Qabalah Paths of Light: The Occult Qabalah Reclaimed (Revised Edition)

The Qabalah Paths of Light: The Occult Qabalah Reclaimed. Building upon the logic of my first book, The Qabalah Gates of Light, I continue to rework the Qabalah based in a foundation of the Rabbinic Jewish Kabbalah's symbols and metaphors. This book explores the paths of the Sefiroth and the question of assigning the Hebrew letters to the paths. Ultimately I choose to use the system published in the 1884 edition of the Sefer Yetzirah devised by Elijah ben Solomon Zalmon (1720 ¿ 1790) of the city of Vilna Lithuania, known as the Vilna Gaon (Hebrew word for Genius). He was known by the Hebrew acronym 'the GRA'. Having done that I follow through with associating the Tarot's Major Arcana to this new configuration on the Tree's paths.I also provide insights into the creation of the Tree, its name (the Tree of Life) and its significance by rooting the Tree in a variation of the ARI mythic tale of creation and a retelling of the Gan Eden myth.I finally provide guidance and a suggestion of how to work with the Tree in a magick ritual setting.With this book I have reclaimed the Qabalah's use of the Sefiroth from its prior Christian disordered roots that were the origins of the original Occult Qabalah.… (more)