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'''''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. | |||
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|author=Boris de Zirkoff | |||
|title=H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings | |||
|detail=vol. 8, p. 415 | |||
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'''''Book of Formation'''''. ''See Sepher Yetzirah''. | |||
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|author=Boris de Zirkoff | |||
|title=H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings | |||
|detail=vol. 8, p. 414 | |||
|link=Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#414 | |||
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