Egyptian-Hebrew stream·Sefer Yetzirah (Book of Formation)·Supplement to Chapter IV
Further correspondences of the seven doubles
Extended treatment of the seven double-letters across the seven gates of the soul (eyes, ears, nostrils, mouth) and the seven heavens, planets, lands, weeks, and Sabbaths.
Source context
- Theme
- supplementary elaboration of the fourth chapter's treatment of the seven doubles and their cosmological functions within Sefer Yetzirah
- Soul-faculty
- Intellectual Soul
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Kabbalistic tradition (Sefer Yetzirah)The seven doubles (Beth, Gimel, Daleth, Kaph, Pe, Resh, Tau) are assigned in Kabbalistic cosmology to the seven planets, seven days, seven orifices of the head, and seven directions, establishing a structural correspondence between microcosm and macrocosm.
- Hermetic / Neoplatonic cosmologyCross-tradition congruence appears in Hermetic texts (e.g., Corpus Hermeticum) where seven planetary spheres govern corresponding faculties of the human being, paralleling the Sefer Yetzirah's sevenfold scheme of the doubles.
SUPPLEMENT TO CHAPTER IV
(Found in some editions)
He caused and produced Beth, predominant in wisdom, crowned, combined, and formed the Moon in the Universe, the first day of the week, and the right eye, of man.
Gimel, predominant in health, crowned, . combined and formed Mars in the Universe, the second day of the week, and the right ear in man.
Daleth, predominant in fertility, crowned, combined, and formed the Sun in the Universe, the third day of the week, and the right nostril in man.
Kaph, predominant in life, crowned, combined, and formed Venus in the Universe, the fourth day of the week, and the left eye of man.
Pe, predominant in power, crowned, combined, and formed Mercury in the Universe, the fifth day of the week, and the left ear in man.
Resh, predominant in peace, crowned, combined, and formed Saturn in the Universe, the sixth day of the week, and the left nostril in man.
Tau, predominant in beauty, crowned, combined and formed Jupiter in the Universe, the seventh day in the week, and the mouth of man.
By these seven letters were also made seven worlds, seven heavens, seven lands, seven seas, seven rivers, seven deserts, seven days (as before), seven weeks from Passover to Pentecost, and every seventh year a jubilee.
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