How did Jewish Kabbalah become Hermetic Qabalah? To understand that process we have to go back to the late 17th century. There, we find one of the most important translations of Kabbalah in von Rosenroth’s mammoth Kabbalah Denudata. Attached in the second volume is an introduction to Kabbalah which inverts centuries of Christian appropriation. Rather than conforming Kabbalah to Christianity, Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont argues that the Lurianic Kabbalah is the true Christianity. This dramatic – and heretical – shift, signals the origins of Qabalah that is neither Jewish nor Christian, but a Hermetic Qabalah. Thus, the origins of the Qabalah as most contemporary occultists know it.
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Recommended Readings:
Spector – Francis Mercury Van Helmont’s Sketch of Christian Kabbalism
Coudert – Leibniz and the Kabbalah
