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

[The “ Treatise of the Revolutions of the Soul ” is not published in this volume.]

32. (But this name YIH) is restored (if it be written IHY ; and thus) in that man (the supernal, concerning whom it hath been spoken above ; and also) in those two (namely, the father and the mother, also in the androgynous Microprosopus : and also partly) in genus (seeing that Vau alone symbolizeth both the Microprosopus and his bride) and in species (seeing that Yod and He are placed separately as father and mother).

33. (But just as much) are they contained in the special (representation of those spouses, as) also in the general (that is, as much in father and mother as in Microprosopus with his bride) ; legs and arms right and left (that is, the remaining numerations, collected together in two lateral lines, with the middle line representing Vau and Yod.)

34. (But) this (that is, the supreme equality) is divided in its sides, because Yod and He are placed expressly as the father and the mother ; but in another equality) the male is conformed with the female (like an androgyn, because the last He is not added. Whence are made) IHY.

35. I, Yod, is male (namely, the father) ; H, He, is female (namely, the mother) ; Y, Vau (however, is androgynous, like as) it is written, Gen. v. 2 : “ Male and female created He them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam.”

36. (Thus also) the form and person of a man was seated upon the throne ; and it is written, Ezek. i. 26 : “ And upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above it.”

THE BOOK OF CONCEALED MYSTERY.

[This piece alludes to the Tetragrammaton itself, showing the hieroglyphic form of a man : thel=head, H = arms, V=body, and H=legs. See Introduction and Table of Alphabet.]

ANNOTATION.

{Belonging to § 19, foregoing.)

1. Another explanation. “Let waters bring forth abundantly.” In this place, in the Chaldee paraphrase, it is said IRChShVN, which hath a general meaning of movement. As if it should be said : “ When his lips, by moving themselves and murmuring, produced the words, like a prayer from a righteous heart and puremind, the water produced the living soul.” (The meaning is concerning the act of generating life.)

2. And when a man wisheth to utter his prayers rightly before his Lord, and his lips move themselves in this manner, (his invocations) rising upward from him, for the purpose of magnifying the majesty of his Lord unto the place of abundance of the water where the depth of that fountain riseth and floweth forth (that is, understanding emanating from wisdom) ; then (that fountain floweth forth plentifully, and) spreadeth abroad so as to send down the influx from the Highest, downwards from that place of abundance of water, into the paths singly and conjointly, even unto the last path ; in order that her bountiful grace may be derived into all from the highest downwards.

[H, He, the supernal mother.]

3. Then indeed is such a man held to intertwine the connecting links of (them) all, namely, those connecting links of true and righteous meditation : and all his petitions shall come to pass, whether his petition be made in a place of worship, whether in private prayer.

[“ Such a man ” — i.e., a righteous man, when praying sincerely.
“ Links of them ”■ — i.e., the paths.]

KABBALAH.

4. But the petition which a man wisheth to make unto his Lord can ordinarily be propounded in nine ways.