Sefer Yetzira

A GLANCE THROUGH THE BOOK OF CREATIONS : PROF. M. M. NINAN
Sefer Yetzira of Father Abraham
The creation is in two planes of existence - space and spirit. Time is only a measure of changes.
It started with creation whereby changes take place within the dimensions of space and spirit.
There are three Akashic Records, the Sepharim of the world in perpetual creation: They are:
+ the physico-chemical sphere of formulae for the constitution of bodies and their transformations,
all that is formed in space in every dimension;
+ the sphere of numbers where everything is in mathematical equations, everything that takes
place in variations or changes;
+ and the Sipour where the events of life, death and existence are inscibed.
Here creation was simply the engraving of YHVH the name of the God .
Thirty-two. This is the number of the Paths or Ways of Wisdom, which are added as a supplement.
32 is written in Hebrew by LB, Lamed and Beth,
and these are the last and first letters of the Pentateuch.
בראשית ברא אלהים ... לעיני כל-ישראל
The number 32 is obtained thus--2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2=2 5 = 32. Laib, LB
means the Heart of Man.
as a Hebrew word,
These 32 paths referred to in Sefer Yetzia being the beginning and the end of Torah consists of the
totality of creative principles behind all creation and are interpreted in many different ways. A few of
the interesting ones include:
32 instances of the names or attributes of God – Elohim – אלהים in the book of Genesis;
the 22 letters of the alphabet with which God created the cosmos , plus 10 principle numerals
which G-d combined to create the world (Physics and Mathematics of Cosmos);
32 levels of consciousness that pervades the Universe especially in the final ultimate
creation which is in Man.
Paths.The word here is NTIBUT, netibuth; NTIB meant primarily a pathway, or foot-made track or
footpath; but is here used symbolically in the same sense as the Christian uses the word, way--the
way of life: other meanings are--stage, power, form, effect; and later, a doctrinal formula, in
Kabalistic writings.
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