and depend from It, and
are connected with It.

(Through Them) Microprosopus dependeth from the Most Holy Ancient One, and
is connected (with Him). And these things have we already revealed in the
Conclave of the Assembly.

Blessed is his portion who entereth therein and departeth therefrom, and
hath known the paths; so that he declineth not unto the right hand, or
unto the left.

But if any man entereth not therein and departeth therefrom, better were
it for that (man) that he had never been born. For thus it is written,
Hos. xiv. 10, "True are Thy ways, O Tetragrammaton!"

Rabbi Schimeon spake and said: Through the whole day have I meditated on
that saying where it is said, Ps. xxxiv. 2, "My Nephesch(843) shall
rejoice in Tetragrammaton, the humble shall hear thereof and rejoice"; and
now that whole text is confirmed (in my mind).

"My Nephesch shall rejoice in Tetragrammaton." This is true, for my
Neschamah is connected therewith, radiateth therein, adhereth thereto, and
is occupied thereabout, and in this same occupation is exalted in its
place.

"The humble shall hear thereof and rejoice." All those just and blessed
men who have come into communion with God, the Most Holy--blessed be
He!--all hear and rejoice.

Ah! now is the Holy One confessed; and therefore "magnify Tetragrammaton
with me, and let us exalt His Name together!"

Thus is it written, Gen. xxxvi. 31, "And those are the kings who reigned
in the land of Edom." And also it is written thus, Ps. xlviii. 4, "Since,
lo! the kings assembled, they passed away together."

"In the land of Edom." That is, in the place wherewith the judgments are
connected.

"They passed away together." As it is written, "And he died, and there
reigned in his stead."

"They themselves beheld, so were they astonished; they feared, and hasted
away." Because they remained not in their place, since the conformations
of the King had not as yet been formed, and the Holy City and its walls
were not as yet prepared.

This is that which followeth in the text, "As we have heard, so have we
seen, in the city," etc. For all did not endure.

But She (the Bride) now subsisteth beside the Male, with Whom She abideth.

This is that which is written, Gen. xxxvi. 39, "And Hadar reigned in his
stead, and the name of his city was Pau, and the name of his wife was
Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mizaheb."

Assuredly this have we before explained in the Assembly.(8