Assuredly, according as I have said, all things are supernal truth: Binah
is higher than Thebunah. For in the word BINH, _Binah_, are shown Father,
Mother, and Son; since by the letters IH, Father and Mother are denoted,
and the letters BN, denoting the Son, are amalgamated with them.
THBVNH, _Thebunah_, is the whole completion of the children, since it
containeth the letters BN, _Ben_, BTH, _Bath_, and VH, _Vau He_, by which
are denoted the Son and Daughter.
Yet AB VAM, _Ab Ve-Am_, the Father and the Mother, are not found, save
BAIMA, _Be-Aima_, in the Mother, for the venerable Aima broodeth over
Them, neither is She uncovered.
Whence it cometh that that which embraceth the two Children is called
THBVNH, _Thebunah_, and that which embraceth the Father, the Mother, and
the Son is called BINH, _Binah_.
And when all things are comprehended, they are comprehended therein, and
are called by that name of Father, Mother, and Son.
And these are CHKMH, _Wisdom_, Father; BINH, _Understanding_, Mother; and
DOTH, _Däath_, Knowledge.
Since that Son(832) assumeth the symbols of His Father and of His Mother,
and is called DOTH, _Däath_, Knowledge, since He is the testimony of Them
both.
And that Son is called the first-born, as it is written, Exod. iv. 22,
“Israel is my first-born son.”
And since He is called first-born, therefore it implieth dual offspring.
And when He increaseth, in His Crown appear three divisions.(833)
But whether it be taken in this way or in that, there are as well two as
three divisions herein, for all things are one; and so is it in this
(light) or in that.(834)
Nevertheless, He (the Son) receiveth the inheritance of His Father and of
His Mother.
What is that inheritance? These two crowns, which are hidden within Them,
which They pass on in succession to this Son.(835)
From the side of the Father (_Chokmah_) there is one Crown concealed
therein, which is called Chesed.
And from the side of the Mother (_Binah_) there is one Crown, which is
called Geburah.
And all those crown His head (_i.e._, the Head of Microprosopus), and He
taketh them.
And when that Father and Mother shine above Him, all (these crowns) are
called the phylacteries of the Head, and that Son taketh all things, and
becometh the heir of all.
And He passeth on His inheritance unto the Daughter, and the Daughter is
nourished by Him. But, properly speaking, henceforth (from the parents)
doth the Son become the heir, and not the Daughter.
The Son becometh the heir of His Father and of His Mother, and not the
Daughter, but by Him is the Daughter cherished.
As it is written, Dan. iv. 12, “And in that tree food for all.”
And if thou sayest all, assuredly He as well as She are called TZDIQ,
_Tzediq_, Just, and TZDQ, _Tzedeq_, Justice, which are in one and are one.
All things are thus. Father and Mother are mutually contained in and
associated with Themselves.
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