Kabalah

Waite, Arthur Edward. The doctrine and literature of the Kabalah. London Theosophical Publishing Soc., 1902. xx, 508p. 

Westcott, William Wynn. An introduction to the study of the Kabalah. rhttp //www.herm etics.org/pdf/Westcott.Kabalah.pdfl. 

Traces the origins of ritual magic in the West, and its perilous coexistence with witchcraft, black magic and orthodox religion in the days when alchemy, astrology, and the Kabalah formed a powerful undercurrent in the whole intellectual life of Western Europe"... 

Hermetic philosophy became a major influence on all Western magical practices and mystical traditions. Neoplatonism, alchemy, Gnosticism, Kabalah, Sufism, mystical Christianity, and occultism are included in this influence. There are seven basic concepts that make up this view. 

Magic progressed in the Middle Ages, and during the Renaissance Hermeticism was revived and merged with the Jewish mystical teaching known as Kabalah. 

One of the most important developments in occult tradition to occur in the Middle Ages was the Jewish magical practice called Kabalah. The name Kabalah means received or oral tradition in Hebrew. It can be transliterated as Kabala, Kabalah, Kabbala, or the same three combinations beginning with the letter Q or the letter C instead of a... 

K. Kabalah is a mystical or magical Jewish tradition that developed in Spain and southern France in the twelfth century. At that time two influential books were written explaining its philosophy and principles the Sepher La-Bahir. the Book of Brilliance, and the Sepher ha-Zohar, the Book of Splendor. 

The magical synthesis that was created in the sixteenth century included Kabalah, Hermeticism, magic, and alchemy. The next chapter looks at what alchemists were doing during the centuries that led up to this period. 

During this period, however, occultism did not die out. Instead, a great synthesis occurred in which magic, alchemy, Hermeticism, and Kabalah were united into one occult system. This synthesis often attempted to include science in the mix as well. At this time occultists tended to gather in secretive societies where members could rise in rank as they learned more about their system. 

Levi, like de Gebelin, considered the Tarot to be The Book ofThoth but he believed that the Tarot was also based on the Hebrew Kabalah, an idea only hinted at by de Gebelin. For the minor suits, Levi made a correlation between the four letters of the Tetragrammaton and the four suits. The central component of Levi s synthesis, however, was his correlation between the 22 cards in the fifth suit, which he called keys, and the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In the Kabalah, all of the Hebrew letters are correlated with parts of human anatomy ... 

Some time in this period the Sepher Yetzirah, which presents the mystical philosophy that became the basis for the Kabalah, is written in Palestine. 

The Kabalah, a mystical or magical Jewish tradition, develops in Spain and southern France. 

Influenced by the Kabalah and Sufism, the Spanish mystic Ramon Llull creates the Ars Magna. 

The Renaissance Neoplatonist, Pico della Mirandola, creates the Christian Kabalah. 

This site is devoted to the study of the Hermetic Kabalah. 

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