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The third letter of the sacred alphabet of Kabbalah is the letter Gimel. If you observe
its shape, you see that it is made by a letter Vav (‫ )ו‬and a letter Iod (‫)י‬. This encloses
the mystery of the sound "ggh," which is guttural, meaning, in the throat. If you
observe the Tree of Life you will see that - in the human being - the Sephirah Da'ath is
precisely located at the level of the throat. This Sephirah Da'ath is Gnosis. Gnosis is
written with g.

Gnosis means "knowledge;" the Sanskrit word for knowledge is "Gnana," but you
might be more familiar with the spelling “Jnana.” In Hebrew, the letter Gimel has
these two (ja and ga) sounds which are associated with many words.

The sound of Gimel is located at the level of the throat.

In the lecture related with the letter Aleph, we stated that the letter Iod is the first dot,
from which all the other letters are expressed. Iod is the first dot in letter Gimel, and
when you write out the word “Gimel” in Hebrew, followed by the letter Gimel, is the
letter Iod.

At the bottom of the letter Gimel there is another Iod that protrudes towards the left,
and according to many Kabbalists, this Iod forms a foot. This is why the letter Gimel
is sometimes represented by the running man, or a human being that has started to
walk or to run. The word in Hebrew for running is pronounced ‘ratz.’ Thus, from the
word ‘ratz’ comes ‘ratzon,’ which in Hebrew means will, willpower. In the action of
walking, or doing, we find the action of willpower. It is very significant that action or
willpower is represented by that foot, which is formed by the letter Iod, which also is
a representation of the phallus. The phallus is the letter Iod below, because the letter
Gimel - which is generation and genesis - is telling us about the action of the Holy
Spirit, since it is the third letter, and has a numerical value of three.

Remember that amongst the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit is Binah, the
third Sephirah in the Tree of Life. Binah is Hebrew for “intelligence, understanding.”
It is pointing at the human being, which among all the animals is the one that has the
capacity for understanding and intelligence. The intellectual animal is at the top of
earthly evolution.
The letter Gimel, as the number three, is represented by the mercury of philosophy.
Mercury is the Holy Spirit, which is an emanation of the holy tri-unity. This force
always works in the central nervous system as El-Shaddai. Remember that it is stated
that the central nervous system is the throne of God. That is why - in Christianity -
those beings that are related with the Sephirah Binah at that level are called Thrones.
It is because the throne of God is always made by the creative force of the Holy Spirit
as El-Shaddai represented in the letter Gimel.

The creative force of the Holy Spirit is synthesized by the four elements, or the four
holy creatures that we talked about in previous lectures. Ezekiel shows them as the
bull, the lion, the eagle, and the human being, or angel. In previous lectures, we told
you that these four creatures are the manifestation, the action, of Binah, the Holy
Spirit, that works through the elements that are also represented by the sphinx. But in
this case, because we are talking about Kabbalah, the four creatures in us each have
their own microcosmic representations: 1.) The eyes are represented by the lion. 2.)
The ears are represented by the ox. 3.) The nose is represented by the eagle. 4.) The
speech, mouth, and taste are represented by the man.

In the head we have senses that are always active thanks to the intelligent force of the
Holy Spirit, which expresses itself through Gimel. The words that I am expressing
now are coming through my throat. That is why Gnosis is knowledge, expressed. This
is also why the human being is the one that expresses speech through the word,
through Gnosis (Daath), the knowledge of God, through Gimel. This is why in
Judaism there is a Hebrew word that is very popular: Haggadah, “to tell.”

The power of creation of the Elohim, of God, resides in the throat. That is why this
power expresses itself through any prophet, any sacred individual, through the throat
by speaking the letters of God. Such wisdom is later inscribed or written on paper as a
Gospel, as God-spells. This is why, after that, they call scriptures “the word of God.”
The Bible was written by men, prophets, initiates, who have the power of God. Such a
power is in the throat, in that chakra, which in Hinduism is called Vishuddha. All the
sacred books written in the world are written by men and women, whose power is
God in their throat.

Within this power is Mercury, the Holy Spirit; Mercury in this sense is the power of
the word. Remember that Mercury or Hermes is related with the mind and with the
word that creates. This is why when God begins his work, he says "Let there be light."
The one who makes that light is the Holy Spirit, because Binah (intelligence) as El-
Shaddai is the lower Iod of the letter Gimel that is the action of the Holy Trinity. Thus,
the creative action of the Holy Trinity is done through the Holy Spirit as El-Shaddai;
it is the whole initiation, the whole path that we have to begin by first studying the
knowledge, the Gnosis, the Sanskrit Gnana. After studying the doctrine, then we put
in activity that word or knowledge by the will, by the action of the Holy Spirit which
expresses itself through the Iod.

SOURCE: Excerpts from the Alphabet of Kabbalah, ‫ ג‬Gimel, written by Gnostic

Instructor via GnosticTeachings.org