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

19. (Also we find these two equations in that saying) Exod. xiv. 15:“ And the Lord said unto Moses (who is referred to the mother), Why criest thou unto Me ? ” (But also a cry is referred to the mother, just as a groan is to the beautiful path, and an exclamation to the kingdom. But) ALI, Eli, unto me (note this is the same as, “ and unto I, Yod ; ” or the father). “ Speak unto the children of Israel (the speech is the queen ; Israel is the beautiful path) that they set forward.” Wherein note well the word VISOV, Vayesciau , “ that they set forward,” wherein are VI masculine letters ; SO feminine letters).

[“But also a cry, &c.” Meaning the three Sephiroth, Binah,
Tipliereth , and Malkuth.]

20. From above the power of life flowed down in equilibrium, for he entreated the influence of the Venerable One.

[“The Venerable One” — i.e., the first Sephira, proceeding from the ALST SYP AYE, Ain Sopli Aur. See Introduction.]

2 I . Hereunto also pertaineth that passage, Exod. xv. 2 6 :
“ And if thou shalt do right in His eyes, and shalt hearken

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unto His precepts, and slialt keep all His statutes.” (Where in the last word also two equations are placed.) u Because I am the Lord thy God who healeth thee.” (Note this, because again here is hidden the mystery of the understanding and the wisdom, of the path of beauty and of the congregation of Israel.)

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1. (It is written) Isa. i. 4 : “ Woe unto the sinful nation, unto the people heavy with iniquity, unto the seed of evildoers, &c.” (Here the author of the “ Siphra Dtzenioutha ” reasoneth concerning the small word HYI, “ woe,” which also is a form of the name. And this word is alone separated from the following portions of the sentence.)

2. Seven are the paths (if the Tetragrammaton be written in this way partially complete), IYD, HH, Y, H, (where the father and mother are written in full, Microprosopus and his bride are written uncovered. If here the last and first letters be combined, and the penultimate and second, and therefore the paths at either extremity, so that they may form the letters) HI and YY (mother and son), then are produced (the three middle letters) HH, D (which are the symbols of the queen, heavy with judgments. But if mother and daughter be combined) HYI and HH, (then) is produced [forth YY (or Microprosopus) as well as DY (or the androgyn, who also is a condition of judgments), for occultly Adam is denoted, or the male and female, who are that DY concerning whom it is written (in the place cited above)

corrupt children.”

3. (When it is said) BRAShITh, BRA, Bcrashith leva , <c In the beginning created,” (the supernal paths are

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understood. For) BRAShITh, Berashith , is the speech (one of the ten rules of Genesis), but BRA, Bern, is the speech halved. (But there are here understood) Father and Son, the. hidden and the manifest. (And also)

4. The superior Eden is hidden and concealed. (That is, no mention is made of the crown.) The inferior Eden cometh forth so that it may be transferred (towards the inferiors) and manifested (through the voice of its original, which denoteth wisdom).

[“Ho mention made of the crown” — i.e., Kether, the first
Sephira, Macroprosopus.]

5. For the name (Tetragrammaton) IHVH, Yod , He , Yciu , He , includeth the name IH, Yah (which is of the father, and the name) ALHIM, Elohim (which here followeth in the text, and pertaineth unto the mother).

6. ATh, Ath (the fourth word of this text, which in another manner signifieth the name) ADNI, Adonai , u Lord ” (namely, the path of the kingdom ; also the name) AHIH, Eheieh (that is, the path of the crown, and thus symbolizeth in itself the two extreme paths ; here denoteth) the right and the left (that is, benignity and severity), which are united in one (equilibrium).