all
are judgment.
From the yellow proceed others who are destined to make manifest deeds as
well good as evil.
As it is written, Job xxxiv. 21, "Since His eyes are upon the ways of
man." And these, Zach. iv. 10, are called "The eyes of Tetragrammaton,"
MSHVTTIM, _Meshotetim_, going forth around, but in the masculine gender,
because these extend in two directions--toward the good and toward the
evil.
From the white brilliance proceed all those mercies and all those benefits
which are found in the world, so that through them it may be well for the
Israelites.
And then all those three colors are made white, so that He may have pity
upon them.
And those colors are mingled together mutually, and mutually do they
adhere unto each other. Each one affecteth with its color that which is
next unto it.
Excepting the white brilliance wherein all are comprehended when there is
need, for this enshroudeth them all.
So therefore no man can convert all the inferior colors--the black, red,
and yellow--into the white brilliance.
For only with this glance (of Macroprosopus) are they all united and
transformed into the white brilliance.
His eyelashes (_i.e._, those of Microprosopus, for to the eye of
Macroprosopus neither eyebrows nor eyelashes are attributed) are not
found, when (his eyes) desire to behold the colors; seeing that his
eyelashes disclose the place (of sight) for beholding all the colors.
And if they disclose not the place (of vision) the (eyes) cannot see nor
consider.(859)
But the eyelashes do not remain nor sleep, save in that only perfect hour,
but they are opened and closed, and again closed and opened, according to
that Open Eye (of Macroprosopus) which is above them.
And therefore is it written, Ezek. i. 14, "And the living creatures rush
forth and return."
Now we have already spoken of the passage, Isa. xxxiii. 20, "Thine eye
shall see Jerusalem quiet, even Thy habitation."
Also it is written, Deut. ii. 12, "The eyes of Tetragrammaton thy God are
ever thereon in the beginning of the year," etc.
For so Jerusalem requireth it, since it is written, Isa. i. 21, "TZDQ,
_Tzedeq_, Justice abideth in Her."
And therefore (is it called) Jerusalem, and not Zion. For it is written,
Isa. i. 26: "Zion is redeemed in MSHPT, _Meshephat_, Judgment, etc.,"
which are unmixed mercies.
Thine eye: (therefore) is it written OINK, _Ayinakh_ (in the singular
number). Assuredly it is the eye of the Mos
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