simon, son of Shetach.—“Antiq.” xiv. ix. 4, etc.469.Ps. xxxvii. 21.470.Deut. vi. 4, etc.471.Joel ii. 13.472.Ps. i. 1.473.Mal. iii. 16.474.Lam. iii. 28.475.Isa. xxviii. 8.476.Ezek. xli. 22.477.Ps. lxxxii. 1.478.Amos ix. 6.479.Ps. lxxxii. 1.480.Mal. iii. 16.481.Exod. xx. 24.482.1 Chron. xxix. 14.483.Deut. iv. 9.484.Deut. iv. 9.485.Gen. ix. 6.486.Deut. xiv. 1.487.Prov. iv. 2.488.Jer. xvii. 6.489.Jer. xvii. 8.490.Ps. cxix. 99.491.Prov. xvi. 32.492.Ps. cxxviii. 2.493.1 Sam. ii. 30.494.The Rabbis reckon that the expression “God said” is used nine times in the first chapter of Genesis, and that the tenth expression is to be found in the first verse, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”495.Num. xiv. 22.496.The shameer is the worm which knows how to hew stones, and helped Solomon to build the Temple.497.Num. xv. 20.498.Deut. xxxiii. 21.499.1 Kings xiv. 16.500.Prov. viii. 21.501.Ps. lv. 23.502.Or, perhaps, “for meditation.”503.Prov. viii. 14.504.Prov. xi. 22.505.Ex. xxxii. 16.506.Num. xxi. 19.507.Ps. lv. 13.508.Prov. iii. 35.509.Prov. iv. 2.510.Esther ii. 22.511.Prov. iv. 22.512.Prov. iii. 8.513.Prov. iii. 18.514.Prov. i. 9.515.Prov. iv. 9.516.Prov. iii. 16.517.Prov. iii. 2.518.Prov. xvi. 31.519.Prov. xvii. 6.520.Isa. xxiv. 23.521.Prov. vi. 22.522.Ps. cxix. 72.523.Hag. ii. 8.524.Prov. viii. 22.525.Isa. lxvi. 1.526.Ps. civ. 24.527.Gen. xiv. 19.528.Exod. xv. 16.529.Ps. xvi. 3.530.Exod. xv. 17.531.Ps. lxxviii. 54.532.Isa. xliii. 7.533.Isa. xlii. 21.534.See the treatise on “Measurements,” chap. i.535.Membranes over the fat.536.In the form of an apple.537.A cor was equal, according to the Rabbis, to 44.286 gallons, but Josephus reckons it to have been 86.696 gallons.538.A seah, according to the Rabbis, was 1.4762 gallon.539.Or, of “the treasurers.”540.In this chamber were kept the “seals” or “tokens” given to those persons who bought their offerings from the Levites. These “seals” were of four sorts, and were respectively inscribed with “calf” or “kid,” according to the offerings to be presented; and with the word “male” when the offering was to be a ram; and “sinner” when it was to be a sin-offering.541.Others read “a basket.”542.Or jug.543.Ezek. xliv. 2.544.Jericho is about eighteen miles distant from Jerusalem.545.Perhaps “a gong” or “a bell.” Some think it to have been a “musical instrument,” and others consider it to have been “an organ.”546.Some think “Machærus” on the east of the Dead Sea, about fifty miles distant from Jerusalem.547.In each act of sprinkling, the priest, standing before a corner, sprinkled the blood on two sides of the altar. And thus, in two acts of sprinkling, he put the blood on its four sides.548.Called the Shema. It consisted of the following three passages of Scripture, as given in the next footnotes.549.Deut. vi. 4-9.550.Deut. xi. 13-21.551.Num. xv. 37-41.552.The lot for the incense was always arranged for a new man who had never burned it before. It might come to a priest once in his lifetime, and never again afterward. Luke i. 9.553.The chambers for vestments had separate rooms for each of the twenty-four courses, and separate wardrobes for each of the four kinds of vestments.554.About 37-1/2 gallons.555.See note 5, chap. iii. 8.556.The Delegates were appointed to represent the whole congregation of Israel in the temple services.557.Jehovah.558.That is by substituting for the Name (Jehovah) the word “Adonai,” except where “Adonai” and “Jehovah” come together. In such cases “Elohim” is substituted for “Jehovah.”559.Lev. ix. 22.560.Who had charge of the channels from the altar.561.Ps. xxiv. 1.562.Ps. xlviii. 1.563.Ps. lxxxii. 