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The Four Worlds

Briah — the Creative World

The Queen scale belongs to Briah, the Creative World, and is the scale normally displayed on the sephiroth.

Part of The Four Worlds.

In this pattern

The first of the three verbs in Isaiah 43:7: bara, "I have created him". Cordovero reads the three verbs as the three lower worlds, in the order the verse gives them.

Creation is where there is something other than God to speak of. What is created here has no shape yet; shape is the next verb.

Sources

World and hierarchy

The Creative World, represented in this lens by Chokmah and Binah. Archangels 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)
  1. 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.

    Read at globalgreyebooks.com ↗

  2. Kabbala Denudata , Mathers English translation, 1887 — Introduction §58

    Mathers defines the World and states that each World contains a repetition of all ten sephiroth. This is the scope caveat to the diagram's banded study view.

    Read at sacred-texts.com ↗

Modern source

World and hierarchy: The Creative World, represented in this lens by Chokmah and Binah. Archangels are its characteristic sephirothic manifestation.

  1. 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.

    Read at globalgreyebooks.com ↗

  2. Kabbala Denudata , Mathers English translation, 1887 — Introduction §58

    Mathers defines the World and states that each World contains a repetition of all ten sephiroth. This is the scope caveat to the diagram's banded study view.

    Read at sacred-texts.com ↗

Scriptural derivation

Isaiah 43:7

בְּרָאתִיו — The first of the verse's three verbs: bara, 'I have created him'. Creation is where there is something other than God to speak of; it has no form yet, because form is the next verb.

Sources (2)
  1. Tanakh , The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation — Isaiah 43:7
    “Every one that is called by My name, and whom I have created for My glory, I have formed him, yea, I have made him.”

    1917 JPS, public domain. The word this world is named for is בְּרָאתִיו.

    Read at sefaria.org ↗

  2. Pardes Rimonim , Hebrew text — Pardes Rimonim 4:10:6 · systematising, not originating

    Where Cordovero reads the verse's three verbs — בראתיו יצרתיו אף עשיתיו — as הבריאה והיצירה והעשייה, the three lower worlds, in the order the verse gives them.

    Read at sefaria.org ↗

Traditional source

Scriptural derivation: Isaiah 43:7

  1. Tanakh , The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation — Isaiah 43:7
    “Every one that is called by My name, and whom I have created for My glory, I have formed him, yea, I have made him.”

    1917 JPS, public domain. The word this world is named for is בְּרָאתִיו.

    Read at sefaria.org ↗

  2. Pardes Rimonim , Hebrew text — Pardes Rimonim 4:10:6 · systematising, not originating

    Where Cordovero reads the verse's three verbs — בראתיו יצרתיו אף עשיתיו — as הבריאה והיצירה והעשייה, the three lower worlds, in the order the verse gives them.

    Read at sefaria.org ↗

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
2 Chokmah Yah (יה) Ratziel Auphanim (Wheels) The Zodiac (Mazloth) The Illuminating Intelligence Sources and correspondences →
3 Binah YHVH Elohim (יהוה אלהים) Tzaphkiel Aralim (Erelim, Thrones) Saturn (Shabbathai); The Sanctifying Intelligence Sources and correspondences →