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THE SEPHER HA-ZOHAR OR THE BOOK OF LIGHT

by Nurho De Manhar
originally published in "The Word"
Edited by H.W. Percival
New York, Theosophical Publishing Company, 1900-14
further edited by J.B. Hare of sacred-texts.com

Table of Contents:

• Production Notes
• Errata
• Preface
• Introduction
  • The Lily
  • The Occult Origin of Alhim
  • The Mysticism of the Alphabet
  • The Initiation of Rabbi Hiya
  • The Mysterious Stranger
  • Abundant Goodness
  • Exposition of Bible Mysteries
  • The Fourteen Precepts
• Genesis
  • Chapter 1.
  • Chapter 2.
  • Chapter 3.
  • Chapter 4.
  • Chapter 5. The King's Palaces
  • Chapter 6. On Israel or the Children of Light
  • Chapter 7. The Prayer of Rabbi Simeon
  • Chapter 8. Previous Worlds and Races
  • Chapter 9.
  • Chapter 10. Symbolisms of Man
  • Chapter 11. The Strange Visitor
  • Chapter 12. Symbolism of the Divine Life and Human Destiny
  • Chapter 13.
  • Chapter 14. A Kabbalistic Symposium by Rabbi Simeon's Students
  • Chapter 15.
  • Chapter 16. A Symposium of Rabbi Simeon's Students
  • Chapter 17. The Devachanic or Heavenly Spheres
  • Chapter 18. Higher Devachanic or Heavenly Spheres
  • Chapter 19. Rabbi Simeon's Discourse on Prayer
  • Chapter 20. Devachanic Spheres and Mansions.
  • Chapter 21.
  • Chapter 22.
  • Chapter 23.
  • Chapter 24. Further Kabbalistic Expositions of the Six Days Of Creation
  • Chapter 25.
  • Chapter 26.
  • Chapter 27.
  • Chapter 28. Rabbi Simeon's Analogies of the Divine Life in Man
  • Chapter 29.
  • Chapter 30. The Two Serpents, Astral Fluid and the Animal Nature
  • Chapter 31. A Further Symposium of Rabbi Simeon's Students
  • Chapter 32.
  • Chapter 33. Traditions Concerning Adam
  • Chapter 34. Male and Female Created He Them.
  • Chapter 35. The Antediluvians and Their Magical Arts
  • Chapter 36.
  • Chapter 37. Of the Patriarch Henoch and the Sin of the Antediluvians
  • Chapter 38. The Divine Compassion
  • Chapter 39.
  • Chapter 40. Traditions Concerning Noah
  • Chapter 41.
  • Chapter 42.
  • Chapter 43.
  • Chapter 44.
  • Chapter 45. Kabbalistic Explanation of the Feast of Tabernacles and The Loulab
  • Chapter 46. The Occultism of Sacrifices
  • Chapter 47. A Vexata Questio In Biblical Philology
  • Chapter 48. Kabbalistic Explanation of the Goat Azazel
  • Chapter 49. Rabbi Simeon's Reflections on the Supreme and Its Union with Human Souls
  • Chapter 50.
  • Chapter 51. The Occult Meaning of the Six Hundred Years of Noah's Life
  • Chapter 52. Adam Sitting at the Gate of the Garden of Eden
  • Chapter 53. Remarks on the Destroying Angel and the Antediluvians
  • Chapter 54. Kabbalistic Remarks on the Covenant or Union of the Higher and Lower Self
  • Chapter 55. Various Kabbalistic Expositions of Biblical Texts
  • Chapter 56. The Divine Lehaerot On Ezechiel's Visions.
  • Chapter 57. The Mystery of the Bow in the Cloud
  • Chapter 58. Rabbi Jehuda's Discussion with the Merchant, on Jacob's Pillar
  • Chapter 59. The Symbolism of the Foundation Stone
  • Chapter 60. Rabbi Simeon on Mysteries and the Higher Life
  • Chapter 61. Symbolism of the Colors of the Bow in the Cloud
  • Chapter 62. The Mystery Of The Cursing Of Canaan By Noah
  • Chapter 63. Remarks on Predestination
  • Chapter 64.
  • Chapter 65. The Thaumaturgical Erection of Solomon's Temple
  • Chapter 66. The Mystery of the Logos
  • Chapter 67. The Idolatry Of The Postdiluvians
  • Chapter 68. The Tower of Babel
  • Chapter 69. A Comparison Between Noah and Moses
  • Chapter 70. Why the Animal was Destroyed by the Deluge
  • Chapter 71. The Gilgal Or Revolution Animarum
  • Chapter 72. And Every Living Substance Was Destroyed. . .
  • Chapter 73. What Two Rabbis Learned From a Youth
  • Chapter 74.
  • Chapter 75. Comparison Between Adam and the Postdiluvians
  • Chapter 76. Rabbi Simeon on the Closing of the Sanctuary
  • Chapter 77. The Object of Building the Tower of Babel
  • Chapter 78. The Primeval Language and the Book of Adam
  • Chapter 79. On Words and the Philosophy of Sound
  • Chapter 80. Section Lekh Lekha or the Call of Abram
  • Chapter 81. Interlocutory Explanations
  • Chapter 82. Abraham's First Studies in Occultism
  • Chapter 83. Abraham's Initiation into the Lesser Mysteries
  • Chapter 84. Abraham's Descent into Egypt for Initiation into the Higher Mysteries
  • Chapter 85.
  • Chapter 86. Kabbalistic Cosmology
  • Chapter 87. Kabbalistic Philosophy of the Soul
  • Chapter 88. Abraham's Initiatory Probation
  • Chapter 89. The Esoteric Explanation of Lot's Parting from Abraham
  • Chapter 90. Remarks on the Schekina
  • Chapter 91. Rabbi Eleazar and Rabbi Hezekiah, and Their Nocturnal Studies
  • Chapter 92. Rabbi Jose on the Seven Heavens or Firmaments
  • Chapter 93. Kabbalistic Remarks on Marriage
  • Chapter 94. On the Study of the Secret Doctrine
  • Chapter 95. Rabbi Abba's Visit and What Occurred
  • Chapter 96. A Feast of the Circumcision
  • Chapter 97.
  • Chapter 98.
  • Chapter 99. A Feast of Circumcision (Continued)
  • Chapter 100.
  • Chapter 101. Rabbi Abba's Punishment