On the Nature and Origin of the Doctrine of Emanation among the Kabbalists

Following this, the author of the Book of Creation original: "Buch Jezirah" (Sefer Yetzirah), one of the oldest and most influential books of Jewish mysticism views the entire emanation or lineage of things as a continuous chain of pure intelligences *): he calls them the 32 paths original German: "Pforten" (gates); the Hebrew footnote "שבילות" (shevilot) means paths. These refer to the 32 Paths of Wisdom in Kabbalah of spirits or spiritual powers, by which he does not mean physical substances, but mere energies or intelligent and spiritual acts original Latin: "actus intelligentes et spirituales", through which substances first come into being **).

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In relation to the idea of life, the Kabbalists view the four systems of things This refers to the four worlds of existence: Atziluth (Emanation), Beriah (Creation), Yetzirah (Formation), and Assiah (Action) as so many stages and expressions of the divine, self-communicating omnipotence of the "Life of all Lives."

That sphere which constitutes the immediate glory of the King of Light, and which is called the "Divine" in the absolute sense, is pure life, the seat of life, the sustenance of life for everything that exists; it is also called the Tree of Life, or the manna of immortality.

In the next world, where a state of existing beside and outside of one another A philosophical way of describing the beginning of space, separation, and individuality as opposed to the total unity of the divine world already takes place, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil begins, and it descends ever deeper. The great and constant action of the King of Lights and of all life:

*) Hebrew: "שבילות" (shevilot), meaning paths
**) I, 5, 42. On the Revolution of Souls original Latin: "de revolut. animar." (Sefer HaGilgulim) I, 1, 3. C. 19, I, 1, 4. Part. IV, C. 1. Kabbalistic Pneumatics original Latin: "Pneumat. Cabbal." (Pneumatica Cabbalistica, a treatise on spirits/souls) C. 2, 15. 4. §. 1 — 9.