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Eleazar of Worms, Sode Razayya, p. 19

Jewish Mysticism
The fire of the throne serves the supernal ones and the fire before the throne of glory serves the lower ones, for just as the Torah was given in fire, so the sacrifice is burnt in fire, and before the soul that ascends enters beneath the throne the angel purifies it by the fire that is before the throne… and they place it under the thone and there one sees the secrets and mysteries of Torah… The tablets are from the throne; [the word] luhot [tablets, written in a defective form without a waw] through a”t ba”sh is kisse’ [throne], for the tablets and the Torah were in the throne.

Translated by Elliot Wolfson in Through a Speculum that Shines- Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism, Princeton- Princeton University Press, 1994.

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