: The Alphabet of Creation

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Semantic Structure and Formative Meanings of the Hebrew Alphabet: Summary

The letters (autiot) of the Hebrew alphabet considered as abstract, generalized formative principles, or "fundamental powers of being." The aleph-bet is the minimum set of semantic primes required to generate an autonomous universe. The keywords are not definitions (particularizing semantics) but rather pointers in the direction of abstract principles (generalizing semantics). The autiot are semantically-accurate (self-signifying, recursive) signs for twenty-two totally-generalized, biologically-structured energies (states of consciousnes) in different states of organization.
The semantic, or formative, dimension of the autiot and sephirot have always been just under the surface, waiting for man's capacity for abstraction to catch up. The root icons of the Hebrew letters (ox, house, camel, door, fence, etc) carry meaning as individual letters, but no one would think of stringing the icons "ox-ox goad-fence-hand-fish" together to say something -- the letters are considered as place-markers in an arbitrary linguistic system, not as signs in themselves with inherent qualities.

As a thought experiment, we can do just that, and consider the autiot as signs which unite signifier and signified across the range of structuration in an integral mode of thought. Instead of limiting ourselves to the arbitrary, particularizing semantics of sense-bound colloquial languages, we can consider an abstract language of consciousness and energy, where the signs signify the most abstract and generalized concepts of which the specific literal icon is a particularlized material representation. Then, for example, ox=fundamental power, ox goad=controlled movement, fence=life, hand=existence and mem=biosphere and we can begin to understand the internal structure and meaning of the equation called Elohim.




Three Worlds: Outside, Inside and Beyond Space-Time
Archetypal 1-9 Existential 10-90 Cosmic 100-900
Life/Death & Existence 1
Container / Boundary 2
Movement 3
Resistance 4
Organic Life 5
Sex / Fertility 6
Indetermination 7
Unstructured Energy 8
Structure 9







Semantic Structure of the Hebrew Alphabet
Formative Primes Archetypal 1-9 Existential 10-90 Cosmic 100-900
Life/Death & Existence 1
Intemporal Continuity Cosmic Consciousness
Container 2
Container Physical Supports Universe
Movement 3
Movement Equilibrium Univ. Wave Function
Resistance 4
Resistance Response Cosmic Tabernacle
Organic Life 5
Life Existential Life Realized Life
Fertility 6
Union/Copulation Female Fertility Cosmic Proliferation
Indetermination 7
Indetermination Actual Probabilty Cosmic Freedom
Unstructured Energy 8
Unstructured Energy Pool of Possibilities Cosmic Potentials
Structure 9
Cell Structure Perfected Form






Nine States of Energy on Three Levels of Manifestation
Inner Outer Move Resist Life Sex All Possible Possibilities Structure
Archetypal


1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Air
Existential

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
Water
Cosmic

100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900
Fire Finals





Traditional Meanings
Archetypal


1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Ox House Camel Door Window Nail Sword Fence Serpent
Existential

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
Hand Palm Ox Goad Water Fish Support Eye Mouth Fish Hook
Cosmic

100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900
Ear Head Tooth Cross




22 Autiot Yassod + Finals




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