The Kabbalah Unveiled — S. L. MacGregor Mathers (from Knorr von Rosenroth's Latin) (1887)
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* For Chokmah and Binah in the Sephiroth answer unto I and H in the name IHVH, as has been already shown in the introduction ; and these bring forth Microprosopus the Son, the letter Vau, V, answering in numerical value to the number 6, and to the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth Sephiroth.
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233. For thus it is written, Hos. xiv. 9 : “ The paths ! of Tetragrammaton are true, and the just shall walk in them,” &c.
235. For these things are concealed, and the Holy- Highest Ones shine in them, like as light proceedeth from the shining of a lantern.
236. These things are not revealed save unto those who have entered therein and departed therefrom ; for as for him who hath not entered therein and departed therefrom, better were it for him that he had never been born.
237. For it hath been manifested before the Most Holy Ancient One, the Concealed with all Concealments, because these things have shone into mine heart in the perfection of the love and fear of the Most Holy God, may He be blessed !
238. And these, my sons, who are here present, know these things ; for into these matters have they entered and therefrom have they departed; but neither yet into all ( the secrets of them)*
239. But now are these things illustrated in (tlicir) perfection, even as it was necessary. Blessed be my portion with them in this world !
240. Babbi Schimeon said : All which I have said concerning the Most Holy Ancient One, and all which I have said concerning Microprosopus, all are one, all are HYA, Hoa , Himself, all are Unity, neither herein hath separation place.
241. Blessed be HYA, Hoa , He, and blessed be His
Name unto the Ages of the Ages.
242. Come, behold ! This beginning which is called Father, f is comprehended in I, Yod , { which dependeth from the Holy Influence.
* This clause refers to the “ Unwritten Qabalak.”
+ Chokroah, the second Sephira, which, however, is as it were the re-^ petition of Kcther.
£ That is, the letter I, Yod , in IHYH, which is said in the “ Book of Concealed Mystery ” to symbolize Macroprosopus only in its highest point.
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243. And therefore is I, Yod, the Most Concealed of all the other letters.*
244. For I, Yod , is the beginning and the end of all things.
245. And that river which floweth on and goeth forth is called the World, which is ever to come and ceaseth never.
246. And this is the delight of the just, that they •may be made worthy of that world which is to come, which ever watereth the garden of Eden, nor faileth.
247. Concerning this it is written, Isa. lviii. 1 1 : “ And like a fountain of water, whose waters fail not.”
248. And that world to come is created through I, Yod .
249. As it is written, Gen. ii. 9 : “ And a river went forth out of Eden to water the garden.”
250. For I, Yod , includeth two letters.
251. In the teaching of the school of Rav Yeyeva the Elder thus is the tradition. Wherefore are YD, Van Daleth,} comprehended in IYD, Yod? Assuredly the planting of the garden is properly called Y, Van ; and there is another garden which is D, Daleth , and by that Yan is Daleth watered, which is the symbol of the quaternary. +
252. And an Arcanum is extended from this passage,
where it is written : “ And a river went forth out of
Eden.”
253. What is Eden? It is the supernal ChKMH,
Clwhmali , Wisdom, and that is I, Yod [in I, V, D ).
* See “ Book of Concealed Mystery,” ch. ii. § 37 ; ch. iv. § 11.
+ See “ Book of Concealed Mystery,” ch. ii. § 37.
J The amount of occult symbolism in this section is enormous, and the "key of it is the name of the letter I, which is IYD, Yod. This is a trinity of letters, and their numerical value is I = 10, V = 6, D = 4, total 20, equivalent to double I ; but for reasons given in the “Book of Concealed Mystery ” the second I is reproduced by a Hexad and a Tetrad — namely, V and D. 1 = 10, the decimal scale of Sephirotic notation, the key of processional creation ; V = 6 = Tipheretb, and Microprosopus the Son united to D = 4, the Cross. Here is the mystery of the crucifixion of the Son on the tree life*; and again the Qal lah agrees with Christian symbolism.
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254. “ To water the garden.” That is V, Vau.
255. “ And thence it is divided and goeth forth into four heads.” That is D, Daleth.