The Kabbalah Unveiled — S. L. MacGregor Mathers (from Knorr von Rosenroth's Latin) (1887)
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* Quatuor claves traditse sunt in manu Domini mundi, quas non tradidit neque ulli Angelo, neque seraphino : clavis pluvise : clavis sustentationis : clavis sepulchorum : clavis sterilitatis, &c. (Zanolini : “ Lexicon Chaldseo- Rabbinicum, ” art. MPThCh, root PThCh.)
t These four columns also refer to the four worlds of Atziloth, Briab, Yetzirah, and Asiah. (See Introduction.)
t 18 = ChI = Life.
§ In Exodus xiv. are three verses (19, 20, and 21), which each consist of 72 letters. Now, if these three verses be written at length one above another, the first from right to left, the second from left to right, and the third from right to left (or, as the Greeks would say, boustrojphedon), they will give 72 columns of three letters each. Then each column will be a word of three letters, and as there are 72 columns, there will be 72 words of three letters, each of which will be the 7 2 names of the Deity alluded to in the text. And these are called the Schemahamphorasch, or the divided name. By writing the verses all from right to left, instead of boustrophedon , &c., there will be other sets of 72 names obtainable. (See annexed Table of the Schemahamphorasch.)
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that veil, and so on all four sides. (By the “ openings carved out ” is to be understood the exposition of the name , Tetragrammaton.)
500. u I beheld those forms which shine above it, and await the words of onr lips, that they may be crowned and raised each in its own place.
501. “ And when they are expounded by our lips, they ascend singly and are crowned, and are disposed in that order which is here given forth by the mouth of whosoever amongst us (happeneth to be expounding them).
5 02. “And whensoever any one amongst us openeth his mouth, so that he may speak concerning any conformation, that form is localized and awaiteth the voice which goeth forth from our lips, and then it ascendeth in its place and is crowned.
503. “And all the columns on this side and on that side rejoice ( here are understood the holy living creatures , the cherubim , which were before the columns , and the chiefs of the angelic guards , and they are said to have come hither) ; because they hear that which before they knew not.* And in the sound of your voices are heard the rushing of countless chariots ( the noise of the wings of the hosts of the angelic chariots of God , rushing onwards) ; and they stand here around you in multitudes, awaiting the speech of your voice.
504. “0 blessed are ye in the world to come! because all the words which go forth from your mouth are all holy, all true, which err not, neither on the right nor yet on the left (seeing they are the holy names of God).
* I must again remind the reader that Rabbi Schimeon and his companions are speaking as symbolizing the action of the Sephiroth in the creation, and that when it is said the angels, &c , wait for the words from their lip's, it signifies symbolically the way in which the angels, &c., were created by the word of the Deity in his Sephirotic form. And when it is said that “ they hear that which before they knew not,” it signifies the creation of forms, powers, and attributes which at the beginning of time existed not.
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