Kabbalah, Magic And The Great Work Of Self-transformationA Complete CourseChristopherLyam Thomas
ARCANA is a mailing list for scholars and students of the occult, with a focus on the historical and anthropological aspects of magic and the belief in magic. Alexandria The Journal of Cosmology, Philosophy, Myth & Culture. See alsoPhanes Press. ...
The Maharal of Prague and the Kabbalah was published in Mysticism, Magic and Kabbalah in Ashkenazi Judaism on page 172.
This distancing is much more of a modern bias than an historic reality, as there is ample evidence that many important Kabbalists had an intimate familiarity with what we would now label "the occult" - it was simply part of indigenous folk culture (see Jewish Magic and Superstition, Joshua ...
Throughout the ages, and primarily during the past few centuries, many lengthy dissertations have been published on the art of higher magic. Unfortunately, they are for the most part such bewildering and incomplete remnants that very little of it can be taken as a point of reference for practi...
“Without you and your beautiful guidance I firmly believe I could not have come through this as I am doing so now.Never underestimate the magic gift you have in guiding people – remembering of course, it is always the person’s free will to follow the advice or not – I have a whole...
The technical Hermetica - astrology, alchemy, medicine and magic - were reaching their peak.William Lillywould publish his massiveChristian Astrologyin 1647. The Hermetic medical theories ofParacelsus(much influenced by the Hermetic and Neoplatonic doctrines ofMarsilio Ficino) had become prevalent. Alche...
called theBook of Abramelin the Mage. This text contains a description of a lengthy procedure used to summon one's Holy Guardian Angel (HGA), for purposes both of revelation and of practical magic. Crowley followed ancient tradition by conflating the HGA with the Higher Self and theneshamah....
There is no clear boundary line between mysticism and metaphysics, cosmology, theosophy (a system of thought claiming special insights or revelation into the divine nature), occultism, theurgy (the art of compelling or persuading divine powers), or even magic. The Judaic context As the search ...
religious movement in Germany thatcombinedausterity with overtones ofmysticism. It sought favour with the common people, who had grown dissatisfied with formalistic ritualism and had turned their attention to developing a personal spiritual life, as reflected in the movement’s great work,Sefer Ḥ...