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A Little ‘Petrus Talemarianus’ Sampler: Part III – A Kabbalistic Exegesis And Meditation Upon The Book Of Numbers & The Book Of The Ecclesiast

Title page of
the 1983 reprint of the ‘Petrus Talemarianus’.
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After publishing a while ago, Sampler II with appendix VII, today we are sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA an extract from appendix XI found at the end of the ‘Petrus Talemarianus‘, the impressive ‘Of Natural Architecture‘, page 368-369 and 370 + a full page table published outside the text.
It gives a taste of the many contributions Francis Warrain brought to his seminal participation to this ‘one of a kind‘ and dense editorial project, with his deep understanding of Jewish kabbalah and Hindu religion, his deep enthusiasm for science, and mathematics in particular: it was the swan song (as he died in 1940 before the completion of the ‘P.T.‘ in 1944) of a long and fruitful life.
The text we have excerpted is like a blessed and ripped harvest, a testimony of his indefectible loyalty to his friends to help build bridges and correspondences in the field of comparative religions and of the understanding of their many sacred practices, aiming to create a living vision of an elusive but possible underlined unity beyond cultural differences and of a viable harmony between all cultures beyond divisive representations: a simple praise of the archetypal beauty of the human experience, in its essential quality!
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Extract From The End Of Appendix XI:
‘The Rhythm Of The Holy Letters‘
Petrus-Proverbs-grand tableau couleur
…The table above (provided outside the text) showed, through its correspondences, that the peaceful and living offering (sacrifice), under the 2 kinds (Proverbs, III: 9; VII: 14; VIII: 12) relates to the 32 involutory and creatives paths of ☿ n (celestial manna that came down upon the desert; Exodus, XVI,13-15; John, VI, 25-58; the 5 breads; alchemy) and the illuminating communion, a Sunday, under the 2 kinds (Proverbs, IV: 4; IX: 4), for the three Grand Masters, on the labyrinth of the cathedrals, relates to the 50 scalable and life-saving doors of ♃ n (brazen snake (נחשׁת=נחשׁ+ת) elevated upon a ת in the desert; Numbers, XXI: 9; John, III: 2-21; the 2 fish; astrology). From a master-builder’s point of view, this table justified, for a church of the type h, the 108 feet of the opposite facade to the 7 shining chapels, the 112 and 113 feet that separates the altar, the communion table and the labyrinth; in the blue print of the Forbidden City, the complementary oppositions between the Sun dial and the bushel of the right measure.
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In this regard, to the title מִשְׁלֵי, שְׁלֹמֹה, opposes by complementarity the title דִּבְרֵי קֹהֶלֶת of the book of the Ecclesiast (Shakti), because the sum of their numbers is of a value of (7×108) +7 (108-1) +1.
The earliest text of the ‘Ecclesiast’ (1-1, 2 until II: 25, 26 until III: 14, 15, 16, 17, from 18 until IV: 8, 13 to 16, V, 7 until VI: 6, 8,12, VII, 13 to 17, 23 to 26, VIII, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14 until IX: 16, X, 5 to 9, 14, XI, 5, 7 to 9. 10, XII, 1 to 7, 8) is framed by ה בלהכל (= 2 x 46) , alike the nine first chapters of ‘Proverbs’ are by כישלי שלכיה = (7 x 108) – 1. The words ‘Pride’ (הבר) and ‘under the Sun’ (תחת השכרש), that are read in the opening (1, 2 and following), repeat themselves, the first one 28 (= 7 x 4) times, the others 27 (= 108 : 4) times; we find 22 times the name of the divine creator אלהים. The 4 elements (cardinal points) and the Quintessence are delineated at the beginning and the end to this work ( 1, 4-8; XII, 2, 6 and following).
