From the ancient primer of Kabbalah, the Sepher Yetzirah,
Book of Formation Chapter I:
The ineffable Sephiroth are Ten, as are the Numbers; and as
there are in
humans five fingers over against five, so over them is
established a covenant of
strength, by word of mouth….(whispered secret)
Ten is the number of
the ineffable Sephiroth, ten and not nine, ten and
not eleven. Understand this wisdom, and be wise by the
perception. Search
out concerning it, restore the Word to its creator, and place
HaShem who
formed it upon his/her seat.
The ancient text the Sepher Yetzirah, the book of formation
tells us to place our five fingers over and against each other to reveal like
the heart of the apple, the wheel of ten. For those who know about the Golden
mean and the Fibonacci series a circle divided by ten sections will reveal the
divine proportion, called during the Renaissance, the Golden Section. This is not
the case with a circle divided by nine or eleven as the Sepher Yetzirah tells
us. This was a secret in the ancient schools of divine mathematics and
kabbalah. It was a part of the whispered teachings and considered a profound
secret and a proof that there was another dimension interfacing space/time that
we call the soul realm. As in Torah(Deut:20:19) the human is said to be like a
tree of the field . All living organisms display this mathematical principal
and only living organisms.
If you cut an apple in cross-section you will see the two interlaced pentagrams making a wheel of ten(see image) as in this ancient wheel of the ten sephirot whirling ot of the unity of origin of all that is.
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| The Wheel of Ten in the Heart of the Apple |
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| The wheel of five and ten in the flower |
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| Ancient view of the Ten Sephirot as a primordial wheel of ten whirling from the Holy Source |
The Yetzirah also tells us that the world is built of five dimensions. Each dimension has two endpoints or vertices making the total of ten in all. from chapter I:
5. The Ten ineffable Sephiroth have ten vast regions bound unto them; boundless in origin and having no ending;(TIME) a DEPTH (13) of good and of not good(SOUL); measureless height and depth; boundless to the East and the West; boundless to the North and South(three axes of space); (14) and HaShem the only God, (15) the Faithful Sovereign rules all these from his/her holy seat(CENTER), (16) for ever and ever.
6. The Ten ineffable Sephiroth have the appearance of the Lightning flash, (17) their origin is unseen and no end is perceived. The Word is in them as they rush forth and as they return, they speak as from the whirl-wind, and returning fall prostrate in adoration before the Throne.
7. The Ten ineffable Sephiroth, whose ending is even as their origin, are like as a flame arising from a burning coal. For God (18) is superlative in his/her Unity, there is none equal unto Him/her: what number canst thou place before One.
8. Ten are the ineffable Sephiroth; seal up thy lips lest thou speak of them, and guard thy heart as thou considerest them; and if thy mind escape from thee bring it back to thy control; even as it was said, “running and returning” (the living creatures ran and returned) (19) and hence was the Covenant made.
May this full moon of the Jewish month of Shevat bring the blessings of the Trees and sacred Earth to our entire world of living beings.
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