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Man
Know Thyself
Raphael Ornstein, M.D.
This Book is Dedicated to
the Truth
Maa
Know Thyself
Raphael Omstein, M.D.
The following books by Raphael Omstein, M.D.
are also published
by the San Francisco Medical Research Foundation
Beauty, The Universal Healing Force
Medicine Today, Healing Tomorrow
Music
Light, Color and Crystals
Flower Power
Psilocybin: The Magic Mushroom
The Pyramid and the Law
Copyright * 1980 Raphael Omstein, M.D.
Published by
San Francisco Medical Research Foundation
803 Fourth Street
San Rafael, California 94901
(415) 457-0722
Man Know Thyself
Man, know thyself. Knowledge of oneself is the only real knowledge, for as
one understands oneself, only then may one truly understand another. Hence,
the Oracle of Delphi proclaiming to man to know thyself, for within man all is
contained.
"God created man in his own image. Male and female (in one) created he
them."
Man in his cosmic aspect is a being very superior to that which is commonly
looked upon as a "man" which is described in books on anthropology,
anatomy, etc. Such external sciences deal only with the grossly material body
of external terrestial man, while the essential body of macrocosmic and
microscopic man is beyond the reach of external observation. In the study of
man as a cosmic being there are only three aspects of one. These three subjects
are God, nature, and man; and neither one of them may be understood in its in
ner essence without an understanding of the other two. External science,
"natural philosophy" and theology seek to separate them.
They regard man as being seperated, distinct and independent of nature, and
nature as something independent of man,- while God, they know nothing and
regard the divine power, which is the cause of all life, as if it were something ex
ternal to nature and man, and beyond their reach. For this reason the "man" of
modem science has become an unnatural being, without any conceivable ob
ject for his existence, and nature is to him an organism evolved by accident and
subject to no other than mechanically acting law. The divine, spiritual,
creative, and hidden powers in man and in nature are entirely removed from
the field of perception of the "rationalist."
Man, as a whole, may be conceived of as a planetary spirit, a self-conscious,
luminous sphere of unimaginable extent, as in fact, as present, the mental
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sphere of man has no defined limits; it reaches as far as his thoughts can go. He
was created for the purpose of being the image of God. The glory of God is
residing in him, and he is penetrated by the light of divine love.
In man is contained everything; God, the Christ, the angels, the celestial and
terrestials kingdoms, and the powers of hell. Outside of him is nothing of
which he can conceive, he can know nothing except that which exists in his
mind. No god or devil, no spirit or any power whatever can act within man
unless it centers into his constitution. Only that which exists in him has ex
istence for him.
Without a realization of this fact, the mysteries of religion will remain in
comprehensible. It may be interesting and amusing to speculate about all the
different gods and celestial hosts that go to make the pantheons of the various
nations, but such a study does not constitute real knowledge. Only when
man's spiritual perceptions are unfolded and he attains divine knowledge of
self, then will he know the Christ and all the celestial powers whose aggregate
goes to make up the kingdom of God existing within himself.
The spirit of God resides from eternity to eternity only in heaven — that is to
say, in his own essence, is the power of the majesty. When it became in
breathed into the image of man, then was heaven in man, for God willed to
reveal himself in man, as in an image created after his own likeness, and to
manifest the great wonders of his eternal wisdom.
God's greatest gift to man is mind. The fact that man has a mind which is
part and parcel of God's mind makes man an infinitely creative being. God
created Adam to enjoy eternal life in Paradise in a state of paradisiacal perfec
tion. Divine love illumined his interior, as the sun is illuminating the world.
The term "paradise'' means a state of purity and innocence and happiness,
but not necessarily knowledge. Man had to learn to know evil so as to be able to
realize good. Good being the primal will of God.
In paradise there is perfect life without disturbance, and a perpetual day, and
the paradisiacal man is clear like transparent glass, and he is fully penetrated by
the light of the divine sun.
His body likewise appeared luminous, because its terrestial substance was
absorbed in the celestial essence. It radiated a pure, divine light.
This was so and will become so as truth reveals itself because original man's
thoughts and will were pure, and therefore his spirit (the union of will and
thought) manifested itself in producing a pure and luminous form, not bur
dened with the gross material elements which form at present the bodies of
human beings. Then, as now, his body is the product of his own thoughts.1
1. The Life and Doctrines of facob Boehme — Franz Hartmann M.D.
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The above statements are taken from the life and doctrines of Jacob Boehme,
a great Christian alchemist, who wrote in the 16th century. Boehme was a true
Hermeticist bringing through the ageless wisdom.
