Humanity’s Connectivity to the Divine: Selections from the Kabbalistic Zohar, Part 2 of 2

CHAPTER 28 CONCERNING THE BRAIN AND MEMBRANE OF THE BRAIN OF MICROPROSOPUS. “In the cavities of the skull three hollow places are found wherein is located the brain. And therefore is this brain expanded, and it shines (or proceeds) in thirty-two paths. The same is that which is written, Genesis 2:10: ‘And a river went forth out of Eden.’ Also we have learned that in the three hollow places of the skull the brain is contained. Out of the first cavity proceeds a certain fountain of the brain in four directions, and it goes forth from the skull, in whose cavity are contained those thirty-two paths which are the spirits of wisdom. Out of the second cavity there goes forth and expands a second certain fountain, and the fifty gates (of the Understanding) are opened. From the third cavity there go forth a thousand times a thousand conclaves and assemblies, wherein Knowledge, is contained and dwells.”

CHAPTER 29 CONCERNING THE HAIR OF MICROPROSOPUS. “We have learned that from the skull of Microprosopus’s head hang one thousand times a thousand myriad of locks of black hair, and they are intertwined together each to the other, and they are mingled together. Also we have learned that they remain in curls because they proceed from many fountains of the three canals of the brain. And in those curls there are found alike right and left, light and dark, mercy and judgment, and everything (that has in itself the qualities of) right and left hangs from, thus (from Microprosopus), and not from the Ancient One.”

CHAPTER 30 CONCERNING THE FOREHEAD OF MICROPROSOPUS. “The forehead of the skull is the inspection of inspection, and it is not uncovered, except in that time when it is necessary to visit sinners for the purpose of examining their deeds. Also we have learned that when that forehead is uncovered, all the lords of judgment are stirred up, and the whole universe is brought under judgment. Save in that time, when the prayers of the Israelites ascend before the Ancient of Days, and entreat mercy for His children; then is uncovered the forehead of the benevolence of benevolences, and it shines down upon this (forehead) of Microprosopus, and judgment is quieted.”