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 S s “To seek the supernal and sacred source, segregate from self all simulation.” The motion of a serpent occurs in an S-like pattern. So too, the motion of spermatozoa, the fertilizing agent in semen. Swimmers of many species also use this sort of motion to propel themselves through water. ‘S’ represents a to-and-fro movement which results simultaneously in propulsion and division. There is a penetrative and progenerative connotation — the sperm penetrates the egg, causing it to divide inwardly, which results in a profound complexification leading to the birth of a new instance of the fertilized being. In motion, a snake divides terrains, thus causing bi-lateral divisions in terrain that was previously unified. This creature can thus be seen as ‘a divider’ of things, beings, relations or circumstances. The shape of the ‘S’ recalls this form of movement and meaning. What was once divided, can be re-unified by another agent, often to great effect, such that a tiny snake penetrating (dividing the surface of) an egg can result in an entire being — an entirely new universe of interactive complexity and relation. The sound of ‘S’ is the sound we call ‘hissing’, further associating it with snakes or serpents. There is also the connotation of specificity — a peculiar mode of distinction in which separation is granted precedence over unification in the dimensions of identity, comparison, awareness and meaning. The teachingSpirit showed me that the ‘serpent’ at the Tree in the Garden of Eden endowed our ancestors with this preference, which resulted in the loss of our awareness of generality and unity, and trapped us in the dimensions of ‘divisive’ knowledge — a form of relation that denies its rightful ruler entirely. Previously to this accident, specificity was a toy, and generality was our constant mode of awareness. Once the tables were turned, we lost access to unitive modes of awareness, as specificity jealously defended its new gain in status to the point of eliminating our access to experience of its counterpart. The spiral is a particularly interesting mode of dividing a dimension, significantly similar to a snake when coiled. This shape implies a form of scalarity, or multiple simultaneous perspectives on magnitude. The helix is similarly reminiscent of a snake wrapped around the trunk or a branch of a tree. Finally, ‘S’ indicates plurality, and is often added as a suffix to denote pluralization. The shape of this letter is akin to connected reflections of ‘C’. Character Classes to which ‘S’ belongs: Round Letters whose miniscule is very close to the shape of their majuscule o:O:o Sac — A pouch or bulb within an animal, often containing some metabolic fluid such as lymph or poison. Sacred — Holy. Of or relating to that which is divine. ‘Sacrificially red’ — recalling the spilling of the blood of the victims of sacrifice. Sacrifice — To suffer the loss of, renounce, injure or destroy for the sake of an ideal or belief; particularly to take the life of some being as a ritual offering to a deity or spiritual entity. Sad — Bereft of spirit, downcast, unhappy. Safe — Protected from harm, in comfort. Sage — A wise person. Sail — To travel by boat or ship. Alternately, a sheet of cloth which may catch the wind and thus propel a transport or craft. Saint — A person authorized by divinity to represent God on earth. Salt — A spice. Salvation — Deliverance from the effects of sin or wrongdoing. Liberation from ignorance or delusion. Satan — Commonly used as the proper name of a being known as ‘The Adversary’ in the bible. This being is generally presumed to reign over a spiritual dimension (Sheol or Hell) in which souls are punished for sin. This dimension is commonly held to be in the opposite direction of Heaven — or ‘down’, and is modeled as ‘filled with burning fire’. Save — To rescue from some harm or loss. Additionally, to collect money or wealth. Sanctuary — A place of safety from harm or persecution. Sand — Small grains of stone (often in vast quantity) which commonly line beaches or floor of deserts. Sap — The living fluid or blood of trees and many plants. Say — To pronounce language. Scab — A hard, dry covering, usually of or containing congealed blood, which clogs and protects wounds in flesh during healing. Scalar — Existing in multiple scales of size, structure, complexity or character (magnitudes) within and without. A graduated entity, process or assembly. Scan — To examine in a sweeping gesture; to parse. Scene — A setting wherein some event or circumstance is played out. Additionally, a distinct portion of a play or movie. Schism — A breakage or division between two or more entities. Scintillating — A quality of bright twinkling or shimmering. Additionally, an entrancing person, oration, performance or stimulus. Score — To track quantities of accomplishments, particularly in games of competition. To acquire a quantifiable accomplishment. Additionally, to make a hole in something, or a series of such holes. Scorch— To cause to char or burn slightly by exposure to fire or heat. Scrape — To remove something from the surface of something else, by usually repeated strokes of an edged instrument against a surface. Sculpt — To shape something from a substance. Sea — A local portion of the Ocean. Alternately, an inland body of saline water. Seal — To close up, particularly with a door or locking assemblage of some sort. Additionally, a form of signature usually involving a symbol or set of symbols. Secret — Something hidden or kept in confidence between persons or a group. Additionally, a concept or circumstance which is obscure