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In addition to the [[Tree of Life]], another diagram some Kabbalists use to depict the emanation of the ''[[sefirot]]'' is the '''Lightning Flash'''. The ''Sefer Yetzirah'' (the oldest known Hebrew text on cosmology) says of the ''sefirot'', “Their countenance is like the scintillating flame flashing in lightning, invisible and boundless.”<ref>Sefer Yetzirah 1.6, translation by W. Wynn Westcott, ''Sepher Yetzirah: The Book of Formation,'' 3d ed., rev. (1893; reprint, New York: Samuel Weiser, 1980), p. 16.</ref> This has also been translated as: “The ten ineffable ''sefirot'' have the appearance of the Lightning Flash.” | In addition to the [[Tree of Life]], another diagram some Kabbalists use to depict the emanation of the ''[[sefirot]]'' is the '''Lightning Flash'''. The ''Sefer Yetzirah'' (the oldest known Hebrew text on cosmology) says of the ''sefirot'', “Their countenance is like the scintillating flame flashing in lightning, invisible and boundless.”<ref>Sefer Yetzirah 1.6, translation by W. Wynn Westcott, ''Sepher Yetzirah: The Book of Formation,'' 3d ed., rev. (1893; reprint, New York: Samuel Weiser, 1980), p. 16.</ref> This has also been translated as: “The ten ineffable ''sefirot'' have the appearance of the Lightning Flash.” | ||