Boehme's conception of the allegory of the fall of Adam is funamental to
understanding the relationship between Hermetics and the esoteric interpreta
tion of the Bible which is rooted in Qabalah. Man's fall in reality was a fall in
consciousness—a forgetting of himself, a falling away from the Holy Spirit or
divine inspiration which gives life meaning. Man's fall or apparent fall was
known to the Father as it is the Divine plan which is occuring now for man to
awaken in this New Age, the Age of Aquarius, to his true identity and divinity
and realize that the Christ, that is the pure intelligence of God, is contained
within him.
Man's "fall” was necessary so to speak so that he could gain knowledge in
knowing and being able to discriminate between good and evil for in God's in
finite love he gave to man free will. The problem of evil has vexed theologians
and serious students of philosophy throughout the past age. The understanding
of the devil, which is lived spelled backward, is the secret to liberation for in
understanding the darkness, the darkness is no more. The word Devil is
Diabolus, an adversary in Latin. Lucifer, seen as the devil or the antichrist in
exoteric Christianity is really the bringer of light, for Lucifer means light
bearer.
How, may you ask, can the Devil be a light-bearer? In man's quest for
knowledge of self, a resistance, or creative tension was placed into the universal
plan regarding man's evolution. For man to evolve, to grow and to learn, a
resistance was placed upon him. The agency which created this resistance was
none other than Lucifer, who played the heavy or dark force.
Lucifer in reality is God's greatest archangel, for he had to play out with total
realness all that man did not want to know or see about himself. Lucifer means
bearer of light.
Lucifer brought to man’s experience the realization that God is both the light
and darkness. The light and the dark co-exist within the mind of God in perfect
harmony. Man, to gain insight and understanding of self, had to realize and
acknowledge that both forces co-exist within himself as is with God, and that
which man calls the Devil is nothing more than a product of his own imagina
tion. The Devil or Satan is none other than that agency within man which
creates the illusion of seperation from the infinite source of life, which is grace,
which is love. It is this force (love) that sustains and maintains the creation mo
ment to moment, day to day, .week to week, month to month, year to year,
century to century and millenium to millenium.
The Devil is limitation of mind. The Devil in flesh is the rationalist or un
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comprised intellectual who sees the universe as a blind mechanical force acting
in an arbitrary fashion imposing upon mankind an infinite variety of hardships
and dis-eases. The Devil is that agency within man which sows seeds of fear
and confusion and declares in no uncertain terms that this is how life is! The
Devil is a speaker of lies.
The concept of life as limitation is total illusion and represents and is
spiritual blindness or ignorance. Ignorance and fear go hand in hand and it is
fear based upon limitation which is illusion that is the cause of all dis-ease. To
bring this concept into the now, let us look at the great “crisis" which is en
croaching upon humanity today. The “energy crisis" is upon us so “they" say,
yet it is an acknowledged scientific fact that the energy which sustains and
maintains the universe is infinite. So much for the Devil.
As stated, man has been given free will and the ability to make conscious
choices regarding his experience. The quality of man’s life is determined by his
conscious choices. It is, however, through the infinite grace of God, that God;
(infinite creative intelligence) educates man to understand his true nature. For
wisdom lies within the understanding that life is self-liberating through Christ.
Christ being the word or logos principle contained within the mind of man.
Christ is synonomous with pure intelligence and is expressed as reason.
Reasonableness is a reflection of Christhood.2
This realization and the saving grace of Lord Jesus Christ, which is but
another name for life, contains the secret of liberation.
The mystical or occult name of Jesus is based upon the tetragrammaton,- the
tetragrammaton being the most ancient and eternal name of God. YOD-HEVAV-HE—Fire-Water-Air-Earth—this is the revealed name of God. The I am
that I am contains within it the secret of the pentagram, the symbol of man
himself.
