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Kabbalah In General Sefer Yetzirah
A Cure for Messianic Madness One Breath
The family of Partzufim The Third Temple
Sefer Yetzirah - Chapter One
  Chapter 1   Chapter 4
  Chapter 2   Chapter 5
  Chapter 3   Chapter 6


With Thirty-two Mystical Paths of Wisdom
Yah engraved and created His universe with three Sepharim:
with Sepher (letters), with Sephar (numbers) and with Sippur (a story).
 
 

Ten Sefirot of Nothingness and Twenty-two Foundation Letters -
Three Mother Letters, Seven Double Letters and Twelve Simple Letters.

   
Ten Sefirot of Nothingness are in the number of ten fingers, five opposite five.
A singular brit (covenant) is precisely in the middle,
in the milah (word) of the tongue and the milah (circumcision) of the foreskin.
 
 

Ten Sefirot of Nothingness, ten and not nine, ten and not eleven.
Understand with Wisdom and be Wise with Understanding.
Examine with them and learn from them.
Raise each thing to its essence and seat the Creator on His base.
   
Ten Sefirot of Nothingness, their measure is ten which have no end -
deep good and deep evil (Keter and Malkhut);
deep past and deep future (Chokhmah and Binah);
deep south and deep north (Hesed and Gevurah);
deep east and deep west (Tiferet and Yesod);
deep above and deep below (Netzah and Hod).
The Singular Master, God Faithful King rules in all of them
from His holy abode for ever and ever.
 
 
Ten Sefirot of Nothingness, their vision is like the "appearance of lightning".
And their limit has no end.
They speak of them as "running and returning".
They rush to his saying like a whirlwind and before His throne they bow.
   
Ten Sefirot of Nothingness, their end is embedded in the beginning
and their beginning is embedded in their end.
Like a flame in a burning coal.
For the Master is Singular, He has no second.
And before One what do you count?
 
 
Ten Sefirot of Nothingness -
Bridle your mouth from speaking and your heart from thinking.
And if your mouth runs to speak and your heart to think,
return to the place, as it says, "the Chayot running and returning".
Regarding this a brit was made.
   

Ten Sefirot of Nothingness -
One is the Breath of the Living God,
the voice of breath and speech…
And this is Ruah Hakodesh (divine inspiration).

Two is Breath from Breath.
With it He engraved and carved 22 Foundation Letters....

Three is Water from Breath.
Chaos and void, mire and clay.
He engraved them like a garden,
carved them like a wall,
and covered them like a ceiling...

Four is Fire from Water.
With it He engraved and carved the Throne of Glory -
Serafim, Ophanim and holy Chayot...

He chose three of the Simple Letters and set them in His great Name (YHVH).
With them, He sealed six directions:

Five, facing right, He sealed South with YHV;
Six, facing left, He sealed North with HVY;

Seven, facing front, He sealed East with VYH;
Eight, facing back, He sealed West with VHY;

Nine, facing up, He sealed Above with YVH;
Ten, facing down, He sealed Below with HYV.

 


These are the Ten Sefirot of Nothingness:

The Breath of the Living God (Keter),
Breath from Breath (Malkhut),

Water from Breath (Chokhmah),
Fire from Water (Binah);

Up and Down (Netzah and Hod),
East and West (Tiferet and Yesod),
South and North (Hesed and Gevurah).