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Hebrew Letter Gimel

Verses 17 to 24 from Psalm 119 begin with Gimel:

‫גמל על־עבדך אחיה ואשמרה דברך׃‬

 
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‫גל־עיני ואביטה נפלאות מתורתך׃‬
 
‫גר אנכי בארץ אל־תסתר ממני מצותיך׃‬
 
‫גרסה נפשי לתאבה אל־משפטיך בכל־עת׃‬
 
‫גערת זדים ארורים השגים ממצותיך׃‬
 
‫גל מעלי חרפה ובוז כי עדתיך נצרתי׃‬
 
‫גם ישבו שרים בי נדברו עבדך ישיח בחקיך׃‬
 
‫גם־עדתיך שעשעי אנשי עצתי׃‬
17. Endow me, your servant, that I may live and keep your Word.
18. Open my eyes, that I may behold wonderful things from your Law.
19. I am an alien on this earth; hide not your commandments from me.
20. My soul (Nephesh) is crushed for the longing of your judgments in every season.
21. You have rebuked the proud, who are cursed; they go astray from your commandments
22. Remove reproach and shame; rid them from me, for I have kept your testimonies.
23. Princes sat in council speaking against me, but your servant meditates on your laws.
24. Your testimonies are also my delight and my counselors.

Arcanum 3

From Alchemy and Kabbalah (/"index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=149:alchemy-and-

kabbalah&Itemid=10347") by Samael Aun Weor

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Remember that the Sepher Yetzirah marvelously describes all the splendors of the world and the
extraordinary play of the Sephiroth within God and the Human Being through the thirty two paths of
Wisdom. The entire science of the Sephiroth is hidden within the sexual mysteries.
The soul has three aspects:

1. Nephesh, the Animal Soul.

2. Ruach, the Thinking Soul.
3. Neshamah, the Spiritual Soul.

The Sephiroth are the substratum of these three aspects of the souls. The Sephiroth are atomic. The
Zohar insists on these three “principle elements” which compose the world. These elements are: Fire (Shin),
Water (Mem), Air (Aleph). These elements are the perfect synthesis of the four manifested elements.
The powerful Mantra I.A.O. encompasses the magical power of the triangle of these principle elements:

1. I – Ignis – Fire
2. A – Aqua – Water
3. O – Origo – Principle Spirit

I…. A… O… is the Supreme Mantra of the Arcanum A.Z.F.

Whosoever wants to raise the soul of the world through the medullar canal must work with the Sulfur
(Fire), with the Mercury (Water) and with the Salt (Philosophical Earth). It is only in this way that one can be
born in Spirit and Truth.
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 TheTwelve Secret Keys of Basil Valentine (Basilius
26/09/2018 Valentinus),
Arcanum the Benedictine of Erfurt are found
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within the Arcanum A.Z.F.

The entire secret of the Great Work is enclosed within the ‘Azoth’ series of Basil Valentine. AZOTH is the
sexual creative principle of Nature. The Magnum Work has been performed when the Rose of the Spirit
blooms upon the Cross of our Body.
The three Principle-Elements are the Three Mother Letters of the Hebraic Alphabet. When one is
practicing the Arcanum A.Z.F. one is working with these three ‘principle-elements’ within the Great
Laboratory of Nature. One works with Mercury, Sulfur and Salt when one practices the Arcanum A.Z.F.; this
is how the lead of the personality is transmuted into the Gold of the Spirit; this is how we create the Golden
Child of Alchemy within us.
These three ‘principle-elements’ become manifested within the four elements of Nature. There exists the
heat of Fire and Air, the humidity of Air and Water, and the dryness of Fire and Earth.
These are the three ‘principle-elements,’ the I.A.O., the Sulfur, Mercury and Salt contained within the
four elements of Nature. The Elemental Paradises of Nature are found within these ‘principle-elements.’ The
Kabbalist-Alchemist must learn how to use Sulfur, Mercury and Salt.
The larvae of the astral body (incubi, succubi, basilisks, dragons, phantoms, etc.) are destroyed by
putting sulfur powder inside of our shoes. Sulfur originates invisible vapors that rise in order to disintegrate
these types of larvae. Malignant forms of thoughts and larvae enclosed within any room are disintegrated
when one burns sulfur upon a aming piece of charcoal. Mercury serves in order to prepare Lustral Water;
the Great Astrologer Nostradamus spent many nights before a copper container lled with water. This is
how, by looking within these waters, this great Seer saw the future events that he le written in his famous
prophesies.
If we add Mercury to water and place a mirror at the bottom of the copper container, a marvelous
‘Clairteleidoscope’ is formed. We advise the use of any copper container with the exception of the so called
cauldron (a symbol of Black Magic).
Copper is intimately related with the Pituitary gland and has the power of awakening clairvoyance.
Salt is also used o en in White Magic. Salt must be combined with alcohol. If alcohol and salt are placed
within a container and if this mixture is then ignited, a marvelous smoke offering is obtained. This type of
smoke offering is only done when invoking the Gods of Medicine, when a sick person needs to be healed.
Thus, they will assist your call.
The sulfur ( re) totally burns without leaving any residue. Sulfur is the Shin of the Zohar. The Water (the
Ens Seminis) is the Mem of the Zohar. By means of successive transmutations, Fire and Water are reduced to
the Kabbalistic Aleph (which the Alchemist calls Alkaest). This is how the I.A.O. is performed, and this is
how the twelve faculties of the soul are opened. The Soul is Christi ed, “the Kundalini blooms upon our
fertile lips made Verb.” The ternary is the Word, plenitude, fecundity, nature, the generation of the Three
Worlds.
The third Arcanum of Kabbalah is that woman dressed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and
crowned with twelve stars. The symbol of the Queen of Heaven is the Empress of the Tarot. She is a
mysterious, crowned woman, seated with the Scepter of Command in her hand. The globe of the world is on
top of the Scepter. She is Urania-Venus of the Greeks, the Christi ed Soul.
The man is Arcanum number one and the Woman is Arcanum number two of the Tarot. The Christi ed
soul is the outcome of the sexual union of both (the secret is the Arcanum A.Z.F.). The Woman is the Mother
of the Verb. Christ is always the child of Immaculate Conceptions. It is impossible to be born without a
mother.
When the Initiate is ready to incarnate the Verb, a woman appears in the superior worlds as if with child,
having labor pains in delivery.
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26/09/2018 When Jesus therefore (on the cross) saw his mother
Arcanum and
3: The the disciple standing by, whom he
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loved, he said unto his mother: Woman, behold thy son! Then he said to (John) the
disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.
- John 19:26, 27

