Chapter Iv : p. 28 CHAPTER IV. SECTION 1. The 33 seven double letters, with a duplicity of pronunciation, aspirated and unaspirated, namely: , , , , , , , serve as a model of softness and hardness, strength and weakness. SECTION 2. Seven 34 double letters, , shall, as it were, symbolize wisdom, wealth...
Glossary Of Rabbinical Words : p. 57 GLOSSARY OF RABBINICAL WORDS. "v". To adhere, cohere. VI, 8. "n". [Syriac , Greek ] Air. II. "n". Sign, letter; , fundamental letters. I, 1. "adv". hinc et ulterius; from now further. IV 16 . These. Equals the biblical VI. 1. "adj". [Greek ] Oblique, diagonal direction. V, 2. "n". Middle...
Chapter Ii : CHAPTER II. SECTION 1. There are twenty-two letters, stamina. Three of them, however, are the first elements, fundamentals or mothers, seven double and twelve simple consonants. The three fundamental letters have as their basis the balance. In one scale 17 is the merit and in the other criminality...
Chapter V : CHAPTER V. SECTION 1. The twelve simple letters symbolize, as it were, the organs of speaking, thinking, p. 36 walking, seeing, hearing, working, coition, smelling, sleep, anger, swallowing and laughing. SECTION 2. The twelve simple consonants symbolize also twelve oblique points: east height...
Chapter Vi : p. 44 CHAPTER VI. SECTION 1. These are the three mothers or the first elements, from which emanated three progenitors; primitive air, water and fire, and from which emanated as their offspring, three progenitors and their offspring, namely: the seven planets and their hosts, and the twelve oblique...
Chapter Iii : CHAPTER III. SECTION 1. The three first elements, are typified by a balance, in one scale the merit and in the other the criminality, which are placed in equilibrium by the tongue. These three mothers, are a great, wonderful and unknown mystery, and are sealed by six 26 rings, or elementary circles...
Title Page : SEPHER YEZIRAH. A BOOK ON CREATION; OR, THE JEWISH METAPHYSICS OF REMOTE ANTIQUITY. With English Translation, Preface, Explanatory Notes And Glossary, BY REV. DR. ISIDOR KALISCH, Author Of The "Guide For Rational Inquiries Into The Biblical Scriptures, Toms Des Morgenlandes," Translator Of "Nath...
Notes : p. 50 NOTES. 1) Our author maintains that there is a first intelligent, self-existing, almighty, eternal ruling cause of all things, and that an everlasting entity produced nonentities by a progression of effects. The divine knowledge, he adds, differs from the human knowledge in such a degree...
Chapter I : p. 14 SEPHER YEZIRAH. CHAPTER I. SECTION 1. Yah, 1 the Lord of hosts, the living God, King of the Universe, Omnipotent, All-Kind and Merciful, Supreme and Extolled, who is Eternal, Sublime and Most-Holy, ordained (formed) and created the Universe in thirty-two 2 mysterious paths 3 of wisdom by...
Preface : p. 4 PREFACE. This metaphysical essay, called "Sepher Yezirah," (book on creation, or cosmogony,) which I have endeavored to render into English, with explanatory notes, is considered by all modem literati as the first philosophical book that ever was written in the Hebrew language. But the time...