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The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel-d
The third volume used as a reference was the Sepher Yetzirah , by the late Win.
Wynn Westcott, Magus of the Rosicrucian Society of England.
The fourth was the Sepher Yetzirah , or The Book of Creation, according to the translation in the Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East , edited by Prof.
Charles F.
Horne.
The fifth was a recent publication, The Book of Formation , by Knut Stenring, containing an introduction by Arthur Edward Waite.
At hand also were four other copies--two German, one Hebrew, and one Latin.
Certain portions of the Sepher Yetzirah are considered older and more authentic than the rest, bur the controversy regarding them is involved and nonproductive that it is useless to add further comment.
The doubtful passages are therefore included in the document at the points where they would naturally fall.
THE SEPHER YETZIRAH, THE BOOK OF FORMATION Chapter One 1.
YAH, the Lord of Hosts, the living Elohim, King of the Universe, Omnipotent, the Merciful and Gracious God, Supreme and Extolled, Dweller in the Height whose habitation is Eternity, who is Sublime and Most-Holy, engraved His name and ordained (formed) and created the Universe in thirty-two mysterious paths (stages) of wisdom (science), by three Sepharim, namely, Numbers, Letters, and Sounds, which are in Him one and the same.
2.
Ten Sephiroth (ten properties from the Ineffable One) and twenty-two letters are the Foundation of all things.
Of these twenty-two letters three are called "Mothers," sewn "Double," and twelve "Simple." 3.
The ten numbers (Sephiroth) out of Nothing are analogous to the ten fingers and the ten toes: five over against five.
In the center between them is the covenant with the Only One God.
In the spiritual world it is the covenant of the voice (the Word), and in the corporeal world the circumcision of the flesh (the rite of Abraham).
4.
Ten are the numbers (of the Sephiroth) out of Nothing, ten--not nine; ten--not eleven.
Comprehend this great, wisdom, understand this knowledge and be wise.
Inquire into the mystery and ponder it.
Examine all things by means of the ten Sephiroth.
Restore the Word to Its Creator and lead the Creator back to His throne again.
He is the only Formator and beside Him there is no other.
His attributes are ten and are without limit.
5.
The ten ineffable Sephiroth have ten infinitudes, which are as follows: The infinite beginning and the infinite end; The infinite good and the infinite evil; The infinite height and the infinite depth; The infinite East and the infinite West; The infinite North and the infinite South; and over them is the Lord Superlatively One, the faithful King.
He rules over all in all from His holy habitation for ages of ages.
6.
The appearance of the ten spheres (Sephiroth) out of Nothing is as a flash of lightning or a sparkling flame, and they are without beginning or end.
The Word of God is in them when they go forth and when they return.
They run by His order like a whirlwind and prostrate themselves before His throne.
7.
The ten Sephiroth have their end linked to their beginning and their beginning linked to their end, cojoined as the flame is wedded to the live coal, for the Lord is Superlatively One and to Him there is no second.
Before One what can you count?
8.
§ Ask Guru about this passage →Themes
Letters Of Creationcosmology
The twenty-two Hebrew letters as the building blocks through which God creates and sustains all existence.
The passage explicitly states that Numbers, Letters, and Sounds are the Foundation of all things.
All passages →Living Godtheology
The divine conceived as active, present, and dynamic—not an abstract principle but a personal responsive reality.
God is described as 'living Elohim' and 'King of the Universe'.
All passages →Logoscosmology
The divine reason, word, or ordering principle through which the universe was created; mediates between the transcendent God and the material world.
The Word of God is said to be in the spheres when they go forth and return.
All passages →Numerical Mysticismtheology
Numbers, proportions, and mathematical relationships as the underlying structure of divine reality.
The text centers on numbers (ten Sephiroth) as the foundation of all things and attributes of the divine.
All passages →Opposites Transcendedanthropology
The dissolution of binary oppositions (male/female, inner/outer, above/below) as a mark of spiritual completion.
The divine is described as having no second or limit, transcending binary oppositions like good and evil.
All passages →Sacred Namestheology
Divine names or formulas that carry ontological power, used in prayer, liturgy, or magical practice.
The text emphasizes that God's name was engraved and ordained to create the universe.
