/lit/ - Literature

>>18964336
yup, I plan on joining the federal reserve police after completing my degree

What are some good beginner books on Kabbalah? Traditional Kabbalah, not Hermetic.

Where do I go after reading Scholem and Kaplan? I have a special interest in Lurianic Kabbalah for its conception of Creation, Tzimtzum. Where and how can I get the primary texts by Chaiym Vital?

>primary texts
>gershom scholem
>moshe idel
who else?

*brings guenon to his knees*

>>15175878
>doesn't have pagan/roman elements added to it

lmfao

According to the Quran (2:102), demons taught the Jews evil arts, demonic prayers, which were falsely imputed to Solomon. To this day the Jewish symbol for calling upon demons is called "the Seal of Solomon", but it has nothing to do with the religion of Moses, alayhe salam

any good books for getting into Jewish mysticism?

>>13357442
Basically, markets are a technology that are cable of extracting resources both natural and human to their own end. Competition on the market selects for intelligence which in turn increases the amount of resources the market can bring into itself. This selection for intelligence is memetic and not genetic, so it isn't bound by physical limits like an animal would be. The rate at which markets "manufacture" intelligence is exponential. Nick land states that markets can almost literally have a "mind of their own" giving birth to the *Capital is Sentient* meme from last Summer. Us humans are on historically on the point of the market intelligence graph where we can see the past enough to realize where the future is going, and might still be able to stop the markets. Land states that the preservation of intelligence is more important risking a way of making humanity and "technocapital" cooexist and failing, so we should remove all obstacles to global capitalism. Or at least that's what this humble construction worker understands about it, others in this thread will probably have a better answer thannmr

Onkelos son of Kolonikos ... went and raised Titus from the dead by magical arts, and asked him; 'Who is most in repute in the [other] world? He replied: Israel. What then, he said, about joining them? He said: Their observances are burdensome and you will not be able to carry them out. Go and attack them in that world and you will be at the top as it is written, Her adversaries are become the head etc.; whoever harasses Israel becomes head. He asked him: What is your punishment [in the other world]? He replied: What I decreed for myself. Every day my ashes are collected and sentence is passed on me and I am burnt and my ashes are scattered over the seven seas. He then went and raised Balaam by incantations. He asked him: Who is in repute in the other world? He replied: Israel. What then, he said, about joining them? He replied: Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever. He then asked: What is your punishment? He replied: With boiling hot semen. He then went and raised by incantations Jesus [in Vilna edition: "the sinners of Israel"; "Jesus" appears in Munich 95 and Vatican 140 manuscripts and "he went and brought up Jesus the Nazarene" (Editions or MSs: Vatican 130)]. He asked them: Who is in repute in the other world? They replied: Israel. What about joining them? They replied: Seek their welfare, seek not their harm. Whoever touches them touches the apple of his eye. He said: What is your punishment? They replied: With boiling hot excrement, since a Master has said: Whoever mocks at the words of the Sages is punished with boiling hot excrement. Observe the difference between the sinners of Israel and the prophets of the other nations who worship idols. It has been taught: Note from this incident how serious a thing it is to put a man to shame, for God espoused the cause of Bar Kamza and destroyed His House and burnt His Temple.

—Babylonian Talmud, Gittin 56b-57a

This is top cringe. Kabbalah, Rumi, Origen, Guenon, etc. The reading of holy texts like some complex esoteric code, really lame, anyone can make it mean anything. The approach of Chrysostom and Climacus is so much more sensible, seeing simple moral and spiritual teachings with some elementary parables

>>11372263
Thats what I was thinking

Why does everything interesting come from religious texts? Every story is based on the bible in some way. there is not a single completely original work of art that has no biblical references

>>10340332
Don't, come to the patrician religion instead

What books do you recommend that deal with Kabbalah or Jewish mysticism?