The Kabbalah Unveiled — S. L. MacGregor Mathers (from Knorr von Rosenroth's Latin) (1887)
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505. 44 God, the holy and blessed one, rejoiceth to hear these things, and He listeneth unto these words until He himself shall give sentence, for in the world to come all these holy words shall be enumerated for the second time.
506. “Concerning you is it written, Cant. vii. 9: 4 And the roof of thy mouth, like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.’
507. “What is this? 4 Causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.’ Because even in the world to come shall your lips utter the words of the law before Him.”
CHAPTER XXV.
THE INGRESS OF MICROPROSOPUS.
508. 44 Now take ye your places, and apply the science (the Qabalah) to describe how the parts of Microprosopus are conformed, and how He is clothed with His conformations, from the forms of the Ancient of Days, the Holy of the Holy Ones, the Withdrawn of the Withdrawn ones, the Concealed one of All.
509. 44 For now wisdom requireth that ye judge a true judgment, becoming and honourable ; so that ye may dispose all the conformations as accurately as possible.
510. 44 But the conformations of Microprosopus are disposed from the forms of Macroprosopus ; and His constituent parts are expanded on this side and on that under a human form, so that there may be manifest in Him the Spirit of the Concealed One in every part.
5 1 1 . 44 So that He may be placed upon His throne, because it is written, Ezek. i. 26 : 4 And above the like-
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ness of a throne, the appearance as the likeness of a man upon it above.’
512. Like as the appearance of a man ; ’ because that (form) includeth all forms. £ Like as the appearance of a man ; ’ because He includeth all names. c Like as the appearance of a man.’ Because He includeth all secret things which have been said or propounded before the world was created, even although they have not been substituted herein.” *
CHAPTER XXVI.
CONCERNING THE EDOMITE KINGS.
513. Behold ! this have we learned in the “ Book of Concealed Mystery”: that the Ancient of the Ancient Ones before that He prepared His conformations f (in the equilibrium of balance) formed certain kings, collected certain kings, and gave due proportion unto certain kings; but they only subsisted ( for a time) until He could expel them ; and in that time hath He concealed them.
514. This is intimated in those words, Gen. xxxvi. 3 I :
“ And these are the kings which have reigned in ADVM,f
* This brings in the subject of the worlds of unbalanced force which are said by the Zohar to have been created and destroyed prior to the creation of the present world. These worlds of unbalanced force are typified by the Edomite kings. (See Introduction.)
+ As the Sephiroth proceed each from the preceding one in the series, it is evident that before the counterbalancing Sephira is formed, the force in the preceding Sephira is unbalanced; e.g., the fourth Sephira is Gedulah or Chesed, Mercy ; and the fifth Sephira is Geburah or Pachad, Sternness ; therefore, till Geburah appears, Gedulah is unbalanced, and this condition is the reign of one of the Edomite kings ; but when Geburah appears his reign is over.
X ADYM = 1+4 + 6 + 40 = 51 = NA = Failure. AN = also 51, and means pain. Ergo, also unbalanced force is the source alike of failure and of pain.
THE GREATER HOLY ASSEMBLY.
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Edom” In the land of Edom ; that is, in the place wherein all judgments exist.
515. But all these subsisted not until the White Head * of the Ancient of the Ancient Ones was disposed (in its ordination).
516. When this was conformed, He disposed all the inferior conformations, and all the superior and inferior forms were thus arranged.
517. Thence we learn that unless the head (or riding power, or government) of a nation, whatever form of government it may happen to be, be first properly constituted, that nation cannot be properly ruled. For if the head be first disposed aright, then all things can be ordained, but if that be not first disposed aright, neither can the nation be governed aright.