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11. From there he went to the North towards the ends of the Earth, where the metallic lights and chariots of fire came down from the sky or shot upwards with a singing sound, enveloped in smoke and fire.
12. There, at the ends of the entire Earth, he saw a great and marvellous wonder.
13. In that place he saw the celestial portals open, of which there were three different ones.
15. Actually gleaming therein was the entire land of Israel, alive and true, humans and animals and everything that was there.
16. In this first celestial portal, no secret was concealed, because the Zohar entered into the smallest spaces in the cottages and revealed the last intimate detail.
17. Inside the second celestial portal, there rose mighty mountains, whose peaks reached into the sky and disappeared into the clouds.
18. Far below lay deep masses of snow, at whose edges a different, brown skinned human population built their huts.
19. The third celestial portal revealed a land of gigantic dimensions, mountainous and interspersed with rivers, lakes and seas, where yet another human population dwelled.
8 Zohar: Radiant splendour of Creational energy [Talmud Of Jmmanuel].