More definitely:—The exposition of the system treats of the impersonal First Cause manifesting within the limits of the finite. “Before he gave any shape to this world, before he produced any form, he was alone, without a form and resemblance to anything else.[91] Who, then, can comprehend him, how he was before the creation, since he was formless? Hence, it is forbidden to represent him by any form, similitude, or even by his sacred name, by a single letter or a single point; and to this, the words, ‘Ye saw no manner of similitude on the day the Lord spake unto you’ (Deut. iv. 15)—_i. e._, ye have nor seen anything which you could represent by any form or likeness,—refer” (Sohar 42 b, 43 a, Sec. AB):—And this shows clearly enough that the supposed sacred names of Scripture do not have reference to the Impersonal First Cause, as its essential designations, but rather to its creations. * * Then—“The creation, or the universe, is simply the garment of God _woven from the Deity’s own substance_ (The Impersonal manifesting in the cosmos, in modes to be expressed by the sacred names and otherwise). For although, to reveal himself to us, the Concealed of all the Concealed, sent forth the _Ten Emanations_ (the Ten Sephiroth) called the Form of God, Form of the _Heavenly-Man_, yet since even this luminous form was too dazzling for our vision, it had to assume another form, or had to put on another garment which consists of the _universe_. The universe, therefore, or the visible world, is a further expansion of the Divine Substance, and is called in the Cabbalah, ‘_the Garment of God_.’” (Sohar i, 2 a)—“The whole universe, however, was incomplete, and did not receive its finishing stroke till _man_ was formed, who is the _acme of the creation_, and the macrocosm uniting in himself the totality of beings,—‘the heavenly Adam,’ _i. e._, the Ten Sephiroth, who emanated from the highest primordial obscurity (The Impersonal First Cause), created the _earthly Adam_.” (Sohar ii, 70 b). This is more definitely expressed in another place, where it says:—“Jehovah (for which stands the letter _jod_, or _j or i_) descended on Sinai _in fire_,” the word for which is _a-sh_ fire. Let the _j, or i_, the signature for Jehovah, descend in the midst of this word, and one will have _a i sh_, which is the Hebrew word for _man_ man; thus _man_ became out of the _Divine fire_——“Man is both the import and the highest degree of creation, for which reason he was formed on the sixth day. As soon as man was created every thing was complete, including the upper and nether world, for every thing _is comprised in man_. He unites in himself all forms.” (Sohar iii, 48 a)—“But after he created the form of the Heavenly Man, he used it as a chariot (Mercabah) (wheels, circles) wherein to descend, and wishes to be called by this form, which is the sacred name Jehovah.” (Sohar i, 42 b, 43 a, section AB.)