1.564.Ps. xciv.565.Ps. lxxxi.566.Ps. xciii.567.A famous maker of incense.568.Sparkling.569.Burning. The watch at certain gates seems to have been hereditary in certain families. Just as at the present time the custody of Rachel's tomb is the privilege of a certain family in Jerusalem. Each guard consisted of ten men, so that there were 210 Levites in the twenty-one stations. The three more important places contained guards of both Levites and Priests, thirty of each. There were therefore 240 Levites on guard each night.570.He rolled up his overcoat and laid it down for a cushion.571.Rev. xvi. 15.572.Obscurity.573.Platform or rampart.574.1 Mac. ii. 25.575.So called either because Nicanor, a Pharisee, had the gate made in Alexandria, and though it was thrown overboard from a ship in a storm, it yet came safe to land; or because Nicanor, a Greek prince, was slain there in the time of the Asmoneans.576.Ezek. xlvi. 2.577.Ezek. xliii. 16.578.As this corner would have been in the tribe of Judah, it was not added, that the whole altar might remain in the tribe of Benjamin. Gen. xlix. 27.579.This sloping ascent to the altar was strewn with salt. This salt was brought from the mountain of Sodom at the south of the Dead Sea. The salt was intended to keep the priests from slipping and falling, which might easily happen, as they were obliged to minister barefooted. The coldness of the pavement in winter, and eating so much flesh of the sacrifices, brought various diseases on the priests.580.House of the vineyard.581.Deut. xxvii. 5.582.Zech. vi. 14.583.The Rabbis say that “the world is like an eye. The ocean is the white of the eye. The pupil is Jerusalem. And the image in the pupil is the Sanctuary.”584.Ezek. xli. 23.585.Ezek. xli. 24.586.Ezek. xliv. 2.587.1 Kings vi. 6.588.Curiously graven and gilt.589.Is. xxix. 1.590.“The king only, and no man else (remarks Maimonides) might sit in the court of the Temple in any place; and even this privilege was confined to a king of the family of David.” Cunœus further observes, that the king was esteemed nearer to God than the priests themselves, and a greater president of religion.591.The Temple services were arranged by the council of fourteen. This council was composed of the High Priest, the Sagan (the deputy or Suffragan of the High Priest), two Katholikin, who had charge of the treasuries, three Gizbarim, who were assistants of the Katholikin, and seven Ammarcalin, who had charge of the gates.592.The Nethinim, or the “given ones,” were added, it is supposed, from among the Gibeonites to fill up the deficiencies in the number of Levites who returned from the captivity in Babylon. They were held in low estimation, and were forbidden to intermarry with Israelites.593.Exod. xxxviii. 27.594.Exod. xxvi. 31-33.595.Exod. xxvi. 19.596.Exod. xxvi. 17.597.Exod. xvi. 24598.Exod. xxvi. 28.599.Exod. xxvi. 29.600.Exod. xxvi. 29.601.Exod. xxvi. 1.602.Exod. xxvi. 3.603.Exod. xxvi. 4.604.Exod. xxvi. 6.605.Exod. xxvi. 2.606.Exod. xxvi. 2.607.Exod. xxvi. 7, 8.608.Exod. xxvi. 9.609.Exod. xxxvi. 17.610.Exod. xxvi. 11.611.Exod. xxvi. 8.612.Exod. xxvi. 9.613.Exod. xxvi. 12.614.Some commentators explain these to be “skins of seals” or “dolphins,” and others understand the meaning to be a “blue color.” Exod. xxvi. 14.615.Num. iv. 25.616.Exod. xxvi. 33.617.Exod. xxvi. 35.618.Or, in the “House of dispensations.”619.Exod. xxxix. 3.620.Exod. xxvi. 31.621.Exod. xxvi. 36.622.Exod. xxx. 6.623.Exod. xxvii. 9.624.Exod. xxvii. 11.625.Exod. xxvii. 12.626.Exod. xxvii. 13.627.Exod. xxxviii. 14, 15.628.Exod. xxvii. 18.629.Exod. xxvii. 18.630.Exod. xxvii. 19.631.Num. iv. 26.632.Exod. xxvii. 