Zohar: Genesis: Chapter XXII.

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This is a passage of Jewish Kabbalistic mysticism, likely translated from the Zohar or a related text, describing the seventh and highest of a series of celestial "mansions" — the Holy of Holies — as the dwelling place of the Supreme Spirit and the locus of divine union. The central argument is that this highest mansion represents the merging of the human will with the Divine Will, a union that brings the mystic into a state of total blessedness in which even divine decrees of judgment are annulled through the righteous person's intimacy with God. The text draws on priestly temple imagery (the altar, incense, the veil of the Holy of Holies) to describe the soul's ascent through spiritual spheres until individual "lesser lights" are absorbed into the supreme divine light. A distinctive claim is that the man who achieves this union gains cosmological authority — his prayer is answered as a child's request by a father, and he can effectively command reality ("Thou shalt desire a thing and it shall be established"). The translator's footnote connects the passage to St. Paul's "third heaven," the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, and the Book of Revelation, situating the text within a broader tradition of cross-religious mystical cosmology. Someone interested in Jewish mysticism, the Zohar, or the comparative study of apophatic and unitive mysticism across traditions would find this a concise primary-source illustration of Kabbalistic theosophy.

Zohar: Genesis: Chapter XXII.

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