By that RVCh, Ruach, breath, which goeth forth from His mouth, many thousands and myriads are enshrouded; and when it is extended by the same are the true prophets enfolded, and all are called the mouth of Tetragrammaton.
When forth from His mouth the words proceed through His lips, the same are muttered through the whole circuit of 18,000 worlds,[871] until they are all bound together at once in the twelve paths and the known ways. And one thing ever expecteth another.
By the tongue is the vocal expression of the sublime spoken, in the middle nexus of the utterance.
And therefore is it written, Cant. v. 16, “His mouth is most sweet.” And this same palate of His conveyeth a sweet taste; wherefore He smileth when He tasteth food (which is pleasant).[872]
“And He is altogether the desirablenesses (or delights)” (of the powers of) fire and (the powers of) water, because the fire and water are counterchanged with each other mutually (otherwise, are conformed together), and are beautiful in his conformation.[873]
For the colors are mutually associated together.
In His palate are the (guttural) letters (of the Hebrew Alphabet—namely, A, H, Ch, O) formed and constructed; in the circuit of His (mouth) are they condensed (into the palatals G, I, K, Q).[874]
The letter A, Aleph, which cast forth the kings and constituted the kings[875] (i.e., that guttural letter which is referred to the First Sephira, Kether, the Crown, becometh the palatal letter G, Ghimel).
The letter Ch, Cheth, which goeth forth and descendeth and ascendeth, and is crowned in the head (referring to the Second Sephira, Chokmah, Wisdom), and is fire condensed in ether (i.e., developeth in the palatal letter I, Yod).
The letter H, He, the golden-yellow color (otherwise, germinating power) of the Mother, Aima, having been connected with the Female Power, is extended in the Greater Female Potency into the desire of the Holy City, which two (otherwise, for these places) are mutually bound together the one unto the other (these two are Aima, the supernal H of IHVH, and the Holy City, the Bride, as She is called in the Apocalypse, the final [pg 358] H of IHVH). (And the guttural letter H, He, formeth the palatal letter K, Kaph, which is referred unto the Queen.) As it is written, Cant. iv. 6, “Unto the mountain of myrrh, unto the hill of frankincense.”