18.633.Some explain this to mean “multiply fifty with 100” (Aruch); others think that the measurement is to be made with a rope of fifty cubits (Eruvin).634.Some read “in the name of,” etc.635.Exod. xxv. 10.636.Sol. Song, iii. 9, 10.637.Deut. xxxi. 26.638.1 Sam. vi. 8.639.Num. x. 33.640.Num. xiv. 44.641.1 Sam. xiv. 18.642.2 Sam. xi. 11.643.1 Sam. iv. 4.644.1 Kings viii. 9.645.Exod. xxv. 11.646.Exod. xxv. 21.647.Exod. xxv. 15.648.1 Kings viii. 3.649.1 Kings viii. 8.650.1 Kings viii. 8.651.1 Kings viii. 7, 8.652.1 Kings viii. 8.653.2 Chron. xxxv. 3.654.2 Kings xx. 17.655.Ezek. xli. 23.656.Some commentators interpret “Traksin” to mean “place of doubting,” as zealots continually disputed the exact division between the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies.657.Exod. xxv. 23.658.Lev. xxiv. 7.659.Num. ii. 20. The Hebrew letters Ayin and Lamed therefore means “by” or “next,” as well as “upon.”660.2 Chron. iv. 8.661.1 Kings vii. 48.662.2 Chron. iv. 19.663.Exod. xxv. 31.664.Exod. xxv. 39.665.Num. x. 2.666.Exod. xxv. 32.667.Exod. xxv. 34.668.Gen. iv. 7.669.Gen. xlix. 7.670.Exod. xvii. 9.671.Exod. xxv. 34.672.Deut. xxxi. 16.673.Exod. xxv. 33.674.Or, “egg-shaped, oval.”675.Exod. xxv. 40.676.2 Chron. iv. 7.677.2 Chron. xiii. 11.678.2 Chron iv. 20, 21679.Num. viii. 2.680.Lev. xxiv. 4.681.Exod. xxx. 1.682.Exod. xxx. 3.683.Exod. xxxviii. 1.684.Num. iv. 26.685.Lev. ix. 5.686.Exod. xxx. 18.687.2 Chron. iv. 6.688.1 Kings vii. 23, 26.689.2 Chron. iv. 5.690.Ezek. xlv. 11, 14.691.Lev. xv. 13.692.2 Chron. iv. 2.693.2 Chron. iv. 4.694.2 Chron. iv. 3.695.The Jerusalem Talmud states that the water poured through the feet of the oxen, and that this was the well of Etham.696.Num. iii. 29.697.Num. iii. 31.698.Num. iii. 23.699.Num. iv. 25.700.Num. iii. 35.701.Num. iii. 36.702.Num. iii. 38.703.Num. ii. 17.704.Num. x. 14.705.Num. iv. 5.706.Num. x. 21.707.Num. iv. 15.708.Num. x. 22.709.Num. ii. 17.710.Num. ix. 18.711.Num. ix. 23.712.Num. x. 2.713.Exod. xl. 34.714.Exod. xl. 38.715.Isa. lx. 1, 19, 20.716.Exod. xxx. 6.717.Exod. xxx. 36.718.Exod. xxix. 42.719.The Jews say that Solomon, who understood all the commands of God, could not comprehend the full meaning of the Red Heifer.720.The meaning is that he who spends as much time in a leprous house as is sufficient for eating a loaf of such a size, becomes defiled in his garments. See “Leprosy,” xiii. 10.721.Num. viii. 8.722.The age of the lamb was reckoned from its birthday in Elul of last year till the first day of Elul in the current year.723.Lev. xxiii. 10, 17. The omer or wave-sheaf of barley was always cut on the evening of the 15th Nisan, even though it were a Sabbath. It must always have been gathered from a fresh harvest cultivated even in the Sabbatical year. The reapers asked these questions three times of those who were witnesses, “Has the sun gone down?” “With this sickle?” “Into this basket?” “On this Sabbath [first day of the Passover]?” “Shall I reap?” After the witnesses answered these questions the sheaf was reaped. It was finally ground into flour, and a handful of it mixed with frankincense was burned on the altar. The remainder belonged to the priests.724.Num. xxviii. The two wave-loaves of wheaten flour were always offered on the Jewish Pentecost.725.Deut. xxiii. 18.726.Nehem. ii. 8. 1 Chron. xxix. 1.727.According to Jewish tradition a dead body covered in with earth conveyed legal uncleanness to everyone who walked over it; but if a vault was over the body, or if air intervened between the corpse and the surface of the ground, it was regarded as a non-conductor. There are reckoned six degrees of uncleanness—the father of fathers, the fathers, the first, second, third, and fourth children of defilement. There are altogether twenty-nine fathers of uncleanness, of which eleven arise from contact with a dead body.728.Some commentators explain that “each heifer requires a fresh lad.”729.Num. xix. 3.730.The Pharisees asserted that a priest might be defiled, and that after washing he was legally clean for burning the red heifer. But the Sadducees maintained that he was not legally clean before sunset. Num. xix. 9, 10.731.Lev. xxii. 7.732.The cedar, hyssop, and scarlet wool were laid parallel to each other, and whatever portion of the scarlet wool remained too long was wrapped round the bundle.733.Num. xix. 9.734.Or thick parts of straw.735.

