Description
“A study of the Secret Tradition in Israel as unfolded by Sons of the Doctrine for the Benefit and Consolation of the Elect dispersed through the Lands and Ages of The Greater Exile”
A.E. Waite; Kenneth Rexroth
University Books, New York, USA, 1972. Hardcover. 636 pages. Eighth Printing. Introduction by Kenneth Rexroth. Some tape residue/sunning to fore and endpapers. From the collection of a noted collector. Attractive ex-libris on first blank. Small label for Metaphysical Research Group at foot of title page. Minor shelf-wear with some tiny edge tears and slight rubbing to dust-jacket. Very Good in Very Good unclipped dust-jacket.
This comprehensive and well-documented guide to the arcane Jewish tradition of mysticism was written by one of Britain’s foremost writers on occult subjects. Enthusiastic in tone and grounded in scholarship, it presents and comments upon the mystic tradition’s fundamental ideas. Author A. E. Waite’s extensive and lucid history embraces the literature of the Kabbalah (including the Sepher Yezirah and Zohar and their central ideas), its foremost interpreters, its impact on Christian scholars, and its reputation as “the secret tradition.” Waite’s thought-provoking analysis includes a rejection of proposals by earlier occultists that many esoteric practices — alchemy, astrology, and Freemasonry, for instance — are founded on or are integral to Kabbalah. Introduction by Kenneth Rexroth.
