Sefer YetzirahKabbalahMystical / EsotericHebrewShareSefer Yetzirah 2W. W. Westcott 1887 - EnglishMoreVersion - 1 availableW. W. Westcott 1887LanguageEnglishEspañol‹Sefer Yetzirah 1Sefer Yetzirah 2Sefer Yetzirah 3Sefer Yetzirah 4Sefer Yetzirah 4-supplementSefer Yetzirah 5Sefer Yetzirah 5-supplementSefer Yetzirah 6Sefer Yetzirah thirty-two-paths›Sefer Yetzirah: Chapter 2Sefer Yetzirah 2ListenPlay this chapter in spoken English.Save chapterListen to chapter1The foundations are the twenty-two letters, three mothers, seven double, and twelve single letters. Three mothers, namely A, M, SH, these are Air, Water, and Fire: Mute as Water, Hissing as Fire, and Air of a spiritual type, is as the tongue of a balance standing erect between them pointing out the equilibrium which exists. 2He hath formed, weighed, transmuted, composed, and created with these twenty-two letters every living being, and every soul yet uncreated. 3Twenty-two letters are formed by the voice, impressed on the air, and audibly uttered in five situations, in the throat, guttural sounds; in the palate, palatals; by the tongue, linguals; through the teeth, dentals; and by the lips, labial sounds. 4These twenty-two letters, the foundations, He arranged as on a sphere, with two hundred and thirty-one modes of entrance. If the sphere be rotated forward, good is implied, if in a retrograde manner evil is intended. 5For He indeed showed the mode of combination of the letters, each with each, Aleph with all, and all with Aleph. Thus in combining all together in pairs are produced these two hundred and thirty-one gates of knowledge. And from Nothingness did He make something, and all forms of speech and every created thing, and from the empty void He made the solid earth, and from the non-existent He brought forth Life. 6He hewed, as it were, immense column or colossal pillars, out of the intangible air, and from the empty space. And this is the impress of the whole, twenty-one letters, all from one the Aleph. ‹Previous chapterSefer Yetzirah 1Next chapterSefer Yetzirah 3›Similar passagesBy tradition and source labelFind similarCompare selectedCompare with similarAsk Deep ThoughtSelect passages to search for parallels.Tap any verse to select it, then compare selected passages or ask Deep Thought. Public domain in the United States