Excerpt from The Theosophical Glossary
The first letter in all the world-alphabets save a few. sueh for instance as the Monfolian, the Japanese, the Tibetan, the p:tliiopian. etc. It is a letter of great mystic power and magic virtue with those wlio have adopted it, and with whom its numerical value is one. It is the Aleph of the Hebrews, symbolized by the Ox or Bull; the Alpha of the Greeks, the one and tiie first; the Az of the Slavonians, signifying the pronoun I (referring to tlie I am that I am). Even in Astrology. Taurus (the Ox or Bull or tiie Ahph) is the first of the Zodiacal signs, its color being white and yellow. The saered Ah ph accpiires a still more marked sanctity with the Ciiristian Kabbali.sts when they learn that this letter typifies the Trinity in Unity, as it is composed of two Yods, one upright, the other reversed with a slanting bar or nexus, thus x.Kenneth R.Ii. Mackenzie states that the St. Andrew cross is occultly connected therewith. The divine name, the first in the series corresponding with Ahph, is Aellelell or Ahih, when vowelless, and this is a Sanskrit root. Aahla (Eg.). One of the divisions of the Kni(t(r (.rinfernal regions, or Anu nti; the word means the Field of Peace. Aanroo (Eij.). Tlie second division of Anienti. The eelestial field of Aanroo is encircled by an iron wall. The field is covered with wheat, and the Defunct are represented gleaning it, for the Ma.ster of Eternity; some stalks being three, others five, and the highest seven cubits high. Those who reached the last two numbers entered tlie state of bliss (which is called in Theosophy Devaclian) ;the disembodied spirits whose harvest was but three cubits iiigh went into lower regions Kamaloka). Wheat was with the Egyi)tians the symbol of the Law of Uctribution or Karma. The cubits had referenee to the seven, five and three iuinian principles. Aaron (Ihb.).
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