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Jewish Mysticism
General
Kabbalistic Mysticism:
Aaron b. Samuel (870+)
Solomon ibn Gabirol (1021-1058)
Judah b. Samuel
Eleazar b. Judah b. Kalonymus (1176-1238)
Moses b. Nahman (Nahmanides) (1194-1270)
Abraham b. Samuel Abulafia (b. 1240)
Joseph b. Abraham Jikatilla (1248-1305)
Issac ibn Latif (d. 1290)
Azriel b. Menahem (aka Ezra) (1160-1238)
Isaac the Blind (13th century)
Bahya b. Asher (d.1340)
Isaac b. Moses Arama (1420-1494)
Menahem b. Moses Benjamin Recanati (aka Moses of Cordova) (13th/14th Century)
Isaac (b. Solomon Ashkenazi) Luria (1534-1572)
Naphtali Hirtz 16th century
R. Hayyim Vital (1543-1620)
Abraham Cohen Irira (d.1631)
Issachar ben Naphtali (Mid-1550's)
Israel Saruk
Leo of Modena (1571-1648)
Hayyim Joseph David Azulai (1724-1807)
Israel b. Eliezer, Ba'al Shem Tob (1700-1760)
Baer (Dob) of Meseritz (1710-1772)
Chief Works:
The Sepher Ha Zohar
The Sepher Yetzirah (6th century) (Basis of the Zohar)
Sefer Hab-Bahir (Isaac the Blind)
The Hekhaloth (or Halls) (Solomon b. Elisha)
The Zohar: (The center of the kabbala)
The Book of Raziel
Shiur Koma
Glgulim
Select Kabbalistic Topics:
The Myth of the Earthly Paradise
The Serpent, Son of the Morning and the Fall of the Angels
The Fall of Man
The legend of the Flood
The Covenant with Abraham
Moses, the Master of the Law
The Coming of the Messiah
The Doctrine Concerning Sheol
Resurrection
The Mystery of Shekinah
The Mystery of Sex
Christian Students of the Kabbalah:
See also: Early Christian Reformation
Raymund Lully (d1315)
John Picus de Mirandola (1463-1494)
Cornelius Henry Agrippa (1486-1535)
Paracelsus (see also Jacob Boehme)
John Reuchlin (1455-1522)
William Postel
The Rosicrucians
John Baptist Von Helmont (1577-1644)
Robert Fludd (1574-1637)
Henry More (1614-1687)
Thomas Vaughan
Knorr von Rosenroth
Ralph Cudworth (see Philosophy: Cambridge Platonists)
Thomas Burnet
Saint-Martin
Eliphas Levi Zahed
The Kabbalah and The Occult:
The Kabbalah and Magic
The Kabbalah and Alchemy
The Kabbalah and Astrology
The Kabbalah and Freemasonry
The Kabbalah and the Tarot
The Kabbalah and Occult Mysticism
Other Topics:
Christianity and The Kabbalah
Islamic Mysticism and The Kabbalah
Select Bibliography
J Abelson: Jewish Mysticism; The Immanence of God (1913)
I. Abrahams: A Short History of Jewish Literature (1906)
Bahya ben Jospeh ibn Paquda: Duties of the Heart, Eng trans. NY 1945
C.D. Ginsburg: The Kabbalah (1865)
Jacobs, Louis: Jewish Mystical Testimonies, NY 1975
S.L. MacGregor Mathers: The Kabbalah Unveiled (1887)
Isaac Myer: Qabbalah and The Zohar, The Philosophy of Ibn Gebirol (1888)
Nahman of Bratslav (Band ed); See also Arthur Green ed.
Neher, Andre: The Exile of the Word: From the Silence of the Bible to the Silence of Auschwitz, Phil 1981
Gershom Scholem: Sabbatai Sevi, The Mystical Messiah 1626-1676
Scholem: Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism
Scholem: On the Kabbalah and its Symbolism
Scholem: The Messianic idea in Judaism
H Sperling and M. Simon, trans: The Zohar (5 vols)
A. E. White: The Doctrine and Literature of The Holy Kabbalah (1902)
A. E. White: Secret Doctine in Israel (1913)
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