The Holy Kabbalah

by A. E. Waite, Kenneth Rexroth (Introduction)

Overview

2019 Reprint of 1960 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Originally published in 1929. The Kabbalah is the occult or secret tradition within Judaism. Waite's comprehensive and annotated guide to this tradition of mysticism is enthusiastic in tone and grounded in scholarship. The author presents and interprets the fundamental ideas within this tradition. He also discusses Kabbalah's 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781684223596
Publisher:	Martino Fine Books
Publication date:	07/02/2019
Pages:	676
Sales rank:	89,678
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.49(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface
Book I	Post-Christian Literature of the Jews
Book II	Source and Authority of the Kabbalah and the Age of the Chief Texts
Book III	The Written Word of Kabbalism: First Period
Book IV	The Written Word of Kabbalism: Second Period
Book V	The Doctrinal Content of the Kabbalah in Respect of God and the Universe
Book VI	Hierarchies of Spiritual Being
Book VII	Ways of God with Man
Book VIII	The Higher Secret Doctrine
Book IX	The Written Word of Kabbalism: Third Period
Book X	Some Christian Students of the Kabbalah
Book XI	The Kabbalah and Other Channels of Secret Tradition
Book XII	Final Considerations
Appendix I	Sephirotic Developments	605
Appendix II	The Four Worlds in Later Kabbalism	610
Appendix III	The Instruments of Creation	612
Appendix IV	Divine Names	617
Appendix V	Phases of the Soul	619
	Index	621