This book is an overview of Kabbalah. It introduces the reader to the history and principles of the Tradition, including its cosmology, mythology, metaphysics, psychology and working methods. Recommended for beginners, but also valuable for more advanced students. It is a synthesis of Halevi's works.
Both kabbalistic and modern psychological models are used to describe the psyche and its place in the universe. The issue of consciousness is crucial in the process of development from the level of the ego to individuation and beyond. Fate and destiny are seen as part of spiritual evolution, leading to Self-realisation and experience of the Divine.
This books sets out to show that the story of Exodus is also an allegory of the human situation. The inner meaning of the Exodus drama is that the escape from bondage and the Israelites' crossing of the Desert is about the soul's journey from being bound by habit and instinct into becoming an integrated individual, even as the slave-minded Israelites became an independent unified people. Drawing upon scripture, Jewish folklore and Kabbalah, the author lays out the various stages of development to be taken. This revised edition will be of interest to scholars of the Bible and psychologists as well as those on the spiritual path.
This book is about Kabbalistic working methods and the background to such effort. Here theory and practice are set out against everyday life and history, as well as outer and inner processes. Individual and group operations are examined. So too are various levels of experience and their dangers. Schools of the Soul and Spirit are defined according to the Kabbalistic view. Accounts of mystic techniques and the Path to travel are made accessible as well as how to regard good and bad teachers. Memories of previous lives are touched upon, together with an examination of the way in which certain ceremonies have esoteric content. The book begins with basic theory so that the context of what follows is clear.