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|description="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''. [w.w.w.] {{ctd-source|TG}}. | |description="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''. [w.w.w.] {{ctd-source|TG}}. | ||
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The bibliography refers the reader to Vol. VIII, p. 415, for particulars {{ctd-source|BCW|9|453}}. | The bibliography refers the reader to Vol. VIII, p. 415, for particulars {{ctd-source|BCW|9|453}}. | ||
A translation by [[Davidson, Peter|P. Davidson]] was published in 1896 at Loudsville, Georgia, and Glasgow, Scotland. {{ctd-source|1=[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Kabalah and the Kabalists at the Close of the Nineteenth Century#271|BCW 7:271]]}} | |||
|quotes=H. P. Blavatsky; Zirkoff, Boris | |quotes=H. P. Blavatsky; Zirkoff, Boris | ||
|ctd rus=Сефер Йецира | |ctd rus=Сефер Йецира | ||
|mentioned in=[[Blavatsky H.P. - The Kabalah and the Kabalists at the Close of the Nineteenth Century|The Kabalah and the Kabalists at the Close of the Nineteenth Century]] ([[Blavatsky H.P. - The Kabalah and the Kabalists at the Close of the Nineteenth Century#271|BCW 7:271]]) | |||
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