Yod

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   I AM the creative Hand,Which fashioneth the worldsAnd establisheth the spheres,While yet the primal FIRECircleth untrammeled in the womb of space.That fashioning is not as the handiwork of man.It is my self-utterance through the Voice of Vision.By it I declare myself.

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   Yea, I utter myself as the Father of all,And from my fatherhoodIs the brotherhood of all creatures.

   Therefore do the wise see in the letter YODThe Fatherhood of CHOKMAH,The unbounded Wisdom which establisheth all.

   That Father, AB, am I,The Source of all;One in mine inmost being,Two in my self-utterance,And Three in my union with my divine manifestation:Creating,Preserving,Transforming,Throughout endless ages.

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   From my presence do all things derive their substance,From my power all movement beginneth,And my Wisdom is the foundation of all knowing.

   Therefore is YOD the foundation of all the letters,And every letter exhibiteth YOD in its formation.By these two-and-twenty lettersIs the circle of creation described.

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   I am the fluid darkness,Which is the ink wherewith I inscribe myselfUpon the scroll of manifestation.

   Verily this writing of the Book of BeingTelleth no new thing.They understand aright who say with SolomonThat beneath the sun is nothing new.Of whatsoever is,Thou mayest say with truth,"It was."

   Hence is the vision of the prophetWhich seemeth to pierce the veil between what isAnd what is yet to come,In truth a recollection of thatWhich seemeth to belong to the past.

   My hand holdeth the whole circle of beingAnd for me time is not.

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   I am the link between CHESED and TIPHARETH,Combining the Waters of substance with theAir of Life.

   I measure and bound the RuachWhich hath its placeIn the path of Mediating Influence,Because I am the Intelligence of WillWhich carrieth the Water of MercyInto the sphere of Beauty.

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   I am Ten,Yet from me proceedeth the Twenty,For I am Ten IneffableAnd Ten manifested in creation.Therefore is YOD both Ten and Twenty.

   And the Ten made manifest are also Seven,And these are the Elohim.These Seven bring forth Ten again,For the Heptad which is below the Supernal TriadCompleteth itself in the Kingdom of the Bride.

   For tenfold is my self-utterance,And therefore is it written of the Lights of Emanation,"Ten, and not eleven, ten and not nine."