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Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter III (3)
The three mothers are A, M, SH; and in the beginning as to the Macrocosm the Heavens were created from Fire;nthe Earth from primeval Water; and the Air was formed from the Spirit, which stands alone in the midst, and is the Mediator between them.
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...
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...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 6: Of the Separation in the Creation, in the third Principle. (16)
Now when the Heaven became clear [or pure,] and cleansed from the Earth and the dark Mist [or Dust] in the Concretion [or Driving together,] then in...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (97)
But when the third mother is kindled in the light, then it stands in the created heaven of the holy life, and shineth through the second mother, the s...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (94)
Now that seed has first a mother, which is the dark chamber of the house of flesh. Secondly, it has a mother, which is the wheel of the seven...
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...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 22: Of the New Regeneration in Christ [from] out of the old Adamical Man. The Blossom of the Holy Bud. The noble Gate of the right [and] true Christianity. (61)
And as we perceive that in this World there are Fire, Air, Water, and Earth, also the Sun and the Stars, and therein consist all the Things of this Wo...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 7: Of the Heaven and its eternal Birth and Essence, and how the four Elements are generated; wherein the eternal Band may be the more and the better understood, by meditating and considering the material World. The great Depth. (29)
Thus the starry Heaven rules in all Creatures, as in its proper own; it is the [Husband or] Man; and the Matrix, or the watery Form, is its [Wife or]...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 6: Of the Separation in the Creation, in the third Principle. (5)
Now the Heaven comes out of the four Matrix, which in the paradisical [Heaven] is the Water-Spirit; and out of that Paradisical [Water-Spirit or...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 6: Of the Separation in the Creation, in the third Principle. (1)
IF we consider the Separation and the Springing forth in the third Principle of this World, how the starry Heaven should spring up, and how every...
Corpus Hermeticum
1. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men (17)
In such wise than, as I have said, the generation of these seven came to pass. Earth was as woman, her Water filled with longing; ripeness she took...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 5: Of the Third Principle, or Creation of the material World, with the Stars and Elements; wherein the First and Second Principles are more clearly understood. (29)
For the Matrix is the Water-Spirit in the Original, in the first Form; and now when it became material in the Place of this World, then the Spirit mov...
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...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 8: Of the Creation of the Creatures, and of the Springing up of every growing Thing; as also of the Stars and Elements, and of the Original of the a Substance of this World. (42)
Therefore now the Mother of the Water desires with great Earnestness the Mother of the Fire, and seeks the Child of Love; and the Mother of the Fire s...
Paraphrase of Shem
Darkness Ejaculates Mind into the Womb of Nature (2)
They became clouds that varied in their appearance. They were called hymen, afterbirth, power, and water. And the hymen and the afterbirth and the pow...
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (69)
And as the three elements, fire, air and water, proceed from the sun and stars, and are one body in one another, and cause the living motion, and the ...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 18: Of the promised Seed of the Woman, and Treader upon the Serpent. And of Adam 's and Eve 's going forth out of Paradise, or the Garden in Eden. Also of the Curse of God, how he cursed the Earth for the Sin of Man. (41)
And the holy [pure] Element of the Heaven, which incloses the Deity, that was the Limbus (or the masculine Seed) to this Creature; and the holy Spirit...
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...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 15: Of the a Knowledge of the Eternity in the Corruptibility of the Essence of all Essences. (8)
And the Discovering stood in the sharp Attraction of the Fiat, and the Fiat created it so, that it became essential [or substantial;] and the same are...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 8: Of the Creation of the Creatures, and of the Springing up of every growing Thing; as also of the Stars and Elements, and of the Original of the a Substance of this World. (5)
His Eternal Wisdom and Virtue [or Power] has formed itself with the Fiat in all Things, and he Himself is the Master- Workman; and all Things went for...
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