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The Zohar (from Knorr von Rosenroth’s Latin) · The Kabbalah Unveiled · 33 of 84

The Greater Holy Assembly · Chapter XXVI

Translated by S. L. MacGregor Mathers

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.

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