Sefer YetzirahKabbalahMystical / EsotericHebrewShareSefer Yetzirah 5W. 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 5Sefer Yetzirah 5ListenPlay this chapter in spoken English.Save chapterListen to chapter1The simple letters are twelve, namely: He, Vau, Zain, Heth, Teth, Yod, Lamed, Nun, Samech, Oin, Tzaddi, and Quoph; they represent the fundamental properties, eight, hearing, smell, speech, desire for food, the sexual appetite, movement, anger, mirth, thought, sleep, and work. These symbolize also twelve directions in space: northeast, southeast, the east above, the east below, the northwest, southwest, the west above, the west below, the upper south, the lower south, the upper north, the lower north. These diverge to all eternity, and an as the arms of the universe. 2These twelve letters, he designed, formed, combined, weighed, and changed, and created with them the twelve divisions of the heavens (namely, the zodiacal constellations), the twelve months of the year, and the twelve important organs of the frame of man, namely the right and left hands, the right and left feet, two kidneys, the liver, the gall, the spleen, the intestines, the gullet, and the stomach. 3Three mothers, seven double and twelve simple, these are the twenty-two letters with which I H V H Tetragrammaton, that is our Lord of Hosts, exalted, and existed in the ages, whose name is Holy, created three fathers, fire and spirit and water, progressing beyond them, seven heavens with their armies of angels; and twelve limits of the universe. ‹Previous chapterSefer Yetzirah 4-supplementNext chapterSefer Yetzirah 5-supplement›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