Kabbalah Library

286. All the letters of the alphabet are integrated and join one another, and connect in the combination of the holy name. After the letters are seen in this combination, these letters are concealed and others come out and join another combination. So are all of them: Some are concealed and some come, and all of them are inside the space of those buttons.

287. Also, the letters fly three times a day in the air and go outside, and the name stands in four letters hanging in the air for an hour and a half. Afterwards, that name is concealed, and the name of twelve letters promptly comes out from the air, from its space. It flies and hangs in the air for one hour, and not more. Afterwards, that name is concealed and a combination of different letters promptly comes out: the name of twenty-two letters. They remain hanging in the air for another hour and are concealed, and the name of twenty-eight other letters promptly comes out from another space, all crowned with their crowns. They stand for an hour and a half, and that name is concealed, and the name of twenty-five letters in their combination promptly comes out, hanging in the air. It stands for an hour and three minutes, and letters come out in forty-two letters.

288. However, all the letters are never still. They are protruding and glitter outwards; they ascend and descend, and no one who can understand them but the Messiah, with great labor. That name is concealed after it stands two hours and twenty-two minutes, and that name which is engraved in seventy-two letters comes out and stands hanging in the air for an hour and a half.

All those names come out and are seen only once a day. But the alphabet [the letters] are seen flying in the air and letters join with letters three times a day.

289. When the letters of the alphabet fly, some fly from here and some fly from here, and all of them join. The Messiah saw in the combinations of the alphabet letters as Daniel saw, who saw the letters Mem-Mem-Tav-Vav-Samech Nun-Nun-Kof-Peh-Hey Aleph-Aleph-Lamed-Reish-Nun. He knew how to combine them into Mne Mne Tkel Upharsin [numbered, numbered, weighed, and divided]. This is so because the first three letters of these three combinations are Mne, and the second three letters in them also add up to Mne, and the third three letters join into Tkel, and the fourth three letters join into Uphar, and the fifth three letters join into Sin.