Chapter 6, Verse 7

7. And when Abraham our father, may he rest in peace, looked, saw, understood, probed, engraved, and carved, he was successful in creation, as it is written, "And the souls that they made in Haran" (Genesis 12:5). Immediately there was revealed to him the Master of all, may His name be blessed forever. He placed him in His bosom, and kissed him on his head, and He called him, "Abraham my beloved: (Isaiah 41:8). He made a covenant with him and with his children after him forever, as it is written, "And he believed in God, and He considered and He considered it righteousness" (Genesis 15:6). He made with him a covenant between the ten fingers of his hands, this the covenant of the tongue, and between the ten toes of his feet, this is the covenant of circumcision, and He bound the 22 letters of the Torah to his tongue and He revealed to him His mystery. He drew them in water, He flamed them with fire, He agitated them with breath, He burned them with the seven planets, He directed them with the twelve constellations.

The tradition is that Abraham understood the oneness of God, the process of creation, and the mechanism by which we lead succesful, creative lives. Whether Abraham really composed the Sefer Yetzirah or not, we do know that it is ancient. What survives to this day is not necessarily the original text, but copies of copies through which variations have been introduced. At the very least, however, I do not count it as being beyond the realm of possiblity that what exists today is indeed based upon that which our father Abraham understood so well so very long ago. We now leave the very last sentence of this verse of this work for you to contemplate on your own in order to release its holy spark.