By Dan Cohn-Sherbok
This illustrated anthology finds the writings of the magical Kabbalah, with quotations drawn from such interesting texts because the booklet of production, which explores the private nation-states of magic and cosmology and the Zohar.
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EFORE HAVING Zohar T HERE IS nothing which is not in Him. He has a shape, and one can say that He has no shape. In assuming a shape, He has given existence to all things. Zohar T HE GOAL of creating man is that he might become submissive to God. This is to be explained as follows: the descent of the divine potency through many stages of self-limitation was to serve as a prelude to its return upwards in order to transform darkness into light. It is for this role that God created man on earth. SHNEUR ZALMAN OF LIADY 36 ù God EMANATION O NE: SPIRIT of living Elohim, blessed and blest is the name of Him who lives forever … His beginning has no beginning; His end has no end.
He raised it like a type of wall. He surrounded it like a type of ceiling. He poured snow over them and it became earth, as it is said, ‘For He said to the snow, be earth’ (Job 37:6). Four: spiritual fire from spiritual water. He engraved and hewed out in it the Throne of Glory, seraphim and ophanim and hayyot, and ministering angels. From the three of them He established His dwelling place, as it is said, ‘Who makes winds His messengers, the flaming fire His ministers’ (Psalms 104:4). He chose three of the simple letters, sealed them with spirit and set them into his great name, YHV, and sealed through them six extremities.
Bahir Emanation ù 43 T contracted Himself into a central point with his light in the middle. He contracted this light and then removed Himself to the sides encircling the point at the centre. This left an empty place, an ether, and a vacuum around the point at the centre. This contraction, equidistant all around the point at the centre, formed a void in such a way that the vacuum was spherical on all sides in equal measure. It did not form a cube with right angles because Ayn Sof contracted Himself into a sphere in equal distance on all sides.
