The Four Worlds
Atziluth — the Archetypal World
The King scale belongs to Atziluth, the Archetypal World of emanation; this lens places Kether within it.
Part of The Four Worlds.
In this pattern
Three of the four worlds are three verbs in a single verse of Isaiah. Atzilut is not among them. Its name comes from Numbers 11:17, where God tells Moses he will take of the spirit that is on him and give it to the seventy elders, and Cordovero derives the word from that verse directly.
Emanation in this sense costs the source nothing; Moses is no poorer for what is taken from him. So Atzilut is spoken of as still within the divine, where the three worlds below it are spoken of as made.
Sources
The Archetypal World of emanation, represented in this lens by Kether. Divine Names are its characteristic sephirothic manifestation.
This is the one-Tree banding used by the Hermetic lens. Mathers also records a complete ten-sephirah Tree within each World; the two models answer different study questions.
Sources (2)
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The Mystical Qabalah
, First edition, Williams & Norgate, 1935
— ch. 3 §§14–19 and ch. 8 §18
· systematising, not originating
Fortune gives both the exact one-Tree banding used by this lens and the Divine Name / Archangel / Choir / mundane hierarchy.
Numbers 11:17
וְאָצַלְתִּי — NOT one of Isaiah's three. Cordovero derives the name from a different verse in a different book, and says so in as many words: 'Atzilut is derived from the language of (Numbers 11:17) — and I will take of the spirit.' The verse is God telling Moses he will take of the spirit that is on him and put it on the seventy elders, and the point of the word is that the taking leaves the source undiminished. Emanation is neither manufacture nor separation, which is why this world is spoken of as still within the divine while the three below it are spoken of as made.
Sources (2)
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Tanakh
, The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation
— Numbers 11:17
“And I will come down and speak with thee there; and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden”
1917 JPS, public domain. The word this world is named for is וְאָצַלְתִּי.
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Pardes Rimonim
, Hebrew text
— Pardes Rimonim 16:1:5
“אצילות הוא נגזר מלשון (במדבר יא יז) ואצלתי מן הרוח וגו׳”
Cordovero deriving the name, in the Hebrew, which is public domain. Rendered plainly: 'Atzilut is derived from the language of (Numbers 11:17) and I will take of the spirit.'
Members and associations
These are the sourced associations already attached to each member sphere. Open a sphere's research page for every claim, status note and source.
| Sphere | Divine name | Archangel | Angelic choir | Planet / sphere | Yetziratic title | Research page |
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| 1 Kether | Eheieh (אהיה) | Metatron | Chaioth ha-Qadesh (Holy Living Creatures) | Primum Mobile (Rashith ha-Gilgalim, the First Swirlings) | The Admirable or Hidden Intelligence | Sources and correspondences → |