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THE SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH A Study in Jewish Mystical Thought By J. F. C. FULLER Author of “YOGA: A Study of the Mystical Philosophy of the Brahmins and Buddhists ” “The Beings who live Below, say that God is on High; while the Angels in Heaven, say that God is on Earth.”-ZOHAR. AGNZ Secret Wisdom of the Qabalah page 2 PREFACE This small book is in no sense a treatise on the Qabalah. Instead, it is a speculative study on one of several secret doctrines which it contains, and, I believe, the key-doctrine of all the others. Should this be correct, then it follows that, unless this doctrine is understood, the whole symbolism of Jewish mysticism must remain obscure, and it is this mysticism, so it seems to me, which constitutes the foundations of Jewish culture and Jewish aspirations. Granted that this is so, then it follows that the idea elaborated in this book is one of considerable importance, even if many of my interpretations are faulty. Even if the whole of my readings are wrong, which is unlikely, this in itself does not necessarily invalidate the idea. For example: Columbus believed that the world was round and he set out to prove it. In doing so he discovered a new world, which, though it did not at the time actually confirm this idea, established a stepping-stone to the circumnavigation of the globe, which did confirm it in an obvious and uncontradictable way. So also in this book, I have set out to penetrate the mists of Qabalistic learning, not because I presume to be an adept in its mysteries, but because I suspect that they hide within them the idea of a new world conception, an idea which for 2000 years has been struggling to take form. Should I be right in this belief, then it follows that once this form consolidates from out of it will emanate a new ideology, which will exert so stupendous an influence upon our lives that it will constitute a world revolution. Nevertheless, I do not intend to touch upon this possibility in the present work; for all I will attempt is to show that the idea is valid. Therefore my object is solely to examine and explain it, in order to establish it as a fact. J. F. C. F. Secret Wisdom of the Qabalah page 3 CONTENTS PREFACE 2 INTRODUCTION 6 The Mystical Foundations of the World Order. 6 The Secrecy of Transcendental Knowledge 8 The Jewish Secret Doctrines 9 CHAPTER I 11 THE WISDOM OF THE QABALAH 11 The Qabalah 11 The Origins of the Qabala 12 The Philosophy of the Qabalah 13 Equilibrium 15 Philosophical comparisons 20 CHAPTER II 22 THE COSMOGONY OF THE QABALAH 22 The Primal Cause. 22 The Sephirotic Scheme 23 Origin of the Sephiroth 25 The Ten Sephiroth 27 CHAPTER III 36 THE PROBLEM OF GOOD AND EVIL 36 Good and Evil. 36 The Evolution of Satan. 39 The Problem of Free Will. 42 The Mystery of Sex. 45 CHAPTER IV 48 THE FALL OF TETRAGRMMMATON 48 The Principles of Creation. 48 The Experimental Worlds. 49 Adam Qadmon. 50 The Creation of Eve. 52 The Messianic Redemption. 54 CHAPTER V 55 THE REDEMPTION OF TETRAGRAMMATON 55 Symbols of the Messianic Act 55 Man the Instrument of Redemption. 55 The Accomplishment of the Messianic Act. 56 The Integration of the Disintegrated. 57 The Creation of Hell. 58 The Source of Messianic Power. 59 Secret Wisdom of the Qabalah page 4 CHAPTER VI 61 THE SOURCE OF MYSTIC POWER 61 The Essence of the Qabalah. 61 The Mysticism of Modern Science. 63 The Laboratory of Satan. 66 The Mystical Ordeal. 68 The Fourth Dimension. 69 CHAPTER VII 72 THE ANATOMY OF ILLUMINISM 72 llluminism. 72 Illuminism and Revolution. 73 The Fourth-Dimensional State. 74 The Great Omission. 79 The Mystic Way. 81 HEBREW ALPHABET AND CORRESPONDENCES 83 GLOSSARY OF HEBREW WORDS AND NAMES 84 Secret Wisdom of the Qabalah page 5 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PLATES Plate I The Caduceus of Hermes 18 The Winged Wand of Egypt 19 II The Tree of Life 25 III The Chaldean and Hebrew Cosmos 27 IV The Four Planes of the Tree of Life. 31 The Three Pillars of the Tree of Life. 33 V The Zodiac 2 VII The Brazen Serpent 44 DIAGRAMS Diagram 1. The Divine Man 20 2. The Qabalistic Chalice 35 3. The Flaming Sword 45 4. The Good and Evil Pentagrams 53 5. The Fourth Dimension 75 6. The Fourth Dimension shown Qabalistically 76 [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] |
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