Little Baron
Just to add - have you read the Ozaniec book?
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Will Parfitt's book is a perfectly good introduction to Qabalah. I enjoyed it. One book that I would give a 5 star reccomendation to is Lon Milo DuQuette's, The Chicken Qabalah. It's very good and quite funny as well. It's not your usual book on Qabalah though. Instead of talking about the sephiroth and the paths Lon tries to explain the basic structure that makes the Tree of Life the way it is. There's a lot of stuff in this book that fills in a lot of the gaps left by other books and authors.LittleBuddha said:Do you reccomend the Parfitt book?
There is no book or author out there that can tell you that or give you an exact answer. The only answers come from your own work with the system. That's why Will Parfitt's book is quite good in my opinion. Not only does he give you an explanation of the Qabalistic system but practical exercises as well.LittleBuddha said:Maybe it is just me, but sometimes, you just want an author to cut the crap and just 'tell me what it means and what is it's use!!!!'.
Wow ! That's one heck of a selection jmd. I'm not sure I would suggest any of those texts to a beginner though. I own both of the Aryeh Kaplan books and rate them highly. But starting with them would be like jumping in at the deep end with your pockets full of lead.jmd said:Aryeh Kaplan - his Sefer Yetzirah and his Bahir as well as the others from this incredible Rabbi;
Gershom Scholem - especially his small abridged version of the Zohar, and his Kabbalah (as well, actually, as his Jewish Gnosticism, Merkabah Mysticism and Talmudic Tradition - and in fact the others too); and
Moshe Idel - Kabbalah: New Perspectives (as well as any of his other works, actually!)
LittleBuddha said:I have just started reading Isabel Radow Kliegman's book 'Tarot and the Tree of Life'. which I am finding very interesting, as it relates to the minor cards. In some cases, it is deepening my understanding of the minor arcana and the Kabbalah.
I have begun by drawing out my own, not very artistic, tree to lay the cards on, since I find it irritating to keep returning to look at the tree as I am reading the text. Have enclosed.
Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I am using the RWS for my learning.
LB