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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: 33 of 84
url: https://scriptura.si/works/kabbalah-unveiled-mathers/33/
cite: "The Zohar (from Knorr von Rosenroth’s Latin), tr. S. L. MacGregor Mathers, The Kabbalah Unveiled, section 33. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/kabbalah-unveiled-mathers/33/"
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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.

## 33. The Greater Holy Assembly · Chapter XXVI

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/kabbalah-unveiled-mathers/33/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/kabbalah-unveiled-mathers/33/#p-N

[¶0] 513. BEHOLD! this have we learned in the "Book of Concealed Mystery": that the Ancient of the Ancient Ones before that He prepared His conformations (in the equilibrium of balance) formed certain kings, collected certain kings, and gave due proportion unto certain kings; but they only subsisted (for a time) until He could expel them; and in that time hath He concealed them.

[¶1] 514. This is intimated in those words, Gen. xxxvi. 31: "And these are the kings which have reigned in ADVM,