The Kabbalah: its doctrines, development, and literatureGinsburg, Christian D. (Christian David)
Religion
The Kabbalah: its doctrines, development, and literature
Ginsburg, Christian D. (Christian David)
Cabala
We have seen that three of the Sephiroth constitute uniting links
between three pairs of opposites, and by this means produce three
triads, respectively denominated the Intellectual World, the Sensuous
or Moral World, and the Material World, and that these three uniting
Sephiroth, together with the one which unites the whole into a common
unity, form what is called the Middle Pillar of the Kabbalistic tree.
Now from the important position they thus occupy, these Sephiroth are
synecdochically used to represent the worlds which by their uniting
potency they respectively yield. Hence the Sephira, Crown (כתר), from
which the Sephiroth, Wisdom (חכמה) and Intelligence (בינה),
emanated, and by which they are also united, thus yielding the
Intellectual World, is by itself used to designate the Intellectual
World (עולﬦ המושכל). Its own names, however, are not changed in this
capacity, and it still continues to be designated by the several
appellations mentioned in the description of the first Sephira. The
sixth Sephira, called Beauty (תפארת), which unites Sephiroth IV
(הסד, Love) and V (פחד, Justice), thus yielding the Sensuous World,
is by itself used to denote the Sensuous World, and in this capacity is
called the Sacred King (מלכא קדישא), or simply the King (מלכא);
whilst the Sephira called Kingdom (מלכות), which unites the whole
Sephiroth, is here used to represent the Material World, instead of the
ninth Sephira, called Foundation (יסוד), and is in this capacity
denominated the Queen (מלכתא) or the Matron (מטרוניתא). Thus we
obtain within the trinity of triads a higher trinity of units,—viz.,
the Crown (כתר), Beauty (תפארת), and Kingdom (מלכות),—which
represents the potencies of all the Sephiroth.
II. The Creation or the Kabbalistic Cosmogony.
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