The Mysteries Of Qabalah

A text supplemented by more than a hundred illustrations of letters, art, and sculpture covers such topics as the four divine names and the five modalities of being, the life of infinity, and the significance of each of the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet.

An occult classic and a Dion Fortune bestseller of strongly growing interest. Fortune was one of the first to bring this “secret tradition” to a wider audience with her clear and comprehensive exploration of the Qabalah tradition. The Mystical Qabalah remains a classic in its clarity, linking the broad elements of Jewish traditional thought—probably going back to the Babylonian captivity and beyond—with both Eastern and Western philosophy and later Christian insights. The Qabalah could be described as a confidential Judaic explanation of the paradox of “the Many and the One”—the complexity and diversity within a monotheistic unity. Whereas the Old Testament outlines the social and psychological development of a tightly knit “chosen group” culture, the supplementary Qabalah provides a detailed plan of the infrastructure behind the creative evolutionary process. The Mystical Qabalah devotes a chapter to each of the ten schematic “God-names,” the qualities or Sephiroth which focus on the principal archetypes behind evolving human activity: the Spiritual Source; the principles of Force and Form; Love and Justice; the Integrative principle or the Christ Force; Aesthetics and Logic; the dynamics of the Psyche; and, finally, the Manifestation of life on Earth in a physical body.

The author, an influential 19th-century occultist, offers an analysis of Biblical texts as essential keys to high Qabalah, the mystical system of Judaism. He links Old and New Testaments by comparing Qabalistic imagary and concepts in The Ezekial Prophecy and The Apocalypse of St John.

The Secret Wisdom of The Qabalah: A Study in Jewish Mystical Thought

1922 Written down by seven pupils of Elias Gewurz, and prepared for publication by one of them. Contents: the Hebrew Alphabet & its Heiroglyphical Significance; Explanatory Note on the Letters; Qabalistic Definition of the Snake Nachash; Lesson of N.