The Holy Kabbalah

by Waite, A. E.

• ISBN13: 9780486432229
• ISBN10: 048643222X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-21
• Publisher: Dover Publications

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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