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matter as a medium in nature between the corporeal and the incorporeal, but divine things to be more sublime than all the teachings of the world. They wished to establish the principles of all things in the letters given from heaven, which explain the divine word. These letters arise from a simple point, as seen in the vowels; from a point and lines, as in the accents; and from a point, lines, and a primary figure, as in the letters themselves, which are derived from the Iod The Hebrew letter Yod (י), the smallest letter of the alphabet, often considered the "atom" or starting point of all other letters in mystical traditions..
Now, the Iod is a triangle consisting of two semicircles and a straight line, because all things consist of the power of the active intellect, the possible intellect Terms from Aristotelian and Medieval philosophy: the 'active intellect' is the power that creates thought, while the 'possible intellect' is the capacity to receive it., and those things which surround the world on all sides with their hemispheres, as well as the power of matter, which is accustomed to be moved in a straight line.
Therefore, this entire doctrine of Abraham Likely referring to the Sefer Yetzirah or "Book of Formation," traditionally attributed to the patriarch Abraham, which describes the creation of the world through the 22 Hebrew letters. refers all things back to the 22 divine letters and to the 10 Powers of the names of God The Sephirot, or the ten divine emanations/attributes in Kabbalistic thought.. From these come the highest light and the natures of the eternal or natural law, and the law of grace or the Gospel, so that there are three accounts of the divine sense for the purpose of reconciling the tri—