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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: 63 of 84
url: https://scriptura.si/works/kabbalah-unveiled-mathers/63/
cite: "The Zohar (from Knorr von Rosenroth’s Latin), tr. S. L. MacGregor Mathers, The Kabbalah Unveiled, section 63. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/kabbalah-unveiled-mathers/63/"
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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.

## 63. The Lesser Holy Assembly · Chapter VII · 1 of 2

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[¶0] 218. COME and behold. When the Most Holy Ancient One, the Concealed with all Concealments, desired to be formed forth, He conformed all things under the form of Male and Female; and in such place wherein Male and Female are comprehended.

[¶1] 219. For they could not permanently exist save in another aspect of the Male and the Female (their countenances being joined together).

[¶2] 220. And this Wisdom embracing all things, when it goeth forth and shineth forth from the Most Holy Ancient One, shineth not save under the form of Male and Female.

[¶3] 221. Therefore is this Wisdom extended, and it is found that it equally becometh Male and Female.

[¶4] 222. ChKMH AB BINH AM, Chokmah Ab Binah Am: Chokmah is the Father, and Binah is the Mother, and therein are Chokmah, Wisdom, and Binah, Understanding, counterbalanced together in most perfect equality of Male and Female.

[¶5] 223. And therefore are all things established in the equality of Male and Female; for were it not so, how could they subsist!

[¶6] 224. This beginning is the Father of all things; the Father of all Fathers; and both are mutually bound together, and the one path shineth into the other--Chokmah, Wisdom, as the Father; Binah, Understanding, as the Mother.

[¶7] 225. It is written, Prov. ii. 3: "If thou callest Binah the Mother."

[¶8] 226. When They are associated together They generate, and are expanded in truth.

[¶9] 2227. In the teaching of the school of Rav Yeyeva the Elder it is thus taught: "What is Binah the Mother of Understanding?" Truly when They are mutually associated together.

[¶10] 228. Assuredly Yod, I, impregnateth the letter He, H, and produceth a Son, and She herself bringeth Him forth.

[¶11] 229. And therefore is it called BINH, as if (it were a transposition of) BINH, Ben Yah, Son of IH (or I, Yod, H, He, and BN, the Son).

[¶12] 230. But They both are found to he the perfection of all things when They are associated together, and when the Son is in Them the Syntagma of all things findeth place.

[¶13] 231. For in Their conformations are They found to be the perfection of all things--Father and Mother, Son, and Daughter.

[¶14] 232. These things have not been revealed save unto the Holy Superiors who have entered therein and departed therefrom, and have known the paths of the Most Holy. God (may He be blessed!), so that they have not erred in them either on the right hand or on the left.

[¶15] 233. For thus it is written, Hos. xiv. 9: "The paths of Tetragrammaton are true, and the just shall walk in them," &c.

[¶16] 235. For these things are concealed, and the Holy Highest Ones shine in them, like as light proceedeth from the shining of a lantern.

[¶17] 236. These things are not revealed save unto those who have entered therein and departed therefrom; for as for him who hath not entered therein and departed therefrom, better were it for him that he had never been born.

[¶18] 237. For it hath been manifested before the Most Holy Ancient One, the Concealed with all Concealments, because these things have shone into mine heart in the perfection of the love and fear of the Most Holy God, may He be blessed!

[¶19] 238. And these, my sons, who are here present, know these things; for into these matters have they entered and therefrom have they departed; but neither yet into all (the secrets of them).

[¶20] 239. But now are these things illustrated in (their) perfection, even as it was necessary. Blessed be my portion with them in this world!

[¶21] 240. Rabbi Schimeon said: All which I have said concerning the Most Holy Ancient One, and all which I have said concerning Microprosopus, all are one, all are HVA, Hoa, Himself, all are Unity, neither herein hath separation place.

[¶22] 241. Blessed be HVA, Hoa, He, and blessed be His Name unto the Ages of the Ages.

[¶23] 242. Come, behold! This beginning which is called Father, is comprehended in I, Yod, , which dependeth from the Holy Influence.

[¶24] 243. And therefore is I, Yod, the Most Concealed of all the other letters.

[¶25] 244. For I, Yod, is the beginning and the end of all things.

[¶26] 245. And that river which floweth on and goeth forth is called the World, which is ever to come and ceaseth never.

[¶27] 246. And this is the delight of the just, that they may be made worthy of that world which is to come, which ever watereth the garden of Eden, nor faileth.

[¶28] 247. Concerning this it is written, Isa. lviii. 11: "And like a fountain of water, whose waters fail not."

[¶29] 248. And that world to come is created through I, Yod.

[¶30] 249. As it is written, Gen. ii. 9: "And a river went forth out of Eden to water the garden."

[¶31] 250. For I, Yod, includeth two letters.

[¶32] 251. In the teaching of the school of Rav Yeyeva the Elder thus is the tradition. Wherefore are VD, Vau Daleth, comprehended in IVD, Yod? Assuredly the planting of the garden is properly called V, Vau; and there is another garden which is D, Daleth, and by that Vau is Daleth watered, which is the symbol of the quaternary.

[¶33] 252. And an Arcanum is extended from this passage, where it is written: "And a river went forth out of Eden."

[¶34] 253. What is Eden? It is the supernal ChKMH, Chokmah, Wisdom, and that is I, Yod (in I, V, D).

[¶35] 254. "To water the garden." That is V, Vau.

[¶36] 255. "And thence it is divided and goeth forth into four heads." That is D, Daleth.

[¶37] 256. And all things are included in IVD, Yod, and therefore is the Father called All, the Father of Fathers.

[¶38] 257. The beginning of all is called the Home of All. Whence IVD, Yod, is the beginning and the end of all; like as it is written, Ps. civ. 24: "All things in Chokmah hast Thou made."

[¶39] 258. In His place He is not manifested, neither is He known; when He is associated with the Mother, BAMA, Be-Ama, then is He made known (otherwise, symbolized) in the Mother, BAIMA, Be-Aima.

[¶40] 259. And therefore is Aima known to be the consummation of all things, and She is signified to be the beginning and the end.

[¶41] 260. For all things are called Chokmah, and therein are all things concealed; and the Syntagma of all things is the Holy Name.

[¶42] 261. Thus far have we mystically described that which we have not said on all the other days. But now are the aspects shown forth.

[¶43] 262. (As to the Sacred Name IHVH,) I, Yod, is included in this Chokmah, Wisdom; H, He, is Aima, and is called Binah, Understanding; VH, Vau He, are those two Children who are produced from Aima, the Mother.

[¶44] 263. Also we have learned that the name BINH, Binah, comprehendeth all things. For in Her is I, Yod, which is associated with Aima, or the letter H, He, and together they produce BN, Ben, the Son, and this is the word Binah. Father and Mother, who are I, Yod, and H, He, with whom are interwoven the letters B, Beth, and N, Nun, which are BN, Ben; and thus far regarding Binah.