THE SEPHER YETSIRAH
The Book of Formation
CHAPTER 4
4-1 There are Seven Double Letters: Beth, Gimmel, Daleth, Kaph, Peh, Resh, and Tav. They have each two sounds associated with them. They are Bet-Bhet; Gimmel-Ghimel; Dalet-Daleth; Kaph-Khaf; Peh-Pheh; Resh-Rhesh; Tav-Thav. The two sounds of each letter are the hard and the soft; the aspirated and the softened.
4-2 The Seven Double Letters are: Beth, Gimmel, Daleth, Kaph, Peh, Resh, and Tav. They are called Double, because each letter presents a contrast or opposition : Wisdom, Riches, Fertility, Life, Power, Peace, Beauty.
4-3 Here are the Seven Double Letters: Beth, Gimmel, Daleth, Kaph, Peh, Resh, and Tav that are pronounced in opposition. Wisdom is the contrary of Folly; Riches is the contrary of Poverty; Fertility is the contrary of Aridity; Life is the contrary of Death; Power is the contrary of Servitude; Peace is the contrary of War; Beauty is the contrary of Ugliness.
4-4 These are the Seven Double Letters: Beth, Gimmel, Daleth, Kaph, Peh, Resh, and Tav. They point out seven directions; Above, Below, East, West, North, South, and the Palace of Holiness in the midst of them sustaining them all.
4-5 These are the Seven Double Letters: Beth, Gimmel, Daleth, Kaph, Peh, Resh, and Tav. Seven, not six; seven, not eight. Study them, scrutinize them. Speek the Letters in their essence, that the Creator be restored upon His foundation.
4-6 These are the Seven Double Letters: Beth, Gimmel, Daleth, Kaph, Peh, Resh, and Tav, which are fundamental. He designed, produced, combined, and formed with them the Planets in the Universe, the Days in time, and the seven Gates in the human body, male and female.
SUPPLEMENT TO CHAPTER IV.
4-7 The Planets of the Universe are Seven: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury, and the Moon. The Seven Days in the Temporal are the Seven Days of the Week; and the Seven Gateways in the human body, male and female, are the two eyes, the two ears, the two nostrils, and the mouth.
4-8 He produced the reign of Beth by Wisdom. He crowned it, combined it with all the other letters. With it He formed the Moon in the Universe, the first day of the week in the temporal, and the right eye in the human body, male and female.
4-9 He produced the reign of Gimmel by Riches. He crowned it, combined it with all the other letters. With it He formed Mars in the Universe, the second day of the week in the temporal, and the right ear of man in the human body, male and female.
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He produced the riegn of Daleth by Fertility; He crowned it, combined it with all the other letters. With it He formed the Sun in the Universe, the third day of the week in the temporal, and the right nostril in the human body, male and female.
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He produced the reign of Kaph by Life; He crowned it, combined it with all the other letters. With it He formed Venus in the Universe, the fourth day of the week in the temporal, and the left eye in the human body, male and female.
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He produced the reign of Peh by Power; He crowned it, combined it with all the other letters. With it He formed Mercury in the Universe, the fifth day of the week in the temporal, and the left ear in the human body, male and female.
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He produced the reign Reshby Peace; He crowned it, combined it with all the other letters. With it He formed Saturn in the Universe, the sixth day of the week in the temporal, and the left nostril in the human body, male and female.
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He produced the reign of Tav by Beauty; He crowned it, combined it with all the other letters. With it He formed Jupiter in the Universe, the Seventh Day of the week in the yrmporal, and the mouth in the human body, male and female.
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So with the Seven Double Letters: Beth, Gimmel, Daleth, Kaph, Peh, Resh, and Tav are formed: seven universes, seven heavens, seven earths, seven seas. seven rivers, seven deserts, seven days, the seven daus of the week, the seven weeks from Passover to Pentecost, and every seventh year a Jubilee, secen sabatic Cycles, and the Sacred Palace. And as God preferred the number Seven above all Numbers, He created groups of seven things under Heaven.
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NOTE 1 With two stones two houses are build; with three stones six houses are build; with four stones twenty-four houses are build; with five stones one hundred and twenty houses are build; with six stones seven hundred and twenty houses are build ; with seven stones five thousand and forty houses are build; and beyond this their numbers increase so that the mouth can hardly utter them, nor the ear hear the number of them.
NOTE 1. The above demonstrates the number of permutations and combinations which can result from fundamental numbers of energy patterns or archetypes in terms of the factorials of numbers, e.g., 5 factorial (or 5!) = 5x4x3x2x1 = 120. Accordingly, considering the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet as the primeval energy patterns of creation (and they have been shown to be projections of one Master Pattern), 22! = 22x21x20x . . . x1 = 1,124,000,728,000,000,000,000.
The tremendous versatility of forms seen in the natural world (and their invisible archetypes) bears witness to this consideration.