In this Kabbalistic and alchemical frame a sermon is going to develop, of an oriental perfume (1, 18), about the ‘Yin-Yang’ (All is pride) and the ‘Tai Qi’ (nothing new under the sun), 1,9). In relationship with the enantiosis (note: ‘a word can mean one thing and its opposite’), 11 complementary oppositions are adapting to the elements of the sephirotic Tree: Wisdom-Madness (♄n), Light-Darkness (♃n), Wise-Insane (☿n) (II, 13-16); Children of Men-Beasts, linked with Righteous-Evil, Justice-Injustice (☿ n ♀ n, ‘Prana’) (III, 16-21); Just-Evil (☉) (VIII, 14) linked to Pure-Impure (♃d), Sacrifice-Non Sacrifice (♄d), Good-Sinner (♂ d ), Oath-Non Oath (♀ d) (IX, 2); Madness-Wealth (☿ d), Slaves-Princes (☽) (X, 6 and following). They include in order to be shared according to 3 and 7 (+1), 14 cosmogonical oppositions (m, 2-8) linked to the word עת, mutating around a fixed point (m, 1), and, in relationship with the creating יום of אלהים (column of rigor or severity), ‘tempus felix’ (Genesis, I:3 until II: 3), and the vigilant יום of יהוה (column of grace), ‘tempus infelix’ (Alexandria’s ‘Book of Wisdom’, I: 7-18); what demonstrates the importance of the phases of the moon for the determinations to make: Each beautiful thing has its own time (Yin-Yang; Leviticus, XVI: 2; Psalms: 145, 15), in its own heart, the whole duration. (Tai’qi; Ecclesiast, III: 11; Psalms, 106, 3).
After having recommended the ‘abhyasa‘ (Notes from page 179 & 266: The tantric practitioners put in front of everything, practice (in Sanscrit, ‘abhyasa‘) in order to reach Deliverance, thus indicating the necessity of a material foundation of any spiritual work. This concept is to be connected with the ‘language of the birds‘ (the universal kabbalistic slang), and with the ‘Art of Love‘, the ‘Gai Savoir‘ or the ‘Gaie Science‘) which is the foundation of salvation for the Tantric practitioners (Ecclesiast, II: 24; III: 12 and following up to 22; V: 17 and following; VIII: 15; XI: 9a, 10), the Ecclesiast, to conclude, symbolically paints for the young man a vision of dereliction of the human body, using architectural symbolism expressed into 22 (+1) subordinated propositions, of which 10 are related to the past (☽) and 12 (+1) to the future (☉) (5 ⇔ 6). The propositions of the past, divided in two parts (Yin), are related to the opposition of (☉) and (☽), to the Elements and to the Quintessence, to the marrow (☽), the brain (☉), therefore to the ‘chakras’: the first part (XII: 1b and following) symbolizes Fire and Air, the tetrahedron and the octahedron, the musical laws, Astrology (Sun & Moon); the second part (XII: 6 and following) symbolizes Water, Earth, and Ether, the icosahedron, the hexahedron and the dodecahedron, the architectural laws, Alchemy (gold & silver). The propositions of the future, gathered together (Yang), symbolically describe the septenary of the human body, in correspondence with the Sephiroth: trembling hands (♃ d, ♄ d), bent legs (♂ d, ♀ d), head (♄ n, ☽), heart (☉) and stomach (☿ d) (XII, 3-5).
Between these two complementary books, the ‘Proverbs’ and the ‘Ecclesiast’ comes in-between the ‘Song of Songs’ that carries, itself and excelling in it, the Kabbalistic, Alchemical and Tantric mark (‘Song of Songs’, I: 2 to 5 and following), 10 and following; II: 4; IV: 9 and following; IV: 12-15; V: 10-16; VII: 11 and following).
