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The scriptures of the Jewish and Christian religions were originally written primarily in Hebrew. The Hebrew language is deeply symbolic and numerical, thus every word and name in the scriptures carries a symbolic and numeric significance. Without a deep knowledge of the Hebrew words and letters, the meanings hidden in the Bible, the Torah, Tanakh and other important books will remain invisible to us.
In Kabbalah we have to constantly look at the Hebrew letters." - Samael Aun Weor, The Initiatic Path in the Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah (1978)
Here are some example articles about this important topic. You may also be interested in studying the free online course The Alphabet of Kabbalah, available as audio lectures and transcriptions.
00: Alphabet of Kabbalah Introduction
This is a transcription of the audio lecture Alphabet of Kabbalah Introduction, which you can download for free. In the Gnostic tradition, we seek to examine the practical utilization of all religious, mythological symbols, in order for us to harness the very purpose of those symbols and aid us in our own development towards the perfection of our human soul. In other words, Gnosis relies upon the study of myth and theory to empower practice. This is the entire purpose. We do not study religion or spirituality as a diversion or as entertainment, but because we are tired of pain, we are weary of war, we are tired of being in darkness. The one who approaches the study of Gnosis—even if they call it something else—the one who seeks to experience religion, to know it from their own direct conscious experience, does so because they have lived and...
01: Aleph
This is a transcription of the audio lecture Alphabet of Kabbalah: Aleph, which you can download for free. א Aleph is the first letter of the Kabbalistic alphabet, or better said, the Kabbalistic aleph-bet. Aleph is also the first letter in the Arabic alphabet, but it is pronounced Alif. With this letter we write many names, such as אלוהים Elohim, which is precisely the Hebrew word for Gods and Goddesses. The Hebrew word for God is ‘El,’ written with א Aleph and ל Lamed. The...
02: Beth
This is a transcription of the audio lecture Alphabet of Kabbalah: Beth, which you can download for free. The Hebrew letter ב "Beth" is the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet, the Hebrew alefbet. The first letter is א Aleph, the letter A and the number 1, which we studied in the previous lecture. The letter Beth represents the number two and is the extension, or vehicle, of א Aleph. To understand ב Beth, you have to always remember...
03: Gimel
This is a transcription of the audio lecture Alphabet of Kabbalah: Gimel, which you can download for free. Gnosis gives the "gnana" of God: the Gimel (ג ), the letter G in the English alphabet. ג The third letter of the sacred alphabet of Kabbalah is the letter Gimel. If you observe its shape, you see that it is made by a letter Vav (ו) and a letter Iod (י). This encloses the mystery of the sound "ggh," which is guttural, meaning, in the throat. If you observe the Tree of Life you will see that - in the human being - the Sephirah Da'ath is precisely located at the level of the throat. This Sephirah Da'ath is Gnosis. Gnosis is written wit...
04: Daleth
Note: The transcription of the audio lecture will be here soon. Meanwhile you can download the audio lecture here: Alphabet of Kabbalah 04: Daleth. ד Come and see the water of that river which comes out and flows from the Garden of Eden, Binah [the third sephirah], never stops flowing. It supports the poor by giving the light of Chassadim through gimel [the third letter] which is Yesod to Malchut, which is dalet [the fourth letter], that is "poor" (Heb. Dala) and needy. Hence, hosts and legions wait here for sustenance from Binah, the secret of the said river. This union is therefore called by the name of gad [gimel + dalet], the gimel taking out from Binah to give, and dalet accepting and receiving from it. - Zohar, גד: [gad; Gimel, the third letter + Dalet, the fourth letter] to tell, say,...
05: Hei
This is a transcription of the audio lecture Alphabet of Kabbalah 05: Hei, which you can download for free. Hei, “behold,” take this knowledge from God and receive it with your consciousness; the letter ה [Hei] represents creation. The shape of the letter Hei ה is formed by the letters Daleth ד and Iod י. The Iod י is the left line or foot that may become a Zayin ז, if we prolong that left line to the top by means of action. The horizontal...
