Sepher Yetzira

Additional ancient works • chapter 1 — the opening, as photographed

Held in part: Sacred Name edited transcription from David’s photographs of the printed source (The Complete 70 Book Apocrypha, printed p. 526 — the work opens on the page where the Testament of Abraham concludes). PARTIAL as held: the opening only, chapter 1, verses 1–10, and on that page the right-hand line endings fall outside the photograph; each cut stands marked [illegible] in the text and is never supplied. The remainder of the work has not been photographed; nothing filled in. A wider re-shot of p. 526 stands on the capture list.

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Chapter 1

The Book of Creation, or Sepher Yetzira

W. W. Wescott, tr. (1887)

1 In two and thirty most occult and wo[illegible — line end cut off in photograph] did JAH Yahweh of Hosts engrave his [illegible] of Israel, ever-living God, merciful [illegible] dwelling on high, who inhabiteth ete[illegible] universe by the three Sepharim, Numbe[illegible]

2 Ten are the numbers, as are the Se[illegible] the letters, these are the Foundation [illegible] letters, three are mothers, seven are [illegible] simple.

3 The ten numbers formed from noth[illegible] are seen in the fingers of the hands, [illegible] other, and over them is the Covenant [illegible] rite of Circumcision, corporeal (as of A[illegible]

4 Ten are the numbers of the ineffab[illegible] nine, ten and not eleven. Learn this w[illegible] understanding of it, investigate th[illegible] knowledge from them, fix the design in [illegible] it to its Creator seated on his throne.

5 These Ten Numbers, beyond the [illegible] boundless realms, boundless origin a[illegible] and one of evil, boundless height a[illegible] North and South, and the one only Go[illegible] seated on his throne, shall rule over a[illegible]

6 These ten Sephiroth which are inef[illegible] like scintillating flames, have no end [illegible] of Yahweh is in them as they burst forth [illegible] obey the divine command, rushin[illegible] returning to prostrate themselves at [illegible]

7 These ten Sephiroth which are, mor[illegible] end even as their beginning, conjoin[illegible] burning coal: for our Yahweh is superla[illegible] not permit any second one. And who [illegible] only one?

8 And as to this Decad of the Sephi[roth,][illegible] comment, and thy mind from thoug[ht][illegible] fall thee return to thy place; therefo[re][illegible] creatures ran and returned," and on[illegible] made with us.

9 These are the ten emanations of [illegible] the Living God, blessed and more t[illegible] the Living God of Ages. The Holy S[illegible] and his Word.

10 Second, from the Spirit he mad[illegible] twenty-tw[illegible — photograph cuts off here]

[THE PHOTOGRAPHED TEXT ENDS HERE — printed p. 526, cut mid-verse 10. Sepher Yetzira continues beyond this page; the pages after it were not photographed, and the cut line endings above stand as marked. Nothing bridged, nothing supplied.]