Sefer ha-Ḥus ṿeha-Muḥash me-Ḳitsur ibn Rushd (Hebrew MS 28)

...salvation in a request from before Him, and from the depths I called Him. And the end of the action is in the secret of the knowledge of thought. Is it not that in the beginning, by power, "God created the heavens and the earth"? That is, according to the will—the simple and perfect thought—which has been since it came to be, and it went out into action through the speech of the mouth, the aspect of the Kingdom original: "מלכות", the lowest Sephirah. And whereas in the beginning, He did not create the heavens and the earth except by the power of His thought and His will. And the continuations of the intellect and the perfection to the intellect of the Kingdom, the kingdom, the mouth, the speech of the thought, and the end of the intellect and the thought, and the thought, and the perfection, and the speech, and the will. And in this, the interpretation of the verse "In the beginning God created" will be understood. And the verse that said, "And He cast truth to the ground" original: "ותשלך אמת ארצה" (Daniel 8:12), because then the intention of the will was in sight, and hearing, and prostration upon the ground. And this was before the first man original: "אדם הראשון" sinned, and the perfection and the height were exalted and high. And by the power of the intellect was the matter of prayer with the thought to heaven, for the thought is the intellect and the height in the measure of three sides. And the whole matter of prayer is prostration and service to the Holy One, blessed be He, in it. For when a person prostrated upon the ground and his eyes were downward and his heart upward, it is found that the intellect, the thought, and the prayer reach the Holy Spirit which gives life to the body of the man. And the intellect of the prayer and the prostration was a high example, and this is the interpretation of the verse, "And they shall make Me a sanctuary, and I shall dwell among them" original: "ושכנתי בתוכם", and it means that the human is the sanctuary, and he was preparing himself to be the Temple. But the first man sinned and cast everything to the ground, and the intellect and the thought were defiled by the hands of the evil husks original: "קליפות" (Qelipot), shells/layers of impurity and iniquities. And this is the matter of "Man is compared to the beasts that are silenced," and he is not a man of thought, but only in the pleasure of this world, and all the intention of his intellect is in the existences of this world. And this is "And He cast truth to the ground," that by the sin of man, the truth of above and all the secrets, and all the levels, and the holiness remained to the earth. And this is the matter of prayer and the reward and the prostration. And before he reaches high prayer, he needs to correct all the levels from below, that is, the World of Action original: "עולם העשיה". And every single day, the intellect and the thought and the will will be enflamed in the soul, the spirit, and the breath original: "נפש, רוח, נשמה", and in every single thing he will be correcting everything. And this is enough for the one who knows grace and the center of the high secrets that belong to this matter of prayer, and it is enough for the one who understands.

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And before we come to the matter of prostration and the stretching out of the hands and feet, which is the matter of the expansion of the levels and the matter of complete intention of the service of the heart—this is prayer—and the enthusiasm of the heart, of the intellect, of the thought: it is a power that reaches from the heart and the will so that the heart will be toward heaven, the aspect of the fire that brings the heart near. And it is necessary to enflame his heart to the Lord, blessed be He, with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, in order to enflame the heart and the thought and the intellect. And by the power of the enthusiasm, the prayer and the thought ascend to a high level and reach up to the Throne of Glory original: "כסא הכבוד". And it is enough in this to understand and to give a few explanations from the secrets of the soul, for the prayer is the root of the human, and in it are included all the levels and the preparations so that the human will have an ascent and a high soul, and by this, everything is corrected according to the will of the Creator, blessed be His name.