Sepher Yetzirah : The Book Of Formation

Sepher Yetzirah : The Book Of Formation
The first six images are of a 1642 printing of Johannes Stephanus Rittangelius’ Latin translation (with parallel Hebrew ‘original’ text) of the most ancient book still extant in Jewish metaphysics. The Sepher Yetzirah, or The Book Of Formation, has had perhaps the greatest influence outside of the Tanakh  cannon (the Old Testament) and the Sepher ha-Zohar on esoteric thought and will continue to for centuries to come.
The last image is a modern reprinting of William Wynn Westcott’s English translation of the Sepher Yetzirah, which took the above edition of Rittangelius as a main source for his second edition. In his own words, located in the Preface To This Second Edition: “In this edition I have followed most closely the Hebrew version of Joannes Stephanus Rittangelius, which was printed in 1642 in Amsterdam, and I have forsaken many of the Latinised renderings which had been adopted in the First Edition [of Westcott’s translation], from the works of Postellus and Pistorius.