ey are
all bound together at once in the twelve paths and the known ways. And one
thing ever expecteth another.

By the tongue is the vocal expression of the sublime spoken, in the middle
nexus of the utterance.

And therefore is it written, Cant. v. 16, "His mouth is most sweet." And
this same palate of His conveyeth a sweet taste; wherefore He smileth when
He tasteth food (which is pleasant).(872)

"And He is altogether the desirablenesses (or delights)" (of the powers
of) fire and (the powers of) water, because the fire and water are
counterchanged with each other mutually (otherwise, are conformed
together), and are beautiful in his conformation.(873)

For the colors are mutually associated together.

In His palate are the (guttural) letters (of the Hebrew Alphabet--namely,
A, H, CH, O) formed and constructed; in the circuit of His (mouth) are
they condensed (into the palatals G, I, K, Q).(874)

The letter A, _Aleph_, which cast forth the kings and constituted the
kings(875) (_i.e._, that guttural letter which is referred to the First
Sephira, Kether, the Crown, becometh the palatal letter G, _Ghimel_).

The letter CH, _Cheth_, which goeth forth and descendeth and ascendeth,
and is crowned in the head (referring to the Second Sephira, _Chokmah_,
Wisdom), and is fire condensed in ether (_i.e._, developeth in the palatal
letter I, _Yod_).

The letter H, _He_, the golden-yellow color (otherwise, germinating power)
of the Mother, Aima, having been connected with the Female Power, is
extended in the Greater Female Potency into the desire of the Holy City,
which two (otherwise, for these places) are mutually bound together the
one unto the other (these two are Aima, the supernal H of IHVH, and the
Holy City, the Bride, as She is called in the Apocalypse, the final H of
IHVH). (And the guttural letter H, _He_, formeth the palatal letter _K_,
_Kaph_, which is referred unto the Queen.) As it is written, Cant. iv. 6,
"Unto the mountain of myrrh, unto the hill of frankincense."

The letter O, _Ayin_ (which denoteth the seven Inferiors which were
destroyed) is the medium of splendor of mediation (_i.e._, the internal
Light of the broken vessels), hath been formed forth in His lips by
revolution therein (and it hath been condensed in Q, _Qoph_, which goeth
forth from the middle of the palate unto the lips). For the branches (of
the Tree of Life, namely) are connected in Him (Microprosopus) in the
spirits (such as they