Sepher Yetzirah
The Vowels Set to Number
The sounds that comprise speech are paired into two categories: open and closed – the vowels and consonants, and the voice and unvoiced. In the article article “The Sepher Yetzirah, Setting Number to Letter“, we began a comprehensive understanding of sound as they are being set to number in English. What we learned is that the unvoiced letters, the unaspirated, are set at precise locations in the Alphabet. Counting forward, the numbers are 3,6 and 11. The letters placed at 11, the K and X, share design similarities, while theRead More
The Sepher Yetzirah – Setting Number to Letter
As discussed in the article “The Sepher Yetzirah – A Pseudo-linguistic Treatise“, the Sepher Yetzirah clearly lays out that early Occultists were engaged in a study of the linguistic properties of language and how sounds and their accompanying letter representations demonstrate models of hardness and softness (voiced and unvoiced), contain in many cases multiple sounds, or are paired to form hard and soft variations of the same sound. In this article, we will discuss the fusion of letter to number and how this was done within the English Alphabet. ModernRead More
The Sepher Yetzirah – A Pseudo Linguistic Treatise
The Sepher Yetzirah is a foundation document to the Qaballistic Arts It is also one of the earliest occult documents that specifically references linguistic observations being embedded into esoteric constructions. The primary proposition of the The Sepher Yetzirah is that language is predicated on 3 ciphers, or sepharim: letter, numbers, and sounds. Writing in the introduction to his work, “The Sepher Yetzirah”, William Wescott shares, Eliphas Levi, the famous French Occultist, thus wrote of the “Sepher Yetzirah” in his “Hisoire de la Magi, p 54:”The Zohar is a Genesis ofRead More