Mysteries of the Qabalah (Forgotten Books)

Hermetic Qabalah, is a Western esoteric and mystical tradition. It is the underlying philosophy and framework for magical societies such as the Golden Dawn, Thelemic orders, mystical societies such as the Builders of the Adytum and the Fellowship of the Rosy Cross, and is a precursor to the Neopagan, Wiccan and New Age movements.

Hermetic Qabalah draws on a great many influences, most notably: Jewish Kabbalah, Western astrology, occult Tarot, alchemy, pagan religions (especially Egyptian and Greco-Roman), neoplatonism, gnosticism, the Enochian system of angelic magic of John Dee and Edward Kelly, hermeticism, rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, and tantra. It differs from the Jewish form in being a more admittedly syncretic system, however it shares many concepts with Jewish Kabbalah.

It is most often transliterated with a 'Q' rather than a 'K' or a 'C', distinguishing it from Jewish Kabbalah and Christian Cabbalah. (Quote from wikipedia.org)

About the Author

Hermann Oldenberg (1854 - 1920)
Hermann Oldenberg... was a German scholar of Indology, and Professor at Kiel (1898) and Gattingen (1908).

His 1881 study on Buddha, based on Pali texts, popularized Buddhism and have remained continuously in print since their first publication. With T. W. Rhys Davids, he edited and translated into English three volumes of Vinaya texts, as two volumes of the Grhyasutras and two volumes of Vedic hymns on his own account, in the monumental Sacred Books of the East series edited by Max Muller. With his Prolegomena (1888), Oldenberg laid the groundwork to the philological study of the Rigveda. (Quote from (Quote from wikipedia.org))

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