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Secret Teachings of All Ages
Fundamentals of Qabbalistic Cosmogony (37)
In the second world, B 1 to B 10, the order of the spheres is the Name as in the Atziluthic World, but the ten circles of light are less brilliant and more tangible, and are here referred to as ten great Spirits--divine creatures who assist in the establishment of order and intelligence in the universe. As already noted, B 1 is born out of A 10 and is included within all the spheres superior to itself. Out of B 1 are taken nine globes--B 2, B 3, B 4, B 5, B 6, B 7, B 8, B 9, and B 10--which constitute the World of Briah. These ten subdivisions, however, are really the ten Atziluthic powers reflected into the substance of the Briatic World. B 1 is the ruler of this world, for it contains all the other rings of its own world and also the rings of the third and fourth worlds, C and D. In the World of Briah the ten spheres of light are called the Archangels of Briah. Their order and powers are as follows:
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,...
Apocryphon of John
The Four Luminaries (The Four Luminaries)
Now, from the light, which is the anointed, and from incorruptibility, by the grace of the spirit, the four luminaries that derive from the...
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...