The Secret Doctrine of the Kabbalah: Recovering the Key to Hebraic Sacred Science

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Inner Traditions / Bear & Co, 1999 - 459 sivua
A vast reconstruction of the knowledge of the ancient Jewish priest-scientists, with vital implications for contemporary spirituality and science.

• Reveals an ancient science that used geometry, sound, and number to link the finite world of human experience with the infinite realm of the divine.

• Uses teachings extending back thousands of years to explicate key concepts of quantum physics and quantum cosmology.

For centuries the Kabbalah has fascinated devotees of mysticism while its origins have remained obscure. Now, in her brilliant new work, Leonora Leet reveals that the Kabbalah was the product of a sophisticated, though largely forgotten, Hebraic sacred science that was the rival of any in Egypt or Greece. Not only does Leet reconstruct the secret teachings of the priest-scientists of the Hebrew temple, she also shows them to be the key to understanding both biblical and kabbalistic cosmology.

Unlike previous purely historical explorations of the Jewish esoteric tradition, The Secret Doctrine of the Kabbalah resurrects this ancient body of knowledge to reveal eternal truths that can have a profound and positive impact on contemporary spirituality. New experimental methods of practicing Hebraic sacred science are explored that explain as never before the meaning of the central cosmological diagram of the entire Western esoteric tradition--the kabbalistic Tree of Life. Leet shows that the Kabbalah and its central diagram enshrine a key to the purpose of the cosmos, a key that has vast implications for modern physics and cosmology.

In a final synthesis, she envisions a culmination in which the universe and its divine child, perfected humanity, achieve that unification of the finite and infinite which has ever been the secret doctrine of the Kabbalah.

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An Introduction to the Priestly Legacy
2
Gematria and the Tree of Life Diagram
11
The Order and Implications of This Study
24
The Hebraic Secret Doctrine of the Son
30
The Merkabah Texts
46
The Kabbalistic Texts
55
Scholem and the Secret Doctrine
65
The Esoteric Meaning of the Shma
68
Recovering the Esoteric Keys to Genesis
220
Derivation of the Tree of Life Diagram
230
Kabbalistic Geometry and the Genesis of the Son
250
Solution to the Mystery of the Sefer Yetzirah Diagram
255
The Sefer Yetzirah Diagram and the Lurianic Partzufim
268
Final Implications of the Sefer Yetzirah Tree
286
Kabbalistic Geometry and the Tree of Knowledge
293
Relationship of the Sixfold and Sefer Yetzirah Trees
302

Sacred Science Modes and Meaning
72
The Kabbalistic Mode in the Sefer Yetzirah
85
Meaning and the Complementarity of Shape and Sound
92
Language and the Final Explanation
98
The Kabbalistic Sacred Science of Language
113
The Tetragrammaton and Hebraic Sacred Science
115
The Tetragrammaton Expansions
138
The Tetragrammaton and the VowelLetters
146
Pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton
156
The Sacred Science of Sound and Spiritual Practice
163
The Sefirot the Chakras and the Double Heart
167
Introduction to the Practice of Vowel Intoning
173
Vowel Intoning the Harmonics and the Sefirot
177
Ish in Hebrew and Sanskrit
188
The Science of Expressive Form
202
The Hexagram and Hebraic Sacred Science
210
Hexagram Construction and the Zoharic Account of Creation
216
Relationship of the Tree of Life Diagram to the Sefer Yetzirah
315
The Hadron Model
337
The HadronField Model
345
The Lepton Model
354
The Atomic Model
363
Concluding Comments
367
Epilogue on Probability
374
A Synthesis of Kabbalistic and Quantum Cosmology
378
Dimensions of the Sabbatical Cosmos
388
GUT Cosmology and the Four Cosmic Worlds
394
Quantum Cosmology and the Future Worlds
401
Notes
411
Bibliography
440
Index of Persons
447
Index of Primary Sources
451
Index of Subjects
453
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Leonora Leet (1929-2004) received her Ph.D. from Yale University and was Professor of English at St. John's University. She is the author of The Universal Kabbalah, The Kabbalah of the Soul, Renewing the Covenant, and The Secret Doctrine of the Kabbalah.

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