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

In this sense, then, all things are God Himself ¹⁶).

But just as emphatically, they also assert that God is none of those things which belong to the world.

The world is merely a veil of the Hidden One, or a tapestry of lights ¹⁷) that represents the forms and aspects of the highest divine power; it is that through which the Incomprehensible reveals himself, although he himself existed before all those forms and neither gains nor loses through them ¹⁸). For he himself is not the beginning or the unity of nature, but rather the absolute unity above nature ¹⁹).

The following passages from the Zohar The Zohar is the foundational work of Jewish mystical thought, known as the Kabbalah may represent the entire system in miniature.

This is the SUMMARY: The ELDER of Elders is within the Microprosopus From the Greek mikroprosopos, meaning "Small Face." In Kabbalah, this refers to the manifested, "lesser" aspect of the Divine that interacts with creation (his first reflection and image): All are ONE: he was all, he is all, he will be all.

¹⁶) All things are the Lord Himself original Latin and Hebrew: Omnia sunt יהוה Ipse. I, 2, 32–34. II, 10, 172. 23, 475.

¹⁷) The venerable veil that the most hidden Elder spreads before himself, in which he sculpted kings and forms through the Microprosopus. original Latin: Velum verendum quod expandit ante se Senior occultissimus, in quo per Microprosopon Reges et Formas exsculpsit II, 2, 30.

¹⁸) II, 12, 313–314. 20, 433.

¹⁹) The most holy Elder is not within Number, nor within Calculation, but within the judgment of the heart original Latin: Senior sanctissimus non est in Numero, nec in Computo, sed in arbitrio cordis (that is, a mere object of the spirit or thought). III, 7, 181.