Thursday, December 04, 2008

Way of Hermetica IX - Relationship to Kabbalah (QBL)

On the face it, the QBL shares a similar structure to the Hermetic/Egyptian cosmological model exposed in the previous discussion.

Points of interest are "sephira" as stations in a process of "ascension".

Early QBL has seven spheres although a later model extends this to ten.

The seven spheres or "caves" bears comparison with the seven "caverns" of ascension evident in many ancient Egyptian and later Hermetic "ascension" texts such as
"The Book of Gates".

Here is a short extract from the very beginning of a late classical Kabbalistic text - "The Hebrew Book of Enoch" . Compare this with Libellos I "The Poimandes" of the CH:

in construction

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