Searching...
Showing 1-15
Passages similar to: Secret Teachings of All Ages — The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel
Source passage
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,...
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 shineth through the second mother, the s...
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 (95)
But the seed which so qualifieth is that seed alone in which the light is kindled: in that in which the wrath-fire burneth, there this third mother re...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (8)
And this spirit is always generated from the six, and subsisteth always continually, and is never missing or wanting, nor does ever pass away, and it ...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (30)
The seventh spirit is nature, in which stands the corporeal being of all six spirits, for the six spirits generate the seventh. In this spirit stands...
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,...