If the vessels had been in the first row, someone might have touched them, or some vessel might have come in contact with them, so as to render them unclean.736.Num. xix. 15.737.It does not disallow the purifying pool if water flowed through a crevice in the rock into the pool.738.The principle laid down in this mishna is that if one merely carried the rope for drawing the water, it was allowed to him to do so. But if he used the rope for any work advantageous to himself it was disallowed.739.The modern Yebna (Jamnia).740.The water is disallowed, because the man gained something for himself during the act of drawing it. His intention was not single-minded and pure.741.Lev. iv. 12, 21.742.Primary uncleanness arises from touching a dead body, leprosy, etc. Secondary uncleanness arises from touching one who had primary uncleanness.743.A tertiary uncleanness follows from contact with secondary uncleanness.744.That is one over whom evening had not yet come, nor was his offering yet made. Lev. xxii. 6, 7.745.Gen. i. 10.746.Isa. lviii. 11.747.The river Jarmuk is the Hieromax of the Greeks. It falls into the Jordan about four miles below the Lake of Tiberias. The Arabs now call it the Sheriat el Mandhûr.748.The well of Ahab is supposed by some to be the source of a river near Beirut. This supposition is, however, very doubtful.749.The modern Banias, one of the sources of the Jordan. It is situated under Mount Hermon, close to the remains of the ancient Cæsarea Philippi.750.Literally, “from time to time.”751.The meaning is, that if the greater part of the ashes be legal, purification would follow; but if the greater part be ordinary ashes, there would be no purification.752.The dispute is now about what constitutes “a clean place.”753.Heb. ix. 13, 14.754.Num. xix. 15.755.Maimonides translates “lattice-work.”756.Or trelliswork.757.This doctrine of intention has also been adopted into the system of Romanism. The Council of Trent (Session vii. Canon xi.) teaches that “Whoever shall affirm that when ministers perform and confer a sacrament, it is not necessary that they should have at least the intention to do what the Church does; let him be accursed.” It follows, that if, for example, in the sacrament of orders, any bishop in any age failed in due intention, all the orders which flowed from him are invalid.758.Chap. ix. 9; viii. 5.759.Another rendering is, “in his garment.”760.A log is about half a pint.761.Before eating ordinary food the hands must be washed once. Before eating consecrated food they must be washed twice.762.Num. xix. 15.763.I.e., from the uncleanness of a dead reptile.764.And consequently does not purify the place covered by the splinter or stone, which remained unwashed by the first water.765.Those that were legally clean continue clean, and those legally unclean continue unclean.766.His hands render unclean what they touch.767.His hands render sacred things unclean.768.I.e., the putting his hands into a house infected with leprosy.769.Literally “father of uncleanness,” such as a corpse or dead reptile, etc.770.I.e., uncleanness not containing the principle of uncleanness.771.An object unclean in the secondary degree cannot make another unclean in the same degree.772.Num. x. 35, 36. The rabbis count these verses a distinct book of the law.773.When R. Eleazar, the son of Azariah, was made president of the school in Jamnia.774.A cab is about three pints.775.And could not contain water enough to wash one foot.776.Of an unclean person.777.It continues as long as its name, and as such cannot become unclean from pressure.778.I.e., with Israelites dwelling there.779.Tithe for the poor could be eaten anywhere.780.Second tithes could only be eaten in Jerusalem. Deut. xiv. 22, 23.781.The sixth year was fixed for the tithe to the poor, consequently in countries outside the land of Israel, and not subject to the Sabbatical rest, Israelites should pay the second tithe.782.Mal. iii. 8. It is assumed that the prophet means the consecrated second tithe, and not the unconsecrated tithe for the poor.783.Ps. xxv. 10.784.Deut. xxiii. 3.785.Isa. x. 13.786.Jer. xlix. 6.787.Amos ix. 14.788.The ancient Hebrew letters are now called Samaritan. They are still used for writing by the small community of Samaritans who dwell in Nablus, in the Holy Land. The Jews now use the Chaldee characters; and the Talmud therefore errs in calling the old national letters Assyrian.789.Some suppose the writings of Homer are meant; others think that these were books against revealed religion.790.Exod. v. 2. The name of Pharaoh cannot be considered an insult to Moses, since it precedes the name of God.791.Exod. ix. 27. This is merely added to avoid ending with Pharaoh's blasphemy.792.That is, who had formed part of the Greater Holy Assembly793.Meaning that the Greater Holy Assembly had been as it were the reflection of the conclave of the Sephiroth above. The word used for “chariot” is not “Mercavah,” but “Rethikh.”794.I.e., the Paradise above.795.In the original both this and the foregoing section, apparently by an oversight, have the number thirty-three attached to them.796.Carrying on the simile of the lantern and its rays.797.The Sephiroth.798.Which is the number of Th, the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet, which includes the symbology of the cross.799.That is to say, which will hardly admit even of so vague a definition, seeing it is the Indefinite Absolute in Kether.800.We must be most careful not to misapprehend the meaning intended to be conveyed in this passage. Kether, the Ancient One, Macroprosopus, is not in the more restricted sense of the first Sephira, the AIN, but that that idea links back from Him must be manifest on consideration. Yet even He, the Vast Countenance, is hidden and concealed; how much more, then, the AIN! From Negative to Positive, through Potential Existence, eternally vibrates the Divine Absolute of the Hidden Unity of processional form masked in the Eternal Abyss of the Unknowable, the synthetical hieroglyph of an illimitable pastless futureless Present. To the uttermost bounds of space rushes the Voice of Ages, unheard save in the concentrated unity of the thought-formulated Abstract, and eternally that Voice formulates a Word which is glyphed in the vast ocean of limitless life.801.The thirteen conformations of the beard of Macroprosopus.802.The Trinity completed by the Quaternary.803.Kether, the first Sephira, from which all the other Sephiroth proceed, namely, those which are summed up in the Tetragrammaton.804.I.e., his manifestation is triune.805.Это относится к Триадам в Сефирот, когда формируется Ац Хаим. (См. Введение.) Будет обнаружено, что в этом устройстве десяти Сефирот есть десять Триад, а именно:

