em His covenant"; namely, unto such as keep their path and thus receive
His words.

But they who are perverse in their ways receive certain words, and quickly
introduce the same into themselves, but in them is no place where they can
be detained (for examination).

And all the other openings are opened therein, until those words can issue
forth from the opening of the mouth.

And such men are called the sinners of their generation, hating God the
Most Holy One--blessed be He.

In Mischna, or our tradition, we have taught that such men are like unto
murderers and idolaters.

And all these things are contained in one saying, where it is written,
Lev. xix. 16, "Thou shalt not go up and down as a tale-bearer among thy
people, neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor: ANI
IHVH, I am Tetragrammaton."

Therefore he who transgresseth the first part of that verse doth the same
as if he were to transgress the whole.

Blessed is the portion of the just, concerning whom it is said, Prov. xi.
13, "A tale-bearer revealeth secrets, but he that is of a faithful spirit
concealeth the matter."

"Spirit, RVCH, _Ruach_," properly (is used here) for the Ruach of such is
extracted from the Supernal Holy Place.

Now we have said that this is a symbol. Whosoever revealeth Arcana with
fixed purpose of mind, he is not of the body of the Most Holy King.

And therefore to such a man nothing is an Arcanum, neither is from the
place of the Arcanum.

And whensoever his soul departeth, the same adhereth not unto the body of
the King, for it is not his place. Woe unto that man! woe unto himself!
woe unto his Neschamah!(866)

But blessed is the portion of the just who conceal secrets, and much more
the Supernal Arcana of God the Most Holy One--blessed be He!--the highest
Arcana of the Most Holy King.

Concerning them it is written, Isa. lx. 21, "Thy people also shall be all
righteous; they shall inherit the land forever."

Chapter XVII: Concerning the Countenance of Microprosopus

His countenance is as two abodes of fragrance, and all that I have before
said is His testimony.

For the testimony, SHDVTHA, _Sahedutha_, dependeth from Him, and in all
His testimony dependeth.

But these places of fragrance are white and red; the testimony of Ab the
Father, and Aima the Mother; the testimony of the inheritance which He
hath taken by right and obtained.

And in our tradition we have also established by how many