Alef Mem Shin (White Dragon)

70 cm x 50 cm
acrylic paint on fiberboard
text: verses from Sefer Yetzirah:
1:2; 3:1,2,3; 2:1,2,4,5; 4:4,15; 5:2; 6:1,2,3

1:2
Ten Sefirot of Nothingness
And 22 Foundation Letters:
Three Mothers,
Seven Doubles
And twelve Elementals

3:1-2-3
Three Mothers: Alef Mem Shin
Their foundation is
a pan of merit
a pan of liability
and the tongue of decree deciding between them.
Three Mothers: Alef Mem Shin
A great, mystical secret
covered and sealed with six rings
And from them emanated air, water and fire
And from them are born Fathers,
and from the Fathers, descendents.
Three Mothers: Alef Mem Shin
He engraved them, He carved them,
He permuted them, He weighed them,
And with them He depicted
Three Mothers AMSh in the Universe,
Three Mothers AMSh in the Year,
Three Mothers AMSh in the Soul,
male and female.

2:1-2, 4-5
Twenty-two Foundation Letters:
Three Mothers
Seven Doubles
and Twelve Elementals
The Three Mothers are Alef Mem Shin
Their foundation is
a pan of merit
a pan of liability
and the tongue of decree deciding between them.
[Three Mothers, Alef Mem Shin
Mem hums, Shin hisses
and Alef is the Breath of air
deciding between them.]
Twenty-two Foundation letters:
He engraved them, He carved them,
He permuted them, He weighed them,
He transformed them,
And with them, He depicted all that was formed
and all that would be formed.
Twenty-two Foundation Letters:
He placed them in a circle
like a wall with 231 Gates.
The circle oscillates back and forth.
A sign for this is:
There is nothing in good higher than Delight (ONeG)
There is nothing in evil lower than Plague (NeGA).
How?
He permuted them, weighed them, and transformed them,
Alef with them all
and all of them with Alef,
Bet with them all
and all of them with Bet.
[...].
It comes out that all that is formed
and all that is spoken
emanates from one Name.

5:2
Twelve Elementals
HVZ ChTY LWS OTzQ
Their foundation is the twelve diagonal boundaries:
The east upper boundary
The east northern boundary
The east lower boundary
The south upper boundary
The south eastern boundary
The south lower boundary
The west upper boundary
The west southern boundary
The west lower boundary
The north upper boundary
The north western boundary
The north lower boundary
They extend continually until eternity of eternities
And it is they that are the boundaries of the Universe.

6:1-2-3
These are the Three Mothers AMSh.
And from them emanated Three Fathers,
and they are air, water, and fire.
and from the Fathers, descendents.
Three Fathers and their descendents.
And seven planets and their hosts,
And twelve diagonal boundaries.
A proof of this
true witnesses in the Universe, Year, Soul
and a rule of twelve
and seven and three:
He set them in the Teli, the Cycle, and the Heart.
Three Mothers: AMSh
Air, water, and fire.
Fire is above, water is below,
and air of Breath is the rule
that decides between them.
And a sign of this thing
is that fire supports water.
Mem hums, Shin hisses,
and Alef is the breath of air
that decides between them.
The Teli in the Universe is like a king on his throne.
[…]
from GRA version translated by Aryeh Kaplan
Short version:
1:2
Ten Sefirot of Nothingness
And 22 Foundation Letters:
Three Mothers [Alef Mem Shin]
Seven Doubles
And twelve Elementals
[...]

6:1, 2, 3
These are the Three Mothers AMSh.
And from them emanated Three Fathers,
and they are air, water, and fire.
and from the Fathers, descendents.
Three Fathers and their descendents.
And seven planets and their hosts,
And twelve diagonal boundaries.
A proof of this
true witnesses in the Universe, Year, Soul
and a rule of twelve
and seven and three:
He set them in the Teli, the Cycle, and the Heart.
Three Mothers: AMSh
Air, water, and fire.
Fire is above, water is below,
and air of Breath is the rule
that decides between them.
And a sign of this thing
is that fire supports water.
[…]

The Teli in the Universe is like a king on his throne.
from GRA version translated by Aryeh Kaplan