Yetzirah
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Beri'ah Yetzirah Assiah |
Yetzirah (also known as Olam Yetsirah, עולם יצירה in Hebrew) is the third of four worlds in the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, following Atziluth and Briah. It is known as the "World of Formation".
"Yetsirah" as in "making" is as opposed to "Briah" as in "Creating": actually taking whatever matter that was created in the "Briah" and shaping it into the basic elements
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Within the Western mystery tradition, the different Sephiroth in this world are associated with the angels, and it is associated with the suit of swords in the occult tarot. On the Tree of Life diagram it is associated with the Sephiroth Chesed, Geburah, Tiphareth, Hod, Netzach and Yesod. Together, the six Sephiroth are known as the Microprosopus (Zein Anpin) also known as the 'Lesser Countenance' or the 'Small Face.' In this sense, it stands in contrast with the Macroprosopus.
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[edit] References and further reading
The Mystical Qabalah, Dion Fortune, Samuel Weiser publisher, 1984 p. 64
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