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CABALAH PRIMER: Introduction To English/Hebrew Cabalah
by Bernstein, Henrietta
ISBN: 0875165265
Publisher: DeVorss & Co
The modern Cabalist is heir to a truly ancient doctrine, but he must reinterpret and reformulate this ever changing but always constant cabalistic doctrine so that it will be of practical value to him in today's society. The basic aspects of the English and Hebrew cabalistic systems are amazingly simple, but in our present civilization we have lost sight of them because we have divorced letters from numbers. The ancient Hebrews had no separate system for differentiating between numbers and words. Every number was a word; and every word was a number. Therefore, just as the Hebrews translated the 22 letters of their alphabet into numbers, we will do the same with the 26 letters of the English alphabet. The Hebrew and English aspects of Cabalah will be explained here along with Tarot. These three systems enhance each other, and the combination of all three is the most comprehensive way to study Cabalah. This book will show that the ancient Hebrews also understood the mathematical principles of Phi, a number known to the Greeks as the Golden Mean, and it is just that -- a universal principle through which all things are brought into manifestation. In fact Plato, in his Timaeus discussed the Golden Mean (also called the Golden Section) as the key to the physics of the cosmos. Cabalists today are unaware that Phi was part of the secret "Unwritten Cabalah" of the early Hebrews. The English Cabalah brings this system back to us again. Much like the Egyptian Book of the Dead, and the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the Cabalah is a guide book for the soul in its return path upward.
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