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THE
KABBALAH UNVEILED
CONTAINING THE FOLLOWING BOOKS OF THE ZOHAR
1. THE BOOK OF CONCEALED MYSTERY.
2. THE GREATER HOLY ASSEMBLY.
3. THE LESSER HOLY ASSEMBLY.
TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH FROM THE LATIN VERSION OF
KNORR VON ROSENROTH, AND COLLATED WITH THE
ORIGINAL CHALDEE AND HEBREW TEXT
BY
S. L. MAC GREGOR MATHERS
LONDON
GEORGE RE D WAY
C-1.) BVF.C/t
Weilcome Library
for the History and Understanding of Medicine
TO
THE AUTHORS OF " THE PERFECT WAY ".ANNA KINGSFORD, M.D., and EDWARD MAITLAND
THIS TRANSLATION
IS
DeDfcateD
PREFACE.
Before finally presenting to the public the first English translation of three of the most important books of the " Zohar," a few additional remarks are necessary. These three books are so closely connected in sense as to be practically inseparable, the two last forming consecutive developments of the first.
But, as to launch the unprepared reader on these abstruse qabalistical writings without some preparatory explanation of the tenets of the Qabalah would be simply to hopelessly bewilder him, I have written a long and full Introduction, in which I have endeavoured to explain thoroughly the principal dogmas of the " Zohar," and have further added explanatory notes to the actual text for the better elucidation of dif…