Chapter 6

Sefer Yetzirah 6:1

These are the three mothers or the first elements, itive air, water and fire, and from which emanated as their offspring, three progenitors and their off- spring, namely: the seven planets and their hosts, and the twelve oblique points.

Sefer Yetzirah 6:2

To confirm this there are faithful witnesses; the world, year and man, the twelve, the Equipoise, the heptade, which God regulates like the Dragon,“ sphere and the heart.

Sefer Yetzirah 6:3

the fire above, the water below, and a breath of air establishes the balance among them. For an illus- tration may serve, that the fire carries the water is the phonetic character of which is mute and is hissing like fire, there is among them, a breath of air which places them in egilibrium.“4

Sefer Yetzirah 6:4

Dragon is in the world like a king upon his throne, the sphere is in the year like a king in the empire, and the heart is in the human body like a king? in war. i nen oapin ooo Hen

Sefer Yetzirah 6:5

God has also set the one over against the other; the good against the evil, and the evil against the good; the good proceeds from the good, and the evil from the evil; the good purifies the bad, and the bad the good; the good is preserved for the good, and the evil for the bad ones.

Sefer Yetzirah 6:6

There are three of which every one of them stands by itself; one is in the affirmative, the other in the negative and one equalizes them.

Sefer Yetzirah 6:7

There are seven of which three are against three, and one places them in equilibrium. There are twelve which are all the time at war; threo of them produce love, and three hatred, three are animators and three

Sefer Yetzirah 6:8

The three that produce love are the heart and tho ears; the three that produce hatred are the liver, the gall and the tongue; the three animators are the two nostrils and the alts and the three destroyers are the mouth and thy two openings of the body; and God, the faithful King, rules over all from His holy habitation to all eternity. He is one above three, three are above coven, seven above twelve, and all are linked together.

Sefer Yetzirah 6:9

There® are twenty-two letters by which the I am, Yah, the Lord of hosts, Almighty and Eternal, signed, formed and created by three Sepharim, His whole world, and formed by them creatures and all those that will be formed in time to come.

Sefer Yetzirah 6:10

When* the patriarch Abraham comprehended the great truism, revolved it in his mind, conceived it perfectly, made careful investigations and profound inquiries, pondered upon it and succeeded in contem- plations, the Lord of the Universe appeared to him, called him his friend, made with him a covenant between the ten fingers of his hands, which is the covenant of the tongue, and the covenant between the ten toes of his feet, which is the covenant of cir- cumcision, and said of him: “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee." (Jer. I, 5.)