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    Llewellyn's Truth About Cabala
    Llewellyn's Truth About Cabala
    Llewellyn's Truth About Cabala
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    Llewellyn's Truth About Cabala

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    The cabala—also spelled kabbalah or qabalah—is an ancient, powerful system rooted in Judaism. The Truth About Cabala translates this extremely powerful system for your spiritual growth and enlightenment. 


    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLlewellyn Worldwide
    Release dateJul 8, 2013
    ISBN9780738738444
    Llewellyn's Truth About Cabala
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    David Godwin

    David Godwin is an expert on esoteric lore, magic, and the Cabala. A member FATE magazine's editorial staff for more than a decade, he holds a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Godwin is the author of several books including Godwin's Cabalistic Encyclopedia. He is also the editor of True Ghosts 2. Visit Godwin and FATE magazine online at http://www.fatemag.com.  

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      Llewellyn's Truth About Cabala - David Godwin

      About the Author

      David Godwin, born in 1939 in Dallas, Texas, and a onetime resident of Houston, Atlanta, Miami, and New York, is a student of esoteric lore, magic, and the cabala. He holds a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Texas at Austin:

      The author of Godwin’s Cabalistic Encyclopedia and compiler of the index to the current edition of Israel Regardie’s The Golden Dawn, Godwin’s articles have appeared in Gnostica, Llewellyn’s Magician Almanac, Fate, and elsewhere.

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      The Truth About Cabala ©1994 David Godwin. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. No part of this e-book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever including Internet usage, without written permission from Llewellyn Publications, except in the form of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      E-book ISBN: 978-0-7387-3844-4

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      WHAT IS CABALA?

      The first question that usually occurs to people about the cabala is, What is it?

      The simple answer is that it is a system of mysticism with its origins in Judaism, stemming in part from the chariot visions of first-century mystics, in part from Gnosticism and Neoplatonism, in part from the theological speculations of medieval Spanish Jews, and in part from later thinkers. For many centuries, cabala was the accepted form of mysticism and theology within Judaism, but for the most part it has now fallen out of favor in religious contexts. Nevertheless, many rabbis and Jewish scholars still take an interest in it. As a philosophy and as a way of looking at God and the universe, it survives in yet wider quarters. Especially in the form developed by Christian enthusiasts in the Italian Renaissance and by 19th-century Christian and pagan occultists, cabalism retains vast importance as the key to mystical thinking outside of the mainstream and to the practice of ceremonial magic.

      Once we have arrived at a provisional definition, the next question about cabala is likely to be, What is the correct way to spell it? The correct way to spell it is with Hebrew letters: HEBREW. The way these consonants are expressed in English is a matter of opinion. The simplest way is QBLH—or qabalah, if the vowel-points are taken into consideration—although Q is merely the

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