The Kabbalah Unveiled — S. L. MacGregor Mathers (from Knorr von Rosenroth's Latin) (1887)
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885. “Also we have learned, that when this glory [of Microprosopus ) is illuminate by the light of the excellent beard,* and emitteth light into the other dispositions, then it is called 4 Bearing Iniquity ’ on the one side, and 4 Passing over Transgression ’ on the other side.
886. “And therefore in Scripture is it called by the name of his jawbones.
887. “And in the 4 Book of Concealed Mystery ’ is
the same called Glory, HVD,f Hod, and Honour, HDR,
Hadar , and ThPARTh,J Tiphereth, Beauty.
- 888. “ And unto Tiphereth , Beauty, appertained the title 4 Passing over Transgression,’ since it is said, Prov.
- xix. 15 : 4 And it is His Beauty ( Tiphcretli ) to pass over transgression.’
889. 44 Also we have learned that we should only refer that Tiphereth , Beauty, unto the ninth conformation (1 of the beard of Microprosopus) ; as it is said, Prov. xx. 29 : 4 And the beauty of young men is their strength.’ And therefore also is it (the ninth conformation) called Beauty ; and when they are weighed together in the balance they are as one.”
890. Rabbi Schimeon said unto him: “Worthy art thou, O Rabbi Abba ! for which reason mayest thou be blessed by the Most Holy Ancient One, from whom all blessings proceed.
891. 44 The fifth conformation. The hair is wanting, and there appear two apples, on this side and on that, red as red roses, and they radiate into two hundred and seventy worlds.
892. 44 As to those two apples, when they shine on either side, from the light of the two supernal apples (the cheeks of Macroprosopus) , redness is removed therefrom, and a white brilliance cometh upon them.
* Namely, that of Macroprosopus. t The eighth Sephira. J The sixth Sephira.
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893. “Concerning this is it written, Num. vi. 25 : ‘ Tetragrammaton make His face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee.’ Seeing that when they shine he is blessed by the world.
894. “ But when that redness is stirred up (in them ), it is written, ibid. 26 : ‘ Tetragrammaton take away His wrath from thee ; ’ as if it were said : £ It is taken away, and wrath is no longer found in the world.’
895. “We have learned that all the lights which shine from the Most Holy Ancient One are called the former benignities, because all those lights are the benignities of time.
896. The sixth conformation. The hair goeth forth as it were in a certain tress, among the hairs in the circumference of the beard ; and this is called one of the five angles which depend from the CnSD, Chesed , Mercy and Compassions.
897. “And it is not permitted to lose this benignity, as it is said.
898. Therefore is it written, Lev. xix. 27 : c Thou shalt not lose the angle of thy beard.’
899. “ The seventh conformation is that the hairs hang not over the mouth, and that the mouth is uncovered on every side. Arise thou, Rabbi Yehudah.”
900. Rabbi Yehudah arose, and commenced, and said, Dan. iv. 1 7 : “ c This matter is by the decree of the Watchers.’
901. “Many thousands of myriads stand around, and are preserved by this mouth, and depend therefrom, and all those are called (by the genercd title of) the mouth.
902. “ As it is written, Ps. xxxiii. 6 : ‘ And all the host of them by the Spirit of His mouth.’
903. “ And by this Spirit which goeth forth from the mouth are all those exteriors clothed who depend from that mouth.
904. “ And by that mouth, when that path is opened,
KABBALAH.
are clothed many true prophets ; and they all are called the mouth of Tetragrammaton.
905. “ And in that place where the Spirit goeth forth no other thing is mingled therewith ; for all things wait upon that mouth, that they may be clothed with the Spirit going forth therefrom.
906. “ And this disposition ruleth over the six (foregoing conformations ), because herein are all things established and comprehended.
907. “ And therefore are the hairs (of this conformation) equal around the mouth, and this itself is uncovered on every side.”
908. Rabbi Schimeon said (unto him): “ Blessed be thou, by the Most Holy Ancient One.
909. tc The eighth conformation is that the hairs descend beneath the beard, covering the throat, that it cannot be seen.
910. “ For we have learned in the exotic tradition that neither the throat nor any of its parts (are apparent) through (the hair). And if in the time of contest (otherwise of Victory, NTzCh, Netzacli *), during such contest any portion of (the throat) be visible, then it appeareth like Strength (Geburah). f