Sefer Yetsirah (The Book of Creation), is a short but enormously influential book of Jewish mysticism. It describes God’s creation of the world through the manipulation of the Hebrew alphabet and the ten sefirot.
The Bible tells us that of God created the universe with a few words, “Let there be light”. Kabbalists added to the Bible concluding that God existed before the creation of the universe and that the Creator created the universe using Sefirot (the ten sacred numbers) and a second set ofSefirot (the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet).
Kabbalists believe that different combinations of the letters formed the world and everything in it.
Through the 22 Hebrew letters(energy forms or energy agents), God created the soul of all creation and everything else that was ever to be created.
Astral Hebrew alphabet
Astral Hebrew alphabet encoded in the star tetrahedron(sacred geometry)
231 gates
The 22 HOUSES And The 231 GATES?
What does this mean? Such is the Jewish wisdom of the Kabbalah, explained cryptically in the biblical Sepher Yetzirah (or Book of Creation). Since there are 22 Letters in the Hebrew Alphabet there can only be a maximum of 231 lines that connect these dots or houses in a wheel or circular array. They are thus known as Gates and have deep meaning as in how they connect to one another.
22 Foundation letters: He placed them in a circle like a wall with 231 gates. The Circle oscillates back and forth. The Sepher Yetzirah, refers to the lines connecting each pair of Hebrew letters as gates. Rabbinic tradition teaches that systematic meditation upon the various combinations will open the mind to the mysteries of God. In the context of the Wheel, we can see that such mediation will lead to insight into the meaning of each letter, hence the meaning of each Spoke, and from there, we will gain insight into the meaning of the Word of God, and so come to know a little more of God himself, who is the greatest mystery of all.