Sepher Yetzirah

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Sepher Yetzirah

(Heb.)

"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.] (TG).

• See Vol. VIII, p. 415, for particulars. (BCW 1:523).

An early Kabbalistic work concerning combinations of letters and numbers, emanation and the Sephiroth, traditionally attributed to Rabbi Akiba. De Zirkoff lists the first printed edition, Mantua, 1562, and later editions or translations by M. Grossberg, W. Wynn Westcott and Knut Stenring. (BCW 3:530).

Some links:

• Quotes: H. P. Blavatsky, Zirkoff, Boris
• CTD article in Russian: Сефер Йецира

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