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:
Naphtali
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:
English Translate
See a Son
One that Listens*
Vindicated
Good Fortune/ Troop
Reward*
House/Honor
He Will Add*
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
Translit.
Lamed
Ox Goad
Dalet
Samekh
Tent Peg
"Window"
Ayin
Zayin
Tzaddi
Wall/ Fence
Qof
Needle's Eye
Khaf
Palm (of Hand)
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.