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THE SPKECR OF THE GODS
duced the vegetable kingdom ; from the vegetable kingdom was produced animals, from animals man..
Here we find that earth is as it were, the turning point to which downward evolution reaches, and from which upward evolution begin. It is a remarkable and signifiant fact, but none the less a fact, that, if we take the liquid semi-vowel or ethereal series of sounds, and classify them in the order they came in the throat and mouth, their intuitional or spiritual values in this order will correspond accurately to the order of the elements in this Kabbalistic doctrine of emadations.
The first of these ethereal sounds A (pronounced like the a in atma) is the first sound of the human voice formed farthest within the throat, and the breath necessary to form all other sounds nust pass from the A, the value of A therefore is “God," the first "cause" or the "self." The next sound of these series is R (ar, as in for), from its peculiar fulness and ubdefinable sound, its meaning is "wind," "breath,” *movement” or “spirit;" it is the spirit which, in the words of Genesis, "Brooded upon the face of the waters," and is the first emanation of the A or God; after R comes the sound of H (hay) the sound for "heat” the five elements in one aspect. Next comes L [el] the spiritual value of which is "light." The other aspect of the fire emanation, Y [yea] the sound succeeding L, means "compression" or "the drawing
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