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CHAPTER SIX
An Extra Dimension of the Tree
Up to this point we have looked at the Sephiroth as formed in a Tree.
Now we come to another dimension of the Kabbalah where instead of
Ten Sephiroth we have a series of figures or Partsufim (Countenances).
Like the Sephirorh, the Partsufim are included in the Zohar proper, mainly
in the "Book of Concealed Mystery," "Greater Assembly," and "Lesser
Assembly" which Mathers translated from the Latin of Kabbala Denudata,
and published under the title Kabbalah Unveiled. For many within the
Golden Dawn, this Mathers' work was a source of study in the Partsufim
theory, yet it is barely mentioned in the Order's Knowledge lectures.I!
Apart from the official Knowledge lectures of the Order, there were a
number of papers handed around on the subject that seemed to come
from two sources. The first is from an early English translation of the
Zohar from Levi's Bookof Splendours (dated 1897), and the second from a
series of papers that have come from Rosenroth's Kabbala Denudata,
which included three explanations of diagrams and quotes from the text
(which Mathers translated). These were placed together in a section of
scattered notes called the "Book of the Long Face." The introduction to
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