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title: "The Kabbalah Unveiled"
author: "The Zohar (from Knorr von Rosenroth’s Latin)"
translator: "S. L. MacGregor Mathers"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Kabbalah"
section: 20 of 84
url: https://scriptura.si/works/kabbalah-unveiled-mathers/20/
cite: "The Zohar (from Knorr von Rosenroth’s Latin), tr. S. L. MacGregor Mathers, The Kabbalah Unveiled, section 20. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/kabbalah-unveiled-mathers/20/"
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# The Kabbalah Unveiled

*The Zohar (from Knorr von Rosenroth’s Latin), tr. S. L. MacGregor Mathers*

Three books of the Zohar: the Concealed Mystery and the Greater and Lesser Holy Assemblies.

## 20. The Greater Holy Assembly · Chapter XIII

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/kabbalah-unveiled-mathers/20/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/kabbalah-unveiled-mathers/20/#p-N

[¶0] 326. "ARISE, Rabbi Chisqiah, and stand in thy place, and declare the worthiness of this part of the holy beard."

[¶1] 327. Rabbi Chisqiah arose, and began his speech and said, Cant. vii. 10: "I am my beloved's, and his desire is towards me."

[¶2] 328. "Who is under consideration here, that 'I am my beloved's?' and because that, 'his desire is toward me?'

[¶3] 329. "I have meditated, and lo I 1 have beheld the most excellent light of the supernal lights.

[¶4] 330. "It shone forth, and ascended on three hundred and twenty-five sides.

[¶5] 331. "And in that light was a certain obscurity washed away, like as when a man batheth in a deep river, whose divided waters flow round him on every side from that part which is above.

[¶6] 332. "And that light ascendeth unto the shore of the deep superior sea, for all good openings and dignities are disclosed in that opening.

[¶7] 333. "I asked of them what might be the interpretation of that which I beheld; and, commencing they replied,