Göğün Kapısı: Meleklerin Esîrî Bedenleri ve Kabala'nın Dört Âlemi

Furthermore, to prove that angels are clothed in ethereal bodies, Rabbi Irira appeals to his master, Rabbi Israel Sarug, from whom he says he received the teaching that "Yetziratic" natures consist of "Beriatic" spirits and "Assiatic" bodies. This confirms our conjecture: that spirits entirely devoid of all matter belong to the world of Beriah. Moreover, that by the world of Assiah this material and visible world is understood. Indeed, there are also other main points of Kabbalistic doctrine about which there is much discussion among these writers. Such are the thirty-two paths of wisdom which are discussed in the Book of Formation; the fifty gates of understanding through which Moses is said to have reached the highest peak of knowledge; and also those things concerning Adam Kadmon, Zeir Anpin, Arich Anpin, etc., which they discuss with many verbal obscurities. However, all of these seem to aim at presenting divine and natural matters under one or another conceptual framework. Thus, by Adam Kadmon they seem to understand nothing other than God himself, whom they do not hesitate to present under the form of a human. Moreover, it is very customary for them to represent individual attributes of the Divinity under the scheme of a certain man; and to this indeed belong those things which are disputed among them concerning the Macroprosopus and Microprosopus.