The Kabbalah Unveiled — S. L. MacGregor Mathers (from Knorr von Rosenroth's Latin) (1887)
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336. Henceforth I only see that He, God the Most Holy — may He be blessed ! — and all these truly jast men who are here found, can all consent ( hereunto ) with me.
337. For I see that all can rejoice in these my nuptials, and that they all can be admitted unto my nuptials in that world. Blessed be ray portion !
338. Rabbi Abba saith that when (Rabbi Schimeon ) had finished this discourse, the Holy Light (i.e., Rabbi Schimeon) lifted up his hands and wept, and shortly after smiled.
339. For he wished to reveal another matter, and said : I have been anxious concerning this matter all my days, and now they give me not leave.
340. But having recovered himself he sat down, and murmured with his lips and bowed himself thrice ; neither could any other man behold the place where he was, much less him.
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CONCERNING MICROPROSOPUS AND HIS BRIDE IN GENERAL.
341. He said : Mouth, mouth, which hath followed out all these things, they shall not dry up thy fountain.
342. Thy fountain goeth forth and faileth not : surely concerning thee may this be applied : “ And a river went forth out of Eden ; ” also that which is written : t: Like a fountain of waters whose waters fail not.”
343. Now I testify concerning myself, that all the days which I have lived I have desired to behold this day, yet was it not the will (of God).
344. For with this crown is this day crowned, and now as yet I intend to reveal certain things before God the Most Holy — may He be blessed ! — and all these things crown mine head.
345. And this day * suffereth not increase, neither can it pass on into the place of another day, for this whole day hath been yielded unto my power.
346. And now I begin to reveal these things, that I may not enter ashamed into the world to come. Therefore I begin and say :
347. “ It is written, Ps. lxxxix. 14: ‘ TzDQ VMShPT, Tzedeq Va-Mcshephat , Justice and Judgment are the abode of Thy throne; ChSD VAMTh, Chesed Vcc-Emeth , Mercy and Truth shall go before Thy countenance.’ ”
348. What wise man will examine this, so that he may behold His paths, (those, namely ,) of the Most Holy Supernal One, the judgments of truth, the judgments which are crowned with His supernal crowns.
349. For I say that all the lights which shine from
* Meaning tha period of revealing these matters, not exactly a day of twenty. four hours : day in the scriptural and qabalistical sense.
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the Supreme Light, the Most Concealed of All, are all paths ( leading ) towards that Light.
350. And in that Light which existeth in those single paths, whatsoever is revealed is revealed.
351. And all those lights adhere mutually together, this light in that light, and that light in this light.
352. And they shine mutually into each other, neither are they divided separately from each other.
353. That Light, I say, of those lights, severally and conjointly, which are called the conformations of the King, or of the Crown of the King, that which shineth and adhereth to that Light, which is the innermost of all things, nor ever shineth without them.
354. And therefore do all things ascend in one path, and all things are crowned by one and the same thing, and one thing is not separated from another, since HVA, Hoa , Himself, and His Name, are one.
355. That Light which is manifested is called the Vestment ; for He Himself, the King, is the Light of all the innermost.
356. In that Light is Hoa, Who is not separated nor manifested.
357. And all those lights and all those luminaries shine forth from the Most Holy Ancient One, the Concealed with all Concealments, who is the Highest Light.
358. And whensoever the matter is accurately examined, all those lights which are expanded are no longer found, save only that Highest Light.
359. Who is hidden and not manifested, through those vestments of ornament which are the vestments of truth, QShVT, Qesliot , the forms of truth, the lights of truth.
360. Two light-bearers are found, which are the conformation of the throne of the King ; and they are called TzDQ, Tzedeq , Justice, and MShPT, Meshephat , Judgment.
361. And they are the beginning and the consumma-
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tion. And through them are all the Judgments crowned, as well superior as inferior.
f* 362. And they all are concealed in Meshephat. And from that Meshephat is Tzedeq nourished.
363. And sometimes they call the same, MLKI TzDQ
MLK ShLM, Meleki Tzedeq Melek Shalem , Melchizedek,
King of Salem.
364. When the judgments are crowned by Meshephat, all things are mercy ; and all things are in perfect peace, because the one temperateth the other.