Kabbalah

FIRST EIGHT LETTERS - THE WORLD OF EARTH

1. Beth (House) - Adolescence & The Purification of the Virgin Spring
2. Gimel (Camel or Rope) - Impregnation & The Bonds Of Time
3. Daleth (Door) - Deliverance From Knots & Bonds
4. Heh (Aspirate H or Window) - Teachings, Pupils, & A Gift Of Tongues
5. Vau (Hook/Nail) - Marriage of Heaven and Earth & The Throne of God
6. Zain (Weapon) - Floods, Apocalypses, & Pregnant Pauses
7. Heth (Gate) - Happy Gate of Heaven
   8.Teth (Coil or Ball of String) - Entering The Labyrinth

The first family describes the natural year: an undivided earth splitting apart, being purified and plowed, planted, delivery through the delta of the 4th position, a sharing of the harvest, and finally a dying back before rising through the gate (Heth/gate ) of the eighth letter.