על החלומות, ספר ב כ״חOn Dreams, Book II 28
א׳
1[185] But the high priest is blameless, perfect, the husband of a virgin (Lev. 21:12, 13) who, strange paradox, never becomes a woman, but rather has forsaken that womanhood through the company of her husband (Gen. 18:11). And not only is he a husband, able to sow the seed of undefiled and virgin thoughts, but a father also of holy intelligences.
ב׳
2[186] Some of these survey and watch the facts of nature as Eleazer and Ithamar (Ex. 28:1). Others are God’s ministers, hastening to kindle and keep alive the heavenly flame. For rubbing together words and thoughts on holiness they cause piety, that most godlike of qualities, to flash forth as though from tinder.
ג׳
3[187] And he who is at once the preceptor and father of these is no ordinary part of the holy congregation but one without whom the solemn council of the soul’s parts could never be convened at all, its chairman, its president, its chief magistrate, who alone, and by himself, and without any other, is capable of considering and executing all things.
ד׳
4[188] When he is in line with others he is one of a few, but when he stands alone he is a “many,” a whole judgement-court, a whole senate, a whole people, a whole multitude, a whole human race, or rather, to tell the real truth, a being whose nature is midway between 〈man and〉 God, less than God, superior to man.
ה׳
5[189] “For when the high priest enters the Holy of Holies he shall not be a man” (Lev. 16:17). Who then, if he is not a man? A God? I will not say so, for this name is a prerogative, assigned to the chief prophet, Moses, while he was still in Egypt, where he is entitled the God of Pharaoh (Ex. 7:1). Yet not a man either, but one contiguous with both extremes, which form, as it were, one his head, the other his feet.