Kabbalah
Seven essays on the Jewish mystical tradition that calls itself “the receiving”: its roots in the chariot and the Book of Creation, the Tree of the sefirot, the infinite God beyond them, the Zohar, Luria’s Safed, the path of cleaving to God, and what became of it in Christian Cabala and Hermetic Qabalah.
The chariot, the four who entered the garden, and the Book of Creation.
The Bahir, Isaac the Blind and the Tree of Life as a map of God and of the soul.
The infinite, hidden God, and the nothing at the top of the Tree.
Moses de León’s Castile, and the divine presence in exile.
Isaac Luria: contraction, the shattering of the vessels, and repair.
Devekut, from Abulafia’s meditation on the names to the Baal Shem Tov.
Pico, Reuchlin and the Golden Dawn: what changed when the tradition left Judaism.