The Holy Kabbalah
by Waite, A. E.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-11-21
Publisher(s): Dover Publications
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Summary
This comprehensive and well-documented guide to the arcane Jewish tradition of mysticism was written by one of Britain's foremost writers on occult subjects. Enthusiastic in tone and grounded in scholarship, it presents and comments upon the mystic tradition's fundamental ideas. Author A. E. Waite's extensive and lucid history embraces the literature of the Kabbalah (including theSepher YezirahandZoharand their central ideas), its foremost interpreters, its impact on Christian scholars, and its reputation as "the secret tradition." Waite's thought-provoking analysis includes a rejection of proposals by earlier occultists that many esoteric practices alchemy, astrology, and Freemasonry, for instance are founded on or are integral to Kabbalah. Introduction by Kenneth Rexroth.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Post-Christian Literature of the Jews | |
| Source and Authority of the Kabbalah and the Age of the Chief Texts | |
| The Written Word of Kabbalism: First Period | |
| The Written Word of Kabbalism: Second Period | |
| The Doctrinal Content of the Kabbalah in Respect of God and the Universe | |
| Hierarchies of Spiritual Being | |
| Ways of God with Man | |
| The Higher Secret Doctrine | |
| The Written Word of Kabbalism: Third Period | |
| Some Christian Students of the Kabbalah | |
| The Kabbalah and Other Channels of Secret Tradition | |
| Final Considerations | |
| Sephirotic Developments | p. 605 |
| The Four Worlds in Later Kabbalism | p. 610 |
| The Instruments of Creation | p. 612 |
| Divine Names | p. 617 |
| Phases of the Soul | p. 619 |
| Index | p. 621 |
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