Wider Ancient Witness Archive · 4.4 Hekhalot, Merkavah, Ascent, and Heavenly Palace Archive
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Shiur Qomah — Use with Caution
This text is included as a comparative, historical, philosophical, ritual, textual, or fragmentary witness. It is not presented as part of the Restored Bible.
Shiur Qomah
[Archive witness, to be used with caution: an esoteric text that describes the divine form in vast measures and secret names. It is preserved as a historical witness to the mystical tradition, not as doctrine; its anthropomorphism is foreign to the plain teaching of Scripture.]
The mystics of the chariot told that the form of the Glory is beyond all measure, and they set down measures and names that no mind can grasp, saying that whoever knows them is assured of the world to come. [Text missing]
They said: his stature fills the heavens; the span of his greatness cannot be counted, though it be told in numbers beyond numbering; and each limb has a hidden name, which the holy creatures pronounce in trembling. They warned that these things are not to be spoken openly, nor taken in the manner of the body, but as a veil drawn over what cannot be seen. [Line damaged]
[The measures and the names are given in the witnesses in forms that differ and that the tradition itself calls hidden; they are not reproduced here as though they were plain teaching.]