For Jesus himself said, Jesus being the living incarnation of God-Man, “Eritis
no sicut dii, non sicut deus, sed eritis deus.” "You will not be as gods." (Jesus
referring to the statement in Genesis where God revealed man's true nature in
proclaiming, “Know that ye are Gods"), not “as God" but you will be God."3
This is an evolution in thought regarding the nature of man. To understand
the Bible and to understand life in its true sense, one must understand that life
unfolds and evolves through thought or consciousness. ' 'That which hath been
made was life in the creative thought, and the life was the light" is the declara
tion at the beginning of the Gospel according to St. John. The life power, God,
2. This reasonableness is founded upon the true knowledge of oneself. True knowledge of
oneself brings one to the realization that with God, all things are possible.
3. Jacob Boehme — The Life et> Doctrine of Jacob Boehme— Franz Hartmann, M.D.
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the creative thinker, dwells within man, forever revealing itself to itself in
manifested form.
The key to understanding man's true nature in relationship to universal in
finite intelligence is encoded within the symbolism of the pentagram as
previously stated. The letters at the five points of the pentagram are the Roman
characters corresponding to Yod-heh-shin-vav-heh. These are the letters which
spell the divine name, IHVH, the most ancient and eternal name of God,
Jehovah, I am that I am, with the "holy letter,” shin, the letter of the Holy
Spirit, placed between the first two and the last two letters, thus IHSHVH. This
is the occult and Rosicrucian spelling of the name Yehushua or Jesus.
The pentagram expesses the mind's domination over the elements. It is the
Star of the Magi, the burning star of the Gnostic Schools, the sign of intellectual
omnipotence and autocracy. All symbols of the gnosis, all figures of occultism,
all Qabalistic keys of prophecy, are resumed in the sign of the pentagram. It is
the sign of the absolute and universal synthesis. MAN.
In drawing a pentagram, we divide each of its five lines in exact extreme and
mean proportion, which may be defined as the division of any quantity into
two such parts or proportions as that the measure of the lesser part shall bear
the same relation to the measure of the greater part as the measure of the
greater part bears in turn to the whole quantity. The occult interpretation of
this mathematcal proportion is sometimes expressed in the maxim: "Nature is
to man as man is to God." The proportion itself is often called the Golden Sec
tion of Pythagoras, and is associated with the Hermetic axiom: That which is
above, is as that which is below, and that which is below, is as that which is
above.”4
As I have stated, the Bible is a Qabalistic book and the keys to Qabalah are
revealed on the tree of life through the symbolism of Tarot. The Bible is a coded
book based upon the relationship of numbers and letters.
The ancient Hebrews and Greeks had no numerals. They performed their
arithmetical calculations with the letters of their alphabets. In Hebrew and
Greek every letter is a number. Every word is therefore a number, the sum of
the values of its letters. In manuscripts of the Old and New Testaments, not
only are the numbers of chapters, verses, and pages indicated by combinations
of letters; but there are many examples of special spellings and unusual phras
ing intended to indicate definite numbers.
Based upon this fact, that in Hebrew and Greek every word is a number, is a
method of Biblical interpretation called gematria, a term derived probably from
4. The Great Seal of the United States—Its History, Symbolism and Message for the New
Age.Paul Foster Case.
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the Greek geometria, whence conies the English noun geometry. Rabbinical
commentators on the Old Testament used gematria long before the Christian
era.
The underlying notion of gematria is that words having the same number
often have a hidden correspondence in meaning of which the identity in
number is a signal. Gematria is not limited to single words. It applies to phrases
and sentences also.
In the composition of the Old and New Testaments, and of other sacred and
esoteric writings, this number-letter code was utilized in order to preserve a
record of arcane knowledge while at the same time concealing the real
significance of the writing from all but those who possessed the key.
"In thirty-two wonderfully distinguished paths of wisdom did Jah, Jehovah
Tzabaoth, the Creative Powers of Life, King of Eternity, God Almighty, Com
passionate and Merciful, Supreme and Exalted, Who is Eternal, Sublime, and
Holy is His Name, decree and create His universe by means of three kinds of
characters: Numbers, Letters, and Words: ten circumscribed Sephiroth, and
twenty-two fundamental signs; three Mother, seven Double, and twelve Sim
ple Letters."5
The following table gives the names, numbers, and some of the cor
respondences of the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. These cor
respondences include the four elements of the ancients, and the twelve signs of
the Zodiac. These twenty-two letters are contained within the twenty-two
tarot cards.