(1) Кетер, Хокма, Бина.

(2) Хесед, Гевура, Тиферет.

(3) Нецах, Ход, Йесод.

(4) Хокма, Хесед, Нецах.

(5) Тиферет, Йесод, Малхут.

(6) Бина, Гевура, Ход.

(7) Хокма, Тиферет, Ход.

(8) Бина, Тиферет, Нецах.

(9) Хесед, Тиферет, Ход.

(10) Гевура, Тиферет, Нецах.

Где Кетер и Малхут повторяются по одному разу; Хокма, Бина, Хесед и Гевура — трижды; Тиферет — шесть раз; Нецах и Ход — по четыре раза; и Йесод — дважды. 806.In many of the ancient mysteries a “feast” was part of the ceremony, analogous to our Eucharist. Verbum sapientibus.807.That is, the greatest triad of the Sephiroth, the Crown, King, and Queen; which finds a parallel in the Osiris, Isis, and Horus; the Axieros, Axiochersos, and Axiochersa of Lemnos and Samothrace, etc.808.Described in other places as the Supernal Eden and the Inferior Eden.809.The Duad equated in the Monad. Compare what I have previously remarked concerning the profile symbolism of Macroprosopus.810.The student will observe throughout the Qabalah that great stress is laid on the power of names, which arises from the fact that each qabalistical name is the synthesis of a power. Hence to “pronounce that name” is to use that power.811.The word I have translated “Maternal” is AMH, Amah, with a double Kametz point. Rosenroth renders it, “Yod Membri.”812.Speaking of the unity, the “Sepher Yetzirah” says: “One is She, the Spirit of the Elohim of life (blessed and more than blessed be His name who is the life of ages), Voice, and Spirit, and Word—this is She, the Spirit of holiness.”813.The word is OVTRA. Rosenroth translates it by “Aporrhea.” It may also be translated “vapor,” or “nebula.”814.The ten numbers and twenty-two letters.815.MZL = 40 x 7 x 30 = 77, which is OZ, Strength or Vigor. This Gematria is worthy of note as giving the idea of foundational power.816.I.e., the containing power.817.Daath is the conjunction of Chokmah and Binah. (See “Book of Concealed Mystery,” chap. i. § 40.)818.This is analogous to the teaching of the “Sepher Yetzirah,” that the Three Mothers, A, M, Sh, radiate into three paternal forms of the same. A, M, and Sh symbolize the potencies of Air, Water, and Fire.819.For “commencement” denotes end, and end denotes “commencement”; how, then, in the Absolute can there be either? Nevertheless, in the Absolute must we seek for the hypothetical starting-point of life.820.Let the student carefully note that this is the second Sephira, the I of IHVH, the Father proceeding from Macroprosopus, Kether, as He proceedeth from Ain Soph.821.The Sephiroth, or numbers.822.“Chokmoth” is plural of “Chokmah,” Wisdom.823.Chokmah is the second and Binah is the third of the Sephiroth. This section is a sufficient condemnation of all those who wish to make out that woman is inferior to man.824.This clause refers to the “Unwritten Qabalah.”825.Chokmah, the second Sephira, which, however, is as it were the repetition of Kether.826.That is, the letter I, Yod, in HIVH, which is said in the “Book of Concealed Mystery” to symbolize Macroprosopus only in its highest point.827.See “Book of Concealed Mystery,” chap. ii. § 37; chap. iv. § 11.828.See “Book of Concealed Mystery,” chap. ii. § 37.829.The amount of occult symbolism in this section is enormous, and the key of it is the name of the letter I, which is IVD, Yod. This is a trinity of letters, and their numerical value is I = 10, V = 6, D = 4, total 20, equivalent to double I; but for reasons given in the “Book of Concealed Mystery” the second I is reproduced by a Hexad and a Tetrad—namely, V and D. I = 10, the decimal scale of Sephirotic notation, the key of processional creation; V = 6 = Tiphereth, and Microprosopus the Son united to D = 4, the Cross. Here is the mystery of the crucifixion of the Son on the tree of life; and again the Qabalah agrees with Christian symbolism.830.