The Book of Formation — Chapter One | Page 3 |
Lesson 1 With thirty-two wonderful Paths of Wisdom5 Yah, the Lord of Hosts, the Living God6 and King of the World, the Almighty,7 kind and forgiving, exalted and lofty, and dwelling eternally in the Height and His Holy Name, engraved and created His World within three Boundaries: with Numbering, and the Writer, and Writing.8 Ten Original Numbers9 and twenty-two Fundamental Letters: three Mothers, seven Doubles, and twelve Simples. Lesson 2 Ten Original Numbers. Like counting the ten fingers, five against five, and the Covenant alone is situated in the middle; the Circumcision of the Tongue and the Circumcision of the Flesh.10 Ten Original Numbers. Ten and not nine; ten and not eleven. Understand with Wisdom and be Wise in Understanding. Cover them and research them, and place the Word upon the Creator, and seat the Formator upon his Throne.11 Ten Original Numbers from ten Laws,12 which are not a limit to them: the Profundity of the Beginning and the Profundity of the End; The Profundity of the Good and the Profundity of the Evil;13 the Profundity of the High and the Profundity of the Low; the Profundity of the East and the Profundity of the West; the Profundity of the North and the Profundity of the South.14 And the Lord God alone, the Faithful King, rules them all from His Holy Dwelling in Eternity. |