Roots of Western Mysticism

Week 6

The Roots of Esoteric Traditions: Jewish Mysticism, Gnosticism. READING: NET:Merkabah Texts, Jewish Mysticism, What is a Gnostic? and The Gnostic World View

Esoterica

• Medieval System of Correspondances
  • Correspondances
    
    
• Hermes Trismegistus
  • What is Hermeticism?
  • The Emerald Tablets
    • Commentary on the Emerald Tablets
  • The Archaic Underground Tradition
    
    
• Alchemy
  • What is Alchemy?
  • The Alchemy Website
  • Psyche.com Alchemy Links
  • Rosicrucian Images
  • Alchemical Symbols
    • Birds
    • Animal Symbolism
    • The Rose (Robert Fludd)
    • Hermetic Symbolism in Masonic Engraving

Jewish Mysticism & Kabbalah

• Psyche.com - Kabbalah links
• Hermetic Kabbalah: The Big Picture - a clickable chart with figures and movements related to the Kabbalah
  • Colin Low, Emanation and Ascent in Hermetic Kabbalah - excellent lecture with charts & pictures
• Sephirotic Tree
  • Sephirotic Tree
  • Kircher Tree - from Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 1652
  • Sephirotic Tree as Memory Theatre
• Kabbalah FAQ
• Kabbalah 101 - articles by Rabbi Shimon Lieberman

Gnosticism

• Gnosticism
• Introduction to Gnosticism
• What is a Gnostic?
• Gnostic Writings
• Nag Hammadi Library
• Gospel of Thomas Homepage
• 10 Major Principles of the Gnostic Revolution (Philip K. Dick)