- First Verse -

In His Eternal Instant beyond Time, NOW, BEING is absolutely ONE, beyond distinction subject-object, in a state of Consciousness beyond all differentiation.

The apparently negative form of the Verse (“...does not know HIMSELF”) does not indicate an unconscious state, but the simplest dimension of Consciousness, of pure Awareness, beyond manifest Knowledge.

In that State, all His Reality, with all His Attributes, is “melted”, “non-said”, summing up in Beauty.

He, BEING, the ONE, eternal blissful Reality, is essentially BEAUTY, LOVE; in His Eternal Moment, His Bliss “overflows”: He experiences the Desire to Know Himself, to perceive Himself manifestly.

This is the start of the First Step of the Eternal Book (which is symbolized by the sign of Aries).

This Desire of BEING to know Himself is first of all a felt Emotion. By this Emotion, BEING becomes “Source”, opens Himself towards Manifestation. Immediately – this is the Emergence of His THOUGHT, His BREATH – It appears as a Question: “Who Am I?”, Whose immediate Answer is: “I Am!”.

This is the Emergence of the Consciousness of BEING, His coming to Manifestation.

Consciousness is the first of the Ten Attributes, Which the BREATH of BEING, His “Thinker” Aspect, enunciates. It is the Pronunciation of the WORD, Which is also the NAME of BEING. This succession of Steps is a spontaneous sequence from the Eternal Instant. From this point of sudden Self-Awareness, He becomes aware of all His Attributes, while enunciating, naming Them.

These are the Ten Attributes, Which together constitute the WORD, and include Masculine, Feminine, and Middle Attributes:

(To be read from Right to Left)

The knowledge of the Ten Attributes has been conveyed in the Qabala (Kabbalah), the mystical tradition of Israel, as the Ten “Sefirot”:

Keter (literally: Crown): Consciousness; Ĥoķma: Wisdom; Bina: Intelligence; Ĥesed: Grace; Gβura: Force; Tifʼeret: Beauty; Neşaĥ: Triumph; Hod: Glory; Yesod: Foundation; Malķut (literally: Kingdom): Space.

The Couple of Attributes Wisdom and Intelligence is the Dimension of Reason; Grace and Force: Emotion; Triumph and Glory: Accomplishment. Consciousness, Reason, Emotion, Beauty, Accomplishment, Foundation, Space, constitute the Seven Letters of the Primeval Name of BEING.

BEING, in His pure Joy and Spontaneity, reveals Himself to Himself, in His Ten Attributes, in the Seven Letters of His NAME, and this throughout the whole Range of Perception.

Thus, each Attribute is pronounced in Color, Musical Sound, Perfume, Taste, Speech Sound, Number and Touch Perception, which are as many intercorresponding Expressions of the One Principle.

Let us cite only the Numbers and Colors of the Attributes:

Amber, also the color of honey, is the fusion of all the colors. It is the color of Beauty, and of Unmanifested BEING, as shown in the representation below, where Amber appears both as the central Attribute/Letter of the Name, and as the background.

Both Amber and White contain all the colors, Amber in the mode of undifferentiation, of the Unmanifest, and White in the mode of differentiation, of the Manifest. In the material plane, they correspond to the two modes of mixing colors: amber to the mixing of pigments of primary colors, and white to the mixing of the primary colors of light (all the colors of the rainbow being different frequencies of the basic white light).

The White Light emerges first from the Amber, the Unmanifest, carrying the variety of Colors, that through It come to exteriorization.

The color of Foundation is Rainbow, with a predominance of Green. Green is in a sense the “specific” color of Foundation, as the other colors composing the Rainbow are already present in other Attributes. So sometimes the color of Foundation is referred to as Rainbow, sometimes as Green, sometimes as “Green Rainbow”, or “Rainbow-Green”.

The Seven Letter NAME

(Appears and is read from Right to Left)

BEING reveals Himself to Himself, appears as WORD, NAME, while simultaneously retaining His Undifferentiated Aspect, Which is the “Background”, the Place, in Which He manifests Himself.