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referred to the supernal H, He, The "beautiful path" is Tiphereth, the sixth. The foundation is Yesod, the
ninth. It is the final Yod, I, of the form of the Tetragrammaton IHVI, which is referred to Yesod, and not the
initial, which belongs to Chokmah, the second Sephira, the Father.]
40. That man shall say, I am the Lord's; he descendeth. (That is: that very conception of the word I, which is
elsewhere attributed to the supernal mother, forasmuch as in her agree the three letters of the word ANI, Ani,
I; namely A, Aleph, is the highest crown; N, Nun, is the understanding itself, in its fifty celebrated gates; I,
Yod, is the foundation or knowledge of the Father; but in this instance it is attributed to the lowest grade of
the lower mother, and now is ADNI, Adonaï, without the D, Daleth, D, or poverty, but filled with the influx,
and is ANI, Ani.) And all things are called BIDV, Byodo (that is, all these things are applied to IVD, Yod,
concerning which this discourse is.) All things cohere by the tongue, which is concealed in the mother. (That
is, through Daath, or knowledge, whereby wisdom is combined with the understanding, and the beautiful path
with his bride the queen; and this is the concealed idea, or soul, pervading the whole emanation.) Since this is
opened for that which proceedeth from itself (that is, Daath is itself the beautiful path, but also the inner,
whereto Moses referreth; and that path lieth hid within the mother, and is the medium of its conjunction. But
whensoever it is considered in the outer, when it hath come forth from the mother, then is it called Jacob.)
[The reader is referred to the Introduction for the names, &c., of the Sephiroth. Nun in its fifty gates refers to
SPRA DTzNIOVThA (SIPHRA DTZENIOUTHA); OR, THE BOOK OF CONCEALED MYSTERY. 36
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the numerical value of the letter N, which is 50. The "lower mother" is of course the final H of the word
IHVH, the "bride." Daath generally symbolizes the conjunction of the second and third Sephiroth.]
41. (And herein IHV Yod, He, Vau, differeth from the whole name and from all the four letters. Now, he
turneth back to the other portion of the four namely, IHV, Yod, He, Vau and saith:) The Father resideth in
the beginning (that is, that the letter I, Yod, which is the symbol of the wisdom and of the father, in that part
holdeth the first place, like as in the whole system; since the crown nevertheless is hidden, and is only
compared to the highest apex of the letter I, Yod). The mother in the middle (for the letter H, He, which is the
symbol of the unformed understanding and the supernal mother, holdeth the middle place between I, Yod ,
and V, Vau, even as in the supernals she is comprehended by the Father from above, and by the
Microprosopus, which is her son, she is covered from below, in whom she sendeth herself downward into the
path of Hod, or of glory.) And she is covered on this side and on that (by the two, father and son). Woe, woe
unto him who revealeth their nakedness! (Since this can be done by the faults of the inferiors, so that
Microprosopus loseth this influx, whereby he is of so great power that he can seek to enshroud his mother;
for that covering is the reception of the supernal influx, and the capability of transmitting the same to the
inferiors, which cannot be done if the mother be uncovered and taken away from the Microprosopus, as the
Israelites did when they committed the sin of the calf.
[IHV is of course the Tetragrammaton without the final H. It is interesting to note that in the qabalistical
work called the "Sepher Yetzirah," this trigrammatic name is used instead of the Tetragrammaton. The crown
which is hidden is Kether, the first Sephira, or Macroprosopus, who is AHIH, and is therefore not openly
shown in IHVH. The path of Hod is the eighth Sephira. The father and the son, by whom the mother is
enclosed, are of course the letters I and V in the word IHV. With regard to what is said regarding the
Israelites when they committed the sin of the calf. I imagine that it is intended to intimate (a) That the calf
was a symbol of ALHIM, Elohim, not of IHVH; for the Israelites had said, "Make us Elohim to go before
us." (b) That this name, "Elohim" is applied to the feminine portion of the Tetragrammaton HH. (c) That
therefore the force was unbalanced which they adored, and that it would have been just as wrong to adore IV
alone.)
42. And God said, let there be MARTh, Maroth, lights in the firmament of the heaven. (Now he hasteneth to
the third part of that quadrilateral name, namely, to these two letters IH, Yod, He . But by lights are
understood the sun and the moon, the beautiful path and the kingdom or bride. And herein the sense is this:
although usually by these two letters are accustomed to be understood the Father and the Mother, or the
wisdom and the understanding, yet in this place the supernal lights are wanting, like as the word MARTh,
Maroth, is written in a defective form; and the meaning is proper to be applied unto the firmament of the
heaven that is, to the foundation, extended and prepared for marital conjunction; for the spouse is called the
heaven, and the member of the treaty is the firmament, like, as, therefore, the two last paths in the whole
name IHVI, Yod, He, Vau, Yod are designated by the letters V, Vau, and I, Yod, so likewise these in this [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]