THE MAGIC OF WISDOM

Lectures

Perth, Australia Occidental, 1951 - 1952

Perth, 4^th January, 1952

SERGE RAYNAUD de la FERRIÈRE

Notes on the COMMENTARY by Dr, de la Ferrière, (subject, the KABBALAH )

The chief purpose in studying Hebrew is to get an idea of the Hebrew Keys. Each letter has a nine-fold meaning, philosophic, esoteric, etc... each one deeper than the one before it, like layer upon layer. Thus we must endeavour to extend the meaning of the letter beyond the linguistic idea.

In French, English, Spanish the A.B.C are merely letters, but in Chinese, Hebrew, Sanscrit, Egyptian they are not only letters for the pronunciation, for they each have a value in themselves. Each letter means something, a Presence, a Diety, a Symbol an Idea. Then there are shades of meanings.-

ALEPH is the Creator –God in His first Manifestation, the super-man, as he must have been before ‘original sin’ the Divine Human Being.Of course the surface, meaning is Ox or Bull, but the truer meaning lies in its symbolic use.

BETH is a House (gramatical meaning), but a Woman (symbolic meaning).

Note the parallel between the two meanings:-

a. The house gives a roof where we can go and rest.

b. A woman gives a roof, (shield and shelter) to the child.

Note the Esoteric meanings.-

ALEPH is the Souffle, (Breath), the Subtil Force, Prana, The Etheric power in everything, Positive, Purusha.

BETH is the manifestation of the Breath, the matter, the negative side of Creation, Akasha, Prakriti (nature).

GUIMEL is Wisdom symbolised by the apple tree and the serpent in the Garden of Eden, with Adam (Aleph) and Eve (Beth).

DALETH means a Door, denoting union between the exterior and the interior, is the link between the external world and the internal world, between the Light and the Darkness as was the door of the Temple. Thus it represents the Union between the two Worlds. In the Cosmic Ceremony in the Antique Nass the Priest gives one word for the saving of the Souls of the people. He says DA-LETH. It is Union, Yoga, Identification. The Priest makes the Sing of the Cross, (four DALETHs) one each for Fire, Water, Air, Earth.-

ggggggggggggg

Thus we can reach the real idea from the Root of the word.

RUAH in Hebrew means Light ,Fire, Soul. (But there are other names for Soul). NEPRESCH¹ is Soul in the sence of Plastic Matter, (material). RUAH is the Soul in terms of Yoga, is Fire internally rising up.

YOD is the most important letter. Note its importance also in the mathematical sense, for YOD being the 10^th letter, completes the first section; 11 (eleven) is merely 1 and 1. YOD is the Key of the whole Hebraic alphabet in denoting the manifested world.-

ggggggggggggg

2.

Notes on de COMMENTARY by Dr. De la Ferrière (the KABBALAH).

Cremorne, Friday, January 4^th, 1952.

ggggggggggg

The omission of HE (5).-

It appears that HETETH (8) similar in meaning to HE (5), can do the work for both. Number 5 is the number of MAN, manifestation of God in the flesh, and is in a way a Divine Number. Hence its omission.

The five-pointed Star

representsMAN, for 5 is

the Divine Number

Ggggggggg

The Three Mother Letters.-

Now 341 symbolises Manifested Matter in the Physical World.

Thus Shema (French), and Scheme (English), = a Sketch or Outline.

These three letters S.M.A form the Skeleton or Schema of all the Hebrew teaching. They are found in many of the stronger words, is Jerusalem.

gggggggggggg

The numbers have nothing to do with the letters really, when we penetrate the layers of meanings, and get a clearer view of the underlying Reality.

The Esoteric Values appear to bear a relation to the geometric figures (see the group at the beginning), while the important angles seen to be represented at the end.-

Notice that here TAU, (the Way), comes to 360.

Commenting on the many shapes which finally become a Circle, the Doctor took as an example a drop of water falling on glass, and spreading by making many shapes and angles, until at last, the tension being evenly distributed, a circle is formed.

gggggggggggg

SUMMING UP.- In this study we find grammatical symbols, philosophical symbols, esoteric symbols etc...

Do not keep to the letter, seek for the Spirit, by using the Imagination.

Keep a documentation of this for help with the KABBALAH, the TARO and other studies of this nature.

gggggggggggg

1

5 and 8 are from the same source.

- The divided halves

of one oblong equal 2 squares.

Cube 5³ equals 125

125 x 8 equals 1,000 equals 10³

-2-

CHARACTERISTIC VALUES

INTERCHANGE OF LETTERS.

CAN BE WRITTEN

BECOMES

THE DIETY: - (TWO NAMES)

CAN BECOME:-

THE PRIMARY SIGNIFICANCE OF EXISTENCE.

i.e. FATHER-MOTHER GOD - POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE CAUSING MANIFESTATION.