“Which truly our companions have said in former books, that certain paths have been created by the Most Holy Ancient One, who is revealed through them collectively and severally; since they are the conformations of the Most Holy Ancient One, concerning them now there is not time for examination. “I have spoken concerning them in the Holy Assembly, and I have beheld that which before I did not understand in such a manner, and I have hidden the matter in my heart. “But now I alone will describe these things before the Holy King, and all those assuredly just men who have assembled to hear these words.” Chapter II: Concerning the Skull of the Ancient One, and Concerning His Brain; and Concerning the Three Heads, and the Hair, and the Discriminatory Paths The skull of the White Head hath not beginning, but its end is the convexity of its joining together, which is extended, and shineth. And from it the just shall inherit 400(798) desirable worlds in the world to come. And from this convexity of the joining together of this White Skull daily distilleth a dew into Microprosopus, into that place which is called Heaven; and in that very place shall the dead be raised to life in the time to come. Like as it is written, Gen. xxvii. 27: “And Elohim shall give thee from the dew of heaven.” And His head is filled with that dew, and all the place of the apple-trees distilleth therewith. He, the Most Holy Ancient One, is hidden and concealed, and in that Skull is the Supernal Wisdom concealed, who is found and who is not found. For assuredly in Him, the Ancient One, nothing is revealed save the Head alone, seeing that that Head is itself the Head of all heads. The beginning of that Supernal Wisdom which also is itself the Head, is hidden therein, and is called the Supernal Brain, the Hidden Brain, the Tranquil and Calm Brain; neither doth any man know it, save He Himself. Three Heads have been formed forth, one within the other, and the other above the other. One Head is the Concealed Wisdom, which is covered and is not disclosed. And this Hidden Wisdom is the Head of all things, and the Head of the remaining Wisdoms. The Supernal Head is the Most Holy Ancient One, the Concealed with all Concealments. The Head of all Heads, the Head which is not a Head(799)—namely, that which is _in_ that Head—neither knows nor is known, because it cannot be comprehended either by Wisdom or Understanding. And therefore is it read, Num. xxiv. 11: “Fly thee in thy place;” and Ezek. i. 14. The _Chaioth_, living creatures, are said to run forth and return. And therefore is the Most Holy Ancient One called AIN, _Ain_, the Negatively Existent; seeing that back from Him dependeth the AIN, the Negative Existence.(800) But all those hairs and all those locks depend from the Hidden Brain. And all are calm (otherwise, are disposed) in the Equilibrium; neither in any manner is the neck seen (_i.e._, because of the locks which overshadow it).