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 Sahmek Spelling: sahmek mame kaf Sahmek is the only letter (excluding mame-sophit) which is entirely enclosed. The connotations are endless, but we may explore a few: If yoad extends from a point into a rod, and spins on that point, a circle is inscribed by the end of the spinning rod. Thus a point, is a line, is a circle, is a sphere. Beginning with yoad, or God, Creation links the divine universe with the existential — which is itself ‘divided’ into supernal and terrestrial or spiritual and mundane dimensions. This circle is also a cycle, and a spiral — having endless (and ever growing) numbers of ‘scales’ of implementation and geometry. Reflection within reflection, as of a bowl of water into the center of which a droplet of vitalizing force is emanated. The aspects of ‘inside and outside’ which are rarely joined in the senses. but are always unified in the spirit. A trap, which is escapable but appears impossible to evade. To get ‘out’ one must leap over or pass under, preferably at the thinnest place — which are the right and left sides of sahmek. The sense of being bound in sameness: though the circumstances of person and life appear generally the same moment-to-moment, they are always as new and unique as they are similar to any previous experience or circumstance. This offers the spiritual aspirant the opportunity to experience the novelty of cycles within cycles within cycles — the foreground of sahmek is stable, but that which is within resonates in myriads of ‘size-speed-forms’ (scales) and dimensions with that which is without. So too, that which is without endlessly receives the vibrational resonance of that which is within. In this way there are three universes here delineated, all simultaneous: stability, inward process, and outward process. The stability we commonly believe to have precedence in our lives is illusory when taken as the fundamental basis of existence and experience. A rattle can be shaken, and all things very generally touched at once. This is quite different from a rod, which touches one thing very specifically. Birth and growth in living beings arises from within, and is ‘born’ to expression without. This quality of ‘giving birth to on one’s surface or exterior’ is the mode of terrestrial life: the Earth begets children ‘on her surfaces’ and in her exterior waters. All these children are formed by the penetration of ‘that which is without and within at once’ — the spiritual emanations of the unityBeing. 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: Vavh Existential: Sahmek Supernal: (Mame-Sophit) Position: The fifteenth letter. The ninth of the ‘twelve elementals’ or simples. Common associations: Primary Significations: Support, particularly the miraculous support of the divine for the cosmic and terrestrial elements of life and growth. To uphold. The female, her ‘encompassing’ nurturence. Secondary Significations: Foundations of emergence. Cycles. The circle. To establish. To grant aid to the fallen. Body: Stomach Power: Sleep Activity: Travel Sign: Sagittarius Archetype / Tribe: Benjamin Element: Water Path on the Tree of Life: Traditional: Tiphareth / Hod Hermetic: Tiphareth / Yesod 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