The Book of Brightness (1651) - Page 11

The Fountain of Wisdom

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This is the spirit that emerges from the moisture drawn from the springs.	And now we shall return to explain every light, radiance, and splendor found within them in
One of them flows with light and the second flows with darkness. The foam	their proper order, so that you may know and understand that the Primordial Darkness Hebrew: Choshek HaKadmon; a mystical concept of a "dark" source of light that precedes creation
that remains is the white of the fountain; the redness is fixed within the whiteness, and the whiteness	is not included in their number, for from it are the outcomes of them all, and from it emerged
within the redness. Within it, the matters are gathered and cling to one another, back to back,	the source from which they flow. This is called "the light drawn
without end, until—within the thin sparks of these	from light," for it is hidden, and it is impossible to know the essence
two sources from which the springs flow—it is a single	of the existence of this darkness; therefore, it is called "darkness that darkens"
matter coming from the Primordial Dark—