Sepher Ietzirah ([Hebrew: Sefer jezirah]). Traduction du livre cabalistique de la création

of mercy and sublime and elevated grace, dwelling in eternity, and Holy is His Name, exalted and Holy He is; He engraved and created His Universe with three books: be-sepher, ve-sopher, ve-sippur: with Writing ¹), Number ²) and Word ³).

M. 2. Ten Ineffable Sephiroth ⁴) divine emanations, twenty two letters of foundation, three mothers, seven doubles, and twelve simples.

M. 3. Ten Ineffable Sephiroth according to the number of the ten fingers, five against five, and the Covenant of the Unity

1. Writing, 2) Number, 3) Word; According to the Kabbalah, 1) the Universe, Chokhmah Wisdom, 2) Time, Tiferet Beauty, 3) the Body, Malkhut-Atarah Kingdom-Crown.
2. Job Chapter XXVI, Verse 7.

1-10
2-9
3-8 = 11 10+the
4-7 ineffable
5-6

resides in their midst, in the interpretation of the tongue and in the interpretation of the Circumcision.

M. 4. Ten Ineffable Sephiroth ¹), ten and not nine, ten and not eleven; understand through the word and make yourself wise through understanding, exercise your spirit upon them, search, deepen them, and restore the matter to its place and seat the Creator on His Throne.

M. 5. Ten Ineffable Sephiroth in their expanse, ten that have no end. The Infinity of the end, the Infinity of good and the Infinity of evil, the Infinity in height and the Infinity in depth, the Infinity to the East and the Infinity to the West, the Infinity to the North and the Infinity to the South, one Lord alone, God, faithful King, dominates them all from the height of His Holiness, for all Eternity.

M. 6. Ten Ineffable Sephiroth, their presence manifests by sparkling flames and their end has no end and His Word circulates in them (comes and goes) and at His word they run like a whirlwind and bow before His Throne.

M. 7. Ten Ineffable Sephiroth, consider their end which is joined in their beginning and their beginning in their end ²), as the flame is united to the coal, for the Lord is Alone and has no second; what number can you count before the number one?

A textual diagram displays the Ten Sephiroth divine emanations in their traditional Tree of Life arrangement.

2. that is to say, they merge into one another.