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.ears, and descendeth around the mouth of the Holy One; andIt is the essence of the one self-cognition descendeth and ascendeth, covering the cheeks which are calledcommon to all states of consciousness.the places of copious fragrance; it is white with ornament: and itAll phenomena cease in it.descendeth in the equilibrium of balanced power, and furnishethIt is peace, it is bliss, it is nonduality}' a covering even unto the midst of the breast.That is the beard ofadornment, true and perfect, from which flow down thirteenfountains, scattering the most precious balm of splendor.This isMyth remains, necessarily, within the cycle, but representsdisposed in thirteen forms.And certain dispositions are foundthis cycle as surrounded and permeated by the silence.Myth isin the universe, according to those thirteen dispositions whichthe revelation of a plenum of silence within and around everydepend from that venerable beard, and they are opened out intoatom of existence.Myth is a directing of the mind and heart, bythe thirteen gates of mercies."19means of profoundly informed figurations, to that ultimate mys-tery which fills and surrounds all existences.Even in the mostThe white beard of Makroprosopos descends over anothercomical and apparently frivolous of its moments, mythologyhead, "The Little Face," Mikroprosopos, represented full faceis directing the mind to this unmanifest which is just beyondand with a beard of black.And whereas the eye of The Greatthe eye.Face is without lid and never shuts, the eyes of The Little Face"The Aged of the Aged, the Unknown of the Unknown, has a open and close in a slow rhythm of universal destiny.This is theform and yet has no form," we read in a cabalistic text of the opening and closing of the cosmogonic round.The Little Face ismedieval Hebrews."He has a form whereby the universe is pre- named "GOD," the Great Face "I AM."served, and yet has no form, because he cannot be compre-hended."18 This Aged of the Aged is represented as a face inand finally incorporated cryptically in the first four books of the Pentateuch, fromwhich it can be extracted by a proper understanding and manipulation of the mys-tical number-values of the Hebrew alphabet.This lore and the techniques for re-" Mandukya Uparuskad, 7.discovering and utilizing it constitute the cabala.1SHa idra zuta, Zohar, iii.288a.Compare supra, p.164.It is said that the teachings of the cabala (qabbalah, "received or traditionalThe Zokar (zohar, "light, splendor") is a collection of esoteric Hebrew writ- lore") were first entrusted by God himself to a special group of angels in Par-ing, given to the world about 1305 by a learned Spanish Jew, Moses de Leon.adise.After Man had been expelled from the Garden, some of these angelsIt was claimed that the material had been drawn from secret original1;, going communicated the lessons to Adam, thinking to help him back to felicityback to the teachings of Simeon ben Yohai, a rabbi of Galilee in the second thereby.From Adam the teaching passed to Noah, and from Noah to Abraham.century A.D.rl"hreatened with death by the Romans, Simeon had hidden for Abraham let some of it slip from him while he was in Egypt, and that is whytwelve years in a cave; ten centuries later his writings had been found there, this sublime wisdom can now be found in reduced form in the myiihs andand these were the sources of the books of the Zohar.philosophies of the gentiles.Moses first studied it with the priests of Egypt,but the tradition was refreshed in him by the special instructions of his angels.Simeon's teachings were supposed to have been drawn from the hokmah19nistarah or hidden wisdom of Moses, i.e., a body of esoteric lore first studiedHa idra rabba d(lr^s*207n.21, 248n.l8; and Eve, 260 195-97, 199(creation), 268 (Fall); see also Eve ambrosia, 163Adi-Buddha, the "Absolute,11 81n.51,138n.83 Christianity, United StatesAdonis, 131 amorfuti, 109Aeetes, King, 190 Anaa, Tuamotu Islands, 255-56Aeneas, 28-29, 33,13On
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