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...established with Him the Throne of Glory. The Ophanim original: "Ofanim"; the "Wheels" seen in Ezekiel's vision, that is the spheres, and the Seraphim, and the Holy Living Creatures, and the Ministering Angels; and from these three He founded His refuge, as it is written: Who makes His angels spirits, and His ministers a flaming fire. Psalm 104:4 AMS The Hebrew letters Aleph, Mem, and Shin are three letters from the simple ones, with which 5 He sealed that which is sublime after the Three. And He bound them with His great name YHU A three-letter form of the Tetragrammaton or Divine Name and sealed with them the six extremes (which they call the habits of natural position). That which looks upward, the sign of which is YHU; that which is downward with YUH; that which is in front or in the east HYU; that which is behind or in the west HUY; that which is to the right or in the south VYH; that which is in the North or to the left VHY. The ten Sephirot The ten emanations or attributes of God in Kabbalah reveal the spirit of God as one (as if you were to say, both the Spirit and God): Water and fire, Height, Depth, East, West, North, South. Twenty-two letters of foundation: Three mothers, seven doubles, and twelve simple or extended letters. The three mothers: 7 Mem is silent, Shin is hissing, and Aleph is the stabilizer of the intermediate emanation above them. These twenty-two 8 letters of foundation He decreed, 9 formed, 10 weighed, 11 permuted, 12 and combined original: "Zirufauit"; from the Hebrew 'Tziruf', referring to the mystical permutation of letters (which amounts to the same thing), 13 and from them was formed the soul of every creature created and yet to be created (these are the Ideas). The twenty-two letters of foundation 14 are decreed in the voice, and are formed in the spi-