Core Kabbalistic Texts
The Tree, the Book of Formation and the Book of Splendour.
Kabbalah is the mystical tradition of rabbinic Judaism, with its classic texts in the Sefer Yetzirah (Book of Formation) and the Zohar (Book of Splendour). From the Renaissance onward, Christian and Hermetic readers adopted its Tree of Life as a universal map of creation.
This shelf keeps both stories visible: the primary texts and nineteenth-century scholarly studies by Adolphe Franck and Christian Ginsburg, alongside the occult adaptations of Mathers and Westcott. Knowing which is which is the first lesson of serious Kabbalah study.
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Kabbala Denudata Seu Doctrina Hebraeorum Transcendentalis Et Metaphysica Atqve Theologica : Opus Antiquissimae Philosophiae Barbaricae variis speciminibus refertissimum, In Qvo Ante ipsam Translationem Libri difficillimi atq[ue] in Literatura Hebraica Summi, Commentarii nempe in Pentateuchum, & quasi totam Scripturam V. T. Cabbalistici, cui nomen Sohar Tam Veteris, quam recentis, ejusque Tikkunim seu supplementorum tam Veterum, quam recentiorum, praemittitur Apparatus ... / [1],3/4 : Apparatus In Librum Sohar Pars Tertia & Quarta : Quarum prior est Liber Šaʿar haš-šāmayim Seu Porta Coelorum, In quo Dogmata Cabbalistica ... Philosophicè propponuntur & exolicantur, cumque Philosophia Platonica Sonferentur, Autore R. Abraham Cohen Irira, Lusitano, è Lingua Hispanica primo in Hebraicam translatus, nunc in Latinam contractuat, Altera vero continet Arbores seu Tabulas Cabbalisticas Universales ...
Avraham Kohen Ererah
Kabbala denudata, seu, doctrina Hebraeorum transcendentalis et metaphysica atque theologica : opus antiquissimae philosophiae barbaricae variis speciminibus refertissimum ... / Tomus secundus.
Knorr von Rosenroth, Christian (1636-1689)
Kabbala denudata, seu, doctrina Hebraeorum transcendentalis et metaphysica atque theologica : opus antiquissimae philosophiae barbaricae variis speciminibus refertissimum ... / Tomus secundus.
Knorr von Rosenroth, Christian (1636-1689)
Latin · Kabbalah
The Kabbalah: Its Doctrines, Development, and Literature
Christian D. Ginsburg
