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| Atziluth |
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| 400 |
6 |
30 |
10 |
90 |
1 |
| 537 |
| Briah |
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5 |
1 |
10 |
200 |
2 |
| 218 |
| Yetsira |
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5 |
200 |
10 |
90 |
10 |
| 315 |
| Assiah |
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5 |
10 |
300 |
70 |
| 385 |
| 1455 |
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Cosmologial Models and the Autiot of Descent
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The Four Worlds are usually conceived as an emanative structure (perhaps based on an initial restriction)
mediating between infinite consciousness and material reality. This is only half-true. The other half
can be found in the complex interplay of complementary energies on every level of structuration, as the
one dual energy creates all that is, and all that is not, from Aleph to Tav and from Tav to Aleph in a
two-way flow.
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Oulam, 70.6.30.40: the World: the completed whole, shown as the actuation in biological
existence of all possible possibilities.
| Oulam |
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| 40/600 |
30 |
6 |
70 |
| Gematria: 146 / 706 |
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| Atziluth |
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| 400 |
6 |
30 |
10 |
90 |
1 |
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'Atziluth: nobility, aristocracy, nearness. 1.90.10.30.6.400 shows the whole Aleph-Tav schema in one
equation, which will be elaborated in the "lower" worlds. Aleph, infinite energy/conciousness,
buries itself in the structures (Tsadde) of existence (Yod); Tav, the
sancturary of energy,
responds with a prolific (Waw) inner movement (Lammed).
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Briah, Beriyah: Creation. Bayt-Raysh-Aleph (creation) plus Yod-Hay (existence alive).
Yah is His creation. In 'Atziluth, Tsadde separated Aleph and Yod. Here, the two
partners (Aleph and Yod) in the Game of Life (Hay) are created endogenously by the response of the universal
container/creation: Bayt-Raysh. Every container, from the specific to the universal, contains Aleph
and Yod alive: Aleph-Hay-Yod-Hay.
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Yetsira, Yetzirah: Formation, structuation. Tsadde, 90, is the feminine structuralizing process which allows creation
to take form: it is intermediate between Bara, creation, and Assa, making, where all three are realized. Rouhh
Elohim is implicit in the 300/Sheen of Tsadde-Yod-Raysh (90.10.200). Yetsira can be read as Yod/existence --
Breath of God -- Hay/Alive, where the Sheen arises from within in the full expansion of Raysh-Yod-Sheen.
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Assiah: Making:
In Yetsira, Tsar is the Breath of God. Here, in Assiah,
the Sheen is explicit for the first time in the Worlds, where the Ayn/70 of all
possible possibilities is conferred on the Sheen which arises endogenously
from the dead-end of the universal container, Raysh.
Yah is realized in infinite, indeterminate, creation. Assiah has the same gematria (385)
as Shekinah,
Yad Semol, the left hand,
and Shemama,
"waste" or selection, the contrary quality of Kawkab,
Mercury in Teomaim, Gemini.
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The Sepher Yetsira knows only three spheres:
"with text (Sepher) with number (Sephar) and with communications (Sippur)"
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Isaiah: 43:1
But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not:
for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
Isaiah: 43:7
Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory,
I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
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The addition of 'Atziluth ("nobility," "nearness") to the three traditional spheres of creating, forming and making did not appear
until the late 13th century (R. Isaac of Acre -- from Moshe Idel Kabbalah: New Perspectives, Yale 1998, p.146).
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Gematrically-linked Categores in the Spheres of Emanation
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The total gematria of the Four Worlds is equal to the final (cosmically realized) gematria of Adam Qadmon.
How many times has this been discovered?
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Adam Qadmon |
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| 70/700 |
6 |
40 |
4 |
100 |
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40/600 |
4 |
1 |
| 220 : 850 |
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45 : 605 |
| Gematria: 245 / 1455 |
Here, all the worlds as well as the Sephirot are included in Man.
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Tsar, the verb "form" is equal to Rouhh Elohim, the Breath of God.
| Tsar |
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200 |
10 |
90 |
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| Gematria: 300 |
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Rouhh Elohim |
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| 40/600 |
10 |
5 |
30 |
1 |
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8 |
6 |
200 |
| Gematria: 300: Sheen |
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Bat Qol, Daughter of the Voice, or the Divine Voice
is one away from 'Atzliluth. Briah is behind Atziluth. Shaddai with El is the God-name of the 9th sephira, Yesod.
