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.1. 8. Ten Ineffable Sephiroth divine emanations; close your mouth from speaking and your heart from meditating, and if speech runs to your mouth or your heart to meditation, return to the starting point, for it is concerning this that it is written: "the Living Creatures ran and returned" Ezekiel Chapter 1 Verse 14 and it is for this reason that the Covenant was concluded.
.1. 9. Ten Ineffable Sephiroth; one of them is the Spirit of the living God, blessed and twice-blessed be His Name, eternally living. The voice, the Spirit, and the Word: this is the Holy Spirit.
.1. 10. Second. The Spirit of the Spirit, and through it He engraved and sculpted twenty-two letters; the foundation consists of three mothers, seven doubles, and twelve simples, and this same spirit is within them.
.1. 11. Third. The water of the Spirit sculpted and engraved through them Tohu chaos/unformed and Bohu void/emptiness, mud and slime; they sculpted them like a flower-bed, arranged them like a wall, and covered them as if with a ceiling, cast snow upon them and the earth was formed, as it is written, for He says to the snow: "be earth" Job 37:6.
.1. 12. Fourth. The fire from the water; through it was engraved and sculpted the Throne of Glory, the Seraphim and the Ophanim celestial wheels, and the Holy living creatures and
Wisdom in Formation
Understanding in Formation
Crown in Formation
Crown in Formation
Ezekiel Chapter 1 Verse 14.
Kav Yarok green line which surrounds the entire Universe and separates the upper world from the lower world—unformed—capable of receiving all forms.
Avnim mefulamot frozen stones (Wisdom) — from which spring the waters of the Universe which have the power to give all forms to the Tohu. Belimah ineffable/without anything = Mefulamot.
Isaiah Chapter 34 Verse 11: original: "He shall stretch out over it the line of confusion (Tohu) and the stones of emptiness (Bohu)."
the ministering Angels. And from these three, He established His Dwelling, as it is written Psalm 104:4: "He makes His messengers spirits, His ministers a flaming fire." He chose three letters from the simples. Through this mystery of the three mothers Aleph-Mem-Shin אמש He fixed them into His Name, so great, and sealed with them six points.
6 5 10
Y-H-V Aleph-Mem-Shin
H-Y-V Mem-Shin-Aleph
V-Y-H Shin-Mem-Aleph
H-V-Y Mem-Aleph-Shin
Y-V-H Aleph-Shin-Mem
V-H-Y Shin-Mem-Aleph
.1. 13. Fifth. He sealed the height with it and contemplated it above Him. And He sealed it with
Sixth. He sealed the depth with it and contemplated it below, and He sealed it with
Seventh. He sealed the East with it and contemplated it before Him, and He sealed it with
Huitième. He sealed the West with it and contemplated it behind Him, and He sealed it with
Neuvième. He sealed the South with it and contemplated it to His right, and He sealed it with
Dixième. He sealed the North with it and contemplated it to His left, and He sealed it with
.1. 14. Such are the ten Ineffable Sephiroth; one of them is the Spirit of God, the living God, Spirit of the Spirit; water of the spirit and fire of the water, height and depth, East and West, North and South.