On the above mediating graphic, if we consider the 50 intervals, corresponding to the 50 Sanskrit mono-syllables, as if wrapped around a cylinder, the lines ♃, ♂ and ♀ coincide, then we can-by making each book of the canon correspond to one of the considered intervals-unfold between the line ♄ (departure) and the הו interval (arrival), the Old Testament in one side, and the New Testament in the other: the hidden interval הו corresponds to the sealed scroll of the scriptures. This scroll, sealed ‘when the times are remote‘ (Daniel, VIII: 26, XII:4), book written ‘outside’ and ‘within’, alike the two Tables of the Testimony (♂ and ♀) written with God’s script-book of rigor (creator), dedicated to the ‘Shakti’ because it is a silver long square (Ezekiel, II:9 and following; Exodus, XXXII: 15 and following; Zachariah, V:2); a book (Zachariah, V:3) of which one of the faces ‘curses’ the flight or center of the 7 words (operative) regulating the relationships between Men themselves (Deuteronomy,V:16-18), and the other ‘takes the oath’ (le jurement) or center of the 3 words (intellectual) regulating the relationship between Men and God (Deuteronomy, V: 7-12), book in which is inscribed, before the time of the Creation itself (Apocalypse, XIII: 8; XVII: 8; Ephesian, I:4), the names of the elected beings respectful of the science of the divine letters; this book is a book of knowledge (Daniel, XII: 4), similar to the Tree (creator) of Knowledge (♂ and ♀) of Good and Evil (Isaiah, XLV,7) because book and tree have leaves; It is then connected to the Creation, to the ‘Hiranyagarbha’ (The term ‘Hiranyagarbha’ is Sanskrit: हिरण्यगर्भ) and translates to “Golden Womb” or “Golden Egg” and is one of the earliest Vedic descriptions of cosmic creation. It is mentioned in the Rig Veda (10.121), known as the ‘Hiranyagarbha Sukta’, where it is described as the primordial source of all creation, floating in a cosmic ocean before manifesting the universe), to the inner life of God, to involution, to Kabbalah.
The 7 seals (alchemy), the sacrificed lamb will be able to break to open this creator-book (3rd and 7th days of Creation; Genesis, I: 9-13; Apocalypse, VII: 1-8 (7 <=> 12 x 12.000); Genesis, II: 2; Apocalypse, VIII: 1), opposed in a complementary manner to the 7 thunders (astrology) of which the voice ought to be sealed (Apocalypse, X: 4), indicate that the 10 (3+7) ‘Words’ included in the Book will blossom in (3×7)+1 letters of the Kabbalah and in (7×7) +1 Tantric monosyllables (Psalm, XII: 7). This scroll, once open and flying (Zachariah, V, 2), eternal Gospel associated to the Courtesan, to Wine and to the 3 ‘Gunas’ (Apocalypse, XIV: 6-11; VIII: 13), is the Book of the life of the Lamb (Apocalypse, XXI, 27), similar to the Tree (redeemer) of Life (♃); it is then connected to the concept of redemption and Judgement, to Manu, to the World, to evolution and to Tantrism.
The open book is ingested by the Prophets (Jeremiah, I: 9; Ezekiel, III: 1; Apocalypse, X: 10 and following) so to be able to prophesize, alike the two Witnesses (♂ and ☿), who, after having measured the Temple of God, prophesized for 1.260 (= 42 x 30) days, before their execution, preceding their resurrection of 3 days and a half (42 : 12) (Apocalypse, XI:1-11). This prophetic book, bitter to the guts (rigor, creation, interiority) and soft to the mouth (grace, redemption, exteriority; Jeremiah, I: 10; Ezekiel, III: 2; Apocalypse, X: 9), must be kept open for when the times are approaching (Apocalypse, XXII: 10), because at the time of the judgement, anyone who is inscribed into the Book will be saved when בייבאל (= 101; Daniel, XII: 1) will rise and when the Son of man with the 7 stars will come like a thief (7 <=> 101+7) and will not erase from the book of life the name of the elects, martyrized for their testimony of the Word of God and clothed like Him with a white garment washed with the blood of the lamb (Apocalypse, III: 3-5; VI: 9-11; VII: 14; XVI: 15), but will give them access to the Tree of Life through the gates of the celestial City (Apocalypse, II: 7; XXII: 14).