Metatron and Shaddai are one away from Yetsira.
'Assiah, Shekinah, left hand, waste and the firmament are all gematrically
equivalent. 'Assiah is the World of Shekinah. The left hand, yad semol, is the North in the Cube of Space,
sensous experience (Nogah/Venus) and the 10th Sephira.
The firmament, energy in expansion, supports the waters above. All these terms are involved in the
sphere of Assiah, where the events of life, death and existence are inscribed. These clues are useful, for instance,
in understanding the
underlying semantic linkages between the concepts/equations of Shekinah, North, Left, Venus, Phay, and the 10th
sephira found in the Sepher Yetsira in its original editions. Later Kabbalah didn't know where to find the
seventh because they didn't know the nature of the
sixth extremity as a planetary sephira.
| 4 Worlds: Correlates |
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Bat Qol/Kol: Divine Voice |
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| 30 |
6 |
100 |
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400 |
2 |
| 538 |
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Hhari: Behind |
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10 |
200 |
8 |
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| 218 |
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Shaddai |
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10 |
4 |
300 |
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| 314 |
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Metatron |
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| 50/700 |
6 |
200 |
9 |
9 |
40 |
| Gematria: 314 |
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Yad Semol: Left Hand |
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| 30 |
1 |
40 |
300 |
4 |
10 |
| 385 |
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Shemamah: Waste |
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5 |
40 |
40 |
300 |
| 385 |
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Ha-Raquiy: The Firmament |
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| 70 |
10 |
100 |
200 |
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5 |
| 380 |
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5 |
| Gematria: 385 |
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Shekinah |
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5 |
50 |
10 |
20 |
300 |
| Gematria: 385 |
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Recapitulation:
Bara and Aassa appear with Elohim in the first chapter of
Genesis.
Bara, Bayt-Raysh-Aleph, are the very first three letters of
the first verse of Genesis (Bereschyit). They cause Aleph to
rise from Bayt and Raysh.
In the first verse Bara is joined to Schamaim and Erets,
while upon its first appearance (in verse 7) Aassa is associated
with Raqia, which is between "the waters above" and "the
waters below."
Aassa (Ayn-Seen-Hay: 70.300.5) comprises all the possible
possibilities with the 70, and with 300 the movement of every
existing thing, in order to produce 5, life, conferred on every-
thing extant.
Bara and Aassa operate successively and sometimes jointly
to produce or to maintain the kind of life that Genesis calls
Nefesch Hhaya or Hhayath ha-Erets (the breath of the living
or the life of the earth).
Yetser appears with YHWH-Elohim in the second chapter,
after the completion of the. seven "days." By its presence
YHWH joins its action to Elohim's. Its immanence compels
recognition and is translated in the Yod (10) of Yetser
(10.90.200). By the intervention of Tsadde (90) - the fer-
tilised and therefore supporting feminine - this Yod causes
200 to rise anew, to receive a new breath, called Nischmath
Hhavim.
Nischmath (Noun-Sheen-Mem-Tav) shows Sheen-Mem
(Schem) between Noun (50), individual life; and Tav (400),
cosmic resistance which allows life to manifest in lavish
variety.
Note Yetser well: 10+90+200=300=Sheen-Rouahh-Elohim.
It can be said that YHWH-Elohim operates with
Rouahh-Elohim through Yetser.
Again, note well that the word Yod or Yad, the hand, euphemism
for the phallus, often goes with Aassa, which leads one
to think that Aassa connects either with what is handled or
with what is engendered.
The three verbs Bara, Aassa and Tsar have given rise to the
idea of an earlier "emanation" that would cause the three
methods of functioning just mentioned. The first emanation
is indicated by the word Atsiloth, meaning literally, "nobility,
aristocracy." These four hierarchical differentiations of the
same evolutionary process have been called the four worlds of
the Qabala.
Consequently a sephirotic, geometrical tree can be made of
the four worlds. The design will be given in chapter 6.
Suares, SY, p.49
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