Scripture of Western Ascension = S^mwt
verses |
Western Ascension |
verses |
S^mwt |
1:15-19 |
knowledge of music |
15:20 |
"took a timbrel in her hand" |
2:4-5 |
scripture as treasure {Bon & rN~in-ma} |
15:22 |
wilderness of S^ur : cf. <arabi^ tarwa "riches, resources" |
3:7 |
sacrificing to daemones & spirits |
15:25 |
"cast it into the waters" |
4:7 |
recitation of scripture |
15:26 |
"give ear to His commandments" |
5:2 |
seed of a tree |
15:27 |
70 palm-trees |
6:9 |
the big bag |
16:33 |
"a jar" |
7:11 |
white hair, ripen |
17:7 |
Mt. H.oreb = <arabi^ h.irba> "chameleon" {Aztec day Cuetzpallin "lizard" = Yucatec day Kan (Quiche` Ghanan) "ripe"} |
8:4 |
dam having gushing, gurling streams beneath {as at Marib, Yemen} |
17:6 |
"smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people might drink." (:7 Mribbah) |
9:8 |
fine hair |
17:12 |
sat upon a large stone {cf. <arabi^ faqasa "to hatch an egg" = <ibri^ peqes "down (fine hair)"} |
10:8 |
image in a mirror; echo |
18:5 |
Yitro^ = tro, term for "deity" in Togo, where is the tribe Hudu, cf. <ibri^ hed "echo" |
11:2 |
wind & breath |
19:4 |
"bore you on vultures' wings" (vultures being upheld in sky by wind-currents, depicted as such in Kemetian art) |
12:3 |
flickering like image between dreaming & waking |
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13:10 |
pivot {Mt. Mandara} |
19:20 |
"to the top of the mount" |
14:8 |
meditation in a chamber of retreat |
19:24 |
"let not he priests and the people break through to come up" |
15:2 |
myriad beings embrace the One {Ek-Om-kara, S`ikh} |
20:3 |
"Thou shalt have no other gods before Me." |
16:1 |
vague & obscure |
20:4 |
not image nor likeness |
16:1 |
myriad beings assemble at the root {cf. assembling of the people at the reed, in order to enter it at the time of the world-deluge, in Navaho mythology} |
20:5 |
qanna> "jealous" : cf. qaneh "reed" |
16:2 |
never forgotten |
20:6 |
unto the 1000th generation |
17:5 |
body is carriage of the spirit |
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17:8 |
Before human beings are born |
20:10 |
"nor thy son, nor thy daughter" |
18:4 |
bellows & flute are empty {flute of Kr.s.n.a / Tezcatli-poca} |
20:15 |
"the voice of the horn" |
19:1 |
"the satisfaction of sounds and sight is the basis for misfortune." |
20:23 |
"that thy nakedness be not uncovered thereon." |
20:12 |
flavorless |
21:10 |
"her food ... shall he not diminish." |
21:3 |
harboring the spirit |
21:13 |
"appoint them a place whither he may flee" [so as to be harborered thereat] |
22:5 |
abandon sageliness, discard wisdom |
21:14 |
"thou shall take him from Mine altar, that he may die" [i.e., from "the altar of God, who giveth joy to my youth" by imparting wisdom, abandon instead to the avenger] |
23:5 |
world-mother {Gnostic Sophia = Prajn~a Paramita as mother of the world} |
21:17 |
"he that curseth ... his mother, shall surely be put to death." |
24:7 |
world is a great thing. It exists continuously. |
21:21 |
"if he continue" |
25:1 |
free |
21:27 |
"he shall let him go free" |
26:6 |
spirit-man hath no radiance |
22:25 |
"the sun goeth down" |
27:5 |
wasps & scorpions |
23:28 |
"the hornet" |
28:4 |
foundation {Ysod, 10th spirah} |
24:10 |
"under His feet the like of a paved work" |
30:1 |
thinking |
25:2 |
"whose heart maketh him willing" |
31:3-14 |
mutuality of opposites |
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32:2-5 |
fish within water as spirit within body |
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33:2 |
jade & gold |
28:9-20 |
semi-precious stones & gold |
34:4 |
100 families [of nobility] |
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35:2 |
the sage, |
29:32 |
"sons of >ahro^n", |
35:3 |
contrasted with the commoner |
29:33 |
contrasted with "a stranger" |
36:3 |
clarity of heaven |
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37:2, 6 |
accumulate |
30:25 |
"an ointment compound" |
38:7 |
the 4 limbs are stiff |
32:9 |
"stiffnecked" |
39:5 |
vanishment into invisibility (of master Gu) |
33:23 |
"thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen." |
39:6 |
office-building was dark & yellow {black-and-yellow of Tezcatli-poca} |
36:18, 38 |
brass (as part of aedifice) |
39:8 |
levitation of Gu, who appeared "vague and indistinct" |
40:38 |
"For the cloud of YHWH was upon the tabernacle by day ..." |
some other connections may be:
21:1 |
sympathizing with one's self {atman} |
Ys^<yah 14:12 |
He^lel "self-praise" |
22:5 |
return to unknowing {goddess A-vidya "unkowing", wife (according to the Upanis.ad) of IS`-VARa} |
Odusseis |
IKMALios built |
23:1 |
permament peace (if "peace" be taken to mean "repose", as in the Gospel according to Thomas) |
a couch |
Livia Kohn (translator): Taoist Mystical Philosophy. State U. of NY Pr, 1991. pp. 235-273
J. Milton Cowan (translator): The Hans Wehr Dictionaryof Modern Written Arabic.
Dov Ben-Abba (editor): The Meridian Hebrew/English English/Hebrew Dictionary.