PREFACE IN the year 1902 I endeavoured in The Doctrine and Literature of the Kabalah to offer a consideration in detail of the chief texts which embody the Secret Tradition in Israel, together with some account of the manner in which it influenced Christian scholarship in Europe during the i6th, iyth and i8th centuries, or broadly speaking, from the period of Picus de Mirandula until the eve of the French Revolution. The publication of Sepher Ha Zohar, or The Book of Splendour, which is the palmary Kabalistic text, for the first time in another language than the original Chaldaic, took place in France 1 between the years 1906 and thus putting into the I9H, hands of modern students the best m…
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