The three Mothers ALEF MEM SHIN
made with
ALEF Wind Air Wet Organ lawed Tongue between
made with
MEM Water Earth Cold Belly plate for what is owned
made with
SHIN Fire Sky Heat Head plate for what is owed
These are ALEF MEM SHIN
(From “The Sefer Yetzira” The Book of Creation, a Hebrew text of the mystic tradition (Neo-Pythagorean), c. third-sixth centuries A.D. Text: The four texts in Sefer Yetzira, Lewin-Epstein Publishers, Jerusalem, 1965. In Origins, Creation Text from the Ancient Mediterranean co-Edited and Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Charles Doria and Harris Lenowitz, Anchor Books, 1976)