The word John can be rearranged as follows: I.E.O.U.A.N., the Verb (the Dragon of Wisdom). Indeed, the
Woman is the Mother of the Verb and the Woman of ciates upon the altar of the Blessed Goddess Mother of
the World. Now Brethren, know that the Venerable Priestess of your Divine Mother Kundalini is your spouse.
Brothers and sisters, pray and meditate a great deal to your Divine Mother Kundalini as follows:

INVOCATION

Oh Isis! Mother of the Cosmos, root of Love, trunk, bud, leaf,

flower and seed of all that exists; we conjure Thee, naturalizing
force. We call upon the Queen of Space and of the Night, and
kissing her loving eyes, drinking the dew from her lips, breathing
the sweet aroma of her body, we exclaim: Oh Thou, Nut! Eternal
Seity of heaven, who art the primordial Soul, who art what was
and what shall be, whose veil no mortal has li ed, when Thou art
beneath the irradiating stars of the nocturnal and profound sky of
the desert, with purity of heart and in the flame of the serpent, we
call upon Thee!
Pray and meditate intensely. The Divine Mother teaches her children. This prayer must be performed
while combining meditation with the state of slumber. Then as in visions of dreams, illumination emerges;
thus the Divine Mother approaches the devotee in order to instruct him in the great mysteries.

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The Hebrew Letter Gimel
Written by Gnostic Instructor

Which in Kabbalah symbolizes the Innermost

Gimel is the third letter, symbol of stability and balance. It is the equilibrium between the three primary
elements of Creation: air, water, and re.
The Letter Gimel emanates from ‘Beth,’ the House of God; it symbolizes the Inner Man ‘Chesed’
bestowing through Neshamah his will, his teachings upon the Human soul, ‘Daleth.” Chesed, through
Neshamah, grants charity or punishment to the human soul.
Both Dharma and Karma have the same essential objective, which is to teach the consciousness (soul)
how to develop comprehension (understanding) in order to receive the light of the Ain Soph Aur to its fullest
extent.
Only in the Sexual Act and in the here and now do we receive the opportunity to choose between good
and evil. Thus, according to our choice, with our will, we as souls de ne the Dharma or Karma.
Good and evil, evolution and devolution are nite phenomena, so is Karma and Dharma. The Ain Soph is
beyond Dharma and Karma, beyond good and evil, evolution and devolution.
The human soul is free to choose between good and evil, evolution and devolution, Dharma and Karma
by the use of the sexual force.
From moment to moment, the soul needs to feel regret and remorse from animal lust; it needs to change
its animal conduct in order to return to Gimel (human conduct). This is the secret to the exertion of true
repentance and charity in this world in order to acquire life in the spiritual world. Those who die in their
animal egos acquire serenity, peace within and towards the physical and spiritual worlds.
The Iod as an erected phallus on a Vau (spinal column) makes the letter Gimel which expresses the will
of Chesed who (through the cerebral-spinal-nervous system, his throne) bestows good through Nephesh
upon the terrestrial man by means of the sexual act of transmutation. Gimel expresses the power of will and
freedom of choice between chastity and fornication. The Vav (man) penetrates his Iod (phallus) into the
Earth (Malkuth, the Woman) thanks to ‘Shin’ the Fire in Mem (water, the Ens Seminis), the ‘Mikvah Minit,
(Baptism)’ in other words. The Iod or phallus, the will ‘Fire’ of Kether, is rmly in contact with the earth
through the sexual act. The sexual res of the animal soul ‘Nephesh’ directly affect physical, emotional and
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Arcanum animal
3: The soul, the human soul attains the
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ultimate revelation of the Essential light of lights, ‘Kether,’ its utmost reward, which is justly bestowed upon
it through the sublimation of the sexual force from Yesod.
The movement of the sexual energy in the process of sexual transmutation expresses the expansion and
contraction of the Solar Light; this is how Divine Wisdom constantly progresses within the Initiate who
transmutes his primordial matter, sexual force.
Through the sexual act the soul is nursed, it is born again from Shaddai El Chai, the creative source of
Iod-Havah, Yesod. The soul needs to transmute her sexual animal impulses into light and re. This is the
process of making treasures in heaven in which the Monad through its souls learns independence in heaven,
in other words, self-realization.
The process of sexual transmutation expresses the Kabbalistic Tzimtzum, which is the continuous
bestowal of divine attributes of the Elohim ‘Cosmocreators’ unto the Initiates.
The obligation of any Initiate is to imitate God; this is only possible by annihilating the ego. This is how
the souls give to other souls from the Being and not from the Ego.

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is

perfect. - Matthew 5:48

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