Aleph
Letter
Number
Sign, Planet or Element
A
I
Air, Spirit
Mercury
Beth
B
2
Gunel
G
3
Moon
Dale th
D
4
Venus
Heh
H
5
Aries
Vav
V
6
Taurus
Zain
Z
7
Gemini
Cheth
Ch
8
Cancer
Tcth
T
9
Leo
Yod
1
10
Virgo
Kaph
K.C
20
Jupiter
Lamed
L
30
Libra
Man
M
40
Water
Nun
N
50
Scorpio
Samckl
S
60
Sagittarius
Ayin
Capricorn
o
70
Pch
p
80
Mars
Tzaddi
Tz
90
Aquarius
Q
100
Pisces
Rah
R
200
Sun
Shm
Sh
300
Fire
Tau
Th
400
Saturn, Earth
Qoph
The English Gematria
123456789
ABCDEFGHI
J KLMNOPQR
STUVWXYZ
We are using the English Gematria in our
definition of God, Man, and Woman, in
the following pages, i.e. GOD
G=7
0=6
D=4
17 = 8
5. Anonymous, Paul Foster Case. Published by the Builders of the Adytum, L.A. CA.
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Diagram of The Tree of Life.
7
1
God
1
4
Gimel - Aleph - Daleth
The number 8 is the digit value of the name translated "Lord” in
the Authorized Version of the Bible, and "Jehovah” in the Revised
Versions. It is not really a name at all, but rather a verbal, numerical
and geometrical formula. In Roman letters corresponding to Hebrew
it is spelled IHVH. Correctly translated, it means "that which was,
that which is, that which shall be.” That, not He. Thus, it is a perfect
verbal symbol for the One Reality—for that something which has
always subsisted behind all forms in the eternity of the past, for that
something which really is behind all the appearances and misunder
standings of the present, for that something which will be the founda
tion for all the changing forms of life-expression in the eternity to
come.
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888 is the numeration of the name Jesus in Greek and 8 is not only
the "Dominical number" or "Number of the Lord," in Christian
numerical symbolism, but is also the particular number of the god
called Thoth by Egyptians, Nebo by Assyrians, Hermes by Greeks,
and Mercury by Romans.
Thus 8 is pre-eminently the number of magic and of Hermetic
Science. Its Hebrew name is Splendor, and the aspect of con
sciousness to which it corresponds is called perfect intelligence.6
8 is also the number of infinity “.
6. The Tarot—A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages. Paul Foster Case. McCoy Publishing Co.
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God-Man
The Hebrew designation for God is Aleph-Lamed.
= EL = Strength
Aleph
JUSTICE.
Lamed
This symbolic representation of God-Man is understood as the in
finite creative intelligence (Aleph) operating through undeviating
justice or law (Lamed).
In Hebrew A is Eh—which means I Am.7
From Lamed we have La—which is Love.
Combined we have A-La—as in Allah.
"I Am Love"
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EhEyEh—I am that lam. Exodus Chapter 3, Verse 14.
Love and strength hence have corresponding roots and are really
one and the same.
This directly corresponds with the Gospel of St. John where it is
stated that God is Love.
The Fool (Aleph) is the indwelling, infinite creative spirit of life
within man. It is the spirit of Freedom. Life in itself knows no limits
or boundaries. Life is infinite and free and contains within itself all
possibilities.
It is within this realization that we may rejoice in our inherent
creativity and know that this spirit of creativity holds the keys to our
personal and collective liberation. Life is free and so are we.
Now, the creative spirit works in harmony with the law which is
the Lord. Lord in Hebrew corresponds to the law. The word Lord in
Hebrew is Adonai, through gematria it reduces to the number 11,
which in tarot is the key of Lamed—Justice. It is through knowledge
of the Lord (the law) that humanity attains Wisdom, which is peace.
The number 11 reduces to the number 2 which on the Tree of Life is
Wisdom.
The laws of God are contained within the laws of nature. The Law
is immutable and eternal. Hence, it is said that God (truth, the law) is
a respecter of no persons. Our work as Human beings is to come to
understand the law, which is God, which is truth.
The law was revealed to Moses, who was the law giver unto the
people of Is-Ra-El.
"You must love the Lord (the law) your God with all your heart,
and with all your soul and with all your might."
Hence, the sacred Hebrew mantrum, "Hear O Is-ra-el the Lord, our
God, the Lord is one."
