Skip to content
Libra Esoterica

The Heart of Jewish Meditation: Abraham Abulafia’s Path of the Divine Names

by Abraham Abulafia

  • First published:
  • 13th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
Read free

Description

Description from Internet Archive (opens in a new tab)

Amidst the rich panoply of Jewish Kabbalah, Abraham Abulafia (1240-1291) resonates the most with modern, philosophically minded seekers of direct mystical experience. Abulafia was unique amongst Jewish mystics in providing precise instructions for personal spiritual practice. Despite a severe rabbinical ban, the subterranean influence of Abulafia’s complex of ideas and meditation techniques is evident upon many central figures in the history of Religion and Philosophy, including Chaim Vital, Pico della Mirandola and Spinoza. "The Heart of Jewish Meditation: Abraham Abulafia’s Path of the Divine Names" translates three of Abulafia’s meditation texts to provide reliable access to this fascinating historical figure for modern acolytes of the heretical eternities.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics and Kabbalah and Jewish esotericism.

  • Kabbalah and Jewish esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive matched “Kabbalah”. Retained metadata contains “Kabbalah” in the description and “Kabbalah” in the subject metadata.

    • “Kabbalah”· via Internet Archive
    • “Kabbalah”· in description
    • “Kabbalah”· in subject
  • Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive matched “Mysticism”. Retained metadata contains “mystical experience” in the description and “Mysticism” in the subject metadata.

    • “Mysticism”· via Internet Archive
    • “mystical experience”· in description
    • “Mysticism”· in subject

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

Read & download

Free, public copies reported by our sources. Links open the source directly.

Not yet in passage search

Pro research answers quote indexed passages. Ask the library to index this book’s public text.

marks a direct file download. Rights vary by country; each source states its own terms.

Buy or borrow

No ISBN on record, so the Amazon link searches by title and author. WorldCat shows libraries near you that hold a copy.

Editions

One edition cataloged here.

Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

1291-01-01T00:00:00Z—English—Public digitized item

Subjects

7 subject headings

Identifiers & provenance

How this record was assembled, and the authority identifiers it carries.

Identifiers

Internet Archive

Cataloged from

Cataloging notes

  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Scanner: Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.3
Catalog id
internet-archive:Abulafia
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
Retrieved