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Sepher Yetzirah

By Isidor Kalisch

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Chapter III

The three first elements, ‏?????‎ are typified by a balance, in one scale the merit and in the other the criminality, which are placed in equilibrium by the tongue. These three mothers, ‏?????‎ are a great, wonderful and unknown mystery, and are sealed by six 26 rings, or elementary circles, namely: air, water and fire emanated from them, which gave birth to progenitors, and these progenitors gave birth again to some offspring.

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SECTION 2.
God appointed and established the three mothers, ‏?????‎ combined, weighed and changed them, and formed by them three mothers ‏?????‎ in the world, in the year and in man, male and female.

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SECTION 3.
The three mothers ‏?????‎ in the world are: air, water and fire. Heaven was created from fire or ether; the earth (comprising sea and land) from the elementary water; and the atmospheric air from the elementary air, or spirit, which establishes the balance among them.

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SECTION 4.
The three mothers ‏?????‎ produce in the year 27: heat, coldness 28 and moistness. Heat was created from fire, coldness from water, and moistness from air which equalizes them.

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SECTION 5.
The three mothers ‏?????‎ produce in man, male and female, breast, body and head. The head was created from fire, the breast from water, and the body from air, which places them in equilibrium.

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SECTION 6.
FIRST DIVISION. God let the letter. Aleph (‏?‎) predominate in primitive air, crowned 29 it, combined one with the other, 30 and formed by them the air in the world, moistness in the year, and the breast in man, male and female; in male by ‏?????‎ and in female by ‏??????‎

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SECOND DIVISION. He let the letter Mem (‏?‎) predominate in primitive water, and crowned it, combined one with the other, and formed by them the earth, (including land and sea) coldness in the year, and the belly in male and female; in male by ‏??????‎ 31, in female by: ‏??????‎

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SECTION 8.
THIRD DIVISION. He let the letter Sheen (‏?‎) predominate in primitive fire, crowned it, combined one with the other, and formed by them, heaven in the world, heat in the year, and the head of male and female. 32

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