The Kabbalah Unveiled — S. L. MacGregor Mathers (from Knorr von Rosenroth's Latin) (1887)
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1070. We have learned that all those supernal conformations which are in the Holy Body, in the Male and in the Female, which ( arrangement of Male and Female ) is the proper ordering (of the Form) of the man, are deduced from themselves by turns, and that by turns they adhere each to its (order of deviation) ; and that by turns they flow down into themselves (i.e., the duplicate Male and Female form).
1071. Like as the blood floweth through the passages of the veins — now through one, now through another ; now hither, now thither ; from one place into another place.
1072. And those interior portions of the Body bind themselves together by turns until all the worlds are illuminated, and receive benediction because of them.
1073. We have learned that all those Crowns which are not comprehended in the Body are all far distant and impure, and pollute whom they are permitted — whosoever, namely, cometh near unto them so that he may learn anything from them.
1074. * This have we learned. Wherefore, then, is there so great a desire for them among the Disciples of Wisdom? For no other reason than that they (the Crowns which are impure) should approach that Holy Body, and that thus perchance through them (the Disciples of Wisdom) they (the impure Crowns) may seek to be comprehended in that Body.
* This section apparently intends to inculcate the doctrine that it is the duty of the righteous to endeavour to improve not only the ungodly, but even the demons themselves.
THE GREATER HOLY ASSEMBLY.
1075. But if thou sayest that if it be so, surely the Holy Angels also are not included in the comprehension of the Body.
1076. Most assuredly it is not so in the least. For if, He being absent from them, there were Holy Ones without the conformative arrangement of the Body, surely {He being absent from them) they could neither ( continue to) be holy, nor to subsist.
1 077. And nevertheless it is written, Dan. x. 6:
u And his body like as ThRShISh, Tarshish ; ” also,
Ezek. x. 12: “ And their backs full of eyes ; ” also,
Dan. ix. 2 1 : u The man Gabriel.” All these passages
refer to the analogy of the Man.
1078. Those being accepted which exist not in the ordered arrangement of the Body ; for those are impure, and pollute him — namely, whosoever shall approach unto them.
1079. Also, we have learned that these are found to proceed from the spirit of the left side, which is not mitigated in human form ; and they have gone out from the ordered arrangement of the Holy Body, neither do they adhere unto it.
1080. And therefore are they all impure, and they wander to and fro, and fly through the world.
1081. And they are entered into the mouth of the Great Abyss, so that they may adhere unto that former Judgment which had gone forth from the ordered arrangement of the Body, and which is called the Inferior Qain.
1082. And they wander to and fro, and fly up and down, through the whole world, being carried abroad hither and thither : and they adhere not in the Syntagma of the Body.
1083 And therefore are they without, and impure, among all the hosts above and below ; like as it is written, Lev. xiii. 46 : “ And his habitation shall be without the camp.”
KABBALAH.
1084. But from the Spirit which is called Abel, which hath been more mitigated in the Syntagma of the Holy Body, others go forth who have been more mitigated, and can adhere unto the body, but cannot completely be mherent within it.
1085. They all hang in the air, and go forth from this genus of those Impure Ones, and hear whatsoever may be said above and below ; and concerning them they have knowledge who have spoken concerning them.
1086. Also, this is the tradition in the “ Book of Concealed Mystery.” When the Syntagma of the Supernal Man had been mitigated as to the Holy Body, in Male and Female form, these two were conjoined together again for the third time.*
1087. And the temperation of all things proceeded therefrom, and the superior and inferior worlds were mitigated.
1088. And thenceforth the superior and inferior worlds are bound together under the form of the Holy Body, and the worlds are associated together, and cohere together, and have been made one Body.f
1089. And since all things are one Body, the Schechinah Superior, the Schechinah Inferior — that Holy One, may He be blessed above ! that Holy One, may He be blessed below ! — hence is His Spirit drawn forth, and She entereth into the One Body, and in all things there appeareth nothing but the Unity.