Sepher Yetzirah (Book of Formation) - Westcott

the two others, a supreme arbitrator. The third sect recognized no god besides the Sun, in which it recognized the sole principle of existence.”

Rabbi Judah Ha Levi, in his critical description of this treatise, wrote:

“The Sepher Yetzirah Hebrew: "Book of Formation" teaches us the existence of a Single Divine Power by showing us that in the bosom of variety and multiplicity, there is a Unity and Harmony, and that such universal concord could only arise from the rule of a Supreme Unity.”

Eliphas Lévi, the famous French Occultist A student of hidden spiritual wisdom and esoteric powers, thus wrote of the “Sepher Yetzirah,” in his “History of Magic,” page 54:

“The Zohar The "Book of Splendor," the foundational work of Jewish mysticism is a Genesis of illumination; the Sepher Jezirah is a ladder formed of truths. Therein are explained the thirty-two absolute signs of sounds, numbers, and letters: each letter reproduces a number, an idea, and a form; so that mathematics are capable of application to ideas and to forms no less rigorously than to numbers, by exact proportion and perfect correspondence. By the science of the Sepher Jezirah, the human spirit is fixed to truth and in reason, and is able to take account of the possible development of intelligence by the evolutions of numbers. The Zohar represents absolute truth, and the Sepher Jezirah provides the means by which we may seize, appropriate, and make use of it.”

Upon another page, Eliphas Lévi writes:

“The Sepher Jezirah and the Apocalypse The Biblical Book of Revelation are the masterpieces of Occultism; they contain more wisdom than words; their expression is as figurative as poetry, and at the same time, it is as exact as mathematics.”

In the volume entitled “The Kabbalah” original: "La Kabbale" by the eminent French scholar and Member of the Institute, Adolphe Franck, there is a chapter on the “Sepher Yetzirah.” He writes as follows:

“The Book of Formation contains, I will not say a system of physics, but of cosmology such as could be conceived at an age and in a country where the habit of explaining all phenomena by the immediate action of the First Cause God as the primary creator tended to check the spirit of observation—”