H, _Chokmah_,(820) Wisdom, is found from
AIN, _Ain_, the Negatively Existent One;" and therefore is He not known.

Come and see! It is written _ibid._ 22, "The Elohim have known the path";
His path, properly speaking.

But again, further on: "VHVA, _Va-Hoa_, and He Himself knoweth His place;"
His place properly speaking; much more His path; and much more this Wisdom
which is concealed in the Most Holy Ancient One.

This Wisdom is the beginning of all things. Thencefrom are expanded the
thirty-two paths. SHBILIN, _Shebilin_, Paths, I say; and not ARCHIN,
Archin, By-ways.

And in them is the Law comprehended, in the twenty-two letters and in the
ten utterances.(821)

This Chokmah is the Father of Fathers, and in this Chokmah is beginning
and end discovered; and therefore is there one Chokmah supernal, and
another Chokmah inferior.

When Chokmah is extended, then is He called the Father of Fathers, for in
none else are all things comprehended save in Him. (Otherwise, when they
are expanded all things are called Chokmoth,(822) and the Father of
Fathers; all things are comprehended in no place, save herein.)

As it is written, Ps. civ. 25, "All things in Chokmah hast Thou formed."

Rabbi Schimeon lifted up his hands, and rejoiced, and said, "Assuredly it
is Eden or Paradise, and all things have their operation in this hour."

Chapter VIII: Concerning the Father and the Mother in Special

Come and behold. When the Most Holy Ancient One, the Concealed with all
Concealments, desired to be formed forth, He conformed all things under
the form of Male and Female; and in such place wherein Male and Female are
comprehended.

For they could not permanently exist save in another aspect of the Male
and the Female (their countenances being joined together).

And this Wisdom embracing all things, when it goeth forth and shineth
forth from the Most Holy Ancient One, shineth not save under the form of
Male and Female.

Therefore is this Wisdom extended, and it is found that it equally
becometh Male and Female.

CHKMH AB BINH AM, _Chokmah Ab Binah Am_: Chokmah(823) is the Father, and
Binah is the Mother, and therein are Chokmah, Wisdom, and Binah,
Understanding, counterbalanced together in most perfect equality of Male
and Female.

And therefore are all things established in the equality of Male and
Female; for were it not so, how could they subsist!

This beginning is the Father of all things; the Father of all F