The Kabbalah Unveiled — S. L. MacGregor Mathers (from Knorr von Rosenroth's Latin) (1887)
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931. Wherefore ? There is an Arcanum of the Most
Holy Ancient One, and an Arcanum of Microprosopus.
932. YIITzR, Va- Yeyetzer , and formed. What did ( Tetragrammaton Elohim) form ? Form in form. And this is YIITzR.
933. And what is form in form? The two names, which are called the full name, IHYH ALHIM, Tetragrammaton Elohim.
934. And this is the Arcanum of the two I’s, Yods , in YIITzR ; and of how it hath been conformed form within form ; namely, in the disposition of the perfect name, Tetragrammaton Elohim.
935. And in what are they comprehended? In the supernal beard (otherwise, in this supernal form which is called (the supernal) man ; the man who comprehendeth Male and Female equally).
936. And therefore is it written: “ ATh HADM, Ath Ha-Adam (tqv avOpajirov), the substance of man/’ because it comprehendeth equally the Male and the Female, for to the word ADM, ATh is subjoined, so as to extend and exaggerate the species which is here produced. Most assuredly here therefore is it as Male and as Female.
937. a OPR MN HADMH, Ophir Men Ha-Adarnah , from the dust of the ground,” dust, form within form (otherwise, from the most ethereal portion of the refined element of earth, one within the other) .
938. But wherefore are all these things so ? Because that from the supernal s there was sent down into him (Man) the Arcanum of the supernal Arcana, even the end of all Arcana.
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KABBALAH.
939. This is that which is herein written : “ VIPCh BAPIY NShMTh ChIIM, Ve- YepechBc-Ephaiu Neschamatk Chiim , and breathed into his nostrils the Neschamath* * * § of (i their ) lives.”
940. Their souls, from which all things living, superiors and inferiors, alike depend, and wherein they have their existence.
94 1 . “ VIHI HADM LNPSh ChIH, Va- Yehi Ha- Adam Le- Nephesch Chiah , and the Adam was formed into a living Nephesch,” so that it (the physical Nephesch form ) might be attached to himself (otherwise, so that it might be developed in him), and that he might form himself into similar conformations ; f and that he might project himself in that Neschamah from path into path,* even unto the end and completion of all the paths.
942. So that in all this Neschamah might be found, and that it might be extended into all, and that it itself might be still one.
943. Whence he who taketh this away from the universe doth the same thing as if he should take away this Neschamah for the purpose of setting in its place another Neschamah beside it.§
944. And therefore shall such a man and his remembrance be cut off from generations unto generations.
* Neschamath is either the plural of Neschamah, defectively tcritten, or else shows that Neschamah is in regimine to Chiim, and evidently means the united higher souls of both Adam and Eve conjoined in one body. (For explanation of Neschamah, &c., see Introduction.)
+ That is into conformations similar to those of the Supernal Man.
+ That is, into forms, conditions, and qualities analogous to the Sephiroth. (See Introduction regarding the soul, and Plate showing the analogy between the soul, the letters of Tetragrammaton, and the four worlds, where the Sephiroth are shown reflected in Nephesch.)
§ Apparently the sense of this passage is intended to combat Atheism, and to show that it is logically absurd to deny the existence of a Spirit of God which works in the universe ; inasmuch that if this be denied, at all events something analogous in its general properties will have to be substituted for it.
THE GREA TER HOL Y ASSEMBL Y.
CHAPTER XL.
CONCERNING THE FEMININE PORTION OF MICROPROSOPUS ;
AND CONCERNING THE REMAINING PARTS OF THE BODY
OF EACH.
945. Thus in this Adam androgyneity hath commenced to be disposed when it hath been formed in its disposition. It hath commenced from His back. (Otherwise, from His breast.)
946. Between the two arms, in that part wherennto the beard hangeth down, which is called Tiphereth, the Beauty.
947. And this Beauty is expanded and disposeth two breasts.
948. And it is separated from the back, and produceth the Head of a Woman completely covered on every side by Her hair as far as to ( the limits of ) the face of Her head.
949. Insomuch that through that Tiphereth, Beauty,
Adam becometh in one body, Male and Female.
950. This is that which is written, Isa. xliv. 13:
“ According to the beauty of a man, KThPARTh
ADM, Kc- Tiphereth Adam , that it may remain in the
house.”