Introduction: The Lights of Perfection Wheel

Below are the instructions for building The Lights of Perfection Wheel

1. List the names of the 12 sons of Israel, in order of birth:

Reuben

Simeon

Levi

Judah

Dan

Naphtali

Gad

Asher

Issachar

Zebulon

Joseph

Benjamin

2. Next, find a means to translate the names. I used the translations provided by the New International Version (NIV) footnotes, and tweaked them somewhat:

Hebrew	English Translate
Reuben	See a Son
Simeon	One that Listens*
Levi	Attached
Judah	Praise
Dan	Vindicated
Naphtali	My Struggle
Gad	Good Fortune/ Troop
Asher	Happy
Issachar	Reward*
Zebulon	House/Honor
Joseph	He Will Add*
Benjamin	Son at my Right [Hand]

*Translations modified from NIV suggestions

3. Next, place the translated in a counter-clockwise circle:

4. Now, the fun part: assign to each of the names the primary secondary and tertiary colors of the additive color wheel.

See a Son, Vindicated and Reward get the Primary Colors (Red, Green and Blue);

Attached, Good Fortune and He will Add get the Secondary Colors (Yellow, Cyan and Magenta)

One that Listens, Praise, My Struggle, Happy, House/Honor and Son at my Right get the Tertiary Colors (Orange, Chartreuse, Spring Green, Azure, Violet, Deep Pink)

5. Next, The Hebrew Letters: the Hebrew Alphabet has 22 letters.

6. List them.

7. Translate the letters.

I used the literal meanings of the letters from Richard Amiel McGough's book The Bible Wheel, Chapter 1, (Table: Hebrew Alphabet)   LINK

                                                                                                                                   

#	Hebrew Letter	Tranlit.	Literal Meaning		#	Hebrew Letter	Translit.	Literal Meaning
1		Alef	Ox		12		Lamed	Ox Goad
2		Beth	House		13		Mem	Water
3		Gimel	Camel		14		Nun	Fish
4		Dalet	Door		15		Samekh	Tent Peg
5		Hey	"Window"		16		Ayin	Eye
6		Vav	Nail		17		Pey	Mouth
7		Zayin	Weapon		18		Tzaddi	Fish
8		Chet	Wall/ Fence		19		Qof	Needle's Eye
9		Tet	Snake		20		Resh	Head
10		Yod	Hand		21		Shin	Tooth
11		Khaf	Palm (of Hand)		22		Tav	Mark

6. Next, we are going to arrange these 22 letters inside the circle of the first 12 names, using the additive color model.

Start at the center. Put the first letter, OX, here.

Then put put the next 3 letters around OX in a counter-clockwise fashion.

It does not matter which direction you place them in, just as long as they are going in the same direction as the tribe names. I just put them counter-clockwise in honor of the way Hebrew is written - right to left.

Then add Behold, Nail, Weapon, Wall, Snake and Hand...

Finally, add the last 12 letters: Palm, Ox Goad, Water, Fish, Tent Peg, Eye, Mouth, Fish Hook, Needle's Eye, Head, Tooth, Nail...

Every letter (except OX) sits on a ring.
Every letter (Except OX, House, Camel and Door) sits across a complimentary letter on its own ring.

Every letter has a meaning.

Now, when I use the word meaning, I am not saying meaning, like "A camel has four legs and 2 humps." 

Rather, what I am saying is that every letter here has a meaning that refers to its use and its attributes.

Let me explain: A camel has one or two humps - true. But the camel has other uses - especially in the ancient Middle East.

The camel was once called "The ship of the desert". They were once used by merchants to carry heavier loads for longer distances than any other land animal. They were replaced by the trucks and cargo ships of our day. The meanings of each of these letters ere eternal, even if the objects and animals that each of these letters represented are lost in time. 


I have composed the complimentary metaphors of the letters in the interactive page linked to below.

Click here for interactive page.

Works Cited:

McGough, Richard Amiel. Chapter 1: Genesis of the Bible Wheel. The Bible Wheel: A Revelation of the Divine Unity of the Holy Bible. Bible Wheel Book House (2006). Web. 13 July 2013 at http://www.biblewheel.com/Book/Chapters/Chapt01.php