The Holy Kabbalah

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Courier Corporation, 2003 M01 1 - 636 páginas
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 the Sepher Yezirah and Zohar and 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.
 

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THE HIDDEN CHURCH OF ISRAEL
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TION and several elucidations of that work appeared between the eleventh and thirteenth
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FOLLIES OF OCCULT EXEGESIS
21
IV
33
DATE OF THE BOOK OF FORMATION
41
THE DATE AND AUTHORSHIP OF THE BOOK OF SPLENDOUR
51
THE AGE OF ZOHARIC TRADITION
59
BOOK X
67
THE SERPENT SON OF THE MORNING AND FALL OF
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ARGUMENT
304
THE TEMPLES IN JERUSALEM
312
of Sex at its highest and she herself is the Mystery of the Oral Law It is intimated
342
EXPOSITORS OF THE ZOHAR
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KNORR VON ROSENROTH
476
THOMAS BURNET
482

ARGUMENT
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FIRST PERIOD
87
THE BOOK OF FORMATION
98
SECOND PERIOD
115
THE FAITHFUL SHEPHERD
157
HIDDEN THINGS OF THE LAW
163
THE ANCIENT AND LATER SUPPLEMENTS
179
THE MAJESTY OF GOD IN KABBALISM
185
THE DOCTRINE OF THE FOUR WORLDS
196
THE PATHS OF WISDOM AND GATES OF UNDERSTANDING
213
THE SOUL IN KABBALISM
235
ANGELS AND DEMONS
253
THE MYTH OF THE EARTHLY PARADISE
261
Two ACADEMICAL CRITICS
494
THE KABBALAH AND MODERN THEOSOPHY
510
THE KABBALAH AND OTHER CHANNELS OF SECRET
517
THE KABBALAH AND ALCHEMY
534
THE KABBALAH AND ASTROLOGY
542
THE KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY
548
DEVELOPMENTS OF LATER KABBALISM
563
THE ALLEGED CHRISTIAN ELEMENTS
574
CONCLUSION ON JEWISH THEOSOPHY
588
APPENDIX I
605
THE FOUR WORLDS IN LATER KABBALISM
610
APPENDIX IV
617
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Kenneth Rexroth was born in South Bend, Indiana, and worked at a wide variety of jobs, being largely self-educated. In the late 1950s, he won a number of awards, including an Amy Lowell Travelling Fellowship, the Shelley Memorial Award, and a National Institute of Arts and Letters Literature Award. He translated widely, mainly from the Japanese, and wrote a lively account of his life, An Autobiographical Novel. His work influenced many younger poets, such as Snyder, and continued in part the traditions of imagism and objectivism. A critic as well as a poet, his collections of essays include American Poetry in the Twentieth Century (1971) and Communalism: From Its Origins to the Twentieth Century (1975).

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