This law, which is truth, is seen on the back of the one dollar bill.
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Now, the Lord God, the eternal principal of life, manifesting itself
eternally through humanity and through nature as pure intelligence
revealed itself unto mankind through a man named Jesus.
Jesus, Jod-He-Shin-Vav-He. As the son of Man (Humanity), and the
incarnating Logos principle, he, as the manifesting Godhead, declared
unto his one Self (Humanity) to be the alpha and the omega.
In Revelation, Chapter 22 Verse 13 it is stated —"I am the Alpha
and the Omega, the beginning and the end."
Let us look at the diagram of the Tree of Life on page 7 and come to
understand this most profound statement.
1) The Alpha is Mercury-Orange-Hod-Splendor (Pure Intelligence)
(In Science the color orange is designated by the greek letter
alpha.)
2) The Omega is Jupiter-Blue-Chesed-Mercy and Compassion. (In
Science the color blue is designated by the Greek letter omega.)
Together, the Alpha and the Omega, which is also the
masculine and feminine principle fuse together in Tipareth-the
Sun-Beauty-Gold.
Gold is the color of light.
God-Man is Beauty.
Beauty is truth.
Hence, the One Life, the pure infinite creative intelligence which is
operating under law is forever manifesting its one self through man as
man and through nature as Beauty.
. Wisdom is in the Understanding
that All is Beauty.
Woman
21=3
Iff
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THE EMPRESS.
Woman is the Universal, Cosmic Mind dwelling within man. 3 on
the Tree of Life corresponds to the name Binah which means Under
standing. Within Wo-man, all Wisdom and Knowledge is contained.
All the powers and potencies within the God-head itself are contained
within woman. As such, she holds the key to man's Freedom.
The Empress, Venus, Key 3, represents the power of Creative Im
agination. One only has to look at nature, nature being the manifested
universe, to realize that there is a power within ourselves which is
supremely intelligent, and supremely creative. When Man (Humani
ty) awakens to this awesome intelligence, which is in him and around
him, mankind will learn to use its inherent creativity in a fashion
which will serve himself, humanity and nature.
It is man's high destiny to govern over nature. In governing nature,
man must first understand its laws and the ways of nature. Through
mankind's understanding of the laws of nature which are the laws of
good, good will be created. Nature is always ready, willing and able to
share her secrets with man. Man need only be open, receptive and
respectful of her ways and all will be revealed through the process we
call time.
Woman as wisdom reveals herself to man as knowledge. It is
through our understanding of nature that we acquire both Wisdom
and Knowledge. One aspect of this knowledge constitutes biochem
istry which is the science of life. It is through biochemistry and ap
plied nutrition that man will eradicate dis-ease on this planet.
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Science through biochemical understanding and through applying
the laws of consciousness will also uncover the principles which will
lead to the reversal of the aging process. This understanding and its
realization is happening now. Man will over come his last enemy
which is death and hence bring to fulfillment the prophecy of the New
Testament wherein it is promised that man through the grace of Lord
Jesus Christ will come into Eternal Life.
Now the name Jesus Christ in Hebrew means “the nature of Reality
is to liberate through intelligence." It is through the grace of the
spiritual (unseen) intelligence which is life, which is Light, that man
will overcome his fear of death. The instrument of humanity's libera
tion is the Holy Spirit which is the power of Love, education and In
telligence.
JTJDQEMENT.
The Hebrew letter Shin is the corresponding letter of the Holy Spirit.
It is the middle letter of the name Jesus. Jod-He-Shin-Vav-He. This let
ter ® , Shin, is attributed to the element of fire. This same letter,
U? , Shin, the Quintessence, also stands for Ruach Elohim, the Spirit
of God. This spiritual quintessence, which is Fire is experienced by
humanity as Music.
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Humanity, through the intelligence of life is coming into a clearer
perception and interpretation of life and is coming to know that we
are life and as life there can be no death for life is eternal. This under
standing constitutes real knowledge which leads to Wisdom which is
Peace.
Peace
Two of Swords
Man
10 = The Kingdom
Key 19—The Sun
The Kingdom and the glory of God, the Holy Spirit lives within
Man. Life gives totally of itself unto man. Man need only be open and
receptive to receive the gifts of the spirit. Man is the synthesis of all
cosmic activities.
Two of Cups
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