The Kabbalah Unveiled — S. L. MacGregor Mathers (from Knorr von Rosenroth's Latin) (1887)
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487. “They are hidden in all things, and they are concealed in all things; and no man knoweth their place, except Him, the Ancient One.
488. “In their expansion are they all included, like as it is said :
489. “He is known, and He is not known ; He is concealed, and He is manifest.
490. “ Concerning Him it is written, Isa. xlii. 8 :
‘ AN I IHVH HVA,* Ani Tetragrammaton Hoa , This is
My name, and My glory I give not unto another.’
491. “Also it is written, Ps. c. 2 : HYA, Hoa , He, hath made us, and not we ourselves.’
492. “ Also it is written, Dan. vii. 9 : “The Ancient of Days did sit,” that is, He remained in His place, and Him hath no man known. He sitteth, but He is not found.
493. “Also it is written, Ps. cxxxix. 14: ‘I will praise Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.’ ”
* “ Ani Tetragrammaton Hoa, This is My name for in this are contained Macroprosopus, Microprosopus, and the Tetragrammaton. ANI represents Microprosopus ; HYA, Macroprosopus ; and IHYH is between them. Ani is 53 and Hoa is 12, which together give 65, which is ADNI, Adonai, Lord ; and IHVH = 26, which added hereunto is 91 = AMN, Amen. Now, apart from the sacred ideas we attach to amen, it is well to know that the ancient Egyptians called their greatest Deity Amen, AMN,Amen-Ra, and Ra = Light, AYR in Hebrew ; Amen our Light, the light of the two countenances.
THE GREATER HOLY ASSEMBLY.
CHAPTER XXIV.
CONCLUSION OF THE MATTER CONCERNING MACROPROSOPUS.
494. Rabbi Schimeon spake unto his companions, and said : “ When that veil is expanded (by which is to be understood the representation of the beard of Macroprosopus) which ye behold above us,* I see that all the conformations have descended therein, and that they shine forth in that place. (Now like as if he intended to say , AMN , Amen , the discourse concerning Macroprosopus being finished , he describeth this particular symbolism , which is contained in the ensuing symbols.)
495. “ And a certain covering, even the splendour of the most holy and blessed God (otherwise the opening of holiness ; but by this is understood the Tetragram m a ton , which, together with the name , ADNI, Adonai , maketh the number of the word AMN} Amen , that is, 91): is expanded through four columns on four sides (which are the four letters of the holy name, by which he saith that space is surrounded).
496. “ One column is so placed that it reach eth from the lowest unto the highest. (This is the Kingdom of the emanations ,t the base and lowest part of the whole system } of emanation, because it is said to ascend from the lowest part of the middle column § even unto the summit of the Crown.\\)
497. “ And therein is a certain MGRVPIA,^[ Megerophia, vessel containing fire (for like as the fire on the altar could not be touched with bare hands, so that
• Again alluding to their symbolical representation of the ten Sephiroth.
*t* Malkuth, the tenth Sephira. £ The Sephiroth.
§ Or Pillar of Mildness, consisting of the first, sixth, ninth, and tenth Sephiroth.
|| Kether. “Malkuth is Kether after another manner,” says one of the qabalistic axioms of Pietorius.
II I believe the best translation of Megerophia is a “ fire shovel.” Knorr de Rosenroth makes it “uncus focarius.”
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KABBALAH.
name , Tetragrammaton , cannot be touched and pronounced by the mouth , but it is touched and produced by ADN1 , Adonai , which is ShM, Sham , iZis raiwie ; /or >Sizd/ and MGRVPIA both yield 340 by Gematria) ; and in the fire-containing vessel are four keys,* * * § sharp on every side ( for such was the form of the keys , in order that they might draw aside the veil, as a lock is shot back by a key. But the four letters of the name ADJSTI, Adonai , are hereby to be understood, which are inserted into and united with the four letters IHVH , in this manner, IAHDVNHI) ; which seize upon that veil, and withdraw it from the superiors.
498. “ And thus in the second column, f and the third column and the fourth column ( that is, the four letters are applied to the other four letters , as hath just been said).
499. “ And between one column and another column are contained eighteen J bases of columns ( here is to be understood the name expounded through the seventy-two § names or numbers ; for either pertain unto Macroprosopus, and four times eighteen yieldeth seventy-two) : and they shine forth with brilliancy in the openings carved out in