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Secret Teachings of All Ages
Stones, Metals and Gems (13)
While upon the heights of Mount Sinai, Moses received from Jehovah two tablets bearing the characters of the Decalogue traced by the very finger of Israel's God. These tables were fashioned from the divine sapphire, Schethiyâ, which the Most High, after removing from His own throne, had cast into the Abyss to become the foundation and generator of the worlds. This sacred stone, formed of heavenly dew, was sundered by the breath of God, and upon the two parts were drawn in black fire the figures of the Law. These precious inscriptions, aglow with celestial splendor, were delivered by the Lord on the Sabbath day into the hands of Moses, who was able to read the illumined letters from the reverse side because of the transparency of the great jewel. (See The Secret Doctrine in Israel or The Zohar for details of this legend.)
Book of Jubilees
Chapter I (1)
And it came to pass in the first year of the exodus of the children of Israel out of Egypt, in the third month, on the sixteenth day of the month, tha...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 17: Of the horrible, lamentable, and miserable Fall of Adam and Eve in Paradise. Man 's Looking-Glass. (21)
Moses speaks only of the Tables of God, which were graven through with the Ten Commandments, so that they could see through them into the Paradise....
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVI: Gnostic Exposition of the Decalogue. (3)
That ten is a sacred number, it is superfluous to say now. And if the tables that were written were the work of God, they will be found to exhibit...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVI: Gnostic Exposition of the Decalogue. (7)
And perhaps the two tables themselves may be the prophecy of the two covenants. They were accordingly mystically renewed, as ignorance along with sin ...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 26: Of the Feast of Pentecost. Of the Sending of the Holy Spirit to his Apostles, and the Believers. The Holy Gate of the Divine Power. (2)
Behold, when God the Father had brought Israel into the Wilderness to Mount Sinai, and would give them Laws, in which they should live, then he...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter I (4)
And Moses was on the Mount forty days and forty nights, and God taught him the earlier and the later history * of the division of all the days of the ...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VI: The Mystic Meaning of the Tabernacle and Its Furniture. (18)
The twelve stones, set in four rows on the breast, describe for us the circle of the zodiac, in the four changes of the year. It was otherwise...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter II (1)
And the angel of the presence spake to Moses according to the word of the Lord, saying : Write the complete history of the creation, how in six days t...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter I (29)
The Angel dictates to Moses the Primaeval History : the Creation of the World and Institution of the Sabbath (ii. - ; cf. Gen. i-ii. ).
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 26: Of the Feast of Pentecost. Of the Sending of the Holy Spirit to his Apostles, and the Believers. The Holy Gate of the Divine Power. (5)
Thus all the holy Souls were filled, so that their whole Body in all Essences was made stirring from the exceeding precious Virtue [or Power,] which...
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter VI:(4)
After that our father Abraham had seen, and pondered over, investigated, and understood these things, he designed, engraved, and composed them, and...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 12: Of the Opening of the Holy Scripture, that the Circumstances may be highly considered. The golden Gate, which God affords to the last World, wherein the Lily shall flourish [and blossom.] (5)
What was done there? Answer, Moses was called by God (out from [among] the Children of Israel) up into Mount Sinai, and stayed there forty Days: And...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXX (9)
For thus hath it been ordained and written in the heavenly tables regarding all the seed of Israel : he who defileth (it) shall surely die, and he sha...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter L (13)
The man who doetli any of these things on the Sabbath shall die, so that the children of Israel shall observe the Sabbaths accord- ing to the...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter I (26)
And do thou write down for thyself all these words which I declare unto thee on this mountain, the first and the last, which shall come to pass in all...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter VIII (3)
And he found a writing which former (generations) had carved on the rock, and he read what was thereon, and he transcribed it and sinned owing to it ;...