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Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (51)
2. 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, fire--each divided into an active and a passive power. The Mothers, א מ ש, gave birth to the Fathers (the progenitors), and these gave birth to the generations.
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter III:(2-3)
These three mothers enclose a mighty mystery, most occult and most marvelous, sealed as with six rings, and from them proceed primeval Fire, Water,...
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,...
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,...
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...
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 III:(1)
The three mother letters A, M, SH are the foundations of the whole; and resemble a Balance, the good in one scale, the evil in the other, and the...
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter III:(5)
These three mothers did he create, form, and design, and combine with the three mothers in the world, and in the year, and in Man, both male and...
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,...
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 shines through the second Mother, the se...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (95)
And this now is the Mother of the Soul, which shines through the seven Spirits, and makes them living, and in their Stead the Seed qualifies, mixes, o...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (128)
The Motion of the three Births lasted the Length of six Days and Nights, wherein all the seven Spirits of God stood in a full moving Birth or...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVI: Gnostic Exposition of the Decalogue. (22)
Such, again, is the number of the most general motions, according to which all origination takes place - up, down, to the right, to the left,...
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter III:(4)
In the Year or as regards Time, these three mothers represent Heat, Cold, and a Temperate climate, the heat from the fire, the cold from the water,...