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Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (33)
3rd. 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, putting them up like a wall, and surrounding them as with a rampart. He poured snow upon them and it became earth, as it reads: "He said to the snow be thou earth." (Job. xxxvii. 6.)
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,...
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter II:(1)
The foundations are the twenty-two letters, three mothers, seven double, and twelve single letters. Three mothers, namely A, M, SH, these are Air,...
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. (8)
On the second Day, God created the Firmament of the Heaven, viz. the strong Inclosure, [Fence, or Stop] to the Darkness of the original Matrix, that...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (52)
Concerning which, Moses writeth thus: Am Anfang schuff Gott Himmel unb Erden. In the beginning created GOD heaven and earth.
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...
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter II:(2)
He hath formed, weighed, transmuted, composed, and created with these twenty-two letters every living being, and every soul yet uncreated.
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (68)
But when, in these two days, the creation of heaven and of earth was completed, and the heaven was made in the heart of the water, for a difference or...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (3)
On the first day God drave together (or compacted) the corrupt Salitter, which so came to be in the kindling of his wrath, I say, God then drave it...
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...
Book of Jubilees
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...
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...
The Conference of the Birds
Invocation (2)
He raised the firmament above the earth as a tent, without pillars to uphold it. In six days he created the seven planets and with two letters he...
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. (6)
Now when God on the first Day had gathered together the Lump of the Earth in the great Deep of this World, then the Deep became purified, yet [the...
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter V:(3)
Three mothers, seven double and twelve simple, these are the twenty-two letters with which I H V H Tetragrammaton, that is our Lord of Hosts,...
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 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (66)
Behold, when God said, Let there be light, then the light in the powers of nature, or the seven spirits of God, rose up, and the firmament of heaven,...
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter II:(5)
Thus in combining all together in pairs are produced these two hundred and thirty-one gates of knowledge. And from Nothingness did He make something, ...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (91)
When God had driven the corrupted Salitter of earth and stones, (which had generated itself in the outermost birth by the kindling), together on a...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (140)
Therefore on the third day the earth began to spring, just as the qualifying or fountain spirits stood in the crack of the word or fire-flash.
Corpus Hermeticum
1. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men (5)
And upwards to the height from the Moist Nature leaped forth pure Fire; light was it, swift and active too. The Air, too, being light, followed after ...
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