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32 Paths of Wisdom
[32 Paths of the Sepher Yetzirah
- Book of Formation/Creation]
Each Path opening a Gate to a different dimension of
Understanding within our own spiritual nature.
by Eighth Day Assembly
I. First Path/Gate = Admirable Intelligence [Keter
(Crown): Mystical Intelligence]
No created being can attain to its essence.
II. Second Path/Gate = Illuminating Intelligence [Chochmah: Wisdom]
Spirit/power/essence responsible for revelation.
III. Third Path/Gate = Sanctifying Intelligence [Binah: Understanding]
Mother spirit/power/essence responsible for Faith.
IV. Fourth Path/Gate = Arresting/Receiving Intelligence [Chesed: Mercy, Exuberance, Generosity]
Spirit/power/essence responsible for giving and receiving of love, mercy, exuberance, generosity.
V. Fifth Path/Gate = Radical Intelligence [Geburah: Justice, Limitation, Severity]
Spirit/power/essence responsible for severity.
VI. Sixth Path/Gate = Mediating Influence Intelligence [Tiphereth: Beauty]
Spirit/power/essence responsible for mediating between the extremes of Love and Severity.
VII. Seventh Path/Gate = Hidden Intelligence [Netzach--Victory or Eternity]
Spirit/power/essence beheld with the eyes of the spirit and by the ecstasy of faith.
VIII. Eighth Path/Gate = Perfect and Absolute Intelligence [Hod--Glory or Reverberation]
Spirit/power/essence responsible for the preparation of principles.
IX. Ninth Path/Gate = Purified Intelligence [Yesod or Foundation]
Spirit/power/essence responsible for purification of the numerations, prevents and stays the fracture of their
images (or proves and corrects the designing of their representations).
X. Tenth Path/Gate = Resplendent Intelligence [Malchuth or Kingdom]
Spirit/power/essence responsible for emanating the power of the principle of forms.
XI. Eleventh Path/Gate = Fiery Intelligence [veil]
Spirit/power/essence responsible for veiling so that we can encounter face to face the Cause of Causes.
XII. Twelfth Path/Gate = Intelligence of Light (or Transparency),
Spirit/power/essence responsible for vision in those who behold apparitions.
XIII. Thirteenth Path/Gate = Inductive Intelligence of Unity
Spirit/power/essence responsible for manifesting truth to every spirit and is the consummation of the truth of
individual spiritual things.
XIV. Fourteenth Path/Gate = Illuminating/Luminous Intelligence
Spirit/power/essence responsible for the foundation of holiness.
XV. Fifteenth Path/Gate = Constituting Intelligence
Spirit/power/essence responsible for constituting creation in the darkness of the world.
(Job 38: 9) - cloud and envelope thereof.
XVI. Sixteenth Path/Gate = Triumphant and Eternal Intelligence
Spirit/power/essence responsible for the paradise of pleasure prepared for the just.
XVII. Seventeenth Path/Gate = Disposing Intelligence
Spirit/power/essence responsible for perseverance in the path of Life and Death.
XVIII. Eighteenth Path/Gate = Intelligence or House of Influence
Spirit/power/essence responsible for the increase of abundance and influx of good things upon created beings thereby
drawing forth arcane and concealed meanings which rest/sleep in the shadow.
XIX. Nineteenth Path/Gate = Intelligence of the Secret
Spirit/power/essence responsible for all spiritual activities.
XX. Twentieth Path/Gate = Intelligence of Will
Spirit/power/essence responsible for preparing all created beings, individually, for the demonstration of the existence
of the glory.
XXI. Twenty-First Path/Gate = Rewarding/Conciliating/Desire Intelligence
Spirit/power/essence responsible for those who seek, that they be rewarded with the desire of their heart.
XXII. Twenty-Second Path/Gate = Faithful Intelligence
Spirit/power/essence responsible for depositing spiritual virtues.
XXIII. Twenty-Third Path/Gate = Stable Intelligence
Spirit/power/essence responsible for consistency in all numerations.
XXIV. Twenty-Fourth Path/Gate = Imaginative Intelligence
Spirit/power/essence responsible for imagination (productive thought).
XXV. Twenty-Fifth Path/Gate = Intelligence of Temptation or Trial
Spirit/power/essence responsible for the first temptation by which God tests the devout.
XXVI. Twenty-Sixth Path/Gate = is called Renewing Intelligence
Spirit/power/essence responsible for renewing all of which is capable of renovation in the creation of the world.
XXVII. Twenty-Seventh Path/Gate = Natural Intelligence
Spirit/power/essence responsible for completing and perfecting the nature of everything found.
XXVIII. Twenty-Eighth Path/Gate = Active Intelligence,
Spirit/power/essence responsible for the motion by which every creature and created spirit are subject.
XXIX. Twenty-Ninth Path/Gate = Corporeal Intelligence
Spirit/power/essence responsible for informing every body and is their growth.
XXX. Thirtieth Path/Gate = Collective Intelligence
Spirit/power/essence responsible for the judgment of the stars and the heavenly signs and the perfection of their
science.
XXXI. Thirty-First Path/Gate = Perpetual Intelligence
Spirit/power/essence responsible for the movement of celestial bodies so that they stay in their respective orbits.
XXXII. The Thirty-Second Path/Gate = Assisting Intelligence
Spirit/power/essence responsible for directing all the operation of the planets, with their divisions and concurs.
