The Kabbalah Unveiled — S. L. MacGregor Mathers (from Knorr von Rosenroth's Latin) (1887)

256. And all things are included in IYD, Yod , and therefore is the Father called All, the Father of Fathers.

257. The beginning of all is called the Home of All. Whence IYD, Yod , is the beginning and the end of all \ like as it is written, Ps. civ. 24 : “ All things in Chokmah hast Thou made."

258. In His place He is not manifested, neither is He known ; when He is associated with the Mother, BAMA, Bc-Ama , then is He made known (otherwise, symbolized) in the Mother, BAIMA, Be-Aima*

259. And therefore is Aima known to be the consummation of all things, and She is signified to be thebeginning and the end.

260. For all things are called Chokmah, and therein are all things concealed ; and the Syntagma of all things is the Holy Name.

261. Thus far have we mystically described that which we have not said on all the other days. But now are the aspects shown forth.

262. (As to the Sacred Name IHVH ,) I, Yod , is included in this Chokmah, Wisdom ; H, He , is Aima, and is called Binah, Understanding ; YH, Vau He , are those two Children who are produced from Aima, the Mother.

263. Also we have learned that the name BINH, Binah, comprehend eth all things. For in Her is I, Yodr which is associated with Aima, or the letter H, He , and together they produce BN, Ben , the Son, and this is the

* Be Ama , with the Mother. Here Ama, AMA, Mother = 42. Be Aima , in the Mother. Here Aima , AIMA = 52 = BN, Ben, Son. This- Gematria is most important, because, be it noted, Aima, AIMA, is the letter I, Yod, which vce have just been told represents Chokmah, joined to AMA, Mother, which is Binah, BINH, which again is BN 1H by Metathesis, Ben Yod He — i.e., son of IH, eternally conjoined in Briah.

KABBALAH.

word Binah. Father and Mother, who are I, Yod , and H, He, with whom are interwoven the letters B, Beth , and N, Nun, which are BN, Ben ; and thus far regarding Binah.

264. Also is She called ThBVNH, Thebunah, the Special Intelligence. Wherefore is She sometimes called Thebunah, and not Binah ?

265. Assuredly Thebunah is She called at that time
in which Her two Children appear, the Son and the
Daughter, BN VBTh, Ben Va-Bath, who are YH,
Vau He; and at that time is She called ThBVNH,
Thebunah.

2 66. For all things are comprehended in those letters, YH, Vau He, which are BN VBTh, Ben Va-Bath, Son and Daughter ; and all things are one system, and these are the letters ThBVNH.

267. In the Book of Bav Hamenuna the Elder it is said that Solomon revealeth the primal conformation (that is, the Mother) when he saith, Cant. i. 15: “ Behold, thou art fair, my love ; ” wherefore he follow eth it nut himself.

268. And he calleth the second conformation the
Bride, which is called the Inferior Woman.

269. And there are some who apply both these names
(those, namely, of Love and Bride) to this Inferior Woman,
but these are not so.

270. For the first H, He (of IHVH), is not called the Bride ; but the last H, He, is called the Bride at certain times on account of many symbolic reasons.

271. For many are the times when the Male is not associated with Her, but is separated from Her.

272. Concerning this period it is said, Lev. xviii. 19 :
“ Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman in the
separation of her uncleanness.”

273. But when the Female hath been purified, and the Male desireth to be united unto Her, then is she called the Bride — the Bride, properly so called.

THE LESSER HOLY ASSEMBLY.

274. But as to that which pertaineth unto the Mother, then the benevolence of Them both is not taken away for all eternity.

2 7 5. Together They (Chokmah and Binah , IH) go forth, together They are at rest ; the one ceaseth not from the other, and the one is never taken away from the other.

276. And therefore is it written, Gen. ii. 10 : “ And a river went forth out of Eden ” — i.e., properly speaking, it continually goeth forth and never faileth.

277. As it is written, Isa. lviii. 11 : “ And like a fountain of waters, whose waters fail not.”

278. And therefore is She called “ My love,” since from the grace of kindred association They rest in perfect unity.

279. But the other is called the Bride, for when the Male cometh that He may consort with Her, then is She the Bride, for She, properly speaking, cometh forth as the Bride.