Publication
Imprint: Los Angeles, California : C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, 1975. Context: Panarion conference, 1975. The material of this lecture was also published in "On the Mystical Shape of the Godhead, Basic Concepts in the Kabbalah," Shocken books, 1991. Responsibility: Gershom Scholem. Physical: 2 sound disc (92 min.) : CD, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Call number
CD / Front Desk
Original publication date
1975
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CSS Library Notes
Description: In this lecture the preeminent scholar in Jewish mysticism Gershom Scholem speaks of the Kabbalistic doctrine of the tselem, the astral body. The word “tselem” first appears in Genesis 1:26 when God creates man and says “let us make man in our image (tselem) and in our likeness.” In Hebrew “tselem” means “plastic image” and describes the individual essence of each human being. It constitutes an independent entity mediating between body and spirit. In mystical experience, the tselem could manifest as the perception of one’s own double, which revealed the deepest spiritual essence within man. Professor Scholem retraces the historical development of the doctrine of the tselem in Jewish mysticism and tells us how it is related to the principle of individuation in man.
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Physical description
4.75 inches
Language
Original language
English