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Hamah (Sun) formed by Khaf-Kaf is behind us (West) as we face the East. We do not see the sun, but only our
shadow cast at our feet. We cannot look at it fixedly; it would blind us. We cannot stand the power of its emanations.
It provides all energy; it destroys, burns and calcinates by its power. Its elemental Hhayt has to meet the elemental
Mem of the Waters, and only then does it give forth its third Aut, Hay (life), and fertilise our actions. Its two
formations are both in Arieh (Leo). By Khaf Hhamah is O'ser (richness) and by Kaf it is O'ni
(poverty).
Suares, The Sepher Yetsira (Yetzirah), p.133
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Traditional Meaning: Source of will, vitality, personal power. Personality or ego. Leadership, authority.
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Formative Meaning: Life: past: physical and unconscious/unstructured energy.
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Sun/Hhamah: Hhayt-Mem-Hay: 8.40.5: two archetypal lives, Hhayt and Hay:
one unstructured and conscious, one structured and material, joined in the biosphere: Mem.
Two lives: the life of the container (Hay) and the life of the
contained (Hhayt). And we find ourselves immediately in the central theme of the Qabala, where
everything is an elaboration of the one dual energy and the two lives are immanent in YHVH.
The Sun and the Moon, physical and psychological energy, find their homes in Leo/Arieh and Cancer/Sartan,
where -- unlike all the other planets -- their contrary qualities are found in the same sign. They
are dual wellsprings of the one dual energy, both moving in both an evolutionary and an involutionary
direction. See the Physical and Psychological
Faces of the Cube of Space.
We can't understand the Sun/Hhamah without understanding Leo/Arieh. And when we do, we understand
how the planet and its "home" or the sign and its "ruler" are themselves expressions of the one
dual energy, as inner, activating energy and outer, responsive, environment. Once again we find
a place where the arbitrary "assignments" of astrology and esotericism can be replaced with
a deeper logic that speaks for itself.
5th: The Tayt (9) forms Arieh (Leo): Aleph-Raysh-Yod-Hay.
At (the first sign) we have seen Hay, life, form Tayt (9) with Toleh. Here at the fifth sign (Hay),
the Tayt forms the Aleph. The name Arieh shows that the Aleph projected in the universe Raysh exists as Yod.
This projection (the fundamental theme of the Qabala) is possible becouse the primordial cell, Tayt, engenders
the Aleph. They are both alive and hence the Hay and the Hhayt of Hhamah (the sun) whose sign is Arieh.
Hhamah here causes all the biological and conscious possibilities.
It is here that the primordial female gives birth to the intemporal, to the principle, to this Aleph that in so many ways
is deified. Sign of endogeneity, it is the balance of two lives, Hay and Hhayt, that express the Sun, Hhamah
(Hhayt-Mem-Hay: 8.40.5). Hhamah, our source of energy, is twofold in its "house": it speeds up evolving
organic life and also its drying up destruction.
Suares, The Sepher Yetsira (Yetzirah), p.153
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Autiot:: Hayt-Mem-Hay, 8.40.5:
unstructured energy/undifferentiated possbility -- biological resistance -- archetypal life.
Shamash, the other common Hebrew word for the Sun, is the anatomical representation of the
physiological Hamah: it shows the two Sheen (Sheen/Seen) corresponding to the two lives of
Hayt (unstructured) and Hay (structured) interacting with the biosphere, Mem.
| Shamash / Sun
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| Gematria: 640 |
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Another interesting comparison is between the equations for the Sun and Eve/Hheva, which shows
why Eve is known as Hheva Kol H'ai, Mother of All Living:
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Tarot Autiot:
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Sephirot: Sun/Hamah is formed by Kaf/Khaf at the 8th Sephira (unstructured energy/indefinite past).
Note the semantic linkage: Hayt/8-Mem/40-Hay/5. The Sun is another planet given to wandering around
the Tree of Life in various interpretations. The early Sepher Yetsira consistently says Kaf forms Hhamah/Sun
at the 8th Sephirot. But what else could the sephirot of unstructured energy form but more unstructured
energy?
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Seal: the 7th and 8th Sephirot are sealed by Hay-Yod-Waw and Hay-Waw-Yod, the axis of Life (Hay/5)
which flows from future to past, where 7 is indeterminate and 8 is unstructured/indefinite.
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Formative: Kaf/Khaf: physical supports for all material existence. There are those who doubt that
Kaf forms the Sun. We need a theory consistent with observation, in this case that the ultimate source
and support for biological life is the unstructured photonic radiation received from the Sun
(as a product of Hydrogen fusion).
Note the semantic link between Hayt/8 (in the 8th Sephira and first letter Hayt of Hhamh) and Kaf
spelled Kaf-Phay, 20-80. The energy formed at the 8th Sephira of formless energy is a container of
actual possibilities. One can see that nothing is added to the set of signifiers except that 8 becomes
80 and 20 is a container/support for nothing-in-particular but everything actually possible.
