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ALHIM, analogous to him (Adam), seeing that IHVH, Tetragrammaton, denoteth the masculine, and
ALHIM, Elohim, the feminine.
796. "And therefore in this passage there is no mention made of ADM, Adam, Man, without the Holy Name.
797. "Also we have learned this. It is written: 'I called upon IH, Yah, in my distress; IH, Yah, heard me at
large.' IH is here twice repeated, IH, IH, in reference to the two jaws unto which the hairs (of the beard)
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adhere, and from which it is seen that the hairs issue and depend.
798. "He hasteneth and saith (i.e., King David): 'IHVH, Tetragrammaton, is on my side; I will not fear;
IHVH taketh my part with them that help me; wherein the Name is not written defectively (IH as before, but
IHVH) which is the Holy Name, and with this Name mention is also made of man.
799. "And what is this thing which is said, 'What can ADM, Adam , Man, do unto me?' It is thus, as we have
learned by tradition: All those sacred diadems of the King, when He is conformed in his dispositions (that
is, when the letters of Tetragrammaton are all conjoined together), are called ADM, Adam, Man, which is the
Form which comprehendeth all things.
800. "But when any portion is taken away therefrom (that is to say, when it is said IH, and not IHVH), then is
understood ( Microprosopus) the Holy Name (by the letter I, Yod) and ThORA, Tauara, or the Gate (that is,
the Bride, to whom is attributed the name ADNI, Adonai, whose number when written in its Plenitude is
671, as the word ThORA or ThROA exhibiteth it, summed up in the letter H, He, of the name IH), and that
which is therein.
801. "When therefore it is called Tetragrammaton, man is mentioned, with the Gate Tauara included, and
those which are therein [otherwise, concerning the inferior worlds. And when it is taken away from the gate
(that is, when the letters Vau and He are not joined hereunto, of which the latter denoteth the inferior gate),
then is understood the Holy Name (by the Yod), and the Gate and those which are therein (by the He in the
name IH). But when it is called IHVH, it is called the man, ADM, and all the rest (conjoined therewith ),
namely, the gate and those (paths) which are therein.]
802. "And therefore did David enumerate those nine conformations; because he unto whom it is allowed to
touch the beard of the King can do all which he desireth.
803. "Wherefore then the beard, and not the body? Because the body is hidden behind the beard, but the
beard hath no place (of concealment) behind the body.
804. "But he in reckoning it proceedeth in a duplex manner once as we have given it; and next thus, when
he saith: 'I called upon Yah in my distress.' The first.
805. "'Yah heard me at large.' The second.
806. "'Tetragrammaton is on my side; I will not fear. The third.
807. "'What can man do unto me?' The fourth.
808. "'Tetragrammaton taketh my part with them that help me.' The fifth.
809. "'And I shall see my desire upon mine enemies.' The sixth.
810. "'It is better to trust in Tetragrammaton.' The seventh.
811. "'Than to put any confidence in man.' The eighth.
812. "'It is better to trust in Tetragrammaton.' The ninth.
813. "'Than to put any confidence in princes.' The tenth. (Otherwise: 'It is better to trust in Tetragrammaton
than to put any confidence in man.' The seventh. 'It is better to trust in Tetragrammaton.' The eighth. 'Than to
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put any confidence in princes.' The ninth.)
814. "'I called upon Yah in my distress.' What is this which he saith? Assuredly doth David say all these
things which are here said concerning the form of the beard." 815. Rabbi Yehudah answered and said: "'I
called upon Yah in my distress.' From the part where the beard beginneth to extend, which is from the more
remote part (is one), before the ears, beneath the hair (is the second). And therefore is it twice said, IH, IH.
816. "But in that place wherein the beard is expanded, and descendeth before the ears, in wider extension, the
name of ADM, Adam , Man, hath place (that is to say, the complete Tetragrammaton). Also this expansion
was necessary to David when he wished to subject to himself the Icings and nations through the dignity of
this beard. (Otherwise, when therefore he saith, 'Tetragrammaton is on my side, I will not fear;' for this is
such a one who spareth not the wicked, and this was altogether necessary, &c.)
817. "Also we have learned this in the 'Book of Concealed Mystery' : Whosoever seeth in his sleep that he
toucheth the beard or moustache of the supernal man with his hand, or extendeth his hand unto it, let him
know that he is at peace with the supernals, and that those who afflict him are about to be subjected unto
him."
818. "We have learned that the supernal beard is disposed in nine conformations, and that it is the beard of
Microprosopus..
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819. "IN the first conformation the hair is disposed from above, and goeth forth before the opening of the
ears, beneath the locks which hang down over the ears; and the hairs descend, hairs above hairs, even unto
the beginning of the mouth.
820. "This have we learned. All those hairs which are in the beard are harder than all the hairs of the locks of
the hair of the head. But the hair of the head is longer and bendeth more easily, while these hairs (of the
beard) are not so long.
821. Of the hairs of the head some are hard and some are soft.
822. And whensoever the white locks of the Ancient of Days reach forward into Microprosopus, it is written
that, Prov. i. 20: 'Wisdom crieth without.'
823. "What is this (word) 'without'? In this (instance) in Microprosopus, wherein are conjoined the two
(forms of the) brain. Two forms of the brain, sayest thou? But it should rather be said, four forms of the brain.
824. (Assuredly) "there are three (forms of the) brain in Microprosopus, and they are found in the three
cavities of the skull of His head.
825. "And there is one calm and tranquil brain residing in its own clear brilliancy, which comprehendeth all
the three (forms of the ) brain, and from it are brought forth the productions of the hairs which are produced
and continued in equilibrium in the white hair into that part of Microprosopus, into His three (forms of) brain
(namely ), so that therein in Him are found four (forms of the) brain. 826. "And hence are perfected the four
texts which are written on the phylacteries, because in them is contained the Holy Name of the Ancient of
Days, the Ancient of the Ancient Ones, and that of Microprosopus.
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827. "For this is the perfection of the Holy Name, concerning which it is written, Deut. xxviii. 10: 'And all the
people of the earth shall see that the name of Tetragrammaton have been invoked over thee, and they shall be
afraid of thee.'
828. The Name of the Lord is this very Name of Tetragrammaton, which formeth the canals and hollows of
the phylacteries.
829. "And therefore is it said: 'Wisdom crieth without,' Prov. i. 20, because it is herein found (i.e., in
Microprosopus).
830. "For truly the Ancient of the Ancient Ones, even He who is concealed with all concealments, is not
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