How are they refined, weighed and exchanged? A with all of them and all of them with A; B with all of them and all of them with B; and the whole circuit in turn. And the formations of the two hundred and thirty-one Gates form all the formations; and all words are formed from One Name.⁴¹

Lesson 6

He formed the Solid from the Deep⁴² and made the Naught exist.⁴³ And He hewed Great Pillars⁴⁴ from the Atmosphere, which was not.⁴⁵ And this is the sign: letter A with all of them and them all with letter A; Prophet and Commandment.⁴⁶ And He made all the Forms and all the Words from One Name. And a sign to speak: twenty-two objects in one body.⁴⁷

Chapter Three

Lesson 1

Three Mothers: A, M, Sh.⁴⁸ Their foundation is the Scale of Innocence and the Scale of Guilt, and the Tongue established as a Friend between. Three Mothers, A, M, Sh, are a great secret, wonderful and concealed, and they are sealed in six Formulations.⁴⁹ And he formed from them Air and Water and Fire.⁵⁰ And from them were born Fathers,⁵¹ and, from the Fathers, Offspring.⁵²