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[Anonymous No.14229322]

any good books for getting into Jewish mysticism?

[Anonymous No.14230553]

is this a chart thread

[Anonymous No.14230580]

>>14229322
Israel Regardie's books are a must.
https://www.amazon.com/Israel-Regardie/e/B000APBPWM/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1

[Anonymous No.14230581]

Read the bible, then read the hermetic corpus and the neoplatonists and proceed to synthesise your own Jewish mysticism.

[Anonymous No.14230642]

>>14229322
Gershom Scholem.

[Anonymous No.14230721]

Foundations of a postmodern cybernetics based on Kabbalah
>This paper seeks to lay the computational and mathematical foundations for a “postmodern cybernetics” based on ancient Kabbalah. This new Kabbalistic cybernetics is introduced to act as an unifying science addressing simultaneously, in a common language and framework the triple nature of human, psychological, social, economic, financial, political, cultural systems and their present multi‐faceted crises and conflicts: cognitive objective level of attaining knowledge; subjective emotional level and physical action and behavioral level.

[Anonymous No.14230732]

>>14229322
a knife to your foreskin

[Anonymous No.14230838]

>>14229322
Anything by Gershom Scholem

(Kabbalah and it's symbolism; Zohar, book of splendor; On The Mystical Shape Of The Godhead et c)

[Anonymous No.14232308]

>>14229322
Mein Kampf

[Anonymous No.14232324]

>>14229322
Just go straight to reading Hubbard's work.
Start with Dianetics and then take it from there.

[Anonymous No.14232444]

>>14229322
The Controversy of Zion

[Sepher Yetzirah No.14232468]

Ten are the numbers of the ineffable Sephiroth, ten and not nine, ten and not eleven. Learn this wisdom, and be wise in the understanding of it, investigate these numbers, and draw knowledge from them, fix the design in its purity, and pass from it to its Creator seated on his throne.

These Ten Numbers, beyond the Infinite one, have the boundless realms, boundless origin and end, an abyss of good and one of evil, boundless height and depth, East and West, North and South, and the one only God and king, faithful forever seated on his throne, shall rule over all, forever and ever.

These ten Sephiroth which are ineffable, whose appearance is like scintillating flames, have no end but are infinite. The word of God is in them as they burst forth, and as they return; they obey the divine command, rushing along as a whirlwind, returning to prostrate themselves at his throne.

These ten Sephiroth which are, moreover, ineffable, have their end even as their beginning, conjoined, even as is a flame to a burning coal: for our God is superlative in his unity, and does not permit any second one. And who canst thou place before the only one?

And as to this Decad of the Sephiroth, restrain thy lips from comment, and thy mind from thought of them, and if thy heart fail thee return to thy place; therefore is it written, "The living creatures ran and returned," and on this wise was the covenant made with us.

These are the ten emanations of number. One is the Spirit of the Living God, blessed and more than blessed be the name of the Living God of Ages. The Holy Spirit is his Voice, his Spirit, and his Word.

[Anonymous No.14232474]

>>14230721

[Anonymous No.14232490]

Just read the Zohar. Apart from that, virtually every occult and new age group/book since Crowley has been based on Kabbalah, directly or otherwise.
Michael Laitman's Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life, and Unlocking the Zohar are both decent starting points as well.

[Anonymous No.14232523]

>>14230580
>Golden dawn shill

If you want a westernised neooccultist version of Kabbalah you may as well read Mystical Qabbalah by Dion Fortune

[Anonymous No.14234016]

>>14232523
>neooccultist
No such thing exists, moron.