The Kabbalah Unveiled — S. L. MacGregor Mathers (from Knorr von Rosenroth's Latin) (1887)
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1090 QDVSh, QDYSh, QDVSh, IHYH TzBAYTh ;
Qadosh , Qadosh , Qadosh , Yod He Van He Tzabaoth ;
Holy, holy, holy, Tetragrammaton of the Hosts ! the
whole earth is full of Thy glory, for all things are Thy
One Body.
1091. We have learned that because the one hath
* For their first conjunction produced Qain, the severe and evil judgment ; their second, Abel, the milder and weaker form whom Qain absorbs ; but their third produces Seth, the equilibrium of the supernals and inferiors.
+ “And they twain shall be one flesh.”
been tempered by the other, hence it is written, Cant. i. 1 1 : “We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.” For judgment and mercy are connected together (otherwise, judgment is tempered through mercy), and She is mitigated by Him.
1092. And therefore She ascendeth not without Him, like as with the palms ; one sex ariseth not without the other.
1093. And therefore have we learned by tradition that if any one in this world cutteth himself off from the race of mankind, he hereafter, when he quitteth this world, shall not enter into the Syntagma of mankind, which is called the Holy Body ; but (shall enter ) among those who are not called mankind, so that he shall go forth from the Syntagma of the Body.
1094. We have learned in exotic tradition that this is the sense of “ We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver” (Cant. i. 1 1), that judgment is mitigated through mercy, so that there can be no judgment in which mercy is not found.
1095. And therefore it is written, ibid. 10: “ Thy cheeks are beautiful in their outlines, and thy neck in pearls.”
1096. “In outlines (or borders),” as it is written:
“ He will make thee borders of gold.”
1097. “In pearls,” answering to that which is written :
“ With studs of silver.”
1098. “Thy neck” involveth the perfection of the Woman, This is found to be the habitation of the Sanctuary above, but the Jerusalem below.
1099. And all this after that She is mitigated through the Male, and They twain are become one being, even the Syntagma of Truth.
1 100. What is this Truth? Wherein is found all
Truth ?
1 10 1. Thus have we learned. If any one be called Adam, and his soul (Neschamali) goeth from him, and he
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dieth, it is forbidden to leave him in his abode so that he should abide upon the earth.
1102. On account of the honour of that Body wherein no corruption can appear.
1103. For it is written, Ps. xlix. 13:“ Man {Adam) shall not abide in honour ; ” that is, Adam, who is more worthy than all honour, shall not abide.
1 1 04. Wherefore ? Because if it were thus, he would be like unto the beasts (BHMVTh, Behemoth) which perish.
1105. In what manner is it with the beast ? He is not in the race of Adam, neither is he able to receive the Holy Spirit (RVChA QDIShA), for thus also would he be like unto the beast were his body without the Spirit, when at the same time that body [of his), which is the most honourable of all ( bodies , seeing it is the image of the Supernal ), is not meet to be associated with those things which are ignominious.
1106. Also we have learned in the Book of Concealed Mystery,” that were any one permitted to remain in any such {image of the) Holy Body, and yet without the Spirit (. Ruacha ), there would be a void in the Body of the World.
1107. For assuredly, therefore, it could not be permitted unto him that he should abide in the holy place, in that earth wherein justice abideth. (Otherwise : Under the command of the Holy Crown, Kether , of the King, Microprosopus , in the earth, concerning which it is written, Isa. i. 21, u Justice abideth in Her.”)
1108. * Since that venerable Body is the Form of the King ; but if it were thus permitted to remain, then it would be counted as one of the beasts. (Otherwise : Since this venerable Body is called the Form of the King, and if it were thus left abiding, it would be like as the
* These sections are going on the idea of the Body remaining alive when the Divine Spirit has been withdrawn therefrom ; that is, were it possible or it to be so.
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beast.) Therefore is it said, “ Like unto the beasts which perish.”