326. "ARISE, Rabbi Chisqiah, and stand in thy place, and declare the worthiness of this part of the holy beard."
327. Rabbi Chisqiah arose, and began his speech and said, Cant. vii. 10: "I am my beloved's, and his desire is towards me."
328. "Who is under consideration here, that 'I am my beloved's?' and because that, 'his desire is toward me?'
329. "I have meditated, and lo I 1 have beheld the most excellent light of the supernal lights.
330. "It shone forth, and ascended on three hundred and twenty-five sides.
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.
332. "And that light ascendeth unto the shore of the deep superior sea, for all good openings and dignities are disclosed in that opening.
333. "I asked of them what might be the interpretation of that which I beheld; and, commencing they replied,