Kabbalah e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. A system of religious philosophy, or more properly of theosophy, which has not only exercised for hundreds of years an extraordinary influence on the mental development of so shrewd a peopless the Jews, but has captivated the minds of some of the greatest thinkers of Christendom in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, claims the greatest attention of both the philosopher and the theologian. When it is added that among its captives were Raymond Lully, the celebrated scholastic, metaphysician and chemist (died John Reuchlin, the renowned scholar and reviver of oriental litera ture in Europe (born 1455, died 1522) John Picus di Mirandola, the famous philosopher and classical scholar Cornelius Henry Agrippa, the distinguished philosopher, divine and physician (1486-1535) John Baptist von Helmont, a remarkable chemist and physician (1577 as well as our own countrymen Robert Fludd, the famous physician and philosopher (1574 and Dr. Henry More (1614-1687) and that these men, after rest lessly searching for a scientific system which should disclose to them the,deepest depths of the Divine nature, and show them the real tie which binds all things together, found the cravings of their minds satisfied by this theosophy, the claims of the Kabbalah on the attention of students in. Litera ture and philosophy will readily be admitted. The claims of the Kabbalah, however, are not restricted to the literary.