CABBALAH
CABBALAH
as the smith, when hammering iron, lets thesparks fly in all directions. These sparks arethe primordial worlds, which could not continue,because the Sacred Aged [=God] had not as yetassumed his form [of opposite sexes, of the Kingand Queen], and the master was not as yet athis work ” (, Sokar , iii. 292 6). “ The Holy One,
blessed be he, created and destroyed severalworlds before the present one was made; andwhen this last work was nigh completion, allthings therein, all the creatures of the universe,in whatever age they were to exist, before everthey entered into the world, were present beforeGod in their true form. . . . The lower world
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is made after the pattern of the upper worldeverything which exists in the upper world isto be found, as it were, in a copy upon earth.Nevertheless the whole is one ” (Soharj ii. 20 a ;iii. 61 6). This world, however, is not a creationex m'AtYo, but is simply an immanent offspring,and the image of the King and Queen; it is afarther expansion or evolution of the Sephiroth,which are the emanations of the En Soph: andit reveals and makes visible the Boundless andthe Concealed of the Concealed. And though itexhibits the Deity in less splendour than itsSephiric parents, because it is farther removedfrom the primordial source of light than the
Names op the Ten Sephiroth.
The Ten Correspond-ing Names of the mDeity.
The Ten Correspond-ing Classes ofAngels.
The Ten Cor-respondingMembers of theHuman Body.
i.
1. irD> Crown.
2. XpTiy* The Aged.
3. nnicQ. mi&wo mips, pm-
moiidial or Smooth Point.
4 - mVin White Head.
5. "pK, Macropbosopon.
6. DIN. Heavenly Man.
■ E fin. IH80BDTABLE Height. >
iTHK, 1 am
(Ex. iii. 4).
nm
Head.
11.
norm, ou^to, wisdom.
jah
(Is. xxvi. 4).
D’JDIN.
Brain.
III.
rovs, Intelligence.
Jehovah.
D*Sn1N. Abelim(I s. xxxiii. 7).
Heart.
IV.
( l. lDn> X a P«» Love. \
\ 2. Greatness. /
the MightyOne.
CHA8H-MALiM (Ezek. i. 4).
Right Arm.
V.
/ i. Judgment. i
| 2. TnQ» Justice. 1
( 3 * rTfQJ’ Strength. )
the MightyOne.
nirnw, Seraphim(Is. vi. 7).
Left Arm.
VI.
rmen. beauty.
the Al-mighty.
Shinanim(P s. lxviii. 18).
Chest.
VII.
Firmness.
nifcov nw.
Jehovah Sabaoth.
D'SWm Tar-shishim (Dan. x. 6).
Right Leg.
VIII.
Splendour.
ims D'nSx.
the AlmightySabaoth.
'33, Sonsof the Almighty(Gen. vi. 4).
Left Leg.
IX.
X.
T)D-> Foundation.
1* /SacriAeta, sc. rStv ovpavwvA
Kingdom. 1
2. HJW, Shechinah. )
irfot, MightyLoving One.
the Lord.
Ishim(P s. civ. 4).
Cherubim
Genital Or-gan.
Union of theWhole Body
Sephiroth, still as it is God manifested, all themultifarious forms in the world point out theunity which they represent. Nothing thereforein the universe can be destroyed; everythingmust return to the source whence it emanated.The universe is composed of four different worlds,each of which has a separate Sephiric system,consisting of a decade of emanations, i. The
World of Emanations (mS'XN cbw, alternatelycalled “ the Image ” and “ the Heavenly Man,”which by virtue of its being a direct emanationfrom God, and most intimately allied with theDeity, is perfect and immutable, ii. The World
of Creation (HN'Hnn also called “the
Throne ” (&WVD), which is the immediateemanation of the former, and whose ten Se-phiroth, being further removed from the EnSoph, are of a more limited and circumscribedpotency, though the substances they compriseare of the purest nature and without any ad-mixture of matter. iii. The World of Formation(ITWn D^iy), which proceeded from theformer world, and whose ten Sephiroth, thoughof a still less refined substance, because stillfurther removed from the primordial source, areyet without matter. It is also called the World