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ce this Mother, Aima, is crowned with the crown of the Bride, and the grace of the letter I, _Yod_, ceaseth not from Her forever, hence unto Her arbitration is committed all the liberty of those inferior, and all the liberty of all things, and all the liberty of sinners, so that all things may be purified. As it is written, Lev. xvi. 30, "Since in that day he shall atone for you." Also is it written, Lev. xxv. 10, "And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year."(831) This year is IVBL, _Yobel_, Jubilee. What is Yobel? As it is written, Jer. xvii. 8, "VOL IVBL, _Va-El Yobel_, And spreadeth out her roots by the river"; therefore that river whichever goeth forth and floweth, and goeth forth and faileth not. It is written, Prov. ii. 3, "If thou wilt call Binah the Mother, and wilt give thy voice unto Thebunah." Seeing it is here said, "If thou wilt call Binah the Mother," wherefore is Thebunah added? Assuredly, according as I have said, all things are supernal truth: Binah is higher than Thebunah. For in the word BINH, _Binah_, are shown Father, Mother, and Son; since by the letters IH, Father and Mother are denoted, and the letters BN, denoting the Son, are amalgamated with them. THBVNH, _Thebunah_, is the whole completion of the children, since it containeth the letters BN, _Ben_, BTH, _Bath_, and VH, _Vau He_, by which are denoted the Son and Daughter. Yet AB VAM, _Ab Ve-Am_, the Father and the Mother, are not found, save BAIMA, _Be-Aima_, in the Mother, for the venerable Aima broodeth over Them, neither is She uncovered. Whence it cometh that that which embraceth the two Children is called THBVNH, _Thebunah_, and that which embraceth the Father, the Mother, and the Son is called BINH, _Binah_. And when all things are comprehended, they are comprehended therein, and are called by that name of Father, Mother, and Son. And these are CHKMH, _Wisdom_, Father; BINH, _Understanding_, Mother; and DOTH, _Daeath_, Knowledge. Since that Son(832) assumeth the symbols of His Father and of His Mother, and is called DOTH, _Daeath_, Knowledge, since He is the testimony of Them both. And that Son is called the first-born, as it is written, Exod. iv. 22, "Israel is my first-born son." And since He is called first-born, therefore it implieth dual offspring. And when He increaseth, in His Crown appear three divisions.(833) But whether it be taken in this way or in that, there are as well two as three divisions h
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