06: Vav
This is a transcription of the audio lecture Alphabet of Kabbalah 06: Vav, which you can download for free. The letter Vav ו is the sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. In the previous lectures we discussed the letters א Aleph, ב Beth, ג Gimel, ד Daleth, and ה Hei, which are the letters one through five and the numbers one through five. The ו Vav or Vau is the number six. All of the...
09: Teth
This is a transcription of the audio lecture Alphabet of Kabbalah 09: Teth, which you can download for free. Teth ט is the ninth letter of the Hebrew Alphabet. Teth ט hides the mystery of the Tree of Knowledge. Hosea 4:6 states: My people (which are the 22 Archetypes, 22 letters of the word of God) have been silent because of the lack of (Gnosis) knowledge: Seeing thou hast rejected (Daath-Gnosis) knowledge, I will also reject thee, as a priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the (twenty-two letters of Torah, which are the twenty-two Arcana of Tarot, the 22 Archetypes o...
10: Iod
This is a transcription of the audio lecture Alphabet of Kabbalah 10: Iod, which you can download for free. The tenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet is י called Iod or Yod. It is the smallest of the twenty-two Hebrew letters, and looks like a small dot or a little dash. As you may have realized in the process of these lectures we have been giving about the Hebrew alphabet, every letter has significance in relation with the Tree of Life. Iod is the tenth letter, and as such synthesizes the entire Tree of Life, which is generally illustrated by an image of ten spheres [see below]. The Cycle of...
16: Ayin
This is a transcription of the audio lecture Alphabet of Kabbalah 16: Ayin, which you can download for free. Ayin ע is the sixteenth Hebrew letter. Ayin has the shape of the English or Latin "y". In order to understand the ע Ayin, you have to remember the ס Samech, the fifteenth Hebrew letter, which has the shape of a circle. ס Samech represents the power of
18: Tzadi
This is a transcription of the audio lecture Alphabet of Kabbalah 18: Tzadi, which you can download for free. The eighteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, ,צ is called Tzadi. In modern Hebrew most speakers refer to it as Tzadik, but in the ancient form, it is pronounced Tzadi. The letter makes the sound that you hear at the beginning of that word: "ts-," a 't' and an 's.' As the eighteenth letter, צ Tzadi corresponds to the number ninety. If you have studied any form of mysticism, you know that the number...
Daath, the Doorway to Knowledge (1)
This is a transcription of the audio lecture Daath, the Doorway to Knowledge (1), which you can download for free. The doorway to knowledge is what we seek when we enter into a religion, or any kind of spirituality, that doorway of which Jesus spoke in the Gospel: Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. - Matthew 7:7-8 To knock on that doorway, we have to know where it is, and to aid us we have many religions in the world, many mystical teachings throughout all the different groups and ages of humanity. Contained...
Daath, the Doorway to Knowledge (2)
The knowledge that we seek to understand is symbolized in the book of Genesis as a tree whose fruit Adam and Eve are forbidden to eat. Now the Lord God took the man, and He placed him in the Garden of Eden to work it and to guard it. And the Lord God commanded man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat. But of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat of it, for on the day that you eat thereof, you shall surely die." - Genesis 2:15-17 Adam and Eve make the mistake of being tempted by the fruit of the tree of knowledge and from that moment suffering began. If we look at it historically, all of the suffering that we have, the suffering of death, of age, of illness, of pain, emotional pain, spiritual pain, began with that mistake. But we know that every symbol in the Bible and all the great scriptures holds more than one meaning, and in the Gnostic tradition, we go deeper than the literal meaning and penetrate into the other levels...
