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Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (104)
10. When the Patriarch Abraham had comprehended the great truths, meditated upon them, and understood them perfectly, the Lord of the Universe (the Tetragrammaton) appeared to him, called him His friend, kissed him upon the head, and made with him a covenant. First, the covenant was between the ten fingers of his hands, which is the covenant of the tongue (spiritual); second, the covenant was between the ten toes of his feet, which is the covenant of circumcision (material); and God said of him, "Before Abraham bound the spirit of the twenty-two letters (the Thora) upon his tongue and God disclosed to him their secrets. God permitted the letters to be immersed in water, He burned them in the fire and imprinted them upon the winds. He distributed them among the seven planets and gave them to the twelve zodiacal signs.
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter VI:(4)
After that our father Abraham had seen, and pondered over, investigated, and understood these things, he designed, engraved, and composed them, and...
Sefer HaBahir
Verses (8)
Why did God add the letter ה to Abraham's name, rather than any other letter? This was so that all parts of man's body should be worthy of life in...
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...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XV (10)
(And I shall give to thee and to thy seed after thee) the land where thou hast been a sojourner, the land of Canaan, that thou mayst possess it for...
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,...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XV (22)
And He left off speaking with him, and God went up from Abraham. 23.* And Abraham did according as God had said unto him, and he took Ishmael his son,...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter VI (5)
I« 1 Gen. viii. 21. any blood that was in any flesh, and he made a cove- nant before the Lord God for ever throughout all the generations of the...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXIV (22)
And the Lord appeared to him that night, on the new moon of the first month, and said unto him : "I am the God of Abraham thy father; fear not, for I ...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XV (4)
And I will make My covenant between Me and thee, and I will multiply thee exceedingly." l 5.' And Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, and...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XVI (14)
And Abraham circumcised his son on the eighth day : he was the first that was circumcised according to the covenant which is ordained for ever.
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter I:(1)
In two and thirty most occult and wonderful paths of wisdom did JAH the Lord of Hosts engrave his name: God of the armies of Israel, ever-living God,...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XII (23)
And I shall bless thee And I shall make thy name great, And thou wilt be blessed in the earth, And in thee will all families of the earth be blessed, ...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XV (14)
And the uncir- cumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin on the eighth day,* that soul will be cut . off from his people, for ...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XIV (20)
And on that day we made a covenant with Abram, according as we had covenanted with Noah in this_month ; and Abram renewed the festival and ordinance f...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter V: He Proves By Several Examples That the Greeks Drew From the Sacred Writers. (1)
Accordingly all those above-mentioned dogmas appear to have been transmitted from Moses the great to the Greeks. That all things belong to the wise...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XV (3)
And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him : " I am God Almighty ; approve thyself before Me and be thou perfect.
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XVII (15)
And it came to pass in the seventh week, in the first year thereof, in the first month in this jubilee, on the twelfth of this month, there were voice...
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...
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, ...
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...
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