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The Sepher
Yetzirah
Chapter 6
6.1
These are the three Mothers aleph, mem,
shin.
And from them emanated three Fathers, and they are air, water and
fire.
And from the Fathers, descendants.
Three Fathers and their
descendants, and seven planets and their hosts, and twelve diagonal
boundaries.
A proof of this, true witness in the Universe, Year, Body, and a
rule of twelve, a rule of seven, and a rule of three.
He set them in the
Teli, the Cycle and the Heart.
6.2
Three Mothers, aleph, mem, shin.
Air, water and
fire.
Fire is above, water is below, and air of Breath is the ruler that
decides between them.
A sign of this is that fire supports
water.
Mem hums, shin hisses, and aleph is the breath of
air that decides between them.
6.3
The Teli in the Universe is like a king on his throne;
the
Cycle in the Year is like a king in the province;
the Heart in the Body is
like a king in War.
6.4
"Also God made one opposite the other" (Ecclesiastes
7:14)
Good opposite evil, evil opposite good;
Good from good, evil from
evil;
Good defines evil, and evil defines good;
Good is kept for the good
ones, and evil is kept for the evil ones.
6.5
Three: each one stands alone,
one acts an advocate, one acts
as an accuser, and one decides between them.
Seven: three opposite three, and one is the ruler standing between
them.
Twelve stand in war:
three love, three hate;
three give life,
three kill.
Three love: the heart and the ears;
Three hate: the liver, the
gall, and the tongue;
Three give life: the two nostrils and the
spleen;
Three kill: the two orifices and the mouth.
And God faithful King
rules over them all from His holy habitation until the end of time.
One on three;
three on seven;
seven on twelve;
and all are bound,
one to another.
6.6
These are the twenty two letters with which engraved Ehyeh,
Yah, YHVH Elohim, YHVH, YHVH Tzabaot, Elohim Tzabaot, El Shaddai, YHVH
Adonai.
And with them He made three books;
and with them He created His
Universe;
and He formed with them all that was ever formed, and all that will
ever be formed.
6.7
And when Abraham our father, may he rest in peace, looked, saw,
understood, probed, engraved and carved, he was successful in creation, as it is
written, "and the souls that they had made in Haran" (Genesis 12:5).
Immediately there was revealed to him the Master of all, may His name be
blessed forever. He placed him in His bosom, kissed him on the head, and He
called him "My friend Abraham" (Isaiah 41:8).
He made a covenant with him and with his children after him forever, as it is
written, "And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for
righteousness" (Genesis 15:6). He made with him a covenant between the ten
fingers of his hands - this is the covenant of the tongue, and between the ten
toes of his feet - this is the covenant of circumcision.
And He bound the 22 letters of the Torah to his tongue and He revealed to him
His mystery:
He drew them in water,
He purified them with fire,
He
stirred them with Breath,
He burned them with the seven planets,
He
directed them with the twelve signs of the Zodiac.
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