Daath, the Doorway to Knowledge (3)
The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil that is symbolized in the Book of Genesis, the first book of the Bible, is a very deep and profound symbol that requires a great deal of patience in order to grasp its real meaning. This is because this Tree of Knowledge, Daath, relates to the very fiber of our Being. It is not something that you can grasp simply intellectually or as an idea. Daath is concerned with the fire that animates the atoms in your body. Daath is concerned with the energy that is within every thought, the energy that drives every emotion. The substance of every sensation that we experience is related to the Tree of Knowledge, Daath. Do not make the mistake of thinking that simply by hearing a few lectures or reading a few books that you will comprehend what Daath means. The fact is that this mystery of Daath has been explored by saints and prophets for centuries, and its depths still have not been fully explored—because there is so much wisdom, so much to this science of...
Israel’s Entrance Into Nukva (3)
The prophets that appear in the Bible are symbols, archetypes. For us, the Gnostics, the names found in the Bible and many sacred books are symbols. We are not stating that these prophets and great masters did not exist—they do exist. But, each one of them came in order to represent and to give the wisdom related to their particular archetype. For instance, Jesus Christ, the Great Master, the most elevated of all the Masters that came to this planet, symbolizes an archetype that we have within, which is our own particular individual Jesus Christ. Buddha is another archetype; Moses is another archetype. When we study all of these masters, we must go deep into our consciousness in order to discover and develop what each one of them taught. As we explained in the previous two lectures, Jacob, the prophet, the...
Parsufim - The Many Faces of God
Parsufim (Partzufim) is a plural Hebrew word that means “faces.” Partzuf is the singular word for face, image, or countenance. Parsufim is plural and refers to the different symbols of the Tree of Life - the way in which we can understand the different triangles and the different aspects of the ten Sephiroth that are the basis of the science of Kabbalah. In Kabbalah, we study five Parsufim, five faces, or five symbols, images, countenances. We are going to talk about these five Parsufim and to see how they are related not only with Judaism and Christianity, but also with other religions. 1: Arik Anpin The first partzuf is related with the first triangle of the Tree of Life - the triangle of Kether, Chokmah, and Binah, which when translated into English...
Prologue to the Klipoth
“And the fifth angel (Samael) sounded, and I saw a star (a fiery sparkling principle of Geburah) descend from (the) heaven (of Geburah) unto the earth (Malkuth, physicality): and to him (the life-force of Geburah) was given the key of (Scorpio, Yesod-Sex) the pit of the abyss.” - Revelation 9:1 The bottomless pit is the unfathomable abyss or chaos that is difficult or impossible to intellectually comprehend. There are three bottomless pits or unfathomable abysses or Chaos: Daath: the primeval Macrocosmic Chaos of the creative sexual force of the Word out of which - Kabbalistically – is explained how the universe is formed. Yesod: The venerable Microcosmic Chaos of sex out of which - Kabbalistically – is explained how the human being is formed. As above so below Klipoth: The inferior (Latin Infernus) Chaos where the devolving Egos dwell; hell. The subjective reasoning within the...
Sepher Yetzirah Five
1. The twelve simple letters: ה Hei ו Vav ז Zayin ח Chet ט Teth י Iod ל Lamed נ Nun ס Samech
Sepher Yetzirah Four
1. The seven double letters, ב Beth, ג Gimel, ד Daleth, כ Kaf, פ Peh, ר Resh,
Sepher Yetzirah Preface
In Kabbalah, everything is numbers and mathematics. The number is holy and infinite. In the universe everything is measurement and weight. For the Gnostics, God is a Geometrist. Mathematics are sacred. No one was admitted into the school of Pythagoras if they were not knowledgeable about mathematics, music, etc. Numbers are sacred. All of the splendors of the world and the extraordinary interplay of the Sephiroth on the thirty-two paths of wisdom within God and within the human being are described in a marvellous way in the Sepher Yetzirah, a very ancient sacred Hebraic book of the Rabbis. All the science of the Sephiroth is hidden within the mystery of the sexes. The secret key of the Sepher Yetzirah is within the science of numbers. Anyone can think in thirty-two ways, but in...
