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A mystic is a man who has been favored with an immediate, and to him real, experience of the divine, of ultimate reality, or who at least strives to attain such experience.
- On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism Gershom Scholem
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- On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism Gershom Scholem
Mystical works of the Ashkenazi Hasidim (fl. 12th and 13th centuries), which represent a movement distinct from kabbalah, and Abraham Abulafia (1249-1291?), a mystic who falls outside of the mainstream of kabbalah, were important sources to Christian kabbalists, whereas the Zohar, by far the most important and most extensive kabbalistic text ...
mystical philosophy that emerged in France and Spain in the 13th century of the current or Christian era (C.E.). This philosophical school believed in spiritual illumination from a “received” knowledge, or gnosis. The Qabalists are probably best known for their use of a technique known as “literal Qabalah” that involved the
This chapter considers some of the ways that early modern Christians engaged with Jewish Kabbalah, ranging from Gershom Scholem's emphasis on it as missionary activity to Joseph Dan's argument for the Christian recognition of the relevance of non-biblical Jewish sources.
The academic study of kabbalah is a new field, growing by leaps and bounds. Because kabbalah has literary, historical, ritual, cognitive, and experiential dimensions, it crosses many disciplinary and methodological lines. The discipline must therefore graduate from its initial focus on the textual.
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Examine how religion is structured in three levels: introductory, intermediate, and advanced. The nature of Jewish doctrine and how it encodes a universal path. The scriptures, practices, and traditions that once embodied the spirit of initiation. Mystical interpretation: the need for intuitively extracting the spirit of the letter that kills.
