ZOHAR 2
R. Simeon opened his discourse with the
text: And I put my words in thy mouth (Is. LI, 16). He said:
'How greatly is it incumbent on a man to study the Torah day and night!
For the Holy One, blessed be He, is attentive to the voice of those who
occupy themselves with the Torah, and through each fresh discovery made
by them in the Torah a new heaven is created. Our teachers have told us
that at the moment when a man expounds something new in the Torah, his utterance
ascends before the Holy One, blessed be He, and He takes it up and kisses
it and crowns it with seventy crowns of graven and inscribed letters. When
a new idea is formulated in the field of the esoteric wisdom, it ascends
and rests on the head of the "Zaddik, the life of the universe",
and then it flies off and traverses seventy thousand worlds until it ascends
to the "Ancient of Days". And inasmuch as all the words of the
"Ancient of Days" are words of wisdom comprising sublime and hidden
mysteries, that hidden word of wisdom that was discovered here when it ascends
is joined to the words of the "Ancient of Days", and becomes an
integral part of them, and enters into the eighteen mystical worlds, concerning
which we read "No eye hath seen beside thee, O God" (Ibid. LXIV,
3). From thence they issue and fly to and fro, until finally arriving, perfected
and completed, before the "Ancient of Days". At that moment the
"Ancient of Days" savours that word of wisdom, and finds satisfaction
therein above all else. He takes that word and crowns it with three hundred
and seventy thousand crowns, and it flies up and down until it is made into
a sky. And so each word of wisdom is made into a sky which presents itself
fully formed before the "Ancient of Days", who calls them "new
heavens", that is, heavens created out of the mystic ideas of the sublime
wisdom. As for the other new expositions of the Torah, they present themselves
before the Holy One, blessed be He, and ascend and become "earths of
the living", then they descend and become absorbed into one earth,
whereby a new earth emerges through that new discovery in the Torah.
-Zohar, Vol I, p. 4b-5a