de, like as from an elevated
lantern the rays of light stream down on every side.

"And those rays of light,(796) which are extended, when anyone draweth
near unto them, so that they may be examined, are not found, and there is
only the lantern alone.

"So also is He the Most Holy and Ancient One: He is that highest Light
concealed with all concealments, and He is not found; those rays(797)
(proceeding from Him) being excepted, which are extended, which are
revealed, and which are hidden.

"And they are called the Holy Name, and therefore are all things One.

"Which truly our companions have said in former books, that certain paths
have been created by the Most Holy Ancient One, who is revealed through
them collectively and severally; since they are the conformations of the
Most Holy Ancient One, concerning them now there is not time for
examination.

"I have spoken concerning them in the Holy Assembly, and I have beheld
that which before I did not understand in such a manner, and I have hidden
the matter in my heart.

"But now I alone will describe these things before the Holy King, and all
those assuredly just men who have assembled to hear these words."

Chapter II: Concerning the Skull of the Ancient One, and Concerning His
Brain; and Concerning the Three Heads, and the Hair, and the
Discriminatory Paths

The skull of the White Head hath not beginning, but its end is the
convexity of its joining together, which is extended, and shineth.

And from it the just shall inherit 400(798) desirable worlds in the world
to come.

And from this convexity of the joining together of this White Skull daily
distilleth a dew into Microprosopus, into that place which is called
Heaven; and in that very place shall the dead be raised to life in the
time to come.

Like as it is written, Gen. xxvii. 27: "And Elohim shall give thee from
the dew of heaven."

And His head is filled with that dew, and all the place of the apple-trees
distilleth therewith.

He, the Most Holy Ancient One, is hidden and concealed, and in that Skull
is the Supernal Wisdom concealed, who is found and who is not found.

For assuredly in Him, the Ancient One, nothing is revealed save the Head
alone, seeing that that Head is itself the Head of all heads.

The beginning of that Supernal Wisdom which also is itself the Head, is
hidden therein, and is called the Supernal Brain, the Hidden Brain, the
Tranquil and Calm Brain; neither doth any