or rarely understood. Section — An element or portion of a complex entity. Seductive — Extremely attractive to the point of being dangerous or addictive. Seed — The usually fertile progeny of flowering plants. Seeds often travel a great distance from their source before sprouting into a new instance of the species. Seek — To look for or actively pursue. Self — The sense of identity experienced by a being reflection on its own existence, relations and experience. Sell — To offer to part with something possessed for a price, usually expressed as a quantity of money or something of similar value. Semi- — A prefix denoting approximation. Relatively vague likeness. Semen — The agent responsible for the fertilization of an egg in most animals. In general, it is a whitish substance filled with tiny, snakelike organisms. Archaic: spirit. Sense — A feeling or awareness of something. Additionally, one of the six senses: hearing, sight, smell, taste, touch, and communion (spirit). Separate — To cause to become divided. Additionally, distinct. Not a part of some specified or unspecified group, set, assembly or organism. Sequence — A rational order, usually proceeding from beginning through phases to completion. Serve — To care for or work for another being or group. Additionally, to present something to or for another. Set — A group or assembly of some sort. Sex — To engage in the act which can result in reproduction. Additionally, the gender of a being or sometime an object. Shadow — The dark figure cast upon a surface by a body interfering with light from some source. Shape — The physical form of something. Additionally, the imaginal sense of the form or nature of something. Sharp — A term used to describe the edge of something which is usually thin and jagged, and may be used to cut, slice, pierce or inscribe. Extremely fine jaggedness. She — A pronoun indicating a person who is female, and is neither the speaker nor the person to whom speaking is directed. Shield — A device worn on the unenweaponed arm to deflect blows. Usually round. Additionally, to protect something in some way. Shining — Bright or reflective. Often of a silvery color. Ship — A large vessel of transport, usually traveling upon water or in space. Additionally, to send via some form of transport. Shoot — To expel a projectile violently, or explosively — particularly with the intent to kill or cause harm. Show — To display something. Shut — To close something which has an open state or potential. Side — A place, space, section or direction distinguished in relation to a central line or perspective. Sign — A symbol. Alternately, a motion or gesture by which a thought, feeling, emotion, wish or command is made known to others seeing it. Additionally: A plaque, board or metallic plate with information being displayed. Evidence of something. One of the 12 aspects of the Zodiac, entities related to astrology. Significance — The meaning or derivational translation of some person, quality, relation, circumstance or event. Alternately, a quantification of importance. Silence — Quiet; the lack of aural stimulus. Simple — Uncomplicated in form, appearance, activity or nature. Similar — Alike with. Simulation — A real or imaginal situation in which something is emulated, or an irreal being, relation, circumstance, quality or event is presented as though it were perhaps real. Sin — A grave error or wrongdoing. Singularity — A hyperstructure which all discrete bodies and momenta are involved with. (this definition is unique to this site). Skill — Prowess at some activity of body, communication or mind. Skin — The superficial organ which covers animals, analogous to the membrane of a cell. Sky — The atmosphere of Earth as seen from the surface above the waters. Slant — A surface tilted from the perpendicular or horizontal. Slap — To strike with an open palm. Slave — An unwilling and often mistreated servant. Sleep — To rest, such that the waking functions of the mind and body subside into a novel state of regenerative activity. Slingshot — A weapon used to throw stones or other projectiles at high velocity. Additionally, to gather or alter momentum by utilizing a nearby body’s gravitic force in close approach. Small — Of lesser size, as compared to some standard. Smile — To express happiness, joy, embarrassment, or some other emotion by a gentle reorganization of the facial musculature such that the lips turn up at their edges. Smash — To crush by striking or throwing. To destroy. Snake — A reptilian animal which is linear and lacks legs. In the story of Genesis III, a ‘serpent’ is said to have imparted some quality of awareness to our ancestors which resulted in a grave change in our sentience. Sneak — To move quietly with the desire to pass unnoticed. To act in such a way as to evade notice or the attention of others. Snow — A form of rain in which tiny water-crystals fall. Society — A group of people who are ostensibly gathered together under some agreement or due to geographic locality. Sol — The common name of the Earth’s star. Solid — Whole, and being without an internal cavity. Additionally, the firm or hard state of matter. Solar — Having to do with the sun or stars. Son — The common term used to refer to a male child, usually in reference to specific parents. Song — A musical composition in which words are pronounced musically (sung) according to principles of rhythm, harmony and melody. Sophisticated — Complex in form, nature, position, relation or circumstances. Soul — An ineffable aspect of living beings considered to relate with the sources and purposes of life. Additionally, the core or root of something/one. Sound — Aural stimulus, perceptible primarily through the sense of hearing. South — One of the cardinal directions, often associated with ‘downward’ on the globe. Space — The medium in which stars and planets are founded. Additionally, a general term for distance between things, events or beings. Speak — To utter or pronounce verbally. Special — Unique or uncommon. Specificity — The non-general mode of relational cognition, where distinction is granted precedence over unification. Speed — A general term for velocity. Spell — To place letters in a parseable sequence, forming a word or text. Additionally, a magical binding in which the intentions of the magician are encoded for enaction. Spike — A very large nail or chisel-like instrument. Sphere — A three-dimensional circle. A ball. Sperm — A fertilizing agent produced in male animals. Spider — An eight-legged arthropod capable of creating a complex sticky net with which it traps prey. Spin — To cause to revolve. Spiral — Winding around a central point while gradually receding from or approaching it such that a round coil-like image is described. Spirit — An ineffable aspect of living beings considered to relate with the sources and purposes of life. Split — To divide into two or more portions, often suddenly or with force. Sport — A usually physical game where individuals or teams compete against each other. Additionally, a term used to denote a mutated offspring. Square — A rectangle of four equal sides. Squirt — To eject a relatively small amount liquid by subtle or overt force. Staff — A relatively long stick or pole, often used to aid walking or in combat. Stage — The part of a performance area where scenes are enacted. Alternately, a period, phase or position of development in a complex process or emergence. Stain — A discoloration usually caused by exposure to some substance. Alternately, an unwanted blemish. Standard — Normal or common in form, relation, quality, number, or character. Star — A celestial being in space which emits light and around which planets are thought to form. Start — To begin. Additionally, the beginning of something, particularly a process. Stasis — Stillness. The quality of not changing. State — A mode or condition of existence. Additionally, to make clear in language. Steal — To take that which does not belong to one, or has not be appropriately paid for according to common standards of commerce. Stem — The main body of a plant or trunk of a tree. Additionally, to branch off from, as a member of a proceeding lineage of arisals. Stir — To disturb with a circular motion, so as to mix contents or keep something from burning while being heated. Additionally, to excite. Stone — A rock, or made of rock. Additionally, a form of execution where rocks are thrown by a crowd at the victim. Stop — To cease. Straddle — To sit with legs spread across something, such as with legs on either side of a horse. Straight — Free from curves, bends, angles or irregularities. Stray — To be separated from a group or place; to be lost or wandering. Strike — To attack, generally by targeting with a sudden blow. Structure — The formative arrangement of portions or elements in a real or imaginal thing, being, circumstance or relation. Subdue — To defeat or bring to a state of subjugation. Subordinal — Smaller or less important relative to some other thing or group. Subtle — Delicate or elusive. Alternately: Difficult to understand or distinguish. Uncommonly refined. Keen and penetrating insight. Highly skillful. Operating insidiously. Cunningly crafted or contrived. Succeed — To prevail or achieve fulfillment in some activity. Alternately, to come or arrive after something/one else. Suck — To draw something into or out from by creating a vacuum. Sudden — A quality ascribed to that which happens very rapidly or unexpectedly. Suffer — To undergo a trial or bear with an undesirable circumstance. Suggest — To imply an option. Sum — The result of addition or multiplication, or the numbering of the members of something being counted. Sun — A common term for the local star, or a star in general. Supernal — Of or belonging to the heavens. Support — To grant aid to. Additionally, a structural feature which holds something in a position it might otherwise be prone to depart from. Surgery — To cut upon a living being with the goal of invasively resolving some matter of illness. Suspect — To have doubts or questions about some being, event, circumstance, relation, value or quality. Suspension — The quality of hanging down from above. Additionally, a term relating to the presence of some agent in media, usually liquid or gas. Sweat — Many animals exude salty moisture from glands in the skin when their body temperature rises, as when expending energy doing strenuous work. This acts as a cooling mechanism and also as a way to excrete toxins. Sweet — Having a flavor similar to sugar. Additionally, the character commonly experienced as endearing. Swim — The activity of a living being traveling through liquid, particularly water. Sword — A instrument of dividing, usually a long, straight blade designed for killing in combat. Syllable — One of the portions of a word denoted by stresses in the rhythm of pronunciation. Symbol — A written sign, such as a letter or other sigil, commonly used to encode meaning in context. Symmetry — A term relating to form, particularly balance in various aspects or dimensions. Additionally, a relational connectivity or balance between members or instances of a hyperstructure. System — A regularly interacting or interdependent group of entities comprising a unified assembly. 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