Anyone who wouldn’t be inscribed in the book of Life will be astonished to see the Sea Beast carrying upon its 7 heads, Babylon, the prostitute who is like an eighth head (Mary ‘the Magdalene‘ and the 7 demons; Luke 8:2 and Mark 16:9), and enabled with 10 horns + an eleventh (which cast down 3 , 8 <=> (8+3); Apocalypse, XXII: 8-16; Daniel, VI: 7 and following); But after the 1000 years (the second coming of Christ), after the defeat and the burial of Gog and Magog ( גוג וכיגוג = 70=Babylon) and their multitudes (‘ In number they are like the sand on the seashore’ Apocalypse XX: 7-9) in the valley of the Passer-by (888-1= העברים) or Hamon-Gog (=7 (108+1)= הכירן גרג) close to the city of Hamona ( 100 +1 = אבירג ה) (Ezekiel, XXXIX: 11-16), the inscribed name will be thrown into the fire altogether with Death and the ‘Scheol’ (Sheol (שְׁאוֹל) is an ancient Hebrew concept of the underworld, found throughout the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible). It represents the shadowy realm of the dead, where souls reside after death. Unlike later Christian or Greco-Roman concepts of the afterlife, Sheol is not strictly a place of punishment or reward but a neutral, dim, and silent abode of the dead): it is the second Death (Apocalypse, XX: 14 and following). Then Heaven & Earth will withdraw like a scroll being winded-up again and finds its place in the right hand of the One who is seated on the Throne (Apocalypse, V: 1; VI: 14-17; XX: 11): which is a representation of the resorption of the Manifested into ‘Ishvara’ (In Advaita Vedanta school, Ishvara is a monistic Universal Absolute that connects and is the Oneness in everyone and everything).
Therefore, the Eternal Gospel marked with the tantric seal (Apocalypse, XIV: 6-10), winding and unwinding alternately as ‘Kundalini’ when especially it engenders the space starting from ♄ (figure 6 and 7), journeys alike the ‘Shakti’ in 3 consecutive phases of contraction (closed book) and expansion (open book): for the macrocosm, the book, coming from Brahman, winds around ‘Sacchidananda’, Hiranyagarbha, Life (the ultimate unchanging reality, called Brahman, in certain branches of Hindu philosophy, especially Vedanta. It represents “existence, consciousness, and bliss” or “truth, consciousness, bliss”), and unwinds around him (Viraj, Tribhuvana, Light, Creation of the microcosm); for the microcosm, the book winds around the ‘bindu; at the seat of ‘Muladhara’ (seed, ‘pinda’, redemptor), then it unwinds around him trough the ‘chakras’ (redemption, particular judgement, and resorption into the macrocosm); for the macrocosm, the book winds around ‘Sacchidananda’ (End of the world, generic judgement), then unwinds around him towards Brahman (Night of Brahman).
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The 70 or 72 holy letters of Kabbalah and Tantrism (following that if we hide or not ו and the ‘OM’), inscribed in the sealed book, are (IV Esdras, XIV: 18-47) the 70 (or 72) last letters of the 94 divine letters dictated by Esdras to the 5 scribes to re-constitute the lost books destroyed by fire; these last ones are privy to the Wise Men, because they are from the vein of (♄) Intelligence (♄) and the source (♄) of Wisdom (☿) (transcendence, interiority of the Egg, divine squares), also the river (☽) of knowledge ( ♂ and ♀) (immanence, exteriority, square ⚫️),while are disclosed the 24 (or 22) first letters, which by their numbers, correspond, according to Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus in his ‘Prologus Galeatus’, to the books of the Old Testament.
It is this science of sacred letters, which dwells in the aura of the ‘Shakti’ (אל), guides the hand of Bezalel and Hiram (Exodus, XXXI: 2 and following; I Kings, VII: 13 and following) filled with Wisdom, Intelligence (Understanding) and Knowledge, which means: they are placed upon the Seat of the divine squares, in the Illumination of the Empyrean, the Inner Life of God:
3.Through Wisdom is a house built; and by Understanding it is established;
4. And by Knowledge are the chambers filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
(Proverbs, XXIV: 3 and 4).
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(Text Hebrew fonts: TaameyAshkenaz)
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Original French
Petrus-Proverbs-grand tableau-noir et blanc
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Coming soon:
A Little ‘Petrus Talemarianus’ Sampler:
Part IV- ‘Musing with Hesiod and Plato’.
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