The Beliefnet Guide to Kabbalah by Arthur Goldwag

By Arthur Goldwag

This vigorous, easy-to-follow consultant to Kabbalah introduces the traditional Jewish mystical culture that has captured the curiosity of Hollywood stars and most of the people alike.

With celebrities like Madonna, Paris Hilton, Demi Moore, and Britney Spears asserting their fascination with Kabbalah, interest approximately this old Jewish mystical culture keeps to develop. The Beliefnet® consultant to Kabbalah is a hugely informative, reader-friendly assessment of Kabbalah, whose messages Moses is related to have obtained from God on Mount Sinai. a suite of speculations at the nature of divinity, the construction, the origins and destiny of the soul, and the function of humans on this planet, Kabbalah’s which means and messages have inspired Jews, Christians, and others alike—and intrigued students for generations.

The Beliefnet® consultant to Kabbalah covers the necessities of Kabbalah’s historical past, sheds mild on what Kabbalists think (including their perspectives on angels and demons and at the afterlife), and gives directions on either conventional and modern meditative, devotional, mystical, and magical practices. Sidebars that includes key proof, anecdotes, and often requested questions upload to the book’s scope and charm.

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203), 52. The Hebraic form was i1'n (ChaYaH). 279 Cf. , for instance, Origin of the World (NHC II,5) 114; 119; Origen, Cels. ). 277 cr~ator 62 Chnoubis the serpent God § 20. Chnoubis and Chnum the Hebrew god, Jaldabaoth, together with the other Archons of the planetary spheres, had the form of an animal, especially that of a lion 280 . It was widely believed by Gnostics that the Kosmokrator, the Lord of the World, had the form of a snake281. In the Apocryphon of John (NHC II, I; III,l; IV, I; BG 8502,2, 10) we read that Jaldabaoth "had the form of a dragon, the face of a lion with fiery eyes darting lightning and flames ...

The Apocryphon of John, moreover, opens by mentioning a Pharisee who was disparaging Jesus; the Pharisee was called Arimanios, the name of the Zoroastrian antagonist of Ahura Mazda. 179 M. Smith, The Account of Simon Magus in Acts 8, in: Studies in the Cult of Yahweh, I, Leiden, New York, Cologne 1996, 140- 51. 180 The fact that there were indeed links between Gnosis and magic, aside of the polemical aspects in lrenaeus, is reiterated by Sfameni Gasparro, Eretici e magi (n . 16). 18 1 Jackson, The Origin in Ancient Incantatory voces magicae (n.

The Apocryphon of John, moreover, opens by mentioning a Pharisee who was disparaging Jesus; the Pharisee was called Arimanios, the name of the Zoroastrian antagonist of Ahura Mazda. 179 M. Smith, The Account of Simon Magus in Acts 8, in: Studies in the Cult of Yahweh, I, Leiden, New York, Cologne 1996, 140- 51. 180 The fact that there were indeed links between Gnosis and magic, aside of the polemical aspects in lrenaeus, is reiterated by Sfameni Gasparro, Eretici e magi (n . 16). 18 1 Jackson, The Origin in Ancient Incantatory voces magicae (n.

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