Asking for help with my Motto

Postby Just-an-Illusion Sun Jun 20, 2010 4:39 pm

greetings,
If anyone uses the Lashtal site, you may have read this querry already, so pleas
e forgive me but I'm trying to get advice from multiple sources.
my name is john and I'm a self practitioner here in Hawaii. I have yet to meet a
nyone who has my interests, so I'm coming to the board as I've nobody to turn to
out here. I have found the information invaluable so I thought i'd give it a tr
y.
I have been trying to follow the path of working out a magical motto as offered
in advice by Aleister Crowley in Magick without tears. Namely finding a phrase t
hat i seemed driven to and dissecting it through gematria.
I found this latin phrase: Aqua Vitae - which i find to mean water of life
Using my limited knowledge and resources, I used gematria to acheive these resul
ts:
Aqua
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hebrew "May-yim"
mem-yod-mem(final) = 650 =6+5=11=2 (chokmah)
Latin to hebrew
btw, i used this website for transliteration: http://www.iosart.com/nlp/heb_enc_
dec.html
and came up with aqua = aleph - qof - yod- aleph =112 = 4 (chesed)
i was happy with these two end resulting sephiroth and stretched it more to comb
ine 2 + 4 to get 6 (tipareth)
Vitae
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english: life hebrew: chayim
cheth-aleph-ayin-yod-mem which i worked out to 689=23=5 (geburah)
the Latin to Hebrew: vau-yod-teth-aleph-ayin 96=15=6 (tipareth)
extremely happy with these representing 5+6=11 (the great work) = 2 (chokmah)
Adding the end result of my work of water 6 to vitae's 2 = 8 (hod) the sphere of
magical work and mercury.
I would ask anyone who has taught fellow aspirants what to do in order to work o
n his/her motto. I have no help beside what I read, the wonderful advice given b
y the late soror Meral in her ITC issues and the internet. Also, if this is corr
ect, could you please give any further correspondences, Maybe the gematria can r
eference other meanings especially the larger numbers as with my limited knowled
ge base, i can only reduce them down to a single number for a sephiroth. Reading
the ITC's qabalahist corner, and the forums, i see so many combinations and can
not gather the years of searching/research it took to obtain them.
this means a lot to me as I want to earnestly understand the motto and not settl
e for the name alone, but to bring it out through meditation and an occult base
of learning.
I would also ask for only those people's assistance who are really wanting to he
lp. In advance, I would like forgiveness for any errors in my work above as I'm
just starting out.
Please forgive this long message, i hope it was not hard on reading it but belie
ve me it was hard to type this while I'm having my 6 and 4 year old daughters ru
nning/jumping around me screaming. My wife is at work.
sincerely,
john
Re: Asking for help with my Motto
Postby Jim Eshelman Sun Jun 20, 2010 5:30 pm
Why not just go with the normal numeration of the Latin phrase itself, since tha
t's what caught your attention?
Aqua Vitae by Latin Qabalah Simplex = 88, like the following (among others):
FILIUS DEI - Son of God
SABAZIUS - Bacchus
SUMMUM - Uppermost, supreme, highest, top of, greatest, consummate, most disting
uished (neut.)
VICTORIA - Victory (cf. Gk. NIKH=88, victory)
ZODIACUS - Zodiac
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours in L.V.X.,
Jim Eshelman
www.facebook.com/jamesaeshelman
(Yod Vav Daleth = Love AND Will)