Psalm

Genesis 19, 24 Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. Other biblical references to brimstone are in Deuteronomy 29. 23 Job 18. 15 Psalm 11, 6 Isaiah 30, 33 Ezekiel 38, 22 Revelation 19, 20 etc. 

In spiritual alchemy section. Includes Psalm 19 - The alchemical psalm... 

This Divine Presence within the heart, is the true Grail. The quest is the realization and manifestation of the Holy Grail. It is what is meant by the completion of the Great Work of Alchemy, is called in the Emerald Tablet the Work of the Sun. The gematria of Shemesh, Hebrew for "sun, is 640, the same as for kos tankhumim, the cup of consolation (used in the 23rd Psalm as Thou anointest my head with oil my Cup runneth over. .. ). 

People have been drinking wine ever since, perhaps enconraged by the longevity of Noah, who lived to be 930. The 15th verse of Psalm 104 notes And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, At the same, in several places the Bible cantions ns to avoid overindulgence. That seems like very good advice. 

The word golem appears only once in the Bible (Psalms 139 16), where it refers to an imperfect or unformed body. The New International Version translates the verse as Your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. In Hebrew, golem signifies a shapeless mass, and the Talmud uses the word to imply imperfect. ... 

The pages of this psalm were at some point separated, and are now bound in Ashm. 240, fos. 25—7 and 802, fos. 131—3. For a bowdlerized edn. see James Halliwell, A brief description of the ancient and modem manuscripts preserved in the Public Library, Plymouth (1853). Earlier in 1604 Forman had composed a psalm to be sung at his burial Ashm. 802, fos. 135—40. For other psalms on his troubles, see Ashm. 802, fos. 121—7. 

Forman s recovery from plague is the opening episode in the psalm that chronicled his troubles with the College of Physicians.2 In it he imitated the surgeons who stressed their personal triumphs at the outset of tracts on plague and other subjects. However artful, Forman s medical writings were never... 

In 1604 Forman wrote the psalm of his troubles that began with his recovery from the plague and narrated his conflicts with the physicians. He conflated his first three formal encounters with the Censors into his first interview . The Censors asked him where he learnt his skill and by what authority he impinged on their privilege, and they concluded that he learned his skill under a hedge. Forman replied aggressively ... 

What happened next can be partially reconstructed from Forman s notes, his psalm, and a letter thar he wrote to Richard Napier in March 1603 complaining about his recent conflicts with the College, describing them as the furnace trialle of adversyty . In September 1601 Forman had been introduced to Edward Seymour, first earl of Fiertford (1539 —62), through Seymour s new... 

Forman used a similar argument in the psalm about his troubles with the physicians ... 

When one has achieved this new perspective, his former state seems like a dream by comparison, in which he was unaware of many of the facets and relationships of life. David, in Psalm 17, says, "When I awake, I shall be satisfied... 

Then he carried on watching as the other woman - yes, the one they d nearly hit on the road - slipped off her robe and let it drop into the water, dissolving behind her like a cloud of milk. The Lord is my shepherd and I shall not want if he lay me down in still pastures with a woman like that, Vorman felt compelled to bastardise the psalm. Seconds later, as though to grant a dying man his wish, the girl cast off her robe too as she was led further out into the lake. 

Psalm 8 3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained. .. 

Psalm 136 9 The moon and stars to rule by night for his mercy endureth for ever. 

Psalm 147 4 He telleth the number of the stars he calleth them all by their names. 

Psalm 148 3 Praise ye him, sun and moon praise him, all ye stars of light. 

Three days before he died, on his forty-eighth birthday, Paracelsus dicated his last will and testament. There shall be sung in the church, he requested, the first, seventh, and thirtieth psalms, and at all three singings a penny is to be given in hand to every poor man before the door. ... 

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