Man and the Theogony in the Lurianic Cabala

Lurianic mythology represents an intensely personal view, in which earlier cabalistic symbolism is used to express new and original ideas. The lurianic corpus can be seen as a metaphor for a relation between man and the deity which is not yet fulfilled. The cabalistic myths of his sources express the reality of the relations of being in the lurianic corpus. The lurianic system seeks to reformulate the relation of man and god, concentrating on the way that the being of the deity is revealed in man.

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Contents (page 5) Acknowledgements (page 7) Introduction (page 9) Part 1: Origin (page 19) 1 The Origin of the Created World (page 21)

• The First Emanation (page 25)
• Symbolism of Male and Female (page 27)

• Man (page 29) 2 The Contraction of the Deity (page 35)

• Contraction and the Death of the Kings (page 36)
• The Death of the Kings in the World of Akudim (page 38)
• The Sparks in the Vessels (page 42)
• The Contraction of the Lower Three Sefirot (page 45)

• Knowledge of the Deity (page 47) 3 The Revelation of the Deity (page 53)

• The Restoration of the Emanation (page 55)
• Revelation and Concealment (page 57)
• The Goal of Revelation is Human Consciousness (page 60)
• Human and Divine Sexuality (page 63)

• The Temenos (page 70) Part 2: Procession: The Death of Kigns (page 73) 4 The Death of the Kings and Gnostic Literature (page 75) Manichaean Sources (page 81) The Interiorisation of Gnostic Motifs in Later Mystic Texts (page 89)

• A. The Objectification (page 90)
• B. The Transition (page 92)

• C. The Subjective Perspective (page 92) 5 Female Waters, The Death of the kings and the Martyrs of the Kingdom (page 95)

• Sacrifice and Eroticism (page 98)

• Death (page 101) 6 The Restoration of the Kigns and the Commandments (page 105)

• The Revelation of the Deity and the law (page 111)
• Salvation (page 114)

• The Restoration of the Primordial Unity (page 115) 7 The Death of the Kings in History (page 127)

• Archetypes in History (page 136)

• The Descendants of Adam (page 143) Part 3: Reversion: Exodus (page 147) 8 The Egyptain Exile (page 149) 9 The Contamination of the Emergent Configurations (page 165) 10 The Restoration of the Emanation (page 177)

• Abraham and the Restoration of the Kings (page 184) 11 The Redemtpion from Egypt (page 189)

• The Union of the Eve of Passover (page 189)
• The Union of the Seventh Day of Passover (page 192)
• The Hind of Dawn (page 192)
• The Rock (page 195)

• The Counting of the Omer (page 198) 12 Mystic Union and the Revelation at Sinai (page 205)

• The Awakening on Passover Eve (page 206)
• Purification (page 207)
• Illumination (page 209)

• Perfection (page 212) Bibliography (page 215)

• Texts (page 215)
• Studies (page 216) Index (page 221)