YAH, the Lord of Hosts, the living Elohim, King of the Universe, Omnipotent, the Merciful, Gracious God, Supreme and Extolled, Dweller in the Height whose habitatation is Eternity, who is Sublime and Most-Holy, engraved His name and ordained (formed) and created the Universe in thirty-two mysterious paths (stages) of wisdom (science), by three Sepharim, namely, Numbers, Letters, and Sounds, which are in Him one and the same.


The Sepher Yetzirah, the Book of Formation