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Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Cryptogram as a factor in Symbolic Philosophy (17)
At this point the inquirer might reasonably expect the letters to make intelligible words; but he will very likely be disappointed, for, as in the case above, the letters thus extracted are themselves a cryptogram, doubly involved to discourage those who might have a casual acquaintance with the biliteral system. The next step is to apply the nine letters to what is commonly called a wheel (or disc) cipher (q.v.), which consists of two alphabets, one revolving around the other in such a manner that numerous transpositions of letters are possible. In the accompanying cut the A of the inner alphabet
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter II:(4)
These twenty-two letters, the foundations, He arranged as on a sphere, with two hundred and thirty-one modes of entrance. If the sphere be rotated...
Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth
Instructions for the Preservation of the Text (1)
"Child, copy this book for the temple at Diospolis in hieroglyphic characters, and call it the Eighth Reveals the Ninth."
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CLX (5)
For Chapter 160, we have a text from London, 9900 ( Aa ); it is not complete, but the gaps can very easily be filled up from the Papyrus Busca
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter IV:(1)
There were formed seven double letters, Beth, Gimel, Daleth, Kaph, Pe, Resh, Tau, each has two voices, either aspirated or softened. These are the...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (87)
In its going, that always-one wheel, in its turning about, generateth the others, and yet none of them vanish out of sight, but that all seven be...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (12)
Whereas yet always the form of all the seven wheels, and the one only nave in the centre of all the wheels, is fully in sight, and so it is not...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CLIX (4)
This Chapter is taken from the Turin text; parts of it are quite unintelligible
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter IV:(3)
These seven double letters He formed, designed, created, and combined into the Stars of the Universe, the days of the week, the orifices of...
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
CIII. "john Seeth the Throne of God in Heaven" (40)
The printing of the letters large enough to be readily legible on so small a map rendered precise placements impracticable....
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter V:(2)
These twelve letters, he designed, formed, combined, weighed, and changed, and created with them the twelve divisions of the heavens (namely, the...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (86)
Suppose a WHEEL standing before thee, with seven wheels one so made in the other that it could go on all sides, forward, backward and cross ways,...
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter II:(3)
Twenty-two letters are formed by the voice, impressed on the air, and audibly uttered in five situations, in the throat, guttural sounds; in the...
The Masnavi
The Man who boasted that God did not punish him for his sins, and Jethro's answer to him (29-37)
When you write on white paper, What is written is read at a glance; But when you write on the face of a written page, It is not plain, reading it is...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CLXXII (23)
This Chapter is taken from papyrus London 9900 Aa . It has no vignette, the translation here given is that which I published in 1873 ( Zeitschrift ,...
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter V:(1)
The simple letters are twelve, namely: He, Vau, Zain, Heth, Teth, Yod, Lamed, Nun, Samech, Oin, Tzaddi, and Quoph; they represent the fundamental...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 20: Of Adam and Eve's going forth out of Paradise, and of their entering into this World. And then of the true Christian Church upon Earth, and also of the Antichristian Cainish Church. (13)
When the Chains of the Driver are broken, and the thorny Bush is burnt, then one may go more safely by the Thorns of the Burner; and then this...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 9: Of the Paradise, and then of the Transitoriness of all Creatures; how all take their Beginning and End; and to what End they here appeared. The Noble and most precious Gate [or Explanation] concerning the reasonable Soul. (9)
And although I shall scarce be able to tell the Letters, in this so high a way, yet it i shall be so high, that many will have enough to learn in it a...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter XIII (4)
This chapter, in the MSS. of which the Turin copy is the type, is repeated as Chapter 121, with the following rubric:—
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 20: Of Adam and Eve's going forth out of Paradise, and of their entering into this World. And then of the true Christian Church upon Earth, and also of the Antichristian Cainish Church. (14)
The Rose-branch in the Wonders will understand us well; but Babel is not worthy of it. She seeks nothing but the Thorns, and loves to strike with...