Path: typhoon.sonic.net!feed.news.sonic.net!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.sdca.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: jwrevak@home.com (James W. Revak) Newsgroups: alt.magick,alt.magick.tyagi Subject: Re: Crowley's 777 and Jewish Mysticism (was Crowley's Book Of Magick) Message-ID: <3b3d837a.3026455@news> References: <3b28b993.3505720@news.t-online.de> <3b29bfd3.6140088@news.t-online.de> <3B29D008.EEB@luckymojo.com> <9hd879$s3c@bolt.sonic.net> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/16.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 30 Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 19:24:22 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.21.14.129 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.sdca.home.com 993756262 24.21.14.129 (Thu, 28 Jun 2001 12:24:22 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 12:24:22 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick:251102 alt.magick.tyagi:27382 On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 18:22:25 GMT, hara wrote: > >>> Since I know some works by DION FORTUNE, hence, I shall start with her >>> "The Mystical Qabalah". >> >> I think that this is NOT a good idea. Fortune was another person working >> with the kabbalah third hand, through translations of translations of a >> few selected texts. > >Fortune's text is highly regarded in the Hermetic culture, in part perhaps >because she was following in the footsteps of Blavatsky and Papus, but with >greater abilities as a writer and imagination as a qabalist. For the *Hermetic* Cabala as taught by the GD and associated schools of Western Esotericism, Fortune's book is an excellent introduction. It is well written, easy-to-understand, and fairly comprehensive for a beginner's book. For traditional *Jewish* Cabala her book is mediocre at best, but this is not news. The value of Fortune's book and others like it, depends much on one's needs and whether one's top priority is exploring Hermetic or traditional Jewish Cabala. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JAMES W. REVAK - San Diego, CA, USA - jwrevak@home.com Villa Revak / A Tarot Web Site: http://jwrevak.tripod.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------