Pay Kefulah revisited

This morning I received a second email in two days regarding the pay kefulah:

This mornings email is from Hungary and reads:

Dear Eli,
I've found a sefer torah with strange, spiral-shaped pehs (see
attached).  Do you know anything about the history of these pehs and
their significance?
Thanks,
Michael Miller
Budapest, Hungary

P.S.  Perhaps it would be possible to post it on The International STa"M Forum.

I have attached the picture he sent me above

Since I am not so familliar with all of the mesorah aspects of tzuras haosiyos, I referred him to the previous post from a few days ago where Reb Moshe and Mordechai comment (I have pasted it below)

 

moshe weinerSeptember 4, 2012 8:14 AM

1) pai kefula mentioned in rambam and other rishonim. so it is at least 1000 years old (and according to sefer tagim is from kabala from moshe rabeinu)
it is found both in old ashkenazic, temani sefer toras. mentioned in kabala sefarim in regard to "pen" in tefilin and mezuza.
according to what the oilam present the tefilin and sefer tora of Besht and Maggid had pae'in kfulos in designated words.

2) In yad bshaas hadchak hagadol. bshel rosh definitly pasul even bshaas hadchak.

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Mordechai Pinchas/Marc MichaelsSeptember 4, 2012 5:41 PM
Torah Sh'lema Vol 29 gives two version of where the peh k'fulah should be written through the Torah - one Ashkenazi and one Teymani and several variants forms. Several sifrey I have checked have many versions (e.g. pehs within pehs, spirals or squared spirals). The Teymani tikkun I have preserves all of these along with other traditions no longer in the Ashkenazi sifrey.I am given to understand that the spiral represents the Eyn Sof in a kabbalistic way.

 

 

So since there has been interest in this over the past few days, I was hoping if any forum members could contribute some more information, such as:

 

1) When was this practice stopped and why?

2) Does a pay kefulah add any value to a historical megillah or sefer Torah?

3)which Kaballah seforim would explain the kaballistic aspects of the pay kefulah?

 

Any further info would be helpful.