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9780765761583

Kabbalah and Alchemy : An Essay on Common Archetypes

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  • ISBN13:

    9780765761583

  • ISBN10:

    0765761580

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-06-01
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Summary

This remarkable and groundbreaking study explores the author's view that there is a close correspondence between the basic tenets of alchemy and those of Jewish esoteric tradition, generally known as Kabbalah.

Table of Contents

Foreword xiii
Moshe Idel
Introduction xix
Four Archetypal Patterns of Thought
1(10)
Philosophical Gold as a Metaphor of the Adept
11(8)
The Unity of the Whole
19(14)
The Adam Kadmon and the Rebis as the Anthropomorphic Expression of the Philosopher's Stone
33(12)
The Woman Archetype in Pre-Kabbalistic Writings
45(18)
Love as the Transmuting Agent
63(20)
The Alchemical Dimension of the Sephirotic Tree
83(14)
The Origin of Alchemy According to Zosimos and a Hebrew Parallel
97(16)
Moshe Idel
Captions for the Figures 113(8)
Figures 121(46)
Bibliography 167(22)
Index 189

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