Işık Köktür: Kadim Nur Üzerine

The light is the root. For before the upper heavens were created—which are called three hundred and ninety quarters, being the space of the Holy One—and before the thick cloud, the Chashmal, the curtain, the throne, the angel, the Ofan, the Chayah, and the Cherub, the constellation, and the fourth part from which they emerged; and before the seas, the springs, the pools, and the rivers appeared; and before the creation of living beings, cattle, birds, fish, crawling things, vermin, man, princes, damaging spirits, night-demons, and spirits, and all kinds of light—before any living thing, there was the Light. It is the root from which the refined light emerged from thousands of thousands, from myriads of chariots, from thirteen luminaries. This is the Or HaKadmon, the Primordial Light, which is the root. Because of this, it is called the Ruach HaKodesh, the Holy Spirit, and Knowledge, which is a path. Before these things we mentioned, there was nothing there but the air.