Kabbalistic Diagrams

Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks No. 23

At the end of the first volume of the significant 17th-century Kabbalistic compendium, the Kabbalah Denudata by Knorr von Rosenroth, there is a section containing 16 kabbalistic diagrams along with a Latin text explaining the symbolism. These diagrams and the text illustrate the key ideas of Lurianic Kabbalah. This book reproduces these diagrams and provides a translation of the text, making available for the first time a valuable and unique source for Kabbalistic ideas from the mid-17th century. The diagrams are similar in form to hermetic-alchemical figures of the same period. It is from material like this that the 'Kabbalistic' tradition, as pursued today in Western occultism, has emerged, rather than directly from the Jewish tradition. This volume offers valuable insights into the roots of Western Kabbalah.

Date Published: 1987

Page Number:124

Cover Type: Handbound leather hardback

Illustrations: 19 Hand coloured.

Edition: Limited

Translated by: Christopher Atton M.A and Stephen Dziklewicz

Signed by: Adam McLean