The Kabbalah Unveiled
S. L. MacGregor Mathers · 1887
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About the book
Mathers' introduction is the clearest thing written in English about the sephiroth in the nineteenth century; the three Zoharic texts that follow are among the strangest. Together they are where the Golden Dawn got its entire kabbalah.
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Part 1 · What Mathers meant by Kabbalah. The first six slides, free.
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Mathers starts with the word itself. In Hebrew it is QBLH, Qabalah, from the root QBL, “to receive.” He spells it with a Q on purpose, because that sits closer to the Hebrew letters than Cabala or Kabbala does.
The name tells you what kind of knowledge this claims to be. Not a system somebody worked out at a desk, but something handed down and received, passed by mouth from teacher to student. Mathers says the word is close kin to “tradition.”
So whenever you meet the word in this book, hear a chain of people standing behind it. The authority of the teaching rests on who gave it to whom, not on anyone’s cleverness.
Inside the course
20 parts- What Mathers meant by «the Kabbalah», and where he got itFree above
- Ain Soph, and the negative existence before the first point
- The ten sephiroth, one at a time
- The four worlds, from Atziluth down to Assiah
Questions
Is The Kabbalah Unveiled free to read in Astra Trainer?
Yes. The full book opens free in the app’s reader, in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Russian.
What is the short course?
20 short parts that walk through the book’s key ideas in slides, each with a quick quiz. The first six slides are free to try on this page.
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