By Aryeh Kaplan
Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan has translated Sefer Yetzirah, the oldest and such a lot mysterious of all kabbalistic texts, and now brings its theoretical, meditative, and magical implications to gentle. He expounds at the dynamics of the non secular area, the worlds of the Sefirot, souls, and angels. whilst appropriately understood, Sefer Yetzirah turns into the guide for a really certain form of meditation intended to reinforce focus and to help the advance of telekinetic and telepathic powers. --This textual content refers to an out of print or unavailable version of this identify.
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