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Passages similar to: Sefer HaBahir — Verses
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Kabbalistic
Sefer HaBahir
Verses (30)
They said to him: But what is ו? He said: The world was sealed with six directions. They said: Is ו not a single letter? He replied: It is written (Psalm 104:2), "He wraps Himself in light as a garment..."
Kabbalistic
Chapter I:(11)
He selected three letters from the simple ones, and sealed them as forming his great Name, I H V and he sealed the universe in six directions.
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Western Esoteric
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,...
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Western Esoteric
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...
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Kabbalistic
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...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (49)
He created a reality out of Nothing. He called the nonentity into existence and hewed colossal pillars from intangible air. This has been shown by the...
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Western Esoteric
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...
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Kabbalistic
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, ...
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Kabbalistic
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,...
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Kabbalistic
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...
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Kabbalistic
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,...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (27)
The appearance of the ten spheres (Sephiroth) out of Nothing is as a flash of lightning or a sparkling flame, and they are without beginning or end. T...
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Kabbalistic
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...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (29)
Concerning the number (10) of the spheres of existence (Sephiroth) out of Nothing, seal up your lips and guard your heart as you consider them, and if...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (33)
Primordial water He extracted from the air. He formed therein twenty-two letters and established them out of mud and loam, making them like a border, ...
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Western Esoteric
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...
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Sufi
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...
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Western Esoteric
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; ...
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Western Esoteric
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...
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Kabbalistic
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...
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Western Esoteric
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...
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