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Sefer HaBahir
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Why is the letter ב closed on all sides and open in the front? This teaches us that it is the House (בַּיִת) of the world. God is the place of the world, and the world is not His place. Do not read ב, but בַּיִת (house). It is thus written (Proverbs 24:3), "With wisdom the house is built, with understanding it is established."
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (47)
He fixed the twenty-two basic letters in a ring (sphere) like a wall with two hundred and thirty-one gates, and turned the sphere forward and backward...
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...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (36)
He selected three consonants (I, H, V) from the simple ones--a secret belonging to the three mothers, or first elements; א מ ש (A, M, Sh), air, water,...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (59)
The seven double letters, ב ג ד כ פ ר ת (B, G, D, K, P, R, Th), have a duplicity of pronunciation (two voices), aspirated and unaspirated, namely: פּ ...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Tree of the Sephiroth (69)
According to the original conception, from the union of the Divine Father and the Divine Mother is produced Microprosophus--the Short Face or the...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Human Body in Symbolism (10)
The Tetragrammaton, or four-lettered Name of God, is here arranged as a tetractys within the inverted human heart. Beneath, the name Jehovah is shown...
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, ...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (48)
How was it all accomplished? He combined, weighed, and changed: the א (A) with all the other letters in succession, and all the others again with א (A...
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter I:(10-11)
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,...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Fundamentals of Qabbalistic Cosmogony (17)
The Qabbalists used the letter ש, Shin, to signify the trinity of the first three Sephiroth. The central circle slightly above the other two is the...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (67)
In the central triangle are the three Mother Letters from which come forth the seven Double Letters--the planets and the heavens. Surrounding the...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Qabbalistic Keys to the Creation of Man (8)
[paragraph continues] When broken in two the stone is שת יה, which means "the placing of God."(See Pekudei Rakov, 71, 72.) Again, Temurah may consist...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (97)
The first elements are air, water, and fire; the fire is above, the water is below, and a breath of air establishes balance between them. The token is...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Qabbalistic Keys to the Creation of Man (5)
Under the general heading of Temurah several systems may be grouped and explained in which various letters are substituted for other letters...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (46)
He established twenty-two basic letters, formed by the voice and impressed upon the air by the breath. He set them to be audibly uttered in five diffe...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (44)
There are twenty-two basic (sounds and) letters. Three are the first elements (water, air, fire), fundamentals, or mothers; seven are double letters; ...
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...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Tree of the Sephiroth (71)
The column on the right, which is called Jachin, has its foundation on Chochmah, the outpouring Wisdom of God; the three globes suspended from it are...
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...