Objective:

This week’s discussion will cover the seventh day of creation, and the seventh key of creation.

Beads:

Section 4, the 10th Small bead

(Bead 10): “And, on the seventh day, the Creator rested. For the creation was complete.”

Passages to Ponder

Zenock 7:30

30. Therefore, the kingdom (Malchut) is the seventh day of this creation, also being neither to the right nor to the left, for it is upon that straight path of understanding (Binah) hidden upon thy heart.

1 Moses 3

47. ¶ Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their struggles;
48. And in the seventh age, I ended my labors, and all things which had made: and Shabbat is the seventh age of all of this work;
49. And all things of The Creation were brought to pass by The Creator; and I saw that they were good.
50. And I blessed the seventh day and consecrated it because that in Sabbath I had given charge of The Creation to Adam; to watch over and finish in my name, that I and my Creation may be one.

Melchizedek 6:56

56. ¶ And the seventh key is the sabbath for the Shabbat is life everlasting and it is never ending.

Melchizedek 4

1. In this manner was the world created:
2. First was everything, and everything always was; and thus all is and ever was En Sof, or everlasting:
3. And this was Alohykm and Ieshurun (the Righteous Ones), and the beasts, and the plants, and the rocks, and the wind.
4. Yea, it was all; yet it was as nothing, for it was void; and darkness was, as it were, upon the face of the deep where dwelt as it were a great pool of living water:
5. And the first stage of man, the eternal man Adam Kadmon that was never born and shall never die, was brooding upon the face of the waters.
6. ¶ And Elohim moved upon the face of the waters, and drew them up, the intelligences, and they are gods, the very sons and daughters of Elohim; even the Sons of the Morning and the Daughters of Light.
7. From the void sprang everything; and there was never a time when there was truly nothing, forever and eternal are we, and ever and eternal is YHVH.
8. And these gathered and organized, and light shined upon the face of the darkness, but darkness knew not the light.
9. Thus are the five stages of man: Intelligence, Spirit, Flesh, Soul, and Resurrected Being; the final being all stages in one, a Morning Star—forever complete.
10. Thus are the incarnations of man, and the arrangements to follow this road are hidden from the eyes that cannot see.

Zenock 11:16

16. And this is not a creation that mankind can make of themselves; therefore, it must be the very work of YHVH, our Elohim.

Questions of Knowledge (What it says at the surface)

• What happened on the 7th day?
• What work is it that must be YHVH’s work and not ours?

Questions of Wisdom (What it means below the surface)

• In what way is the 7th day … the Kingdom?
• When mankind creates, what does the creation lack?
• What part do we play in this creation, if the work is the work of YHVH?

Questions of Understanding (Likening it to Ourselves)

• In what ways have you been blessed for resting on the Sabbath?

Questions of Mystery (What deeper meaning can be harvested)

• What does YHVH want to see more (or less) of in your sabbath observance?