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A
CATALOGUE
OF
REMARKABLE BOOKS
PUBLISHED BY
MR. GEORGE REDWAY
“TOLLE, LEGE”
LONDON
15, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN
1887
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Handsomely printed and bound in one vol. 8vo., price 10s. 6d.
Kabala Denudata.
THE KABBALA UNVEILED.
CONTAINING THE FOLLOWING BOOKS OF THE ZOHAR:—
- 1. The Book of Concealed Mystery.
- 2. The Greater Holy Assembly.
- 3. The Lesser Holy Assembly.
Translated into English from the Latin version of Knorr von Rosenroth,and collated with the original Chaldee and Hebrew Text, by S. L. MacGregorMathers.
“We have seen that the Therapeuts listened every Sabbath to discourses on thetraditionary lore which was handed down in secret amongst themselves. Hasthis secret lore passed away from the earth? Scholars of the calibreof Reuchlin Joel and M. Franck, of the Institute of France, affirm that we haveit still in the ‘Kabbalah.’ This word implies secret tradition. The legend runsthat this secret wisdom was first taught by Jehovah to the seven angels that standround his throne. It was then handed down orally through the seven earthlymessengers (Adam, Moses, David, &c.). Finally, the Rabbi Simon Ben Jochai,in a cavern amid earth rocking and supernatural coruscations delivered it to theworld in a “Book of Splendour,” the “Sohar.”—Arthur Lillie’s “Buddhismin Christendom” (1887).
Dr. Ginsburg speaks of the Kabbalah as:—“A system of religious philosophy,or, more properly, of theosophy, which has not only exercised for hundreds of yearsan extraordinary influence on the mental development of so shrewd a people asthe Jews, but has captivated the minds of some of the greatest thinkers of Christendomin the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, claims the greatest attention ofboth the philosopher and theologian. When it is added that among its captiveswere Raymond Lully, the celebrated scholastic metaphysician and chemist (died1315); John Reuchlin, the renowned scholar and reviver of Oriental literature inEurope (born 1455, died 1522); John Picus de Mirandola, the famous philosopherand classical scholar (1463-1494); Cornelius Henry Agrippa, the distinguishedphilosopher, divine, and physician (1577-1644); as well as our own countrymen,[Page 4]Robert Fludd, the famous physician and philosopher (1574-1637), and Dr. HenryMore (1614-1687); and that these men, after restlessly searching for a scientificsystem which should disclose