“Be Ama,” “with the Mother;” here Ama, AMA, Mother = 42. Be Aima, in the Mother; here Aima, AIMA = 52 = BN, Ben, Son. This Gematria is most important, because, be it noted, Aima, AIMA, is the letter I, Yod, which we have just been told represents Chokmah, joined to AMA, Mother, which is Binah, BINH, which again is BN IH by Metathesis, Ben Yod He—i.e., son of IH, eternally conjoined in Briah.831.The number answering to the “fifty gates of Binah.” See “Book of Concealed Mystery,” chap. i. § 46.832.Compare this with the Egyptian Horus, the son of Isis and Osiris. Also notice the interchange of symbols between Amen, Kneph, and Khom. The name of the great Egyptian God Amen is noticeable when we compare it with the qabalistic name AMN.833.Compare with this the alchemical symbolism of Duenech, the King of Earth, after being overwhelmed by the waters, rising again, glorified and crowned with the triple crown of silver, iron, and gold—Chesed, Geburah, and Tiphereth, in the alchemic Sephiroth of the metals.834.The meaning is, that Father and Mother are contained in the Son; for these are the second, third, and sixth Sephiroth—i.e., 2, 3, and 6; and both 2 and 3 are contained in 6, for 2 x 3 = 6.835.The reflexive essence of Kether, the Crown, which operates in Chokmah and Binah.836.Plural of “Däath.”837.By Metathesis.838.Meaning the period of revealing these matters, not exactly a day of twenty-four hours: day in the scriptural and qabalistical sense.839.In other words, where there is unbalanced force, there is the origin of evil.840.Because in those severities, and behind them, he can see the Countenance of God.841.Chokmah.842.Binah.843.See Introduction concerning the parts of the soul, Chiah, Neschamah, Ruach, and Nephesch.844.See “Greater Holy Assembly,” ch. xlii. §§ 984-996; ch. xxvi. §§ 513-532.845.See “Book of Concealed Mystery,” chap. i. §§ 2, 3, 4 et. seq.846.Compare this with Miölner, the hammer of Thor, of Scandinavian mythology.847.Chokmah and Binah, included in Kether.848.It is to be noted that this word is MNA, Manna, and is a Metathesis of the letters of AMN, Amen, which has been shown in the “Book of Concealed Mystery” to be equal by Gematria to IHVH ADNI.849.Astral Light.850.Right and left; while in Macroprosopus “all is right.”851.At first sight this seems a contradiction, but on careful examination the difficulty disappears. A triangle is a fit expression of the number 3. It has three angles, it has three sides; but there is the whole figure itself also, which is the synthesis of the sides and the angles. So there are the three angles and the whole figure itself which contains them, and thus completes the Trinity by the Quaternary: in the Tetragrammaton, IHV, and H final, which forms the synthesis.852.Thus rigidly following out the rule of the symbolism before given, that Chokmah and Binah are contained in Kether. In this is the key of all religions.853.BChKMThA, Be-Chokmatha; ChKMThA is the emphatic Chaldee form of ChKMA, which is Chaldee for Hebrew ChKMH.854.That is, the locks which have their origin in the influence of the Great Mother are interwoven mutually with those which originate from Chokmah.855.Meaning, let him supplicate Macroprosopus, developed in the forms of Chokmah and Binah, which are summed up in Aima the Great Mother, to incline Microprosopus to be favorable. This is identical with the Catholic custom of invoking the intercession of the Virgin with her Son; for Mary = Mare = Sea;and the great Sea is Binah.856.The word translated “forehead” is MTzCh, Metzach; now if a metathesis be formed of this word by placing the last letter between the first and second letters, we get MChTz, “he shall