Now in looking at the Sephiroth which constitute the first triad, it will be seen that they represent the intellect ; hence this triad is called the Intellectual World ( ‏עולם מושכל‎ ). The second triad, again, represents moral qualities ; hence it is designated the moral or Sensuous World ( ‏עולﬦ מורגש‎ ): whilst the third triad represents power and stability , and [ 99 ] hence is designated the Material World ( ‏עולﬦ המוטבע‎ ). These three aspects in which the En Soph manifested himself are ca

The three Sephiroth on the right, representing the principle of mercy ( ‏ חסד ‎ ), are called the Pillar of Mercy ( ‏סטרא ימינא עמודא דחסד‎ ); the three on the left, representing the principle of rigour ( ‏דין‎ ), are denominated the Pillar of Judgment ( ‏סטרא דשמאלא עמודא דדינה‎ ); whilst the four Sephiroth in the centre, representing mildness ( ‏רחמיﬦ‎ ), [ 101 ] are called the Middle Pillar ( ‏עמודא דאמצעיתא‎ ). Each Sephira composing this trinity of triads is, as it were, a trinity in itself

The second of these three verses ‏ויבא בין מחנה מצרים נבין מהנה ישראל ויהי העגן והחשך ויאר את הלילה ולא קרב זה אל זה כל הלילה‎ , and it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but gave light by night to these, so that the one came not near the other all the night ( Exod. xiv, 20 ), is in the first place divided, and read from right to left, beginning at the top, as exhibited in the following diagram. [ 134 ]...

It is then divided in the following manner, and read from left to right, beginning at the bottom....

[ 135 ] Whilst the third of these three verses ‏ויט משה את ידו על הים ויולך יהוה את הים ברוח קדים עזה כל הלילה וישם את הים לחרבה ויבקעו המים‎ , and Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided ( Exod. xiv. 21 ), is divided as follows, and read from the right, beginning at the bottom....

The three verses which have thus yielded the three Pillars of the Sephiroth , are then joined together in groups of three letters in the order in which they are read in diagrams ii, iii, and iv, and they then yield the seventy-two divine names which the Kabbalah assigns to the Deity, 29 as follows:— [ 136 ] 6. The letters of words are changed by way of anagram and new words are obtained. This canon is called ‏תמורה‎ or ‏חילוף אותיות‎ , permutation , and the commutation is effected according to f

[ 156 ] In order to ascertain how often a certain number of letters can be transposed, the product of the preceding number must be multiplied with it. Thus—...

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