The Kabbalah Unveiled (selected portions of the Zohar)
Contents — 72 chapters
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About this book
The Zohar ("Splendor") is the central text of medieval Kabbalah, composed in late-13th-century Castile (Moses de Leon). Mathers’ 1887 The Kabbalah Unveiled presents his English translation of the project’s core selections - the Book of Concealed Mystery, the Greater Holy Assembly and the Lesser Holy Assembly (the Idra texts) - complete with index. Caveat: this is Mathers’ SELECTIONS (the three Idra books), not the complete Zohar; the complete modern translations (Soncino, Pritzker) are copyrighted and excluded.
Relevance to this project
The sefirotic cosmology and the letter-mysticism that descends from the Bahir; the Idra texts on the divine names and the configuration of the letters - the medieval flowering of the Hebrew letter-tradition (Sec.6, mages: Moses de Leon).