Quotes:Thirty‐two Ways of Wisdom

H. P. Blavatsky

Thirty‐two Ways of Wisdom. The Zohar says that Chochmah or Hokhmah (wisdom) generates all things “by means of (these) thirty‐ two paths”. (Zohar iii., 290a The full account of them is found in the Sepher Yezirah, wherein letters and numbers constitute as entities the Thirty‐two Paths of Wisdom, by which the Elohim built the whole Universe. For, as said elsewhere, the brain “hath an outlet from Zeir Anpin, and therefore it is spread and goes out to thirty‐two ways”. Zeir Anpin, the “Short Face” or the “Lesser Countenance”, is the Heavenly Adam, Adam Kadmon, or Man. Man in the Zohar is looked upon as the twenty‐two letters of the Hebrew alphabet to which the decad is added and hence the thirty‐two symbols of his faculties or paths.

Source: H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary, art. Thirty‐two Ways of Wisdom