THE BOOK OF FORMATION

original: "LIBER IETZIRAH"

...the depth of the South, and the depth of the North. But the Lord is One, the faithful God and King, who rules over all, in all, and with all, establishing His holiness forever and for all eternity. The Ten Sefiroth of Nothingness original: "Sefiroth Belimah"; these are the ten primary attributes or emanations of God in Kabbalistic thought are expressed or depicted r in a vision of lightning. Their end or limit, however, has no end. s His Word is within them as they run and return, and by His command they pursue like a whirlwind, and before His throne they prostrate themselves—the Ten Sefiroth of Nothingness. t One is the Spirit of the Living God, blessed and blessing, and blessed be His name, who is the life of the worlds: u Voice, and Spirit, and Speech. The Voice is the Holy Spirit, which arises x as spirit from spirit, with which He ordained and expressed in His forms the twenty-two letters of the foundation. y Three are mothers, seven are doubles, and twelve are simple, from which the one spirit itself is derived. z Three: waters from the spirit, with which He ordained and arranged Chaos and Void original: "Tohu & Bohu"; referring to the primordial state of the universe in Genesis 1:2, that is, the astonishment in wondering and the contemplation of the empty place, 1 so that He might ordain the mire and mud of prime matter original: "materię primæ"; the underlying substance of the physical world like a type of sketch or a series of order, 2 and He established it like a wall and surrounded it like a type of fortification. Four: fire from water. He decreed and 4 polished...