they all can
be admitted unto my nuptials in that world. Blessed be my portion!

Rabbi Abba saith that when (Rabbi Schimeon) had finished this discourse,
the Holy Light (_i.e._, Rabbi Schimeon) lifted up his hands and wept, and
shortly after smiled.

For he wished to reveal another matter, and said: I have been anxious
concerning this matter all my days, and now they give me not leave.

But having recovered himself he sat down, and murmured with his lips and
bowed himself thrice; neither could any other man behold the place where
he was, much less him.

Chapter IX: Concerning Microprosopus and His Bride in General

He said: Mouth, mouth, which hath followed out all these things, they
shall not dry up thy fountain.

Thy fountain goeth forth and faileth not: surely concerning thee may this
be applied, "And a river went forth out of Eden"; also that which is
written, "Like a fountain of waters whose waters fail not."

Now I testify concerning myself, that all the days which I have lived I
have desired to behold this day, yet was it not the will (of God).

For with this crown is this day crowned, and now as yet I intend to reveal
certain things before God the Most Holy--may He be blessed!--and all these
things crown mine head.

And this day(838) suffereth not increase, neither can it pass on into the
place of another day, for this whole day hath been yielded unto my power.

And now I begin to reveal these things, that I may not enter ashamed into
the world to come. Therefore I begin and say:

"It is written, Ps. lxxxix. 14: 'TZDQ VMSHPT, _Tzedeq Va-Meshephat_,
Justice and Judgment are the abode of Thy throne; CHSD VAMTH, _Chesed
Va-Emeth_, Mercy and Truth shall go before Thy countenance.' "

What wise man will examine this, so that he may behold His paths, (those,
namely) of the Most Holy Supernal One, the judgments of truth, the
judgments which are crowned with His supernal crowns.

For I say that all the lights which shine from the Supreme Light, the Most
Concealed of All, are all paths (leading) toward that Light.

And in that Light which existeth in those single paths, whatsoever is
revealed is revealed.

And all those lights adhere mutually together, this light in that light,
and that light in this light.

And they shine mutually into each other, neither are they divided
separately from each other.

That Light, I say, of those lights, severally and conjointly, which are
called the conformati