Mishnah 5. Three mothers, #µ) - He drew them, and hewed them, and melted them
together, and sealed with them the three mothers in the world, the three mothers in the
year, and three mothers in the nephesh - male and female.
(Now follows a further mystical development and application.) The letter ) He made King
in the Spirit, and bound upon him the crown (this refers to farther mystical signs
indicated in the Kabbalistic figure drawn on p. 438 of the 'History of the Jewish Nation'),
and melted them one with the other, and sealed with them: in the world the air, in the
soul life, and in the nephesh (living thing) body - the male with #µ), the female with Μ#).
µ He made King in the waters, and bound on it the crown, and melted them one with the
other, and sealed: in the world earth, and in the year cold, and in the nephesh the belly -
male and female, male in #)µ, and female in )#µ. # He made King in the fire, and bound
on it the crown, and melted them one with the other, and sealed with it: in the upper
world the heavens, in the year heat, in the nephesh the head - male and female.
Pereq IV
Mishnah 1. Seven duplex letters, τρπκ δγβ (it will here be noticed that we now proceed
from the numeral 3 to the further mystic numeral 7), accustomed (habituated, adapted,
fitted) for two languages (correlate ideas); life, and peace, and wisdom, and riches,
grace, and seed, and government (the mystic number 7 will here he noted), and
accustomed (fitted) for two tongues (modes of pronunciation)
ββ ττ ρρ ππ κκ δδ γγ , - the formation of soft and hard, the formation of strong
and weak (the dual principle will here be observed); duplicate, because they are
opposites: the opposites - life and death; the opposites - peace and evil; the opposites -
wisdom and folly; the opposites - riches and poverty; the opposites - grace and ugliness;
the opposites - fertility and desolation; the opposites - rule and servitude.
Mishnah 2. Seven duplex letters, τρπκ δγβ ; corresponding to the seven out goings; from
them seven outgoings: above and below, east and west, north and south, and the holy
Temple in the middle, and it upbears the whole.
Mishnah 3. Seven duplex , τρπκ δγβ ; He drew them, and hewed them, and melted them,
and from them, in the world the stars (the planets), in the year the days, in the nephesh
the issues, and with them He drew seven firmaments, and seven earths, and seven
Sabbaths, therefore He loves the seventh under all heavens.
Mishnah 4. Two letters build two houses (here the number of poss ible permutations are
indicated). Three letters build six houses, four build twenty-four houses, five build 120
houses, six build 720 houses, and from thence go onward and think what the mouth is not
able to speak, and the ear not able to hear. And these are the in the world - seven: the
Sun, Venus, Mercury, the Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars. And these are the days in the
year; the seven days of creation; and the seven gates of issue in the nephesh: two eyes,
two ears, and a mouth, and the two nostrils. And with them were drawn the seven above
all that is delight under the heavens.