C. Sefer HaShmoth (Book of the Names)
It is said, "The Sefer HaShmoth (Book of the Names)
is as much like a book, as the Sabbath is like the regular days of the week."
On the one hand, the Sefer HaShmoth is a book of Divine Names
of fundamental importance to qabalistic meditation and magical/occult practices.
As such, it is a valuable key that can help open locks guarding the mysteries
that lay hidden in Hebrew (and Arabic) qabalistic books, and provides Names
of Power by which one can light the entire Tree. Secondly, it is the primary
source of "Angelic Tree Language," comprised of one series of
Tree-maps that allude to distinctly different paths of ascension through
the planes of consciousness, and a second series that allude to different
stations of perfected souls who have completed the ascension.
It is said that Adam gave the book to his son Seth and it was then passed
down the generational line to Enoch son of Yared. When Enoch ascended and
"walked with Elohim," he took the book with him. The Sefer
HaShmoth came back into the world again with the Covenant of AbrahamThe Hebrew word for "covenant" is B’rith (tyrb lit.
Promise, Circle, Chain).. Abraham
gave the book to Ishmael, Isaac, and his offspring by his concubinesThe reader again is referred to the Lech Lecha section of
Torah B’reshith.. Isaac's
copy was handed down to Master Mosheh and was later sealed in the vault
of the first Temple of Jerusalem. Buried in the Temple vault, access to
the book was limited to those who had the psychic skill to "see/read"
it in Yetzirah (Astral World of Formation), and the strength to survive
the impact of its power without shattering their shells.The shattering of the shells results in death.
The powerful Sefer HaShmoth resurfaced in the early 1970's, when
it was transmitted through the gentleman responsible for the creation of
the Work of the Chariot Trust. For a series of nights, he would awaken in
the early hours and record the succession of Sinatic Hebrew Divine Names
and Trees of Life he would see as intense light patterns, using the level
of psychic mediation described in the Sefer HaZohar (Book
of Splendor) as "One-Twentieth Cloudy Mirror." (The various
designations regarding the mirror of consciousness in the Zohar
refer to different degrees of vision. "Clear Mirror" denotes the
consciousness of Messiah. "Dull" or "Cloudy Mirror"
denotes the vision of Prophets. "One-Twentieth Cloudy Mirror"
denotes the conscious dream state and "One-Sixtieth Cloudy Mirror"
the normal dream state.) He assembled the sequence of Names into a book
as he was instructed, with one Name on each page. The Names are followed
by the series of Angelic Tree Language. The Work of the Chariot Trust subsequently
published Sinatic Hebrew, Ezra Hebrew, and English versions of the Sefer
HaShmoth in 1971-72. Most of the Working and Perfect forms of the
Tree of Life that appeared in those books had never been seen before. The
complete list of Divine Names contained in the Work of the Chariot edition
is provided in Appendix A of the book Qabalah:
The Mystical Heritage of the Children of Abraham.
