A catalogue of remarkable books published by Mr. George Redway (1887)

PUBLISHED BY
MR. GEORGE REDWAY
“TOLLE, LEGE”
LONDON 15, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN 1887
Handsomely printed and bound in one vol. 8vo., price 10s. 6d.
Kabala Denudata.
CONTAINING THE FOLLOWING BOOKS OF THE ZOHAR:—
Translated into English from the Latin version of Knorr von Rosenroth, and collated with the original Chaldee and Hebrew Text, by S. L. MacGregor Mathers.
“We have seen that the Therapeuts listened every Sabbath to discourses on the traditionary lore which was handed down in secret amongst themselves. Has this secret lore passed away from the earth? Scholars of the calibre of Reuchlin Joel and M. Franck, of the Institute of France, affirm that we have it still in the ‘Kabbalah.’ This word implies secret tradition. The legend runs that this secret wisdom was first taught by Jehovah to the seven angels that stand round his throne. It was then handed down orally through the seven earthly messengers (Adam, Moses, David, &c.). Finally, the Rabbi Simon Ben Jochai, in a cavern amid earth rocking and supernatural coruscations delivered it to the world in a “Book of Splendour,” the “Sohar.”—Arthur Lillie’s “Buddhism in Christendom” (1887).
Dr. Ginsburg speaks of the Kabbalah as:—“A system of religious philosophy, or, more properly, of theosophy, which has not only exercised for hundreds of years an extraordinary influence on the mental development of so shrewd a people as the Jews, but has captivated the minds of some of the greatest thinkers of Christendom in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, claims the greatest attention of both the philosopher and theologian. When it is added that among its captives were Raymond Lully, the celebrated scholastic metaphysician and chemist (died 1315); John Reuchlin, the renowned scholar and reviver of Oriental literature in Europe (born 1455, died 1522); John Picus de Mirandola, the famous philosopher and classical scholar (1463-1494); Cornelius Henry Agrippa, the distinguished philosopher, divine, and physician (1577-1644); as well as our own countrymen, Robert Fludd, the famous physician and philosopher (1574-1637), and Dr. Henry More (1614-1687); and that these men, after restlessly searching for a scientific system which should disclose to them ‘the deepest depths’ of the divine nature, and show them the real tie which binds all things together, found the cravings of their minds satisfied by this theosophy, the claims of the Kabbalah on the attention of students in literature and philosophy will readily be admitted. The claims of the Kabbalah, however, are not restricted to the literary man and the philosopher; the poet, too, will find in it ample materials for the exercise of his lofty genius.”