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Hebrew:
Aleph • Beit • Geemel • Dalet •
Hay • Vahv • Zaiyin • Chait • Tait
Yoad • Kaf • Lahmed • Mame • Nune •
Sahmek • Aiyin • Pay
Tzahday • Qoaf •
Raysh • S(h)een • Tahv
Mame
Spelling: mame mame
The second of the three mothers is profound. It is amongst the
first of the sounds made by babies, and both ‘ma’ and ‘mama’ are
overtly related to this letter. The Hebrew word
maiyim (mame yoad mame-sophit) is the word for water,
and the word yom (yoad
mame) means ‘sea’ In
our secular understanding of nature we consider the oceans of Earth
to be the ‘mother’
or
‘womb’
in
which
early
terrestrial life developed. Similarly, ‘space’ is the supernal
dimension of the waters, in which the stars and planets develop.
But
there is another dimension of mame which is seldom remarked upon:
the living waters of the firstGarden — an infinite expanse
of pure undifferentiated potential in which the unityBeing exists.
This is an aspect revealed to me personally, in my education
with the teachingSpirit. The nature of the unityBeing ‘penetrates,
divides,
and differentiates’ the living waters in divine progenerative
interpenetration — and from this marriage the universes of manifestation
arise ‘over
here’, across the great veil or gap.
‘The living waters’ is true of each of the three dimensions: the
divine, space, and the terrestrial waters. Each is a reflection
of the mother. or the ‘water other’ — whose natures and activities
empower life in an incredibly omnipresent fashion. Mame’s shape
is reminiscent of a backbent vahv joined to a partial kaf — a strange
container
with a window
or hole in the left side of the bottom. The implication is the
‘upper waters’ endlessly and continually pouring forth from the
divine universe, to the celestial, and then to the terrestrial,
where water itself is common.
It is not unremarkable that the great flood rained for 40 days
and 40 nights — mame has the numeric equivalent of 40. Additionally,
the sophit-letter (see below) has the value 600 — the age of Noah
at the time of the flood — m’bul (mame beit
vahv lahmed) in Hebrew.
Mame is the second letter with a ‘sophit’ or ‘end-of-word’ form.
This
‘sophit’ quality indicates a concept akin to ‘a
product’, or the production which is the result of the relations
of the preceding letters. Additionally, this form belongs to the
supernal family — indicating the celestial in its aspect
as an embodiment existing at once within and outside human space
and time.
When appearing at the end of a word, mame’s shape is that
of yoad, elaborated into a closed square containment. The only
other letter with this quality of closed containment is sahmek. This
implies the aspects of God which are ‘hidden within’ and
inaccessible but through faith or uncommon wisdom. It may also
imply the ongoing completion of the acitivity and nurturence of
the living waters.
‘As the star
in space, so life from the ocean, so the child in the womb, so
the yolk and embryo in the egg.’
o:O:o
o:O:o
Family: Existential: Actualized in existence within
the spiral/cone of transentient emanation. Existing within space-time.
The second 9 letters.
Archetypal: Dalet
Existential: Mame
Supernal: Tahv
Position: The thirteenth letter. The second of the ‘three
mothers’ (aleph mame s(h)een)
Common associations:
Primary Significations: Mother. Water. The womb.
Secondary Significations: The fountain of wisdom. Mercy, and its
13 attributes. Undifferentiated potential, which, penetrated by
glory, becomes universes and children.
Body: The belly. The womb of a woman.
Power: To concieve and give birth.
Planet: N/A — The ‘living waters’ in the firstGarden.
The celestial waters of space. The terrestrial waters.
Archetype / Tribe: Mashiach Ben David
Element: Water
Path on the Tree of Life:
Traditional: Hod / Netzach
Hermetic: Geburah / Hod
A • B • C • D • E • F • G • H • I • J • K • L • M
N • O • P • Q • R • S • T • U • V • W • X • Y • Z
Hebrew:
Aleph • Beit • Geemel • Dalet • Hay • Vahv • Zaiyin • Chait • Tait
Yoad • Kaf • Lahmed • Mame • Nune • Sahmek • Aiyin • Pay
Tzahday • Qoaf • Raysh • S(h)een • Tahv
