The Book of Splendor

Main Text (Zohar)

This firmament makes peace between them, and the worlds are only sustained through peace. Come and see original: "Ta chazi": the Holy One, Blessed be He, is called "Peace," His name is "Peace," and everything is bound together in peace. Rabbi Abba said: I have seen that this supreme Holy Brain The "Holy Brain" refers to the highest cognitive levels of the Divine, often associated with the Sefirah of Chokhmah (Wisdom) or the hidden Crown is entirely peace and entirely one. Yet they spread out to this side and to that side, and all of them, from the side of the Holy Brain, are bound together in three knots. This is because there is one Master above, one Master below, and one in the middle. For three knots are found in Him: one Master above, who is the highest of all heights, appearing as the Supreme Crown Keter, which is the Head of all Heads, and He stands over all. One Master is in the middle, which is another Head, for there are three Heads, and each one is a Head on its own. And one Master in the middle—this is another Head of which it is written "the source from above," and it is the Head for all other Heads to establish the holy side, and this is the Head that is the most hidden of all. The other lower Head is a Head to look toward, and it is the fountain of water from which all drops are watered. And this is the letter Yod The first letter of the Tetragrammaton, representing the point of Wisdom with its three knots. And the letter Ayin Numerical value 70 is called "perfection"; in this perfection, everything is bound together and everything is one. Thirdly, in the Book of Enoch, at the time when they showed him the supreme levels of wisdom, he saw the tree of the Garden of Eden and they showed him Wisdom in a supreme mystery. He saw that all the worlds were bound one to another. He asked them: "Upon what do they stand?" They said to him: "All seventy The 70 nations or 70 names of God stand, and from Him they are found and perfected." And he saw that they all tremble from the fear of the Matron The Shekhinah, the Divine Presence, and all of them are called by the seventy names.

And in the Book of King Solomon, he said: We have seen the Katpora A technical term for a divine structure or "cluster" below which are included in the clusters of the body itself. One vision showed that they are all hidden measures, one like a deep pitcher. Afterward, he specified on its own to change the house in its completion, and this is like the way the whole is one hidden measure and one deep Crown for all the hidden things of the Holy Brain, the Head of all, the Father of all. And so the fear or "sand" goes out from it, and from it is found the letter Dalet, the daughter of her Master, in whose hand all judgments are found, hidden in all the worlds. Because of this, the upper and lower beings went out from her. The seal of this is the letter Yod, the perfection of all. The Holy One is destined to look into it, and it is found hidden within the Crown. The Yod brings everything out and curls everything in a single bond; this is the whole. And this is the precious, holy Wisdom Chokhmah, and it brings out that river of which it is written:

And a river went out of Eden to water the garden Genesis 2:10
In its colors, this is the letter Kaf, the spirit of Understanding Binah, and it is the supreme life. From this river go out two children, as has been said, and from it they are nourished. Afterward, two sons and a daughter go out and are nourished from there; this is the Vav and the He. The Priest, the King of Solomon—all is his. And afterward, the He is found to be nourished from the Vav. And this Wisdom is found to be the Yod, the root and the source and the perfection of all. Thus, by wisdom a house is built Proverbs 24:3; a reference to Chokhmah building the "house" of Binah or the world. We have learned: at the time they were completed and went out from this Yod, which is the sheaf of life, He perfected them all. And the holy river, when it conceives and guards its hiddenness, all are hidden as one, and all are hidden in the Yod. He includes them and brings them out. And this is the Father of all, the Father of Wisdom; from Him they go out and in Him they dwell. They rise to the Crown according to the count of the seal: Yod includes Nun and Lamed (Folio 11a), the perfection of all. And the Lamed is male and female; we call them "two" original: "du", and because of this, they were made into "two faces" original: "du-partzuphin"; the concept that the original human/divine form was male and female joined back-to-back. And those faces, male and female, were like the pattern above. And the Lamed is from the world below to the Vav, and the Vav is to the world above, and the whole thing is one matter. Twelve measures hang from it, and until the Yod includes the Lamed as was said. And this is Wisdom, and the Tav and Vav—from this they are toward it. And in the Book of the Father of the Present, the Elder, the Child, they prepare two levels corresponding to two firmaments, and they benefit from this Crown, and she shall taste and understand it and her oath. The first is Yah The first two letters of the Name of God, because the Yod includes the He, and the He goes out from the Yod. Like the "G-B" Gevurah-Binah, Wisdom is called Yah secondarily, and the generation is called Elohim because that river is mercy. And because judgments are awakened from it and go out to show mercy, it is written "with the voice of peace," as it is written:
The Lord will give strength to His people; the Lord will bless His people with peace. Psalms 29:11