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Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (18)
3. The ten numbers (Sephiroth) out of Nothing are analogous to the ten fingers and the ten toes: five over against five. In the center between them is the covenant with the Only One God. In the spiritual world it is the covenant of the voice (the Word), and in the corporeal world the circumcision of the flesh (the rite of Abraham).
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter I:(3-4)
The ten numbers formed from nothing are the Decad: these are seen in the fingers of the hands, five on one, five on the other, and over them is the...
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter I:(2)
Ten are the numbers, as are the Sephiroth, and twenty-two the letters, these are the Foundation of all things. Of these letters, three are mothers,...
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter I:(6-7)
These ten Sephiroth which are ineffable, whose appearance is like scintillating flames, have no end but are infinite. The word of God is in them as...
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter I:(9)
These are the ten emanations of number. One is the Spirit of the Living God, blessed and more than blessed be the name of the Living God of Ages. The...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVI: Gnostic Exposition of the Decalogue. (9)
And there is a ten in man himself: the five senses, and the power of speech, and that of reproduction; and the eighth is the spiritual principle commu...
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter V:(1)
The simple letters are twelve, namely: He, Vau, Zain, Heth, Teth, Yod, Lamed, Nun, Samech, Oin, Tzaddi, and Quoph; they represent the fundamental...
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter I:(5)
These Ten Numbers, beyond the Infinite one, have the boundless realms, boundless origin and end, an abyss of good and one of evil, boundless height...
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...
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter IV:(4)
From two letters, or forms He composed two dwellings; from three, six; from four, twenty-four; from five, one hundred and twenty; from six, seven...