smite.” Hence the first form symbolizes Mercy, and the second Severity.857.And therefore is the divine name of Tzabaoth, or hosts, attributed both to Netzach and to Hod, the seventh and eighth Sephiroth.858.And 20 is H, He, in the four worlds, for H = 5, which multiplied by 4 = 20.859.The simple meaning of this and the preceding section is, that the eyes can only see when the upper eyelashes are separated from the lower ones by the lids being raised.860.Moses, in this passage of Deuteronomy.861.That is, MRShITh, instead of MRAShITh.862.That is, irrevocably, so that the word would cease to bear the same meaning were A not there. In other words, were A a radical letter of it.863.The first, RAShVN, Rashon, where this word, derived from the same root as RAShITh, is spelt with A.864.The Hebrew idiom for having mercy always refers to the nose, as “to defer anger” is in Hebrew “to lengthen the nose,” etc.865.The three divisions of the Brain of Microprosopus.866.See Introduction concerning the names of the parts of the Soul.867.I.e., the various degrees of the whiteness.868.Answering to the number of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, which together with the ten Sephiroth form the thirty-two paths of wisdom of the “Sepher Yetzirah.”869.See “Book of Concealed Mystery,” chap. ii. §§ 31, 40, etc.870.In the “Book of Concealed Mystery,” chap. i. § 31, HVA and ALHIM are shown to be interchangeable, and they both are feminine. And now we come to the “Three Mothers,” of the “Sepher Yetzirah,” the Great Supernal Feminine Triad, which is even before the triune father. I may say no more here; in fact, I have almost revealed too much. Let the reader carefully meditate on § 651, for there the indicible Arcanum is shadowed.871.That is the number 18 on the plane of Asiah. And 18 is the fourth part of 72. And 72 is the number of the Schemahamphorasch (see ante), and the number of the Quinaries or sets of five degrees in the 360 degrees of the Zodiac. And there are six such sets in the thirty degrees of each sign. And thus we return to the twelve signs of the Zodiac, and these are operated on from the ten Sephiroth through the “seven paths of the Queen,” and these again depend from the first three Sephiroth, and these again from Kether, and Kether is Macroprosopus, from whom backward depend the Negative Existences in their Veils; and Macroprosopus is called HVA, Hoa, which = 12, and finds its expression in “Aima Elohim.” Thus rusheth through the Universe the Flux and Reflux of the Eternal Word.872.I am doubtful as to whether this is the best translation of the last clause; Rosenroth has not translated it at all. The Chaldee is MMThQIM VDAI MAI ChKV KDA VChIK ITOVM LAKVL, Mamthaqim Vadeai Maai Chiko Kedea Vecheik Yitauom Leakol.873.This whole section requires comment. I must first observe that Knorr de Rosenroth in his Latin version has supposed that in the word “MChMDIM,” Machemadim, fire and water (ASh and MIM) are hidden as in a sort of anagram. Now while it is true that “MIM” can be thus extracted, “ASh” cannot, for the remaining letters, ChMD, will by no exegetical rule I know of form a word signifying fire. The following I take to be the real meaning of the passage. Chokmah is the fire, I, and Binah is the water, H, the Father and Mother Who, conjoined, produce the Son. Now the fire is symbolized by a triangle with the apex uppermost, and water by a triangle with the apex reversed; these two together united form the sign of the Macrocosm, the external symbol of Vau, V, Microprosopus. And He inherits the double qualities of the Father and the Mother, shown by the word “delights” (“Machemadim”) being written in the plural.874.Буквы еврейского алфавита обычно классифицируются следующим образом:

Гортанные = А, Х, Ч, О (Р — некоторыми).

Палатальные = Г, И, К, К.

Язычные = Д, Тх, Т, Л, Н.

Зубные = З, С, Ш, Ц (Р — другими).

Губные = Б, В, М, П.

«Сефер Йецира» далее классифицирует их как —

3 Матери (Первоначала) = А, М, Ш.

7 Двойных = Б, Г, Д, К, П, Р, Тх.

12 Простых = Х, В, З, Ч, Т, И, Л, Н, С, О, Ц, К.

В вышеприведенной классификации она относит Р к зубным. 875.This section contains references to the Edomite kings and their symbology; namely, as denoting the primal worlds which were destroyed. (See “The Book of Concealed Mystery,” chap. i. § 3; “The Greater Holy Assembly,” chap. ii. and chap. xxvi.; and “The Lesser Holy Assembly,” chap. x.876.I.e., tracing out the properties, etc., of the Sephiroth which form the King, Microprosopus, and, as appears from the latter part of this section, those only in their aspect of Judgment and Wrath.877.This section is another all-sufficient proof of the teachings maintained throughout the Qabalah, namely, that Man and Woman are from the creation coequal and coexistent, perfectly equal one with the other. This fact the translators of the Bible have been at great pains to conceal by carefully suppressing every reference to the Feminine portion of the Deity, and by constantly translating feminine nouns by masculine. And this is the work of so-called religious men!878.Chokmah, Wisdom, the second Sephirah, is Male in respect of Binah, but Female in respect of Kether. This is somewhat analogous to the Greek idea of the birth of Athené, Wisdom, from the brain of Zeus.879.Compare the symbolism of the many breasts of the Ephesian Diana.880.The original of the “Hymn of Unity” is in seven very long parts. These short ones merely give the leading idea in each of the original parts.

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