All passages →Sephirotcosmology
The ten attributes or emanations through which the Ein Sof (Infinite) reveals itself and creates the universe in Kabbalistic theology.
The passage explicitly defines and lists the ten Sephiroth as attributes of the divine. [quarantine-w3: sephirot x western_esoteric — see rellm data/quarantine/dossiers.jsonl]
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Shared concept: Letters Of Creation — The twenty-two Hebrew letters as the building blocks through which God creates and sustains all existence. (derived)
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Shared concept: Letters Of Creation — The twenty-two Hebrew letters as the building blocks through which God creates and sustains all existence. (derived)
neoplatonism|Iamblichus: On the Mysteries|Chapter VIII-aw
“112 .
Proclus on the First Alcibiades observes, “that about every God there is an innumerable multitude of dæmons, who have the same appellations with their leaders.
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Shared concept: Letters Of Creation — The twenty-two Hebrew letters as the building blocks through which God creates and sustains all existence. (derived)
neoplatonism|Iamblichus: On the Mysteries|Chapter VIII-ba
“of my translation of Plato, where many of these names are beautifully unfolded from the MS.
Scholia of Proclus on the Cratylus.
127 .
See the additional notes at the end of vol.
v.
of my translation of Plato, and also the notes to my t…”
Shared concept: Letters Of Creation — The twenty-two Hebrew letters as the building blocks through which God creates and sustains all existence. (derived)
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“CHAPTER LXXIV.
Of the Proportion, Correspondency, and Reduction of Letters to the Celestial Signs and Planets, According to Various Tongues, and a Table Thereof .
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Shared concept: Letters Of Creation — The twenty-two Hebrew letters as the building blocks through which God creates and sustains all existence. (derived)
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“He, therefore, that will find them out, must by each joining together of the letters so long examine them, until the voice of God is manifest, and the framing of the most sacred letters be opened and discovered; for hence voices and words h…”
Shared concept: Letters Of Creation — The twenty-two Hebrew letters as the building blocks through which God creates and sustains all existence. (derived)
theosophy|The Secret Doctrine|Page 17 (part 3)
“the races, human and animal, are as fully treated here as the writer is able to treat them.
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The…”
Shared concept: Letters Of Creation — The twenty-two Hebrew letters as the building blocks through which God creates and sustains all existence. (derived)
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Shared concept: Letters Of Creation — The twenty-two Hebrew letters as the building blocks through which God creates and sustains all existence. (derived)
theosophy|The Secret Doctrine|Page 24 (part 4)
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Shared concept: Letters Of Creation — The twenty-two Hebrew letters as the building blocks through which God creates and sustains all existence. (derived)
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Shared concept: Letters Of Creation — The twenty-two Hebrew letters as the building blocks through which God creates and sustains all existence. (derived)
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Shared concept: Letters Of Creation — The twenty-two Hebrew letters as the building blocks through which God creates and sustains all existence. (derived)
theosophy|The Secret Doctrine|Page 52 (part 9)
“113 to 355, have to be specialised.* But this last ratio is but a modified form of light or 20612 to 6561, as a '[[ pi ]]' value, being only a variation of the same (that is 20612 to 6561 is 31415 to one, or Alhim or God) -- and in such a m…”
Shared concept: Letters Of Creation — The twenty-two Hebrew letters as the building blocks through which God creates and sustains all existence. (derived)
theosophy|The Secret Doctrine|Page 53 (part 3)
“de Quatrefages, there is proof that since the post-tertiary period and even before that time -- since many Races were already scattered during that age on the face of the Earth -- man has not altered one iota in his physical structure.
And…”
Shared concept: Letters Of Creation — The twenty-two Hebrew letters as the building blocks through which God creates and sustains all existence. (derived)
theosophy|The Secret Doctrine|Page 54 (part 5)
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Shared concept: Letters Of Creation — The twenty-two Hebrew letters as the building blocks through which God creates and sustains all existence. (derived)
theosophy|The Secret Doctrine|Page 56 (part 8)
“If from Greek mythology we pass to the Mosaic allegories and symbolism, we shall find a still more striking corroboration of the same tenet under another form.
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Shared concept: Letters Of Creation — The twenty-two Hebrew letters as the building blocks through which God creates and sustains all existence. (derived)