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182 The Kabbalah ofthe Golden Dawn
NOTARICON, or abbreviation, is of two forms, one word
is formed from the initial and final letters of one or more words,
or the letters of one name are taken as the initials or finals of
the words of a sentence. For example, in Deut. 30 v. 12, Moses
asks "Who shall go up for us to Heaven?" The initial letters of
the original words MI IOLH LNV HShMILH, form the word
MILH, mylah, which means circumcision, and the final letters
are IHVH, the name Jehovah: hence it was suggested that circumcision
was a feature of the way to God in heaven.
Amen, AMN, is from the initials of Adonai melekh
namen. "The Lord and the faithful king"; and the famous Rabbinic
word of power used for talismans, AGLA, is formed of
the initials of the words "Ateh gibur leolarn Adonai." "The
lord ever powerful," or "Tu patens in soeculum Dornme,"
TEMURA is a more complex procedure, and has led to an
immense variety of curious modes of divination: the letters of
a word are transposed according to certain rules with many
limitations: or again, the letters as arranged by a definite
scheme, often shown in a diagram. For example, a common
form was to write one-half of the alphabet over the other in
reverse order, and so that the first letter A was placed by the
last T, and B by Shin, and so on. On this plan the word Shesnak
of Jeremiah 12 v. 26, is said to mean babel: this permutation
was known as ATBSh. On this principle we find
twenty-one other possible forms named in order ALbat,
Abgat: the complete set was called "The combination of
Tziruph." Other forms were rational, right, averse and irregular,
obtained from a square of 22 spaces in each direction, that
is of 404 secondary squares, and then putting a letter in each
square in order up and down, and then reading across or diagonally,
etc. Of this type is the so-called "Kabbalah of the Nine
Chambers" of the Mark Masons.
300 30 3 200 20 2 100 10 1
000 00 a 000 00 a 000 00 a
Sh L G R K B Q I A
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000 00 a 000 00 a 000 00 0
M(f) S V K(f) N H Th M D
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000 00 a 000 00 0 000 00 0
Tz(f) Tz T P(f) P Ch N(f) 0 Z