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Passages similar to: Sefer Yetzirah — Chapter I
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Kabbalistic
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter I (10)
Second, from the Spirit he made Air and formed for speech twenty-two letters, three of which are mothers, A, M, SH, seven are double, B, G, D, K, P, R, T, and twelve are single, E, V, Z, CH, H, I, L, N, S, O, Tz, Q, but the spirit is first among these. Third, Primitive Water. He also formed and designed from his Spirit, and from the void and formless made earth, even as a rampart, or standing wall, and varied its surface even as the crossing of beams. Fourth, from the Water, He designed Fire, and from it formed for himself a throne of honor, with Auphanim, Seraphim, Holy Animals, and ministering Angels, and with these he formed his dwelling, as is written in the text "Who maketh his angels spirits and his ministers a flaming fire." (Psalm civ. 4.)
Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (34)
Fire (ether) He drew forth from the water. He engraved and established by it the Throne of Glory. He fashioned the Seraphim, the Ophanim, and the Holy...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (33)
Primordial water He extracted from the air. He formed therein twenty-two letters and established them out of mud and loam, making them like a border, ...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (36)
He selected three consonants (I, H, V) from the simple ones--a secret belonging to the three mothers, or first elements; א מ ש (A, M, Sh), air, water,...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (53)
The three Mothers, א מ ש, in the universe are: air, water, and fire. Heaven was created from the elementary fire (or ether) ש, the earth, comprising s...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (49)
He created a reality out of Nothing. He called the nonentity into existence and hewed colossal pillars from intangible air. This has been shown by the...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (44)
There are twenty-two basic (sounds and) letters. Three are the first elements (water, air, fire), fundamentals, or mothers; seven are double letters; ...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (97)
The first elements are air, water, and fire; the fire is above, the water is below, and a breath of air establishes balance between them. The token is...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Fifteen Rosicrucian and Qabbalistic Diagrams (7)
Figure 2 is the Qabbalistic symbol of elemental water; Figure 9 represents the spiritual invisible water. Figure 3 is the Qabbalistic symbol of...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (46)
He established twenty-two basic letters, formed by the voice and impressed upon the air by the breath. He set them to be audibly uttered in five diffe...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Theory and Practice of Alchemy: Part One (45)
Beyond that sphere is the sphere of Schamayim, which is the Divine fiery water, the first outflow of the Word of God, the flaming river pouring from t...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (48)
How was it all accomplished? He combined, weighed, and changed: the א (A) with all the other letters in succession, and all the others again with א (A...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (47)
He fixed the twenty-two basic letters in a ring (sphere) like a wall with two hundred and thirty-one gates, and turned the sphere forward and backward...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Tree of the Sephiroth (69)
According to the original conception, from the union of the Divine Father and the Divine Mother is produced Microprosophus--the Short Face or the...
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Christian Mysticism
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 14: Of the Birth and Propagation of Man. The very Secret Gate. (26)
Now thus say the three Elements (Fire, Water, and Air,) to the Spirit; Fetch us Children of the Earth, that they may dwell in our Courts, we will eat...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (51)
The three Mothers, א מ ש, enclose a great, wonderful, and unknown mystery, and are sealed by six wings (or elementary circles), namely, air, water, fi...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Fifteen Rosicrucian and Qabbalistic Diagrams (12)
Figure 22 is a symbol of water; Figure 23 is the complete universal character of light and darkness. The upright triangle represents Schamayim; the...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (85)
And the hard, spoiled or corrupt matter, which had wrought forth itself in the kindled seven qualifying or fountain-spirits, was driven together, from...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter II (2)
He created the heavens which are above and the earth and the waters and all the spirits which serve before Him — the angels of the presence, and the a...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Fundamentals of Qabbalistic Cosmogony (23)
Each of these worlds has ten powers, or spheres--a parent globe and nine others which conic out of it as emanations, each globe born out of the one...
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Christian Mysticism
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 1: Of the first Principle of the Divine Essence. (3)
Now when God was to create the World, and all things therein, he had no other a Matter to make it of, but his own which has neither Beginning nor...
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