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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...
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 that the Heaven was made in the Heart of the Water, for a Difference...
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,...
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...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (52)
Concerning which, Moses writes thus: Am Anfang erschuff GOTT Himmel und Erden. In the Beginning, created, GOD, Heaven and Earth. [Gen. 1. 1. as on a H...
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 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...
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 Heap...
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...
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 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...
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 ...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (3)
On the First Day, God drove together [or compacted] the corrupt Salitter, which came to be so in the Kindling of his Wrath: I say, God then drove it...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 4: Of the true Eternal Nature, that is, of the numberless and endless generating of the Birth of the eternal Essence, which is the Essence of all Essences; out of which were generated, born, and at length created, this World, with the Stars and Elements, and all whatsoever moves, stirs, or lives therein. The open Gate of the great Depth. (59)
Now we pray thus, Our Father [which art] in Heaven, hallowed (or sanctified) be thy Name. And in the first of Genesis it is written, God created the...
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. (30)
Therefore Moses writes, that God created the Heaven out of the Midst of the Waters: [This you must] understand [to be] out of the eternal watery Matri...
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