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Secondary Triad: The Sun is the first planet (lowest sephira and formative number)
of the secondary triad, formed by the 8th, 9th and 10th sephirot, which, in contrast to the primary triad,
is composed of all existential or cosmic-level numbers: Kaf/20, Phay/80 and Raysh/200. That means, of course,
that things begin to actually happen in these sephirot, in contrast to evolutionary potentials defined
by the previous three.
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Binomial Sun/Hamah and Mars/Meadim: this double equation describes energy flowing from the indeterminate
(7th Sephira) to the indefinite (8th Sephira). Mars is formed by Dallet/4, an archetypal number, but the Sun is formed
by Kaf/20, an existential-level letter-number which provides the physical supports and material existence for
the life (future/past) axis.
See Planetary Binomials in the Cube of Space
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Direction: East/future: paired with its binomial West/past, receives the 7 of its Sephira
and brings it into life. Zayn/7 in Mizrah and Ayn/70 in Ma'arav reflect the flow of energy we
know as time: an indeterminate future acting on unstructured and undifferentiated energy and
a realized past of conscious and unconscious structure/containment of experience. We face the
future in Mars/Meadim and put the past behind us in Sun/Hamah.
In the East (the future) the 7 is an archetype, in the West (the past) 70 is a reality. The East acts on 8,
the undifferentiated the West on 2, the house.
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Subjective Direction:
The stake in the game of life is represented by the principle of indetermination under the
signs of Zayn, Ayn and Noun final, which allows life to be all that it can be on every level --
archetypal, actual, cosmic -- and by the blessing of the Sabbath. That blessing was confered by the Sheen of
Shabatai at the 5th Sephirot
of Life, where it lives in the realized freedom of Ayn/70, formative of Capricorn/Ghedi, the new birth.
Cosmic indetermination is implicit in Shabatai and Rom. It becomes explicit in the freedom (Ayn)
that produces the second movement of Lama'alah, and then becomes the subject/object of the axis of Life,
East/Mizrah and West/Ma'arav where biological structures (Mem) are conditioned with a future and a past
defined in terms of the possible (Zayn/7) future evolution of consciousness (Hayt/8) at the Seventh Sephira and
the realizations (Ayn/70) that build the house (2) of our (unconscious) past at the Eighth. Note that archtypal
resistance, Dallet/4 forms the 7th, indeterminate Sephira, while realized actions (Kaf/20) contain
the energies of the unstructured 8th.
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Contrary Qualities: 'Osser/'Oni: Wealth and Poverty.
See Planetary Contraries
for issues of semantic coherency between sephira, planet and contrary quality.
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Zodiacal Environment: Arieh/Leo
The zodiacal signs are active environments for the impersonal energies of the planets and their structures
are linked to their ruling planets as the natural homes for those energies. In this sense, the
12 zodiacal signs do not exist apart from the the planets, for the planets create the center and
and faces of the cube of space and define the edges of the zodiac by their positions. We couldn't
experience the zodiac, the "endless arms of the world" at all if the planets didn't carve out
windows on the infinite.
Again, the theme of dual energy: the signs are "imprints" of the active planetary energies which
structure and form our experience of life. The planet and sign should be read as a pair; the
sign reflects the full potential of the planet as its natural environment or container. Thus,
in the evolutionary cycle of the zodiac, life begins primitively with 5/Life forming Aries/Toleh
and develops first an inner energy at 8/possibility/Cancer and then an outer, physical energy
at 9/structure/Leo. As the man said, life forms the cell and then the cell forms Aleph with
Leo/Arieh, spelled Aleph-Raysh-Yod-Hay, Aleph actually alive in a cosmic container. This endogenous
resurrection of Aleph in the physical universe is at the heart of Arieh, where the unstructured/potential
energy of the Sun is fulfilled.
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Pointed Kaf forming Hhamah in Arieh expresses all human possibilities. Is it necessary to allude to
what men make of Kaf, their activity? SY 160
Hhamah the Sun, concentrates and projects the triadic energies constituting man: Shabatai, Tsedeq, Meadim.
In Arieh Hhamah is both 'Osser and 'Oni. Its dual life (Hhayt, undifferentiated and Hay, evolutionary) express
themselves in this sign where the ego establishes itself in every possible way, both in the universal Sheen-Raysh and in the contingent
repetitive Noun-Yod.
In Mozenaim Hhamah vitalises the two opposed energies: Aleph-Zayn-Noun and Maim, where Aleph is drowning. If the person
lacks maturity and emphasises the Mem, the call of Aleph can be a desperate cry for freedom. SY 162-163
In Ghedi, Deli and Daghim Hhamah can allow the individual to attain a flourishing physical and psychic vitality, depending
on her maturity.
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