The Book of Splendor: Genesis

The polished light, subtle and pure, as it turns its face toward everything that receives the reality of the holy point original: nekudah kedoshah. In Kabbalistic thought, the "point" represents the first concentration of divine energy, often associated with the Sephirah of Chokhmah (Wisdom)., this [light] returns within itself, face to face. From the expansion of the soul and the spirit original: nefesh ve-ruach, it would return to be bound at the back; this is the "Returning Light" Returning LightHebrew: Ohr Chozer. This concept describes divine light that strikes a "vessel" or boundary and reflects back toward its source, which is a necessary step in the formation of spiritual worlds. within the secret of the Radiance. And these remain, the branch and the roots, and they were bound together and gazed upon the point of existence within the source of the various kinds of light.

The whole [structure] played within the Influence original: Mazla. In the Zohar, this refers to the "flowing" hair of the divine "Beard" through which mercy and sustenance descend to the lower worlds., a point face to face. And this is the face of the first holy Bride original: Kallah. A mystical representation of the Shekhinah or the Sephirah of Malkhut (Kingship), the feminine aspect of the Divine. that goes out from the beginning, and because of this, all is always, not solitary, but always within the radiance. And because the Bride is not ceasing, and the forces are in the garden, and the vitality of his face—even the darkness within the darkness—doubt and light are one, bound in the glow that wraps around the back. Turn your face and gaze upon the illumination of the Messiah, the grace of the Bride's face toward the Holy One, Blessed be He.

Hear a voice in the expanse, and a voice is heard; he hears the grace of His kindness in the language of opening to the Holy One, Blessed be He. The heavens [and] the soul, which must be gazed upon from the burnt offering of the longing of the dwelling place, and from the secret of the understanding and the fountain of the living and the strong. In them, like a garment, her "fly" This likely refers to a flickering or fluttering spiritual movement. flutters and enters into the cave and wraps itself, not like the holy Influence, yet the secret stands for it. To that chaos original: tohu, the holiness and the sanctity are seen, and the fifty original: chamishi. Possibly a reference to the Fifty Gates of Understanding. and the five are within the Divine Presence original: Shekhinah.

And I shall bring up the end of the rest that surrounds the thing—let him live! The back is taken for him, and the poor in spirit and the decaying body of the beginning. And let there be a radiance that was extinguished in the space of the garment of the back, to pray within the Influence for benefit. And thus, a scouring for the living, the sparks of the Infinite original: Ein Sof shall answer with a cry and with inner compassion.

And the secret is forever and ever; you must return, for it is good. Do not abandon the lover of the heavens, for He is good, mighty, perfect, and the joy of the Glory, the secret of their Master. A blessing to the Lord, a support for the pious one, for every fountain, and He shall clarify for them. And in five it is divided in the house of the Bride, and He called to them. And in the fountain He called; He called, and they trembled in Understanding original: Binah always—the back of these The catchword eleh (these) refers to the next page, often used in the phrase "These are the generations..." to maintain the Kingdom original: Malkhut.