The Torah teches that the world
was created with 10 Utterances, ten times that God
said "let there be.." in the beginning
of Genesis.
According to the kabbalistic classic Sefer Yetzirah,
these are associated with the "10 Sefirot
of Nothingness" (the Hebrew words at the top
of this picture).
These are experienced in a state of meditative consciousness
call Wisdom.
The 10 Sefirot are shown here as 10 circles
with small circles in the center of each one. Sefirot,
are holographic, every one contains them all.
Thus each circle here is comprised of nine parts (
three blue, three red and three yellow) and a small
copy of itself - tenth central Sefirah - Malchut.
The 22 lines that conect these 10 circles correspond
to the "22 Foundation Letters" (the Hebrew
workds at the bottom of this picture). These make
up the thoughts and words of our ordinary consciousness
which is called Understanding.
According to the Sefer Yetzirah, the Foundation Letters
are arrayed in three groups: 3 Mothers (in the horizontal
lines); 7 Doubles (in the vertical lines); and 12
Elementals (in the diagonal lines).