The Ten Sefirot

 

YAH YHVH TSEVA’OT engraved thirty-two wondrous paths of wisdom, creating the universe in three ciphers: boundary, language, and number.

Ten sefirot belimah—numerals of nothingness, entities of emptiness—and twenty-two elemental letters.

Ten sefirot belimah, corresponding to the ten fingers, five opposite five, with the covenant of oneness precisely in the middle, in the word of the tongue and in circumcision.

Ten sefirot belimah, ten and not nine, ten and not eleven. Understand in wisdom, be wise in understanding. Examine them, explore them. Know, contemplate, and visualize. Establish the matter thoroughly, and restore the Creator to his abode. Their measure is ten, yet infinite.

Ten sefirot belimah. Bridle your mind from imagining, your mouth from speaking. If your mind races, return to the place you departed. Remember what is written: “The creatures darting to and fro.” Concerning this a covenant has been made.

Ten sefirot belimah. Their measure is ten, yet infinite. Their end is embedded in their beginning, their beginning in their end, like a flame joined to a burning coal. Know, contemplate, and visualize that the Creator is one, without a second. Before one what can you count’

Ten sefirot belimah. Their measure is ten, yet infinite. Depth of beginning, depth of end, depth of good, depth of evil, depth of above, depth of below, depth of east, depth of west, depth of north, depth of south. God alone rules them all from his holy abode to eternities of eternity.

Ten sefirot belimah. A vision flashing like lightning. Their limit has no end. God’s word surges through them.