Quotes:Sepher Yetzirah

H. P. Blavatsky

Sepher Yetzirah. "The Book of Formation". A very ancient Kabbalistic work ascribed to the patriarch Abraham. It illustrates the creation of the universe by analogy with the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet, distributed into a triad, a heptad, and a dodecad, corresponding with the three mother letters, A, M, S, the seven planets, and the twelve signs of the Zodiac. It is written in the Neo-Hebraic of the Mishnah.

Source: H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary, art. Sepher Yetzirah

Zirkoff, Boris

*Sepher Yetzirah. See Vol. VIII, p. 415, for particulars.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 1, p. 523

*Sepher Yetzirah or Book of Formation. Reputed to be the oldest Kabbalistic work, attributed to Rabbi Akiba. It deals with permutations of numbers and letters, and is our first sources for the doctrine of emanations and the Sephiroth. The editio princeps is that of Mantua, 1562, with several subsequent ones. Text and Comm, by Dunash ben Tamim have been publ. by M. Grossberg, London, 1902, and parts of it have been transl. by W. Wynn Westcott (Bath: R. H. Fryar, 1887, 4to; 2nd ed., London: Theos. Publ. Society, 1893). See also Knut Stenring, The Book of Formation, a translation publ. in 1923, 8vo.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 3, p. 530

Sepher Yetzirah or Book of Formation. Editio princeps, Mantua, 1562. Text and commentary by M. Grossberg, London, 1902. Translated in parts by W. W. Westcott, London, 1893. Considered by some to be the oldest known work on the Hebrew Language. Latin translation by William Postel, Paris, 1552.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 7, p. 393

Sepher Yetzirah. This work whose title means the “ Book of Formation,” is reputed to be the oldest known Kabalistic work, attributed by tradition to Abraham himself, as also to Akiba. It deals with the occult meaning of numbers and letters, and is our first source for the doctrine of emanation and the sephiróth. It is written in the Neo-Hebraic of the Mishnah, and is unquestionably of very ancient origin. The editio princeps is that of Mantua, 1562, with several subsequent ones. The text and commentary by Dunash ben Tamim have been published by M. Grossberg, London, 1902.—Sepher Yetzirah, The Book of Formation, and the Thirty-two Paths of Wisdom. Translated from the Hebrew, and collated with Latin Versions. By Dr. W. Wynn Westcott. Bath: Robert H. Fryer, 1887. 43 pp. This work follows the version of J. S. Rittangelius of 1642. The Introduction gives a valuable historic survey of the subject.—A French translation of the Sepher Yetzirah by Papus was published in Le Lotus, October, 1887.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 8, p. 415

Book of Formation. See Sepher Yetzirah.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 8, p. 414

*Sepher Yetzirah. Vide Vol. VIII, p. 415, for particulars.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 9, p. 453