MDDM Ch. 50 Shin

[Dave Monroe]

"... 'tis Dixon's luck to discover The Rabbi of
Prague,
headquarters of a Kabbalistick Faith, in
correspondence with the Elect Cohens of Paris, whose
private Salute they now greet Dixon with, the Fingers
spread two and two, and the Thumb held away from them
likewise, said to represent the Hebrew letter Shin and
to signify, 'live long and prosper.'" (M&D, Ch. 50, p.
485)


Shin is the twenty-first letter of the Hebrew alphabet
(aleph-beyt).
The numerical value of Shin is 300.
The character associated with Shin is the Tooth.
The letter Shin when accompanied by a dot on the upper
right has a 'sh' sound as in the word 'Shalom'.
When the letter a dot on the upper left it has a sound
like the 's' in the word 'Salvation'.

http://www.derech.org/shin.html


The Letter Shin is easily distinguished by its three
heads. The spacing of the Shin is something that takes
practice for a Sofer to write correctly. The leftmost
leg should have the head of a Zayin. (According to the
Arizal,the left leg has the head of a Vov.) The head
should have 3 Tagin on it, like a regular Zayin. The
heads should not touch one another at all. Also, there
should be no more than 3 heads in total, or the letter
would be rendered invalid. The bottom should come to a
point, and not be rounded or flat.

http://www.safrus.com/alephbet_images/shin2big.gif

http://www.safrus.com/alephbet.html


Shin
The Eternal Flame

The letter shin appears engraved on both sides of the
head [tefilin]. On the right side, the shin possesses
three heads, while on the left side it possesses four
heads. In Kabbalah we are taught that the three-headed
shin is the shin of this world while the four-headed
shin is the shin of the World to Come.

The secret of the shin is "the flame [Divine
Revelation] bound to the coal [Divine Essence]." A
simmering coal actually possesses an invisible flame
within it, which emerges and ascends from the surface
of the coal when the coal is blown upon. The three
levels: coal, inner flame, and outer flame, correspond
to the secret of chash-mal-mal, as will be explained
in the next letter, the tav.

One of the meanings of the word shin in Hebrew is
shinui, "change." The coal symbolizes changeless
essence, the secret of the verse: "I am G-d, I have
not changed," meaning that relative to G-d's Essence
absolutely no change has occurred from before Creation
to after Creation. The inner flame is the paradoxical
latent presence of the power of change within the
changeless. The outer flame of the shin is
continuously in a state of motion and change.

As in the above-quoted verse, the changeless Essence
is the secret of the Name Havayah. The power of
change, as latently present within G-d’s Essence
before Creation and thereafter revealed in the
infinite intricacy and beauty of an ever-dancing
flame, is the secret of the explicit Name of Creation,
Elokim, the only Name of G-d which appears in the
plural. The number of the letter shin, 300, unites
these two Divine Names as the "flame bound to the
coal." In at'bash, the Name Havayah transforms to the
letters mem-tzadik-pei-tzadik, which total 300. The
five letters of Elokim (alef-lamed-hei-yud-mem) when
written in full, also equal 300. 

The three heads of the shin of this world correspond
to the three levels of the changeless, potential, and
actual change as discussed above. In this world, the
changeless is symbolized only by a black, dark coal,
not as the revealed light of the flame. Nonetheless
the endurance of the flame depends upon the changeless
essence of the coal. In the World to Come, the
changeless essence will reveal itself within the
flame. This revelation of the future is the secret of
the fourth head of the shin.

In the flame of a candle one sees three levels of
light: the "dark light" around the wick of the candle,
the white flame encompassing it, and an amorphous aura
around the white flame itself. Each of these three
levels of revealed light manifests a dimension
contained within the invisible flame present in the
coal. In general the flame symbolizes love, as is
said: "as mighty as death is love...the flame of G-d."
The dark light corresponds to the love of Israel,
souls enclothed within physical bodies. The white
light corresponds to the love of Torah. The aura
corresponds to the love of G-d. These are the three
essential manifestations of love as taught by the
Ba'al Shem Tov. The fourth head of the shin of the
future - the revelation of the essence of the coal
itself - corresponds to the love of the Land of Israel
and, as our Sages teach: "the Land of Israel will in
the future spread to incorporate all the lands of the
earth."

http://www.inner.org/HEBLETER/shin.htm


TRUMP XX "THE AEON" (JUDGEMENT)
Occult Code                Genetic Code 
Hebrew Letter: SHIN        START and METHIONINE 
Letter Class: MOTHER       PUNCTUATION 
I Ching Kua: 41 DECREASE   AUG

Crowley: Be every act an act of love and worship. Be
every act the fiat of a god. Be every act a source of
radiant glory. Final decision in respect of the past,
new current in respect of the future; always
represents the taking of a definite step. (BT p. 260) 

In times past, when the consensus reality was, to a
great degree, determined by the interpreters of truth
through revelation, and the day of final judgement was
said to be at hand, the man of reason could deny its
universal truth and seek to calm his and other's
anxiety through the exercise of reason over
revelation. Today is unique over all yesterdays in
that not only is the revelation apocalyptic but the
visions of reason are equally catastrophic. In times
like ours where can one derive a non-fatal vision of
the future? 

This is the card of our times. Are we facing the
Apocalypse and Final Judgement, or "merely" the end of
one evolutionary stage and the beginning of another? 

[...]

The traditional interpretation of this card refers to
the Final or Last Judgement, apocalypse or the end of
civilization. It pictures the arrival of a messenger
or angel who gathers and leads the ones to be saved
from the coming destruction by fire; ending one era
and signaling the beginning of another. 

http://ddi.digital.net/~krakowss/atu20.jpg

http://ddi.digital.net/~krakowss/atu20.htm

Thanks to Keith McMullen, Peter Petto and Vaska Tumir
for archived assistance here ...

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