Twenty-two Fundamental Letters: three Mothers, and seven Doubles, and twelve Simples.³³ Three Mothers: A, M, and Sh;³⁴ founded upon the Scale of Innocence and the Scale of Guilt,³⁵ and the Tongue established as a Friend between.³⁶ Three Mothers: A, M, Sh; M is silent; Sh is hissing; A an Air Spirit,³⁷ as a friend between.

Lesson 2

Twenty-two Fundamental Letters. He engraved, hewed, refined, weighed, exchanged, and He formed from them all the Forms and all the future Forms.³⁸

Lesson 3

Twenty-two Fundamental Letters. He engraved them in the Voice; hewed them in the Air; fixed them in the Mouth at five places: the letters A, H, Ch, O in the throat; G, Y, K, Q in the palate; D, T, L, N, Th in the tongue; Z, Sh, S, R, Tz in the teeth; B, W, M, P, in the lips.³⁹

Lesson 4

Twenty-two Fundamental Letters. He fixed them in a Circle, as a kind of Wall with two hundred and thirty-one Gates. And the Circle turns forward and backward; and a sign to speak is this: Nothing in Goodness is higher than Pleasure, and nothing in Misfortune is worse than Plague.⁴⁰