In the kabbalistic work sepher yetzirah, the 231 gates of creation are outlined. He was the head of the great jewish academy at sura. Sefer yetzirah book of formation, hereafter sy is the oldest known speculative. Pdf sefer yetzira the book of creation download full.
The sefer yetzirah, writes aryeh kaplan, is considered to be the. The previous verses of chapter 2 founded the three mothers on a mediation between fullness and emptiness, and then described a series of engraving, carving, weighing, permutingtransposinginverting, combining amalgamating operations of the twentytwo autiot as a whole, which result in the formation of the soul of everything that is, or ever will be, formed. This translation is based on gra version of the sefer yetzirah and includes the authors extraordinary commentary on all its mystical aspects including kabbalistic astrology, ezekiels vision and the 231 gates. He set them in a cycle like a kind of wall with two hundred and thirtyone gates. Eleazer of worms, the 231 gates according to later kabbalists, plus a thorough list of. Hebrew letter formula of the 231 gates identified in the kabbalistic text of. Also included are three alternative versions to make this volume the most complete work on the sefer yetzirah available in english. Rosicrucian digest kabbalah the rosicrucian order, amorc. Sefer yetzirah the book of creation san francisco, ca. Three kabbalistic meditations from the sepher yetzirah. The quintessential blueprint curve carleton university. There is nothing in evil lower than plague nega sepher yetzirah 2. Creation originates from the word logos and can also be described by words. The book itself was put into its final form in the second temple period, a task attributed to rabbi akiva.
The saadia commentary on the sefer yetzirah by saadia ben joseph alfayumi 882942 ad jewish scholar, b. He placed them in a circle like a wall with 231 gates. Of these the most exact and useful corresponds the 231 gates to the 11sefirot. Magic, the occult, astrology all have been painted in the modern world as fringe and we have been discouraged from even learning about such knowledge but what do. Sefer ha yetzirah the book of formation gra version translated by aryeh kaplan. Notes on editions of sefer yetzirah in english hermetic kabbalah.
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