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Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (76)
10. In this manner God joined the seven double letters together. Two stones build two houses, three stones build six houses, four stones build twenty-four houses, five stones build 120 houses, six stones build 720 houses, and seven stones build 5,040 houses. Make a beginning according to this arrangement and reckon further than the mouth can express or the ear can hear.
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...
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter IV:(1)
There were formed seven double letters, Beth, Gimel, Daleth, Kaph, Pe, Resh, Tau, each has two voices, either aspirated or softened. These are 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 IV:(3)
These seven double letters He formed, designed, created, and combined into the Stars of the Universe, the days of the week, the orifices of...
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,...
Sefer Yetzirah
[Supplement to Chapter IV]:(8)
By these seven letters were also made seven worlds, seven heavens, seven lands, seven seas, seven rivers, seven deserts, seven days (as before),...
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 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, ...
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,...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter II (23)
There (were) two and twenty heads of mankind from Adam to Jacob, and two and twenty kinds of work were made until a t. e. with God and the superior...
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter II:(4)
These twenty-two letters, the foundations, He arranged as on a sphere, with two hundred and thirty-one modes of entrance. If the sphere be rotated...
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 IV:(2)
These seven double letters point out the dimensions, East, West, height, depth, North, South, with the holy temple in the middle, sustaining all...
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter I:(3)
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...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XI: The Mystical Meanings in the Proportions of Numbers, Geometrical Ratios, and Music. (4)
On another principle, 120 is a triangular number, and consists of the equality of the number 64, [which consists of eight of the odd numbers...
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter V:(2)
These twelve letters, he designed, formed, combined, weighed, and changed, and created with them the twelve divisions of the heavens (namely, the...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (49)
An example whereof you have in this: as when a carpenter will build a curious house or artificial piece of architecture, or when any other artist...
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...
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...
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.
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