# The Kabbalah: its doctrines, development, and literature

Author: Ginsburg, Christian D. (Christian David), 1831-1914

Genre: Category: History - Religious

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69243

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## Summary

Accordingly, the material form of the spirit, represented by the twenty-two letters of the alphabet, is the form of all existing beings. Apart from the three dominions, the macrocosm, time, and microcosm, it is only the Infinite who can be perceived, and of whom this triad testifies; for which reason it is denominated “the three true witnesses.” [47] Each of this triad, notwithstanding its multifariousness, constitutes a system, having its own centre and dominion. [48] Just as God is the centre of the universe, the heavenly dragon is the centre of the macrocosm; the foundation of the year is the revolution of the Zodiac; whilst the centre of the microcosm is the heart. [49] The first is l...

## Chapters

- [Letter 2 × 1 = 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-kabbalah-its-doctrines-development-and-literature-69243/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Book III, the exponent of which is Capnio, endeavours to shew that the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-kabbalah-its-doctrines-development-and-literature-69243/chapters/4/index.md)
- [part ii, Leipzig, 1852, p. xiii, &c.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-kabbalah-its-doctrines-development-and-literature-69243/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Book II endeavours to shew that all wisdom and true philosophy are](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-kabbalah-its-doctrines-development-and-literature-69243/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Book I, the exponent of which is Baruch the Jewish Kabbalist, is](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-kabbalah-its-doctrines-development-and-literature-69243/chapters/2/index.md)